The Eagles - In the City and lack of a better post.
Posted On: Wednesday - November 28th 2018 5:20PM MST
In Topics: Music
I had a good humorous post coming, based on the Eagles song above that they will not let anyone keep up. (Well, yeah, there is the one concert version, in which YOU CAN'T HEAR SQUAT, that comes up on top, and then one with a computer voice saying the lyrics - who does that?!) Are the remaining Eagles that hard up on money that they need to sell a $0.99 copy of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks every 2 or 3 days, so they don't want Peak Stupidity to get ahold of it? These guys could say "hell froze over"* again, and regroup and make a million bucks a piece anytime they want. I noticed that it was hard to get 2 other songs before when I needed them for this blog, The Last Resort, and Already Gone. Both, however, appeared on youtube long after my posts were written and read. OK, then, I'll check every once and a while if this song appears and write the post.
While searching for 15 minutes, I did decide that The Long Run album, their last album before they split up*, had some other great songs. This one, In the City, was sung by a sort of part-time member of the band who I believe became full-time on that Long Run tour. Joe Walsh, featured here, with one of his solo numbers, was one of the many 1970's Southern California music artists, lots of whom hung out and helped each other in various ways with the music. He's got a unique voice, and doesn't it sound like he's singing this from across the street?
The Long Run album was made well past the phase in which the band made the great country rock. That stuff was influenced by the banjo player/singer Bernie Leadon, who had left the band before Hotel California. In addition, IMO, the bassist Randy Meisner had a mellow country-like influence too, and he left the band after Hotel California to be replaced by Tim Schmidt.
It was impossible to top the great songs of the Hotel California album, but this one wasn't half bad. The band playing on The Long Run album and tour was:
Don Felder – guitars, organ, backing vocals
Glenn Frey – guitars, keyboards, vocals
Don Henley – drums, percussion, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, vocals
* Because the band was full of artists that were talented enough to be stars in their own rights, there was much rivalry and animosity, especially once they went to the top of the charts, as they
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Ronnie vs. Donnie - Intro.
Posted On: Wednesday - November 28th 2018 4:39PM MST
In Topics: Trump Americans US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents
The DrudgeReport (yeah, I know!) has the headline "Trump Brags : 'I Blow Ronald Reagan Away'". Even with the assumption of usual Donald Trump hype and Matt Drudge ultra-hype, this was one that I just had to click on. The Washington Examiner article is short and fair - the thing is that, name notwithstanding, the "Examiner" series of websites are not part of the MSM, "system media", or Lyin' Press, as Peak Stupidity puts it. Therefore, one can get some fairness. It just used to be, and maybe still is, that these sites have long been terrible usability-wise, hence the general avoidance of links to them here.
In interest of fairness, President Trump stated that per a new favorable book, Trump's Enemies, he "blows Ronald Reagan away", but is still disappointed at the American public's non-realization. of that. Here are his words:
“The amazing thing is that you have certain people who are conservative Republicans that if my name weren’t Trump, if it were John Smith, they would say I’m the greatest president in history and I blow Ronald Reagan away,” said Trump.Due to lack of visibility through the veil of the Lyin' Press, I will not pretend to know about all the 289 victories, but just based on Trump's further talk on this (in the article), I believe he confuses running his mouth with getting things done oftentimes. Don't get me wrong - his heart is in the right place, just like Ronald Reagan, and the bully pulpit CAN make a difference. I know we all appreciate lots of his statements against the current-day ctrl-left establishment. However, I've gotta say this, and those with a long-enough memory to know where this comes from will probably also agree with me: I saw Ronald Reagan. I voted for Ronald Reagan. I wholeheartedly supported Ronald Reagan, and President Trump, you're no Ronald Reagan!. Unlike the original statement of this sort made by Lloyd Bentson*, I don't mean this all in a one-sided way.
“All these guys that if they looked at my agenda with a different name...and he got the biggest regulation cuts in history in less than two years, judges, environmental stuff, getting out of the Paris horror show. If you said that conservative president John Smith did that, they would say he’s the greatest president. Far greater than Ronald Reagan,” added the president.
Trump has often declared that his list of achievements is historic. Secrets recently listed 289 major victories that stack up well against recent presidents.
These two American Presidents are so un-alike that I want to make a whole lot of comparisons now, though I see right away that this will likely take 2 to 4 more posts. Let me just make this one an introduction, starting with what President Donald Trump and the late President Ronald Reagan DO have in common: Both of these men are/were supported by conservative patriotic Americans at a time when things looked like they were, or actually are, going to hell in this country. They were both very anti-establishment and not supported by the mainstream Republicans as they ran for INITIAL election and in the primary elections for the GOP. Peak Stupidity looks favorably on both of these guys, so let's consider all this discussion in light of that.
No, I DO NOT think President Trump "blows" President Reagan "away", by any means. In the interest of not spoiling the ending of this series though, let me make my arguments on the following topics first, and then it'll be time to pick the best man:
1) Differences in personalities, and methods of leading.
2) Difference in principles.
3) Comparison of Foreign Policy.
4) Comparison of Domestic Policy.
5) Results
The thought of comparing Donnie and Ronnie had never occurred to me until seeing that Drudge headline, precisely because they are so different. More to come, then ....
* Lloyd Bentson was a Vice-Presidential candidate running with Democrat Michael Dukakis and his statement was made in a VP candidate debate with Republican Dan Quayle (running mate to George H.W. Bush - CIA) in 1988. "You are no Jack Kennedy." was the the gist of it, and at the time, I didn't reckon that was any kind of insult at all.
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Peak Stupidity Celebrates 2nd Blogversary!
Posted On: Tuesday - November 27th 2018 6:09PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites
Yep, it was November 27th of 2016 when this blog began it's very important work of blogging stupidity to the world. Yes, WORLDWIDE - it' the World Wide Web, is it not? "Stupidity does not stop at the border!" - George Bush (one of those 2 idiots, I think). We welcome readers from all over the world, so long as they are not in Russia, China, or Indonesia (yes a new one) trying to spam our comment section with viagra ads.
With a little bit of a last-fortnight push, the Peak Stupidity blog ended up with 500 blog posts by our 1st Blogversary. The rate of posting has slowed since then, as the very post this morning put us at 865 of them total. That's a nice number though, as it's exactly 1 post per day average over the last year. No we don't post every day, so the rate is probably 1.2 posts per "posting day", but I don't think that means anything, come to think about it. Any reader who's followed us* for long would have realized that the posts have gotten significantly longer, on average. I'd already noticed that 1 year ago.
The numbers are pretty good, folks. I don't like to give out raw data, but "Site Visits" are up in the many thousands monthly and "Page Views" are in the lower 5 digits. I don't want to compare to our first month, December of '16, since the numbers were very low, though growing as the site got recognized by the search engines, etc. A year-to-year comparison for each of the last 3 months (after subtracting out a good guess of that Russian spam** and some Indonesian attempted something-or-other last month), gives these numbers:
| MONTH: | Visits y/y | Views y/y | ||
| Sept '18/'17: | 172 | 101 | ||
| Oct '18/'17: | 115 | 99 | ||
| Nov*** '18/'17: | 185 | 119 |
I would now like to give wholehearted thanks to all of you regular readers for giving some thought toward the opinions of Peak Stupidity. If I didn't know a very decent number of people read the posts, I probably wouldn't have the motivation to keep on. Though there are not many comments, the ones that appear here are from very polite, erudite and interesting commenters, and I do appreciate each and every one I get.
Upon running this blog, I had first thought, say in the first year, that I might just run out of subjects to post on or get repetitive. I do repeat some basic themes, but I will definitely not run out of posts, and they keep coming, often in groups of 3 to 5 in my head, about ever other day I peruse my small reading space on the internet. Then there are 1 to 3 weekly that come from daily life observations. It does not look like we are at Peak Stupidity yet, so I'm not worried anymore about lack of material!
What's next? I think I will stick with the essay-type posts, at least 3-5 a week, but will try to put in some short "hey, look as this s__t!" ones in more. (They often turn into essays now, is the thing. I've got to learn to cut them off better.) I added the Bread and Circuses Topic Key just yesterday, but I hesitiate to add more keys, as I need to go through 865 posts and assign more of them. That'll be a job.
Speaking of jobs, we come to the big elephant in the room. I appreciate my readers more due to the fact that you all put up with the very simple navigation features, which is NOT VERY MUCH. Work on the website itself is something I haven't even thought about since summer '17. When I get started, I'll make a number of changes for the better. As I'd written during an aborted attempt (see just 1st paragraph), it's not the complications, but just the time involved in trying to both blog and work on the software, that's the problem. I will ease the minds of those who don't like change too much, that the format will remain the same. It's not pretty, but you're used to it, right? That's how I'd feel about it.
Again, thank you all very much for reading!
* No, no, not that FaceBook/Twitter "Following" stuff! We don't partake in that crap. I meant just plain keeping up with the blog.
** Peak Stupidity put the kibosh on that spam over 1 year back. It's very clear no humans are much involved (besides possibly just logging the site on some form), as it didn't take much, but we still want to apologize for making it easy to lose a comment with our fix, especially for 1st-time readers. You want CAPTCHA? No, you don't want CAPTCHA.
