On the brink of total collapse …
Posted On: Saturday - April 4th 2026 12:04PM MST
In Topics: Trump Globalists World Political Stupidity
GET! US! OUT! OF! THE! UN!… and, of course, vice versa. Before the latest Commie took over NYC, that could have been some valuable real estate. Now “There was living space for 40,000 Somalian families in this one building!” [/Comrade Capruchina-Mandami]
Peak Stupidity is against the stupidity of Trump’s war on Iran. Unlike what I read from others, I still hope Trump can find a way to end it very soon, against the wishes of his big dumb ego, and I would still like to see him continue with his Job #1 efforts, the pro-White fight he’s waged, and, if it’s possible now, the war against the Globalists.
One possible silver lining of all this, still not worth it, of course*, would be the news I read the other day:
“… on the brink of total collapse.” You say it like it’s a bad thing.
I was just thoroughly reading the latest New American issue of the John Birch Society.** The JBS has been against the United States being in the United Nations since the former’s inception, only 13 years after the UN’s. A week back, Trump got America’s vote, with only a couple of other nations’***, cast against the UN’s latest purely anti-White resolution stating “trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of all people through racialized regimes of labor, property and capital.” I guess the Moslems, and going back further, the Old Testament folks, get a pass on enslaving millions of White people.
The JBS had other reasons to fear and hate the UN than their silly annoying resolutions proposed by Africans and residents of other 3rd world crapholes. By all means, though it’s only about 2 days worth of waging war, let’s withhold the funding, forever.
We’ll get you… and your little alliance NATO too!
Guterrez, Guterrez… where have I heard that name before? Oh, yeah, right, he’s that Global Boiling guy!
* I mean, this could have been done anyway. For Trump, the idea goes back to the beginning of his last term even … he said the UN “might be a waste of time and money”, ya’ think? … yeah, never happened.
** This latest issue was mostly devoted to discussing the Epstein files. They see it as MUCH WORSE than I’d ever figured.
*** Yeah, Israel (is that all the payback for waging a war?) and Argentina, that was, with 52 nations STFU… errr, abstaining.
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Academic Study: Why Won’t German Women Mate With Migrants?
Posted On: Friday - April 3rd 2026 11:34AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity University Humor Globalists ctrl-left Female Stupidity
NOTE: I should have put in a "Multi-Cultural Stupidity" tag in from the beginning. Maybe AI can help me with that...
I could not have written a better title to this post than did Benjamin Bartee of Armageddon Prose. His title, now ours too, is written to poke fun at stupidity while pretending that maybe it was not meant to - plausible deniability or just humor? I've read Mr. Bartee's writing on ZeroHedge many times - his articles are billed at the top as Armageddon Prose - and he is a funny guy. On his substack site, where one may want to subscribe, the other option is "No thanks, I prefer MSNBC." Heh!
Mr. Bartee lives in Bangkok, Thailand and describes himself thusly:
I am a Bangkok-based American journalist, grant writer, political essayist, researcher, travel blogger, and amateur philosopher -- with opposable thumbs.There's that "based in" bit again, but the guy seems pretty based in the other, recently-used political sense. Here's his post on ZeroHedge. I'm sorry I didn't get to this story of this German academic polling study first, as I don't think I can do any better making fun of the whole thing either... I'll try. Here's Mr. Bartee's intro:
The ongoing Western social engineers’ jihad to deracinate the white race by herding European women into the warm embrace of Third World migrants has not, so far, gone as swimmingly as the architects of globo-homo race communism had hoped.
Indeed, the majority of the migrant-native sexual relations in Europe appear to be the non-consensual type.
Related: Germany: Gang Rapes Hit Record High, Up to Half Committed by Migrants [Oops, how'd that get in there? Forgot to copy/paste around that ZH related link. Yes, related indeed!]
Enter the crack social scientists of EU-funded academia to figure out what went wrong so as to expedite the mongrelization.
Cuckold extraordinaire Rolf Degen, with funding from the European Research Council (ERC), explains that, while the male “refugees” are “highly open” to coitus with native German women, the women themselves exhibit “much lower openness” via Journal of Family Studies:
Wait, where are the Syrian women though? Oh, right, Moslem women and men don't really do "mixed company" much, and, well, regarding Germany, the women didn't come. Neither did the children or old people for that matter. Apparently, only the young adult men were scared enough to leave and seek asylum.
Mr. Bartee excerpted only the Abstract of the paper in question, Is it a match? The congruence of partnership preferences between Syrian and Afghan refugees and the German population, by Germans Post-Doc Dr. Stefanie Heyne and Sociology Chair Dr. Irena Kogan of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.* I don't know who put the bold on, but I'll stick with it here:
“This study examines partnership preferences of male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria who arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016 and female residents of similar age…OK, well, I'll get ahead of Mr. Bartee here, cause it's my blog.
Conflicts and political unrest in numerous Middle Eastern and North African countries have triggered a substantial migration of refugees to Western Europe in the last decade (OECD, Citation2017). Germany, in particular, received over 1,4 million refugees between 2014 and 2016, predominantly from Muslim-majority countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. The majority of these arrivals consisted of young, single men within prime marriageable age brackets* (BAMF, Citation2018; Sauer & Kraus, Citation2024). Facing a host-country partner market with a scarcity of co-ethnic individuals and restrictive policies on transnational marriages (Kraus, Citation2024; Rüdel & Joly, Citation2024), many of these refugees may consider forming partnerships with members of the host population (Nauck, Citation2008). The extent to which the German resident population is receptive to such partnerships remains a topic of ongoing public and academic discussion (Dancygier et al., Citation2019; Kogan et al., Citation2023; Kuhlemann et al., Citation2025)…
Overall, these results show a general high openness among male refugees towards partnering with a woman from the resident German population…
In contrast, comparable analyses for the resident female population show a much lower openness towards partnering with an Afghan or Syrian refugee (see figure 2b). Both women with and without a migration background clearly prefer a partner born in Germany over a Syrian or Afghan refugee.”
Firstly, "marriable age" as applied to the Syrian men, hell, most men at this age, should read "horny", that's all.
"Migration background"?! Don't they mean "foreigners"? If they're not gonna admit that, at least just plain say "migrants". This is like that "enslavement" business - that ain't now way to make a euphemism! "A migration background" - give me a break.
It sounds like it's not only the Germans that don't want to "go out with" strange foreigners from a totally different culture, but any foreign ladies IN Germany, of the handful of refugees there might be there, ALSO don't want such a "partnership". In other words, women like German men more than they like Syrian men, or Afghan men. As with women and their hairdos, the way to avoid conflict and heartbreak is probably to not, purposely, at least, mix up varying cultures in the same place. I write this, yet, admittedly, I'm NOT a professor of Sociology.
These 2 authors sounded very perplexed by this phenomenon of women being careful who they date while men want sex right now. So, the paper went into much more detail, and Peak Stupidity went beyond the effort of Benjamin Bartee by skimming over the whole thing for 30 seconds. (That link above goes to the full paper.) I found out that this "research" involved asking poll questions. That is indeed what passes for research in areas that are not really science... but generally bullshit fields.
The researchers Heyne and Kogan polled some men for their study.
They also polled some women for their study.
"Oh, yes, I can imagine this", thinks the German Fraulein being polled. "I can imagine being covered in a damn pup-tent all day, not being able to go to Octoberfest or eat bratwurst, being beat up by my husband on a regular basis, and having my family disown me - and right they'd be!" The problem with polling is they NEVER ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS!
I'd have more in response to this abject stupidity, but Mr. Bartee did a good job, and he WAS first, after all:
Anyway, potential obvious reasons German women won’t take up sexual Congress with Syrian migrants, which one doesn’t need an academic study funded by Brussels to determine:The women are just not being receptive is all. Are the researchers really that stupid, though? It's more likely that they know all these very obvious reasons why German women don't want these men, while the men, amazingly - how so nonxenophobic of them! - want the women badly. Along with many others like them, these academic lefty women want to push cultural destruction because it's only fair. They are just a couple of more Commie Resentidos - if a life with a good German man didn't work out for me, it's only fair that you all suffer and German society is kaputt!
· Unbridgeable cultural divide
· They’re poorer than male Germans
· They’re less educated and largely illiterate
· They statistically, disproportionately relative to the global population, enjoy wife-beating because Allah approves of — nay, demands!
· Routine Allah-condoned marital rape
· A penchant for public defecation
· You’re going to wear a bed sheet over your head in public for the rest of your life
· Your diverse sweetheart is liable to throw acid in your face if you try to drive without his permission in order to reclaim his family honor
· You never can tell what STDs he might pass you after raping handicapped people in public restrooms at the mall
* I didn't put the links in to these ladies' university info. so you could call them up, but you could, I guess. I'd just like to know if either of them has ever married an Afghan or Syrian, man... or lady...
Dr. Kogan looks kind of punk in her picture, as if she should be spending her time singing about red luft balloons, but that was just a first impression. My second impression says no, she's a hard-core multi-cultural destroyer of German society.
There are a bunch of Mannheim Stefanie Heynes (how's that pronounced, anyhow?) that show up in image searches, none of them so far with any man by her side.
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A Nigerian Christian crowned King of Understatements
Posted On: Thursday - April 2nd 2026 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Bible/Religion World Political Stupidity Guns
It’s not so awfully surprising that there’s violence in Africa today. It doesn’t take too much of a reason for it either. For example, I couldn’t tell the difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi myself, but there was apparently enough of one to warrant the killing of millions of one of these tribes by the other back in 1990s Rwanda. (I don’t really care which way - not worth searching up even…) It’s just who they are. The Rwanda violence was done mostly with machetes. Imagine if we gave them guns… actually no need to imagine if you would just visit Chicago, or Detroit, or Philadelphia, or …
Until Kingdom Come, I don’t think there’s any fixing this. Take Nigeria, please… (Never gets old.) Even with the wealth contained in all the oil they’ve got - a pretty good thing right now, in fact - the Nigerians will never get their act together. Nigeria, with a population of 220 million Nigerians (unfortunately) right now will remain a shithole, barring re-colonization. No! Don’t worry, and get off our case! It would be the Chinese this time around.
