Tucker/iSteve interview Transcript - 2nd 15 minutes
Posted On: Wednesday - July 31st 2024 5:20PM MST
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(Continued from 1st 15 minutes.)
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Steve Sailer [00:15:17] The other thing.
Steve Sailer [00:15:18] But I point out is motor vehicle. Deaths. Motor vehicle deaths per capita. This isn't per mile driven. Weren't too bad. Weren't they? Didn't have big racial differences in the past. Whites, the whites and the blue line often had the worse. Blacks weren't bad. Hispanics weren't good. But then after 2008. Hispanics actually got better. Brown Hispanic line is doing pretty good. The racial reckoning. But you can see the black line just went through the roof again compared to the rest of the 21st century. So what's happened during the Great Awakening, during the era of Black Lives Matter. What we see is that deaths, two different kinds of deaths, homicides and car crashes. When I call deaths of exuberance, in contrast to Case and Edens deaths of despair, seem to be have gone highly correlated. When Black Lives Matter is winning. People die. But people, especially black Americans, die. More deaths of exuberance until Black Lives Matter goes out of fashion again and the cops are allowed to, like, pull over bad drivers and check for illegal handguns.
Steve Sailer [00:16:37] So does anybody know that? No, it's it's.
Steve Sailer [00:16:40] Hardly caught on at all. I mean, part of the problem is because I discovered in 2021, then if you're a social scientist, you want to write a paper for an academic journal. It's kind of like either. Well, either I cite Steve Saylor, but I might get canceled for citing this horrible crime thinker, or I don't cite him. And then his followers on Twitter all get real mad at me for not citing him. Here's my view. Just go ahead. Then it is for me to get publicity about it.
Tucker [00:17:33] Why do the bad people have so much power? Because the bad people have all the money where they get all the money. You gave it to them by using their businesses, businesses that undermine this country and empower countries that don't seek the best for your family. Trust us. But there is an alternative. It's called Public Square. Public square is a network of over 75,000 independent businesses, small businesses in this country from which you can buy guns and ammo, fresh food, household goods thing. You see you need to live and when you buy them, you can feel certain that you are not doing a bad deed. You're doing a good deed that will make this a better and more independent country, and make your kids future brighter. Public square.com. We are honored. We are proud to have them as a sponsor of this show. These numbers are pretty striking when you graphed out like this.
Steve Sailer [00:18:26] Yeah.
Tucker [00:18:27] But they comport with what you notice.
Steve Sailer [00:18:29] Yeah.
Tucker [00:18:30] Already. I mean, you sort of knew that, you know, when you have riots, people die. And a lot of people who died were black. Not all however. But it was pretty obvious from day one that Black Lives Matter wasn't helping anybody, including and maybe especially black people. So, like, what would be the motive?
Steve Sailer [00:18:46] What's the motive? Now, there were.
Steve Sailer [00:18:50] A lot of motives.
Steve Sailer [00:18:53] For Black Lives Matter one one was.
Steve Sailer [00:18:56] That America had gotten better. After the 1990s, after the crack wars.
Steve Sailer [00:19:05] Policing.
Steve Sailer [00:19:08] The drugs that were driving crime were not particularly marketed to inner city blacks. The opioids.
Steve Sailer [00:19:18] The oxycodone. Even the when Mexican cartels started selling. Black tar heroin, they also focused, like the Sackler family, on, like you know, who are a bunch of people. If they drop dead, nobody's going to care. And that's like, white people in small towns. In Kentucky, that kind of stuff. So you had these had this big rise in deaths of despair.
Tucker [00:19:44] Wait, so you're saying you think that was, the Sacklers and the Mexican drug cartels morally equivalent, I would say, or close, targeted rural whites, Appalachian whites, for example, on purpose, because they knew that nobody would care when they died.
Steve Sailer [00:20:03] I mean, it's it's the theory of, a good. And so, I mean, nobody paid any attention to this increase in the white working class death rate until just fortuitously, in 2015, Angus Deaton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. And then a couple of weeks later, he and his wife published this important paper saying, you know, if you look at the CDC data, life expectancy for white working class people without. College degrees has been dropping in the 21st century. And it's not supposed to happen and seems to be overdoses on painkillers. It seems to be suicide. It seems to be alcoholism, just deaths of despair....
Tucker [00:21:24] Seven years into Obama…..
Steve Sailer [00:21:26] Yeah. You know.
Steve Sailer [00:21:27] 15 years into the into when it started around 2001, the the Sackler families, Purdue Pharmaceuticals started their big.
Steve Sailer [00:21:36] Push for.
Steve Sailer [00:21:37] Opioid prescriptions.
Tucker [00:21:39] But how would no one notice this, I wonder?
Steve Sailer [00:21:43] There's no organizations dedicated to to the welfare of white working class people? So the fact that they're dying in great numbers of novel causes, it basically relied on to.
Steve Sailer [00:21:58] Academics and who.
Steve Sailer [00:22:01] Said, wow, this is interesting. The Nobel Prize just before their paper came out. So people paid attention to their paper because, oh, yeah, I heard about Angus Deaton and the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Prize last month.
Tucker [00:22:17] Well, that's kind of, if I can say it was. It's a I think you're right. But it's sort of interesting if you think about it. There are no organizations dedicated to the welfare of rural whites. Yeah, but there are a lot of organizations dedicated the welfare of a million other groups that are much smaller in number. Yeah. So why aren't there any organizations dedicated to that?
Steve Sailer [00:22:37] You know, a few People have tried to set up organizations that. Speak for white people. The way that Al Sharpton speaks for black people.Other organizations speak for Jewish people or Latinos and so forth, and are highly respectable and are constantly quoted in the newspaper. You know, a bright, very gentlemanly fellow named Jared Taylor tried to do this for the last 30 years. You know, he's still banned. On Twitter at this point. You know, it's, America has a phobia about. Anybody speaking up for the emerging white minority. Everybody. You know. The conventional wisdom is. Whites are rapidly being turned into a minority, and that's a good. But we're not going to treat, ever treat whites like the minority that they're becoming. And in multiple states across the country, we're going to treat them as the all powerful, omnipotent legacy majority who can be blamed for everything from now on.
Tucker [00:23:56] But that's I, I certainly, sure looks like that. Well, I think it's absolutely right. But if their life expectancy is declining faster than anyone else's and they are dying, then I mean, it does seem. A little odd. Yeah. Why about that? I mean, what's the intent there?
Steve Sailer [00:24:16] It's it's a nobody lied so much as they just wonder.
Steve Sailer [00:24:23] Why are you interested in this? What kind of sinister reason do you. 100 million working class white people in the country who are generating these not new problems and dropping dead from.
Steve Sailer [00:24:42] Them and, you know.
Steve Sailer [00:24:45] Putting out the alarm about it.
Steve Sailer [00:24:48] Is.
Steve Sailer [00:24:50] Is just considered some sort of white supremacist, white nationalist. We're just talking about deplorables here, but-
Tucker [00:25:36] Okay. I mean, I get, you know, everyone has preferences and a lot of people, in Washington, New York and L.A. don't like the voting patterns of the population you're describing. But they are human beings and Americans. And if they're going extinct, or they're dying in huge numbers in any case. To ignore that or downplay it is is evil, isn't it?
Steve Sailer [00:25:58] Yeah. I mean, they add.
Steve Sailer [00:26:01] To my view they are our fellow American citizens, as are African.
Steve Sailer [00:26:07] Americans. Yes. And so the fact.
Steve Sailer [00:26:10] That black lives matter in this ironic, complete, self-destructive ness brought about just historic.
Steve Sailer [00:26:21] Changes in the number of Black lives. Dying in kind of the opposite of the the working white working class deaths. So exuberance that you could see it in the Ferguson effect in 20 1516 and now in the huge Floyd effect, the 2020s.
Steve Sailer [00:26:40] I mean, we're talking.
