Did we call it, or what?
Posted On: Thursday - December 5th 2019 5:12PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist Globalists alt-right/MAGA
I don't know very much about the writer Eric Striker, other than he is of the alt-right, a Nationalist, and that kind of thing. He has been writing for unz.com a few months now, and his Nov. 28th article The New Sheriff in Town tells us a bit of Globalist George Soros has been up to lately.
If you recall, Peak Stupidity has pretty much settled on George Soros as the best fit for the notorious position of AntiChrist, as per the Book of Revelation - see The latest actual AntiChrist according to our part-time intern for our decision just based on process of elimination.
Yes, much of this AntiChrist topic is in jest here, but just go read the details of one of Mr. Soros' campaigns in the Eric Striker article. Soros is behind all sorts people who are on Peak Stupidity's bad side. Conspiracy theories are not necessary, as one guy (or AntiChrist, for that matter) can't have a conspiracy all by himself. This stuff is out in the open.
In this article, Mr. Striker provides some details of just a few of the many local office politicians that George Soros has bankrolled. I'd read about his new idea for destruction before in various places. Instead of a large-scale "grassroots" campaign against guns or just some scam to fuck with the currency or what-have-you, this one involves spending smaller amounts of money to influence a myriad of local elections. Some of these are Attorneys General*, and the details here are of his support of hard-left anti-justice candidates. Many of these work to obstruct justice rather than implement it - go to the article and check out Mr. Striker's stories.
It doesn't take that much money per pop, to greatly influence local elections. Of course, this strategy would not work were the majority of Americans wise, libertarian, and not hooked on the Bread & Circuses, rather than paying attention. After all, the money pays for ads for the most part. So far it doesn’t buy the votes directly.
This George Soros is one evil bastard. What exactly are his reasons for wanting to destroy Western Civilization? What has it ever done to him? This Eric Striker article does nothing to dissuade us from our 3-year-old opinion that George Soros could be the real deal, as foretold in Revelations.
* Yes, we are going upscale here at Peak Stupidity. The proper grammar came to me last night as I ordered 2 Bacons McDouble at the Golden Arches Supper Club.
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Americans sticking together in Bismark, N. Dakota
Posted On: Wednesday - December 4th 2019 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Americans
We've said it many times before, and, Gosh darn it, as they say in the nice parts of the Midwest, we'll be saying it again: there's strength in numbers.
This (2nd of the 2 I mentioned last post) VDare post by James Fulford, "North Dakota: Cass County Caves to Lutheran Refugee Contractor; Votes for More Refugees"* starts out with more of the usual bad news. However, the good news (for now) at the end is a great example of what Peak Stupidity has been trying to tell "you people". Here is a meeting of good citizens of the city of Bismark, North Dakota in which the prospect of being forced to attempt to absorb another 124 "refugees", which sounds like a pittance, but really isn't**, is discussed:
These residents of Bismark came out to this hearing in 11F weather to protest the plans of their betters, the Cass County Commissioners. As with other towns all over the country, there are the Globalists far away who want to make sure America does not keep resembling America, ANYWHERE! Then, there are the locals involved. In this case, it's the Lutheran organizations that not only can FEEL GOOD, but make some serious coin, by resettling foreigners from strange lands to what were patriotic American strongholds. This rang a bell with me, and I see that these Lutherans have been getting around - see "Nice Church ladies destroy Lewiston, Maine".
From that post of March 15th of this year, I realize I'd written part of what I was going to write today already.
“We’re just bringing in downtrodden families, plus maybe a couple of poor teenagers, from Somalia. I hope there are no racist xenophobes here. If so, it’s only 15 asylum-seekers to our town of 30 thousand – how can you be so mean and nasty to object?!” Well, nobody objects. Nobody in town wants to have everyone else there look at him like that nasty foul-mouthed bad guy that isn’t compassionate enough to provide a “room at the inn”.*Yeah, well all it does take, though, is for more than one or two lone voices to speak up. If you're the one lone guy, and the rest of the crowd (if any) is too cowardly about being called names to back you, it works badly. However, if the rest speak up, this becomes a movement, and your power increases greatly.
At the next asylum-seeker meeting for another 20 asylum-seekers, its just the same, except you won’t even find 1/2 the people there from town to show up to object, as they can imagine how embarrassing it would be. This goes on for years, and people have kids. People find it easier to move to a different town than to say anything. You’d think that’d be silly… but no, it's pretty much all that's left to do.
Even with this crowd, per the article, they, and one sympathetic commissioner named Brian Bitner, just mentioned numbers. "We are taking the highest number per capita ..." etc. OK, that's a start. At some point, the truth must be said though: "These are not Americans, much less North Dakotans, and they never will be. This is not just a few people every year on fiance visas, etc. In these numbers, we are importing pieces of a foreign country into our state. THIS IS BULLSHIT!" That takes some guts, but not a whole lot if there are 100 people clapping behind your every sentence.
It's good to see a start like this, though they may be ignored in the end in this battle. People have to start getting riled up enough to speak their minds. Stick together, Americans - there's great power in numbers.
* The VDare post is taken directly from the site Refugee Resettlement Watch from the wonderful Ann Corcoran - here's the post from her site. RRW was on blogspot for years, but they "cancelled" her less than a year ago, and she got the site back up without blogspot a few months later. Note her new URL, and note OUR URL, for that matter.
** An excerpt from Mr. Fulford's article explains just as well as VDare often does:
“124 people statewide does not have an impact, however, if the 124 do a chain migration that could easily be 1,200. And in a state of 750,000 people, 1,200 is a lot,” said local resident Phillip Cohen, who’s against allowing the consent.Yep, and this is by far not the only time this has happened and will be attempted again.
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Biden v Beaner
Posted On: Wednesday - December 4th 2019 10:19AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity
(Got 2 posts in a row here taken from VDare, THE go-to website for all things related to the existential immigration invasion. This is the 1st.)
Besides not keeping up with current events, as we used to call it in elementary school, Peak Stupidity most ESPECIALLY does not give a rat's ass about the infotainment involving the race for leader of the blue squad of The Party. Apparently the leader still is one of the 3 "Old Pharts", one Joe Biden, ex-plagiarizer and former Vice President under the tutelage of AntiChrist - runner-up Øb☭ma.
The way the shitshow has been going, from my 3rd-hand information, Camel-toe Harris is out, and all the "Young Turds" are so far out there that Joe Biden should be able to win on a "Senile but Still Sane" platform. I note the remainders of some sanity in Mr. Biden from a read of the always-reliable Allan Wall's latest "Said in Spanish" article "Professional Hispanic Activists Condemn Joe Biden—But Grassroots Hispanics Haven’t Got The Message". This one beaner activist in the video below is very concerned that candidate Biden cannot promise NOT TO DEPORT MURDERERS. Yeah, I know, that's not much to ask these days, but Senile but Sane Joe is seen holding his ground (or at least walking away from the stupid beaner bastard) at this Q&A thing in South Carolina.
Why does Peak Stupidity use pejoratives like "beaner" and such? It's usually when we really don't like certain people. The guy in the video is an example. He doesn't represent the average Hispanic. I personally seem to get along with most I meet, that speak a lick of English (though it still doesn't mean it's a good thing to have large numbers of aliens - legal or illegal - living here). Mr. Wall posts some good reading material, as the man lived a decade or so in Mexico, has a Mexican wife, and is fluent in Spanish. He has his finger on the pulse of Latin American politics, at least as related to America and emigration to here. Per Mr. Wall:
Those professional activists don’t want anyone deported, including murderers.(That's what "not one more deportation" means when it includes felons. ) But rank-and-file Hispanics aren’t that radical, which explains their support for Biden. They’re less worried about deporting murderers than they are about other policies. Indeed, as Heather Mac Donald has repeatedly observed about the Establishment GOP’s plan to move left on immigration, Hispanics don’t care as much about immigration as politicians like to think [Why Hispanics Don’t Vote For Republicans, National Review, November 7, 2012]. That also explains Hispanic support for Trump. [ 20% on his graph in the article ]The guy on the video wants to stir up the insane activist set that is running things for most of the blue-squad candidates, with perhaps an exception with the 3 old pharts. (They have this old habit of hiring campaign people who are competent, usually meaning white guys. #OldFashioned!)
