The decline of The Woke - who do we thank?
Posted On: Thursday - December 26th 2024 11:56PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Political Correctness Trump
I'm not at all saying "The Woke"* has been nearly eradicated, but I'll get to that.
That's Amy Wax above. She's been a valiant fighter against The Woke. You can read about her travails, being suspended from parts of her position at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (Penn, for short) Law School, and being struggled against here and there for saying some obvious facts about race and ability, to, guess what, pass her classes at Penn Law School. It seems she ought to know, but not many would have the guts to straight out say things she has.
She also has made no effort to avoid the "wrong people". One of them has been Steve Sailer. Speaking of Mr. Sailer, the writer from which I learned of Professor Wax, I did a search for you - there are dozens. I'll add here that she's not just some political warrior - she's a smart lady, being a neurologist along with being a lawyer. (Regarding the latter, she seems like one of the 1% trying to give the others a good name.)
Now, I understand the question of Amy Wax having a special status, being a woman and a Jew, but, nah, she's the real deal. It might have been humorous, I suppose, for her to have claimed sexism! and anti-semitism! when politically attacked, but she didn't. She's too honorable, and, then too, she's too far gone for that to help her now. Read what's on the podium in our image. Yep, she went there, as they say figuratively, but, no, Professor Wax literally attended and spoke at the latest American Renaissance conference. When you work at an American university, you don't just up and come back from THAT!
Amy Wax is not the only one who's been fighting back, of course. The question that's come up lately, right here is, why has The Woke been under attack and declining lately? Who's responsible for this welcome development?
Though he never used the word "fad", I got the feeling that Mr. Sailer, when he fairly recently wrote a few times that The Woke was fading out, thought of it that way. Sorry to bring up an oldey, but, well it's not like the Pet Rock or (even further back) the Hula Hoop. People got sick of these things on their own. The former was just silly with no visible benefit, but at least the silliness of either of these did not harm anyone else. Nobody needed for these fads to end - they just did. That's how fads work.
Now, I believe the reason why Mr. Sailer thinks of The Woke as something that's going away simply because it's SO stupid is two-fold:
1) He does not think there is any Deep State** or Globalist elite conspirators or just evil people that want this stuff to continue and even expand.
2) As we'll discuss, crediting Donald Trump for anything is not a Steve Sailer thing. We all know that Trump is an egotistical boor, maybe someone you might call "low brow", but I don't hold this against him as much as I believe Mr. Sailer does.
That all said, Mr. Sailer HAS credited Trump, I think. The post of his I linked to is short:
Here’s a question:I DO credit Trump, so I think I'm in agreement with Mr. Sailer for now. The Woke is simply no kind of fad, though. Here's my take:
Since the election, there seems to have begun a general cultural shift within institutions away from wokeness. The opposite happened the previous time Trump won in 2016.
How come?
And what’s next?
The election of Trump was the cause of the waning of The Woke. If it’d gone the other way, the Cultural Revolution 2.0 (which is what this is) would have only intensified. Wokeness would NOT have faded out. There are evil people behind it all, not just the idiots you see in tweets and on TV.
It’s not just the man, Trump, and his plans to at least clean out the BS within the Feral Gov’t that will be the change. It’s that Americans have shown that they have at least this one way of fighting back, voting successfully for someone not of the UniParty. What’s important is that the people – the brave Amy Wax types, but also millions of others in lower positions – can count on SOMEONE in power, if not “having their backs” if they resist, at least not being certain to railroad them, out of school, out of jobs, or into prison like Derek Chauvin and the Brunswick 3.
Is this counterattack against The Woke just some organic thing?
Mr. Hail, commented under said iSteve post that I and others are getting the cause & effect backwards. His logic was simply:
Both shifts happened before the (respective) elections.Commenter Prester John agrees and expounded on this:
Well, here you may be confusing cause with effect. In 2016 Trump was the middle finger to the Beltway Ruling Class. In 2024 the second middle finger was raised, this time against the social movement that followed 2016. Social movements in this country are like firecrackers: generally they flame out and explode, after which they become a spent force. Same for wokeness. While it caught on with academia, Big Media and other Beltway Class apparatchiks, from the very beginning it never caught on with John Q. Public out there in flyover country who had other priorities than what percentage of the enrollment in Harvard Law School should be black. As with all social movements Wokeness, which was incoherent to begin with, degenerated into silliness and humbug. Quite naturally, John Q. Public’s response in 2024 was the same as it was in 2016–elect Trump. The only question that remains is whether any of what we call “Wokeness” will remain permanently embedded in society.What I neglected to reply to Mr. John with was that The Woke hits everyone. It's not only about Yale Law School admissions. It's not only about pundits getting canceled from The View. It affects anyone with a corporate job, who has to worry about what he says and put up with being bombarded with ridiculous lies that he'd better not question if he wants to stay employed. It screws with the minds of students from Kindergartners to 5th year grad students.
What I did (remember to) reply with is to ask Mr. John and Mr. Hale what would be the situation if the vacuous but most assuredly Woke Kameltoe Harris had won the election? It’s not about what that dumb ditz would have said or done, but what the whole Regime apparatus would have. I don’t think ANYTHING Woke would be let to be toned down in any way, as much as, yes, people have had enough.
The people have had enough of a lot of crap, but they don’t want to get violent yet, so the Regime keeps pushing. The pressure behind the wokeness would only have gotten higher, both due to the same types as the face of the Regime and the fact that they would be more emboldened from having won with that vapid broad.
Let me look at the other side of it, election-wise. I voted for Trump all 3 times based mostly on his anti-invasion stance***. If he'd lost this one, even if the Regime didn't continue the Bai Dien surge, without deportations, America has been lost.
Yes, voting for Trump was also a big middle finger (as Prester John wrote). This counterattack against The Woke by he and his people feels good. Were the face of the Executive Branch still part of the Regime, I don't know if we'd have gotten very far with fighting this woke ... should I call it ... pandemic? Who would have the back of the Amy Waxes, Jared Taylors, and Steve Sailers, when the American Kier Starmers came for them? The only solution would have been to go to the guns.
This is most assuredly not over. I've seen with my own eyes that the Big Biz world hasn't perceptively shed The Woke. They do like to stay in good with the Feral Gov't, so perhaps there's just a lag right now. What we've still got is the useful idiots, some who really believe, to go back to the one example, that Amy Wax is somehow wrong about her students and others who know in their hearts she's right but can't bear to think like that, so cognitive dissonance rules their minds.
Behind these are the evil Communist types who want to humiliate traditional Americans by making them pretend to believe ideas that they know are wrong... oh, and ruin the country with D.I.E. incompetence in the process. For them having unqualified heart surgeons, rocket scientists, and rocket surgeons, for that matter, is a feature, not a bug.
Back to our minor disagreement, I wouldn't say that Trump started the counterattack, but he's leading it right now. We'll have more to say about that guy soon... it won't be so supportive.
* "Wokeness" doesn't sound so right as the noun. "The Woke" doesn't refer to the people directly here, but it could, I guess. Here I write the term in the same manner in which one would refer to "the Clap".
** As opposed to what I'd call "The Administrative State" (H/T, Tommy), as discussed in Will the REAL Deep State please stand up... and much earlier in What IS the Deep State?
*** Yes, I don't keep up, so the post on the BIG brewhaha with Musk, Trump, and Vikram (with Bannon in our corner) on the LEGAL immigration is coming still.
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Merry Christmas from the Peak Stupidity gang and Paulie
Posted On: Wednesday - December 25th 2024 3:13PM MST
In Topics: Humor Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
He looks like he's gained some weight since the time I used to watch The Sopranos.
This comes straight from Miss Ann Barnhardt. I suppose this opens up a whole can of worms when it comes to Trannie puns, though we've already come up with the Trans-Am and auto Tranny humor.
It's only occasionally that I get to Ann Barnhardt's site, but I learn something each time. Below is the Peanuts Christmas show clip, surprisingly still on youtube. Even if you aren't religious at all, this likely brings some very nice memories to many.
Miss Barnhardt says here that where Linus quotes Luke 2:14 as “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”, the Latin actually translates to “Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.” There's a big difference.
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Targeted Cultural Destruction and a deep dive into Tragic Dirt
Posted On: Tuesday - December 24th 2024 7:20PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Trump
[I won't show any images or video of a human being on fire in the subway. It's plain sick. - Ed.]
Let me start where last post left off. It wasn't until a few minutes after my ending that post with the following (starting with the Rolling Stones lyric): "Don't mind the maggots!" .. or worse, much worse...." I remembered what worse is. The story about that Guatemalan illegal alien, already once deported by the Trump Admin., setting a lady on fire on the NYC subway and burning her to death is most definitely much worse, probably worst. I found out about just when finishing my post.
Nope, that's not part of the long racial story of the post, but they (the Potomac Regime) just had to make one NYC subway ride be the worst. As my white pill prescription runs out again, with no refills allowed, I will post something about Trump & Musk that I'm fairly angry about. For now, though, since Peak Stupidity was AWOL during the Haitians eating the cats (and dogs) discussion*, I will get back to that along with some thoughts I had during that period.
If it were our family cat, I'd have had to do something. It's sickening enough to see primitive behavior in America, even if it'd have been poor strays. However, that whole story was not really about the cats and dogs, as much as that gave the Regime destructive operation visibility they likely didn't want.
We're talking about flooding a town of (formerly) 60,000 residents with 20,000 (33% more) primitive, violent extremely-foreign residents. It's not like they are expected to assimilate, or they'd have spread them 20 each to 1,000 towns. They did this to little Springfield, Ohio - not particularly randomly, as it was about some Big Biz quest for cheaper labor (screw the Ohioans!) - and they could do it to anywhere else at will. Maybe some town is simply too White and too MAGA. Maybe the local county Sheriff has been upholding the US Constitution too seriously. They can just target your home for cultural destruction... or could, hopefully**
I watched many videos of Springfield, Ohio residents complaining about the cultural destruction of their town. Even with all the destruction of their town going on around them, almost none of them ever got to the truth that must be said. It's not only the jobs, the schools, and the nasty foreign ways. After all, if it were 20,000 Estonians, even if they did eat cats, I think Springfield, Ohio, and America could have dealt with it.
No, almost nobody said that a significant number of Haitians will most assuredly turn their Springfield into a shithole, because they're Haitians.
So, let me get to the point about Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt theory*** Other than just pure evil, the motive for the Communist Resentidos types, what else would be the thinking of those who don't seem to have a problem with mass extremely-foreign and non-White immigration?
A possible answer to that came to me about the time of the eating of the cats and dogs. I think I've gotten into their heads, so let me write it out here. It goes like this:
Haiti is a shithole, for whatever reason. We went there on a mission, and it was just hopeless. I don't want people to have to live like that. We have so many great places here in America they could live. It's not fair for them to have to live in their shithole while we all live in nice places.That's it. I believe that's the thinking involved. There's nothing evil there - it's just plain stupidity. How do we know all this? It's our core competency here.
Let's invite them here. We have enough room to get all of the Haitians away from that shithole. We can help all of them! They will very much appreciate living in our, and what can also be their, nice places.
What I really don't get is those people who complain about some extra people, the Haitians, living in our nice places with us. Do they want them to keep living back in that shithole? How mean!
* I will admit that Trump does a really great job as a showman, pushing against the Narrative with humor and just the right angles. His short-term McDonald's employment and then the garbage truck deal are what I'm talking about too. Those things may have won him the election... which is ... honestly, quite sad really, when we think of the American political sphere of yesteryear.
** That other post about - I'll spill it here - LEGAL immigration may mean they still can, just in a more civil manner. The cats and dogs will be OK... I mean, depending on the caste or prefecture.
*** Was that coined by Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, a combination of the 2, or whom?
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Charles Bronson, Bernie Goetz, and Daniel Penny ride the NYC subway - Go ahead, bite the big apple!
Posted On: Sunday - December 22nd 2024 8:11AM MST
In Topics: History Movies Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Guns
... Don't mind the maggots!
It was 40 years ago today. Stricken from the record:
In the meantime, let me push Silicone Sister Greta down one notch and also ask the reader to check out Mr. Hail's post, within which he tries to get to the bottom of the modern-societal causes behind a 15 y/o girl's killings at a Christian School.
🎼 🎶 It was 40 years ago today.
Bernie Goetz took the New York subway.
Teens were running round inside the car,
so he didn't have to shoot too far.
So, let me introduce to you,
the tale forgotten o'er the years.
It's Bernie Goetz's one man vigilante plaaaaannnnn. 🎶
As I wrote of Peak Stupidity's recent post Donald Trump and the Daniel Penny verdict: Hope for the White Man?, I thought back on the rare White-man perpetrated NYC subway shooting by one Bernhard Hugo Goetz. Fortuitously for our penchant for anniversary posts, this incident went down on December 22nd of 1984, right at 40 years back. I remember this news story and some follow-up stories myself, well before the internet.
