Steve Sailer strikes out.
Posted On: Saturday - September 6th 2025 5:28PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Globalists Deep State
He's supposed to be a genius of sorts. Yet, in the understanding of the ruination of the American nation, Steve Sailer chalks it all up to incompetence, stupidity, and greed, when there's evil people behind it all. It's his latest post on his substack site that has me pissed off enough to postpone the other illegal (and legal!) immigrant employment economics posts along with a fun one for this tonight.
The post is Why Did the Anglosphere Go Hog Wild Over Immigration?, with the sub-title After Covid, English-speaking nations tended to go nuts over immigrants. How come? Seriously? How come?!
How do you not notice that people are evil and are bent on destruction?
Beyond that gut feeling, the Biden Administration didn’t seem to have a well-worked out rationalization for letting in so many immigrants. Instead, they just seemed to feel that it was racist and Trump-like to try hard to keep immigrants out. And then they got surprised when they eased off border enforcement at how many migrants swarmed in, including from places that had sent very few migrants before.Complete bullshit, Steve. After all this time and the actions – the immigrant invasion (“Asylum”) apps, the flying in of foreigners in the middle of the night on US-based airlines (I witnessed some of this – actually broad daylight), and all that, you think still that this was incompetence and stupidity?
As the guy with no, no, none of that, Deep State behind him says when he’s lucid, “C’mon, man!”
Nobody was "surprised". Alee-Hondro Mayorkas wasn't surprised, because this was the program he ran. The Deep State wasn't surprised, as these Globalists behind the official power knew exactly what they were doing, as they had 4 years to go all out.
Steve Sailer’s assumption is that nobody is evil, just stupid. As the guy who runs this particular website, I should agree, but I don’t. Mr. Sailer’s first comment (and no paywall this time, which is nice for me):
Right, a lot of special interests were involved in the insane immigration explosion of the early 2020s.Special interests have always been involved. In ’20, the Extra-Special Interests, the Deep State Globalists, figured they had this PRP thing done now that they had gotten rid of Trump. Their overall plan, above cheap labor, above MOAR Commie votes, was to make sure there will never be a big active White Middle Class again, anywhere, ever! That’s evil. That’s what they want.
But why didn’t anybody notice?
Oh, and we DID notice that. How could a VDare WRITER, not just reader, not “notice” this? WTF?? VDare covered the whole thing until fat-assed Laticia James, New York Attorney General, shut them down with lawfare last summer.* Mr Sailer understands the motives of cheap labor and more votes, but he thinks the ctrl-left would be doing a better job of it were they not stupid:
As far as I can tell, American liberals really don’t think that much about immigration.They like it. They like anything that dilutes the population of White people, themselves often included. They do think about it - MOAR is good!
You want to know who on the left really thinks about it? That'd be the Globalists, with the goal I described above. White Middle Class men, especially, compete with Global corporations in business, with newer, better ideas. They compete with Globalists for power with their thousands of organizations for various causes. Globalists can't abide that if they are to run the show as they were born to do.
I’ve often suggested to liberals that since a lot of people want to move to America, we should carefully devise policies for letting in the best immigrants and keeping out the worst.Yes, true, but those are the useful idiots. There are others behind it. Do you think the above was the mindset of the traitor Mayorkas? He wanted utter cultural destruction. It's a Commie thing, Sailer, you wouldn't understand ... Stop trying to suggest things to "liberals". They want power - it doesn't matter how reasonable you are.
But I almost never get much intellectual engagement on this sensible idea, because American progressives don’t see who gets to immigrate to America as really being any of the business of Americans like themselves. Instead, it’s the fundamental civil right of all inhabitants of the planet to choose whether or not they want to move to America.
In the SteveSailer.net comments there, it's J.R. Ewing for the win:
I think you are right about average everyday liberals and even most politicians, that it was simple bleeding heart emotion, but I also think a smaller subset of politicians was more nefarious and definitely more calculating. That group knew very well that the state of the world in most countries is comprised of an overclass and an underclass and if normal Americans were going to be uppity and not allow themselves to be perpetually ruled over, then by god we’ll just import our own group of people who will. And we will reward them with public benefits in return, paid for by all the racists who already live here.Bingo.
The small group of people in charge of the democrat party are too smart *not* to know what they were doing, while the people who blindly follow them, who have mostly been brainwashed by liberal and non-racist pieties over the past 50 years, don’t know and don’t care.
The reason for Mr. Sailer's graphic shown above is to illustrate his point:
Ted Kennedy sponsored both the 1965 immigration act and the 1990 diversity visa lottery. Did Teddy’s braintrust carefully calculate how to maximize the Great Replacement?First, it was Philip Hart and Emanuel Celler who brought the bills up in the Senate and House, respectively. Lyndon Johnson, probably the worst President in history, INCLUDING Brandon, signed it.
Nah. As far as I can tell, in both cases, Senator Ted drunkenly reasoned, Mayor Quimby-like, that his bills would bring in more Irishmen to vote for Kennedys.
These guys weren't drunk at the time. No, a big open conspiracy to flood the nation with foreigners probably didn't have a carefully calculated plan by the numbers. I'm betting, with the much more Conservative American population around 60 years ago, they figured it'd take a century to make a large dent in the White population. Well, it went better than any attempt at planning it would have anticipated.
It doesn't take written up plans, dummy. The same people wanted the same thing, that's all... for years, 6 decades now. They aren't stupid. They are evil.
* Just now, believe it or not, it's gotten WORSE for VDare. I think I'll get into that in another post, but for now read Peter Brimelow on his substack site: With Instant MSM Support, NYAG Letitia James Moves To Bankrupt Us Personally
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Chuck E. Cheese nabbed in Tallahassee raid.
Posted On: Friday - September 5th 2025 3:11PM MST
In Topics: Humor
ICE was not involved. This mouse is legal.
Chuck E. Cheese, aka, Chuckie Cheese, aka, just some black thief, was arrested in front of his kid customers in Tallahassee. To clear something up, this doesn't make Chuck E. Cheese a "Florida Man" per se. That terminology applies to often drunk or high (or both) White rednecks, who are getting fewer and farther between in the Sunshine State. They might be thieves too, but whatever they do is done in an unusual, wild, fun manner such as the digging up of Bai Dien campaign signs with a front loader or attempting to shoot down Wal-Mart drones with 9 mm pistols.. This Chuck E. Cheese is no Florida Man. Too bad.
In the video below one can see that Mr. Cheese here was arrested for the theft of a credit card. As usual "I didn't do it!", using it to spend money, that is... no, he just had the stolen card on him... for some reason. This is small-time stuff. Why doesn't The Law go after the Big Cheeses in Irving, Texas who've been minting their own coinage for years!
They would't let ME mint my own currency like that! Plus, the skeeball game is rigged. The ball never lands in the middle!
Note too, that they didn't like it when George Floyd spent bogus currency. Speaking of George Floyd, just save or remember this video, in case, in a few weeks, all we'll see is bodycam footage of Chuck E. down on the ground with cops kneeling on his ears and his tail. "I can't breathe!", he will be seen squeaking. We'll be told the cops' story was full of holes, and it will be dubbed a case of mouse entrapment.
Peak Stupidity has no love for the whole Cheesy Texas-based operation. In one of our very early posts, we compared Chuck E. Cheese vs. the US Feral Government. On the question of who's easier to reach on the phone, the Feral Government won! One has to wade through a lot of corporate bureaucratic cheddar to arrange a birthday party at the local place. Never again.
These mice, the Chuck E. Cheese one, and the Disney one, are cultural icons we'd be glad to be rid of, so book 'em,
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Hot UK cops are not to be appreciated - It's the lawr! (not)
Posted On: Thursday - September 4th 2025 7:23AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny Female Stupidity
The uprisings in the UK that Peak Stupidity has been so hopeful about concern the existential issue of the Population Replacement Program via an immigration invasion. However, our readers have probably read about other stupidity, well, evil, actually, happening in the UK. Some comedian was arrested on his return to Britain due to 3 tweets making fun of the genderbender stupidity. OK, true, it's not funny, not in a "ha ha" way, but a good comedian can make it so.. The UK Ministry of Truth does not agree he should be allowed to or that it's funny either.
I'd seen this next bit of stupidity a few weeks ago and had saved the link and some images for this post. Perhaps, this may be seen as minor stupidity, but it's part of the big picture of Feminism having created a lot of ruin. It's pretty Orwellian too, for that matter.
ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden reported UK Authorities Deploy Undercover Police To Catch Men Who "Catcall". Apparently, Britain is so peaceful that the whistling and verbal appreciation of women's bodies is all there is right now to keep the cops busy ... so there won't have to be layoffs... or something...
The political war on men and masculinity continues to escalate. A long running feminist propaganda narrative is that women in the west deal with random harassment from out-of-control men on a regular basis while walking public streets. Previous attempts to replicate this claim on camera have led to minimal results, with feminist activists wearing revealing clothing pacing back and forth on sidewalks hoping for an incident.Did they try bending over to pick up rubbish to throw in the bin? That might have killed two birds with one stone. (Why do I have to do all the thinking for these people?!)
They catch a few men looking at them briefly, or saying something as innocuous as "hi beautiful", and this is held up as evidence of the terrible plight of women navigating a patriarchal "rape culture". In reality, most men barely take notice. Those that do are harmless and activists are left grasping at straws.How about honking horns at pretty women? Is that still OK?
Jerry Seinfeld is funny, but he got this wrong. The point of honking one's horn is to get the woman to turn around, so we can get a different view for a 2nd opinion. After that... yeah, I don't know ...
Speaking of your 2nd opinions, sometimes all it takes is a close-up view to get one..
I've seen American women cops. It's not their job to look pretty, generally, and they're keeping within their job descriptions. However, these 2 British Bobbettes, well, their respective police departments coulda done a whole lot better. It's probably because we have a college campus nearby 60% front-loaded (and back-loaded) with young women, but I doubt I'd have a whistle to whistle or a harassing comment to utter for these two in the ZH post.
They don't use the Sam Francis-coined term Anarcho-Tyranny over there. Two-tier (yeah I know it rhymes with Kier (Starmer)) policing is what they call it, but Anarcho-Tyranny is a better and more general term. ZH added the following about UK Orwellian Anarcho-Tyranny in general. This is why the place is being mocked by Americans continually (and we helped!):
Police admit that there are no specific laws against these behaviors, but UK politicians and authorities have been using color-of-law enforcement since before the pandemic mandates. In other words, it doesn't matter what laws are written down, if they decide they don't like something you're doing they might threaten you or potentially arrest you regardless.(Oh, and you have to pay a tax to keep your TV. THROW! IT! OUT!) I did not get to screen-shotting the tweets, but the article also notices the differences between the Authoriah's handling of public relations between the sexes in the case of the Moslem foreigners vs the proper Englishmen.
