Full-time Commie, O'Cassionally Cortex
Posted On: Monday - March 11th 2019 9:39AM MST
In Topics: Commies Elections '16 - '24 Lefty MegaStupidity Deep State Socialism/Communism
After Peak Stupidity's quick introduction of the current crop of Blue-Squad candidates, the Old Pharts and the Young Turds to those blissfully uninformed, we will focus the quick post on one of the Young Turds, affectionately (only because she has a big rack) known as O'Ccasional Cortex.
Zerohedge has been pretty damn good in defending real Capitalism, as opposed to the current American economic system as of late, kind of a change, in my opinion. After the 29 y/o junior Senator spouted off some amazingly stupid ideas while in the ctrl-left's Texas headquarters of Austin, Mr. "Tyler Durden" posted AOC Slams Capitalism As "Irredeemable" System. Now, I could expect some silliness from a young millennial, and especially a halfway-decent-looking millennial chick with a nice rack, but how does someone like this become a US Senator?!
It's true the the Washington political scene has become filled with older and older people, as people have been just living healthier and longer (see Passing Peak Rich Old People). There were many young turks in the past though, as we can specifically look to the Kennedies. President John Kennedy was one of the youngest to take office (as was Bill Clinton in the early 1990's), though in his 40's. His brother Robert, US Attorney General (no, no nepotism there, but he was smart enough not to pull a Trump and hire the enemy) was in his mid-30's. Steven Miller, President Trump's only worthwhile appointee, IMO, is still 33 y/o, and he's very much aware of both political history and current politics. Going back to the Kennedies, though one may not have agreed with their left-wing policies, for the time, these people had knowledge of history and US citizenship that just makes Miss Cortex look like a complete retard.
Some of the Zerohedge commenters (as usual, fun reading) suggest that the reason this ditzy broad "came out of nowhere" is the same reason one Mr. Øb☭ma came out of nowhere. He was 1 1/2 decades older, but he also suddenly got put into a candidate spot for US Senator from Illinois, as the other D-candidate was quickly dispatched by some scandal. (Was that just luck for Mr. Øb☭ma?). After not even a full term of voting present, if he could make it in to do so, and spouting out some community organizing racial bullshit, all of a sudden he was a Presidential frontrunner. Both instances are indeed kind of odd, and there are plenty of Deep State operatives with the money and resources to make it all happen. Could this new young ditz even have the wherewithal to BE an operative of any sort though? Being an operative takes a little more brains than being a bartender, unless things are more advanced than I thought and they are operating her brains and mouth using an app from their underground bunker in Langley.
That theory doesn't hold water once you hear what comes out of this lady's mouth:
"Capitalism is an ideology of capital - the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit...so to me capitalism is irredeemable," she said.... while wearing nice clothes and sitting in a plush studio, using modern electronics, all produced in factories that lots of nasty CAPITAL to build. The Communist idiocy out of this woman is just too soon to be part of some brilliant plan, as, if you can stand to watch this stuff*, I can't see how you wouldn't just be motivated to pull the level for Trump again (for reasons of "the lesser of two losers" this time),.
Lastly, the Zerohedge article shows a tweet of Miss Cortex, with her "Green New Deal" initiative, being meat-space-friended by Bill Nye, the Science guy. This is timely news to me, as I had borrowed some of this guys educational videos before. The boy was too young to watch them then, preferring to watch youtube videos of fire trucks rolling down the road over and over again, here and there and everywhere (actually, Bucks County, Pennsylvania - must be a big fire truck fan there)! Now, the boy's a few years older, so he can understand when I tell him that we won't be getting those videos, as the guy's a Communist.
*- Personally, I've never even heard this lady talk. I didn't watch the ZH embedded youtube video, as I've already enjoyed my breakfast the first time.
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Infotainment - The race for Blue Squad Leader
Posted On: Saturday - March 9th 2019 10:27PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Bread and Circuses
Just to explain the title, Peak Stupidity maintains that the US Gov't is full of people from just one party, The Party, with its red and blue squad. The differering squads allow folks to be infotained on TV, just as with the other circuses (half of "Bread & Circuses", as during the decline or Rome), such as the football games or NCAA March Madness. At this time, seeing the lack of effort by President Trump to fulfill his most important campaign promise, or ENTIRE REASON for his campaign, this seems more true than ever.
Since the deal for a long time is that US Presidents are to serve for 2 terms, unless something has really gone bad for them, the red squad won't provide us with the race-for-the-top infotainment this election "cycle". However, the Blue squad will. It's sickening to me just to hear about any of these people, but I'll just mention the field of real winners the Blue squad has got to entertain us, just in case you haven't heard of them. The 1st 3 are older white people. Do they "deserve" to have the job because it's their turn, as in the old political ways?
Socialist, lawyer, Indian Chief,
Does the old VP that hangs aound Washington still automatically get the nomination slot? I don't think that'll happen due to the demographics of the blue squad. This ain't 1988. That will affect the chances for the Indian Chief and the Socialist as well. With their great love of dieversity, it's not like these 3 should have anything to complain about. They should welcome more diversity into the ranks of Democrat presidential candidates. Did they think 2 elections of the Øb☭ma were going to pacify the people of colors? Haha, there's no compromising among any of these people. That's kind of the fun in watching this stuff (or at least reading about it on Steve Sailer's blog, in my case).
No, there's a new crop of young, or at least younger, people of all kinds of colors and ethnicities that deserve to be given this top slot because of diversity. Hey, you guys came up with this stuff - OWN IT, BITCHES!
Now, we may have thought that the Øb☭ma elections were a major change from the past, as this
This may make the red-squad folks very happy. How could any of these people keep the various dis-united, I mean diversified, groups happy and voting for him? Trump will trounce any one of them, you say. That would be something to be very glad about if President Trump were doing anything serious to help us. Based on what he's accomplishing now for us, I'd say what difference does is make that he can beat any one of these people in the '20 election? A 2nd term will do no good if it's anything like his 1st so far.
OK, OK, I can be thankful that the Hildabeast is not this very moment berating the white men for something or other. I would rather have Trump win again than any of these Socialist, ctrl-left, anti-white assholes. I guess decent talk out of President Trump is better than nothing, but it's not stopping the slide of America into ruins.
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General Dieversity
Posted On: Friday - March 8th 2019 9:27PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Race/Genetics
(Friendly fire, unfriendly fire, we don't care.)
He's not just a 4-star general - he's chief of staff of the Air Force. A guy like David Goldfein might explain why the Navy Sailors and Marines call the operation the "Air Farce", but then again there are probably lots of General Goldfiens in their top ranks too.
Paul Kersey, writes on unz White United States Air Force Chief of Staff Argues Racial Diversity Is "Warfighting Imperative" Because a Black Airmen Taught Him Bandaids Were Racist. You've just gotta read this one yourself. It's one of those stories that generate the phrase "I can't even ..."
OK, I can, a little bit. This hard-core Political Correctness in the top ranks of the American armed forces is not new. One can go back to Army General George Casey after the Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood massacre, whose statement "Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse", displays some of this extreme stupidity from people who really can't be that stupid.