Nigeria is just not quite sub enough Saharan to escape the reach of the Moslems, so that means trouble. The Gateway Pundit reports exclusively - someone is in contact with a missionary named Joshua Emmanuel living in the northern reaches of the country, a place called Jos - EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Christian Massacre Continues into Holy Week . Yeah, well, a massacre is bad enough on ANY week.
However, by mid-morning, new attacks began. Emmanuel said that armed men carrying machetes appeared in the Terminus area and began attacking Christians in the streets, causing widespread panic.We can be glad at least that it’s not gun violence like they got here. OTOH, Indiana Jones would beg to differ.
He explained that fear quickly spread across the city, leading to similar incidents in other neighborhoods. A Christian man was killed near the state university, and Emmanuel personally witnessed the killing of a man whose vehicle was burned.
Emmanuel said he drove through the city later that morning and observed a dramatic shift in atmosphere. Areas that had been busy earlier were nearly empty, with most women absent from the streets.
Groups of Muslim and Christian men stood on opposite sides of the roads, watching each other closely, while in other areas large groups gathered and violence broke out.
“People are getting hacked up with machetes,” he said, describing the sporadic but widespread nature of the clashes. He added that the total number of casualties remained unclear, though injuries were likely significant.
See if you can find the understatement spoken by Mr. Emmanuel here:
He emphasized that tensions in the city are among the highest he has seen in a decade. According to Emmanuel, many Christians feel anger and frustration after repeated attacks and a lack of accountability.I didn’t want to laugh at this horror, but I did. They are sick and tired of being slaughtered. Well, sure, you turn the other cheek, the one not yet slashed by a machete. Nah. The verse from Matthew 5 and the Sermon on the Mount is about not taking revenge. Later on, in Mathew 18, Jesus talks about showing forgiveness, not seven but seventy times seven times. None of this is said against the use of self-defense. Being a martyr is good, but just plain getting slaughtered, nah…
He said they are “sick and tired of being slaughtered” and believe that security forces are either absent or slow to respond. This anger has contributed to retaliatory actions by some Christian men and youths, further escalating the situation.
You really don’t want to let it get where you are sick and tired of being slaughtered! I’d suggest starting with a solid AR platform, even if all you can afford is iron sights for now.
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No Kings explained, by… just .. Yogi
Posted On: Wednesday - April 1st 2026 10:30PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits Globalists China Race/Genetics ctrl-left Big-Biz Stupidity
Instapundit linked me to the wordpress blog page of SpinStrangenessCharm (he’s not gay, he’s just a particle physicist or something…), who had pasted in the text of a tweet from this Yogi, not Berra.
The post is “No Kings” explained to unwitting CCP dupes, and which kings they’re actually marching for “No Kings” explained to unwitting CCP dupes, and which kings they’re actually marching for.. I will paste in the whole thing in turn for Peak Stupidity readers, with just a very few notes on the bottom
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No Kings explained for people who think they’re fighting fascism.
You’re standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro. You’re holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left’s definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who’s voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That’s the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king.
Okay buddy. You don’t hate kings. You hate kings that aren’t yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you’re a citizen before you vote? That’s oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That’s how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove “humor and satire.” They literally went after people for making fun of them.
UK does it better tho… Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn’t stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children’s identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao’s Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn’t hold your dying mother’s hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts.
The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: “I never felt unsafe.” “The experience changed me.”
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: “Revolution.” Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry. The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.
“Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind.” Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.
Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist.
The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.
Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here’s who checks the boxes in 2026:
* Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.
* Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.
* Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.
* State ideology forced on families. Democrats.
* Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.
* Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.
* Cult of personality. Both sides.
* Ultranationalism. Republicans.
Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.
You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings. You just didn’t know which was which.
Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what’s at stake.
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Yes, that writing is pretty tweet-like, no matter how long. The wordpress guy tried his best.
I can actually remember hearing about President Clinton “putting 100,000 cops on the streets.” Sorry, but that wasn’t within his powers. There were not to be Federal cops or even Federal money used to hire ANY cops, if you read that olde US Constitution. (I know, but ICE…) I remember this time from the mid-1990s as the time I realized America was headed inexorably away from freedom and the Constitution.
Of the 8 traits of Fascism, the 6th is much too vague, so I’ll toss that one, and the 7th is based I suppose on the characters Hitler and Mussolini, but, no, that’s not part of any real definition either. The 8th is bogus, because what some might call ultranationalism was the norm throughout history, and it wasn’t limited to Fascism. One just might want to think of these same D-party folks in question as Communists or useful idiots thereof.
This was pretty good, though. Notice the one particular guy in Shanghai that is mentioned. We discussed this Communist Billionaire yesterday. I especially liked the comparisons of “term lengths” of our would-be kings to those of Totalitarian dictators in history.
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Roy Neville Singham, Globalist ¡Resentidisimo!
Posted On: Tuesday - March 31st 2026 8:06PM MST
In Topics: Commies Lefty MegaStupidity Globalists China Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
“isimo” is the suffix in Spanish that indicates the absolute superlative, the most of whatever property an adjective represents. The adjective being modified here is “resentful”, within the term “Resentido” which was taught to us as a description of the real nature of Communists by Cajun ex-Cuban Humberto Fontova - see our post Los Resentidos from 4 1/2 years ago.
If the Globalist and Communist above, goes by Roy Neville Singham, didn’t start life out as the biggest Resentido I could imagine, I don’t know who else would fit the bill… George Soros, perhaps? Well, Roy Singham is the George Soros of the East*, it seems now. I’d never heard of him until the time of the Minneapolis rioting and obstruction against ICE agents come to take away illegal aliens in that most Sanctimonious of designated Sanctimony Cities. He’s a money man behind lots of action designed to destroy American society. The Deportation Nation program is being done for opposite reasons, so it’s been a thorn in the side of people like Roy Singham, the people he works for, and the people who work for him - nobody protests in -13 weather without being paid to, as it was Too Kold for your average Kommie . He supported the violence and obstruction of ICE in Los Angeles with $20 million last year too.
Who is this Roy Neville Singham that is the money and support behind various anti-American protests? The most fitting search result I clicked on was a link to the India Times of all media outlets, to the article Who Is Neville Roy Singham, US-Based Millionaire Accused Of Pushing Chinese Propaganda In India? . Actually, I don’t really give a rat’s hootie what the man is involved with in India. India and China, the two biggest nations in population, have never gotten along too well. Who cares? It’s the propaganda and worse that this Singham character is involved in HERE that concerns us.
India is a 3rd party though, probably not so biased regarding our affairs such as the Minneapolis protests, so I’m inclined to give some credence to:
Union minister Anurag Thakur, citing a report from The New York Times, has accused Singham of funding the website NewsClick and having 'direct ties' with the Communist Party of China's propaganda arm and the Chinese media firm Maku Group.But, yeah, who IS this guy?! 72 y/o Ron Neville Singham was born in Connecticut. You’d think he might be somewhat of a lefty, just due to his being from New England (there ARE exceptions). No, it’s much worse than that. He wasn’t born to New Englanders and didn’t grow up there. Singham was born to a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan, if you must) father, a militant Feminist Cuban mother, and he was raised in Jamaica. After writing up through here, I came to an article that makes the same comparison, The Other Soros: Communist Billionaire Neville Singham on a site called the National Legal and Policy Center. It describes the same background I’d read on wiki:
His father, Archibald Singham, was a renowned Leftist political scientist who taught at Brooklyn College, was a resident scholar at the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence, and served as an adviser to the UN on Third World development. His son Neville took to radicalism soon enough. At 17, he joined a Maoist labor group, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and found work at a Chrysler auto plant in Detroit. In time, he would be investigated by the FBI, which cited his background, emotional instability and activity in groups “inimical to the U.S.” Sometime after graduating from Howard University in 1978, he started an equipment-leasing consulting firm. Had he made peace with capitalism? Sort of.Howard University, huh? In good with the bruthas, he must have thought.
Wait, what was with the Capitalism? Mr. Singham founded Thoughtworks software back in the late 1980s. What do they do? Well, they were a consulting company first, so that means we have no idea if they did anything constructive. Lately, I read they are involved in studying “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”. I’d heard of “Enterprise” software for about 2 decades before I figured out what it even was, which is software to control employees at big companies. It’s the stuff that slows down actual work, if you’re familiar…
Anyway, being an avowed Socialist and all, Mr. Singham believes software ideas should be given away for free, but not until he sold Thoughtworks for $785 million first. He still doesn’t have the money Soros does, but he uses it for destruction as Soros does. He just hasn’t yet learned the Soros tactics of buying elections of American Secretaries-of-State (who are involved in vote counting/certifying) and District Attorneys (who may want to let criminals run free). Singham is still young - he’ll catch on.
Well, a lot of people grow up with nutso parents and turn out alright. More than a handful of people get as rich as Roy Singham did. (Some might even learn to be normal doing actual work, writing code or what-have-you.) You have to see parts of the video I came upon to understand why Peak Stupidity labels Roy Singham, El Resentidisimo.
This hour-long “Roy’s Talk” shows a typical Big-Biz “All Hands” meeting with the boss getting his ego stroked, as he relates his poor privileged background. His life was a problem, “a struggle against the privilege that I inherited when I was born.” Yes, these people have problems…
Watch and learn, if you haven’t listened before to the warped mind of a resentful Communist. This video is revealing. One can see how, yes, someone with the very worst of parents, politically, can absorb it all to become one of the most societally destructive people ever seen. The $785 million sure helped in this regard.
If you watch nothing else, go to 14:50 here, and see Mr. Singham bitch that the British National Anthem was played in the movie theaters in 1961 Jamaica while it was still a colony, the blacks “enslaved, beaten and humiliated with nothing left.” The nerve?! He very much resents having had to listen to God Save the Queen, but his Mom and Dad stood up spitting and booing, at least. I’m not sure when the last time he’s been to Jamaica. China is a bit … cleaner and more organized.
At 16:40, he described having “the shit beat out of me” by the White kids at the working class school when he lived in England. I mean that’s possible, I suppose, but likely it would have been not so much due to his color but more due to that this kid was a resentful child of Socialists. That pretty much requires a beating, in my book, maybe not daily though…
I watched this whole thing a few months back, so I won’t take the time to re-find more “highlights”… errr, enjoy!