Numerous people in Britain have been arrested for posting memes, praying silently within the vicinity of abortion clinics, and even for flying British flags within the sight of migrants. A widespread indoctrination campaign has been launched to demonize white males in particular, with many PSA commercials, TV shows and other media showing white men as the common perpetrators of harassment and assault. Meanwhile, numerous crimes involving migrants (specifically crimes against women) are buried and the identities of the assailants are kept confidential.
African migrant slaps white woman in the face after she refuses his perverted advances, another migrant then kicks her from behind. They all laugh. These are very sick people.
A migrant attacked and spat at a British woman. She described him, understandably, to the police as a "filthy migrant".These two British cops wouldn't get anywhere near the Moslem areas in their "gettin'" shorts, as lame as they are. The whole department, maybe the Royal Marines, would have to come in and rescue... their bodies. So they will jog on by any such behaviour as described in order to frame and arrest a decent English bloke for appreciating their rear ends, as half-assed ..., well, again, I live near a campus. Cheeks are in style.
She gets a lecture on her choice of language.
It's Feminism, Ararcho-Tyranny, and Orwellianism, working together in perfect harmony in Formerly-Great Formerly-Britain. It's pretty sick.
PS: OK just one (ZH comment), from Finnzero:
To be sure, I only tell women how ******* ugly and stupid they are. That way I won't end up in jail.(The asterisks have been a ZH thing since sometime last decade.)
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Illegal Alien labor price differential: Produce
Posted On: Wednesday - September 3rd 2025 9:57AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics
Don't worry, readers. This will not be a research paper for a graduate level Econ Seminar. First off, there wil be no Calculus. We use the word "differential" in its basic sense, but students are used to seeing it only in the context of the imaginary but useful, infinitesimally small line segments, arcs, areas, and volumes of all sorts in, well, differential Calcuseless*. No, we'll just have basic arithmetic here, and also, because this is not a graduate level economics research paper, there will be no Conclusion full of bullshit.
One could extrapolate the hand harvesting of produce to lots of manual labor that America is said to be dependent on, with NO OTHER WAY. UNPOSSIBLE! Some of these industries would be roofing, yard care, chicken plucking, chicken trucking, you name it. It's only the produce picking that's been done by illegal alien labor for so long, that most Americans really can't remember American's doing the work. Therefore, we'll discuss produce.
VDare, who I really hope will come back online soon**, had writers using the sardonic phrase about the "crops rotting in the fields" regularly. They understood that Big Ag makes more profit using cheap labor, but, no, Supply & Demand says that crops won't be rotting in the fields. (VDare founder Peter Brimelow, BTW, had a successful career as a finance guru, sometimes on TV!)
At this point, before my anecdotal knowledge of the actual rate/cost of picking tomatoes and cucumbers, let me say that I'd completely forgotten our post (I mean, we've got 3,337 of 'em) Holy Moley, we're out of Guacamole! written April 2nd of '19, so 6 1/3 years ago. For some reason, as I got ready to write this post, I had a vision of an avocado... then of a research paper about the harvesting thereof. Let me excerpt a fair portion of it (my post, not the research paper):
As to the question of the labor costs per avocado, I'm not going to use rectal extraction today - I spent 20 minutes (MAX) looking into this and came up with ONE THIN DIME per piece addition in labor costs from increasing the pay by $10/hr, with an extremely conservative estimate. Look at the bottom, below the asterisk line.Note that I copied that link to the 1967 time and motion study.
Now, I know that buck a piece one may pay for avocados on sale is not the price the growers charge. However, even if they must raise their wholesale prices by that whole big dime, it's still only a 10% rise at the store. We wouldn't even notice.
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The thing about this particular fruit is that it is expensive per unit, unlike apples for instance. How much labor cost is involved in picking avocados? This time-and-motion study> from 1967! investigating the benefits of using what we now call a Snorklift, is pretty easy to read. I can only imagine picking rates have gone up since then, with various other improvements short of robotic automation. Just with 1967 data, though, tone can note a pick rate of ~ 18 piece per minute. This time accounts for moving from spot to spot and tree to tree, AND everything else involved (transport, sorting, stacking, everything). The study gives numbers all in boxes, which can vary from containing 20 to 80 pieces. Let's just get a real conservative number by using 20/box. In this time-study, with the use of the Snorklift (and things have only improved) and including all time involved, the observers came up with 6 minutes required to pick 20 pieces.
Now, you see, this is not just rectal extraction here. Just 3 pieces per minute still means that, even with rest breaks, a guy can pick 150 avocados in that hour in which he's making either $5 or $15, depending on whether we want to destroy the American nation or not. Call it 100/hour. I keep rounding down for ease and conservatism, so I come up with either 5 cents or 15 cents (NICE ROUND NUMBERS). That's a difference of ONE THIN DIME. If one did not round everything toward conservatism, and accounted for improvements in methods, well it's probably a nickel or LESS.
OK, as they say, "Now do cucumbers." You got it. See, I picked them for a couple of weeks. Even then, we two were the only White guys, and the rest were Mexicans. This was long ago and, as one might surmise, my Dad's idea.
To digress just a little, did we get along? Nah, not really - they spoke only enough English to do the job, and one day they stole our lunches off the bus.
However, we had been excited to make, in a time of under $3 minimum wage, a buck per bucket of cucombres (well, that's how the Mexicans pronounced it, so it kind of stuck for a while). That was until we saw the buckets. If you are imaging a pail, such as one might use at the beach, the prospect of being able to fill 5 or maybe even 10 of these things an hour - easy, right? - had us enthusiastic beforehand. $5 or $10 an hour! We'd have a whole lot of money, and it'd be well worth being in the hot summer sun all day for this big money. No, but, see, these buckets were about 2 feet wide and a foot deep, and since volume goes as the cube of the... [We promised there would BE no Calculus! - Ed.]
Some basic numbers: We made about a buck or buck and a half an hour. We quit after 2 weeks. OK, more pertinently, I would hazard a guess that each bucket held over a hundred cukes. Another way of looking at that is one could easily pick 5-10 pieces a minute. Even accounting for moving around, resting a big, etc. that 200-300 pieces/hr doesn't quite match my memory of our measly pay pay and the bucket size. It's just been way, way too long.
Let's be conservative and go with 200 cukes/hr and $2 made, so a penny a piece. In today's money, call it a dime apiece. (Interestingly, that matches the avocado-picking cost.) IOW, the Mexicans, Guatemalans, whoever, doing it now, might be paid $10/hr, maybe $15.*** This is closer to 5-7¢, in the ball park here.
Let's talk price differential here, between this alien labor and some rate that American workers could actually live with.*** Look, picking cucumbers was never supposed to be part of a career path. As a summer job for young men who could take it, or even for a period of other-joblessness, could it suffice? How much would make it worth it in today's greatly-decreasing currency? $30/hr? I think Americans would do the work, if they could imagine that Americans COULD actually pick produce.
That's difference of 7¢ per cucumber, a factor of 2 to 3. That latter factor sounds bad, and for the employer it IS a big hit, hence the bitching and the pushing on Trump to say something highly stupid about it all. OTOH, still, how much of the farmer's cost is harvesting? I don't know that.
What I do know is how much of the retail price for cucumbers is that differential of 7¢ a cucumber. My wife's been doing the bulk of the shopping at Aldi's for years. They may not be on sale today, but 79¢ apiece is the price for decent sized cukes with seeds. (I guess you can do better by the lb.. but only a little.) So, the cost differential in retail pricing is about 10%. That's the difference the American consumer would notice (or NOT****) when he goes to the grocery in some new era without that illegal alien cheap labor, after Deportation Nation.
No, nunca! Cucombres will not be rotting in los fields! And screw you, too, cholos, for stealing our lunches that day. (Man, Peak Stupidity can really hold a grudge! Who knew that one day long ago in the hot summer sun, that'd I'd be writing a blog post to avenge myself? Who knew there'd be this internet thingy to write it on either?)
OK, I was gonna do tomatoes, because we picked them too, but ahhhh, manana, amigo. Next post, let's look at services. Because of President Trump stupid (hopefully, BS) talk about agriculture and hospitality, I'll write something about hotel housekeeping staff.
* I write that humorous disparaging form in jest, from an otherwise bright student from long ago who just didn't get it. (You tend to hate a subject, and think less of it, when you don't get it.)
** The latest great news about VDare's nemesis, fat-assed Leticia James, is that not only has she been lying about her property for tax purposes, but she has had a criminal fugitive niece of hers holing up in her Maryland house. Will the Black! Get-out-of-jail card help her out on this one? At least she will be highly distracted.
*** That's untaxed, but let's get to that in the 3rd post of this series.
**** I've written before, in this post about hardware that, compared to monthly rises in prices due to inflation, changes of 10% on small items are barely noticable. These hikes would stay proportionate. Of course, on one's whole grocery bill, were it mostly produce and other items harvested now by cheap labor, he'd see the same 10% increase.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, aka "Dances with Somalians"
Posted On: Tuesday - September 2nd 2025 7:43PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Humor
What a piece of work the Mayor of
Here he ingratiates himself with his newest constituents. I'm sure they will all vote for him again, or the next ctrl-left Jewish guy running, cause, diversity.
I'm no John Rivolto myself, I will admit, but Jake, you're butchering it!
I thought I'd never say this, the kind of thing kids at school would beat you up over, but, bring back Disco! At least bring back the days when there was Disco.
No, no! The singers were NOT chipmunks. They were people. It was the 1970s - you wouldn't understand. Nobody did.
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Sick Sikh "trucker", tribalism, and making hay of it all
Posted On: Monday - September 1st 2025 7:28PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Peak Stupidity Roadshow President DeSantis
I'd rather not even have the sound here, but, besides the use of "migrant", the Sky News Aussies are OK:
I don't use the word in the modern sense, when "sick" can mean daring and amazing. We've probably all seen video and that stupid sick driving move - making a u-turn with a big rig right across a highway! - and the look on that sick Sikh's face after he likely beheaded 3 people in a mini-van.*
Yes, he was yet another illegal alien killing Americans when he shouldn't have ever been here. Sometimes it's violent Latin Americans killing people on purpose, and other times it's drunk Latin Americans killing people by accident, and other times it's just stupid people who know nothing doing stupid things like this, things we'd have better off heard of them doing somewhere not in America, because they shouldn't be here.
Just to recap, this turban-headed (Sikh) Harbinder Singh came into this country across the Southern border in '18 and claimed asylum. The stupidity of a system that lets someone claim this on the other side of the world, let alone start some "pending hearing" process that lets the guy in, is our Immigration system in a nutshell. Then, Washington State officials gave this guy a Commercial Driver's License - "gave" because he couldn't have earned it, as his English was and has been nil. Then, this CDL prompted California to issue him one.
