Election'16
Posted On: Wednesday - November 7th 2018 7:42PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Lefty MegaStupidity Race/Genetics ctrl-left
The very informative map-based graph below was obtained by Peak Stupidity from some comment under a Steve Sailer post on unz a week or more back. As I LUV LUV LUV maps, and we would like to present data some of the time here, rather than just shoot the bull, this one is perfect. Now, this racial, gender, and marriage-status (that last is not on here) voting pattern business is stuff that other bloggers, especially Mr. Sailer, who LUVS, LUVS, LUVS this kind of data, have discussed before, I'm not going to get all into it, but will write a few comments below. It's easy to interpret this and make your own conclusions. I will give one caution and that is that the lighter shades really should have been blended into a purple, Very light/bright red could be almost the same value as very light/bright blue on these graphs:
Look at that 3rd row! It's hard to tell exactly, but almost every state in the union is dark blue, meaning over 90% of blacks voted for D. Their may be a dozen states in the 80-90% range for the male vote, but the female vote and the combined are pretty ridiculously lopsided. For all three maps in that Black row, we see what pretty much anyone with an understanding of the term would call Bloc Voting. The Hispanic maps don't LOOK a whole lot prettier, but the men's one has a large swath of states with the very brighest blue, again, meaning almost the same as those 2 very bright red states.
The numbers would be relatively smaller by an order of magnitude than the Black and Hispanic ones, but I'd still have rather had the "Asian" voting numbers separated between Oriental and Indians. (Those links will explain very well what Peak Stupidity thinks of the new euphemistic terms.) As I wrote in the very last post, the Orientals don't lean R anymore. In this group of 5-10 million, the 1970's-80's contingent of hard-core anti-Commie Vietnamese are not a large part of this group anymore. The Chinese* are a much bigger pot now. As for the (dot-, tech-support-) Indians go, they've never been as conservative politically as they may still be socially.
Now, the complete hard-core utter hypocrisy going on now is that the ctrl-left has been (both pre- and post-) every election, tweet-ragging on white women that they must up their game and vote more in line with the ctrl-left's expectations. These expectations are for white people, period, to be more collectively suicidal. Steve Sailer has written dozens of posts on this, especially regarding the women's vote, and non-coincidentally, here's one from, like an hour ago. Well, just look at the map in row 2, column. Is that bloc voting? No, white people have been voting for who promotes the ideas that they believe in (and really expecting the elected to come through, hahah, ahahahahahaa). Yet, if they slide to a more than 55:45 tilt toward conservativsm, they are very bad people. You know what ctrl-left, fuck yourself and look at these maps, in either order. No, we don't write in this manner every day, but c'mon, these people don't even want to argue in any good faith. I should know that, but ...
Man! It took me 10 minutes, even using wikiquote, with its pages long list of quotes from the man, to finally land back at this VDare page for what I wanted. Mr. Sailer has repeated this quote by the late (2015) Singaporean Strongman* about voting patterns many times:
"In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”It somehow seems that the internet, in particular Wikipedia, doesn't want you to easily find this stuff. The point is, though, white people aren't going to be able to vote on principle anymore when these ever-increasing groups vote "hey, whatever he stands for, he's the black guy, so, this is easy.".
* This is where I'd like to see this map display data broken out at the county level. For the Chinese vote, one could probably see the university effect, not from students, of course, but from those who stay in the cities, and the Chinese are nothing if not city dwellers. For other reasons too, a less granular map would have been nice.
** Yeah, this time it's not facetious using the term "strongman", as the Lyin' Press does for whomever they don't like running things in America. I believe Mr. Kew would have agreed, judging by some of the quotes I've been reading.
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Everybody Must Get Stoned
Posted On: Wednesday - November 7th 2018 2:22PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 University Humor Geography ctrl-left Bible/Religion Socialism/Communism
This is a funny story from this Steve Saiiler post based solely on an idiotic, lying tweet by the actor who is Kumar, from the Harold & Kumar series of movies, which are pretty funny from what I've seen. Are Harold & Kumar the '00's version of the 1970's Cheech & Chong set of stoners? We neither know nor care, but granted, funny is funny. However, as Peak Stupidity has frequently noted, the ability to spout out movie lines with the appropriate emotion, just like the ability to sing in a rock band, does not make one an expert in damn thing. In his tweet though (we have not been down to Western Union to pick up our copy, is why it's not displayed here), Mr. Kal Penn, aka, Kumar, claims that he was stoned at the University of Florida, former top party school and top of the Gator Country.
No, no, readers, don't get me wrong. That does not SOUND like any kind of lie. You cannot NOT get stoned if you spend any time at the University of Florida. It's just that Mr. Penn, claims a different kind of stoning was involved. Republicans apparently threw rocks at him back in 2008, as he came to visit to help campaign for Øb☭ma. It's just that nobody's heard or read a thing about it until this Lyin' Tweet. Steve Sailer can come up with a lot better snark than your humble Peak Stupidity lead-poster, so:
Oddly enough, this vicious 2008 rock-throwing Republican assault on a movie star (Kumar from the Harold & Kumar movies) doesn’t appear to have gotten any media attention whatsoever before Penn’s tweet today.See now that's a damn good point. Excepting a small bit of north-central Florida, which may or may not include Gainsville*, but includes Talahassee and such, the place is nothing but a big flat sandbar. One would expect "Kumar" to get stoned in the once sense, but it would not be at all easy for him to get stoned in the Old and New Testament sense:
Here’s a 2008 local newspaper account of Kal Penn’s late August visit to the U. of Florida that leaves out all mention of any stoning of the celebrity, probably due to some sort of Republican conspiracy that controls the media. (I can’t find any news coverage saying he came back in November 2008.)
I’m not a geologist, but does Florida even have a lot of rocks conveniently at hand for throwing at saintly Obama celebrity supporters? Isn’t Florida mostly made out of mud and sand?
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Now, with that humorous piece of stupidity behind us, this post will have a 2nd part related to the election (just finished and others too). With the tie-in to the college campaign of that Kal Penn - no, it's NOT a dog food - twit's tweet, a commenter had mentioned the hard-left voting patterns of college towns in general. That would be a nice easy job for an enterprising mapmaking blogger at some point, to show these islands of socialism in oftentimes conservative areas of the country.
I see this blue pond, or even blue lake, depending on how big the school and town/city, effect in every big University town. It probably matters a whole lot that the voting age is 18, as opposed to 21 before Amendment XXVI was ratified in the summer of 1971. For a big school, that’s a lot of lefty votes that would not have been there 47 years ago, as students of that age tend to lean that way.
The biggest cause, though, is that many more of the hard-lefties and weirdos tend to stay around their university towns than the conservatives. The ctrl-left tend to be in majors for which there are not that many jobs outside of government and the universities, including their alma mater. Granted, not that many of the "studies" and other humanities majors will get the academic positions at their own colleges. Things aren't usually done that way. However, there are thousands of other positions as adjunct instructors, and assistant deans of this or that, that these MS and PhD graduates will take to stay out of the real world, maybe forever (OK, until Peak Stupidity). If not that, you will find them staying in town to work those barista jobs at the coffee shops (see also, here). On the other hand, the conservatives, most with better job prospects, may need to move on for work and later move OUT a ways for the kids' sake.
The huge influx of foreign, especially Chinese students into the universities does not help matters. Whenever they first get a chance to, if. they stay, then their votes will lean fairly heavily left nowadays, excepting when the candidate does not uphold policies that are particularly good .. for the Chinese.
I had a landlady when I was in college in a pretty left-wing area. She reminded me (nicely) on voting day “could you please vote against those (certain particular) city councilmen? They are just Communists!” Well, I had no problem voting against Commies, even back at that age, but I can’t remember if I thought “I have no idea who they are, so I shouldn’t vote in those races.” or trusted her judgement, or else forgot about that, and just worried about the national/state elections. Either way, I think now that that lady was probably pretty far left in her time. Perhaps she was getting what she deserved, as now that she (and her husband, who seemed a conservative guy) had this big house in a nice area near campus, all of a sudden she didn’t like socialism and big taxes!
PS: I did THINK about including the appropriate Bob Dylan song here, but that one is kind of a novelty song, and it's not a good tune really. I like to put only really good songs up here on Peak Stupidity.
* Yes, excepting the blue island of Gainsville, this part of Florida is in the South. Florida is the only state of the union in which one must head north to get to the South.
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Election Day 2018
Posted On: Tuesday - November 6th 2018 11:02AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor ctrl-left
We're tryin' to keep up with "current events"* here at Peak Stupidity, but it's not our forte. Even so, I remembered this morning that it is election day just from the fact that the schools are closed. Wasn't that just for every-4 years Presidential elections back in the past? Personally, I think that the governor just wants that steady support from the teachers, and will call school off days for special elections for replacement of the dog catcher,** any wind gusting to over 15 knots, and pretty soon, earthquake watches from the people that give us Global Climate modeling.
I don't know what to tell the reader today. I had to vote earlier due to work that brought me out of town today. It was very busy last week in that voting location, with 6 booths and still a line slightly out the door. The fact that only 10% white people were in the lobby with me, and a look a day later as I drove by that showed a bigger line of the same crowd, I don't think my vote meant a whole lot. It's hard for individuals to vote against THE BLOC. If you feel that voting is a waste of your time just due to the fact that nothing's gonna change just due to a different admixture of the red and blue squads, I can understand that too.
It's probably just a matter of the decent people wanting to delay the inevitable Peak Stupidity, that has been brought about over arguably 6 decades now by the non-decent people of this country. We will get to some bad times financially, socially, and politically, I have no doubt. It's like pulling a couple of decaying teeth out, though. We can do it now, but you may be down for a day, or we can delay it - got an appointment time for you next Spring, and we can supply you with painkillers to last till then - what's it gonna be? It's just that, come Spring, we may need a bigger pair of pliers.
