Evil Merrick Beria, Berzerkely, Harlem, DaRR, DAR, LiRR, TaRC, and other Initialisms
Posted On: Monday - March 4th 2024 11:08AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Student and other Snowflakes University Race/Genetics ctrl-left
This post starts with the Gateway Pundit story Merrick Garland Speaking at Alabama Church: Voter ID Requirements and Restrictions on Ballot ‘Drop Boxes’ are “Discriminatory”. Peak Stupidity views Merrick Garland as the Potomac Regime's Lavrentiy Beria from the days of Soviet Communism. He's pretty much pure evil.
Aside from the continually overlooked story of Black! churches breaking the laws governing their "non-profit" status, this excretion from the Regime Attorney General in Church is, as the Rolling Stones would sing, "lies upon lies upon lies upon lies, upon lies!" I don't think the Peak Stupidity readership needs our refutation of the bullshit out of Beria, his supporting of highly insecure voting methods in the name of "voting rights".
In the GP post there is a video by one Ami Horowitz, which I embedded herein. I'm not a fan of the high-talking host, and I do see the flaws with these idiot-on-the-street quick interviews*. For one thing, though I'd expect much of what I see there on the campus of Univ. of California - Berzerkely, one doesn't see the possible sane responders to Ami's questions regarding ID being required for voting. The 2nd half of the video, the clever questioning of black (east Harlem - brave young man!) New Yorkers using the answers provided by the UC-Berzerkely White idiots, also may skip the more "vibrant" black "folk" who hate Whitey, including Ami there (whether he includes himself or not). He could simply not include the sections in which some thug told him ALL the laws are racist, Whitey needs to bow down, and Ami should GTF out of the neighborhood if he knows what's good for himself. This was not a real survey, in other words.
Still, Ami's got a point, and I'll get to that first. These students that, by definition of Affirmative Action, can't be all that stupid, are indeed ridiculously ignorant. (Or, they're lying.) Do they spend all their time on the campus, never venturing downhill, west toward the Bay or south into Oakland a bit? Sure, the dorms, cafeterias, and coffee shops are all close by. Why venture out of there? I'm sure the more diverse coffee shops farther away are all safe and clean, but, you know, it's just sooooo emotionally exhausting to have to show the poor black people how to use the internet all the time and to have to give directions to the Highway Department.
His main point is that the young White people (the most verbose guy was middle-aged though) practice a form of racism called "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Hell, we all do. However, these people in the 1st section of the video would be horrified to be thought of as being bigots or discriminatory in any way, yet their low expectations of black people are downright ridiculous. That black people can't get on the internet easily for lack of funds or down to the Highway Department for a DL is not the low expectations most of us have with many of them.
To give credit where it's due, after my attitude in this post last week, a poll** on Rasmussen poll (for what polls are worth) on ID requirements for voting showed black people in favor of them 69%. This is from a tweet in the GP post:
1000 National Likely Voters - YesPeople are in general pretty reasonable. The nice respondents in Harlem are one thing. Their race hustler "leaders" are another. It was hearting to see this 2nd segment. However, Peak Stupidity's normal bigotry is the more important worry about the seemingly inherent violent tendencies of black boys/men of a fairly wide age range, and then the more widespread worry that the whole crowd is not generally on board with the ideals and morals of society that White people have built and envision. That's the expectations we have of vindictive New York State Attorney Generals, for example.
White - 74%
Black - 69%
Oth Non-White - 82%
All Voters - 75%
Oh, what about those initialisms in the title (not acronyms, as I only recently learned)? Here's what I don't like about the video. It's more of the DaRR - often just DRR - stupidity, that is "Democrats are the Real Racists. This is the standard GOPers way of being non-racist. "No, the GOP is the party of Lincoln. The rebels with all their slaves were Democrats, and then Southern Democrats supported race segregation and Jim Crow laws..." To keep this post reasonable in length, let me not argue all that right here. Just suffice it to say that LIRR. For fans of Billy Joel and John Derbyshire, that's not the Long Island Rail Road. It stands for: Lincoln is the Real Rasicst.*** OK, was, but you don't have to believe me. Instead, listen to the guy, in Charleston, Illinois in September of 1858,
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality ... I will add to this that I have never seen, to my knowledge, a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men..I don't think that Ami Horowitz and other DaRR spouters would like to hear that. Neither would the young women of Berzerkely, explaining why they don't study that pale male history. It's too emotionally exhausting. Yet, by the looks of them, some of them would be welcome in the DAR. That's the Daughters of the American Revolution. Were they members, they could learn about their Founding (possibly, actual GGGGGGGreat-Grand-) Fathers and how important controlling the power of the franchise was to them.
Instead, since they really care about power and control over any ideals that those men of long ago did, these young people, and the one guy, should go under the initialism TaRC. That is, These are the Real Communists. Merrick Beria would be more than welcome to join them.
* In addition to the flaw I describe above, let me mention those videos with guys trying to trade $25 silver ounce coins for dollars or quarters with people on the street. I get the point that most people don't understand sound money. However, I could see that even those that DO may figure the guy's a scammer holding coins that aren't 1 oz, 0.999 silver after all. Imagine if it were a gold coin. Who's got the budget to take a chance that someone like me might come along and be glad to take that fiat-money-valued $2,000 in an oz of REAL MONEY?
Yes, plenty of the people are ignorant, but likely not as many as the videos would lead one to think.
** There's something in the video that might explain a small share of the White "NO" answer percentage. That has to do with Libertarianism. Some readers might see what I'm getting at from the answers of the people in that 2nd section of the video. That there's another post ...
*** How about LiRRR? Lincoln is the Real Race Realist? Too redundant?
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Telenovelas Are Hell: La Usurpadora
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2024 7:31PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Female Stupidity
It's been a while. Though rated PS-13 for both language and large attempts at nudity, we show these 5 minute Telenovelas are Hell synopses videos because they are simply hilarious.
Peak Stupidity has featured the stories of Rubi and Teresa so far.
Here is the story of La Usurpadora (
Thanks for the readership and commentary this week, Peakers. Next week's blogging will include some speculation on nature vs. nurture, a la Steve Sailer, but without the graphs, plenty more on the immigration stupidity, as by this point most of America has had enough of it, a review of the Gateway Pundit site, and plenty of ad hoc stupidity. Have a happy Sunday. See yaaaaaa....
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Where is my beautiful rule of law?
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2024 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Female Stupidity
The taking of thousands of Political Prisoners by the Regime shows the country is pretty far gone into Banana Republicanism. Since then, lawfare by corrupt Regime Attorney Generals, prosecutors, and judges has been another clue.
Donald Trump is the one getting screwed the most, at least $$-wise, by the recent blatant disregard of the rule-of-law and due process, for obvious reasons. However, what's happening to him sets a precedent for more of this lawfare* and emboldens other sick persecutors.
I've read of much outrage. People are surprised. (I'm not). How could this happen in America? How can these people be so unprincipled? How could they forget the US Constitution and the ideals of the Founders?
TL/DR version, is that what you want? Here it is: Just look at 'em.
In case you're not familiar, these last 2 are one Jasmine Crockett, new Congresswoman out of Texas who says "Republicans are synonymous with Russians" and one Tracie Porter, Cook Country, Illinois judge, who ruled to nix Trump off the ballot after the Board of Elections had unanimously dismissed a challenge on this.
* That's an especially good term for the persecution of VDare. There aren't even any charges. They are being hounded by the A/G of New York just to keep them running up legal fees.
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Massholes getting migrants and expressing concern
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2024 12:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity ctrl-left
Yeah, sure, that'd make a very good name for a TV show.