Mr. Kersey points out another guy, a Brigadier General that seriously worried Air Force Thunderbirds too male, too white, top general warns. It's difficult and dangerous enough to fly a fighter jet, period, even in peacetime, especially the landing on carriers and formation flying. Now, you want the men to fly in the premier aerobatic squadron (OK, tied with the Blue Angels), greatly dependent on these 5 others with their lives each and every show, but with people who aren't necessarily the best?! I guess this guy doesn't care about people in airshow crowds either. Maybe the cost of a new F-16 could be something to change his mind, but I guess 50 - 100 million dollars is chump change within the military budget.
Nah, but I should really correct myself on what I do know about scum like this: They are not stupid. They are evil. They became evil when they became cowards - cowards because they'd rather spout out, and lead based on, this diversity bullshit when they do know better. Their status and retirement money are more important to them than, not only plain truth, but having the US military in a condition to fight a REAL WAR. Here, their management in US Feral Government and in the high ranks, are involved in goading on Russia and China into fights, when they have in their minds the fighting that the American military has been doing all over the world against the little guy.
This PC stuff will not fly if our government ever gets us into a real war with an enemy with even close to the manpower and firepower we have. I would not hesitate to call Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein a TRAITOR, as his actions will greatly reduce the confidence of the real airmen in the US Air Force to be able to just do their jobs without interference in who they fly with.
BTW, as just a blog note, Peak Stupidity has been getting quite a few of the ideas for our posts from writers on the unz site lately. We're trying not to just be a repeat of what the reader could read over there.
There's still greater than 50% of material consisting of expounding our own original stupidity concepts. Unz.com does have some very interesting articles, but more importantly, especially under Steve Sailer's blog, lots of noticing of new and unusual sources of stupidity that we just don't have the resources for (a subscription to the NY Times is expensive, right?). We could easily go to Drudge for more ideas, but, as mentioned before, his politics have gone downhill, and the shitshow of a world that he presents with his headline/links (refreshed every 2 minutes!) is a distorted view of reality, even in this day and age.
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Major police effort solves hate-hoax haaaachuuu!
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2019 7:37PM MST
In Topics: Humor Cars Race/Genetics
(Image shamelessly downloaded off Breitbart.)
DATELINE: Lamar, SC (Darlington County), HateDate: 03:04:19
Per this amusing story of stupidity, South Carolina Mayor Charges Racism After Car Defaced, Then Police Find the Facts, this worrisome case of hatred against Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson, mayor of the northeastern South Carolina metropolis of Lamar, SC has been solved. Between the horrific but untrue hate-case involving Jussie Smollett and his Nigerian accomplices, and many other terrible, but debunked, cases that have been building up in the public, uhh, $PLC's consciousness, race relations look pretty grim indeed. In this latest near-crime in rural South Carolina:
Darnell Byrd McPherson, mayor of Lamar, South Carolina, quickly assumed she had been the victim of a hate crime after finding a yellow “sticky substance” painted over her and her husband’s cars recently, according to Newsweek."All in the grooves", man that's low! It gets worse:
McPherson told the media that the substance “got in all of the grooves” of the autos that were sitting outside the couple’s home.
My husband went out to the car to get some things out of the garage,” the mayor told Newsweek. “He says, ‘Somebody’s painted your car!’”They may or may not have been completely cross-shaped, though some racists say that it was just "lots of all-night pig barbecues being held near the time of the drag races." A likely story, right? I mean, who eats barbecue in S. Carolina, especially that vinegar-based stuff?
McPherson added that a neighbor also alerted her to the substance.
The incident caused her to assume she had been a victim of a hate crime.
“I likened it as a hate crime because No. 1, there’s a history in our town of Lamar,” the Lamar mayor said.
McPherson harkened back over 40 years when she claims that “burning crosses” were commonly seen in the area.
Luckily, the LPD (Lamar Police Dude), actually the Darlington County Sheriff's Deputy, Robby Kilgo, broke the case later in the hour:
“We found it to be pollen. There was no reason for us to collect a sample.”What? Who'd have known about those Oak trees in South Carolina? The thing must have growed up like
This case may have been overblown, but there's a long history, you white people, you - This is the same kind of … achoooo…. same damn …. achooooo! Geeze!… sniff… shit that they …. waaaachooooiey! …. hand me that roll of toilet paper …. shit that they …. uhhh, uhhhhhh … pulled on that Emmett Ti ... chooooo … ill!
I guess Lamar is too small to have a car wash, but how about Darlington? I’ve seen cars turn so yellow-green this time of year that you really can’t tell what color they are supposed to be. Of course, if you’re not a sell-out to whitey, you’d have a bright enough purple, green, or orange car to where the color shines through. Clear-coat, baby!
Is it really a black/white thing, or just a problem of underprivileged Lamar, South Carolina being a self-serve car-wash desert?
PS: I will admit I first got wind of this story from Mr. Steve Sailer, in his post The Yellow Peril of Hate Stalks South Carolina, with good humorous comments as usual.
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Respect mah electronic Authoritah!
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2019 9:38AM MST
In Topics: Humor US Police State Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Discussion of traffic rules, modern vs. older vehicles, and deaths of pedestrians by Artificial Stupidity in a recent Steve Sailer article - it's one of his many side interests - brought up a few thoughts for this post. Also, we have a new topic key, Traffic Stupidity. It's so hard to keep organized among the myriad flavors, if I may, of stupidity these days.
I was spending some time out in Seattle, Washington years ago. Things may be different today, with an influx in the Pacific Northwest of not only large amounts of immigrants, like everywhere, but also with the huge big-money influence of Amazon.com and other computer-tech giants, making for a different population.
At that time, however, I did notice that, as completely opposite from in the east-coast big cities, both drivers and pedestrians were very polite. I'd hardly ever hear a car honk the horn. You act like that in Boston, and the Massholes will figure there's something wrong with you, or you'll get a ticket for a non-working horn. The pedestrians were rule-following to a fault, a fault that I'll point out in a bit here.
As a pedestrian, I figure I'd walk across the street in downtown Seattle, it being one of the west-east (going up, well, then down later, and up again!) streets downtown, as it was a small one, and nobody was coming. I did indeed see that electrical red palm at the other side, but well, you can't spend your life letting electronics tell you what to do. Ahaaa! That's what I should have told the cop. Anyway, a very nice and polite cop came up to me as I reached the other side 50 ft away or so. "You know that was a red signal for pedestrians, right, sir?" (uh-oh, "sir" - I don't like the sound of that!) "Yes sir, but there was no one coming and ..." "It's jaywalking - how about you and I going back across, and you wait for the signal?" "Uh, yeah, but I'm going this way", I pointed to the north. "I can give you a ticket, or we can just walk back across." "Yeah, OK, lets head back."
I did have to keep an eye back for him until my destination, but it wasn't a big price to pay for avoiding the $50 or so. He was such a nice and polite guy, that was the thing, really, or I'd have given him a lecture about safety. "What could I tell him?", the reader may well ask.
