Can Male to Female Transexuals have Periods?
Posted On: Wednesday - January 2nd 2019 7:43PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Humor Healthcare Stupidity Female Stupidity
See, that stuff above was just a movie (with GREAT rock music, BTW) and all in fun. That time was still far removed from the Peak of Stupidity, hence people took it all in fun, and, you know, threw rice and bread around, squirted water guns, dressed up, and shouted stuff at the screen at the movies (yes, they did). People are taking this trans-sexual stuff ENTIRELY TOO SERIOUSLY these days. That's what the astute social scientist would expect when society is nearing Peak Stupidity, and this blog is nothing if not full of experts in Stupidity Theory. We feel nothing if not vindicated in our predictions made via our sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques.
Some commenter the other day brought up the question posed in this post's title. What exactly is done in this trans-gender surgery, at least that one can write about on a family blog... well, anywhere really, without invoking feelings of disgust and loss of website status as a FAVORITE or BOOKMARK?
If you really want to do this thing, and become a woman the right way, would you not want to be able to have a period once in a while, at least, uhh, periodically, say, once a month? What kind of new equipment is involved? Bio-engineering has come a long way, baby. Though normally concerned with things that are more of an improvement, such as stents, non-rejectable skeletal parts, etc., that crowd ought to be able to hook up some extra plumbing for this increasingly-common scenario. How about a peristaltic pump to keep things clean, no wait, we don't even need that, just an old 50's Chevy fuel pump and a few feet of 1/4" ID rubber fuel line, a nozzle of some sort, and, what, solar power? You tap into the main artery down there, merge that with a tube from the ovaries, aaah crap, wait, ovaries too?
OK, it's gonna be some work, but the part that will take the most engineering effort will be the electrical system for monthly feedback to the nether parts of the ... brain. How exactly does one induce artificial bitchiness for a sustained length of time? Peak Stupidity has recently divulged our theory of the cause of this bitchiness, but can it be reproduced electronically? It sounds like a hellacious task, maybe something for the likes of Sexy Cyborg - Miss Naomi Wu (much more here!). I really hope that, in addition to having this state-of-the-art transformational surgery plug-in added to the list of required coverage by our wonderful State health plan, total reverse transgender surgery will also be added. Just brainstorming here, but I think a lot of former guys are gonna want it.
Yeah, listen, this video scene with music from The Rocky Horror Picture Show is not my thing by any means! It's a good rock song though. Remember, it was all in fun back then, least far as I know.
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Litterbugs in China
Posted On: Tuesday - January 1st 2019 9:06PM MST
In Topics: Humor Treehuggers China
Peak Stupidity's number one
With only 200 million people on this same 3 million square miles, as the 350-odd million now, America wasn't litter-free 50 years ago, about the time littering became "a thing", but it wasn't China either:
Yeah, the Chinese are hard-working, smart, and numerous, but they are not particularly orderly. The littering story here is from some time I spent deep into the heart of China.
In the house where we stayed, the Dad was on the porch (such as it was) and yelled something in Chinese (of course) to a kid who had just thrown a bottle down in the road. OK, it was a 5 ft. wide alley, but it was a road to them! I am no expert in Mandarin, but something tells me what he said was “pick up your garbage!” The kid, being a somewhat obedient sort, picked it up and put it on top of a big pile of trash about 50 ft away. It was a pile meant to be collected, but as un-orderly as China is, it was just a big damn mess itself. “What’s the difference?” I said, in English.
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Fireworks from China
Posted On: Tuesday - January 1st 2019 8:40PM MST
In Topics: US Police State China Liberty/Libertarianism
(As translated from the original Mandarin)
The Chinese invented a whole lot of stuff way before the West's time, and supposedly invented a lot more than that. (I want to do a book review on The Man who Loved China regarding the latter.) We can all probably agree that fireworks, made partially out of gunpowder, came from old Cathay, at least if we don't feel like doing 2 hours' research on it tonight. It's the fireworks from New Years Eve that reminded me about some China stories.
The Chinese have a real love for fireworks, as I found out in China, when some people would just randomly set off some medium-intensity (not M-80's but not your small standard ones either) ones outside a restaurant for the hell of it. In many of the States, there are all kinds of laws for sales of them, and, as I wrote last evening, I'm just glad to still have Roman Candles and small rockets.
This small freedom notwithstanding, one may note that in their 5,000 year history, Chinese NEVER had an era in which the people threw off the yoke of government to be DONE with it, as the forefathers of America did. I don't think it's much in their genes to do such a thing. Sure, dynasties came and dynasties went, but you read nothing about a group of Chinamen rejecting having authorities rule over them, period, rather than just a smarter guy next time. There is no precedent there for rights of the common people to keep firearms without strict regulation, and considering the history of gunpowder, you'd think they'd have been the first.
Even so, and with all the Mao-era Communist control, the Chinese people seem to have still kept a lot of spunk and oftentimes impress me more than Americans in their resistance to government encroachment. One big-ass encroachment is eminent domain used abusively. The idea of land takings with compensation for building of communal property such as roads is well understood and was by our Founders. However, it probably should have been explained better at the end of Bill of Rights Amendment V ("... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.", a stipulation on US Feral Gov't takings), as it's been used to transfer people's property to private companies. All manner of excuses such as "urban blight" have been let, by our 9 robed old-farts, to rip the intent to shreds. One of the most egregious examples is the Kelo vs. New London, Connecticut case from 13 years back.
Americans don't seem to be organized enough to fight this stuff, but I'm surprised armed individuals haven't done more (I'm not sure if the Bundy standoff out in Oregon a few years back qualifies as an eminent domain issue.) I've seen numerous examples from China, however, in which individuals raise holy hell to keep governments and powerful business from taking their homes. The guy in the picture above, one Mr. Yang Youde, is shooting fireworks out of a pipe, a poor-man's home-made cannon, to protect his home.
As written about in The New American, Mr. Yang had one thing going for him that American don't in this modern Police State of ours. The local cops were on his side (very much as in the true story related here on Peak Stupidity in A China story and Chinese vs. American police states).
Whereas in New London the police were prepared to evict Kelo if she refused to move, when Yang was attacked by an eviction team in February after he ran out of rockets, Reuters reports that “local police came to his rescue” and apparently allowed him to remain on his land, which he successfully defended against 100 people in May. Yes, in Communist China the local cops are on the side of average people, while in supposedly free America they side with the government, probably seeking their share of the increased tax booty from the promised new development."... after he ran out of rockets" - I like that! If he had had an SKS, rather than just the ubiquitous Chinese fireworks, who knows how much farther he'd have gotten.
Hold that thought. I looked up the man, and he won! He got > $20,000 per acre, for his single-story house with a fish pond. What happened to the Americans, such as Kelo who went to court against a private company, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals taking their property? Not only did they lose, but after everything was demolished, some years went by, and Pfizer decided they didn't want the land anyway. Yeah, this land was in "the land of the free" ... right!
