I Want a New Drug
Posted On: Saturday - June 29th 2024 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Music Humor Trump Hildabeast Zhou Bai Dien
Again, though I didn't watch Thursday evening's entertainment, excuse me, important part of the American electoral process, I have seen enough to comment. I've read many people contending that Bai Dien must have been off his normal cocktail of medications that have kept him sounding somewhat coherent on previous occasions.
I'm not so sure I agree. Those other occasions were speeches that Bai Dien could simply read off, as best as he can. This time, I've heard he had been given the questions ahead of time (as the Hildabeast had for debates back in '16, causing the canning of a journalist responsible in cahoots with her on the cheating). Even so, that requires memorizing talking points and then remembering them again and stating them clearly. Even had he had a drug cocktail, it seemed to me that Bai Dien was trying to pull these things out of what's left of of his mind and just not succeeding. He had that look, but who knows?
Maybe Bai Dien's handlers just screwed up and got the mixture and/or dosages wrong. I'm sure those mistakes were the actions of an intern. (Always, always, blame it on an intern!) If the D-squad plans on keeping this guy (another post there) around, they're going to have to spend some time at the Apothecary's or even an organic chemistry lab. In a lucid moment even Dark Brandon must realize "I want a new drug."
And now, Peak Stupidity presents some music for this Saturday evening, this time from a band out of the San Francisco Bay area. The sound from this clean-cut looking '80s band was pop-rock (it was hip to be square), and they had a number of fun hits during their time.
From Joey Bai Dien and the Blues, (the "blue team", see?) it's I Want a New Drug:
I want a new drug,
one that won't make me sick,
one that won't make me sniff kids' hair,
and take a real quick lick.
I want a new drug,
one that comes in a pill,
that you mix with your ice cream cone,
prescribed by Doctor Jill.
I want a new drug,
one that might get me laid,
one that won't make me fall down stairs,
one that beats Medicaid.
One that won't make me stumble,
wondering' what to do,
one that makes me feel the way I feel when I'm with you,
when I'm alone with you, Cornpop...
Huey Lewis and the News was:
Huey Lewis – lead vocals, harmonica
Sean Hopper – keyboards, backing vocals
Bill Gibson – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Johnny Colla – rhythm guitar, saxophone, percussion, backing vocals
Mario Cipollina – bass guitar
Chris Hayes – lead guitar, backing vocals
This song was from their very successful album Sports.
Thanks for reading and writing in this week folks. More Bai Dien/Trump and Tucker/iSteve goodness is coming next week, and maybe we'll start back on the abandoned series about Europe v America and the Population Replacement Programme. Ad hoc stupidity will crop up - we'll call it when we see it.
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Debate wrap-up by Old Soldier and E.H. Hail
Posted On: Saturday - June 29th 2024 9:12AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Zhou Bai Dien
There are 37 comments (far shy of a record, mind you) under our quick Presidential Debate post of Thursday night. Though I didn't watch it, there WILL be more posts, as this kind of humor and stupidity is not something a site like ours can afford to pass up.
Between that and the encouraging and engrossing Tucker Carlson interview of Steve Sailer, we'll be busy through Tuesday. Other stupidity will have to wait in the queue. For now, let me paste in 2 summaries of the debate, first a short one from Old Soldier, and then a longer one, with much on the Lyin' Press handling and reaction, from E.H. Hail follows.
From commenter Old Soldier:
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The things that were apparent to me during the debate: (a) Biden definitely knew the questions in advance and had carefully prepared responses programmed into his mind...but couldn't possibly speak the responses clearly because his over-drugged brain was too drugged for him to say anything clearly (b) Biden looked like death warmed over (c) Biden was slurring most words to the point where his words were incomprehensible and his sentences were just garbled sounds that even he did not understand (d) Biden seemed totally lost and confused throughout the debate. I could go on and on, but there's no point.
After the debate, the liberal commentators worked diligently to put a positive spin on Biden's responses and they're now fact checking everything Trump said while fact checking NOTHING that Biden said (but maybe the fact checkers couldn't understand Biden any better than I did???).
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From commenter E.H. Hail:
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I'm glad I watched the debate, or most of it, in its full form -- by which I mean not clips curated by partisans or social-media addicts, but the debate as aired. I also watched without following any rolling commentary on social-media or elsewhere during. Afterwards I saw reactions from the various sides, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Univision, and the interesting network NewsNation. I'll give here all that I can remember.
Newsnation seems to hire anchors fired from elsewhere (Chris Cuomo a host; Bill O'Reilly, an analyst; Geraldo, same) and aim for a happy-go-lucky big-tent centrism. The tone is definitely different and happier feeling that the big players.
NewsNation brought on Robert Kennedy Jr., who, it was explained, had "held his own debate" on Youtube. RFK Jr. answered all the same questions asked by the CNN moderators, for a Youtube audience of his fans. I didn't see any of that. He is not excelling in the polls.
Chris Cuomo suggested to RFK Jr., on the air, that he (RFK) ought to make some calls to the DNC. He could now find receptive audience for an arrangement for the DNC to ditch Biden and nominate him, RFK Jr., as the Democratic nominee for president after Biden's terrible performance. Chris Cuomo said it's because "you have such solid Democratic credentials," because he's already in the field and has an enthusiastic following, and because Biden had failed so shockingly at the debate, the stars had aligned. RFK seemed to say that would never happen. The DNC hates him and is inundating his campaign with legal harassment to try to keep him off ballots or otherwise harm him. He seemed really resentful against the DNC.
Biden's constant rifting off, trailing off, staring into space, mumbling, speaking too softly, all looked bad, of course. But I was, I think, more taken by the 'canned' nature of all his responses, a point Old Soldier brings up. I don't know if I agree that Biden "definitely" had the questions fed to him before the debate (although Hillary Clinton did have that advantage in her CNN debates, it was later revealed). But what is for sure is these were rehearsed lines. The problem is, Biden couldn't remember his own rehearsed lines and constantly bumbled them. A good thinker, who is also a extemporaneous speaker, doesn't need to memorize set-piece lines like that. There were also times I wondered whether Biden had a secret ear-piece in which someone was correcting his missteps live, because he often corrected himself after misspeaking. But maybe that just happens with someone trying hard to recall memorized lines.
Biden's points were the "same-old, same-old" ones he always uses. This always happens with "old" people, of course; some people are still sharp in the early eighties (Biden turns 82 later in this year), but almost all people, by that age, find it hard to truly live in the time they are in. Instead, they are always re-living some time of the past and applying it to the present. There were moments when this also came through from Biden, ranging from re-living the talking-points of the 2010s, including some proven to be false; but also dropping in the word "segregation" when the topic of Blacks came up, a word from the 1960s when Biden was in his twenties.
Another observation: Biden's facial reactions, body-language reactions to Trump were mostly muted. He sometimes condemned him as an evil person or a liar, but when Trump was making points he just stared blankly, like he was confused.
Someone produced this 'meme' during the debate, which hits the points I am making there:
MSNBC strangely brought on the California governor, Newsom, for a strangely long and strangely toned soft-ball interview. It was supposed to be a reaction to the debate, but it turned out to be, in my opinion, a long Gavin Newsom For President infomercial. All grins by the mixed-race anchor for interviewed him, the four-night-a-week successor to Rachel Maddow.
I did see some of the MSNBC reaction. Rachel Maddow, their star, was on hand and in the driver's seat of their large panel of experts. Her anti-Trump hysteria about Russia-Russia-Russia, and all the rest of what she traded in for so long, was absent tonight. She looked shell-shocked and said frankly that Biden gave the worst possible debate performance short of falling off the stage and begging for help on live TV (she didn't say any of this, this is my interpreting her mood). She looked like a general who had just received intelligence that the enemy had him surrounded, supplies would be cut off, and there was no easy way out. A restrained panic. That would characterize the mood of most of the anti-Trump commentators.
However, MSNBC tried to focus on the anti-Trump line (playing to their audience) and tried to go neutral on Biden. CNN, meanwhile, which had a panel of its own experts that looked to be about twelve people, was really anti-Biden, and kept putting things on the air like "Influential Dem: Biden as nominee is problematic" and more. CNN brought on Kamala Harris who attacked and mocked her interviewer, but some on the panel of experts praised her for it, which was also strange.
On Fox, the response was as would be expected. The smart-alec Jesse Watters, who is Tucker Carlson's replacement, said he was shocked tonight, not at anything from the debate stage but from within his own chest. He said he felt repeated pangs of sympathy for Biden, he felt bad for Biden. The performance, supposedly, was SO bad (for Biden) that it induced sympathy, "someone help this old man" feeling in him, a well-known Biden-hater.