Now you don’t have to wonder, as Tom Petty did:
* That might be confusing, but we (not just we at Peak Stupidity either) use “Far East” or the Orient based on position from Europe and “The West” includes Europe and America, the latter more a political term. Soros is from Hungary, and Singham lives in China.
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Governor Timmah, tampons, and the ghost of Mary Tyler Moore?
Posted On: Monday - March 30th 2026 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Commies Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Student and other Snowflakes Female Stupidity
If nothing else, The Gateway Pundit has stayed Conservative and patriotic on the immigration front. I noticed a post about one of Peak Stupidity’s most stupid of the lot we cover, Tampon Timmah Walz, Governor of Minnesota but THANKFULLY not President of the rest of these United States. Cristina Laila reports Tim Walz Trashes Trump, Pledges His Allegiance to Somali Minnesotans in Shocking No Kings Speech (VIDEO) .
That video clip is less than a minute long, so if the reader can stand the Communist raving retard Tampon Timmah for that long, have at it below. However, I captured the image above from near the end of the clip. Was that Mary Tyler Moore in that red cap out there in the cold? Upon first glance, I saw a pretty long-haired woman in a red beret, ready to toss it into the sky, while thinking, “♪♫♬ You’re gonna make it after all…! ”
I mean she could turn the world on with her smile ♪♫♬, or at least Minneapolis. If Mary Tyler Moore were really in that crowd, well, I could see myself taking a trip up there for the “No Kings” rally, putting on my angry Communist Resentido face, plus some dull olive-drab clothing, temporarily donning my own beret with a picture of Che, joining the crowd, and seeing if I could find a way to get cozy with young Mary Richards. I wouldn’t need her to turn the whole world on, either, just me! (I’d have to be single too - slipped my mind for a second.)
Alas, the ghost of Mary Tyler Moore disappeared when I looked more closely at the video. There wasn’t just one, but a multitude of AWFL Senior Snowflakes wearing not red berets but just regular red wool hats. Berets are much cuter… on women - on men they just make you look like a) a Communist, b) a homo, c) a Frenchman, d) that one guy on The Myth Busters, or e) a homo Commie Frenchman who didn’t make the cast of The Myth Busters.
These women are not pretty like (the late, hence the possibly ghostly) Mary Tyler Moore was. Therefore, I will not attend. That Tampon Timmah is something else:
“We’ll never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here’s our pledge to you: your great-grandchildren will be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history!” Tim Walz shouted.Well, I mean, that depends. Are you old enough to have had them? Yes, your stay here until your Somalian clan’s deportation might outlive President Trump. If not, let’s GET! YOU! OUT!, so you can have said great-great-grandchildren in Somaliland.
Peak Stupidity has been using the appellation “Tampon Timmah” due to this ‘tard’s fixation with supplying schoolboy’s bathrooms with tampons. Upon seeing him froth and rant in this video, I no longer disagree that some men’s bathrooms could possibly use a supply of tampons. This guy’s a real nut, vehemently favoring Somalians over Americans in his formerly, Mary Tyler Moore-era, great White State. I mean he was there then, for crying out loud! That is, when he wasn’t in China, something like 30 times, or having his honeymoon in China in remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacree.
Unfortunately, I think it’s not that simple. The hate and destructive instincts of Timmah Walz don’t seem to be occurring only during short recurring monthly periods of time. He’s always like this. I think he’s controlled via threats or blackmail by the Chinese CCP - I simply don’t see how he could be this destructive on his own. This guy makes The Manchurian Candidate look like a member in good standing of The John Birch Society! See what I mean?:
Oh, and the “Timmah!” meme comes from South Park. Here, with an assist from Peak Stupidity:
Next post, for (pretty) sure, will be, finally, Roy Neville Singham, El Resentidomismo!… or something like that …
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Africa v Elvis: Pump it Up!
Posted On: Saturday - March 28th 2026 6:26PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics Customer Care
It’s amusing anecdote time here at Peak Stupidity so as to wrap up the blog-week.
I got a ride from a Lyft driver recently. The guy was an African, a more and more frequent type to see EVERYWHERE - see our posts Coming to America: Part 1 and Part 2. He was, I don’t know, I’m guessing Nigerian, but it could have been one of a few dozen countries these days – probably western (subSaharan, of course) Africa.
He was playing his own country’s African music in the car, reasonably loud, not just for himself. I’d first thought it was some (c)rap, but it really wasn’t half bad. I don’t think much modern White music would have been any better. However, it did bug me that this guy thinks I want or need to listen to it.
Therefore, I relied on trusty site Peak Stupidity (What CAN’T PS do? Well, yeah, search…) on my phone. Since I’d just embedded Elvis Costello last week, I listened to that song at full volume – not really that loud on my phone – in the back seat. After it ended, I searched up Rush’s Red Barchetta from our post called The Motor Law. I mean, it’s a great car song, but this guy, besides not being a “car guy”, as there used to be more of, doesn’t even know what the fader function is. It’s there on the touch screen nowadays.
I imagine this driver was a bit miffed, but that was my statement: You might have your music, but we’ve got our music. Oh, and we live here. Oh, and I’m the customer – what happened to “customer care”?
I did give him a couple of bucks tip anyway, and I said “You should try some American music since you’re here and all…” I mean, what’s so funny ‘bout peace, love, and understanding?
That was the song that I played. How ‘bout some more Elvis?
I can’t say I’ve heard even half of his music, but, so far, Pump it Up is my favorite Elvis Costello song. This will be an even better one for the next such occurrence of this phenomenon during a Lyft ride.
Musicians use to come out with lots of music in a short time. This song is from the same year, 1978, as What’s So Funny…, but it’s from the album before, entitled This Year’s Model. I really like that bass playing by Bruce Thomas (I assume the brother of the drummer due to same last names).
Little known fact: Seinfeld star Elaine Benice picked up her dance moves from this guy. ;-}
Oh, and hey, wiki explained the origin of Elvis’ moves:
The video features Costello's signature jerky dancing. Costello explained,Enough about Elvis for a while. We WILL eventually get to Neville Roy Singham, who’s probably pre-occupied himself today supporting the pro Queensland rallies… but it’s tomorrow in Shanghai. Anyway, thanks for reading this week, Peakers! I always appreciate comments. Happy Sunday.The director quickly found out that I could walk on the sides of my ankles. That was a trick that I'd learned not in vaudeville school but at the hands of a vaguely sadistic doctor. When it was determined that I had flat feet as a child, I was first told I would never make it in the army, then I was taught to pick up a ball of socks with my feet like a monkey and do that trick with my ankles in an attempt to strengthen my arches. ... My bizarre attempts at rug-cutting in the "Pump It Up" video were becoming as much a calling card as a comedian's catchphrase, and I could sense myself being vacuumed up into the dust bag of light entertainment.
PS: Ooops, yeah, that’s not American music but New Wave British. Rush was Canadian. Oh, well, that guy will never figure that out anyway… his loss.
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I knew it! The Fuzhounese, the Chinese buffets, and the America Changle Association
Posted On: Saturday - March 28th 2026 9:09AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity China Scams
See? This is why I still have 250 browser tabs open on my phone (and double that on a couple other pieces of iCrap). I went to clean up a few and came upon the 3rd tab left open. The page saved there was from April of ‘23, I gotta assume, because the tabs around it are from that year, the article has NO date, but the 1st and only comment under it is dated confusingly 23/4/25. I also remember that this sort of article is one I’d be linked to from the Instapundit, and he generally links to current stories.
The story is A Secret Police Station Grows In Chinatown, by one Daniel Greenfield. What’s new? It’s Chinatown, Mod. Jack Nicholas movies aside, this IS something fairly new, only possible or worth doing due to the massive influx of Chinese people from the mainland over the last 30 years. Peak Stupidity mentioned something about these foreign police station (WTF?) goings-on in our post The Falun Gong Gang does Toronto. We posted that field report in July of ‘23, but I hadn’t read this Greenfield story yet, or I wouldn’t have kept it in that old tab. (It would have been referenced in that Toronto post.)
Mr. Greenfield starts off sort of extolling the diversity of Chinatown(s), what with the great Ramen noodles. Yeah, I’ve had my share of Top Ramen in college at 17¢ a pack, so … I’m good… but then he gets to the real diversity, the new mainlanders vs the old-timers out of Taiwan or Hong Kong:
While most New Yorkers think of Chinatown as being all one place, there are actually strict divisions between the generations of immigrants, mainlanders who predate the Communist takeover and later arrivals who are divided by language and politics. The feuds between these two groups across tenement property lines and community groups have been as furious as they have been invisible to the rest of the city. And it’s a struggle in which the new Communist arrivals with their superior numbers and political connections have won not only in Manhattan, but in San Francisco, Los Angeles and in other parts of the country served by the covert buses ferrying illegal migrants from city to city from depots near the illegal secret police station.Ahaaaaa! Way back in ‘18, Peak Stupidity posted The China to King Buffet pipeline (we are recycling the pics here) about this very thing happening. I wrote that post based on two chopsticks-on-the-ground pieces of information - 2 different sources. Yes, these illegal alien were being indentured out to serve Chinese restaurants around the country in white charter-style buses out of Newark, in our case.
How do we know? Besides from an American guy I know who knows the owner of one of the biggest of these buffets, I have a Chinese source who can talk to these people. The time of that post was during the Trump-45 presidency, when he was not really doing enough to scare anyone from talking. Nowadays, they would likely clam up like one of the more popular buffet offerings. This is nothing but A GOOD THING, a good sign, anyway.
I have had long semi-acrimonious discussions with Ron Unz on his site about the number of Chinese and Indian illegal aliens in this country. The problem for Mr. Unz is that he doesn’t get out much, and he doesn’t talk to normal people. We do.