Yet again from The Gateway Pundit - very good on the immigration invasion - here's a heartwarming story from the tony Fort Hill neighborhood in Boston. It's a story of welcoming and tolerance, so you migrants can just get the hell out of here!*
Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit himself, schadenfreudes, “So We Get No Say?” – Wealthy Elites from Affluent Neighborhood in Sanctuary City Boston Outraged Over Local Migrant Shelter Plans .
Residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Boston expressed outrage at a recent community meeting after they learned that a new migrant shelter would soon open up nearby.They never do. That is, at least when they've got other voters to replace you with.
On Tuesday night, residents gathered to meet with General Scott Rice, the emergency assistance director for Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, to discuss their concerns about a temporary migrant shelter opening up in Fort Point, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the Seaport area of Boston.
The United Way of Massachusetts Bay is working with Healey’s office to transform some Fort Point office space on Farnsworth Street, owned by the Unitarian Universalist Association [Unitarians! I KNEW it!], into a temporary shelter for approximately 80 immigrants.
But it seems nobody asked the locals whether they approved.
The local residents complained to city officials, “So we have no say?”Nope, you got no say. Welcome to America. "We got no say." may be the new motto to be stamped on the coming Leticia James $5 coin.
♪♫♬ "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I got no say." ♪♫♬ We knew we got no say when thousands of Political Prisoners were taken into Washington dungeons because they'd thought they'd had some say.
The last 20 seconds has some counterpoint from one Bostonian who's wicked welcoming and wicked tolerant and hopefully carrying illegally, for his own safety.
* from somewhere in the top 10 of my favorite Michael Scott / The Office scenes.
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Right brains, left brains, and bird brains
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2024 11:10AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Trump Science President DeSantis
In the comments under this post of ours, Dieter Kief suggested the video embedded below. Because I spent the 3/4 hour to watch it, and because Mr. Kief is interested in this stuff, I am getting around to commenting on it now. The subject of Psychology is not anywhere in Peak Stupidity's wheelhouse, but it is in Mr. Kief's, and the interview is interesting.
Commenter Adam Smith very kindly provided us links to the 2 books, touted by Mr. Kief, written by Ian McGilchrist, the Literature and psuedo-Neuroscience* scholar interviewee (interviewed by one Dr. Luke Martin with his Creed & Culture show. He sounds Scottish). The books are The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. (The former book sounds from the title that readers of it may also be familiar with Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.**
In this video Dr. McGilhrist discusses left-brain vs right-brain thinking. There's something to this, my right brain says, but my left brain doesn't care that awfully much. That was harsh, so I'll add that my left brain says that there's obviously something to this, medically, from what I've read. Dr. McGilchrist talks about evidence of the difference from psychiatric patients.
Well, there's a nice introduction first, as Dr. McGilchrist gives his background, first as an art/literature type, then going to Med School at 28 y/o -where brain hemispheric differences weren't taught other than that the left hemisphere does the thinking, and becoming a Psychiatrist.
He then describes how, first from a discussion with a colleague, and then his own studies, it turns out that people who have had strokes of the right hemisphere have it harder rehabilitating themselves than those whose strokes damaged the left side. This is not about the physical effects so much as the mental.
Then, Dr. McGilchrist goes over some very interesting Evolutionary Psychology, starting before humans, to explain why the hemispheres evolved to work differently, which is unlike most of our limbs, eyeballs, what-have you. I didn't understand all this completely, but it was interesting enough. He continues by describing the differences between the "machine"-like left hemisphere, processing very specific details, and the right hemisphere that is all-encompassing and, well, in his opinion, a much better half. ("I'd like you to meet my better half. He does tend to recite a lot of random poetry ...") A key point here is that he sees the modern world as only respecting the work of the left brain.
The talk (mostly by Dr. McGilchrist) gets into various writers, poets, philosophers and pundits around the world - yes, Dieter's favorite, Jordan Peterson is mentioned - and their use of the capability of which of the 2 hemispheres. I can't go through all that.
At 27 to 29 minutes in, roughly, the talk gets into the current not-very-good direction society is headed. I can agree with the assessment, but this guy's explanation of why people much unhappier than 30, 40 years ago is not very thorough, a real right-brain job, I'd say. ;-}. Until he gets near the end, when he talks about religion, Dr. McGilchrist concentrates solely on the Feminist destruction of male and female roles as the cause for the decrease in happiness. That is most certainly a factor, and I'm glad he brought that up. However, that most people live in continuous debt to keep up, that they are forced to live among people very unlike them (what does the right brain understand about that?), that all manner of freedoms have been taken away by The State are not problems he mentioned. Behind it all, one's left brain must put some effort into figuring out how this all happened. Dr. McGilchrist does not get down to that level. This sex role stuff just occured because we've changed... As the man said, c'mon, man.
The discussion didn't take into account of any of the actual political changes that our left brains can keep track of pretty well. (Mine sure can!)
Here's the video, finally:
That's all I have for a review, but I wanted to add to this discussion a very visible example of the brain hemisphere differences. With respect to this blog's long-running, on-again-off-again, likely-becoming-defunct series of Trump v DeSantis posts (see here), this addendum could be considered Round 11.
You may recall that in Round 10 Peak Stupidity described how lame Ron DeSantis' job in dealing with a heckler was compared to Donald Trump's. It's not that Gov. DeSantis didn't have a good comeback. It just took 15 seconds is all.
Maybe it's just that Trump is an expert showman and campaigner, while DeSantis is neither. My opinion is that Ron DeSantis is a smarter man than Donald Trump. The latter is important for someone who IS President, but the former for someone who's trying to be (again). DeSantis can settle down and think strategically. He wins like that - see his defeat of Big Mouse for an example. That's left brain kinda work.
In the meantime, back to this one example from the campaign, Trump's right-brain, as a retort to the hecklers, comes up with "Go home to your Mommy!" I'm sorry, as a person relying on the left-brain as far as I know, it pains me to say this, but that's freaking great! I cannot help but laugh each Trump says that.
Then, there's the bird brain. Enough said.
* He talks Neuroscience but does not consider himself an actual Neuroscientist. He doesn't know all the physiology, I imagine, which is a left brain thing...
** I got about 1/3 through it but was not very convinced with his whole theory.
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Last day of Teen History Month
Posted On: Thursday - February 29th 2024 4:06PM MST
In Topics: Humor Race/Genetics Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
I'm so glad that we've had 3.3% more time this year to adore Black! people and learn the history of how they build the world into what it is. AI has been helping this year.
It's a matter of a few hours now. Learn that (real) history while you can. Those who control the present control the past, as they say.
On this Leap Day '24, we will present something
Here's something humorous to go along with that. I sent that video via text message to my wife. She had to talk to me about it. It wasn't that SHE believed it was real, but she thought I thought it was real. Haha, I only wish...
PS: I know you gave me the link in comments, Adam, but I'm having a hard time finding your channel. It must be one of those newfangled UHF channels, and I'm getting too old to keep going up on the roof to move the antenna around!
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Wayne Root touts the Bizarro World Sailer Strategy
Posted On: Thursday - February 29th 2024 8:43AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump Pundits Race/Genetics
I guess we are living in Bizarro World in a lot of ways. More specifically, though, per Seinfeld episodes* I've watched, Bizzaro World, as seen in Superman comics, is one in which everything is backwards as compared to on Earth.
Therefore,in said world, Steve Sailer would be a dumbass who notices NOTHING, spouting off what I just read from one Wayne Root on The Gateway Pundit:
This Wayne Allyn Root - his misspelt** last name makes him suspect already - is a pundit who I've agreed with many times before. He's a Libertarian, against the mandatory vaccination, well, being a Libertarian, you'd THINK so, and, most importantly, on our side against the Regime. This post of his, though just well-meaning advice for Donald Trump, is some stupidity that I hadn't seen coming.
