Common Sense courtesy of the John Birch Society
Posted On: Tuesday - February 4th 2025 2:54PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
I may have mentioned that I am a member. I should have joined 30 years ago. I get the magazine, The New American, but don't always have time to read it. I would say that this meme alone has made good use of my dues.
(Thanks to "Almost Missouri" for posting this in comments on Steve Sailer's blog on The Unz Review.)
Here's hoping Trump assigns ICE agents to round these people up in cities in California and all over the Estados Unidos of A, not M. I swear that would put his popularity with MAGA and a majority of other Americans at a level #NeverBeenSeenSinceTheFoundingOfThisNation! Although, there IS lots of competition from other nice moves he's made from January 20th on. Yes, we'll have some posts....
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Uhhh, no...
Posted On: Monday - February 3rd 2025 6:07PM MST
In Topics: Economics US Feral Government
This is from yesterday on the Gateway Pundit (good for headlines, is about all, for me).
Uhhh, no, don't pee in your pants here, Jim Hoft. Look, I'm as excited as the next Libertarian/Constitutionalist about someone, anyone, since Congress never will, cutting out the wasteful, worthless spending going on in the Feral Government. I'll say it again, even if you paid many of these people their salaries to go to the arcade (are there still arcades?), so that they wouldn't spend time impeding business and progress, that'd be a win.
But yes, cutting the D.I.E. people most deliciously, other dead wood positions, and also the reckless spending they participate in is a great thing. it's the diversity contingent within governments that are the worst, from my experience, in not giving a damn what happens with we taxpayers's money. The black men and women want to play Big Man and luxury goods Imelda-Marcus-style Queen, respectively (see, for example, Dalton, Illinois) the Hispanics just don't care much, and even the White women don't have that "what about our society?" question in their heads. And even most of the White men don't either, so there are not many left to care! I think we did better with the White America of 100 years ago ... just sayin'...
This is great, but, no, as we explained in 2 posts recently, Will the DOGE save our economy? and Budget Cutting v Austerity, it doesn't pencil out. I don't expect President Trump to understand that, but one would think Elon Musk would. He's a promoter just as Trump is, I suppose.
See, they gotten to a rate of $4 Billion in cuts per day. Yes, that IS fantastic. It's about $1 Trillion yearly (they're not doing DOGE on weekends apparently - fair enough, you've got to have a life), which is 1/7 of all the ($7 Trillion in) spending, and it would bring the deficit down to half of what is was going to be... were this rate to keep up. Sorry, IT CAN'T.
This is from that other post, but I could paste in some other more bar- or pie-like graph (no need for a function of time) later, but for now, come to think of it, I'll use the "US Debt Clock"* numbers : $3.14** Trillion is being spent on Social Security and Medicaid/Care. You ain't cutting that without lots of trouble from not only the usual ctrl-left sources. Right now, the defense/war spending (yes, I like these debt clock people) is at $0.88 Trillion. You could cut a lot of that - they may cut the waste, but the only way to cut the meat of it is to actually cut out the wars. Trump leans only partially that way, as we could see the other day in Somalia. The interest payments on the $36.4 Trillion debt are at this point over $1 Trillion. That's only 2.75% - that Trillion is obviously not it for the year, as rates on bonds being paid off are higher than that.
Well, you're not gonna cut that interest being paid without having lower rate bonds redeemed or by actually bringing the deficit to BELOW zero. Otherwise, yes, we're digging more slowly if we were to bring down the yearly $2 Trillion deficits by and to $1 Trillion. But no, they can't.
I could do this arithmetic to get discretionary spending, but since I don't know end-o-year numbers, let me just take '23 numbers from here. Oh, it's $1.7 Trillion, but they count the military expenditures under discretionary (I suppose it is), so in '23 there was only $0.9 Trillion left to cut from. You could cut out half of all the manpower (and womanpower!) and half of all the purchases, rent, whatever, and you're only at $0.45 Trillion cut. I'd love to see it, but that won't happen either.
If it did, where's the rest coming from? If they DID get to $1 Trillion cut this year, that leaves a $1 Trillion dollar shortfall (deficit). What's to cut next year? At the very best, yes, we can go back to 2010's numbers and start only getting in the hole an additional $1 Trillion yearly, instead of $2 Trillion yearly.... AND interest rates will have to rise sometime... AND it's gone!
Elon Musk is an engineer. He understands asymptotic functions. The curve upwards or downwards with a respectively lower or higher slope, approaching some value but never quite reaching it. That'd be the DOGE cutting, slowly getting harder to do, as one gets closer to an actual fairly limited government, but with big Social Welfare obligations to pay and a big interest payment due yearly. This sucks. It's a bug, nay, a feature, of Socialism - it's very hard to back out of it.
That all
Speaking of Somalia, Somalia's representative in the US Congress has got her Halal-approved panties in a wad about this stuff. ZeroHedge reports Hornet's Nest Kicked As Raskin, Omar Throw Public Tantrum Over USAID Hostile Takeover. Ilhan Omar (D- SO) has had $2.3 Billion sent to Somalia to, you know, fight the Civil War and all. She's pissed. So is this Raskin (aka, Ratskin) guy from Maryland. So are a lot of the leftoids, being deprived of their livelihoods of graft and corruption. Peak Stupidity is deprived too, deprived of popcorn right now, that is - they can't make enough to keep up with demand! (Probably also the tariffs on Canada, eh?)
Now that $2.3 Billion Somalia war money is a half day's worth of cuts right there, and USAID itself is 2 weeks, including the weekend in between of cuts. That's no small potatoes, 10 x what a real southern border would cost with normal government waste, but the fun is reading the ZeroHedge comments!
It's a 3-fer, a significant cut, the ending of odious war-mongering and corruption, and the great feeling of seeing the lamentations of the CongressMalians and their significant (br)others.***
PS: I wanted to shoehorn this in here, because it's another case of someone not really versed in economics as much as one would hope. Steve Sailer never said he is, even in this substack post of his. Before I got to the paywall, I ran into:
[In 1896,]because the economy was expanding faster than the supply of gold, the gold standard was causing deflation, which raised the real interest rates that borrowers, such as farmers, had to pay to bankers. Inflation is bad, but deflation tends to be even worse because it’s harder to adjust for.Uhhh, no. Back nearly 20 years ago I clipped out a short article from the Wall Street JournaL that said deflation is bad. Those were real economists writing so... they they were even more full of it... uh, fiat money, that is, full of fiat. I lost that clipping, unfortunately... Mr. Sailer wrote lot more beyond the paywall, but I can't even ...
* Ha! There's a DOGE clock there on the Debt Clock site too now. I can kinda' tell which way these people lean..
** Hey, it IS time for a Pi chart!
*** Yes, that one came from a ZH commenter.
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Bai Dien sics augmented Title IX on NCAA Sportsball
Posted On: Friday - January 31st 2025 5:05PM MST
In Topics: Feminism US Feral Government Bread and Circuses Zhou Bai Dien
From the yahoos at yahoo a few weeks back, come upon the usual way, while logging out of email or "searching" for "Peak Stupidity".
Peak Stupidity has no Sportsball topic key, so we attach the Bread & Circuses one, as always. Sportsball is part of the circuses, together with the Olive Garden's (etc...) unlimited soup, salad, and, yep, breadsticks.
I was not too bent out of shape after reading the headline, I'll let the reader know, first of all. It was the end of the reign of Dark Brandon. What does a soon-to-be-deposed King - I mean, there was no point in beheading him, he's been self-beheaded for a few years - where was ... do, beside wreak havoc as much as possible at the bitter end? This crooked man corruptly pre-pardoned his derelict criminal son and about every evil person he could think of and gave Presidential Medals to other evil people right up through the antiChrist. There was more, and, compared to it all, I'm not all broken up about the coaches of the NCAA.
OK, look, I realize football is a hobby for many American men. The Superbowl is coming up even.* It's the fact that most of these people - most of them - consider their Sportsball spectating hobby more important than doing something, anything, about the destruction of this country that I have a problem with. Sportsball fans lean Conservative, even. Leaning, though, doesn't really cut it in the 2020s.
OK, what IS Title IX anyway? (That's 9 for our readers in Los Villages de Hasta la Vista.) It's just another sop to the Feminists. They DO! NOT! LIKE! men to be able to do stuff that woman don't care to do so much. Women must do it too, cause ... fishing, bicycling or something... As we discussed in our post Peak Stupidity bids Hello to Kings early this week, the Feral Gov't is involved in everything. Since they provide most American universities with funding in various ways, they hold the strings.
Title IX, over half a century old, BTW, says something about having to spend equal amounts of money - or some formula is used - on women's sports as on men's. This means, since football is so lucrative, with lots of money spent (but also taken in), men's wrestling teams, golf, or whatever are sacrificed to spend money on sports women are cajoled into playing. Yeah, it's a crock.
Dark Brandon made the effort via Presidential
Revenue-sharing payments from schools to athletes must be “proportionately” distributed to men and women athletes, or institutions risk violating Title IX, the 53-year-old federal law requiring universities receiving federal funding to provide equal benefits to women and men athletes.Revenue-sharing ... blah, blah... proportionate.... blah... at risk...federal law requiring... blah, blah... equal benefits... further down... escalating, capped pay system... blah, blah... back-damaged distribution system ... [Huh?! Was I snoring? Sorry.] You get the picture. FedGov interferes with everything, including Sportsball, and people involved are pissed at this new bit.
“Way to drop a bomb, huh?” whispered one college leader emerging from the meeting room.Yeah, way to care about your country. If these die-hard sports fans had spent half their energy over the years opposing Big Government, they wouldn't have been at any such meeting to begin with.
The NCAA does not traditionally give guidance to schools related to Title IX, leaving those decisions to campus officials like Linda Livingstone, the Baylor president and chair of the Board of Governors.Have a conversation?! Shouldn't they be lifting, running suicides, and throwing the pigskin? We ARE talking football, right ...?
“We’re going to all have to go back (to campus) and have a conversation about it and see what we think the implications are for what we’re doing,” she said Thursday.
... and HEY, wait a minute, I though I was dreaming that part. What is that whole "pay system". I was under the impression that the football players were college students. But it said
... schools are permitted starting July 1 to distribute at least $20.5 million to athletes annually in an escalating, capped pay system.and
Preparing to share revenue directly with athletes,...Look, why don't we quit pretending? Just call it minor league football already, keep the school names and associations, but quit making these poor bastards go to class and pretend to be students.
Josh Whitman, the Illinois athletic director who serves on the Board of Governors, the NCAA’s highest-ranking governance body, had this to say:
The world has changed over and over just in the last six months.Uhhh, no. Get over yourself, dude. The Russians and Ukrainians don't know about this. Even the Chinese don't know about this. Neither do the Israelis or the Gazans. Neither does Trump and neither do MAGA. Neither do the evil Globalists and Communists who've been trying to replace the White populations of the world. None of them even know who you are. It's just football. Get a life, people!