Steve Sailer [00:26:44] Something like an incremental 15 to 20,000 more blacks have died in those in car crashes and murders.
Steve Sailer [00:26:52] Than.
Steve Sailer [00:26:52] If the baseline of a few years ago.
Steve Sailer [00:26:55] Had been maintained. And that's that's just enormous.
Steve Sailer [00:26:59] That's easily the black death rate. Refraining from noticing just because it's embarrassing. Just because.
Tucker [00:27:23] Who's the worst?
Steve Sailer [00:27:25] The convict, the four pounders of the conventional wisdom. The respectable prestige press, academia, the Democratic Party and so forth that they they promoted all of this stuff. They took Black Lives Matter at face value and did very little investigation. Men tend to get shot by the police about 2 to 3 times as often as white men per capita.....
Steve Sailer [00:28:08] That's, that's that's a big difference. Ten times as much as whites get shot by each other, and probably blacks get shot by non police whites. You know, dozens of times less often than the shot by other blacks. You know. Black, young black men in this country have an enormous homicide problem and gun homicide problem. I looked up for young for males age 15 to 34, their death by gun homicide in 2022. And blacks, young black men died about 50, not 15, but 50 times more per capita. By gunfire than young Asian men, 24 times more than young white. Men and six times more than Hispanics. The Hispanics are fairly comparable in poverty rate and education and so forth. And but they don't have anywhere near the kind of, gun problem that. African Americans have developed. But is anybody out there asking young African Americans and telling them, you know, if you guys could not get your homicide rate down to the Hispanic. Way from where it is now, the Hispanic level. This country would be so much better off and race relations would be so much. Better. But, you know, you're not supposed to, crime statistics like that in the newspaper. It's just considered, you know, racist to to mention.
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Tucker/iSteve interview Transcript - 1st 15 minutes
Posted On: Wednesday - July 31st 2024 5:13PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness Trump Pundits Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism The Future The Neocons Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Books Dead/Ex- Presidents Guns
This is one of those gettin'-around-to-it posts. If you're new to Peak Stupidity or you want to check back on the other posts, see Tucker Carlson interviews The Most Reasonable Guy in America - - Tucker/iSteve interview: Who/whom? - - Tucker/iSteve interview: the Kung Flu question and Tucker/iSteve interview: Coming to America.
Here, in the next 6 posts for the sake of the website, we present the "whole" transcript. With those quote marks, I indicate that, though this goes all the way through the nearly 2 hours, a few pieces of discussion are missing. I noted before that one was on an important point, and I just found another which I'll insert myself - the dashes will indicate that part - and yet another as I was listening after that. It was too long for me to fix right now. So, this is NOT the whole transcript, unfortunately*
Also, it is a talk, so with the two of them not sure when to continue, you'll see parts that read weirder (yeah both WEIRD guys, right?) than they'd sound.
Believe me, we read so much faster than we listen**, so this may take only 15 to 30 minutes to read through. I have one funny thing to point out at the end involving the auto-transcription.
From the TuckerCarlson.com site:
Episode Details
Steve Sailer is an opinion journalist whose anthology “Noticing” from Passage Press sums up his three decade career. His new Substack is SteveSailer.net and he posts on X as @Steve_Sailer.
Chapters
The Great Awokening / George Floyd
The fall of the NYT / Anti-white racism in the media
Why do Republicans put up with accusations of racism?
How Steve Sailer Predicted Election Outcomes
Is the country becoming more open and receptive?
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Tucker [00:00:20] So I got to say it. It's a little weird to be sitting across from you in my barn. I was thinking this morning. You were. You're almost like Matt Drudge used to be. You know, everyone read the Drudge Report starting in the 90s. But no one wanted to admit it in the news business, but everybody read it. But Drudge himself was this mysterious figure. Actually, no, I'm sort of. I've never met you. Everybody I know on both sides has read you for years. You're not crazy. You're not a bigot. But somehow you became a sort of mysterious outlaw figure that no one was allowed to meet or talk to. Is it weird to be out in public?
Steve Sailer [00:00:56] Yeah. Actually is I, you know, for ten years, from 2013 into 2023 you basically couldn't go see Steve Sailer give a speech anywhere. You know, I was I was being signed up for conferences. My the last speech I gave in 2013 was analysis of the Obama versus Romney exit polls didn't seem all that controversial to me. But for the next decade, every time I'd be invited to a conference in about six weeks later, I'd get an email going. Well, it turned out media matters went to the hotel. And said that this is just deplorable. And you might find. Also that the local Antifa, the black bloc guys, were thinking about protesting and, you know, how that can turn into violence and so forth. So they canceled their contract. I just kept writing, but suddenly I started to break up maybe last year. And this year I've been doing traveling around the country and meeting people who've been reading me for years or just started reading me.
Tucker [00:02:18] It's just funny, though, because, you know, in a world where there are some wackos and there are people who advocate violence, you would seem to be maybe the last person who would scare people. I mean, you're effectively an informal academic or social scientist. Your a numbers guy.
Steve Sailer [00:02:33] Yeah, I'm kind of like Bill James, the baseball statistics analyst. First, the social sciences in the US. For three years now, I've been raising a stink. What was the impact of Black Lives Matter on black lives? And as far as I can tell, it's got Black Lives Matter. During the two eras of triumph after Ferguson and in 20 1516. And then the big one during the Floyd effect, the racial reckoning of the 2020s. Murdered through homicide we see an incremental homicides versus the baseline, or just splattered on the pavement through increased traffic fatalities.
Tucker [00:03:24] But also all killed by white cops.
Steve Sailer [00:03:26] No. The vast majority of black shooting deaths is at the hands of other blacks. There was a for example, in 2020, there was just an enormous explosion in mass shootings with at least four dead or wounded at black social events. Somewhat some of them are organized crime, very strategic, like in the TV show The Wire. But a lot is just one guy. This is another guy. And people pull out guns and start shooting and, yeah, yeah, very little interest to the Democratic establishment. The need for what I call point of view gun control. The Democrats tend to obsess over the need for point of of sale gun control to keep rednecks out in the country from buying rifles, legally, buying rifles at Walmart. And in truth, what we've seen. This like in the 1990s and the 20 tens in New York City, where people like Giuliani, Bloomberg and Bratton did a great job of bringing down the murder rate. What really works is point of use gun control. You discourage lowlifes from packing their illegal handguns. When they go out because they're more worried about the cops.
Steve Sailer [00:05:46] You know, nobody understands it. So in, in, during the Great Awakening of the last decade, and especially during the, the what was called, we used to be called the racial reckoning before the whole George Floyd thing is pretty much got a memory hold lately. Just huge increases in the black deaths by murder and by car crash.
Tucker [00:06:08] Okay, so can we back up? You said a bunch of things. So, want a follow up? Yeah. But let's just start at the very beginning. You said the George Floyd thing has been effectively memory holed. Yeah. What was the. You know, it's been almost exactly four years since that happened.
Steve Sailer [00:06:22] Yeah.
Tucker [00:06:23] Memorial day 2020. With that, the benefit of, you know, some time to think about it. What was that?
Steve Sailer [00:06:44] Huge increase in the murder rate, especially among blacks. The murder rate was 44%. More blacks were killed, by homicide in 2021 than in 2019, the year before. And 39% more blacks died in car crashes in 2021 than in 2000.
Steve Sailer [00:07:08] Hard crashes? Yeah, it all ties together because. The establishment, as they did after George Floyd's death, said, okay, here's the truth about it. Carrying illegal handguns more. And and the number of shootings, the number of homicides just went through the roof. Murder narrative, you know, going back, blowing away the Saint Valentine's Day massacre by Al Capone and all that was May 31st, 2020, six days after George Floyd's death, when 18 Chicagoans were murdered that day. Why? Pretty much because the cops went down to the Magnificent Mile to keep it from being torched and looted, and the word quickly got around that you can do anything you want in the neighborhood, and nobody's going. On random people out there for, you know, for personal reasons. And then it just went on and on for several more years. Fortunately, last year or so, the murder rate started finally.