I think CNN had the old anti-Trump hack Chris Wallace, the Jewish son of longtime journalist Mike Wallace. Chris Wallace was long of Fox, so I'm not sure why he was on CNN. (It turns out he went from Fox to CNN in early 2022; who knew?). Chris Wallace was on the warpath against Biden, saying it was a deep national shame that a man with clear signs of dementia was running for president, and there was no defense for this. Biden had a job to do, and he failed to do it. One or two co-panelists tried to contradict him, but he slammed them and morally attacked them for trying to defend Biden here. This is a Jewish debating tactic that I've often seen used, and is a large part of what's behind the crassness of political commentary now, especially its cable-TV form. It's take-no-prisoners moral-shaming.
Chris Wallace, who is a Democrat and hates Trump, was clearly trying to use his considerable influence to get Biden replaced. Although millions were watching all this chattering, a lot of it was, I think, aimed at the donors and the DNC bigwigs. The DNC has enough "superdelegates" that they might be able to maneuver a way to defeat Biden at the convention and replaced him with someone else. No one knew who that might be. A few names came up, one (I can't remember from whom) was: Josh Shapiro. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 2022.
Bill O'Reilly, on NewsNation, said he guaranteed that Biden would not be the nominee. He wasn't certain of that position before the debate, but now he is certian, he says. From the signals CNN was sending, it's no longer implausible that an anti-Biden palace-coup will occur within the DNC, before their convention in mid-August of this year, at Chicago. Geraldo and Bill O'Reilly laughed at both being old guys who remember the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago and its legendary chaos (I recall Pat Buchanan narrated himself witnessing the chaos from atop a high building). The 2024 DNC convention is also in Chicago. Bill O'Reilly then added that the role of left-wing violent protestors from 1968 would now be played by "pro-Hamas people."
There was also a live-translation Spanish simulcast on Univision. It's a remarkable skill to be able to do live-translation in that way. It must've been especially tough to do it for Biden when he was at his least-coherent.
The Univision commentary, which I also saw some of, was neutral and lacked the alarmist tone of CNN and MSNBC, and the gloating from Fox. From what I've seen of Univision's news coverage, they strive to be several things: (1.) pro-Hispanic, always (in which news is given from a "things happening with Hispanics always lead); (2.) serious news and not overt propaganda; (3.) not too serious, a lightness of touch, in the way you get from local news or from English newscasts of many decades past now.
Univision had two commentators on, one Republican, one Democrat, both White men with thick glasses who spoke reasonably and politely and were completely without histrionics and urged caution at jumping to any conclusions. But as I've already said, histrionics ruled the day for the agenda-setting talkers of the Left.
What's disappointing to me about all this drama, which is easy to get swept up into, as a sports mega-fan can be swept up by some big tournament. (Univision chose to air the debate and follow-on commentary instead of the latest "Copa America" soccer match, which it's been airing since the Western Hemisphere's biggest soccer-tournament began last week.) But in the debate itself and in the avalanche of reactions, of which I've given what I remember here, I heard little about actual policies.
Will Trump debate illegals or not? He dodged the question (which was asked to him twice), and instead he just used his usual talking-points. He bashed Biden for letting them in and focused on the dubious idea that most are directly exported from prisons in other countries, or insane asylums. He still wouldn't say if he'd deport them or not. What's his policy? Who knows? It all becomes a personality-game and a gotcha-game.
Trump is a clinical narcissist and, like all such people, is good at charming audiences. He won't even say for sure what his policies are, though. And given his record, we have no way to rely on him even keeping what promises he does make. So you're not voting for a set of policies but just kind of a vague apparition, a tendency, a mood, a gust of wind.
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I like that meme, but still, I'm attached to the line at the bottom of a small poster the secretary had in her office: Dumb looks are still free!
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Tucker/iSteve interview: the Kung Flu question
Posted On: Friday - June 28th 2024 10:01PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity
After looking at parts of this interview the 2nd time around, I knew exactly why I could see a question about the Kung Flu coming from Tucker about 2 seconds before Tucker came out with it. As he's written in his book and has talked about in recent talks (usually in the summary), Steve Sailer again brought up his social commentary bread & butter. That is, he explains (01:17:45 - 01:18:43) that the personal, local anecdotes and observations we make cannot be unconnected to the results of analysis of lots of data ("This higher world of The Science", as Tucker chimes in "The world of data") on the same issues. As he says, "There's just one reality out there." and "It all tells pretty much the same story."
As iSteve finished up on this sound point that I've heard before from him, I had the thought "OK, well, how'd all that apply to the Covid one-niner PanicFest, Steve?" Because thoughts fly pretty fast sometimes, I remember thinking just after that "I guess he's not gonna touch the Kung Flu issue, and good idea there too!" Then, Tucker says (more play-by-play) at 01:18:44 - he can't help himself here, I think - "But why is it? ... we don't mean to get into Covid, but ..."
Ahaaa! I kind of agree with the general thoughts of E.H. Hail on this, at least as he's told us about the Tucker network TV show, that what's going to be discussed is planned ahead of time. At least on the Kung Flu, from the way this went down, that's what I think. Likely iSteve didn't want to get into that one, as, that period just wasn't one of his better stretches of Noticing, March to June of '20.
So Tucker probably slipped up there, but I LUV LUV LUV his point. He didn't ask a question. and he talked for a while, saying something I've personally said a lot. Not only do I not know anyone who's died from the Kung Flu, I don't (knowingly) know anyone who KNOWS ANYONE who died from it.* Tucker said this with different wording, talked about knowing people who died from the vaccine, continued with a his amazement at the PanicFest, and then simply let iSteve talk, with no question asked (at 01:19:22).
"Yeeeahhhh", started iSteve, but that's just one of his thinking modes. I am pretty sure he doesn't agree with Tucker's view. At this point, he went to one of his points from at least one post (that I did read) in that Spring of '20, lists of deaths of prominent people (celebrities) who died of Covid. I easily found one specific article, Mean Age of Celebrity COVID-19 Deaths: 78.5, from May 21st of '20. (Anyone else remember that stuff?) In this case it was former NY Mets star pitcher Tom Seaver (baseball too!) who Mr. Sailer brought up.
The logic of his answer is... unsound. Watch for yourself (01:19:23). He admitted that Tom Seaver, not that old at 74, had dementia (Tucker brought up Parkinsons) and "didn't have the good life ahead of him". iSteve says that we weren't aware of these people who were "no longer in the public eye". Why did they have to be in the public eye for us to know them? We're not all celebrity worshippers. (Did it help a lot not to have a TV, like the Amish?) There are plenty of old people near me, and none of them I know died of the Kung Flu. Then we come to that question again, did, say, I dunno, Tom Seaver, die OF the Kung Flu or just WITH the Kung Flu?
At 01:21:12, Tucker moved on. I need to move on.
With all this excellent Social Science Noticing, in Spring of '20, Steve Sailer didn't notice the problem with the Totalitarian measures being enacted using this virus as an excuse. He got sucked into it all for a while. I am not holding a grudge here. I agree with 98% of iSteve's explanations of Social phenomena. He shouldn't have to say he's sorry**, as we didn't have to read him and agree for a few months there. He got better. It's just that Tucker brought this up, and, well, those 2 1/2 minutes had me siding with Tucker over iSteve, in what didn't seem like a point of contention but was.
* There is an exception in that Mr. MBlanc46, commenter here, has stated that he knows someone who died from it.
** Saying "I was wrong" would be in order though.
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Bad luck $treak at the $PLC
Posted On: Friday - June 28th 2024 1:05PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics ctrl-left
VDare's got so many good writers, who often get into niche areas of immigration/racial stupidity with very good follow-through. The HATE.orgs, such as the $PLC.hate, the ADL.hate, and so forth can be real nemesi (?) for Conservatives wanting to get the truth out. VDare has gotten grief from the $PLC particularly, in the form of advisory info to Totalitarian government officials and recommendations that induce cancellations.
Lately Pat Cleburne has been all over the story of the $PLC's recent woes. The start of their woes goes back a ways, with Steve Sailer having written multiple posts about the change in management.
See, there was this grifter named Morris Dees, a White lawyer who marketed the Southern "Poverty" Law Center into an outfit that raked in the bucks from (heavily Jewish-leaning, per Mr. Sailer) donors to supposedly help out the Black! folk... and yeah make a real decent salary in Montgomery, Alabama running this non-profit that had accumulated half a Billion bucks in the banks (some local, some not), you know, for rainy days. Morris Dees, no matter how much of a money-grubbing, slandering, anti-White grifter he was*, WAS a White guy, after all. Therefore, he did run things pretty well. Half a Billion is not chump change, even
Well, he'd put in his time, and handed the reins over to those who deserve it much more, Black! money-grubbing, slandering, anti-White grifters. They ain't necessarily so good with the finances... I wanna' say, but that's a stereotype. Somehow the $PLC is having money problems.