Anyway, if you do care, be assured that President Trump will reverse-edict this stuff in a jiffy. He may have already.
* I won't be watching. Since I owe the IRS money every tax year now rather than have a small refund coming, I don't do taxes during Superbowl halftime at the bar anymore. I wait until April 15th or later these years.
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Peak Stupidity hosts its 1st TED talk
Posted On: Thursday - January 30th 2025 7:55PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
I don't know if I've ever sat through a whole TED talk... even on the john with my ipad in hand. I don't know what makes the speakers so magically special, and I don't know what TED even stands for, for another thing! Who ARE those people? They look and act like what we used to call yuppies, though they seem to be more like Globalist power-wielder wannabees. The Elitist Dupes, yeah, that's it.
Well one Mr. Dale McLendon, to be featured in our 1st non-sponsored PS-TED talk, is a Franklin, Tennessee lawyer and city Alderman. The Tennessean has some background on our speaker, so we can save on writing. He sounds like good people, which is more than I can say for the people in the clips of the Non-PS-TED talks.
Mr. McLendon's, sorry, Alderman McLendon's, TED talk today is on women and the hot v crazy matrix. He presents his information graphically with cartesian coordinates, so it's basically science. With no further ado and neither applause, shirts, nor shoes required, here is the entirety of the talk:
This is totally unrelated, but with the humor topic key already attached, I will relate this story before I forget it.
I've been so exited about the great work President Trump-47 has been doing on immigration, that I decided to buy one of his books. The bookstore in question is a leftie joint (are there any others?), with the expensive lattes and prominent displays of books by Oprah, Big Mike, Dr. Phil, Dr. Gupta, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Lennon, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro, Castreau, and, worst, Anderson Cooper. I was still hoping they'd have Trump's latest book on immigration though.
Politely I asked the
Thank you, thank you, we'll be here all week. Try the 7 dollar lattes.
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After 6 decades, Trump, aka Mr. Blue Sky, finally kills AA
Posted On: Wednesday - January 29th 2025 6:33PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Trump Race/Genetics
Peak Stupidity likes to put time durations in terms of decades and centuries. It shows how much of history we have been taking up in this steady ascent to the peak. The odious Feral Government designed program called "Affirmative Action" has been around for 6 decades, 60% of a century now. This purposely anti-White male program has been in place so long that there are nearly no working people who would remember anything else in the workplace.*
The image above is from 2 1/2 decades after scumbag** President President Johnson excreted Executive Order 11246. (Note that, just as in the beginning, White people, including lots of men, had a big part in creating and maintaining this anti-White-man program. Were they stupid or evil?).
I suppose I should have looked more closely into it, but through all these years, I'd thought that AA was encoded in established law passed by Congress. Nope, per wiki the order to favor Blacks! and 2 years later, women, and later on, ANYBODY who got into it besides White Men, in US Feral Gov't positions was just an
The thing starts off reading as pretty innocuous, as it simply prohibits discrimination in hiring. What in the world have you got against that, racist?! Then, one gets to the Affirmative Action language:
It also required contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."Wait, so, you take no regard for all these properties(?) of your prospective employees, but you take action too? How does that work? Let me show you:
Executive Order 11246 also required contractors with 51 or more employees and contracts of $50,000 or more to implement affirmative action plans to increase the participation of minorities and women in the workplace if a workforce analysis demonstrates their under-representation, meaning that there are fewer minorities and women than would be expected given the numbers of minorities and women qualified to hold the positions available.See?
First, keep in mind that from direct Fed-Gov employees to contractors first, even for private industry, in this semi-Fascist ("Crony-Capitalist" sounds less ranty) economy, when Fed-Gov says "Jump!", you say "How high?" Before long, AA was everywhere, even at 1000W Country Music radio stations in the 1970s!*** With Feral money involved, and likely even without, due to fear, Universities got onboard with the AA program early on too, in their admissions, in addition to hiring of Professors and staff.
Wait, but what has been the deal anyway, as we asked already, do you just not discriminate, or do you take some kind of action? That last excerpt shown explains very well that someone must do some math and come up with some quota numbers. "No, these aren't quotas! It's just Affirmative Action!" We heard that obvious lie for decades. It's an obvious lie because anyone can logically deduce that if you must get to this "participation" rate, and you don't have it yet, you're gonna have to direct your hiring. You don't know that denominator of people "qualified to hold the positions available" though. Do you test all the applicants? Nope, SCROTUS said that was wrong a few years later (March of '71) in Griggs v Duke Power. So you had to just discriminate in favor of Blacks, women, and Black women (a real score!) without consideration for merit.
Besides that AA negates hiring based on merit, for some reason, if you have a too-low participation rate of White people, men, or White men, as compared to those that might be qualified, you don't have to do ANYTHING. Regulatory relief, some might call that. I'd call it 6 decades of being screwed by "our" own government and Big Biz cowards.
Because the race demagogues and the feminists claimed long-term prejudice in the past, Blacks and women were first to "right past harms". (Never mind that, as with the call for reparations for slavery, even it the claims had been true, we're not dealing with the same people! Here, I'd though that whole sins of the fathers dealio was an Old Testament thing...) However, when the immigration invasion brought all manner of others to America, for some strange reason, they required Affirmative Action too ... unless they were the rare White men ... who don't get to immigrate so easily, legally or not, anyway.
Having gone way beyond the original post scope here yet again, let me say that I've been disappointed in otherwise Conservative pundits, talking these two (Sailer and Coulter), who still would not completely renounce AA. We still had to right some wrongs to those ADOS, DOAS, or something. Then too, the focus, including of the mostly-ignored recent Students for Fair Admission v Harvard SCROTUS decision, has been college admissions. The pundit types care about university admissions but don't seem to realize how much harm AA has done to all working White men in job hiring and even the fulfillment of entire careers they otherwise would have... for most of a century now!
Above I noted that I'd thought this AA was all a mess of Civil Rites era laws. I'm sure others have too. Back in 1986 President Reagan talked about reversing AA. He had big margins of (D) reps in Congress the entire 8 years, so nobody figured anything would pass. Nothing did. We can go to 1990, in the campaign for one of the North Carolina Senate seats to see the last time I remember the ending of AA being seriously considered.
Jesse Helms was an old timey Southern Conservative Senator from N. Carolina. In that 1990 campaign he came out with the ad above with a White guy balling up some a rejection letter sent to him due to quotas for "minorities". In 1990 N. Carolina, that generally meant "black". Maybe the Senate would take up the matter, and then the House, and magically it could pass and the GOPer George H.W. Bush would somehow magically have the courage to sign it. Yeah, right! That was the last hurrah that I remember. We'd just have to live with it until, oh SCROTUS AA hire Sandra Day O'Conner told us in 2003 (Grutter v. Bollinger) that AA should be ended... in 25 years. That's 3 years from now! Things weren't heading in that direction though, not hardly...
There's a part of the huge field of stupidity called Wokeness that is an amped-up version of AA. Instead of quotas based on population and supposed qualifications that we're not allowed to test for, lately it's been pretty much "Remove the White man - we can run this place!" However, it didn't take long to see that they can't. Too many people have seen this, and they've been getting antsy. I mean, news reporters, TV-commercial actors, Oscar winners, what harm can they do? Pilots, surgeons, engineers, managers... oh, wait. Bad things could happen.
Still, nobody was about to do anything. Did everyone think like me that there was no way the UniParty Congress would ever take this problem up?
But, WE! DIDN'T! KNOW! It's just an E.O.! This has been like a life-long bad dream for lots of White Men. Our new King, who's on our side, can just make a new E.O. to reverse the 60 year-running old one!****
Oh, there will be much anger, gnashing of teeth, rending of undergarments, and pushback! I don't think the ctrl-left will just accept that "Oh, AA and Wokeness were wrong. We get it now." They will raise holy hell about this, but right now, in this E.O. Blitzkrieg, we've got the momentum. NOBODY saw this one coming... out of the blue sky.
Jeff Lynne's short guitar solo starting at 01:30 is sublime. It's got to be the amps, and it sounds very much like the lead part by Brian May of Queen on Killer Queen.
In 1977, when the wonderful Electric Light Orchestra came out with the 2-record-set album Out of the Blue, with this one as one of the "tracks", Affirmative Action had been the
Mister Blue Sky,
please tell us why
you had to hide
away for so long (so long)?
Where did we go wrong?
* There are plenty of people old enough to remember the mid-1960s of course and the Bills passed to enact this travesty, but I doubt many would be at "the workplace" still or were in 1964. Others may work on their own, which is one way to avoid the whole thing.
** We are probably being too kind to Lyndon Baynes Johnson by calling him that. After knowing of the 3 massively destructive programs, Civil Rites (this AA included), the augmented Welfare State, and the anti-White Immigration Bill of '65, we just found out that Johnson, back in Texas a decade earlier, was one of the supporters of illegal alien cheap labor at the time of Operation Wetback.
*** That post is an anecdotal interlude as Part 3 of our series Harvesting the Fruits of Affirmative Action. See also Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 4 and Part 5.
**** A big question bugging me is "Why didn't Reagan or any other President simply rescind the E.O. as Trump has?!" In that Jesse Helms campaign ad, a "racial quota" law signed by U-boat commander Ted Kennedy was mentioned. What gives?
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Enter the Year of the Snake
Posted On: Tuesday - January 28th 2025 7:28PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor China Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
I don't know, I see this coming year more as the Year of the Honey Badger. Remember all that Honey Badger meme stuff from a decade ago? The Honey Badger can do it all, and we hope President Trump will be that Honey Badger.
The whole "Year of..." 12 repeating animals is a load of Chinese superstitious crap. Here, we go by months, the 12 Zodiac signs are not all animals, and then there are lucky numbers too through which one can win cash at convenience stores and support lower education, so... The meme above is from an outfit called Building Beautiful Souls who seem to think quite a bit of the lowly snake.
Primordial wisdom, you say? We'd be in lots better shape if that one snake had not suckered Eve into biting that apple way back. Peak Stupidity has our Female Stupidity and Feminism topic keys to cover some of the aftermath, but there's no snakes topic key. Suffice it to say that we are on the side of Riki Tiki Tavi and our house cat.
What would Confucius have to say, for some real wisdom? Woman who handle snake well, get inject with venom of Biblical pro-portion. (Still working on this.) What would Al Stewart have to say, is the important question. There is no Year of the Cat in China, unfortunately, but we are pretty sure that this great song is about somewhere in the Orient at least. This song is a half century old right now! I guess it's not been overplayed for me, as the sound and lyrics are still moving:
I was going to write some Year of the Snake lyrics, but this song's too good to mess with.
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Peak Stupidity bids Hello to Kings
Posted On: Monday - January 27th 2025 10:52AM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
NOTE: More discussion on China was supposed to follow, today. It's not like the discussion, as per SafeNow in the comments, is just about shoddy Chinese building practices. There's a lot more on the economics and social life of China that must be said in rebuttal to those who think China is paved with gold.