Among Daniel Penny's recent heroic (the word used for reasons we explained) takedown of a menacing serially-criminal black man, Bernie Goetz's semi-justified shootings of 3 black "teens" 4 decades back, and then some of the story in the movie Death Wish* from one decade prior to that - a half century even - we can find a few things to compare, when it comes to America racial "progress" and Anarcho-Tyranny. We'll go in reverse order here, from recent to the far past here.
Mr. Hail had it right in his comments prior to our Daniel Penny post. If it were the summer of '20, and I say, right up through this election, Mr. Penny would have gotten railroaded like Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Most especially that summer, the Black! thugs and their racist Sharptonesque instigators would have been out for bloody revenge for that
I won't repeat that post, so, in summary, Trump doesn't have your back, but the fact that their is pushback against the long-ctlr-left-infiltrated justice system means you just may not be railroaded. True, much of the system is State and local, but then as the Brunswick 3 learned, the Feds and the Lyin' Press can get involved and make your local non-pross** into a big deal that sends even the guy taking video to prison for decades. That no Double Jeopardy business is for pikers! (The oughta-be-unConstitutional*** prosecutor-shopping may remind you of similar action wrt Bernie Goetz 40 years back.) We need many years to reduce the damage done intentionally by George Soros. We've already gotten a start though. Is Elon Musk MAGA's own George Soros? There's another post...
Let's go back 4 decades from today. America, and that includes New York City too, believe it or not, was MUCH Whiter than it is now, by an even 20 whole percentage points (81% vs today's 61% for America as a whole****). The cops, the courts, the whole system were much Whiter, so being railroaded as a White man was not quite as much a worry. However, the Lyin' Press had been pushing the Black! narrative for 2 decades already - we'll get to that re: Charles Bronson.
Born in 1947 to a Jewish Mom and German Dad, Bernard Goetz, grew up in upstate New York on the family's dairy farm. He spend time in a Swiss boarding school, and ended up graduating in EE and nuclear engineering (NY University - '69). After a divorce, he'd ended up living and working in his own electronics business in Greenwich Village, NY (south end of Manhattan Island). His life in NYC, if we go back to '65, when he would have started college, was not long after the City was a White inhabited pleasant center of the business world, maybe by less than a decade. 10 years or so can bring a LOT of change though...
On or about, [No, "ON"! #REALPeakStupidity Legal Dept.] December 22nd of 1984, Mr. Goetz shot at 4 menacing black "youths" that were vaguely threatening him with a NY City subway car on the downtown-bound Number 2 line. (Does not refer to bums, filth, and the maggots). From this reasonably unbiased site*****, one may read some short descriptions of the event and the background:
Throughout several stops, the number of passengers fluctuated, but when the train left the 14th street station, about 15 or 20 passengers were in the car.Without an understanding of changes in technology since 1984, this may sound confusing and poorly written. We MUST remember, or imagine, for you under-25 y/o readers, that there weren't cameras all around. Passengers certainly had no cameras to take video, and even tourists, if they hadn't already bailed out of the car, would have had only so much film to take a shot with. As for security cameras within the subway cars, I guess they were not installed yet either. All that was expensive technology at the time.
Suddenly, five of the men grouped together. There was a quick scuffle, and then in front of the train car, one man opened fire on four of the others.
The man was Bernhard Goetz, a man who made headlines when he defended himself against his would-be muggers in a subway car in New York City. His actions would spur a series of debates over race and crime, the limits of self-defense, and to what extent civilians could rely on the police for protection.
Mr. Goetz hit 3 youths with his S&W .38 revolver (good choice!******) and missed the 4th, who he got to later. From the same article:
According to Goetz, on the afternoon of December 22, he entered a full subway car as it was pulling out of the 14th subway station. He entered through the rear of the car and took a seat on one of the benches.Without video taken from several angles and analyzed by 100 million people before the subjects even got home (Bernie didn't go home for a week, though), that old world of ours was quite different:
At that point, he says, four black men accosted him. The men in question were Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrel Cabey and James Ramseur, all teenagers from the Bronx, who had been on the train when he entered.
The version of events differs between retellings and varies depending on who’s doing the retellings. Canty and Ramseur claimed they were panhandling and asked Goetz if he had five dollars, while Goetz claimed they cornered him and demanded money. Allen pled the Fifth Amendment when questioned about the circumstances.What do they mean by 2 versions of events? There's no contradiction there. When 4 black guys are in your face, just "panhandling", you've got a threat. Let me jump around, going back nearly 4 years, to find out, why Mr. Goetz was so prone to this immediate action of "removing the threat".
In 1981, Goetz was attacked in the Canal Street subway station by three young men who he claimed were trying to rob him. They threw him through a plate glass door and onto the ground, permanently injuring his chest and knee. Despite his injuries, he was able to assist a police officer in arresting one of the men.I note that wiki, along with simply not wanting to provide a simple separate bio. page of Bernard Goetz, did not mention the permanent part of his injuries. Let's see, his chest and knee, was it? Who knows if he had chronic pain or maybe some kind of life-long health problem? That's what "permanent injury" means. So, excuse Mr. Goetz if he didn't feel like being nice to these "youths" and was quick to the draw. He was not all broken up about those black men's rights.
Unfortunately, the man was only charged with criminal mischief. Goetz was angered beyond belief, resentful of the fact that the others had gotten away, and the one who hadn’t barely received a slap on the wrist.
Bernie had had enough of the black dysfunction. Wiki makes sure to bring up something he'd said at a neighborhood meeting, their being no history of texts, tweets, and tic-toks to dig into, something he admitted he'd said. One Myra Friedman recalled the Mr. Goetz having noted that "The only way we're going to clean up this street is to get rid of the spics and niggers" at a community meeting eighteen months before the shooting.". That was prevented from being used by the prosecution in court... '86, '87... it was a different time, you understand. Seriously, the White man could still get a fair trial, with the proper rule of law, not men. As I alluded to earlier, there was something like the prosecution shopping foisted on the Brunswick 3 in '20. There was initially no indictment brought on anything but the gun charge, but then the city of New York went indictment or Grand Jury shopping. Railroading the White man was not so easy back in the 80% White America of the mid-1980s.
Now, as opposed to Daniel Penny's having intended to restrain, not kill, whoever the Michael Jackson impersonating fool was last year (and, from what I've read, he likely DIDN'T kill him, as with George Floyd), Bernie Goetz blasted away like Dirty Harry, or someone we'll get to shortly. I won't go making myself an expert and claiming it was honest clean self-defense. However, here's his testimony of the situation. From a skinny bespectacled White guy who was threatened by 4 "teens":
I've been in situations where I've shown the gun. ... The threat, when I was surrounded, and at that point, showing the gun would have been enough, but when I saw this one fellow [Canty], when I saw the gleam in his eye ... and the smile on his face ... and they say it's a joke and lot of them say it's a joke." Asked what his intentions were when he drew his revolver, Goetz replied, "My intention was to murder them, to hurt them, to make them suffer as much as possible.". Goetz also said that, after firing four shots, he moved to Cabey and said, "You seem to be doing all right, here's another," before shooting him again.Dude, "you were fearing for your life." After that... what'd the lawyer tell you? Mr. Goetz was too truthful a man for that.
Because it was the mid-1980s, not some time in the 21st Century, Mr. Goetz was found innocent of the everything but "criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree for carrying a loaded, unlicensed weapon in a public place". I ask the reader, where in the 2020's do you find "a Manhattan jury of ten Whites and two Blacks, six of whom had been victims of street crime"? You may find the latter, but not the former.
Here's one part that, sorry, make me crack a smile, though probably I shouldn't - this computer has cameras!:
Later in the tape, Goetz said, "If I had more bullets, I would have shot them all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets."Heh! ... but "Rounds" or "cartridges", man! OK, I can forgive him for not being a gun nut. His .38 held 5 rounds, BTW. "In all the excitement, I can't remember whether I fired 5 or 6 shots." "It cain't be 6, cracka', you only got a 5-gun!" Ka-boom! "Oh, I guess it was 4 then." Wait, wrong movie, so ...
Let's go back one more decade. In 1974, Charles Bronson starred in Death Wish. He'd been in a number of movies already, but this one was gave him his rise to stardom. This movie (see footnote*) was a perfect fit to the times. It'd been 2 decades since nice White New York City. Things had gone to hell by the mid-1970s. Movie goers were ready to enjoy a story of a vigilante, created by a home invasion with the murder of his wife and kid, and the lack of ensuing adequate justice. Mr. Bronson played a man who, before the murders, was a typical race-delusional lefty - something that was made it difficult for me to suspend my disbelief, due to his being Charles Bronson******* for one thing, but then that's kind of a recursive thing.
The killers of Charles Bronson's movie wife were 3 young White guys. OK, though it was '74, yeah, '74, a different time, you should understand that the mid-'70s it were right at one decade since the start of the Civil Rites destruction, the arguments, the protests, and the sets of laws that overrode the US Constitution. The media had been peddling this race-delustional garbage for a while already. It's just possible that White guys could have killed Bronson's movie family, but in mid-1970s NYC, that wasn't the way to bet. The movie got better...
As I think of the scenes of Mr. Bronson riding the NY subways later in the movie, revolver under his newspaper, seeking justice and revenge with no cameras around, I can't see how Bernie Goetz was not influenced to some degree by Death Wish. Americans at the time of the trial had to have thought of Charles Bronson and applauded Mr. Goetz as the real live hero version of Paul Kersey (see PostScript). I know I did.
From White New York City to (10 years later) Civil Rites to (10 years later) Death Wish to (10 years later) the Bernie Goetz self-defense story, to (40 years later) the Daniel Penny incident, changes in America's race problem and the Anarcho-Tyranny that's been used against the White man can be observed. All you have to do is ride the New York Subway. We've come a long way from Take the A Train to, only 20 years later on this, being Shattered and splattered... all over Manhattan. Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Don't mind the maggots!" .. or worse, much worse.... I just looked at the story of the woman being burned to death by an illegal alien on the NYC subway, as Mr. Hail mentioned. Too sick to even show a video... I'll post something on that.
Ha! "People dressed in plastic bags..." I never knew what Mick was saying there till just now.
PS: Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish is Paul Kersey. This name has been used by a guy, whose real name I don't know, who's written the Stuff Black People Don't Like column for a decade or so. For quite a few years, The Unz Review hosted it. I understand, this "Mr. Kersey" took a long break, with no posts, and no approval of comments even. Within the last week, site owner Ron Unz took off Mr. Kersey's blog completely. Not only that, he doesn't even have him in the archives, which is very unusual. (Mr. Unz welcomes all kinds of opinions and likes to keep them accessible.) I don't know what happened between the 2 men.
I'll mention too that this pseudonymous Paul Kersey had had a girl friend (don't know about girlfriend, one word or not) shot dead by some black guy in Atlanta, Georgia some years back, hence the Death Wish character name.
* That was the original movie. I'd seen the next 2 in the series over the years, and then I found out there had been a Death Wish 4 also. Well after my TV-watching days, about 15 years back, I watched them all in some clubhouse with cable TV - the commercial breaks were hellacious, however. I like this quick story from the IMDB page:
After finishing The Stone Killer (1973), Charles Bronson and [movie director] Michael Winner wanted to make another film together, and were discussing further projects. "What do we do next?" asked Bronson. "The best script I've got is 'Death Wish'. It's about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and he goes out and shoots muggers," said Winner. "I'd like to do that," Bronson said. "The film?" asked Winner. Bronson replied, "No . . . shoot muggers."
** Having been to traffic court numerous time, I remember that term. I was on the way to becoming a Legal Eagle, by going into court with an open mind and usually a few points to spare. (See also this update.)
*** I guess our Founders couldn't imagine any Regime would behave this way, even that of the British King.
**** Not counting the 35-45 million illegal aliens, who are probably less than 2% White.
***** For much more detailed information from the Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law, read this and that.
****** A New York Jewish man would not likely be a gun aficionado, and you have to know quite a bit to pick a good reliable semi-auto. Glocks weren't even around. Goetz bought his gun down in Florida. Is that why Jews retire to Florida, for the range time? (Also, Goetz's family lived down in Orlando for a while, with Bernie with them for a while after college, so maybe he did pick up some "gun culture".)
******* I remember his being in at least one, maybe more, of the classic WWII movies. OK, I looked it up here on IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase, still holding its own as a useful website). Besides The Dirty Dozen that I recalled, he was in The Great Escape - he did Westerns too.
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The Huge Silicone Footprint(s) of Greta Thunberg
Posted On: Saturday - December 21st 2024 7:31PM MST
In Topics: Humor Global Climate Stupidity Female Stupidity
In the comments under our recent post You will control NOTHING and be happy, Adam Smith discussed d a few editorials by people in the energy "sector" who deign to control our lives, in the name of the Climate Calamity™. They've got a new term, as their old stuff was getting tiresome:
𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡.I think Mr. Smith is being sarcastic in his opinion of us readers...
Because only a fool who lives in the woods or a commenter at PeakStupidity wouldn't want to accelerate the march toward decarbonization.
Decarbonization is something a species of carbon-based life forms should be especially wary of. I remember reading the sciencey type sci-fi books I used to like - what if the day on this other planet was a year long, what if there were 3 big moons, what if we were silicon-based instead of carbon-based creatures, etc.?