Whatever you do today, readers, watch out for those hanging chads - they'll put an eye out.
*It's just that the term current events seems so quaint now. That's what we called clipping out some news articles and talking about them back in 5th grade. Now, it's just the big shitshow we document as Peak Stupidity.
** I guess dog catching is not very controversial these days, as when have you ever heard the kind of rancor that you see everyday now for national elections in those important elections for dog catcher ... important, if you're a dog, at least.
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The Green Inferno - Monday Night Horror flick review - Part 2
Posted On: Monday - November 5th 2018 12:45PM MST
In Topics: Treehuggers Movies Race/Genetics
WARNING: This post is a spoiler. DO NOT READ, if you want to watch it with suspense.
Peak Stupidity posted this movie review of The Green Inferno, a movie heard about serendipitously in the midst of writing a number of posts, uhhh, let's say slightly critical of, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of our couple of continents that we call The New World. It so happened that an images of this freaked out white girl in the midst of cannibals that I just randomly saved was from this movie, and I only checked the movie out due to some SJW's caption with the photo saying "don't watch this movie ... it's racisss ... aahhh!" Hey, any mention, good or bad, is good advertising, so they say (in a better way that I can't seem to think of right now).
I gave you readers ONE WEEK to see this movie, dammit, with a warning that a discussion of the ending was coming. Please quit reading right here, if you still want to watch it - I give it 5 stars for nightmare-conducive horror, BTW. You can come back to this one anytime. OK, some of you have lives, I! GET! THAT! [/Carlson]
These two images are from the trailer, so now I see what the marketing plan was for this flick:
... then hits you with the HORROR.
To recap just a tad, after the movie's treehuggers-for-the-win against the nasty money-making working people part, there is this (as usual) unrealistic plane crash - well, OK the hitting the trees and ground part is pretty good, just not ...
Then a bunch of the horror stuff happens, as these SJW's, or the ones that are intact still after the crash, are captured by the very tribe that they were successfully saving. Then, this one guy gets eaten right away, the rest of them are locked in a cage, another gets eaten (the movie stretches from lunch into dinner), blah, blah, yeah, the usual stuff you get when you immigrate into a cannibal-Peruvian community uninvited .. or even invited, and so forth and so on.
Could she be Neil Young's long-lost love?
OK, here's the ending spoiler, finally: Besides the real scum of this SJW group, the leader, who is even more not worth saving, all the rest end up dead besides the star of the movie, Justine. In real life, she is actually Lorenza Izzo, wife of the late director of The Green Inferno, Eli Roth. I guess keeping her alive was a nice gesture. This fairly comely young lady, but again, not quite hot enough to warrant the underwear scenes, forcing this reviewer to take off a star, miraculously gets pulled out of the jungle, though I think she'd rather die than me call the "rain forest" a jungle. Rain forest, jungle, whatever, at the end she is back in New York city with her well-to do Dad who is UN Ambassador or something, very helpful if you need extraction from this or that jungle.
having a nice $300 sit-down dinner in NYC.
Dad: "Peru is dangerous. You can't just go invade a country because you see them as doing something immoral."
Justine: "I know. I just think I should be doing something about the rainforest." [Jungle, dammit!]
I guess those are the best lines the IMDB contributors could find, almost as good as "Go ahead punk, make my day!", I suppose.
I couldn't find any images of the ending so just put an image of a nice clean NYC boardroom in your head, in which Justine is doing a debriefing of her experience with the tribe on cannibals. She then told the suits that, no, there was no untoward cannibalism or anything not nice at all about this jungle tribe. They were perfect ladies and gentleman, is the impression she leaves.
This part just shocked me, people. Here we were, at the end of a gory, but kind of heartwarming, movie in which the young ignorant treehugger SJWs get their on-screen comeuppance, with extreme prejudice, if I may. It seemed like this director or screenwriter, though having made the movie for the horror fans, also wanted to put a little bit of possible reality in there. Not all of the now-digested SJWs in the movie were supposed to have been bad people, I figured, but they were ignorant, so a hard lesson was learned by the one non-digested member of the group.
NOPE. Justine, the remaining SJW, found it necessary to lie to the government diplomats in her debriefing in order to SAVE THE TRIBE. They'd eaten all her friends*, yet she was so, so virtuous that she must lie to save these noble savages of the Peruvian jungle. It's ludicrous, but, I don't know, are young people like this now? You tell me. It'd take a whole lot of brainwashing, it seems like even more than the usual pre-K - grad school 20 years to produce this kind of stupidity. Think, Justine, all of your new SJW friends got EATEN alive, OK, and the gore and horror was something you will have in your nightmares the rest of your on-screen life!
Whatever happened to normal people in the movies, say Apocalypse Now (no, not Apocalypto Now!), where, once a chopper gets taken out, and a guy's leg is half blown-off by the natives, you call in the A-4's to "blow the place back to the Stone Age"? See, that would have been a perfectly good, satisfying ending**, but noooo, Eli Roth had to blow it!
That's what I get out of this very unpleasantly surprising ending. I could be wrong - was this all to make sure nobody would come rescue the crud de la crud, the one guy purposefully left behind and alive in the cannibals' cage? That wouldn't make sense though, as it had to be at least a couple of days later and that head-of-the-SJWs would have already been in the lower intestinal tracts of this noble tribe by this point.
No, I've now gotta say, that other than as a movie to watch just for gore and horror, The Green Inferno sucks, completely due to this sick, stupid 1 minute ending scene! What a shame, and that's why I found it necessary to have a 2nd post - I couldn't have told the reader why the movie sucked without blowing it.
Oh well, we'll always have Lars' ... intestines, that is:
* Oh, except her college friend from the beginning who wisely decided she wasn't into this treehugging shit.
** Wait, what's that you say, they already are in the Stone Ages? Oh, yeah, how about the pre-Cambrian, from the pre-Columbian to the pre-Cambrian via the use of only 3 well-placed taxpayer-paid-for air-to-ground missiles.
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Happy Birthday to Pat Buchanan
Posted On: Saturday - November 3rd 2018 11:24AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media History Pundits Media Stupidity Americans
... and Pundit. The bulwark of Conservatism of > 5 decades running turned 80 years old yesterday. A guy named Wayne Allensworth wrote this great article in reflection called Pat Buchanan at 80—“Right From The Beginning,” After All. I won't excerpt any of it, so please read the whole thing, and one can make comments under the article at unz.com here. Additionally, I noticed this morning that Steve Sailer had a simple one-line "Happy Birthday" post, but it'll have many interesting comments underneath, as usual.
Peak Stupidity has written posts in reference to Mr. Buchanan's columns often, when they appear on unz. I noticed that there are too many to list here quickly, so click on that Pundits topic key find some. As I wrote already, it's been over 50 years that one could have heard from the man in some capacity, as a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon*, TV pundit on Press the Meat (or something), 1992 US Presidential candidate, and current-day widely-known pundit, and I've never had much of a disagreement with him in all that time. One might say, "why would he care?" what Peak Stupidity thinks, but I've heard that Mr. Buchanan is a very personable guy, and not some cold-hearted political ass-kissing wonk (more on this in a bit).
It seems like Mr. Buchanan looks back fondly at his time being on the conservative side of the battles of the 1960's. He knew things were going wrong then, but the next 20 - 30 years showed a false recovery in the conservatism of American society. I wrote "false" there, as, even with Ronald Reagan's presidency, and things in society having gotten steadily less wacky during the '60's-era wind-down - say 1975 through 1980 - things were NOT right again. During that time, the '60's radicals were steadily infiltrating all of the institutions: governments, universities, and the press. It's not that Pat Buchanan, the John Birch Society, and others weren't aware and warning us of this stuff during this time. As Peak Stupidity discussed in When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL? (Part 2), it wasn't really until the mid 1990's that one could see things would continually move in the wrong direction, against both conservatism and liberatarianism.
Just before that, in the spring of 1992, Pat Buchanan threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination for President. Now in case the reader was not much around/aware and not interested in political history, the presidential race in 1992 was not a simple 2-way deal. Mr. Ross Perot (a smarter, proto-Trump, as it were) entered the race in late February, just one day after Pat Buchanan WON the early New Hampshire primary by a few thousand votes over the incumbent George H.W. Bush. It would have been very nice to have those 2 choices, but would have probably happened is what DID HAPPEN - the D candidate, Bill Clinton, won the 3-way contest with 43% of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes. 37% / 168 went to Bush, and Mr. Perot got 19% of the popular votes, but won no states. A little more from the link just above on Ross Perot:
Ross Perot ran for a 3rd party ticket in 1992, eventually named the "Reform Party", but that name may have come later on. However, by 2016 primary time, or even 2012 with Ron Paul, the 3rd party option had almost been completely suppressed by the 2 wings of our red/blue = purple party with complicity of the Gov't Media, aka Lyin' Press.Interestingly, but not coincidentally, Mr. Buchanan ran in 2000 as the Reform Party candidate, following in the footsteps of Ross Perot, who was possibly just "sick of all this shit" (MY WORDS, not his!!)
I can remember wanting nothing to do with George H.W. Bush, after his reneging on his "read my lips, no new taxes", along with the realization that he probably was no friend of conservatives, but just a neocon (though I admit I didn't understand the concept back then). Mr. Perot should have gotten my vote, but his Deep-State induced dropping-out/coming-back in the campaign turned me off, as I didn't understand that well enough either. NO, are you crazy? Of course I didn't voter for the sleaze bag, just back to "L" for Libertarian. One can look back and think of how much better we all would have been if Mr. Buchanan had prevailed. The Lyin' Press was pretty much geared up pretty well in 1992, and they were gonna have none of the upstart true conservative getting very far. They buried his campaign as they did for Ron Paul 20 years later.