However, this Trump stuff just can't wait! I hate to sound like the guy himself, but it really has been a week like "you haven't seen in the history of the world." (Almost?)
At the time ex-President George H.W. Bush died, Peak Stupidity had already been well annoyed with the constant flag half-masting business. The same drawn-out display for the death of an ex-President I noticed then, when I wrote I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings (with the obligatory Rush song, of course!), is still going on for Jimmy Carter. I think a blurb in the news and some nice word of remembrance, the good and the bad, would have sufficed. A couple of years later, we wrote The Farewell to Kings didn't take*.
The US President is supposed to. be an administrator, not a King. We noted in Trump v Bai Dien and 2020s v 1980s that it's not 1980 anymore, much less 1924!. The Presidential election CAN be a life-changing even for the everyman now, not just other high-office holders and the bureaucrats.
We are as Libertarian and Constitutionophile here as
Otherwise, other than as a constraint on Trump-45, G.W. Bush, Øb☭ma, and even more so, Dark Brandon, ruled as Kings to implement the Invade-the-World/Invite-the-World/In-Hoc-to-the-World program. That whole "Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool" thing (mentioned mentioned here, and that was end-o'-last century even) is what Executive Orders are all about.
Just an example, no existential issue itself, is the continual bouts of forgiveness of student loans by Brandon, even after the SCROTUS spent the effort to rule he had no such power. "Attention you peons, I decree, if you've been a deadbeat on your loans, by the power of Brandon, you are hereby free of your financial shackles. Spend, spend, people. Enjoy your new rims. So let it be written, so let it be done!" It's like that, all the freaking time. The Founders' graves are full of vomit, as nauseating as it is to spin so fast in one's old age.
The Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Kings conveniently, described warnings to the good people of olde times about the rule of Kings. The people wanted a King though anyway, and, to quote another King (of Curmudgeonry) from a century back, they got that rule good and hard. We Americans didn't ask for rule by Kings again, but we've been getting them fast and furious.
However, something strange has happened. We've gotten a good King. Should we take this opportunity to bring up the US Constitution and chide President Trump that "no, you can't do that."? Haha, obviously not, but let me get down to the point here.
It's not just the Presidency that has been running way off the Constitutional tracks. We can go back a lot farther than that, to just under a century ago. Going back to FDR and the Congress at the time and that "Fair Deal", later the "New Deal" under the odious LBJ and THAT Congress, and from there on we can see violations of Amendment X come faster and more furious by the decade. It's too far gone. Most Americans wouldn't understand an argument against it. That the Feral Government is involved in almost every aspect of their lives is something that they were born "being OK with".
Well, OK then, if THAT'S the way it's gonna be, then the US President can be involved with every aspect of our lives. Thing is, the US President now, as of a week ago, is one Donald J. Trump, and he's on OUR side, and he's royally (get it?) pissed. Everything the Feral Gov't is involved in, via regulation, taxes, financial support, whatever, is fair game for more strokes of the pen. Yes, come to think of it, it IS kinda cool! It's been the coolest damn week in a long time!
See that graphic above off of yahoo? "Wait, what??" was my first thought. Oh, yeah, right, Federal money. The President is administrator of such monetary payments though some department or agency, so, yeah, there's no reason he can't threaten the Governor or whole government of California with the withholding of it. Sorry, Newscum, you live by the sword of the Feral Gov't, you die by the sword of the Feral Gov't.
Though we do consider what was said in that one book of the Bible, Peak Stupidity today bids Hello to Kings!
PS: Yes, as Ann Coulter, VDare writers, yours truly, etc., have noted, any and all E.O.s and deals can be negated on Day 1 of the next
This very move in my one example here is indeed a good part of a strategy for changing elections, hence, a possible future non-UniParty dominated Congress.
PPS: Maybe, just maybe, some States like California will hate the rule of this King so much that they will quit taking Feral Government money, and Federalism will make a comeback there ... Naaaaahhh!
* Heh, the post number fit nicely, as, if converted into a year AD, it was at a decade after Americans fought a war to say Farewell to Kings.
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Back to China: All that glitter.
Posted On: Saturday - January 25th 2025 4:13PM MST
In Topics: Pundits China
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I wrote this post, everything below, yesterday. Just now I noticed that Steve Sailer has a post on his substack site - Forget it, Jake. China is Chinatown. - with an interesting question about China. He doesn't normally write about the place, so, since Peak Stupidity does, let me answer that he's on the right track, as one could read here:
Fireworks from China (about eminent domain)
A China story and Chinese vs. American police states.
Both have comparisons between our countries. The latter has a personal anecdote and also supports Mr. Sailer's conclusion that there's much local control in China.
However, what a lot of people don't get is that the CCP is more fundamental than the Chinese Central Government.
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No, not physically. I'm probably not going there again. We at Peak Stupidity are just wheeling around from the wonderful Trumpian Executive Order news toward China for just a post or 2, maybe 3.
See, since I've backslid into commenting on The Unz Review again, I got sucked in by this one title about China written by Mr.Ron Unz, the site proprietor. American Pravda: China vs. America • 1h54m ▶: A Comprehensive Review of the Economic, Technological, and Military Factors. Note that Mr. Unz kindly recorded himself so that one can listen to the post. I've heard him before, and he comes across well via voice, but reading is much faster. I didn't read the whole thing either though. I only read some of the stats, which I don't argue with, but when it comes to UNDERSTANDING China, Ron Unz is a complete dupe.
I get that America has fallen far in many ways, as China has risen in many, over half a century, but, for both, with an acceleration over the last quarter of one, meaning THIS 21st Century alone. What does Ron Unz know about China, and why is he writing about this?
Firstly, let me again state that Mr. Unz is a real stalwart for free speech - take a look at the writers on his site - and he has done some political good in the past regarding bi-lingual education in California. He's been digging into all manner of political shenanigans in American history. What he doesn't seem to get is that ALL Governments do all manner of shady things. America's very limited Federal government of a century back was the best the world had ever seen! Yet, Ron Unz gives no credit. He gives no credit for the Americans that understand what this country WAS and want it back. Right now, with Trump doing some amazing things, will he credit Trump? No way. (Steve Sailer is very hesitant himself on this, for a different reason. There'll be a post ...)
Ron Unz has never had anything good to say about America and Americans. It's clearly not in him. Therefore, if he can see the amazing shiny new Chinese infrastructure and stats that show China in a much better light, well, there's an American Pravda article. His contention is that American politicians are all warmongering against China and are economically against China for no reason. Regarding the former, not all are (take Trump, for example!), and, yes, we ARE in an economic war, one we've been fighting with hands tied behind our backs for 30 years.
By the sarcastic "Pravda", here, we are to believe Mr. Unz has discovered this beautiful wonderful country that Americans have been trying to hide the news of. That we're all badmouthing the place due to nothing but jealousy or ignorance, seems to be his contention.
We've shown lots more pictures in the "trains, planes, automobiles" posts.
Ron Unz has never been to China. Your PS blogger has been there either 11 or 12 times.* Our "Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom" are all here, with the China topic key. I counted 19 of them just now. Most of them show that I AM impressed by some of the shiny new amazing stuff. It doesn't mean I think the place is wonderful, and that's partly because I have trustworthy Chinese people who can inform me of more than what meets the eye. This results in my having a better picture of economics and social life, and a little more about the politics.
In the meantime, Ron Unz has been watching youtube videos by young Western women! Do you see why I say that he's a dupe? We're talking young women, first of all. We've written about this before (as has the great commenter AnotherDad, who writes much in the Steve Sailer threads on Mr. Unz's own blog). Young women should be concerned with nurturing babies much more than politics. Their emotional state and complete lack of perspective on the world does not lend itself to good work as politicians, even as voters most of the time, and as experts on Chinese society. Yeah, Ron Unz is impressed with China from young ladies' youtube channels. OK....
Regarding the post then, because I had this morbid curiosity, I couldn't help but go through the 500-odd comment thread. By "go through", this time I was not about to read them all. The usual "10-centers"**, one LittleRedDot and one Mulga Mumblebrain***, commented 50 and 36 times, respectively. I don't mind some good arguments, but I can tell when I'm reading from a propagandist when there is never ever any admission of an agreement on anything against his benefactors.. IOW, if I were defending Americans, and the subject of "The People of Wal-Mart" came up, I'd have to admit that, yes, generally, you don't see Chinese people in that terrible shape. These commenters don't admit anything, even something trivial, so I know who they are.
I skipped those guys.**** I do get obsessive about finishing, and in doing so, happily I ran across a well-written and very realistic long anecdotal comment by a guy with the handle The Seventh Shape. He's lived in China for 7 years so far. It's way too late to even ask permission, so I'll just paste the whole thing in, unedited. The comment was not intended to refute everything Ron Unz thinks erroneously about China, but just about "all that glitter".
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I have lived in China for the last 7 years and will give my 2 cents. I think that Ron and others here, including some who claim to live in China, have presented a overly rosey-eyed picture of China and a more nuanced view is called for.
Architecture and urban design is an interest of mine and I have explored numerous Chinese cities. Things can look impressive from a distance in those drone videos but there is an element of Ptomkin village here: when you get up close you see that in many cases, buildings are built to a low quality compared to other countries and workmanship is lacking in a lot of cases. You’d see a building that seems to be made of stone or brick but when you get close you realise it’s just a facade, with thin slices of stone put on steel frames or over plaster. Or you’d see a flowerbed and you’d get close and realise they are plastic flowers. Or you’d see a fancy skyscraper but getting closer you’d see it’s unoccupied (some of these eventually get occupied). Footpaths are generally of a very low quality in Chinese cities. They typically don’t cement down the stone tiles they make the footpaths with, and then because ebikes routinely drive on the footpaths the tiles get easily broken.
In Europe it is normal to see stone and brick buildings that are over 100 years old, but it’s very rare to find buildings of that age and stature in China. They rarely build with lasting materials like stone and brick. Almost the only stone buildings that one sees in China are ones built by Europeans over a century ago, like on the Bund in Shanghai or those built by the Russians in Dalian and Harbin, even though China has plenty of stone mines. They just prefer to build things cheaply and quickly. Chinese, and many Asians more generally, have a different attitude and less scruples about fakery, for instance, Chinese women routinely use beauty filters on their dating app pictures and think there’s nothing wrong with it, while Chinese men routinely dye their grey hair.
In Chinese cities they often do not maintain their buildings well and do not build them to last. I will give an example. When I first came to China I was wondering why the paint seems to peel off the buildings so often, even buildings that are new. Even in my apartment I noticed that the paint would flake off the walls with slight impact. Then I found out why: they don’t use primer before they paint!! Or perhaps they use inferior paint-and-primer. And this is typical of the Chinese attitude: get the job done as quickly and cheaply as possible; why use primer when it will cost more money and time and by the time the paint starts flaking off the apartments we’ll have the money in the bank.