Mr. Smith kindly provided Peak Stupidity with the image below. I'd always thought AI was kind of gay, but not after this! Or IS this AI at all? If not, I will say that formerly-little Greta leaves a huge silicone footprint or two... not that there's anything wrong with that. No, not at all.
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E.H. Hail on the anti-Social Wokeness-Induced Mind Virus of Murderer Samantha Rupnow
Posted On: Saturday - December 21st 2024 11:14AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Educational Stupidity Female Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Anti-Social Media
Wisconsin Christian school mass murderer Samantha Rupnow's cause, per a short lame manifesto*, was anti-men, anti-male, period. How'd she become a violent radical feminist by 15 years old? She had only known about the Birds & Bess for what, 2 or 3 years?
I read this comment by E.H. Hail under a Steve Sailer post and figured we ought to post it. Mr. Hail's thing, among others is to relate the personalities and attitudes of interesting/notorious people to the times they grew up in. I wrote in comments here to Mr. Hail that:
I see that you're trying to get into the mind/mentality of this Samantha Rupnow as connected to the various portions of the crazy times she was living in. This reminds me a lot of the Strauss & Howe books ...I'll have more to say about Strauss & Howe (Generations / The Fourth Turning) later, finally. I didn't write this to disparage Mr. Hail, as his timelines are in the modern day, which all here have lived through.
Mr. Hail has more than once wondered "Who radicalized so-and-so?" His long investigation into one piece of work named Robin DiAngleo is one case, and another subject of such a question has been the SPLC's piece of
Who radicalized Samantha Rupnow? A society with anti-Social Media did, but how? Mr. Hail gets deep into it, as he is prone to do:
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The Wisconsin school shooter, Samantha Rupnow ,was age 11 when the Corona-Panic swept the field and conquered all before it in early 2020.
Assuming she was in 9th grade here in the 2024-25 school year, she’ll have been in 4th grade when the shutdowns, lockdowns, and Panic happened back in spring 2020. The following life-timeline may offer clues into why she did it, and windows into the struggles of millions of others (even if very few will ever do what she did).
– November 2009: Samantha Rupnow was born to two full-White parents. They are reported to have divorced, remarried, and divorced again. It’s possible the lingering effects of the Great Recession of ca. late 2008 to ca. 2014 affected the strength of this relationship, negatively affecting the mental health of the daughter through no fault of her own.
– mid-2010s: The girl emerged into a hazy sort of early consciousness of how the world works. She is in mid-childhood susceptibility to “narratives” (as we like to say these days) in the late-2010s, when children pick up certain views they don’t understand or cannot yet make sense of, but which do affect them. She had her seventh birthday the month Trump was elected for the first time (November 2016).
Important to her story are two things: (1.) she emerged into a heavily-online wider culture with lots of social-media toxicity, and in an era of a kind of cultural-default anti-White-Male Wokeness. She’ll have been exposed to some leading-edge elements of this sort of Wokeness in the blue-dot that is Madison, Wisconsin. That, despite her parents’ attempts to stem the tide by putting her in a Christian school. She’s perhaps already in something of a bad place when the weeks of the 2010s decade ran out, despite only being in the middle of 4th grade.
– 2019-20 school year: The shooter’s 4th-grade year — up to 40% of the school year is “lost” to shutdowns, restrictions, social disruptions to the point of isolation, depression, negativity.
Towards the end of her 4th-grade school-year and then all through the summer and all through the following school-year (her 5th-grade year), the culture was rattled now by the soon-“twinned” phenomenon of the Corona-Panic regime and an anti-White race-panic.
The early-2020s political climate (a particularly emboldened Wokeness) differed maybe in magnitude — in level of social-cultural saturation — but not so much in content from her earliest politically relevant memories from around the mid-2010s.
– 2020-21 school year: The shooter’s 5th-grade year — entire school year lost to normality.
– 2021-22 school year: The shooter’s 6th-grade year — most of school year affected by lingering effects of the Corona-Panic and perhaps the curriculum, too, places more emphasis on hero-worship of feminists, Blacks, LGBTQs, and more, reinforcing influences the girl had already gotten for much of her life and riling her up yet more.
– 2022-23 school year: The shooter’s 7th-grade year — Back to normality with regard to “Covid” rules and disruptions, mostly, but the school-curriculum and tenor of teenage discourse probably still affected a lot by the anti-White racial tone that set in after mid-2020.
– 2023-24 school year: The shooter’s 8th-grade year — The girl is reportedly depressed and suicidal throughout her 8th-grade year, and by this time had consumed much online content from “Incel” forums (Thanks to Adam Smith at Peak Stupidity for telling me what “Moid” and “Foid” mean), and a toxic sort of ideology had probably set in in which she blamed men for all the world's problems.
– 2024-25 school year: The shooter’s 9th-grade year — plans a mass-shooting and carries it out half-way through the school year, kills herself, leaves manifesto urging more males and pro-male women be shot in support of “radfem hitler” ideals.
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Those of us reading this in 2024, we all went through the “growing up” process I’ve sketched above, between childhood (as in the early-spring of the shooter’s 4th-grade year, when those pushing lockdowns and school-closures won the day) and mid-teenage (as when the girl shot several people are her school in the name of radical-feminism).
What kind of negative effects might the same disruptions and negativity of the early 2020s have had on us and our cohorts? It’s a humbling, and troubling, thought.
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PS: This girl was named Natalie Rupnow, but she went by Samantha.
* That was quick. Were she Black! or Tranny, I'd doubt we'd have gotten to read the Ebonifesto or Trannifesto, respectively, until someone had leaked it.
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Tom Homan v Commie CNN Broad
Posted On: Friday - December 20th 2024 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Media Stupidity
Peak Stupidity readers may be incredulous hearing that I truly didn't know who the CNN girl in the video below was until a minute ago, when I went back to the PJ Media page on which I saw it first. It's Kaitlan Collins, cute, but evil - tough combo to deal with. Border Tsar Tom Holman deals pretty well though...
I am amazed he held his temper in response to some of these question/statements. Of course, Miss Collins attempted multiple times to turn a program designed to save what's left of the American nation into millions of potential sob stories. "What if the baby wants to stay, and ..." This went on and on.
At the end, Mr. Homan noted that the deportation of the 700,000 or so hard-core criminal illegals (they're all criminals, having broken into the country to begin with), including the extremely violent Salvadoran MS-13 and Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members would be the 1st priority. This idiot Collins then asked 3 times whether the ICE would "be able to get all of them". What was she getting at? If they end up missing 5 or 50 of them, what, would it mean this program was a failure? At this point, had I been Mr. Homan, I would have had to call Kaitlan Collins retarded... but she's pretty cute, so maybe that's all that held him back.
I'm impressed with Tom Homan. He doesn't fall for the fake feeelllings of the Lyin' Press. He seems to have a good idea of how this deportation program would be implemented, with special "collateral" bonuses in Sanctimony Cities.
Also, Mr. Homan said that there's "no daylight" between (the views of) him and Stephen Miller. What a dynamic duo they could be! We are hopeful.
If it's not the Lyin' Press holding this guy back, I sure hope it isn't President Trump himself who does so. Trump is susceptible to being stymied by his need to be liked.
As for the stupidity of this piece of work Kaitlan Collins again, during most of the interview I kept wondering if she realized that Trump, Tom Homan, Steve Miller, and half the country are doing these things in part to keep cute women like her from spending their lives in grave danger living miserably lives in a multicultural nightmare. Would she not appreciate living in a decent high-trust society with Affordable Family Formation*, or is it that she figures she's with the elite, she'll be fine, and screw everyone else? Perhaps, she's just plain stupid and has not thought about any of this. We are nearing the peak, any
Whoa! Whoa! Take your pills first. (I don't know. Any of them.)
The unbiased media? Has anybody seen the unbiased media? Where's that confounded unbiased media?
* H/T, Steve Sailer.
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You will control NOTHING and be happy
Posted On: Thursday - December 19th 2024 8:28PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity Environmental Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
I thought at first it was just me. The furnishings in the modern edgy style hotels piss me off, as noted 3 1/2 years back in the post Stupidity in everything, including the bathroom sink. Thermostats have to be modern and different too now. They're not always easy to figure out. This one didn't have a touch-screen at least, and I had its setting going up, but it wouldn't go past 72 F for heat.
72 F is reasonable. At home, we'll have it down to the high 50s at night, and often only mid-60s in the day, in winter. The high 70s are fine with us in Summer.
This time, though, I'd been outside in 25F weather, I got chilled, and I wanted to warm up in the hotel room. I really like that smell of the dust coming from the old-fashioned units when (after figuring out the controls) I get the hot air blowing. That's even true in the summer when the hotel housekeeping people have the room set at 64 or something ridiculous. However, I couldn't go up past 72 at this place.
I looked it up later on the internet.* It's a thing now, hotels limiting their guests' ability to set the room temperature. That's not cool, inverted pun unintended. It's not as if these rooms cost that much to heat, what with most having only one outside wall. There's a big window, but I figure it's multi-paned and energy efficient.
Peak Stupidity posted Green is the new cheap-ass. 7 years back to call hotel owners out on their duplicity. Lots of measures to reduce waste and cost, most of them quite common sensical and welcome to me, are touted as being done to SAVE THE PLANET! No, we don't need 3 new towels each day. No, I don't need the room cleaned during a 3 day stay, as it'd take a month of that to get to the level of home. I am glad to see the owners making an effort to keep costs down - maybe some of that will keep the rates from going up, up, up, up! (I've been shattered.)
At least this place didn't advertise that management was keeping me from getting warm to SAVE THE PLANET! That's very likely due to their not wanting guests to ever understand that the management is limiting their choice to get warm or cool** This latest hotel policy has got entirely too much of an "eat ze bugs" vibe to it for my tastes. Hopefully, I won't be back.
* This site has some hacks. Alas, this was too late for my stay.
** I neglected to try to check the minimum temp I could set.
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Will the DOGE save our economy?
Posted On: Wednesday - December 18th 2024 8:54PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
No.
We're usually too long-winded here, but that was going to be just too short. We could suffice it to say that there WILL be financial doom, coming soon. We hope our Peak Stupidity readers our ready. We'll get into this more later, but let me mention a ZeroHedge article, not really worth reading, Some Honesty About Inflation, that discusses Janet Yellen and inflation of some supposedly scary numbers like 2 1/2 and 3 %.
Actually, numbers like that can compound to a lot of government theft, so, if not scary, they are bad. These numbers are not nearly realistic though. As is mostly the case with ZeroHedge (the article was really by an Epoch Times writer), I go to the comments to make sure someone set the writer straight on things. I was not disappointed.
It's the graph here that got me writing this post, however:
My apologies on behalf of ZeroHedge for the unreadability of the axis values. Their graphs ALWAYS suck, for some reason. Horizontally, this goes from the year '06 to '24, and projected through '25 or so. Vertically, it goes from 0 in increments of $200 Billion.
Never mind the title - it's not the
I'll be the first to point out that cutting bureaucracy saves lots more money than simply the salaries of the bureaucrats in it. President-elect Trump is and has been, I will grant him, well aware of the monetary waste due to over-regulation in this country. (I'd say that regulation by the Feral bureaucracy has been no small factor in the impetus over the last 3 decades to destroy American manufacturing and do it all in China.) So, if DOGE (the advisory-only Department Of Government Efficiency) were to cut, at the extremely high end, half a million dead-weight bureaucrats, after all the screaming and crying is done, that'd be a half trillion bucks, if you include overhead, etc. That'd be great, but would still only be less than 10% of Federal spending.
There's the military. Then, however, there are, in the parlance of Government folks, transfer payments. That means money coming from taxpayers going to other mostly non-government-employed* Americans, with only a relatively small cut taken by the bureaucrats in the middle. Those other 2 curves, the green and the beige, are Social Security and Medicare (and all its variants) respectively. Those curves show $2.4 Trillion in expenditures. If we take the interest payments, which can't be cut except by defaulting, this is 1/2 of all expenditures (using the '22 figure in here. The rest is the military and the "discretionary" expenditures, involving the bureaucrats discussed above.
You cut any of that SS and Medicare, and you cause direct financial pain. You cut any of the rest, and you still cause indirect financial pain. Even though those DOGE let-go employees are no longer impeding the economy and sucking up taxpayer money, and in the long run, it'd be a good thing, it's not 40 years ago, when this should have all been done. There's no where else in the economy for these people to go.
Finally, I'll note, as a Libertarian and Constitutionalist ought to, that neither that green (SS), nor the beige (Medicare, et al) represent Constitutionally allowed expenditure categories. They should be flat-lined, as they indeed still were a century ago. Also, seeing as how no standing army is specified in the Constitution, most of that blue one doesn't represent anything allowed either. Then too, with those being down on the horizontal axis, that red curve would be flat-lined too. We wish!
Sure, we will enjoy seeing DOGE gut the D.I.E. agencies and lots of other Feral Gov't stupidity, if it really happens. However, DOGE will not cure the debt problem. We're in a tight spot, people.