Now, to the 3rd picture of the man today. Peak Stupidity wrote in Future Alabama Honorable Senator Roy Moore and the Supreme Court that Mr. Buchanan is just too civil and decent a guy to argue with the ctrl-left in the CE (Current Era) This parallels, on a large scale, the old-fashioned trusting American society's naivety in dealing with the ctrl-left's implementation of refugee-importation, tolerance for the BLTG-QWERTY nonsense, University stupidity, gun-control, and the slow-but-steady imposition of Socialism. People have been trying to compromise and play nice and fair with evil. The evil keeps on pushing. They do not want compromise. Mr. Buchanan writes a lot in a manner that would fit fine in 1985. From the previous link:
He writes about political strategy as in how many votes "we" get if this happens, and what the Senate rules are with the "nuclear option" having been set up by the D's, and it's gonna work against them .. blah blah. OK, you DO know how all this works better than a lowly Peak Stupidity blogger, Pat, but listen, things are not as civil politically as you are used to, and they are quickly getting even less civil. The rules don't matter to the cntrl-left, and most of the people we think are on our side are not on our side. I have not seen ANY political legislation/ruling/whatever go in the RIGHT direction since the EARLY 1990's, Pat! The elite have been getting what they want, one way or another.Sorry if that sounds harsh. Again, Pat Buchanan is just too civil for these times. That doesn't make his writing wrong, but as things more along, prose writing ability may not be as important as simple ad-lib talk from your Tommy Robinsons instead. (30 seconds from him here.) The times of convincing people with logic on political issues is gone. I think if Mr. Buchanan were 30 years younger, he'd probably agree. Change ain't easy, and we dont' want him to change anyway.
Happy Birthday to a true friend of conservatives over the many years!
Lastly, the Media Stupidity tag is attached, as I was floored** by the search results from bing.com in a search for a few facts on Pat Buchanan's TV career: A search for "Pat Buchanan Meet the Press" gives the following at the top (excepting one youtube video above them). No, there's no bias at all there at Bing - of course not!
* Hey, the guy was President, so I guess that gave Mr. Buchanan the best venue for his conservative views, but, man, Nixon is no favorite of Peak Stupidity. Probably his stance on law-and-order during the turbulent times of the late 1960's - see again, PS post - may have been the main reason to like the guy. However, his financial stupidity in un-tethering the US dollar from real money, his stupidity in supporting, even promoting, Affirmative Action, and other forms of stupidity too numerous to discuss, made him no conservative at all. The hell with that guy.
** Not literally - I can still ... reach the keyboard ... barely .... owww! ... just a rotater cuff ... pay no mind...
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For want of a rubber washer, 45 minutes was lost.
Posted On: Friday - November 2nd 2018 6:55PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Poetic Stupidity
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
- proto-Pundit Mother Goose
That is an excellent nursery rhyme, best for the children older than 8 or so. Things do go like that. There I was today, with no rubber washers aka hose face seals, but, having heard the nursery rhyme somewhere (did Mother Goose even HAVE a blog?), I didn't want to let things go that far with hooking up a washing machine - better get new ones for both hoses.
First of all, it's worth explaining to the young ones, that if you don't know where you put something, then you may as well not even have it! That was the case here, but again, to avoid bad consequences I figured I'd better get a pack of these 10 - 12 ¢ items or risk a leak: For want of a rubber washer, a good seal was lost, for want of a good seal, the subflooring was lost, etc, etc. This curmudgeonry post is more about the journey than the washers.
On the way to the nearest hardware store, now 3-4 miles away, when it used to be 1/2 mile, I dropped by the grocery store just in case that had some near the light bulbs. No go, but then I ran into another parent and chatted for 10 minutes about the kids. Once finally at the hardware store, I noticed that the guy was remodeling or something ... nope he is closing up in a month. (This is very pertinent to the Peak Stupidity posts written a year back on the decreasing infrastructure for Do-it-yourselfers and tinkerers in America, as opposed to in China - China vs. America and the local hardware store and DIY and mechanical aptitude in Americans vs. Chinese - self rebuttal) Oh, a guy bought him out of rubber hose washers yesterday, as everything was 25% off. Great.
It was off to the big-box store then. Besides taking 5 minutes to get in the store (vs. 15 seconds at the hardware store) it took 5 minutes to get to the right department and aisle (could have been in plumbing, right, but nope, gardening). Oh, then it was not too bad, only 1 minute in line to pay, though it could easily have been another 5* (vs 30 sec at the hardware store).
45 minutes later found me installing these simple items in the proper places to prevent this kingdom being eventually lost due to water damage. America's manufacturing infrastructure at all levels is declining. This is a small part of it, spending 3/4 hour getting a small ubiquitous part that, well, should have been on my shelf. You've gotta be your own hardware store anymore. Inventory, bitchez!
* Yeah, nobody was doing fancy-assed transactions (see middle paragraph) at least, just paying money for stuff, per the original idea of a store and a check-out lane.
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Halloween as a Burlesque show
Posted On: Wednesday - October 31st 2018 6:28PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music
and just the general slut, I guess:
American burlesque shows are a thing of the past, with a run from 1860 into the 1940's. The heyday of the skimpy or extravagant costumes on women was from the 1880's on, especially the 1930's and '40's, per the wiki article. That being all over with, what we have now is modern Halloween. I don't quite remember the above types of costumes when I was a kid going around collecting candy, but I probably wasn't paying the same kind of attention.
You will see more T&A at a Halloween party than anything short of the strip bar, and well, burlesque is out, so yeah, "trick or treat, baby." It's just a good excuse for the normally chaste, but physically hot, woman to show it off to everyone. "It's all I could gather up in a hurry, dear. I spent all the time on the children's costumes. Yeah, I had to go through the panty drawer quickly, and then it was time to go." OK, I think this stuff started with a lady named Elvira. She would introduce a movie on TV and make snarky comments about it when there would otherwise have been another commercial while wearing a sexy witch costume and talking with a voice to match. Near the end there, she didn't need to be wearing that sexy witch costume anymore, but it was fun, and I miss Elvira.
Peak Stupidity has already featured the most fun Halloween song ever, Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, but his Excitable Boy would have sufficed too. Then, we featured Blue Oyster Cult's Don't fear the
As must always be the case with this band, you need to remember that it's not elevator music, so turn it up.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.
Don't go around tonight.
Well, it's bound to take your life.
There's a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
Don't go around tonight.
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
All right!
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
Don't go around tonight.
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
* Why, oh, why didn't I call their bluff when my parents threatened to send me to Catholic school? Instead of the lady up top, I was worried about being placed in the classroom with these ladies (see the bottom).
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Great Unz comment on 1968 vs. 2018 America
Posted On: Tuesday - October 30th 2018 7:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity History The Future
Pundit, and former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan wrote a new column, Is This Worse Than '68? with a comparison of the violent political climate of 1968 America vs. one-half a century later. He maintains that back in 1968 and the years surrounding it, between the political assassinations, the dirty politics, and the real violence from bombs and riots makes today's America, with the Synagogue shooting, fake-bomb plot, and general ctrl-left violence not so bad in comparison.
A lot of craziness went on alright, back in Pat Buchanan's day, but the craziness now is on another level. It's not just that the issues have gotten stupider by an order or two of magnitude. It's also just that the people arguing for most of the stupidity aren't necessarily Americans by any normal sense of the word. In 1968, though there may have been many more specific acts of violence (see, Mr. Buchanan's reminiscence of seeing hippies get their asses kicked by Chicago cops from his 19th floor hotel room.), the gulf between the basic two sides was not irreconcilable. They were all Americans, who could have been united very well, had it not been for one sides subsequent long march through the institutions to produce the people seen here:
As much as I'd have liked to write more on this, a commenter called A.P. submitted this excellent comment on unz that I will just include here verbatim.
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2018 is far worse than 1968, and it shocks me that Buchanan cannot (or will not) see the obvious difference between then and now: back then the United States was an ethnically unified country (mostly); it was 90% white in 1960. So, regardless of temporary domestic problems, it could always bounce back. And it did. But this time is fundamentally different. The United States is now an empire filled with enormous numbers of disparate racial and religious groups who all hate each other, and it gets worse every year. I can’t anticipate a movie, watch a television series, play a videogame, read a comic book, or do anything else in mass media without hearing of some ethnic squabbling between groups. I fear there is no possibility of a rapprochement this time. Empires don’t bounce back from the edge. That’s what nation-states are for.
One of our political parties, the Democrats, are a loose coalition of diverse peoples who, according to most polls, do not really agree on many different social issues. This party is united only by their ethnic hatred of the other party, the mostly white Republicans. The few blacks that support the Republicans are openly attacked by media like SNL, so there is no chance of racial reconciliation. Every election will be a racial headcount. Every election cycle is now dominated by media efforts to gin up anti-white hatred so the democrats can win. BLM in 2014, anti-Trump hysteria and attacks on Confederate monuments in 2016, mass immigration support in 2018 by the media to drive up Hispanic votes and endless “get Becky” stories posted on YouTube and in the mass media. The other political party is corrupt and incompetent. It serves the interests of the business class when it isn’t busy selling out its voter base.
The backbone of the country, White Caucasians, have come under years worth of blistering racial attacks in the media, and the polls show them cracking under the pressure as a result. Patriotism is at its lowest recorded level in one poll I’ve seen, mostly because whites are giving up. The military has missed a major recruiting goal for the first time in 13 years and is having to turn to urban areas, probably because whites are refusing to join. Foreign presidents like Putin, Bolsonaro, and Duerte command the respect of increasing numbers of Americans disaffected by their own corrupt, inept government. All while the Chinese are stronger than ever and growing stronger. After Charlottesville, one poll of this military you guys put your faith in stated that up to 70% of them would support using the national guard to put down law-abiding protestors…scary. And only about 30% of officers voted for Trump, most voted for Hillary!
