Large Marge expanded version
Posted On: Thursday - March 7th 2024 10:28AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Media Stupidity Americans
I am not sure why Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, in the modern parlance, is called "Large Marge" sometimes. Is this because she's a body-builder (and extreme endurance sports) type? I don't know why else, because she's in good shape. Maybe it's just her height or is it her political stature. She's got a LARGE personality, which is a good thing, so let's chalk it up to that.
I was going to update our last post with its shorter video clip, but I can see enough additions, with one correction to my comments in reply to Dieter Kief, to warrant this one.
The clip from the New York Post - usually on our side, BTW - used the term "rage" erroneously and cut out a prior 45 seconds of the Q&A with MTG. That's important. As with a lot of viral videos, only the part people want to go viral go viral. The death of the violent black reprobate druggie George Floyd is the best example of this that I know of.
Here in this post is the whole thing, at least from when the British lady "reporter", one Emily Maitlis, starts questioning MTG:
One can see here lots more of the personality of MTG. My impression, as usual, is very favorable. She is ebullient from the "Super Tuesday" Trump "big smashhhh" (picture Trump speaking this), of course. I see her here speaking very logically and honestly about Trump's possible VP pick. She is modest for herself.*
Now, you can see that Mrs. Greene was glad to talk to Miss Maitlis for a spell, but she didn't appreciate being hounded on the Jewish space laser issue just to be made fun of.
Finally, about the Jewish space laser errrr, issue, I speculated about what the deal was in the comments under the last post based only on the writing of commenters under that previous clip on youtube. I read on this one that this silliness was about the wildfires in California. I don't care. It's not Peak Stupidity's job to track down 100% of all world stupidity, at least not in our current organizational structure. But, look:
1) Strange things ARE happening these days.
2) No, I don't think that particular conspiracy theory makes any sense.
3) Yes, MTG and any politician, even the few smart ones, can be made fun of for numerous gaffes.
4) MTG is NOT an evil destroyer of the American nation. She's very much the opposite.
I think (4) makes up for all the rest, don't you? So, yeah, Emily Maitlis, why don't you fuck off?
* I'd never even thought about this, but since Miss Maitlis put the idea into our heads, Marjorie Taylor Greene as the VP candidate would be BRILLIANT, and not just in the modern British meaning! Holy crap - you'd have the entire ctrl-left worried about President Trump's health for 4 years and more! Unfortunately, Donald Trump's ego would never let him choose such a smart, outspoken, fun, and hard-charging woman like MTG. It'd draw away the spotlight from Trump, a big no-no for him.
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America's deep divide
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2024 6:37PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Music Trump Media Stupidity Americans Geography Zhou Bai Dien
America's geographical divides are usually high, not deep, as they determine which way the water flows downwards. Each side is a different major watershed. There's the Pacific Crest in the Sierras and Cascades - water falling west of it flows to the Pacific Ocean eventually and that falling east of it evaporates in the great basin or makes it (as a trickle) to the Gulf of California*, the Continental Divide - water falling to the east of it makes it to the Gulf of Mexico, and a more vague divide in the older Appalachian Mountains - water falling east of it heads to the Atlantic Ocean.
America's political divides are thought of as troughs, not ridges. Those at the bottom, with no power, are in the shitshed, if I may. Shit flows downhill toward them from both sides.
Now, Zhou Bai Dien has been saying during his 3 years as President that he is a Uniter, not a Divider. His goal, I guess, is to have all Americans together in the same shitshed, with it flowing at us from all sides. Many of us are not enamored with the idea and are climbing out. Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (MTG) who Peak Stupidity has been highly enamored with as of late, represents the foothills of Georgia, a good place to start a climb.
(For the life of me, I can't find a version that doesn't bleep out the key part!)
This video is a heartening example of American patriots who've had enough, saying so. MTG had had enough of this lefty Brit twit, I guess not interested in the ruin in her own country, trying to embarrass and belittle her rather than doing, like, journalism. (Even like it would be a big step up.)
The title of the video includes, "rage", but that's a lie too (in the Gateway Pundit sense, I gotta admit.) Nobody was screaming - it was a simple remark to get someone to STFU. MTG had been patient and nice enough. She tried to move along nicely, as the lady hounded her. That wasn't working. You've got only so much time in the day, so you have to shut these people up somehow, right?
It's the comments below this video, though, that show this very great political divide between adherents to the Potomac Regime and actual Americans. When I read them, anything that I think MIGHT be written in sarcasm is something I agree with without sarcasm. Anything I'm sure is said in earnest I strongly disagree with.
@johnandrews3568:
MTG doing her Georgia constituents proud again. Man, I wish I WERE one. I'm proud enough of her from where I am.
@bybynewdeal:
Foreshadowing : Illustrates the manner a Republican win will treat journalists AND our allies world wide. One can only hope. This very manner is one thing I appreciate about Donald Trump.
@matthewjohnston3195:
Real classy lady, MTG. There were a number of comments about the class or lack thereof. It this because it's all a class struggle? I'm in MTG's class.
@bortroad5740:
What an embarrassment.
This is the best the US can do. Those embarrassed by MTG are more concerned with fitting into the Regime than the truth and America. Indeed MTG is one of the best I know of. 500 more of her, and that'd surely MAGA!
@quesadilla79:
Trump quality VP material right there. no composure, no dignity or self respect. Huh? I'd have lost my cool quite a bit earlier. I truly LUV MTG's smile, accent, and style.
@merked1980:
And you're expecting the rest of the world to treat you seriously?)))) Whatever that is could be in a very powerful position this time next year... I believe she once called the gestapo "gespacho". Dark times..
This isn;t about left or right. This is about someone who isn't mentally equipped to be a politician. Could this commenter have considered comparing MTG to, say, a Bai Dien or Kamala? Talk about your ill-equipped...
Oh, and I wouldn't care about the rest of the world treating us seriously. MTG, just as I do, considers all this "caring" about the rest of the world as part of the problem.
@radic888:
MTG is the epitome of every Orange Man supporter. Agreed! Thank you!
Yes, the divide is deep. The quick take on Geography above has put a song in my head from an old folk duet out of Georgia too, but from southeast of MTG's district, the town of Athens.
Yeah, The Indigo Girls - Emily Saliers and Amy Ray - made it known that they were lesbians after their first album. There was a little too much hype, yet 35 years ago we actually were united enough for it not to cause a deep divide - not for me - they wrote and played some good stuff.
Up on the watershed, standing on a fork in the road... you can stand there and agonize, till your agony is your heaviest load ...
Watershed is from the band's 1990 album Nomads, Indians, Saints.
PS: The reader can check out our post MTG v AOC and others to see what we think of the Congresswoman AOC. I'll give her some credit today, in that, in another recent video clip, she can be seen having had enough of a hounding agent of the press and having the very same reaction as MTG.
* The Columbia River is an exception, I'd say, as that rainfall from the west side of the Rockies long ago busted through the Cascades in the gorges between Washington and Oregon on to the Pacific.
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The European Soros Plan and my dream of the Ruhr Valley
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2024 9:14AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity World Political Stupidity
Normally, Peak Stupidity concentrates on American and local stupidity, with a minor in Chinese. We'll branch out today to a post on European immigration stupidity*.