There are a lot of very nice cities in China and also a lot of industrial hellholes, but I wouldn’t say China’s best cities outshine other countries’. They are not better or worse but just different. Ron’s article hyped up the urban planning but there is good and bad here. Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province for instance, is the worst planned city I’ve ever seen: in the city centre at every intersection there was railings preventing you from crossing the roads. You are forced to go either under a tunnel or over a footbridge to cross. Imagine doing that every city block! It is a city planned for cars, not pedestrians, and this is a common bias in Chinese city planning. There are cities in China with some wondrously designed areas, impressive skyscrapers, and things built on a massive scale. It should be noted though that most of these are designed by the big Western architecture firms like SOM and Zaha Hadid.
Also, though crime is relatively low in China, there are very high rates of PARKING crime, as I would call it, with people routinely parking their cars along the curb at zebra crossings and the authorities doing nothing about it.
You get the full range of stuff here from tasteful classical Chinese elegance to the tackiness of buildings covered with blinking, incoherent lighting displays. It’s rarely boring. The transportation infrastructure is often impressive but there are negatives too. For instance there are onerous security protocols that create bottlenecks in metro systems and train stations, for instance, all passengers must put their bags through a scanner and then walk through a scanner. Further, the high population density leads to very crowded buses and trains, and people can be loud on public transport. Luckily taxis are cheap.
Contrary to what the article suggested, Chinese university campuses and schools are not so attractive looking for the most part. There are no grand old university campuses like one finds in Europe or the US. There’s almost nothing that can be dated back beyond a century. There are some beautiful campuses and the best I’ve seen is Xiamen University.
Ron’s article also suggests that Chinese cities seem really futuristic. I’m not sure what people mean when they say this; maybe they are referring to how you do everything through your smart phone over here. I don’t necessarily see this as a good thing however. If you happen to lose your phone you can’t function and are in big trouble. I heard of one man who lost his phone and then committed suicide. I can relate, as I left my phone behind in a taxi once and felt seized by panic, though luckily I got it back later that day. I don’t necessarily see this ‘futurism’ as progress. It’s overdependence on technology. People here look at their phones way too much and about 50% of people who you will see here in parks or at urban lakes stare at their phones WHILE WALKING, often watching a drama or silly tiktok videos instead of enjoying the often beautiful surroundings.
Let me say a little about Xingjiang. I agree with Ron that the stories of genocide are most likely total rubbish. That said, things are not fine and dandy in Xingjiang and it’s clear that there is a serious security operation going on there. I know one American who is an adventurous traveller who went exploring there. He said there are certain places where foreigners cannot go. He tried to travel to a traditional Uyghur town in the far West and he had to pass 4 police checkpoints. He got through 3 but on the 4th was driven back by police to the train station. He saw hundreds of PLA men at one train station. He also said he took a bus trip that got stopped at checkpoints 14 times. At these checkpoints, all the Uyghurs on board were checked for their ID, but not the Han Chinese. As a foreigner he was questioned at these checkpoints and at one was kept for over an hour, as the bus waited. The bus journey took over 40 hours because of these delays. I don’t say this in judgment and I’m sure the CIA would just love to stir up trouble there given the slightest opening, like they did in Chechnya for the Russians.
Life in China is getting better in many ways. 7 years ago when I arrived in my city it had one metro line under construction. Now it has a fourth line opening in a few months time. Many new recreation facilities have opened, new malls and shining office towers, and old temples and buildings have been renovated. Some of the old-timers however-foreigners who have been living here for 20 years plus-miss the old days. They reminisce fondly about the Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin era when China was more wild and fun, albeit more corrupt, and you could ‘do whatever you damn well pleased.’
Mr. Unz, if you read this, I recommend you visit China to see things for yourself. I’d by happy to show you around my city, Xiamen, which is one of the nicer ones here.
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I suggested Ron Unz go to China back in '19 sometime to see the place for himself. He's got the money and the time. Alas, the PanicFest "happened".
I have a few comments on Mr. Shape's long comment, but this post is long enough. A little bit more on China will be coming in 2 posts or so.
* I'd thought it had been 11 already, before I went in Summer of '23. However, I can't seem to recall more than 11 right now. I don't know if I can dig up the records or not.
** No, I don't know if they really get paid by the CCP 10 cents per comment, but it ought to be up to about 5 RMB now, about 70 cents, what with inflation and all.
*** This guy takes the cake. He's a Chinese guy who lives in Australia, yet he badmouths Australia and Australians incessantly. I don't know why it is he won't move back to China then, other than that they don't want him back. (Hey, they aren't stupid!) Mr. Mangledbrain is also a Climate Calamity™ fool.
**** One more, going by d dan, must have left his pager somewhere for a couple of days - he came aboard really late. I don't know if he is the same as another 10-center, one "D.B. Cooper" who, when asked by me about hijackings and such, had no clue what I meant. See, it was the old "Who won the 1939 World Series?" trick.
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Deportations: Trump, News, History, Humor, and Music
Posted On: Friday - January 24th 2025 9:38AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Music Humor History Trump
In late November, with our white pill prescription filled and in use, Peak Stupidity was very excited about The Trump-47 Administration and the Existential Issue. It's January 23rd, 3 days into Trump-47 with his Blitzkrieg of Executive Orders, and we are again pretty exited, even without having downed a white pill in days! Things are happening this time... NOW. The whole atmosphere is nearly opposite of that 8 years ago. It's like the guy really HAS learned something. It's like he's pretty damn pissed at things too.
The duo of Steven Miller, the Staff General, and Tom Homan, the (more-like) Field General, have been at it. The ZeroHedge article I referred to in the previous post said President Trump Takes First Steps To Stop Migrant Invasion on the 21st. Today, on can read from "Tyler Durden" himself that "Just The Beginning": Trump Plans 10,000 Troops On Border To Restore National Security.
First, let's note that initial number of 10,000. That sounds familiar to me. Oh, yeah, that was our estimate for how many would be needed to man the southern border - see Border control maintenance vs. defending some Koreans from other Koreans - but once there is an actual serious border barrier to man. For now, it will have to be more of a wartime situation on many fronts, hopefully with enough shots fired to show we mean business. At the same time, there's no reason we couldn't bring in another 10,000 "SeaBee" engineering corps types to actually build that permanent border. As that old (early Trump-45) post title above alluded to, how about we have American soldiers defending America for a change? Koreans, Southern or Northern, will be just fine. Here's a good soundbite for a President who LUVS him some soundbites: Move the DMZ! or Bring Home the DMZ!
Deportations have started, according to Mr. Homan. The first of the ZH articles linked to above shows these "migrants" with their now-worthless Mayorkas-created CPB (Customs and Border Protection) apps. This picture, I gotta assume, shows them outside our country or in detention here. Their appointments have been cancelled. (Hey, think of it as your version of America's swamped ERs) Those millions of illegal aliens who've used this app to get into the interior already - and I've seen them myself on airplanes - aren't worried about this cancellation at all. They've got that one page letter with a B&W photo that the TSA let them onto the airplanes with, they are gone, and they were never intending to go to any appointment in 18 months. "We don't neeeed no steeeenking appointments, Senor!"
However, along with lots of Americans by now, Trump has seen that turn-illegals-into-legal-parolee scam for what it is. The millions that got in this way must be sent back.
About deportations, then: I really hope that Trump won't be satisfied with sending back just the large bulk of the most violent 5 - 100 fold* Mariel Boatlift 2.0. That's half a million. His anger at the destruction wrought by Dark Brandon and minion Mayorkas must have him aiming to send those 10-12 million recent illegal aliens back too. Then, how do you know who broke in when - they are, after all, "undocumented"? (Some Americans, who have spent time working for H&R Block, might call them "The False Documented.) In this case, that's a good thing! Don't worry about when they arrived. If they are not citizens or foreign Nationals**, out the door they go.
However, I could see Trump, after too much wanting to be liked by Washington, FS (or is it, hopefully, a lost cause), calling it "Mission Accomplished" after booting out the violent gang members and the like. Let's hope not.
Next, as Peak Stupidity noted in those two posts regarding the cost of building and maintaining a serious border barrier, the money to do the job will be peanuts among the $6,000,000,000,000 Federal budget. I'm gonna do some posts on the Climate Calamity™ discussing the same purposeful numerical stupidity, but Trump and MAGA have got to ignore the "worrisome" cost estimates. For one thing, they have no idea. For another, you need that $6 Trillion denominator to compare to. (For example, back-of-envelope calculations contained in the post above show costs in the range of a couple of hours to half a day out of the 24/7/365-366 Gov't spending.) For another, which we'll get to next, you don't have to physically deport them all. Finally, if it made the country broke... OK, in 2 years instead of 5, I would say saving the nation was worth it. You will never be the same nation again if you replace the population. OTOH, you can always declare bankruptcy:
It may have been way too Politically Incorrect to talk about until this past Monday, but the history of President Eisenhower's Operation Wetback is now under discussion. The ZH 1st post has some numbers:
The numbers in the main tweet-text are for California and Arizona in that summer of 1954. There is more about Texas*** in the smaller text - hopefully the reader can zoom in. What was that larger political resistance implied for Texas? I'll tell you what. His name was Lyndon B. Johnson. As if he wasn't enough of a scumbag, he was part of the pro-cheap-labor lobby. (~9 years before Pres. LBJ). That aside, when the work was done, one can see that the self-deporting to deported ratio was 9 3/4 for CA and AZ, and 6 1/4 to 8 3/4 for Texas.
For Trump and other non-VDare-readers: Self-deportation a real, important, and even overwhelming phenomena. Don't let the ctrl-left and its Lyin' Press arm tell you otherwise. Peak Stupidity has noted for a completely different reason - being a prepper - why one might want to "walk before they make me run." That's from an obscure, but very good Rolling Stones song, with its lyrics applying to yet something else. Yet, sure, why wait to be arrested and put on a
After all is said and done,That's 6-9 TIMES as many self-deportation as forced ones. That would mean only 3 - 6 million or so illegals would have to be forced home, or across the Mexican (and even Canadian, yes) border to bring the huge numbers - 40 million or so - down to very low ones. I say "would" here, because the deportation program must be done seriously and with lots of visibility. Yes, the sob stories will flow. Tough shit. There's lots of sobbing that goes on during the ruination of one's country - imagine if you were a 50 year resident of Springfield, Ohio, and they up and did this to you. Let the sobbing be done by the criminals-by-definition, every one, who made the decision to enter illegally. We're finally sending you home - get over it! More sobbing by the ctrl-left and Globalists who WANT ruination of America is welcomed.
gotta move while it's still fun.
Let me walk before they make me run.
Well, that was quite a lot more than I intended to write. I did want to insert some humor here from one Harrison H. Smith, who noted that some "migrants" down in ole Juarez will not get in so easily:
Heh! No, it's enough already, what, with the rapists, murderers, home invaders, and ID thieves. Now, they're bringing in procrastinators. Tell you what, let's deport the procrastinators first. That'll really screw with their heads. "¿Self-deportation? ¡Oye! ¡No hoy! ¡Manana, senor, manana!"
OK, I got the song in my head, so you may as well too:
That's guitarist Keith Richards singing lead there!