Now, as an addition to what Mr. Wall wrote, I propose a different explanation from Mr. Biden's dissing of this activist beaner, rather than sanity. Perhaps Mr. Biden was worried that the guy was a ringer. I should use a more modern term that the Millennials might, but damn if I could spell it even if could remember it. "Spoofer" or "troll" is probably what I'm looking for. Anyway, if you go back to the hilarious video from an Occacional-Kotex rally we posted in "Occasional Cortex and the importance of the Kook-vote", you may see what I mean. Was Joe Biden told by his handlers to be aware of trolls? Did he tell the gentleman of the Bean to "vote for Trump", as maybe a way to show that he was onto the possible trolling effort?
A guy says we shouldn't deport illegal alien felons back to Mexico. The insanity is close to the "eat the children" theme of the troll or insane lady (we report, you decide) in the AOC video linked-to above. You can humor the guy, as AOC did to the assumed-nutcase, but that looks weak. By walking away, Mr. Biden extracted himself from a decision on "troll or no troll?"
Who knew running for office was going to become this tough? 50 years ago, you just had to understand the range of ICBMs, the missile gap, the history of the always ongoing revolution in Cuber (J-Fing-K's phraseology), and what the "gold standard" means. That was hard enough, but now, this ??? What's a senile Old Phart to do?
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Westerners - we ain't livin' long like this ...
Posted On: Tuesday - December 3rd 2019 11:19AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Music Student and other Snowflakes ctrl-left
(Per iSteve commenter Bragadocious:) Nice cover page.
The next 500 pages are “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
I hope our Peak Stupidity readers will cut us some slack for something we don't do very often anymore. That is, for this post, the material is taken completely from the story behind, and comments under, the Steve Sailer post "Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, RIP". These two young adults were the ones stabbed to death by the latest Moslem "terrorist", but just murderer, really.* Then, before the Bobbies, the British cops who didn't used to even carry guns, shot Pakistani Moslem Usman Khan dead, one actual Brit subdued him via a stab from a Narwhal tusk. Coming soon to formerly-Great formerly-Britain:
"What do we want?!Where was I? The point of Mr. Sailer's post is to point out the extreme irony of this latest immigrant murder spree. See, Mr. Khan had been let out of prison by a lefty official, after being put there in '12 for "terrorism offenses".
Narwhal tusk control!
When do we want it?!
We want it now!"
First of all, Mr. Sailer is a very nice and civil guy, or at least is from what I get from all my reading. This is an example, the "RIP", that is, but first I'll explain the politics and aborted life's work of these two murder victims, along with something about the downright sick reaction from Mr. Merritt's Dad. These two victims of the stabbing spree by "British Man"** Usman Khan worked for a program called Learning Together, "a prison-based education project". Both of these lefties had been classmates in Criminology together at Cambridge University. Regarding Jack Merritt, per Mr. Sailer:
The poor bastard’s Master’s thesis was entitled:[That first sentence is Steve Sailer. Yeah, the poor bastard, indeed. ;-}]About this egregious over-representation, iSteve commenter BigDickNick (not his real name) adds: "Muslims are only 1% of the population of the UK, but 100% of people shot by police for murdering me are Muslim.” There's your over-representation -A Critical Analysis of Over-Representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Males Aged 18-21 in the British Prison System.
The story is that Mr. Khan, with his new-found freedom, thanks to the hard-working people in these "Learning Together" and other bleeding-heart*** programs, was able to attend a conference of folks pushing for more leniency and forgiveness in the British penal system. Maybe the refreshments weren't to his liking, or perhaps it was simply his belief in Jihad against the infidels that set him off, but Mr. Khan used this opportunity to kill two of the people working the hardest to set people like himself free. Sometimes, the plenary sessions go on too long, and people are not allowed to ask questions in the middle of talks. That IS a problem. I GET THAT! [/Tucker], Mr. Khan.
If it weren't for those pesky narwhal tusks that hang on the wall everywhere, Mr. Khan may have taken out more attendees. Who cares what bleeding-heart work they were up to? After all, Usman was already out, and
The cops shot attendee Khan dead, thinking (or maybe not really) that he may have a bomb on "his person". Would Jack Merritt or Saskia Jones have been pleased with the ending, as they lay dying, or did they miss that part? Did they still believe in their Learning Together program in their last few seconds of life on this earth?
Steve says "RIP", but I can't be so sure. These two were typical deluded snowflakes, and after being brought up that way at home and through 16+ years of indoctrination by the government system, their view on life is to be expected. That's still not an excuse though. You can do such things as wise up, if you keep your eyes and mind open. Pushing for the early release of violent criminals, when you don't have the wisdom, but do have the evidence to know what the result may be gets more people killed. The road to hell is paved with good intentions like those of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones. As a parent, I feel should feel something for the parents, but that brings up the other point.
Just as with the cuck Rob Tibbets, father of poor Mollie Tibbetts, raped and killed in the corn fields of Iowa by an illegal alien, Dave Merritt sure had a sick reaction to what would normally be grief and mental agony. From what iSteve commenters wrote, the guy went on a tweeting rampage instead of, say, regretting that he wasn't' there at the conference to save his son with a narwhal tusk (what can't they do?!) This is Dave Merritt's full statement from a UK Guardian article:
Jack was proud. Jack was absorbingly intelligent. Jack was fiercely loyal. Jack loved music, art, eating good food with his family, and having more than one pint with his mates. Oh, and in case you haven’t realised by now … he was also devilishly handsome.Yeah, he may have been seething
But Jack was also angry, frustrated, selfless, stubborn. He was angry because he saw our society failing those most in need. He was frustrated because the political elite have forgotten why it is important to be fair. He was selfless in his dedication to make things right in every second of his life. Jack devoted his energy to the purpose of Learning Together: a pioneering programme to bring students from university and prisons together to share their unique perspectives on justice. Unlike many of us, Jack did not just go to work. He lived and breathed fire in his pursuit of a better world for all humanity, particularly those most in need.
If Jack could comment on his death – and the tragic incident on Friday 29 November – he would be livid. We would see him ticking it over in his mind before a word was uttered between us. Jack would understand the political timing with visceral clarity.
He would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against. We should never forget that. What Jack would want from this is for all of us to walk through the door he has booted down, in his black Doc Martens.
That door opens up a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key. Where we do not give indeterminate sentences, or convict people on joint enterprise. Where we do not slash prison budgets, and where we focus on rehabilitation not revenge. Where we do not consistently undermine our public services, the lifeline of our nation. Jack believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, and felt a deep social responsibility to protect that. Through us all, Jack marches on.
Borrow his intelligence, share his drive, feel his passion, burn with his anger, and extinguish hatred with his kindness. Never give up his fight.
To Jack Merritt. Now, and forever.
Western society - we ain't livin' long like this ...
Good ole Waylon. Listen to the lyrics. This is from when America was no utopia, but it all still made sense.
* I put "terrorist" in quotes, because the problem is not some terrorist group or cabal with a plot of conspiracy. If there's any conspiracies and cabals, they are contained within the elites of modern Western society - those that push this immigration invasion by un-Western-like foreigners have simply enabled these latest 2 and others to be murdered.
** He was born in Britain, so I guess one COULD write that with a straight face. The really gets to the problem with immigration of far-far-foreigners, as even the children won't assimilate easily. In big numbers, as Peak Stupidity explained in "Immigration invasion, assimilation, and refugees", there's not incentive for anyone to assimilate at all.