*** Extrapolated linearly for last 4 days of Nov. 2018
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The Fun Feminism of the 1970's
Posted On: Tuesday - November 27th 2018 9:40AM MST
In Topics: Music TV, aka Gov't Media Feminism
Something someone wrote somewhere in a blog comment recently related to the famous Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs tennis match of 1973, brought these current thoughts up to be expounded upon here today on Peak Stupidity. Billie Jean King was a competent woman tennis player during the time, and a 26-year-older player named Bobby Riggs challenged her to this famous "Battle of the Sexes" (Oh, wait, now it'd be "Battle of the Genders", wouldn't it?) It was a big thing at the time, as big as frivolous "things" like this could be back in the day well before 24/7 infotainment.
My memory of this event is kind of hazy and mostly just associated with the great Elton John song below. However, a 5-year old Takimag* article, I'd read a few years back, had more fun details, and can be read here - it's called Bobby Rigged (nice easy pun there!), and is continued on a 2nd page. Mr. Taki argues against some rumors that'd come out that the match was rigged, but one can easily understand how that could be seen as a reason for Mr. Riggs' participation in the match. When you think back on the 1970's, without the ubiquitous cameras and other forms of Artificial Stupidity, doing schemes like rigging games and other cons, had to be a lot less worrisome. You'd have to be a bigshot Suprano-type Mafioso, or Russian or Arab diplomat to warrant the placement of expensive bugging devices that could easily be defeated by acts like walking outside! I'm sure getting beat at his sport by a woman was not something Bobby Riggs would enjoy by itself, so he surely had some ulterior motives. (BTW, "rigged" is such a 1970's word too.)
About the feminism, as we try to stay on topic here, upon thinking back, and now seeing a bunch of photos of the Ms. (yes, she may have been the 1st or 2nd Ms there ever was) King and Mr. Riggs together, it all looks like good fun. Just look at them. This tennis match, and a number of them like it at the time, were viewed with a little less stupidity than can be seen today in the world of feminism. Sure, Billie Jean King had the grrrll power, though that wasn't the term then, and woman could be all proud and you could hear them roar (usually off the court, back at the hotel) and shit. However, I'm pretty sure that all understood that the current male tennis greats, the Jimmy Conners and Boris Beckers, would have pounded Ms. King into the ground with not a single point scored by the female side. Fun was to be had by all, tennis fans and others, and the men could humor their woman by watching this entertaining tennis match with them. Who took it seriously?
And then there was Maude ♪♫♬ ... Even the uberfeminist purported head-of-household (filing jointly?) in the Maude TV show of the time, spun off from All in the Family, though containing lots of feminist lines and slogans, was not to be taken seriously. (OK, the only thing to take seriously was Maude's show-daughter's big hooters, probably the reason
That's not to say that the feminists BEHIND the scenes were not dead serious about their society-destroying feminist stupidity. There were the Hildabeasts of Yesteryear, of course. Their agenda kept on infiltrating. The affirmative action that has impeded or destroyed 10's of millions of men's careers, and the divorce law family destruction were all in progress. There was even the ERA a freakin' proposed Amendment to the US Constitutions, guaranteeing, I'm no lawyer, but God knows what, just one year earlier. This was APPROVED, for crying out loud, by the US House and Senate, but never ratified by the 3/4 of States required by the 1979 deadline.
Just as an aside on that "Equal Rights" Amendment, what was the idea there? Did woman have fewer rights in the courts of law, as the name would suggest? Was it to guarantee the stupidity of equality of OUTCOMES? That never works. If not that, then what? Equality of sentencing would have been really fun, as that'd have tripled the number of women in jails across the country. Right now, the p-factor still holds sway in the court of law, and sentencing is very UNEQUAL. Luckily, Americans at the State level were not as stupid as those in the Feral Government in the '70's, though I think the stupidity has been EQUALIZED since then.
During the 1970's, on the visible level of society though, feminism was kind of a fun joke, like pet rocks, sweat bands, and jogging until you drop dead. Look at another picture and tell me whether these folks were just the tweeters of yesteryear. Nah, instead of the modern-day foul-mouthed tweets by children of great privilege and low work output, you had Bobby Riggs and Ms. (for fun) Billie Jean King playing a 3-set tennis match. Because TV news, as mentioned earlier, was only a thing for 30 minutes daily, if you bothered at all, this big piece of infotainment was not pushed on those who didn't want any part of the silliness of it. On the other hand, you may not have ever been able to find out that the 55 y/o Mr. Riggs purposefully did not exercise or play ANY tennis for 2 months prior to the match with 29 y/o Billie Jean King. It's not like riding a bicycle, you know, except in the aerobic sense.
(And what are those people doing just hanging out on the roof?
And how come the tennis balls look white in these Black&White photos?)
Just as another fun aside (least for me), this famous Battle of the Sexes took place just when tennis was becoming a big sport for the American general public. Not everyone needed to be a country-club member or have a clay court behind the mansion anymore. Tennis was BIG, BIG, BIG, in the 1970s' with the women and men in white, and the shushing of the crowd, and now, the newest thing, COLORED TENNIS BALLS! Yes, the reader may not know that the balls were white until about the early '70's as the public wanted to try something new (aside from bigger racket heads a bit later). I believe it was the fact the fluorescent paint and dyes were new, but first there was the green/yellow that is standard now, but there were bright orange balls (like hunter's clothing) for a few years, and there was even purple for a while. No, I am not hallucinating about the purple, though it's true that this was a drug-friendly period in American history.
Oh, right, "WHO WON?! JUST! ANSWER! THE! QUESTION!", the reader may have rightfully been asking for the last 5 minutes. Ms. King beat Mr. Riggs in 3 straight sets - YOU GO GIRL! How much do you want to bet that Bobby Riggs did this for the publicity value? If he did beat the lady, it would have looked as if he were a mean bully, so there'd have been no gain in that, hence the laying off of tennis and other exercise for 2 months prior.
What came of of the popular feminism of the time were things like paying attention to more women's sports, not just the volleyball and tennis due to the outfits (SO MUCH BETTER during the time before the William's brothers). The reason I even remember anything about the match is this: A woman's tennis team, in a woman's tennis league, was formed with Ms. King being a starring member in 1974 of the (Holy Moley, still in business! Who knew?!) Philadelphia Freedoms. Now, lots of us may know that women aren't exactly team players. They don't work well in areas in which one has to work for a very specific goal while putting oneself only in a position that does the most good for the team. Take the reality survivor shows, please, as an example. Because it doesn't work well, and also (back to reality) women having the lower amount of talent/skill in most sports, we don't care about watching ... except for, yes, beach volleyball.
Where this is leading to, finally, is my association of that tennis match with Mr. Elton John's great song, Philadelphia Freedom from 1975. It is one of his few hit songs that was not to be part of an album. Elton John wanted this song to be in honor of this women's tennis team, as Mr. John, later, during the long latter part of his career as a gay entertainer, must have felt some kinship due to ... well, I don't really know... Mr. Bernie Taupin, Elton's lyricist, has stated that the song was not specifically about anything, but because America's Bicentennial year of founding, 1976 was the next year, this song was very much associated with America, back in the days of freedom.... back in the days when even feminism had not yet intruded fully on our freedom.
Make what you will of the lyrics - you know how we feel about them - but this is one of Elton's very best:
It's the same great Elton John band:
Elton John - Vocals, keyboards
Davey Johnstone - Guitar
Dee Murray - Bass
Nigel Olsson - Drums
*As much as Peak Stupidity has badmouthed that site for it's truly annoying ads-taking-over-browser windows deal, this is a good read, as Mr. Taki-something-or-other-in-Greek had some inside knowledge of this tennis crowd as a participant, and in general, he writes good stuff (pity about the major unnecessary annoyances of his site).
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SportsBall as the Circuses in the "Bread and Circuses"
Posted On: Monday - November 26th 2018 5:44PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Big-Biz Stupidity Bread and Circuses
What do you do when you interact with someone, knowing it'll just be for a short while, saying in a motel lobby, or sitting by him in an airplane, before he's got all the electronics out and running? "How about the cold weather?!" Nah, that can be a big No-No now, what with Global Climate DisruptionTM being so political and all. Nope, better not talk about the weather! "Oh, Arkansas, huh, yeah, those Razorbacks, blah, blah ..." That's much better. It's what people do now, look at a jersey, hat or just figure from where you told them you're from and start off about football. This is EVERYWHERE now, and I want no part of it.
Everyone's supposed to care, if only a little bit. Saying "Football? I don't give a crap." is apparently rude in today's America. OK, maybe it always was, but how about "Man, our country's getting changed for the worse daily. I'm not worried about the sports right now. Here's the latest ..."? Now, that's even ruder, as politics is a big No-No, just like the weather, which is politics. It's probably always been somewhat of a bad idea to start out like this with someone, but then this used to be a more unified country and the divisions were not so big.
Well football is big business, I'll give it that. It's got to be the biggest business in all that people call the "sportsball", usually meaning big spectator sports that entertain, suck up people's time, and distract them from thinking about real, important things. Though it's only 8 weekends a year or so for each city with a pro team, and maybe 6-7 for college (the small ones having fewer due to, yeah, it's not as much money), the events are huge, and the money spent is huge. I don't even want to look it up, but something tells me seats at a pro game are going to be in the $50-100 range. (Sure, feel free to edify me in the comments.) Try bringing a family of 5, paying for parking, and buying food and drinks there (they search your stuff, so you can't sneak it in anymore). I'd say it'd set you back $400-$500 if you're lucky.