* Whether they are still employed by Government or not, the obligation to them is there.
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Fat Bottomed Girls and the internet of Pelotons
Posted On: Tuesday - December 17th 2024 9:32PM MST
In Topics: Internets Music Artificial Stupidity
(File photo only - not the subject of this post.)
I've been traveling some more lately, and stays at hotels have brought to mind a little Peak Stupidity material. Though we've written probably too much about exercise machines already, we'll add this one more here involving these machines as seen in hotel "fitness centers".
Peloton bike machines are appearing in these gyms more and more. You may recall a controversy from 5 years back about a TV ad for these things - see An exercise machine, Tal Bachman, and a Controversial Commercial. I'd almost forgotten that deal, which was to me a plus for the Peloton company. I like the recumbent bike machines better though.
As I sat on one to do some cardio exercise, a young woman sat on the Peloton bike next to me. No, she was unfortunately not the lady in the image above. There was the partially blue hair and nose ring and about 40 extra pounds on her. I give her all the credit in the world for making an effort to lose some though - from her clothes, it looked like she may have lost a dozen or more pounds already. Good on her, but she didn't stay on this machine long.
I figured it was broken, as she seemed perplexed by the display. She reset the power with the plug at the wall socket. No good. Her problem, as she told me, was that the machine couldn't connect to the internet. OMG! How can you possibly do exercise on a machine that is not on-line?!
I suppose she had all her previous workout data on the Peloton Cloud or something. Isn't it possible for one to just work out anyway? I'm sure the pedals would have moved without the www. For me, give me a resistance reading*, my alleged speed and/or rpm, (for a treadmill machine, speed and incline), a timer, and a heart rate readout, and I'm good. I don't need the views of rural France - I think that's where it is - and I DON'T WANT TV.
"The internet of things" is what we are to enjoy now. What would happen these days were there to be a Stonage**, with the internet going down completely for a spell? I think it'd result in all of us losing a lot of weight... but not intentionally on Peloton machines.
Forget about the internet for a while, fat-bottomed girls. Get on your bikes and ride!
As Peak Stupidity has ranted about regarding other rock songs, you absolutely can't play Queen's Bicycle Race without it being followed immediately by Fat Bottomed Girls. There ought to be a law!
Freddie Mercury was something else, but this music would still have been nothing without the great guitar playing by Brian May. He put away his aspirations to be an astronomer for years in order to stick with the band. Good move, it turned out!
Oh, and the young lady in the hotel gym got on the treadmill machine after the Peloton let her down. It'll be OK.
* Of course, it can vary between machines, but I've found that generally going for the goal of 4 minute miles for 20 minutes or so make for a pretty consistent good workout on many of them.
** ... as written of in Lionel Shriver's great prepper novel The Mandibles.
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Trump and the Kung Flu - a look back 4 1/2 years
Posted On: Saturday - December 14th 2024 1:43PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
Peak Stupidity started posting again on this past Election Day, if only for a while. Being unburdened, so to speak, by the ctrl-left at the top level of Government for another 4 years is a blessing, if, perhaps, also only for a while. Based on President-elect Trump's actions regarding manpower picks and some of his promises (for what they're worth), we've gotten excited. Can the stupidity and evil in this country really be reversed?
Demographics say "not really". We'll discuss that elsewhere, and then we'll also get to the one problem that even a Fed-Gov full of Ron Pauls could not solve without major turmoil happening first.. (But at least they could "set our minds right.") We've been writing about Trump in most of the posts. Fortunately we have a man who wants to defeat the ctrl-left and the Deep State. Unfortunately, that guy is Donald Trump. Though he's still the same egotistical blowhard, he's a much more directed egotistical blowhard. I do think he's learned a whole lot since Trump-45.
Let's take a look at one aspect of that previous Trump Presidency, one that came near the end, his handling of the Kung Flu PanicFest. This post stems from some discussion under China Corona - looking back 5 years between Mr. Hail and I.
No, Trump didn't look happy. One can't really have a smile when "C'mon, this is SERIOUS!!". The Lyin' Press was all over Trump for anything during the whole 4 years, so, yeah, optics. OTOH, if Trump was not happy with this guy, well, read on... (Also, see the PostScript below.)
The post linked to above is a quick wrap-up of what most likely happened with the virus itself. Peak Stupidity has been MUCH MORE concerned over the whole "episode", and since, about the Totalitarianism that this Kung Flu was used as an excuse for. We're very concerned about alleged Americans' reaction to that Totalitarianism. Our posts on Kung Flu Stupidity number in the hundreds, so we'll not try to summarize all that here. Donald Trump was President at the time, all the way from the first inklings of some, yet another, bad bug out of the Orient, through the deepest months of the PanicFest, and right on through the time when the vaccines were available. (That was going to calm everyone down who needed to be calmed down, right? It took another year at least for most people to CTFD.)
As a long-ago de-adopter of TV and big media, I can't say I remember the details about Trump, Fauci, that Birx broad*, the whole CDC, the WHO (non Daltrey/Townshend/Entwistle version - well, Keith Moon was long gone) and the discussion and arguments thereamong, as surely beat to death on TV. I tried my best to avoid getting bombarded by the Infotainment part of the PanicFest. I had my political awareness, though, so I remember the general story of Trump and the PanicFest - see the image above, for example.
President Trump, as Administrator of the Executive Branch, was boss of all these people**. How and why did he let these Panic instigators be the voice and face of the Feral Government's reaction to the Kung Flu? What didn't he know, and how long didn't he know it? ;-} (That's an open-ended question for a guy like Trump... can't be crashing the Go Daddy servers now...)
Peak Stupidity has discussed Trump-45's biggest general mistake, hiring swamp creatures to drain the swamp. I get it - as an executive, you can't do it all, so you delegate. You might be familiar with a couple of areas of endeavor, real estate and TV, but since you don't know government, you pick people who have the expertise ... in Government... from the Government... no, wait. As far as the particular case of Executive Branch officials to handle the Kung Flu, we really don't need or want technocrats, and "fixing" a disease is not supposed to be a function of the Federal Executive Branch or any part of that government. Moral support, such as with hurricanes, no, that's not a duty, but the people appreciate it.
It is what it is now, though, so the people - actually the Lyin' Press and people who were scared shitless by same - demanded HELP!! - People will die! - from the Executive Branch, hence Dr. Fauci, Birx, and the CDC.
Firstly, what if Trump had seen that this Covid-19 was just another more deadly flu-like dealy and blown off the Official Panickers while urging Americans to calm the hell down? Again, it's about optics, a subject he seems to understand very well. In the current world of Big Biz and Government, you can't go wrong by making a molehill into a mountain. Telling people a molehill is just a molehill can get you fired, toot sweet, or at least by coming November, had the Lyin' Press done its job***. It'd have been another "Bush didn't care about Katrina" moment. (As a Constitutionalist, I say the damage from Hurricane Katrina was not any of the President's business. Yep, optics, and "not the current world.). Trump knew better. He had to act seriously worried for Americans of the Kung Flu, at the least.
Trump has no background of attention to detail in any field. He's a people person instead. I can't fault him for knowing nothing about viruses and contagious disease. So, he picked people for advice on handling this scary plandemic. Again, he picked wrong. That's understandable ... for maybe a couple of weeks or a month, maybe if it'd been only through March of '20. Why didn't Trump use his common sense when so many American with also no formal education on contagious disease did? He could have fired the whole gang of Panickers by April.
I offered up an answer to this in response to commenter Hail. I was aware of the situation in mid-March, when the kids were sent home from school. By that point, if ANY kid of the hundreds had been so much as hospitalized by the Kung Flu, we'd all have heard about it. (People would have taken their kids out on their own, attendance policy be damned.) Our neighborhood has many old people, over 70, let's say, and I heard of no big rash of deaths. Then, we read about the cruise ships, they being very convenient experiments. I'll stop there.
Donald Trump, being President at the time, was in an entirely different environment. All the media blitz, 24/7 Infotainment, the duckduckgo search page (before you even search!) with its thematic Covid map on top with the shaded circles of "cases", was overwhelming for anyone who was bombarded. President Trump had no circle of friends, family, and neighbors living in the outside world, or a real workplace, to contrast with the Infotainment.
Did Trump believe this was akin to the Black Death 2.0, or did he go along despite having some common sense on the matter after all? He absolutely did NOT have to go along with the Totalitarian moves by the Feral Gov (this applies most importantly to the vax - more on this.) I doubt he really understands Constitutional Federalism from a hole in the ground, but of what the US Gov't did and said in the matter, he showed no spine in resisting the PanicFest on his Bully Pulpit. As Mr. Hail wrote,
But what would an alternate-history look like, in which Trump had relentlessly pursued a Sweden-like or a Florida-like line all along? In the non-hypothetical real world, that's impossible, because Trump wasn't "interested in the numbers," in the way DeSantis reportedly was, studying the matter along with the other nucleus of the emerging Anti-Panic coalition and coming to the correct conclusions, evidence-based, by some point in May 2020 at least, which is what stands behind his drive to open Florida (and which is why "they" began demonizing him, including that well-connected clown with his DeathSantis costume parading around for media cameras).(Mr. Hail wrote lots about Sweden during the PanicFest on his site at the time.)
By the summer of '20, we had even more information, and Trump had too. While Americans had had it with the Totalitarianism,Trump failed there. He doesn't actually have principles, I have to say again. By this time, he should have fired the whole lot of the Panickers. If not based on their stupidity, he should have fired them based on their Totalitarian "solutions" to the Kung Flu.
No, but Trump wanted to be a, nay, THE hero of the Covid instead, so he started pushing the vax. The vax would sound more important if there WERE actually a Black Death 2.0, so he didn't work to minimize the panic. The following is not a quote of President Trump, but it may as well have been: "I pushed a life-saving vaccination through a development and, errr testing(?) program faster than anyone since the founding of this country! You've never seen such vaccinating!" Why'd Trump push the vax, even when increasingly through the year '21****, Americans resisted? The following is a paste, with a couple of small corrections, of part of my pertinent comment under that previous post:
1) As with many of his generation, the Gov't was your friend, a whole lot more than now, when he was young. (I have someone in my family, smart enough to learn, who just always had this attitude.. right through the Kung Flu jab.)*****
2) He
3) Well, again, he didn't do much thinking about what was really going on with the PanicFest, and he's a braggart, so he touted the vax as his doing.
President Trump-47 is older and wiser, and more pissed at our enemies than President Trump-45. He has picked much better people to delegate power to this time. What would Trump-47 do in another ginned-up PanicFest? It'll be slightly different this time, so WHO knows? Won't get fooled again? We'll see.
Finally, as I read some good ZeroHedge comments the other day, I came across a point that I've read on Instapundit and elsewhere lots. That'd be the opinion that "This [the Kung Flu, in this case] has resulted in lots of people losing all their remaining trust in Government." Here we go: They say that like it's a bad thing. That Governments do these things, as during the Kung Flu PanicFest, is very bad (and shouldn't be put up with), but that people may finally realize that Government is not your friend, well that's a very good thing. As that meme with the two guys in space goes, "The Government wasn't my friend?" "Never has been."
PS: Now that was weird (yesterday, when I set up this image). I named the one I downloaded from a bing "Trump and Fauci images" search (there were plenty!) "Trump and Fauci.jpg" to start out, and then I got a naming conflict while trying to put it in my directory******. It turns out I'd saved the one above back in May of '20. I really wish I could remember exactly what I had planned to write about 4 1/2 years ago with that image at the top.
* I found this gem - Dr Deborah Birx: White House virus expert quits over holiday travel from the end of '20. This was "scarf lady", as I only learned a few years later. We surely didn't need another panicky lying hypocritical broad involved back then, but Peak Stupidity gives credit to women who know how to accessorize.
** No, not The WHO, but he had no obligation to listen to, promulgate the opinions of, or host that organization.
*** I mean here, as required by the ctrl-left and Deep State, not its job as we (used to) think of it. They might have been able to paint Trump as a heartless monster, killing millions through his negligence and not even needed to cheat ... that hard.
**** ... culminating, as we all remember in the Winter in '22, with the Canadian Trucker protest
***** In our post Don't jab me - I'm only the Piano Teacher of April '21 linked-to, our family member mentioned in the post got high blood pressure and heart problems later that year and died. In April '21, I was against any Totalitarian Healthcare, and wasn't going to take the jab, but was pretty nonchalant about it otherwise. Commenters under that post set me straight.
****** Sorry, "folder", for those of you raised by Windows.
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Donald Trump and the Daniel Penny verdict: Hope for the White Man?
Posted On: Thursday - December 12th 2024 9:54AM MST
In Topics: Trump Race/Genetics ctrl-left Deep State Anarcho-tyranny Legal Stupidity Anti-Social Media
First of all, we're glad to read that Mr. Penny, a real hero, has not been railroaded by the Tyranny side of the Sam Francis-coined term that applies very well to modern America under the Potomac Regime. The "Anarcho" side, in case you'd just asked, would be the ability of non-White wild men to take over street intersections with their alleged hot rods with nobody daring to complain or even thinking they'll be punished. More so would be the opening of the US borders to allow 3 million people annually, including a significant share of violent criminals and the insane, to move in, with complaints about it being racist and hateful.