*** Did this guy stab their hearts first? Some people take the expression entirely too literally.
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Reality TV, really?
Posted On: Monday - December 2nd 2019 10:27AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Curmudgeonry
According to Peak Stupidity's sources, such as commenter Autochthon under our post about fast food customer service, I'm not "loving it", there are still "reality shows" on the
It does make sense financially speaking for channels or networks that have become 1 in 150 or even more, meaning the money spent by cable customers and advertisers* is spread out much more thinly than back in the day of CBS, NBC, and ABC only, with occasionally PBS with lots of snowflakes ... no, not these Snowflakes, just the white speckles of signal noise all over the B&W screen. (We put the antenna way up on the roof and often rotated a knob on top of the TV and we LIKED IT!) The Nazi-war channel, storm-stories channel, or deluxe coffees channel can't all have those big production teams that Walter Cronkite, Ed Sullivan and Opie Cunningham had behind them. Yeah, then, how about just having real "unrehearsed" people doing their thing, and we can just film a lot, edit it, and, as George Costanza says "there's your show"?
If you can get people to watch these reality shows, then the possibilities are almost endless. You can have a show about any interest, such as the cooking and restaurant management thing that our commenter mentioned with Chef Ramsey. That could be on a cooking channel or H&G TV. It wasn't so much the case 20 years ago when this idea surfaced like the deadliest catch in the Bering Sea, as there were still only a couple of dozen channels, but now each niche channel could have a reality show that fits its audience. Bold Baristas of the Barrio could be on the deluxe coffees channel, Hispanic version. The Weather Channel has its Storm Stories which makes sense when anyone can get the weather forecast for anywhere in the world in 10 seconds on his phone, as related in "The TV Mythbusters vs. Science & Engineering". (BTW, that post is mostly about a show in which pretend-engineers do exciting destructive testing, not quite a reality show.) The History Channel, were it to switch back to history again instead of showing people selling other people used shit, could try showing some Soviet war-mongering instead of the jaded Nazi fare, and have a reality show - Kurrent-Era Kommies featuring antifa grungy goons with bike locks and make-shift spray-can flame-throwers.
All that said, I don't like reality shows any more than the rest of the crap on TV. The first problem I have with them is that they don't represent reality very well. The ones that seem to be the most popular, just from my hearing about them, are the shows that feature hard-working men in dangerous occupations like The Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, etc. I will admit to having watched 2 or 3 of each of these. I suppose that if one follows the same crew around over many episodes, one could get hooked on one of these shows, as a much-more-manly version of a soap opera. One feels the need to find out what will happen next week.
I don't mean to make fun of the work of the people on said shows, or the viewers - the soap opera crack indirectly brings up one of my points though. On the shows I've watched, there is always some bit of drama**, with a feud going on between the Captain and one of his hands, for example. What I believe is that, after first spending 2 days sick as dogs, with the deck hands kindly providing slop buckets, the TV crew members get their sea legs and start filming anything and everything that happens. It's not the day of film anymore - memory is damn near free, and I don't doubt they could record whole multi-week voyages in high resolution from multiple cameras.
Not much besides hard work and sleeping happens, and there aren't any females on the boat to make this show into a real soap opera or porn video, one ... Anyway, over 3 weeks or so, there are bound to be some testy exchanges or harsh words when things get rough or business is just not panning out well on this particular trip. The show goes on for what, 1/2 hour or 1 hour? You take 3 weeks of all-day filming, and you edit all the parts that don't show men calmly doing their jobs and being a team. You put them in some sort of order, not even having to be chronological, keep in mind, and hey, as the man said "there's your show!"
"What?! 3 weeks of commercial fishing in the Bering Straits? Why are people gonna watch?" "Because it's on TV!"
Do you really think even the hard-working fishermen are not acting at all, ever? After all, if there really is nothing to make the show stay on TV, then there will be no more money to be made. "They want some drama, we'll give 'em a little drama" As much as it would be nice if the real industries shown in some of these shows would operate the same, show or no show, in modern Socialist America, it helps to have people on your side. Who knows what the next piece of legislation might do to your business?
There are a couple of other pet peeves with the reality shows, enough to make me sure I won't ever watch a one of them for long. The first is that, per my quick view of that chef/restaurant show, even the most minor things are meant to be made into drama and suspense by the incessant music in the background. This bunch of glorified fry cooks and counter-broads are supposed to be involved in something so important that I heard the very same music that would be played in a Jason Bourne movie as Mr. Undocumented Bourne*** is racing around town on his motorcycle, being chased by 3 "assets" with the future of the formerly-free world at stake. Here, the music is played to go along with the extreme suspense regarding whether the fried chicken will come out too dry. What's gonna happen?! I barely have any fingernails left.
Along with the extremely annoying music, there is the extremely annoying quick scene changes. I think that is the case with a lot of TV nowadays, but sure does not help matters. Just let me focus for a while and see everything rather than switching scenes every 5 seconds.
You know, done right, say a show for amateur astronomers showing guys setting up, maybe the occasional cool discovery**** would be something a select few loyal viewers would go for. I guess youtube channels have that covered now. Reality TV had its chance with me and you guys blew it.
Though taken off the TV in not the best fashion, the Seinfeld clip above was exactly what I was looking for. However, I enjoyed this one below just as much:
* Whoa, wait a minute, I thought cable TV WOULD NOT HAVE COMMERCIALS, cause we were paying and all. That was the idea back in 1980. We've been duped, people!
** Is that for the women viewers, or do they need this to get even male viewers? I kinda wonder about this. Maybe just the producers are composed of women who couldn't understand the point of a show with no arguing on it.
*** That should be the next in the series, The Born Undocumented - Peak Stupidity ragged on this series of movies for other reasons - please read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
**** Astronomy is one of the few sciences where an amateur can add to the knowledge base very readily.
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Happy Thanksgiving and starting PS year 004
Posted On: Thursday - November 28th 2019 8:17AM MST
In Topics: Websites Holiday from Stupidity
Besides being Thanksgiving Day here, this also happens to be Peak Stupidity's 3rd blogversary (in Instapundit Glenn Reynolds old-timey terminology - brings back memories). Yeah, views and visits are up, but not nearly as much as I would have liked - ~ 25% on the average month - this month might have set a record, but I don't think I'll be able to write much till at least Saturday and more likely next week in December. We are thankful for the reads that we do get. I want to thank our great commenters. There is not what I'd call a cornucopia of comments, but the ones that we do have, from the guys that can figure out that anti-spam trick*, are great. Thank you all!
This week started off slow and in an angry mood, especially regarding the last guy I wrote about. As much as I'd like to point out just the silly stupidity, at which one can just laugh, the other, serious politics is interested in US. Either way, there's plenty more to come.
T HA N K S G I V I N G !
For Dtbb and all who appreciate a good song and story, here's the traditional Alice's Restaurant Masacree by Arlo Guthrie, complete with the shovels, rakes, other implements of destruction, 8x10 glossy photos with the circles and arrows, and the 4-part harmony:
(Last embedded 10 months ago, in the post "There's strength in numbers.")
* Yeah, just by reading, but who reads the
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If you didn't have enough reasons to hate this man,
Posted On: Wednesday - November 27th 2019 7:47PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Globalists Liberty/Libertarianism
Peak Stupidity has another big one for you. Per the Associated Press, "Bloomberg: US would benefit from more, not fewer, immigrants". It was the anti-gun words and money out of Michael Bloomberg, as recounted over and over by the NRA, that had me hating the guy long ago. His control-freakiness on other matters only applied to NY City, so to me, the large-soda bans and that kind of stupidity were just things to laugh about.