In college, the students used to get their tickets free, but I don't know anymore. Are they too spoiled by the school loan money to try to make a buck by scalping them, as we did, to people more interested in the game? In those games, such as the Crimson Tide in the pic above, it's the alumni and those in the state that seem to care even though they never even attended who spend the big bucks. I mean biz-jets and King-Airs fly in from all over for these things, and those weekends must bring in 10's of millions of bucks into town.
One can watch this stuff on TV, and be just as excited. That's cheap enough, though the support for ESPN, et al, and the cable company is still a part of (what I see as) the problem. Look, if you don't play, I just don't get this distraction. Look at the players. Are they your peers? What do you have in common with the thugs in these games?
I can get it with the young people, but the country is full of middle-aged people who get bent out of shape about this stuff. Do they get this excited or bent out of shape about what's happening to their country, to this degree, I mean? A commenter on a blog (isn't that where most of this stuff starts?) brought up the hash-tags. He mentioned the most popular, or is it trending ones? I don't read 'em, but his point was that #ThisOrThatAboutSportsball tweets beat out all the #PoliticalStuff. To me, it's more easily seen when guys get drunk. That's when they often can get fighting mad about this sportsball stuff. Could they possibly channel this anger toward what's gonna happen to them and their families by the big screw job that the elites of this country are doing, or are they not drunk enough for that?
Very decent people will not let themselves get excited about what's coming down in the future compared to what's happening in sportsball. Unfortunately, their political enemies, say the antifa types, don't even have to be drunk to be angry and excited about the politics. You may not want it, but the real fight is coming to you, sportsball fans, so channel your thoughts a bit.
Look, guys. They only show them for say, 3 seconds at a time on TV to titillate you (and assillate you?). Do you think I took that pic myself from the sidelines behind the waterboy? No, you can get a lot better than this, and all over the web. However, to actually GET some of this, you've got to be one of the big frat-boys on campus, or better yet, one of the players. You can't touch any of this stuff, you're not a part of that world, except for your generous funding of it, so ... I dunno.
It's true that there are plenty of people, many that I know, for which sportsball is just a hobby, like any other, do care very much for the future, and are actively doing what they can to help keep their country. I don't know why this bugs me so much, but maybe it's the phrase "Bread and Circuses". If Panera Bread and The Atlanta Bread Company, are the "bread", then sportsball events are the "circuses". It's all quite a big distraction from the fall of
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Edie Brickell - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Posted On: Saturday - November 24th 2018 8:34PM MST
In Topics: Music
Yes, Peak Stupidity is still in business. Until the stupid stops, we will rage on here relentlessly. It's been long enough of a hiatus, though, that some of the ideas have been lost in browser tabs all over creation. However, more feminist, financial, and China stupidity are on the way next week, at the very least.
We haven't presented any music by the late-1980's star pop singer Edie Brickell. This is a Bob Dylan political song, but since he really never could sing worth a crap, this is the better version:
Edie Brickell's band was The New Bohemians.
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Jordan Peterson vs. Modern Reality
Posted On: Wednesday - November 21st 2018 7:07PM MST
In Topics: Commies Genderbenders Student and other Snowflakes University Pundits ctrl-left
True to our usual untimeliness, Peak Stupidity just viewed a 17 minute video, embedded below, from back in March of '17. The video is footage of Canadian professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson having it out with some loud/foul-mouthed protesters trying to impede him from speaking to students at one McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. By "having it out", we really mean "putting up with" the best he could.
delivering a lecture that nobody can hear.
In case you haven't heard about this celebrity of modern psychology/self-help, Mr. Peterson is an anti-PC crusader who has had enough with the oppressive environment on campuses in Canada. Yes, if you can believe it's possible, the PC is worse there than in the US. I have not heard anything I heartily disagreed with from Professor Peterson. Though I'm not quite enamored with the guy, he definitely provides a service to our side. Peak Stupidity featured Peterson before in this truly interesting 1 hour and 43 minute discussion with Camille Paglia on feminism. (OK, the first 30 minutes on graduate school in art could be comfortably skipped.) The discussion was pretty damn interesting to keep THIS GUY entertained for that long by 2 people conversing at a table, and occasionally taking drinks of water, so, check it out if you have time.
In the video below, Professor Peterson spent the 1st 10 minutes (of that video at least) trying to talk while the crowd of ctrl-left nutbags shouted, including using a megaphone, beat drumsticks together, held up posters, and definitely made totalitarian pricks out of themselves inside the large classroom,. Due to the subtitles, one can see, but hardly hear, what Peterson was saying to his sympathetic but seemingly-powerless sympathetic portion of the audience.
Oh, wait, I forgot to say what the problem was that the megaphone, loudmouthed crowd had - they didn't like that Jordan Peterson didn't support the REQUIRED use of the 17-odd gender-bender pronouns to address people. He did not support legislation on this, but never went so far as to say it was because they were all silly, unreasonable sickos, even. (BTW, yeah we thought there were 72 flavors, but what the hell do we know?) It's not like the guy was in favor of controlling the Canadian borders or, gasp!, a Trump fan... well at least as far as these sickos seemed to know. We have featured these student snowflakes in video before, but it's been a while. Prepare to be disgusted.
There's really more to be disgusted about though. While inside the classroom, there was not too much Peterson and his sympathetic audience could do without getting violent, and as the Professor said, making the situation worse. This is due to the fact that university administrators of either hard-core ctrl-left themselves and/or don't want to make waves and turn off the gravy train, i.e. they are real cowards. Even just grabbing that megaphone, or pulling a poster out of the guy's hands would be seen as very likely the worst harm they'd (oh, I mean Zee'd, to use the proper pronoun) ever been through. Per-cussive shock waves and other reper-cussions would be felt throughout the land for months.
Then the Professor finally gave up and went outside to lecture to his students on what was learned by him/them not getting violent and upset*, (never even getting around to any of his talk on the ridiculous legislation after this). I didn't particularly agree with all of this ad lib lecture. It's contradictory, what he said, and to paraphrase what he said with what was left of his hoarse voice after trying to be heard inside, then outside,:
This was all annoying, but THAT's OK [there's thatNow, it's nice that he's urging his listeners (over the increasingly noisy ctrl-left crowd that came outside to f__k with him some more) to be well-read and articulate, as "that's what they're hear for". Earlier though he explained that these ...fagpsychology talk again]. We did the right thing by staying calm. Things will only be solved via conversations. This free speech is necessary so that we can educate these [ctrl-left] people. The most important thing is that we be more articulate and more well-read than them.
"attempts to shut people down are being made ... as an expression of a philosophy grounded partly in post-modernism and partly in Marxism ..." [Those infernal Commies, again - what's new? In their view:] ".. the whole world is nothing but a battleground between groups of different interests, there's no dialogue, there is no possibility of talking between the groups. It's just a power stage where combat has to take place. So the reason that speakers with whom the radical post-modernists and Marxist don't agree are denied a platform, is because those people do not believe, from a philosophical position, that dialogue can bring consensus ..."What the deal? Can these people be reasoned with via articulate speech, so's that you can tell them why you need free speech, when they drown out your conversation? What's the plan for when they later on get violent?
"Nothing's more powerful than articulate speech!". I really beg to differ, Professor Peterson. Even the lowly .22 LR round is more powerful, not to mention the .308 ARs and rocket-powered grenades. Do you think these people want a dialogue after what you just went through (OK, 1 1/2 years back)? How will you get through to them when they don't want to listen? They won't listen not because they know they are in the right. They won't listen because they want to shut you down in more ways than you think, Professor. How'd articulate speech from the well-read work 100 years ago in dealing with the Bolsheviks in Russia? How about against Chairman Mao 71 years back in China? Probably as the most extreme example, how'd it work for the near 1/3 of the entire population of Cambodia in the late 1970's when people were shot just because their wearing of spectacles made them APPEAR pretty well-read and articulate? No, Professor, this will not end your way. These people will have to be shut down with extreme prejudice at some point.
Think about this, Jordan Peterson. Would it not have made an even bigger impact on youtube, if a group had come into that classroom with some 2 x 4's and made, well, an impact? Think of the hits, man?!
Well, I guess Peak Stupidity can definitely designate the 3rd week of November as anti-Commie week. Again, Happy Thanksgiving - no internet tomorrow.
* Actually, I believe Professor Peterson was really upset in the classroom but got himself in some weird psychological state to calm down. Keep in mind his own weirdness, seeing that most psychologist have their own problems, explaining why they are in this field - see Psychologists - Heal Thyselves!.
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Brazilian Bikini Butt Brawl Brings BumBum Banishment
Posted On: Tuesday - November 20th 2018 9:46PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
(Photographers were afforded many more such opportunities for butt-shots, I assure you.)
This is 2-week old news, but we're absolutely sure the reader will be interested. This annual contest for display of the Best Butts of Brazil turned ugly (OK, I'll explain that in a minute) this year, as one of the contestants disputed the validity of the purported winner's rear end. It's called the "BumBum" contest, but IMO, "bum" is not at all a sexy term for a woman's butt. Maybe that's just a British thing, but unarguably, the word "derriere" does a much better job as a descriptive term for a nice one. "Rear" is OK, as a back-up.