I don't use the word "hero" lightly. In this case, it's not that Mr. Penny did a nice job relieving the worries about impending violence from a crazy man on the NY subway. He's a Marine, and this hold is something many of us could have done. No, it's that Mr. Penny, not being stupid, would have been well aware that a White Man better not do anything that could be interpreted as "racist", or the system will eat his ass for lunch. Yet, he took care of this business anyway, regardless of the repercussions he had to have envisioned beforehand.
I sympathize with writers here and there who berate White Men for not standing up for themselves. "No wonder they don't get respect from the women, because they cower and take all this anti-White abuse. Meanwhile, the Black! men are the tough guys." It's not that easy though. First of all, when you have nothing to lose... Then too, we're far away from the world of Bernie Goetz* - Hey man, nice
The whole system is against you. Those who write that above without qualifications may have never gotten their mind the that exact state in the moment - it would not have to be a scene such as Daniel Penny was involved in - maybe it was some minor road rage incident where you really ought to be able to say something without having your life ruined. Most of us have that inner voice - I mean, I don't actually HEAR it, per se, not being schitzoid or anything - that tells us to leave it. Those that don't... well, we have to be lucky that there aren't phone cameras in use and some subsequent viral internet activity. (Stay off the Anti-Social Media!)
I have to add that, with his trial being in New York City, with prosecutor Dafna Yoran (one could speculate based on name alone) being part and parcel to the Anarcho-Tyranny herself, Mr. Penny had some luck with the jury. It was difficult for me to find out more than there were 7 women and 5 men, one juror empaneled was Jewish** and one (not sure if empaneled though) was Filipino.*** From the funny courtroom sketch above I see there are some White people, even men. (Who is that masked man?) That's some luck.
I don't care how you put it, if the jury were all non-White, Mr. Penny would have had a much smaller chance of being fairly acquitted. People get tribal, except White people, that is. That's a bad thing when your country becomes highly multicultural. If yours hasn't yet (where might that be, at this point?), it's a GREAT thing. If anything, White people will bend over backwards to be fair to everyone not in their tribe.
Mr. Hail wrote in the comments under a previous post that it's likely this Daniel Penny trial would have gone the other way, were this 4 years ago. Yes, while that massive bout of violent and often masochistic stupidity, somehow based on the death of another worthless violent Black! reprobate, was going on, I agree he wouldn't have stood a chance. I think of the Brunswick 3, put in jail for life for legal actions, one guy having only videoed the events. (The mob went through prosecutors until they found one who would call it a crime, and, yes, they then got railroaded. Anarcho-Tyranny, it is.)
Perhaps, Mr. Penny would have gotten railroaded anytime from then through the last 4 years, until the election of Trump. There's not a solid connection between the President-elect and this criminal trial, of course. What could Trump do had Mr. Penny been thrown into prison by NY State for 30 years, possibly to be stabbed and/or sodomized? It's just that, one very good thing I see having come out of Trump is that, even if it's only in words, he doesn't put up with the anti-White wokeness, and he doesn't go along with the Anarcho-Tyranny.
Words out of the Bully Pulpit can be encouraging. More importantly, what Trump can do, and had been during his last term, is to keep replacing the judges at all levels. They hate Trump so much, "they" being the Deep State due to the fact that he is not with them. George Soros, Deep State playa' extraordinaire has for a long while, been using his money wisely (evil + wise = bad combination) to install anti-societal District Attorneys that encourage anti-White violence, in addition to Secretaries of State that arrange for anti-White election fraud. Trump has been pushing back. He will push back even more. That's one important part of draining the swamp.
I don't expect the world out of President Trump, 47, far from it. On this problem, though, he can do a lot of good. That the system would not be almost guaranteed to railroad the next Daniel Penny would be very welcome.
The NY Post noted that Mr. Penny still had to kowtow, being a White Man and all:
Penny insisted in an interview with The Post after his arrest that the chokehold killing “had nothing to do with race.”He shouldn't have had to do this. Race had nothing to do with the case, but it sure has a lot to do with the Narrative.“I judge a person based on their character,” he said in the May 2023 interview.
“I’m not a white supremacist.”
“Everybody who’s ever met me can tell you, I love all people, I love all cultures,” he added.
“You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened.”
Daniel Perry may have been told to make sure and say this stuff by his lawyers, but I'm sure he's not lying about most of it. "I love all cultures", though. Please. I wonder if that road trip is still on.
* Amazingly, I was able to find a non-biased blurb about Mr. Goetz's self-defense actions of 40 years ago on the 1st page of the duckduckgo search results. It's my lucky day. (I would say a post on this is in order, 10 days from today.)
** No, they don't state that, but "his father served in the Israeli military".
*** It doesn't say THAT either. It's just that "he emigrated from the Philippines.', is all. It's not TOO much of a stretch and exercise of heavy brainpower for me to figure, "yeah, he's Filipino".
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Press the Meat: 'Tard v 'Tard
Posted On: Tuesday - December 10th 2024 12:14AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Trump Media Stupidity
That's now a total of 4 and a half hours of my life I'll never get back, wasted watching Donald Trump as interviewed in a 3 hour Joe Rogan bull(shit) session and yesterday as interviewed by one Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Yes, it's still on, having come a long way (down) in it's long history. In 1959, one May Craig of Maine interviewed Fidel Castro on that show, and 8 years earlier, in his last of his 5 appearances there, Senator Joe McCarthy, worried about an assassination, held a pistol on his lap during the interview. As Peak Stupidity pined here, "How much better would our political history have been if McCarthy had been on 8 years later, on the same episode with Fidel Castro!"
I only mentioned the Joe Rogan interview in comments here. I don't recommend the reader watch it, unless he can think of absolutely nothing constructive to do for 3 solid hours. Yes, in it Trump did prove that he's a decent guy and that he is not senile or a weird-ass batty creep, like his election opponent and her/his partner. He did mention this country's problems... Now, what got me to watch the hour and quarter Kristen Welker interview were a couple of clips on ZeroHedge. I should have left it there.
Why 'Tard v 'Tard? I don't think we're ALL the way to Idiocracy, but we have come a long way,
I am already used to Trump's "weave" (as per he and Joe Rogan), going off the subject, usually to say that he knows this and that person. Here in this interview, he also bobbed and weaved around like a typical politician. On only a few points did he actually settle on "This is what we're gonna do, period."
Trump was exasperating, and Welker was hostile, as Trump noted right to her face at one point. (I liked that part!) Her questions were that of a prosecutor trying to pin down a perp, her tone was scolding, and even her face was hostile. Kristen Weller came off as Nikki Hailey in the middle of one of her female, you know, things...
The most existential issue for America, the immigration invasion, was discussed, or I should say, Trump was grilled and scolded regarding his position thereon. As I'd suspected, Trump doesn't really have, or doesn't act like he has, any problem with large-scale immigration, so long as it's legal. He does at least, see the very important "Birthright Citizenship" (or "Bug-out Bab", as Peak Stupidity dubs it), "process" as the scam that it is. That's good. What was bad here was the way it was discussed.
I don't expect Trump to have all the details in his head as lawyerly Ann Coulter does. He doesn't have details about much at all in his head, as he is so much more a people person. Still, I'm sure he's gotten a clue on this issue from people who do know details, such as Steven Miller.
Besides the general stupidity, what I really didn't like about Trump's
One can take the black pill or the white pill to interpret all this:
The black pill would have one wondering about Trump's statement (I've heard this before too) that, to paraphrase "Two of the best issues for my campaign have been immigration and groceries so that's what I'm working on".
Let me digress on the "groceries" thing. He's going to bring prices down, he says. I am tired of this stupidity of not being able to distinguish between the value and the rate of change. Nobody's bringing down average prices. (The FED hasn't started burning Treasury bonds or something.) The best people could hope for is a decrease in the RATE of price increases. Trump is pretty clueless on the cause of inflation to begin with, so I don't expect much, and I wouldn't even if he did have a clue.
Back to THE issue, is it that Trump is only all over it because that's what satisfies the MAGA crowd? Is he backtracking already on his promises? Does Trump want to be liked - not by the Lying Press (out of the question!), but by the masses that watch this stuff - more than he cares about America?
The white pill would have me figuring that, no, Trump obviously cares about stopping the immigration invasion. His being mealy-mouthed in the interview, as per a friend, is likely a tactic to keep him from getting in more distracting legal trouble. Perhaps he even had lawyers telling him to stay mealy-mouthed. The "interview" was, after all, more like a deposition.
Here's a little big more criticism. I am very pleased to see that Trump will have an effect on the D.I.E. stupidity. Why then, was he politically correct, feminism-wise twice? He kept talking about the "people" rather than "men" killed in the Ukraine - Russia war**. It's always the men that do the dying. Then, when talking about his Secret Service agents, he felt he had to add on "Secret Service women" too.
A couple of points from near the end. Trump did not back down on his contention that the '20 election was stolen. In '24, it was "Too big to steal", he told Miss Weller. I agree. It's all about him though, always. As he was asked about the huge political divide in this country, and put it on Bai Dien***, he brought up the lawfare. He's not wrong. However, I expected something plural at the end of his sentence, I really did, but, nope, he only complained against the lawfare against himself. I didn't expect him to bring up VDare, as great as that would have been - a bridge too far, I guess. What about the imprisonment of Peter Navarro or Steve Bannon, though? Are they not additional good examples of this Banana Republicanism? It's all about Trump though.
I'd have liked to see Trump tell Kristen Weller, in answer to her questions, that this is what we are going to do, whether you all like it or not. I'm hoping the mealy-mouthedness was in the cause of avoiding distracting questions in the future and in not giving the game away. Trump does care about America. However, he cares even more about Trump. These 2 are in pretty good alignment this time around, so, yes, I'm still hopeful...
This interview, though? Yeah, it's a waste of time. We'll see about all this come late January.
* One of these has this great classical music theme song that I get in my head every time I think of these talking heads. "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was!"
** Trump was a squish on this issue too. He talked about the money going to the Ukraine but not about getting out. I hope this too was just a feign as he makes his deals.
*** Of course the divisiveness goes back at least to Øb☭ma.
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Traffic stupidity, episode 3146
Posted On: Saturday - December 7th 2024 5:47PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Movies Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Peak Stupidity has been big into the Curmudgeonry stuff from
The image above hopefully will get readers' attention, but I can't always find one that fits exactly. It's not the 1st time we've written about full grown adults who don't seem to understand things I was taught by Kindergarten. - see Stuff a 10 year-old used to know - lost to history or lost to stupidity? and Two Peak Stupidity local anecdotes. Basically, Don't walk in the middle of the road!
Oh, they apparently know better, these joggers. I'm guessing that the sidewalks that exist along over half the roads here have too many offset plates that might result in sprained ankles or worse. Fine. As a kid I was taught to walk or run on the left, so as to face the cars that will be nearest to me. The lady was in the middle. Drivers going against her could at least move way over, and she could see them. She couldn't see me behind her, AND, worse yet, she was wearing headphones! All it would take is one driver buying something on Ebay at a bad time, and SPLAT. What was it, she was too trusting in the competence of others, she thinks she's hot enough to be noticed anywhere, or she's just plain stupid? I pointed this out to my boy: "You don't do that. It's just plain stupid."
On the way back of the very same short trip, as I recall, I was behind a monster SUV at the 4-way stop. I'm a bit impatient and roll through some that have good views. (If a cop stops me, I'll bring up the fuel savings and ask him if he'd rather me kill the planet rather than bend the law a bit. However, it seems you just don't get pulled over anymore... at least I don't.) I was going to roll on through behind this SUV. He waited extra long, making me stop fully. Want to be extra careful? I GET THAT. At this point, though, the SUV was taking up most of the intersection. What's the point here? If someone WAS coming, the best idea would be to floor it! Stopping in the middle of the intersection to see if someone's coming is also plain stupid.
You know, I really like that scene in Patton in which the General is standing on a gasoline drum directing tank traffic somewhere in France. I have no idea if the scene was just artistic license or based on anything real. Either way, that's the idea. An intersection is a bottleneck. Move it!
Here we go:
It's a shock for me to realize that Patton was made only 26 years after the actual 3rd Army march to Berlin shown.
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China Corona - looking back 5 years
Posted On: Thursday - December 5th 2024 10:24AM MST
In Topics: Music Kung Flu Stupidity
That now-notorious
Yes, we did get more views and much more conversation at that time. No, we don't make any money. I wasn't happy that things went down as they did, but I did enjoy the camaraderie with people from The Unz Review and elsewhere who all understood the lies and violations of freedom that were going on. 4 years and 8-9 months later, we've been vindicated. Regarding the jab especially, but the whole PanicFest too, we all passed the test. General results were pretty sorry.
