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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Review: Tucker's interview of VDare's Lydia Brimelow
Posted On: Friday - February 23rd 2024 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Anarcho-tyranny
In Tuesday evening's post about this interview, Peak Stupidity was very excited. I had no idea that VDare would make it to the big-time like this, having their words reach a big national audience. Viewership of some of Tucker's interviews are on the level of the moon landing coverage, albeit with an audience that's no longer a unified country, as in 1969.
A few notes here before I go over what I saw/heard in the full 37 minute interview:
1) I made use of my wife's Team Tucker membership. I was so excited that this was on that I didn't feel like going through the process just then*. I don't know how likely it is that certain Peak Stupidity commenters could find this video elsewhere off Mr. Carlson's site, although he got the Putin interview. I respect Mr. Carlson's right to his IP.
2) I could, however, paste in the whole transcript somewhere. Due to that last part of (1), I''m not sure if I should. Of the excerpts I did inculde from that transcript, I did not fix the grammar of the transcriptionist, software, I assume.
3) This will not be a play-by-play. Besides Tucker's intro, which you've probably already viewed, there were only a couple of main subjects discussed.
You all could have watched the first 8 3/4 minutes in that previous post. I'll start there.
In the 1st half of Mr. Carlson's 3 minute introduction, he went over the recent terrible immigration invasion surge. Of course he had no time to go over the whole history of the invasion, yes, both legal and illegal, and he does not know the whole story anyway. (VDare, as an organization, and many of the long-term individuals under that umbrella, most assuredly DO.)
There was one small surprise here. Tucker had badmouthed Governor Abbott of Texas, last summer, I believe, AT the border, as he figured the Gov. was playing to a crowd and not serious about really stopping the invasion. Things look different now, and Tucker sounded pretty supportive of and pleased by Greg Abbott in an interview later. (OTOH, as I wrote about the Putin interview, Tucker doesn't interview via argument. He's ... different... in that sense, very polite and old fashioned.) Yet, Tucker's introduction here is not favorable to the Governor.
After that, Tucker nicely introduced his audience to who Peter Brimelow is and what VDare is. I'll just excerpt that:
Peter Brimelow has been a journalist for 50 years. Worked at a whole bunch of what are now called mainstream publications. Was an editor - Barron's, Forbes, National Review, Dow Jones, a legitimate old school journalist. And in the late 90s, he began to ask questions about our immigration scheme. Is this really good idea, is it helping America? And of course, no one could answer those questions because the answer is obvious. No, it's destroying America as it destroyed California, so it will destroy your state. That's certain. But for asking that question, he was fired from his jobs and shunted off into what we call the fringes. But he didn't stop. He started a website called VDARE.He then introduced Lydia Brimelow, but didn't explain why he didn't interview Peter. (We have speculated plenty on the explanation in the comments under Tuesday's post.)
Mr. Carlson mentioned that he "has known", rather than actually only "known of', Peter Brimelow, something that commenter Hail has wondered more about. I don't know if he meant in person. That would not be out of the question were Tucker a few years older, IMO. Mr. Brimelow was on TV and in the Washington, FS political/social scene. Though always a Conservative, he was one of the in crowd (not that that made him a bad guy - the issue that's since been his life-long battle was not something he was into yet). Perhaps Mr. Carlson just meant "knew" Peter Brimelow as in, he had read his material and/or seen him in video. "Known of" implies that one has only heard the name before.
Tucker then went into the fact that Peter Brimelow has become a "controversial" figure once he took the Conservative side on this existential immigration issue, along with being disparaged by the mainstream. (We can argue later whether being called a white nationalist or a white supremacist is actually disparagement.) Tucker then let Lydia Brimelow speak, and that was for a large percentage of the rest of the time, as he did with Vladimir Putin.** Tucker only interrupted when Mrs. Brimelow's story seemed incredulous to him, to ask her a few questions related to her story, or to prompt her - at 20 minutes in - to go to a new subject.
Lydia's first story was the background of VDare and how grassroots and small-time it is (compared to the huge ctrl-left organizations that get taxpayer money by the $Billions). The parenthetical expression is my wording, but I will say that Mrs. Brimelow brought to light the Sam Francis-coined term "Anarcho-Tyranny" at one point. She explained how VDare has long been long used to the cancel-culture. They have been de-platformed from things that I didn't even know WERE platforms. This is not new, having started well before the '20 Wokeness pandemic.
Part of this segment is the story of the purchase of the castle in Berkeley Springs, W. Virginia. I knew most of this, but not about all the numbers. "Depending on how you count it", there have been 8 to 12 canceled supposed-to-be-in-person conferences. Lydia has been very smart in making contracts with the venues that cost lots to break. I had no idea that in one case it was $80,000 that the NY City hotel lost! Now that's a nice way to make a living. Plan conferences that just HAVE TO be cancelled, cause, Nazis, collect, rinse and repeat. I kid, because, as Nazis are actually Feds, and Feds live paycheck-to-paycheck off the taxpayer, they wouldn't have the front money.
OK, seriously now, as Mrs. Brimelow noted, it has been very important for the ctrl-left to keep like minded people from getting together in real life - that's "meat space" for you geeks. There's something better and more real about meating in person, hence, VDare's purchase of the castle in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia where conferences could not be canceled ( as they'd been pretty much every single time, too).
During this period in the interview, Mrs. Brimelow touched the story of the persecution by the black A/G Commie mercenary Leticia James a few times already. This persecution via "lawfare" started with the finances of the castle and the VDare Foundation. Unlike with Trump and the bogus charges against him, VDare didn't have ANY charges leveled against them. There was nothing anyone said VDare did wrong financially or otherwise. Leticia James has kept asking for reams of information that required much clerical and legal work to produce. VDare has had to redact info that could lead to the doxing of writers that wisely want to remain anonymous. Even that anonymity has been threatened. All this is lawfare, and I was pleased that Lydia repeated the point that "the process is the punishment."
For 10 solid minutes other than 30 seconds of interruption for clarification or remarks of incredulity ("... this is all so North Korean...") by Tucker, Lydia told the story of the lawfare by Leticia James against VDare. It was long and boring... but that's only because I have been keeping up with this the whole time. Although lately, writer Pat Cleburne" - not the actual ghost of the Confederate General - has done a bang-up job covering the story (nicely adopting the appropriate term Communist), Peter Brimelow has told both the long and the TL/DR version of the financial story before. It was great that Tucker Carlson got to hear these details in, well, detail.
"Why in the heck is VDare based in New York?", the reader may well ask. Let Lydia explain what has already been explained by Mr. Brimelow, with a little color commentary too:
This is an interesting thing. 25 years ago, our pro-bono lawyer who worked for Covington and Burling and was later banned from being able to do pro bono work for VDARE, even though he was allowed to do pro bono work for the defendants in Guantanamo Bay, set up our nonprofit in the state of New York, and our papers were signed by no other than Lois Lerner. Who you may know, went on to target the Tea Party. But, back then it was a different era politically.Back last Spring or Summer, I got into a discussion with the commenter "Buzz Mohawk" on the Steve Sailer blog about all this, trying to drive home to point that, well, read the freaking website. I myself, being neither a financial nor legal type, get lost in a few of the details, but I told Buzz that no, it was NOT easy for VDare to extricate itself from the hell-hole of a business climate that is current New York (the whole State, at this point).
Lydia Brimelow gave details that I had not understood till now. It's not that getting out of New York would entail lots of work selling assets to another company set up to do the same work in another State (or, however that works). It's worse than that.
But helpful people at this point usually say, why don't you just exit New York and you can't. It's like Hotel California. You cannot, if you're a charity that's incorporated in the state of New York, and everyone should take this as a warning, you cannot reincorporate into another state without the permission of the Attorney General's office. You cannot sell or transfer all or significantly all of your assets without permission from the Attorney General's office, and you cannot close up shop without permission from the Attorney General's office.On a dark New York tollway, long weave in her hair, warm stank of the skunkweed, rising up through the air ...