OK, you're gonna want to go to the video, I'm su ... wait, just wait for it ... I wanted to remark that this article about the contest ... OK, you'll be back.
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"Read" it yet? Good, I was trying to warn all readers that the pictures in that article, and I guess a number of the runner-up-butts in general are, well, not my type. Oh, and there was no cat fight, if that's what you were hoping for ... like me. I like what I saw in the video, in which, the point is, that the young lady who took it upon herself to claim the sash was under the impression that the declared winner had a fake butt, created via surgery. Why would I care? Maybe the surgeon should be the one collecting the prize. Is that her problem? My problem is that if this is the Best of Brazil, then I'm not happy with the contest, so maybe it's just as well they won't hold it again due to this unfortunate incident.
As much as I like smaller butts though, I believe that the termination of the Miss BumBum of Brazil contest is possibly one of the stupidest marketing decisions since the creation of New Coke. It's worse than the decision of the Miss American pageant producers to not have the swimwear competition, as at least we can still see women's personalities on TV, hahaaa, hahahaaa, yeah, right. "No, can't have a catfight between two bikini beauties on TV - ratings are bound to plummet." - no sane marketing manager on this planet.
Alright, well those were Brazilian girls at the top with those bright green Brazilian-flag colored pieces of string. I like this next crowd better, but I'm not sure if they're Brazilian. The picture just came up, and it works here.
you may as well go (almost) all the way.
There may be light posting through the Thanksgiving holiday, readers, but I will try to put a few up. Enjoy the time with your families.
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More Commies and the Rhyming of History
Posted On: Tuesday - November 20th 2018 10:18AM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity The Russians History China
Peak Stupidity will at first admit a broken promise, one made in the 1st of 2 posts trashing out the pundit Fred Reed, as I was truly sick of that guy's stupidity. I still stand by my opinions of him in Fred Reed's Lifelong Siesta (Part 2), and I'd promised not to read him anymore. Well, I did see his Intelligent Design: Two Weeks in Chengdu and Environs* headline. Seeing as how we have some knowledge of China over here, once I read "Chengdu" I had to go check that one out.
The column itself was a good Reed (get it? [uhhghh - Ed]), as Fred Reed DID NOT do his usual trashing of all things regarding Americans. It was just some observations of his (mostly good) impression of China from the huge city of Chengdu. As commenters started piling on, the discussion went to the politics, of course. We've discussed before (and here how it seems like the Commies have been crawling out of the woodwork, as of late. True, you get all kinds on the internet. I'd read before a few articles on the unz site written by flat-out unapologetic Communists, and some of their followers gotta keep up and chime in, I suppose.
This stuff was RIDICULOUS however! (I urge the reader to take an hour or 2 and enjoy the stupidity.) There were the Chi-Coms spouting out revised history in praise of Chairman Mao, initially agreeing with, but later arguing with, the Russian Commie who wrote the post displayed with the nice red border above. Oh, what were the arguments over? They were over which country had the biggest increase in steel production and GDP under their totalitarian dear leaders, which of these two enemies of the United States were screwed over the most by not being sent free food by us** when they were starving, and, oh, yeah, why that starvation and misery was just bad luck or non existent. It was truly like a Twilight Zone episode on there, per post, #300:
And now, at mile marker #300, I present to you a phenomenon, stranger than that can be imagined by the common blogger. Pervasive throughout a comment section under an obscure Fred Reed travelogue article, on a website deemed to present alternate viewpoints, we find words that have transcended time itself … writing that is SO antiquated, at a radioactive level of stupidity that is transUranic, beyond the Lanthanides, well into the 3-digit atomic values of stupidity … it can be nothing less than a warp in the fabric of time.These commenters could easily be Soviet and Chi-Com diplomats, writing telegrams back and forth in one of those typical Commie spats that used to go on and sometimes kill a few more million people, back in the 1940's through late 1970's (remember VietNam vs. China?). I have known people whose employers have just this decade moved their manufacturing operations out of the deep caves in China where they were placed to avoid a war with the wrong-type-of-Communist Soviets, back around the early 1960's! Yeah, I don't know, maybe you get more work done in a cave too ... not as many smoke breaks. Americans used to enjoy those intra-Commie feuds, as they kept the weapons from being always pointed in our direction.
I give you arguments over an anti-human philosophy long-debunked and shown to cause death and human misery for billions … appearing on this page 6 DECADES later, made earnestly by a new generation in a condition of ignorance and illiteracy not seen since ancient Sumeria during the time of the Hittites. How did these words get to this page over the ether and 60 years of time?
You, the unz reader, have just entered the Twilight Zone.
How could this type of discussion come back, though? Did nobody learn anything? Could a young Russian man never talk to anyone over 50 years old, and therefore long for the days of the Motherland? How about a Chinaman? It'd seem even more ludicrous to argue for the China of Chairman Mao, as the Chinese are doing so well right now, compared to their 5,000 year history and are damn proud of of that (and their 5,000 year history)! It's quite possible the ignorant commenters are young Americans bearing the fruits of our 5-decades-running program of Educational Stupidity.
I'll tell myself again that this is just the internet, and it's full of all types, including the occasional Communist retard or two. However, it being the internet, there are lots of place to look up facts, and plenty of variety to where comparisons can be made and the truth sorted out, upon one's making an effort. Now, along with that come the blatant lies on the Lyin' Press sites that used to be the monopoly of information on TV. Even those types haven't gone as far as to lie about fairly-recent factual history right in front of our eyes yet. Perhaps that is coming. "Truth is the first casualty of war", they say.
Says a well-known commenter about the "which Communism was better?" arguments:
I really hate to hai-Jack this thread, but we should really have a contest here. Which Communism was best?With all these recent Peak Stupidity posts on Communism, easily thought-of as a thing of the past, the reader may rightly wonder if this blogger sees Commies under the bed. No, not yet, but if history continues to rhyme in this way, and it comes down to dealing with people like these, there may very well be Communists under my bed. They will be dead of course, having been dispatched and left until nightfall next to the spare ammo.
On the one hand, in China it was shorter, only 3 decades or so of hard-core Communism, in which fewer than 30,000,000, OK, 40,000,000 million souls perished via starvation, so there just wasn’t enough TIME to really double-down and get that “according to his means” shit going. After ending all the “troubles”, Chairman Mao’s purge Great Leap Forward of ’59-’61 and then the Cultural Revolution of ’66-70′s were part of that “uniting the country thing” to make that omelet outta them eggs. No trouble there. Then they had to go all capitalist and screw it all up by making people rich enough to eat enough rice to get diabetes.
On the other hand, the Soviet Union had 7 decades to have multiple starvation periods, with the wars in between to pick up THE PEOPLE’S spirits a tad. They had enough money to put the 1st man in earth orbit, and another man make the 1st space walk, but the heating bills had to suffer a bit. We got some good writing out of the whole thing, as life in the Gulag did wonders to inspired Alex Solzhenitsyn, or example.
It’s really a toss up, IMO. You had your bread and cabbage lines in the Motherland of the USSR, but in the other Motherland, China, you had your ration cards for American-sent feed corn. Life was hard, but they all LOVE LOVE LOVED it, or else!
Wait, I’ve left out Cambodia. How’d that Communism work out? Let’s not forget Cuba either, no, heavens no, with that FREE healthcare to beat all. I mean, if you got bitten by a shark while trying to sail 90 miles of ocean to the evil Capitalist USA in a 2-man rubber raft, they would fix you right up in the prison hospital back home, FOR FREE!
Man, Communists, I don’t know which of you to pick. YOU’RE ALL WINNERS!
* I am pretty sure a little trick here was to include the "Intelligent Design" wording to gather loads of comments from readers who have argued the hell out of that subject when Mr. Reed had written on it at least 2, maybe 3 times in the past. This article had absolutely nothing to do with intelligent design, and Reed's opinions on it, which I mostly agree with.
** That is also wrong, as event though they were arch-enemies, America sent feed corn to China in the 1970's (at least), and future-president Herbert Hoover was in charge of a program in the early 1920's to ship food to starving Russians.
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"But, we were led to believe there would be no math."
Posted On: Monday - November 19th 2018 7:16PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity
- Global Climate Disruption Science team leader
Been craving for that long-awaited next post on Global Climate Stupidity? Well, fret not, dear reader as the long drought is over, or so our mathematical model has told us. It's possible that there'll now be 40 days and nights of heavy rainfall, but then, our modeling is a work in progress (would that the scientists would be this honest about it, right?)
A Zerohedge article from last week, Climate Scientists Admit To Major Math Error After Global Warming Study Debunked, relates how some of this Global Climate DisruptionTM research has been going down. It's not like this article is an expose of this whole global crapshow, as ZH does tend toward the side of extra hype. However, this article is a very good example to illustrate the trouble any scientific/engineering type should have with anyone's claim to a working mathematical model of the entire world climate.
Peak Stupidity has expounded on the difficulty of mathematical modeling of complex processes near our blog-birth, so please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5, with Summaries - Part 1 and Part 2. Let's look at this example, though.
The co-author of a widely-cited global warming study has owned up to a major math error uncovered six days after its Oct. 31 publication by an independent scientist.Hey, this, the energy absorption by the oceans, is just one process, one little part of their whole model, but math modeling of nature is one of those things that require EVERY PART to be right. Even then, it doesn't usually work without a whole lot more effort.