Now he's gone full retard:
“We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the country needs — improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue and certainly improve our economy,” the billionaire told reporters at a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix.Yes, even if you are the 9th richest American, I guess the stupidity can reach right on up there, like water in a 1,000-year flood. Let's see:
We have not much of an American culture anymore, other than the Big-Biz/Government induced Globohomo agenda, and any old-fashioned American culture has been squashed by multi-culturalism. We have enough Mexican restaurants to
Our organized Christian religion has gone downhill due to the cuckful Globalist, ctrl-left agenda of the Churches (most especially the biggie, with that Commie so-called pope) and all the "improvements" to our religion lately, the only serious religion being implemented is Islam. Exactly how's that an improvement for Michael Bloomberg's people is above my pay grade. We haven't seen those improvements to our dialogue simply because 14% of us are foreigners, 10% of us speak Ebonics, and, if tweeting is an improvement to the dialogue, then I don't want to see any more improvements.
Lastly, this moron brings up economics again. Yes, for the Globalist elites, replacing the population with low-cost foreign labor pays off. It's no improvement for the regular American, and quite the contrary.
The fact that this fucker was a Republican mayor of NewYork City (2002 - 2007) tells you two things:
1) The red squad and the blue squad just two flavors of the same stupidity, out of The Party.
2) New York City is so far gone that a 2nd-Amendment-trashing, control freak like this guy was considered the "conservative" one.
We really need to start requiring visas for any visitors from New York City. It's not nice to hate people, but Peak Stupidity makes a big exception for Globalist anti-American scum like Michael Bloomberg. Have at it.
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I don't know now, I just don't know ... if I'm goin' back again.
Posted On: Tuesday - November 26th 2019 8:02PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
Just looking under the topic key, we've only been putting up 3 or 4 Dead songs yearly, not counting the obligatory US Blues on the 4th each year. That's not right.
A new reader of Peak Stupidity had never even heard of this band, but can be forgiven, due to "not bein' from 'round heah". We covered this odd thing in "Classic (rock) Europe.
Anyway, if you're new to The Dead, it may be better to hear a clearer version of one of the shorter songs from the studio first. Although the summer-of-1970 album Workingman's Dead had a more well-known song called Casey Jones about "driving that train, high on cocaine .." this song, the Cumberland Blues has a combination of a historical working-man theme with a bluegrass sound from the origins of the band. It is not a blues song at all, though they've sure got some of that too. This tune is pretty different and not at all easy to sing, which why I'm presenting the version off the album.
Most Dead fans like the live music, as it could have been played many different ways, and Jerry had the longer lead guitar parts when live. That's mostly what Peak Stupidity presents, but here is the studio version of Cumberland Blues with banjo and all. (I don't hear the banjo in the live versions, but YMMV.)
Did you note that the tune does not resolve itself, in musical theory terms, until the last 45 seconds or so? On the live versions, Jerry plays those leads, which take you in a different direction. Still, FINALLY after 5 minutes or more, the song gets back to where it needs to.
From Oakland, California, on the last day of 1982, here is a decent live version. Yes, it's hard to sing, and no, they (especially Jerry) aren't doing a great job on the vocals. It didn't matter - the fat man rocked!
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Days of the scold, young and old
Posted On: Tuesday - November 26th 2019 7:02PM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Female Stupidity
Just glancing up at a TV last week resulted in a view of this 79 y/o Minority Leader of Congress, lecturing us or the rest of the US Congress on some such crap having to do with impeaching the President, I'm guess. Thankfully the sound was off. How long has this old biddie been going on browbeating American people of any sort about anything? She been browbeating on the taxpayers's dime for 34 years, 6 of which were as House Speaker. Her husband is a F.I.R.E. industry tycoon (the first one, Finance). and wiki says just Nancy Pelosi's net worth is $74,000,000. She's not really one of us.
I'd give Pelosi some credit for a NO vote on the Iraq War in 2002, but she'd long ago made up for that being a typical warmonger, which is pretty much most of Congress. It's also her excuse for continuing the impeachment distraction of Trump, as somehow Russia is the enemy. (I remember the Cold War ending just over 30 years ago. Maybe she's been senile for that long.).
Why do Americans put up with some old lady in a red dress pointing fingers and wasting the time of the highly-paid Congresscritters? The Founders of our country wouldn't be capable of believing this shit. They and their regular-American colonial-era Americans lived as the freest non-savages* the world had seen, and maybe will ever see. The vote was limited to men who made something of their lives. Would Nancy Pelosi not have been shot in a duel or just to plain shut her up, long before she made it to her first Congressional session?
On the other end of the age and, err .. spectrum, we have that 16 y/o scold Straight outta Sweden, who deems herself wise enough to lecture the whole world, from New York City. (US out of the UN, and UN out of the US!) Peak Stupidity has ripped that young alt-Pippi Longstocking a virtual new one - check here, here, here, and here.
You really know you're residing in a silly country, when people take these scolds, young and old, more seriously than a 3-time rerun of Gilligan's Island. I've personally had enough of all of them. I don't have to listen to some old biddie or brainwashed/deranged little girl telling me what's what. These two can go fuck themselves, and I'm sorry to start off this week with that language, too. The only women of ANY age I'm ready to listen to about politics are Peak Stupidity's 2 favorite pundits, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. I'm sure there are quite a few more I'd like to read or hear from, but the only one worth of office I know of is Miss Coulter, who would be the first to call for a Constitutional Convention or push for a new Amendment to repeal Amendment XIX, the one that mandates the women's vote. Yes, isn't that ironic?
* Peak Stupidity compared the freedom of the savage Comanche Indians vs. the lives of the white men of mid-19th century America in our final (3rd) post of our book review of the great Empire of the Summer Moon. (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.)
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Fun with pronouns
Posted On: Saturday - November 23rd 2019 8:34PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Humor Political Correctness China
Hu, Mie?
This tranny-worshipping phylum of the genderbender class of stupidity has been on a real roll lately. It's not anybody I run into in real life, but I suppose it's the stuff that Steve Sailer reads for me, from such publications as the NY Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, etc. Educated people are apparently supposed to keep up with these in order to get with the program on all the newest stupidity.
The corporate world is getting on board with all of this crap too though, so I feel very lucky not to be in a position in which I have to deal with it, one way or another.
People are actually telling people when they meet, or I suppose on their business cards, what pronouns should be used instead of their (<--- see that's one, right there) proper noun names. That is the purpose of pronouns, to save time and avoid repetition. Schoolhouse rock explains:
In our very 1st post on feminism, Peak Stupidity ranted on the use of "their" as unknown-sex third-person singular. That's been going on since likely the 1970s, as the feminists have the average speaker scared of using the male pronoun (he, him, his), as proper English would tell HIM. (<--- the right way!) Things have gotten way beyond that with people "identifying" as other sexes and with other sexual preferences. There are a hell of a lot of combinations now, but not any extra pronouns in the regular English language to make use of.
Therefore, these idiots are telling others to call them "they", "xir", and I guess whatever Xey want. Not all are pronounceable, but that's apparently not Xeir problem.
See, now this is just another area in which the Chinese are kicking our asses! Tāmen have got two things going for tāmen:
a) They don't have their Cultural Revolution going on. We do. This sucks.
b) The Chinese language has a single pronoun for "he", "she" or "it". It's just "tā". The "men" makes it plural. This is EASY. They don't even need a schoolhouse rock video over there.
So, while Americans spend time learning and arguing about these new weird-ass pronouns for weird-ass people, the Chinese are building new roads with bridges and tunnels and doing science and engineering. Tāmen don't have time for new freaking pronouns.
Well now the caption up top has got me embedding some music for tonight. It's Hey, you from Bachman Turner Overdrive off of their 1975 album Four Wheel Drive. It does have a very similar sound to their hit song You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, in my opinion.
Please play this loud, or don't play it at all. Thank you.
BTO has been featured only once before on Peak Stupidity with Gimme Your Money Please, and band member Randy Bachman's son Tal was also with his great 1999 song She's so High.