* I'd written 100x before, but this depends on how one defines this repeating (more like rhyming) of 45 year-ago history. I can't say all of Castro's exodees were Tony Montanas, and not all the 10-12 million - 100x as many as left Cuba on boats in the Spring of 1980 - are violent gang members either. Apples-to-apples, it may be 100x the violent ones or it might be a much lower ratio, due to much more than 1 in 20 of the Cubans that came having been violent criminals.
** If the Steves, Miller and Bannon, can get it into Trump's head that but-LEE GULL immigration is a big part of the PRP, perhaps most foreign Nationals can be sent home too.
*** I think likely due to comparably rougher terrain at the border, New Mexico seems to be left out of a lot of numbers, discussion, and political action.
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A Convergent Infinite Series of Illegal Aliens? #DoTheMath
Posted On: Thursday - January 23rd 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Science
(Note: The "Science" topic key was applied above, but that's only due to the lack of a "Math" tag. We're not adding a freaking math tag.)
I liked Calculus I and Calculus 3. The 2nd class, in between, involved a lot of tricky integration concepts and procedures that you just couldn't see in your head. The beauty of Newton's ideas, in 2D in I, then 3D in 3, can be nicely visualized. Taking that infinitely small differential element in either rectangular or polar coordinates, defining it correctly, applying stresses, heat fluxes, whatever, then defining boundary conditions, and summing an infinite number of them up - the process called integration - to get a nice useful equation out of it is a thing of beauty.
We did infinite series also in the first class. For the life of me, I never saw where all those fit in. I could do the math, though, and some of the results were amazing. There are convergent series and divergent series. I left my math book somewhere, so from this wiki page (would they lie about math, even?!) we read:
More precisely, a series converges, if and only if there exists a number ℓ, such that for every arbitrarily small positive number ε, there is a (sufficiently large) integer N such that for all n ≥ N,On this page, the examples of divergent series all sum to ∞, but I don't think that's part of the definition. (I would know for sure if I
|Sn − ℓ| < ε
If the series is convergent, the (necessarily unique) number ℓ is called the sum of the series.
Peak Stupidity has discussed a magical mathematical result, The Eleven, a number of times already.* The unique constant, 11 million, still crops up in immigration invasion mathematical discussions. Here's one, from within this otherwise informative ZeroHedge
It's so weird, right?! This is why infinite series can be really cool. Illegal aliens have come into America in net rate numbers ranging from 1/4 million to a million, yearly, for half a century, at least. (Operation Wetback put the kibosh on the practice for a few years, but people forget - that's why you need a BORDER.) An estimate was made with that number 11 million, back in 2000. Since then the same rate, with a series of 1/2 a million this year, 1 million the next, etc. has been holding, and yet this convergent series still sums to 11 million, no matter what the value of n! Math is cool! It's hard, but it's cool.
Oh, what about that Dark Brandon/Mayorkas surge of 12 million in less than 4 years?
PS: In math, we have to be VERY CAREFUL with definitions. What does Nate Hochman above mean by "some"? In this context "some" = " the sum of all non-retarded people".
PSS: Yes, this mass- (if it really becomes one) deportation program is very exciting for patriotic Americans. It's been 70 years since the last time, Operation Wetback** under Dwight Eisenhower, but at least half a century since there should have been another. Again, Bring Back VDare!! (Will they start the site back up if Leticia James is bounced?)
* There's discussion about a
** There was not a lot of Political Correctness back in 1954, was there? One wonders why.
*** Ha, at first I'd written a semi-homophonic era, errr, error.
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Mt. McKinley v Denali
Posted On: Wednesday - January 22nd 2025 10:37AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Trump Pundits
In our previous post on the ongoing Trump Blitzkreign of Executive Orders, I did not list everything, and there was no particular order there, other than "if you really care that much about TikTok, you can just get the hell out of this right country now!" I didn't mention the name changes.
Though the rest of the post is paywalled, I got a little bit out of the Steve Sailer substack post The Name Game: Confusing the Elderly in Their Declining Years to bring up the same point I often have a problem with. No, he's right, mind you. He's eminently reasonable:
That [having a Denali National Park with (still-named) 20,300 ft.* Mt. McKinley as its big feature] seemed like a reasonable compromise to me at the time. With both names in effect, you could use whichever one came naturally to you with only moderate chance for confusion.Yes, of course Øb☭ma would change anything he could to erase the history of the White men who built the country. President Trump will reverse that.
In contrast, complete name changes confuse everybody past about their sophomore year in collage, and provide fodder to the easily offended, encouraging their tendencies toward obnoxious verbal puritanism.
Hence, in 2015, Obama changed Mt. McKinley to Denali (not Mt. Denali, just Denali).
Hopefully, Trump is going back to that compromise of the 1980s: reversing Obama’s 10 year old name change of Mt. McKinley to Denali but also leaving Carter’s 45 year old Denali National Park.
Look, I'm just not worried about how far Trump goes on this reversal of the history revisionism. If you're one of those old folks who accepted the new anti-White, anti-Southern, anti-American names for things with no pushback, I'm sorry, but I'm not all broken up about your ability to keep up now. Why didn't you just keep using the old names? I do. (Yeah, OK, road signs...).
We're in a Culture War. Luckily, for now, it's mostly a war of words. The ctrl-left has been winning this thing for a half century now, with a big successful surge within the last decade. Trump is right** to push back hard. Rename the forts back! I know, it cost millions to rename them just a couple of years ago, but the military apparently has a lot of money to blow. Use 1 % of that Ukraine money - it'll be more than enough. Unz Review commenter Jenner Ickham Errican*** had this to say (his bolding):
Might be smart and amusing to roll with the tit-for-tat renaming thing: Now that the Left has started it, it can’t be stopped. Agree and amplify, as a wiseguy once said.Heh!
For instance former Fort Bragg, currently Fort Liberty, should now be renamed Fort Forrest (after Nathan Bedford). Then it’s Fort Leo Frank, and later Fort Literally Hitler…
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You might just be The Most Reasonable Guy in America. That's a great thing when it comes to gathering people to our side. When it comes to the other side of the Culture War, though, they DON'T CARE how reasonable we are. Some of them likely understand and even agree, but this is not about understanding and agreeing. It's about power with them. They are erasing history in order to humiliate and (hopefully, in their minds) eliminate the White man. If you push back, don't worry about being reasonable, OK?
Trump is a fighter on our side in this Culture War. No, "Gulf of America" is stupid - if anything, geographically, it's going the wrong way. Keep it clear that there's a big gulf between the US and Mexico. However, Trump should get a lot of support and hopefully start a trend with this un-renaming thing. I'm all for it. Keep those E.O.s flying!
PS: I suppose the reader may be thinking: If you didn't read the whole Steve Sailer post (it said 1,800 more words), how can you comment about it? See, I agree with him on the specifics. I just have never agreed that we're gonna work out all our problems by being reasonable with the other side.
* Sure, that's only 2/3 as high as the tallest, but it's the highest "base to peak" mountain on earth. Well, don't freaking start at the base, then!
** No, I don't want him to FIXATE on this. There are more important things he should be doing, BY FAR, but he is that high-energy guy, so let him spend a little time on this.
*** Reads as "Generic American" - took me 2 or 3 years to figure that out (or be told, can't remember).
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Feelin' Stronger Every Day? - 8 years later
Posted On: Monday - January 20th 2025 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump US Feral Government
Happy Martin Luther, Doctor King, Reverend, J.D., CPA, RN Jr. Day! It's a good day to practice your shot groupings. We did. Wait, that's not what Peak Stupidity and the country are so excited about...*
Peak Stupidity featured this same great Chicago song we've got here today on the day before Donald Trump's inauguration 8 years ago. At that point, the blog had been in operation less than 2 months.
I am not so excited this time around. Perhaps I should be MORE excited than last time, because this Administration is much better arranged and staffed with people on Trump's side** in the war against Globalism and for Americans than the crowd of '16. However, I'm 8 years older and wiser, Donald Trump is 8 years older and... hopefully wiser but too old to change his egotistical blowhard personality "archetype", if I may.
One thing going for us is that this time around Trump is rightly pissed about the Totalitarian actions and woke madness that have come down upon all of us recently. That's nice, because, though Trump cares more about Trump than he does about America, our righteous anger is in synch with his.
Nope, the same as 4,8,12,16,20, 24, 28 ... actually ALL years ago, I didn't watch this what is more akin to a coronation than a simple swearing in per US Constitution I heard about it from my wife.*** I'm not happy with the VIllage People (no matter how straight they claim to be), the Black! pandering, and whatever else I can't remember and don't want to. It's the Executive Orders in this age in which we've decided to Bid Hello to Kings again - talking Rush here, not the Old Testament - that mattered today and will for the next few days and weeks., If those "stroke of the pen, law of the land - kinda cool"**** E.O.s aren't what we need and have demanded. The following are not in any kind of order:
1) The J6: This is not the most important issue as far as helping the country - a multi-million illegal deportation program is - but it'd be the biggest immediate signal that we are not continuing the Banana Republicanism. Contrary to what some ex-Green Beret Political Prisoner said, I'm NOT happy if it's just the non-violent prisoners. ALL must be released. The most riotous of the lot were pikers compared to the arsonist, looter, violent crowds all over in Summer of '20. I read that he has ordered 1,500 released. Though I'm not a Be-Bono-moaning Latin American-style Mother of the Disappeared, I am very happy about it so far.
2) The rejection of the Paris Accords. Trump-45 got us out of this particular part of the Climate Calamity™ scam, but Dark Brandon signed us back up in '21. We can keep this yoyo-ing up until we're beyond the climate's Point of Know Return . (No, that never seems to work somehow.) Perhaps America would have never lived up to our end of this stupid and odious agreement anyway, but this shows that Trump sees this (lately dubbed) Global Boiling for the scam it is. We will have more about this recently-neglected subject shortly on Peak Stupidity.
3) Freezing of Feral Gov't hiring (minus the military and other exceptions) along with a freeze on new regulations. Great!! [/Early 1980s Ronald Reagan voting Peak Stupidity staff] It's unfortunately not 1980, so these are nice thoughts but entirely too late to avoid ... let's call it "trouble". Oh, and this executive order is actually something the President, being, you know, Administrator of the Executive Branch, is supposed to be doing.
4) Some paperwork to beat inflation. From what I read, neither the FED nor gold standard were mentioned, so... yeah, guys, good luck with all that!
5) Immigration control and reversal. (For the latter hey like to use"remigration" now. Whatever. It's not about what THEY like.) I don't know the details and, as written here a number of times since their suspension of operations last Summer, we miss VDare dearly. (Here's hoping that link will go to more than difficult-to-get-through archives sometime again.) It was 3 days ahead, but hopefully it will hold that NPR worries Immigrants and advocacy organizations brace for Trump's Day One actions. The bracing was 3 days ago. We want to see the impact. Stay
The 10 anti-invasion points described here starting with "Declaring a National Emergency at the border" sound very good. We'll see what Trump gets around to...
