This is what happens when you f__k an IT guy in the ass!
Posted On: Friday - July 19th 2024 9:43AM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity The Future Big-Biz Stupidity
You see what happens, Larry?!!
Our title today is a reference to a scene in The Big Lebowski, in case you're really wondering. John Goodman is hilarious in that scene.
It's not just the airlines, but all manner of Big Biz IT functions are having "outages", and it's been all over the world. From this ABC report:
A wave of IT outages swept across the globe Friday morning, causing over 1,000 flight cancelations and stalling internal and external systems across a variety of industries including hospitals, banks, stock exchanges and other institutions, as some Microsoft-based computers ceased to work.Outages? I don't think that's the most descriptive word. Electricity being physically disconnected, yeah, that's an outage. All kinds of software running on an operating system that just got a bad update is more like an outrage.
Don't make the IT guys angry.
Or... maybe his name was Nick, but he doesn't look at all like this Nick. Is this outsourcing, D.I.E. in action, or what?
I just told someone last week out of the blue, not as advice, but just worry, that we are so dependent on software now that paper/manual back-ups cannot take over anymore. That's in addition to the feeling I've got that nobody would know how to use them anyway... many of them can barely use the fancy software when it does work.
Me, I've got Windows 7 on the one non-iCrap device. I DO NOT DO UPDATES! When something is working, you don't fix it!
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R.I.P. Bob Newart
Posted On: Thursday - July 18th 2024 6:05PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor
Look, I don't know if he was a good guy in real life or not. I never was a People or National Enquirer reader (though I've heard the latter has become one of the most accurate print news sources now... by default).
Bob Newhart's biggest comedy creation was his guy on one end of the phone bit. You couldn't hear the person on the other end*, but Bob Hartley (in the show) would make it that much funnier on account of this.
Peak Stupidity won't go doing the Rest In Peace for everyone who this blogger likes in the entertainment/music industries, because pretty soon it will be too many. This site would become Dead People magazine, with no time for live stupidity.
The character Robert Hartley was a Psychologist living in downtown Chicago with his very pretty wife Emily. His patients were a big part of the humor. The scene below is from early on in the show, as he tries to overcome a fear of flying in some of his most regular patients and his wife.** This scene wasn't that awfully funny, relatively.
A better scene that I never have been able to dig up from the internet occurred in an episode in which Bob and Emily were planning a vacation. Emily was worried about the patients in Bob's various group sessions.
Emily: "But, Bob, what about your Fear of Humidity group?"
Bob [deadpan as always]: "I guess they'll just have to sweat it out, Emily."
And now, this scene is all too timely for the just passed-on Bob Newart:
(That "room for one more" part came from The Twilight Zone, I am told by youtube commenters.)
You mean the receptionist Carol had an Afro haircut? What? And she was White, you say. What's that? Oh, it was '73, '74... it was a different time I should understand.
OK, this is more of a reminder-to-self than a promotion here: We'll get back to some details of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, that comparison of electoral vote allocation over a century's time (almost), some Steve Sailer discussion (from the Tucker interview, his book, and his latest Takimag column), and WTH are the REAL Deep State?
* No, Millennials, dammit, you couldn't just press speaker!
** The stewardess there is Penny Marshall, later to become one of the 2 loudmouth funny girls of the show Laverne & Shirley, taking place up the road in Milwaukee. Penny Marshall was Shirley.
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Gateway Pundit Spanish-language "outreach"
Posted On: Thursday - July 18th 2024 5:58AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits
This post isn't a news post. It's not about anything important. Peak Stupidity brings up an annoyance at The Gateway Pundit site today only because it is one of our main sources of political news (after we separate the important wheat from the 50% clickbait chaff). See our site review and our addendum.
This matters a little bit, I guess, because, according to Natalie Winters, one of the two cuties in a video discussion post on that site - the subject here - Jim Hoft's Gateway Pundit, is "consistently I think, in, like, the top 20 websites traffic in terms of news, especially in Conservative media". Well, something like that, so I do wonder why the site was talking about bankruptcy a few months back while still serving up dozens of flashy and disturbing ads on each page that make it hard to get through an article.
I've written that The Gateway Pundit is a force for good, after taking annoyances into account. Many of the immigration invasion stories are followed up doggedly by these writers, even if half of them aren't so good at, like, writing.
I tend to think people are serious, keeping the existential issues in the case of America, this invasion, above such things as making as much money and fame as a pundit as possible. That's perhaps naive, as I wonder about this Jim Hoft now. Of course, more visibility means more people reading the Conservative opinion of the news. That's good, but now Mr. Hoft is very pleased to have launched Gateway Hispanic, a Hispanic version of the site. It can't be nothing but a translation, as there's already a function on the regular site for that. This is about Hispanic oriented stories from a conservative viewpoint, in Spanish, for the purpose of "Expanding the conservative populist message to the Spanish-language community in America and beyond."
I don't like it one bit. Most of the commenters* on Gateway Pundit don't either. Hey, what's wrong with a little outreach and getting these ideas out there? So wrote some commenters and a guy named Ted Slater, who is a never-before-seen-by-me Moderator. You gotta hate those moder... wait. This Slater guy seemed to have joined in just to defend the site and Mr. Hoft against all criticism of this move. His sneering, snarky, and silly attitude was one thing, but he'd even reply to comments that he'd just deleted. That sure didn't help elucidate his point, which, I guess, was "quit questioning the Great Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, and me! We need more clicks."
Back to "yeah, well, what's wrong ...?" As many commenters rightly pointed out, this anti-Globalist site is working FOR Globalism by encouraging multi-culturalism in America with this move. Parts of the US are Spanish-only as it is now. Even Ron Unz, as clueless as he is about the invasion now, spent lots of his effort and money in the 1990s to get rid of bilingual education in California. "American" readers, if you can't read The Gateway Pundit in English, learn English, or GTFO.
That was the general great attitude of the commenters. (I suppose I'm only writing this post at all because I don't/can't comment there** and give thumbs up/down along with them!) Oh, but, you dummies, can you see that we're trying to reach out to the big world out there with 600 million Spanish Speakers? That was Moderator Slater's line over and over again. Yeah, but we saw the text saying "in America", and secondly, almost all the posts on GP are about American politics. Why should the rest of Latin America care about these details? Even the Conservative Libertarian Guatemalans, all 7 of them, don't care about the cucking out of Ron Johnson, for instance.
In order to fulfill the goal stated, Gateway Hispanic would have to post other stories, more pertinent to Latin America. This would be just a spin-off that doesn't help us Americans one bit. Reaching out to supposed Americans in Spanish is just more multil-culturalism. I'd thought Jim Hoft and his people were against it... but clicks and money ...
There was a 2nd post, here, with an ~ 10 min. interview of Jim Hoft about this "outreach" to Conservatives ion Spanish.
Ahaaa! One of the commenters noted this before I watched it. The cutie in the middle is one Natalie Winters, noted above, the interviewer. There's Mr. Hoft - I'd never heard him speak before, but then, there you go, the Hispanic White lady from Spain on the right is Miss Maria Herrera Mellado. Mr. Hoft was indeed impressed by the way she rolled her "r"s and "big blue eyes". So was I. That doesn't mean I want to invest GP donator's money into her idea. I will not donate. After all, where is MY Marrria, Herrrrara Mellado?!
Well, the serious point here is that I assume good people who care about the politics in America care about that enough to make it job 1. (After their day jobs,. that is, but I believe this is Mr. Hoft's day job - it's a decent-sized operation.) I have been naive to not expect them to have some ulterior motives. Sorry, I don't like this move at all, Jim Hoft, and Ted Slater can kiss my ass.
* I don't write in**, and I don't normally go very far through the comments. They are not bad, with some occasional outstanding humor, but the comments section there doesn't have the great discussion and community feel, engendered by Ron Unz's software partly, as the iSteve comments section does.
** That's for the usual reasons, so as not to spend so much time on-line. Additionally, I don't like DISQUS, which is the software used there. Also see note*.
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The Hill Street Secret Service Blues
Posted On: Wednesday - July 17th 2024 6:48PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Trump US Feral Government Deep State
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The Trump Assassination Attempt: Stupidity v Evil Conspiracy
Posted On: Tuesday - July 16th 2024 1:49PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Deep State Guns
A Peak Stupidity favorite pundit that likely all readers here know has been writing and talking* lately about conspiracy theories, the Deep State, the non-reality of these ideas, and, finally, that the right should lay off this stuff. He's got so many common-sense good points. However, the examples of his don't cover the gamut of it all, and I don't agree with a few of his examples anyway. More broadly, I don't think he will ever see evil for what it is. He prefers to brush it all off as stupidity.