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Black Privilege, NY City's Commie First Lady, and Mental Health
Posted On: Saturday - November 23rd 2019 10:44AM MST
In Topics: Commies Race/Genetics Healthcare Stupidity
You've just got to read the latest from John Derbyshire. On VDare, "On Black Privilege–Mrs. Bill de Blasio Rapes New York Taxpayers, Lies About Childhood In Liberal Massachusetts" is off of the latest Mr. Derbyshire's Radio Derb podcast. I may have written this before, but one can listen for 40 minutes or so, or read them in 5-10 minutes. I prefer reading, and VDare has the transcripts up usually a couple of weeks after the podcast can be listened to.
Chirlane McCray is the wife of NY City's Mayor de Blasio, a real piece of
This article by John Derbyshire is too good for me to excerpt even just one part of. I don't see him use the terms Commie and liar together directly too awful often, but this Race-privileged Lyin' Commie deserves it.
Go read it, please... like now!
(Hopefully, I"ll have one more post up tonight. Have a good weekend, PS readers!)
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Mountaineeress forgoes motherhood for twin peaks
Posted On: Saturday - November 23rd 2019 9:12AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
(OK, I made up the term "mountaineeress" as a dig at the feminists, and that "twin peaks" part of the title was not really necessary. I guess it could be the twin peaks of peak feminism and peak female stupidity?)
This is another catch-up post, one from a post I'd read months ago in the Get Pocket (??) website. It features an article from Outside magazine, one that I used to get in the mail, in fact, back in the day. It became a lefty political mouthpiece in short order, hence no more bucks from this guy.
The article in question, by one Cassidy Randall, "A Mountaineer’s Choice to Never Have Kids" is pretty-well written and somewhat balanced, but in no way conservative. This kind of thing brings to mind Peak Stupidity's posts on "demographic suicide". I had forgotten there were so many, first with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the original "Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide" series, and then "Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide - " feminism connection, the anti-snowflakes, and the working woman. Good stuff, if I do say so myself. The subject of all those posts was the dysgenic changes in the demographics of America and the Western world, as the smart and capable women don't have many children and then the poorer immigrants and welfare cases have an overwhelming number more. Socialism is the enabler of this and has been since the scumbag cocksucker LBJ ramped it up in the mid-1960's. We are bearing the fruit of it all presently.
Anyway, it's that 2nd-to-last link above, on the anti-snowflakes that brings to mind the story here. Peak Mountaineeress, Lydia Bradley, subject of the article, seems to love her life of adventure and the serious challenges of the peaks. I wouldn't want to be in a society where she could be told outright by the authorities "you stay in this house and have 3 children, prontomundo" (though, if they were taking volunteers, well, ... you know ...) There are really not all that many women with the personality of a Lydia Bradley, which to me, no genderbender nonsense here, just has more manly traits, even if in a very decent womanly body.
She wanted to climb and guide climbs in the tall mountains under extreme conditions - more power to her. A big point of the article, though, is that Miss Bradley had a sterilization (tubal ligation*) done in her mid-20s**. This was not done on a whim, even though doctors tried to tell her that she should wait until she's older to decide. Here comes a contradiction of sorts, though.
Bradey grew up as the only child of a single mother. From a young age, she learned that being a good parent required an incredible amount of time and attention. With her climbing career gaining momentum each year, she didn’t have those hours to give to a child. “I didn’t want to risk doing something so very important badly,” says Bradey, now in her mid-50's “And for me, there were other things in the world than having children.”All Lydia Bradley knows about raising kids is from herself as the one child of a single mother. Is that the only option? I'm not trying to argue that with a husband, she'd have the ability to go climb the same peaks all over the world. It's just that maybe she did not see the life of a happy family very well as an opposing example to the life a single woman mountain climber. Which of her two options was really "very important"? Secondly, well, she can't be a lesbian, or she would have had no need for this procedure. She likes men, and knows where babies come from, so doesn't she understand the having a husband part? Perhaps, by "not having children" she assumes "not have a family of any sort" too.
Fair enough, in the latter case. I don't really see Lydia Bradley's rational decision as being any kind of female stupidity (it just seemed an appropriate topic key for the general subject here). How many Bradley wanna-bees are there, though? This life of travel, adventure, casual sex (hence the tubal ligation) may sound wonderful, but most women will not make this solid, permanent decision with not too many regrets, per the article, as Lydia did. They will be the ones complaining that they are having a hard time making, carrying, or delivering a child at 40 years old, as related here in "Not Bringing Home a Baby" - the Sadness of Stupidity (Part 2). I'd imagine it be that much worse if they don't even have that minute chance, had they made that tough, but likely erroneous call, at 26 years old, to be sterilized. I could see a class-action suit ... against ... well, SOMEBODY, DAMMIT!
In the meantime, 18-25 y/o single-women with no non-Government, no non_NGO support, i.e., supported by taxes on men and those single-woman in question here, have 2 to 5 kids. Those kids aren't likely to end up being fit, brave and smart mountain climbers like Lydia Bradley. Who will be left to climb the high Himalayas, Aconcagua, and the unknown peaks of Antarctica? Instead, as non-fit, non-intelligent adults with jobs taken by machines and foreigners, they will live off the ruins of this nation. Why? Because it's there.... so far.
* which, from context, sounds PERMANENT.
** The article seems to purposely not pin down the exact age, or else the author is not good at the timeline stuff.
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The real terrorists - savage blacks in 1978 Rhodesia
Posted On: Friday - November 22nd 2019 12:28PM MST
In Topics: History Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
This past summer one of the letter-writers to VDare related an interesting and yet-unknown-to-me (maybe un-remembered) story of an incident of terrorism in 1978 Rhodesia. (Actually it was 2 cases, but Mr. Reginald De Chantillon's letter focused on 1 of them.)
In "Robert Mugabe, Destroyer of Rhodesia - Rot In Place", Peak Stupidity posted verbatim a eulogy, if you will, of the Zimbabwean savage dictator by a blogger named "Lawdog". We lamented the change from this civilized white-run land called Rhodesia, with capital city Salisbury shown here ... :
... to the reverted-to-savagry black-ruined land that is now called Zimbabwe, famous only for setting for at least coming in 3rd in a race for the highest rate of Inflation ever seen.
In VDare-titled "A Reader Remembers A Forgotten Airplane Atrocity In Rhodesia", on this > 4 decade-ago act of brutality by the blacks in (still) Rhodesia, the letter-writer says:
Where was the world when Rhodesians were shot down and massacred by black guys with missiles?The aircraft was a 4-engine turboprop British-made Viscount 782 (pronounced with a silent "s") on climb-out off Kariba airport on the 2nd leg of a Victoria Falls to Salisbury tourist-carrying flight.
After the Malaysian Airline was shot down over Ukraine, Britain’s leftwing Guardian put out a list of airliners shot down by dastardly villains of the world. In keeping with its anti-European, pro-Colored Revolutionary past, the Guardian did not include the shooting down of deliberately targeted Western airlines such as in the 1978 and 1979 Viscount shootdowns in Rhodesia.
Nor did it include a number of other incidents involving non-Western and Communist attacks in recent history. Instead it focused on various European military accidental shootings. Hoping to mold the world's media, The Guardian is apparently hell bent on restarting the Cold War with a European nationalist Russia by focusing on the imminent threat and horror of white guys with missiles.[ A history of passenger aircraft that have been shot down Robert Booth The Guardian, July 17 2014
Long-distance airline flying pretty much transitioned over just few years (late 1950's to early 1960's) from the piston-powered liners (the Lockheed Constellations, Boeing Stratocruisers, and DC-7s) some with as many as 112 cylinders among the 4 engines (224 spark plugs)!, to the turbojets (B-707s and Douglas DC-8s). The turboprop engine, developed as another method of using turbine power, was kind of a more-fuel-efficient red-headed stepchild, used for slower flying, and therefor shorter routes. They had their day, don't get me wrong, with these Viscounts, then Beeches, Fokkers, Jetstreams, Dash-7/8s, ATRs, Brasilias, Saabs, and so on but were supplanted starting in the late-1990s by the regional jets. People got scared of the prop planes, what with proper gapping of all those 224 spark plugs and shit ;-}
With that completely unnecessary digression over with, let me say that I couldn't find any youtube videos of actual news footage of the crash, as I did find for the more-well-known (fair enough, as it was 20 x the carnage and Americans involved, albeit Communists) Jonestown Massacre/Suicide, which occurred just a couple months later of that same year, 1978. (Peak Stupidity had a long retrospective - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) There are 3 documentaries, one of which seems to be taken from the Wiki article (or vice versa, maybe the same guy that edited wiki?) if the reader is more interested on the details.