America has had nice things among the various States like drivers license reciprocity. I think if the stupid and traitorous States like those mentioned keep this up, perhaps this will have to end. We can't have nice things... As I looked through some videos, I see that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained this whole story in 6 minutes, and it included CDL non-reciprocity (for illegals). I gotta say this again: Ron DeSantis would have been a more capable and much more focused and just plain better President than Donald Trump. However, as one can see here, he comes of very matter-of-factly, with the right details, he's clear and all... but the outrage that Americans feel just doesn't come through. Everything he says here makes good sense. That he doesn't speak to the heart does matter, unfortunately. Anyway...
After that long intro, let me, or rather, American Renaissance's Greg Hood (aka VDare's James Kirkpatrick, aka actually Kevin DeAnna) make the first point about this story. That is, that millions of Indians around the world are supporting this guy based on tribalism. Here is the beginning of his post Defending the Indefensible:
Imagine you are a foreign tractor-trailer driver — let’s say you are German — working in the United States. You make a flagrantly illegal U-turn on a path meant for official use only. You have to crawl across four lanes of traffic to do it, and not surprisingly, a car with members of another race slams into your truck. All passengers die. You offer no assistance. You cannot speak English but are allowed to leave the scene without being charged. You immediately flee to another state 2,000 miles away. Unfortunately for you, you are arrested and returned to the state where the collision took place. Incidentally, you are an illegal immigrant.Nope, they're not.
What would the reaction be from white truck drivers, or whites generally? Can you imagine whites mobilizing in your defense? Would a large organization of Germans demand lenient treatment for you? Would millions of whites around the world sign a petition supporting you? Would thousands mock your victims, because they were not white and therefore, somehow, had it coming? Finally, would you expect the German government to work for you and a German politician to speak up for you?
Most whites would be ashamed to appeal to racial loyalty to defend such a person. Even white advocates believe that racial solidarity should not excuse him.
We must understand that others are not like us.
My next point is that with all the talk of California's and Washington's role in these deaths, along with the immigration system, I don't want to hear about "more vetting", "harder CDL tests", and "reading English"**. Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t care if Sikhs were the best damn drivers in the world. I wouldn’t care if they spoke and read English better than all Americans other than William Safire. I don’t care if they will now be vetted down to the number of times they were put in the RTC (Responsible Thinking Center, aka detention) in elementary school back in the Punjab.
They shouldn’t be here to begin with!
Now, after writing that, I have another thought, something I've written before in these PS posts, that combines these 2 points. Let's take the German example. Imagine if 20 million German immigrants have come into America instead of the last 20 million from 3 dozen mystery countries. (Let's also be clear that these were to be actual Germans, not Syrians come by way of Germany.)
A comment under Mr. Hood's post argued about the skills of foreign drivers, immigrant or not, illegal or not. Who says they're worse on the whole?, he asked. Well, first of all, I guess I shouldn't have picked Germans as the example (just rolling with Mr. Hood's thoughts) because we think of them, at least, as the best drivers. They know how to stay the heck to the right*** from their time on the autobahn (on the 2 lanes/direction you'd better!), they will take their tuned-port-injection, finely tuned machines into the shop first exit after a check-engine light ... all that, we imagine.
Anyway, they might be the best drivers in the world, the incoming Germans, so per the commenter, that's good. Wrecks and fatalities would be down. No, they wouldn't be down, not in absolute numbers. "Well, sure, but we're talking per capita here", you're bound to get in retort. Sorry, I don't care about per capita. I don't want more capita. More capita means higher numbers for all problems, crowded roads of course, more damage to the environment, higher housing costs, higher unemployment rates, you name it, and you could name a whole lot more were they not Germans but Haitians, Venezuelans, and Somalians. Mo people, mo problems.
OK, SURE, I'd much rather see 20 million German immigrants than a continuation of what we've had. They, all Europeans, tend to be more Socialist, but most of the problems we see from highly-strange foreigners, such as some idiot killing 3 people with this Sikh move wouldn't exist.
This has been a big story. I'm glad for that. It's a shame that it seems to take, over and over, Americans getting killed in various ways by illegal aliens in order to keep bringing the PRP issue to the forefront. We shouldn't have to argue this issue based on these horrible events. That the planned invasion is happening at all, were it even of the best and the brightest, and the best drivers in the world, still ought to be a big political issue.
In all the writing about this crash, the common sense that asks "Why don't Americans just drive the big rigs like they used to?" was severely lacking. It used to be a pretty good career. This was that golden time for truckers in the mid-late 1970s in which CB (Citizen's Band) radio was a big fad and truckers and long-haul trucking were looked up to, by the kids at least.
Peak Stupidity has featured both of these videos before, but you gotta love that Skynyrd song (Ronnie Van Zant's Dad was a trucker) and then, Smokey and the Bandit absolutely must appear in this nostalgic look at old White America when American guys, not sick Sikhs, could make a good living and have songs written about them. (We'll find that CW McCall song too.)
Now, let's be clear: This is Westbound and Down ("Eighteen wheels a-rollin'"), played as the Snowman and the Bandit made their way westbound to Texarkana, Arkansas. Eastbound and Down ("Loaded up and truckin'") was played as they made their way back to Atlanta, Georgia with their cases of delicious Coors beer. (Made from natural spring water, or piss, or somethin'...)
PS: Final thoughts: There are pretty good comments under a number of these videos on youtube. Yes, sue the California officials who gave this guy a CDL, Sue the trucking company for hiring an illegal alien. Sue everyone.
* Even had they slowed down to 30 or 40 mph, which doesn't seem to have been the case from the video, airbags don't save you in this type of crash. Most of the cabin just scoots under the truck until metal and human beings hit big pieces of steel. It had to have been horrific.
** When it comes down to it, that this guy's English was nil and he shouldn't have had a CDL due to that is one thing, but it's not the reason he killed these people in Florida. All the roads signs in the world, in Hindi or whatever couldn't fix this kind of stupid.
*** We experience that stupidity on our recent road trip, but I will say that everyone I flashed the lights to (3 times) pulled back to the right. Maybe Trump's deportation numbers have been bigger than I'd thought! (Nah, Americans mostly don't get this either.)
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Starmer's Stormtroopers in Epping, England
Posted On: Friday - August 29th 2025 5:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists People's Revolt
Things got too busy for posting yesterday. I had wanted to start on a 3 post series on price differentials for goods/services between illegal alien labor and American labor, first of all, but with plenty more current items to cover.
I won't be posting anything this weekend either, so I had thought I'd leave you all with some really funny stuff from a guy I hadn't thought of in a couple of years, one Alex Stein #99.
However, then Instapundit had a couple of videos of police heavy-handedness against anti-PRP protesters in Epping, UK. Most of the protests are simply about keeping damn foreign, often violent "migrants" out of their local hotels - it really doesn't sound like too much to ask either, or should I say, too much to DEMAND. It so happens that specifically in Epping, some judge (same old, same old) has ruled that an injunction against housing violent foreigners in the hotel doesn't stand. Yeah, you can take you legalities and shove 'em. Brits don't talk like that though ...
One of these days, the Government of the UK, and others with it, will have to start doing a few things that the people want.
Here are a bunch of British people talking, not raising hell in the streets, but you may get something out of this anyway.
Here there's this Emma Dunwell interviewing some Brits on the street that are (mostly) telling it like it is:
(I'm trying to get from a video in a tweet to one I can embed here for you... starting from this Emma Dunwell chick.)
That's a bit too civil and calm for me. That's not the story. Let me embed this long split-screen deal off of Rumble for now. It's cumbersome, so if nothing else, go to Instapundit and scroll down to the first X video (~7 min. long).
Those cops are all White. What is wrong with them? Were they to stand down and go back to the station... even with just that modicum of courage, no one's going to fire them all anyway. Standing down means standing up for your own people. How do you GET like this, Starmer's troopers?!
Does someone up high WANT civil war, because that's the way this is leading, and that's the way it MUST lead, unless the Government reverses course. Who is behind the UK Government pushing for it? Now we're getting to it...
Here's the video I wanted to show, thanks yet again to helpful commenter Adam Smith:
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[UPDATED 08/31:] Adam Smith came up with the video I was looking for. Thanks again, Adam!
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Cracker Barrel - from Fake to Fake & Gay? (And back again.)
Posted On: Wednesday - August 27th 2025 11:02AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Big-Biz Stupidity Inflation Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Yeah, The Cracker Barrel Restaurant (shssssh, 1 of 600) has a nice wide porch with rocking chairs. You can set out there and shoot the breeze, then come inside for biscuits & gravy and sweet tea, get some penny candy for the road... "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" ("No, we don't hear, we're out of New Jersey, gotta rush cause we're running behind on our trip to Miami, and my wife forgot her hearing aid.")
It's been fake country the whole time I can remember. The "stores", as they are called in the chain restaurant business, number 600 or so, and they are managed by Corporate in Lebanon, Tennessee.*
Full disclosure here: Your Peak Stupidity Assistant Lead Blogger here (actually, Assistant TO the Lead Blogger) has eaten at various Cracker Barrel restaurants somewhere between 5 and 10 times. It's been a while - besides that as an explanation for that wide range, I also believe I'll be shocked to see current prices next time I frequent one.
I like the atmosphere in the place(s), but I really understand that, say, a talk about business will not be like this, out on the porch:
Yeah, Freddy, it's been slow, but with the County Fair comin' up and all, lots of folks will be drivin' by here. Things oughta pick up. We've gotta still pay Goober back for fixin' that leak in the roof.Nobody's talkin', screw it, talking business out on the porch in the rocking chairs, and the
Folks have been complainin' 'bout the corn bread too. Miss Jemima is so nice, I just hate to tell her that's she's using too much butter ... Also, with the stove actin' up, we may have to raise up the price on the penny candy to pay for it ...
Shoot, I still gotta repaint the darn sign, it's gettin' so faded, but my knees... I can't get up on the roof today, maybe next week...
Same store sales are only up 1.2 % this quarter. The Board says we'll have to cut somewhere, based on last month's print. Guys. Guys! Look at the powerpoint, not my chest. Purchasing says they can make it up by sourcing new biscuit batter and canned gravy through our 3rd-party vendor in Wuhan, China.It's all corporate arranged down-home country goodness. I think, I would hope we - all customers - know that. The nostalgia will still bring people in. Then, there's the food... and the "retro" candy.
Cuupla' more items here... lets see... we'll be shuttering 4 stores in lower Alabama. These ones are in very diverse areas. Not that that has ANYTHING whatsoever to do with it, but we've had excessive internal and external shrinkage in the region.
Some of our stores have had roof leaks. Our vendors are switching to a new source of fake corrugated sheet metal, made out of earth-friendly plastic, so this will look great next time the Board hears from Greta.