Whaddya' gonna do? You gotta make cuts somewhere. As much as the AA crowd is due their cushy office jobs, someone's gotta go. (No, not the IT guy! Please don't
That's only part of the woes the $PLC is undergoing. That Circular Firing Squad problem among the "Coalition of the Fringes" has the Jewish ctrl-left donor base not so awfully enamored with the new pro-Palestine left.** Besides adding to the financial woes, there is some animosity. Believe it or not, the $PLC has a union, the Grifters Union Local #314, I think it is.
“A message from SPLC Union officers and stewards: SPLC Union is and will always be rooted in the legacy of anti-oppression and decolonization led by Black and Indigenous leaders.... so long as you bastards pay up on your back dues!
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Management: "You demand WHAT?! This is a tightly-run HATE outlet here. Only so many of us got dibs on the donor equity. Get your shit together, or you're out of here."
I got on a roll there, so I'll just give links to Mr. Cleburne's articles on the Palestinian issue and an excerpt from a review of a book on the $PLC:
The $PLC Massacre—Purging Pro-Palestinians?
NOW I See Why $PLC Dumped Classroom Propaganda Program. Left’s Palestinian Purge Problem Just Beginning.
SPLC Union Strikes Another Shattering Blow At $PLC. But Is This A Labor Or A Political Dispute?
Now, the ADL is having the same conflict. Fan-damn-tastic!!
SPLC 2! Wikipedia Demotes The ADL. This Left Split On Gaza/Israel Is Epochal.
This is good news all around. I'd like to see these HATE.orgs DIE, from DIE, or Medicaid, or something. From the 1st link:
O’Neil has the advantage of having written Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. This book’s Amazon accurately says "The Southern Poverty Law Center … has… contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views … Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value.I love the book title.
As for you union workers, once you set foot in the Southern Poverty Law Center offices, you'd best set'chr mind to workin'!
* Yet, Steve Sailer says Morris Dees is alright - in so many words - because he's a smart and fun guy or something ...
** Would it not be better if none of these people had any influence in our country?
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Who's the sucker 'round here?
Posted On: Thursday - June 27th 2024 7:33PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Trump Zhou Bai Dien
My wife just showed me a couple of clips off of Telegram. We have no TV hooked up to anything but a DVD player. Now I wish I had had a 12 pack at some friend's place for this!
You're the sucker - you're the loser!"
Unless it was in the context of the great father/son corruption, you don't bring up he family. Still, Trump was right about Hunter.
and I don't think he knows what he said either."
Big LOLs here! Yes, maybe a whole case, next time.
I think the suckers are those who sat in front of CNN for hours- then again, where else can one find this level of entertainment?
Oh, and finally, some kind of big-ass Fentanyl machines:
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Tucker/iSteve interview: Who/whom?
Posted On: Thursday - June 27th 2024 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Pundits
Our 1st few thoughts and the video itself are here. Also, I found I could watch the whole video on Tucker Carlson's own site, without logging in - I've got to go through a short process to get a new PW, but I didn't have to for this particular video. (Possibly that's the case for all new ones for a short while.)
I hope you all will watch this interview. I watched the whole thing yesterday. Today, I went over parts of it, probably about 2/3 in total, to get to the parts I want to write about. Thanks go to Mr. Hail for finding me one spot I'd skipped over today.
"Who/whom?" a phrase from the Stalinist times in the USSR (near a century ago now), is a Steve Sailerism that the latter guy didn't employ in these 2 hours. It just fits for the title today, as I just want to mention who was mentioned. This is important, as Tucker Carlson does have a whole lot of American Conservative viewers. A short mention on the Tucker Carlson show could mean a lot to those involved and more importantly to the cause of Conservatism via a large number of new readers/viewers for those mentioned.
To begin with, and to answer a question Mr. Hail had before, no, Tucker had never met iSteve before in person but obviously knew his stuff and his reputation. He compared Steve Sailer to Matt Drudge (obviously the old Matt Drudge, before he went native) in that "everybody" read him, but nobody would admit he did.
How can you NOT like that guy, once you've seen him speak? Jared Taylor is greatly on the outs with cancellors of all sorts, the usual HATE Aggregators - $PLC, etc. - the Big "TECH" platforms, and everybody. It's such a shame, but then I suppose it's not technically "a shame" when this treatment is very purposeful. I am glad to see that (22:25 to start, then 23:02), in answer to Tucker's question "So why aren't there any organizations dedicated to them [rural (especially) White people]?", Steve brought up Jared Taylor. He also told Tucker how this "bright very gentlemanly fellow" "tried to do this for 30 years, and he's still banned on Twitter..." I'm glad Steve didn't go "conventional" here, though I wish he'd mentioned American Renaissance, Mr. Taylor's website, full of new articles daily, for exposure reasons. (Now viewers would have to look him up, and good luck with that!)
VDare was not mentioned. We know that Tucker has known VDare very well, if not before, after his interview of Lydia Brimelow. I can't recall (and don't see in the transcript) that Tucker introduced Steve's writing background at all*. Therefore, Steve would have had to bring up this organization. Seeing as it was much of his bread & butter for 20 years, I really figured he'd plug VDare, at least to explain where he'd expounded on his ideas, in addition to on Takimag and for most of the last decade, The Unz Review.**
Speaking of The Unz Review, neither it - Steve's most recent steady venue - nor that gentleman above were mentioned by either man. I say "gentleman", when I sort of mean "piece of work", but kind of in a nicer way. Mr. Unz, in his quest to run a true free speech bastion, and his site most certainly is, has got some strange bedfellows writing there. It's a bit much for even the Sailers and Carlsons of today's world, yes, even after this interview.
At 01:50:30, near the end, Steve talks about his possible place in the zeitgeist. (I am not really sure what a zeitgeist is, but he brings it up a lot). He does kind of have a big head about this all, BTW. I believe that his line at that point about being the Lord Voldemort, whose name must not be mentioned, was lifted from Ron Unz's oft-used line. Mr. Unz used to say that about his site, explaining why the ctrl-left would not try to cancel him. I think Ron Unz is so far out there, he's uncancellable. As much as I admire Ron Unz to a degree***, I understand why Steve didn't mention him. (Part of it may be his recent switch to his own site - maybe money matters?)
It's a shame VDare did not get another big plug here. Steve Sailer owes them a lot.
Next post in the series, because I can't wait, and you're gonna like this one: Discussion of the Kung Flu.
PS: OK, I really needed the transcript eventually, to write this. I had to get to my wife's acct, due to too much spam in my email accounts. Thanks, again, Mr. Hail - if you want me to look up anything, let me know. I could paste in the whole transcript somewhere, on your or my site, in a comment? I just found that some sections are skipped, however - one is a full minute about Bill Buckley and Pat Buchanan.
* In the part skipped in the transcript, starting at 01:52:50, Steve brought up that he used to write for National Review in the context of Buckley and Buchanan.
** That is very likely subject to change imminently, as
Steve Sailer.net has come into fruition. We'll have more on that.
*** ... not so much his political opinion, which is occasionally damn near retarded but his stalwart defense of what might be the truth and his great web skills.
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SCROTUS non-decision and an understanding of standing
Posted On: Thursday - June 27th 2024 9:30AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media US Police State Media Stupidity US Feral Government Morning Constitutional
For nearly half a year now, one of Peak Stupidity's main go-to sites for news and blogging material has been The Gateway Pundit*. It is a pretty big deal that Jim Hoft, the founder/proprietor/editor of that site, was one of 7 plaintiffs in a case headed to the US Supreme Court. This is or maybe WAS, now, an important Amendment I case. Various officials of the US Feral Gov't have been influencing, indirect threats being involved, the inclusion or lack thereof, of news posts, tweets, what-have-you by BIG "TECH". This is direct Feral Gov't censorship, prohibited by Amendment I thusly:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;Perhaps the confusion is that no laws were made - the Feral Gov't just did the kind of thing the Founders were worried about? I guess they didn't foresee their brainchild as turning into the huge beast it is now. Now it's "Laws? Laws?! We don't need no steeeenking laws!" Anyway, obviously the officials and organizations involved are in, or at least using, power unConstitutionally. This case is obvious
Missouri v Dark Brandon (our post on this matter) was not the actual name of the case, but I'd read it was Missouri v Biden. For whatever reason**, it's now Murthy v Missouri. That SCOTUS blog*** page definitely shows the same case. Murthy is Vivek H. Murthy, apparently the Surgeon General right now, and he's listed as a Petitioner here with a ton of other US Executive branch muckety-mucks. Even the bug-eyed Jean-Pierre is listed.) These "Petitioners", I must assume, were petitioning for the dropping of the case and injunction rulings that have been made out of it.