Here are a few details: After the starboard wing of the Air Rhodesia flight 825 Viscount was blown apart with a heat-seeking missile on that September 3rd of '78, both engines burned along with fuel and hydraulic fluid The pilots put it into a cotton field, but the plane cartwheeled upon getting to a ditch. 38 people died right away, many probably burned. There had been 56 souls on board. The big detail is something like 10 of those 18 survivors were executed by the blacks who shot down the plane with rifle fire, and then bayonetting of the those not yet dead, including a mother and 3-week old baby. You don't hear much about this, do you?
How about a few more political details? There was a guerrilla "bush-war" going on, related to Rhodesia's desiring independence from Great Britain. Additionally, southern Africa was in no way clear of all the "fronts" of the Free/Communist Cold War (Angola on the west side of southern Africa was a big one). Therefore, the Commies supported whomever wanted destruction of the productive mostly-white Free World. The Chinese were behind the Shona tribe comprising one of the black groups, the ZANUs, but there were others supported by the Soviet Union/East Bloc military arms, the ZANLAs, ZAPUs, and ZIPRAs - no I can't keep them all straight, except that they were all enemies of the White Rhodesians. Oh, yeah, those missiles - they were supplied by the Soviets.
Let's relate this to the modern world just a bit. Now that the white man has been out of most of the dark continent for 50-60 years, and losing the last bit of their lives/culture's work in South Africa now, the Chinese are over there for the resources. They were just there with the rest of the Commies bent on destruction in the Cold War times, but now they are trying to make something of the place. Peak Stupidity truly wishes them well. China does not have all the natural resources that America does, and I say let them have at it. Couldn't America possibly find its way to self-sufficiency again?
Let's sit back with some popcorn and watch the Chinese try to run the place. I somehow don't think the Chinese will have the patience and good will to try (for the most part) to wish-for, at least, and help elevate the Africans to better living standards and education levels. For the decent, smarter Africans, white rule was a chance to learn and a chance to move up into a civilized world. That's over now.
Do the Chinese have the kind of altruism that missionaries do? I think they want to get stuff out of the ground, period. There's gonna be ... a little resentment, if I may. Will the black rulers and those near-billion people still hate the white man? I think we'll start to hear some different chants and sayings. I'd only be fair play if Europeans and Americans backed some black tribes like those in 1978 that like to shoot down airliners. However, the Cold War is over, the Chinese over there are not the Commies, and we are flat freakin' broke and have no business in Africa. Let's leave it alone for a century or two. It can't get any worse.
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Freedom and homeschooling in Germany and America with Lame-O Trump
Posted On: Friday - November 22nd 2019 10:58AM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism Educational Stupidity
(Excuse us for some older stories, but I'm trying to clear out some browser tabs containing articles or subjects I've been meaning to write about. This is another one, and there'll be more.)
As fast as it will go away in all of the Western world as immigration from lands in which people are not quite up to it, the rule of law in Germany has ALLOWED the Wunderlich family to homeschool their four children. This is good news, but only on top of very bad things in the past that are not the mark of any kind of free society. It's not just that the German government had had no respect for this right of these parents to raise their children away from the indoctrination. The family had moved to France to be able to take care of their children, but with no good employment there, they moved back, at which point the kids had were taken away for 3 weeks time based on a bullshit story by their neighbors. You know you are in no kind of free country when neighbors can cause you this very horrible government tyranny on a whim. (Sounds very much like family court or the city residential inspection business here.)
Lifesitenews wrote about the good news from Darmstadt, Germany this past 4th of July in "VICTORY: German homeschooling parents win back custody of their children". It's nice to read some occasional good news, especially something unexpected like this out of the increasing Globalicized, Moslemicized former defender of the European sector of the free world. The judge who had ordered the kids taken from their parents back in '13 "was replaced in the case “on the grounds of bias.” Unfortunately, I don't think they mean "replaced" the way I'd like it to mean.
The new hearings that went on an on eventually, as Peak Stupidity just put it, "allowed" the 3 girls to be raised and taught at home (I guess the boy is on his own now). See, when you have no basic enshrined rights in a Constitution, this is the kind of shit that happens. It's not like this is some big precedent I doubt - the next family may go through the same damn thing. Of course, a country that has a real Constitution that limits government must have a population that defends it in words and sometimes deed, or it'll just be a piece of useless parchment in a museum. We are almost at that latter point.
Peak Stupidity published 3 posts (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) before on homeschooling, the 3rd of which told the story of a different German family the Romeikes, if you recall. This family of 6 tried to stay in the US as asylum seekers in order to homeschool without government kidnapping, and this seems as good a cause as any. As we wrote (in that "Part 3" above), the Øb☭ma administration sent them back. Should we say hallelujahs for the election of President Trump, on this score? Hell no.
I went and read some more on the Romeike family, on the Christian Post. It sounds like this family has exhausted its last appeal, though they've been stalling since the Øb☭ma persecution in '14, kind of living in about as much of the shadows as the average Mexican illegal alien who came here just cause "why not?" Good on 'em, but not on the Trump Administration. I can't say if President Trump himself actually knows about the case, but he is, after all, boss of his administration, supposedly. The Christian Post quotes Michael Farris, Chairman of the HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) on the response from the White House after a petition was signed by 127,000 Americans:
"No one can understand why the White House is showing so much leniency to millions of immigrants who have come here illegally in hopes of securing better jobs, but is so determined to deport this one family who has come to America in search of freedom for themselves and their children," Farris declared. "This petition was the perfect opportunity for the White House to explain why this administration appealed the original grant of asylum. This was a perfect opportunity for the White House to explain the blatantly unequal treatment being received by the Romeike family. But the White House stalled for four months and said absolutely nothing."What a lame-o this guy Trump is! It's not like 6 nice white Christians are going to make a dent in society vs. 3/4 of a MILLION DACA foreigners, over 10% of whom are serious criminals*. It still would have sent a nice message and spell a change from the purposeful anti-white hatred by Øb☭ma and his scumbag Attorney General Eric Holder.
100,000 or so foreigners with no respect for rule of law and no understanding of freedom come monthly, an equal amount or more come LEGALLY with the same qualifications, and Donald Trump can't get his tweet-finger to just send out a message to let the white Christian Romeike family live a productive and exemplary life in America? I'm starting to think this guy is pretty worthless. In this case, GO GERMANY! (I guess...)
PS: I really doubt the German authorities would even try to take Moslem kids away from their family were they homeschooled, even in Jihad 101 taught by the "Clock boy" himself. Nope, they value their hides more than that. One day, hopefully, the regular German people will worry them just as much. Same for America.
* Per VDare down into this article:"Of 765,166 approved applicants, 79,398, about 10 percent had been arrested for such crimes as rape, riot, burglary, robbery, and murder."
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The Onion has still got it.
Posted On: Thursday - November 21st 2019 9:53PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Websites Humor
I used to keep up with The Onion humor site back about 20 years ago. Maybe it's time to check it out again regularly, along with pundit Steve Sailer's favorite similar site, The Babylon Bee (funny on the conservative side).
I'm just gonna put this whole quick post on here directly, including their own picture.