The study used a new method of measuring the ocean's absorption of heat [SIC - "energy"], and concluded - through incorrect math - that 60% more heat [Dammit! SIC - "energy"] had been absorbed than previously thought.
Shortly after the article was published, however, independent UK-based researcher Nicholas Lewis published a comprehensive blog post, claiming he had found a "major problem" with the research.Note that this was an independent British blogger, not really a "peer", per academia, of the original researches whose paper was already published.
“So far as I can see, their method vastly underestimates the uncertainty,” Lewis said in an interview Tuesday, “as well as biasing up significantly, nearly 30 percent, the central estimate.”[not my Bold - either ZH or Wash. Post]
Lewis added that he tends “to read a large number of papers, and, having a mathematics as well as a physics background, I tend to look at them quite carefully, and see if they make sense. And where they don’t make sense — with this one, it’s fairly obvious it didn’t make sense — I look into them more deeply.”
Lewis has argued in past studies and commentaries that climate scientists are predicting too much warming because of their reliance on computer simulations, and that current data from the planet itself suggests global warming will be less severe than feared. -Washington Post
When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there," said Ralph Keeling, a scientist with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography who co-authored the paper with Princeton University scientist and lead author, Laure Resplandy. "We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly."Error margins from the calculations of effects of individual processes in a complicated model will accumulate to make the output complete garbage. Listen, it's not like this blogger here can do better right now (though, it's not my field, of course). However, I don't claim to have a serious model of the Earth's climate either! Part of the problem, as I wrote in Part 2 of the "Politics of GCDTM", is in with the reporters, not necessarily the scientists. Do you think any of these "journalists" can read the whole original paper, or really understand what the blogger's correction was about? We'd be really lucky if one of them can properly read the last few paragraphs, the Conclusion of the paper. I'll write more on that at the end of this post, speaking of Conclusions. OK, here comes the weaseling out of the original author:Keeling said they have since redone the calculations, finding the ocean is still likely warmer than the estimate used by the IPCC. However, that increase in heat has a larger range of probability than initially thought — between 10 percent and 70 percent, as other studies have already found.[again, not my bolding]
“Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean,” Keeling said. “We really muffed the error margins.” -San Diego Union-Tribune
Note from co-author Ralph Keeling Nov. 9, 2018: I am working with my co-authors to address two problems that came to our attention since publication. These problems, related to incorrectly treating systematic errors in the O2 measurements and the use of a constant land O2:C exchange ratio of 1.1, do not invalidate the study’s methodology or the new insights into ocean biogeochemistry on which it is based. We expect the combined effect of these two corrections to have a small impact on our calculations of overall heat uptake, but with larger margins of error. We are redoing the calculations and preparing author corrections for submission to Nature. -Scripps.ucsd.edu [MY bolding, this time]OK, I get it. You have new methods that may help model parts of the climate better. This was just a math mistake. You've got new insights learned from the results WITH the math error ... whoaaa... hold on, partner! You're losing me. Oh, and you still have the number right, but with a much larger margin of error, meaning ... well, you don't that number very well. Yet, energy uptake by the ocean is as important a part of the model as any, is it not. It ain't like the world is covered with only 2/3 ocean, it's like 3/4!
If these scientists would put the word out clearly that all this is a work in progress, I'd have no problem with their work. "We're working on a model. There's a lot more work to be done." "We don't know every process in the energy balance, or at least don't know enough to model all of them, cough, ice ages, cough cough ..." Fine. However, this is not what the public gets to hear, which brings me to the promised conclusion.
Here's my point regarding journalism's role in this scam: At the beginning of the ZH article (of which I've pretty much included the whole thing!) on the ORIGINAL REPORT - The report was covered or referenced by MSM outlets worldwide, including the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Reuters and others. Now, as far as the correction goes - The scientists have submitted a correction to the journal Nature, which published the study. It'll be a note in Nature. Hey, I know, that's how science is done. This is how journalism is done though: That note WILL NOT BE COVERED by these MSM outlets worldwide. They don't want corrections, they want fear-spreading red-colored graphs and numbers, scary HOT, HOT, HOT temperatures, hurricanes, lack of snow, and dogs and cats living together! Corrections in Nature don't cut it at all.
PS: About the graphic at the top. No, this does not relate directly to the math mistake discussed here. It's flashy, is one thing, but it reminds me, and possibly will the reader, about the problems with lots of this Global Climate DisruptionTM data. This post was about margins of error in the data. You've probably seen those tall error bars that appear in lots of the observational (not from models) data graphs of temperature. Those error bars are usually pretty large compared to the trend in the data itself. I give kudos to scientists for being honest about this (part of why I don't think the scientists are purposefully misleading most of the time). However, when your tolerances are that big compared to the data itself, you really don't have good results. I'm fine with that - the next thing to do would be to try to narrow the error bars. That's the hard part, for observational data, but more-so, for values obtained from these touted mathematical models.
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[Updated 11/20:] Added discussion of the top graphic and error bars.
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AntiChrist vs. AntiChrist: I'm staying outta this one
Posted On: Saturday - November 17th 2018 8:33PM MST
In Topics: Music AntiChrist ctrl-left Bible/Religion Big-Biz Stupidity
George Soros (... oros,... oros ....)
Peak Stupidity made mention of some candidates for AntiChrist very early in our blog life, starting with our thoughts here and here. Per our part-time intern, the Soros pictured above has been determined to be the closest to the AntiChrist we could think of. He's been screwing with the politics in the Western world since he emerged from his Nazi-Commie background and out of a vat of 3-month-old goulash in old Hungary. It just seems like the guy especially directs his AntiChristicity toward America in the New World, however.
You take any stupid protest, movement, election-results overturning, etc., and you will likely find this scum-bag behind it. It will continue until there is a stake through his heart, as this guy is well loaded with riches from his economic scheming. This Globalist, Neocon, crony-capitalist, evil rat-bastard is someone straight outta Revelation, if you ask me. Though we see him up in the top picture hanging with the dead (not THE DEAD, just the plain old dead), I don't really think even the dead would want him around.
I'd expect to find the Soros in bed with the other large evil-dealing bastards in the "TECH" "industry", say with heads of Google and Facebook. Therefore, I was surprised to read the Zerohedge headline Soros Responds To "Alarming" Facebook Exposé; Demands "Thorough Investigation" a couple of days back.
Soros and Zuckerberg not getting along? Next thing, it'll be cats and dogs, living together.
Functionally-autistic Facebook Founder,
one of the Four F.A.G.S. of the Apocalpse,
Mark Zuckerberg ( ... uckerberg ... berg... erg...)
Wouldn't you know it though, the 3rd candidate, yes, the Hildabeast herself, would have to be involved.
Following a shocking exposé in the New York Times revealing how Facebook resorted to guerilla tactics to deflect blame amid their various scandals, including hiring Republican PR firm Definers which cast liberal critics as operatives for liberal financier George Soros, top representatives for the Hungarian-American billionaire have demanded answers.I don't know about you all, but this just seems like a 1980's Iran vs. Iraq, or 1960's China vs. USSR type war, where you're much better off letting the two fight it out. Is this like that battle that started in Heaven, also from the Bible, as depicted pretty well by Christopher Walken in The Prophecy. Can two AntiChrists fight it out, right here in the good old USA, using millions of ctrl-left imbeciles as their pawns?
While Facebook was under fire on Capitol Hill for allowing Russians to purchase advertising during and after the 2016 US election, liberal critics blamed the company for Hillary Clinton's loss - including activist protesters who put a public face on liberal opposition to the social media giant.
Can a geek like Zuckerberg even be an AntiChrist? He doesn't seem to have the charisma of an AntiChrist. Then again, he has duped a billion or so people out of their personal information and offered them nothing but virtual LIKES, guacamole recipes, and narratives of their significant others bowel movements. It takes a hard man to be that devious.
Peak Stupidity really doesn't know who to root for in this thing. Somehow, we feel, as usual, that the worst will happen - these two AntiChrist candidates may settle their differences in who gets to manipulate the American public the most, and kiss and make up. That's the kind of crap that Revelation is warning us about the most. Hellfire and brimstone are one thing - we've got hurricane shelters, but the pernicious lies that have gone on for the last half-century may lead to THE END:
Sorry for the light posting this week .. got very busy on Friday, then spent part of Saturday commenting against a number of out-and-out Commies on the unz blog. I've got a week worth of posts built up, so more on Monday evening.
* That's right, I'd heard he has a house in New York ... mighty daring of the guy, I'll give him that.
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Tucker Carlson and the Commies - Part 2
Posted On: Thursday - November 15th 2018 5:17PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits ctrl-left
(continued directly from the previous post)
The scrawny-assed thugs that have been harassing and threatening Tucker Carlson's family don't talk about Karl Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky. They don't hand out pamphlets (that takes work and there is no app for that) about the plight of the workers (well, they don't know too many workers). So far they have not picked a color scheme, though black seems to be in for them. Even so, the parallels between the words and actions of America's ctrl-left today to the Communists of century-ago Germany are very interesting. Above all else, there are the pernicious LIES. That part has not changed a bit.