So once you are under the, jurisdiction of Letitia James, there is no getting out until she decides you're dead enough."Relax", said the court clerk, we are ready to receive. You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave ... (Take it, Don Felder.)
The best thing for VDare, I'm sure other Conservative entities, Donald Trump, and even the people of New York State, would be for Leticia James to go away or be put away. One very fortuitous thing for VDare at this point, as I see it, is that they have the most well-known and important American politician and 100 million Americans behind him against this Communist Leticia James now. That surely can't hurt!
The last full 15 minutes of this interview was the response by Mrs. Brimelow to Mr. Carlson's 2nd query:
You've also been hounded and slandered by the media, and you have furthermore, and you just alluded to this, been stalked and your children have been harassed by the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is, a hate group posing as an anti-hate group. Tell us what your interactions with them have been like.I counted from timestamps, and Tucker only talked for 50 seconds total during all this. Lydia Brimelow's response was mostly personal, including plenty of descriptions of the people in small-town Berkeley Springs and the attempted antifa-style infiltrators ("hostiles", they are often called) and other effects of $PHate Center induced hounding of the business and her family. I like that she made a few tie-ins between the good things about knowing everyone in a small town and then the effect of alien nation, pun very much intended.
Again, I've read of much of this before. Most people, such as Tucker, haven't, and it's pretty enlightening of the state of free speech freedoms in this country.
Finally, with a couple of minutes to go, Tucker asked for details on how one could anonymously donate to VDare, and Lydia gave, again, lots of details that are on the site too. That is, except just send cash money in the mail, hide it well from the USPS, and quit worrying about tax deductions.***
Let me summarize the whole thing for the Peak Stupidity readers and state my moderate degree of disappointment. The video title on Tucker Carslon.com is Uncensored: Lydia Brimelow. I was hoping for a nice long discussion of the myriad types of destruction of America from the immigration invasion. I was hoping Tucker would get to hear how much work has gone on at VDare over the last 25 years documenting it all and pushing for action (such as words that'd go up the chain, VDare---> Ann Coulter ---> President Trump). Lydia Brimelow did a good job of inserting some immigration invasion points in the midst of her long answers to Tucker's few inquiries. Tucker didn't ask any immigration questions though!
I believe that's because Mr. Carlson's goal was to find out more about personal destruction by New York Commie A/G Leticia James, other than from the Donald Trump angle, the big story, of course, that it is. I think VDare's post title is more accurate: Tucker Carlson's Interview With Lydia Brimelow On New York Attorney General Letitia James's Attack On VDARE.com". Yes, the interview was pretty specific, with questions about the recent lawfare by Leticia James and about the $PLC's long term attacks on everyone Conservative.
It would have been great if they'd covered the immigration destruction, but then that'd have been more of a talking-heads style panel discussion. Above anything else, the fact that VDare got exposure on Tucker Carlson's show is a very good thing! It says a lot about the courage of Tucker that he invited VDare on.
PS: As of 5P MST today, 02/23/24:
(The date/time shown are of the tweet's posting, I guess.)
* It's not so much that I'm a cheap-ass. I CAN be, but then I think giving $72 yearly to Tucker (I DO NOT like autopay!) is a way of helping him show big-numbers support, same as with my long-term NRA membership. "5 million members" sounds intimidating to many would-be Commie confiscator Congressmen.
** "I KNEW Vladimir Putin, and YOU, Mrs. Brimelow, are no Vladimir Putin!!" Sorry, that came out of the blue...
*** Maybe I'm missing something, here, but unless they have a business or some other source of many deductions, a married couple has to have over $25,000 in deductions before itemizing is a better deal than the standard deduction. For a single guy, it'd be half that.
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Ann Coulter on the Haley family NeoConinity
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Pundits The Neocons
Man, with posts backed up out the yin-yang, Peak Stupidity ran across another great Ann Coulter column. That's nothing new in and of itself, but this one has something to say about Nikki and Michael Haley, discussed here yesterday. I'll excerpt this entire last section of the column, "We'll Get To Your Country Later"—The Scam Border Bill.
Haley keeps falsely telling voters that her husband has gone to ”war,” is ”protecting our family and our freedom,” and has ”the courage to fight for our country.” In fact, her husband has never gone to war, he’s not protecting our freedom, and he hasn’t had to fight for our country.That's going a lot farther than most people do in describing the NeoCon attitude, the current American military, and the difference between a "Common Defense" and an arrogant out-of-control flailing Offense, causing this nation to be hated around the world.
A decade after we invaded Afghanistan and vaporized the Taliban, Michael Haley was sent there to teach Afghans to grow crops other than opium—which failed, as any half-wit knew it would. Currently, he’s in Djibouti, holding bazaars and Ramadan dinners for the locals.
I wouldn’t mention it—it’s not his fault that the Department of Defense decided to take the best fighting force in the world and turn it into a bunch of social workers—except that Haley keeps acting like she’s Martha Washington bringing food and medicine to the troops.
Law-abiding citizens in Chicago face more risk of death on a daily basis than Michael Haley. But they’re just Americans, so who cares?
Thank you, Ann Coulter!
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 2: Ole Southerner Henry McMaster
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump
Henry McMaster has been a long-time GOP and State elected official in South Carolina. He was the first US Attorney appointment by President Ronald Reagan, of all people, so he's not a young guy (76 y/o)*. In 1988, he was nominated by the State GOP to run for US Senate against the venerable old-school Democrat Ernest Hollings but lost bigly.
After/during some other political positions (later on State Attorney General), Mr. McMaster ran for Lieutenant Governor back in 1990 but lost that one pretty handily too, to the Democrat. At that time the Governor, one Carroll Campbell, was a Republican though. The deal until very recently, 2018, in S. Carolina was that these positions were voted on separately.
After many other elections of various sorts, Henry McMaster did win the election for Lieutenant Governor of the State in '14, on a separate ticket from Nikky Haley. Therefore, on January 24th of '17, the day after Nikki Haley was confirmed by the Senate as US Ambassador to the UN, she resigned and Lieutenant Governor McMaster became Governor. He was re-elected in '22.
Henry McMaster is a true Southerner from the capital Columbia - born there and having gone to undergraduate school and Law School at USC (THE USC, that'd be, the Univ. of S. Carolina). In a video I watched recently, as he spent 5 minutes or so introducing Donald Trump, he not only sounded Southern but I'd say overly so.
One can peruse McMaster's Wiki page to see that he's been traditionally Conservative, but with an addition of being Conservative in this modern world of Woke madness too, a bit unlike predecessor Nikki. After simply giving the wiki links in this and the Nikki post, I will finally note our disclaimer that, though pretty good on basic biographical facts (when people were born, their attendance at college, etc.), opinions get in there based on the politics of the leftist editors, be they independent volunteers or wiki censors, I'm not sure.** We ran into, and explained this same thing, back a year ago, in How to use Wikipedia. That's a post that I'd almost forgotten about which was also written to praise Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Back to Governor McMaster here, rather than 1, as I'd written, let me give you 3 nice wiki quotes that are more attempted disparagement of the SC Governor - there's much more - that have back-fired, at least during my reading.
McMaster successfully led the fight to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina. He also said that South Carolina should "secede" over Don't Ask, Don't Tell.Hey-oh! That's not so awfully PC, in more ways than one!