Peak Stupidity may well have missed this, and at some point I thought it must have been heard by now - I have not seen a GP post on the matter though, even now. Well, bad news has come for Jim Hoft and his org, along with the other 6 plaintiffs, and along with America.. The case was not decided in the negative, but the SCROTUS has denied it a hearing based on lack of "standing". The phrase "Article III standing" was used. Article III is simply the description of the duties of the Judicial Branch. ctrl-f for "standing" gets no matches.
Just what the hell is "standing", some may ask. I get the general idea, so I'll give the definition in my head before excerpting a proper definition: Lack of standing means that the plaintiffs have not themselves been wronged by the alleged unConstitutionality specified in their petition. Therefore, it's not for them to bring up such a case. Well, now I'm having a hard time getting that proper definition, so let me just paste in an excerpt from this blog, which is specific to the world of the SCROTUS:
Standing is a legal term which determines whether the party bringing the lawsuit has the right to do so. Standing is not about the issues, it’s about who is bringing the lawsuit and whether they a legal right to sue.There are examples, but still, that doesn't really help so much. I suppose I should read the words of the 6 justices that voted to throw the case out. Says the SCOTUS=blog in its info from yesterday:
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 6-3, in an opinion by Justice Barrett on June 26, 2024. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined.Peak Stupidity is no kind of fan on Reason magazine (due to the general idiotic stance for open borders), but they know their Constitutional stuff. One Jonathan Adler on the Volokh Conspiracy page/column explains the deal pretty well. Basically, Justice Barrett says that the plaintiffs didn't connect the dots well enough, aka, didn't do their homework, and the SCROTUS ain't got time for this shit. (She didn't use that exact wording.) The dissent by Justice Alito compared this stricter view of "standing" to some other cases.
I don't know - the Peak Stupidity Legal Dept. won't help either - all they care about is our not getting sued and their standing in their suit against HR for more sick time.
So, this one was not an actual loss, but the ruling means that those being censored must prove more clearly that the Government is coercing (and often in cahoots with) Big "TECH" to censor Conservative opinion. We already know this. We also already know that political solutions will not get us out of this. The solution is going to take a lot of "standing", standing up in the face of evil rather than sitting in court.
* See also our Addendum to that website review.
** I believe the reason is that this case is actually the Gov't as plaintiff against the (favorable) decisions made by the lower (5th Circuit) court.
*** I like that site. The cases have listings of all "actions" - rulings, argument dates, etc - taken since they were brought up.
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Tucker Carlson interviews The Most Reasonable Guy in America
Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2024 5:24PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump Pundits Media Stupidity The Future The Neocons Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA Guns
Notes: We've got a lot of Topic Keys attached, as I'm trying to remember all the topics within the conversation.
It wasn't really a conversation, actually. Steve Sailer did most of the talking, by far. This is similar with Tucker Carlson's interview of Vlad Putin, and so I'd guess most of them. That's a very professional way to do it.
Yes, readers. Commenter and blogger E.H. Hail called it. He has stated in numerous places including right here, that Tucker would interview Mr. Sailer this Spring. OK, Mr. Hail, you are off by 5 days (on the "Spring"), but then I was flat wrong thinking it wasn't Mr. Carlson's kind of thing. I look forward to a nice long review of this interview by Mr. Hail.
This is pretty exciting for me, though I'm not a commenter under iSteve any longer. I've been savoring his book Noticing, with a real review* coming here when I get one of those round tuits. Between the books, the book tours, interviews on the book, the videos of his talks at The Castle, and now this interview with the esteemed Tucker Carlson, Mr. Sailer has achieved the Big Time, at least the Biggest Time a Conservative can get in this current Cancellation Culture (more on the decline of that, or not...).
I watched the whole 1 hour 58 minutes (and change) interview nearly as soon as I learned about this. Instead of making this post 6 pages long, I'll present the video, with a basic timeline from the original youtube poster** today. I have at least 5 different subjects to comment on. I think these shorter posts will come quickly, as I don't want to forget my thoughts during viewing.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:53 What Was the Impact of Black Lives Matter on Black Lives?
7:56 Car Crashes
20:26 The Mexican Cartel Targeting the Appalachian Whites
31:06 Why Democrats Hide Crime Statistics
35:17 The Term “Karen” and the Increase in Anti-white Racism
43:05 Emmitt Till
49:11 Are Race Relations Getting Better?
1:01:20 Demographic Change
1:11:05 Will Donald Trump Win the Election?
1:39:58 Schools Getting Rid of the SAT Requirement
1:38:33 Is the Country Becoming More Open and Receptive?
Here are just a few more basic thoughts to start out: Firstly, if you are a steady Steve Sailer reader, that first 35 to 45 minutes or so may be kind of boring. I've seen the graphs. Yes, good stuff, but this exposure is important for the (right now nearly 1/4 million views) others, not us.
Next, I'd say that Mr. Sailer had his agenda to get his very good Social Science findings across. In doing that, he took forever to get around to answering Tucker's few (and, of course, far between) questions early on, say in this 1/3 duration section. True, the answers require background, so, again, this is great for new Sailer adherents.
Well, much more is to come here, in smaller dosages. I WILL harp on points I don't agree with. However, I hope the reader will realize that Peak Stupidity is thankful that Steve Sailer's 98% good points of truth*** are getting NOTICED.
PS: The title here: Mr. Sailer tries to be humble, but he'll toot his own horn sometimes. Still, the appellation he suggested (near the end of the interview) is pretty, errr, reasonable.
* We did post an Overview after perusing the book 2 1/2 months ago.
** This timeline is not exactly what I would have made. It's got smaller details in some areas yet misses some other subjects. It's hard to do better, I'm sure, and I don't think I'll watch the whole thing again just to make one.
*** That's not to say I believe Steve Sailer is lying about ANYTHING. I have points of opinion, most small, but one big one, that I don't agree with him on.
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[UPDATED ~ an hour later] Ahaaa, yes Immigration Stupidity WAS a subject, as opposed to what I'd initially remembered. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sailer brought up something that I'd thought he'd not noticed. He has. We'll get to that - one of our handful or so of posts to come.
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Delivering the 6 million dollar flower pots
Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2024 4:05PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Student and other Snowflakes Curmudgeonry Economics ctrl-left
I'll get to a review of the Carlson/Sailer interview soon. These personal and local anecdotes probably aren't so awfully interesting, but,
1) I want to get this off my chest.
2) Unlike the last post, there's a big general point here in addition to just general annoyance.
Yeah, it's the same local D politician as in that previous post involved here. He won his D-primary handily and will surely win "his" State House seat again in November. Just to show his constituents how thankful they ought to be, he has a big billboard up:
Delivering $6 million for the [neighborhood] project!
His name has been changed to protect the scum, the amount has been altered by a tad, the name of the neighborhood was redacted, and I added an exclamation point, because, why not?
The project, having been going on for 3 months already with no end in sight*, has required the narrowing down of the street to 2 lanes for a few blocks, slowing done traffic and adversely affecting the businesses there. The project is basically a long flower bed. Apparently, the old median, with small hardwood trees and rubbery fake bark, was NOT OK, and the holes in the roads all over, and, well, crime and shit, will just have to wait. This is important.
Not only that, but the point is that this 6 million dollars has been "delivered"! It's been delivered to our neighborhood in the form of 20 to 40 guys working with machinery (there's infrastructure down there, which the city screwed with for years not so long ago), almost all of them foreign Hispanic guys**, working for half a year. Them's some wages! So, that's free money being delivered ... or something.
This guy is not stupid enough to believe the "Broken Windows" fallacy, is he? He's a college graduate, a lawyer (of course!), with a nuclear family, etc. I guess he figures the local neighborhood voters are the dupes. That's 6 MILLION DOLLARS that we are just getting, because State Rep. Jones has delivered it, sure, we should be so glad. What about the people in another city who may want their own flower bed project, delivered by their own helpful, kindly Representative using that same... errrr... free money from ...? Forget it.
I don't know. 10 years ago even, I'd have chewed this guy out, trying to explain the stupidity of his Flower Bed fallacy to him, on his mobile phone, the number being the one I got off the junk mail. I have mellowed out, though. I can't fix all this stupidity with one phone call. I'm sure I'll enjoy the flowers next Spring. I mean, it's not like that 6 million bucks was just gonna spend itself, anyway ...
PS: Oh, this is all the story, except that the hard-working guys earning our neighborhood $6 million were not out there during business hours today, oddly reminding me about this post. It's that heat wave, see? We can't be working out there in the heat. They canceled the kids' sports practice too, for 7 freaking thirty PM! We'd have been playing outside all day back in my childhood, without parents asking "where's your water bottle?"