Let me start with a link to a 3-week-ago Gateway Pundit post, EU Committee Passes Migration Pact Dubbed the “Soros Plan” – Will Result in Massive Wave of Migrants Storming the EU Borders. Personally, I think the immigration destruction in Europe is so far along that Soros could feel comfortable retiring early, to Epstein's (other) Island to screw 14 y/o's and drink Pina Coladas. That aside, in this GP post, there is a very emotionally powerful video titled "With Open Gates - the Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations", made 8 years ago.
It's 19 1/2 minutes long, but the reader's viewing of it now may help him understand the rest of my post.
I watched the whole video 3 weeks ago, as I perused my new go-to site (for news, not necessarily entertainment, as we explained). I can still remember the most vivid dream from a very vivid dream I had that night, even now.**
With that information and emotion still with me, in this dream, I was in the Ruhr Valley in modern Germany. For those readers not into Geography and History (my apologies to the many who are) and are not named Dieter Kief, the Ruhr Valley, along the Rhine-tributary Ruhr River, of course, is a long-important industrial section of Germany. You've likely heard of some of the cities and districts, from west to east, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, Hamm, Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, but probably not ALL of them. Dusseldorf is right nearby. This area is in the north-central western part of Germany, not far from France.
The Ruhr Valley was a big part of history right at one century ago. The story of The Great German Hyperinflation of one century ago didn't mention it specifically, but the occupation of this industrial center by French and Belgian troops was part of the effort to force Germany to "pay up!" for WWI. Along the same lines of how debtor's prison is a flawed concept - it's hard to earn money while in the can - this occupation resulted in work stoppage by the Germans, not helpful to the collection of those Versailles-directed Reparations payments. Hyperinflation peaked this past November/December... no, WE are not there yet... I forgot to add "last century".
That wastefully said to most of our erudite readers, let me move on. I've been around Germany on 2 occasions, once in the late 1980's and then over 10 years later. I've NEVER been to the Ruhr Valley. I knew I was there in that dream, not in a George Pattony way, but just that this was my location. Amazingly, when I pulled up images a couple of days back, the one above was not far from the picture still in my head.
There were smoke stacks and low steel-roofed buildings. There was the industrial haze on an otherwise nice day with the sun medium-low in the sky. I was on river-right, that is, the right side looking downriver. Oh, I see after looking at maps that this dream was not weird or uncanny, because I'd pictured the mouth of the river on the Baltic Sea to the north. That's completely wrong (it pours into the Rhine), so my dream was taken from my geographically-erroneous previous ideas in my head. I could see hills on the other side that looked to be about 5 miles away.
To my right off the river, I walked and looked around, and I was in the old-timey Germany favored by tourists with the Gingerbread-style houses. The row houses on narrow streets were up against the hillside. The image I grabbed above (sorry, Getty) is also VERY much like the dream, but, of course, because I pulled it specifically.
This is the emotional part that surely comes from my viewing of the video above. I was there looking at the beautiful houses and streets, thinking of the hundreds of years of just the "recent" history of the German people. I was thinking of the amazingly organized civilization that the German people had created. I thought of the many extremely foreign "newcomers" - that's the new term, per Bai Dien - and saw many of them in these same streets along the Gingerbread houses. I was about to cry, I tell you, right there my dream. "Whose stupid or evil idea is this, ruining everything that's been built over the centuries? Why would you give it all up? Will this civilization even be remembered centuries from now?"
That's it. I woke up knowing this dream came directly from the video. A post can't do justice to the video or my dream. This is evil.
PS: I'm branching out in video embedment sources. This one is from the Video Motion site. It works fine for me.
* We have before too, as in this post - - this post - - this post and this post.
** I've got another dream post coming too that is sort of a pundit's choice.
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The Gateway Pundit - Website Review Addendum
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2024 7:02PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Pundits
I reviewed the Gateway Pundit site in the last post. Here are just a couple of items to a) illustrate one point again, b) praise the commenters a bit, and c) give notice of something weird.
The image above, and the post linked-to therefrom is a PERFECT example of one of my (small) points in criticism of the site. So, Nikki got angry when called out, rightfully, as I saw, on her broken promise to support Trump once she's out of the GOP primary. I checked this short clip out.
Now, I don't like Nikki any more than the next guy, but this was a great example of some wasted time on that site. First of all, why should Haley's reaction be a story in itself? She doesn't keep her word - that's the story. But, I viewed the clip and saw that Nikki Haley didn't even get loud. I didn't exclaim "Yikes!" What for? This post was NOT from one of the lady writers - it was written by Jim Hoft himself. It's Hollywood National Inquirer style schlock. I wish he'd stick with actual stories, keeping maybe 2 dozen good ones on the front page longer.
The story of Angela Chao is one we at Peak Stupidity just made fun of in The strange death of CCP U-boat Commander Angela Chao, since we have no earthy idea WTH is actually going on with that Chinese Torguga crowd. (Tortoise or Turtle is acceptable). Writer John Mills is all over the place with no real idea either, in his GP post on it. However, a couple of the commenters brought up Jim Rockford!:
Chipper609This kind of thing can make one's day. Thanks. I see more other humor there than I'd mentioned before too.
Put Jim Rockford on the case.
Hillfarmer79 Chipper609
Jim came home to his trailer to find 25 "new arrivals" living there and he is now in jail for assaulting one of them.
Hillfarmer79
Jim's answering machine still works, but the message is in Spanish.
Finally, this is the weird thing. After all those nasty ads I'd meant to take more screenshots of, I don't seen the bad ones right now. I went to my other oft-used device, and they aren't there either. No yellow pustules. No fat chicks in bikinis. Only some swollen feet are displayed. I can live with that. Did this Jim Hoft read our post? Naaaahhhh.
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The Gateway Pundit - Website Review
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2024 7:27AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits
Since our quitting The Unz Review cold turkey - well, very nearly - the Peak Stupidity reader will have noticed that many of our posts derive from material on The Gateway Pundit site. This is a review, with plenty to say after having spent 1/2 hour to 1 1/2 hr on that site daily for over a month.
This review will read like a sandwich, one made from very tasty bread with some nice Italian meat and provolone cheese, but with a couple of layers of Vegemite spread by some Aussie pranksters or something.
The owner/operator, if you will, of The Gateway Pundit is one Jim Hoft. His name appears on (just guessing) a quarter to half the posts, with other writers that are surely getting paid (I'll explain) posting the rest. What first must be said is that Mr. Hoft and his site are definitely a force for good. A few arguments about his politics could be made - I will - but they are Conservative, timely, encouraging, and with details that will be found written in a biased manner, if written at all, for the Lyin' Press sites.
In general, GP concentrates on American political stories, with only occasional posts on general happenings and stories of worldwide Globalist and anti-Globalist events. Just to compare to The Unz Review, due to it having been my previous go-to site for (some) stories and the entertainment, GP is more down-to-earth and timely. Additionally, there is lots of follow-up to each of the many stories that the site covers.