We have learned over the years since that about every one of these Chinese people in the restaurants is from Fujian, of which Fuzhou, directly across the strait from Taiwan, is the capital. Lately, it turned out that I did get a chance to have some more Ramen noodles long after college, within the last month, in one of the Chinatowns in New York City. Actually, it was much better than the 17¢ packages I used to eat, with meat and some other stuff. OTOH, it was quite a bit more expensive, at $20 cash each. The one lady working in the front could talk to me enough for us to order, but that was almost the whole of it. I did say “Ni hao”, so she got excited that I possibly knew about China. Where in China was she from, it took me a couple of tries to ask. “Fujian.” Back to the article from the 3 y/o tab:
The Changle district of the Chinese city of Fuzhou provides most of the cheap migrant labor for the sweatshops and restaurants in Chinatown. The Fuzhounese come in, sometimes legally and sometimes illegally, and then are bused to work in Chinese restaurants across America. If you’ve seen Chinese dishwashers who don’t speak English furiously scrubbing in the back of some red-and-gold painted eatery with Fu Dog statues out front, the odds are that they’re from Changle. And that they barely know that they’re in the United States of America.Ahaaaaa! There you go. I think it’s mostly illegally, but there are lots of LEGAL scams too, family reunification, asylum claims, crime victim visas, etc. It’s one big SCAM, and we ain’t in it.
There’s a lot more to this story, but my point here is to show that Peak Stupidity has learned of this scam independently, and it helps to keep one’s eyes open and talk to people who will talk. It helps to know Chinese. I don’t, but I know people who do. Here’s some of the rest:
The alleged secret police station in Little Fuzhou is one piece in a much larger political operation. And while the DOJ and the FBI have stepped in to resist China’s long standing practice of conducting police state operations on American soil, they aren’t about to blow up the secret relationship between Democrat elected officials and Communist front community groups.Big Trouble in Little Fouzhou, sure, that’s your diversity you wanted, good and hard. Let me get later to the newest revelations on CCP Bug-out Baby Ops that make the Manchurian Candidate look like a piker.
The secret base above a ramen place was typical of Beijing’s operationalizing of its mass migration to western nations. Consulates coordinate community groups which become elected local and then national officials. Businessmen funded by the Chinese government and its oligarchs become community leaders, donate to politicians and set the agenda for Chinatown.
Yes, that picture is also from that long-ago post. I do like how my caption from the old image at the top here still fits pretty well, maybe even better.
PS: No, I have never heard of this “Changle Association” before. Daniel Greenfield tells us that Changle is a neighborhood in Fuzhou. Imagine a neighborhood with a million people! That’s China. That does not need to be America!
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Deportation Nation - Strategy and Tactics
Posted On: Thursday - March 26th 2026 8:27AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government
President Trump has never been a guy to think strategically. The Iran war shows us this, but Peak Stupidity has noted this long ago.
He uses some clever tactics sometimes - an example is the deal he made to get the public officials of Minnegadishu to let the ICE men do their jobs finally. It's pure speculation, but my bet is that Trump made an odious deal - it WOULD BE odious considering one particular 'tard involved - to lay off prosecuting Tampon Timmah and the Somalian grifters in return for the city letting ICE do its job by letting cops arrest the paid obstructionists if necessary.
Well, all
First, let me say that there are a whole bunch of new anti-immigration-invasion policies (almost all just administrative, but I don't see the UniParty passing very much of this) that commenters on TUR and elsewhere seem to have missed. I haven't. I have dozens of tabs open on various devices with reports on many, many good moves, many about LEGAL immigration too. If I can collect them properly, we'll have a post on it all.
The particular Deportation Nation work HAS an actual strategy behind it, and no, I don't attribute said strategy to Trump himself... unless you count his arranging for someone to build a strategy.
Has it been Steven Miller who's been planning all this? He's been an immigration patriot since he was in High School! He's not the immigration czar however, but instead, he's Chief of Staff. That office and his roots, let's put it, may have something to do with the instigation of this war, which may just derail all of the Deportation Nation strategy due to loss of support and distraction. I don't know this.
Tom Homan IS the Immigration Czar, but he seems more like an enforcer, the Field General, than the guy who arranges for detention centers and deportation flights.
The "who" doesn't matter so much as the "what". I've had for some years, and I have some more now, partially inside information on the logistics of alien deportation. I've seen personally the flow in the opposite direction, as Dark Brandon and his minion Mayorkas purposely let in 10-12 million strange foreigners from all over the world. I've seen them traveling on flights to around the country, after being sprung from detention centers in such places as Alexandria, Louisiana, sporting nothing but light grey sweatsuits and each a single piece of paper in a yellow envelope that said they were legal to get through TSA lines, but must come back for that important hearing in 15 months.
We wrote about this in Feb. of '22 - Joe Biden is a criminal Human Trafficker! and about bigger airplanes being involved in June of that year - This Human Trafficking is HUGE. We're gonna need a bigger
Thanks to the Trump Administration - 47 (I feel I have to add in that we're talking about THIS term), the flow is in the other direction.
It used to be Swift Air doing some of the deportation flying, but only of the serious hard-core criminals. They'd fly from internal HHS detention centers, such as the one in Alexandria, Louisiana, to Haiti, El Salvador, what-have-you, via Miami. Their 737s, narrowbodies that they are, couldn't go too much farther than Central America or the northern part of S. America. Going back to sometime within the last decade, Swift Air's radio callsign was "Repatriate". That made me smile!
Oh, the stories the pilots could tell! (And, did!) Anyway, Swift got bought by iAero Group, and not too much later they went out of business. An airline called Global Crossing - "Global X" to fit on the sides of the planes - took over this work with Airbus 320s, also narrow-body aircraft. The image above is of a couple of their planes at the AEX facility, though one may see a dozen there at times.
Now, a pilot I know who used to fly for Air Wisconsin is involved in this type of work flying the same Air Wisconsin planes - Canadair CRJ-200s - for CSI. He didn't quit, see, as it went like this: He had been furloughed for most of a year, as Air Wisconsin had lost their regional airline flying contract for American. Since he was still on the seniority list, when CSI* made this deal to obtain 13 of the CRJs, he is now doing this flying. The image above shows the basic AW livery, but before their planes would have said "American Eagle" on the side, and before that "United Express".
Unlike a no-1st-Class configured wide-body that could carry 250, maybe 300 people, or those Global-X Airbuses carrying 150 or so, the CRJs can carry a maximum of 42 prisoners. They have 50 seats, but 5 guards and 3 nurses go along. Neither Biscoff cookies nor Coca~Cola products need be served. ICE determines who needs to go where, often on short notice, and there can be from 1 single illegal alien to that 42 max onboard. No, that's NOT a lot, but the idea is that these planes are feeders, just as they were for American Airlines and United, to the big planes.
When it comes down to it, for a real decent rate of 10,000/day deportations**, that's only 40-odd widebody flights daily or 75 narrowbody flights. This is quite doable. However, as with the logistics in getting all the letters and boxes to the hubs in Memphis, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky for FedEx and UPS, respectively, you've got to get the aliens to a few places on the logistics chain.
Perhaps the reader may have read an article or two about various warehouses around the country being converted to alien detention centers. These illegal aliens will be held here and there, while transportation to Alexandria, Miami, and other airports is arranged and then space becomes available on the homebound flights. When you're talking 10,000/day or even, unfortunately a few thousands, as with packages on conveyor belts, if you don't have a good strategy, stuff (people) can build up to jam up the works quickly.
There's a big strategy to this. The money, from the BB Bill, is there. Airplanes are being outfitted. Crews are being hired. So, for those who think Trump is just bullshitting, nah, not on this. His job is to run his mouth, but many other jobs are part of Deportation Nation... that is, unless Trump screws the pooch by starting a war or something...
* It's not worth linking to their site, as it's dated and still shows one of their charter King-Airs with no info on the Air Wisconsin deal.
** Peak Stupidity likes round numbers. 10,000 a day is only 3 1/2 million annually. It's true that this alone doesn't seem to cover the problem, even were Deportation Nation to miraculously continue for a decade. (We're estimating 40-50 million.) However, as we've also discussed - see Deportations: Trump, News, History, Humor, and Music from early last year, self-deportations will take-off if Deportation Nation is significant, steady, and serious. Publicity such as Trump loves way too much, CAN be helpful in this. Most people, aliens or not, aren't so good with numbers and probabilities.
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The long sordid legacy of enslavement continues…
Posted On: Wednesday - March 25th 2026 6:50PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics
You can have on-going legacies - I can think of a couple of examples. “Legacy of slavery” has been the term of art, but, for some reason I can’t fathom, “enslaved persons” is better than “slaves”, and “enslavers” is better than “slave owners” or “slavers” nowadays, so we’ll go with “legacy of enslavement” here.* It was a big deal ending enslavement in America 160-odd years back - we thought we had it licked, but still, Americans have been enslaving people to this day in, for example, Martinez, California and Greater (but not SO great) Chicagoland.** I mean, that is, if immigrants from Nigeria and Benin, respectively, can be considered Americans - they were the ones doing the enslaving, BTW.
Well, even the UK has its enslavers today. Gateway Pundit reports UN Judge and Former Columbia University Fellow Convicted of Modern Slavery . One Lydia Mugambe… wait a minute! She was a former fellow? I just gotta quit being a curmudgeon and get hip to the modern world… where was … OK, one Lydia Mugambe a Ugandan based in the UK, brought some domestic help out of the old country to do dishes and take care of the 3 children.
Because she lacked the legal right to sponsor a visa, she conspired with John Leonard Mugerwa, then Deputy High Commissioner of Uganda to the UK, who agreed to sponsor the victim’s entry under a diplomatic servants scheme.I wouldn’t have imagined that such a prestigious individual, formerly on the High Court of Uganda, would lack integrity. It’s the Nigerians, right, not the Ugandans that run all those scams? I mean she was a freaking judge at the UN, OK?!
False employment contracts and a false Certificate of Sponsorship were created stating the victim would work as a paid housekeeper at the Ugandan diplomatic residence.
The intention from the outset was that the victim would instead live and work unpaid at Mugambe’s private home.
She’s right, you know. It IS hard to get good help these days. However, even in the modern UK, you can only get away with so much, at least when your victim is also a woman of colour.
Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.Wait, what was the middle thing again?
She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017. She was studying for a doctorate in law at Oxford University at the time of the offences.Miss Mugambe ought to know a thing or two about human rights, and enslaving people has got to be some sort of HR violation - yeah, in both senses - or at least it ought to be…, but then, I’m no barrister. I attended neither Columbia University nor Oxford, so perhaps Peak Stupidity should stand down here.