So, I guess even the hardworking Amigos are snowflakes now (per diktat, anyway).
* I do not kid when I say that this project would take a week or less in China.
** The foremen speak English. One told me nicely what was going on, as I was stuck in the single lane on my side.
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Western Greta by AI from Adam Smith
Posted On: Tuesday - June 25th 2024 6:24PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Global Climate Stupidity Artificial Stupidity The Future
I wrote in the comments under last Saturday's musical climatic humor post, You've stolen my dreams (and lyrics), that I don't hate Greta Thunberg. I don't see her as evil. Even her extreme emotional stupidity is something I simply chalk up to her having been a teenage girl who had no reason to know any better. (In this day and age, I don't think going to school instead of going out on the
I should have done this myself for that previous post, but between my lazy streak and commenter Adam Smith's great helpfulness, I'll present AI Western Greta here and now. Adam had nearly a dozen for us, but these are my 3 favorites.
The AI sure knows its way around a woman's body... I'm just sayin'. I will stipulate that gunfighter Greta here was 18 y/o or older, or whatever you had to be in mid-1800s America. Really, as I wrote in the comments, this AI is scary - the porno possibilities of AI are endless. Did it learn its way around the female body by analysis of curves in millions of pictures?
I'm impressed. I cannot find where on this site I compared Greta to Marcia Brady, but I now stand vindicated on that one. We presented a more unfavorable comparison in Straight outta' Sweden: Greta v Agnetha, and the reader may want to check out our other posts, Greta is Gettin' Upset! - - Greta is Betta! - - Ring, Ring, Greta please give me a call ...♬ ♬ - - Death Metal Greta - - Introducing Black Greta and The evil side of Greta at the Trekkie Convo.
That's Calamity Greta with a big wheel gun. I guess it doesn't help to determine the caliber with AI having done whatever it "imagines". Greta ought to do more sit-ups to flatten that belly, but I'm not gonna be the one to tell her.* It's probably just the camera angle.
That'd have been much better for "High Plains Grifter".
Just to make it clear here - These are not real pictures of Greta Thunberg. I think plinking or marksmanship might be nice hobby for Greta and a way for her to release her pent-up frustrations about nobody caring enough about the coming demise of The Planet.
Commenter Hail has told us that that cute little "How dare you?" girl has turned 21. The following 2 Eagles songs are probably better suited for a young man, being Twenty-one and "knowing what freedom means to me", I can't give a reason why, I should ever want to die." and then getting a little "Out of Control".
On this "concept album" Desperado, Twenty-one is followed with no dead space by Out of Control which has some out of control guitars at the end. Great stuff.
Back to Greta for a second, Tom Petty has asked the same question I have:
* We're just getting back to pistol shooting after years for me. My son and I will shoot some cheap - well, they WERE then - .380 rounds tomorrow.)
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[UPDATED 06/26:] Oops, the compounds that make up smokeless powder do contain Carbon atoms. I'd looked only at the molecular diagram and forgotten that the Carbon "backbones" are assumed. (The chemical formula was there, but I didn't look till now.) A PS Chem review is in order. Thanks, commenter M!
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Climate Alarmist Yahoos
Posted On: Monday - June 24th 2024 8:39PM MST
In Topics: Websites Global Climate Stupidity Media Stupidity
(You have to be really careful - these people will purposely conflate heat index with temperature.)
I've written a number of times that it's not as if I go to the yahoo website - one of the old classics, BTW - for my news. One can get to the mail login directly and avoid the home page*, but it's there for a moment when I log out. In addition to seeing "the news" then, I'll use yahoo's search feature regularly to get to Peak Stupidity to keep our search results blurb "tops in class".
What I've seen this summer is that yahoo's big news is usually about the weather. You know what they say about the weather, everybody blogs about it, but ... nobody does anything... besides Greta? I grabbed a screenshot of that image above about 5 weeks ago, I can see, as it says "one month before the official start of summer". Let me tell you, "official start of summer", i.e., the Summer Solstice, doesn't always mean squat, such as down there in south Florida.
Some of these articles get me going down the rabbit hole. They'll have me checking out hurricanes over the years (should be a post as much time as I spent on that), actual daily highs vs heat indices, etc.. Come for the bikini pictures, stay for the National Hurricane Center historical data.
This home page is supposed to be the news home page, but yesterday, 3 out of the 5 headlines were about the weather. There IS a heat wave going on now, but heat waves do happen in the summer time, official or not. It's very hot here, it's flooding over there, no, sorry, but these are local stories. 3 out of 5 headlines is not a coincidence - it's an agenda.
Peak Stupidity doesn't normally chalk up the steady flow of stupidity in one are to a planned action at high levels. I wonder on this yahoo push. Has yahoo been picked or, more likely, given financial incentives to harp (no pun intended) on extreme weather events to keep the scare up for the cause of the Climate Calamity™?
PS: And for the ladies in the bikinis: quit with the tattoos, yahoos!
* Old web guy here - it's the "main page" now, I believe, even when the file is named the same thing, "index" or what have you.
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You've stolen my dreams (and lyrics)
Posted On: Saturday - June 22nd 2024 9:55PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Global Climate Stupidity
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger.
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home.
And climate, oh climate, well, that's just some people talkin'.
Your crisis is walking through this world all alone.
Don't your feet get hot in the winter time?
The sun won't snow and the sky won't shine.
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.
We're reachin' all new highs and lows,
but it's funny how the feeling goes away.
Go down, young Greta, don't you wonder why.
Sooner or later planets have to die.
Two voices call to you from where they stood
Lay down your models now - they're no damn good!
The queen of carbon let you down,
She was just an empty fable.
The queen of hearts you say you never met.
Your twisted fate has found you out,
and it's finally turned the tables,
stole your dreams and paid you with regret.
Better keep on movin', Greta Thunberg,
'till your shadow sets you free.
If you're fast, and if you're lucky,
you will never see that hangin' tree.
That was the reprise of Doolin' Dalton and then of Desperado, from the 2nd side of the vinyl record version of the Desperado album.
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Free Hunter!
Posted On: Saturday - June 22nd 2024 11:42AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Morning Constitutional Zhou Bai Dien Guns
There's a "youtuber" named Grant Stinchfield whom Gateway Pundit proprietor Jim Hoft has some kind of deal with to host the former's videos. Mr. Stinchfield is a Conservative, and he does a pretty good job from the couple I've seen.* The latest headline (I haven't watched the video) says: Hunter Biden’s Appeal Will Anger Every Anti-Gunner and I Love it!
Well, if you keep up with Peak Stupidity, you already know that we agree with this, as in our discussion a couple of weeks back in President pushes for more gun control as son convicted of felony gun charges. Regarding the ATF background check form 4473 (shown above), we wrote:
It's just too easy for the information to be kept, forever, by someone ... It's unConstitutional, and even were it not, the questions about drug use are. These convictions are bogus.Hunter Bai Dien's been ensnared by this ATF Totalitarian BS. I agree with Grant Stinchfield. I love it!.
Will Hunter's privileged Dad be duplicitous enough to still support the ATF and be as anti-Amendment II as ever, while doing something underhanded or even blatant to get his son off the charges or out of jail? I hope Hunter takes this one to the Supreme Court. It'd be great to see Hunter Biden winning a case for our side. Then, Hunter would have more time for cocaine-fueled Chinese Poontang Dynasty tourism, Ukraine business trips, and to make those court dates for the real charges to come, being a traitor to his country and all that ...
* The problem is, even if I completely agree with the guy and enjoy watching, there's just too much else on the internet ...
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Attempted vandalism of Stonehenge
Posted On: Friday - June 21st 2024 5:05PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Globalists Environmental Stupidity Science
A couple of climate protesters were arrested over spraying orange paint on Stonehenge monument in England. At least these crazy people didn't blow it up, as some assholes did the Georgia Guidestones 2 years ago.*
Peak Stupidity has a number of posts written about the Georgia Guidestones, their having been an interest of ours and a road trip destination. (A 2nd road trip had been planned for just a couple of days after the bombing, alas.) The Georgia Guidestones WERE a modern, more precisely built, American Stonehenge, with writing. The folks in Elberton, Georgia, "Granite Capital of the World", did a nice job with it. We don't have enough topic keys to cover our subjects, so the Guidestones posts appear with the Globalists topic key, for reasons.
This story is: Climate protesters arrested over spraying orange paint on Stonehenge monument. These "Just Stop Oil" people are quite different in their views from the people who blew up the Guidestones. The latter THOUGHT that this monument in east Georgia was a big signal to Bill Gates, George Soros, and other evil Globalists. I say that was nonsense.