6) TikTok lives to waste people's time another day - actually 75 days for now on a pause from being banned. Oh, wait, this one is definitely in order here in this post.
I'll put my white pill prescription renewal on hold too. There are side effects I don't want to experience. Stupidity is listed top of the bottle. Let's try music again.
I wrote this same 8 years back - don't bother listening to this one unless you have good speakers with some serious amount of bass.
Chicago at the time of this song from Chicago VI was:
Peter Cetera – lead vocals, bass
Robert Lamm – keyboards, backing vocals, Hohner Pianet
Terry Kath – guitar, backing vocals
Danny Seraphine – drums
James Pankow – trombone
Lee Loughnane – trumpet
Walter Parazaider – tenor saxophone
We wish Godspeed to President Trump-47 and a way for him that avoids the stupidity of Trump-45. If not, hey, we're MAGA, and we'll get somebody else.
* There was another fairly big event that happened on that Commie race hustler's birthday back in '20. (Makes sense calendar wise - 5 years and 2 leap days between these psuedo-birthday Mondays.) Peak Stupidity's lead blogger thought it big anyway, as yours truly attended the very big gun rally held in Richmond, Virginia. See There's great power in numbers - Case study: Richmond, Virginia and Richmond gun rally - a lesson about ignoring the narrative. It was also very cold - same month in which these same type extreme weather events seem to happen.
** Yeah, there will be some exceptions, I'm sure. There may have been one already, as Vickram has been said to be dropping out of the DOGE committee. Since his anti-Americans stance on the H1B visa issue, I'd be glad if he were to just (be made to) walk away.
*** This makes an interesting comparison to '16. She didn't care about politics much until about '18-'19. She did ask me, however, to help her register to vote in Summer of '16. I told her I'd be glad to if she planned on voting for Trump. There was too much hemming and hawing out of her, so that was a no-go!
**** That link goes to a site called News with Views and a page from one Debra Rae. From what I've just read, she's kinda cool.
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Budget Cutting v Austerity
Posted On: Saturday - January 18th 2025 8:10AM MST
In Topics: Humor Economics Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Socialism/Communism
I saw this ZeroHedge headline yesterday:
I know I have had a bad feeling about this "Quoth the Raven" guy from before, as he must have written something stupid. In this case, I see someone with the Libertarian point of view who has no idea of how much of a Welfare State the US is. One
Back in December, Peak Stupidity posted Will the DOGE save our economy? (short answer: NO) with a graph that explains* why budget cutting cannot replace austerity in a Welfare State. It IS austerity.
I remember the stories about cries from the people in Greece and such countries with half-assed semi-Latin-American economies. Their Welfare State is huge, so when any significant amount of the budget is cut, there is, by definition, austerity, with lower welfare payments and other grift being doled out, meaning lots of people feeling that financial pain. "No more austerity! Just save the economy!" "Whut?"
We're in the same boat as the Greeks... manned by the same Ben Hurs at the oars ... no, not like that. You can cut around the edges, DOGE guys. Take out OSHA for instance, and the country will become more prosperous just due to the freedom from onerous creativity-killing regulation alone, even if all the employees were still paid and given money to shoot pool all day. If you did quit paying them, that's still small-time cutting, though. If you're trying to make a serious dent in that $2,000,000,000,000 yearly deficit**, you've got to cut out some of the meat. That means Social Security - that 3rd rail, so don't use anything made of metal - and Medicaid.*** You do that, and you'll hear the cries about Austerity!! for the first time in this country.
It would be the first time you heard that here, because America has been borrowing and spending for the last 90+ years (starting with Roosevelt devaluing the dollar), and with nary a peep about it over in the 21st Century, almost a quarter of it having gone by. Our Feral Gov't considers decreases in the rates of increase of government programs to be "cuts". Real cuts in the discretionary budget - now only a small proportion of the spending - will put gov't employees out of work, a good thing in the long run, but with pain to be felt. The massive cuts needed to put a visible dent in a deficit, well, nobody wants to get into those.
Real budget cutting IS austerity, when you've gone full retard Socialist. Next time, if there is a next time, you don't get yourself into this position. Nevermore!, quoth the raven.
* The graph in that post was meant to display something else, the big increase in interest payment amount as part of the Federal expenditures. However, it also shows us where the rest of the big bulk of the money has been going.
** Cutting the deficit, unless it's to ZERO, means that debt is still going up! However, seriously cutting it would have a major psychological effect, as in, "we are approaching the abyss more slowly now".
*** Yes, the Offense budget is a big part too, so that's the place to start.
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RaDaSS, the concept
Posted On: Thursday - January 16th 2025 9:00PM MST
In Topics: California The Future Science
Now, for something completely different!
That's Rapid Detection and Small-scale Supression. That sounds awfully MIC-like, I realize.
I had 3 other posts to write, which will be coming. However, as I read all about the Los Angeles fires from "a guy" who lives there, I thought I'd throw in an idea in the comments. It's just
Lots of the not-necessarily technically-oriented, but astute and worldly, commenters on Mr. Sailer's Unz Review blog wrote their ideas about what has gone wrong in Los Angeles and how to stop a disaster like this in the future. Let anyone say "Climate Change", even in your heads here, and I'm sorry, you can just get off this blog right now. Step off, Jack! (Or Jonathan.) Enough of that "unexpected, extreme weather events" bullshit. It gets hot in southern Cal, it's really a desert kept livable by a century of amazing engineering work and upkeep by the White man, and, yes that the place is now "no country for White men" has a whole lot to do with this disaster.
I won't get into any more of that here. On the non-political, practical side, there were loads of suggestions about better building materials, more and higher up reservoirs (helps to keep them filled too!) and tanks, mandatory ce-ment ponds (sorry!), piping all over the hillsides, and AnotherDad with his "Ring of Golf", haha! Besides some general simple building code changes, all of these are 10's or 100's of Billion dollar ideas. How about we do some out-of-the box thinking? See, Mr. Sailer, in his Takimag article on the fires*, Mr. Sailer rightly noted that America was a can-do country in the past, and California, per his timeline and personal/historic knowledge, flipped from that to a can't-do State with a 5 year period. It was '69, '70 ... it was a
No, big projects like the Los Angeles aqueducts that took water from the Owens Valley across the State and later from up north (Mono Basin, etc.) of a century back aren't things that can be done anymore.** "No can do."
What HAS changed since then that we CAN take advantage of, even in this world of D.I.E.? Remote sensing is one.- I'm not happy about the privacy aspects, but satellites and drones can observe with better and better resolution, storage, and speed. Secondly, drones have gotten pretty amazing in capability for other uses via modern (same thing, fast, high-storage, and cheap-sensor-laden) electronic technology.
Here's the idea: Due to the conditions often to be had in southern California, fires can spread rapidly. How long an interval must pass from detection by residents, patrol aircraft or whomever until firemen are actually at the scene with their equipment? The difference between a small fire still burning only a fraction of an acre and one burning down a whole hillside already maybe a few minutes or a big part of an hour, depending on those conditions - type of vegetation, temperature, and especially wind. Putting out a fire that just started would take a whole lot less water or retardant than one that's been burning down a hillside for an hour. I wish I had some numbers on this - average fire size as a function of time. (Again, it depends on a whole lot of variables besides just time.)
I don't have specs on military drones, but there are drones one can buy that can carry as much as 500 - 1000 lb. Most of those heavy-lift ones are for aerial spraying of crops, replacing the old Ag Cats (Grumman LUVS cats!), Air Tractors, Thrushes, and other cropdusting planes, and unfortunately, their amazingly skilled pilots***. I don't know the specs on the military ones, but obviously some can carry many tons. See some military drone/UAV**** info here. The ridiculous prices show us how much the MIL is scamming us!
Yeah, that's only a 150 gallons of water or retardant, lots more with the bigger military drones, but, compared to major infrastructure projects all around the huge Los Angeles basin, even military prices would be peanuts, and you don't need to pay those. A newly designed drone for the specific purpose could be used, with a few hundred made to be on stand-by. As a bonus, perhaps one small missile or two could be mounted, ready to blast to pieces the illegal aliens or mental cases who started said fire.
Let's get into that part. Speed is important, but jet aircraft speeds are not necessary and would probably be dangerous*****. Since some of these drones (the quad-copter or other helicopter style) need NO runway, one could find plenty of locations to base them - each with a decent-sized (filled-up!) water tank on site. For the winged machines, I imagine a hundred or two yards would do for a short-field craft. So, for a 5 minute response time, just an example (a number that is the crux of the whole idea), at 120 kt. flying speed, you'd cover a 10 mile radius, with a minute or two at most required for launch. Mr. Sailer puts the LA basin at 4,000 mi2 in his article. Allowing some slop for overlap (we're talking circles within a rough square), only 50, maybe 75 sites would need to be set up for these normally-on-standby operations.
It's not a "green" thing for me, as the reader should well know, but since the round-trip and mission time would be so short these drones could be electric, or, if Avgas or Jet-A (for a turboprop) powered, would not need a whole lot of fuel. That weight saved means more water or retardant can be carried.
Now, going out of order here, seeing as the "RaD" is for rapid detection, I'll mention something about remote sensing. (This is 2nd mainly because I don't know so much about the current state of it.)
There've been fire towers around big forests for I suppose a century, and aerial patrols by medium-low flying slow single engine planes having been done for easily half that long. One can see smoke from a long ways. However, pinpointing the position can take a while. With remote sensing, I know the resolution is amazing these days, down to feet. A fire burning a few square feet could be detected. Very accurate position information can be determined through image processing software. This can be done very quickly.
There's a nice fairly short overview article in Science Direct - Remote sensing for wildfire monitoring: Insights into burned area, emissions, and fire dynamics. This article is satellite-biased, I'd say, giving short shrift to UAVs/drones in one paragraph. There's a lot to say, based on cost and ability to improvise, for high-flying drones to do this work.
The article mentions some causes of false alarms, such as sunlight reflections off surfaces. However, the beauty of remote sensing in various wavelengths is that one (and eventually some software) can use just the right ones to find the "signature" of a fire only.
Of course, some known non-destructive fires, such as refinery flares or what-have-you could be put into a database to be ignored. Anything out of the ordinary though, could quickly result in the launch of a small-scale fire suppression drone. The quick response time would hopefully result in an arrival at a fire that is still small enough to be put out with those 100 gallons or whatever.
Back to the low-level small-scale suppression drones, I can see a whole lot of fun science/engineering involved in optimizing the suppression effectiveness. You've only got a small amount of water or retardant, compared to a series of helicopter drops or a blast from an overhead DC-10(!). Again, software can do about anything, so the spray pattern could be tinkered with to get the maximum effectiveness. Is it better to drop a whole lot of water around the periphery to stop the spread? Maybe a lower-rate sprinkling on the whole thing does more, with a number of runs taken. I don't know, but it'd be some fun theoretical modeling and (most of it) great experimental engineering work. Decide what works best, and make the drones do it that way.