Liberal Parents Struggling To Find School District With High-Quality Drag Queens 9/13/19 8:00AM
NORFOLK, VA—Saying it was never too early to begin instilling the values they believe in, liberal parents Christopher and Stacey Castaneda confirmed Friday that they were struggling to find a school district with high-quality drag queens. “We’re committed to finding a school system that has well-paid, skilled drag queens who can provide our son with the kind of education he needs to be successful,” said Christopher, adding that the child’s current school has a ratio of only one drag queen for every 32 students, leaving little time for one-on-one instruction. “We want Caleb to have access to a wide variety of styles—fish drag, camp queens, activessles—not just the same old busted Tina Turner impersonator he has now. Ideally, we’d have him in a drag queen–immersion program, but at the very least, we want a district where its a core part of the curriculum. Stage presence and wow factor are a must, and if the queen is bilingual, that’s even better.” At press time, the parents announced plans to enroll Caleb in private school after witnessing St. Edward’s Academy’s absolutely stunning autumn drag pageant.We've gotta be a little careful though ... no, not about being sued for just pasting in a whole humor post from another site without asking. I'm more worried about this not being funny anymore, by say, next Tuesday, when this could be a completely serious NY Times article.
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Rigged Monopoly as the Federal Reserve Bank
Posted On: Wednesday - November 20th 2019 4:01PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics Scams
Here's a great comment by a guy on unz.com named "A Ham Sandwich" (probably not his real name) on the way economics should be taught at the elementary school level. OK, these days, this could probably pass muster as an undergraduate economics "seminar" class, but that'd beat the hell out what's taught in the non-science of economics today.
If we wanted to save our country we would make all school children play Monopoly where the Banker (played by the teacher) has an unlimited money supply (i.e., they can “print” as much money as they’d like, at any time). The teacher would not play, they would just pick the winner in each game.Damn good idea, that one. "Bored" games are not my thing to begin with, but I've played my share of Monopoly long ago.
Losing at Monopoly is one of the most aggravating things ever, and seeing distributional effects of directed inflation (with the resulting general price inflation) while losing at Monopoly to some chump in your class who just happens to be the Banker’s (teacher’s) pet would drive the lesson home, good and hard.
But who wants to save the country when we could all just suck up to the bankers on social media instead?
A hatred of unfairness comes innate in most kids, from my experience. As related in the Peak Stupidity post "Socialism - stuff you should have learned by Kindergarten" two years ago, being forced to share his stuff with kids that don't take care of their own stuff is exasperating for any normal kid. Without knowing the fancy words uttered by the table-bangers in the coffee shops, kids still get the general idea that Socialism is unfair, and therefore SUCKS ASS.
Getting screwed in Monopoly, already one of the more frustrating of the bored games (2nd to Chutes and Ladders?), due to the unfairness of the banks getting unlimited supplies of that colorful money ought to really pound in a lesson. The lesson ought to be "Americans of 1913: you really screwed us with that FED creation, you know that don't ya'?!" and more importantly "END THE FED!"
This is also hindsight, but imagine if candidate Ron Paul, in his primary campaign of 2012 had made a 30 second commercial featuring a FED-rigged Monopoly game. Would the public have gotten the idea?
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Tales already told, and Chubby Lingerie Models
Posted On: Wednesday - November 20th 2019 9:55AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Salesmen Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity
In the post "TV for thee, but not for me, even for free" in October, we'd
Interestingly, while I looked for some pictures of Indian schools I came across that very one that I'd sent money to (and subsequently received more junk mail than could have been sent out with my whole donation check.) Here you go, I spent the trouble, so ...
Now, any more old business? New business: I got another piece of junk mail, likely targeted at my wife. No, she does not wear "husky" sized clothing or whatever the politically-correct term is on the women's 7/8 of the department store:
Things are really getting weird, I'm here to tell you (along with other reasons I'm here). Look, I understand that not all women are privy to Victoria's Secret (nor Victoria's OTHER secret) and can fit in those sexy clothes. They'll need undergarments that fit, whether sexy or not. However, don't the women like to see models that show off the good-looking clothes? Those women on the runways in New York City and Paris don't go round in these oversized get-ups, do they? (As a matter of fact, they are too damn skinny usually, as somehow that looks the best to the gay designers of the fashions.)
I'm just wondering why this "True" outfit (a website, I guess) is sending out flyers for women showing their clothes in unflattering ways. That can't be good for sales. As much as many women may need these sizes, they don't like to see the fat hanging out on the model for the clothes. For the postman and the initial household viewers of this junk mail, it's even worse. What is going on?
I will tell you. The agenda now is for the Big-Biz world, as directed by the narrative of the ctrl-left, to push on us whatever is politically correct now, whether it's the genderbending tranny business, feminism, and now this "fat is good" business. Sure, it's not the worst thing to be overweight a few pounds. It's just not something to aspire to, and usually models are women that other women ASPIRE to look like. They don't want to look like the chubby broad on the front of this flyer, so why buy the clothes? I know I didn't order anything.
How does this pay off for True, Inc.? Do they have a hot broad on the cover of different flyers that are sent to other houses as test marketing? Maybe some of those ones will never arrive, as these postmen are, let's say, somewhat "lonely". I guess either way is a risky strategy.
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Big Brother, Steve Miller, and Jared Taylor
Posted On: Tuesday - November 19th 2019 8:59PM MST
In Topics: Music Pundits Media Stupidity Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity
Mr. Steve Miller* of the Trump administration is supposedly in hot water with members of Congress for associating himself with, which means reading websites of, VDare (one of only 4 in our blogroll, for cryin' out loud) and the American Renaissance site. I used to read this latter one regularly. (I stopped when the comments got messed up, nothing personal, I'm sure, just a browser incompatibility. I think that's all fine now.) Since I've read both of these regularly, I guess I'd be in hot water myself if Peak Stupidity were somebody. Please Help!
The fact that Steve Miller reads material that is off the narrative is only known to begin with from some vindictive broad who used write for Brietbart and considered herself part of the alt-right. It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind like this, be vindictive, and apparently also to release 900 formerly private emails. Mr. Miller would have been better off corresponding directly with Mr. Breitbart. Yes, I know he's dead. That's kind of my point.
The next character in this story is the laid-back, extremely civil gentleman named Jared Taylor the publisher of the American Renaissance website and a pundit and speaker of the alt-right. He could be considered a "race realist", and "white rights advocate", but not really a white supremacist, per se (though he's got every damn right to be).
The tale Mr. Taylor relates of his recent experience with the legacy media's distortion of his and VDare's Mr. Brimelow's words and statements show again how sick and Orwellian the media stupidity has become:
The direct quotations from Mr. Miller are very tame. I kept thinking: “Out of 900 messages, this is the most ‘racist’ stuff they could find?” No doubt that is why Mr. Miller’s own words account for only about 10 percent of the article. The SPLC spent the other 90 percent telling us why we are supposed to think that what he wrote was racist and awful.Mr. Taylor describes his talk with the New York Times' Katie Rogers. This is good reading. As civil as Jared Taylor normally is, on all the videos including Q&A that I've seen, he mentions here " I was not my usual polite self." Ha! Does that mean he raised his voice 5 dB and 1/2 an octave? I can see why though:
The most serious accusations against Mr. Miller seem to be that he liked Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel, Camp of the Saints**, and that he read articles at American Renaissance and VDARE.com. This has been enough to send the media from New York Times to Washington Post to NBC to Daily Beast into a frenzy, with 80 members of Congress now calling on Mr. Miller to resign.