The strategy is simple. President Trump already has the overwhelming majority of white middle-class voters. White middle-class America is “all-in” for Trump. Trump “had them at hello!”So, take the White man for granted... that's the ticket, and YES, Trump CAN win the election with just middle class (and working-class) White votes. It's not like 100% of the rest of the people come out to vote. If Trump refrains from his own stupidity on race (more on this), he WILL get White people out to vote for their interests - Trump has been the only guy in years for which they could even do this. The dumbest strategy I could think of is to turn these people off from voting by spouting pro-black garbage.
But President Trump cannot win the 2024 election with just middle-class white votes. Even if it’s virtually ALL OF THEM!
Steve Sailer has given and could give you the stats from many previous elections to prove that his strategy - racking up the White vote and NOT pandering - is a winning one. In fact, the '16 results showed that, vindicating Mr. Sailer, but Wayne Root doesn't understand.
So, go after the black vote with TV ads on networks with large black audiences. Go after the black youth vote with interviews on urban black radio stations. Hold rallies in majority-black inner cities. Especially cities in battleground states where a few extra black votes could tilt the election…I understand targeting audiences. However, you can't fool all the (White) people all the time. Pro-other-than-White = anti-White, plain and simple. Does Root, or Trump, for that matter, think that White people don't get turned off by things like his asinine (proposal for) a "Platinum Plan" to give Blacks! half a Trillion dollars of White people's money? Yes, that dumbass Trump talked that up about 2 months prior to the '20 election. Let's leave the cheating aside for this post. No, of course that move wouldn't have sent any White votes to Bai Dien. What it likely did was get millions of White men to throw up their hands - "What's the point? They're all against us." - and stay home.
Here's Wayne Allyn Root's justification for being on the side of the black "folk":
First, I grew up in a majority-black town on the Bronx borderline, in Mt. Vernon, New York. I went to an all-black middle school and an all-black high school. I was in a tiny minority of whites at those schools. I was bullied by my black classmates and fought back…I won the respect of my black classmates…and I became best friends with my black classmates."Break on through to the other side." No bragging there - he was just a good fighter. I'm all for learning some martial arts... but his point is that the violence of black guys who he admits beat his ass because he is White is something he learned to live with. So, Wayne Root is something special, see? That doesn't help White American society one bit.
I was the only white kid in the school who made this breakthrough. I eventually played on the track and football teams with all black classmates.
Oh, and he ran for office as a Republican in a heavily black district of New York City and lost. But, he was the only one to go into big housing complexes canvassing for votes. That's because, I suppose, not everyone could fight like he could. Perhaps other White candidates don't like getting shot. Yet, "I didn’t win that race. But I gave the incumbent Democrat the race of her lifetime. I had the highest vote totals in all-black “project buildings”- than any Republican ever." Whoop-dee-freaking-do!
I looked through the comments and was pleased that the commenters largely disagreed with this stupid idea same as I did. There was a someone who brought up that Platinum Plan stupidity too. Root again:
I understand black voters like perhaps no other white Republican in America. I understand what it takes to win their votes. And I know Trump can get the highest black vote totals of any Republican in history- and lock up the 2024 election.If black voters have good reasons to vote for Trump, as Mr. Root explains in more detail, then let them vote for him. Nonetheless, much of the time they go tribal. If a preacher in South Carolina says you vote for Bai Dien, so we get more free shit and more black government officials, then you take the F and do what the preacher say. (No, that "F" is not for Failure as in "taking the L". In this case, the "F" is for Fried Chicken.)
Especially in the case of the election of Trump, who would be about all White people have left on their side in the power structure, pandering to others at the expense of White people is an absolutely Bizzaro World idea. Mr. Root, I'm glad Mr. Trump does not have your ear. Just stop.
* I'd read that there was some reference to Superman or other superhero comic book characters in every episode. I can't vouch for that, being not at all into comic books - the show was pretty damned funny though.
** Ha! Spell check doesn't know how to spell "misspelt"! Isn't THAT ironic... unlike the stuff in the Alanis Morrisette song.
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Another glimpse of mass media stupidity
Posted On: Wednesday - February 28th 2024 5:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Media Stupidity
This screenshot is from a yahoo article titled UGA students describe anguish and anxiety over safety concerns after the grisly killing of a sorority member on campus, taken as I was clicking through for a search.* (I was about to get on yahoo's case, but they took the article from CNN.)
The reader may have heard about the young White female Augusta, Georgia Nursing student, Laken Riley, who was murdered last week on campus of the U. of Georgia by a Venezuelan illegal alien. A few details:
[Jose Antonio] Ibarra is accused of preventing Riley from calling 911 and “seriously disfiguring her body,” particularly her skull, during the attack, according to arrest affidavits. Medical examiners determined she died from blunt force trauma.They don't say she was raped, but I gotta guess she was - her parents would rather not have details like that come out, I'm sure.
CNN spells out the horror of it, and even uses the term "illegal alien" (only because this story is big, and the word is already out). However, we are to remember, " there is little evidence indicating a connection between immigration and crime." Besides the trail of blood and all, no, there's no evidence, no connection at all.
No, you see, it's the campus trails that are the problem. Fix the trails, and we're good.
PS: As tragic as it is - and this is one of many that just happened to have gone viral - I am glad that people are speaking of the "invasion" and putting the blame for these horrific acts where it belongs. There are audiences at press conferences - in Athens, of the Mayor - who have had ENOUGH and are speaking out. See “You’re a Liar…You Have Blood on Your Hands!” – Athens, Georgia Residents Rip Apart Woke Mayor After He Lies About Role in Illegal Alien Murderer of Beloved College Student.
* For "Peak Stupidity", that is. I like to keep pounding on this one search on 5 search sites, to keep it at the top.
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The Science of Climate Modeling revisted
Posted On: Wednesday - February 28th 2024 2:20PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Science Big-Biz Stupidity
(More on the source of this image below.)
Yes, It's been a long time since Peak Stupidity broached this particular stupidity, other than politically. It's been longer since we discussed the basics of math modeling of the complex climate of the World. In the beginning days of this blog, we stated very clearly that "There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!" in 5 short posts: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 and Part 5. We see no reason to change that stance 7 years later.
I don't have the time in the day to keep up with Anthony Watt's WattsUpWithThat blog. He gets into scientific details in the discussion of climate modeling and also refutes the Climate Calamity™ hype to the tune of 5-8 posts per day. Instapundit led me to a certain post, as the title goes along with what I've been writing, New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’.
I am not in the Climatology field. My point about this science from my technical background is simply that there are lots of physical processes that determine the climate, not all of them are known well enough to be modeled accurately as part of an overall model, and even were they, math models take a LONG TIME to get working right. I have no doubt that the "Greenhouse effect" is a factor, but it is not nearly the whole ball game. About the greenhouse gas water vapor, though, and models matching observation:
A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas due to its alleged “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone.Hey, no harm, no foul. This is science. You or your peers work to figure out WHY your model doesn't nearly match reality, and, if the discrepancy is determined, then you try to fix the model. So long as none of Simpson et al are Climate Alarmists screaming that the sky is falling, I respect them for doing Climatology. It sounds like fun... that's all.
The authors do not understate the significance of this climate modeling failure.
“This represents a major gap in our understanding and in climate model fidelity that must be understood and fixed as soon as possible in order to provide reliable hydroclimate projections for arid/semi-arid regions in the coming decades.”
Per state-of-the-art climate models, specific humidity (SH) should increase as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show no increasing SH trend over arid/semi-arid regions.