Anyway, I got back into thinking about this starting with a woman at the gas station with a face mask on.* She was a black lady with the thick black type, so there would likely be the usual, long-noted Communication Breakdown (driving me insannnnneeee...) More here. There was not much the young lady had to say, but I just had to ask (nicely): "Are you going to wear that your whole life?" I guess she was taken aback, so I just added "... or only at work?" The answer was "yeah", best I could tell.
Fine, but rather than get into the subject of the PanicFest, one Peak Stupidity has beaten like a dead Horseman, I'd like to remember a bit about the virus itself.
Per the title here, does anyone remember when it was called "The Corona"?** This virus was corona shaped, but then so is the common cold virus, I'm told. Of course, there are differences, but, anyway, that name faded out so we could hear about the more medical sounding "covid one-niner" for the next 3 years.
Your blogger here never claimed to know any more than the average Joe Blough about viruses and infectious disease. Therefore, back in Spring/Summer '20, I took to heart the idea that "The Corona" was just yet another more-deadly-than-average virus out of the Orient. Others had come, back in '09, a few in the decades earlier, and all faded out in deadliness and in the media due time due to mutation and lack of an agenda, respectively.
Yeah, they eat some weird animals over there*** in the Orient, and some viruses mutate from being able to affect only certain of those weird animals to being able to affect humans. The speculation then was on the bats. Those bats came from caves a thousand miles away in Yunnan. You can't just find them at the average grocery. You experiment with bats in the lab in China, and, well, why wouldn't you expect some researcher, technician, or janitor along the way to take a few delicacies home? The pay is not stellar, compared to say, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (We'll get to that.) I would consider it a perk of the job... that is, if I were Chinese and liked bats.
Speculation that this virus was man-made was not unheard of even then. However, any speculation that somehow the Chinese were at fault, accidentally, or not, was what had our Woke officials in a tizzy. If the Corona were that dangerous, shouldn't we have tried our best to shut down its pathways into the US, from China? That obviously would have meant shutting down airline travel from China, and, hell, while we were at it, the land borders ought to have been closed too - what a concept!**** Nope, it was not cool to say "China Virus", as President Trump did - Kung Flu and Flu Manchu were probably out of the question too - and we were told to be tolerant of VPP++'s (Virus Prone People) to the point in which there was a big outdoor rally in New York City on (Chinese) Lunar New Year's - see Be Strong, Wuhan!.***** That was February 9th already (!), 2 weeks after the start of the appropriately named (after Anthony Fauci?) Year of the Rat.
I digressed back to the PanicFest, so let me just end that by saying that nobody "in charge" was THAT awfully scared of The Corona, if they cared more about Wokeness and the Immigration Replacement Programme. For me, anyway, it was not until May of '21 that I read and then wrote anything about the possibility of the Kung Flu having been made by the hands of man. I covered my thoughts about Ron Unz's "America did it!!" theory and the Kung Flu having been purposefully created in the lab in detail - Nicholas Wade on that Wuhan lab and origins of the Kung Flu. Before that, the PanicFest was the stupidity I'd been writing about. Being very busy
The ostensible purpose of the work done in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and outsourced to Wuhan (and plenty of other places) was "we've got to make these viruses deadlier, to where they can harm and kill humans, so that if we ever run into one like that, we'll have figured out how to make a vaccine for it by then, and like, cure everybody." WTFF? Nah, but as I wrote, the only difference between a Gain of Function viral research lab (has the lab gone viral?) and a BioWeapons lab is the name on the building.
Why outsource to China? It's the usual reasons, cost and timetable. Quality is not known to be Job 1 in China, and employees are paid less. Fauci and crew, who funded the Chapel Hill research, would have gotten things done quicker and cheaper in Wuhan. Additionally, as noted by our commenter "M", for good reasons the law had prohibited some of this bioweapons research from being done in the US. Just do it elsewhere and pay the Chinese by shuffling around some funding.
In that Nicholas Wade article, the fact that the Wuhan lab was operated as a Level-2 (BSL - Biological Safety Level?) when it should have, dealing with these dangerous microbes, been operated at the highest, BSL-4. I can imagine the difference.
I've been in facilities that were kept clean for other reasons, but I can see what would go on for Level-4 safety. One would probably have to wear a full non-woven-material suit at all times when working, then remove all parts of it, throw them into one of those metal trash cans to be burned later (not the can), go, perhaps naked, through an airlock, into a disinfecting shower, get through another airlock, pick up one's street clothes, maybe get disinfected some more, and eventually go home. It's a pain in the ass. It's hot in the suit. How can anyone get anything done?
So, you dispense with all that, and then eventually some germies get loose onto the streets of Wuhan, about 5 years go, that'd have been. Did people really keel over in the streets? That sounds like the Chinese PanicFest, but who knows? Could it have mutated quickly from a highly deadly virus to one that's not what it was cracked up to be within a few weeks or a month, still over in China?
I don't know, but now I have a Doors song in my head:
There's germs in the streets, they're up to my ankles,Sure, why not - this music is mesmerizing - great keyboards by Rick Manzarek, and, of course, Jim Morrison comes across pretty weird and spooky, as usual. Perhaps drugs help...
germs in the streets, they're up to my knees.
Germs in the streets in the town of New Haven.
Germs in the streets out in Wuhan, Hubei.
Here's some irony for you. That it was purposeful "Gain of Function" bioweapons research work directed by batshit madmen that created caused the COVID-19 spread, rather than some natural process involving just bats, is not a good look for Anthony Fauci and his "EXPERTS!" Yet, they purposely created the PanicFest. Had they not created the PanicFest, I bet their GoF research and mistaken release in Wuhan would not have been seen as any big deal. Fauci has spoken on this matter - "My bad. Pardon me."
PS: While looking through the many, many posts on this Kung Flu Stupidity, I came across what I think was my first one about the jab. I was not as worried about the "vaccine", were I to take it (NOT EVER) yet, as I was effect on fertility and, more generally "much more of the increasing Orwellian Healthcare State", as I put it. The post is Don't jab me - I'm only the Piano Teacher, from late April of '21.
* Yeah, I mean, even with debit same price as cash, you won't get a receipt out of the pump even half the time around here - this requires a walk into the store. It's no big deal, but the incompetence (rolls of paper, anyone?) is showing. Thank you, both PanicFest and D.I.E.
** You can see how seriously (NOT) Peak Stupidity took this viral disease even on the very last day of February of '20. I note, a few days later in the comments, Bill Jones was already foretelling the vaccine stupidity.
*** That South Park episode with the Pangolins was just too much, even for my tastes!
**** President Trump used this as a great excuse to clamp down quite a bit. Also, there HAVE BEEN Chinese people crossing there and still are.
***** I understand that links to VDare don't work and changed 1 out in that post. However, even though Ron Unz has Paul Kersey archives back through 19 - with, BTW, no mention of the Kung Flu through that year's end - the one I was linking to on VDare is missing from the Unz archive. (Perhaps it was never published there.)
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[UPDATED 12/06:] Added info from commenter "M".
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An Homage to VDare (on Unz Review) and our hopes for its Resurrection
Posted On: Tuesday - December 3rd 2024 4:45PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites
I saw the following article - VDARE's Legacy - by one Peter Bradley on The Unz Review and felt like I should get on there and put a good word in for this fine organization. The comments had been negative, which really peeves me off because someone refused to let this go through.
In the past even with my disagreements* with Ron Unz - on a personal basis, in the comments on his site that is - I'd never had him refuse to let anything of mine get onto the page, and he'd never deleted one. This time, it was in moderation for the 5 minutes and, poof, gone. (I checked other devices.) I tried 3 more times, including in the middle of the night. ;-} Yes, California time 0400.
Perhaps a setting was wrong for Peter Bradley, but anyway, I stuck my commentary into a Steve Sailer thread, and I'm saying it here too. Thank you, Peter Bradley, for that very nice write-up.
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Though I'd sworn off commenting here end-o-last-bidness-year due simply to time constraints, I just noticed Mr. Bradley's great homage to VDare here. Let me chime in to add my part.
I'd been a reader since about 5 or 6 years after VDare started up, as my stalwart-Conservative Dad got me hip to the seriousness of the immigration invasion problem. I would guess I've read 95% of the VDare articles since then, the non-read ones just due to my having missed them. I have met most of the people described herein, and they are all good people.
Mr. Brimelow himself, well, he could have stayed on the ins with the finance analyst and punditry crowd and had a cushy well-remunerated living. Instead he chose to proclaim the TRUTH about the coming (at that time) cultural and even financial destruction of America. That was simply the RIGHT thing to do.
Immigration* is THE EXISTENTIAL ISSUE. If the now severe damage is not somehow partially reversed, I won't really care so much about the other problems in America anymore, because it'll no longer be the America I cared about. (I'm thinking Uruguay or Portugal...)
I have followed VDare's legal troubles to the "t", at least the last legal "t" I could understand. I have to say this again, that I think Mr. Brimelow is just so used to the high-trust rule-of-law America of most of his life, that he could not see fit to fight the NY A/G in a way the ctrl-left would: Stall, obfuscate, "lose" entire servers (in unfortunate boating accidents... in West Virginia? Somehow...), etc.
I doubt the incoming A/G has the fire in the belly like a Matt Gaetz does, but I hope Trump will find a way to go after Leticia James. The ctrl-left can say it's political payback, who cares, but the Constitution in fact REQUIRES that treasonous Communists like Merrick Garland, Alex Mayorkas, and highly-corrupt anti-White goons like Leticia James be prosecuted, tried, and punished. Trump, being still Trump, cares about himself foremost and the Banana Republican lawfare that was waged against him. However, VDare (as seen here in the Tucker/Lydia interview) was also targeted. James' removal would be a greatly welcomed development for the remains of the VDare people and their former readers.
Instead of at least all the (~60,000 articles/posts in archives) be spread around, how about a full revival of VDare, same format, and URL in this case? I have been hopeful about that. I see no reason they can't just get back running if the lawfare is ended.
It's just a bad time for me to have lost VDare. Though the writers have always been hopeful, now with Trump in office again and duly pissed and Steve Miller and Tom Homan raring to go, this would be long-due time of high excitement. I should be looking forward to lots of great posts on details of the political fight right now. I want my VDare back!!
2 minor points:
1) Maybe writer Peter Bradley didn't know ahead that his article would appear here, but why was there no mention of VDare writers being published on The Unz Review? The immigration issue is not one I agree on much with Mr. Ron Unz - he's under the impression it's all good because Hispanics have pushed Black! crime out of Palo Alto, where he lives - but Mr. Unz has been extremely hospitable by publishing Mr. Sailer's blog, John Derbyshire's stuff, and many of the other VDare writers (on occasion) over the years. It's also a place to add comments on an extremely well-working site, while VDare didn't have them.
2) Not to be a Grammar Commie or anything, but "fat ass" is two words.***
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* That'd be most on his highly-speculative, OK, just wrong, America-did-Covid** theory, sometimes points regarding immigration, and some other minor things.
** I refer to the virus here, not the PanicFest. For that, we joined in on the merriment with most of the world.
*** See Mr. Bradley's article for reference.
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There was a crooked man ...
Posted On: Monday - December 2nd 2024 12:43PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny Poetic Stupidity Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien Totalitarianism
Note: I don't know how we ever got started with this blog without a Blatant Corruption or Banana Republicanism topic key. Anarcho-Tyranny will have to suffice for this one.
This was showing on yahoo today, after I logged out of email:
What a great example of Lyin' Press manipulation this is! It's yahoo's way of implying that Trump is a corrupt Totalitarian tyrant, unlike the guy on the left there, who took money for himself and his coke-head son in dealings with foreign governments in return for influence on American policy.
No, but President Trump is ready to pick on, no pounce on, Hunter Biden, maybe getting him thrown in jail... for stuff like drugs and gun charges (It was just paperwork. C'mon, man!) and underage girls in China and receiving other favors and money in return for influence on American policy. It's just that nit-picky stuff, yet, per the worries of yahoo, Trump would be just vindictive enough to sic the DOJ on Hunter Biden. What a crock, right? He'd have probably had to sell the best of his art work just to pay the bail!
Better Hunter's Dad take care of this while he is lucid and still in office and before the Totalitarian Trump administration implements some kind of Leticia James style lawfare, even easier with a guy who has done worse things than give inflated assessments on his real estate. They're out to get Hunter... freaking Totalitarian tyrants that they are.
No, but that's not really how the ctrl-left thinks. They know what Hunter Biden is like, as they have a lot of that in themselves too. The Lyin' Press is good at this manipulation. Contrary to Steve Sailer here*, I believe in the exacting of justice that's long due. It's not only that it's long due, but for years the ctrl-left has used this "persecution" narrative to distract Trump and the GOP.
Taking a thousand, give-or-take, Political Prisoners into Washington, FS dungeons for years on charge of protesting and rioting may be on top of the list, but when it comes to blatant Totalitarian corruption, this pardon is probably next down on the list of the worst of it. But no, the Lyin' Press Narrative has it reversed - pretty clever. It works on some of us.