When walking just a day or two later, I did wait for traffic, as this was the big 3-lane, one-way street going through downtown Seattle the long way (really NW to SE, parallel to Elliot Bay). It was busy, and I'm not stupid, just not particularly law-abiding. About 20 people built up there. As the light turned green, and that electrical box showed us the white outline of the dude crossing in some hurry, people just started moving. Well, I had to see behind one guy, and then look the other way (yeah, it was one-way, but still, it could have been ME coming - did that mistake once!) before I would step foot off the curb. However, an old lady at the front, with NO ABILITY WHATSOEVER to move quickly, took no look, either way, saw that white signal, and just stepped on into it ...
... no, were you waiting for description of a dead body ending up 20 ft in front of the bus? There was no bus, but yes, that could have happened, which is indeed my point today. The old lady has so much trust that this electronic signal to her was the be-all-to-end-all. Peak Stupidity usually rags on the younger people about this, but there's a different reason here. It's not like the old lady was really into electrical gadgets. It's just that her mindset had TOO MUCH RESPECT FOR AUTHORITAH, in ANY form.
On the one hand, the city of Seattle set up this sign to be obeyed. On the other hand, people run red lights and do all sorts of stupid stuff. Blindly following and trusting an electrical sign over your common sense and the stupidity of the population is no way to go through life,
Alright, I know you want to see some bus/pedestrian collisions, so this montage from the movies is pretty good. If nothing else, or you are short on time, at least go to 01:15 and see the scene from Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais (the British The Office boss). It's a good movie.
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The different levels of Prepping
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2019 7:56PM MST
In Topics: Music Preppers and Prepping Inflation
Peak Stupidity has not spent much time on Prepper posts. There are lots of good sites out there, John Wesley Rawles SurvivalBlog being perhaps the most well known and useful. Besides the old Zerohedge commenters, who had lots of very good advice in the past, there's Mac Slavo out there with his SHTFplan blog. This guy has spent time in Bosnia during the worst of times there just over 20 years back. His big gimmick in the past was to write in terrible English, to prove, IMO, that he was a bona-fide Bosnian or something. Anyway, upon looking at that site just now, it appears to be a newer, lower-key version of Zerohedge now, in terms of the article topics. (It really looks pretty interesting.)
How is the discussion about politics on ZH and SHTFplan even prepper stuff at all, the reader may ask. Well, let's discuss some different levels of this preparedness. Preparedness for what? That's the question. Long term readers, or anyone who has read our "about" page, would know that Peak Stupidity's big theory is that stupidity will peak and drop drastically once the financial crash coming delivers serious economic pain, and likely, political turmoil to most of us - especially those who are of the non-prepper persuasion (more on what this means below).
On the top of the post, you see the high-level prepper creed. If one has an inkling that the turmoil to come will end up in a real collapse of our just-in-time, highly complicated modern economy, with shortages, power loss, and reversion to 19th century medical care, i.e., TEOTWTWAWKI (pronounced like it's spelled*), then this stuff, taking a whole lot of work, will be deemed necessary. I highly respect the folks that are working on the family or neighborhood level to make their lifestyle sustainable even through the near worst-case scenario. Stocking up of diesel fuel, long-shelf-life foodstuffs, guns/ammo, along with thousands of items that could help enable survival, along with learning some of the old ways with some of the new technology good stuff.
One can read the websites in which proper ways of canning, distillation, re-loading, etc are endlessly debated. Is it going to be all for nothing, though? There is no way to have a good time-line, so this work can seem futile and even embarrassing at times. None of us know how things will go down, as history doesn't exactly repeat itself, it just rhymes. We don't know the next line.
Will this once-great nation slowly slide into a multicultural low-trust, high-stress society like Brazil, with no particular Shit hitting any Fans, but just a low-keyed worsening of the quality of life? Will certain regions finally break up after having enough of
Your plans should certainly be different depending on how you think it will go down. Rather than a complete change of lifestyle requiring basically a 2nd job as a prepper, the next level, based on the anticipation of the Brazil scenario, may require re-thinking job prospects or a relocation to an area with the biggest concentration of your kind, as politics get more tribal. Is it even worth hanging on here, if no one will fight, and the people slowly morph into people that aren't worth fighting for anyway? Maybe a complete bug-out to start the family off in a new land (even better, with others of like mind).
There are plenty of other levels lower or in between. For all anticipated major changes, thought must be put into the issue of MONEY. If one is a prepper at all, besides holding onto real property and resources, one must consider what will happen to the US dollar. The high-level preppers are well aware of this. They have discussions on junk (meaning specifically NOT made of junk) silver, gold and other forms of REAL MONEY. Others, who don't anticipate being truly "off the grid", favor bit-coin and other cryto-currencies (as discussed by Peak Stupidity before, it's a great form of currency for transfer, but is it a great store of value?).
This brings us to the lowest level, people who are wise enough just to store items to avoid inflationary losses. They may not think of themselves as preppers at all, but buying items in bulk when they are on sale, understanding shelf lives of materials and rotation of foodstuffs, etc, sure is prepping to me, if only for the one thing, higher, maybe hyper-inflation to come. Peak Stupidity had one short post on prepping for inflation 2 years ago.
No matter what level you are on, and whether you consider yourself a prepper or not, if you are very concerned with the near-term future of the US of A, and you make plans accordingly, YOU ARE A PREPPER. As a definition to distinguish who are NOT PREPPERS, I'd have to designate those who live paycheck-to-paycheck as non-preppers (see also Credit? Forget it! You got it? You get it!). After all, if it will be a crisis if the family has no income for even one month, even during these "good times", then one is not prepared for anything!
* OK, we'll just explain the acronym with an REM song - the term is about the only thing you may be able to make out, out of Michael Stipe's rapid-fire lyrics.
This band, REM, has been featured here and here already, if not another time or two.
Since I didn't publish the band members' names in those previous posts (I really try to do this for musical artists, REM was**:
Michael Stipe – lead vocals
** He just died - I had no idea!
Peter Buck – lead guitar, mandolin, banjo
Bill Berry – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Mike Mills – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals.
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Health-Conscious people on the spectrum
Posted On: Monday - March 4th 2019 8:57PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry Healthcare Stupidity
This has been bugging me for quite some time. I don't have any friends "on the spectrum" (as far as I know) or even any friends that use the phrase "on the spectrum". From reading commentary on-line, however, I'm really getting sick of that crap! It's bad enough new psychological or personality problems are being made up on the fly for unruly 8 year-olds, and people who like computers. Why not call them brats and geeks,
The term "sperge" and "spergy", as noun and adjective, respectively, seem to be used on-line to describe guys who are on the geeky side. It is short for an individual who has this "Asperger's" syndrome, no, defect, no, disease even? No, no it's not anything to do with after-effects of incidents involving accidental sitting on barbecue grills, if that was your first thought. This is supposedly a problem in which one does not care about people matters, and cares a whole lot more about technical matters or just things, over people.