Americans no longer control their own media, most of it being based in NY, LA, or DC, which combined have less than 10% of the nation’s population; these various outlets post insane propaganda for the government Ruling Class – calls for wars and even violence against Trump supporters like Sarah Huckabee. Late night “comedy” shows and Hollywood are wall-to-wall propaganda and vile insults against our leader and his voters. These networks monopolize the entertainment industries while keeping out contrary views, even blacklisting guys like James Woods for his political beliefs and canceling shows by Tim Allen. Dissidents are hounded off social media and fired for the slightest misstep (Megyn Kelly and James Damore). That same media has been banning dissidents like Alex Jones and platforms like Gab. Now, Slate magazine (the same outfit that wrote an article entitled “Let’s Blow Up Mount Rushmore”) is claiming that those who support fundamental freedoms like speech are immoral and misguided – all done as a prelude to censorship.
Consider what we have seen over the last eight years. Mobs of Maoist Red Guards have attacked our statues and symbols, sometimes even desecrating grave sites; a Wisconsin town voted to remove a Confederate marker of a mass grave of innocents murdered purposely by Union mistreatment. Major NY-LA-DC media advocated blowing up Mount Rushmore. The West has been plagued by terrorist attacks and the government has responded not by limiting immigration but by installing a police state. Obama flooded conservative areas with refugees (future democrats) the way China has flooded Tibet with Han Chinese. There have been thousands of articles written about “white privilege, white males, manspreading, mansplaining” and innumerable other combinations of bigoted words. Dissidents have been banned from the internet. The government continues to pick more foreign wars against the wishes of the public. Mass immigration continues unabated while mainstream media gloats about replacing whites. Edward Snowden revealed the government has been breaking the law and violating the constitution for decades.
Here’s an example: they hacked Yahoo Chat and set the thing to take pictures of users; it has been estimated that up to 11% of users took their clothes off…and that data is stored in the UK and retrievable now with facial recognition software. The only explanation for that bizarre episode is that they wanted to create dossiers of dirt on potential troublemakers (i.e. people with contrary opinions). Say the wrong thing on social media and it will be, “oh, look at those disgusting pictures of you doing XXX…those dastardly Russians hacked us and released the information…sux for you dude!”
Government officials also participated in a plot to overthrow the government with a fake Dossier and FBI warrants improperly submitted to the secret FISA court. They even tried inserting a mole into Trump’s administration and tried to cover it up when it was revealed. The NSA and CIA act as the East German Stasi did, often clandestinely digging up dirt on Americans and passing it to the police. Top level retired bureaucrats like John Brennan have stoked fears of coups with talk of treason on mass media – aided and abetted by propaganda organizations like MSNBC. The media is now clearly trying to encourage a mad man to kill our president with their rhetoric. There is no other explanation for their behavior as Trump hasn’t been THAT bad.
The democrat party and its media have given up on liberties like the presumption of innocence for white males; see what they did to Kavanaugh. There have been multiple high-profile stories of late where innocent men were convicted in the court of public opinion because they were white: Duke, Virginia, Kavanaugh … Freedoms like speech are soon to be banned. Gun rights will also be severely curtailed as banks are already trying to put gun shops out of business by refusing them service.
Are these the things that happen in a stable country?
At this point, only separate countries can save us. I have no faith at all in the current order. It will fall one way or the other, likely into dictatorship under the racist democrat party. Maybe I’m wrong, but I need someone to point out where I am because I am truly at a loss to understand what you guys see that I don’t.
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About the only thing Peak Stupidity disagrees with is the very last part, predicting a likely dictatorship by the Democrat party. These people couldn't organize a square dance, so they themselves will never be our masters. The Neo-Bolsheviks, or ctrl-left, that have infiltrated the country since 1968 will not get to accomplish what they did in Russia and China last century. The patriotic American people are still armed to the teeth.
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The Green Inferno - Monday Night Horror flick review - Part 1
Posted On: Monday - October 29th 2018 6:59PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness Movies Race/Genetics
... cause she's just not hot enough for this, IMO
The Peak Stupidity blog has been on a kind of savage cannibal kick lately, what with our fisking of Neil Young's Cortez the Killer, general posts of disgust regarding the former sole inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, and, well, we're just really sick and tired of cannibalization. It was that 3rd of the links above for which I found a picture to introduce the post, that happened to be from a movie called The Green Inferno. A the bottom of that post I noted:
OK, I checked around. My file photo comes from a movie called The Green Inferno. Due to this not-quite-illustrious review, "Delete this Racist Movie: New Eli Roth Horror Flick Depicts Indigenous People as Savage Cannibals", I am SO DOWN for seeing this on blue-ray and just put a hold on it from the 'brary. Thank you, reviewer. No, I DON'T normally link to stupidity, but the URL sucked me in, and plus the guy's a PhD, right, so ...That serendipitously led to this review, which is also a good follow-up from our review of another movie featuring savage cannibals, Apocalypto Now!
On to the review now. Well, the seating was good, and this one was not blurry compared to Apocalypto, as this wasn't straight from youtube, but played on the big screen in the den. There was no need to smuggle in food, so there was that too. Limiting food intake, in hindsight, though, may not be such a bad thing on the viewer's part for this particular "film".
Look, I've never been a fan of the movie rating system. G-rated films came to mean kids movies by some point, as you just couldn't do or say anything to keep that rating. R ones sometimes were not all "R" was cracked up to be, no, no cracks of any sort ;-} a bit too often. Then there's the gore - it doesn't take much anymore to keep the kids out, yet, hell, those are the ones that like all that. Let me tell you though, The Green Inferno needs some kind of triple-G, "intense Gore" rating, as it is something else! I'd read since that the late director, one Eli Roth (who's wife was the star of this one), made this to be strictly part of the old-fashioned horror genre. You would not know that early on, as (note the political statement in the excerpt above) it starts off as a movie purporting to make a political statement - one is not sure which way on the politics it leans.
As far as the politics go, yeah, it's just a movie. One can make anybody look bad, even the noble people of a never-before-contacted Peruvian ugly-assed jungle tribe with more facial decoration than a mid-1990's Seattle grunge band groupie, just out to get an early dinner. Peak Stupidity has indeed been on an anti-pre-Columbian-people kick, but there has been evidence turning up that the Spanish conquistadors were most likely not the (only) bad guys in their interactions upon arriving in the New World. We're on the side that's against these savages, cause we don't like nightmares.
At the beginning of the movie, we see some standard SJW/Student Snowflakes that are gathering at their university to go down to Peru together in order to perform a typical antifa-like act in preventing a logging company from cutting down some jungle near this noble tribe.
The SJWs, consisting of pretty much the whole cast of characters, are either portrayed by bad actors and actresses, or they are really like this. I shudder to think it's the latter case, as the dialogue is just stupider than all get-out. "So this is what a really modern movie sounds like." I thought, knowing that nobody could possibly have made most of the scenes before 2013 (the movie's year of production), as people like this didn't even exist in the imagination 5 years back.
The good news is that these SJW/Antifa - types are not portrayed in the best light, or maybe I should say, as being in the right. That's how it seemed to me, as not only is the ringleader a selfish "virtue-signaler" leading this mayhem for the chicks (hey, why not?), but it turns out that, no, this tribe is NOT the kind of people you want to visit with
Not to get into too much detail here to spoil it, I'll just continue with the synopsis, in which, after having success broadcasting their anti-logging act to the world, the group's Cessna Caravan aircraft crashes into the jungle on the way home. It's very typical in most movies with plane crash scenes, in that it's a stupid depiction of the crash. I'm not sure what could start a fire at the front end of this turboprop engine and why the plane would go into an aileron roll just due the engine having burned up. Whatever gets you back into the jungle, I guess, and that's when we meet the tribe that they spend a lot of time and parent's money saving from civilization.
The cannibalism scenes that appear soon enough make the Apocalypto one seem like a snack of gingerbread men in comparison. Oh, you should have digested all of your gummy bears and worms by this point, I should have told you ahead of time. For those who like the gore and horror, it is all uphill from here, almost until the end of this movie.
That brings me to the reason for having 2 parts to this post. The ending is, well ... I just don't want to spoil it by writing anything now. If you want to see this movie, and like Peak Stupidity (the website, not the social phenomena), I will hold on commenting on the ending for 1 week. That's all I'm giving you - 1 week.
PS: I wanted to end near the non-spoiled ending, of course, but it was interesting reading the Amazon.com reviews, here. The > 500 reviews rate the movie very evenly over the range of number-of-stars. I wonder if some of the very-quick, 5 word worthless 1-star reviews were made by people such as in my excerpt, who simply don't want anyone to see a movie that portrays non-white savage tribes as not quite the wonderful people we say they are.
The top, most-helpful commenter's review title is "I'm a friend of rain forests, are you?" That's kind of disheartening, until you read:
A group of fart sniffing college students head to the Amazon jungle on a mission to save rainforest. Armed with cellphones, and a sense of entitlement, they head deep into the jungle to stop an evil corporation destroying and flattening the rainforests. When there things take an unexpected turn for the worse. Will they make it alive??Read on - he's just in it for the gore. Maybe you will be too - enjoy!
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Housing Bubble 1.0 - some thoughts
Posted On: Saturday - October 27th 2018 1:20PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Race/Genetics
I'd mentioned in this post a week ago, that I'd have something to say about some ancient history (now), the housing bubble of the early/mid '00's, call it Housing Bubble 1.0 (for a reason). It's in the comments under this unz article, not the article itself, where I'd read some discussion on that phenomenon, including a couple from Ron Unz himself. It started with the observation on Chief Spreading Bull, aka Squaw Elizabeth Warren of the Massachusetts nations in the white man's Senate, that she had said many things regarding that housing bubble and the bailout of the banksters (Mr. Unz uses the term, and I have no argument with that.)