That's the idea. One thing needed would be an air traffic avoidance feature based on the commonplace ADS-B. It'd look bad if an air crash was due to a drone hauling ass across the neighborhoods of LA to put out a barbecue. The way electronics are in today's world, if you can think of the logic, you can program it in.
This is Peak Stupidity's suggestion to improve the lot of Los Angelenos who might otherwise decamp to the real America, to the detriment of us all. To me, the cost would be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude lower than any other serious suggestions I've read of.
It's rad! It's badass! Hence, it's RaDaSS.
PS: I do know how fast fires spread from personal, errr, arson events. We only meant to burn a piece of potassium in a Dixie cup from the lab one day out in the weeds. I even brought my Mom's gardening water pot with us. Before you could say "hey, fire!", about 4 ft square was alight. It got worse quickly - it'd been really dry and the wind was up.
Luckily, the parents were away during the whole time we ran in to call the fire department, they came out with 4 trucks and put it out, they left, and the whole lot next to our house was blackened. "What happened?!" "I don't know. The field was on fire, so we called up and the fireman came and put it out." "OK." Whewwww!
* Yeah, I've not seen him write so much on one subject in a long time. (NOBODY mention the Kung Flu! [/Faulty Towers, was it?]
** There was a lot of political and actual fighting about it then, but, no matter what you think of that, there'd be no Los Angeles as we know it without the water projects. (Maybe that would have been for the best when we look at it now, but in the 1950s through '70s - man, it was probably the best place and time to have ever lived on Earth.)
*** They don't talk about long landings off the runway, so much as hitting fence posts. That's how low they fly.
**** Even from reading this "droneblog" web page that purports to explain the difference in many, many words, I don't get the difference!
***** That'd be one of the things to work out - flying these things in the busy airspace. Somewhat slower is better, lower is better, and they must keep away from airport runways.
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[UPDATED 01/17:] Added the one paragraph starting with "Back to the low-level..." I'd be really excited to be doing that kind of work. It's not for the stupid, ungrateful, and uncaring - Diversity need not apply.
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¿Esta la mierda golpea el ventilador?
Posted On: Tuesday - January 14th 2025 8:40PM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation Peak Stupidity Roadshow
That's Espanol para SHTF.
Remember what Peak Stupidity has been ranting about regarding the demise of the US Dollar? Yeah, you'll get your SS check for $2,750 a month. However, the US Gov't's calculation of CPI increases to help you keep up with inflation is, shall we say, unsound. They can't really have SS and the entitlements keep up with the actual rate- that defeats the purpose of inflation in gnawing down on that debt.
So, you're down in Latin America living the high life as a rich fat American like pundit Fred Reed. You've had a lady coming to clean the house weekly for $20, another lady to be your girlfriend for slightly higher, and... then ...eat that, bitchez!
To think Uruguay has been considered a possible bug-out location.
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OK, OK, joke's over. Those prices are in pesos. Still, down in Montevideo, I expected the US $ would go farther. It was ~ 42 pesos to a buck, so those prices are $4.75 for a small, just under $6 for the medium, and just over $7 for a large. ¿Como se dice "¡Super Size Mi!"? Let's zoom out a bit from that sign:
Well, maybe the beef is better... Weendee Tomas say "¡¿Donde es la carne, beetchez?!"
We did not partake of the McCombo's down in Montevideo, but we did get down there finally to check the place out. Peak Stupidity will have a number of posts coming for info and entertainment - Infotainment*, they call it.
* ¿Did David Letterman coin that term? I has assumed so, but that's probably not the case. [¿How long we gonna keep doing this? - Ed.]
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A few numbers on H1B and the completely bogus "cap"
Posted On: Saturday - January 11th 2025 12:00PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity University Trump The Future Big-Biz Stupidity
See, this is when we miss VDare.com the most. Instead of going through a bunch of websites to find the truth on the H1B and other ID-visa (Indentured Servant) numbers, Peak Stupidity could have pointed the reader to multiple VDare posts with all the numbers you need. We are still hoping for some sort of downfall of Black! fat-ass NY Attorney General Leticia James, so that VDare could rise out of it's archival ashes.
Commenter E.H. Hail noted Peak Stupidity's way-off numbers in our most recent post on the H1B visa battle. We have corrected that post and apologized. The numbers in my head, from 2 decades of reading VDare were off because of one thing I'm almost certain of now, H1B visa caps. They are a complete joke!
The reader can see from one of the tables on this page on redbus2us.com* for the last 21 years that "cap on H1B visas" has been 85,000. That's 65,000 "Regular Quota" and 20,000 "Masters Quota" yearly. To serve Americans - NO!!! it's an anarchist's cookbook!
Before then, BTW, per a chart here, the cap popped up from 65,000 "normal"** to 115,000 in '99-'00, then up to 195,000 during Bush Jr.'s 1st term. (Granted, a big share of those applications were not approved for a couple of those years, '02-'03, but that was just 9/11 fall-out. The Moslems/Arabs came even faster, though, on their student visas and such.**)
These numbers for the "cap" are more of a joke than the Feral Gov't debt ceiling. At least the latter is put of a vote every time - about yearly anymore - to kick that can down to the (coming) end of the road. There's no vote on busting the cap here. "TECH" titans decide how many more Indentured Servants they still want. Once the cap is reached, as RedBusToUS helpfully informs
The whole thing is just a 3 century later kindler and gentler version of the Charlestown slave market. "I need 10 more field hands for the cotton, a dozen for the indigo, 20 house servants." They had to send someone to the auction and give requests verbally or in writing, as there was no website back in those days. Now, I'm sure there's a portal and an app for these "TECH" titans to order up some more
To get finally to the raw numbers, Mr. Hail's link goes to 3 bar graphs, of '13 through '18, from the US State Dept - H1Bs, H1As, and H2Bs. The latter two are for imported nurses and then "temporary non-agricultural workers" (say, the foreigners running all the rides at the State Fair - Americans don't know how), respectively. Let me just concentrate on the H1B's due to their being the big discussion going on, and that the whole system of "non"-immigrant visas is overwhelming. Mr. Hail gave numbers in the comments, along with his own take on Trump's failure on this. There's a less data-heavy article on the BBC site that gets into the H1B issuances and Trump here.
I'll point the reader to some other, also slightly old, data, here on this US Customs/Immigration page. It has '07 to '17 data, broken up in terms of country of origin, occupation of Indentured Servitude, general type of business doing the indenturing, age range, and compensation. Indians are 2/3 to 3/4 of the recipients, hence their presence in America being heavily "bandied about" on twitter, and the Chinese are the next highest, around the 10% level. Other nationalities, taken individually fall well behind, at less than 3% for the highest (Philippines).
The share of these Indentured Servants brought over for IT work is a majority, 60% or so, of the total. So, Indians in IT, by the millions, is what this particular visa type is all about. The numbers are high, in the high 200,000 to low 300,000 ANNUALLY, from another site I looked at - it was more current. Then, in '24, Dark Brandon went FULL TRAITOR and brought it up to 3/4 of a million!
There you go, a few numbers, as a correction and to inform our readers. The polemics will continue until morale improves or we meet together in Montevideo. Actually, no, but that's another few posts to come ...
PS: Jared Taylor has an Unz Review post out on this subject. I found the image above a few days back, but Mr. Taylor wryly noted for his article, "Seventy-two-point-six percent of the people who come in on them are Indians, 12.5 percent are Chinese, and only about 2 percent are white, but naturally, the sample visa you find on the internet is for a Frenchman!"
* Holy crap, it took me till just a few minutes ago to understand what the URL means. That's "Red Bus to (the) US". Yeah, the site is one little part of the whole LEGAL immigration scam apparatus.
** Normal, master's degree, whatever, they are all staying, and they are all hired for jobs actual American could be doing.
*** The 2 stories in that post are of African immigrants owning slaves in the US, but there have been stories of Indians in New Jersey doing the same. Again, bring back VDare!
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Steve Sailer, the "Rightists", Justin Castreau, and Big Mike
Posted On: Friday - January 10th 2025 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Commies Genderbenders Pundits Americans
It's quite a cast of characters we've got in the title. I wrote in the postscript of Peak Stupidity's previous post that I'd read* over the recent SteveSailer.net substack article Is Justin Trudeau the son of Fidel Castro?, along with the (as usual) interesting and well-written comments.* I read it BEFORE I wrote that post on Mr. Castreau (who's unfortunately not resigned YET), but that didn't stop me from using the terminology in question here.
I feel I must state here first that I'm a big fan of Steve Sailer and am glad he's gotten closer to the spotlight lately. America would be, if not better off, at least more enlightened and truth-seeking were this pundit read widely or a regular on Fox News (haha, not agonna happen). However, here's a case in which I can see that a peacetime consigliere, as he is, doesn't get some of what's going on in the political world.
Let me excerpt the part of his post I refer to:
Young rightist memesters tend to be ignorant about how formidable was Pierre Trudeau, who during his 15 years as prime minister more or less re-founded the British colony of Canada on the model of his own bilingual self. (Pierre was one of 3% of the population who grew up fluent in both English and French.)Who are these "Rightists" of which he speaks? I suppose that this term is at least nice and symmetric with "Leftists" - we use "ctrl-left" here because it's clever and symmetric with "alt-right". However, "Leftist" must be used due to the complete misusage of "Liberal" for the last 60 years. Those who are now Libertarians would have been Liberals a century ago. The root word is "liberty". Since the 1960s "Liberals" have not been for liberty at all - it was all just expediency within the Long March.
So they assume Pierre must have been some cheese-eating surrender monkey who was of course cuckolded by Fidel Castro on his honeymoon.
And what if the theory is true? Due to their ignorance of Canadian history, rightists have been asserting, in effect, that Justin Trudeau enjoys the Nature of the most glamorous opponent of America, Fidel Castro, and the Nurture of the biggest man of 20th Century Canada, Pierre Trudeau.
And that proves Justin Trudeau is a wimp because … well … they'll get back to you on that one.
By "Rightest", I figure Mr. Sailer means "Conservative", a perfectly fine term. Is he not one of these? In nobody's imagination is Steve Sailer anything but a Conservative. He must mean those low-brow, (sometimes foul-mouthed), conspiracy-theorizing, often less civil, pundits and memers only, which doesn't include him.
Because he's certainly not low-brow, Mr. Sailer does not understand the mindset of those who are, many of them true Conservatives within MAGA, who are pretty much the only Americans against the UniParty and the Globalist Commies. Whether he likes them (us?**) or not, they (we?**) are surely on his side when it comes down to the so-far-still-cold Cultural Revolution.
The point of the Sailer post in question here is to correct we Rightists for being Wrong when it calls to the name-calling, along with it possible slander, of the Commie Canadian Prime Minister Justin Castreau. (See? There you go again!) We'll get to his reasoning. Within the comments there is much discussion of the claim by we Rightists that Justin "Trudeau" is the illegitimate son of the old Cuban Commie Fidel Castro. That's not really the point of THIS post, so let me then bring in a couple of comments that relate to it. I really like this 1st, short and concise one, by one "Approved Posture", even though I don't agree with 2/3 of it:
The Castro paternity theory is both completely false and utterly compelling.Ha! I don't see how this theory is so obviously false, and since I'm not a People magazine guy, the story is not particularly compelling to me, but yes, I love it and hope it will never die! Why? We'll get to that too.