Regarding the Kung Flu, the SC Governor was somewhat wishy-washy, but in general pretty non-Totalitarian and against those who attempted to be. I like this one:
In 2021, McMaster said he would block the federal government from sending people door-to-door to promote vaccinations. In September 2021, he criticized federal vaccine requirements, saying, "Biden and the radical Democrats [have] thumbed their noses at the Constitution." McMaster pledged to fight Biden "to the gates of hell" over the vaccine requirement.I don't think you'd have ever heard that stuff out of Nikki. She doesn't have that kind of fight in her. Here's one more back-firing attempt at disparagement:
In May 2023, McMaster angered Democrats after saying at a convention at River Bluff High School [Lexington County, SC]: "I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs." Democrats demanded an apology and compared the comments to slave catchers who would use dogs to hunt escaped slaves. A spokesperson for McMaster said that he "has been making this joke at GOP conventions for years, and everyday South Carolinians understand that it's a joke."Don't they mean "escaped enslaved people"? I sure hope so. Anyway, yeah I imagine they can all take a joke, all but those demanding leftists with bugs up their asses.
Did Henry McMaster somehow not get himself into the GOPe ("e" for Establishment) environment as Nikki Haley did? He may be old enough to know better or old enough to not care anymore that the Establishment doesn't like REAL Conservatives. I wonder if Henry McMaster would have vetoed the "remove the Rebel flag" bill anyway, even with that 90-20 veto-proof majority in the SC State House.
I trust the Conservatism of Henry over Nikki's, even disregarding what she's been up to since January '17. President Trump did South Carolina a favor getting Nikki out of there. That'll be the last post - was that really a smarter than I've been thinking?
* He is old enough to have worked as a lawyer for Strom Thurmond back in the day.
** Commenter Adam Smith did some experimenting with this long ago and regaled us with his stories and short glimpses of his handiwork. (I'll try to find it.)
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Tucker interviews Lydia Brimelow!
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 8:43PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits
Tucker is as big-time as the non-Regime press goes, if not bigger than them all. Is this VDare's biggest break yet?!
The interview is 37 minutes long. One can watch the first 8 3/4 minutes - the first 3 minutes of that being an intro. by Tucker - in an embedded tweet here on VDare.com. If you are a member of Team Tucker (haha), you can watch the full interview here on his site also. (My wife is, so it turns out I'm privileged after all.)
Adam Smith has worked his magic and very helpfully put up the 8 3/4 minute video on the Adam Smith YT (youtube or WhiteT) channel - 53 subscribers already! Here is is.
Thanks very much, Adam!
Lydia Brimelow is the wife of VDare founder Peter Brimelow. She does a whole lot of work for the organization, the fundraising, logistics, planning of conferences, business stuff, and all manner of things. However, Peter is the heart and soul behind this 25 year old organization with a mission. I wondered why Tucker didn't interview Peter, but ... then... I think it might be that Mr. Brimelow's Scottish(?) accent is not always so easy to follow... if you miss one freaking word of a sentence..., it's like, wait, what was the middle part again?*
I write that in all fun with, and admiration of, a great American. Congrats on the huge publicity boost, VDare. Let's all relish the fall of New York Commie Cadre thug Leticia James. It'll happen. She's got a very long distance to fall too ...
* H/T, Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda.
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UPDATED ~ `1/2 hr. later:] Made corrections of video duration, including remark about 8 3/4 minute preview.
UPDATED - 04/17/25:] Adam Smith's video was pulled. Got that same 8 3/4 minutes from Bitchute. You have to go to Tucker's site to watch the whole 37 minutes.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 1: "Little One", Nikki
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 5:11PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Trump The Neocons Race/Genetics
... directed by the Donald. (When Harry Met Sally is an old chick flick* that I got this post title from.)
Peak Stupidity is certainly no fan of candidate Nimarata Randhawa, aka, Nikki Haley. We are sure she will lose the coming South Carolina GOP primary BIGLY to The Donald, with most of her votes to come from Democrats.**
The only reason the whole nation knows her name, at this point, is that Donald Trump appointed Haley his United Nations Ambassador on November 23rd of '16, when he was still President-elect.
The people of South Carolina, same as those in other Southern States that haven't been so immigrant-inundated yet (the counter-example being Virginia), are able to elect fairly Conservative State Reps/Senators and Governors. I'd say it's due to that "harmless bit of housekeeping, Amendment XVII of the US Constitution, that the same thing doesn't happen with US Senators... cough, Graham ... spit ...
What happens with the US Congressmen is that the gerrymandering is done with approval by most to fence in a few hard-core Black! districts, so there's that one fairly outspoken, often powerful, guy in the Black! caucus with his grift, reparations-boosterism, and other general Pissing & Moaning, while the rest of the districts get some decent Conservatives (those that haven't been tainted or succumbed to the Cocktail Party Theory of Political Stupidity). That one guy in S. Carolina, BTW is well-known and long=detested James Clyburn.
Going back to this short Peak Stupidity take on her, Nikki ("Little One") Haley (married name) was, as we all know, the daughter of immigrants (illegal or not***). She was born in 1972 in Bamberg, SC. Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, where she attended school, were heavily black, and still are. Other than wetbacks out on some of the farms, there were very very few immigrants in States like South Carolina, and the •Indian population would have been miniscule. Therefore little Nikki (that's redundant, it turns out) would have assimilated to society, and that society was White v Black, plain and simple. Her very birth year was the time that school integration was being completed, and guess where she went to school? Nikki was sent to one of the new private schools, specifically built to let White kids keep away from the violence and disruption of the black kids. None were allowed in her Orangeburg school until decades later.
The Randhawa parents, who are in fact Sikhs, came to the American South via Canada after leaving the northern Indian state of Punjab. Let me tell you, after obtaining his PhD in the 1969 Great White North of Vancouver, British Columbia, Ajit - that's the Dad**** - would have had his eyes OPENED WIDE within one week of starting his 30-year career teaching at "historically", aka, always-done-been-Black! Voorhees College in the small town of Denmark, SC. 30 years! I'm pretty sure little Nikki and/or brothers and sisters would have been sent back to the Old Country to live with Turbine-headed Granny first thing, had there been a hint of their assimilating to the other part of society. Having been assimilated to the White South, she was bound to turn out Conservative.
Once she obtained State legislative office, Mrs. Haley, now married to a man she met in her college years, indeed was a fairly typical strong Conservative, socially, fiscally, and all. You can read the whole Wiki page, but let me excerpt just one line - same as I'll do in the post on her Gubernatorial successor:
Haley was named a "Taxpayer Hero" by Governor Mark Sanford in 2005 and a "Friend of the Taxpayer" by the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers in 2009.Governor Sanford was the guy who had a fling with a lady down in S. America while he was, to the wife's knowledge, hiking the Appalachian trail.
Anyway, as for Governor Haley, there's not so much I'd criticize up through a certain point. The fact that her husband, Michael Haley*****, was a long-term member of the SC National Guard and has been deployed to "the Sandbox" has likely only slightly additionally solidified her "standard" Conservatism. In the Southern style, in an area with more military families than the nation on average, that means, yes, America, fuck yeah!!. That was not so bad a sentiment in years long past, but it's not truly Conservative at all anymore. Given the new huge Woke push in the military, making the Institution Offensive in yet a new way, some Southern Conservatives have finally seen the light.
South Carolina elected Nikki Haley Governor as another in the line of establishment Conservatives. The problems I have with her started only after she made the big-time. Big money is involved, such as with the deal to bring Boeing to Charleston for the 2nd 787 assembly plant. There's lots of MIC money for those at high levels. Now, the Haley's have a beautiful house on lovely Kiawah Island, away from the Capital city of Columbia, much less back in her hometown in Bamberg Country.
Additionally, with her husband's years of "service", and her family background, what would you expect from a GOPe "Little One" who makes the big-time at the Fed level other than the Invade the World/Invite the World mantra?
Why I've been calling her (T-SC), as in, Traitor, is due to something else entirely. Even after the State gave in to the Wokeness and took the Rebel Flag off the top of the State House - it'd flown 3rd, below the Palmetto (State) flag and the Stars & Stripes - it has been placed in a small area on the grounds with historical information. After one deranged young guy shot up a black Church in Charleston, the Governor signed a bill that stipulated removal of the flag entirely from the grounds.