Some of the corporate team will be doing store visits next week. No, haha, I'm not gonna eat country fried steak and collard greens**. We'll probably hit up the Ruth Chris's nearby.
Oh, and guys, we've got a new branding campaign coming on-line. We'll start off with $5 million to get it rolling. Gary says we've got a crack marketing expert, new fine arts grad out of Smith. I'm excited ...
I gotta admit to having a severe sweet tooth, and I appreciate the old candy that I don't see at the gas stations too often. I noticed the "7 for $1" "penny candy". I don't recall these being a penny, but if that were in the 1950s, say, that'd be about right with long-term inflation rates, a factor of 15, that is, at 1,400% inflation rate over 7 decades. We've always gotten a few items from the country store area on the way out.
OK, so what's the problem, and why the post here? What, you haven't heard?
The Cracker Barrel controversy has been about the logo, such as on the mustard***-yellow signs. There's the old White guy sitting by the cracker barrel. That had to go, per some corporate marketing genius. Actually, I would think that these people really know that they are hurting the old-timey-country brand by doing this, but they'd figured, getting away from any and all Whiteness is still more important. It WAS, anyway.
Putting some old black guy, as nice as he might seem, in the same place would be just too obvious. You could put some tranny on there ... nah, not country... oh, and also, yeah, that whole Bud Light branding change didn't work out well. I don't know, people are fickle...
So, they went for bland corporatism. That's also not country, but it's at least not gay. Back to full non-sarcastic mode here, I did wonder what the controversy was on this one. Cracker Barrel went from fake to just more admittedly fake country/corporate run.
However, they've purposely distanced themselves from the old White guy, hanging out by the old cracker barrel. People have been finally getting sick of this stuff, and instead of talking about it on the porch, they are on the anti-Social media now, and Cracker Barrel is feeling the heat. It's been mighty hot out this week, whaddya' think, Floyd?
When I looked into it more, I found that the company has been known to give lots of money to lefty causes, such as the BLT-G++ business, SURELY not country in the least. Cracker Barrel would tend to have very largely Conservative customers. Did this branding change clue some of them in to the rest of the story? The publicity from this change must have surprised some of the Corporate Crackers.
Through the anti-Social media Conservatives have enlarged their opposition. Rather than just retro candy, we now have Cracker Barrel eye candy.
It turns out that Peak Stupidity has been so slow to weigh in here, that this story had already taken a turn. Cracker Barrel has relented today.
This is great. It's not that I would care about the sign next time I'd eat at a Cracker Barrel. I doubt I'd notice, honestly. However, Conservatives have shown that they will resist any hint of wokeness or anti-Whiteness now from Big Biz by putting their money, tweets, and occasionally tits, into play.
In the battle of Big Biz v Big Tits, I think we know who wins out.
* At least in the South. That part of Tennessee and central Kentucky too are beautiful country.
** Can't blame her one bit!
*** That'd be fancy-mustard yellow, not French's-mustard yellow. Only the good stuff.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Amendment II Celebration Day
Posted On: Monday - August 25th 2025 5:04PM MST
In Topics: Commies History ctrl-left Morning Constitutional Guns Holiday from Stupidity
Peak Stupidity says drop one of the other Federal Holidays, preferably Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, because if nothing else, and there's a LOT else, the name is too damn long. I see a problem with the proximity to Labor Day, but then Federal workers could merge it all into one long 9-day holiday, get out of town, and give us all a break.
We don't use the word "hero" lightly around here. The Kung Flu drug store employees who actually braved all the germs and came into work to sell skittles, Arizona Ice Tea, and cold medicine just didn't cut it as heroes. That's just me, I guess. Seriously, there are other cases I could bring up in which the word "hero" is used and I don't agree. Kyle Rittenhouse, however, is, yes, a hero.
He shot and killed 2 Communist attackers and wounded another with his AR-15 in Kenosha Wisconsin in self-defense 5 years ago today. That alone doesn't make him a hero, as much as it was some nice shooting under extreme duress. That he came out 15 miles from home that night to protect businesses under arson and other destructive attack is a good start. He became a hero, I would say, by being there and then doing what needed to be done, and being a great example of one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
The primary reason for it is, of course, to enable us to defend ourselves against an out-of-control beast of a Federal Gov't, or any oppressive government. Since the antifa and the BLM thugs were basically sanctioned by the Feral Gov't of '20, Kyle Rittenhouse's use of his AR was a pretty close example of the point of Amendment II for us.
Since this is 5 y/o history, the reader may want to refresh his memory of what happened that night - Peak Stupidity posted KYLE'S LIFE MATTERS! 4 days later.
Lest we forget why Mr. Rittenhouse shot 3 men, I will remind readers that Gaige Grosskreutz, wounded in the arm, had been pointing a handgun at our hero. One of the 2 men killed, Anthony Huber, was about to bash his head in with a skateboard. A skateboard is in that case assuredly a weapon. Joseph Rosenbaum, the dumbass, grabbed the barrel of Mr. Rittenhouse's rifle and got 4 rounds to various and sundry of his body organs. Either way you do it, play Commie street games, win Commie prizes.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of the murder charges laid on him based on self defense 15 months later, on November 19th of '21. Maybe that could be the holiday. I like today though.
I'm not so sure about either remark... just sayin..."
Mr. Hail, in the comments here, reminded me of his post “The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse” (2021) from Nov. 22nd of '21, possibly written right then due to Mr. Rittenhouse's acquittal 3 days prior. Mr. Hail has got lots of info on the "victims" and more, along with The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse by Clifton Hicks:
PS: I'd like to thank the Unz Review/iSteve commenter Old Prude (he's written in here once or twice) for this idea.
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Attorneys General Gone Wild!
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 4:20PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
NOTE: Title corrected after our receipt of a nasty voicemail from William Safire.
Cops have bodycams now. Though often "so tiresome", some of the footage taken can be really entertaining. Why do we enjoy these clips of those drunk and disorderly government officials and public figures getting arrested? Think about it. I wouldn't have watched this one were it Chris Christie getting arrested... or even William Safire.
You're gonna wanna' watch this. You're gonna watch because the drunk and disorderly ones are decked out women in slinky dresses. In this one, from the New York Post article RI prosecutor threatens cops to shut off body cameras while being arrested for alleged trespassing: ‘You’re going to regret it’, we can see the teaser of Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan in her pink dress, kind of unkempt.
Wait, is she really Assistant Attorney General or Assistant TO the Attorney General? There's a big difference:
So, yeah, most views of these clips of Attorneys General Gone Wild! and such are from we men who expect, with all the jostling around and drunkenness, there are pretty good odds there will be wardrobe malfunctions. "Wardrobe malfunctions" are the stuff of clickbait videos that have suckered even me once ... or a coupla' dozen times.
The Assistant (to the?) Attorney General's* friend Veronica Hannan is much feistier in this footage, so yeah... it wouldn't be anything worth watching without her previous consumption of all the wines cooler and Pinas Collada, would it?
Whether you care for all that or not, I ask the reader to at least skip to 05:20 in, when Miss Hannan, the one in the silky lemon yellow dress, is escorted into the unit, that is, the cop car. 5 years back, within a week or less after the reprobate George Floyd overdosed - you may have heard about that - there were lots of videos on youtube that I couldn't find again later.** One was cop bodycam footage of the attempt to force Mr. Floyd into the back of the cop car. (This was quite a while before Derek Chauvin had him pinned down on the ground.) He also had his legs stretched out to prevent the door being shut. Let me tell you, if you notice here that it was a quite a struggle to put 100 lb Veronica Hannan into the back of a cop car, imagine how it went with 6 footer, over 200 lb, drugged-up George Floyd! Worse, imagine Chris Christie, even if he weren't resisting!
OK, here's the video you've been wanting to watch:
Well, there's another blog week for ya'. Peak Stupidity WILL get to those estimates on illegal alien labor savings as a proportion of prices for goods and services. There's other stuff we've been meaning to write about too. Have a happy Sunday!
* I know that ain't right. We're gonna hear from Mr. Safire again, I just know it!
** They didn't even appear in the hour and 42 min. long movie The Fall of Minneapolis.
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An AntiChrist looks at 95
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 7:39AM MST
In Topics: Music AntiChrist Globalists Bible/Religion
If you ever have a problem with a post title here on Peak Stupidity, think song lyrics.
I can really see how this guy could be one of the antiChrists. I'd been confused on this issue before, but, yes, there can be multiple small-A antiChrists working under the one big one, per Revelation. Things are pretty bad, but I don't think Big-A AntiChrist has arrived yet on the scene. (Perhaps he has already been hatched in some fetid nest in Washington, F.S.)
About this particular one, Peak Stupidity has been remiss in not noting George Soros's 95th birthday till now - it was 8 days before Ron Paul's 90th. You can go back half a century, 2 years more than half this creature's life ago, and I doubt you'd have heard anyone say "Yeah, he seems like a pretty good guy." No, George Soros life has been about making shit-tonnes of money through financial dealing that occasionally bankrupt entire governments and influencing societies toward his liking. I can't think of anything constructive George Soros has done. Most of his philanthropic projects I've read about have ulterior political and/or financial motives, and I don't like said motives.
I wonder what his childhood was like...
Well, we don't have to wonder anymore, cause we've got Wikipedia, ;-} Check out "Early Life" of György Schwartz here, and note the following lower down on his page:
As a child, Soros fantasized about being a God/. In his book Underwriting Democracy, he wrote, "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." He later elaborated on that passage in an interview saying, "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."Okeedokey, then ...
I only kept up with this possible antiChrist because ZeroHedge touted his birthday... in a way. The writer, one Parker Thayer, celebrates A Legacy Erased: Happy Birthday, George Soros. Alex Soros is one of 5 of George Soros' spawn. He has 4 sons, 2 from his 1st marriage and 2 from his 2nd. Alex Soros, from the 2nd marriage (the other son from that coupling being an artist) is the antiChrist heir apparent, I guess, but it's
Over the last few years, he has handed over control of his empire to his son, Alex, and Alex seems unable to do either of those things successfully.On the money end, Alex seems more of a virtue-signaler than his Dad, the spoiled brat, so he's lost his ass in Rivian (Normal, Illinois) electric vehicles. Then, getting politics involved to help his business interests, he supported that fat-ass Stacey Abrams in Georgia (with a Rivian plant involved) to no avail. The rest of his politics are pure American ctrl-left.
Alex Soros is married to former main squeeze d' hildabeast, Huma Abedin. In the words of George Castanza, I gotta say, "You coulda' done a LOT better!" He's a powerful Billionaire. What stupidity! I guess love is blind, and it's a match made in hell.