Very specifically, at this point at least, The Gateway Pundit supports, from various angles, all things Trump and his '24 election win, with discussion of all the efforts to prevent the ctrl-left from cheating him out of it too. Whether you think an election of one guy can solve America's problems or not (spoiler: NOT), Trump is indeed THE BIG STORY. I'd proffer that the reason Trump IS the big story is that the Immigration Invasion is (FINALLY!) the big story. The Gateway Pundit covers the invasion very well. That alone is enough to support our statement that this site is a force for good.
GP is pretty straight with the occasional horrific Financial Stupidity news too. Then there are the posts on the Globalist actions to suppress the middle class all over the formerly 1st World. These posts read very much like The New American out of The John Birch Society, which is a good thing.
You might taste a little of that Vegemite here... on the Israel issue, GP is purely NeoCon. The site has but one opinion on that. I won't get into the issue other than, just as with the Ukraine, to say that the war should not be any business of the US - that includes financial support. However, Gateway Pundit is sane on the Ukraine. I'm not sure how or why it (he - Jim Hoft, really) diverges there, but the opinions on the Ukraine match Peak Stupidity's - the Potomac Regime via NATO has been pushing the Russian Bear into a corner since the end of the Cold War, its minions started this mess in '14, etc. We should STFO, even before one gets into the American taxpayer money blown and corruption that goes with it. I believe GP agrees.
Political views aside now, as a a comparison to The Unz Review, the articles on GP are fairly short and succinct. That'd be just fine were it not for - and here's a thick layer of that nasty black stuff - the site format. It's the ads. They are simply terrible. The front page may be "safe for work", but each story page has huge impossible to ignore pukeworthy ads. The ads take up the page width and are interspersed among chunks of the article.
Above and below are examples of ads next to story headlines, but on the story pages they are worse. I'd ask the reader to check for himself that these ads are not targeted, well to me, anyway. I'm not overweight - I get the same stuff on work computers that flush cookies and browser data. Perhaps the ads are targeted in that the average GP reader is known somehow to be older with many health problems. Still, how many diagrams of the human body, many with people sitting on the toilet or with sectioned abdomens and yellow pustules of body fat on display, are too much? This stuff is simply out of hand on The Gateway Pundit!
Jim Hoft should put a damper on this, as it's really a turn-off. That he doesn't is probably because he's making a ton of money on the ads. That's why I think he must be paying the fellow GP writers, which is admirable, of course. I'm always happy to see alternate media that can support itself.*
Let me move on to the writers and a combination of content and formatting. I've got a few more beefs about the site. Firstly, the display is somewhat sensationalist: BREAKING!:, JUST IN:, DEVELOPING:, EXCLUSIVE!:, SHOCKING!: OK, enough. That's old media stuff that sounds as if from the last century. That's a minor thing and maybe just a unique personal dislike.
Next, though, is the content of some of the stories. They are less than half, but many of the posts are not about an actual story. They are about someone's reaction** to a story or a reaction to what some politico said. Headline example: "The ladies on The View were shocked into silence after Mr. ABC said THIS. [VIDEO] I made the mistake of clicking a few of these. Sorry, yes, that the ladies of The View were silent for some measurable duration is probably unusual, but this is not a story. I think these "OMG, look at his face when the guy said this!" posts are more from the women writers of the site. (I'll make an effort to get numbers.) This emphasis on reactions includes Elon Musk, who GP sees as some kind of god. "Regarding the Illegal Aliens being flown into the US interior by the hundreds of thousands, Elon Musk tweets back 'Unsustainable!'" "In response to Trump speech, Elon Musk tweets 'Absolutely!'" Really, that's a story?
No, just give me actual events, policy changes, court decisions, action by American patriots, a few speeches by Trump, but not videos of drama that's not even fit for a a Telenovella. The former is still most of the material, and I've learned what to skip, so it's all good...
I knew this would get long, so let me finish with the comment section of The Gateway Pundit. It's not The Unz Review, alas. The comment section, based, I think, on the 3rd-party DISQUS software, is less usable, for the reader at least. The commenters don't get in deep discussions, as on TUR, with dozens of people involved. Occasionally, there are very good 200 word comments, but one won't see much but short statements in reply.
The content of the comments is Conservative. There's some good humor here and there. I'll say that on racial matters, these folks are as based as the next guy, and more so than the writing of the posts themselves is. From what I see, DISQUS must screen out cuss words, but it's not too bad in censoring meaning. The site owner could probably have a say in this, but, with multiple hundreds to thousands of comments often under the few dozen posts added daily, censorship by Jim Hoft, if he wanted to do this, would be an impossibility. (He's no
I won't post comments on GP, thankfully for my time's sake, for a few reasons:
1) I'm not signing up to DISQUS.
2) As I mentioned, hundreds and thousands of comments pile up within hours. That's not a way to get one's voice heard.
3) Compared to TUR, it's just not the same.
One can't read them all, which is for me, a great excuse not to read ANY. However, I'll go through to see if someone make a point that I think should be made. Usually, someone has.
Short summary: I get more real-time news, at least on the Immigration Invasion, Donald Trump, other US politics, etc, then I did on The Unz Review. For Peak Stupidity's sake Gateway Pundit is a much better go-to site. For my entertainment's sake, it's not nearly as good. Still, keep up the good work, Jim Hoft, and thank you.
* This is also in stark comparison to The Unz Review edited and (in small part) written by independently wealthy Ron Unz. There's nothing wrong with that either. Whatever I think of his political opinions, Ron Unz is also a force for good as a stand-up hard-core defender of free speech. Additionally, well, because he doesn't need the money, there are NO ads, NUNCA, on The Unz Review. Alas, don't it always seem to go... you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...
** There is some guy named Victor who is the subject of posts about his reaction to events. I don't KNOW Victor, and I don't care about Victor's reaction to anything, so I never click on these.
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Evil Merrick Beria, Berzerkely, Harlem, DaRR, DAR, LiRR, TaRC, and other Initialisms
Posted On: Monday - March 4th 2024 11:08AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Student and other Snowflakes University Race/Genetics ctrl-left
This post starts with the Gateway Pundit story Merrick Garland Speaking at Alabama Church: Voter ID Requirements and Restrictions on Ballot ‘Drop Boxes’ are “Discriminatory”. Peak Stupidity views Merrick Garland as the Potomac Regime's Lavrentiy Beria from the days of Soviet Communism. He's pretty much pure evil.
Aside from the continually overlooked story of Black! churches breaking the laws governing their "non-profit" status, this excretion from the Regime Attorney General in Church is, as the Rolling Stones would sing, "lies upon lies upon lies upon lies, upon lies!" I don't think the Peak Stupidity readership needs our refutation of the bullshit out of Beria, his supporting of highly insecure voting methods in the name of "voting rights".
In the GP post there is a video by one Ami Horowitz, which I embedded herein. I'm not a fan of the high-talking host, and I do see the flaws with these idiot-on-the-street quick interviews*. For one thing, though I'd expect much of what I see there on the campus of Univ. of California - Berzerkely, one doesn't see the possible sane responders to Ami's questions regarding ID being required for voting. The 2nd half of the video, the clever questioning of black (east Harlem - brave young man!) New Yorkers using the answers provided by the UC-Berzerkely White idiots, also may skip the more "vibrant" black "folk" who hate Whitey, including Ami there (whether he includes himself or not). He could simply not include the sections in which some thug told him ALL the laws are racist, Whitey needs to bow down, and Ami should GTF out of the neighborhood if he knows what's good for himself. This was not a real survey, in other words.