I love it and hope it will never die.
Let us now bring the last character, Big Mike, into the discussion. In our recent post On Matt Gaetz and Big Mike, we made the same point as we will here. We argued against a similar scolding correction of the record to the crazy MAGA folks, that time against Unz Review site proprietor Ron Unz and regarding former First Person Michelle Øb☭ma instead.
To summarize our point of that post, yes, using the term "Big Mike" implies "She's a man, baby!", which is something we have no proof of. Peak Stupidity's opinion is that Michelle Øb☭ma is most likely just a big-boned lady, who could use to burn off the buns some by, say, getting on a bike or eating more of that broccoli she's been trying to push on us Rightist rubes. However, she's been blackety-black anti-White throughout what we know of her life, so, without other non-jeopardizing ways of pushing back, we like to give her shit. It's due. It's fun, too, so, sorry Ron Unz or Steve Sailer, logic and reasoning aside, she's Big Mike.
Well, Mr. Sailer wrote some logic involving nature & nurture, Castro and Pierre Trudeau, to show that we are being stupid by saying Justin Castreau (oops) is the son of Fidel. This completely misses the point. He doesn't understand that we don't call him that based on any kind of People magazine style interest in the guy's background. We haven't spent the time to think about that. As we wrote last post, the (still, for a while, unfortunately) Canadian Prime Minister is a Totalitarian Globalist Commie in nature. Is this from the genes of Fidel Castro or Pierre Trudeau, or nurturing by ... WHO CARES?! Castro is one of the big Communists in history, and that's why we use the name here. It's due, it's fun, and this ridicule is one small way we can push back.
Actually, I remember that the very good commenter R.G. Camara said this all better than I have:
Steve, you seem fixated on the idea that questioning Justin's parentage is for the purpose of calling him a wimp. It has nothing to do with that. Stop that.Heh! Exactly.
Rather, it's a three-fold smear: (1) calling his mother a whore; (2) calling his leftist Canadian father a wussy cuck; and (3) explaining/comparing Justin's communist actions (debanking opponents, violently running over protesters, limiting protests, enlisting his state press to attack opponents, murdering civilians through healthcare "suicide", etc.) with Fidel's.
In other words, its a political and personal smear, but nothing to do with Justin's masculinity.
I realize you have a soft spot for Justin, as you've stated in the past. I also realize that Justin's charity boxing match win showed people that a left-winger could be personally tough, contra to the traditional communist-wimp image, and that act has drawn your own personal attention. But not everyone is so fixated on the match or about reasserting old stereotypes on each left winger, and this smear certainly isn't part of it at all.
That said, Justin's mother is a whore, his Pierre was a cuck, and Castro Jr.'s political actions are like his dear old evil Cuban daddy's actions in Havana.
The thing is, the paternity of Justin Castreau is NOT known. I guess I don't really care who is his Dad, but there's quite a big reason to think that Fidel Castro could have been. The mainstream story is no sure thing. With Big Mike however, we lean toward the mainstream story, and answer could more easily be ascertained, but who are you going to get to do it? Good luck with all that ...
For either of the two and anyone else to come, this isn't about logic - it's about ridicule. All of these types need to be ridiculed. It's a good first step.
* I'll reiterate here that I'd love to participate, including sending in money, but due to my problem of spending too much time already on the www, I've refrained. I'll read whatever goes up to the pay wall, unless it's about Hollywood, golf, architecture, or golf architecture. ;-}
** Is Peak Stupidity low-brow? You can judge yourself. We have no problem with that term.
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Good riddance (coming for), Globalist Commie Justin Castreau!
Posted On: Thursday - January 9th 2025 11:26AM MST
In Topics: Commies Trump Globalists World Political Stupidity
A big THANK YOU is due Donald J. Trump for this. About a month after the '24 election, my white pill prescription had run out when it comes to the Bloviator-in-Chief. However, he really has already made a favorable difference in world politics via the use of his mouth. I give him all the credit he deserves for doing his bluffing and BS'ing about tariffs on Canadian goods, causing the worry and turmoil that seems to have caused the downfall of Castreau.
10 things we need to know? Nah. There are only 2 things we need to know, really:
1) Justin Castreau is a trained Globalist, having participated in those WEF young leaders forums or whatever-the-heck they called them. He's just another of many groomed nation-destroyers. Castreau's been doing one hell of a job at it too, as Canada has had proportional immigration rates with a movement of people that hasn't been seen since, likely, the Exodus. (The latter was in the other direction, of course. Let's call it "remigration" this time.)
I was positive I'd written a post on these huge rates, something like 1 - 1 1/2% increases in the population yearly! His Government is very proud of that too - it must please his Globalist mentors greatly. Actual Canadians are a minority of the population of Canada's largest city, Toronto. From back in '21 even, wiki says that 1.2 million out of the 2.8 million residents are "European", as in White. 43%! We've seen this ourselves in person. From wiki also: The city's foreign-born persons comprised 47 percent of the population, compared to 49.9 percent in 2006.. Oh, that's good, right? Nah, their kids are born here, yet, not particularly Canadian.
This has been treasonous, to a level that, as bad as it's been in America, is even worse. From the Great White North to a diverse multi-cultural hellhole in half a lifetime, now that takes a lot of destruction.
2) Castreau is also a major Totalitarian. We saw this during the Ottawa trucker's revolt in early '22 against the attempts at a full mandatory Kung Flu vax programme. Later that year, in The Semi Fascists O' Canada, Peak Stupidity mentioned the persecution by the Castreau administration of the truckers via lawfare and de-banking, etc. In fact, even those who just supported this peaceful protest (no sarc.) were persecuted.
We bandy about the term Communist quite a bit on Peak Stupidity. I've said pretty much the same before, and I'll say it again, history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme. Das Kapital or Little Red Book in hand or not, these are the same people of a century ago. By "same people", I've meant the same types of people, Los Resentidos (the Resentful Ones). Speaking of the story in the link, for Castreau, he's not just the same type, but perhaps a direct chip off the old Commie block:
Our commenter M explains that the headline from yahoo is incorrect. It's parliamentary-government-style complicated:
If only he had actually resigned.Thank you, M. I did have to look up prorogued. To use another British/Canadian expression, Castreau has also prorogered (professionally rogered) the Canadian people.
What he's actually said is that he will resign when the Liberal party elects a new leader. So that leader should be able to slide right in to that slot. Meanwhile, he's still prime minister. And he's prorogued Parliament until March, meaning no possibility of being tossed out until then.
He hasn't been tossed out already because the Liberals have been supported by the NDP in votes.
The NDP leader now says they'll no longer support the Liberals, so if it comes down to a vote they're gone. But who knows if another deal will be worked out.
Shades of Biden wrecking as much as he can while he's still in office though.
PS: Yes, I DID see this Steve Sailer post on his substack site. Yes, I DO have a lot to say about that! (It wouldn't fit here, so there'll be a post soon.)
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[UPDATED: 01/10:] I'd spoken too soon about Castreau's resignation. Including commenter M's explanation. The rest of the post still stands, and we are remain hopeful.
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We get letters ♫ ♪ ♬
Posted On: Wednesday - January 8th 2025 9:36AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
♫ ♪ ♬ We reply too.
Anyone remember Late Night with David Letterman? I think this was back when it was on REALLY late at night, starting at 12:30A. I don't know if it was band leader Paul Shaffer doing this (definitely not the vocals), but there'd be a quick jingle, "We get letters!" Then, David would do some kind of wacky thing or other ...
I felt a little bad about having sent 2 out of 6 letters back to the RNC, Lara Trump, Donald Trump, or some such combinations, using their own postage, to tell them what I had a beef with them about. Once the election was over, that felt like bad sportsmanship, as things really looked up. (It may have been that prescription my Doc ordered up... don't rightly know...)
Well, now that this YUGE issue of the H1B visas has come to the forefront, something I'm very happy about of course, I had something else to reply with:
♫ ♪ ♬ It's in the mail. ♫ ♪ ♬
I don't really expect a reply.
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The J-6 Political Prisoners - We Hear Their Heartbeats
Posted On: Monday - January 6th 2025 10:03PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music US Police State US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny
It's been 4 years since the event, a large peaceful protest with a small riot involved, not the worst anyone had seen, even within a couple of years prior. The handful of people killed there were killed by the Potomac Regime itself, one in cold blood. Since then, with insurrection as an excuse (this in a heavily armed nation, with no guns in hands of the protestors), America has had in the neighborhood of a thousand of our own citizens taken Political Prisoner and kept in Washington, FS dungeons by the Regime's Dark Brandon and minion Alejandro Mayorkas.
The latter is a Latin American name that reminds me of something. Down in those parts, there are so many streets named after the dates of various revolutions, counter-revolutions, and what-have-you. Communists come, then there's no way to oust them without going violent. Juntas, they call them, take over and often go too far in the other direction.
It's the unfortunate innocent victims of the latter that are mourned in story and song, with not much said by officialdom about the victims of the Communists.
U-2 singer Bono sang a song about "The Disappeared" as a track on The Joshua Tree nearly 40 years ago. Being Bono, of course his sympathies lay with the Communists, probably some of them that we were to sob about along with his song. I don't guess new Medal of Freedom winner Bono would want to write a song about the January 6th Political Prisoners and the anxious thoughts of their mothers and fathers.
He wouldn't have to write a new song even, as Mothers of the Disappeared is pretty generic. Would Bono ever think about doing this song in some type of awareness fundraiser for our Disappeared? Nah, I guess it doesn't work like that.
Midnight our sons and daughtersDo you hear their heartbeats, President Trump? Please, on January 20th this year, we ask Libertad for our Presos Políticos. (Hey, if we're gonna be a Banana Republic, we may as well speak like we're in a Banana Republic.) This should be done on Day 1. We don't even need a Junta. MAGA will do for America.
were cut down and taken from us.
Hear their heartbeats.
We hear their heartbeats.
In the wind we hear their laughter.
In the rain we see their tears.
Hear their heartbeats we hear their heartbeats.
Night hangs like a prisoner,
stretched over black and blue.
Hear their heartbeats.
We hear their heartbeats.
In the trees our sons stand naked.
Through the walls our daughters cry.
See their tears in the rainfall.
Oh, and after this is over, I think a Latin American style sign like that above, English or Spanish for the connotations should replace the "D Street" signs. Per a quick search 1900 D Street is where the DC Central Correctional Facility lies. We don't know if all the Political Prisoners are there. They are The Disappeared.
This shit's gonna get worse - even more Latin American - if we don't escalate a counter-revolution against the Communist Regime.
PS: I'm reading an interesting article from 2 years ago about these Patriots.
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