Now, you'd think that a site called Peak Stupidity would agree wholeheartedly, after all. I mean this whole event being an example of peak stupidity fits nicely with our URL. Well, we seek the truth (as does the guy - Mr. Sailer - mentioned) though, even if it doesn't always support the
Which is the case, from the tons of information we've got already, regarding the shooting of Donald Trump for the purpose of assassination by Thomas Crooks.**, it having consisted of large doses of stupidity or an evil conspiracy?
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STUPIDITY:
After years of Establishment Lyin' Press and political rhetoric about Trump's becoming a dictator - hey, we WISH!, but we witnessed those last 4 years - a young man like Thomas Crooks could be naive and stupid enough to think he must put a stop to this. Maybe even no psychoactive drugs were involved this time, though no guarantees what with both his parents being in the mental health field. He could be a lone stupid nutcase who's also not a bad shot.***
Then, what of the Secret Service? We saw plenty of incompetence in both planning and in action in the many video clips. Peak Stupidity has written much about the decline in competence within all kinds of occupations - see posts with the Race/Genetics (hey, what are you tryin' to say here?) - - Curmudgeonry, and The Future topic keys, for starters. That D.I.E. programme has wreaked havoc, and it's most assuredly NOT over with. Things are getting worse. Witness the head of the Secret Service, a woman, with her goal of 30% female (or at least non-male) agents by '30. The early benefits of that program were seen this past Saturday.
As rally-goers tried to warn the local cops about this guy on the roof with a rifle, was it just the usual cop/"1st Responder" arrogance that I've run into multiple times?**** "Sir! Please. We've got this all under control. All you civilians [I HATE how they use that - they are NOT the military, or not supposed to be] just stay within the perimeter. Don't interfere with police work, Sir!" In a calmer voice, one might tell you "Don't you think the Secret Service would already know about this. They do this every day." Is it the case that the younger generations don't want to take any action without "orders from our superiors"? "Hey, I never got a text about this guy. Whaddya, whaddya' want me to do, man?"
People of all political persuasions, so long as they don't see the Establishment and Deep State for what they are, would be glad to chalk the whole thing up to Peak Stupidity.
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EVIL Conspiracy:
"All you conspiracy theorists" want to claim there were multiple shooters hired by the Deep State. There weren't any big grassy knolls around, but there were a bunch of rooftops. Some on the ctrl-left are claiming the whole shooting was staged. Fake blood, Johnson-Smith company fake ear, photoshopped bullet wake picture, blank rounds, oh, and those 2 dead crisis actors, one on the roof and then the Fireman ...
No, OK, there are levels of conspiracy theories. Did the one wannabe assassin, Thomas Crooks, have some kind of other connections? (I'll discuss the Blackrock ad he appeared in in another post.) It doesn't have to be that complicated. As with 9/11 and even a step above (direct encouragement) on 1/6/21, the most likely conspiracy was one of letting this all happen.
Did the SS know this guy was planning this? I don't know how much Mr. Crooks planned things, but the NY Post (not gonna link cause the site is a PITA to view) claimed he brought his own 5' ladder in some small vehicle. He must have checked this place out beforehand, or else he'd not likely have gotten anywhere... unless his back-up plan was to bring his explosives up to the stage.
About the incompetent Secret Service agents: We are starting to think now that this incompetence is getting harder and harder to believe, the more we learn. That NY Post article said that it not just 2 or 4 minutes during which Mr. Crooks was on that roof. They are talking nearly half an hour that he was on site, implementing his plan(?).
Let me back up and agree with all those who see how thing normally work at these events. This wasn't downtown NYC. There aren't dozens of tall buildings with windows surrounding the site. No book depositories exist at this venue in Butler, Pennsylvania. Covering the few nearby roofs of these metal buildings with "man"power is kid stuff. I saw snipers on the scary-high roof of the State House when I saw Ronald Reagan speak (obviously) decades ago. Now there are drones too, making things much easier.
Nobody saw a guy pull up a ladder and start climbing up to the roof of a metal building less than 150 yards from the stage with a rifle slung on him? Even if that guy had dressed like a FED, if there's any question, a simple roll call can be taken over the radios. (I'll get to more on radios.) He didn't though. When he was spotted by aware people nearby, wouldn't just one cop call it in?
We see that Thomas Crooks was finally spotted and had rifles aimed at him by the SS well before he took his shots. Even, if for some strange reason, these marksmen didn't want to shoot yet, at least they'd have gotten on that radio first thing and given the code. Whatever it is, it tells the guys on the stage to get Trump down and out of the way. I mean, normally, these people are ultra-cautious. One guy starts moving too fast through the crowd, and their protectee is flat on the ground in a second with guys all over him like a 1970s San Francisco bathhouse orgy (as told by a friend, haha! Nah!) Then, they sort it out, and it's either "That's it, we are done here." or "OK, it was an unarmed 'civilian' in a hurry to get to the port-a-potty. Carry on."
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Yeah, I know that the Bai Dien administration had recently denied more protection for Trump (and RFK, Jr. too). "We" weren't getting their best. Still, if the actions of the Secret Service agents we saw was all simply incompetence, that is a ludicrous amount of it, D.I.E. programs notwithstanding. Believing that this was stupidity over a conspiracy to allow Trump to get assassinated is naive, from what we now know. Did those who planned to allow this know of Mr. Crooks' plans? Or, did they seize this opportunity to let happen what they long wished for?
Another question that's pretty conspiratorial: Had they turned up the "evil Hitler Trump" rhetoric to 11 recently, knowing they'd likely have a Thomas Crooks come along? If so, as with Motel 6, did they "leave the lights on for him?
I don't know what those Deep State folks who need non-UniParty-member Donald Trump GONE from the political scene had and have planned. A friend just today suggested this too: That the Conservatives are using this event to say "I told you so" about the D.I.E. business, the withholding of better protection, and the rhetoric is perhaps just fine with those who want Trump gone. This is (somewhat of a) distraction from the plain common sense that they purposefully ignored an obvious assassin on Saturday...
... and their plan would have worked too, if it hadn't been for that meddling Trump and his old invasion data!
It's Evil Conspiracy over Stupidity by
* Here, I refer to part of his interview by Tucker Carlson. We've been distracted, but I have more to say on that interview, which includes these points that I don't agree with.
** BTW, I didn't forget the fireman killed while protecting his family in the audience. He is the one actual hero I could pick out in this entire event, as of now.
*** I wrote in the comments that expert marksmen take better shots, but then, his missing Trump was really bad luck for him and those who wanted this. I don't know if a sniper would have known to take the shot when Trump was steady. More on this could go in another post.
**** I've told the tale of 2 personal incidents in the post 911 - The Phone Number 6 years ago.
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Good news
Posted On: Monday - July 15th 2024 4:13PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Trump
I am not sure what to make of J.D. Vance yet. I have heard of him, starting back when I'd read about his book Hillbilly Elegy*. That was on VDare, a few years after he wrote it - see Vance’s HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Dissent From Personal Experience - - Ohio’s J.D. Vance Shows That Immigration Patriotism Is On The March and Hillbilly Plight Only Noticed When a Hillbilly from Yale Law Points it Out. In the 3rd of these, writer "Anonymous Attorney" starts with:
By now we're 11 or so minutes into the 15 minutes of fame for J.D. Vance (right) who...You never know. It turns out it's gonna be way over 15 minutes. I hope that's a good thing.
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (only 39 y/o) being selected as GOP VP candidate is not the good news, though. Here's the good news:
This article was on the yahoo home page** from a while before he named Mr. Vance at the convention in Milwaukee today.
Trump has been known to do some really boneheaded, nay, flat-out stupid, stuff in his political career. He neglected to do that this time, well, as far as I know about Senator Vance.
I do know about Marco Rubio. That'd have been stupid. N. Dakota Governor Burgum is a Conservative on quite a few important issues, but he's a NeoCon. Though he's against any immigration invasion that is illegal, he's all for legal invasions, in that continuing quest by Big Business for cheap labor. Therefore, picking him would have been stupid too.
The pick of J.D. Vance makes me figure, from my reading of the 2nd of the 3 VDare posts above, Donald Trump really does understand that the immigration issue is THE MOST IMPORTANT. He would not be the man of the
* Full title: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
** Hey, no big weather stories were on there today. I've got one! The air conditioning is out, it's probably the compressor, but I'm going to try a Hail Mary with a new capacitor tomorrow, and it's 90.5 F inside per the very precise lab thermometer in the hallway.
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The Trump Shooting - Save your work.
Posted On: Monday - July 15th 2024 2:36PM MST
In Topics: Trump Media Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity
There's no way that picture above will ever get wiped from the internet or leave the memories of lots of Americans. It is, as they say, iconic.