That was in July of '15. Now that I read a little more, I realize the vote of 90-something to 20 in favor of removal is one that Governor Haley could not have successfully vetoed.
I'll admit I was wrong her in calling Nikki Haley a traitor for that. Now that I've seen video clips and excerpts from her campaign, I've got other things to call her a traitor for, in addition to another choice word favored by a certain someone ...
NOTE: This post was to be a one-part post to make just one point. I will make that point, but this background on Nikki and then Henry (McMaster) was pretty interesting, with its own points I wanted to make here. I hope the reader is somewhat interested also. Next, we'll discuss replacement SC Governor Henry McMaster much more briefly, and then get to the point... Anyone seen the point? Where's that confounded point??
* It was kind of boring, as chick flicks can often be, but back in that day, when a big movie came out, we felt obligated to go see it.
** It's a stupid way to run a party primary, is it not?
*** The requirements for the Office of US President require a clarification on this, not like anyone cares about the Constitution anymore, but hopefully the same goes for Mrs. Haley too.
**** I can't help but include the following clip, surely a repeat for us, just for the bit about the names:
Hey, they are from the Rhandawa family too, it sounds like.
***** He was also a graduate of a White private High School, albeit in a ritzier area, Hilton Head Prep. What else are ya' supposed ta do??
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The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
Posted On: Saturday - February 17th 2024 3:15PM MST
In Topics: Music
Peak Stupidity is on a Pretenders kick, but really we are just focused on Chrissie Hynde's band's album from 4 decades back, Learning to Crawl. Last Saturday we featured the 1st song on the album, Middle of the Road
The next track, Back on the Chain Gang, is not as good a song, IMO, as the first one, but it was a bigger hit. It reached #5 at its peak on the famous Billboard magazine top 100 chart, while Middle of the Road got up to #28. The flip side of this single record was My City was Gone, also a better song, IMO. Still, this was good music.
The lyrics have to do with Chrissie's relationship - what rock songs didn't? - in this case with The Kinks's Ray Davies, and to me part of the album concept of ending of relationships. (I'll get into this album's story later, because the internet let me down...)
The Pretenders (after 2 band members had just died from drugs):
Chrissie Hynde – lead and backing vocals, guitar
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals
Billy Bremner – lead guitar
Robbie McIntosh – rhythm guitar
Tony Butler – bass, backing vocals
I'm not sure I'll have the time to write two posts each weekday next blog-week, due to time limitations. However, the material is there. Stupidity waits for no man. Thank you all for reading and commenting. Speaking of the comments, that's also two more posts, one about Dieter's suggested video, and one about the Tucker Carson short clip from a Moscow subway station provided by J1234. Happy Sunday!
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MTG v IOU
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2024 8:51PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government World Political Stupidity
This 3-initial thing is big now. Pretty soon anyone famous will need a 3-letter ID, "MTG" is Marjorie Taylor Greene, and "IOU" is Ilhan Omar, Undocumented. (That was the best we could come up with.)
Peak Stupidity has already featured one WOC (Woman Of Congress) - matchup, an MTG v AOC battle here (no not a mud-wresting match, unfortunately). MTG won that one handily. MTG (R- GA) has moved up to the next bracket, in which she battles here with Congresswoman (D- SM) IOU.
Yeah, we could discuss the differences, head-cover fashion, religion, rural vs urban district, accent, country of origin, country of representation, acts of treason, and all that. Instead we'll just show a video of each.
The video of IOU is a good follow-up to the story and Peak Stupidity post from 2 weeks back on this Congresswoman's strong loyalty to her State and people, apparently some newly acquired US territory in the horn of Africa.
The video of MTG is a good follow-up to yesterday's post on her. In it we described this Congresswoman's excellent trolling job in summarizing the actual threats to the American people rather than some new NeoCon bogeyman that requires money and weaponry to be sent overseas or more Patriot Act style Totalitarianism here. (Or both.)
First, we present the challenger for the title of Peak Stupidity favorite US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Un-documented ... ented ... ted, Allaluh Akbar!!:
Next, we present the champion for the title, Marjorie Taylor Greene, eeen!:
The winner: MTG by TKO. That's a Technical Knock-Out. Why "technical" only? That's due to MTG having only called for censure, rather than removal from Congress and prison time, followed by deportation, all appropriate punishment for treason ... or if she had actually just taken a swing and knocked her out.
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Small scale Accelerationism
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2024 10:01AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State
The term "accelerationism", or "accelerationist" for a proponent of the former, describes an idea I read often of on the web, including right here in Peak Stupidity comments. The problems that Majorie Taylor Greene elucidated well and a lot more than that even, which Peak Stupidity tries in vain to cover, are so overwhelming that many of us Conservatives reckon there's no fixing this. We've got to let it all burn down and then re-build. The sooner, the better, accelerationists figure. I can see that, as if the frog is boiled slowly, we will be the new USSR, Orwell's Oceania, or any number of terrible Totalitarian hell holes. At that point, fixing it or burning it down will be... problematic, if I may.
There's another version of this that's not so all encompassing of doom. That is the idea that we work to force the enemy, the ctrl-left, Commies, Globalists, what-have-you, to suffer the ills they have been burdening us with. Maybe they can be persuaded, not so much that the regular Americans are suffering - that's a plus to them - but that they are going to really regret what they are doing, sooner rather than later... maybe like NOW. When it comes to the existential and recently amped-up problem of the immigration invasion, this is the point of Florida's (Ron DeSantis) and Texas' (Greg Abbott) shipping of illegal aliens to northern big cities*.
As the reader can see from the image at the top, this post is actually about the specific story of those Venezuelan illegal aliens beating up a couple of cops on the street in New York City. (The story's been around, and it's been a week or more, so I won't link to it.) Is it wrong for me to say that I was happy this incident happened? So be it, but let me explain.
One might call this attitude of mine schadenfreude. Usually, though, that term implies some envy or some happiness over payback - a little instant Karma coming down.** It's not that though, for this case. I don't know anything about those particular cops.
As a Constitutionalist site, Peak Stupidity has been known not to have the best attitude about "our Men in Blue". There are exceptional County Sheriffs and decent beat cops I've met who may care more than the average about such things as actual rights, even over their pension plans. Most don't, and it takes no imagination for me to envision which side the cops are on when it comes to protests and other political action by Conservative White men. Ask the guys who were simply marching to defend a statue of the honorable Robert E. Lee from desecration in Charlottesville, Virginia 6 1/2 years back.
When it comes down to it, on the whim of their political bosses, you will see that bulked-out fat ass cop yelling "Sir!" at you and giving you orders with no respect for your rights soon enough. Were it a protest about illegal aliens trashing the neighborhood, stealing, bankrupting the local hospital, whatever, the cops will be on the side of the Regime.
Wait, though, don't they have to put up with all these ills too? To some degree, yes. However, cops have a lot more pull with their buddies and they are usually less likely to be messed with. They've got health care plans. They do pretty well, so though they may be putting up with the trashing of their neighborhoods, they've got to just finish those 20 years, and then they'll get the hell out and down to a nice area in Florida to work part time and enjoy that pension from the old taxpayers.
This latest thing isn't normally part of the deal though. Getting your asses kicked on the street? Oh, and seeing the "perps" get let go a few hours later, flipping off reporters and the system, and leaving town? How exactly does that feel? Would these 2 cops still "just follow the Chief's orders" next time Americans get out in the streets to attempt to get grievances redressed? If so, I think we need more violent Venezuelans in New York City, and cops need to get their asses kicked gooder and harder. What's it gonna take?
* And there was the most excellent stunt by Gov. DeSantis one could call the (non)welcoming in Martha's Vineyard. That was all over in a day or so, and involved only ~50 "migrants", but, in shining the light on the non-welcoming rich hypocrites, it was no small gesture.