Now she’ll spend half of her 6 year sentence for enslavement at a place quite different from Columbia or Oxford, and she has been ordered to pay FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in reparations for this:
Once in the UK, the victim was required to cook, clean, and provide childcare without pay, receiving only food and board. Mugambe confiscated the victim’s passport and biometric visa card.Oh, and…
The case attracted public comment in Uganda, some of it critical of the victim, which has been a source of distress. The victim was subsequently granted asylum in the UK.That’s the way you do it. Two Ugandans for the price of one, as formerly-Great, formerly-Britain
* In a weird way, I’m kind of hoping the clutch slave cylinder on my truck fails again, just for the fun I’ll have requesting the black auto parts clerk quote me a price on a new enslaved cylinder.
** Ha, I wrote this title today, and I now see that I wrote almost the same title 6 years back!
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Iran wartime gas prices
Posted On: Tuesday - March 24th 2026 8:22AM MST
In Topics: Economics Big-Biz Stupidity World Political Stupidity
I’ve written in the comments here and elsewhere that I’d like to see this stupid and damaging war (to about everybody) end soon, no matter what the official story is. Donald Trump is the very last person to say “I made a mistake”. Were he to call the end of it a “Deal like nobody has ever seen!”, I don’t care, so long as it stops.
Gas prices have gone up. No, that’s not at all a big reason that Peak Stupidity is against this Iran stupidity, but it’s a symptom of some of the reasons. For lots of Americans, the price of gas may indeed be what turns them against the war. It shouldn’t be that way, just as it shouldn’t be that elections are decided based on the latest gas price rises or decreases. (We did hope, however, in ‘24, that gas prices would go through the roof sometime in late October, yes, to encourage those people to come out.)
That was just a big disclaimer to say we don’t consider the price of gas the biggest worry in the world right now.. not yet, anyway! However, Americans on supposed low budgets who will up and buy a candy bar with still no concern for the price, AT THE GAS STATION, keep a close eye on the signs - special card/credit/debit-cash, whatever, and note them to the dime or nickel per gallon.
Therefore, we’re gonna do this silver-for-gas comparison again, with some additional commentary. We’ve written before that it’s interesting to look at current gas prices in comparison to the average price in 1964. Why 1964? That was the last year in which American coinage (with the exception of pennies and nickels) was made of 90% silver by mass. Along with that, the weight vs face value of these coins was linear, so a half-dollar coin had 5 x the silver in a dime, etc. It worked out to ~0.72 troy oz. of silver per $1 face value. So, when you paid for gas, you were using the precious metal and REAL money silver to pay for it.*
The www is giving me values from 25¢ to 30¢ per gallon for the 1964 average gas price. Two and a half dimes, let’s call it, on the low end, contained 0.18 oz of silver, so gasoline was 0.18 oz/gallon in REAL money, that last year the coinage WAS real money.
I paid $3.50/gallon or so last week when I put gas in 2 of the vehicles. With the spot silver price at $69/oz as I wrote, that $3.50 can be exchanged (well, assuming your coin dealer charges you no premium) for only 0.051 oz. In other words, gas last week was still less than 1/3 of its price in real money 6 decades ago. I think more of the general price level of the last few years though. The price fluctuates, sometimes nowadays based on some savvy or overly-educated-in-marketing types to the extent that I’ll go by in the morning, think “no time now, but I’ll get it on the way back”, and on the way back it’s up 15¢(!). It’s been pretty stable in the medium term, when you recall. I am the same as most Americans in that I can’t help but observe the signs - by my estimate gas has stayed within a +/- 10% range around $2.60/gal for a few years now where I live. That’s averaging 20% of 1964 gas in real money.
But wait! The reader may wonder what’s special about the 03/24/26 silver price, that spot $69/oz? It’s been lower, it’s been way higher, and who knows? Right, precious metals are traded and speculated on as if they were investments, when it’s really those green pieces of paper or computer-stored bits that are the investment, and a bad one at that! Silver and gold will generally, over the years, reflect the value of the dollar. If silver were to go back to $25/oz - I don’t think it will - that would mean gas is at only 3/4 its 1964 price.
Of course, it is going up as I write. At 5 bucks a gallon, it’d be just over the 1964 price. BUT, when it gets to a local minimum in price, some States - not naming any names here - will greedily tax it even harder, and this is critical, by the gallon. At $10/gallon, in some states, the actual gasoline may cost not much more than in 1964, but the taxes in the name of “saving the planet” are much higher. I don’t think The Planet is any better off for it… the people… they surely aren’t!
So, fear not, Americans, gas is still very cheap!
What you should do is, check the prices on candy bars before you buy them.** I do. Many Americans are still too embarrassed to do that. Are you (not aimed at our typical PS reader, BTW) still so wealthy that checking prices is beneath you? Do you know that in 1964 a candy bar could be bought for 5-10¢, as in, for one or half of one of those sliver dimes? Last time I checked at the gas station, they were $2.50 to $3.00! They are 5-10 x more expensive, in REAL MONEY!
Don’t bitch about the gas prices until you can get on a budget and handle your money. Stop being a sucker and buying lottery tickets and holding me up when I’m paying for my gas! (The Indian-run station near me has been competitive, but they are tricky in that a debit card rings up at the credit card price there - I go in and pay cash - gotta go twice to fill up the one car with no working gas gauge.)
Want more commentary? See the comments under this ZeroHedge article: Costco Gas Lines Surge As Drivers Hunt For Cheaper Fuel .
PS: Final thought: Those Indians there at the local station, most certainly the one guy with the biggest dot - it’s a seniority thing - would be the most likely to understand my basic point here. Were I to give the guy 10 early-1960s dimes for my 10 gallon fill-up, would he take them? He could thrown in a half dozen microwave burritos and a blueberry squishy and still come out ahead!
In their articles on gold back in the day (‘11 or so), ZeroHedge would usually have the same picture at the top with some Indian guy in India wearing a jacket made out of strips of gold.
* For years, even decades to come, of course one could still pay with the older coins, i.e., in silver, but one could also use the coins that didn’t have that inherent known worth.
** This is a new thing, maybe 1 or 2 decades old: I don’t know if the point is cost saving measures, as in, setting prices on the
*** That doesn’t stand for what you think it does or what it probably should. That’s Point Of Sale system.
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What’s So Funny ‘bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
Posted On: Saturday - March 21st 2026 8:43PM MST
In Topics: Music
There was a period of time, the very late 1970s through the early 1980s, when, if college students mentioned “Elvis”, they were talking about uber-geeky-looking new wave musician Elvis Costello, not heartthrob or even fat late-Vegas-stage Rock & Roller Elvis Presley. This guy came from London rather than Tupelo, Mississippi.
His Dad was a musician, and Declan Patrick MacManus, later aka Elvis Costello (Who knew? I sure didn’t till now), worked hard to make his way in the music business. He was born in 1954 so was just the right age to get into music during the beginning of the heyday(s) of The Beatles.
I went to the wiki page to learn more about him, and I found this anecdote, from Elvis’s time on tour in America:
March 1979, during a drunken argument with Bonnie Bramlett and other members of the Stephen Stills band, at a Holiday Inn bar in Columbus, Ohio, Costello referred to Ray Charles as a "blind, ignorant nigger" and made similar comments about James Brown. At a New York City press conference a few days later, Costello said he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press. According to Costello, "It became necessary for me to outrage these people with about the most obnoxious and offensive remarks that I could muster".Haha, but the wiki writers seriously consider that,
When Costello's comments were reported in the press a few weeks later, the bad publicity was sufficiently severe and widespread to be regarded, including by Costello himself, as the reason he never achieved the top-level commercial success in the US that had been predicted for him.So, Elvis figures he may have been what is now dubbed “cancelled”. He’s not cancelled as far as Peak Stupidity is concerned.
In fact, we at Peak Stupidity wonder why Elvis Costello has not been featured here before through over 9 years of blogging. I like his sound. I thought the title of this song from his 1978-released 3rd album, Armed Forces* was very clever and funny. The tune is great, and this video shows off “the other Elvis” at his coke-bottle glasses-wearing, Buddy Holly-resembling, new-wavey best.
The song was written by English singer/songwriter/producer Nick Lowe. Elvis’s band The Attractions was:
Elvis Costello – guitar, vocals
Steve Nieve – keyboards
Bruce Thomas – bass
Pete Thomas – drums
Here’s one more thing from wiki regarding Armed Forces:
Costello said of the album's influences, "If you're sitting in a station wagon driving from Atlanta to Madison, Wisconsin and listening to Bowie's Low and "Heroes" and Iggy Pop's The Idiot and ABBA's Greatest Hits over and over again, that's the kind of record you'll make!"Hey, what’s so funny ‘bout Bowie, Iggy, and ABBA?
* This song was only on the British release of the album but put on another American version 15 or so years later.
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MTG on the Iran War
Posted On: Saturday - March 21st 2026 8:17AM MST
In Topics: Websites Trump The Neocons alt-right/MAGA
We agree with MTG on her opinion in the video above. It’s been interesting to note the generally pro-war NeoCon posts on The Gateway Pundit* over these weeks. As the various writers seem to agree with all things President Trump does, perhaps their main reason for supporting this war, they will still call out “War Pig Lindsey Graham” regularly… seems kind of schizoid…
The Uber-MAGA former Congresswman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a Peak Stupidity favorite (too many to list here, but search under alt-right/MAGA topic key or here), and the Gateway Pundit has praised her many times. Now, because she is against the war, their recent post, MTG Joins CNN to Criticize Trump, Says Iran Strike Means He Doesn’t Deserve Nobel Peace Prize, by one Greg Lyakhov, is critical. Yes, she was on CNN, as if that alone is proof she’s suspect. It’s an interview - perhaps FOX won’t have her on. Then, there is that too-hard-to-hide smirk on the interviewer’s** face, as she enjoys hearing from the supposed enemy of her enemy. Mr. Lyakhov writes:
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene once built her political brand as one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken allies. Today, however, Greene increasingly sounds less like a MAGA leader and more like one of Trump’s loudest critics.She’s as MAGA as they come - MAGA is, or WAS, at least, for America first, meaning against wars that aren’t in defense of America. If you watch Mrs. Taylor Greene, you will see that she is anything but Trump’s loudest critic. She’s against this war, Trump is for it, and so logic says she’s against Trump on this important issue.