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They still let you use Bottle Rockets and Roman Candles
Posted On: Monday - December 31st 2018 7:44PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
On Independence Day a few years back we were able to get a red ball from a Roman Candle to set a squirrel's nest on fire. It smoked them clean out of there while we got the hose ready just in case the whole tree canopy came under the influence of the conflagration. It was a blast, but really just a lucky shot. These things are not just toys, you know.
We can just be thankful, I suppose, that our governments have not yet prevented us from having fun with fireworks, for our own good, of course. The Chinese have a big love for fireworks having (legitimately) invented them, so I'll include something about that in an upcoming post with some short China stories.
Thank you readers, for keeping abreast here with the ramp-up toward Peak Stupidity. We hope to keep increasing the writing quality and the coverage, along with the number of readers. Happy New Year!
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The internet of
Posted On: Monday - December 31st 2018 7:29PM MST
In Topics: Internets Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity iEspionage
I'm hoping: everything else but start the damn car.
One of big ideas in Artificial Stupidity (modern electronics, that is) has been "the internet of things" for some time now. Everything, your car, your appliances, and then the little stuff (kitchen sink? belt buckles, I don't know) should all be on the internet. That's the plan. What for?
Hmmmm, but what happens to the information besides just going to your app to make your life "easier"? Maybe the toaster manufacturer in Shenzhen, China would like to keep up with part breakages, you know, with their great Quality Control and all. They need to know when you'll be heading to the store to buy a new one, so they can increase production accordingly. However, that may take a day or a week, so they may want to ask one of your other things that are on the internet. Maybe they can ask your car to tell them when it is headed to Wal-Mart to buy another
I thought about this while looking a one of the modern expensive electronic car keys this morning. No, it probably isn't for now, but when will it be made to be on-line and tell someone something about you? I mean, you have to pay a few hundred bucks for a new key, rather than the $4 for a copy from the hardware store for your old Toyota. It ought to damn well do something cool, the manufacturer is very liable to figure, say next year.
Right now, though, I'm really happy with my stuff just laying there doing JACK SQUAT until the next time I pick it up ... uhh, if I can find it at all ... clap, clap.
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People don't trust Facebook, yet still use it
Posted On: Monday - December 31st 2018 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Internets Artificial Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Zerohedge wrote a couple of weeks back that Facebook Has Officially Lost The Public's Trust. Yeah, there's no reason to think that an organization that makes money off of selling information about you (that you give them freely) will draw the line anywhere. Facebook is going to monetize whatever it can, and there are undoubtedly certain organizations of the US Feral Gov't that support this effort wholeheartedly.
As Statista's Sarah Feldman shows below [above, here], five times more people place Facebook as the least trustworthy company to handle their personal information when compared to Amazon and Twitter.Here's the question I've got: Why do you people still use a "service" that is nothing but a user-voluntary spy program? Yeah, convenience, I get it. Your friends invite you to stuff on there, you share recipes, it's SO HARD (NOT!) to make your own website to show your vacation pictures on ... As discussed here in The F.A.G.S. space and new competition, there is power in being first and having large numbers of users in this "space" of the internet. However, I've seen neighborhood apps, photo-sharing sites, etc., and one can get and share information in so many ways other than this spy network.
How about you 40%-ers, that don't trust Mr. Zuckerberg and his vast information-grabbing network put your money, or lack thereof, where your mouths were during the poll? This graph shows 68% of American adults being users:
Keep in mind that some of those adults are at an age where they physically can't or mentally can't even use Facebook. I think that'd make the number of adults who choose to use it even higher. Even without that correction, there are 8 percentage points worth of lazy bullshitters here. "Yeah, I don't trust these people, and they have all the goods on me now, but, hey, how am I gonna know when my nephew hits his first home run?" You know those computers that you keep in your hands day and night, people? They have a PHONE function! Use it.
I guess this post is nothing new, but Peak Stupidity feels a need to comment more on the Orwellian stupidity embedded in today's world, or at least the stupidity of those who blindly follow. There'll be lots more to come on this.
As usual, Zerohedge has some hard-core commenters who tell it like is, and more:
Fireman: 1 week agoI couldn't have said it better myself!
Any idiot using Faecesbook, Twatter, Goggle and the rest of the USSAN diet of "smart" phone jabbing zombie electro filth deserves to have their pea brains fried with radiation as they peruse mindless garbage in the prurient interest.
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Poor Feral workers living paycheck-to-paycheck
Posted On: Saturday - December 29th 2018 9:12PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government
... yet still unfortunately living paycheck-to-paycheck:
As a nice tie-in to our previous post on the sad, yet uplifting (to us!), plight of US Feral Gov't workers being off work (who knew?) for a while, we have this: The Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News bemoans the condition of "our" Feral Gov't families living paycheck-to-paycheck. Yeah, we're all broken up about those family's tax-payer funded budgets.
Feral Gov't workers/shutdown notwithstanding, this living paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle by all kinds of Americans has been a sore spot for the Peak Stupidity blog. In Credit? Forget it! You got it? You get it!* we bemoaned (lots of bemoaning goin on ..) modern-day Americans' terrible spendthrift ways and the living on credit cards, school-loan money, and other debt that pretty much mirrors what happens with the US Federal budget. The voter's permissiveness in allowing the US Gov't to act in this way is very much like the way a son will follow in the footsteps of his spendthrift Dad, since it's the only way he knows as he grows up.
Beyond the obvious problems that Feral and Private American employees will have due to this lifestyle, it also results in a big dampening of any flames of freedom and pushback against the STATE and Big-Biz. With regards to a specific example of a slightly-outspoken Google employee getting fired, Peak Stupidity wrote (in the posts linked-to):
The closer you are bound to your job via your tight month-to-month budget, the less likely you will quit, speak-out, or even push-back a slight bit, when you are harassed with all the mass stupidity. You are not a free agent if you live like this - you are much more beholden to your employer and must be more of a suck-up, a kiss-ass, whatever it entails, to the dieversity and PC-crap than if you had a year or two's salary put away to find a new job or even a new career and leave the stupidity behind!Now, that doesn't apply very well to Gov. workers anyway, who are not usually the type to WANT any freedom. Therefore, let's get back to the subject of the US Feral Gov't temporarily-laid-off workers, as discussed in the article, with first a quick look at this graph:
(Note: I DO NOT LIKE this graphs due to the y-axis not starting at 0.
That's wrong, but it's the best I've got on short notice.)
With their health benefits and promised pensions (haha, ahahaha!) the gov't workers do pretty well for themselves when compared to employees in private business doing the same jobs, well OK, same job descriptions but actually working most of the day. No, I don't think they'll all see those pensions, but the point is that decently-paid private employees normally save some money in 401K's that the Gov employees have available to spend.
An amazingly-responsible Congressman from Pennsylvania made one comment about the shutdown that's got folks atwittering:
These and other #ShutdownStories took off online after Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) suggested last week that a gap in wages wouldn’t be so bad.Exactly! That's WTF I want to know.
"Who's living that they're not going to make it to the next paycheck?" he asked reporters, adding that most of those impacted would qualify for back pay.