Still, Ami's got a point, and I'll get to that first. These students that, by definition of Affirmative Action, can't be all that stupid, are indeed ridiculously ignorant. (Or, they're lying.) Do they spend all their time on the campus, never venturing downhill, west toward the Bay or south into Oakland a bit? Sure, the dorms, cafeterias, and coffee shops are all close by. Why venture out of there? I'm sure the more diverse coffee shops farther away are all safe and clean, but, you know, it's just sooooo emotionally exhausting to have to show the poor black people how to use the internet all the time and to have to give directions to the Highway Department.
His main point is that the young White people (the most verbose guy was middle-aged though) practice a form of racism called "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Hell, we all do. However, these people in the 1st section of the video would be horrified to be thought of as being bigots or discriminatory in any way, yet their low expectations of black people are downright ridiculous. That black people can't get on the internet easily for lack of funds or down to the Highway Department for a DL is not the low expectations most of us have with many of them.
To give credit where it's due, after my attitude in this post last week, a poll** on Rasmussen poll (for what polls are worth) on ID requirements for voting showed black people in favor of them 69%. This is from a tweet in the GP post:
1000 National Likely Voters - YesPeople are in general pretty reasonable. The nice respondents in Harlem are one thing. Their race hustler "leaders" are another. It was hearting to see this 2nd segment. However, Peak Stupidity's normal bigotry is the more important worry about the seemingly inherent violent tendencies of black boys/men of a fairly wide age range, and then the more widespread worry that the whole crowd is not generally on board with the ideals and morals of society that White people have built and envision. That's the expectations we have of vindictive New York State Attorney Generals, for example.
White - 74%
Black - 69%
Oth Non-White - 82%
All Voters - 75%
Oh, what about those initialisms in the title (not acronyms, as I only recently learned)? Here's what I don't like about the video. It's more of the DaRR - often just DRR - stupidity, that is "Democrats are the Real Racists. This is the standard GOPers way of being non-racist. "No, the GOP is the party of Lincoln. The rebels with all their slaves were Democrats, and then Southern Democrats supported race segregation and Jim Crow laws..." To keep this post reasonable in length, let me not argue all that right here. Just suffice it to say that LIRR. For fans of Billy Joel and John Derbyshire, that's not the Long Island Rail Road. It stands for: Lincoln is the Real Rasicst.*** OK, was, but you don't have to believe me. Instead, listen to the guy, in Charleston, Illinois in September of 1858,
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality ... I will add to this that I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men..I don't think that Ami Horowitz and other DaRR spouters would like to hear that. Neither would the young women of Berzerkely, explaining why they don't study that pale male history. It's too emotionally exhausting. Yet, by the looks of them, some of them would be welcome in the DAR. That's the Daughters of the American Revolution. Were they members, they could learn about their Founding (possibly, actual GGGGGGGreat-Grand-) Fathers and how important controlling the power of the franchise was to them.
Instead, since they really care about power and control over any ideals that those men of long ago did, these young people, and the one guy, should go under the initialism TaRC. That is, These are the Real Communists. Merrick Beria would be more than welcome to join them.
* In addition to the flaw I describe above, let me mention those videos with guys trying to trade $25 silver ounce coins for dollars or quarters with people on the street. I get the point that most people don't understand sound money. However, I could see that even those that DO may figure the guy's a scammer holding coins that aren't 1 oz, 0.999 silver after all. Imagine if it were a gold coin. Who's got the budget to take a chance that someone like me might come along and be glad to take that fiat-money-valued $2,000 in an oz of REAL MONEY?
Yes, plenty of the people are ignorant, but likely not as many as the videos would lead one to think.
** There's something in the video that might explain a small share of the White "NO" answer percentage. That has to do with Libertarianism. Some readers might see what I'm getting at from the answers of the people in that 2nd section of the video. That there's another post ...
*** How about LiRRR? Lincoln is the Real Race Realist? Too redundant?
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Telenovelas Are Hell: La Usurpadora
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2024 7:31PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Female Stupidity
It's been a while. Though rated PS-13 for both language and large attempts at nudity, we show these 5 minute Telenovelas are Hell synopses videos because they are simply hilarious.
Peak Stupidity has featured the stories of Rubi and Teresa so far.
Here is the story of La Usurpadora (
Thanks for the readership and commentary this week, Peakers. Next week's blogging will include some speculation on nature vs. nurture, a la Steve Sailer, but without the graphs, plenty more on the immigration stupidity, as by this point most of America has had enough of it, a review of the Gateway Pundit site, and plenty of ad hoc stupidity. Have a happy Sunday. See yaaaaaa....
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Where is my beautiful rule of law?
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2024 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Female Stupidity
The taking of thousands of Political Prisoners by the Regime shows the country is pretty far gone into Banana Republicanism. Since then, lawfare by corrupt Regime Attorney Generals, prosecutors, and judges has been another clue.
Donald Trump is the one getting screwed the most, at least $$-wise, by the recent blatant disregard of the rule-of-law and due process, for obvious reasons. However, what's happening to him sets a precedent for more of this lawfare* and emboldens other sick persecutors.
I've read of much outrage. People are surprised. (I'm not). How could this happen in America? How can these people be so unprincipled? How could they forget the US Constitution and the ideals of the Founders?
TL/DR version, is that what you want? Here it is: Just look at 'em.
In case you're not familiar, these last 2 are one Jasmine Crockett, new Congresswoman out of Texas who says "Republicans are synonymous with Russians" and one Tracie Porter, Cook Country, Illinois judge, who ruled to nix Trump off the ballot after the Board of Elections had unanimously dismissed a challenge on this.
* That's an especially good term for the persecution of VDare. There aren't even any charges. They are being hounded by the A/G of New York just to keep them running up legal fees.
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Massholes getting migrants and expressing concern
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2024 12:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity ctrl-left
Yeah, sure, that'd make a very good name for a TV show.
Yet again from The Gateway Pundit - very good on the immigration invasion - here's a heartwarming story from the tony Fort Hill neighborhood in Boston. It's a story of welcoming and tolerance, so you migrants can just get the hell out of here!*
Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit himself, schadenfreudes, “So We Get No Say?” – Wealthy Elites from Affluent Neighborhood in Sanctuary City Boston Outraged Over Local Migrant Shelter Plans .
Residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Boston expressed outrage at a recent community meeting after they learned that a new migrant shelter would soon open up nearby.They never do. That is, at least when they've got other voters to replace you with.
On Tuesday night, residents gathered to meet with General Scott Rice, the emergency assistance director for Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, to discuss their concerns about a temporary migrant shelter opening up in Fort Point, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the Seaport area of Boston.
The United Way of Massachusetts Bay is working with Healey’s office to transform some Fort Point office space on Farnsworth Street, owned by the Unitarian Universalist Association [Unitarians! I KNEW it!], into a temporary shelter for approximately 80 immigrants.
But it seems nobody asked the locals whether they approved.