(After seeing that one segment of that Great War history series that I posted (at the bottom a few days back, I wish there were (maybe there ARE?) series like this, going back exactly one century, day-by-day or week-by-week, depending on how busy it was for, say American history, American government*, European history, etc. Would that not be very watchable, assuming a good, enthusiastic, and non-PC narrator, that is?)
"They" don't say "history repeats itself", or at least the "one's" that say "History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme." don't. Let's discuss this rhyming of the current-era American political situation with that of century-ago Germany. We can compare and contrast** the two times and these political factions between then and now. Of course, Peak Stupidity has more information on the here and now than 1920's Germany, but can delve into that history at our leisure, which is why there is youtube.
1) Level of violence - Looking back at the street battles between the Commies and Nazis back closer to 90-95 years ago, of course, the people were armed differently and were mentally-armed differently. Let me mention the latter first. That 70 years of mostly-peaceful (no war on our soil) prosperity has left most Americans very soft compared to those battle-hardened German Freikorps (near bottom) and the Commies, many of them having been involved in violence in the Mother-of-All-Communist-Land USSR very recently. In America, the ctrl-left are usually the even-softer soy-boys, loud/foul-mouthed fat broads, and others who are only safe from getting their asses kicked in a University setting. The right has a lot more to lose, for a number of reasons (more on this) and therefore is prone to backing down.
A century ago in Germany, those vet Freikorps and others from WWI were "well-regulated" in the US-Constitutional sense, but I don't know about the Commies. In the current day, as far as weapons, there is no doubt that the People of the Gun, on the right, are much more familiar with weapons, especially firearms. The left have been loudly tweeting lately about their intentions to arm up, but there's a real problem with that for them, as Peak Stupidity discussed long ago in "Lefties say they are going to start Prepping". See, any kind of activity that requires responsibility, prepping, and getting trained to safely handle and shoot guns, for example, involves rubbing elbows with an assload of deplorables. The habits, personalities, and ways-of-thinking may just rub off on these people, as they try to become harder, and then, they may not be part of the ctrl-left anymore. Hey, that doesn't work! Therefore, for right now, they still are in the bike-lock against the back-of-the-head, and throwing/spraying of various liquids phase.
As far as getting at a man's family, like the crowd below has done, I don't think that kind of behavior would have occurred into much later stages in the violence, if at all. These people are crude, and too cowardly to take on anyone they know will be ready to fight back.
2) The Economy - Again, because of the much greater prosperity seen in modern America, vs. century-ago Germany, the right has a whole lot to lose, and is not yet ready to go all out fighting the ctrl-left. Back in Germany, most especially in 95 yr-ago Germany, the hyperinflation made ordinary living next to impossible. We don't have any of that yet, just your ordinary inflation, though harder economic times ARE coming. The vets and the young German men who wanted none of the society-destroying Commie shit, were quite ready to do battle. There was nothing much to lose for the guys on both sides. Is this why the right dispatched those Commies in a decade or so? Yeah, I'm back-and-forth here, but our young people on the right have made a go at it once in a while - look up the Proud Boys fight against the antifa attackers in New York City and Portland, Oregon (see same link as above). Things will change as the economy gets worse, but also, the modern-left has another big advantage, as the right has a lot to lose for another reason than just better (or any) jobs ...
3) The Establishment - Here again, for century-ago Germany, I don't know as much, though I have read some about the Weimar Republic that existed from an exact century ago (OK - 3 months) to 1933 when the Nazis changed the government. Who were the establishment 90-100 years back? The Commies had taken over Munich at one point (early on, 1919), and the right fought for their own government, and though the Weimar Republic tried to be moderate, with the onerous stipulations from the Treaty of Versailles, things never became quite normal. Even after the hyperinflation slowed down in 1924, during the "golden years' up until the financial crash of 1929, there was much backlash about the Americanized culture being pushed on the people. Conservatives may have felt the same as they do now, but instead of ridiculous tranny bathroom rules, and PC insanity, it was caberets, short hair on women (never a good concept), and serious hard-pore cornography. I really doubt the establishment was what the German people wanted, as later evidenced by their support for the Nazi's even when the Commies were probably no longer a threat. Did the media push all the stupidity, as it does today? I've gotta learn more.
Now, Peak Stupidity has discussed in many posts the long march of the ctrl-left through the American institutions, resulting in the Universities, Lower-Ed Business, Legacy- ("System-"?) Media, and Governments at all level being completely infiltrated at the present time. The "warriors" on the left have lots of help from all these institutions, while anyone taking any violent or even peaceful stand on the right will be vilified by all of them. We've written about the Anarcho-Tyranny at Charlottesville where the simple act of gathering to speak about keeping statues of Southern heritage was considered an act of violence, while the attackers were the "protesters". That was the Lyin' Press establishment, but the Government establishment got their share of Anarch-Tyrannical beatdowns later on in the court of law (or lack thereof, depending on what side you are on). This is just another way in which the right has so much more to lose. The system will spend lots of effort to put you away and out of the fight, if you get just a little bit out of line on the right. The left is left free to kick ass, as much as the soy-boys and fat broads can do that sort of thing.
4) Escalation - The Commie left does not settle for any compromises, like, say, the tremendous Socialist Welfare State built by the American Feral Government over the last half-century. That's never good enough. They want full control of people's way of living.
The method in century-ago Germany was different, in that, due to the turbulent economic times, and bitterness over the Great War and its resulting perhaps-unfair reparations, the Commies picked the place and time, just as in Russia the previous full decade, to make their violent moves. That would never have worked in the whole previous century in America. It's not that some didn't try, but our steadfast, Constitution-loving people, even quite a few in government, put the kibosh on that crap as it came up. Nope, the method here was to slowly infiltrate the institutions, a life-long (though probably not planned-out) process for many on the left. Whether planned or not, it's come to fruition here anyway. The people are in place to support increasing levels of violence from the antifa and other groups that simply want to destroy society.
They will get resisted, at some point. We should hope that the resistance doesn't morph into the same form as it did in, yeah, NAZI Germany. That brings us to:
Now, this is one thing that the Commies of century-ago Germany and today's ctrl-left in America have in common. There are the same pernicious outright lies that are so damn ridiculous that it's hard to even argue with the people spouting them. The premises are so wrong that by the time one gets done trying to correct a few of them, bam, there goes the bike lock against the head. The antifa say that President Trump is like a Nazi, but yet your average Nazi could SURELY get a fence of some sort built to keep foreigners from walking across the border, could he not? If he were a Nazi, couldn't he get Nancy Pelosi shipped off to somewhere, anywhere? The point for the left is to turn the tables around via these lies to justify beating the crap out of people, and eventually worse (per their thoughts, that escape out as tweets). Yeah, we're the Nazis, so they have a right to beat and kill. If we try to take a stand in defense, that just proves it.
Back to Tucker Carlson, he shouldn't have any right to free speech, the ctrl-left says, because he's a Nazi, one of the people that will try to take away rights, such as free speech for example. OK, maybe things could have not quite been this much of a shit-show of Peak Stupidity in Weimar Germany 100 years back. If so, they'd have been too cultured to use that term anyway. It'd have been more of a Scheiße-Sturm, and I wonder if there was a pamphlet-writer named Tücker Karlson getting the same treatment by the usual crowd. Does history rhyme, or what?
*Maybe this one could just be made monthly, as during Warren G. Harding's time, and even moreso, the time during the presidency of "Silent Calvin" Coolidge, not much went on in government daily. What a country it was!!
** That was what we did in school back in the day, we wrote an essay to "compare and contrast". Nowadays, what's the deal? Does the teacher just ask the students to "write a politically correct essay to fit our narrative, with as little cutting and pasting as possible. Now, children, please hand in your "CTRL", "C", and "V" keys, please." Oh wait, that joke's already obsolete ...
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Tucker Carlson and the Commies - Part 1
Posted On: Thursday - November 15th 2018 10:27AM MST
In Topics: Commies Humor Pundits ctrl-left
The last post, on Commies and The Great War ended with mention of Mr. Tucker Carlson (above, when somewhat younger). Tucker Carlson has been (OK, let's vote right here and now) Peak Stupidity's favorite youtube* pundit for 1 year in a row running, as we featured him many times including here, here, here, here, and here, though I'm sure I've left a few out. BTW, Ann Coulter is hereby declared best written pundit for, well since we've been around.
We haven't included a post on the ctrl-left attacks on Mr. Carlson's property, after his address was posted for all to see*. There were threats to his family (he has a wife and four kids) and these people stood with signs and ranted and raved on the #1 pundit's front lawn. I'm sure the reader can find stories and videos of these happenings. What's it about? Well, simply, it's that the ctrl-left cannot have one of these guys that delves into the truth and points out the stupidity in modern America, I mean, NOT ON FREAKIN' TV, at least! Even worse, he's very popular! He's gotta be some sort of Nazi, just like that other popular guy, in Washington, FS, the orange-haired dude that keeps on ranting about "Americans first" and stuff! Nationalism, I tells ya'!
First, just to discuss specifically this type of behavior, it takes a lot of self-control by Mr. Carlson, I'm sure, to not do anything drastic. It'd be one thing if he were a single guy - just keep your sidearm and ignore these "protesters" (more about that word later), go in and out of the house at will, and maybe blast a little Southern Rock or AC/DC at the occasional odd hour in the morning. See, nobody talks Hi-Fi anymore, only Wi-Fi - do people with the kind of money of a Tucker Carlson, even buy 200 W speakers with 20" woofers anymore, with not just tweeters, but mid-range "horns", and shit? Well, with these goings-on, it's high time they did! However, Mr. Carlson does have the family to protect and provide with a semblance of a normal life, so that makes the situation different.