Peak Stupidity doesn’t take this thing lightly either, but as we’ve written (item (8)), we are most vexed at the idea that, due to his stupidity, obsequiousness, cowardice, whatever it is, Trump is losing support for his work on the PRP, his pro-White, anti-D.I.E. efforts and at least a flailing attempt at helping America’s economy. MTG agrees. As much as Caitlin Collins and this GP writer want to portray her as an enemy of MAGA, she is far from one.
Greene’s criticism of Trump did not begin with this interview. Over the past year, Greene has repeatedly distanced herself from the core principles that defined the MAGA movement.By the very definition of MAGA, this is wrong.
The CNN appearance simply made the divide impossible to ignore.The CNN interview was done to encourage divisiveness and defeat.
During the interview, Greene openly questioned the administration’s handling of the conflict with Iran and framed the war as a betrayal of voters who supported Trump.Well, yeah, it’s been stupid, and yes, it has been a betrayal.
“This war is not something that Americans voted for in 2024,” Greene told CNN.I really don’t care which network this was on. MTG is right, and I say this as a Trump supporter… generally.
The criticism went even further. Greene also said Trump no longer deserves the Nobel Peace Prize—a sharp reversal from her previous praise of the president’s diplomatic record.
“At one time… I thought he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize,” Greene said. “Do I think he deserves it now? No. Absolutely not.”
Those remarks may have played well with CNN viewers, but they landed very differently among many Trump supporters.
It’s inadvertently been Video Week here at Peak Stupidity. If you haven’t already, I hope you will take the time to watch, if nothing else, the first portion of the video of Paul Ehrlich on Johnny Carson. Later today, we’ll have some music to complete this blog week. We’ll get to a interesting video that you’ll not want to watch the whole of, showing who Roy Singham is and what we have against him, put off another week… Then, we’ll have at least one post of updates to stupidity topics, and some inside info. on the Deportation Nation program. Thanks for reading and writing in!
* Again, it’s probably not our average reader’s cup of tea, but the site is pretty quick with the news headlines. Additionally, this site has been unwaveringly on our side on existential issue of the immigration invasion.
** She’s pretty cute, this Caitlin Collins, but I don’t keep up with these people. I just now learned her name.
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Girls of the FedGov
Posted On: Friday - March 20th 2026 8:38AM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Female Stupidity
It's bad enough that our ctrl-left enemies include a lot of wacky broads. We should expect that. However, there are entirely too many nutty women even supposedly in the MAGA camp, acting, well, too much like women, basically, to be helpful to our cause. One of them, a Congresswoman from the Low Country of South Carolina, has had the misfortune of being featured on Peak Stupidity before - see Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy.
Well, to make that story even more unfortunate, I couldn't make heads or tails of the private* parts of Representative Mace...
Another Feral Gov't employee who's been in the news is Department of Motherland Security head, just removed, Kristy Noem. Apparently, although she did look very cute from various angles in her tacticool gear, it is NOT cool to spend a cool $200 million of taxpayers' money on ads... I mean, it'd have been fine if they were all ICE recruiting ads - though, I think we could all find the website for an app(lication). No, Mrs. Noem wanted to make sure the public could see the beauty of the America that Motherland Security is tasked with protecting along with the beauty of Kristy Noem jiggling around on horseback.
Congressblondie Mace is onto her. This aggression will not stand, man! Per the Gateway Pundit, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Plans to Investigate Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: ‘We Need to Hold Our Own Accountable’. Oh sure. Hey, that newscaster in purple is kinda' cute too. Maybe we should investigate her.
... Mace added. “I had no idea how much money — hundreds of millions of dollars — that Kristi Noem had wasted on her personal PR for all those TV ads that are running across the country that have nothing to do with deporting illegal aliens.”Exactly, her hair is longer and more flowing. She's been on those commercials looking much prettier than Miss Mace does, even in those nudie pics personally entered into the Congressional Record during public hearing, and therefore Kristy Noem should be HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
No, but it's about party politics and integrity see?:
She added, “I don’t think [Noem] walks away from this and she shouldn’t, because as Republicans, we need to hold our own accountable.No(em)! That is plain stupid, first of all. The ctrl-left is not stupid enough to do this sort of thing. One of their own could have been caught scamming $200 million by operation fake learing centers, then arrested as a pedophile at an actual learing center, and the ctrl-left will pardon him and put him back on the payroll at their first opportunity.
Secondly, women being women, and especially from my having seen the fruits of the whack-job brain that inhabits this Nancy Mace, I know this is about the hair, and the make-up, and the most important curves that still show up even in tacktiool HHS gear and when one is on horseback.
Mrs. Noem wins on about all, the hair, the make-up, and the slender body, although it's by default on the latter, as I still cannot make a thing out of that Congressional evidence she submitted last Spring.
The last event, the horseback competition, can be judged here (again, a default by Nancy Mace, as she may not ride.):
Was that worth $200 million of taxpayer money? Well, it's only about a buck each for every adult man and lesbian in America. People spend more than that on porn... a LOT more... from what I've been told...
Look we just can't have this going on. Keep the girls out of the FedGov! A few Maggie Thatchers would be OK.
* Actually, she's been much higher ranked than Private - this women is well known only because she was the first woman to get though and graduate from The Citadel military college, after one Shannon Faulkner had broken through the haze ceiling ... and promptly dropped out shortly thereafter.
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It’s all so tiresome…
Posted On: Thursday - March 19th 2026 7:22PM MST
In Topics: History Movies China Geography Race/Genetics
This meme has been since a while after the documentary Empire of Dust was produced 15 years ago. Normally the meme includes a frustrated Chinaman named Lao Yang, one of the co-stars, but the cat here does look Oriental at least. Something is pretty tiresome to him - we’ll never know.
We do know something about the history of White colonization of Africa and the state of the much more recent Chinese colonization of the place. What? It’s not colonization, only some deals being made, you say? Call it what you like, but, since the Africans are STILL sore about all the benefits that White European colonization brought them - cause, envy - I don’t know how this will go differently. If anything, the Chinese won’t be so darned nice.
Some Africans in Africa and in American who bitch about the White man having run things must really know that Africa would be in the same primitive state now as it was before the White man was ever seen there had he never arrived. Others are stupid enough to believe in Wakanda and such. The British (with a large north-south section, from “Cape to Cairo” with one exception, along with a few places on the south-facing Atlantic coast), the French (with a huge Chunk of land - the whole western portion of the northern half), the Germans (with 3 or 4 widely spaced colonies in the southern half), the Portuguese (with Angola on the Atlantic and Mozambique on the Indian Ocean), the Italians (with half of what’s now Libya and those Somalilands/Eritrea, the Spanish (with just Gibraltar and some (relatively - the place is huge) small desert wasteland on the Atlantic), and Belgium (running what’s the subject of this post), ran and ruled various portions of the Dark Continent from the late 1800s through the end of WWII. It’s been well over half a century since the White man left most Africans to their own devices. These lands have been reverting.
The inventions/machinery of the Industrial Revolution, never seen before and never to have been seen for many millennia if at all without the White man’s arrival were one thing. It was the organizational skills provided by the Europeans, especially the British, that gave Africa a chance to become a part of the modern world. There has been such ungratefulness since. A wiki page sees it all differently:
European rule had significant impacts on Africa's societies and the suppression of communal autonomy disrupted local customary practices and caused the irreversible transformation of Africa's socioeconomic systems.They say this like it was a bad thing. By the turn of the century, Africa had mostly won out… but then came the Chinese. As it was for the White man, obtaining resources is a big part of the point.
The movie/documentary Empire of Dust takes place in that one former Belgian colony, The Congo … or one of those Congos… where they play the bongos…. We get to view a very small part of an effort called CREC-3, Chinese Railway Engineering Company, in which a manager/civil engineer is in the process of building a 200 mile road, with the help of local labor. The bigger project, the whole of the CREC efforts, are being paid for by the Chinese - something like $2 Billion - in return for access to minerals.
This is not so much a normal documentary, as there is no narration. The 1:17 minute “flick” has English subtitles, a good thing since Mr. Lao speaks Mandarin Chinese, his buddy - though this is not really a “buddy film” per se, Eddy, speaks Mandarin, French (as does the whole former Belgian colony), Swahili, and some English too. (I’m pretty impressed with local Congolian Eddy knowing these languages or, really, ANYONE being able to do so. That skill doesn’t come easy for me.)
“It’s all so tiresome” is uttered by Mr. Lao sometime late in this movie, and the movie is very much so. It’s a movie about frustration. The logistics to building this road are much more difficult than they’d be in a 1st-World country. It’s the very typical black ways, slacking off unless and until the boss is present, not giving a damn about the big picture, not caring about the schedule, promising with no real plan to deliver, and the laziness and thieving, etc, that get so very tiresome by the end of the movie. It’s very hard for even a competent man to get things done when he depends on the incompetent. The Chinese contingent at the little base of operations are reasonably competent, while there is no black employee besides possibly Eddy that is nearly so.
We watch a big, ongoing, frustrating effort to get gravel delivered, even just one batch, to get a process started. There are some funny interludes. A dump truck tailgate must be welded shut because it has been bashed up by somebody (nobody admits to anything) so it would lose the gravel otherwise. Then, it must be beat back open at the delivery end. When the load is being measured, Mr. Lao uses a tape measure that is too short, and Eddy makes a remark about shoddy Chinese-made products, haha!
Then, in the background we hear a radio announcer named Carlo Kalombe, who plays some eclectic music and is genuinely funny. Note his take and retraction on the weight of the current Big Man’s wife.
But the biggest point that is made in Empire of Dust is the question of how things can run so badly. Some of the quotes below have appeared around the web, as Lao Yang questions his friend Eddy about, well, “what the heck is wrong with you people?” or at least, what the heck is wrong with African society and its lack of competence and organization:
Lao Yang: The government here isn't efficient. We want to take rocks from the mountain behind the camp. We've been negotiating with them since the New Year. Half a year of talking without any results. You were governed by a European country for so long. You should have learned how things work.At this point, Eddy looked like he was about the cry. He’s not stupid and maybe not lazy, but he knows what too many of his people are like.