As some of us try as best we can to get to the truth of what happened Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania, we should recall how the Lyin' Press has handled the January 6th mostly-peaceful protest and concurrent rioting and fun-making 3 1/2 years ago. I'd seen lots of video clips on youtube within a couple of days or weeks afterward that I've had no luck finding since.*
I was lucky to be able to get some information personally, such as from a member of the Capitol Police, as related in Murderer of Ashli Babbitt revealed: Michael Leroy Byrd. However, within the media, by the time a few Conservatives got involved in trying to investigate the happenings of a couple of years earlier, statements were made that conflicted with obvious evidence in videos no longer able to be seen. Questions were asked that could have been answered with proof back in January '21, now suddenly up for discussion again.
There is a lot about the Trump assassination attempt that is fishy. The question of whether the fiasco of a lone gunman (this time) being able to get that close and take a 3rd of a magazine's worth** of shots comes down to stupidity or evil. (With another divide, that either the evil being a plan, or possibly just a purposeful "standing down" instead of taking obvious action - well, who planned THAT, then?). We'll get into this tomorrow here at Peak Stupidity, to continue from the comment section of our initial short news post.
We've all seen plenty of images and video clips by now. There were witnesses galore to the actions of the assassination attempt perpetrator. They've already made a number of statements that should help lead us to the truth. Let's not forget all of this, as the Lyin' Press tries to memory-hole lots of it. We need to archive what we can. As programmers, writers, and anyone else using software well knows, save your work! Otherwise, it can disappear.... somehow...
* There was the attempt to release many thousands, tens of thousands, maybe, hours of J6 footage last year. As I recall, the push for this by Tucker Carlson was one of the reasons suggested to explain his being fired from Fox news. There was also that $3/4 Billion lawsuit settlement by Dominion voting machines too, that was, if not peripherally related, part of the same overall conflict.
** I'm thinking 30 round magazines here. That's kind of a standard for the AR types.
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Donald Trump shot at rally in Pennsylvania - should be OK
Posted On: Saturday - July 13th 2024 4:55PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump
He really is one tough cookie, but also one lucky or blessed guy. An inch or 2 to the right, and he could be dead right now.
I won't speculate any more, because I was wrong already an hour ago. You'll get more news from all over the place, but let me just point to 2 Gateway Pundit posts, with video. They are pretty good with the "breaking news" thing: Here and here.
Trump got up off the floor among the SS agents and pumped his fist and mouthed "Fight!" or something. Yes, he's a tough cookie.
I hope they will all remember later: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. For now, let me explain yet again:
PS: Instapundit Glenn Reynolds has screenshots of the Lyin' Press outlets' deliberately stupid initial headlines. Trump fell, and there were popping noises going on... developing...
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The Administrative State
Posted On: Friday - July 12th 2024 10:11AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Deep State
This ain't the half of it. Were Peak Stupidity to provide the reader with a full org chart with all the lettered agencies, bureaus, commissions, and what-have-you, we'd need to link you to a poster on a 4 x 8 piece of plywood with #4 fonts.
About what we'll now call here the Administrative State, from our 7 y/o post making the same point:
Now, the other definition I've been reading lately is more like just the deeply set-in-place US Feral Government bureaucracy. That is what some articles have been referring to as the Deep State in reference to the inability of President Trump to follow through on his promises to the patriotic American voters.I read over some of Steve Sailer's writings about the "Deep State" description of the "powers that be" in Turkey. There's a lot of overlap in there, as he notes that Turkey's MIC types, ex-military, ex-government folks, etc. are that Deep State. I can see that a portion of our Deep State would consist of these types surely. There's that "revolving door" deal between government and "private" "consulting" firms. High level Administrative State types can become part of the Deep State. They are still separate entities however.
This is quite a different story. There are indeed millions of entrenched usually not-easily-fire-able employees in government. These people are almost all very much in favor of Big Government, because, (yeah, no shit) they work there and want to keep their cushy jobs with decent pay and a really nice pension NOT coming. They shouldn't be able to vote to begin with, as none of them are (net) taxpayers - yet vote like hell they do, and even with Donald Trump not being anything resembling a small-government Libertarian, in general they don't like anyone who wants cuts to budgets, meaning (see Ron Paul's latest) any lowering of the GROWTH of ANYTHING in the Feral Gov't. This is the Deep State that some have been writing about lately in reference to implementation of any policies of President Trump('s campaign, anyway).
In that old post, I was perhaps too harsh in calling all of the millions of Government workers out using the term Deadbeat State in that old post. I do know that there are plenty of administrators and officials - it's mostly an old White man thing, though - who do really believe in the function of their organization and want to get a job done. That guy at the USDA who's in charge of some meat inspectors probably does care that people don't get retchedly (typo intended) sick, and that FAA inspector does care that new flight instructors won't pass on bad habits or runway pavement markings and signage is not confusing. People care, but the ship of state has a lot of inertia.
Take the guy working for the Border Patrol. I know guys (read East Into the Sunset for more) who join up because of the agency's function, to protect against home(land) invasions. Yet, if the higher ups, as pressured by that traitorous piece of shit Mayorkas, as pressured himself by, uhhhh who might that be?*, have them doing babysitting and welcoming duty, well, that's what most of them will do. (Others will quit in disgust and probably join other Fed law enforcement agencies.) They don't have to like it**, but they answer to higher ups. They do not RUN the show.
Now, we can argue that the Constitution means nothing anymore, but all these agencies answer to the President. It's not easy to fire them all, but high level heads can be made to proverbially roll until the ship starts to come about. (Oh, Congress won't approve your new pick, you worry? Well, you pick the Acting Head of the ABC you want and keep him doing your bidding as long as it takes. Hardball, it's called.)
Trump had a hard time for 4 years, partly due to his own stupidity in hiring swamp creatures to drain the swamp. The other part of it was that he was not, and is still not, in the UniParty. Decisions that the Commander-in-Chief has complete authority to do, such as GETTING OUT of wherever militarily, were blocked by sandbaggers and stonewallers, who answer to higher powers than Trump. Trump should have fired them more quickly.
I wrote that all the people in that org chart answer, through the channels, to the President. The question is, who does the President answer to? Also, who do the Senators and Congressmen answer to? As much as the people want it, even a complete Totalitarian scumbag like AG Merrick Garland can't be dragged off the floor and arrested***. It's always THIS CLOSE! Yeah, no coincidence, or more like control from higher up, is involved, just bad luck... every time.
Back to Administrative State big shots who are working against us, let's mention Lois Lerner again, and how about your nasty**** Leticia James types? These folks may have their own agendas. Patrick Cleburne over at VDare has created a new genre of writing about these non-White, mostly female administrators who care nothing about that old White Man rule of law and fairness. (It's partly genetic.) James is just out to get the White man. She campaigned on simply "getting Trump", since he is just a little too favorable toward White people, and her VDare Vendetta is just side work. What was Lois Lerner's problem? She's a White lady, so it's not the anti-White society jealousy thing. Was it also personal?
There's more to it. These people work against traditional America because there are people much higher up than them who WANT THAT. Maybe there aren't memos one can point to. The Lois Lerner IRS story can be explained by the fact that the Globalists/Deep State really, really want to end the White Middle Class. Lerner's persecution of White Conservative businesses while leaving the parasite class alone was just going along to get along. Maybe these Administrative State higher-ups take on projects all on their own. However, the zeitgeist, if I may, they work within is created by others, the actual Deep State. We'll get to who the REAL Deep State is soon, if not tomorrow, early next week. Stay tuned - you're probably dying to know, right?
* I'll take Deep State for a thousand, Alfred.
** The Border Patrol Union, for example, hates the Bai Dien Administration. JoeMentia lied right during that debate that it supported him, so the Union tweeted back to refute it in real time.
*** The new, watered-down idea (by likely blackmailed speaker Ron Johnson) of fining him $10,000 a day for not honoring that subpoena didn't pass either.
**** I'm borrowing this new favorite iSteve adjective, but he uses it for more than the word applies to. (Example here. ctrl-f "nasty". See?)
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Hey, Trannies, come on, let's go!
Posted On: Thursday - July 11th 2024 5:23PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Humor Pundits World Political Stupidity
That's funny. They don't look like no trannies to me.
VDare's Allan Wall is the resident expert there on Mexico. Having lived there with his family for a decade, ending, IIRC, about a decade ago, and fluent in Spanish, Mr. Wall makes Mexican resident pundit Fred Reed look a complete fool in comparison. (Actually, even not in comparison ...)