Per state-of-the-art climate models, relative humidity (RH) should decline slightly as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show not a slight declining trend, but a declining trend that is “about an order of magnitude more than the models on average.” In other words, the climate models are wrong by a factor of 10.
Unfortunately, rather than the advancement of Climate Science, the works-in-progress math models of the climate of the World have been used by Globalist fear-mongering control freaks to take over large parts of the world's economy. This post is just another "I told you so". There is NO working mathematical model of the World's Climate. If you pretend otherwise, you're a dupe or a liar.
PS: In some cases, I go to the link that's often attached to the "file photos" used here. This image came from ExxonMobile. 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report.
Advancing Climate Solutions Through Innovative Industrial Approaches. Read More. Read More On ExxonMobil's Ongoing Strategy In The 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report."Oh, spare us! Just go find new oil and gas, and cut the bullcrap. We know that's what it is, and little Greta will hate you just the same.
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FBI Humor
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Anti-Social Media
These guys are subtle.
Yes, shoplifting has been getting out of hand in many inner cities, most especially those with Soros-installed easy-going District Attorneys*. Still, somehow nobody has much of an idea what is the exact "mechanism", if I may, causing this increase.
Lots of times, the shoplifters come organized into large groups of vandals, but the FBI wanted to put the focus on the smaller parties that are often the culprits.
(I'll take the brunette, if I have a choice. Book her for me, Dano!)
Yes, the humor of the G-men is subtle and sublime, I tell you, because, well, of course, there's no way they could believe that picture represents the problem. From one of many thousands or millions of reply tweeters - too many - I can't be LIKING them all:
There's another possibility other than that the FBI taking a much-needed break from fighting the "bad" guys to do some comedy. That is that the picture was meant to show an innocent young lady pulling out her purse to get to her concealed-carry weapon as a large mass of Black! teens enters the store. Again, it's subtle ...
* Easy-going on all but the White people, that is. Anarcho-Tyranny is here.
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Excess Deaths in the UK
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:53AM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
Boy, that's got to bring back memories! Maybe they aren't the best memories, though. Readers that have been sticking with Peak Stupidity since/during the dark days of Kung Flu stupidity will probably remember that we got all analytic and spread-sheeting for a week* there in the summer of '21: Hey, what's the deal with excess deaths, anyway?**
Our motivation to get into these very simple calculations - they were nothing but arithmetic with Census data on age groups of the American population combined with CDC general mortality by age data - was the flat base curve*** used to calculate "excess deaths". There was no rise, yet the American median age is indeed rising quickly. The reader can follow the link above, but as a TL/DR version, simply using the year '19 for a baseline, rather than an average of '15 - '19 added 100,000 deaths to the base curve. This reduces those excess deaths by that amount, not covering it all, but still very significant.
Of all things to run into via The Gateway Pundit, a post titled How Convenient: UK Develops New Method to Count Excess Deaths Following Shocking Numbers Post COVID Vaccine was right in the Peak Stupidity wheelhouse. Most especially the quote from from the original source article from the UK Department of Statistics is:
As discussed in a previous ONS blog, fundamental to any method for estimating excess deaths is the question, how many deaths do we expect there to be in normal conditions; in other words, what would “normal” mortality levels look like? The current approach used by ONS and the devolved administrations provides a comparison between the number of deaths registered in the current year and the average number over a recent five-year period. For example, excess mortality in 2019 was estimated from data covering 2014 to 2018. 2020 was excluded from subsequent calculations to avoid distortion due to the extremely high number of death registrations, particularly during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2020 and 2021, the average was calculated over 2015 to 2019, and for 2022, it was calculated over 2016 to 2019 plus 2021.That's what we were saying 3 years ago. The difference is the excess death numbers were being maximized and touted on Regime Media (and by Steve Sailer, one has to agree) to show the terror of the Black Death 2.0. Now that the gene-therapy "vaccines" have been jabbed into populations for over 3 years not, the authorities - this instance is from the UK - are trying to minimize and pooh-pooh any such excess deaths from, the jab. However, I agree with the change in methodology here:
The weakness of this approach is that it doesn’t take into account the ageing and growing population of the UK (all else being equal, more people means more deaths, particularly if a greater share of the population are elderly); nor does it reflect recent trends in population mortality rates, which were generally falling until 2011 before levelling off until the onset of the pandemic.My bolding there, as that's TWF I've been saying, people!
However, how would this correct change in calculation methods of a baseline of death, causing a baseline increase from a more elderly population, lower excess death numbers of young people, which is the worry per text and a tweet in the GP post? From Vigilant News:
UK HAS A PROBLEM: Excess deaths are up a staggering 22% among 1 to 14-year-olds.Back to an explanation from the UK Office of Stat's Julie Stanborough:
Notably, this trend didn’t start until “the magic juice started to be issued to children later in 2021.”
Importantly, this approach moves away from averages drawn from raw numbers and instead uses age-specific mortality rates. This means when we ask that first question – how many deaths would we expect there to be? – we take into account how the population has grown and aged over time. The models also account for trends and seasonality in population mortality rates, and allow for estimates of excess deaths to be broken down by age group, sex, and constituent countries of the UK and English region.OK, but are there 22% more 1 - 14 y/o's in the UK? I don't think so. Are kids in this age group recently subject to a higher death rate from other "normal" causes than the jab to make a higher baseline, but then, how would that be a "baseline" anyway, if other causes are increasing?
I don't know. I agree with the change, but I still don't trust these people...
Remember though, readers: Excess deaths due to the Kung Flu mean everything. Excess deaths due to the jab mean nothing.
* Not the good stuff, but Open Office "Calc". Lotus 123 was the good stuff. Calc sufficed well for me though.
** Our follow-up post were Mortality Addendum , Back to the excess death count - Could it be infants and illegal aliens?, and Excess Deaths revisited (with a video interview on the topic).
*** It had a seasonal variation - more deaths in wintertime - simple as that - but no general basic increase.
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Midterm IRS Pie Charts
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Taxes
The new pie charts are out! The new pie charts are out!!"
Your Peak Stupidity lead blogger here is not excited at all about actually working out the Feral Government income tax forms. However, it was mid-January, and I thought about my favorite part of the whole thing, which is the national budget income/outlay in the form of pie charts that's near the back of the 1040 instruction book.
This is "midterms" because it happened by chance that we've been looking at these every other year - the odd ones. See here - - here - - here and here.
Now, per long-term Peak Stupidity predictions and recent interest rate levels we've seen evidence of the financial SHTF already. I expected to see a fairly large piece of pie representing net interest paid on the (presently) $34,000,000,000,000 national debt. Wait, it's only 7% though. What gives? Ahaaa, I'd forgotten that these booklets show year-old data. Yes, those are '22 numbers. Those from '23 are gonna be lit! I'm (not exactly) looking forward to next January.
PS: That 7% of the $6.273 Trillion in outlays is $439 Billion. As paid on the $30.8 Trillion '22 end-of-year debt seen here, that works out to an interest rate of only 1.4%. Yeah, it's gonna be lit when the rates catch up with the Treasury Dept. and the FED.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 6:51PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump The Neocons
... they're always telling him, "you're quite a character."
Peak Stupidity started this thing, so we've gotta finish it. We posted short political biographies of Nikki as Scene 1 and Henry as Scene 2. In the final scene of this political chick flick, Donald Trump appears, as he did in Home Alone 2. In this one he gets more than a cameo appearance, however.
Donald Trump picked SC Gov. Haley to be US Ambassador to the UN in November of '16, when the former was still President-elect. Upon taking the office on Jan 20th of '17, President Trump nominated Haley, and she was confirmed by the Senate 2 days later 96-4 (hmmmm... what might that tell you?) She resigned the SC Governorship, and Lt. Governor Henry McMaster took the Governorship.