Really all I care about is the damage George Soros, with his heir trying to help, has done in destroying America. He does have 3 houses in New York, so I guess he's not done with America. (A guy sent a pipe bomb to him in '18, but that was a bust.) The (very) elder Soros has been clever in his political support. Rather than spend 100's of million of dollars in attempt to sway the big elections, when a guy like Trump can still ruin it all, he started his Soros D/As project maybe a decade back. You might have $18 Billion, but you still have to stay on a budget. So, you spend just a few hundreds of thousands on these much less publicized campaigns for Districts Attorney [No, No, that's NOT it! - William Safire], who will have the power to screw up cities even worse than ever by letting violent criminals go free to kill some more. One wonders how many Americans George Soros has indirectly, but purposely, killed this way.
You can get them elected, but after too much mayhem, even city people will have had enough.
Today, more than a dozen Soros DA’s have been removed from office by recalls, scandals, or simply not seeking re-election. And the spike in urban crime ended up being a key factor for the Democratic Party’s defeat in 2024.Maybe his spawn Alex just doesn't have the fire in his belly, or back where he came from, to do this societal destruction right. The conclusion by Mr. Thayer:
The demise of the Soros DA is more than a rejection of Soros’ legacy on criminal justice policy. It was also a rejection of his legacy on immigration. As one might guess from a name like “Open Society,” Soros is a proponent of open borders. One reason Soros began funding DAs in 2016 was to create “sanctuary cities” that would be the heart of the so-called “resistance.”
The second election of Donald Trump—in a race where crime, immigration, and the IRA were three of the major issues—was America’s personal slap to George Soros’ face. Today, on his 95th birthday, his legacy is in shambles.As usual, I went to the comments for more fun reading, but I haven't found a real standout yet.
Happy Birthday, George!
Parrotheads would already know this, but our title here comes from the title of a very poignant Jimmy Buffet song, if you're a son of a son of a sailor. I'm not, but I know someone who fit this song well. This song not from the Son of a Son of a Sailor album, as one might expect. A Pirate Looks at Forty is from his album A1A* from 1974. This ballad has good lyrics as usual for Jimmy Buffet and with a great tune, very much like He Went to Paris.
Here's a live version from 1991. It's not as polished, and it doesn't the have good harmonizing vocals like the studio version. Also almost 3 minutes of the beginning is some dialog about the Key's sailor and bar fly the song is about. He's still there... in an urn.
PS: Peak Stupidity has written other posts about this antiChrist candidate. See Psychopathic, ex-Nazi, Commie Globalist disses Donald Trump - - The latest actual AntiChrist according to our part-time intern - - 60 minutes with the AntiChrist, and First rule of AntiChrist Club.
* Highway A1A is the Florida east coast road. It's stays to the east of the I-95, but is sometimes combined with the US-1. Jimmy was referring to the portion that connects all The Keys, I assume.
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Africans marginalized by the Mercator Projection
Posted On: Thursday - August 21st 2025 12:25PM MST
In Topics: Music Geography Race/Genetics
The World is a
Well, some Africans are all bent out of shape about th... oh, no pun intended there... they feel kind of marginalized, to put it in 21st Century terms. The Legal Insurrection site (Instapundit Glenn Reynolds links to them a lot) reports that these Africans' problem is the Mercator Projection. African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”. The "disinformation" is Africa being displayed on maps using this projection as smaller than it is. The sub-headline:
The reason? African Union member unhappy with the relative size of the continent presented on those maps, as it makes them feel…marginalized.It's a mine is bigger than yours thing, but with continents. Why have White mapmakers been marginalizing Africa, hence, any Africans with chips on their shoulders (don't they all?) for well nigh 4 1/2 centuries? It's gotta be just pure hate.
It's not all maps though, but the Mercator Projection, as normally aligned, has this error of areas nearer the Poles displayed as larger than areas nearer the Equator.
First of all, what IS a projection? See the figure above. To get that Wal-Mart globe paper onto a flat rectangular one must find a way to "project" the sphere's surface onto a rectangle that is positioned around it. One can think of this "projection" as using a light source to project every (almost) part of the map onto said surface and the tracing it out on the flat surface. Or, what you really do, after imagining this, is use math.
Math??? Yikes. I was led to believe there would be no Greek!
The diagram above from wiki shows the idea behind a Mercator projection It is one of multiple ways to transfer the surface-of-a-sphere picture of the world to a map sailors and, dare I say, World Conquerors and Colonizers could use. Why didn't they just carry globes? Kinda' hard to plot a course on one in the Captain's quarters ... In fact, as compared to other projections, the Mercator was deemed best for sailors keeping Rhumb Lines. These course that cross latitude lines at the same angle were easier to sail than other methods. They, BTW, are not Great Circle routes*, though for small distances, such as day-long drives it doesn't matter. In fact, the Flemish Geographer and Mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (see, he wasn't Greek, so...) who first presented his namesake projection in 1569, mentioned the difference:
Even for longer distances, the simplicity of the constant bearing makes it attractive. As observed by Mercator, on such a course the ship would not arrive by the shortest route but it will surely arrive.That's always the main thing. (This was well before Greta and the Climate Calamity™.)
Well, see, most people don't do a lot of sailing across the ocean these day, what with the long-range widebody airliners and all. Those who do sail have GPS and other than navigating the harbor and to the marina, probably couldn't even tell you on a globe where they really are. So, why use this Colonizer-made, Africa-marginalizing map projection now? (And let's not forget the Central Americans!)
Besides that we are used to this projection, that it preserves angles between lines/curves such as roads, makes a variant of the Mercator the best for the web mapping companies** and their amazing very usable software. Yet they bitch...:
Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the ‘Correct The Map’ campaign led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa has revived the debate, urging organisations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection, which tries to reflect countries’ true sizes.Sure, that explains the gap.
“The current size of the map of Africa is wrong,” Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter, said. “It’s the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”
Fara Ndiaye, co-founder of Speak Up Africa, said the Mercator affected Africans’ identity and pride, especially children who might encounter it early in school.
Yes, Africa is a huge continent. I remember learned how huge when reading the book From Cape to Cairo*** a couple of decades back. It's 6,000 miles from Cape Town, S. Africa to Cairo, Egypt!. I noted in our post on the old S. African Airways, 1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (CtDC - Part 7) regarding a fuel stop in Kano, Nigeria:
... of the 5,600 statute mile shortest distance, Jo-burg to Palermo - the latter [segment] which could be considered entry to Europe on a direct route - is 1,130 miles, 4/5 of the whole route.Yet, with such a big continent to draw talent from, I don't think any Africans invented ANY map projections. I don't think they know how to make maps. What's to map there, anyway?
As the Chinaman said:
Oh, and who made the best music about Africa? A pale White lady out of some Celtic place named Enya did, that's who.
PS: I watched the entire Empire of Dust docu-frustration recently. We'll have a review of that one.
PPS: I've never watched The West Wing and likely never will. Commenter Adam Smith sent me to a web page about this map envy business and it had the following video from that show. If fits this post pretty well. Thanks, Adam!
* See Peak Stupidity's quick discussion of Great Circle routes, in Moslem call to prayer and the Great Circle route. Our follow up was titled Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender. One might see why we needed that 2nd part.
** We saw one of those google cars while driving home the other day, and it came right by our house as we were exiting the car. Unlike last time, I didn't have the time and wherewithal to flip off the camera. (I still have a blurry screenshot of me in front of my car flipping off the camera long ago.)
*** Were I to review it, I wouldn't give it too many kudos due to minor anti-Whiteness. Also, there is another From Cape to Cairo by some African author. Beyond that, there is also From THE Cape to Cairo, written about a trek over a century ago.
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They call him Dr. No ("call him Dr. No") - Ron Paul turns 90
Posted On: Wednesday - August 20th 2025 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media History Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Ron Paul at less than half his age in the year of America's 200th birthday - the Bicentennial, with family and the Gipper:
In the US Congress House of Representatives, they called him Dr. No, a name taken from the villain of the very first James Bond, 007 movie (1962). That attempt at a slur was due to firstly that Ron Paul is a physician, but it was about Ron Paul's very strange habit of voting NAY! on all bills that were unConstitutional. I mean, WHO DOES THAT?! Yeah, we could have used a few hundred more men like Ron Paul over the last half century, probably a full one plus a dozen*.
Going back a ways, Ron Paul was born and grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He got his M.D. from Duke back in 1961, then did his internship at Henry Ford in Detroit and then his residency in Ob/Gyn at Magee-Womens Hospital back in Pittsburg, and has said he's delivered over 4,000 babies. (Believe you me, delivering a baby is easier than delivering a Constitutional Congressional Bill. I'm not a woman though, so ... can't be sure.)
After a couple of years in the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon during the early Vietnam era ('63-'65), Dr. Paul and family moved to Brazoria County Texas. (It's on the Gulf coast, the next county SW of Galveston County.) During his medical residency time, somehow he found time to read the classic Libertarian texts. (I'm basically following Wiki here...) it was Nixon's closing of the Gold Window in '71, ending backing of the US $ by gold that got him into politics. Some do it for the power trip, others do it for the poontang, but nobody else, I don't believe, has gone into politics due to his anger at the end of sound monetary policy!
Anyway, Ron Paul first got into the US Congress in '76 just 3 months before our country's 200th birthday. (It was a runoff election to fill a vacant seat.) He was a Republican until I guess he couldn't stand that anymore in '87, tried to do it as a Libertarian, and then went back to try to work with the R-squad (no "red v blue" yet) of the UniParty from '97 through 2013.
Between his various stints in the Federal Shithole, Dr. Paul did his Ob/Gyn work, published political and financial newsletters, and ran a numismatic coin dealership.
I used to vote Libertarian from the time George H.W. Bush didn't care we'd read his lips about taxes and then spoke in Spanish for a few seconds at a campaign event. (That was enough for me!). I gotta say, in '92 and '96 I should have voted for this guy, a smarter and more capable proto-Trump By 2012 though, the national Libertarian Party had become a stupid joke, at least at the national level. Ron Paul figured he'd go for the GOP nomination to get somewhere. He was marginalized by the Regime Media because he was not going to play UniParty games. They may have heard a little bit about Dr. No. Lots of young people really took to him during that campaign.
Stop me if you've heard this before... nah, you can't really... so, there I was, at a Ron Paul rally in the late Winter of '12. I got myself up to the front to watch his talk. Then, as he was leaving, Dr. Paul shook some hands. As he shook mine, I told him nicely "Hey, if you want to win [REDACTED STATE], you've gotta talk about illegal immigration." (I'd been a VDare reader for 7-8 years already by this time.) "OK, I'm all for enforcing the law..." he started, and I don't remember the rest. He is an honest guy. If illegal immigration was not going to be his main issue, he'd tell you that. It wasn't. Four years later, it was for the Presidential election, but Dr. Paul was behind the scenes already, still writing and (at some point) producing his video Liberty Reports.