A commenter on a Steve Sailer thread suggested using the sprinkler system to gently ward away these scum. Yeah, I could see that, with maybe a beefed-up system - say pumped up to 200 psi - and with red-die injection (nothing if not appropriate, right?) OK, that's a start. However, at some point, not necessarily Mr. Carlson, with so much to lose, but some people on the right will start fighting back. Imagine if you had done some egregiously un-PC thing that went viral, most likely just some truth that slipped out of your mouth, and this crowd decided to come visit. Now, laws vary from state to state, but encroaching on someone's property can result in legal consequences. Of course, you may justifiably shoot one of these "folks" were he inside your dwelling. However, remaining on the lawn is trespassing, once they are warned to leave. I'm not sure about Florida and the "castle doctrine", as I'm no lawyer (though any legal minded readers should feel free*** to
Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I'd like to make the comparison of this type of behavior by the increasingly violent ctrl-left with what went on in century-ago Germany. As I wrote in the previous post, these Commie-types may not want to plow the same old ground. America, with its (albeit, steeply-declining) 7 decades of peaceful prosperity, may be just the fertile ground that they feel needs to be plowed and seeded with "violence on behalf of the plight of the workers". This comparison will be in 2nd post, coming later today. In the meantime, the reader may want to peruse the related 6 post series called There's Battle Lines Being Drawn..." - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.
* Yeah, we're off TV.
** How come that wasn't a problem in pre-1960's America? Besides leaving one's doors and cars unlocked, newspapers regularly referred to regular people by including their addresses with their names, so one could know which Joanna Smith he was reading about. Things sure have changed.
*** By free, I mean pro bono. Now, I am normally very anti-Bono, but I could make an exception, I suppose ...
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Commies and The Great War
Posted On: Wednesday - November 14th 2018 2:11PM MST
In Topics: Commies History
During some discusstion of WWI on that one-century anniversary of Armistice Day (now celebrated as Veterans Day) on the
This, not-quite-last, but special video on the Armistice has some material that got me thinking of the rhyming-of-history effect again. As Mr. Neidell discussed the state of the German forces, he mentioned one aspect that I had not heard about before, or possibly didn't remember from my one book on WWI that I've read since just my high-school history, John Keegan's The First World War That was the fact that Communists of some sort were involved in mutinies of German forces in their army and navy. The French commander during the armistice had relented and let the Germans keep a portion of their big guns and other weapons specifically to allow them to quell these uprisings, as they wound down the military.
Now, Peak Stupidity has posted on the issue of the Commies coming out of the woodwork, seemingly on a century or so timescale. Upon looking back one full century, we can see that the infestation of these Commies was already not just confined to Russia, even just a year or so after their Bolshevik revolution. Most of the world remembers the Nazi's more than the Commies as being a cause of the great evil and destruction emanating from Germany in the middle of the past century, but the Commies came first. The Nazi's came into being as a reaction against not only terrible economic times brought on by the unreasonable demands of reparations in the Versailles Treaty (early 1919), but also against the rising of the Communists, as the nearby USSR, formerly Russia, was a great example of what you DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN IN YOUR COUNTRY.
Oh, yeah, about the rhythm of history, the scale of this sort of thing seems to be a century or so, but the locations may change. The Russians have thrown off the yoke of Communism only 3 decades back, and the Chinese have (at least of the hard-core version) about the same time ago. They remember too much. These people need to find new location for this massive campaign of stupidity against human nature, in which that kind of misery has never even been felt. They need to try a new implementation, as "I'm sure it'll work next time. It just wasn't done right those last 5 times and places". I will post shortly more of my thoughts on this which relate, believe it or not, to Tucker Carlson.
It's only 13 minutes or so, this video that I described above:
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Macro-Stupidity in France
Posted On: Tuesday - November 13th 2018 11:01PM MST
In Topics: Trump Globalists
Peak Stupidity has no specific topic key for "French Stupidity", but then this is just about one specific Frenchman, the Globalist President of France, Emmanuel Macron. Mr. Macron apparently felt it necessary to insert some Globalist political opinion during the solemn occasion of the rememberance of veterans of The Great War on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. It's not just this Globalist shilling that's a problem, but it was the remark itself that is today's example of peak stupidity.
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.” says the retard above. In what world does that statement make sense? Patriotism is about love for one's nation, and to have a nation to be patriotic about, there must be a policy of nationalism. If that throwaway line wasn't enough, Macron then doubled-down with "By saying we put ourselves first and the others don’t matter, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.” Saying Americans come first doesn't say others don't matter. Pat Buchanan sets Mr. Macron straight in his weekly column. I just wonder - Is this just what politicians get away with now - just use some big words that end in "ism", and even if it makes no sense whatsover? With a Lyin' Press that is both too stupid to see the illogic of this talk, and on-board with the narrative that Trump, being a nationalist is a bad guy, this stuff just flies through.
Commenter "Rational" under the Buchanan column says:
Macron must be getting deranged to utter idiotic oxymorons like this:President Macron could learn a bit from the guy in the picture above, if he cares a whit about his country. Though our President hasn't gotten done nearly what we'd have liked him to, in the cause of nationalism and patriotism, at least he knows the direction we want to go in. The French President is letting his country be destroyed, and he couldn't get better advice on that than from the Commie broad below. He's hanging out with the wrong crowd.
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.”
Macron’s saying is as stupid as saying spaghetti is the exact opposite of pasta. Spaghetti is a betrayal of pasta.
Or truth is the opposite of correct.
More on WWI tomorrow, then some more Tucker Carlson - I've just been commenting on other blogs the last coupla' days and running into brick walls trying to explain the obvious.
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The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month...
Posted On: Saturday - November 10th 2018 8:23PM MST
In Topics: Music History
... one complete century ago, the Great War, as it was called before World War II, was ended by treaty in Paris, France. The fighting ended, and basic terms for surrender were set, but all the details were not laid out and finalized until the notorious Treaty of Versailles was written in January of 1919.
I don't post on Sundays, but it sure IS Sunday in Paris right now, just 5 hours before the 11th hour, and this is surely more timely than one of the biggest Peak Stupidity blog-farts in which I'd posted about the end of the Great War ~ 1/2 year earlier by mistake. The song in that post will be repeated below, an anti-war song that you sure can't argue with.
Back when Americans learned real history and not some dicked-up PC cherry-picking nonsense, we studied Western Civilization through many European wars. I never did get how these European upon European conflicts could get so vicious, bloody, and long-lasting. Were the men on the other side that foreign to men on the one side? Well, no, but the elites determined that this was the way to settle things. The Great War, WWI, was supposed to have been the "war to end all wars" as it was larger in scale than anything seen before, and larger in carnage and deaths. The new machine gun made everything worse and forced a change in tactics from those of previous wars.
Upon looking back from a century down the line, but even a half-century, nobody can seem to come up with any good reason that this war should have been waged at all. Ethnic strife, conflicts over colonies, all blowing up into the big war that the Generals of France and Germany, especially, had already drawn up contingency plans for - couldn't it have been settled locally in places?
Really, when I think of the strife and stupidity of today's world, especially in our country, I think there is more reason around for something like this to happen than there was a century ago, by a long shot. Are we different people, now, not ready or able to fight this kind of conflict? Many are too used to prosperity and will not give that up, even if the result will be akin to slavery to the new system. However, anyone having seen the personal results of real war could not be wishing for anything like it again. This folk/traditional song, The Green Fields of France by the The Furies does a great job describing the sadness of many millions of men, but mostly boys, seeing the end of their lives with such pain, and no chance to experience anything more of life past this Great Bloody War (to end all wars).
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Ann Coulter looks on the bright side
Posted On: Saturday - November 10th 2018 8:30AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Pundits
Peak Stupidity was not happy, of course, with the results of the midterm congressional and senatorial election results. It's pretty much about
Ann Coulter has a much more optimistic take on the election results. She is nothing if not wonky sometimes, and I have no argument with the specifics of her column, describing the importance of the races won, and what it means for conservatives and Trump supporters. Miss Coulter is always worth reading and is, in fact, rated A+ by the Peak Stupidity "staff", as touted here as number 1 pundit in all Americastan. We have raved about her here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, although we took exception here.
Miss Coulter has a good, snarky sense of humor too, which is second reason why I just had to post about this latest column. Here ya go:
Mercifully, of the 14 GOP traitors who voted for Rubio's amnesty, only six remain in office. Four were beaten, three retired one step ahead of the guillotine and one took the easy way out by dying.Heh!
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First Man - Movie Review
Posted On: Friday - November 9th 2018 10:05PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Movies Science
Besides being a review of a new movie, for a change, this post is also a review of GOING to the movies, as it's been quite a while. I will say, that this afternoon showing of the Neil Armstrong Biopic movie, First Man was fairly pleasant though the 2 factors that made it so were a) free tickets for most of us, and b) only a few people in the theater with us.