Why'd Trump pick this Neocon, if he was truly against the American Warfare State? We've discussed this before, in posts and comments. As the Governor of S. Carolina, Nikki Haley's NeoConinnity, if I may, had not much of a reason to come to the surface. I believe her Invade-the-World attitude had lots to do with her husband's military "service" and the crowd they'd have been hanging out with, and it came out in spades as she "represented" the US in the UN.
I'll give Ambassador Haley credit for supporting President Trump in nixing the bogus Paris Climate Calamity™ accords and withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. The rest of her words and actions were pure Neocon. She didn't even support the Trump Moslem ban, started (conveniently, I gotta say) during the early part of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
That brings us to Haley's Invite-the-World tendencies. Even though she's a daughter of very-foreign immigrants, she was born in small town South Carolina and is assimilated ... up to a degree that is, right before the point of caring about keeping the (VDare term) Historic American Nation intact. Haley could care less about that. She's never been against the Population Replacement Program - it's just that you've got to do it all LEGALLY.
Nikki Haley was a late-comer to the MAGA world, as she had initially supported, uggh, Marco Rubio back in '16, and she was only half-assed at it. Somehow, that got her a plumb position high-up in foreign affairs. Well, maybe there IS more to it. I wrote the post Free Advice for a future President Trump mostly in jest. The suggestion was the hiring of certain lower-level politicians to these plumb positions in order to allow more Conservative politicians to take these lower-level, but still important, positions vacated.
You've got to FOLLOW THROUGH though*, meaning, FIRE THEM! OK, maybe not right on the day their replacements get sworn in - don't want to be TOO obvious. UN Ambassador Haley resigned on her own**, per Wiki (yeah, I know) either due to a looming scandal or friction with other Trump foreign policy makers, all of them NeoCons as well!
Would long-time old South Conservative Henry McMaster have gone NeoCon, if he had been picked for UN Ambassador or Secretary of State***? I don't know. I don't think he'd be gung-ho on the "Invite-the-World" program anyway.
Yes, this series has been repetitive, but I only started it due to my being very surprised at one small thing Trump said in a speech in Conway, SC two weeks back. Go to 02:20 in the video in this Gateway Pundit post.
About SC Gov. McMaster: "I don't want to say it too loud, but the fact is, it was more important to get Henry McMaster to be Governor than it was to have her [you know who] at the United Nations, I have to be honest."
Honest? I don't know, but as after-the-fact bullshit, it comes across pretty well. Or, has Trump really been playing that 5-D chess after all? I can't tell with this guy. My left brain can't keep up with the 5-D chess-playing, egotistical bullshitting right brain of Donald Trump. Where is the ego, BTW? Anyone? Anyone ... Dieter? As with The Sixth Sense, this one ended with me wondering if I need to see the whole thing again to get it.
PS: As I recall, early on Candidate/President Trump didn't think too highly of the UN. It was not quite at John Birch Society level, but maybe if you planned on getting the US out of that organization, sticking Haley up there was a good move ...
* Trump's incapability to do that being one of the traits that one of his former underlings, Ken Cuccinelli, noted with disappointment.
** We should assume that, as there was no years-long tweet-fest first.
*** As it's rumored Trump first wanted Nikki Haley for. (Stupid, stupid, stupid!!)
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Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 5:57PM MST
In Topics: Music
Once I looked up musician Todd Rundgen on wiki, I realized that this song, one I've meant to feature for a month now, is possibly NOT my favorite of his songs. That might be Hello, It's Me.
Todd Rundgren, a musician of the 1970s, is from Philadelphia, PA, born in 1948. He played as a single artist, but also with a handful of bands, one of them being Utopia. I remember that band, but this song was from a 1978 solo album of his named Hermit of Mink Hollow. Mr. Rundgren recorded the album in his house on Mink Hollow road in Lake Hill, New York, about 100 miles north of NYC.
Oh, and it's Trump over Randhawa 61% - 39% in South Carolina. How many of Randhawa's votes were from blue-squad voters is anybody's guess. I sure hope this song does NOT apply to these two.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers! Thanks for all the comments, especially regarding that big break, IMO, for VDare and the immigration patriot cause. Like it or no, we gotta finish that Nikki and Henry deal, because there's something that surprised me about Trump involved. (Shoulda' been one quick post.) Then, we'll get to the video commenter Dieter Kief suggested in a post that will involve Trump v DeSantis again, some Climate Calamity™ stupidity (the narrative is being beat up, but that alone won't stop them), and much, much more!
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Tucker Carlson "wonders" about American subway stations
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 10:05AM MST
In Topics: The Russians Pundits Race/Genetics
In the comments under this post of a week back, J1234 pasted in and commented about a video of the beautiful Stalin-era-built Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia. Tucker Carlson reported on the place for 3 minutes, while he was checking out Moscow after his interview with the big man Vlad Putin. As he took in the subway station Tucker was shocked, shocked, I tells ya'*, at what he observed.
I myself am neither shocked nor surprised in any way. A country doesn't have to be rich and a recent World Sole Superpower to have decent infrastructure. In fact, the 2 things may not go together at all. One can go to China too and see clean, well-used, efficient subway stations, and a LOT more of them, albeit none with the beauty that we can see there at the Kiyevskaya station. I was in one of the more well-off South American countries 6 years ago. We used the subway there on the last day - I can remember it didn't seem dangerous, but I cannot recall that it was particularly sparkling clean.
Tucker makes the following remark:
Vladimir Putin, you may not like him either, but it doesn't change the reality of what we saw or more precisely didn't see. There's no graffiti, there's no filth there, no foul smells, There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you. No, it's perfectly clean and orderly.After that, he asks the same question twice in a row here, slightly differently:
How do you explain that? We're not even going to guess that's not our job we're only going to ask ask the question, and if your response is to shout at us slogans dumber than the slogans we used to call Soviet and mock, that's not really an answer.
Russia a country we're told is a gas station with nuclear weapons, have [sic] a subway station that normal people use to get to work and home every single day that's nicer than anything in our country. We're not going to get we're not going to speculate. We're just going to raise the question and wait for someone in charge to give us an answer...Uhhhh, yeaahhh, Tucker, I don't thing anybody "in charge" is ready to give the answer, and even you aren't. You're a brave man, but not that brave. (Or, you really don't know? Ha, no.)
You explain the cleanliness, orderliness, efficiency, beauty, and safety of the Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow by noting the lack of large numbers of Black! people.
Well, as you have to say to the kids sometimes, "This is why we can't have nice things."**
* No, that's not the exact line out of Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca, but they did tend to talk like that, "let me tells ya...", in the old B&W movies.
** H/T, Paul Kersey.
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Review: Tucker's interview of VDare's Lydia Brimelow
Posted On: Friday - February 23rd 2024 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Anarcho-tyranny
In Tuesday evening's post about this interview, Peak Stupidity was very excited. I had no idea that VDare would make it to the big-time like this, having their words reach a big national audience. Viewership of some of Tucker's interviews are on the level of the moon landing coverage, albeit with an audience that's no longer a unified country, as in 1969.
A few notes here before I go over what I saw/heard in the full 37 minute interview:
1) I made use of my wife's Team Tucker membership. I was so excited that this was on that I didn't feel like going through the process just then*. I don't know how likely it is that certain Peak Stupidity commenters could find this video elsewhere off Mr. Carlson's site, although he got the Putin interview. I respect Mr. Carlson's right to his IP.
2) I could, however, paste in the whole transcript somewhere. Due to that last part of (1), I''m not sure if I should. Of the excerpts I did inculde from that transcript, I did not fix the grammar of the transcriptionist, software, I assume.