The local residents complained to city officials, “So we have no say?”Nope, you got no say. Welcome to America. "We got no say." may be the new motto to be stamped on the coming Leticia James $5 coin.
♪♫♬ "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I got no say." ♪♫♬ We knew we got no say when thousands of Political Prisoners were taken into Washington dungeons because they'd thought they'd had some say.
The last 20 seconds has some counterpoint from one Bostonian who's wicked welcoming and wicked tolerant and hopefully carrying illegally, for his own safety.
* from somewhere in the top 10 of my favorite Michael Scott / The Office scenes.
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Right brains, left brains, and bird brains
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2024 11:10AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Trump Science President DeSantis
In the comments under this post of ours, Dieter Kief suggested the video embedded below. Because I spent the 3/4 hour to watch it, and because Mr. Kief is interested in this stuff, I am getting around to commenting on it now. The subject of Psychology is not anywhere in Peak Stupidity's wheelhouse, but it is in Mr. Kief's, and the interview is interesting.
Commenter Adam Smith very kindly provided us links to the 2 books, touted by Mr. Kief, written by Ian McGilchrist, the Literature and psuedo-Neuroscience* scholar interviewee (interviewed by one Dr. Luke Martin with his Creed & Culture show. He sounds Scottish). The books are The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. (The former book sounds from the title that readers of it may also be familiar with Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.**
In this video Dr. McGilhrist discusses left-brain vs right-brain thinking. There's something to this, my right brain says, but my left brain doesn't care that awfully much. That was harsh, so I'll add that my left brain says that there's obviously something to this, medically, from what I've read. Dr. McGilchrist talks about evidence of the difference from psychiatric patients.
Well, there's a nice introduction first, as Dr. McGilchrist gives his background, first as an art/literature type, then going to Med School at 28 y/o -where brain hemispheric differences weren't taught other than that the left hemisphere does the thinking, and becoming a Psychiatrist.
He then describes how, first from a discussion with a colleague, and then his own studies, it turns out that people who have had strokes of the right hemisphere have it harder rehabilitating themselves than those whose strokes damaged the left side. This is not about the physical effects so much as the mental.
Then, Dr. McGilchrist goes over some very interesting Evolutionary Psychology, starting before humans, to explain why the hemispheres evolved to work differently, which is unlike most of our limbs, eyeballs, what-have you. I didn't understand all this completely, but it was interesting enough. He continues by describing the differences between the "machine"-like left hemisphere, processing very specific details, and the right hemisphere that is all-encompassing and, well, in his opinion, a much better half. ("I'd like you to meet my better half. He does tend to recite a lot of random poetry ...") A key point here is that he sees the modern world as only respecting the work of the left brain.
The talk (mostly by Dr. McGilchrist) gets into various writers, poets, philosophers and pundits around the world - yes, Dieter's favorite, Jordan Peterson is mentioned - and their use of the capability of which of the 2 hemispheres. I can't go through all that.
At 27 to 29 minutes in, roughly, the talk gets into the current not-very-good direction society is headed. I can agree with the assessment, but this guy's explanation of why people much unhappier than 30, 40 years ago is not very thorough, a real right-brain job, I'd say. ;-}. Until he gets near the end, when he talks about religion, Dr. McGilchrist concentrates solely on the Feminist destruction of male and female roles as the cause for the decrease in happiness. That is most certainly a factor, and I'm glad he brought that up. However, that most people live in continuous debt to keep up, that they are forced to live among people very unlike them (what does the right brain understand about that?), that all manner of freedoms have been taken away by The State are not problems he mentioned. Behind it all, one's left brain must put some effort into figuring out how this all happened. Dr. McGilchrist does not get down to that level. This sex role stuff just occured because we've changed... As the man said, c'mon, man.
The discussion didn't take into account of any of the actual political changes that our left brains can keep track of pretty well. (Mine sure can!)
Here's the video, finally:
That's all I have for a review, but I wanted to add to this discussion a very visible example of the brain hemisphere differences. With respect to this blog's long-running, on-again-off-again, likely-becoming-defunct series of Trump v DeSantis posts (see here), this addendum could be considered Round 11.
You may recall that in Round 10 Peak Stupidity described how lame Ron DeSantis' job in dealing with a heckler was compared to Donald Trump's. It's not that Gov. DeSantis didn't have a good comeback. It just took 15 seconds is all.
Maybe it's just that Trump is an expert showman and campaigner, while DeSantis is neither. My opinion is that Ron DeSantis is a smarter man than Donald Trump. The latter is important for someone who IS President, but the former for someone who's trying to be (again). DeSantis can settle down and think strategically. He wins like that - see his defeat of Big Mouse for an example. That's left brain kinda work.
In the meantime, back to this one example from the campaign, Trump's right-brain, as a retort to the hecklers, comes up with "Go home to your Mommy!" I'm sorry, as a person relying on the left-brain as far as I know, it pains me to say this, but that's freaking great! I cannot help but laugh each Trump says that.
Then, there's the bird brain. Enough said.
* He talks Neuroscience but does not consider himself an actual Neuroscientist. He doesn't know all the physiology, I imagine, which is a left brain thing...
** I got about 1/3 through it but was not very convinced with his whole theory.
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Last day of Teen History Month
Posted On: Thursday - February 29th 2024 4:06PM MST
In Topics: Humor Race/Genetics Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
I'm so glad that we've had 3.3% more time this year to adore Black! people and learn the history of how they build the world into what it is. AI has been helping this year.
It's a matter of a few hours now. Learn that (real) history while you can. Those who control the present control the past, as they say.
On this Leap Day '24, we will present something
Here's something humorous to go along with that. I sent that video via text message to my wife. She had to talk to me about it. It wasn't that SHE believed it was real, but she thought I thought it was real. Haha, I only wish...
PS: I know you gave me the link in comments, Adam, but I'm having a hard time finding your channel. It must be one of those newfangled UHF channels, and I'm getting too old to keep going up on the roof to move the antenna around!
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Wayne Root touts the Bizarro World Sailer Strategy
Posted On: Thursday - February 29th 2024 8:43AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Pundits Race/Genetics
I guess we are living in Bizarro World in a lot of ways. More specifically, though, per Seinfeld episodes* I've watched, Bizzaro World, as seen in Superman comics, is one in which everything is backwards as compared to on Earth.
Therefore,in said world, Steve Sailer would be a dumbass who notices NOTHING, spouting off what I just read from one Wayne Root on The Gateway Pundit:
This Wayne Allyn Root - his misspelt** last name makes him suspect already - is a pundit who I've agreed with many times before. He's a Libertarian, against the mandatory vaccination, well, being a Libertarian, you'd THINK so, and, most importantly, on our side against the Regime. This post of his, though just well-meaning advice for Donald Trump, is some stupidity that I hadn't seen coming.
The strategy is simple. President Trump already has the overwhelming majority of white middle-class voters. White middle-class America is “all-in” for Trump. Trump “had them at hello!”So, take the White man for granted... that's the ticket, and YES, Trump CAN win the election with just middle class (and working-class) White votes. It's not like 100% of the rest of the people come out to vote. If Trump refrains from his own stupidity on race (more on this), he WILL get White people out to vote for their interests - Trump has been the only guy in years for which they could even do this. The dumbest strategy I could think of is to turn these people off from voting by spouting pro-black garbage.