They're not immune to the harsh reality of living paycheck to paycheck, according to dozens of people who responded to a Washington Post inquiry on Twitter.I don't believe it, not when I see the bar/restaurant scene the biggest thing going in the economy (besides our expanding tweet-infrastructure). I do understand the difficulty in trying to live off a the low-pay service jobs that are much of the economy now, but the same people are the ones who frequent the industry. Peak Stupidity's thoughts on the coffee shop scene appear in Thoughts from the Coffee Shop and Starbucks vs. the Viennese Kaffeehaus. Listen, when people are still buying 4 dollar fancy coffees at least once per day, then they are not doing their best to avoid living paycheck-to-paycheck.
They’re millennials, Gen Xers, and baby boomers. They work in big cities and rural towns. They’ve tried to save — but rent, child care, student loans, and medical bills get in the way.
"My husband is a Park Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and he had to sign his furlough papers," one woman tweeted. "We have a 4 yr. old and a 4-month-old, and we don't know when his next check will come. Mortgage is due, Christmas 2 days away."What you do is not buy anything you don't immediately need until you've saved up for emergencies. Hey, not everyone gets Christmas presents, and this is just one year. We are a spoiled bunch in this country. Hey, go find a camping spot. The park's closed, so who's gonna complain? Sorry, I have no sympathy.
“Broke my lease to accept new fed job for which I have to attend 7 months of training in another state,” wrote another Twitter user who later deleted the tweet. “Training canceled with shutdown. Homeless. Can’t afford short(?)-term housing/have to work full-time for no pay/returning Christmas presents.”Again, there's that Christmas present talk. How much money would I spend on Christmas presents with nothing in the bank. Check out the US Marines' Toys for Tots. Now wait, you're HOMELESS? Bad planning on your part does not constitute
Lest the reader think I'm picking too hard on the Feral employees, the article has many more stories from the private sector. Actually, the next guy is a Professor, so, though not US Gov't, he is most likely supported by California taxpayers to some extent.
Sol Smith, chair of liberal arts at a Southern California college, said he landed his job after earning three degrees. But with four daughters and mounting health-care costs, he said, saving just isn’t possible.In 17 years, including before the kids, you haven't saved up any money? This guy's a Professor, in fact, the Chairman of the Department, so one can see that the financial stupidity goes right up through the PhD level.
“I see no way out,” he wrote in an email to the Post. “I am 40, have built a strong career, have 17 years experience, and if something were to happen to me, my wife and kids would be homeless within a year when my life insurance ran out.”
Nope, Peak Stupidity is in agreement with Representative Scott Perry here. This is no way to live, people! The middle class lifestyle is indeed being slowly wiped out, but you people make it worse by trying to live the lifestyle you are not able to pay for. That seems to be the American way now. That makes our problems even worse, as people are too soft, and in no position, to fight against the changes that are being forced upon us.
* Addendum here
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Feral Gov't Shutdown ... is that a threat, or a promise?
Posted On: Friday - December 28th 2018 7:57PM MST
In Topics: Humor Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
What do we want, Government Shutdown!
When do we want it? We want it now,
and we'll get back to you later on the restart!
It's nice to be in a position not to even care or hear about it, such as the Peak Stupidity blog finds itself, so we just learned about this latest US Feral Gov't shutdown. The Libertarian in all of us would indeed wish this were permanent, or at least a crash of the whole deal with a chance to do a complete re-boot. Could we just start with the same Constitution with the quick Amendment to the bill of rights - 10-A: We mean it this time?
I note, as I just dug up our "Wheww, Feral Gov't shutdown narrowly averted" post from about a year back, that it's the same crap with the most visible, touristy parts of the immense Feral Gov't being threatened as closed to the public vs. the other 99.9% of the budget (indeed, the National Park Service is allocated about 3 1/2 billion bucks, just under 1/1000th of the budget).
The Congresscritters threaten those living off of the other taxpayers, or just collecting their "due" in the SS Scam (see also Part 1) with not getting their transfer payments on time. Now that is a big chunk of the budget, but it it doesn't take much work on the gov't's part to actually send money from the taxpayers' account to a bunch of individuals. Nope, that's not what the Beltway Bandits are themselves worried about. They want to make sure they can keep their power to dole out the money to potential voters, such as those below, who've taken personal time off of their taxpayer-supported activities for their heartfelt requests, as seen here:
A friend had a good point a coupla' days back when he informed me of this latest shutdown promise, errr, I mean threat. The talk is all about the suspension of work by the non-essential US Gov't employees. Wait a minute, if they're non-essential, by definition, we don't need them, so
a) what's the problem?
and
b) they should all be terminated on the basis of non-essentiality.
Let's see, that's 1,600 reams of hot pink light-weight paper ... with our government discount .... Really, let's just round this up to a million, for ease of back-of-envelope calculations, pick a number of $100,000 each average in salary, overhead, and bennies (when you count pension obligations, well, oh shit... let's not and say we did), and get $100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion bucks) to keep these people employed. It really doesn't sound like much compared to the $4,000,000,000,000 total expenditures - it's 2.5%. However, the transfer payments and the military (with it's own tremendous waste) are a much bigger chunk. Look here for the breakout by the green-eyeshade boys. You'll also notice that EVEN WITH the low, low interest rates being paid on Treasury bonds, interest alone is 6% of the budget, more than 2 X the support of a million employees!
It's not just the money in paying these people, it's the harm that they do to us all in doing their jobs. For the non-Affirmative-Action folks among us, I've always found that people DO want to feel that they are getting something useful done in their jobs. Therefore, there are lots of people at the lower levels that want to be productive in their work, even if that means screwing us harder. There are also the mid-level managers who want something to be proud of and will create programs that screw us not harder but in new creative ways.
What I'd suggested long ago, is that we find a way to let the US Gov't employees, first, as that old Hippocrates suggested, do no harm. We need to develop a program to take these 800,000 people out of the offices and into the pool halls. Can you tell that I thought of this pretty long ago? OK, it could be Mario Cart now for you youngsters ... OK, OK, Minecraft, but just something to keep these people busy for 8 hours a day. Sure, we'd have to spend extra on rolls of quarters, or power cards for Dave & Buster's, but the tremendous savings from being able to live freer lives would pay off immediately, just in reductions in pharmaceutical needs alone!
the Peak Stupidity "Offices-to-Pool-Hall-Pipeline" plan back in his day!
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Happy Christmas from Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Tuesday - December 25th 2018 5:44PM MST
In Topics: Music Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
"Happy" vs. "Merry" must be the British way, per the song below. Peak Stupidity has featured the music of the late Mr. John Lennon before, in this and this post already, and this very same song in a this post from just after Christmas of our first blogging year (already ragging on the so-called Pope).
As I wrote in that post (on the long marches and everlasting revolutions), I am conflicted about where I stand with regard to the politics of this guy, even 50 years later. This great song can't be beat though, whatever you think of the man.
Even with all the stupid, I'll try to keep peace in my heart. Merry Christmas from Peak Stupidity!
Hey, this happened to be post #900. We'll have some more posts this year but it'll probably be only 2 - 4 more, as the season is keeping me busy.