However, these Just Stop Oil people live on a higher plane of stupidity. The stars must be aligned just right, simultaneously during a conjunction of the Pluto Planet with Uranus, in order for one to reach this high plane of stupidity. It's ethereal, and if you ever get the same kinds of thoughts these retards get about the Climate Crisis™, sit down cross-legged, turn the lights off, burn some incense, listen to Enya, and just don't listen to those voices in your head telling you to buy superglue or orange spray paint. They are actually just Celtic lyrics out of Enya, but your mind tries to turn it into English.
These stones are priceless artifacts of a long-ago time of superstition, with the beginnings of Science growing in the minds of these ancient people, as they may have worshipped heavenly bodies but also attempted to figure out the movements in the heavens. Quite to the contrary, these Just Stop Oil people of the modern age are developing superstitions out of the modern world of Science and technology, worshipping "Science" idols who whip them up to a spray painting frenzy.
At least they didn't use oil-based paint, being true to themselves in this instance. Oil-based paints may have been a bitch to get off the Stonehenge rocks without changing the surfaces. These folks have used corn-starch-based paint, so it washes right off. How green and great for the planet!
Still, were I a son of a son of a Druid, I'd pick up a hooded wool outfit** and try to catch these people in the middle of the night one time, under the stars, and beat the livin' out of 'em. Then I'd go home, burn some incense, and yes, listen to Enya.
* See also Part 2 and Part 3.
** That ought to be easy enough in Moslem invaded England right now. Just go to a Burka Shoppe - careful, as those extra letters mean pricey products - and have them tailor you one.
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Donald Trump comes out
Posted On: Friday - June 21st 2024 9:29AM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics Liberty/Libertarianism Taxes
... not as gay, no, far from it.. That'd be a nothingburger these days. Donald Trump has come out as a, GASP!, Libertarian! OMG!* He talked about, and talk is likely all it'll be about, the IRS and taxes on tips, the other day. In the big scheme of things, that's small potatoes. (That said, as I noted, it's probably a good election strategy, and more honest, lawful, and less morally hazardous than Bai Dien school loan forgiveness campaign tactic.)
Now, per The Gateway Pundit, Trump Drops Bombshell Proposal: Allegedly Suggests Eliminating Income Tax in Favor of High Import Tariffs During DC Republicans Meeting. It's only "alleged" because this was a closed door meeting, and nobody would be able to, like, record anything, right?
The news outlet cited anonymous sources and reported that President Trump proposed abolishing income taxes and adopting an “all-tariff policy.”Yes, now there's one of those substantive policy statements that we get from Trump. I followed Hail to You blogger and PS commenter E.H. Hail's Steve Sailer comment listing on The Unz Review, coming yesterday upon a point about Trump I've seen before. Mr. Hail, from this comment about a particularly really, really stupid thing Trump just said regarding the immigration invasion**:
Neuropathy is not from Low vitamin B. Meet the Real Enemy of Neuropathy (Stop Doing This) [OK, YOU stop doing this. You know that was an ad, so ... quit. - Ed] In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “Great meeting with Republican Representatives. Lots discussed, all positive, great poll numbers!”
The only defense of Blompf here, from principled hardline immigration-moratorium supporters is not a very good-looking one: It’s the ‘defense’ that Trump is a blowhard with demagogic tell-anyone-what-he-wants-to-hear man, so he didn’t really mean this latest outrage. Then there is the old line, often quoted by Steve Sailer, that Trump at any given moment is the average of the last five-to-ten people who have spoken to him. In other words, we are led to regretfully conclude that Trump is, at best, a buffoon.The part that I bolded is the point I've read about. Peter Brimelow of VDare says that it's just the last person that Trump talked to before he makes a decision. The guys Steve Sailer quoted are being a tiny bit more generous to Trump, just a tiny bit. Trump CAN think for himself, but anything with a few details is something he won't spend the mental energy on.
Back to the point of this post, Trump's statement (OK, alleged statement) is music to our ears here. Peak Stupidity has a strong Libertarian bent. Who were the people Trump last listened to on this? Maybe Mr. Brimelow is right, and it's just the last guy he read from. Perhaps Trump is a Peak Stupidity reader who came upon our post of May 28th this year Ron Paul is wrong about something.. I praised Mr. Trump there for his tariff policy on China, and noted: Not only did America do very well on this score for a few centuries, but the Founders of this country were mostly FOR tariffs. Tariffs were, in fact, one of the main sources of income for the US Gov't through its early history. OK, Customs Duties are handled differently, but tomayto, tomahto.
We will not get ourselves too excited based on this latest out of Donald Trump for 2 MAJOR reasons. The first is that this is not 1800's America. Tariffs on all Chinese goods can't replace the income tax, as much as I'd still like to try. Let's keep this really simple, in case Trump really is reading, in which case: Welcome, Mr. Trump! Feel free to write comments, and forget half the stuff I ever wrote about you. You're good people. In case you're reading, you don't even need tables, spreadsheets, graphs, or heaven forbid, THE CALCULUS. You just need a couple of arithmetical operations. I'll start with a number good only to 25% or worse, as it doesn't matter. From this post of ours, I'm pulling out a number from '18 the trade deficit of goods (services being only 10% of the trade then) China - America. It's around $400 Billion. Here are 2 more numbers: 42% of the IRS revenue comes from personal income taxes, from this IRS pie chart post. Then, from the IRS '23 IRS 1040 Instructions .pdf, page 109, where the pie charts came from, we see that that '22 total revenue was $4.90 Trillion. That's, call it, an even $2 Trillion of personal income tax collected (in '22).
If 50% tariffs were laid on all Chinese goods, of course, we wouldn't get 50% of that $400 Billion, as the Chinese would do more business elsewhere to avoid them. I have no problem with that - it's pretty much the REAL point of tariffs, but this post, and Trump's alleged statement, are about the money. Even if you got all of it, that means you've covered 10% ($200 Billion / $2 Trillion) of the personal income tax money. Well, that's a start! Put it on the working class level, and it'd be a great start.
We can see that Trump doesn't bother with the numbers or he wouldn't have (allegedly) spouted that out. As I wrote, it's not 1800s America. The US Government is a Feral BEAST now. Did Trump consider that the CARES ACT that he touted would take about 20 years of 50% tariffs on Chinese goods, even if that held, to cover it? No, he doesn't care - let the accountants work all that out ...
The 2nd big problem is that a President Trump (#47) doesn't have any such power to fight the entrenched income tax "industry". Peak Stupidity has too many posts with our taxes topic key to list here, but the reader may want to see our list of the 5 evils - I'm starting to sound like a Chinese Chairman of some sort - yes, The Five Evils, of the Feral Income tax in our post Peak Constitutional Amendment - XVI, Part 3. Believe it or not, the Evil labeled simply The Money comes in only at #2. Every one of these 5 evils has entrenched "industries", aka, bloodsuckers or parasites, who want the income tax in place for their purposes.
Trump doesn't have a chance in hell on this. Ron Paul as President wouldn't have a chance. It would take a 300 cloned Ron Pauls, not agonna happen.
It's interesting that Trump came out
As with the removal of income tax on tips, this is no new, brilliant idea. It was the system of income for ~ the 1st half of the history of the US. Still, it's better to hear this than some statement on an idiotic, ruinous plan on immigration. Bloviate away, dude, but just CLOSE THE BORDER, START MASSIVE DEPORTATIONS, and RELEASE THE J6 POLITICAL PRISONERS!
* Not that OMG. I don't mean the O'Keefe Media Group, though a nice undercover interview could be set up on Tinder were Trump actually gay. We might learn something... probably not... BTW, I guess people don't even use the phrase "coming out" anymore.
** I'm so disgusted with Trump on this that I don't know if I'll even feel like writing about it... I may change my mind.
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Why is it always Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin?!
Posted On: Thursday - June 20th 2024 6:46AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Pundits Race/Genetics Bible/Religion Female Stupidity Bread and Circuses
Peak Stupidity tends to reach back quite a ways, so if you don't understand our title here, check out Why is it always "China, China, China"?!, Part 1 and Part 2. I believe these 2 haven't been the only posts with this theme either.
Yeah, more on this Caitlin story follows. Anyway, it's not the barrage of headlines around the web that sucks us into these posts, so far the 2: Caitlin Clark: You go, grrrll! and Caitlin Clarke: No go, grrrll! I can ignore that stuff longer than they can ... stay solvent? It's not like Peak Stupidity has crack investigative reporters on this story.
However, upon perusing Ann Barnhardt*'s site the other day, I noticed that even she had a post about Caitlin Clarke, the WNBA's great White Straight hope.