** Yeah, I know, that's 2 different songs. (John Lennon and Willie Nelson)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene summarizes the Feral Gov't national security threat
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 1:34PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity has written much praise about this Congresswoman from northwest Georgia, all of it in the one post MTG v AOC.* (The regular reader will likely know where we stand regarding the latter contender.)
The recent Gateway Pundit** post titled Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Offer Grim Assessment of National Security After Chairman Turner’s Suspicious Warning describes an excellent use by MTG of ctrl-left/NeoCon talk about "national security challenges" to summarize the ACTUAL "challenges"*** that face this country. One might call this a troll job, as MTG answers this new (Ukraine support-requiring) NeoCon concern with her agreement, but then describes the ACTUAL concerns. I'll excerpt it all. First, she's concerned along with everybody:
Are we facing a national security threat?Let her summarize this national security threat, to avoid any misunderstanding:
It’s my duty to be honest with you. Yes. It’s real.
I went to the briefing today in the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility].
Our President is a dementia patient in charge of our country and the nuclear football, who ripped our border wide open to over 10 million people and counting from over 160 countries around the world and 2 million of them we never caught, however an unknown number of those are in fact terrorists who want to kill you.Wheeewwww, sounds bad! Anything else?
Not only that, the administration has empowered the criminal cartels and they not only control most of our southern border, but are also making tens of billions from human and drug trafficking and have expanded their international operations to have a strong foothold inside the United States.
Along with that, the government you trusted with your hard earned tax dollars has enslaved us all in over $34 TRILLION in debt. Communists China owns most of our debt and China makes most of our critical chain supplies, you know like medications that keep many of you alive.
Now the interest rate on that debt is climbing so fast that the annual interest alone is soon to be bigger than our entire defense budget.
Turns out the “smart people” running the federal government have made so many bad decisions with foreign policy, sanctions, and trade that our dollar is under dire threat and soon could no longer be the world’s currency.
This means that your 401K’s, retirement accounts, stock portfolios, and savings could soon be worthless and your government mandated social security account that most of you depend on in retirement could soon be wiped out.
These are just a few of the terrifying top national security threats we face.Yep. The rest of the threats are regularly described here on the Peak Stupidity blog.
Miss (now?) Greene wraps up the troll job:
However, perhaps the greatest threat is the federal government has become so powerful over the people that it leaks “intelligence” to the press in order to pressure Congress to make certain votes, protect its own power to spy on its own citizens, maintain power and protect its own job security, and most terrifying of all has become weaponized to crush its political enemies.Absolutely right!
All of this you I’m telling you didn’t come from the SCIF, you already know, and I’m depending on you to help me stop our greatest national security threat, the one from within.
That's no slur there. As seen in Patton - we have a clip in this old post.
* Our follow-up to that post, MTG v AOC, Afterword: Women in politics discusses a subject that we'll broach again in a post to come soon.
** Yeah, I know. I've been getting 1/2 the posts off of there. A review is coming.
*** "Challenges" has been a Big Biz euphemism/buzz-word for "big freaking problems" for a few decades now.
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Chinese low-budget translation services
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 7:09AM MST
In Topics: Humor China
I don't remember where the following sign was, exactly.
"Straddling"? Is that what they meant? Even that's neither the best translation of the Chinese text* nor a good match with the symbology. The Chinese says "No climbing". 10 letters, that'd be, same as "No striding". How hard would it be to get this right?
This was in the impressive cable car that brought us up to, and later down from, the Great Wall. (I think our general tickets covered it, and we did - some of our party - get our exercise on the wall.)
Well, yeah, that too. Don't get the small window ledge dirty and spread those Kung Flu germs by stepping on it. More importantly, no, indeed, don't go trampling people inside the cable car. How that would be accomplished, I have no idea.
Same place, but I think this was at the other end.
You shouldn't step here either, and heaven forbid you cause a stampede of tourists out the doors onto the hillside. Bad grammar aside, I wonder if this was actually about noise. The Chinese authorities want to make sure nobody cranks up The Doobie Brothers. That makes the best sense, when you ...
Alas, my source says the Chinese text translates to "no stepping here", as does the one above - look closely and you can see that those circles, squiggles, and arrows match - great problem for a kid's puzzle book.
We appreciate the humor, but I ask you, Mr. Xi, how much does it cost to hire a GOOD Chinese-to-English translator? What I'd recommend is the hiring of an expert who's been to America, maybe even one who's been a visiting scholar specializing in Engrish.
* Can you call the characters "text"?
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The strange death of CCP U-boat Commander Angela Chao
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 5:34PM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists Cars China Deep State
OK, I really would like to find out what type of Globalist, Deep State, Chinese Communist Party, whatever strange stuff was behind the "motor vehicular accident" that killed Senator Mitch McConnell's (Traitor-KY-jellied) sister-in-law. Let me rephrase that: "... that happened to Angela Chao on the day she was killed."
However, as I started reading about said accidental death in this Gateway Pundit article, I soon came across some strange detail: Kyle Bass, the CIO of Hayman Capital Management, reported, “Chao entered her Tesla and backed into a pond on the ranch and passed away.” OK, I'm sorry, but that's funny cause it was really unexpected. That's not... really... a car accident, per se...
Without the ability to make comments myself, I just had to scroll down to see if any commenters had run with the ball here. Bingo:
The Crucible 100+ Upvotes 4 hours ago:
Asian drivers.....After you stop laughing, you really need to take this short on-line sensitivity course from the Michael Scott School of D.I.E. I mean, who here hasn't been "Koi Ponded"?:
Whatta ya gonna do.....
Now she'll be voting democrat for the next 100 years.
Anyway, we don't know it was the CCP that done it, or the Deep State, the Jab, or just some some bad Asian Chao. It's possible that the poor lady was not up to anything untoward or threatened to the point of suicide. She is Chinese AND a woman, prone to following rules to the letter. When the GPS says turn right, dammit, you turn right, and when it says back up, you back up.
I wonder what happens when you short out a 100 kWhr battery pack. I think I'd rather be in an IC-powered car, maybe even one with manual windows.*
Oh, yeah, about the title - it's from Risky Business, one of my favorite movie lines ever, at the very end of this clip:
I don't know what's so enormously funny about seeing water pour out of cars that ended up in lakes, but there just is.
* Peak Stupidity speculated on this type of situation in Chappaquiddick, the movie, the man, and the manslaughter(?).
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Impeachment of foreign traitor Mayorkas and the use of appropriate terminology
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 7:01AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government ctrl-left
We'd have been better off getting another 100,000 criminals out of Cuba than this guy.
Well, he's been impeached on the 2nd vote, but, no, that doesn't mean much. Conviction in a trial by Senator-jurors requires 2/3 of them to vote yea, which will never happen, of course.
I suppose this is just a show, but VDare writers do like to see this, as it brings the immigration invasion issue that much further into the light. (I think it's in the light pretty well now, what with 10 million or so new aliens in the nation* since Bai Dien and Majorkas opened the floodgates.)
Let's get something straight though. Even from the best of sources, I keep reading terms like "foment", "derelict", and "botch". NO! As head of Motherland Security under which fall the agencies like ICE, BP, etc. Mayorkas did not foment trouble down there on the Rio Grande. Mayorkas was not derelict in his duty to control the border. Mayorkas did not botch the job.
This was all purposeful action to let in millions of unknown foreigners to destroy the American Nation. The more let in via various schemes the more encouragement there's been for others to make their way from all over the world. This has been a 3-year act of deliberate destruction.
I can think of other terms for punishment of traitors like Alejandro Majorkas other than "impeachment."
* Alien Nation is the name of the book VDare founder Peter Brimelow wrote 30 years ago. If this nation had heeded that book 3 decades ago, we'd be in lots better shape.