3) This will not be a play-by-play. Besides Tucker's intro, which you've probably already viewed, there were only a couple of main subjects discussed.
You all could have watched the first 8 3/4 minutes in that previous post. I'll start there.
In the 1st half of Mr. Carlson's 3 minute introduction, he went over the recent terrible immigration invasion surge. Of course he had no time to go over the whole history of the invasion, yes, both legal and illegal, and he does not know the whole story anyway. (VDare, as an organization, and many of the long-term individuals under that umbrella, most assuredly DO.)
There was one small surprise here. Tucker had badmouthed Governor Abbott of Texas, last summer, I believe, AT the border, as he figured the Gov. was playing to a crowd and not serious about really stopping the invasion. Things look different now, and Tucker sounded pretty supportive of and pleased by Greg Abbott in an interview later. (OTOH, as I wrote about the Putin interview, Tucker doesn't interview via argument. He's ... different... in that sense, very polite and old fashioned.) Yet, Tucker's introduction here is not favorable to the Governor.
After that, Tucker nicely introduced his audience to who Peter Brimelow is and what VDare is. I'll just excerpt that:
Peter Brimelow has been a journalist for 50 years. Worked at a whole bunch of what are now called mainstream publications. Was an editor - Barron's, Forbes, National Review, Dow Jones, a legitimate old school journalist. And in the late 90s, he began to ask questions about our immigration scheme. Is this really good idea, is it helping America? And of course, no one could answer those questions because the answer is obvious. No, it's destroying America as it destroyed California, so it will destroy your state. That's certain. But for asking that question, he was fired from his jobs and shunted off into what we call the fringes. But he didn't stop. He started a website called VDARE.He then introduced Lydia Brimelow, but didn't explain why he didn't interview Peter. (We have speculated plenty on the explanation in the comments under Tuesday's post.)
Mr. Carlson mentioned that he "has known", rather than actually only "known of', Peter Brimelow, something that commenter Hail has wondered more about. I don't know if he meant in person. That would not be out of the question were Tucker a few years older, IMO. Mr. Brimelow was on TV and in the Washington, FS political/social scene. Though always a Conservative, he was one of the in crowd (not that that made him a bad guy - the issue that's since been his life-long battle was not something he was into yet). Perhaps Mr. Carlson just meant "knew" Peter Brimelow as in, he had read his material and/or seen him in video. "Known of" implies that one has only heard the name before.
Tucker then went into the fact that Peter Brimelow has become a "controversial" figure once he took the Conservative side on this existential immigration issue, along with being disparaged by the mainstream. (We can argue later whether being called a white nationalist or a white supremacist is actually disparagement.) Tucker then let Lydia Brimelow speak, and that was for a large percentage of the rest of the time, as he did with Vladimir Putin.** Tucker only interrupted when Mrs. Brimelow's story seemed incredulous to him, to ask her a few questions related to her story, or to prompt her - at 20 minutes in - to go to a new subject.
Lydia's first story was the background of VDare and how grassroots and small-time it is (compared to the huge ctrl-left organizations that get taxpayer money by the $Billions). The parenthetical expression is my wording, but I will say that Mrs. Brimelow brought to light the Sam Francis-coined term "Anarcho-Tyranny" at one point. She explained how VDare has long been long used to the cancel-culture. They have been de-platformed from things that I didn't even know WERE platforms. This is not new, having started well before the '20 Wokeness pandemic.
Part of this segment is the story of the purchase of the castle in Berkeley Springs, W. Virginia. I knew most of this, but not about all the numbers. "Depending on how you count it", there have been 8 to 12 canceled supposed-to-be-in-person conferences. Lydia has been very smart in making contracts with the venues that cost lots to break. I had no idea that in one case it was $80,000 that the NY City hotel lost! Now that's a nice way to make a living. Plan conferences that just HAVE TO be cancelled, cause, Nazis, collect, rinse and repeat. I kid, because, as Nazis are actually Feds, and Feds live paycheck-to-paycheck off the taxpayer, they wouldn't have the front money.
OK, seriously now, as Mrs. Brimelow noted, it has been very important for the ctrl-left to keep like minded people from getting together in real life - that's "meat space" for you geeks. There's something better and more real about meating in person, hence, VDare's purchase of the castle in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia where conferences could not be canceled ( as they'd been pretty much every single time, too).
During this period in the interview, Mrs. Brimelow touched the story of the persecution by the black A/G Commie mercenary Leticia James a few times already. This persecution via "lawfare" started with the finances of the castle and the VDare Foundation. Unlike with Trump and the bogus charges against him, VDare didn't have ANY charges leveled against them. There was nothing anyone said VDare did wrong financially or otherwise. Leticia James has kept asking for reams of information that required much clerical and legal work to produce. VDare has had to redact info that could lead to the doxing of writers that wisely want to remain anonymous. Even that anonymity has been threatened. All this is lawfare, and I was pleased that Lydia repeated the point that "the process is the punishment."
For 10 solid minutes other than 30 seconds of interruption for clarification or remarks of incredulity ("... this is all so North Korean...") by Tucker, Lydia told the story of the lawfare by Leticia James against VDare. It was long and boring... but that's only because I have been keeping up with this the whole time. Although lately, writer Pat Cleburne" - not the actual ghost of the Confederate General - has done a bang-up job covering the story (nicely adopting the appropriate term Communist), Peter Brimelow has told both the long and the TL/DR version of the financial story before. It was great that Tucker Carlson got to hear these details in, well, detail.
"Why in the heck is VDare based in New York?", the reader may well ask. Let Lydia explain what has already been explained by Mr. Brimelow, with a little color commentary too:
This is an interesting thing. 25 years ago, our pro-bono lawyer who worked for Covington and Burling and was later banned from being able to do pro bono work for VDARE, even though he was allowed to do pro bono work for the defendants in Guantanamo Bay, set up our nonprofit in the state of New York, and our papers were signed by no other than Lois Lerner. Who you may know, went on to target the Tea Party. But, back then it was a different era politically.Back last Spring or Summer, I got into a discussion with the commenter "Buzz Mohawk" on the Steve Sailer blog about all this, trying to drive home to point that, well, read the freaking website. I myself, being neither a financial nor legal type, get lost in a few of the details, but I told Buzz that no, it was NOT easy for VDare to extricate itself from the hell-hole of a business climate that is current New York (the whole State, at this point).
Lydia Brimelow gave details that I had not understood till now. It's not that getting out of New York would entail lots of work selling assets to another company set up to do the same work in another State (or, however that works). It's worse than that.
But helpful people at this point usually say, why don't you just exit New York and you can't. It's like Hotel California. You cannot, if you're a charity that's incorporated in the state of New York, and everyone should take this as a warning, you cannot reincorporate into another state without the permission of the Attorney General's office. You cannot sell or transfer all or significantly all of your assets without permission from the Attorney General's office, and you cannot close up shop without permission from the Attorney General's office.On a dark New York tollway, long weave in her hair, warm stank of the skunkweed, rising up through the air ...
So once you are under the, jurisdiction of Letitia James, there is no getting out until she decides you're dead enough."Relax", said the court clerk, we are ready to receive. You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave ... (Take it, Don Felder.)
The best thing for VDare, I'm sure other Conservative entities, Donald Trump, and even the people of New York State, would be for Leticia James to go away or be put away. One very fortuitous thing for VDare at this point, as I see it, is that they have the most well-known and important American politician and 100 million Americans behind him against this Communist Leticia James now. That surely can't hurt!