But President Trump cannot win the 2024 election with just middle-class white votes. Even if it’s virtually ALL OF THEM!
Steve Sailer has given and could give you the stats from many previous elections to prove that his strategy - racking up the White vote and NOT pandering - is a winning one. In fact, the '16 results showed that, vindicating Mr. Sailer, but Wayne Root doesn't understand.
So, go after the black vote with TV ads on networks with large black audiences. Go after the black youth vote with interviews on urban black radio stations. Hold rallies in majority-black inner cities. Especially cities in battleground states where a few extra black votes could tilt the election…I understand targeting audiences. However, you can't fool all the (White) people all the time. Pro-other-than-White = anti-White, plain and simple. Does Root, or Trump, for that matter, think that White people don't get turned off by things like his asinine (proposal for) a "Platinum Plan" to give Blacks! half a Trillion dollars of White people's money? Yes, that dumbass Trump talked that up about 2 months prior to the '20 election. Let's leave the cheating aside for this post. No, of course that move wouldn't have sent any White votes to Bai Dien. What it likely did was get millions of White men to throw up their hands - "What's the point? They're all against us." - and stay home.
Here's Wayne Allyn Root's justification for being on the side of the black "folk":
First, I grew up in a majority-black town on the Bronx borderline, in Mt. Vernon, New York. I went to an all-black middle school and an all-black high school. I was in a tiny minority of whites at those schools. I was bullied by my black classmates and fought back…I won the respect of my black classmates…and I became best friends with my black classmates."Break on through to the other side." No bragging there - he was just a good fighter. I'm all for learning some martial arts... but his point is that the violence of black guys who he admits beat his ass because he is White is something he learned to live with. So, Wayne Root is something special, see? That doesn't help White American society one bit.
I was the only white kid in the school who made this breakthrough. I eventually played on the track and football teams with all black classmates.
Oh, and he ran for office as a Republican in a heavily black district of New York City and lost. But, he was the only one to go into big housing complexes canvassing for votes. That's because, I suppose, not everyone could fight like he could. Perhaps other White candidates don't like getting shot. Yet, "I didn’t win that race. But I gave the incumbent Democrat the race of her lifetime. I had the highest vote totals in all-black “project buildings”- than any Republican ever." Whoop-dee-freaking-do!
I looked through the comments and was pleased that the commenters largely disagreed with this stupid idea same as I did. There was a someone who brought up that Platinum Plan stupidity too. Root again:
I understand black voters like perhaps no other white Republican in America. I understand what it takes to win their votes. And I know Trump can get the highest black vote totals of any Republican in history- and lock up the 2024 election.If black voters have good reasons to vote for Trump, as Mr. Root explains in more detail, then let them vote for him. Nonetheless, much of the time they go tribal. If a preacher in South Carolina says you vote for Bai Dien, so we get more free shit and more black government officials, then you take the F and do what the preacher say. (No, that "F" is not for Failure as in "taking the L". In this case, the "F" is for Fried Chicken.)
Especially in the case of the election of Trump, who would be about all White people have left on their side in the power structure, pandering to others at the expense of White people is an absolutely Bizzaro World idea. Mr. Root, I'm glad Mr. Trump does not have your ear. Just stop.
* I'd read that there was some reference to Superman or other superhero comic book characters in every episode. I can't vouch for that, being not at all into comic books - the show was pretty damned funny though.
** Ha! Spell check doesn't know how to spell "misspelt"! Isn't THAT ironic... unlike the stuff in the Alanis Morrisette song.
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Another glimpse of mass media stupidity
Posted On: Wednesday - February 28th 2024 5:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Media Stupidity
This screenshot is from a yahoo article titled UGA students describe anguish and anxiety over safety concerns after the grisly killing of a sorority member on campus, taken as I was clicking through for a search.* (I was about to get on yahoo's case, but they took the article from CNN.)
The reader may have heard about the young White female Augusta, Georgia Nursing student, Laken Riley, who was murdered last week on campus of the U. of Georgia by a Venezuelan illegal alien. A few details:
[Jose Antonio] Ibarra is accused of preventing Riley from calling 911 and “seriously disfiguring her body,” particularly her skull, during the attack, according to arrest affidavits. Medical examiners determined she died from blunt force trauma.They don't say she was raped, but I gotta guess she was - her parents would rather not have details like that come out, I'm sure.
CNN spells out the horror of it, and even uses the term "illegal alien" (only because this story is big, and the word is already out). However, we are to remember, " there is little evidence indicating a connection between immigration and crime." Besides the trail of blood and all, no, there's no evidence, no connection at all.
No, you see, it's the campus trails that are the problem. Fix the trails, and we're good.
PS: As tragic as it is - and this is one of many that just happened to have gone viral - I am glad that people are speaking of the "invasion" and putting the blame for these horrific acts where it belongs. There are audiences at press conferences - in Athens, of the Mayor - who have had ENOUGH and are speaking out. See “You’re a Liar…You Have Blood on Your Hands!” – Athens, Georgia Residents Rip Apart Woke Mayor After He Lies About Role in Illegal Alien Murderer of Beloved College Student.
* For "Peak Stupidity", that is. I like to keep pounding on this one search on 5 search sites, to keep it at the top.
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The Science of Climate Modeling revisted
Posted On: Wednesday - February 28th 2024 2:20PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Science Big-Biz Stupidity
(More on the source of this image below.)
Yes, It's been a long time since Peak Stupidity broached this particular stupidity, other than politically. It's been longer since we discussed the basics of math modeling of the complex climate of the World. In the beginning days of this blog, we stated very clearly that "There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!" in 5 short posts: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 and Part 5. We see no reason to change that stance 7 years later.
I don't have the time in the day to keep up with Anthony Watt's WattsUpWithThat blog. He gets into scientific details in the discussion of climate modeling and also refutes the Climate Calamity™ hype to the tune of 5-8 posts per day. Instapundit led me to a certain post, as the title goes along with what I've been writing, New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’.
I am not in the Climatology field. My point about this science from my technical background is simply that there are lots of physical processes that determine the climate, not all of them are known well enough to be modeled accurately as part of an overall model, and even were they, math models take a LONG TIME to get working right. I have no doubt that the "Greenhouse effect" is a factor, but it is not nearly the whole ball game. About the greenhouse gas water vapor, though, and models matching observation:
A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas due to its alleged “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone.Hey, no harm, no foul. This is science. You or your peers work to figure out WHY your model doesn't nearly match reality, and, if the discrepancy is determined, then you try to fix the model. So long as none of Simpson et al are Climate Alarmists screaming that the sky is falling, I respect them for doing Climatology. It sounds like fun... that's all.
The authors do not understate the significance of this climate modeling failure.
“This represents a major gap in our understanding and in climate model fidelity that must be understood and fixed as soon as possible in order to provide reliable hydroclimate projections for arid/semi-arid regions in the coming decades.”
Per state-of-the-art climate models, specific humidity (SH) should increase as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show no increasing SH trend over arid/semi-arid regions.