A real upbeat and gender-(stupidity)-affirming article he just wrote the other day is Mexico's Electoral Affirmative Action Program For Women Gamed By Regular Mexican Guys Claiming To Be Trans. Mr. Wall writes that:
In Mexico, the LGBTXYZ movement is very powerful. In the recent election, all three presidential candidates pledged allegiance to it.See, this is America's biggest export at this point: Stupidity. And, no import tariffs!! It used to be technical knowhow and at least Rock & Roll and blue jeans. Now, it's genderbender stupidity - not sure how much that helps our trade balance, I gotta say.
Anyway, because, per Mr. Wall, Mexicans are good at gaming the system - the way it goes when corruption has always been a way of life - these 8 Michoacans (I dunno - it's somehwere down there) have dubbed themselves transgenders. There's no young Donald Trump around to note that "Hey, these guys don't look like no trannies to me", and, just as it is here, you can't ask. Do tell, but don't ask! is the policy with this business and a lot else of the Wokeness.
About these fake trannies, Claudia Zavala Perez, an advisor to the National Electoral Institute (INE) is outraged:
“Society must be outraged,” she declared. “We must raise our voices because what happened cannot be allowed.”That's the great thing about it. If we all do it, we don't even have to do embarrassing things like wearing high heels and earrings and putting on make-up.
She highlighted that these men dishonestly took positions meant for individuals who have historically faced discrimination. In at least one case, the cisgender man who registered as a trans woman candidate never even stopped referring to himself with male pronouns.
Allan Wall says "It’s been called a ”misuse” of affirmative action."
Look at them yo-yo's. That's the way ya' do it. Ya play the trannie on Regime TV. These guys have the guts and smarts to beat the ctrl-left Wokesters at their own game. Good on 'em! This post made my day. Americans, take your cue from the Mexicans this time. Come on, let's go!
The guy at the top right might as well be playing for Los Lobos.
Los Lobos didn't write Come On, Let's Go. It was an old Richie Valenzuela, aka Valens, song. The singer should have held on "Welllll..... " for another 3 seconds, before the guitar comes banging in. Hey, I'm not trying to micromanage Los Lobos, just sayin' ...
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Will the REAL Deep State please stand up...
Posted On: Thursday - July 11th 2024 3:21PM MST
In Topics: Pundits US Feral Government Deep State
... and give your name and what step of our 12-step Deep Staters Anonymous program you have attained?
This post is somewhat of a repeat from a part of our post What IS the Deep State? from over 7 years back. Donald Trump had been President for less than 5 months as of that writing. He'd already been disappointing, so Peak Stupidity wondered about his relationship, if I may, with the Deep State and looked back to another guy back 25 years prior: The Deep State vs. Donald Trump - remember Candidate Ross Perot?.
I can see that there's much confusion between 2 different definitions of the Deep State. I don't think I'd write the following (1st link above) any differently today:
We (we bloggers, I guess) need to get something straight. This phrase, "the Deep State", has been trending, as the idiots at google, yahoo, and assorted other idiots like to say these days. The phrase is being used a lot, though it is nothing new, yet I've been reading it as having 2 different meanings. This Peter Brimelow blog post on VDare is an example.OK, I'd have to add Twitter, excuse me, X, today. That post was from '17... it was a different time, you understand ...
The original meaning of "the Deep State" is the one that has been used for 50 years or more, at least in reference to goings-on with or really, behind, the US Feral Government. It refers to a "shadow government" and/or powerful elite non-government people who work behind the scenes to make the real decisions as the politicians play their role as puppets. The idea is that these nefarious types do not want to be public figures and they don't want the public to know there even is any Deep State. By "Deep" here, writers mean "deep secret", so we don't guess these people blog about their activities or have a Deep State facebook group and stuff like that.
I mentioned a Peter Brimelow article. The bigger example of this mistake comes from Steve Sailer. In his recent posts, he has been proud of his taking this term from Turkey, of all places, and spreading the it around. Of course it's not purposeful, but this is one time I see Mr. Sailer as spreading confusion rather than shedding light. No, no, no, by "the Deep State", we* don't mean the government bureaucracy! That's not at ALL the same thing.
Mr. Sailer's somewhat annoyingly clever mantra has been lately to ask those who attribute high-level political happenings to the Deep State "How come we don't know their names?" Nah, the CIA guy who's been blackmailing Senator so-and-so may not carry business cards and have a big presence on Twitter.
Granted, I do realize that Mr. Sailer is using his misnomer, so, sure, if this head of the White House staff has pushed for this thing or this Chief of Homeland Security is behind that thing, yeah, we know their names. We know who the traitor Mayorkas is and could know but don't care who Jeff Zients is. (I indeed had to look that one up.) Thing is, they ain't The Deep State.
A friend of mine with whom it's great to discuss this kind of thing says the the term "Administrative State" should be used for the entrenched Government Bureaucracies. We're talking the US Feral beast, the EU, other nations, and even California's. There are people within who do have power based on the fact that it's very difficult to change one of these
I see there being less inherent evil in the Administrative State than in the Deep State. I also can see that there's some overlap between the two. My friend mentioned Lois Lerner, the former head of the Tax-Exempt Organization office of the IRS who purposely harassed Conservative organizations... and, of course, never got punished. She is part of the Administrative State, but who set her up to this vendetta? You don't figure people like this care that very much about the politics over getting up into those G-levels with higher positions for bigger pensions. Was she hooked up just with Øb☭ma or with others behind the scenes?
Denying that any Deep State is behind this or that political phenomena means something different if you don't know the basic long-used definition of "Deep State". Let me discuss the 2 entities, the Administrative State (first) and then the Deep State, in 2 subsequent posts.
* It's not just me, and don't call me Kemosabe! My wife gets political info off of some Social Media, and she'd tell me that "the Dee Ess behind so-and-so did so-and-so...", pronouncing just the letters. She doesn't get that from me.
** That post has the Dead song, but we've also got a 3-part review of Tucker Carlson's 6 y/o book with that title: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3.
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SteveSailer.net
Posted On: Wednesday - July 10th 2024 10:15AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits
I've been following Mr. Hail's and a few others' comments back on the ole Unz Review on occasion - it's called backsliding, though I have kept to my goal of abstaining from commenting there. Mr. Hail and others alerted the commenting crew of iSteve that Mr. Sailer has been going full speed on his SteveSailer.net substack* site.
I just now looked through the archives there, and I see that I was wrong about something. Mr. Sailer didn't just slowly build up his writing on substack from long ago. He started it up on December 4th of last year with this welcome post:
Steve Sailer’s brilliant commentary finally arrives at Substack. Subscribe to read Sailer’s daily output and selections of his best work from the last several decades.Ahhh, so he did mention TUR this one time, but that was for that info for readers. As I will discuss later on, he has distanced himself from that site, at least via a complete lack of referrals.
This blog operates with Sailer’s blessing. To reach Sailer directly, please see his contact and patronage information at The Unz Review, his primary platform.
Let me tell you first my experience with Steve Sailer's new site. This is not any kind of advice, but just an explanation of why I'll probably not be writing in there. The site is a bit wanky on the iCrap, but that's probably me - substack is huge, so I doubt it's their problem. There I was, reading comments, including many good ones from our friend E.H. Hail, so I decided to reply. It turns out, one needs an actual real email.** I know, get on protonmail to get an address for this express purpose, etc... However, a light came on - would I not be doing the same thing as I tried to avoid finally with TUR, spending just too much of my day going "Hey, that guy's wrong about this." and "I wonder if that other asshole wrote back." as I did on TUR? (This is all in addition to the great camaraderie with people I do agree very much with, including the O/P, as they call 'em.) So, I had to resist.
I've got to add here, though, Mr. Ron Unz made a very well-functioning site! That especially includes the way the commenting works. I would miss that anywhere else, and then, why not just go back on his site, were I to fall back off the wagon? Well, there might be a reason, which we'll get to...
I see Mr. Hail has been on there a lot, and I notice other familiar handles. So, if you guys end up there, I'll read you and be really really tempted ...
Let me comment on the site content finally: Mr. Sailer's posts on his substack site seem to be midway between TUR posts and TakiMag articles in length. The subject matter is much of the usual stuff, but his latest kick is to be against conspiracy theories, people of the right who indulge in too much of it, and that there is no real Deep State, so we should calm down about all that. I've been disappointed in this pundit's general attitude as of late. As I've written, Mr. Sailer has made the semi-Big-Time lately. Besides understandably wanting to distance himself from comments and other articles with glaring headlines on TUR that make the writers "extremists" in the eyes of the rest of those well-known pundits, he seems to have decided to settle in to some established role.