Not being a "people person" is now "oh, he has Asberger's - so sorry to hear that". Damn, it's just a type of personality! There's nothing wrong with not liking other people too much (at least outside the immediate family), except to anyone of the opposite extreme, who can't understand it. I hate to tell you, but most non-people-people DON'T WANT to be people-people - it's not that they CAN'T be.
This "on the spectrum" bit refers to a range of strengths, I guess one could call it, of any psychological problem. The red must represent just a little weirdness, then your orange, yellow, green, and blue lead to the purpleness of bat-shit crazy. OK, I get that, but it should refer to real, serious psychological problems. Being nerdy is not one, yet that is what people seem to mean now when they say "on the spectrum". Well, if it's a problem, wouldn't it matter WHERE on the spectrum the guy is? If you really want to use this spectrum business, you should say "this guy's in the orange, but seems damn close to yellow some days.", like that. If you are on the spectrum yourself, maybe in the infrared, just a little too much into computers, say, you may want to describe these people with personalities you don't like in terms of RGB, Red - Green - Blue, the primary additive colors. "Hey this guy's a bit weird. I'd call him a FF8A00 in hex."
Let's just ditch this spectrum business completely, come to think of it. It confuses things. I've always thought of older people who don't eat enough veggies and milk as on the Spectrum, as I've seen them pick up those bottles at drug store. "My Dad's Doc told him that he's not getting enough Calcium and Iron. So, now he's like, on the Spectrum."
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CPAC, gutsy Michelle Malkin, and Swift Airlines
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2019 11:49AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
With the President being completely worthless, whether intentionally or not, on the existential issue* of out-of-control immigration, things look very bleak. There's the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, being held the weekend in Washington, Federal Shithole as we blog. Per VDare writer James Fulford yesterday, Michelle Malkin Called Out Immigration Disaster In CPAC Speech That Gets Standing Ovation (with video).
(Yes, we've had a few slight beefs with her minor Statism here, here, and here.)
VDare's "Washington Watcher" has more on the conference and the disappointing relegation of the most important conservative issue to one session. Read CPAC and Trump Disappoint Immigration Patriots. Michelle Malkin Issues Both a Wake-Up Call as opposed to taking depressants, if you're on too much of a bipolar high. Michelle Malkin was apparently the only bright spot, not least because VDare's leader, Peter Brimelow, was not even invited to this "conservative conference.
Not only that, but a race hustler lefty from the past (I used to watch Glenn Beck disparage this guy 10 years back!), one Van Jones, was invited to tell the conservatives:
The conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of [criminal justice] reform… take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.Yes, conservatives should be proud of that one move at least, releasing black prisoners from jail early, that's the ticket. It'll get votes and clean up the streets ... or something ...
[No, I'm sure he doesn't cuss at home either]
Any reader wanting to really keep up with the immigration-invasion issue ought to really read VDare daily. (Hey, it's right there on the right ---> ) Give it 10 to 20 minutes per day, depending on how fast you read.
I figure it's time for a little cheer here, so I'll relate my running to a pilot who flies for an airline called Swift Air. These guys have got over 30 Boeing 737s that are used almost solely to transport the most violent illegal aliens that have been convicted of felonies in the US back down to their home countries, almost all in a southerly direction. They transport roughly 120 - 150 of these "scum de la scum" at a time, with 10-15 armed-and-ready-to-rumble "flight attendants" daily out of a number of detention centers in the US via Miami and points south.
The pilot even told me that he and the guards have seen people and/or names they've recognized from previous flight; "frequent fliers", they call them. Do people in high places still really question why we need a real border wall or barrier, or do they just want this invasion to happen? Some of the aircraft do 2 turns a day down there (bringing mechanics with them as they DO NOT WANT TO GET STUCK!). You'll like this - Swift Air's radio call sign is "Repatriate".
* This one makes 132 Peak Stupidity posts with this topic key attached.
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My Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2019 9:13PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
How long has this "my" business been going on? It all started with Gate's Geeks in one of the middle 1990's versions of Windows. Was it Windows-95? What had been the File Manager became "My Computer", and then things just grew from there. You had "my documents" and "my pictures" first in the Windows operating system. Everyone in business must have thought that this was "my best fucking idea ever" and had to name their services, and now their "apps" "my something-or-other".
You've got "my healthcare", "my Wells Fargo", "my AARP" and "my stool sample records". I had thought that the 1970's were the "Me Decade". If that's the case, the people of the 1990's all the way through the present must be the "My Generation." Come to think of it, did The Who start this thing way, way before Bill Gates taped his glasses together and saw the future of my lame-ass-operating-system?
It's just so juvenile sounding. "Hey these are MY pictures, and MY documents, on MY Computer. Don't touch MY stuff, any of you homos, or I'm telling MY Mommy!" I was really hoping this would go away back 10 years ago, but it seems to be growing still.
I'll give Apple credit, at least for not being involved in this "my" thing, but that might be a copyright issue, or maybe even patent infringement. Can you now patent the stupid idea of putting "my" in front of nouns as a theme? Apple has their own theme, right? Everything is an app, instead of a program. I suppose that's clever, as programmers used to refer to "applications programming" versus "systems programming". The former were pieces of software meant to do something to help a user, while the latter were programs made to make the computer system run. Applications programs became known as just "applications", a really terrible term. It was what it was, so you've got "app" standing for both "application" (program) and Apple. That's kinda slick, but I'm sick of it too!
If you think this all is not stupid enough, then please download the My Stupidity App to consolidate all your stupidity in one place.
The Who sings My Generation off of their debut album way back in 1965. This was an aborted attempt to start a new genre of music called "stutter rock". It d-d-d-didn't r-r-really take.
The Who was:
Roger Daltrey – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, percussion.
Pete Townshend – lead and rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards .
John Entwistle – bass guitar, horns, backing and lead vocals.
Keith Moon – drums, backing and lead vocals.
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Exclusive: TV actor and 2 Nigerians do something STUPID!
Posted On: Thursday - February 28th 2019 9:41AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor
It's the right time, I suppose, for the Peak Stupidity blog to "journalize" on the Jussie Smollett caper. We deem it very important not to jump the gun on these hate-hoax stories, until all the evidence is in, and we can be really, really sure, that this is not just the most stupid thing we've ever heard of.
A friend mentioned some of the details of this story that I had tried very hard not to keep up with. (I almost had to turn off Steve Sailer for a little while, though I will repeat myself here that he IS the one, after all, who has been explaining and detailing the hate-hoax streak that America has been under the influence from, for 15 years.)
Oh, yeah, right, the friend told me about Mr. Smollett's paying his accomplices by check, because accomplices are not known to be the type to take cash or something, you know, wanting to be on the up-and-up with the IRS and all. The clear image of the 2 guys appearing very clearly on the Hate-Hoaxers-R-US security camera buying supplies is also pretty hilarious. We don't expect cat burglars anymore in America, or, say, the type guys that do those Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Six (the prequel) heists, or the kind of thinking that takes a guy like Monk to figure out. Nah, just one TV actor and a couple of Nigerians don't have the time and resources for that sort of planning ... and brains either. Still, could you not think even 1 step ahead of the lowliest Affirmative Action hire of the Chicago Police Department?