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Christmas and Communism
Posted On: Monday - December 24th 2018 9:23PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music Humor ctrl-left Bible/Religion Socialism/Communism Holiday from Stupidity
There's nobody yet stopping Americans, including "your" Peak Stupidity blogger, from saying Merry Christmas. It's almost gotten that far with the ctrl-left's long-running War on Christmas, but we should still feel grateful that it's not the case so far. We are not in the same position of having religious worship in secret as in Chairman Mao's (and still somewhat on-going) Red China or in the long dark days of the USSR... so far. However, the ctrl-left is not exactly lightening up either in their campaigns against Christianity and all things American. In fact they seem emboldened lately and have been doubling down.
Many readers of Peak Stupidity may be a bit miffed about all the writing on Commies and Socialism/Communism ( > 60 posts with these 2 topic keys ). As we've written in regard to The Neocons and their apparent lack of understanding of the facts with respect to modern-day Russia, the Cold War has been over for almost 3 decades now. Yes, we do know, and that was a hell of a relief too.
We've used the term "Commie" with respect to people who may be known by other just-as-derogatory (to us) terms. There are lots of "-isms" out there to describe lots of stupid philosophies of economics and government. Yes, it's most likely the case that most people in that Ctrl-left crowd have never read a book by Marx, Lenin, Engels or Mao. They haven't been using the phrases "from each according to his ability ..." or forming communes either. They are evil and stupid in their own way, but are they really Communists, as per Peak Stupidity's bandying about of this term?
Well, I'll tell you, the old-time Commies of the USSR, Red China, Viet Nam, and even Cuba, are not what they used to be. However, America is indeed beset by a new crowd with this same evil, stupid, contrary-to-human-nature ideas, as a few points here will illustrate:
1 ) It's been a long time since hard-core Communism was first implemented on a large scale by the first set of instigators and, as we've written, Commies [are] crawling out of the woodwork... it's about that time. Maybe the evil ones behind the scenes haven't really forgotten the ills brought on by this sick philosophy, but their newest useful idiots have either forgotten or never knew the history.
2) Bad economic times are in store, and have already been creeping in for a few decades in American at the formerly middle-class level. This is a great thing for those wanting to "change the world", just as it was in 1920's - '30's Germany. There is plenty of talk nowadays of how "capitalism is not working" so we should just try this other thing, as if we have anything like free market capitalism in this day and age. There are plenty of young people who know no different or better and take in this stuff.
3) Though the external Cold War was won by Ronald Reagan, with help from Maggie Thatcher, Konrad Adenauer, the old (REAL) Pope John Paul II, Lec Walesa of Poland, along with millions of American soldiers, sailors, airman, and engineers and technicians, the long march through the American institutions, the internal front of the Cold War, has been nothing but a retreat for America for 5 decades running.
A pretty big similarity with the ctrl-left of today and the old-time Communists is their disdain for religion. See, their Commie and other "isms" themselves are a religion for them, and a religion that does not tolerate blasphemy and worship of other gods. This explains the current War on Christmas by the left in this country.
Looking back this Christmas time at 24 years ago, we find a humorous (as usual) Seinfeld episode named The Race. As the brilliant writers of that show had one story about Jerry Seinfeld, there was also the hilarious part about Elaine's Communist boyfriend Ned. What I remember about this is realizing that the winning of the Cold War, only 5 years back at this point, was so thorough that even New Yorkers could laugh and make fun of Communism. A most serious threat had been reduced to Seinfeld humor in 1/2 a decade:
Again, this episode was right in time for Christmas, which could be mentioned without worry on TV back in 1994 even by New Yorkers. The best lines, to me are at the end of this scene:
Mickey: "I knew that Commie stuff was going to get us in trouble!"
Kramer: "Yeah, well I didn't realize it was such a sensitive issue."
Mickey: "Communism? You didn't realize Communism was a senstive issue! What do you think's been going on in the world for the last 50 years?! Wake up and smell the coffee!"
What a great time that was, 1994, just before I realized that the Feral Government was going completely out of control. That was 24 years ago, and my, have things changed! It's also been a century since the start up of this evil last go-around, and as The Who sang, "people forget".
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Finally good news out of the White House, and Steve Sailer Snark
Posted On: Saturday - December 22nd 2018 11:34PM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits The Neocons
Things regarding the Trump Presidency looked pretty bleak when Peak Stupidity posted this about Ann Coulter's getting impatient and fed up with him 2 days back. Besides possible good news (that I'll believe when I see it) about the "wall", the President is confounding the Neocons, by planning a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, another in a long list of places they have no business being. He's hinting at extricating the military from other locations too. It is riling up the Neocons to no end.
One commenter under one of the unz posts to follow suggested that possibly this is a bargaining move by Trump to get funding for the wall. He could hold this chip (being the Commander-in-Chief with no judges able to interfere) for ransom. That means the plan would be, if he got his way on the wall funding, to hem and haw on the troop removal, giving the Neocons this back. To me, that might be the case, but it's a bad move, as the border funding, and more-importantly, building CAN be held up by just about anyone. In the meantime, get US the hell out of the middle east, and Korea, and Germany and etc, etc.
This is why, even though not much has been done, the President seems to be on our side. He is worrying and pissing off the usual right people again, Senator Grahamnesty from SC being an example. It seems Peak Stupidity was right that Miss Lindsey was not going to stay on our side for long - see The Coming Out of Lindsey Grahamnesty - Part 3 (Part 1 and Part 2).
Bring these troops home and deploy them at the southern border. Kill 2 birds with one stone that way. It all sounds good now, keeping this roller-coaster ride of hope going, but I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, Mr. Steve Sailer, in 3 snarky posts (so far!) pokes fun at those who are sorely dissapointed that these overseas wars won't go on forever:
1) Disappointed Soldier Was Looking Forward to Hanging Out In Syria for Another 20, 30 Years
2) NYT: Crazed Trump Doesn't Understand That Forever Wars Mean Forever
3) Trump Is Irresponsibly Worrying About American Border Rather Than Syria
It's been a busy time, but hopefully we'll move onto something new and different in the world of stupidity on Monday. Good evening, readers.
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Lügenpresse - German for Lyin' Press
Posted On: Saturday - December 22nd 2018 10:55PM MST
In Topics: Humor Media Stupidity
(not the same issue with this story, BTW)
As a matter of fact, the Germans have been using that term way back, since the mid-1800's, per Wiki,, well before Donald Trump coined it independently(?).
The Wikipedia article on lügenpresse talks about various political factions using the term to diparage the written press on the other side. (I am surprised no lefty has edited it out, but there is even a fairly-written paragraph on the use of the term to refer to the lack of coverage of the Cologne sexual assaults 2 years back on New Years.)
The man in this latest episode of the Lyin' Press revealed is on Claas Relotius, coincidently named like another man who is a complete fake. (Ooops, any 5 y/o Peak Stupidity readers, so sorry, but you were bound to find out someday.)