Granted, Mr. Sailer was stalwart in bringing up the name Jared Taylor on the Tucker Carlson show. (Of course, Jared Taylor is civil as all get-out, so...) He continues to be very solid on the race/crime commentary. I don't think Mr. Sailer is going native completely.
I want to get back to that Deep State business. We'll start with a discussion of some real confusion on the basic definition. Our next Peak Stupidity post: Will the REAL Deep State stand up and be counted? After that, it'll be back to Mr. Sailer's site yet again with the question of his transition. No, it's not that! Man, you can't say ANYTHING anymore!
Finally, I did notice, going from titles only, that the last 5 posts on the site are right up iSteve's and my alley. I'm sure I'll be drawn in. In the meantime, as Steve Sailer enjoys his ride on the book tour and through the podcasts, he's got a quiet*** voice in his ear, a guy with a funny 3-letter last name whispering "All glory is fleeting."
* I'd written "powered by substack" before, but I suppose stevesailer.net is ON their site, period. I guess they allow you to have your own url without the "substack". Mr. Hail is stuck with the ".wordpress" in his URL which gives one more to memorize. This is important when the Establishment works to block searches, as Mr. Hail has given us many examples of.
Along with this footnote, let me just ask nicely of people (this is to the world, not necessarily PS people) to please, please, not say "... a new Steve Sailer substack I just read ..." Look, we don't say "I just read a great new National Review" rather than "... great new National Review ARTICLE or POST". That example, unfortunately, is about 25 years old and won't work today, but you get the idea ...
** I'm not very familiar, so I don't know if giving that email address makes one a free "subscriber" or just gives one the ability to comment. They may be one and the same.
*** Is that even possible?
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Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings - the spirit of the law
Posted On: Tuesday - July 9th 2024 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Race/Genetics
Illustrious commentator Steve Sailer's noticing, analyzing, and clever writing has left us with some really good phrases and Social Science Laws. One of the most accurate and reproducible laws of his is Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings.* In simplified form it says:
If there are more wounded than killed, then the shooters is likely black. If there are more killed than wounded, then the shooter is likely not black.It's simple and easy to apply. No calculus is necessary.
The observations are nothing new. We've all read plenty of news stories about shootings. We've probably all realized that the kind of Black! people that shoot their gang rivals or homies who've dissed them aren't the guys that spend time at the range.
What Mr. Sailer is good at is putting together everyday observations like that above, possibly seeing other points (such as the difference in the mentality of White vs black mass shooters), and matching them with as large as possible data sets. The more you think about these things, the more you notice them yourself, thinking, "yeah, no shit". However, did I already know this to the point I could have stated the same thing? Probably not, on one of Mr. Sailer's best points.
I've not seen an example that illustrates Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings as well as this story out of Montgomery, Alabama: Another Black Mass Shooting: In Montgomery, Alabama, More Than 350 Spent Casings Found from Massive Gun Battle at Black Party (13 Wounded/O Dead). 350 rounds! "Shots fired." does not begin to describe a scene of Black! dysfunctionality like this. 13 people being hurt** out of 350 shots fired is like 9 out of 10 kids jumping off the swing set landing not just out of the sand but outside the whole schoolyard. You've got to make a real effort to shoot that badly. Or, yeah, hold the guns sideways and push on them when you fire.
Wait, there's more:
All of shooting victims had injuries that authorities described as not life-threatening.Amazing.
Three people were injured when they were struck by vehicles leaving the area and one woman was injured by broken glass, police say.So, that's only 9 people actually hit by bullets during this mass shooting of 350 rounds (or more). I hope it wasn't bigger caliber than 9mm. The bigger stuff is getting pretty dear. How can these young folks afford that ammo and still pay their bills and raise their families...?
In the aftermath, my reaction to this splendid example of Sailer's Law of Mass Shootings is quite the opposite of Hey, Man, nice shot!. Some of these ghetto thugs understand the letter of the law, but this crowd also got into the spirit of the law.
Note that I linked to this story on "Paul Kersey"'s Stuff Black People Don't Like blog. With good reason, Mr. Kersey doesn't add much humor usually, but we see this at the top:
Were the National Rifle Association (NRA) truly a racist organization, they’d be engaging in minority outreach marksmanship lessons across the nation on a weekly basis.LOL!
PS: Shooting really small CC pistols accurately is not very easy. We'll practice up, but even at 10 yards - first time with this gun - we were lucky to hit the letter-sized paper targets! (Gotta learn the sights better.) However, the point here is, there are people all over - how could you not hit more people?
* Really, I like his "Law of Female Journalism" even better, but it's not so easy to prove out with math... hard to obtain a closed-form solution.
** I gotta assume nobody else was hit, or they'd been considered "injured", ghettos, lawyers, and billboards being what they are today ...
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Jillary '24?
Posted On: Monday - July 8th 2024 12:17PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Hildabeast Female Stupidity Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
Inevitable? Thank God it wasn't really.
What's gonna happen with these Democrats and their '24 Presidential candidate, what with the convention coming up in about 6 weeks? If you thought that debate wasn't entertaining enough, the Chicago shitshow to come may very well top it. I don't know how much hotel rooms overlooking the possible, hopeful violence in the streets would set one back, but after 56 years of inflation and the transition of this party to the utter mobile mental institution it is since last time there, 500 bucks a night would not feel so out of line. (Of course, I'd want, nay, NEED, a fully stocked bar. Having Pat Buchanan drop by to regale us with stories and maybe make a reaction video would make the visit complete.)
However, I've written before that I'm not certain the Blue Squad of the UniParty won't just attempt to drag old JoeMentia across the finish line by hook or, for the most part by crook. Yeah, I mean without the by crook part, he can't win this thing. The Deep State (yes, post to come on this with an ACCURATE definition) can handle a senile, half, or even fully dead man, once he's been elected. The ctrl-left voters and Lyin' Press talking heads may really be worried Bai Dien can't be dragged across the line. Additional others worry about a President in his sad shape being in control of the nuclear arsenal. Nah, it doesn't work like that. They'll make sure Bai Dien presses the button only if or when they WANT him to press it. That's not a real concern.
If they've given up though, it has been just been great for the Lyin Press and all of the media that there's massive ongoing speculation out there on who the D party will nominate.
I've read that it's kind of tricky to put someone different on the ballot at this late stage. I wonder about that though. Back in the smoke-filled room days, not THAT awful long ago, the candidates WERE selected this late, rather than the said conventions being just rallies for the guys (or gals, sorry Hillary!) who'd been already decided on by the primary election process.
There's talk about switching to younger, slick-haired, slick-minded Gavin Newsome, the embarrassing to everyone, but still, Black! (ok, 1/2) and female Kamala Harris, Oval Office-experienced Big Mike, and I wouldn't say the Hildabeast herself is yet out of consideration. (She has a fatal ambition, and nobody has yet had an opportunity to put a stake through her heart,... you know ... just to be sure)
What about Doctor* Jill, though? I've been glad not to have heard a thing about her for 3 solid years. That good luck streak ended as I've been seeing her try to help her husband with both his dementia and his holding onto power for dear life. There was the scene after the debate in which she talked to him as a child "You answered ALL the questions!" (I can't remember if she said "honey" or "little buddy".)
Doctor Jill has been working her butt off trying to keep JoeMentia the running to remain in power during the past week and a half of speculation. That picture above is from a Vogue magazine cover. From the Gateway Pundit: Jill Biden Dons $5,000 Silk Tuxedo Dress on Cover of Vogue, Asserts, “We Will Decide Our Future”. What do you mean "we", Jillosabe? Is this all about her standing by her man? We've heard that expression somewhere before, around 25 years ago IIRC. If she cared about old Joe so much as a husband, wouldn't she find a way for him to bow out gracefully. (That is, without hitting his head on something.) It'd be good to do this before his condition got any worse.
Maybe Mrs. Biden is so concerned about Joe's keeping in the running because SHE wants to hold onto power because she's already BEEN in power. So long as one works within the confines of what the Deep State wants, there's some leeway. Has Doctor Jill already been running an Edith Wilson** operation? Who would know? Would Joe remember signing some little piece of paper? If he did get suspicious, what could Doctor, remember, Jill do about it? "Is it safe?!" (Wait, that would be Dentist Jill.***)
Running an Edith Wilson op for the next 4 years would take a lot of guile. Could Doctor Jill somehow become the D-party Presidential candidate herself? I haven't read much on this, but then, she has sure been in the news a lot lately for a 1st lady. Unlike the other "lady" in our top image here, Jill Biden has not paid her dues. After spending her time as an unelected non-office-holder, she hasn't been duly elected to the Senate of a State she just became resident of and then held a cabinet position in which she killed people at will overseas and fomented revolutions. So, I mean...