As for the Nigerians, the best joke I've heard so far about the Jessie Smollett caper involved them. One "Bill Jones" opines: "How dumb do you have to be to pick the only two Nigerians on the planet who are no good at hoaxes?"
It's a real shame that it took a case this stupid to go viral to bring the real problem of racial hate-hoaxes to the forefront. However, though I've never watched the TV show Mr. Smollett
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"She can tell you 'bout the plane crash ...
Posted On: Wednesday - February 27th 2019 7:10PM MST
In Topics: Websites Media Stupidity
... with a gleam in her eye."
Atlas Air, a freight airline flying just under 100 widebody aircraft* lost 3 of its pilot group of over 1700 four nights back. It's true that it seems not as big a deal when there are no paying passengers, with their complete reliance on the planes, pilots, and mechanics of the airline for their safety. This crash, along with Fed-Ex, UPS, and other cargo carrier's crashes indeed don't make the news for months and months on end, as they do for the passenger airlines.
This is still sad for the families and friends of the 3 pilots lost. Additionally, this Boeing 767 is not a plane only in use as a freighter. The model is in use by Delta, American, and United Airlines, just to name the 3 big US carriers with ~ 160 of them flying 200-odd people back and forth to mostly Europe and South America. Whatever the cause of the Atlas Air crash could very well have to do with how these planes are maintained or how the pilots fly them, on the passenger airlines too.
Therefore it's interesting that there seems to be not much follow-up all over the web. I would not know about TV news, but would have not have missed headlines on yahoo (after logging out of mail), and other mainstream sites, were this a wreck with passengers killed. I checked Drudge, a site I've avoided lately for various reasons**, and saw nothing on this crash, just 4 days later.
What can you say? Yes, it's not news to people, as they are not cargo, so "it won't happen to them". There are probably not enough "journalists" in the Lyin' Press with the brains to follow the aviation business with enough knowledge to understand that this crash could still be very pertinent. It's been quite a while since I've picked up the USA Today that serves mostly as a hotel doormat (more here on that rag). They do cater to the businessman by running small articles with tips or info on airline travel on Mondays, least last time I looked. They must have read that Monday is the biggest business air-travel day. Fine, but, I doubt they care either about the Atlas accident. It'd be up to the bloggers, the people that have the brains, and spend the time, to understand an industry, to keep us up on the investigation.
What it comes down to is not just that nobody is interested and journalists are stupid, but also that it's not scary enough to get enough readers. "If it bleeds, it leads." has always been the mantra of the Lyin' Press, and I guess that's just a demand problem. Scaring the crap out of you pays, at least they figure based on their circulation numbers, such as all those USA Todays that we thing are just doormats.
Don Henley, formerly of the 1970's country-rock, then just rock, band, The Eagles***, wrote of this back in
I'd put the whole song here, but, though Don Henley wrote some great scathing lyrics back in 1982 (must have been after he got a freakin' clue about the world), but the tune really isn't that hot. From Dirty Laundry:
I make my living off the Evening News
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry.
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here.
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear.
Come and whisper in my ear.
Give us dirty laundry.
Kick 'em when they're up,
kick 'em when they're down.
Kick 'em when they're up,
kick 'em when they're down.
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde
who comes on at five.
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash
with a gleam in her eye.
It's interesting when people die.
Give us dirty laundry.
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom
got a running bet.
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry.
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone.
Eat your dirty laundry.
[Chorus]
Dirty little secrets,
dirty little lies,
we got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie.
We love to cut you down to size.
We love dirty laundry.
We can do "The Innuendo".
We can dance and sing.
When it's said and done,
we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!
RIP, Atlas Air 3591 crew.
* 40 of the 767s, > 50 747's of various types and 6 Triple-7s.
** Now, the simple flat page that loaded quickly and again every 2 minutes or so (to give Matt Drudge more "hits") has more ads slowing down my reading, and he seems to be plastering the site with on-going anti-Trump headlines. Fuck that.
*** Featured before on Peak Stupidity here, here, here, and here.
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"Boston Woman" back in the shadows
Posted On: Tuesday - February 26th 2019 6:47PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
Perp Rosiane Santos not enamored by the gentleman's Trump hat ...
... opts to come out of shadows ...
... will be headed back into shadows ...
Peak Stupidity has noted before that the stupidity in this country is so high as to put up with illegal alien entrants into the country not exactly "living in the shadows". This lady, which just as a first guess I'd say is Brazilian*, was living a "quiet life" in the town of Falmouth, at the mainland end of the famous ritzy Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. I guess you can't say that's living in the shadows. Is it "living in the bad acoustics", then?
I don't know, but she sure had no problem coming out into the sunlight, or at least in front of this restaurant patron's phone. Per the clunky ad-heavy Boston CBS site's story Miss Santos had already pushed Mr. Turner's face into his food in non-solidarity with his choice of head-wear. (Maybe it's just how you eat in Brazil - when in Brazil, do as the ... wait a minute, that's the problem. Falmouth ain't in Brazil!) It just takes a lot of damn gall, that's all I'm saying. She's an illegal alien, living that quiet life, not too worried about getting sent home, cause Open Borders and shit. She comes right out of those shadows to push a guy's face into his refried beans and have words with him... well, is it gall or stupidity? We can't have too many stupid people coming in either, as we're about all peaked out heah!
Check out Miss Newscaster Lisa Hughes at about 10 seconds into the video on the page linked-to above. She seems shocked that this lady is, YES, "living in the country illegally" (not an ILLEGAL ALIEN, per se, but just an alien resident who is here illegally, that's all.) She's shocked, as she somehow doesn't know there are 20 - 30,000,000 others here. Really, as ignorantly stupid as news people are today, I could believe she's truly shocked at this.
The good news is that Miss Santos got pulled into the legal system by ICE to be, YES, LET GO to come back for removal hearings. Of course, that's gonna happen ... yeah, the day pigs start flying ... into Logan Airport ... on the ILS. Though this will be another illegal alien not deported, Rosiane Santos will at least go back into the shadows, so, there's that
PS: BTW two questions:
1) Why can't people take video with their phone's long axis aligned horizontally, as that's the kind of graphics we want here at Peak Stupidity?
2) What is it with Latin American women and names with "Rose" in them? Why are there so many variants on Rose? It's starting to piss me off.
* That's not just a random guess from her looks. There are lots of Brazilians living in Massachusetts now, especially on the Cape, working on the politicians compounds that Americans just won't work on, apparently.
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The East Main Arms
Posted On: Tuesday - February 26th 2019 9:14AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Race/Genetics
(Of course, it's in New Jersey, so caveat emptor, amigos.)
While spending some time in a far-away city the other day, I did a whole lot of walking on a day that was free of work. It was 60 F outside, and as I left the main part of town, I headed out on what looked like a nice country road. That brings me back to childhood and James Taylor, walkin' on down a country road ... ♪♫♬ ... with the bright sunshine off my shoulder.