Lügenpresse: German Journo Invented Stories About Racist Minnesotans, Border "Vigilantes"— Was CNN Journalist Of The Year!. VDare quotes from the original Der Spiegel confessional article below:
The first suspicions emerged following the publication in November 2018 of the article "Jaeger's Border" about an American vigilante group that patrols the border between Mexico and the United States.Let us not jump to assumptions that Mr. Relotius was JUST a complete liar. There may very well be some simple stupidity involved. Note, that he writes about these vigilantes. We did have some regular citizens at the US border looking to spot illegal immigrants, but they were not out to shoot them, and, oh , yeah, it was only about 12 years ago. That was the Minuteman patriot groups that I fully supported (only work obligations prevented me from making an effort to join up). Did Mr. Relotius read a 10 - 12 year old article off the web and miss the date? Things like that happen.
Juan Moreno, who reported the story together with Relotius for DER SPIEGEL, grew distrustful of his colleague. Moreno also reported his concerns to DER SPIEGEL. He didn't relent, and he took advantage of a trip to the U.S. for reporting on another story to gather incriminating information about Relotius -- and also in order to take steps to protect himself, given that his byline had also appeared on the article.
After initially denying the allegations, Relotius finally confessed at the end of last week. It has emerged that he invented entire passages -- not only in the article "Jaegers border," but also in a number of other articles.
It's hard for American to think of Germans as dumb, as we are more likely to picture wire-rimmed-glasses-wearing Dieter from Sprockets:
So, though modern Germans may be weird to us, their intelligence is not usually questioned. After all, anyone who can pronounce Goethe and Nietzsche correctly, much less read their writings, has gotta have something on the ball, right? However, what we've got to remember is that we're talking JOURNALISM here, the mainstream of which contains graduates of one of the easiest majors in college, most of them innumerate, some with no knowledge of history. Why'd this Relotius Claas make up stuff out of whole cloth? Did he think no one in Germany, reading Der Spiegel, could/would see through his BS, or did he really just come up with this view of Americans out of laziness and stupidity?
It is good, but maybe a little surprising, to read that Mr. Claas' colleague did the leg work to debunk Mr. Claas. Behind every one of these fake journalists ratted out, though, how many more are making things up as they go along, and not being found out?
"e's makin' it up as he goes along!":
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Ann Coulter's Tweet Tears Trump (a new one)
Posted On: Thursday - December 20th 2018 10:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
Peak Stupidity does not have a tweet recevier, or whatever you need to tune in to get these things, but our perusal of VDare.com yesterday showed the tweet above, along with our #1 written-pundit's ass-ripping article . I'll tell you, I still remember when Miss Coulter was kind of a go-along-with-the-crowd GOPer, way back before 9/11/01. My, she has grown! Please read the whole column, as I'll just excerpt a small bit:
Maybe I'm a literalist. A zealot. When people kept telling me to be patient—the wall is coming!—I nursed a private hope that I was wrong, and they were right.Yeah, she may have been just a bit more naive than this writer. I've written before, in When did the Feral Government get out of control? (pt 1) that it was a far back as 1995 when I had any optimism that the power of our Feral Gov't would be diminished or used for good. In the time since, now more than 2 decades, I've just not seen anything get better. Every major change in policy has been for the worse. Why would I expect anything seriously helpful to Americans to happen with President Trump in office? I didn't change my story overnight here. I still think that his use of the modern, tweet-based bully pulpit is good, and he meant to do good. I just never really saw how it was going to happen.
It is now crystal clear that one of two things is true: Either Trump never intended to build the wall and was scamming voters all along, or he has no idea how to get it done and zero interest in finding out.
In answer to Ann Coulter's question above, nope, I don't think Mr. Trump was scamming the voters. It's the latter factor - he doesn't have any idea of how to get things done. I've written over and over now, that if the President had picked loyal trusted advisors and department heads, he could have had them take care of the hard thinking and planning. Something really extraordinary, policy for the good of regular Americans could have resulted. He didn't do that, and that hasn't happened.
There just wasn't much time for writing this evening, and if Trump has lost Coulter, his biggest fan, I don't know what to tell you that isn't bleak. However, VDare writer James Kirkpatrick has some more wonky optimism in Time For "Cocaine Mitch" To Deliver; House Passes Wall Funding Bill, Goes To The Senate*. Mr. Kirkpatrick reckons that the President might have read Miss Coulter's tweet (what power she's got!), and who knows? Maybe you have to keep shaming him to get anything done.
One thing that the reader must understand after reading about this wall funding, including Mr. Kirkpatrick's article about the details of the money, is this: IT! IS! NOT! ABOUT! THE! MONEY! As Peak Stupidity back-o-the-envelope-calculated almost 2 years back construction of a serious border barrier and maintenance of the same would incur charges of roughly < 2 hours of the yearly $4,000,000,000,000 US budget one time, and then < 1 hour's worth yearly, respectively. That is assuming the usual cost overruns and corruption, too. Those that block any serious border control are not worried about this chump change. They want open borders, so arguing about the money with them is just futile.
* I couldn't help putting in this title here. "Cocaine Mitch"? That's kind of funny, as it doesn't really seem to fit for this guy that reminds me of a terrapin ... OK, maybe a tortuga to be charitable.
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Minnegadishu and Mary Tyler Moore
Posted On: Wednesday - December 19th 2018 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Student and other Snowflakes Humor Feminism
Mary Richards was the name of the 30 y/o lady character who worked in the WGM-TV newsroom in the 1970's TV show titled from her real(?) name, Mary Tyler Moore. The show was supposed to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, explaining the picture in the previous post of the beautiful Victorian style 3-story house. That was Mary Tyler Moore's TV house, and, no, that particular one probably will not get zoned into Somalia-land, or Minnegadishu. I'm sure it's a public landmark due to the TV show, and after all, it was already a triplex, with Mary Tyler Moore sandwiched between Phyllis below and Rhoda above. By "sandwiched" I don't mean what you may be thinking. This was, besides the left-wing feminist agenda, a family show.
Speaking of those thoughts, and looking at her legs below, I didn't really remember Mary Tyler Moore in this way, though I guess that's easily explained due to being too young to understand:
with landlady young Chloris Leachman and a young girl.
Nope, Mary was bound to never get married, per the show - too busy in the newsroom.
Anyway (she's dead now), as you can see in the top photo above from the intro. to the show, Mary was a happy gal living in the beautiful great-white-northern city of Minneapolis. She had "nothing days" that (this is per the theme song) she could "suddenly make all seem worthwhile", and many dates, but the newsroom career job precluded her getting married apparently - this was a sore spot with my Dad, who could see through the feminist agenda of the show soon enough.
Speaking of this TV newsroom, Ms, I think it was already, Richards worked with the anchorman Ted Baxter, writer Murray Slaughter (later to leave the fake-news business behind and become a cruise-ship Captain), and the boss Lou Grant. The anchorman is made out to be a vain conservative (unrealistic) clueless moron (fairly realistic), but then the rest of them are lefty types, with only Mary being the Minnesota-nice lady type, as the other 2 gave off a Jewish, NYC vibe, more lefty than Mary. Oh, there was one token black guy working at the station, if I recall correctly ... probably an FCC thing (seriously, for real life, even back in the 1970's that stuff had started.)