BTW, note the other print there (this one has good resolution, so you can zoom in). I didn't know that's how it worked. So, let me see, if they find young Bai Diem had murdered people, so long as it was within the last decade, he's in the clear. It's good to be
Lastly, from the "one [poet] they call Desanex":
There was a crooked man, and he had a crooked smile.This brings me back a LONG way, but not the full 200 years (-2). Here's the original.
He had a crooked daddy and they walked a crooked mile.
He smoked some crooked crack, and he bought a crooked gun.
Now crooked senile daddy prez has pardoned crooked son.
* Reconciliation, my ass! For the modern ctrl-left reconciliation is for suckers. For the right, reconciliation is losing. The ctrl-left does not do compromise. Please get that straight, pundits.
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Advancement in Transportation: From Internal Combustion to Spontaneous Combustion
Posted On: Saturday - November 30th 2024 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Humor Cars China The Future Science
(Note: Title idea shamelessly stolen from a ZeroHedge commenter. Thanks, Lance Boyle!)
Tyler Durden over at "the Hedge" went a little over the edge with his Explosion Rocks Port Of Miami today. It's not the whole port and I don't know about any rocking. It sounds like an electric car exploded inside a (20 ft.) shipping container. (You would ship an ICE car without the fuel, right? I hope.)
These electric cars have been catching on fire a whole lot more than the Lyin' Press is willing to excitingly report. "If it bleeds, it leads.", I thought, but not if the story goes against THE NARRATIVE. For EV's, it's more like "If it burns, nobody learns." It's different. Electricity is good, because, no CO2... I mean except back at the natural gas or coal-powered plant that generated what these cars use.* No, let's not talk about this stuff, such as these thankfully empty and parked electric buses in China:
NBC's Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips were nowhere to be found this time. They didn't NEED to be there.
There have been 10's of thousands of EV's burned and destroyed by battery thermal runaway. You try to do everything right too, you know?: I bought this car to help save the planet. I had my house built 10 ft up on stilts for the coming Global Boiling sea- (plasma-?) level rise, and, well, yeah, otherwise I couldn't insure it. When the Governor said "evacuate", I evacuated, first my bowels for the long road trip and then up the road, using my gas car, cause, range and stuff... Then, I find out that seawater set my electric car that was parked under my house on fire, and it burned down the house! Insurance company says they don't cover that because it was an act of God... dang Global Boiling... not covered.
Look, I appreciate the mechanical simplicity of an electric vehicle. I mean, without much to the drive train and with no injectors to get clogged, no coils and plugs to fail and foul, no valve train to wear out or be adjusted, no coolant to leak, what a relief that could be! There's much more to the electrical system, of course, and those batteries fail sooner than the systems mentioned above (usually!). I don't have anything against them or anyone who drives them...
... so long as the sales are within a free market, without the constant Government pressure and incentives that distort the market we have now. There's a big incentive to say good things about EVs and ignore the bad things. Remember those 5-Year Plans and New Deals (wrapped in golden chains**) in the old USSR and China? Yeah, we have them in California now, and they don't work any better. The goals may not be met without melting down a few 10's of thousands of EV's, not to show steel production goals this time, but well, those Lithium Ion batteries can get out of control.
The reason airlines want the Lithium Ion batteries in the cabin and not in the luggage in the holds is that they want someone to be able to get at these in flight. Fires that start in them are not as easily suppressed, especially by suffocation, as are normal combustion reactions. If you remember that fire triangle from the Boy Scouts, ignition/heat, air (oxygen to be accurate), and fuel all must be present to sustain combustion. When certain parts get hot enough these batteries create their own oxygen along with the ever-present ignition source and fuel. (Some chemical/thermo. details are this technical paper from China. I mean, they oughta know.) Not only that, but some reactions going on release the Oxygen from water sprayed on to smother it (which doesn't exactly work) and cool it.
Progress in battery technology has been amazing. (I think a battery-powered chainsaw would have been a joke 30 years ago.) Even so, these Lithium Ion ones have only about 2% the energy density of gasoline. That's still a lot of energy for our electronics. To enable a range for a vehicle that resembles that of a gasoline powered one, these batteries/battery packs must be big. Though there's a correction factor for efficiency (electric motor over the IC engine), if an EV has 1/2 the range, that battery pack must at least around 3-4 gallons of fuel's worth of energy, 350-400 MegaJoules. That'll create a lot of havoc.
The engineers will figure it out. In the meantime, there are the ZeroHedge commenters, with one MagicHandPuppet stealing my thunder:
Saving the planet from global boiling, one battery car explosion at a time.Then, there are the cynical types. Look, I'm as cynical about the Potomac Regime, Deep State, Globalist elites, et al, as the next guy. In general ZeroHedge commenters are slightly less cynical than those on The Unz Review. What I don't like is the "America did it!" stupidity as the explanation for everything. We've noted that Stupidity doesn't stop at the California coastline and, as for evil, I think America itself - meaning, the people - has a lower evil density than much of the rest of the world. Commenter Gargolic wrote:
China is liable to be sabotaged so as to put people off their ultra cheap EV's. This could be a test run.That's very Unz-like. Dude, ever run into Cheap China-made Crap in your daily life? Extrapolate, man. Then too, wouldn't enacting tariffs be a little less risky? On the lighter side, I couldn't help inserting the following from commenter JUST THE FACTS:
My uncle was injured in an explosion at the cheese factory today.Anyway, I hope those big container ships and the auto carriers pay hazard overrides and have good insurance. Imagine a ship with 5,000 EVs lighting up out on the high seas... or even a few containers filled with Chinese electronics. "Hey, it's been 2 months! Where's my stuff?!"
He was hit by a chunk of da Brie.
* I do get the point that the pollution, ACTUAL pollution, I mean, is better created at the point source. It's outside of town, higher up out of the stack, and all that. However, that idea and the scrubbers are for actual pollutants, not for 1 of the 2 products of clean combustion, CO2 (H2O, water, in vapor form, being the other).
** H/T, Creedence.
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Gold v Bitcoin: ZeroHedge New & Improved Debate and PS Discussion
Posted On: Friday - November 29th 2024 4:12PM MST
In Topics: Preppers and Prepping Economics Holiday from Stupidity
We neglected to wish our readers a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday, so you'll have to put up with a belated one, including Adam Smith ASCII graphics and Peak Stupidity HTML-fu (circa 1996, it would be!):
T HA N K S G I V I N G !
Alright, well instead of Turkiye* and tripping out on Tryptophan and sportsball on TV, we had duck instead and I settled in to watch a new 2 hour-long ZeroHedge Gold v Bitcoin debate. I tell you what, it was as if ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden had read Peak Stupidity's critical review of their 1st one and taken it all to heart!. This debate fixed about EVERYTHING I didn't like in that previous, 4-man one.
Big Gold promoter Peter Schiff was the only debater seen also in the previous one. (Bio. info. on him is in our posts linked-to above.) The Bitcoin side is represented by one Robert Breedlove. I didn't even realize it, but should have due to promotions by the latter man only, but it was Mr. Breedlove's What is Money? show that sponsored the debate, hence, no ads about gold. However, Mr. Breedlove's ads were for prepper/off-grid/anti-Regime items and ideas, so I actually watched and enjoyed a few of them. Additionally, I'll say that Robert Breedlove took no advantage in the debate due to his sponsorship.
As in the last one, Peter Schiff was a little (not as much) cantankerous, while his one opponent was calm and collected, and just seemed a little more "with it" with regards to the modern electronic world. That doesn't mean I think he "won" the debate, but he might have convinced some people just by his manner. (He is a salesman, after all - they both are.)
Instead of barely keeping a lid on the cross-talk and letting 2 of the guys rant and interrupt, this moderator, one Keith Knight of the Libertarian Institute, operated in a completely different fashion. He had his outline, made the 2 pundits stick to it religiously, and would not put up with big digressions from the points in question. In fact, near the end, he was too controlling, when he should have allowed another 10 minutes of open discussion, IMO. Yeah, you've got to put up with his wild hair and somewhat effeminate voice. It's all good. He did his job, which made this debate MUCH better.
I also liked that youtube had the general sections labeled at the bottom as one watches, and the page even has this nice outline. Note the commercials - kept in here so you know where to skip, and "WiM" is "What is Money?"
0:00 - WiM Intro
1:06 - What is Inflation?
6:42 - What is Fiat Currency?
16:46 - What Properties do you want in Money?
18:56 - Divisibility: Bitcoin vs Gold
27:23 - Durability and Recognizability: Bitcoin vs Gold
32:59 - COMMERCIAL: The Farm at Okefenokee
34:26 - COMMERCIAL: Heart and Soil Supplements
35:26 - COMMERCIAL: Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
36:18 - Portability: Bitcoin vs Gold
46:40 - Scarcity: Bitcoin vs Gold
56:41 - 100 Years from Now: Bitcoin vs Gold
1:04:16 - COMMERCIAL: Tuttle Twins: Teaching Kids Critical Thinking
1:05:33 - COMMERCIAL: Mind Lab Pro
1:06:43 - 100 years from now: Bitcoin vs Gold
1:08:55 - Store of Value: Bitcoin vs Gold
1:19:56 - Unit of Account: Bitcoin vs Gold
1:27:17 - COMMERCIAL: Emerge Dynamics
1:28:20 - COMMERCIAL. Art of Alpha Retreat
1:29:34 - Medium of Exchange: Bitcoin vs Gold
1:34:42 - Can We Make a Better Bitcoin?
1:43:56 - Would Anything Change Peter’s Mind about Bitcoin?
1:47:46 - Closing Thoughts on Gold vs Bitcoin
Last time, I did not completely recommend the reader NOT watch, but I noted that the 2 hours would likely be wasted - there was some entertainment but not much to learn from. I HIGHLY recommend the Peak Stupidity reader spend the 2 hours this time (akshully, only 1 hour and 54 minutes). Almost all the important points, possible pros and possible cons, about Bitcoin that I regret were avoided last time are debated here. They get into the real issues, and there's lots of food for thought on some pretty hifalutin concepts. Following the video is Peak Stupidity discussion, including the mention of just a few things left out.
Let me shorten the outline here too:
1) There is a nice trailer, which showed some good highlights (sorry no action - though I think Breedlove could take Mr. Schiff were it ever to come down to it).
2) The points of agreement, difference between money and currency, problems with fiat, evils of Government involvement, etc, were quickly taken care of.
3) The moderator had Mr. Breedlove state the (his, anyway) 5 properties of money, and then he would go back and forth between the 2 men, asking how their "champion" satisfied these properties. This was the meat of the discussion.
4) 3 or 4 abilities, I'd call them, rather than properties of the 2 types of money were debated, with a little argument on the definitions and usefulness of these abilities.
5) They got that 2nd-to-last section (above) from the previous debate, but at least eventually with an answer from Mr. Schiff.
I'll discuss a few points that Mr. Schiff had on Mr. Breedlove, some vice versa, and then some that all 3 of us, plus likely the (other) moderator really don't completely understand.
I felt vindicated on my argument in that last discussion that, no, a form of money that can also have industrial uses is not a good thing. It would mean that changes in technology, the economy, whatever, can cause volatility in the apparent value of it that would not otherwise be there. Peter Schiff claimed otherwise last time, and here too, mostly to try to explain his point that Bitcoin is NOTHING, something that is not altogether false, and gold is SOMETHING.
There weren't many numbers given, but Mr. Breedlove stated that gold has something like 1 1/2 Trillion bucks in industrial use (yearly, I assume) and about 10 x that in value as money. He claimed that because Bitcoin indeed has ZERO industrial use, that makes it perfect money in at least this sense. Mr. Schiff sees gold, with the help of silver, as the perfect money, as he cannot see how anything else could take its place. This made me try to come up with another example of something else with the scarcity, portability, etc. with NO industrial uses, that could still replace gold as money. Apparently, salt was used at some point, when it was still considered scarce. That's not a good example though - tastes change. What else, another metal that is junk but still rare?
That question is just made to try to understand Peter Schiff's point, as gold has a long history already. Both men agreed that the 5,000 or 6,000 year history of the use of gold means something. Mr. Breedlove admitted that the 13 years of Bitcoin history are not much to give anyone confidence for a long future for it.
Mr. Schiff kind of lost his way when he argued that gold could be sent to a foreign country** lighting fast, and faster than Bitcoin. Sure, by electronically sending keys that transfer ownership of gold sitting in a Swiss or other 3rd-party vault, it can, but Mr. Breedlove noted that this defeats most purposes of HOLDING the money. "It's not government, though, it's..." Nah, I agree with Mr. Breedlove, as both gold and Bitcoin are held more closely for good reasons, like the government. In fact, "Swiss" means squat-all now, when it comes to privacy, as the Potomac Regime has reached its long arms across the pond and the Alps. Government can lean on 3rd-parties. They can lean on YOU, but, we'll be prepared for that and won't fold like a Swiss Bank under FATCA.
I wrote before that Bitcoin doesn't have the privacy property as gold does, but it can be transferred world-wide, while gold is good for local exchange. This is very much along the lines of what Robert Breedlove said early on and a few more times: He's weighing the idea of the use of each money based on whether he sees a SHTF future with no electricity, internet and AI*** (use gold), or a "digital future" with all that (use Bitcoin).