Rather than being a nice area to walk in, things got fairly ghetto-like in a short while, so rather than cotton or soybean fields, there were small un-kempt houses, one after another. Long ago, the kids would make fun of black people whose cars were worth more than their living quarters. I figured they were exaggerating. Nope, one could do the math. Yes, a Cadillac could have cost well more than the 500 ft2 shacks they parked in front of. Well, years later that still holds! Additionally, the vehicles have gotten bigger, or at least the pick-up trucks. I really wanted to pace off both a large shiny modern pick-up along with the small beat-up house it was parked in front of, but yeah, it WAS the ghetto, after all. I mean, if it were only aligned a little bit better, I could have been sure, but I believe it was as long as either dimension of the rectangular house!
That aside, upon walking more and looking down the narrow street, I noticed big letters across a one-story building down at the t-intersection 200 yards away ... just a low-sloped symmetric-roofed structure that seemed to be a store, East Main Arms, or something like that. Hey, why would there be a gun store here in the ghetto? That's usually a bad idea. Now with nothing against gun stores, I planned to check it out, but upon another 100 yards of walking as I got past more trees, I could see this was a small apartment complex, not a gun store. "Oh, the East Main Arms." How fancy and NY City-sounding that was!
I had to look up more about this apartment-building naming with "Arms", usually associated with old high-rise structures even not in NY City. Where I lived for years in a medium-sized city, there is just the one old 15 or 20 story building called the XXXX Arms. Does it bring back memories to the reader, as it does for me, of times long past? The answers in the forum site linked-to above explain that the name "arms" came from inns or pubs back in England with their coats of arms shown on flags out front.
OK, but a one-story 20-unit apartment complex in a mile-out-of-town ghetto area being the "East Main Arms"? Is that not a little pretentious? Ought it not just have a plastic banner in front - "Bad Credit? No problem." or "Free Toaster with first payment. No deposit back for burned-down units."? Well, I really expected a gun store.
Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down,
walk on down a country road...♪♫♬
Not only could I not find any youtube clip on this song that wasn't fuzzy, hell, even lots of the pictures are blurry here! Oh, well, I did learn something about JT on youtube, in that I have been on the very road that he wrote about, as this was about the road near the mental hospital he voluntarily spent some time in near Boston, Massachusetts for depression (should have listened to some music for the depressed instead, 'cept this was a coupla/three decades earlier).
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John Wayne - the Airport, the Icon, and the Actor
Posted On: Saturday - February 23rd 2019 4:43PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness California Movies Race/Genetics ctrl-left
The internet says that there are people out in Orange County, California (Santa Ana, Anaheim, Huntington/Newport beaches, and about 100 other jammed-together cities) that don't appreciate the late iconic western-/war-movie actor John Wayne anymore. In The Attack on John Wayne Is an Attack on White America, by writer Paul Kersey* of the "stuff black people don't like" blog**, Mr. Kersey explains that the demographics of Orange County have changed much since the time of John Wayne. From getting the busy airport in Santa Ana (code SNA - doesn't make sense, but most don't!) and a 9-feet tall statue of him located at the entrance to being dissed now by 10's of thousands of twitterers for perfectly decent honest remarks made in a Playboy interview*** from 1971, you may notice that people don't seem to think the same of him.
What's changed about the attitudes toward John Wayne, along with more importantly, Orange County going from a John Birch Society stronghold of Conservatism to a blue (for Socialist, you'd think red, but ...) state? Could it be that this particular very-populated country went from being 86% white in the early 1970's to < 50% white today? "Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation", but, I'm pretty damn sure that it does in this case.
Before I go further let me discuss John Wayne. I gotta say his movies were out a good bit before my time. I've enjoyed a few, as I do remember seeing The Searchers on DVD. Clint Eastwood as the star of the Western genre is more memorably. Just as with Clint Eastwood, John Wayne was the, OK, PLAYED, the taciturn, tough righteous American hero. That's what's made him iconic. If people didn't identify with him, they at least wanted to. That was the America of 1945 through 1975 though.
Thing thing is that John Wayne was just an actor. Peak Stupidity really doesn't have any particular respect for actors and actresses. Is he entertaining and realistic? Is she entertaining and
Here are some of John Wayne's views on race from the past:
The academic community has developed certain tests that determine whether the blacks are sufficiently equipped scholastically. But some blacks have tried to force the issue and enter college when they haven’t passed the tests and don’t have the requisite background.I can't argue with any of that. Most people couldn't have in 1971 either. Now, not only do a different type of Americans argue with him, but they go back nearly 5 decades to argue with a dead man. From the grave, the American iconic actor says: "Never apologize, Mister, it’s a sign of weakness."
There has to be a standard. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or 10 generations ago these people were slaves. . . . Now, I’m not condoning slavery. It’s just a fact of life, like the kid who gets infantile paralysis and has to wear braces so he can’t play football with the rest of us.
I will say this, though: I think any black who can compete with a white today can get a better break than a white man. I wish they’d tell me where in the world they have it better than right here in America.
The ctrl-left has basically the same idea as the Commies of old, your Lenin's, Mao's, Pol Pots, and even has taken a page from the Taliban, in working hard to erase vestiges of history of the traditional American people. This John Wayne hate is part of it. Arguing with them is not gonna cut it, just as it didn't with the Commies of old.
* In case this pen-name of the writer rings a bell, yes that's also from the movies, as Paul Kersey is the righteous vigilante character played by Charles Bronson in the 5-movie Death Wish series.
** now hosted on unz.com. Unz is a brave man, I'll give him that.
*** Playboy interview? Who read those things to begin with? I wonder how the original twitterer got ahold of the interview out of a 48 year-old magazine with most of the pages stuck together ... ah, nevermind.
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Sexual Stupidity and Naked Massages
Posted On: Saturday - February 23rd 2019 9:41AM MST
In Topics: Humor Feminism Female Stupidity
From zerohedge.com, we read about the son of one of the scions, if I may, of Female Stupidity, who embarrassed his Mom in an event that I would call an inevitability, rather than any stupidity, per se. The stupidity is in the ridiculousness of the CEO (really?), one Lisa Borders, of "Times Up" to begin with, along with anyone thinking that this type of massage therapy is strickly bidness!
In reading Times Up CEO Resigns After Son Embroiled In Sexual Misconduct Scandal, we first would like to know what the hell this "Times Up" place is. Just from the context (I felt dirty just looking it up), and now a quick glance at a NY post article on the same story, we learn that Times Up is an organization that purports to fight for women to speak out about their sexual harassment experiences, fun or otherwise. Oh, they have $22 million bucks to
... well, you can't have people hearing about your son inappropriately touching a naked massagee with his fingers and other parts in the wrong positions for a good and proper massage per the massage-guild procedures and protocols. Let's see, per zerohedge, Mr. Garry Dijon* Bowden, on the left above, son of the important CEO Lisa Borders, was invited to Miss (I sure hope it's "Miss") Celia Gellert's, on the right above, home to have a "healing session". Hahaaa, healing session indeed - I need to remember that line. Oh, Mr. Garry Mustard Bowden, Jr. is no simple ordinary healer - he is a LIFE COACH too, and a photographer.