Eddy: It wasn't that long ago. Only 50 years. We celebrated Independence just a few weeks ago.
Lao Yang: Up till then you were under colonial rule. Experience should be passed on. Only that way can you develop. You went backwards instead of forwards. Look at your railways. High technology from the 1930s. We didn't even have it in China back then. Look at the railroads in the mines. The cable lines are fucked up. I can't bear to see that. You neglected the things others had left you. What's more, you completely destroyed them. It will take generations to put things right.
Lao Yang: They first constructed this road in 1954. More than 50 years ago. Since the Belgians built it, you guys did nothing to maintain it... . Unbelievable. You can't imagine the effort it took to built it. The infrastructure has gone to waste. It hurts to see it.This civil engineer knows good works when he sees it. Since the Africans would be loath to let the White man tell them how to do things, let the Chinese have at it. Knock yourself out, CREC-3.
Since this is a review of sorts, let me say that Empire of Dust can get all so tiresome and put one to sleep. However, there is some fun in it, and one can gain some insight in how to (try to?) get things done in such a place. Most importantly, one can get some vindication. If this nice, hard-working Chinaman was having such a hard time, maybe it wasn’t the White man who was the problem the last time around.
If you don’t like it, consider that it’s free. Thank you, youtube.
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Paul Ehrlich and the Population Theory Bomb - live on Johnny Carson
Posted On: Wednesday - March 18th 2026 7:03PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Pundits Media Stupidity The Future Race/Genetics
… actually, now dead, and no longer on the late Johnny Carson’s show.
Talk about bombs, pundit Steve Sailer just threw a BIG bomb out to his substack readers in the form of the video clip below. Not exactly being one of his substack readers*, I cannot tell you whether, in that post Paul R. Ehrlich, RIP , Mr. Sailer or his commenters discuss what you’ll surely want to view below.
The pundit got into asteroids and Science Fiction, so, I dunno what was gonna be next…. Regarding the byline of sub-headline that Mr. Sailer includes in all his posts there, The "Population Bomb" guy notoriously lost a bet to Julian Simon. But Simon refused Ehrlich's smarter second bet., I couldn’t even read about said 2nd bet. Along with a humorous comment on Robert Heinlein books, “ In Heinlein books, the main character teens have an IQ around 150.” (ha, same with Lionel Shriver novels), he ended his excerpt of Farmer in the Sky** with:
When Paul did answer it was just one word, one monosyllable, spoken so softly that it would not have been heard if there had not been dead silence. What he said was:PAY WALL. Marketing genius, I tell ya’! … ‘cept, it doesn’t work with me.
Peak Stupidity has lots of ex- or current- Steve Sailer readers reading here, based on the commenters, at least. So then, I’m sitting here telling all of you this - the 1st 3 minutes of this is as anti-iSteve as it ever gets. It’s almost as if this Paul Ehrlich, from Stanford, no less, was trolling future Steve Sailers from 49 years ago on the Johnny Carson show. He’s a one-man iSteve content creator from when iSteve was still either just graduating High School or in a studio across the hall losing on Jeopardy. (It was the buzzer, man! I was robbed! It was rigged! – there’s a ‘70s term for ya’!)
Now, lest the astute reader think that I have made yet another typo (of sorts), there in our title today, nope, it was meant to say “Population Theory Bomb” rather than “Population Bomb Theory”. The Population Bomb was the title of one of Ehrlich’s books. Interestingly, one could write a book about exactly the opposite using the same title.
The famous bet that Mr. Sailer refers to was between this Professor Ehrlich and Julian Simon, the latter an Economics Professor at the U.’s of Illinois and Maryland. Wiki labels it a wager, much more fitting for 2 esteemed Professors, and the main point was that Paul Ehrlich figured population increases were going to doom the world very soon. (Keep in mind, the Climate Calamity had yet to be popularized or wagered on.) Julian Simon did not think so.
Rather than bet on some hard to pin down values of something - deaths by starvation in various places? - they
Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose any raw material he wanted and a date more than a year away, and he would wager on the inflation-adjusted prices decreasing as opposed to increasing. Ehrlich chose copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten. The bet was formalized on September 29, 1980, with September 29, 1990, as the payoff date. Ehrlich lost the bet, as all five commodities that were bet on declined in price from 1980 through 1990, the wager period.Julian Simon died in 1988, so he never collected his money… which, were I involved in this thing, would have been in gold and silver, not copper, chromium, nickel, tin, or tungsten. That’s just me, and I would probably would have been sorry… for another 15 years.
Here goes.
Nope, Paul Ehrlich’s theory bombed out way, way, before he R.I.P.ed last week. The bet on commodities was made because the argument was about near future scarcities of everything. That’s not… really… the problem though. Will we be happy living in a world of plentiful Bread & Circuses in a society that is a Tower of Babel? Neither Paul Ehrlich or Julian Simon could see what was coming regarding the Population Replacement Program in 1980, though you’d think they should have been smart enough to. (Even Peter Brimelow didn’t get concerned enough to write about mass immigration until over a decade later.)
If you’ve now viewed this, you’ll see that Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich was not just so very wrong about future demographics as seen from mid-1977, but he was wrong for something like 2 minutes straight on EVERYTHING! I suppose Johnny Carson’s job was to be nice and not get in serious arguments, but it sure sounded like he was drinking the same Kool-Aid.*** (Wait, that Kool-Aid meme was invented next year.) It’s too bad Paul Ehrlich didn’t make a wager with the teenage Steve Sailer on race relations, IQ differences, school integration, “The gap”, “Conquistador Americans”, etc. The guy who lost on Jeopardy would have thrashed the Stanford Professor. Then, being who he is, Paul Ehrlich would never have paid Steve Sailer, as I doubt he ever admitted he was wrong on the Johnny Carson Show on June 7th of 1977 about everything, right through last Friday.
After putting up this video of a guy spouting everything that is the complete, most stupidly opposite of what Mr. Sailer has tried to explain to America, he still gets an R.I.P. You’re too nice, Steve Sailer. Seriously. I’d have rather read about some Rock & Roll drummer dying due to asphyxiation by his own vomit… yes, at 78 years old… even cooler!! … or, more likely, he tried to smash his guitar and gave himself a fatal hernia.
PS: This kind of writing is why I enjoy Steve Sailer’s posts from on this side of The Wall:
Paul R. Ehrlich, who died at 93 with two great-grandchildren, one-fourth of the number necessary for Zero Population Grown (an organization he helped found in 1968), was a Stanford entomologist who became famous for his 1968 book The Population Bomb about how billions would starve to death real soon now.
* Again, I’ll note that this is neither about Mr. Sailer nor the $10/month. I don’t want to get hooked into yet another commenting venue. Life is short.
** Speaking of bets, I bet I read this one long ago. I also would bet that I wouldn’t remember 10% if I read it again.
*** Oh, and he actually said “Oriental”, GASP!, at 4:20 into the video.
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Rockford Files - Dirty Money, Black Light explained
Posted On: Saturday - March 14th 2026 9:35PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor
No, see, that was my search query. Personally, no, I can’t explain episode 22 of Season 3 of the Peak Stupidity favorite old show The Rockford Files. I’ll be honest here - half of the episodes have plots that lose me about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through.
It’s such a great show though, and commenter Mr. Anon suggested this episode in the comments 2 posts ago, bringing me back to my love for the show from 3 1/2 years ago. If you look at posts from the Summer of ‘22 with the TV, aka Gov’t Media topic key, you’ll find 10 or so posts on the The Rockford Files.
DuckDuckGo’s AI, after sucking about a minute’s worth of full output power from a small nuclear reactor, didn’t even try to help me figure out the whole plot after my search for “Rockford Files Dirty Money Black Light explained”. I think most reviewers on the IMDB page didn’t want to spoil the ending… or also got lost at the end. I think I get why Jim borrowed the money from Electric Larry rather than use the marked bills to pay his Dad’s bail to the Feds, but what the heck was … wait, did he already plan to have the Vegas goons and Electric Larry and his boys shoot it out, or was he going to pay Larry back with the marked bills? Hell, I can’t even formulate the right questions.
OK, well, anyway, I really like those 1970s cars… though there were uncharacteristically no chase scenes in this one with those patented James Garner J-turns and VW bugs or AMC Pacers chasing land yachts.
As Mr. Anon noted, Stuart Margolin who plays the always loyal (not!) Angel Martin, directed this one. Nice job! (This actor died 3 years back.)
About the theme song now: Mike Post wrote about a dozen well known 1970s and ‘80s TV show theme songs. This very nice one, co-written by one Pete Carpenter, made it to the top 10 of the Billboard Magazine chart 50 years ago last summer, which was very important in that day. Mr. Post played the Minimoog synthesizer, while a session musician named Dan Furgeson played the excellent guitar solo. The song changed slightly over those years, but I like this version with that great string-bending at precisely 01:22 in the bitchute video below.
Here’s an interesting thing in this show intro. At 01:30, for 2 seconds, you see Jim at the grocery store looking at some piece of meat (no, not one of his non-paying clients). In other versions of the song, he has an annoyed/disgusted look at the price of it and tosses it back. This was a time of high inflation. To give you and idea, the price of round roast may have just gone up from 45¢/lb to 55! In the intro. of the Mary Tyler Moore show, from roughly the same years, Mary does the very same thing. This must have been some kind of TV screen-writers’ meme.
Here’s the whole episode -thank you, Mr. Anon. It’s a change from the heavy stuff. Next week, I’ll have watched Empire of Dust again, so I can write a proper review. Then, I’ll get to this piece of work they call Ron Neville Singham, and there are a bunch of small updates for old posts… the Stupidity stops for no man! Have a pleasant Sunday, Peakers!
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Peak Stupidity Iran War coverage, or lack thereof
Posted On: Friday - March 13th 2026 9:32AM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government World Political Stupidity
Four years after Russia invade the Ukraine we explained are lack of coverage, also in this follow-up 3 months afterward. Though American NeoCons were unfortunately involved in originally instigating this conflict, and then supporting the Ukraine, Peak Stupidity’s tendency is to stay out and wish America would stay out.
That wish has slowly been fulfilled, but the real end of our involvement is probably the start of Trump’s sustained attack on Iran. This one is “our” war, if by “our” you mean the Trump Administration, the war hawks in Congress, and the large number of Americans who feel what’s good for Israel is good for America… or something.