Per state-of-the-art climate models, relative humidity (RH) should decline slightly as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show not a slight declining trend, but a declining trend that is “about an order of magnitude more than the models on average.” In other words, the climate models are wrong by a factor of 10.
Unfortunately, rather than the advancement of Climate Science, the works-in-progress math models of the climate of the World have been used by Globalist fear-mongering control freaks to take over large parts of the world's economy. This post is just another "I told you so". There is NO working mathematical model of the World's Climate. If you pretend otherwise, you're a dupe or a liar.
PS: In some cases, I go to the link that's often attached to the "file photos" used here. This image came from ExxonMobile. 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report.
Advancing Climate Solutions Through Innovative Industrial Approaches. Read More. Read More On ExxonMobil's Ongoing Strategy In The 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report."Oh, spare us! Just go find new oil and gas, and cut the bullcrap. We know that's what it is, and little Greta will hate you just the same.
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FBI Humor
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Anti-Social Media
These guys are subtle.
Yes, shoplifting has been getting out of hand in many inner cities, most especially those with Soros-installed easy-going District Attorneys*. Still, somehow nobody has much of an idea what is the exact "mechanism", if I may, causing this increase.
Lots of times, the shoplifters come organized into large groups of vandals, but the FBI wanted to put the focus on the smaller parties that are often the culprits.
(I'll take the brunette, if I have a choice. Book her for me, Dano!)
Yes, the humor of the G-men is subtle and sublime, I tell you, because, well, of course, there's no way they could believe that picture represents the problem. From one of many thousands or millions of reply tweeters - too many - I can't be LIKING them all:
There's another possibility other than that the FBI taking a much-needed break from fighting the "bad" guys to do some comedy. That is that the picture was meant to show an innocent young lady pulling out her purse to get to her concealed-carry weapon as a large mass of Black! teens enters the store. Again, it's subtle ...
* Easy-going on all but the White people, that is. Anarcho-Tyranny is here.
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Excess Deaths in the UK
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:53AM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
Boy, that's got to bring back memories! Maybe they aren't the best memories, though. Readers that have been sticking with Peak Stupidity since/during the dark days of Kung Flu stupidity will probably remember that we got all analytic and spread-sheeting for a week* there in the summer of '21: Hey, what's the deal with excess deaths, anyway?**
Our motivation to get into these very simple calculations - they were nothing but arithmetic with Census data on age groups of the American population combined with CDC general mortality by age data - was the flat base curve*** used to calculate "excess deaths". There was no rise, yet the American median age is indeed rising quickly. The reader can follow the link above, but as a TL/DR version, simply using the year '19 for a baseline, rather than an average of '15 - '19 added 100,000 deaths to the base curve. This reduces those excess deaths by that amount, not covering it all, but still very significant.
Of all things to run into via The Gateway Pundit, a post titled How Convenient: UK Develops New Method to Count Excess Deaths Following Shocking Numbers Post COVID Vaccine was right in the Peak Stupidity wheelhouse. Most especially the quote from from the original source article from the UK Department of Statistics is:
As discussed in a previous ONS blog, fundamental to any method for estimating excess deaths is the question, how many deaths do we expect there to be in normal conditions; in other words, what would “normal” mortality levels look like? The current approach used by ONS and the devolved administrations provides a comparison between the number of deaths registered in the current year and the average number over a recent five-year period. For example, excess mortality in 2019 was estimated from data covering 2014 to 2018. 2020 was excluded from subsequent calculations to avoid distortion due to the extremely high number of death registrations, particularly during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2020 and 2021, the average was calculated over 2015 to 2019, and for 2022, it was calculated over 2016 to 2019 plus 2021.That's what we were saying 3 years ago. The difference is the excess death numbers were being maximized and touted on Regime Media (and by Steve Sailer, one has to agree) to show the terror of the Black Death 2.0. Now that the gene-therapy "vaccines" have been jabbed into populations for over 3 years not, the authorities - this instance is from the UK - are trying to minimize and pooh-pooh any such excess deaths from, the jab. However, I agree with the change in methodology here:
The weakness of this approach is that it doesn’t take into account the ageing and growing population of the UK (all else being equal, more people means more deaths, particularly if a greater share of the population are elderly); nor does it reflect recent trends in population mortality rates, which were generally falling until 2011 before levelling off until the onset of the pandemic.My bolding there, as that's TWF I've been saying, people!
However, how would this correct change in calculation methods of a baseline of death, causing a baseline increase from a more elderly population, lower excess death numbers of young people, which is the worry per text and a tweet in the GP post? From Vigilant News:
UK HAS A PROBLEM: Excess deaths are up a staggering 22% among 1 to 14-year-olds.Back to an explanation from the UK Office of Stat's Julie Stanborough:
Notably, this trend didn’t start until “the magic juice started to be issued to children later in 2021.”
Importantly, this approach moves away from averages drawn from raw numbers and instead uses age-specific mortality rates. This means when we ask that first question – how many deaths would we expect there to be? – we take into account how the population has grown and aged over time. The models also account for trends and seasonality in population mortality rates, and allow for estimates of excess deaths to be broken down by age group, sex, and constituent countries of the UK and English region.OK, but are there 22% more 1 - 14 y/o's in the UK? I don't think so. Are kids in this age group recently subject to a higher death rate from other "normal" causes than the jab to make a higher baseline, but then, how would that be a "baseline" anyway, if other causes are increasing?
I don't know. I agree with the change, but I still don't trust these people...
Remember though, readers: Excess deaths due to the Kung Flu mean everything. Excess deaths due to the jab mean nothing.
* Not the good stuff, but Open Office "Calc". Lotus 123 was the good stuff. Calc sufficed well for me though.
** Our follow-up post were Mortality Addendum , Back to the excess death count - Could it be infants and illegal aliens?, and Excess Deaths revisited (with a video interview on the topic).
*** It had a seasonal variation - more deaths in wintertime - simple as that - but no general basic increase.
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Midterm IRS Pie Charts
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Taxes
The new pie charts are out! The new pie charts are out!!"
Your Peak Stupidity lead blogger here is not excited at all about actually working out the Feral Government income tax forms. However, it was mid-January, and I thought about my favorite part of the whole thing, which is the national budget income/outlay in the form of pie charts that's near the back of the 1040 instruction book.
This is "midterms" because it happened by chance that we've been looking at these every other year - the odd ones. See here - - here - - here and here.
Now, per long-term Peak Stupidity predictions and recent interest rate levels we've seen evidence of the financial SHTF already. I expected to see a fairly large piece of pie representing net interest paid on the (presently) $34,000,000,000,000 national debt. Wait, it's only 7% though. What gives? Ahaaa, I'd forgotten that these booklets show year-old data. Yes, those are '22 numbers. Those from '23 are gonna be lit! I'm (not exactly) looking forward to next January.
PS: That 7% of the $6.273 Trillion in outlays is $439 Billion. As paid on the $30.8 Trillion '22 end-of-year debt seen here, that works out to an interest rate of only 1.4%. Yeah, it's gonna be lit when the rates catch up with the Treasury Dept. and the FED.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 6:51PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump The Neocons
... they're always telling him, "you're quite a character."