What I'm getting at here is that the characters on the show represented very well the kind of people that would be just really keen, dontcha' know, on bringing in some new residents from exotic foreign lands to their fine white city. The feminism and general left-wing agenda viewed in The Mary Tyler Moore show is exactly what has, in real life, caused the mess that Minnegadishu is in now. A male-dominated Conservative culture would probably draw the line somewhere, let's say at 1,000 African arrivals - to the WHOLE DAMN STATE.
I'm really not sure Mary Tyler Moore would feel safe in throwing her hat up into the air without worry about it getting stolen in modern Minnegadishu, much less go jogging in imaginary (least in my mind) skimpy bright red shorts around the many downtown ponds. I guess there are the Somalian ladies now who may want those jobs at the TV station (with help from AA... you know, the legacy of slavery and all...), and could easily live 6 to an apartment in Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis' old house. Diversity is good, right? Just change out one set of people with another set. Besides the cuisine change, we're all exactly the same.
It's not just the legs. I want my Mary Tyler Moore!
Note below in the theme song that they had nothing but white people, even though I doubt that was the shows' producer's intention. Minneapolis was 94% white at the time of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and is now in the low 60%'s.
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A taste of Somalia - 2: Minnegadishu
Posted On: Tuesday - December 18th 2018 8:08PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Race/Genetics ctrl-left
It's right here in the great white(?) north, across the Mississippi River from St. Paul, our own taste of Somalia. In a recent post Peak Stupidity ranted about the Foodies and their incessant need for Cuisine Change in America. We mentioned the Somalian inroads into America via the Minneapolis (soon to be Minnegadishu) concession. You nice Minnesota ladies and un-excitable old-stock men invited a few poor, poor refugees because you felt sorry for them, and for the vibrancy and the food. Well, it beats the same Swedish meatballs and whitefish every night don't it, Mom? You betcha'.
Sure, the new cuisine is one thing*, but now the pet project of the nice socialists and ctrl-left instigators is running into a few snags. See, assimilation is not working, as in never does when you have large numbers, and even less so when the goal is to assimilate black Moslem people from the horn of Africa:
The thing is, the new arrivals don't really like to live in, much less keep up, the nice dwellings like Mary Tyler Moore's TV-land house pictured above. They want the zoning laws gotten rid of, and the ctrl-left is only too glad to help. From the BareNakedIslam website, we learn MINNESOTASTAN: Minneapolis’ far-leftist City Council votes to end anti-Muslim “racism” by moving mostly low-income/welfare Somali Muslim families into upscale neighborhoods. Things are fixin' to get vibrant like the outer shells of the electrons of a coupla' thousand moles of Sodium atoms thrown into a toilet bowl by a budding high-school chemist/2nd-degree-burn victim.
Across the spectrum of activists, Minneapolis 2040’s proposal to allow multifamily housing — first fourplexes, then triplexes — in every neighborhood in the city has generated the most debate. The city’s long-range planning director, Heather Worthington, has said that, in general, the proposal aims to “diversify” housing citywide and reverse some of the damage from historical exclusionary zoning policies. (In other words, working hard in order to be able to afford a home in a safe neighborhood is considered “exclusionary.”)The thing is, hehe, ha, hahahaaa, that .... wait ... I read this news article with a smile on my face. Sorry, I just couldn’t help it, though, suffice it to say, I don’t live in Minneapolis (if the Peak Stupidity reader here does, than I apologize for that outburst). The snowflakes have only themselves to blame as this new vibrancy changes the rules in their formerly nice, formerly quiet abodes in the great formerly white north. The zoning laws are designed to prevent nice neighborhoods having the "neighbor" part torn off. They've been in place a long time, so there's no reason to change ... I know you had a deal Minneapolitans, but rule-of-law, zoning rules, etc. are not part of the Somalian culture.
“There was redlining here, and that kept people of color (Muslims) from having the same resources and opportunities as white people,” said Salica. “We see the 2040 plan as one step — one important step — in reducing that.
There are ~ 20,000 Somalians in Minnegadishu now, and though a still small minority, they will have a disproportionate impact on the culture of that city. Why do I have a song in my head called You've got another thing coming.?
* About the food, per commenter Anon7 on unz:
I’ve been fascinated by African cuisine ever since I was invited to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in the early 1990′s. Of course, I looked up traditional Ethiopian food on the nascent Internet and found that it consisted mostly of small amounts of bark and nuts, usually followed by long periods of famine. I never went back to the restaurant.Well as we've been told: As horrific as large-scale famine is, if our diverse cuisine becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.
** For the excellent Fargo clip (as related to Ronald Reagan) see Part 3 of our Donnie vs. Ronnie discussion.
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More of the Papal Bull
Posted On: Tuesday - December 18th 2018 9:20AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
I'd read an article on VDare a few weeks back, so this post is lagging behind. As is mostly the case for what we document here, the stupidity is widespread over space and time. It's been a while since any discussion about the stupidity of the So-Called Pope "we've" got now. Therefore, it's time for Peak Stupidity to put another verbal beatdown on this Commie Francis, his coterie of Cardinals and Bishops (whichever is higher, I haven't played a game of chess in ages). Notice I put "we've" in quotes, as I'm not a part of that Catholicism crowd, so we can write anything here with no fear of excommunication. (Can a website be excommunicated? That's the kind of stuff these people should be discussing, rather than ...)
VDare writer Eugene Gant IS a practicing Catholic (it does take a lot of practice), and he's pretty uspset about the Papal crowd's deliberate ignorance, and covering up of molestations, of boy parishioners by priests. That story has been around for a many decades, of course, and could be better summed-up by someone more in the know. It's not just these head Catholics' refusal to own up to this, that's got Mr. Gant upset about his church but it's the way they defer all the evil and blame, per A Catholic Layman Wanted His Bishops To Talk About The Lavender Mob—But They Wanted To Talk About “Racism”!.