Now, did Dr. Paul understand what Peak Stupidity has said many times to admonish the (ridiculous!) Open Borders Libertarians?**: These particular masses of newcomers you're OK with - uhhh, you know that 99% of them will never vote Libertarian, much less subscribe to Reason magazine, don't you?*** I don't know if he understood that then. He has written columns withing the last few years that assure me he does now.
We still have this soft-spoken real American Constitutionalist with us, one year before the 250th birthday of this country, still teaching Americans who don't know any better about so many things in his columns, and almost always with an optimistic paragraph at the end. I'm sorry to say that I don't share his optimism.
I occasionally don't agree with Ron Paul, say, about tariffs and eVerify, but that's 1% of the time. Wait, did I write that he's a soft-spoken guy. Let me go back to the year 1988. This Morton Downey Jr. was just another Jerry Springer/Herr-aldo type, but Ron Paul was not up for taking any shit here:
I recall things being pretty civil politically back in the 1980s, but then, this was daytime TV! Check out 2 1/2 minutes in through at least 3-4 minutes. Also, if nothing else, hop over to 12:25 - 12:45. Great TV! ... or something... No soft-spoken teacher was Ron Paul 37 years ago. (He was already 53.)
I am so glad we still have Ron Paul to kick people around in America, even if it's in a nice friendly manner. Alas, now well into the PRP, we are a different enough country such that not much of his elucidation of basic principles of limited government reaches anyone who cares. I've got one more thing to say, based on that episode in '12. People oughta listen to me, if they know what's good for 'em!
PS: Note, early on in that video, Ron Paul talking about imagine taxing cigarettes to where they're "5 dollars a pack!" Ha, you've got to go to the Res for that now. Ron Paul understands the reason for Inflation more than anyone, so I doubt he's actually surprised now by cigarette prices.
PPS: Oh, yeah, the title of this post reads kinda funny, but that's because I've got the lyrics of the KIZZ song Doctor Love in my head now. ("They call me Doctor Love (call me Docter Love...)") I try not to be too mean to the readers, so we will not embed this one. That band played lots of better ones.
* That'd bring us back to 1913. Lots of very BAD things happened in the US Gov't from that year through a handful more. Then, there was FDR... don't get me started...
** Not nearly all Libertarians and Constitutionalists - the latter less so - are Open Borders idiots. Those Reason magazine imbeciles, yeah, I wrote them a nasty letter telling them to use the rest of my subscription money to buy a clue, oh, about 17-18 years ago.
*** See the first half of our old post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?.
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BUILD! THE! WALL!
Posted On: Tuesday - August 19th 2025 7:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
Remember that one - it goes back a full decade now! Where IS this wall of which you speak, President Trump?
Well, firstly, that was a great sound bite and rallying cry, but I, and hopefully a lot of others, realize that a secure border does not have to involve a wall. You wouldn't build a wall if the situation was urgent, which it WAS and IS.
If an Army takes some territory and wants to keep it, does it arrange for transport of metal plates, build on-site concrete plants, and so forth? No, you set up some barb wire or concertina wire, move back a hundred yards or two and set up a second barrier while keeping an eye on the first. Then you shoot whoever makes it to the no-man's-land in between, or before, while they are trying to breach the first barrier. Miles and miles of secure border can be created on the cheap and in days. OK, readers, I'm no military man, so don't bring up tanks. The invaders we're talking about don't got no steeenking tanks.
Peak Stupidity discussed back-'o-the-envelope numbers while mistakenly excited only 2 months into Trump-45. From the names of the posts, Border control vs. the interstate highway system and Border control maintenance vs. defending some Koreans from other Koreans, the reader can see that we were making comparisons on cost for building a serious border barrier and for maintaining one. For the former, we compared it to the cost per road construction up to the standard of the Interstate Highway System. Form the latter we compared it to the cost of, well, yeah, what the title says.
But, what the heck, damn the costs, an actual wall would be fine by me... FINALLY. Naysayers of Trump-47 may think it's the same-old-same-old regarding the immigration invasion, but Peak Stupidity begs to differ. We had plenty of bad things to say about Trump's ego, his ways, and his Reality-TV star personality last week. That's not the case here.
With all their hype, the GateWay Pundit site had a really good article with actual figures for a change, on further construction of The Wall. I was saving this post from 2 weeks back based on one by Antonio Graceffo's article: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trumps-border-wall-major-progress-massive-funding-2025/. Well, funding is one thing. A secure border is another. At first the numbers sound not negligible, but very small in the scheme of things, a 1,900-odd mile border:
Construction activity has accelerated rapidly across multiple sectors of the southern border. As of June 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has initiated more than 80 miles of new permanent border barrier projects across the San Diego, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, and Rio Grande Valley Sectors, with these projects currently in various stages of planning and construction.Hah, see, I read this after I wrote that above. So long as the army/guard stays down there, actually defending the country (what a concept!), that can work just fine. OK, but we're talking small stretches first:
Additionally, CBP has deployed approximately 145 miles of temporary barriers in collaboration with the Department of Defense and Texas, including concertina wire, razor wire, chain link fencing, and Normandy-style vehicle barricades.
In March 2025, the administration awarded its first contract of the second term, paying Granite Construction Co. $70.2 million to construct approximately seven miles of new barrier in Hidalgo County, Texas. This was followed by a significantly larger contract in June, when Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. received $309 million to build approximately 27 miles of new border wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.Now those numbers DO sound negligible. Are they that peanuts? Well, I'm sure the locations are the big entry points per terrain and current trafficking patterns. Can't invaders just go around? The invasion force is not an army though. I would hope we could hold entrants back until all easy access points are secure.
Notice the numbers here. They lean toward ~ $10 million per mile! That is 4-lane Interstate Highway mileage level cost, with no big land purchases necessary, not nearly the effort in building drainage and bridges. My gosh, the Feral Gov't can spend some money. It's $2,000 per foot. Looking at the wall makes me think that's not crazily out of line (just the tall steel plates - how much are they?) This is also about 10 x my back-'o-envelope calculations, but then again, I was fine with chain-link fencing, concertina wire, and a no-man's- land.
Let me get back to the LENGTH being built. From the Big Bulbous Bill, the border control funding of which was outlined by PS a while back:
The scale of planned construction under this new funding is massive. The legislation will fund the completion of 701 miles of primary walls and 900 miles of river barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.Let's see, the article says ~$47 Billion for the wall, meaning 3x as much, $30 million per mile on average! Man, the US Gov't knows how to blow money.
Here's the worrisome part:
Administration officials have outlined ambitious timelines, planning to construct 85 miles of new border wall in 2025 alone, with hundreds of additional miles planned for 2026 and beyond. Border Patrol leadership has indicated they would like to add up to nearly 1,000 miles of additional barriers in the coming years, contingent on continued congressional funding.What are these "coming years"? No, this could be done in a year - that's 5 miles a day.
As with the naysayers on deportations and their "you would need half a million buses!" (No, dumbasses, you don't do it all on one day.), you don't build it with one crew. Looking at the wall as it's been built so far, it looks like 16" on center steel plates set up on concrete piers of some sort. Let's start by specifying a crew of 10 guys working the augers, the concrete pouring, the small cranes and snorklifts, with a little hand labor bolting the plates down. Could they not build 50' of wall a day, that's 40 panels, 4 per hour for a long shift?
It would take 500 such crews to build 5 miles a day, without counting lots of other work, such as transporting and setting up concrete plants, hauling the concrete ingredients and the steel, surveying, support, etc. The cost per day, that's 50 ft of wall, for this labor, with great pay and some overhead is on the order of $10,000. That's $200/ft of wall. There are the costs for the machinery and all the rest of the labor, plus the steel plates. Perhaps, $2,000 a foot is very reasonable, but not that $6,000 per the latter number above!
Anyway, my point above was about the manpower and timetable. America is paying for a 5,000 to 7,000 mile logistics chain to support 20-odd thousand soldiers, sailors, and airmen to defend that one group of Koreans from that other one. 1/2 to 1/4 of them could be at work building the Big Beautiful Wall in a year. Don't let them tell you otherwise. We can't let them tell us otherwise! Those "coming years" per the excerpt above may never come.
If I may go back to the money one more time, as much as it is in absolute numbers for the average Joe Blow, we're quibbling about chump change when it comes to US Feral Gov't spending. I said $2 Billion, you say $47 Billion, no, let's not call the whole thing off, because that factor of 20X - $45 Billion difference is 2/3 of ONE PERCENT of yearly spending.
Will we BUILD! THE! WALL! chanters be fooled again? I don't dare say. Though it's not the only front in this invasion, the southern border is important, and President Trump is doing a great job with this so far.
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Trump, the Census, and Apportionment of Representation
Posted On: Saturday - August 16th 2025 9:40AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump US Feral Government Morning Constitutional
That title sounds all high & mighty, but we're just here to give Trump some praise today after all that bashing of him most of the week. Here's what he's good at:
Only a small portion of Americans are really into the politics, by which we know lots of what goes on as a given, as we assume that everyone else does too. (Speaking of "assume", I shouldn't assume you all assume that either.) President (or not) Trump, in his Reality-TV star mode, brings to light in front of the whole American public things that haven't been before.
We think everyone knows the anti-White destruction that's been going on in South Africa since the place was given over to Black! rule 3 decades ago. Nah. Lots of people had no idea. They don't care. Maybe they do a little more now, after Trump made a big deal about the anti-White hate, violence, murder in that now collapsed society. No other President would have invited that Presidential thug here and show him video in front of the World. Kudos!
I've written this week, with 2 examples, that Trump often won't care until it gets personal. (One wonders if he, the President, would have even known about current S. Africa without recent input from, say, Elon Musk.)
The Presidential elections have been pretty darn personal indeed for Donald Trump, since 10 years ago this summer. Has he ever thought about the other aspect of illegal immigration's effect on elections, not just that they often CAN, and are encouraged to vote, but that, the more that are counted in the Constitutionally proscribe decadal Censuses, the more electoral representation certain States have? (California is by far the biggest example.) I've gotta admit that this had never clicked with me either until the time I wrote Illegal Aliens' effect on Election '16 2 months after that '16 election.
The 1st aspect, their voting, is illegal, but then so is entry to the country without permission. The 2nd, however, is unfortunately NOT proscribed, to cite chapter and verse, in Article 1, Section 2 thusly:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."Free persons", it says, and 3/5 of slaves. Where do illegal aliens fit in? What about this "in such manner as they shall by law direct"? Who's "they" there? "They" sounds like the members of Congress, but I"m not sure.
I don't know. Firstly, I'm glad that President Trump has brought this up to give lots more American a clue on how we are getting screwed in one more way. Secondly, he may very well have the power to specify the counting method, though surely, per the Constitution, the next census will be in 5 years. Stripping out suspect numbers from databases, now, well, that's not a bad idea. Were Deportation Nation to ramp up to a serious level numerically, just the idea that illegal "status" must be obtained might actually have them staying in the shadows for real, better yet, in the shadows of big shade trees and their sombreros, back home.