The last full 15 minutes of this interview was the response by Mrs. Brimelow to Mr. Carlson's 2nd query:
You've also been hounded and slandered by the media, and you have furthermore, and you just alluded to this, been stalked and your children have been harassed by the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is, a hate group posing as an anti-hate group. Tell us what your interactions with them have been like.I counted from timestamps, and Tucker only talked for 50 seconds total during all this. Lydia Brimelow's response was mostly personal, including plenty of descriptions of the people in small-town Berkeley Springs and the attempted antifa-style infiltrators ("hostiles", they are often called) and other effects of $PHate Center induced hounding of the business and her family. I like that she made a few tie-ins between the good things about knowing everyone in a small town and then the effect of alien nation, pun very much intended.
Again, I've read of much of this before. Most people, such as Tucker, haven't, and it's pretty enlightening of the state of free speech freedoms in this country.
Finally, with a couple of minutes to go, Tucker asked for details on how one could anonymously donate to VDare, and Lydia gave, again, lots of details that are on the site too. That is, except just send cash money in the mail, hide it well from the USPS, and quit worrying about tax deductions.***
Let me summarize the whole thing for the Peak Stupidity readers and state my moderate degree of disappointment. The video title on Tucker Carslon.com is Uncensored: Lydia Brimelow. I was hoping for a nice long discussion of the myriad types of destruction of America from the immigration invasion. I was hoping Tucker would get to hear how much work has gone on at VDare over the last 25 years documenting it all and pushing for action (such as words that'd go up the chain, VDare---> Ann Coulter ---> President Trump). Lydia Brimelow did a good job of inserting some immigration invasion points in the midst of her long answers to Tucker's few inquiries. Tucker didn't ask any immigration questions though!
I believe that's because Mr. Carlson's goal was to find out more about personal destruction by New York Commie A/G Leticia James, other than from the Donald Trump angle, the big story, of course, that it is. I think VDare's post title is more accurate: Tucker Carlson's Interview With Lydia Brimelow On New York Attorney General Letitia James's Attack On VDARE.com". Yes, the interview was pretty specific, with questions about the recent lawfare by Leticia James and about the $PLC's long term attacks on everyone Conservative.
It would have been great if they'd covered the immigration destruction, but then that'd have been more of a talking-heads style panel discussion. Above anything else, the fact that VDare got exposure on Tucker Carlson's show is a very good thing! It says a lot about the courage of Tucker that he invited VDare on.
PS: As of 5P MST today, 02/23/24:
(The date/time shown are of the tweet's posting, I guess.)
* It's not so much that I'm a cheap-ass. I CAN be, but then I think giving $72 yearly to Tucker (I DO NOT like autopay!) is a way of helping him show big-numbers support, same as with my long-term NRA membership. "5 million members" sounds intimidating to many would-be Commie confiscator Congressmen.
** "I KNEW Vladimir Putin, and YOU, Mrs. Brimelow, are no Vladimir Putin!!" Sorry, that came out of the blue...
*** Maybe I'm missing something, here, but unless they have a business or some other source of many deductions, a married couple has to have over $25,000 in deductions before itemizing is a better deal than the standard deduction. For a single guy, it'd be half that.
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Ann Coulter on the Haley family NeoConinity
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Pundits The Neocons
Man, with posts backed up out the yin-yang, Peak Stupidity ran across another great Ann Coulter column. That's nothing new in and of itself, but this one has something to say about Nikki and Michael Haley, discussed here yesterday. I'll excerpt this entire last section of the column, "We'll Get To Your Country Later"—The Scam Border Bill.
Haley keeps falsely telling voters that her husband has gone to ”war,” is ”protecting our family and our freedom,” and has ”the courage to fight for our country.” In fact, her husband has never gone to war, he’s not protecting our freedom, and he hasn’t had to fight for our country.That's going a lot farther than most people do in describing the NeoCon attitude, the current American military, and the difference between a "Common Defense" and an arrogant out-of-control flailing Offense, causing this nation to be hated around the world.
A decade after we invaded Afghanistan and vaporized the Taliban, Michael Haley was sent there to teach Afghans to grow crops other than opium—which failed, as any half-wit knew it would. Currently, he’s in Djibouti, holding bazaars and Ramadan dinners for the locals.
I wouldn’t mention it—it’s not his fault that the Department of Defense decided to take the best fighting force in the world and turn it into a bunch of social workers—except that Haley keeps acting like she’s Martha Washington bringing food and medicine to the troops.
Law-abiding citizens in Chicago face more risk of death on a daily basis than Michael Haley. But they’re just Americans, so who cares?
Thank you, Ann Coulter!
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 2: Ole Southerner Henry McMaster
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump
Henry McMaster has been a long-time GOP and State elected official in South Carolina. He was the first US Attorney appointment by President Ronald Reagan, of all people, so he's not a young guy (76 y/o)*. In 1988, he was nominated by the State GOP to run for US Senate against the venerable old-school Democrat Ernest Hollings but lost bigly.
After/during some other political positions (later on State Attorney General), Mr. McMaster ran for Lieutenant Governor back in 1990 but lost that one pretty handily too, to the Democrat. At that time the Governor, one Carroll Campbell, was a Republican though. The deal until very recently, 2018, in S. Carolina was that these positions were voted on separately.
After many other elections of various sorts, Henry McMaster did win the election for Lieutenant Governor of the State in '14, on a separate ticket from Nikky Haley. Therefore, on January 24th of '17, the day after Nikki Haley was confirmed by the Senate as US Ambassador to the UN, she resigned and Lieutenant Governor McMaster became Governor. He was re-elected in '22.
Henry McMaster is a true Southerner from the capital Columbia - born there and having gone to undergraduate school and Law School at USC (THE USC, that'd be, the Univ. of S. Carolina). In a video I watched recently, as he spent 5 minutes or so introducing Donald Trump, he not only sounded Southern but I'd say overly so.
One can peruse McMaster's Wiki page to see that he's been traditionally Conservative, but with an addition of being Conservative in this modern world of Woke madness too, a bit unlike predecessor Nikki. After simply giving the wiki links in this and the Nikki post, I will finally note our disclaimer that, though pretty good on basic biographical facts (when people were born, their attendance at college, etc.), opinions get in there based on the politics of the leftist editors, be they independent volunteers or wiki censors, I'm not sure.** We ran into, and explained this same thing, back a year ago, in How to use Wikipedia. That's a post that I'd almost forgotten about which was also written to praise Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Back to Governor McMaster here, rather than 1, as I'd written, let me give you 3 nice wiki quotes that are more attempted disparagement of the SC Governor - there's much more - that have back-fired, at least during my reading.
McMaster successfully led the fight to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina. He also said that South Carolina should "secede" over Don't Ask, Don't Tell.Hey-oh! That's not so awfully PC, in more ways than one!
Regarding the Kung Flu, the SC Governor was somewhat wishy-washy, but in general pretty non-Totalitarian and against those who attempted to be. I like this one:
In 2021, McMaster said he would block the federal government from sending people door-to-door to promote vaccinations. In September 2021, he criticized federal vaccine requirements, saying, "Biden and the radical Democrats [have] thumbed their noses at the Constitution." McMaster pledged to fight Biden "to the gates of hell" over the vaccine requirement.I don't think you'd have ever heard that stuff out of Nikki. She doesn't have that kind of fight in her. Here's one more back-firing attempt at disparagement:
In May 2023, McMaster angered Democrats after saying at a convention at River Bluff High School [Lexington County, SC]: "I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs." Democrats demanded an apology and compared the comments to slave catchers who would use dogs to hunt escaped slaves. A spokesperson for McMaster said that he "has been making this joke at GOP conventions for years, and everyday South Carolinians understand that it's a joke."Don't they mean "escaped enslaved people"? I sure hope so. Anyway, yeah I imagine they can all take a joke, all but those demanding leftists with bugs up their asses.