Miss Barnhardt begs to differ with Peak Stupidity's opinion (in that "No go" post) that it's racial hatred that has the WNBA women "flagrant fouling" the hell out of her and then keeping her off the Olympic team**.
priDEMONth: Let’s cut the crap – WNBA star Caitlin Clark isn’t being regularly assaulted on the court because she’s white; she’s being physically assaulted because she’s HETEROSEXUAL. Actually, she doesn't beg to do anything. Besides "cut the crap", she doesn't mince words, with:
Abject nonsense. There are other white girls in the WNBA and they aren’t being assaulted. The reason Caitlin Clark is being assaulted is because she isn’t a lesbian sodomite. She’s a normal girl, with a normal boyfriend, and she’s the best women’s basketball player of all time. And the dykes are ENRAGED.Now, Ann Barnhardt hates that particular sin more than any other, or possibly that it's doing the most damage to our society and/or The Church. I have not read too much of her on race issues, but then, Ann Barnhardt lives in the sticks of Colorado. I doubt it's a factor in her life.
However, Miss Barnhardt has backed up this opinion of hers that's it's the genderbending not race that's caused the animosity towards Miss Clarke. She brought up one WNBA star Candice Wiggins, "... who had to retire early from the WNBA because of intense bullying because she is straight. Wiggins credibly estimated that the WNBA was 98% lesbian sodomite fifteen years ago." Candice Wiggens is black. OK, fair point, but was she as big in popularity as Caitlin Clarke is? I'd never heard of this Candice Wiggins, as I watch the same amount of women's basketball as Ann Barnhardt, NONE. Miss Barnhardz must have looked into this for her argument.
To do our due diligence in this argument, we'd need to bring up a White lesbian player who's not been harassed. Well, there are some, so that doesn't help. The lack of another data point, an extremely well-known WNBA player of any sort, is the problem. What about the Olympics snub, which Miss Barnhardz didn't mention? I stated that this extremely-colored women's BB Olympic selection committee would have put a black women on. I hadn't thought as much about the lesbian thing. It is a thing, though.
Well, same as Ann Barnhardz, I'll looking into this to prove a point, but it was complicated, it seems. From The San Francisco Gate 17 years ago:
"This is a fabulous opportunity for Candice," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "I think this says she has a legitimate shot at making the Olympic team. I know they love her."From my 10 minutes of searching, I believe she never played in the Olympics, so who knows what a selection committee would have done or even did? Miss Barnhardt is right about the lesbian factor, something I read about just now in a 7 y/o UK Guardian article Candice Wiggins: I was bullied for being straight in '98% gay' WNBA. OK, so maybe Ann Barnhardz is right, and we were wrong. Maybe both the gaiety and race are factors.
Wiggins already has won two gold medals for USA Basketball in the past few months, serving as the captain for the world champion women's U-21 team and the team that won the Pan-American Games.
OK, finally, WHO CARES?! Well, Steve Sailer does. He cares about anything sports-related, at least if Human BioDiversity is involved... and lots of stats. His TakiMag columns are always very good, and his latest was The Caitlin Conundrum.
Mr. Sailer did have a huge digression into his proposed minor changes to the rules of baseball (to make the games shorter), but he inserted some of his very good points we've seen elsewhere. He brought up his point about Dads without boys often raising their White daughters to be sports players, something that doesn't usually work within the WNBA, cause, no Dads. At least, there are none they know well. So, you get a different crowd than say with the ladies PGA or the pole vaulters. (Personally, I'd thought "woman pole vaulter" was just a euphemism for "woman gymnast, on her days off... on dates") Anyway, it's a niche sport, but he says they are exceptionally beautiful.
They women gymnasts and bicyclists have got to have the best bodies, though. You won't see a flagrant foul amongst these types either. However, one of the Chinese gymnasts, known for serving her superb Peking Duck to mental patients, was said to have "committed a fragrant fowl".
Mr. Sailer's long discussion of men's basketball is all for background about his questions, wrapped up at the end:
Not surprisingly, other WNBA players tend to hate Clark and try to brutalize her.Uh, not that particularly. This is one score that Steve Sailer doesn't seem to want to know. The Gov't/Big-Biz anti-White agenda beats profit making. He should know this. At least Mr. Sailer wrapped up his column pretty well this time, fleshing it out with:
More surprisingly, NBA executives haven’t come to their meal ticket’s aid.
Granted, WNBA players tend to have more diversity Pokémon points, being women, black, and lesbian.
Still, sports lately have typically been getting gamed by brilliant MIT grads. So the sight of lowbrow players being allowed to wreck the WNBA’s big chance to finally cash in is particularly curious.
A 70-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA DESIGNED A BRA THAT'S SWEEPING FLORIDAWait, that last bit may have been an ad. Thanks for the confusion, Taki Takidopoulos.
PS: Peak Stupidity wouldn't be averse to sending in crack investigative reporters to study the women's gymnastics business. "He said 'crack', huh, huh, huh ..." [/Butthead] "Yeah, yeah, crack, he-he, he-he, hehehee!" [/Beavis]
* Peak Stupidity has a generally very favorable opinion of Miss Barnhardt. We like hard-core, and she's all that. Our review of her site is this one: Ann Barnhardt: A kinder, gentler Fanatic
** She may not know about the latter sleight. It's not mentioned there.
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Trump, tips, and taxes
Posted On: Wednesday - June 19th 2024 7:07PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Inflation Zhou Bai Dien Taxes
We gotta be careful with the commas here, so as not to get to an Eats, shoots, and leaves. level of confusion.
Trump can tip and probably does generously, but he can't tax ... people directly. Then, the proper powers of the branches of the US Feral Gov't are what this post is about anyway.
On the campaign trail recently Donald Trump has promised to eliminate taxes on tips - The Gateway Pundit reports:Trump Champions the Working Class — Proposes Elimination of All Taxes on Tips . Yes, that's a great and novel idea, one that has only been thought about hundreds of millions of times by Americans working service jobs over the last century.
Peak Stupidity has expounded multiple times on the solution to IRS tip-grabbing at the client level. (I'm thinking client/server software here. The customer is the client, and the
I can well remember when cash was completely King, and almost all tips were therefore in cash. The IRS didn't have to know and didn't need to know. They wanted to know though, but instead, a few decades ago they started using some scheme of assuming a certain percentage tipping factor and taxed the poor bastards that way. I'm hoping that since things went more in the electronic direction, the IRS may have decided the electronic numbers are good enough and quit with that assumed tipping business. That would mean that cash helps even more now.
Anyway, Trump's thoughts are going in the right direction. He's gone Libertarian lately, but that's another post. This promise of his is mostly pure bullshittery again though, I'm afraid to say. He wants to eliminate... Uhhh, the President doesn't get to eliminate tax laws. It doesn't work like that, or it's not supposed to. The ctrl-left can get away with this sort of thing, as none of the Establishment will rule or even write anything against their misuses of power.*** A pro-American President - ha! He'd better have his ducks in a row in Congress, but that's the last thing Trump ever does.
I hope the reader doesn't get me wrong here. Though a good way (and competition to Bai Dien's loan forgiveness***) to accumulate younger voters, this deal is small potatoes. On DAY ONE, Trump must free the J6 Political Prisoners - at least one has already died***. On that day or the next, he must start an organized deportation program and send Federal troops or politically and logistically support the military of the 4 border States to take control of the border.
Still, as much as Trump does not likely have a way to change the Feral Tax Code to make this happen, people are excited. He's got a viral following, as per GP again: GOING VIRAL: Diners Across the Country Are Joining a New Trend — Writing ‘Vote Trump, No Taxes On Tips!’ on Server Checks
Going by that image (from GP), there seem to be a couple of problems. That these viral folks are tipping so generously - a 100% tip, $103.99 on a $103.99 tab, from Ann Althouse - she must be making a killing from the tip jar on her blog - and a nearly 400% tip on that $26 hamburger is one thing. It's that $26 hamburger itself though that shows one of the real problems in today's America. Well, OK, he got bacon on it. Never mind!
PS: BTW, could this proposal mend the hard feelings between Donald Trump and AOC? She could go back to bar tending, making good money when dressed in the right outfits, leaving the people outside her Brooklyn bar alone. That'd be a win/win/win! I'd tip AOC $103.99, but I'd expect something a little extra for the $103.
* That's Point Of Sale, mind you, but that other common interpretation of this initialism works too.
** This particular Political Prisoner was one Julio Baquero III. He'd been "Diagnosed With Stage 4 Gastric Cancer While in the Gulags," and "Has Passed Away". He did nothing violent on 1/6/21, but got put away for 18 months. This is the stuff of Latin American nightmares, going on right here, right now. True, he may have died anyway if not held as a Political Prisoner, but he'd have been with his family and very likely would have had better care.