I know, he only cares because it's personal to him, but yeah...
Good work, President Trump. Keep the Blompfkrieg rolling.
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Peak Stupidity in the South Carolina Low Country
Posted On: Friday - August 15th 2025 4:01PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Political Correctness
It started with an unfathomably stupid move, the arranging for "cheap" labor for the harvesting of rice and cotton. The results of that stupidity will probably be with us through the life of this nation. We're into more recent news in this post.
(Note: Dashcam imagery. All rights reserved - not part of Mr. McLeod's official campaign portfolio.)
The South Carolina Low Country is not sending their best... to the Governors mansion up the Interstate in Columbia. Though he came from Florida, Mark Sanford held a seat in the same 1st Congressional District (Go South Carolina!) - represntin' Charleston and down the coast through Beaufort and Hilton Head, up toward Georgetown, and inland through Moncks Corner, both before and after he was Governor of the State.
Gov. Sanford, in that executive position from '03 through '11, was a decent enough Conservative as most have been in the Deep South*. Unfortunately, he got himself embroiled in a People magazine style scandal by having an extra marital** affair with a woman named Maria Belen Chapur. She sounds sexy going by the name alone, and I even removed the accent mark! She was no illegal alien, this Miss Chapur, but she did live down in Argentina, where the Governor of the SC went surreptitiously while his family and good folks in the State were to believe he was out hiking on the Appalachian Trail. I remember reading "We were without a Governor for a week and didn't know it!" I've got no problem with that. That's the sign of a Conservative State. The State got over it, and Mark Sanford continued on as Governor, and then represented that District 1 again.
A couple of years later there was elected a real piece of work, one Nancy Mace, discussed, with a short bio., here 2 1/2 months back in the post Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy. Uh, yeah, now she's running for Governor, for the GOP.
Now another Low Country gentleman, one Mullins McLeod, running for the Democrat nomination for the Governorship, has been in the news lately. The GateWay Pundit, always good for some gossipy style stories, reports “I’m Superman, Godd**n It…I’m Gonna Kick Your F**king Teeth In!” – South Carolina Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Goes on WILD Tirade As He’s Arrested in His Underwear (VIDEO). Yes, there is video - it's an hour long. I'm sorry that I don't have the time to put into watching that. Now, were it Nancy Mace in this story, I could find it in me to squeeze a viewing into my busy blogging schedule.
I don't know where they're getting these people. The thing is, South Carolina and most of the Deep South States don't have the madness that one sees in your Californias, New Yorks, and now Colorados and such. The people, Black! or White, at least, are generally more socially Conservative and don't go for the complete madness. However, some individuals do get a bit wild and wacky - I have not even gotten to a prospective Senator Grahamnesty primary opponent, an interesting character named Andre Bauer. Another time...
The only reason I started this post to begin with, however, is just this one quote from a SC D-squad member who, as the rest of the party feels obligated to admit, wants to be rid of Mr. Ranty McUnderwear (and socks too...) The quote from one Christale Spain in the GP article:
“After reviewing the transcript of the dash cam footage from his recent arrest, it is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being instead of a campaign for governor."Now that's a new one! I mean, "has gone off the deep end" is a nice idiom we all know and love. There are many others. What's this...? "navigating"? "Profound Challenges"? Nah, he's just nuts. So is that Mace lady. Is "navigating profound challenges" the new "one fry short of a happy meal"?
PS: Peak Stupidity wrote a bit about the current SC Governor Henry McMaster in Part 2 of our series When Henry replaced Nikki. He spent a year as Governor after being appointed when Nikki was appointed UN Ambassador. (we speculated here, in the 3rd post, that Trump may have been pretty wily with that move.)
McMaster then won the elections in '18 and '22, so he cannot run again per term limits.
* Yes, Nikki Haley was generally a Conservative, having grown up most of her life in the State, but her NeoCon ways and lust for power detracted from that.
** It wasn't the first marital affair that was the problem but that extra one was.
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The Trump beatings will continue until morale improves
Posted On: Thursday - August 14th 2025 9:59AM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
This week's blogging has inadvertently turned into Trump Fest here at Peak Stupidity. I see a couple of more posts coming too, so HEADS UP!
Any readers who are not appreciative of the Trump bashing here, skip to near the bottom, and it'll get better.
In another bout of Banana Republicanism, President Trump is angry at FED Chairman Jerome Powell due to the latter's not lowering interest rates. The basic "Federal Funds Rate" is targeted at 4 1/4 - 4 1/2% right now. (Imagine what natural, free market price-of-money interest rates would be without a FED.) The rates have been raised over the last few years to try to fight inflation. More on that...
Just as with the BLS numbers, no, I don't put it past any branch of the US Gov't now to work against this guy who is not part of the Deep State and has been screwing with the well-established Administrative State. Powell IS probably against Trump.
However, well, come on! Inflation will roll on as long as the FED keep creating currency out of thin air to support trillion dollar deficits.
The GateWay pundit doesn't do too much real thinking. It's a MAGA-leaning site, at least, so the opinions ring true, but, they go along with Trump in President Trump Threatens a “Major Lawsuit” Against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Unleashes Fire On Him After Seeing Latest Inflation Data.
AS TGP readers know, Powell has stubbornly held interest rates steady for months despite plummeting inflation numbers, claiming the tariffs will possibly reverse the trend. As a result, Americans are having great difficulty affording homes.OK, but, I thought we didn't trust those BLS numbers. Peak Stupidity sure doesn't!
On Tuesday, the latest inflation numbers came in. Once again, Powell was proven a fool as inflation held steady at 2.7% in July, shy of the 2.8% Wall Street expected.
Oh, about the lawsuit. You can't sue a guy for interest rate manipulation, can you? Shouldn't we have been suing the pants off them since 1913, in that case? No, the lawsuit is nothing but a tantrum. See, the new FED building will end up costing something like $2.5 Billion as opposed to the planned $1.9 Billion. Yes, Trump is a real estate man, so he doesn't like those cost overruns. In the meantime:
Yeah, the DOGE clock actually looks significant, but that assumes all cuts were in the Big Bulbous Bill. They weren't. Our financial problems are not about the FED building, with a waste - if you include the whole thing, which you should - of, oh, back-'o-the-envelope about 0.12% of just the DEFICIT, the overspending for this year annualized.
As for the main point, no, Jerome Powell is between the same rock and hard place as the rest of the FEDs over the last decade at least. Raise the rates to fight inflation, and the interest on the debt becomes nearly 1/2 of all incoming tax revenue. Lower it, and inflation goes up... but, no, Trump says he's got it all under control, with help from a new BLS lady perhaps.
President Trump rages:
“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell must NOW lower the rate,” Trump stated. “Steve Manouychin really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser.”Yes, I'd forgotten that. Trump hired the guy! Sorry to bust your Reality-TV bubble, Trump, but inflation will continue due to spending such as your BBB and the numbers that you could see above. Even if rates were back to 2%, interest paid on that $37.2 Trillion would be 3/4 of a $Trillion, which is 3/8 of that deficit. Now, even if you would end MIGA and cut half the military expenditures, interest payment would take more than that savings.
“The damage he has done by always being Too Late is incalculable, the president added. “Fortunately, the economy is sooo good that we’ve blown through Powell and the complacent Board.”
Hey, he's not a numbers guy. I knew that going in, well, starting this post. He should shut his pie hole about the FED and Jerome Powell because that's all water long ago under the bridge.
That's our Trump rant for today, but there's also the general MAGA movement - that he still leads - to think about, which, besides the MIGA end of it, is doing a lot of #Winning! (Well, I'd like to see real people in real jail too.) Let me paste in a great comment in its entirety by Unz Review commenter Dmon that includes the optimism that Peak Stupidity still has. This includes writing about points we've made here before. (I have put in 2 paragraph breaks and reinstated the cuss words):
As Trump (or maybe just the meme) said, “They’re not after me. They’re after you. I’m just in the way”. So when Trump was elected the first time, they immediately ginned up a coup, staged an armed revolt, suppressed the 1st Amendment and rigged an election. Then they tried to jail Trump and anybody who defended him, established a literal Ministry of Truth, imported foreign invaders and tried to force everyone in America to become a subject of a medical experiment. They essentially told every Trump voter that you are nothing – we can do whatever we want to you. We can tell you boys are girls, we will cut your child’s dick off, we will make you kneel to a drug-addicted gorilla, just because we can.Look, I HATE
It doesn’t matter what you think of Trump. If you’re going to let them do that to you and get away with it, then you might as well just curl up and die. So what do we have now? For the first time in God knows how many years, it’s OK to express pro-White opinions. Shiloh Hendrix and the woman who got stomped in Ohio can receive donations without the state stealing them. Opposing DEI is a legitimate viewpoint, and victims of it are suing and winning. Invaders are actually being deported. And the deep state lying sacks of shit and the woke AWFLs who support them are actually getting a (small so far) taste of their own medicine, and at least having the insufferable smug smirks wiped off their faces. For probably the first time in decades, White people again feel like part of a living, great civilization, the one that made the modern world.
It is beyond Trump – when Trump pisses off his constituency, they let him know, rather than making excuses for him. But it is because of Trump. I don’t care if Trump goes after these fuckers because of principles or just for simple revenge – his revenge is my revenge. And there is no rebuilding without revenge – that’s like painting over termite damage. The vermin must be removed.
Along those more optimistic lines, we'll have some #TrumpWinning regarding voting and also the southern border later this week. Morale will then improve.
PS: Why the "Feral Government" topic key on this post? The FED is not Federal (neither does it have any reserves), but anyway, we are pretty much beyond adding topic keys, so that had to do.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit B: That BLS Lady
Posted On: Tuesday - August 12th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
Our point is that Trump often will not take a problem seriously unless/until it involves him personally. Yesterday we presented Exhibit A for our case.
Exhibit B is Trump's very recent firing of the woman above from the Feral Gov't's Bureau of Labor Statistics. You'll find quite a bit of mention of this small government bureau in the many Peak Stupidity posts on Inflation. These "green eyeshade boys", well, after D.I.E. not so much (see image) are responsible for disseminating loads of economic stats, but it's inflation and unemployment figures that are their bread and butter. Those 2 measures are probably the most important for the average American, so it'd be really nice if we could get accurate numbers.
Peak Stupidity has mostly discussed the highly-suspect well-lower-than-we-see inflation figures over the many years. There are reasons the unemployment numbers have not reflected reality since a change back in the 1990s. Anyone "looking for work" for more than 6 months is not counted now - personally, I think that started so the BLS could use numbers obtained from unemployment offices - which still don't count everyone*** so, not a nefarious move. Still, the inaccuracy, on the low side, remains.