Tucker [00:09:34] You don't think there's any and you have the numbers, right? Yeah. Can we see them now? You don't think there's any question that this was related? Yeah. To the Floyd story, to the Floyd events.
Steve Sailer [00:09:49] Let's take a look at the CDC data. Weekly.
Tuker [00:10:00] All right.
Steve Sailer [00:10:01] This is the center for Disease Control, it collects data weekly. All the deaths in the United States. You can ask for any one particular thing. Number of African Americans who died by homicide that week. So it's bouncing around. It has some seasonality. In 2018, 2019 George Floyd dies and suddenly boom, it goes. Peak and then just slowly fades over the next. Four years into 2000.
Tucker [00:10:49] But it's immediate. It's second George Floyd odds. Yeah. People start shooting each other.
Steve Sailer [00:10:54] Yeah. About to probably. Probably the by the Friday after he died on Memorial Day on Monday. It just you know, it was just a giant cultural revolution. And basically people lost fear of the cops because everybody the establishment, media. The politicians were telling the America that we have too much policing, And too much law and order. And so we got a lot more murder, kind of ironic because the name of the movement was Black Lives Matter, and it wound up, getting an enormous number of black lives, murdered. Incremental versus what you see in 2000…..
Tucker [00:11:38] That's not even close calling. I mean, that is absolutely yes.
Steve Sailer [00:11:42] This is one of the biggest findings in the American social sciences, probably since, Angus Deaton and cases finding in 2015 of deaths and despair and how the white working classes life expectancy was dropping in the early 21st century. The other, but also a big part of it. Applies to motor vehicle. Accident deaths. These are homicide deaths as opposed to murders perpetrated. So these these are the races of victims and blacks, Hispanics, whites in blue.
Steve Sailer [00:13:06] You can see you can see nine. You can see.
Steve Sailer [00:13:08] Nine, 11 there. That's what it is. 3000 Americans die by homicide.
Steve Sailer [00:13:13] At the hands of of Al-Qaeda. Okay. And then most.
Steve Sailer [00:13:18] Years you've got. Yeah, you've got more people get murdered in summer than in winter. They're out partying and so forth. But it's pretty consistent.
Steve Sailer [00:13:26] You can see an increase over here. The Ferguson effect after Black Lives Matter emerges in 2014. Which was a pretty decent year. And then all of a sudden. Murders go up dramatically in 20 1516. That helps get Trump elected. You might remember how Black Lives Matter terrorists were assassinating cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge and so forth. Although that's really been memory holed.
Steve Sailer [00:14:02] Anyway. Jeff Sessions came. Kind of told the police departments. No, you know, we are not going to persecute you for for doing your job.
Steve Sailer [00:14:13] Then Trump got rid of sessions, maybe murders started going up a little more. And then comes 2020 and the. And the George Floyd racial reckoning and just enormous increase compared to anything else in the 21st century. Now, one reason we don't hear about this is because these graphs are kind of embarrassing, because the black line of homicide death rate is so much higher than.
Steve Sailer [00:14:42] Then the, the light. Brown Hispanic line there. Hispanics. Actually, in the 21st century, you've done a pretty good job lowering their rate of being Murdered. And finally, though. When the racial reckoning came. Long it got worse again, so we've losing a bunch of that progress. The blue line is the white. It's an order of magnitude below the black line. It's considered really bad taste to notice, you know, differences in the homicide rate.
I'll post next 3 parts within the hour.
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Big Ukraine porch flags (STILL?!) and the Kameleon moniker
Posted On: Wednesday - July 31st 2024 11:25AM MST
In Topics: The Neocons World Political Stupidity Karmakarma Kameleon
Just 2 quick tidbits here, but there’s plenty more to write about.
It's been a long time since Peak Stupidity even so much as mentioned the Ukraine war. That's not long enough! We did talk about any remaining flags flying on porches of Neocon or conformist idiots in the neighborhood in our April 3rd post Oh say, does that blue and yellow banner yet wave...?
There are 2 reasons I show the flag flying above today. First, it's a brand new one. I mean, you gotta have a lot of disposable income if it allows you to keep new Ukraine flags flying on your front porch. Secondly, I note that the Ukraine flag is bigger than the American flag. I don't think the Boy Scouts approve of that, much less the Founding Fathers ... from above, going WTF?!
Next, I want to set the record straight on something that likely doesn't matter to a single reader. It's not the best moniker for the Kamel Toe anyway - I'm open to new suggestions, but the Karmakarma Kameleon (with the new, more correct spelling) term is something I did not get from this American Thinker article. I like that publication, but I've not been reading it regularly.
I came across a link to the title of the article with this same name for Kamala. It turns out to be from the same date as our post. Without a time to go with the date, it's hard to tell who posted it first. I doubt The American Thinker got it from me, and I didn't get it from them... but, who cares? It's just for the record. I had figured I'd never have to mention this weird ditz again... maybe after November that'll be the case again...
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Ain't but one way out, baby ...
Posted On: Tuesday - July 30th 2024 4:21PM MST
In Topics: Music Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Southern rock
I told them so. If the tweeter's name were Sherlock, I might considering joining up today, just to be able to say.. well, you know the thing...
Maybe not, so, No shit, Sherlock!
Peak Stupidity saw this coming well before the start of this blog. If you want some proof, though, look at the series we posted 7 1/2 years ago, Primer on the state of Global Financial Stupidity: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 - - Part 5 - - Part 6 - - Part 7 and Part 8.
Then too, it doesn't take an accountant to do the quick arithmetic. Here we've been, perusing the pie charts near the back of the IRS 1040 instruction book yearly and predicting doom. It's the only fun part of doing taxes.
Speaking of the arithmetic, Mr. Silver there says 5% interest rates, but by "around" he must mean slightly lower average interest payments than that. 5% of this:
... comes to a little more, $1.75 Trillion yearly. Either way, now note that "30% of revenue collected". Yeah, well, as we can see above, the deficit, (I take it, for the fiscal year) is already at $2 Trillion. Before the Kung Flu spending spree, I remember it being closer to $1 Trillion yearly.
So, assuming the Feral Gov't wouldn't have found something very important to spend the money on (a BIG assumption indeed), the deficit would be 1/4 or 1/8 as big, if it weren't for the interest payments on that borrowed $35,000,000,000,000.. Then, because these $2 Trillion yearly deficits are increasing that debt ~5% yearly, interest payments go up that 5% even with rates constant.
This is what I and other fiscally responsible been saying for years. You don't get yourself in a bind like this. There's no way out... OK, there's one way out, letting hyperinflation bring all debts down to mere peanuts. People are not gonna like that, and it does not at all encourage fiscal responsibility.
Now, for some Allman Brothers, with One Way Out. This live version of an early '60s blues number - recorded in '71 at the Fillmore East in lower Manhattan, NY - comes from a great album from 1972 called Eat a Peach.
Lord, that may be your banker, I don't know ...
That's Gregg Allman singing, Dicky Betts on lead guitar, Duane Allman on bottlneck slide guitar, Berry Oakley on bass, and Jai Johanson and/or Butch Trucks on drums.
Oh, I just read that Dickey Betts passed away this April. That's another thing I told people "so" about: There will be R.I.P.s written about famous entertainers nearly every day - that baby boom thing.
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Weird is the word,...
Posted On: Tuesday - July 30th 2024 9:38AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Media Stupidity Karmakarma Kameleon
... is the word that you heard. It's got groove, it's got meaning ... *
This post and this one are associated with the new D-squad Presidential candidate, but they are more about media stupidity, lying, and collusion.
You've probably seen a few videos like the one here, in which the Lyin' Press is shown to suddenly harp on a certain term/phrase and beat it to death, as if following a playbook. There was that Journolist scandal before**. We don't know if that's still going on, or they synch up their phraseology another way, or whether one of these hacks comes up with "a good one", and the rest copy it within hours.