Jill would also have to do this all on her own, without a sentiment loving husband behind her who owes her big time for her "standing by her man" ... after he wagged his finger on national TV at Americans to shame them for believing he was a liar of some sort about sex...
Will we see another version of the Hildabeast? I'm not confident that the original HIldabeast would be satisfied being her mentor, but I see a lot of similarities. Both are ambitious feminists in positions so very close to big power. I am making no predictions - it's all mere entertainment for us here - but if we read about this 1st lady being considered, Peak Stupidity will dub her The Jilldabeast in honor of her predecessor.
* She goes by "Doctor" due to her accomplishment of obtaining a a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in "educational leadership" later in life. Most PhD's don't ask to be called "Doctor" unless it's in the classroom. (In some U's, it "Professor" and others it's "Doctor".)
** Wife of Woodrow Wilson, who was incapacitated while in office for a spell.
*** Another old movie reference.
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Led Zeppelin Long Distance Dedication
Posted On: Saturday - July 6th 2024 6:28PM MST
In Topics: Music Zhou Bai Dien
Peak Stupidity's long-distance dedication tonight is one sent over a long distance in TIME, not space. One of the greatest rock bands of all time, Led Zeppelin, hereby dedicates one of their best from Madison Square Garden, New York City over 51 years to present-day Joe Biden. It's Dazed and Confused. 51 summers later - pass it forward!
A bunch of the live footage from 3 NYC Madison Square Garden shows that Zeppelin did on this 3 month long, 34 show tour in '73 was put into a movie, The Song Remains the Same*, along with some footage of the band, mostly in England. The movie was not released until '76.
I saw that movie twice. After seeing it the 1st time, I would have bet the small amount of money I owned that John Paul Jones sang House of the Rising Sun in it as he played the keyboards. No, you're right - he didn't. I found that out after telling a friend this before we saw it my 2nd time. What the heck happened the 1st time? Was there pot smoke wafting around the theater? Were that the case, I didn't inhale anyway, so this remains a mystery to me. Dazed and confused, indeed, but at least I was not running a failing ex-Constitutional Republic at the time ...
PS: The money that this band made from the 3 shows in NY City, $207 THOUSAND DOLLARS!, was stolen out of a safe at their hotel. It was never recovered. To make matters worse, Dazed and Confused was written by some guy named Jake Holmes. He settled things with the band finally in 2010. I really hope the settlement took inflation into account.
Thanks to all the Peak Stupidity readers this week and all previous weeks. No, you weren't out of your gourd in imagining we've been playing Huey Lewis and the News songs here. Listen, we can't even keep up with the stuff we've promised to post on, yet, the blog was filled.
Thanks for the comments especially! Have a happy Sunday. PS, over and out.
* That's the title of a great song from their Houses of the Holy album. Just for confusion's sake, an even better song, Houses of the Holy, is NOT on that album.
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A more intelligent and civil '24 Presidential election
Posted On: Saturday - July 6th 2024 5:11PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 History US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents
As per commenter Robert's opinion that he'd hoped we'd have neither of the 2 major Presidential candidates that we saw last week, sorry but our title here doesn't suggest getting rid of Trump and Bai Dien. We are talking here about 1924, not 2024. (Perhaps I should have used Twenty-first Century digits.)
Mr. Coolidge who'd assumed the office after the death of President Warren Harding on August 3rd of '23 (see Calvin Coolidge inaugurated as US President 100 years ago this minute.) was running as the Republican. John William Davis in the middle was the Democrat candidate, while Mr. Robert La Follette there on the right was the Progressive candidate.
I read that wiki page on Democrat candidate John Davis. This W. Virginian was a lawyer (what's new?), a US Congressman, Solicitor General (I guess same office as the current AG) working for Wilson, and the ambassador to Great Britain. Mr. Davis, the dark horse candidate in the vein of Big Mike*, obtained the D-party nomination on the 103rd vote, in the longest convention they had in history - June 26th through July 9th. A century ago, there'd still be 3 days left of it there at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Madison Square Garden, eh? Who'd have known then that some long-haired British youngsters calling themselves the Led Zeppelin would be playing at that same venue 49 years later? As they could have told the '24 electorate, were the Rock & Roll a thing a half century earlier, "There are 2 paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on...." 2 paths, yeah, screw La Follette, but we'll get to him in a minute.
John Davis was an old-timey Democrat, the 1920s being indeed old times. He supported State's rights, anti-lynching legislation, and lost votes in the South due to his denunciation of the KKK and support for black voting rights. Except for the 1st thing (cause when you run things, you don't need that or even want that stuff), modern Democrat candidates would be on-board. In addition, he was the founding president of the Council on Foreign Relations and involved in other now-shadowy organizations. However, in later life as a lawyer, Mr. Davis worked on behalf of Big Biz against Roosevelt's Raw Deal programs.
That La Follette character, who'd been the Governor and a Congressman and Senator of/from Wisconsin, was indeed a "progressive" in the derogatory sense economically and ideologically. He'd called for government ownership of railroads and electric utilities, in addition to supporting the Bolsheviks in the still-ongoing Russian civil war in the early '20s. That's pretty, errrr, yeah, "progressive". However, in contrast to OUR early '20's, I get the feeling Robert La Follette would not have been in favor of young women being able to get their breasts cut off without their parent's permission... or with it, for that matter. It was what, '20, '21.. it was a different time, you understand ...
Then, there's the guy on the left. A month and couple of weeks ago last century, while in his 1st term as President, Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson–Reed immigration Act. Though maybe politically disunited at the very end of it, this ushered in a real unification of the American people over the next 41 years, till the Hart Cellar Act was signed in December of '65.
If that wasn't enough, Silent Cal was a true Libertarian**. He believed in "He who governs best, governs least." Imagine an America that would vote for a guy like this in a landslide.
La Follette was pretty strong as 3rd party candidates go, getting more electoral votes - that support from his Wisconsin home*** - than Ross Perot did in 1992 - he got none. However, Mr. Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote as opposed to La Follette's 16.6%. The eminently reasonable John Davis got the lowest percentage of popular votes by any D candidate in history. The South went solid for Davis (did they think we was kin to Jeff Davis?), and New York City went for Coolidge. It was a different New York City... you understand...
Just look and read about these guys, even the proto-Commie guy there. They were intelligent men. Principles of governance were being discussed, rather than, by necessity now, how quickly America is to be destroyed. None of the 3 of them had dementia or were bombastic egotistical bullshitters. What a country! What a difference a century makes!
PS: Interestingly, it was only 40 years later when there was another Presidential election with a strong Libertarian running. Alas, the American population had changed by '64, so the landslide went in the reverse direction. You'd think that unification process, with that hard pause having gone on for 4 decades, would result in a different outcome. Was it that the Lyin' Press had become established by '64, and that was the difference?
PPS: The State numbers of electoral votes were also so different a century ago. Look at California, man! Iowa had as many, Georgia had more, Illinois had 3 more than twice as many, Pennsylvania had 1 less than 3 times as many, and New York had a hair under 3 1/2 times as many. Then, New York State and Pennsylvania just plain dominated! Florida had the same number as Maine and fewer than Nebraska, Connecticut, or West for cryin' out loud Virginia.
* Thanks for that one, Mr. Hail. I realize no pun was intended in your comment, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good pun.
** Note to certain people: Libertarian principles and open borders do not have to go together. In fact, after a while of it, they CAN'T.
*** You didn't have your Kyle Rittenhouse's around in that last '24, unfortunately.
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Hey Florida Man, nice shot!
Posted On: Friday - July 5th 2024 7:35PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor The Future Geography Big-Biz Stupidity Guns
Although enjoying the humor often involved, Peak Stupidity has a more nuanced view of the proverbial Florida Man than most, errr, news outlets(?). We don't always sympathize - as with this Florida Man who took a not so nice shot due to his unhappiness with a haircut. OTOH, we are generally predisposed toward rednecks, such as those Florida Men who are competent with front-end loader machines even when drunk off their asses.
We were quite heartened to read the Gateway Pundit story reporting Florida Man Arrested After Shooting Down Walmart Delivery Drone. This was in Lake County Florida last week, as the drone was doing a demonstration.
Lake County is just north of the center of Florida. It's west of Orlando, south of Ocala, north of Lake City, and well northeast of Tampa Bay. It's big cattle country and was a big citrus growing area until the huge Global Warming induced cold wave at the end of 1989 destroyed much of the groves. Now it's getting developed big-time, like lots of Florida has especially as of late. This development is bad enough if you are already a Florida Man, wanting your peace and quiet. The last thing you want in your rural spread is a damn Wal-Mart drone flying over your property.