Indeed, though, as Ron Paul just wrote in his latest column, Governments Lie. (That's another nice truthful comment from this nearly 90 y/o Constitutionalists' Constitutionalist. - Reminder to self!)
To Trump and his "strictly personal" policy finally, this BLS is supposedly a nonpartisan organization, say, like the NOAA or the NTSB. We're not so sure. Dark Brandon appointed Erika McEntarfer, to head the BLS in early '24. I'm sure people in positions like this come and go, with not too much thought being given to political concerns. She was just a manager of a bunch of accountants, right? Nah, not anymore. See, the ctrl-left does nothing in a fair and impartial manner unless forced to.
I'm going to link to ZeroHedge on this one, as this kind of thing has been their "core competency" since I first read there over a dozen years back. "No One Can Be That Wrong" - Trump Fires Labor Statistics Boss After "RIGGED" Jobs Data. I gotta say, for me and I'm sure a lot of people, statements and actions like this seem like pure Banana Republicanism Don't like the economic reports from those government peons - fire 'em and get people who will give you better numbers, dammit!
However (and Ron Paul agreed, I'm glad to see), Trump is right about this. I don't have a link****, but I can remember that ZeroHedge reported at the time the story of that ridiculous revision of an unemployment "print"***** that brought it from an 800,000 gain in jobs - going by recall here - down to a couple of 10,000s. Not only that, but Americans, that is non-aliens at least, LOST jobs. I can definitely believe that the BLS performed shenanigans on behalf of Dark Brandon, Jill, the DS, the Autopen, Kameltoe, and the gang. There are details in the ZH post. (My memory is not bad at-all.)
HOWEVER, if this was somewhere in Trump's Reality-TV star head, why did he not fire Erika McEntarfer when he took office? The election was over. I suppose that big revision from a big GREEN very good unemployment print before the election to a small RED one afterwards didn't matter. No, it doesn't matter until it does again.
Over the whole time Trump has been involved in national politics, has he cared a whit about the BLS itself, much less any of the numbers they'd come out with? Now, when the numbers are not so good - and another one, the monthly deficit (not sure that's from the BLS), does not look good either - Trump decides to fire the messenger (and, yes, the "fixer") I mean, the Golden Ages is suppose to be upon us any day now. NOW Trump is taking this personally.
PS I just remembered an Exhibit pre-A, if you will. That was Trump's long postponement of doing a thing about major internet/antiSocial Media censorship of Conservatives. There was action he could have taken during those 4 years of -45 via Part 230 of the Communications Act. He didn't bring it up until he finally realized all the censorship may just affect his '20 election chances**, way too late in the game. Here's our post from Halloween day of '20, 3 days before the election: Big-"Tech" censorship and Section 230.
In that post, we referenced a 2-week older post (part of a series), titled President Donald Trump: **the Bad**, the Good, and the Ugly. This will sound familiar now:
Yeah, "the hard way" is how Mr. Kirkpatrick puts it. President Trump didn't worry about all this too much when it was Alex Jones getting cancelled, or Laura Loomer, or the Proud Boys or whomever else. Now it's about that big NY Post story on the Biden scandal that is very important for Trump in this last stretch leading up to the re-election. (Haha, note that I'm still on his side.) Trump's people and I believe the NY Post's tweets were wiped out for whatever normal Orwellian reasons Twitter comes up with for this sort of thing*. Suddenly NOW this Section 230 of the Communications Act is important! The personality of this guy, man, amazing, just amazing, you wouldn't believe ... [/Trump]I wrote that nearly 5 years ago. I knew I'd mentioned this personality defect before.
I mean, it's been years of this Big Tech censorship crap and the Trump administration has done nothing but occasionally bluster about it. It's been empty threats. Now, down toward 2 weeks before the election, the President wants to at least threaten them with legal action by the FCC or someone. Really? Can't those 2 Big Tech titans wait it out a couple of weeks with whatever kind of obfuscation their $500/hr lawyers can come up with and see how the election turns out? This stuff should have been in progress and either changing the law or putting some serious fear into these people long before now!
But no, see, now it's PERSONAL! Come on, man!
** All other things equal, which they were not.
*** I've been unemployed for a number of periods and only went into one of these office ONCE. I didn't get any money, because the paperwork was going to be a mess, so I walked out, never to return.
**** Did I mention yet on this blog that internet search sucks now?
***** We Economists use that term- you wouldn't understand. Neither would I.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit A: Washington, Federal Shithole
Posted On: Monday - August 11th 2025 6:26PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Race/Genetics
We've got so much more to write about, but stuff comes up in the news that makes me exclaim "See?!" This will probably just a series of 2 posts, but lots more examples could be presented based on this thought.
I don't say Trump takes everything personally. My contention is that many problems here in America have to PERSONALLY affect the guy before he does anything about them. These can be problems that affect the whole of us, but, until Donald Trump is personally harmed, often, he doesn't get it. It's not happening, or he never thought about it before... It takes a big ego to be like this.
Granted, it WAS personal when the ctrl-left waged lawfare against him for a couple of years. That he takes all that personally is quite understandable. Generally too, the people he'd like to take righteous revenge on are the types we'd all like to see thrown in dungeons. Win-Win, for the most part...
Peak Stupidity will present 2 examples of this.
For this example, we bring up the news story* involving the beating taken by one of Trump's former employees a week ago as the man valiantly protected his girlfriend from Black! "teens" that had attempted to car-jack the couple. Because I am not quite ready to live Idiocracy at this moment - maybe in a couple of years - rather than the commonly used moniker, let me state that this victim of racial violence was one Ed Coristine. This young man had been an instrumental player on that DOGE committee** we heard so much about for half a year.
It wasn't Trump himself who suffered this time, so his motivation is personal loyalty, not a bad thing. However, plenty of White men and women, hell, every other race, sex, creed, orientation, whatever, have had the crap beat out of them or even been murdered by violent black men in Washington, FS. Did Trump not know that this is "a thing" in this city? More broadly, does he think Washington FS is unique in having this problem of inner city violence?
I do understand that this city is unique in that, per the US Constitution before the "Home Rule" law signed by Richard Nixon 52 years ago, the US Congress rules the nation's capital. Since the attack on his former employee, Trump, the would-be King, is attempting to take control of that city himself. If the Congress won't lift a finger, I don't blame him on the particulars. Does he have enough energy, "bandwith" the software co. managers used to erroneously call it, to worry about this, with thousands of more important things to deal with?
"Is the prevention of black violence in the inner city of Washington not important?", one might ask. It's not, because this solution doesn't solve the general problem. Trump hasn't even mentioned the general problem, that our inner cities are all violent shitholes due to the "people who live there". Whatever solution to rule the FS is proposed, it won't work because those people still live there, and live in all other inner cities.
How can you not know about this half-century-running problem? Has Trump never hung out in the bad hoods in NYC? Has he been that pampered? I've thought of him as being street smart, more than your Nancy Pelosis and Hildabeasts, at least. Perhaps, due to this attack on his personal employee and maybe friend, Trump could get to thinking, "Hey, there's a lot of violence in some other cities too! Let me look at those graphs in these Steve Sailer tweets! Wow, you've never seen so much mugging. Much too much mugging. We gotta do something..." Yeah, "What's to be done?"
At least he cares. It's not just America's business. Now it's PERSONAL!
PS: Thankfully, Mr. Coristine had nothing worse than a concussion (may still have long-term effects) and a bloody nose.*
* Man, internet search is getting worse and worse. It was hard enough to find a photo of the young man all bloodied up - I'd seen it before - as the images from the search for "edward coristine beaten images" (or "carjacking") showed him in his normal state.
A search for "edward coristine medical condition" didn't help me get that info easily either. The articles were 5 days old, at least. Finally, one from the day of the happening gave his medical condition at the time.
**... their work likely having been for nothing other than to illustrate the evil of the ctrl-left. The Big Bulbous Bill turned those savings into peanut... shells on the floor.
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Jerry Garcia gratefully(?) Dead 30 years today
Posted On: Saturday - August 9th 2025 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
We lost this great musician 30 years ago today. I bet certain readers and one particular commenter thought Peak Stupidity had forgotten.
Nope. I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that The Dead's lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia died at age 53. I'm not trying to be too dramatic here, as if it a day we lost one or some of the many Kennedies* or something. 9/11 was another day like that. With Jerry's death, though, it was more that I was in the same place I often was, but that summer I had had thoughts of following the band around.
I've never owned a VW Microbus. I don't make bead necklaces, create decorative paraphernalia, or package up drugs, say, for trading for tickets. In the Summer of '95 though, I had a decent amount of money in the bank for that time and my lifestyle then. I worked on my own schedule. Why not drive my favorite and only American sports car around the country to a handful of shows? I could watch the girls twirling outside the shows while sitting in the hatchback, not doing drugs but miraculously enjoying the show anyway. I might have needed a miracle, as they say, to get tickets. Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore...
I was on the front porch when I heard something on the radio. That was the end of that proposed plan and that all-American, one-of-a-kind musical band.** I just sat there and I had to blast out some Dead for an hour. The neighbors were more understanding then.
I did go to 4 shows, 3 in the '80s and 1 in the '90s, one at which I didn't actually SEE the band, but I got to hear the music very well from the hillside above. It was... an experience, man ... The Dead started playing with that name 60 years ago, they played for 30 years, and the end for Jerry was 30 years ago, August 9th of 1995. The music lives on, more than for any other band. I read that there are existing recordings of ~95% of the 2,300-odd shows. They were a hard-working band. Without subtracting out a couple of dead (pun serendipitous) periods, that number of shows means they played music on over 1/5 of all those 10,957 days.
Here are two of the goodbye songs that Jerry and Robert Hunter wrote:
Ripple:
There is a road, no simple highway
between the dawn and the dark of night,
and if you go no one may follow.
That path is for your steps alone.
You who choose to lead must follow,
but if you fall you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.
Brokedown Palace:
River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy.
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago.
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home.
Goin' home, goin' home,
by the waterside I will rest my bones.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul.
One can find hundreds or even thousands of versions of these songs and pick better ones, but I put these two in for the clearest sound. Both those double albums, Live Dead, the one with the beautiful cover paintings of New York and San Francisco, and Reckoning, with its acoustic recordings, would be great introductions to the band. It's never too late.
PS: Since I found this on the way, here's Dave Letterman with Jerry and Bob from back 43 years ago, when they'd already been playing together 17 years. They play a nice Deep Elem Blues and Monkey and the Engineer for the Late Night audience.
* I remember exactly where I WASN't when that one Kennedy got killed - on the ski slopes.
** I can't just say rock and roll, because they played so many styles, sometimes together.
Also, I'm sure Dead and Company and the other spin-off bands were fun, but ...
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