I duckduckwent something like the phrase "lyin press calling Trump and vance weird" after seeing this video. That's where the 2-day old NY Times blurb above came from. In case you can't read it:
2 days agoDemocrats Embrace 'Weird' Messaging on Trump. As the Harris campaign pulls in donations at an impressive clip, Democrats are adopting a line of attack pioneered by Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota ...I hardly ever purposely click on the NY Times, and I won't today. That's enough here though. It's a "new line of attack", using a new insulting word. (Hey, I personally think "Jackass" is highly underutilized by the punditry, so... next go-around...) Also, this one was "pioneered", pioneered I tells ya', by this up-and-coming possible VP choice Tim Walz.*** This article is from 2 days back. Is the deal that the rest of the Lyin' Press gets their talking points off these NY Times directives?
That's all it takes, apparently to turn around an election. You come up with just the right word, usually one that applies to yourself, as it's easier to think of. They you get the Lyin' Press branch of The Regime to pound that one in for a week, maybe a month. Hey, that's gonna be the story now - Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are just plain weird. Everyone says so, I mean, within the last 24 hours they have.
I suppose that random cackling laugh out of KarmaKarma is not weird at all, no... In fact, the talking points include that "it's weird that Donald Trump never laughs". Yes, and Kamala does, so that settles it.
Finally, at 0:16 in on the specific video above, the guy (I have no idea who he is!) adds "creepy" to the mix. "Weird and creepy". See, now that's how you get a lot of the single women's vote. Anyone who's in the least bit "creepy", meaning, you don't have the hots for the guy and he did something that was unexpected and not pleasing to you, is ostracized from the women's circles. The way things work now, any man called creepy is asking for trouble just sticking around. That's our world.
I don't want to help the enemy here, but I think if the Lyip' Press Branch can make "creepy" stick, they will pull off a significant percentage of single women voters.
OK, enough of this. Time for a break from the stupidity. I reckon I'll have me a cold one of these:
PS: This video is not the one I originally saw in a tweet on Instapundit. It's got the same people though, plus those The Office, The Simpsons, South Park, and one unknown-to-me clips for fun.
* This one goes way back. I won't embed it because it's not really a good song.
** Wow! I would have guessed that was 7 or 8 years ago, but it was 16 - 17, I just learned.
*** I read a bit on Tim Walz. He started out as a decent guy but has turned sour within the last decade and a half. I'd rather see Buttedge become the candidate, just for the fun, and, yeah, accelerationism.
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Karmakarma Kamelion
Posted On: Monday - July 29th 2024 7:09PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Music Humor Karmakarma Kameleon
That's our 1st new Topic Key in a long time. We are loath to add any, as then there is backfilling... Note that we won't continue with "Kamel Toe", as we don't want to sound like Andrew Anglin here. Ridicule is good, mind you, and almost all we've got, but it's Karmakarma Kamelion* (for now).
Peak Stupidity gives our sincerest apologies for not referencing and linking to E.H. Hail's newest post on his Hail to You blog (more like a collection of interesting essays) We should have done that in Friday's post Kamel Toe as the Border Czar - Lyin Press fact-checks itself.
That post was just about the Lyin' Press and their complete lack of shame, as they attempted to memory-hole stories they themselves broadcast 2 years back. Mr. Hail gets into some detail on how this broad came to be in the forefront - his title is The Democratic Party as ‘apparatus’ and as Regime-party; a reflection on how power works in the USA, one day after the anti-Biden palace-coup succeeds There is a lot discussed within, but the biggest point for me was the "coup" thing. Yes, this transition, if I may (still use that normally) from a laughingstock for both squads has become the selected, serious and appropriate candidate for President to run against Trump within 24 - 36 hours.**
Now, Peak Stupidity is well behind the times, and we're still attached to that old laughingstock thing, you know, the thing... wrong guy... cackle, cackle ... I can neither do this on the keyboard nor real life.
This is kind of what we mean:
If the words weren't up there, one could be forgiven for thinking that was really her. That word salad business is the worst of her. It's a different condition than what her boss Joe has, requiring another Peak Stupidity Jiffy-Lube psychoanalysis: Kamaakamala is used to talking to friends and male
Though D.I.E. and sex are pretty powerful, KK may have never expected to get this far up in public life. Any kind of serious talk in response to questions or speeches of any kind has her spouting nonsense in circles. The best she can do is go on autopilot with some adjectives. The idea, best I can figure, is to give herself time to try to pull something concrete to say out of her addled brain. There's never enough time though.
In fairness, Trump goes around in circles too. It's not the same. Rather than NO cogent points, he covers TOO MANY points. Instead of word salad, Trump spews out word Golden Corral Buffet. (They do have a salad bar, though. I don't think he partakes...)
OK, now it's music time. Miss Kameleon said something that makes me wonder if she picks up phrases off of old Led Zeppelin songs. "Burdening the People By What Could Have Been and What Will Never Be!" is part of the caption on Rumble. Did she say something like that? Has she learned the art of plagiarism from her boss? (See Courting the "Goldfish" vote.)
From Led Zeppelin II recorded before Kamakamala's time, we present What Is and What Should Never Be:
There's that use of the phase shifter again, in the slow parts. Pretty cool - sounds like Jimmy Page is coming through on shortwave radio.
We've really got a big backlog here, but I wasn't up to it today. Enjoy the humor and the music anyway.
* This comes from the Boy George song. He's the band or the guy, I never cared that much, but it is a really catchy tune from the days when even the silliest of pop music was very decent. Of course, we'll embed the song, but later, along with another Chameleon song. (Only one commenter I know will guess without the www.)
** Per Mr. Hail in a comment of his under said essay.
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Long May You Run
Posted On: Saturday - July 27th 2024 7:33PM MST
In Topics: Music Cars
The day after I bought this car, I was driving it around with the radio blasting, as one did back then, and I heard Neil Young's Long May You Run play. This is a great omen, I figured.
The song was an ode to this musician's old '48 Buick Roadmaster hearse that he'd use to transport himself and his gear way back when, and it died as per the song lyrics.
That all was well before my car was made. However, I can say that it was built when Neil Young still had plenty of long hair, if that helps ya'. I can't get the date from it, but this live version of this 1976-recorded song (on an album with Steven Stills) is probably from around the manufacturing year. Neil did a good job in that live video, but i'm featuring the studio version for the electric guitar solo and the backing vocals about "Caroline, No."
That's 166,666.7 miles, as the odometer has "turned over", as they would say back when one didn't expect much more than 5 digits out of the car*.
Yes, hearing Long May You Run was indeed a good omen. This car has had its share of trauma when a girl ran a stop light while on her phone one night. (Saw it coming, but too late to stop short of the intersection.) The insurance company figured "no more may she run", but we didn't agree, so we went to court.
Later she was laid up for medium-level repairs for 6 years - 3 were on me, and 3 on the mechanic - but that's over with. She HAS run for long because "we" never missed any shifts on any long declines (Canadian for "down hill").
Long may you run.
Long may you run,
although these changes
have come.
With your chrome heart shinin'
in the sun,
long may you run.
I caught that odometer reading a year or more ago. The mileage may be well over this value, as the speedometer/odometer had been reading low for a number of years. A State trooper suggested this to me by the side of the road a few decades back, when I'd argued that "I was only doing 62!" when he said his radar showed 67 mph. I was pissed. I knew I was right. Of course, the speed limit was 55 on this 2-lane road, so... well, I wouldn't make a good lawyer. The cop told me to clock it when I got on the interstate. Whaddya' know? He was right.
I did get angry for a moment during our chat sitting on the hood of my car next to a plowed field off the road there, mainly due to my circumstances with my license. Were I to have gotten a ticket, that may have just had me turning around and going home, being only 1/4 of the way to my destination. So, here I was, getting loud to this black cop, with my rebel flag on the front there (wasn't really a deal then), and, well, no, see... most people are still decent. He gave me one of those warnings on blue paper in addition to the advice about my speedometer. Yeah, sitting on the hood, with no big drama... it was '94, '98, '02, I'm not sayin', but it was a different time, you understand ...