The "shooting down" part is questionable, as we read in the one short article by GP's Anthony Scott that:
Despite taking a bullet, the drone was able to fly back safely to Walmart, ...Damn! At least though:
... but an investigation revealed the drone received close to $2,500 worth of damages.So there's that, at least. Still, if it got back to Wal-Mart, it unfortunately wasn't exactly "rendered inoperable".
What we are impressed with is that this was a 9 mm pistol round, not pellets from a shotgun. "What a good shot, man!"
Here's the song that best fits this Florida Man story and Peak Stupidity's attitude about drones intruding into one's personal airspace:
I don't really know much about this 1990s band named Filter. Their one hit I remember hearing about 10 years after its time (1999) was, Take a Picture. I think that song is fantastic, with a really great melody and sound, so we featured it early on in the life of this blog.
Their older music, such as this one, from their album Short Bus, is said to be of the "Industrial Rock" genre. Filter played songs for a bunch of movie soundtracks too.
Now that the smoke's gone
and the air is all clear,
those who were right there
got a new kind of fear.
You'd fight and you were right,
but they were just too strong.
They'd stick it in your face
and let you smell what they consider wrong.
That's why I say "Hey man nice, nice shot!
What a good shot man!"
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Trump v Bai Dien further debate thoughts
Posted On: Friday - July 5th 2024 1:29PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Trump Economics Zhou Bai Dien
(See previous posts Who's the sucker 'round here? and Debate wrap-up by Old Soldier and E.H. Hail.
Though it's something I've noticed in myself, 1990s TV show Seinfeld, with head noticer* Jerry, showed the same phenomena with George Costanza in the episode with the "jerk store". Imagine Zhou Bai Dien, half an hour after that debate while driving home to the White House. "Dammit, I know exactly what I should have said!" Yeah, sure, it'd have been plagiarism of Ronald Reagan, but Dark Brandon has no qualms about that silly plagiarism fixation. Besides, who can remember 40 years ago, or even 36, for that matter? (Obviously, even lucid and cognizant Americans can't.)
(Note: Meme self-plagiarized from this post.)
He mighta' won the debate with that one! Reagan did. People saw that 72 y/o Reagan was fun, clever and quick-witted**... maybe not so easy for this current guy also running for re-election but 4 decades later - blank looks and gibberish are not helpful.
Bai Dien will be interviewed by long-term Beltway parasite George Stephanopoulos today, As Old Soldier wrote in a comment here, it'll be rigged up to come out good in properly applied doses by the Lyin' Press. I guess the Establishment may still want to avoid uncertainty by dragging Dark Brandon across the finish line. (I don't know - more on that tomorrow. I'm sure the PS readers all have their own guesses.)
As for Peak Stupidity, we're still fixated on that entertaining debate of last week. Some use the 1/2 century entrenched form for a revelation by top-notch investigative journalists - in this instance, Senilitygate, to describe it. Haha! Thank you for that, Ann.
That was one hell of a cover-up by the Lyin' Press of the senility of Mr. Bai Dien. I mean, who could have possibly known this?! It's not like there are internet sites with video clips and shit we can just up and view - that there are such sites FAKE NEWS. Senilitygate WAS fake news until crack sleuths Tapperward and Bashstein revealed it all for us in All the President's Dead Men.
This thing was just too entertaining to leave be, with enough embedded stupidity for a plethora of posts, so let us get on with a quick review of it.
Trump:
Did he HAVE to keep exaggerating? I already knew he's a big bullshitter, but c'mon, man! "I filled up the Petroleum Reserve with more oil since the founding of this country!" "I closed the border tighter than the snatch of any witch since the Salem Witch Trials!" "I killed more terrorists than any Administration since the Book of Joshua!" Well, like that. I know he went back to the Founders' time frequently.
A friend, in our discussion about this, explained: Trump doesn't want to get wonky and give this or that number, as we suggested in reference to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Giving some numbers and dates would just get the other side "fact-checking" some minor thing. Also, by exaggeration, Trump still gets his point across bigly, without distraction.
I do get that. How about just "I did the most of [this or that] since Ronald Reagan" or whatever sounds good but is also correct? I just don't like the BS, but if it works ... He's going to be "fact-checked" anyway, I suppose.
What Trump did really well was answer questions with no specific answer at all besides what he wanted to talk about anyway. That was an excellent idea for this format. He had the usual anti-Trump moderators, so why comply with their biased agenda? He talked about what he intended to talk about for his allotted time, answers to the questions notwithstanding. Yes!!
Bai Dien:
There's not enough time to cover his stupidity with the time allotted to me today by the Astronomical Ephemeris Tables. You've seen the best of it, I'm sure.
One lie that I kind of liked seeing come out was "He [Trump] had the largest national debt of any President in a 4 year period ..." Nope, the national debt has been going continuously up through most of living Americans' lifetimes, so ... no.
If he instead meant "deficit", well I took a look at the National Debt Clock for the latest number***. It's a real close call. They've got end-o'-fiscal-year numbers here, so '16-'20 rings up just under $8.2 Trillion spent by Congress with Trump as President - much of that Flu Manchu CARES ACT cash. End-'o-fiscal-year '21 starts the debt under Brandon at $27.7 Trillion, and we'll call the current debt $34.9 Trillion from the clock. (It increased $2.1 Million as I watched the 1:07 minute clip, which is a pretty good clip, an ~ $2 Million/minute burn rate, 24/7/365, sometimes 6). There are still 6 months left though in this spending contest. It's a reverse NASCAR race at this point. At the current rate Bai Dien will "win" this one by a nose. (1 1/8 of his $7.2 Trillion deficit so far = $8.1 Trillion, and here come's the checkered flag!) This fact check brought to you by Peak Stupidity at no extra charge.
Oh, and it's fake news that Bai Dien stated "I beat Medicaid." That wouldn't make any sense. What Bai Dien actually uttered was "We finally beat Medicare." That's different. Peak Stupidity hereby apologizes for the error and our incorrect Huey Lewis (and The News) parody lyrics.
If you look at that part closely, it's pretty obvious that the man had his brain stuffed with a number of very rigid talking points during more than a week of (per what I read) practice drill with flash cards (I assume) and maybe a team of education Psychologists **** It just wasn't enough. Bai Dien's brain is so far gone that he was trying to pull out the correct replies from random access memory, but had faulty pointers. He'd go from one to another, digging deep for the right reply, but than mixing them together. Hence:
"... for what I've been able to do with the Covid... excuse me ... with, ummm, dealing with ... everything we had to do with ... uhhh, look ... if ... We finally beat Medicare."I'm no Steve Sailer. I DON'T feel sorry for the guy. I would if he weren't such a bastard in his lucid moments and hadn't been for the last half a century of public "service". Nah, don't service me, bro!
Lookit, per the experts on the TV, Joe Bai Dien just had a bad night. He only is like this part of the time. So long as there's not a decision regarding nuclear war at the wrong moment.... No, I actually know better than to care about that aspect of the President's Senility. That's yet another post. Stupid proliferation - we need a new SALT treaty. (Stupidity Allotment Limits Treaty?)
PS: I know this post concentrated mostly on one 1 minute clip. There's much more, but maybe we'll discuss the prospects for the D-squad over the next 4 months next instead.
* Rather than noticing social phenomena for political reasons, he was just all about the humor in it all.
** Even if Reagan (likely) had put that one-liner in his memory beforehand, he came out with it at the right time. It'd have taken Bai Dien a minute or two, plus some prompting through an earpiece ... and probably a new drug.
*** That site's actually got about 100 numbers on its front page alone. It's a lot of fun... till it won't be...
**** Yes, Psychiatrists too - they took care of "the elixir".
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Them US Blues -'24
Posted On: Thursday - July 4th 2024 4:51PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Holiday from Stupidity
Wow! It's been just 2 years under a quarter of a Millennium since the Founders declared that the yoke of tyranny was too much to put up with. Now, a half century after the days when The Dead played this US Blues in San Francisco (The Winterland ballroom), the loss of freedom I've experienced in my life time has got to be many times what the American Colonists lost from 1725 to 1776. Yet, there they were, putting their lives on the line signing that Declaration. What'll happen here?
We've missed it a couple of years, but generally, featuring the Grateful Dead's US Blues* on Independence Day is a Peak Stupidity tradition.
It was Jerry, Bob, Phil, Mickey, Billy, Keith and Donna, a true All-American band, no matter what people think from the name and the acid-rock hippy stereotype.
I'm Uncle Sam. That's who I am.
Been hiding out in a rock and roll band.
Shake the hand that shook the hand
of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan.
Shine your shoes. Light your fuse,
Can you use them old U.S. Blues?