There's lots more to say about those bailouts of big banks by the US Feral Gov't, but I'll confine this discussion to the ethnicity aspect that was brought up. Has Steve Sailer, linked-to here most often, over-emphasized the Hispanic aspect of the cause of the bubble in his many posts on the subject? He does know a whole lot about California, having been there a long time. There are lots of Hispanics in California, and it was one of the biggest of the bubble states (and is again now). Mr. Unz's argument was with the numbers, stating that blacks and Hispanics, as home buyers, were not any particular larger portion of this financial mess than one should expect by percentage of the population.
With all respect to Mr. Unz here, since, I am a "HEAVY USER"* of his web site, I’m not sure that he understands Mr. Sailer’s point on this. I say this, BTW, as someone who was paying close attention to the housing bubble-and-pop during that era, in a location where it was pretty big AND I didn’t read (or very rarely read) Sailer’s writing back then.
The point goes way back, maybe to the late ’70′s. The push to AA blacks (there weren’t many Hispanics back then, period) into loans that they were otherwise being denied started long ago. Everyone with any knowledge of ACTUAL free markets and common sense knew that no banker would turn down a customer who, on average for his “type”, would pay back the loan.
The local bankers knew what they were doing, so it wasn’t about racism. As we all know, that doesn’t/didn’t fly with the SJWs and even the proto-SJWs that were around back then. They wanted equal OUTCOMES. The big banks were coerced over the years by the Feral Gov’t to show better approval ratios (either higher YES/NO for blacks, or higher ratio of blacks/whites than previously). Just jawboning was not going to do it, so the Community something-or-0ther Reinvestment Act and other “anti-redlining” laws were made to hit the bankers in their pockets if they didn’t comply.
That was the start of the problem. I don’t want to speak for him, but I think Steve Sailer doesn’t maintain particularly that the housing crash was so bad just due to the raw NUMBERS of black and Hispanics. The point was that, once this coercion of the banks by Feral Gov into making unsound loans started, plenty of white people got into the act too. The bankers threw up their hands, said “WTF, Joel”**, and gave the 3% down, low-interest (specially ARMs) loans to whomever walked in. This was all helped by the fact that the US Gov, via the FED had forcibly lowered interest rates after the 2001 dot.com, 1.0 bust. It helped everything that housing prices were “going to always go up” (if the last 20 years were any guide in most markets). Nobody would lose, if that stayed true, no matter how just plain financially-stupid the loans were (say, 3% down to a landscaper making $20,000 on a good year, on a $375,000 McMansion in Temecula, … oh, but the rate may rise, but if you won’t be able to afford payments then, shoot, just sell it at a $80,000 profit, more money than you’ve been making mowing yards for that whole time, even if you undocumentedly cheat on taxes.)
I don’t put all of this on any one presidential administration either. It went from Carter (not sure if Reagan/Bush 88 really said much about it), through Clinton and George W. Bush. They all thought they were doing right, of course.
Now, just to emphasize to the reader that I WAS THERE, here are 3 anecdotes to explain my point:
1) A guy I worked with had bought 4 condo units in S. Florida just for an investment in ’06 or so. I only worked with him in ’08 when things were going down the tubes. He had already lost his ass, and the units (maybe whole building) weren’t even finished yet. Yes, he took the hit, but a) Our jobs were not high-paying but long-term stable. b) His parents bailed him out, but, per (a), I believe he was going to make them whole.
2) A friend bought a townhouse (TOWNHOUSE! not even a real house) in a medium-sized city for $550,000 in 2007, in a place where there was not the big, big bubble, but still, by 2 years later it was worth $350,000 according to him. He’s rented it out since, which worked out OK. However, when I saw it for the 1st time, before the crash though, I told him “I really wish you showed me this before you bought it. I’m telling you, it ain’t worth this much! ”
3) A friend’s ex-girlfriend bought 2 houses in Arizona a few years before the crash. That was all her lump-sum retirement money from a government job. Prices dropped like a rock, and she probably couldn’t even rent them out. She was bailed out by her husband, as I guess that’s the way now. (My friend is probably glad she’s ex-girlfriend.)
Oh, if it makes anybody feel better, these were all white people.
* It's a term that comes from the fast food industry
** I know, I know, not quite the movie line.
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Infotainment on the "bombs"
Posted On: Friday - October 26th 2018 9:56AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Pundits
IT WAS NOT MY FAULT! The damn TV was already on when I entered the gym this morning. There was some damn CNN anchor going on about "the bombs". I write it in quotes, as, we already have known for a few days, they didn't go off, and they didn't seem designed to go off, hence, they were not bombs. Anyway, this post is not particularly about these politically-incendiary devices, but about the infotainment propoganda we are (mostly) voluntarily subjecting ourselves to. I mean "mostly" to modify both "we" AND "voluntarily". As a perfect example, I was lucky this morning to be able to quickly turn off the Lyin' Press stupidity and stash that remote control in a safe, out-of-the-way location within said gym. ;-}
I've only heard about this story at all via blog posts/articles about it on-line. It was enough to just get the gist of it, and I can get more details if I wish. What I saw this morning made me even more certain that, pending the financial crash* that will cause things to get much more real, things will not get less stupid if Americans keep the damn idiot boxes turned on. (That includes acquiescing to them blaring out at the gyms, restaurants, bars, dentist and used auto shop waiting rooms, and battery and tire shops.) The stupid out of those things will neither cease nor desist, so perhaps we all should get wise to that, and TURN THAT CRAP OFF! This morning the bomb narrative was in progress, who knows for how many hours in the early morning already and for how much longer - it only hit me for about that 15 seconds until I found that remote control. However, just extrapolating, knowing it's been already most of a week, I could see (say 10 minutes of every hour) it ending up a month later having supplied the Lyin' Press - that's just this ONE CHANNEL - with 100 hours of propaganda material. That's during waking hours; it's even worse during non-waking hours.
It is partly because the stuff sells. It's supposedly the "big story", but that's how they've sold it to the viewers. Targeting of major political figures, oh my! Not one was touched though, notice. It's also, of course, very poltical, as the ones targeted are definitely the ones that anyone from the right would target, were he so inclined. I'll give kudos for whatever democrat operative most likely planted these. He's pretty down with the pulse of true conservative hatred ... and George Soros lives in NY? Interesting.
Most important to the Lyin' Press is just keeping this story alive for the propaganda reasons more that for the sales (viewers). This is supposed to make conservative look bad in time for the elections, as the Kavanaugh narrative tailed off too soon. C'mon
One more point here. Even the pundits on the web have obviously determined (from watching the TV, I'm guessing) that this is a story they must write something about. My sample is only the small one of the sites on the blogroll, but Pat Buchanan, for example, has chimed in with a column. Look, I understand that the original finding of these fake bombs was news, then a few follow-ups were in order. However, this is now the month-long narrative of infotainment. Leave this stuff behind, people, I implore you, for the love of all things truthful!
* See also Part 2 and Part 3 of the Peak Stupidity series "There's a lot of ruin in a nation."
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Cavavan of the Sinners?
Posted On: Thursday - October 25th 2018 11:53AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Books
or Camp of the Saints?
Invasion via The Caravan:
Invasion a la Le Camp des Saints:
Peak Stupidity discussed the great, prophetic book, The Camp of the Saints by Frenchman Jean Raspail, as a review of a review. Here is the original very good review by Chris Roberts, an American Renaissance writer, on VDare. As mentioned in yesterday's post on President Trump and the Carvan, the whole episode is strikingly similar to the story in Jean Raspail's book. A comparison can be made not just between the specific events involving these caravans to the voyages by boat in the book, but the general attitude and cowardliness/powerlessness of the population is exactly as that author described 43 years ago.
These 7000 people, and that of the last one, are not the real problem. In a way, I think the pro-immigration-invasion ctrl-left and globalists may think this is just as good a thing for publicity as the right does? Why? The more numerate, but maybe more ill-informed, people on the right, can see a number like 7,000 and go "oh, that's just the size of a small town, or 5% of my city. It's not that bad really, worst case." without knowing the everyday numbers that are much much larger. The everyday numbers can be compared better to the million or so that are enroute to France on a few dozen (if I recall correctly) big junker ships in a kind of caravan in the novel, out of a French population* of 50-odd million at the time. (This could have been written in that previous post, so excuse the digression.)
The similarities I'm writing about are with the way the population, in 1975 France (both in the novel and reality) and current-day America, have been pushed into a state of extreme political correctness. No doubt, many would rather beat beat over the top of the head with a 2 x 4 (actually, a 1.5 x 3.5, so not quite so bad!) than get called a racist. Yes, that's what it's come to. It's that, along with a very welcoming and forgiving attitude that works fine in a unified society, but no much when we are all being taken advantage of. The Lutheran refugee resettlement groups, the stupid/evil ones creating the Sanctuary Cities policies, and the rest of the Snowflakes of all sorts are not just being taken advantage of. They are taking advantage of the rest of us who know better via the shaming. (Don't believe it? Speak up in one of the hearings then, and you'll know what I mean. Don't mind being shamed? GOOD ON YA! Welcome to the party pal, and we need more like you.)
The political and social climate is very much like that in the 1975 novel. Not many want to stand out and be known as a guy who HATES! HATES! HATES! these people. Here's what it really comes down to at the basic level. Our society is very feminized. One of the female traits is great compassion. That is a good within the family or tribe and sometimes without. However, the female sort is NOT known for the hard, cold calculating rationality of the male. That's OK, they just shouldn't be running things. Think of the courts. What is that saying about "justice tempered with mercy"? All mercy and no justice is a very bad thing.