* Left of the decimal, that is.
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Kamel Toe as the Border Czar - Lyin Press fact-checks itself
Posted On: Friday - July 26th 2024 6:17PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Media Stupidity Karmakarma Kameleon
Peak Stupidity readers will know that your lead blogger is no watcher of the idiot plate. I've read VDare religiously till now, and so I remember the appellation "Border Czar", or "Border Tsar" if you're gonna follow through with the Russian, as applied to the Vice-(r)President a couple of years back. I can also remember the part about her possibly never even having gone down there at all but having said everything was A-OK with the border.
Trump and the GOP have pointed out the "failure" (actually, quite the success) of Kamel Toe's job of (not) stopping the invasion, seeing as that was her appointed task, per Dark Brandon. The Lyin' Press is having none of that. Oh, no, you all are making this "Border Czar" shit up. Nobody said... well, see, there's the internet now. Maybe youtube would LIKE to delete any and all news that should have been down the memory hole per the present narrative, but they haven't yet.* Somebody screwed the pooch:
Will these Talking Regime Heads be embarrassed by that, or do they not care what we think about them anymore? (Yes, the woman with the purple blouse at 0:58 in does care what we think about her ... cleavage, but this was the "before" story.)
If you recall, having "Czars", vague positions in which various Exec. Branch admins take charge of certain issues with no actual power, was a late-90s to early-'10s thing. That's what I recall anyway, and I asked in May of '18 Where have all the Czars gone?
I don't know where the American line of Czars built up to, but probably by Peak Czarism, we had been blessed with a Housing Czar, a Food Czar, a Sewage Czar, a Feminine Products Czar, a Carbon Czar, a Vodka Czar (naturally!), and even a Russia Czar.Well, it's been a long time passing... when will the Lyin' Press ever learn... when will they ... the Czars have gone to graveyards everywhere... that border Czar likely having been shot by Communists at the Rio Grande and his whole family along with him.
PS: I saw a different video with Dark Brandon giving Kamel Toe this position at a meeting at a big conference table. Everyone was still wearing the thick black face masks. That could easily explain the communication breakdown here. "The Rio Grande?!" "Call me the Border Czar? I thought he said 'All aboard for Myanmar'."
* If so, I really would hope they'd make an exception for old, classic Billy Joel songs... and The Dead, but then that goes without saying, don't it?
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Vienna no longer waits for you
Posted On: Thursday - July 25th 2024 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music History The Future World Political Stupidity
I've just seen an interesting but depressing video and read a little history from a guy named Raymond Ibrahim in an article titled Islam in Vienna: The Fate of Those Who Reject History.
I've been to Vienna, Austria just the one time, on a long-ago trip around Europe with an external-frame backpack, a rail pass, a youth hostel pass, and maybe 400 bucks cash total for the 2 months there. Because the dollar was down at that time and I wasn't a Communist anyway, I didn't spend my time in Vienna at the coffee shops reminiscing about Che Guevara. Instead, I rode the trolleys, walked around, saw a few sites and then became sick for 2 days, sleeping in a youth hostel that was in some tall bell tower. There wasn't a Moslem in sight.
Vienna can be considered the entryway to eastern Europe, depending on which way you come. Austria was a place a Westerner could easily visit during the Cold War, but it was the end of the line.
Going back a few years before this trip of mine, in the Year of Our Lord 628*, very early on since he'd cranked up the cult known as Islam, the madman Muhammad, per the link above, "sent an ultimatum to Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius: aslam taslam, 'submit [to Islam] and have peace.' Heraclius rejected the summons, jihad was declared against Christendom (as enshrined in Koran 9:29), and in a few decades, two-thirds of the then-Christian world — including Spain, all of North Africa, Egypt, and Greater Syria — were conquered."
Spain, and for a much shorter time, Portugal, were under Moslem occupation until the slow reconquista, culminating finally with the Moslems being pushed off the Iberian peninsula in 1492. (It was a very good year...) Eastern Europe, however, had to deal with these fanatics too.
450 years ago, the Ottomans came into Poland led by Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa. He had Christian prisoners skinned alive. Within 9 years, the Muslemen, as they were called, had reached the walls of Vienna, and they laid siege to the city for 2 months. Just at the time the Viennese were ready to give up, help came in the form of Polish King John Sobieski, with his 65,000 horseman and then the biggest cavalry charge there ever was.
Although a spectacular victory, the aftermath was gory: before fleeing, the Muslims ritually slaughtered some 30,000 Christian captives collected during their march to Vienna — raping the women beforehand. On entering the relieved city, the liberators encountered piles of corpses, sewage, and rubble everywhere.So, the Viennese people ought to know something about the threat of Islam. Going forward a few decades from my trip, like the rest of Europe now, the people, or at least the people who run things seem to have forgotten. (Or, just as likely, the people that ruin things are evil and want to destroy the Christian nations.) It's a damn mess now, considering that there have been no battles at the city walls - the Viennese have just let them all in.
This video discusses the demographic situation in 2024 Vienna:
Nobody's been skinned alive yet. More people have been murdered, more women have been raped, but more importantly if you weren't one of them already, the Christian Culture is being obliterated. What about those 65,000 Polish horseman? What would they think about 441 year-later Vienna, in the age of modern Western military weapons, cheap chain-link fence and barbed wire, cheap cameras, drones, and computers? What was it all for, a lot of men long gone to the grave may be asking.
Well before my trip, about the cultural/musical center of Europe - and don't forget the Kaffeehauses! - the Piano Man Billy Joel wrote a song called Vienna Waits for You.
This is a beautiful melody with a nice sound, prototypical early Billy Joel. The lyrics, uhhh, I'm gonna go with the take of a youtube commenter here. The gist of it is that the woman Billy Joel speaks to should remember to slow her life down, and don't fret about missing out. When she gets old, there will always be the wonderful cultural life awaiting her in the old Christian city of Vienna, waiting for her... I know, but Billy Joel wrote the song 47 years ago. How was he supposed to know?!
The too-frantic, ambitious juvenile of this song would be in her 70's now. I don't think she ought to go to Vienna after all.
Vienna (Waits for You) was an obscure "album cut" until he played it a lot in concert - and then, from what I read, Spotify came along. This was on the album called The Stranger, which had 4, yes FOUR, great hit songs, recorded this time of year in the Summer of '77 (2 years after Brenda and Eddie had had it already.)
* Anybody calls it CE, and I kill ya'. [/Francis Sawyer] OK, I'll correct your history books with an ink pen.
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SteveSailer.net - bailing out to substack
Posted On: Thursday - July 25th 2024 11:46AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits
(Continued from this post.)
There has been a long-term business/political relationship between the "most reasonable guy in America" Steve Sailer and the soon-to-be lost VDare.com website. VDare published Mr. Sailer's writings and supported him (at least) since the latter got fired from The Natural Review.*
I don't write this post today because of this relationship, though. It's one of these deals in which I REALLY DON'T want to drop promised post continuations for months**, as much as it might seem like it to the Peak Stupidity reader. So, anyway, more on the future punditry of Steve Sailer continues here, with more on VDare soon.
Steve Sailer has got his new substack site, as we noteed couple of weeks back. We provided a quick review of the place.
I can see that Mr.Sailer has concentrated on his new site, which said he had 3,000 subscribers (only precise to the nearest thousand)*** recently. Were he to get 1/2 that many paying - and pay you WILL, soon, if you want to read much - that'd be over $12 1/2 thousand coming in monthly before whatever cut substack takes and the IRS, California, LA... Even so, that's a very reasonable living.