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The Forbidden City
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2024 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Humor China
This wasn't THE Forbidden City, per se, as we didn't get the necessary tickets, and God forbid we should take a look at the Forbidden City without tickets. However, in this place in Old Peking lots of shit is forbidden, so it may as well be.
This reminds me of the part in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 in which the one Major is told that scheduling parades would not fly, but he would be welcome to at least cancel parades. All the no-no's here hint at what one could do here.
From top left, right-to-left then top-to-bottom:
- Is that a tree? I can't tell what it is. Maybe it means don't go making up your own Chinese characters here.
- No fires. What about firecrackers, though? You can't tell Chinese people no firecrackers. I don't care if it WERE the Forbidden City.
- No smoking. That may not fly either in China.
- You mean we could have gone fishing?
- I think that's littering. Good luck with that one.
- No crossing one's legs? What about girls in silk dresses running like watercolors in the rain?
- No picking random plant leaves, figuring anything green is a good enough vegetable.
- Shouldn't be a problem, if you obey the previous rule.
- Old-fashioned dual tandem rollerskating is prohibited. As specific as these rules are, I would take that as NOT forbidding quad inline skates, aka, rollerblades. Excellent! They are much faster and more fun.
- They've got a place to ice skate? What a shame then.
- Not being allowed to swim is not a big burden. Swimming is just not so popular in China.
- You can't go bringing ladders in here and start climbing them... O... K?
- Bugle calls are forbidden.
- No 1960s automobiles allowed - this ain't Cuba, you know, and most importantly...
- We are watching you to make sure no fun is had by all!
Note: We'll stop with the Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom title, though these handful of posts to come showing Chinese signage are from our Summer '23 trip. As opposed to this sign with the "icons", the rest will be the signs in poorly translated English that get pretty funny.
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Texas Megachurch shootout - Will a tranifesto be forthcoming?
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2024 8:11AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Bible/Religion
Quick guess: I doubt this perp can write very well, in any language. The Gateway Pundit is where I came upon this story, Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Transgender Immigrant from El Salvador. He, or she, has got it all, all the bonafides to be resentful of normal people's privilege.
I mean, we've got an alien AND a tranny here, maybe from Transexual Transylvania. Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab ... no, wait, it's just another violent import from the worst of Latin America, this time El Salvador.
You think this dude(?)'s confused? He's not the only one. I'm still really confused myself. What I read from Mr. Hoft* is that this Genesse Ivonne Moreno, named pretty sexily, if I may say so, USED TO be one Jeff Escalante. Here are all the facts, Jack, straight off of SCMODS (State Country Municipal Offendor Database):
Wait, whaaaa?? The only thing SCMODS got right for sure is hair and eye color.
Female? I'd need a different camera angle.
Non-Hispanic? Excuse me? Is the dbase familiar with El Salvador. Plus, look at him, errr, her?
White? Not really, but that may depend on one's Photoshop settings.
190 lb at 5'5"? Again, a different camera angle is necessary.
So, I guess this shooting was perpetrated by yet another angry White guy... as per SCMODS. Let's leave the photos and dBase printout off the news
This is why I am confused as to the direction of this transition (from the same article - guess I should read elsewhere):
It sounds like it was girl-to-boy. She looked OK back in the day. I hope I can say that without having been gay, but that remains to be seen.
Oh, and, "The church was transitioning between services ..." I'll say! It was written like this multiple times. ".. and gearing up for a Spanish language service." Well Joel Osteen, Megachurch Pastor and big-time youtubevangelist, that was very welcoming of you. More butts in pews... and more brass in the aisles.
PS: You all may very well see this story on the iSteve (Sailer) blog. He's very interested in this sort of thing, and maybe he can clear up the direction in which this transexual transitioned.
PPS: The 2 LEOs (who are not the astrological sign I get along with so well, per the newspaper columns) that fired and killed this alien tranny both had under 5 years experience, per the article. Besides this effort, they also shot a churchgoer in the leg and also critically wounded (last I read) the 4-5 y/o kid brought along to the shooting by this nutcase. Man, most "civilian", that is non-cop American gun-owners would do better than this. Did they not think of what's in the background and just start firing away?
* This one was written by the site owner/operator Jim Hoft.
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Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, Globalist Pro-Invasion Pastor
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2024 2:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Bible/Religion
The serious Peak Stupidity readers read the comments. There's good stuff in there, sometimes even from your Moderator. Back under our Christmas Day '23 post, I'd noted that I had listened to a certain Globalist Christian preacher, and there was a little bit of discussion on that.
Sure enough, now it's been a month and a half, so I don't have all the guy's exact words in my head. I need to stop doing this, but too much other stupidity keeps coming up!
Anyway, the man's name is Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, currently living, teaching, preaching, and writing in Greater Chicago, or "Chicagoland", as they call it. I had the pleasure of walking out on his guy in a crowd of 1,200 people. That was the 2nd day of his talks - I am nothing if not patient.
Kevin Vanhoozer is a thinking man's pastor, I'd say. He's written a lot, included a book, Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge, the on-line version of which commenter Adam Smith kindly included in said comments a couple of days after Christmas.
I wrote that comment in disgust of this guy's politics, not his religious views. That was only after his 1st talk, the one I DIDN'T walk out from. That didn't mean I liked it though. Dr. Vanhoozer had 2 things to say that day that pissed me off.
Firstly, his attitude of the Nation of Christianity being more important than any ethnic/political nation is understandable, but the man came out against Nationalism period. (Again, I wish I remembered the wording.) I don't think that really jives so well with the Bible. I don't like the "give unto Caesar" bit in Romans any more than the next patriot, especially when Caesar is the US Feral Government. Still, what I got out of Kevin Vanhoozer in his 1 1/2 hour talk was that he is gung ho for filling seats in Church above anything else. That's an attitude that the folks at VDare have seen and detested for a long time. Yeah, we'll bring in Hispanics by the hundreds of millions to keep the pews and coffers full. They are all Christians right, even the violent Venezuelans and the MS-13 from Salvador.
Next, as to the point Mr. Hail replied to, Dr. Vanhoozer specifically said remarks as to Christianity not being a particularly European thing. That is balderdash. Would the Chinese people - many in attendance there - have even heard about Jesus Christ, had missionaries not poured into the place for a hundred years? After the fall of Rome, it was only the Western churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern version (OK, slightly into Asia, to be fair) who kept the religion going for a full millennium, between the fall of Rome and the Enlightenment*! Not only that, but were it not for the resistance of the Europeans, in some places for most of that time, Islam may have taken over half the World! Who is this guy?!
Yeah, well, as I was a glutton for punishment... and also, the wife convinced me, I went to the 2nd talk. This was too much, also with 2 main points that got to me.
This one started off interesting enough, as Dr. Vanhoozer discussed the decline of things like trust. Like a Steve Sailer or someone, the guy even had some stats from polls. Yeah, trust is down to x% among this Institution, y% among this other, and even this low z% among neighbors. Hmmmm, I wonder why that might be. Now, Steve Sailer, see, he'd notice why. This guy not only doesn't notice the real reason, such as, we don't have much in common because we are widely different ethnicities and races pushed together, but he is actively on the side of creating even lower levels of trust among neighbors.
Here's what he said soon afterward, to paraphrase a bit: "Instead of loving emotions, Americans show fear. Just recently when those 600 migrants came up here to the Chicago area**, instead of welcoming them, Americans have been fearful."
That's when I walked out. You can't fix this level of stupid. I guess because America hasn't been invaded since 1812***, people just don't understand what an invasion is about. Can you imagine a guy like Vanhoozer urging the French to try a different emotion when the Germans rolled in with their Blitzkrieg?
PS: At the same conference I listened to a particular Chinese pastor talking to an almost completely Chinese audience. (Therefore I had to use an earpiece to listen to a real-time translator.) This guy went on about the importance of Chinese Christians in America reaching out to people on the Chinese mainland, even with the severe restrictions, along with everywhere else Chinese people are.