If you do keep up with the whole sexual-abuse scandal, you may still want to read Mr. Gant's column as, per VDare's usual style, he has many links in his writing to sources (they are left out in our Peak Stupdity excerpts here). I'd read a book or two some years ago about the Middle Ages, one of them specifically about the Catholic Church "management" over those years. Read about the Borgia-era Popes sometime. Orgies, drinking, carrying-on, it was a scene man. The good thing is, any kind of news of bad behavior could take weeks, months, or infinity to get around. We have our eye on these people now. (The so-called Pope would do himself and all of us a favor by not tweeting at least.) Some of those Middle Age Popes do make current Commie Francis look like something of a choir boy in comparison. However, as discussed before here, it's the current guy's submission to PC, Islam, and Globalism that we have a problem with. Eugent Gant writes:
Make no mistake, this crisis is about an adult homosexual conspiracy in the Church. For years, the Main Stream Media peddled the pedophile-priest myth. Catholics believed it and served the interests of the hierarchy. But most of the victims weren’t children. They were teenagers and young men. The revelations about Cardinal Theodore “Uncle Ted” McCarrick and other reports disclosed an ugly truth too secret too long: deviants are in charge, even in Rome. [Man Says Cardinal McCarrick, His ‘Uncle Ted,’ Sexually Abused Him for Years, By Sharon Otterman, NYT, July 19, 2018]Hey, not my problem - I'm not a card-carrying member. It's the sheer hypocrisy that warrents mention here. These top Vatican men are now haranguing their parishoners about their supposed RACISM to deflect attention from all the ugly things going on under (or by) their leadership:
Vatican cops busted a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in one of the city-state’s apartments. [ Pope knowingly gave Vatican apartment to gay priest later caught in cocaine-fuelled orgy , by Lisa Bourne, LifeSite, August 29, 2018] Homosexuals such as McCarrick built a network to gain control of the chanceries and even elect a Leftist like Pope Francis. Check out the story of the “St. Gallen Mafia.”[ Leader of St. Gallen ‘mafia’, “Ante-Pope” Martini prepared the way for Francis, by Julia Meloni March 9, 2018]
That’s right. The bishops strapped on armor and sallied forth with a brave statement against racism. What courage to go out on that limb! The vote was 241-3. [Bishops approve pastoral letter against racism, by Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service, November 14, 2018] (I’ve not been able to find out who the dissenters were).Mr. Gant uses both common sense and his Biblical knowledge to refute some of this stupidity out of the Catholic leadership. This follows from the last excerpt, so I've included > 1/3 of the article. We've been better about this copy/paste style over the last year, but here goes anyway:
Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love—A Pastoral Letter Against Racism, from the bishops’ openwideCommittee On Cultural Diversity, flatly and falsely informs the Catholic layman—the same layman some bishop might well have molested—that he is most likely a racist. Don’t worry whether a McCarrick-favored priest might molest your 15-year-old son in the sacristy. That white guy by the baptismal said Trump’s right on the migrants!
Besides telling a minimally-educated Catholic nothing he doesn’t know, the letter conscripts one of the Bible’s primordial stories to impart the bishops’ false message, then peddles claims they know are false. This isn’t a profound letter from thoughtful men educated in theology and philosophy. It’s more like a lazily-assembled hit piece from an intern at the $outhern Poverty Law Center. [Oh, if only! You may have heard of the $outhern Poverty Law Center here before, as right now, lowly Peak Stupidity can only wish we had the attention of an intern at the $outhern Poverty Law Center ... sigh ... Ed.]
Herewith a few choice quotes, followed by commentary to unpack the misleading or outrightly false claimsI guess another piece of Papal Bull will have to come out to answer those tough questions. Notwithstanding the hypocrisy that Mr. Gant covers here, he should understand that the perforative "racist" does not have to be taken as the ultimate in being an evil one. It hardly means squat anymore, and don't sweat the name-calling anyway. I suppose it's hard hearing it from the people who are supposed to be the religious leaders that provide you with advice in following God. At least in Protestant Churches, you can shop around. They have to put up with these guys until the 2nd Coming.Racism arises when—either consciously or unconsciously—a person holds that his or her own race or ethnicity is superior, and therefore judges persons of other races or ethnicities as inferior and unworthy of equal regard. When this conviction or attitude leads individuals or groups to exclude, ridicule, mistreat, or unjustly discriminate against persons on the basis of their race or ethnicity, it is sinful. Racist acts are sinful because they violate justice.What do the bishops mean by “superior,” “inferior” and “unworthy of equal regard?” They don’t say. Part of the fun of growing up Catholic was thinking the Micks in your parish were better, smarter and tougher than the Wops in the parish three blocks over, then beating them in Catholic Youth Organization basketball and stealing their girlfriends to prove it.
But, of course, that’s not what worries the bishops. They mean white and black. Or white and brown.
Good enough. What if I refuse to shop in a certain part of town because blacks predominate and I don’t want to get mugged or murdered? What if I tell my white, 100-pound daughter not to walk to her car in a dark parking lot if she sees five blacks shucking and jiving around it, obviously up to no good. What if I think admitting blacks with low grades to college is a bad idea because they can’t handle the work? Am I a racist?
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A taste of Somalia - more American Cuisine Change
Posted On: Monday - December 17th 2018 8:12AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Race/Genetics
While trudging through an airport last week I tried to avoid watching the electronic exhaust of the Lyin'Press, that is, those CNN-spouting screens hanging from wall and ceilings. One of them happened to blare out something while I was coming up under it, with a caption/headline on-screen saying "A taste of Somalia." Now, don't quote me on the exact country, but it was some African shithole that was Kenya or Ethiopia, if not Somalia. This news story was about the opening of some new restaurant or district of restaurants serving us this cuisine that we couldn't do without, hence the need for ruination of American society via uncontrolled immigration ... or something.
The Peak Stupidity blog has discussed this aspect of the immigration problem before, in The Stupidity of the Foodies. However, I'm writing this addition due to this stuff was phrased there on the TV. A taste of Somalia made me wonder if those TV talking-dummkopfs have ever really had a taste of the country of Somalia or a taste of Somalian-enriched areas of America.
You want at taste of Somalia, you TV foodheads? Why don't you go to Mogadishu (the one in the Old Country, not the Minnesota concession), eat your favorite food there out on the street, and stay as long as you like.
All countries of the world LUV LUV LUV millions of immigrants, right? When you go off to your new life in Somalia, bring your papers, your bribe money, and bring your AK (unending-arguably your AR)!, as Somalians don't take Visa for their fly-shit infested outdoor dining, and not even Diner's Club. Reliable Toyota pick-up truck, $4,000 in bribe money from a government official ... fine outdoor cuisine, $1.75 ... not being found dead on the street and getting shipped back to New York in a Military Airlift Command C-17 for a funeral attended by Christiane Amanpour, PRICELESS!
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Long Marches, never-ending marches, and Revolutions
Posted On: Saturday - December 15th 2018 9:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Music Feminism China Curmudgeonry
The "Women's March" is the newest feminist movement, purporting to stand, or hopefully march to somewhere, for the right to all the feminist ideas that haven't already been destroying society. They'll be out there wearing those pink pussy hats that they knitted themselves via grrrll powah, made from inexpensive yarn made by machinery built by men, arriving via transportation built by men on roads built by men, carrying their supplies produced in factories built and run by men, oh, including some feminine products developed and built by men. From the Women's March very own website, run by software and on hardware designed/built by men, we read:
And we’re committed to deepening relationships with any community who has felt left out of this movement. We want to create space where all are welcome. We are trying to build an intersectional women’s movement.Yeah, at the intersection of stupidity and retardation ... OK, I promise that I did not write the post to knock feminism. This stuff just comes out.
Let's stay inside and knit more pink hats for THE MARCH.
The point here is about just the name of this movement, the Women's March, and other movements like it. See, a march is a transient event, not a long-term thing. You walk a ways, yell some shit, get tired, and it's OVAH! This irks me, as with another example to come shortly.