If you follow the link to Mr. Brimelow’s remarks, you will understand the context of his words— if, in fact, those were his words, because they are offered by a hostile source as something he said at a conference seven years ago. (See James Fulford's comment on VDARE.com here.)I related the story of my Introduction to the Lyin' Press this summer. How would things be different if the average American understood what lyin' sacks of shit these people are? Here's the real crux of the Orwellian control Americans are living under:
The Times has no link to my words, and when I found them I could see why. Miss Rogers suggests I am writing about immigrants to the United States, but I was writing about Syrians going to Europe:
What if a reader wanted to know what I actually wrote, and searched the phrase “newcomers are not the needy; they are the greedy”? Google will not return our page. The Times shows up in the number-one slot, along with eight other pages, but AmRen is absent. Duck Duck Go, however, returns AmRen as the first result.That's my bolding, hint, hint. This Orwellian stuff continues if Americans remain too lazy to change their ways (change your search site - save bookmarks to your go-to sites, etc.) Unfortunately, I think they don't care enough.
You would think media giants would be embarrassed to be so terrified of us. The Times dares not link to us; YouTube bans and restricts us; Twitter and Facebook silenced us years ago; Google pretends we don’t exist.
When media distort our words, we have no way to correct the record except on a website that only our readers know exists. Times readers who just want to check the quote have almost no way of doing so.
and NOT this Steve Miller. I know it's easy to confuse the immigration restrictionist Steve Miller with the Pompetous of Love Steve Miller, sometimes called Maurice:
Peak Stupidity has featured the great 1970s Steve Miller and his band before with Take the Money and Run and My Own Space. This is the title song of The Joker album from 1973.
* Sorry, as much as Steven Miller at the White House is probably our best thing going on the immigration-invasion front, I can only think "Steve Miller".
** Hell, I've read that too. It was a great and amazingly prescient book! The link in the Jared Taylor block-quote is to Peak Stupidity's review of a review of it.
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Congress shall make no law ... or abridging the freedom of speech ...
Posted On: Tuesday - November 19th 2019 2:01PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism ctrl-left Educational Stupidity Morning Constitutional
(Second in a series on young people's disregard or ignorance of the basic rights of Americans, starting with the right to peaceably assemble from last week.)
You've gotta watch it when a blogger, or worse yet, "journalist", puts those ellipses (the ... kind, not the math kind) in his wording. Therefore, let me spell out the wording from our Founders again, for any reader who can't make out Jacob Shaullus' handwriting:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Straight outta'
1) I don't want to go reading 50 State constitutions, but I'd venture all of them have limits placed such as that on the Feds on restricting speech.
2) The incorporation doctrine interpretation of Amendment XIV (discussed in the recent previous post on the Constitution also limits State governments in this regard.
This whole "freedom of speech thing" is just another basic natural right that Americans were to be protected against government abridgment with by the Bill of Rights that seems not to be important anymore, especially for young people. Per a 3-month old post by blogger "Audacious Epigone" again, called The Closing of the Millennial Mind", young Americans don't get this so much:
I want to digress for a paragraph or two about this graph and others by blogger Audacious Epigone (on unz.com), so bear with me. Mr. Epigone (not his real name, and you'll have to look up "epigone" yourself) LUVS this GSS (General Social Survey and writes ~ half his posts based on data from it, with the nice (usually) bar graphs*, such as that above. I'll link to the Wiki description of this survey again, but, for those so inclined here is Mr. Epigone's link to the GSS itself (from this particular post).
The reason I am not particularly inclined to go to this GSS survey is that polling data is very easily made worthless by stupid questions and questioning methods. This GSS must be composed of hundreds is not thousands of questions, so one can make hay out of all kind of combinations of independent variables (the demographics of respondents) and the dependent ones (survey answers). Audacious Epigone can keep these interesting posts going for years with this, but on a good portion of them, the way the questions are worded and/or the limited choice of answers makes the conclusions drawn questionable.
That all said, back to the graph above, the lack of principles of these Millennials on this issue is something I'd have expected, and I have seen it elsewhere. Respect for the US Constitution is one thing - if one takes the actions of the US Feral Gov't over the last 5 decades, maybe since a century (Peak Stupidity/Amity Shlaes on "Silent Cal"vin Coolidge), this is almost a lost cause. However, the basic principle itself, elucidated by Voltaire** on the internet as "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" is not something most agree with anymore. Nobody seems ready to defend anything with even a nice blue-check-marked tweet nowadays, much less to the death!
There are 2 things going on here with this likely permanent trend away from this most important idea required for any kind of free society:
1) Just as with the loss of support for a serious right to peaceably assemble, support for freedom of speech by the loudmouths of the left was BIG BIG BIG 50 years ago. The University of California flagship campus in Berzerkely, California had its Free Speech Movement 55 years ago. This was just the beginning, as the left of the 1960s was part of a generation that had everything to say about anything, some of it civil, but most of it argumentative and taking free speech to its limits of the purposeful incitement of riots. Good on 'em, up to that point.
However, as written in the previous post, the left runs the institutions now. That includes lots of the "justice" system too, especially at the Federal level. They really can't have their political opposition stating their cause out in the open. The internet has not been helpful in the left's 50-year-long effort to contain the narrative, originally easier for them via TV and newsprint. They are working hard on that now. (Peak Stupidity has this important new issue of the Tech Totalitarians, but we'll leave more of that for future posts.) Is it likely that the ctrl-left of the 1960s really didn't care about the Constitution so much as just causing the kind of turmoil they wanted to cause?
2) The young people of today of all political stripes have been indoctrinated, even before their "higher education", in the government schools. Due partly to the matriarchy that runs and works in Big-Ed, and the fact that the left has infiltrated, it's been a long time since kids were taught the whole "sticks and stones" bit. The word "bullying"*** no longer means the slapping up-side the head and literal shaking down of lunch money of the wimpy kids by the nastier big kids. It's about words now too. The distinction between actual violence and words had been removed.
Now grown up, these young adults of the Millennial Generation are of the opinion that, yes, just like sticks and stones, words CAN hurt you. That is truly a feminine concept, as you'd think young men, at least, would get over their feelings, or at least know that principles rule over feelings. They don't get the difference between physical violence and hurt feelings, or at least until getting bashed on the head with a bike lock.
This is a very bad trend, people. Our Founding Fathers would be just plain ashamed if they could hear this crap out of the Millennials. Said one in particular, the guy that Millennials only know from his craft beer:
"If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."It's even worse than that. It's not even about their wealth for these kids - they've got none. They just don't want anyone to have to suffer any hurt feeeelinnngs.
* Two things I personally LUV about Mr. Epigone's graphs is that a) he regularly starts the y-axes at 0, as to not fool the viewer with false perspective (often done purposefully by others) and b) when the graphs display race/ethnicity as an independent variable, he uses white bars (or curves, as need be) for white people, black for black people, brown for Hispanics, yellow for Oriental (YES, HE DOES!) for a much appreciated ease in interpretation. Good on you, A.E.!
** Per "Quote Investigator" the quote is indeed from the 18th century Frenchmen who used the pen name Voltaire (no first name - I guess he was like Madonna or Sting in that respect). His real name was François-Marie Arouet.
*** This term and its misuse will be the subject of yet another post - they're piling up on the dock here!
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Do not be alarmed!
Posted On: Saturday - November 16th 2019 3:58PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
Well, that exclamation point sure doesn't help! [ nor that one - Ed.] This site is too simple (for now) to go down, but Peak Stupidity was "off the air" for a few hours. The message from the hosting company could be seen as ominous, but it's just that they don't like to say "He didn't pay his money this month".
There's more to it than that. While switching accounts, it turned out that I had some difficulty with the software on the new one. I'd intended to get this fixed by, say, yesterday, but missed my deadline, and those guys missed my money for the old account. I'm trying to get the new account running before I pay another monthly fee, and today had some success with a nice job by a good-old American technical support guy (2nd tier - no less! I got the big cheese.)
I had intended to put 2 posts up today. I have 15 or so in mind, so there's no lack of material. I'm gonna mess with the software while I'm making headway though. Have a great Sunday, readers! Peak Stupidity might not have anything more till Tuesday, from what I see of my schedule.
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