From Fred the Gator in the comments here:
One of the younger people in this church talked about how she went to an Inter-Varsity missions conference. During this conference someone had the idea of getting Taiwanese and mainland Chinese in the same room to pray together. She, being Taiwanese, said this was one of the most difficult moments of her experience as a Christian! (She said this in some surprise and in a spirit of regret.)So much for the end of Nationalism, and THEY ARE ALL CHINESE!
What I didn't like is that during this whole talk, this Chinese preacher never acknowledged that he and his Chinese audience were in America due to the tolerance of the actual American people. Even worse was that there was no mention, no thanks, for the American White people who developed a country in which Christians could thrive without repression from Government. There was ZERO gratitude exuded by this man.
PPS: I related the problem with taking a stand at events attended with associated women, like, say, wives, in the long-ago post "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo...". In this current case, my wife didn't leave, but she completely understood why I did. I didn't make a scene though - just a little bit of mumbling about "this is bullshit" was all...
* Got a post coming about the need for a new Enlightenment someday, as we may be entering what some would call Dark Ages 1.0.
** Nice job, Govs. DeSantis and Abbott!
*** Some might count General Robert E. Lee's drive into Pennsylvania, but that was just an attempted maneuver to get around to the capital.
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[UPDATED later 02/12:] Added postscript about Chinese preacher and post-postscript about the wife's opinion.
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When the President sees dead people... isn't it time to XXV him?
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2024 9:48AM MST
In Topics: Movies US Feral Government Deep State Dead/Ex- Presidents Morning Constitutional Zhou Bai Dien
Is it like this for Bai Dien, as the kid saw them in The Sixth Sense*?
To be honest here, were President Bai Dien, or any President, for that matter, actually in charge with no Deep State running the show, I would not mind if the President saw dead people. Some underlings can administer the Executive Branch of the Federal Gov't, as per the job description in the US Constitution. Of course, I see Zhou Bie Dien as NOTHING like my favorite President "Silent" Cal(vin) Coolidge. We could use a guy, no, not at all like Herbert Hoover again... but a guy who could out-Coolidge Coolidge himself.
Also, it's not like that anymore in the Feral Gov't a century later. The Beast has tentacles throughout American society and power unforeseen by even the best of them, "them" being the Founders of this Republic. Nowadays, it's not just about that nuclear war "red button"**, but the President has so much power that the Deep State needs him to appear capable of that power at least.
Lately, we've all had our doubts about that. Even the ctrl-left does. In their case, I think they are not so much worried about Bai Dien's senility itself but his ability to appear a credulous candidate for '24. They may need to get him out of there by the summer.*** Amendment XXV of the US Constitution provides for this.
Note that this nice image of a scroll only includes the beginning of Section 4. Peak Stupidity, as one of our Morning Constitutional posts, gave some history and discussion of Amendment XXV in 2 parts: Part 1 - - Part 2. Within the 1965-ratified twenty-fifth Amendment Sections 1, 2, and 3 are very simple details in case of vacancy of the VP or Presidential office, such as if the President (Section 3) declares that he's unfit for office.
Well, it doesn't look as if Zhou Bai Dien would ever think of invoking Section 3, so there's Section 4. It continues from the scroll above like this:
and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.Normally, that'd be OK. However, as those on pretty much any portion of the political spectrum would tell you, Houston, we got a problem:
(OK, besides her own mother.) This just ... won't work ... for anybody. Even the ctrl-left is subject to embarrassment. Whaddya' do? It's getting late to pull a Spiro Agnew 1973 witch hunt to get a "better" VP in office, ready to move on up. That wouldn't look so good either, what with that (1/2) Black! Womyn!! glass floor breaker (happened one day in an incident with Willy Brown.) Back a half-century ago, they were able to get rid of Agnew, the typical White Man, and, BTW, one racially based son-of-a-gun.
As for the office of President, there are quite a few due-process details in that Section 4 (see my links). It basically goes like this: If the President, well, his lucid and Luciferian Deep State handlers, that'd be, don't agree with certain high "officers'" - incl. the VP's - opinions that he is incapacitated, you know, just because he meets dead high officials of foreign lands, the issue becomes one for the US Congress. Both Houses much vote by a 2/3 majority that, yes, seeing dead people IS an indication of incapacitation for this highest of offices. (IMHO, it is indeed very difficult to conduct foreign policy with dead leaders. It's a terrible deal.)
There are lots of more possibilities to discuss other than the 25thing of Bai Dien though. Newsome or Big Mike can be selected during a summer Blue-Squad convention. Still, Bai Dien would have to hold on, or be kept in a nice cool basement in Delaware not just through summer but through Jan of '25 even.
Now, Peak Stupidity could be considered mean for ragging on this poor old guy. Senility can happen to the best people, and it's not a nice thing to think about. You know what I'm thinking about when I write these things though?
Joe Biden has been a Public Servant, "serving" the American people for half a century + one year. We've been supporting this guy, as he has berated good Americans for doing what they could to save this nation. If he were just a doddering old Calvin or Ike or Jimmah or Ronnie, somehow still in there for too long, well, Amendment XXV might still be necessary (likely Section 3 though, not 4), but Peak Stupidity wouldn't be on his case as much. No, but here's what I see when I think of this guy:
The people are right: LET'S GO BRANDON!
* I thought that was a pretty good movie. It's been too long since I watched it to write a review, but I'll just say that ending surprised me and was a great marketing ploy, to be greatly cynical here, to get me to pay to see the movie again. "Wait, what?? I thought I knew what's been going on till now. Dang, now I've got to watch it again. These people are dead? Now you tell me!"
** No, not this one... hopefully:
*** If nothing else, you gotta get those extra mail-in ballots to the printers by the deadline.
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Music from the band Dishonorable Discharge
Posted On: Saturday - February 10th 2024 2:55PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor
Dishonable Discharge, remember them? Hold that name in your head for a second. It sounds kind of punk. Wait, you'd never heard of them you say, the band later to be called The Pretenders?
Per Wiki, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde's own "provocative band project, centered around her own songwriting, was initially called...."
Wait for it...
(Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge*
I know, it's pretty crude, lewd, and all the rest, but that name was BRILLIANT! (And that's not in the modern British sense in which it, like the American "awesome" for a while, just means "good".)
I have the Learning to Crawl album from this band on vinyl. (The video here is a vinyl "rip", so I hope we can hear some crackling and all for auld lang syne.) I will have to say that the internet has sorely disappointed me when it comes to a good review or discussion of this album. Years ago, I'd read reviews that made perfect sense about the concept, and I see this as a concept album. I'll write about that in another post, seeing as I want to feature at least 70% of the album on Peak Stupidity. It's THAT good.
It's also very negligent of us to not have featured Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders more than once before on the site. That was a post with Stop your Sobbing - a Kinks tune - as a long distance dedication to some Berzerkely Professor sobbing about not getting enough Reparations.
Middle of the Road is the first song on Learning to Crawl. We'll keep going with this one...
The Pretenders as the band stood for this album. (2 of the members had just died. Yes, drugs.):
Chrissie Hynde – lead vocals, rhythm guitars, harmonica, backing vocals.
Robbie McIntosh – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals.
Malcolm Foster – bass guitar, backing vocals.
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals, percussion.
On other songs there were a few different musicians. I'll note them.
Man, the blog posts are building up out the yin-yang. I believe this is because I am perusing different sites and trying to keep up with news in closer to real time. I don't know if this is the best way to go. More next week - stupidity in 32 flavors.
* If this takes a while to sink in, I don't blame you, but you do need to watch more old Simpson's episodes, and anyone who grew up with a land-line phone before caller-ID must have done a little of this at some point...