I don't know what VDare paid writers. I know it couldn't have been THAT much just from crunching some numbers. I also have no idea what kind of arrangement Ron Unz had with Mr. Sailer for hosting his (same) posts on The Unz Review and supporting him with the web's best commenting system and the best commenters around.
How was Mr. Sailer's relationship with proprietor Ron Unz? Well, Mr. Unz is a strange bird. I greatly respect his support for free speech. Lots of it on the UR is not only outside the Overton Window, it's outside the whole Overton living room, and not even within the Overton's property lines! Good on 'em for that. Also, I've not run into a guy with a business like this before who hosts writers he not only doesn't agree with but argues with and calls nasty names in the comments section under their articles! It's pretty hilarious.
I don't recall that behavior within the "iSteve blog", but Mr. Unz has recently commented that this blog has gone down in (at least) relative views, compared to, say, Andrew Anglin (enough said about him here - Andrew Anglin and Anti-Social Media. That's too bad. At this point, not all of the SteveSailer.net posts appear on TUR, nor did they all on VDare before yesterday.**** So, he is migrating his work over to substack, as he clearly states on his "Subscribe" page.
I took a look, and I see that Mr. Sailer's UR posts now are really just phoning it in. RNC Speechs (Whaddya' think?), Dog Cologne (Whaaa? Still will be interesting...), Biden Drops Out ("What do you think the impact will be?"), Vp? (32 words), etc... Without the great commenters, he may as well have already left The Unz Review. Perhaps, as with those old rock stars, he's got a contract to fulfill.
Let me write something about the content on the new site. With his writings on the Deep State, or lack thereof, and new disdain (with some truth behind it) of the "low-brow" MAGA people, I see that he's trying to go more mainstream. Now, that doesn't mean I don't think this pundit is doing anything but laying out the truth as he sees it, as always. I just agree a little less. On the racial business - the big 'un - Mr. Sailer is a stalwart truth-teller still. There's no backing out of that stance, and he would not back out even if they'd let him. It is what it is. (However, where I differ is with Mr. Sailer's idea of solutions to our problems - that's another post ...)
Steve Sailer has apparently done better than expected with his book. (It's not his first book, actually, as he'd written one about Øb☭ma back in '12 -it's a real shame more people didn't read that one.) He's been interviewed by Tucker and been on all sorts of podcasts and whatever. His writing eggs will be all in one basket soon, unless somehow the wokeness lightens way, way up. I don't think it will until we "get to the other side".
I have reasons not to get sucked into another blog, but I hope Steve Sailer will get the support on his new site that he deserves. He's surely been a force for good.
* Being fired from NR seems to have been an important qualification for getting hired by VDare - 3 of the writers that I know of there have this important qualification.
VDare HR Dept: "From our background check, it sounds like you got fired from National Review. Tell me more about that." "No, that's wrong. I quit on my own to spend more time with my family. I am on good terms with the National Review staff." "Ohhhh, well, OK, listen, thanks for coming in... we'll... don't call us, we'll call you ...."
** That's the case with that series on the Depopulocalypse business, Part 4 being the most recent - 4 months ago - and with nothing but the intro. to Globalists in political peril: Europe v America.
*** That number was on the home page, but I don't see it now.
**** Mr. Sailer's latest TakiMag post, i.e., an intro. excerpt linking to the article,was the 2nd-to-last VDare post. However, that article was honestly not a very good one at all.
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The Demise of VDare
Posted On: Wednesday - July 24th 2024 2:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits
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I really didn't think I'd see the day. I've been reading the VDare site for at least 20 years. My recollection is that my Dad, who first clued me into this existential issue then - of course, at first I argued "we got plenty of land here, so whaddya'...?" - told me the best course would be to just talk about the numbers and the economics. Do any readers here remember the Numbers USA's* Roy Beck's famous gumballs video? That was confined to arguing against the ridiculous immigration by the numbers.
The racial, ethnic, and cultural aspects of the invasion were something my Dad understood were important but figured might not be good to emphasize, just as a political strategy. However, I came upon VDare, probably just via a search. They DO get into all that. It quickly became my daily go-to website for all the accurate news on EVERY ASPECT of immigration to the US.
From my reading of her book ¡Adios, America!***, it was obvious to me that Ann Coulter had gotten many facts and ideas from VDare.** Donald Trump, though said not to do a whole lot of reading, may have read Miss Coulter's book, leading to his famous announcement in the Summer of '15. Peak Stupidity was pleasantly surprised learning that rather than just hopefully a tenuous influence, Miss Coulter had been to the White House to meet with President Trump multiple times. We know what they talked about - she told us.
Therefore, we can say that Peter Brimelow and his staff of great writers have had a great influence in bringing the invasion problem to the forefront of politics.**** Love him, hate him, or just get really sick of his big mouth, it sure helped that Trump came along.
Peter Brimelow wrote his book Alien Nation*** about this problem a decade before Ann Coulter's book. He was a fairly well-known financial analyst/pundit type. If he'd just left his ideas and "kept his day job", he'd have done well for his himself and his family. Instead he worked to try to save America with the resulting loss of his Establishment status and his day-job writing and punditry work. Less than 5 years into the common use of the internet, VDare.com appeared on the servers, and then the VDare foundation was created, incorporated in New York. (Hey, it was done for free, and who knew?!)
The Establishment has hated VDare for a long time. Their efforts over many years were concentrated along the lines of the conference cancellations and some occasional shut downs of payment systems and such. The 1st of these was defeated by Lydia Brimelow's brilliant idea of buying the castle. The 2nd was an annoyance for which work-arounds were implemented. VDare soldiered on.
The Establishment formed a new front in their war against VDare a couple of years back. The nasty Black! Attorney General of New York State Leticia James has been running a lawfare campaign, using unlimited NY State taxpayers' money, while VDare has tried to fight back with donors' money. Why the good VDare folks kept all legal-eagle in this fight is something we've discussed in the comments and a subject for another post.
Per Mr. Brimelow in that 8 minute video, the next couple of days will really bring the end of the site and the foundation. (The castle will remain for conferences, a small, but not negligible consolation - see some of you there?)
I'm not taking this well. I'll have more to write, but I'll also paste in Commenter E.H. Hail's obituary. This post was kind of one, but his is written more like the part of an obituary that discusses the cause of death.
* The site is still around.
** Miss Coulter has been one of the few syndicated columnists published there too, but that's got nothing to do with this. After all, successful weekly columnists, say Ron Paul for example, may be published on thousands of web-sites under an agreement, but Dr. Paul probably has never read The Unz Review. Readers there should not expect him to ever throw in a comment.
*** The full titles are ¡Adios, America!: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole and Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, respectively.
**** Let's not forget his 2nd wife Lydia, who ran the business end of things for the last decade or so.
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Not your Grandfather's Secret Service
Posted On: Tuesday - July 23rd 2024 4:46PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism US Feral Government Female Stupidity
Yes, the wonderful D.I.E. initiative within the US Secret Service resulted in more women getting to do what only privileged White men got to do before. Being a head shorter than your protectee and much weaker than a man, well, it'd be sexism to claim that someone like that couldn't do just as good a job. You would and SHOULD get fired from this outfit for saying something like that.
Hence, Presidential candidate Donald Trump came an inch and a split second from being assassinated. On his new blog, Steve Sailer has an article showing a blatant lie about the qualification for protection agents at the Secret Service, he being a voracious NY Times reader and all. He's got the numbers: push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and 1 1/2 mile run times. See, that's good. I wouldn't have ever known the NY Times was lying, not due to my not being able to find the different fitness standards. I would just never go reading the NY Times is all.
I tend to agree with a friend that this discussion of the extremely incompetent Secret Service can be used as a distraction by those who want to bury the story of what subterfuge did go on that day, even if it was merely at the level of letting it all happen on purpose.* Is the incompetence story the only one the Lyin' Press will touch? At least it's putting the idea out there that diversity can really suck, if you get serious about it.