Our society at this point needs to revert back to being run via the male traits of sometimes-very-tough choices made for the good of the family, tribe, and country. What good is compassion when it's tempered with stupidity? That's what we've got now. Most of the compassionate people (I'm leaving out the evil ones often behind the scenes) pushing for open borders have no idea of the raw numbers. There are 1 and a quarter Billion people in Africa, and it's rising rapidly. Though America's problem (just due to numbers, not the worst case population type) is mostly Hispanics, and in The Camp of the Saints it was dot-Indians, nowadays in Europe it's Moslems and Africans. Take the latter, as an example: The compassionate types in Europe, led by the Commie Merkel (see also here), have no idea that if they took all that want to come,THEY WILL THEN BE AFRICA. Even if 1/2 wanted to stay behind, a majority of the continent would then be Africans. Yet, I don't see an awful big crowd of Europeans moving to Africa so they can be there right now instead.
We are in the same situation here. Compassion tempered with wisdom would let one think about the future of one's own. It really needs to be drilled into the snowflakes, especially of the female persuasion: "What kind of place do you want your children and grandchildren to live in? Don't you have any compassion for them?" Dad always said, "take care of number 1 first. You are number 1." Family can come next, then your country. How could we have gotten to where people don't undestand this. From Chris Roberts' VDare review comes this quote:
“In this curious war taking shape, those who loved themselves best were the ones who would triumph.” – Jean Raspail
* Very interestingly, a table on this wiki page shows that the French population stayed extremely stable at 40 +/- 2 million throught the entire 1st half of the 20th century. It then proceeded up by right at 10 million in the 2 decades from 1955 to 1975 when Mr. Raspail wrote the novel. That's near 25%, very likely a part of the inspiration for this novel, since these number were not just French indigenous growth but immigration, and births therefrom, from their former colonies in the 3rd world.
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More on Tommy Robinson and the Soldiers
Posted On: Thursday - October 25th 2018 10:03AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny
(somewhat continued from the previous post)
In this post, I want to refer the reader to John Derbyshire's Proud Boy Persecution Shows Street Fighting Has Arrived In America. Next, the Military?. Mr. Derbyshire brings events in America and England together for a comparison on the state of rising political violence. I don't say that as a bad thing, as "those who make peaceful revolution impossible ...*, etc. The "Proud Boys"/antifa small street battles in NYC and then in Porltand, Oregon will be the subject of a separate post or two here on Peak Stupidity, but there was a good reason Mr. Derbyshire compared/contrasted the two.
Let me get to the latest on Tommy Robinson, which resulted FROM his friendly meeting with the white British soldiers that I showed yesterday. Although that last one was about feeelings, I must admit, this will be facts of the matter. The Globalist elites of formerly-Great formerly-Britian, just as with the ones we are burdened with, absolutely don't like racial solidarity in the white population. It's these white males who are just too prone to getting organized, forming associations, and getting out and doing things to help their people. The elite (not always as an arranged plan, or even conciously - see the good video in Rebuttal of Peak Stupidity), just don't take too kindly to that. They do want a non-competitive (with them, that is), financially-strapped, government-dependent population like that of the old 3rd-world. (We live in the "new" 3rd-world, see?)
The British military, just like ours, has the higher ranks filled with political cuck types through and through. The PC has infested the lot of them, and it hasn't impacted effectiveness only because neither force has been in a REAL WAR with equal manpower AND weaponry. When the SHTF, things will get real, and as forecasted here, the stupidity stops. These 2 militaries (and the rest of the West's, I can readily assume) aren't at that point yet. When the British Army brass got ahold of that video, it had to worry them quite a bit. Tommy Robinson is the opposite of PC, which, regardless of his other alleged politics**, makes Peak Stupidity part of his fan base indeed.
One of the soldiers was discharged from the Army due to allegedly many other wrongs committed (I don't want to say infractions.). This was supposedly the last straw, the one that broke the camel's back and all. Yeah, bullcrap, but the camel thing reminds me of the point. England has a significant Moslem population. (See Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide, along with Part 2, and Part 3.) The government kowtows to that population over the regular native British for various reasons, including globalist inclinations, spite, and cowardice. On the other hand, the British Army, and its other forces, join with the American in most of our invade-the-world strategy, as still our best ally in our offense. Part of the involves going around killing Moslems, and that is part of the job of these friends of Tommy Robinson. Yes, it's ironic.
The latest from this story is that many other British soldiers, not just those who posed with Mr. Robinson, have shown support for this "Soldier X" via anonymous (no displayed faces) pictures, along with calls to Mr. Robinson. Peak Stupidity has been trying to beat one concept into our readers for a while (see the whole series of Battle Lines are Being Drawn - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.) That is, they can't arrest everyone, they can't fire everyone, and, in this example, they can't DISCHARGE everyone. In this Breitbart article on the events this is spelled out by the soldiers, so they already understand the concept. This is all stuff we can learn from 1960's America. As much as I don't agree with most of what the protests were about, these people stuck together in the kind of numbers that can't be defeated with Anarcho-tyranny. That's what it was (and still is, in the courts) in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anarcho-tyranny. The peaceful (so far) alt-right was not in big enough numbers. They could be beat around and bulldozed in the justice system. 10,000 of them would not have been.
What it comes down to, were the British Army to keep this stuff up, is mutiny. That is the downfall of any armed force, where discipline is the key to effectiveness. Mass disobedience of orders is considered mutiny. What the hell are they going to do about it, though? Will they fill up the ranks with non-mutinous foreign-born or foreign ethnicity soldiers? They might think that a good idea, as they me compliant out of a lack of any historic British morals, not to mention their support for PC and anti-whiteness.
However, what then about the white British former soldiers? The term Freikorps comes to mind. This is where history from a century ago is coming back around to rhyme, folks. I've noted this before. Those German groups, well really squads, of ex-soldiers were battle-hardened Great War (WWI) veterans that lived in the terrible economy of reparations-destroyed Germany. With nothing going for them otherwise (sound familiar?) and the establishment and other political groups (i.e. Commies) bent on destruction, these guys banded together to raise all manner of hell. Does the British government want that? No, they'd better be kind of careful here. This Soldier X thing could turn into something about much more than Soldier X and Tommy Robinson. That'd be something to behold. To defuse this now though would show weakness. I think the brass is in a pickle.
Listen to Tommy Robinson himself in the video above. He's no Churchill or Enoch Powell, but it's worth a listen to ... seems like a right decent bloke.
* True he was a Kennedy, but he was
** This seems to happen with anyone who gets in the limelight from the alt-right - there are always those who bring up some defects in their personalities. I notice that these detractors are neither out in the street fighting the antifa nor standing up for free speech, or ANYTHING, for that matter. Judge the man's actions. We're FOR this guy!
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Hey Tommy, Tommy, Tommy Robinson ...
Posted On: Wednesday - October 24th 2018 9:11PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity
First off, I really need to hear this chant in it's entirety. I keep hearing snippets on videos, or 100 voices smeared together, so I don't think I've got it. I read somewhere it's from the crowd that attends
I will include more of the latest on the Orwellian Anarcho-Tyranny in Britain and it's military force, as related to Tommy Robinson, tomorrow. However, I just wanted to show this 30 second very uplifting video. It is uplifting to me, but more so, one can see that the support of his fellow real British young soldiers is for Mr. Robinson too. Now, what you can see, and what I have to say here quickly is contrast to much Peak Stupidity implorement (yeah, not a word) to the reader and Americans to read what people say and do, rather than getting the (often faked) emotion on TV to decide what to think. I've got to say, though, that the emotion in this video is something else. As he says, but his big smile shows moreso, this show of support from his real countryman was worth all [the British police state shit] that he's been through. What a feeling it is, too!
More on this tomorrow, as it's really a bigger story than that of Tommy Robinson, and we'll link to a great (as usual) John Derbyshire article to explain.
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Trump and the Caravan - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - October 24th 2018 10:47AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government
(continued from previous post)
As Peak Stupidity left off, the Caravan of Undesirables is somewhere in Mexico, northbound and down. You'd think, with the internet and all now, one could get their exact position easier than it unsuccessfully seemed to me a minute ago, compared to 1973, the time and publish date of the fictional Camp of the Saints. In that book, near a million dot-Indian riff-raft (get it?) were floating, or steaming toward the Mediterranean coast of France, and roughly kept track of with the same morbid foreboding interest. The similarities between that story and this current event are striking, probably good for a post to come. [Duly noted - Ed]
This post is to be about President Trump more than the caravan, I just reminded myself. You may want to quickly
First, before anyone gets any underclothes out of position here, this is a standard disclaimer: NO, Peak Stupidity would NOT have rather had the Hildabeast in this office (or really anywhere, she can have any effect on ANYTHING). We are glad Donald Trump was elected, including over ¡Jeb!, and even Ted Cruz*. We still like the guy.
Now, the problem is that our President is ineffectually watching this caravan like the rest of us, or those who watch TV, very much like on the radio in Camp of the Saints. It's pathetic, as I stated in the previous post. It is shameful that we should have to worry about it. We do, but it is big infotainment too, that may or may not distract for the issue of the normal hundreds of 1,000s of illegal aliens that come in day-in and day-out. Many feel, as per the Sailer headline, that this will shed more light on the problem and bring out Conservative voters to vote "R" in these mid-term elections.
"Yes!", they exclaim, we are #¡Winning!**. We'll have a red tsunami, or at least no blue wave. Hey, guys, um, we have had a Republican majority Senate and House, with the best president we could have expected, for 2 years running, already! I imagine things being much worse if we'd have had anybody (we had a chance to elect) but Donald Trump - see disclaimer above. However, things are still not getting any BETTER. We really have got to at least get to where we've stopped digging. That'd mean a serious border barrier, total curtailment of the cheap-labor work visas, and a moratorium or 75-90% cut in all legal immigration to boot. That'd be just the stopping of the digging. We could go somewhere from there.
Now, I'm not here, today at least, to explain what the President should be, and should have been, doing better. It's more about this attitude of people that if we keep electing the right people, it'll all be good. NO, IT WILL NOT BE ALL GOOD. An imaginary conversation may do a better job for me on this than regular text:
PT = President Trump
TS = Trump Supporters/Voters
FB = Federal Bureaucracy
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Stardate: Today # of aliens present: Toward 30,000,000
PT: "We will do something to stop this caravan at the border."