*** I'm thinking of just one small example, Zhou Bai Dien's deciding who will be forgiven of his student loans, first before the SCROTUS ruled he did not have this power, and again, after they had. Doesn't matter.... the ctrl-left takes care of its own.
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Hotchul Minh: Taking the masks off
Posted On: Tuesday - June 18th 2024 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Orwellian Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
New York's Totalitarian Governor Hochul Minh was one of the worst during the Kung Flu PanicFest. Peak Stupidity featured a first look at this hysterical piece of work in High Priestess of the Branch Covidian Social Justice Climate Cult. Then, we commented on her push for the mandatory jab in Drinking the KOVID Kool-Aid. Suffice it to say, we've not thought very highly of the Governor of New York... come to think of it, probably since the time of Fiorello La Guardia.
The humiliation of mandated donning of useless face masks is something Peak Stupidity covered in many dozen posts tagged with that Kung Flu Stupidity topic key. Check out specifically our 5-part "March Mask Madness" series from '21.
Going back to before the PanicFest, before anyone would imagine the stupidity of '20, we came out against the banning of face mask wearing. Our point was about Liberty, not some ginned-up pandemic PanicFest. It's a matter of anonymity. Being anonymous is so much harder than it was over a century ago, before, say, the IRS, and compared to the days of our Founders, well, they couldn't have imagined...
Keeping our faces hidden while out in pubic is about all we have left, and even then, if one is worried about his identity being figured out after the fact (some happening), he'd better walk differently too. (Our gaits are very unique. I recognized a guy I knew when we were both unknowingly in the same place 500 miles from home one time by the way he was walking... at 5 in the afternoon, coming out of bar.)
Therefore, when Steve Sailer wrote that he was in favor of anti-mask laws (before he was in favor of anti-nonmasking laws for a bit) a year or so before the PanicFest, for reasons of law & order, I disagreed. I mentioned this in a footnote later under the post When the masks come off. Mr. Sailer doesn't really hold so strictly to principles of Liberty and all that, being a more practical man.* Peak Stupidity does.
Guy Fawkes and his crowd wore those masks that the antifa Commies have made famous again. Perhaps both are not very good examples of the point here, but then there were those guy that dressed as Indians and threw tea into Boston Harbor. They craved anonymity, as did the pamphleteers and such during the Revolution. Then, there are the millions of bloggers and commenters on the internet. Here's looking at me, kid. Who? Me, you know, the Moderator, whom you can't even email.
I'm repeating my point of the post 1984 - NOT an instruction manual, people! though, so I'll quit with this. That all said, since the face masking has thankfully subsided greatly, of course I've still got no political beef with those who don them. There may be some older people whose doctors have recommended them due to certain ailments and in public places or something. I don't know - I see at the airport terminals that it's probably only 1 in 100 or so (perhaps a survey would be in order), but just today I saw a not-so-old lady driving in her car, windows all up, with one of these one. It's her business, but on my end, dumb looks are still free.
Now, from the Associated Press, we read that NY governor's subway mask ban proposal sparks debate over right to anonymous protest. The problem they've got up there is indeed a real lack of law & order. That's not due to the laws themselves but the people themselves. It was bad enough with just the Black! thug contingent, but now, as New Yorkers have become Miamians now, dealing with the scum of Latin America and the RODW**, they're desperate for solutions. That is, they want solutions that comport with Totalitarianism, not, say, something that may very well work, an army of Bernie Goetzes.
However, Totalitarians don't care about the people and their problems on the subway. They care about their big benefactors though. Her big benefactors care about:
At at news conference in Albany, the governor said she was moved to act after “a group donning masks took over a subway car, scaring riders and chanting things about Hitler and wiping out Jews” on Monday night.Ahaaa! Hochul Minh had no problem with people masking up to smash storefronts, loot, and burn in those peaceful protests in '20. She had no problem with their NOT masking up either, as they had some sort of waiver, apparently...
It was not clear exactly what incident she was referring to, but it could have been a conflation of different episodes related to pro-Palestinian demonstrations that day in Union Square Park.
No, but this here is SERIOUS! It is surprising to see that the ACLU is on the right side of this, well, almost:
“The Governor’s concerns about masks disguising criminal activity won’t be quelled by banning anonymous peaceful protest. Mask bans were originally developed to squash political protests and, like other laws that criminalize people, they will be selectively enforced — used to arrest, doxx, surveil, and silence peopleFIFT and yup.of color and protestorsthe police disagree with,” Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
The Governor of New York is pretty much on the wrong side of everything. Much of the virtue signals and supplies come from Albany down the Holchul Minh Trail, down the east side of the Hudson, through Westchester Country, to NYC. We need to cut these supply lines. I'm thinking B-52's... the same ones as last time in fact, re-engined and with glass cockpits ... call it Operation Wine-Aunt-Cracker.
* Practical in the short run, that is. Being practical may well mean USSR style practicality coming in the long run.
** That's a foreign policy wonk acronym for Rest Of the Degnerate World.
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You think by now, I'd realize ...
Posted On: Monday - June 17th 2024 8:22PM MST
In Topics: University Media Stupidity Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
We've heard it said in a half-joking manner that it's hard to do parody anymore, as stupid as society is today. When you do parody now, you are competing with next week's actual news.
I got suckered by this one:
I think it was on Instapundit that I saw this screenshot, and that was without the tweet border or what-have-you. Yes, I can believe that this White House Press Secretary said that. Bai Dien has been known to spout BS about prices/inflation. Turns out... oh, it was the Babylon Bee.
It's not like the Presidential Press Secretaries of various administrations over the decades haven't lied to us. This Karine Jean-Pierre, though, is something else. It's those big round floating eyeballs - this lady has some sort of voodoo thing going on with those big lyin' eyes. Haitian girls just seem to find out early ... Yeah, it's all voodoo economics. 35 Trillion bucks due, due to that vodoo that you do so well.
Anyone get the song references... anyone, the something gulls, ... Cole somebody... anyone, Bueller?
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Happy Elder Abuse Day!
Posted On: Monday - June 17th 2024 11:37AM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
Peak Stupidity missed Father's Day* yesterday, but time flies, and a new holiday has been proclaimed since then. To celebrate Elder Abuse Day today, we will graphically abuse the American President-reject.
This video shows "gaffes". OK, some readers may like physical humor more, so here's some of that (thanks, Adam Smith!):
Then, there's our own Ronald Reagan-based meme:
"Hey, why abuse this poor elderly man?", readers may (probably not) ask? I'll tell you why. Sure, Dark Brandon doesn't know what's going on half the time. We're sure the Deep State is running things, and this President is just there going along with it all - or likely be shot like JFK? (Really, they wouldn't need to go that far, as giving him another booster jab is all it would take.) The man has "served" his half-century in public "service", so he deserves this. "Quit abusing him!", you (probably won't) exclaim.
I get that. However, it's that same half century, but of his grifting off American taxpayers and corruption with no regard to what's good for America that I don't like one bit. This guy could be the doddering old puppet who means well. He's not. In his most lucid moments, Zhou Bai Dien denigrates American patriots. He threatens them, in fact, in person and en masse.
Abusing elderly Zhou Bai Dien is the very least we could do here. Some elderly men just need abusin'.
Oh, wait, the PS Editor has gotten my attention. Apparently, as per the Gateway Pundit, THE IRONY! Dementia-Ridden Joe Biden Just Proclaimed ‘World Elder Abuse Awareness Day’. Oh!! I missed one word. It's World Elder Abuse Awareness Day! (OK 2 words.**)
Well, I'm aware of one elderly guy who's been abused for the last 3 years, arguably 7. He's only 3 1/2 years younger than Dark Brandon too. That's be Donald Trump, abused by the Feral Gov't, the evil Commies of the State of New York, some fat-ass Black! politician in Georgia... and, oh, I almost forgot, the Lyin' Press too.
This elderly man has more energy than me, and he fights back. Donald Trump, no matter his many flaws, is someone I can really appreciate on this World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. I'm very aware that Trump is one elderly man who's very, very good at abuse. Witness, from this post of ours:
So, Happy Elder Abuse Day, Mr. Trump! As you have been abused, so shall you abuse. Abuse back better!
* That is, as far as posts go. I will say that I'm happy my son has enjoyed our new routine of going out to shoot our .22 rifles once or twice a week. Otherwise, he's at the age during which seems (only seems, I think) uninterested in stuff and answers me on calls from work thusly: "How are you doing?" "Good." "What's going on there?" "Nothing."
I'm still a better shot, but that's not saying too much, and I hope it won't last. This week he will learn to clean the guns. I LUV LUV LUV the smell of that Hoppes Number 9 in the afternoon... smells like ... victory.
** Can an American President declare a holiday for the whole world though? Nah.
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