One thing Mr. Schiff rightly harped on was the speculation in Bitcoin. Mr. Breedlove mentioned the 4? Trillion dollars in transactions yearly, daily, or whatever, but there's no way to break that down between those actually using it as money for normal purchases and those buying low (or trying) and selling high (or trying) in order to make money off this "money". How would you know? Over this 1st decade and a half, this would-be money has been highly volatile, a bad thing for a money. Mr. Breedlove says it will settle down, and there's a 4-part sequence involved, as with gold too back in history. This was discussed too and never settled in that previous debate.
Let me discuss what I do and don't know about Bitcoin in the context of this debate. I don't expect to understand blockchain software, but I really need to look into more detail on how Bitcoin will reach only 21 million coins (possibly not exactly 21 million, as a round number like that just seems weird). There must be some asymptotic function for which the amount of energy it takes to make more coins near that level follows some steep exponential or power-law curve.
Let's leave aside again that nobody there or here is a mathematician - same as last time - who works on blockchain functions, so we can't REALLY be sure the whole thing can't be hacked someday, or has been already. Mr. Breedlove, like Bitcoin proponent Erik Voorhees in the previous debate, made a lot of money speculating in Bitcoin. For the same reasons, there's a need to feel vindicated as wise****, not just lucky, and to imply something meaningful about it all. Mr. Schiff made some effort to get him to explain why it would be Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, not other cryptocurrencies, that would or should be the money of the digital future. (Within this discussion, Mr. Schiff also made a very good point that, come the crash, with Bitcoin being "the money", wouldn't its widespread use and volatility be a good excuse to bring it into the fold of a CBDC - Central Bank Digital Currency)?)
This is a major point that either Robert Breedlove doesn't have a good answer to, or I just couldn't understand his answers, as he did make the effort. Why not have Cardano, Etherium, and even DogeCoin (meant to be a joke) as the standard? Can we have competing currencies that are all actually used as stores of value and units of account? That sounds like a free market, but it sure may get confusing.
As for me, I don't WANT to speculate. I'd feel much better in the world of gold/silver money and no FED of over a century ago. Even gold/silver backed currency would be OK, or any currency backed by some real money. Robert Breedlove says such money should be Bitcoin in the digital world, while Peter Schiff says it should be gold, no matter what kind of world.
This was a really great discussion, run in an organized fashion, with some heavy thinking required to try to fathom some of the deeper ideas. Again, I hope some of y'all will take the time - this one here is great, I don't care who ya' are... unless you're one of them damn Monetarists or something...
PS: here is the ZeroHedge page that includes the video. Some of the comments are elucidating, but most are the normal ZH chatter - fun but not necessarily illuminating.
* Just tryin' to comply here with the rules of Political Correctness here ...
** from Puerto Rico, for example, but why is Peter Schiff in Puerto Rico, I wondered... Does he know something I ought to know?
*** Why AI? He included that each time, but I don't see why AI has to be in the picture at all.
**** This is not at all to say that Robert Breedlove and Erik Voorhees are not wise men in general. I will reiterate that they both were the best personalities involved in each debate.
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Have we voted our way out of this?
Posted On: Wednesday - November 27th 2024 2:13PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness Global Climate Stupidity Trump Globalists US Feral Government ctrl-left Big-Biz Stupidity
Peak Stupidity has often stated, along with plenty of commenters here, that "We ain't voting our way out of this." What's "this", first of all? That'd be the slide of America, and the former 1st World into a multi-cultural, tower-of-babelistic, Idiocratic, 3rd-worldly Globalist economy full of #Stupidity to height never before seen in the history and pre-history of Mankind. MOAR incompetence, anti-White rhetoric and regulation, Feminism, genderbender nonsense, Climate Calamity™ and Plandemic cyclic fearmongering, all of it will continue and get worse if we don't fight back.
Did our near-thing-vote (no, it was no landslide) in this election of Donald Trump for President save us from having to eventually break out the guns? There's been a lot to behold since Nov. 5th that might make one believe this. I'll say this, that Trump & Co. do indeed know what the sore points are. They see the stupidity and don't like it.
Remember though, as per the Doc's advice, as with antibiotics, I'm still finishing off this bottle of white pills.
America is not the sole superpower of yester-3 1/2-decades, but what happened here does have international repercussions. Have we voters changed the course of history? (Yes, 0.25 kg tablets, why do you ask? I just get my alerts from Walgreens and go pick it up - I'm no doctor.)
Let me back up for one digression instead of having a footnote. By "voters", really I should write voters and civic-minded people throughout the country who've spent their own time trying to prevent or reverse election fraud. Perhaps instead of just adding one vote, one can subtract a hundred or thousands of fakes. What'd the guy (I don't know, some Commie) say? "It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes.". In Soviet Americaski, "It's not who counts the votes, it's who hauls off the usual Commies who cheat the vote count."
There are some areas of stupidity against which I think a non-distracted Trump-47 Administration can really fight, and win. I've been reading a few ZeroHedge articles that have me hopeful on this.
I'll note here that Peak Stupidity has already written about possible progress on the existential issue, the Immigration Stupidity a few days back here. Without more headway than I can imagine, even at this dosage level, the rest described here don't matter in the long run, at least for what we call America still. Keep that in mind... or don't.
[Like that's a bad thing?] This image came from the website of the ACLU. That's not normally Peak Stupidity's go-to source. We thought we'd try something new...
Is the Trump Administration, or, going forward, the MAGA Party, where DEI goes to DIE? I don't think of wokeness, the much more powerful and diverse(ha) successor to Political Correctness, is just a fad. I disagreed in posts before with Steve Sailer that it will (was going to) reach a peak on its own and DIE out. The people behind it really WANT this program in place to humiliate the White man and most normal human beings. It's humiliation in the form of "It's not just that there are weirdos around, but you must say, write, and THINK (if we can help it) that they are normal people, contrary to any standards of decency you might try to stick to. It's that, or get fired or expelled."
I read, though, that Trump & Co., as administrators of the Feral Gov't plan to root out the D.I.E. departments, correct language*, which does matter to some degree, and use that bully pulpit to rail against this whole anti-White, anti-men, anti-normal-people business.
Corporate America and the Feral Gov't have a close relationship under our Crony Capitalist system. (Some might call it economically Fascist - I've got no argument with that.) So, will the head honchos force HR departments to stop with the wokeness? Will Big Biz cut out their D.I.E. programs to get along with the Trump administered Feral Government? I think both will balk and evade on some of this. Personnel will get shuffled around, org charts will have name changes, etc., something I think is going on in the universities. (Maybe only a guy like Ron DeSantis can do this RIGHT.)
Still, there's the bully pulpit, and if Trump and MAGA are out in the open against the wokeness, perhaps normal Americans will rally together to really wipe it out. The people behind it all, though, they will still be there.
I also read this ZeroHedge article about a guy I've heard of before, one Robby Starbuck (OK?) who has had his own personal anti-D.E.I. operation going on. The article reports that he had pressured Wal-Mart, a company with a million and half employees, to cut this anti-White genderbender crap out. Freaking Wal-Mart, I tell you! Maybe we all just need a little encouragement from guys like this, Trump or no Trump. However, having the courts (eventually, hopefully) and the law in general being at your 6 makes this sort of thing much more feasible.
This next is a big one. At the height of the Kung Flu PanicFest, Spring '20 through Spring '22, let's call it, Peak Stupidity had really thought that the Climate Calamity™ stupidity had been left behind. The fear-mongers had come upon and/or come up with even bigger juicier and more lucrative work. Little Greta was back in Sweden, probably locked down for her own good - Sweden was one of the most sane countries** actually, but there are always outliers - and I didn't hear about "the settled science" on the complicated climate of the Earth much then. Alas, I was wrong, very, very wrong.
Things have, errr, heated back up over the last few years. There have been new names: Climate Crisis (Climate Calamity™ is ours), and even Global Boiling. There is not just the control of the whole energy sector of the economy issue, but the money involved is getting huge now. Entire countries... cough, Germany, cough, cough, have crippled their economies due to pressure from these wackos, but wackos with POWER. They've got the Globalists behind them. This election of Trump, however, may really mean hard pushback against the entire Global Climate Stupidity programme.
One of the things I praised Trump-45 for was his refusal to sign the Paris Accords. It's not just that the entire idea of the Climate Calamity™ is bullshit, but if you're going to act like it's not, why does most-powerful China get out of the whole thing with carte blanche (see, Paris, right?) to build coal plants out the ying-yang? It was most obviously a scam, even to a guy who doesn't know a bit of science, like the President. Trump does care about the US not getting scammed. He is street-smart like that, and he's long talked about the unfair trade deals we've had with China since the mid-1990s.
One doesn't have to understand the complications of trying to model, unsuccessfully so far, all physical processes involved in the climate of the World to see other problems with all this. That Globalists are trying to control the energy sector by making the inert gas CO2 into a pollutant and a poison - often just C, Carbon itself, as it sounds nastier, all black and dirty - should be obvious by now. That the climate predictions have been wrong for decades goes from obvious only to those who pay attention and have memories to obvious to anyone. More hurricanes? Well, anyone can look at old National Hurricane Center data. How about that there won't be any more snow in the US for the last 15 years? I don't see snowblowers going for cheap on eBay. Ice at the poles and sea surface temperatures? You'd have to do more digging.
However, Global Boiling? Seriously? That's a
OK, anyway, to get more practical, which I'll give Donald Trump credit for being, he will reverse*** much of the purposeful destruction of America's energy economy that came out of President Bai Dien. Drill, baby, drill! Up in Alaska, in the Dakotas, pipeline construction out of Alberta, what have you, he will not impede progress. No, as I will get to in one big post to come, the economy will not be saved from what's coming. We will see a nice reprieve, and people will be able to get to real work.
Can we really stop the Global Climate Stupidity in its tracks, at this high level? That'd be one hell of a thing, and it WOULD indeed be due to "voting out way out", were it to happen. The Globalists though, they will not be suffering...
There are other areas of stupidity for which I may have some hope after seeing Trump & Co's pre-election plans. All of this hope should be tempered with a few thoughts that apply to all of these plans.
1) Can all these counter-revolutionary moves be stopped dead, first thing, in '28 by the ctrl-left? With the more general, cultural issues, such as the genderbender stupidity, I guess it could be all over with, no matter who takes power.
For energy policy and the signing on to international scams like the Paris Accord or whatever kind of crap was just discussed at COP-30, it depends on getting the whole Feral Gov't turned around. This includes the Senate and the courts. Can MAGA start taking over? That would need to be done, and is 4 years enough time? (Or can we depend on a Vance not going native?) I was disappointed in '95 when Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" expired (as in a natural death, not legally), and I am not hopeful now.
2) Can some of the destruction we are fighting be reversed at all, no matter how many MAGAs go at it? I don't meant the sick and horrible gender-change surgeries and drug treatments here. On a higher level, for example, can all the damage from D.I.E. (AA++) hiring be reversed? White men could be hired to do work that requires the White man (what a concept!), but how much competence has already been lost for good? Lots of "human capital" and old-timey quality, can-do corporate culture has been lost for good.
Then, there are the demographics. I'd be amazed if Trump & Co. could reverse the immigration invasion back to 2020, but even that's not really gonna cut it. We aren't going to get our demographics back to 1995 without something I can't imagine at this point.
3) Trump and MAGA are trying to defeat the Deep State here and Globalists around the world. With help from masses of useful idiots (seen on Tic-Toc) the DS and Globalists are the ones who behind the push these destructive forms of stupidity, including the 2 discussed here. Are they just going to turn tail and run? I don't think so. Can the barely-yet-MAGA-infiltrated American government and patriotic Americans defeat this enemy by ourselves? Encouragement from the words and actions of President Trump and hopefully more MAGA people are helping my morale, anyway. (Then, he'll say something really, really stupid...)
4) I just saw a few clips of Marc Andreessen with Joe Rogan. Some of the evil stuff that he claims Zhou Bai Dien and his Deep State backers have been up to is very scary. It's SciFi dystopian scary. That stuff was supposed to happen in, like, 2525 or something. Then again, so was Idiocracy. It's a race to the bottom: Evil v Stupid.
Have we voted our way out of this, or out of anything? We'll see. At least our vote on November 5th was a big middle finger to the ctrl-left, Deep State, and Globalists (there's overlap there). It was a vote for a reprieve, but as with my prescription that I need to get renewed, we're not getting a long-term panacea out of Nov 5th alone.
* One deal was to change wording in government documents - and thank heaven for ctrl-r vs. white-out! - to replace "illegal immigrant" or "migrant", even "undocumented whatever" back to "illegal alien". We strongly agree!
** See E.H. Hail's many writings on this from the period in question on his site.
*** Please keep in mind that our Constitutionally-minded blogger here doesn't believe the President or Congress should have anything to do with the energy industry at all. This kind of talk, though, is so out of style, that you can't get anywhere in the discussion with it.
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