Miss Gellert figured that that's just what you do, I guess, invite a guy over get naked, and get healed and coached. Sometimes that involves erect penises and massaging of the genitals, but I guess that was not made clear. "When I was told to lay on the table naked, I was of the understanding that there would be no erections...." I don't know, readers, I think if I were Mr. Dijon, I would not have been able to help myself either, and there would be some mustard or other condiment in places that seem to really need them. Per the NY Post article, we read "'It was not healing. It was disgusting,' said Gellert, a yoga teacher**." Listen, Miss Gellert, you can ignore the facts - you may not care about the birds and the bees, but the birds and the bees care about you! Or, something like that. I just wish I was good enough to get a girl to let me come over to perform a naked massage to begin with. Maybe I need a life coach for that.
With all respect for Mr. Bowden in this story explained, the ex-CEO Mom makes me wonder now. She is not much of a looker (though 61 and with hair almost as short as her son) in the ZH picture, but also a big supporter of the women's NBA. Do women basketball players get sexually harassed? I mean, by men? I seriously doubt that happens. What kind of life "coaching" does the Mom do involving the basketball women, and does she even care about men? Times Up is supposed to be a follow-up to Pound-Me-Too. They probably should get a CEO who actually has a chance of that happening.
OK, well, please go to the Zerohedge comments for some great humor - you now have to click the [Show 275*** Comments] button at the bottom now, but it's well worth the 2 hours to read through them. Enjoy!
*. No, he was not an heir to the Dijon mustard fortune, or he'd have been able to hire higher-class
** A yoga teacher! Man, if I were single, I'd be seeking out life coaches right now - are they on Craiglist? "Yoga teacher" - yes the story all hinges on that, pretty much.
*** 275 was the number as of the last time I pulled up the page.
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Joke Fail During Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - February 22nd 2019 5:53PM MST
In Topics: Humor Curmudgeonry Healthcare Stupidity
... before this whole health-nut craze.
Keep in mind during your reading of this post that Peak Stupidity is no health-nut, diet-advise website. We have no interest in the health of our readers - we only want the eyeballs, as the successful leaders in this blog space would put it. However, your writer here is kind of interested these days in keeping his body functioning well (the blog must go on, after all), and diet can indeed be a big part of that. I've found the cutting down on some favorites fairly easy, yet others take a long time to ease out of, as I guess we may all have addictions of some sort.
It wasn't always this way. It would be nice if my body would still be able to function perfectly well off of bread, cheddar cheese, Cadbury bars, and Guinness for a week as was my diet during a trip to Ireland. Are those the four basic food groups in the pyramid developed by the Irish version of the FDA? There was a time in which I enjoyed a Burger King breakfast of tater tots (OK, they call them "hash rounds", but they're nothing but glorified tater tots) with a vanilla soft-serve ice-cream cone. I'd dip the
I can't do that anymore. Therefore it's a more rare treat to go get some old-fashioned all-American fatty, sugary, salty stuff at a drive-up joint. We'd been working hard that morning (on what limited the blog posts this week), so I deserved it. "Yeah, I'll get the fried chicken with fries and a chocolate shake." The guy I was working with knew I was in general trying to eat healthy, so I had a joke coming. The guy at the window taking my money was at least 25 years old, mind you, as I joked "hey, that stuff doesn't have any saturated fat in it, does it? I can't have any of that." "I don't know. I don't know what that is."
Man, you can't even make a joke anymore if people are too ignorant to get it! What was I to do? "Here's the premise, see: There are different kinds of cholesterol in our bloodstreams ... fat can congeal under different conditions depending on the size of the molec... ". "Listen, I got other people in line, so ..."
Even David Letterman, with his many inside jokes, didn't have to put up with this crap. Should I have put it in the form of a tweet?
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"Hate Crimes" - fight this stupidity
Posted On: Friday - February 22nd 2019 5:48PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity
The entire "hate crime" designation is both stupid and unconstitutional. I ran across one of my favorite bloggers, Steve Sailer, supporting the concept and (more practically) charges for hate crime in one of his comments here under his unz.com post . Just when you not only think people are very intelligent, but agree with about everything they write, you run into this crap. The problem, in my opinion, is with even the best politically incorrect "noticers" among us, is that they still may not understand the reason to have basic principles. I have lambasted the Libertarians before, but it'll be time, in a subsequent post to do the same for the alt-right/conservatives on this score.
The particular comment written by Mr. Sailer was in one of his (probably nearing a dozen) posts on the ridiculous Jussie Smollett hate hoax. You you may have read in our one post earlier this week, Mr. Sailer was way, way ahead in noticing, or more likely, having the courage to write about what he was noticing, about these hate hoaxes for 1 decade and 1/2 already. (His original article is here for reference, and with new comments.)
Peak Stupidity is not trying to be an iSteve stalker or something like that, but this comment from an otherwise very intelligent guy illustrates our point well here:
E.g., if young Liam Neeson had beat up some random black guy to avenge some other black guy raping his loved one, that ought to be a hate crime. Society has an obvious interest in discouraging these kind of attacks because they can spread indefinitely.[Bolding by PS] No, no, no! Bullshit. There ought not to be "regular" crimes versus "hate" crimes. What is the distinction, motive? Motive can indeed result in different charges, such as involuntary vs. voluntary manslaughter. I'm no lawyer, but I do understand that. However, adding this additional layer or "property" of the crime, not just as in "armed robbery" vs. "burglary", but "1st-degree murder" vs "hate crime 1st-degree murder" turns it into 2 crimes, meaning double-jeopardy for any defendant. The guy can be found innocent of the murder but still guilty of hate crimes based on words uttered during the incident. Also, the hate crime" plug-in, as it were, can be added to any other kind of crime.
But if young Liam Neeson tracks down and beats up the actual rapist, but calls him the N word while doing it, that ought not to be a hate crime. It ought to be a regular crime, because society also has an interest in discouraging people taking the law into their own hands, but specific vengeance has less severe potential than random vengeance on a group.
Nah, killing an innocent black based on hot-blooded anger has no worse effect on the victim than if it were just Mr. Neeson shooting his gun at the nearest person of any race who is completely innocent. If you start making new crime designations based on the effect on the community, you are far, far from the ideas developed over 1,000 years by our British/American forefathers.
What’ll be next then, making up new crimes of bad speech due to the effect it has on the population that doesn’t want to hear it? Though that’s not been encoded into law, it’s been effectively used to force cancellation of political talks that bring up “sensitive” issues (Ann Coulter, James Watson, etc., as Mr. Sailer very well knows about. This stuff can easily creep away from just violent criminal acts to all kinds of crimes, and we've seen it.
Constitutional problems with this charge:
1) Double jeopardy, per Bill of Rights, Amendment V: ...nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ...