D.I.E.-hire herself Kim Cheatle has has resigned.** She'd had a plan to hire enough women to comprise 30% of the SS workforce by '30.
Mr. Sailer and others are missing something. As an opponent of AA and now its steroid-enhanced successor called Wokeness since understanding what the deal was as a teenager, believe me I'm against ANY these quotas. They will screw over the White Man as always. However, if that was going to happen, the Secret Service could have gotten to that 30% female goal without compromising the safety of Donald Trump.
That the Secret Service used to be part of the Treasury Dept. may help one understand why they have an anti-counterfeiting function too. The Tom Hanks character in the movie Catch Me If You Can*** is with the FBI. It could have been the Secret Service instead, as they are in this field, as I was surprised to found out by an SS guy I talked to a long time ago.
So, let the big strong guys do the protection. You can screw over White men as much as you like elsewhere. Looking at the site, as seen above, I wonder about who does what there. I really hope the intensely interested White and Oriental guys are getting to do the work shown in the drop down menu. Those diverse employees on the home page can do HR, D.I.E. initiatives, and, dare I say, be receptionists and such.
* We'll have more discussion on this.
** Sure enough, that quickly-chosen Fox News article has that "How could this happen? Failures!" take on the matter. They don't mean the failure of Thomas Crooks, but of the Secret Service. There is no mention of other possibilities besides incompetence.
*** That's a really fun movie - seen it twice.
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Dementia Joe and the Kamel Toe
Posted On: Monday - July 22nd 2024 9:22AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Zhou Bai Dien Karmakarma Kameleon
Man, that would have been a great name for a band, and it's got a "Tippacanoe ..." ring to it too. Peak Stupidity could have used it to refer to the Executive branch for the last 4 years. I suppose that dementia had not really set in hard in '21 though. Maybe it's been only 1 or 2 years, but how would the Lyin' Press know to tell us? We'd had to have found this out on our own, by, like, watching the guy talk and all...
That's it, he's out. Poor, Dr. Jill! She may have to become a Senator somewhere and go from there. Well, I thought they'd keep the guy hanging on there through the November selection. The Deep State would have found this simply easier, as they already know the routine with Dementia Joe. A new candidate will require a little action to break in.
This is bad news for the GOP too. Especially after the additional support Trump has gotten after the assassination attempt on him, Americans would find it even harder to believe that a hateful, vile, traitor who can barely walk and communicate would somehow yet again break a record and get MOAR votes. Someone new creates plausible deniability.
Yes, he's got this amazing support from the massive BLT-G community ... and the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads. They all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.That might just work for a Gavin Newsome. However, there's no way in hell people are going to believe admirers are going around scratching "Save Kamela" on the bathroom stalls... or tenement halls... (A little 3-way confusion is cropping up here, what with the movie-song Sounds of Ferris' Subdivision in my head.)
This lady got 95 million votes?! Come off of it!:
But, but, where's our plausible deniability?
Yet, she's sort of Black! (though maybe only 1/4) and gotta be a woman, I'm sure, or Willie Brown would have already called angrily demanding his money back. The Blue-squad is walking on a thin line*, angry all the time, with a tough call to make. They could piss off 1 or 2 of their biggest fringes or run someone that nobody would believe could actually fairly win this election AND will be made fun of incessantly for the next 4 years. Does the Deep State get embarrassed by these people, ever?
Or, they could recruit Big Mike who, physiological box-or-no-box notwithstanding, checks various important HR boxes. They could promise her that the Lyin' Press will never, ever, show her big ass, for starters.
Finally, I note that Steve Sailer, in his very short request-for-comment post on the matter, wrote:
I expect a wave of sympathy for the old man, although not necessarily in my comments.Well, hell no, you shouldn't. You can be as nice as you want, but I don't know how one can live with himself this way.** Yeah, dementia is a sad thing for all concerned.
Dark Brandon, however, has purposely let 12 to 15 million strange foreigners from all over the world, hard core criminals among them, enter this country. He has been anti-White since at least '08. He's a plagiarizer and a liar, the former since at least 1988, and the former probably his whole adult life. He's caused incalculable damage to America in 3 1/2 short years, much of it likely irreversible.
No, don't expect sympathy for Dementia Joe from me. GTFO, Joe!
* ... That's all the Huey Lewis (and the News) we've got for you today.
** He makes up for that here. That was 4 y/o stuff, but it's still hilarious!
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State electoral power changes over one century: '24 to '24 - The Maps
Posted On: Saturday - July 20th 2024 10:54AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 History US Feral Government Geography
Let's look at the maps, finally! I'll comment some, and I hope we have lots of good comparisons and contrasts in the comments. 1924 v 2020 here is mostly good enough, but go to the gray map in Intro. just below for the exact century-apart differences. I'm gonna go backwards in time, from the familiar to the unfamiliar... the strange old country called Calvin Coolidge era America.
There have been some major changes to the State power structure. I may miss a few, so if I don't see anything specific in the comments already, I'll add to this post. Then too, right now, I'm just thinking of the changes in power, but not as much the changes in the political leanings. Are these good elections to enable us to see the latter? Does Trump v Dark Brandon in '20 as compared to Coolidge v John Davis (with 3rd Party candidate Robert LaFollette getting a significant share, 16.6%, of the popular vote*) make a good comparison of that sort? I won't answer that now - I'll leave it as an exercise for E.H. Hail on his or this blog, perhaps. If you haven't already, you may want to read our post, granted, taken mostly from Wiki, about the politics of the Presidential election of (that other) '24.
Let's just discuss the weight of the votes across the continent. This is fun stuff - Peak Stupidity LUVS them some maps! There are a few very big things to note first.
Look at that New York and other pre-Rust Belt mighty industrial State in the lower northeast. Forget Michigan even, and we see that 3 States, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio alone accounted for 107, or 20%, of the total EVs! Today, those 3 States account for only 64, or just under 12% of the EVs. This formerly major regional power had decreased in representation by 41%.
The industrial might of the big cities in the prairie (as opposed to plains) States, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri** made for 85, 16%, of the EVs in 1924. Today, with that industrial having gone over to such "States" of GuangDong, Jiangsu, and Hubei, this area accounts for 55, 10% of the EVs. This region's representation has decreased by 36%.
Then there's California. Though the ideas had been proposed a few years earlier, the big water projects weren't started in earnest until a decade after 1924. I don't know if anyone had yearned to come to the near-Paradise in and of California yet. The State did just lose one - they've always got more legal immigrants and illegal aliens, but the good Conservative, mostly White folks are having enough and leaving - but their 54, right at 10% is still the tops for a single State. In 1924, California accounted for 13, a measly 2 1/2% of the EVs. California's representation has increased by a factor of 4.
How about the Deep Solid South? I'll make it really easy here and take that region as the blue States in the 1924 map. Why were they solid D-voting even still in 1924? Old habits die hard, I guess. In 1924 those 12 States provided 136, just over 25%, of the EVs. As of 2024, Texas has exactly twice as many EVs. Texans used to be citizens of their own country. Not many might consider their State part of The South. Florida south of Interstate 4 and the shoreline west of Panama City is not really the South either now. Based on its EVs allotted, Florida has grown the most proportionally of ANY State during the past century. (I'll have to check that for sure.) Still, we got what we go - can't go splitting off counties for this EV analysis, of course, so taken as a region called The South, these 12 States now provide 171, just under 32% of the EVs, That's a 28% increase in representation for The South, The South as depicted in 1924 anyway.
(Is Virginia even in The South anymore? I won't do numbers by county, but I'd guess that 90% of the land still is, but only 50% of the people are... sucks to be part of the FS metro area.)
I have to quit this for now. More to come on this end, and hopefully from the readers too.
* This may seem to not matter so much, since he only won his home State of Wisconsin. However, that's not the case, when you think about the voting results within States. I'd guess that Mr. Follette took votes that would otherwise have gone to Mr. Davis. I don't know - I wasn't there.