I guess there could be a march that lasts a while, say the Long March of the Chinese Communists from October of 1934 to October of 1935. This 3,700 to 5,500 mile trek, depending on whom you talk to, but still a pretty daunting distance even for the Forrest Gumps of the world, is big in Chi-Com lore. The Commies like to call it a march now, but it started as a retreat from the Nationalist Chinese under General Chiang, and only 10-15 thousand reds were left out of > 100,000 after Mao's contingent got far enough away (for a while) into Guizhou province in deepest yellowest China. Even so, it was eventually over. A march is a thing you do, not a movement.
Since Communists were mentioned, this brings up the other BIG example, which is the use of the term "revolution" for a long-term movement, rather than the transient phenomena of (most times) war or other turmoil to change the system of government. Our great founders of our country for instance, started a revolution and fought this 5-year Revolutionary War, and then it was over.
The Communists (isn't it always!) OTOH, in various lands around the world have had on-going "revolutions" for decades upon decades.
It was especially a thing with the (as of yet) longest-term Commie of them all, a thorn in the side of Cold War America, Fidel Castro (pictured above, starting a revolution as a youngster in 1959). It didn't matter whether it was now 1970, 1980, 1990, or 2000, the revolution was still on. You could have been born 20 years after the Cuban government of Fulgencio Batista was overthrown, and Cuba had been a shithole for years, but you still needed to "support the revolution". If you wanted some liberty or free markets, well, you were "against the revolution!"
That type of talk was big with the Chinese Communists too, but lesser so, from my recollection with the Soviets of the USSR. I tell you what, if the same damn sorry-assed place has the same sorry-assed economy and the same broke-assed population as it did 5 decades ago, there's nothing revolutionary about it, my cigar-smoking amigo.
"But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
you ain't gonna' make it with anyone anyhow ..."
Finally, in this Beatles song from 1968, note that the first verse (verses follow the choruses in this one), John Lennon sings "If you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out (in!)" I am conflicted about where I stand with regard to the politics of this guy, even 50 years later.
If I must, for the youngsters, The Beatles were:
John Lennon - Guitar, vocals
Paul McCartney - Bass, piano, vocals
George Harrison - Guitar, vocals
Ringo Starr - Drums, backing vocals (very occasionally lead vocals)
Peak Stupidity featured John Lennon's music before with Nobody Told Me, and Paul McCartney with Helen Wheels and Junior's Farm
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Ronnie vs. Donnie: Conclusion
Posted On: Saturday - December 15th 2018 3:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Americans US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents
(continued from the "Intro.", "the Personalities", "Foreign Policy", and "Domestic Policy")
Peak Stupidity has a habit sometimes of sticking with a topic right through the point of boring even our lead blogger. I need to finish this, and perhaps my thoughts (intro) from 2 1/2 weeks back after President Trump Bragged "I Blow Ronald Reagan Away" will get me interested again here.
Though he got co-opted in some manner by the Deep State, possibly around the time he was shot, Ronald Reagan was the Conservative for the times, back in 1980. He'd been a thoughtful principled conservative since the 1950's in Hollywood (a feat in itself) and he stayed one until the end. Sure, there were some mishaps and some badly misplaced trust over his Presidential terms, but I just can't say much bad about the guy. There's a guy worth lowering the flag for, and Americans did, back in 2004.
People said that President Reagan was too old to work hard, sleeping in some meetings, etc., but really, because he was wise enough of an executive to pick the right cabinet heads and advisors (mostly, perhaps excepting the VP), it didn't matter. Nobody says the executive does any real work - he lays out the strategy, approves or rejects the tactics proposed by advisors, and watches it pan out.
Besides the most-important accomplishment of ending the Cold War, something no American would have imagined at the start of Reagan's presidency, he held the line as much as he could on domestic policy. He did get hoodwinked on the US Feral Gov't welfare spending, but, as written, he never had a GOP-controlled House to help him.
Donald Trump doesn't have a lot of highfalutin principles and, I suppose, never claimed to have. He does seem to be on the side of real Americans, so people such as me have not sweated his lack of understanding of the Constitution, just as a small example. That was only due to the enthusiasm for Mr. Trump as one man he cared about the existential job to be done - fixing the immigration invasion. Nope, I didn't care that he was a playboy and how much corruption went on with his big-time real estate business in New York City. He was the candidate since who knows when (maybe since the 1920's) to bring up the immigration problem as a main issue.
Mr. Trump is the high-energy guy, and, with his being almost the same age as Reagan was, that's an amazing thing. It doesn't help, though, if the energy is expended via tweeting out replies to Lyin' Press detractors, getting sucked into the whole 2-years-long-now contrived brew-haha about The Russians! Without having a good loyal staff to work FOR, rather than AGAINST him, he wastes this energy trying to do things on his own, or fighting his own employees.
President Trump has not come through on his main goal, or his supporters' main goal, the control of illegal and legal immigration into the US. I don't think things are going to be easier for him either, as he goes from a cuckservative-controlled House/Senate to slightly-less-cuckservative/Democrat controlled chambers. The book about his presidency about which Trump based his brag on list loads of itemized accomplishments. Most of these are economic numbers that are based solely on the optimistic expectations of Americans. Sure, you're gonna be more optimistic knowing there is not some type of Hildabeast in the White House bent on complete destruction of traditional America. I would never argue that I'd rather Mr. Trump had lost the election in '16.
The fact is, if the existential problem of immigration is not dealt with, any of the economic accomplishments will be for naught. I still hold out a little hope, but so far President Trump has failed us.
In conclusion, No, President Trump, you do not "blow President Reagan away". As of right now, President Reagan still blows you clean out of the water!
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I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings
Posted On: Friday - December 14th 2018 9:19PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Americans US Feral Government
There's a glut of Curmudgeonry posts backed up in the Peak Stupidity pipeline. If they don't come out, the pressure will build up to levels capable of fracturing the entire website ... she no canna' hold, Captain, she'll blow she will!
Look for a few more, before the posting goes back to some of the themes covered as of late. Here today we will just rant on about a topic broached during the discussion of the extended mourn-porn* in the Lyin' Press for our Dowager ex-King, Bush I. Look, he died, I! GET! THAT!
When did the George HW Bush, or 41 (?!) die anyway, more than a week ago? I am still seeing flags at half-mast all over the place. Did another piece of royalty die in the meantime? Should we possibly just keep the flags where they are to cover all the possible US Feral Gov't former executives that may croak daily?
Surprisingly to me, the whole State Funeral bit has been going on since the early years of this country. I would have thought that these independent freedom-loving men would not have been interested in making a big deal of the death of an executive of one branch of their Federal Government, having said "Farewell to Kings" not so long before.
I suppose it's just the fact that it's been one after another, with Juan McAmnesty, nothing but one Neocon Senator from Arizona out of 100, being accorded this royal treatment 3 months earlier, that's got me sick of this. Let us avoid this mourn-porn as much as possible (though I wrote this post earlier, I saw flags STILL at 1/2-mast just an hour ago!)
Peak Stupidity featured the excellent Rush song, Closer to the Heart 1 1/2 years back, so here is the title song of their album, A Farewell to Kings:
*H/T to one Mr. Anon, who apparently would like to remain anonymous, for that term from a comment of his.
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