FB: "Yeah, well, we will dispose of each case, in court, per the law and the judges, when the perps come back on their court dates."
TS: "Either way, this is great. Now, we've really gonna get out the vote!"
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Stardate: Early November this year, after processing
# of aliens present: 7,000 more, plus the usual thousands getting through weekly.
PT: "You see what's happened, people? We need better judges and a better Congress and Senate. Please vote."
TS: "You got it. My ballot's been in. We need an even bigger share of the white vote, and, with this development, we'll get it!"
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Stardate: Two years hence. # of aliens: 1 million or 2 more. Oh, and a few more million offspring attain voting age.
TS: "Well, in these last two years, we've not seen a serious stop to the immigration invasion hole digging, per the Peak Stupidity blog. We've got loads of R's in office, but not all of them turned out to be on our side. Dang, let's try harder."
PT: "If you elect me, I'll do my best, at least as well as my treasonous underlings let me. I've been tweeting about these bastards for years!"
TS: "You got it. We now need about 75% of the white vote to win, but we can do it, as everyone's REALLY, REALLY PISSED NOW about this immigration problem."
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I may continue this later, on, but do I need to? Let me summarize. It will not matter how many Red-squad people are in office, if we let this problem go on for much longer. Sure, this problem brings OUT the Conservative VOTES, but it also BRINGS IN the non-Conservative VOTERS.
* The guy SOUNDED better on immigration than Trump, and maybe he would have been, but I absolutely did not trust that he meant anything he said. (Yes, I could be wrong, but kinda doubt it.)
** Sorry, I didn't know what to do with all those spare upside-down exclamation points. ¡GET! ¡USED! ¡TO! ¡IT!
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Trump and the Caravan - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - October 23rd 2018 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government
The last I'd read was that there are supposed to be 7,500 Central Americans in this Caravan 2.0 of the ongoing, as-of-yet unopposed, immigration invasion of America. Let me tell you what happened after the last one, what was it, 1 1/2 years ago? I tout VDare as the go-to site for information on immigration stupidity for a good reason. They have detail-oriented writers, general policy idea writers, insiders and outsiders, all of it. The story on that last caravan was that almost all of the illegal invaders were let in.
Let me explain. We have "rule of law", allegedly. There is processing to judge the validity of these "asylum" claims (pretty much a mockery of the term, that), then individuals are put into categories. Unless one of these people JUST HAPPENS to be identified as some wanted criminal, he'll be given some case #, be told when to show up at the proceedings, etc., etc. They are no longer detained after a certain point, just told when to come back! Yeah, would any of these people be likely to come back to go see the judge? Could any of them be identified once they leave the area? NO and NO. "We don't neeed no steeenkin' processing, Senor."
Peak Stupidity does not know all the details, I freely admit. I do have the big general picture, and part of that is that this big Feral Gov't bureaucracy is not on America's side, as of yet. That is President Trump's fault. He has every right, as head of the executive branch, to fire, fire, and fire employees, until he gets the kind of staff that will implement patriotic Americans' wishes. I've been through this before (I think). Judges can make all the judgements they want, but these ICE/Border Patrol/etc. employees have lots of discretion, just as a prosecutor does. Try going through immigration via the proper channels as an American, at an airport, and see how much trouble in CAN be, if the guy wants it that way.
Now, Americans have many suggestions for the solution here - confiscate or block remittances (money wired home to Ole Mexico), start closing consulates, etc., and Trump has his threats 2.0. It's all kind of pathetic, really [/Deputy Fife]. After all, right now, these many thousands of Guatemalans (along with probably other mixed-in potential trouble-makers of all sorts) are still in the territory of Mexico. It shouldn't be our business where they march - a REAL COUNTRY would have a REAL BORDER that'd be a waste of time for 7,500 people to march 2,000 miles toward. It shouldn't matter. Instead right now, we have a policy of hope. We're hoping we can stop an appreciable amount of 7,500 people from illegally entering and staying in our country at will. Yes, that's our strategy.
This post is not just about, and America's problem not just with, this, and that last, caravan of unwanted illiterate 3rd-worlders entering, or being let to enter. It's a big show right now, and though the numbers are not small, they are pretty much negligible compared to the everyday illegal entries that have been going intensely for > 3 decades, getting us up to estimates of 30 million or so. We don't know definite numbers, due to the obvious undocumentedness of it all, but this caravan could be a few days worth, and maybe a week's worth of illegal entries going on all year long and not publicized as this big piece of infotainment is.
The deal is, though, that the immigration problem is again being brought to light, really by both sides. I believe the ctrl-left are so confident now that they have their whole base of voters energized by showing this illegality and impending destruction of the rest of America. The Republicans, at the same time, are glad this will bring the pro-Trump base out to vote, after seeing this on TV. The follow-up post to this will emphasize how the result of this election might not change a damn thing about the overall problem. It'll be more about President Trump and the voters and less about the caravan. (It should be tomorrow - trying to beat the caravan, at least!)
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Rebuttal of Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - October 22nd 2018 7:47PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Globalists
The video here is basically a rebuttal of the whole concept of this website.
Mr. Devon made a very good video, that will keep your interest for the whole 9 minutes. The gist of his view is (right at 4:05 in) is:
What needs to be understood, right now, is that it's not that they're [the elites, or ruling class] too stupid or too cowardly to do the right thing. It's that they ARE doing the right thing. They're just doing it for them ... for their families ... for their culture ... for their societies.Mr. Blackpilled Devon sees the ruling class as very different from everyone else. He sees us as the honest, hardworking, noble ones. The Globalist elites, the way he describes it, being devious and all-powerful, see us peons in the same way a modern-day cattle farmer sees his cattle, or a kid sees the ants on his toy ant farm.
It's very tempting to believe all of this, due to the good guy/bad guy aspect of it. We are all the good guys in the video, at least you all reading this blog (well, if I do have any Globalist elite readers, welcome, and remember to put capital "PS" before each comment, bitchez.) Peak Stupidity has bad-mouthed the elites of America and most of the world as the bad guys too, I'll admit. However, we see stupidity all around, and we write posts about it whenever we see it (and the mood strikes). I don't think things are quite so cut-and-dried as Mr. Stack's video makes it out, due to:
1) As we discussed in Stupid vs. Evil and long-term conspiracy theories, are there really family's of these elites that are so bright that they plan out what goes on, or have control of events, for periods in the centuries? Nah.
2) Stupidity does not stop at class boundaries. Take the Kennedies, please (oh, you have already, fine ...) Nope, though many are evil, many in these elite classes are just too stupid to do the right thing. Mr. Stack denies that, but then, are all the terrible policies being implemented really good for some of them and their progeny in the long run? I don't think so, but they persist.
3) If these people have been in total control for so long, how do you explain 19th and 20th century America? Is this a new thing? The video maker doesn't go into any history. He describes just the here and now, so I don't know how he reckons things came to be this way.
4) See the quote above. Are they really living in totally separate societies and cultures from us? Sure, the elites are far enough apart to not understand many of the real everyday problems of us peons. They've got islands to go off to, and penthouses up near the 1000' cloud deck. Yeah, but we can reach them just the same. We are not quite like the cattle going into the slaughterhouse. God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal.
Please view this one, even though this guy could put us out of business, with his 35,000 views:
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Paper or Plastic?
Posted On: Saturday - October 20th 2018 12:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity
Yeah, that's pretty unsightly, so it's a good thing most AMERICANS in America don't litter much anymore. Wait a second, who the heck is Lady Bird Johnson? That's gotta be the reader's first question. In this 1 1/2 y/o Peak Stupidity post, Washington FS and First Ladies, we discussed an unwritten (least in the US Constitution) convention has been "trending" for 4 score years or so, that Presidential First Ladies* have their own programs of some sort. It SHOULD not be (doesn't mean they aren't) funded by any taxpayer's money, as these ladies were never elected. It's about using the bullyess pulpit, if I may, to jawbone the country into become better. If we knew how to say "that's not who we are" all those years, believe me we'd have heard that.
Per the post linked-to above, then, one can read that the wife of the scumbag Socialist Lyndon B. Johnson, had a program against littering. That beats Moochele Øb☭ma's "eat-your-vegetables" by a hair, I guess, and is definitely better than Nancy Reagan's "just-say-no" anti-drug thing. I'm not sure what the name of Mrs. Johnson's program was, but I'm guessing the "litterbug" term was a part of it. OK, so American did slowly ease up on the littering, from my recollection of many years later.
"We" are more concerned now with not killing the planet, as if that's really possible. No, don't try it, please, as Peak Stupidity just re-upped our URL, and you "can't take it with you". The latest treehugger concern is with our using the plastic grocery bags. When these people say "THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!", unlike the old use of this phrase in jest, they mean it. They want to bring us back about 30-odd years to paper grocery bags only (or bring your own). Thing is, those paper bags can't be carried easily** and they fall apart in the rain. Yeah, they CAN be used as textbook covers. I am sure that they are quite a bit are more expensive for the grocery stores than the plastic ones. The storage and use of the plastic ones has been honed down to a science (not by scientists, though, by engineers).
It can't be about the space these things take up in the landfills. Peak Stupidity has been over this same thing with the current grasping of straws (see Part 2, and Part 3). These bags are EXTREMELY thin.
OK, I just HAD TO check it out. Thickness is in the range of 15 to 22 MICRONS. Let's do the math [But, but, I was led to believe there would be no math ... - Ed]. I'm gonna work in English (Standard) units, so sorry. I just measured one and got ~ 12 x 14 inches for the other dimensions, call it 175 in2, including smearing in the handle. Don't forget there are 2 sides, so, using the thickest stuff, that works out to right around 0.3 in3 of plastic. Now, I don't expect these to ever crush down to the size of the raw plastic. The more I think about this, I'd guess there's quite a bit involved in figuring this out, as eventually, even with a big compacter, small pockets of trapped air will just stay under pressure. Let's be conservative and say that there is a factor of 3, so each bag takes a solid 1 in cubed, once it gets to the landfill. If one goes back and forth a lot to the store, maybe you use 10 of these a week? Oooh, that's a cube of 2.15" per side. I believe we'll be OK on this, but I'll get back to this taking-up-of-space thing again a paragraph later.