2) At the Federal level, all this bullshit is illegal per Amendment X anyway: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
If the alt-right are simply going to ignore any "muh Constitution" (their words of disparagement) arguments completely, they could always go back to their common-sense and see the stupidity of the hate crime idea. The stupidity of going along with this fairly recent concept, probably hardly heard of in the 1980's, and still laughed at in the 1990's, has multiple components:
1) Hate crime law won't be ever used against black people, hispanics, and any other privileged races/ethnicities who have done violence to whites. I ask anyone who's ever heard of a case to please comment. No, even the terrible double rape/torture/murder of the young white couple by black scum in the Knoxville Horror case (still undergoing "justice") did not result in hate crime charges. It'll never happen. Why do you expect this to change?
2) This hate crime-plug-in has already been encoded into law to arrest Canadians and Europeans for "hate speech", formerly no crime at all. George Orwell's 1984 thought-crime is a reality. Is it not stupid to rely on 9 politically-motivated robed fools as the only impediment for the same thing happening here in America?
Do you have ANY principles at all, pundits of the alt-right?
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Steve Sailer on Hate Hoaxes and Fake Nooses
Posted On: Wednesday - February 20th 2019 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Media Stupidity Race/Genetics
The latter, "fake nooses" is nice word-play there by Mr. Sailer, and is the title of his latest Takimag article. (Also, 212 comments about it, as of this writing, are here on unz.com.)
Once Steve Sailer gets a handle on a topic, such as these continual incidents of race-baiting or gender-baiting fakery, he keeps up with it more than anyone I've read. This Jussie Smollett business that Peak Stupidity has tried to avoid even thinking about is just the latest in a long series of hate hoaxes, though this one seems to have been scripted more than normal (well the hate-hoax director was in "the biz", after all). There was the fake Rolling Stone news a few years back about a supposed rape on the campus of the U. of Virginia by frat-boys, often a target of hate hoaxes, in which Mr. Sailer was a big part of the effort to get at the truth. Mr. Sailer does toot his own horn in the column in a "I've been saying this for 15 years already!" proud manner, but he completely deserves accolades on this.
Most Americans forget the myriad incidents fairly soon after they are dropped by the Lyin' Press. This works out very well for said Lyin' Press, as, once these formerly horrible instances of still-existing white or male racial hatred are proven to be hoaxes, it is hoped that the reality portion (the aftermath) is also forgotten. That way, the Lyin' Press can have the nerve of using these very same previous hoaxes to "prove" that, "yeah, this latest horrible act is just one in a long line .. " bringing up former hoaxes without the little details such as "oh, uh, yeah they were hoaxes..."
Well Steve Sailer, and his readers HAVE been paying attention. The "hate hoax" term is just now being used after 15 years of that pundit continually writing about it. Peak Stupidity give him great praise for this diligence in bringing this stupidity to the forefront. The only problem I have with his ideas is his actual belief that there are indeed real "hate crimes" that should be prosecuted as such. No, that's not the way American justice is supposed to work, Mr. Sailer. I'd like to expound on that in another post to come later.
It's been an even slower blog-week than I had anticipated, but the project did get finished. This was indeed one of those "hey, look what this guy wrote!" kind of posts that Peak Stupidity has avoided pretty well since our 2nd blog-year started. Hopefully, there'll be 2 - 4 more pieces of juicy stupidity to round out this week.
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The Romantics - What I Like About You
Posted On: Saturday - February 16th 2019 2:55PM MST
In Topics: Music
I spent 10 minutes yesterday searching for this song erroneously as sung by "The Replacements", Paul Westerberg's old band. No, dammit, it was The Romantics, not "Replacements"!
From Detroit, Michigan, at the beginning of the New Wave style of music, here's What I Like About You from the band's self-titled debut album from 1980.
This band did have one other song that played on the radio, Talking in your Sleep, but it wasn't as good a tune.
The Romantics (at the time, on this song):
Wally Palmar – rhythm guitar, harmonica
Mike Skill – lead guitar, vocals
Rich Cole – bass guitar, vocals
Jimmy Marinos – drums, percussion, lead vocals
SITE NOTE: Posting will probably be very scant through coming Thursday due to obligations.
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Ship of Fools - book review - Part 3
Posted On: Saturday - February 16th 2019 2:35PM MST
In Topics: The Dead Pundits Liberty/Libertarianism Books
(continued from Part 2)
How about that!? I just read the last few pages of Tucker Carlson's book (the 2-page Epilogue and the Acknowledgements) and guess what? This guy's a Dead Head! A fellow Grateful Dead fan who Tucker works with is a Dead Head, hence the book's title (Peak Stupidity, way ahead of the game, had the song featured back in the initial "review of the reviews").
Now, about that Epilogue and a few more things: As Peak Stupidity's two favorite Pundits, Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter could be compared here to illustrate our own views. As stated in Part 1 of this extra-special book review, we feel, with all the good writing seen in this book, that Mr. Carlson is just a slight bit too much of a Statist to really, really get it. (What's "it", exactly? By "it" we mean the explanation for the nation being in a state approaching peak stupidity.)
Though with a slightly different style*, and a couple of exceptions, Ann Coulter could have written about these same details and general summation of the stupidity described in the book. An exception would probably that Miss Coulter would not have written such a great disparagement of the neocons (with those 5 1/2 and 9 1/2 pages on Max Boot and Bill Kristol, respectively), having been something of a neocon back in the day herself. Miss Coulter would likely have a more sour attitude of the feminists from day one, judging by her non-support of the women's vote. In the "Shut Up", They Explained chapter on free speech, Miss Coulter appears directly in this book (p. 128), and I doubt I'd see any difference in their view on this subject.
The reason to compare a pundit who DIDN'T write the book to the guy who DID is this: Miss Coulter, being a Constitutional Libertarian, as opposed to Mr. Carlson, being a conservative with an understanding of the old left, is that Miss Coulter would likely have drawn the right conclusion. She seems to "get IT". The problems we have are not simply due to our elites' lack of noblesse oblige, said to be due to their being no old-fashioned political left to counterbalance the right. There is no old-fashioned "right" either. Of course the two sides have merged into The Party, as that's what Big Government naturally wants.
Miss Coulter would likely agree with Peak Stupidity that the problem is not what the new elites do with their power. It's the AMOUNT OF POWER that the new elites have! We've let the beast get out of its chains. The elites can use this beast to beat the population into submission, something the old elites could not do in the much freer American there once was.
The epilogue in Ship of Fools was absolutely disappointing. To Right the Ship, per Tucker Carlson, "there are two ways to end this cycle", to paraphrase a) Kill this democracy, causing violence and mayhem or b) Listen to the people and make changes. "Give them back some of their power." Ahahahaaa, yeah, LOL, you're killing me
I'm afraid you're going to have to listen to the Constitutionalists at some point if you want to know the only solution, Tucker ... to really GET IT. Perhaps you should also listen closely to Jerry:
"Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,All that does not stop me from stating that this is a great book - I hope it sells 5 million copies, as that would be a great thing for America.
laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels,
but I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools."
* I do like Miss Coulter's snarky humor that Mr. Carlson does not have so much of. I wonder if it's just the writer-helpers that she has, but then she's pretty good on-the-fly too. However, I like Tucker Carlson's writing style very much, and it possibly beats Ann Coulter's, though I've read only one of her books, Adios, America.
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