I was around in 1992, when Ross Perot got a greater percentage, 18.9%, of the popular vote (but no EVs). I would bet money that most of his votes came from erstwhile Bush, Senor, voters. I'd have been one of them, BTW, had I not voted L based on Ross's wishy-washedness that summer - I realize now that Mr. Perot was likely under pressure by the Deep State. I shoulda' supported him more... yeah, like I alone could have changed history, ha!
** One could rightly include Michigan and Indiana too.
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State electoral power changes over one century: '24 to '24 - Intro.
Posted On: Saturday - July 20th 2024 9:47AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 History US Feral Government Geography
Why not something non-political (in a way) and numbers-oriented today for a change? Peak Stupidity's post A more intelligent and civil '24 Presidential election of 2 weeks back discussed how different the high-level American politicians were a century ago. Mostly, we referred to intelligence. (Note our site name.) Aside from the people, the electoral vote results map in that post is very interesting too.
(Pay no attention to the yellow circle around Ohio. These may be some sort of chem-urine-trails, I dunno...)
We discussed some of the numbers in the comments thereunder. A comparison of maps will show the great differences in the Electoral power of the various States from the 20th century's year '24 to the 21st's.
I wish "power" of the States meant a lot more than this 4 year periodic voting, probably for someone who doesn't have the real power anyway and the number of Congresscritters. Had the people defended Federalism since Roosevelt's time and through its almost total demise by 2 decades ago, we might talk about Texas' power to lock up its southern border, or, say, Tennessee's power to legislate that Affirmative Action is illegal in the State. The best efforts I've seen have been by Ron DeSantis in Florida, and, good-or-bad, the varying decisions made by Governors (ex: DeSantis vs. Strechin' Gretchin of Michigan) during that Kung Flu PanicFest.
Digression over with, we'll look at 3 maps here, so let me explain why 3. Without the (ass-backwards) red/blue schemes, which we obviously don't have for 2024* yet, the numbers are there, the political aspect of the State EV changes can't be seen. Therefore, I ask the reader to refer to the all-gray map in the 3rd segment of our previous post for the '24 EV numbers. There have been changes in 13 States from the '20 map we show here due to the '20 census, all of them small. due to population changes.** From (spit)
Down by 1 (west to east): California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, W. Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Up by 1 (west to east): Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Florida, and N. Carolina.
Up by 2: Texas.
Even Steven for the total.
Finally, there is a slight difference between, not these 4 years, but between 1924 and today, in the total EVs. The difference, 531 (a century ago) to 538 (now), is due to the addition of Alaska (3 EVs) and Hawaii (4 EVs). What about the 3 votes stupidity allotted by yet another of the bad-idea Constitutional Amendments**** ratified after the Bill of Rights? That'd be Amendment XIII, ratified in 1961. I haven't figured out where these 3 votes came out of yet.
BTW,
That was a hell of an intro. I was about to put in the maps, but let me cut this post off and put the red/blue maps in the next one with my comments about the huge differences. Stand by for that.
PS: Electoral votes allocated to the States are determined by the number of US Congressional districts + 2 (for Senators).
* Don't forget that here's a lot of day- and week- after color changing, red-to-blue, done due, to
** Note that "population" from the Census doesn't mean just citizens. Illegal aliens are not exactly living in the shadows***, so one can see that counts with large shares of them give power to States, even aside from the corrupt practice of allowing them the franchise, legally or not.
*** See also "Boston Woman" back in the shadows
**** 5, 29% of the damn things expanded the voting franchise. Not cool, Kyle!!
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The Battle Box, Trump's altered-Ego(?), and J.D. Vance as a Son of Ohio
Posted On: Friday - July 19th 2024 1:56PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Zhou Bai Dien
We'll put 3 separate small points into this one post that all pertain to this '24 election.
First, what exactly is wrong with this guy?
This time, the question is not asked rhetorically. I was trying to imagine Bai Dien's brain as he made this goof twice. Perhaps he's had the word "battle" in his head, with all the talk about "battling" this evil orange enemy before he becomes Hitler 2.0. Maybe not though, as "battle" and "ballot" aren't that far apart in pronunciation. However, Bai Dien said this twice.
Some expert in Linguistics and also Neurology could probably figure out exactly what is wrong with JoeMentia's mind here from just this clip. The (p)Resident* was somewhat clued in that he had said the wrong word, but his mind and mouth stayed in that same groove even so, a second later. The part of his mind involved in speech control failed twice in a row. I remember my son, at about 4 y/o, trying to pronounce "locomotive". He couldn't really get the consonants, so he'd say "mo-co-mo-tow". But he was 4. Bai Dien is 81 2/3... the cycle of life. No fun would be made of that here, had he not been a lying Totalitarian asshole his whole life.
Last I heard, Dark Brandon's got the Kung Flu. So much for the power of the vax, and, looking at the video again, talk about your comorbidities!
I did not get to see Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention. (I may seek it out later though.) That very near death experience he just had has been described in detail all over by anyone who doesn't think the whole thing was faked (Whaaaa??) He can shake it off - he did VERY WELL at that - but he can't shrug it off, as with less well-documented things that have happened to some of us. If he hadn't turned his head right then to tell the crowd something about some old data in his border invasion graphs, that bullet would have gone right through his head.
What effect might this have on Trump's big ego? OK, all these high-level politicians are like that, is what I've heard. Yes, but here's a guy who would get a lot more done if he'd not make everything about himself. He does care about his country - better than the rest of that crowd up in there - but if it's between looking bad, being made fun of, losing face, etc. vs. harm to this country, he'd pick the latter. I've seen this during those years '17 - '21.
Trump is a spring chicken compared to JoeMentia. He's just turned 78. He really seems in great shape, in a comparison to almost all 78 y/o's, not to mention the current (p)Resident. (You'd get a "Divide by Zero!" error if you do the math.) People think they'll go on forever. However, anyone who just came within a split-second or a couple of inches of dying just last weekend, due to sheer chance, may very well consider that he won't be here forever.
I don't mean specifically that there's another attempt coming. (I don't know - there may very well be.) Being 78 even though pretty fit does not mean that one couldn't die of natural causes soon, and it be out of the ordinary. He may be thinking of this more since Saturday.
I am hopeful that this event has made a change to Trump's ego. I hope he realizes that what happens to this country is more important than what happens to him.
Trump has picked Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as the GOP VP candidate. We'll have more to say about Mr. Vance later. Let me just bring up something that I've tried to explain to people recently.
"This helps with the Ohio vote." Ohio IS one of those battlebox, heh, ballotground is what I meant to write, "Rust Belt" States. It's got 17 electoral votes, 2 more than northwestern neighbor Michigan and 2 less than eastern neighbor Pennsylvania. So, you got that going for you with J.D. Vance.
That's something the strategists would say, but I say that is ancient thinking and of no consequence today. This is not the 20th century (or 19th, for that matter). This country is greatly polarized! That J.D. Vance is a Son of Ohio means exactly Jack Squat to some purple-haired snowflake QUERTY-studies student born right there in Columbus... or even, Middletown, Mr. Vance's hometown. She's not only not voting for Trump anyway, she still has half a mind to shoot him... having first to learn how to operate a gun...
I wish that Trump had picked Ron DeSantis, he being a fighter who gets things done without the big ego thing. However, DeSantis' being selected VP candidate would change nothing for those 30 big EV's of the Sunshine State. Florida's probably not a great example, thankfully, but my point is that Americans have moved around to where there's no big State loyalties. (We used to have that real diversity.) The idea before was "He's one of us!" "Us" doesn't mean so much anymore. A Conservative in North Dakota will not be butt-sore that "North Dakota's Own!" Governor Burgum isn't the VP choice.
Then, there was Nikki Haley, who didn't do so very well as Presidential, not VP, candidate in her own State of South Carolina. OK, I've made my point. Political strategists, things are different now. Try to keep up.
* Thanks, Alarmist.
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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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