Peak Stupidity started this thing, so we've gotta finish it. We posted short political biographies of Nikki as Scene 1 and Henry as Scene 2. In the final scene of this political chick flick, Donald Trump appears, as he did in Home Alone 2. In this one he gets more than a cameo appearance, however.
Donald Trump picked SC Gov. Haley to be US Ambassador to the UN in November of '16, when the former was still President-elect. Upon taking the office on Jan 20th of '17, President Trump nominated Haley, and she was confirmed by the Senate 2 days later 96-4 (hmmmm... what might that tell you?) She resigned the SC Governorship, and Lt. Governor Henry McMaster took the Governorship.
Why'd Trump pick this Neocon, if he was truly against the American Warfare State? We've discussed this before, in posts and comments. As the Governor of S. Carolina, Nikki Haley's NeoConinnity, if I may, had not much of a reason to come to the surface. I believe her Invade-the-World attitude had lots to do with her husband's military "service" and the crowd they'd have been hanging out with, and it came out in spades as she "represented" the US in the UN.
I'll give Ambassador Haley credit for supporting President Trump in nixing the bogus Paris Climate Calamity™ accords and withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. The rest of her words and actions were pure Neocon. She didn't even support the Trump Moslem ban, started (conveniently, I gotta say) during the early part of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
That brings us to Haley's Invite-the-World tendencies. Even though she's a daughter of very-foreign immigrants, she was born in small town South Carolina and is assimilated ... up to a degree that is, right before the point of caring about keeping the (VDare term) Historic American Nation intact. Haley could care less about that. She's never been against the Population Replacement Program - it's just that you've got to do it all LEGALLY.
Nikki Haley was a late-comer to the MAGA world, as she had initially supported, uggh, Marco Rubio back in '16, and she was only half-assed at it. Somehow, that got her a plumb position high-up in foreign affairs. Well, maybe there IS more to it. I wrote the post Free Advice for a future President Trump mostly in jest. The suggestion was the hiring of certain lower-level politicians to these plumb positions in order to allow more Conservative politicians to take these lower-level, but still important, positions vacated.
You've got to FOLLOW THROUGH though*, meaning, FIRE THEM! OK, maybe not right on the day their replacements get sworn in - don't want to be TOO obvious. UN Ambassador Haley resigned on her own**, per Wiki (yeah, I know) either due to a looming scandal or friction with other Trump foreign policy makers, all of them NeoCons as well!
Would long-time old South Conservative Henry McMaster have gone NeoCon, if he had been picked for UN Ambassador or Secretary of State***? I don't know. I don't think he'd be gung-ho on the "Invite-the-World" program anyway.
Yes, this series has been repetitive, but I only started it due to my being very surprised at one small thing Trump said in a speech in Conway, SC two weeks back. Go to 02:20 in the video in this Gateway Pundit post.
About SC Gov. McMaster: "I don't want to say it too loud, but the fact is, it was more important to get Henry McMaster to be Governor than it was to have her [you know who] at the United Nations, I have to be honest."
Honest? I don't know, but as after-the-fact bullshit, it comes across pretty well. Or, has Trump really been playing that 5-D chess after all? I can't tell with this guy. My left brain can't keep up with the 5-D chess-playing, egotistical bullshitting right brain of Donald Trump. Where is the ego, BTW? Anyone? Anyone ... Dieter? As with The Sixth Sense, this one ended with me wondering if I need to see the whole thing again to get it.
PS: As I recall, early on Candidate/President Trump didn't think too highly of the UN. It was not quite at John Birch Society level, but maybe if you planned on getting the US out of that organization, sticking Haley up there was a good move ...
* Trump's incapability to do that being one of the traits that one of his former underlings, Ken Cuccinelli, noted with disappointment.
** We should assume that, as there was no years-long tweet-fest first.
*** As it's rumored Trump first wanted Nikki Haley for. (Stupid, stupid, stupid!!)
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Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 5:57PM MST
In Topics: Music
Once I looked up musician Todd Rundgen on wiki, I realized that this song, one I've meant to feature for a month now, is possibly NOT my favorite of his songs. That might be Hello, It's Me.
Todd Rundgren, a musician of the 1970s, is from Philadelphia, PA, born in 1948. He played as a single artist, but also with a handful of bands, one of them being Utopia. I remember that band, but this song was from a 1978 solo album of his named Hermit of Mink Hollow. Mr. Rundgren recorded the album in his house on Mink Hollow road in Lake Hill, New York, about 100 miles north of NYC.
Oh, and it's Trump over Randhawa 61% - 39% in South Carolina. How many of Randhawa's votes were from blue-squad voters is anybody's guess. I sure hope this song does NOT apply to these two.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers! Thanks for all the comments, especially regarding that big break, IMO, for VDare and the immigration patriot cause. Like it or no, we gotta finish that Nikki and Henry deal, because there's something that surprised me about Trump involved. (Shoulda' been one quick post.) Then, we'll get to the video commenter Dieter Kief suggested in a post that will involve Trump v DeSantis again, some Climate Calamity™ stupidity (the narrative is being beat up, but that alone won't stop them), and much, much more!
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Tucker Carlson "wonders" about American subway stations
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 10:05AM MST
In Topics: The Russians Pundits Race/Genetics
In the comments under this post of a week back, J1234 pasted in and commented about a video of the beautiful Stalin-era-built Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia. Tucker Carlson reported on the place for 3 minutes, while he was checking out Moscow after his interview with the big man Vlad Putin. As he took in the subway station Tucker was shocked, shocked, I tells ya'*, at what he observed.
I myself am neither shocked nor surprised in any way. A country doesn't have to be rich and a recent World Sole Superpower to have decent infrastructure. In fact, the 2 things may not go together at all. One can go to China too and see clean, well-used, efficient subway stations, and a LOT more of them, albeit none with the beauty that we can see there at the Kiyevskaya station. I was in one of the more well-off South American countries 6 years ago. We used the subway there on the last day - I can remember it didn't seem dangerous, but I cannot recall that it was particularly sparkling clean.
Tucker makes the following remark:
Vladimir Putin, you may not like him either, but it doesn't change the reality of what we saw or more precisely didn't see. There's no graffiti, there's no filth there, no foul smells, There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you. No, it's perfectly clean and orderly.After that, he asks the same question twice in a row here, slightly differently:
How do you explain that? We're not even going to guess that's not our job we're only going to ask ask the question, and if your response is to shout at us slogans dumber than the slogans we used to call Soviet and mock, that's not really an answer.
Russia a country we're told is a gas station with nuclear weapons, have [sic] a subway station that normal people use to get to work and home every single day that's nicer than anything in our country. We're not going to get we're not going to speculate. We're just going to raise the question and wait for someone in charge to give us an answer...Uhhhh, yeaahhh, Tucker, I don't thing anybody "in charge" is ready to give the answer, and even you aren't. You're a brave man, but not that brave. (Or, you really don't know? Ha, no.)
You explain the cleanliness, orderliness, efficiency, beauty, and safety of the Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow by noting the lack of large numbers of Black! people.
Well, as you have to say to the kids sometimes, "This is why we can't have nice things."**
* No, that's not the exact line out of Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca, but they did tend to talk like that, "let me tells ya...", in the old B&W movies.
** H/T, Paul Kersey.
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