I'm gonna guess the problem environmentalists have with the plastic grocery bag is what you see up top in the photo: LITTERING! Yeah, but, from the days of Lady Bird Freaking Johnson (at least) we've had LAWS against littering. Please don't give me the old THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW routine. I know that one, and there already are laws. How about enforce the laws once in a while?*** I've seen the littering problem worst in Mexican immigrant and Chinese immigrant areas. That's who they are, I guess. No, again, we don't want to talk about that, not only the worse problem from different cultures, but just the problem of bigger raw numbers making all environmental problems worse. We've covered the "don't want to talk about it" business long ago in More on the destruction of California, and the obvious exacerbation-by-numbers in Toward Sustainable Stupidity. The latter post also discusses landfills, BTW.
So there I was,
Fine. Now the reason the end point was 7 years was because I was moving. I dutifully grabbed all these bags and brought them to the store from which I'd (mostly) got them from, as they'd advertised recycling of them. I learned "Oh, we don't do that anymore." Besides wasting my time, in the midst of moving, I'd been the treehugging recycler for 7 years for absolutely nothing. "OK, I don't have time for this shit ..", and I dutifully threw the load of them in the store dumpster.
BUT, I'M NOT A LITTERBUG! That's all it takes.
* Yes, I know, maybe we'll have a "First Man" soon. I would not be a good thing, and for the Presidential Candidate some have in mind, maybe his program would be cleaning up the reservations, as Peak Stupidity has begun to wonder, Are American Indians slobs? ... oh, and clamping down on scalping (of tickets, of course!).
** I'll give Trader Joe's and these places, or really the manufacturer's, kudos for making them with handles. Even with that, under any decent g-loading, they pull off. Do you remember carrying 3 of the paper ones in each arm, back in the day? They still don't allow for carrying a few bags at the handlebars of a bike, as plastic ones do.
*** It's really the same thing you run into regarding illegal immigration.
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Speed of Sound by Coldplay
Posted On: Friday - October 19th 2018 8:27PM MST
In Topics: Music
I heard this song in a store the other day, and had to think for a bit if this was the one I'd posted a long while back by this band. Nope, that other one was Clocks, but they've both got a really great sound. Speed of Sound is from Coldplay's 2005 album X&Y. That's all I know - I haven't made an effort to keep up with who bandmembers are, what's their "discography" history, or whether they are still around or long-since dead, in quite a while. I'll just listen, thank you very much.
It's a very good melody, but it's that very-catchy short keyboard breakdown part that make the song. As I wrote in the post on Clocks, I just don't want to ever overplay it, as the great feeling from listening to it will then be gone.
Hey, WT?! I just listened to Clocks again, and the keyboard breakdown part there is strikingly similar. It has a different rhythm, but it goes down a scale with 4 notes, the 2nd and 3rd being the same. No wonder the songs remind me of each other.
I usually try to put band musicians names here on music posts to credit them with the great sounds, but I had neglected to in that previous post. So, the British band Coldplay is:
Chris Martin – vocals, piano, synthesizer
Jonny Buckland – electric guitars
Guy Berryman – bass guitar, backing vocals
Will Champion – drums, backing vocals
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[Updated 10/20, evening:] Added more about the similarity to their song Clocks.
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White man send smoke signals to Chief Spreading Bull
Posted On: Friday - October 19th 2018 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Global Financial Stupidity The Neocons ctrl-left Deep State
Lieawatha speakum great bull! White man have to listen!
I'd gone kinda of roundabout on the unz site via the comments section (it's very good for this) to this interesting article, Unsolicited Advice for an Undeclared Presidential Candidate. I'll give this guy, Andrew Bacevich, credit right away. He knows that the Honorable Senator representing the nations of the upper Massachusetts didn't ask for his advice, and I doubt he thinks she's gonna read it either. That's the thing with these "open letters" or smoke signals, if you're that inclined: I don't think they usually get to the receipient. When these types of high-level intended-recipients actually read letters, they are usually have return addresses with the words "Deep State" in them, and some cash or pictures inside.
That aside, I'd been ready to write an ENTIRELY different post this morning, as I'd gotten to the comment section of this article haphazardly, as I mentioned above. The comments, including some by Mr. Ron Unz himself, were on the "banksters" and the housing crash (part 2 of that coming soon to a neighborhood near you). Now, Mrs. Warren here has actually said some reasonable things on the financial aspects of the housing bubble/crash/bailouts. The fact is though, as I'll put in the subsequent posts on this, Socialism is NOT THE SOLUTION, as Capitalism was NOT THE PROBLEM. Your intended recipieint, Andrew Bacevich, is another Socialist. So, I need to address the topic in the comment section - it's worth doing, as Peak Stupidity has not really addressed the root causes of that stuff yet under the Global Financial Stupidity topic key. That's coming, but I'll address this actual article for a bit, since I read it.
Mr. Bacevich implores the Senator (not using any Faux names for now, because there are too many, and I just haven't homed in on the best yet!) to implement a foreign policy, were she elected president, of withdrawal from the foreign entanglements, rational dealings with Russia and China, etc. I have no problem with any of what he wrote on that. I agree wholeheartedly on this advice to any American president, but man, then the idiocy of this writer come out in spades:
You are an exceedingly smart and gifted politician, so I’m confident that you have accurately gauged the obstacles ahead. Preeminent among them is the challenge of persuading citizens beyond the confines of New England, where you are known and respected, to cast their ballot for a Massachusetts liberal who possesses neither executive nor military experience and is a woman to boot.Hahaaa... OK...
Without possessing the most minimal of qualifications to serve as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Who can doubt that gender and race played a role?Yes, Mr. Trump played the trump card - that one with the white male joker. That got him well over 50% of the male vote, even slightly over 50% of the (white!) female vote, while blacks vote 90% for the democrat every time. Yeah, something played a role (immigration stupidity, perhaps?) Here's the thing, Bacevich - real conservatives and libertarians, and some of the few that call themselves "liberal" (though not when their own guy is in office) understand the stupidity of this "invade-the-world" neocon business. They have since the end of the Cold War. That is indeed a good starting point of the rise of the Neocons (Part 2) and since I've excerpted 2nd-to worst stupidity of this writer of unsolicited advice, here's a very much smarter excerpt:
The Cold War ended three decades ago in what was ostensibly a decisive victory for the United States. History itself had seemingly anointed us as the “indispensable nation.”Indeed! [/Instapundit] It's still kind of hard to read alternating rationality and stupidity in one article. It gets worse again, though:
Yet here we are, all these years later, gearing up again to duel our old Cold War adversaries, the Ruskies and ChiComs. How, in the intervening decades, did the United States manage to squander the benefits of coming out on top in that “long twilight struggle”? Few members of the foreign policy establishment venture to explain how or why things so quickly went awry. Fewer still are willing to consider the possibility that our own folly offers the principal explanation.
By the time you are elected, the 20th anniversary of 9/11 will be just around the corner, and with it the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terrorism. Who can doubt that when you are inaugurated on January 20, 2021, U.S. forces will still be engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and various other places across the Greater Middle East and Africa? Yet in present-day Washington, the purpose and prospects of those campaigns elude serious discussion. Does global leadership necessarily entail being permanently at war? In Washington, the question goes not only unanswered, but essentially unasked.
That reordering ought to begin with three neglected developments that should be at the forefront of a Warren Doctrine. The first is a warming planet.OK, that was about it. At that point, upon writing this guy off as anyone to listen to (whether you're the intended recipient or not), I accidentally scanned to the next paragraph unfortunately:
Climate change poses a looming national security threat with existential implications. With this summer’s heat waves and recent staggering storms, evidence of this threat has become incontrovertible. Its adverse consequences have already ruined thousands of American lives as evidenced by Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Irma (2017), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), and Michael(2018), along with Superstorm Sandy (2013), not to mention pervasive drought and increasingly destructive wildfires in a fire season that seems hardly to end. It no longer suffices to categorize these as Acts of God.First, I have to mention the skip between '05 and '17 on the hurricanes, just because it was exactly in 2005 when the Global Climate DisruptionTM crowd came out with their biggest prediction (aside from the
Man, I can really get off topic, as I read some bullshitter who's sucked me in with a snippet of truth, can't I? This became a "fisking" of just one random article on unz, so I apologize on behalf of the entire Peak Stupidity staff, but here's the point of this post: There may be, and have been, open letters, smoke signals, TV pundits, blogs, and all other manner of attempted influence on people running for US President. Is this writer not aware that the same suggestions (the good ones, on foreign policy) were made to the Clintons, Bushes, Øb☭mas, and Trumps*?! What difference did it make? The same Neocon policies HAVE been going on since the end of the Cold War, as the author wrote correctly. It's not just that none of these people make an effort to listen to you and your unsolicited open letter of advice to candidate Dances-with-Banksters.** They have other people that pay a lot more money than our tiny bit of taxes that pay the Presidential salary. Those folks have been having their way for 3 decades and it won't change without a lot more than one squaw reading your smoke signals.
* At least in this case, Candidate Trump was a listener to, and a DRIVER of the discussion on ending the Neocon's war on the world. He's still trying to work on it, against his Generals and whole Deep State apparatus, Yet, the big vitriol is directed at him, because he wasn't "qualified". Ha!
** That'll be used in the later post, as, again, the comments under this unz article have got me in a mood to attempt to explain that stuff why socialism sure won't put a stop to the financial stupidity.
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