As far as (a) goes, yeah, they would have been $10 tickets, quite a shocker to a guy who hasn't been but once in a decade or so. There's no particular reasons that I've ever understood to watch a movie when it first comes out, at this kind of price, versus a year later, for free or almost, on a DVD or off Netlix, what-have-you. As for (b), another reason to stay home is to avoid loud annoying viewers*. With only 25 other people in a place that could hold 200, it was nice and quiet ... except for the rocket scenes which damn well have better been loud. I don't follow the box office opening weekend and total "takes", as I don't give a tinkerer's damn about the whole movie business. Is it entertaining and not annoying due to PC and an agenda? Good. I can't help but wonder if First Man isn't making much money, or are the movies that empty in general now (maybe cause they charge 10 bucks!)
Now, the movie itself was a good one. I'd give it a full 5 stars, unless you are one who is neither into anything technical nor into being proud of this greatest of moments in American history. Before I write anything more, I'd like to refer the reader to 3 reviews with reader comments from unz (but, of course): John Derbyshire's October Diary, under the heading The Moon … and Mars and Venus**. Mr. Steve Sailer, who LUVS the movies wrote this review, but then, as a comment below that one was a great review unto itself, Mr. Sailer kindly posted separately Buzz Mohawk's review.
Part of the internet-talk about this movie written before it came out was about the lack of a scene showing the planting of the American flag on the lunar surface as a big deal. I don't mean that the actual planting of the flag wasn't very symbolic and meaningful, but I don't think that scene was strictly necessary. The movie showed the Apollo program as being all-American, surprisingly enough.
More surprising was almost-total lack of Political Correctness. As Mr. Derbyshire wrote, they even have characters that smoke fairly incessantly. Smoking has switched places with the wacky-tobaccy in today's society as the evil drug, so often times, movie directors will act like there is no such thing. No problem in this movie. The space program was shown as a white man's project, as it was, with only the very quick takes (twice) of black guys wearing their headsets at the Houston mission control center. I mean by this, 1/2 second shots. I really wonder how much they paid the 2 (or was it really just one) black guy for this. "Hey, 250 bucks, man, yeah, just put this on, look to the left and act like you're concentrating." "No, OK, cut off the dreadlocks, and come back tomorrow, or we don't have a deal. There are a million other brothas on the street I can get for the scene."
I was worried about the technical realism a bit, especially from the first scene. As Neil Armstrong piloted his rocket plane in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, in the late 1950's keep in mind, the voice coming over his radio from the ground was clear and static-free. That was ludicrous, as this was before the Bose active-noise-reduction headset, with analog tuning, and he'd have been lucky to make out anything. This sounds like a quibble, but the voice was like the voice of God, and it made that scene kind of stupid. However, there was not much more of this unrealism that I could detect. In the landing scene, it shows the landing barely missing a crater that would have been totally unsuitable and probably have resulted in death. I reckon Armstrong would have piloted around this feature from much greater height.
That's not to say that this feat was not amazing, and speaking of the landing, Peak Stupidity posted a youtube video this past January of the Apollo 12 (next mission) actual landing footage with audio from > 48 years ago, with some discussion about it. Hit that link for supplemental material for this review. The scenes of the most exciting parts of the mission, along with scenes of the decision-making and training going on before hand are very good, IMO. It's about as good as the movie Apollo 13, in this respect.
One thing that may turn some viewers on and others off is the chick-flick drama that's part of this movie, regarding Neil Armstrong's family. Granted, this is more of a biography than Apollo 13 was, so I guess it belongs to some degree. As the other reviewers I linked to have stated, though, this is to bring in the female viewers, or at least to keep their interest. It was tolerable.
First Man was definitely a feel-good movie due to its recalling of this can-do time in the period of America's greatest strength. I'll excerpt one paragraph from the Apollo 12 landing footage Peak Stupidity post:
Back to the question - has there ever been a country in such great shape economically and demographically to have accomplished such a feat? I don't want to get into too much detail, but the electronics of the age were so far from what any cheap 10-year-old Motorola phone would have now (compared to the whole spacecraft put together!) that Earth was a different world from now too. The REAL ENGINEERING involved, no, not software programming, but true mechanical and electrical genius and problem-solving was tremendous. How far back has the onset of Socialism, being implemented that same decade, set American from the course to the stars that we could have otherwise stayed on? It's not just the money that's been wasted and done much more harm than good - it's the attitude of this whole place that has changed. The whole thing is saddening, ...Go see First Man even if you do have to pay a pretty penny. After having seen it, I recommend that.
* ...The Rocky Horror Picture Show being a huge, huge exception, of course. I saw it in Germany, years after it was a big thing in America (they do get very behind over there on pop culture), and nobody squirted water guns, threw rice and bread, dressed up like characters, yelled at the characters at the appropriate times, or sang along. Were they that clueless, or was it just that they were Germans, it being Germany and all?
** These are very interesting, and something to look forward to once a month, but the topics really should be broken up into separate posts on unz. That's why I pointed specifically to that heading, which is his review of the movie in question.
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Say Goodnight, Sleepy Jeff
Posted On: Thursday - November 8th 2018 10:24PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump US Feral Government
We're tryin' to keep up with current events here, so I meant to write this last night. As I keep saying, this is not a news site, but still, I did have something to say about Jeff Sessions and his resignation from the job of US Attorney General (meaning head of the cabinet level Dept. of Justice).
The feud between the President and his own appointed Attorney General is below my pay grade. I don't know all the details. Many had high hopes for former Senator (R-Alabama) Jeff Sessions on the immigration front, as, per Ann Coulter, who ought to know, he was extremely beneficial to Americans as a Senator. To me, Mr. Sessions was one of President Trump's best picks, though, I guess he could have done more in a position more directly involved with immigration. John Derbyshire wrote I Support Sessions vs Trump—Because Mueller Is A Disease of the Skin, Immigration A Disease of the Heart 2 months back. There are many good arguments back-and-forth in the 59 comments thereunder that lay out some of the specifics.
To read more arguments made after the resignation (or firing, as the case may be), one can the > 200 comments under this one-line Steve Sailer post from last night.
Read it all if you care, but I do have one specific beef with the outgoing Attorney General, and that is about something that is very much in his job description. The unfair "justice" meted out by local, state, and other law enforcement after the Charlottesville, Virginia attacks (see also here and here) on peaceful defenders of Southern landmarks was never investigated by the D.O.J. under Jeff Session, under President Trump. It was well within his purview to look into this and put a stop to some of the anarcho-tyranny that's been increasingly being implemented throughout the land. Here you get the guy you've been hoping for, for at least one high position in the executive branch of the Feral Government, and even this guy won't fight for the rights of Americans. Just on this point alone, I say go on home, Sleepy Jeff.
Will Kris Kobach get appointed to the position? We can only hope. The ctrl-left is having a collective shit-fit over the President appointing a temporary AG until a decision is made, as if that's something out of the ordinary. Hell, didn't Øb☭ma have a temp. in for quite a while there? That's just business as usual, and if that pisses the left off, and they are pining for Jeff Sessions, that's another reason that I'm glad he's out. We need a fighter, not a
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Housing Bubble 2.0 - is it close to popping?
Posted On: Thursday - November 8th 2018 9:09AM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity
Peak Stupidity's last look at Housing Bubble 2.0, (Extra! Extra! West coast geeks and Chinese to be hardest hit!) was in late June of this year. It's been 5 months, so I wanted to display some data that shows a slight downturn. Keep in mind that the Case-Schiller (2 economists) data, taken from SeattleBubble.com due to the nice interactive graphs they've got, is always 3 months behind. This is August data, presented by "The Tim" (the SeattleBubble blogger) near the end of the month 2 months later, as usual. I look forward to seeing the new data near the end of each month, and here is the latest for all the west coast big cities, and then some representative ones around the country:
Seattle itself seems to have had the only real downturn in housing prices, but the others seem to be leveling off. See the data is for August, which is normally still in the rising period of the yearly cycles in the residential real estate business. It may not be much, and, by definition, a bubble is something that does not decrease in size SLOWLY. The reason for some of the financial stupidity existing in bubble form is that the causes, the moral hazards, that is, which start these processes, stay in place while the psychology of investors becomes "this will never end" or "I'm gonna get my share of this, no matter how stupid the prices always seemed." At some point a few people get wise early that this game of musical chairs will end, and yes, the music will stop. Things fall apart once too many people get wind of this wisdom.
This bubble is housing prices, especially in the west, is driven more by Chinese money, rather than just the psychology of version 1.0 in the mid '00's. I don't think these Chinese folks will run out of money anytime soon, but again, it just takes a few wise ones that think "hey, I can store my money this way, but I don't want to lose 50% of it in some kind of crash." Well, the more of them that think a crash is coming, the more quickly a crash WILL be coming.
We shall see. I'm just a spectator, not a speculator, in all this. Feels good - nothing to lose, nothing to gain. No, I don't want to gain easy money. It doesn't thrill me ... just weird that way, I guess.
PS: I'll repeat this again regarding the Case-Schiller numbers, as otherwise the reader's interpretation will likely be off. These numbers, indices actually, cannot be compared to each other as a comparison of prices, only a comparison of how each city's median house prices have risen/fallen from their values in the year 2000. A 200 in Los Angeles means the prices are 2 x the LA prices in the year-2000. A 200 in Atlanta means the same for Atlanta, but not that house prices in Atlanta = house prices in LA.
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