Yep, though not able to go to a show, I was aware of things when The Dead was playing this 50 years back. America then was the freest place you could imagine, or maybe couldn't anymore.
Oh well, we've got 35 bucks worth of fireworks to fire off. The Founders hoped their courageous move would be celebrated with fireworks in celebration for years afterwards .. if they were successful. They were ... till we blew it all to hell. There'll be fireworks all right though ...
Here's hoping Peak Stupidity, but more importantly, the U.S. of A. in some recognizable form, will still be here for them US Blues in '26!
PS: Oh, about those Tories going back to '76 - they had a
* youtube goes "live version of ..." Well, duh!
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[UPDATED 04/05:] Added line about "All-American band".
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Steve Sailer: Trust, but Verify
Posted On: Wednesday - July 3rd 2024 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits Media Stupidity US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
Anyone remember that guy? He didn't coin the phrase Trust, but verify, as it came from the Russian (in which it rhymes): Doveryay, no proveryay. However, it was the Russians, that is the Soviet Communists, who were the ones President Reagan famously referred to with this phrase, specifically regarding the numbers of nuclear missiles and warheads they said vs we verified they had. (There were no smart phones and internet ... 1984, 1987... it was a different time, you understand...)
I haven't seen this written anywhere, surprisingly, but the phrase "Trust, but verify" sardonically means "Don't trust." If you have to go back and verify, you never trusted to begin with. Reagan was smart not to have. It's too bad he didn't have the same attitude about the US Congress*.
Trust, but Verfiy is the title of Steve Sailer's latest Takimag article. Note the super-title too, a subtitle on top really, that says The Untold Story. This one is about conspiracy theories and "people" (not sure which exact segment/level he meant here) of the right being too enamored with them.
I gotta say, as of a week back, I've been miffed by this guy.
Peak Stupidity has written a lot about Mr. Sailer lately, now that he's "come out" (not gay, not Libertarian - heaven forbid!, but simply more visible and out of his literal closet). There have been his great book, his interview with the great Tucker Carlson, lots more interviews, appearances, and, I imagine, much more well-deserved income for him.
E.H. Hail has steered me to the new, or newly busy at least, SteveSailer substack-"powered" blog. The URL is simply stevesailer.net I've done some reading there.** Between a few articles there and most especially this latest Takimag article, I'm getting a little, I dare say, pissed. I haven't agreed on a number of basic points of his writing lately (including 2 or 3 posts on his site).
I'll have more detail (argumentation) later, but for now, I'll note that the series of posts Deep State, Peak State, and Shallow State - - The Biden Crisis: Deep State Theory vs. Peak State Theory, and Deep Cluster: How Influential Elites Actually Make Decisions all pushed his opinion that there is no real Deep State running American policy behind the scenes of at least the Executive Branch.*** I would disagree going well back 2, 3, 5? decades, but now with JoeMentia, I mean, come on, man! How COULD that guy be in charge, even if they let him? On that score, Mr. Sailer's been misled on at least this one thing, with no easy way to back out of his mistake.
The article in Takimag gets into conspiracy theories more generally. The question Mr. Sailer starts with has an obvious answer:
If the mainstream media won’t tell you the truth about the President’s age-driven mental decline until forced to spill the beans by a debate on live TV, can you trust them not to try to mislead you about other things as well?Right.
No, of course not.
Does that also mean that if they misdirect you about some facts, that therefore they are lying to you about anything and everything?No, of course not. You mean like what date the 4th of July falls on this year? No, of course not.
OK, I get it. They aren't all OUT TO lie. We've got to trust but verify, i.e., generally not trust them. We can figure out from many sources and our common sense when we are being lied to. However:
Part of the problem is that most people aren’t good at running reality checks on theories they hear.Steve Sailer is. However, he's gotten a big head, and he thinks this applies to everything. When it comes to his own particular niche studies - black crime, as one example brought up, yes, his common sense matches the data. He knows very well who in the media is lying about crime stats, racial and sex differences in abilities, sports, university admissions and SAT scores, the gays ... There's a lot more Steve Sailer is good at. This doesn't include every subject though, and there's a hell of a lot going on in the world.
Mr. Sailer brings up 5 conspiracy theories. As he does "basic reality checks on the theories mentioned above", I agree with him on 4 and the 5th is one I neither know nor care much about. These are the easy ones, and well, this debunking is a "no duh", but doesn't cover it all:
But nobody seems to care much about those questions, instead preferring to emphasize genuinely stupid theories such as that jetliners didn’t actually crash into the WTC.The "No Planes" theory is not the only area of doubt, and I don't think it's so very prevalent at all. Going back to before "But nobody..." there (sorry), Mr. Sailer agrees:
Well, 9/11 was a conspiracy, and like several other conspiracies, such as Lincoln’s assassination, it’s not clear just how high up the conspiracy went. Who knew within the Saudi regime? Who in Pakistan gave Osama refuge a mile from the Pakistani military academy?Sure, and who knew something like this was coming and wanted it to happen? (The "Patriot Act" was ready to go right out the box.)
One problem I have with all this is Mr. Sailer's particular picks of conspiracies to discuss here. Here's a good one that he adds:
An interesting aspect of this trend is that valid conspiracy theories are of little interest to the right these days. For example, as I reported in this column on Nov. 11, 2020, and confirmed on March 23, 2022, Trump’s Operation Warp Speed would likely have been announced a huge success on the day before the 2020 election, except that Pfizer shut down processing of its Covid vaccine clinical trial from late October until the day after the voting, which allowed the corporation to avoid Democratic enmity for helping Trump win reelection.Yes, as I wrote in the comments on his site a few times, that was a very good scoop. Of course, the Lyin' Press wasn't interested.
But the GOP rank and file has since proved, as Pfizer executives smartly anticipated in October 2020, too stupid to notice.Wasn't there something about a laptop computer found around this same time? The Lyin' Press covered that story too... with a pillow, until it was dead****. They'd have done the same with your story, Steve, but it didn't get far enough for them to need to.
Yeah, and what ABOUT that rank and file GOP? The MTG's and Matt Goetz's are not your rank and file GOP. I'm pretty sure they'd have been the ones touting your scoop to the rooftops. Yet, those are the types you deride harshly with your columns about lowbrow people of the right. Sure, MTG touted that nutty Jewish space lasers conspiracy theory - see America's deep divide and Large Marge expanded version - but as you can see in those and other videos Peak Stupidity has featured, she's onto the important conspiracy theories. She understands and calls out the UniParty for what it is. She is onto the Ukraine war scam. She explained directly why Congressmen act and vote like they do. She calls out CongroSomalians who work on behalf of foreign powers. She has done what (unfortunately little) she could do to expose the lying traitorous Alejandro Mayorkas. Oh, but those people aren't evil, no, just... they've not read Noticing, so they don't get it...
Those are the true and important conspiracies that Steve Sailer seems to want nothing to do with. It's a wild guess, but I'd put $1,000 on his not liking MTG one bit. (It's the least I can spare - I'm in LUV!... not with her body but with her patriotism.)
The problem is just that the imagined conspirators that have been taking this country down have not ever having read his columns or else things would all be very clear to them, and they'd quit doing that.
Instead, Republicans have decided that Trump’s immensely well-publicized plan to rush vaccines into service, which proved more or less successful, was actually a sinister plot to poison America. But of course, they also argue, Trump should therefore be reelected…because reasons.OK, now this is getting stupid. Your average Republican probably got the vax. Your average WISE Republican didn't and likely thinks like the Peak Stupidity crowd: This vaccine was not safe, it was not effective by definition, and that wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't tried to mandate we take it. It was pushed out there to calm the Panickers (like Steve Sailer, I must say), to make a lot of money for Pfizer, and so the Feral Gov't (yes, including dumbo Trump) could say they DID SOMETHING!
Guys like me can't believe Trump would be so stupid as to still keep bringing any of this Fall '20 "warp speed" stuff up. (Has he?) He did not arrange for the country to get invaded at warp speed though. As stupid as he can get
Unfortunately, an increasing number of people on the right are making these kinds of flying leaps into the lunatic fringe.Even if that hyperbole were all true, so what - let 'em fight, and let 'em WIN!
Steve Sailer: Trust, but Verify: "Trust"? Yes, he's an honest guy. "Verify"? I can verify that he has temporarily lost his way...
* More background.
** I've been meaning to write about this. I ALMOST signed up. It's not the money, it's the time - I will explain.
*** Bribery, blackmail, threats, etc., to influence the other 2 (or 3 if I count the Lyin' Press) branches are another subject. I don't think I'd agree with him there either.
**** That was coined by the "Iowahawk", Dave Burge.
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