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Zhou Bai Dien sees dead Presidents...
Posted On: Saturday - February 10th 2024 11:49AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
... and plagiarizes their campaign quotes:
Legal Disclaimer: Joe Bai Dien did not utter this, nor would he remember if he had. Also, Peak Stupidity did not plagiarize this meme. Memes are easy!
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Peak Stupidity's review of Tucker's interview with Vlad
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2024 6:57PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Pundits The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Yes, I watched the whole thing. Tucker Carlson "warned" us in this 4-min preview, in Mr. Tucker's inteview, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave some long answers to his questions, with the longest being a treatise on Russian history going back to the Rus in the 9th century. That link goes to tuckercarlson.com*, but I am glad to have found the whole interview on Rumble, so I could embed it here.**
Much of Mr. Putin's soliloquy on the history of Russia and the Ukraine is over with by 48 minutes in, where I stopped last night. The timeline here, straight off of Mr. Carlson's site, kind of smears over a lot of the first 1 1/2 hour, and sorry that I don't have the times as links. My review follows the video below, since I watched the rest today.
TIMESTAMP HEADLINE:
00:00:00 - - Introduction
00:02:00 - - Putin gives a history of Russia & Ukraine
00:25:04 - - NATO Expansion
00:30:40 - - NATO & Bill Clinton
00:41:10 - - Ukraine
00:48:30 - - What triggered this conflict?
01:02:37 - - A peaceful solution?
01:11:33 - - Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?
01:24:13 - - Re-establishing communication with the US
01:36:33 - - How powerful is Zelensky?
01:48:36 - - Elon Musk & AI
01:51:07 - - Imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich
Firstly, to me it's a shame that the bulk of the interview was a discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war. No doubt, I'd feel different were I Russian or Ukrainian. However, Peak Stupidity's position is that America has NO BUSINESS being involved (as President Putin would agree), so the whole thing should not be a concern, as in, what else do we want to learn about or from the President of Russia?
Mr. Carson was very respectful, so even if he hadn't wanted to keep talking about this, and the possible world-wide escalation of it, he wouldn't have wanted to interrupt, it seemed, to get to any other subjects. That brings up the fact that Tucker Carlson acted like an ACTUAL JOURNALIST here. At the many points I would have been so tempted to answer "Hey, not me, man! That's the Potomac Regime, not the average American you're talking about.", Mr. Carlson stayed mum. I doubt he talked even 1% of the time in this interview. He gave none of his own opinions, and just asked the short questions. You NEVER see that from the ctrl-left talking heads on TV, and even lots of those on the right. "Journalists" want to argue, not interview, these days.
Going along with these thoughts, I was also surprised that Mr. Carlson asked the type of questions that could easily have come from a Neocon "journalist", except, again, without the opinionating. Though asked very respectfully, when it came to the war, the questions were on the hostile side. I was surprised by that. I wonder whether Mr. Carlson is more worried about this war than I thought or that he wants to appear unbiased to show up those in America who have given him grief for, GASP!, interviewing a foreign leader whom the Regime doesn't get along with. (One of the big newspapermen interviewed Adolph Hitler in the mid-1930's. You do want information, don't you? Or is that not the idea?)
As for the war, I agree with President Putin that the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War has been a provocation. You don't box animals into corners, especially not bears! NATO should have been disbanded in 1990. It's been obsolete (President Trump agreed, meaning exactly squat), but mission creep started. The events of '14 are not what I've followed, but President Putin described it all, and the reader can argue - I can't.
With all that talk about the causes of the war by President Putin, I did detect a bit of trolling with his talk about the "Nazification". Yeah, there are Ukrainians that are Nazis of sorts. That is not at all the reason the Russians invaded the place. I think Putin said this in order to trap the NeoCons. They wouldn't like to be thought of as supporting Nazis. Was this a way of shutting them up a bit? I think so.
That trolling and a couple of other statements made me not trust Vladimir Putin so awfully much. Those 2:
1) President Putin's contention that the Soviet leaders supported the indigenity*** of the other ethnic groups in the USSR. When you go Communist, everyone's a Commie. That's all the ethnicity you need to think about. For more, not for sure supporting my doubt of President Putin, see this paper.
2) "Diversity is our strength!" - Putin didn't say this in these exact words, but that's what he meant in a couple of sentences about the various other religions in modern Russia. Hmmm, what about those Chechens?
I guess every one of these leaders, as with the Chinese gov't and their pretense at greenness, want to appear a little bit woke in the national spotlight. Yet, we actual Americans like to see the opposite, President Putin's derision of the Regime flag, the genderbending, and all of it. I was hoping for more that in this interview. I think Tucker would not have been able to help breaking into a smile, if Putin had gone there. Why didn't he ask questions about Putin's views on this side of America? I, for one, would have enjoyed a lot more of that.
President Putin talked world economics for a spell. His view that the Potomac Regime has screwed the US Dollar over (IMO, it was going to go down anyway, maybe more slowly) with the sanctions, hence the American economy, is one I also agree with. His talk about the BRICS and Russian great relations with China (yeah, no mention of the 1950 and '60s) also had a big dose of BS though. I got the feeling he's not a big Economics guy, one I would want to take advice from in this realm.
I am disappointed that, as important as it is to Vladimir Putin, the interview was heavily focused on the Ukraine war. There was a re-hash near the end, and I dozed off 3 or 4 times, just trying to get to that 2:07. The stupidity of the Climate Calamity™ and other Western or particularly American flavors of stupidity are subjects I wish Tucker had asked him about.
Finally, just a few small details, not in order. If you don't have the 2 hours, if nothing else, go to the 01:11:33 mark to see the humorous exchange between these two regarding the destruction of (most of) the Nord Stream pipelines.
Just before that, at about 01:10:50, President Putin had a very nice rant. "Don't you have anything better to do?" bringing up the US border invasion and other major problems. (Because of English's lack of a difference in plurality for that 2nd-person pronoun "you" - the translator didn't know "y'all", I would just have to tell him that it wasn't ME!) His point was we have better things to do than spend in the 100 Billions of dollars supporting the Ukraine.
Interestingly, Putin knew some detail about Tucker having applied, I gather, to work at the CIA at some point. (For a friend of mine, it was just so he could carry a gun more easily.) That's some KGB-like behavior, showing he had someone dig up something on Tucker. You can take the man out of the Intelligence Community, because it's gone when the country falls, but you can't take the ... whatever...
The last detail I'll bring up was just weird and unexpected for me. Note the last timestamp (not actually the last subject) about Evan Gershkovich. This guy is apparently a prisoner in Russia. Tucker started off by telling President Putin that we all know of this guy, or something to that effect. Whaaaa?? I've never heard of the guy. I hate to see an honest journalist, if Mr. Gershkovich is one, get imprisoned, but, what was bringing this up all about? I really think that Mr. Carlson was put on some sort of mission to help out the guy. He pushed the subject hard and basically pleaded for the Russian government to see this WSJ guy as innocent. I don't know. We have over a thousand Political Prisoners in the Washington, FS dungeons. That's what I care about much more. Tucker does too, so ... whatever - that part was just weird.
To summarize quickly, this was not a waste of 2 hours, but my excitement about watching this important interview had been unwarranted.
* I watched on his site, if nothing else, so support Mr. Carlson via a view. My wife went and donated $72 for a year of Tucker video access. I told her he doesn't need the money, but that I may do the same in order to show support as a "subscriber" or what-have-you. However, I also see that to watch a video by Mr. Carlson with some after-thoughts, one needs to pay up. That's more incentive... or my wife and I will watch it together, and I'll be the cheap-ass.
** You can watch it on Tucker's site here. Commenter Hail has left us the link to "Tucker Carlson: After the Vladimir Putin interview", here. I haven't watched it yet.
*** Spell-check doesn't like it, but that's the term the translator used, and I can't think of a better one.
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