We put down a lot of thoughts about this war in a post 9 days back. About that Realpolitik, I didn’t get around to mentioning China, the oil, and the rest of this “Great Game” struggle for economic dominance of the globe. It sounds like there’s something to it, but that doesn’t mean a program like this is anything like The American Way.
I did mention that I’ve talked to many well-informed people that insist the whole point is that Islamic-Crazy-Men-run Iran must not have nukes. This not only sounds too much like the 2 1/2 decade ago Iraq Weapons o’ Mass Destruction lie, but I really don’t think it’s America that should be so worried were we not IN and ABOUT the Middle East 24/7/365/1/2 a century? Along with that, we read that the Iranian regime has killed thousands of Americans over the years… YEAH, but they were Americans in the Middle East! How many Americans in America have they killed? Well, now that’s becoming much more likely, thanks for this war and decades of inviting in crazy violent men from all around the world.
Just as with the Ukraine/Russia war, Peak Stupidity has not followed details - I just want it over with. I do read the headlines though. It sounds like Trump and his War Department didn’t have a well-thought-out strategy. (Trump never does, but what about the others?)
We’ve written lots about increasing incompetence in many endeavors of life here.** It wouldn’t make sense to think that this isn’t going on in high levels of government and wartime leadership too. It was modern warfare for George S Patton in those massive tank battles and for Admiral Nimitz and the huge carrier groups and naval aviation in WWII. That kind of competence in strategy and tactics in our modern warfare is not being seen in Trump’s set of wartime “leaders”.
OTOH, I’m sure one could say the same for the other side. All this anti-Social Media and Artificial Stupidity (not just the modern AI) is prevalent in all the world now. Stupidity and incompetence have been Globalized.
It looks like we may HAVE to pay a lot of attention. Besides the WWIII potential - not so likely, I guess - there’s the economic devastation very possibly coming. You can read a hundred posts on Peak Stupidity’s worries about coming economic devastation due to unsustainable debt, even without a war. We may have to write MOAR Global Financial Stupidity posts.
Here’s the one additional point I’ll make today. Lots of Americans, probably most*, are against this war. I understand their wishes that Trump and the warmongers, and the nation itself, gain some hubris out of this “experience”. You want to see certain people learn a good lesson - I get that. You’d like to see Regime Change happen in America rather than Iran. I get that too, if that means the whole Washington apparatus. That’s a tall order. I don’t see any hope on other matters if this regime change is just about President Trump.
However, and this is a big one, I’m hoping for the best… yes for America. If this can end quickly, I’ll be glad, even if it’s just Trump boastfully lying about something, no, not regime change, exactly, no, but we made a real mess of the place, so there that, at least. (That’s what seems to be the real plan for the whole region, per Israel’s needs.) No matter who “wins”, if Trump calls it a day and gets back to America’s business, I’ll be glad, though I think less of the guy. Whether he be forgiven by MAGA in general and have enough support left to continue on with Job #1 is questionable.
If the West’s and America’s economy goes down the tubes earlier than it would have, that’s not what I’m looking forward to. Firstly, it’d be nice for people to understand the real underlying reasons and to see your Ron Pauls and such be vindicated, rather than it being blamed all on the warmongering.*** More importantly, those that want to see America lose badly are of two kinds, Americans that hate the Warfare State and foreigners (and “Americans”) that want the end of America. For the former, the American regime change must be done from within, or we are NOT gonna like the results. For those foreign powers, that is very much the hope and the plan. Speaking of that, we’ll get to Roy Neville Singham next week time permitting …
* There’s no value in counting protests by the ctrl-left. Most would be perfectly fine with this war were their latest Globalist puppet running it.
** There’ll be more. We don’t have a specific topic key, unfortunately, but Curmudeonry, Race/Genetics, and Immigration Stupidity will net you many posts on the subject.
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Revisiting the Cocktail Party Theory of Political Stupidity
Posted On: Thursday - March 12th 2026 10:09AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government
It was 6 1/2 years ago when Peak Stupidity came up with this stuff - The Cocktail Party theory of Political Stupidity. That was nothing profound, our explaining why the Washington, FS politicians, no matter how much they'd seemed to be on our side, go native. I did get lucky to find the perfect "file photo" image for my long, now-partially-dated caption.
This SAVE act, a proposed Federal law to contain cheating in Federal elections by requiring a simple ID card*, seems like a no-brainer. Even half of the D voters have no problem with fairer voting methods. Those are probably the no-brainer ones, though, as they don't know how much the cheating has helped them out. (What, too cynical? Unpossible!)
It's not as if the Fed Gov has not interfered before in what ought to be State-determined election processes. Five of the 17 post-B.O.R. Constitutional Amendments transfered State power to control the franchise to the FedGov. It's not like the voters and elected officials against the SAVE act care about that old States' Rights business. They just would like election cheating to be a valid method, when and where it's necessary.
It's just not a thing anymore in America that a proposed law this straightfoward, supported by a large majority of the population, can be passed without a rash of ... whatever.
Per some continuing coverage on The GateWay Pundit, this John Thune character, Senate Majority leader (UP - SD), is at least being gracious enough to let the Senate vote on this bill. He's not too enthusiastic, and he doesn't seem to care a whole lot. Senator Thune and his esteemed colleagues are in their own world there... It was this tweet by one "Data republican" off this twitchy** page that brought back to mind that Cocktail Party Theory. Note the 2nd sentence:
Yep. It's not just in regard to this SAVE act. Most of these people go native.
* I had to renew my driver's license recently, something I'd dreaded for two reasons, the Orwellian REAL ID business and the going to the Highway Department to begin with. I was very relieved about the former - this was no different than years earlier - but the latter came true in spades - computers went down AFTER a 1 hour 45 minute wait.
** I used to think that twitchy WAS twitter. I don't get all this still... don't really want to...
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Door-Dash, FedEx, and The Golden Corral
Posted On: Wednesday - March 11th 2026 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Humor Movies Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Muh Generation Anti-Social Media
We're starting off all curmudgeon-like tonight, but we'll get to some humor too.
I just thought of this coinage, though the general problem is one I've been plagued with for many years. I shouldn't just pick FedEx over UPS, and earlier DHL and Airborne Express (remember those?), but they are the delivery company known for the overnight letters first. Those are the very filling bread & butter for these companies, like butter-covered sweet rolls at the $17.99 buffet. Ten's of thousands of letters can fly in just one of those quarter-round plexiglass and aluminum containers that go aboard the widebody aircraft that go through Memphis or Indianapolis (or Louisville or Rockford) each weekday night. It multiplies up fast!
Letter or package, we are blessed to be living in an area without porch pirates, Somalians, or Somalian porch pirates for that matter. However, occasionally we have things come to the house that require a signature for delivery. This has become very stressful. Nobody is home some of the time, but even if one of us is, we are apparently supposed to answer a knock on the door within 5 seconds. Wait longer than that, and the FedEx guy has sprinted all the way back to his truck! I hear the engine start up and see a slip taped to the door. I understand the pressure they are under, now that electronics keep track of how long employees take doing anything, but, can you give me, say, 30 seconds?
This must be very good for FedEx local delivery "metrics", but that's only because they don't measure how many times a guy's got to come to the same house with the same item because we can't move fast enough to beat him. They leave those aforementioned slips that tell us when someone might come back, and then after 2 or 3 attempts at ringing and running - didn't that used to be for kids? - we must go to the facility to get it.
Unlike the local Post Office, which is about a mile away, the FedEx facility is across town and traffic. Last time I had to go chase something down, it was before the last delivery attempt, but I needed the item. After I waited 10 minutes , the lady told me I couldn't get my stuff from the back because it was already "palletized" for shipment to my house!
Anyone seen the very original Dirty Harry movie*? You know that scene in which that weirdo runs Harry Callahan all around San Fransisco? It gets like that, except we all wear sneakers now and if some creep like that has me running to the nearest pay phone, well, I don't do Marathons.
Rats, I can't find that scene, but here's that guy. The ending has a lot of symmetry and closure. Yeah, that's some closure, Dirty Harry style.
So, the point is that FedEx and UPS are the original Door Dash companies. They dash to the door from the outside, and I dash to the door from the inside.
The actual "Sharing Economy" Door Dash company is not something I could write a curmudgeonly post about, because I've never used them. (Same with Uber Eats.) I believe it's more a thing for the younger generations. They like convenience, and they see real beauty in apps that give information out the ying-yang.
A colleague told me of his experience recently though. In a hotel away from home he ordered some Mexcian food via these guys. The advertisement image above shows someone we'd all expect to be prompt, courteous, and on the ball. I've not seen a guy like that drive an Uber or Lyft either, and I'm pretty darn sure, he was not the Dasher on the evening in question.
This colleague's food did not arrive for such a long time that he even called some phone number. That's not like young people! Who knows where these "customer care" people were, maybe in the same office building as Chuck E. Cheese? They tried to help. Yet, again, the apps give information out the ying-yang, so the position on the face of the Earth of this slack Door Dash contractor could be seen by all, probably to within 10 feet the whole time.
That location was ... wait for it... a Golden Corral buffet. LOL! Unlike in those old non-sharing economy businesses like FedEx, it's not like one must answer every request. If you take the gig**, then, I don't know, it's just me maybe, but you might plan it around your own dinnertime.
I get it, dude. You get hungry going into the establishments for the food and smelling it all the way through delivery. Still, what were you thinking? I chose to accept this mission because I need money, but then I also need to get my money's worth here at the Golden Coral. Maybe after a few more butter-covered sweet rolls, another serving of Mac & Cheese, and some blue jello, I'll get around to it. What, headquarters is texting me? I'm in the middle of watching OnlyFans videos.
You want your Mexican food, punk? I know what you're thinking, has he eaten 6 plates or only 5? Well, to tell you the truth, I forgot myself among all these apps and videos. You gotta text yourself, punk, do you feel lucky today? Well, do ya', punk?!
Oh, and the food never showed up.
PS: I can think of a splendid idea for this Door Dash contractor. If he could have
* That movie was first shown 55 years ago.
** The "Gig Economy" describes things more on the career (or lack thereof)/job level, but I guess that's a gig.
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