Did Henry McMaster somehow not get himself into the GOPe ("e" for Establishment) environment as Nikki Haley did? He may be old enough to know better or old enough to not care anymore that the Establishment doesn't like REAL Conservatives. I wonder if Henry McMaster would have vetoed the "remove the Rebel flag" bill anyway, even with that 90-20 veto-proof majority in the SC State House.
I trust the Conservatism of Henry over Nikki's, even disregarding what she's been up to since January '17. President Trump did South Carolina a favor getting Nikki out of there. That'll be the last post - was that really a smarter than I've been thinking?
* He is old enough to have worked as a lawyer for Strom Thurmond back in the day.
** Commenter Adam Smith did some experimenting with this long ago and regaled us with his stories and short glimpses of his handiwork. (I'll try to find it.)
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Tucker interviews Lydia Brimelow!
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 8:43PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits
Tucker is as big-time as the non-Regime press goes, if not bigger than them all. Is this VDare's biggest break yet?!
The interview is 37 minutes long. One can watch the first 8 3/4 minutes - the first 3 minutes of that being an intro. by Tucker - in an embedded tweet here on VDare.com. If you are a member of Team Tucker (haha), you can watch the full interview here on his site also. (My wife is, so it turns out I'm privileged after all.)
Adam Smith has worked his magic and very helpfully put up the 8 3/4 minute video on the Adam Smith YT (youtube or WhiteT) channel - 53 subscribers already! Here is is.
Thanks very much, Adam!
Lydia Brimelow is the wife of VDare founder Peter Brimelow. She does a whole lot of work for the organization, the fundraising, logistics, planning of conferences, business stuff, and all manner of things. However, Peter is the heart and soul behind this 25 year old organization with a mission. I wondered why Tucker didn't interview Peter, but ... then... I think it might be that Mr. Brimelow's Scottish(?) accent is not always so easy to follow... if you miss one freaking word of a sentence..., it's like, wait, what was the middle part again?*
I write that in all fun with, and admiration of, a great American. Congrats on the huge publicity boost, VDare. Let's all relish the fall of New York Commie Cadre thug Leticia James. It'll happen. She's got a very long distance to fall too ...
* H/T, Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda.
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UPDATED ~ `1/2 hr. later:] Made corrections of video duration, including remark about 8 3/4 minute preview.
UPDATED - 04/17/25:] Adam Smith's video was pulled. Got that same 8 3/4 minutes from Bitchute. You have to go to Tucker's site to watch the whole 37 minutes.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 1: "Little One", Nikki
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 5:11PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Immigration Stupidity Trump The Neocons Race/Genetics
... directed by the Donald. (When Harry Met Sally is an old chick flick* that I got this post title from.)
Peak Stupidity is certainly no fan of candidate Nimarata Randhawa, aka, Nikki Haley. We are sure she will lose the coming South Carolina GOP primary BIGLY to The Donald, with most of her votes to come from Democrats.**
The only reason the whole nation knows her name, at this point, is that Donald Trump appointed Haley his United Nations Ambassador on November 23rd of '16, when he was still President-elect.
The people of South Carolina, same as those in other Southern States that haven't been so immigrant-inundated yet (the counter-example being Virginia), are able to elect fairly Conservative State Reps/Senators and Governors. I'd say it's due to that "harmless bit of housekeeping, Amendment XVII of the US Constitution, that the same thing doesn't happen with US Senators... cough, Graham ... spit ...
What happens with the US Congressmen is that the gerrymandering is done with approval by most to fence in a few hard-core Black! districts, so there's that one fairly outspoken, often powerful, guy in the Black! caucus with his grift, reparations-boosterism, and other general Pissing & Moaning, while the rest of the districts get some decent Conservatives (those that haven't been tainted or succumbed to the Cocktail Party Theory of Political Stupidity). That one guy in S. Carolina, BTW is well-known and long=detested James Clyburn.
Going back to this short Peak Stupidity take on her, Nikki ("Little One") Haley (married name) was, as we all know, the daughter of immigrants (illegal or not***). She was born in 1972 in Bamberg, SC. Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, where she attended school, were heavily black, and still are. Other than wetbacks out on some of the farms, there were very very few immigrants in States like South Carolina, and the •Indian population would have been miniscule. Therefore little Nikki (that's redundant, it turns out) would have assimilated to society, and that society was White v Black, plain and simple. Her very birth year was the time that school integration was being completed, and guess where she went to school? Nikki was sent to one of the new private schools, specifically built to let White kids keep away from the violence and disruption of the black kids. None were allowed in her Orangeburg school until decades later.
The Randhawa parents, who are in fact Sikhs, came to the American South via Canada after leaving the northern Indian state of Punjab. Let me tell you, after obtaining his PhD in the 1969 Great White North of Vancouver, British Columbia, Ajit - that's the Dad**** - would have had his eyes OPENED WIDE within one week of starting his 30-year career teaching at "historically", aka, always-done-been-Black! Voorhees College in the small town of Denmark, SC. 30 years! I'm pretty sure little Nikki and/or brothers and sisters would have been sent back to the Old Country to live with Turbine-headed Granny first thing, had there been a hint of their assimilating to the other part of society. Having been assimilated to the White South, she was bound to turn out Conservative.
Once she obtained State legislative office, Mrs. Haley, now married to a man she met in her college years, indeed was a fairly typical strong Conservative, socially, fiscally, and all. You can read the whole Wiki page, but let me excerpt just one line - same as I'll do in the post on her Gubernatorial successor:
Haley was named a "Taxpayer Hero" by Governor Mark Sanford in 2005 and a "Friend of the Taxpayer" by the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers in 2009.Governor Sanford was the guy who had a fling with a lady down in S. America while he was, to the wife's knowledge, hiking the Appalachian trail.
Anyway, as for Governor Haley, there's not so much I'd criticize up through a certain point. The fact that her husband, Michael Haley*****, was a long-term member of the SC National Guard and has been deployed to "the Sandbox" has likely only slightly additionally solidified her "standard" Conservatism. In the Southern style, in an area with more military families than the nation on average, that means, yes, America, fuck yeah!!. That was not so bad a sentiment in years long past, but it's not truly Conservative at all anymore. Given the new huge Woke push in the military, making the Institution Offensive in yet a new way, some Southern Conservatives have finally seen the light.
South Carolina elected Nikki Haley Governor as another in the line of establishment Conservatives. The problems I have with her started only after she made the big-time. Big money is involved, such as with the deal to bring Boeing to Charleston for the 2nd 787 assembly plant. There's lots of MIC money for those at high levels. Now, the Haley's have a beautiful house on lovely Kiawah Island, away from the Capital city of Columbia, much less back in her hometown in Bamberg Country.
Additionally, with her husband's years of "service", and her family background, what would you expect from a GOPe "Little One" who makes the big-time at the Fed level other than the Invade the World/Invite the World mantra?
Why I've been calling her (T-SC), as in, Traitor, is due to something else entirely. Even after the State gave in to the Wokeness and took the Rebel Flag off the top of the State House - it'd flown 3rd, below the Palmetto (State) flag and the Stars & Stripes - it has been placed in a small area on the grounds with historical information. After one deranged young guy shot up a black Church in Charleston, the Governor signed a bill that stipulated removal of the flag entirely from the grounds.
That was in July of '15. Now that I read a little more, I realize the vote of 90-something to 20 in favor of removal is one that Governor Haley could not have successfully vetoed.
I'll admit I was wrong her in calling Nikki Haley a traitor for that. Now that I've seen video clips and excerpts from her campaign, I've got other things to call her a traitor for, in addition to another choice word favored by a certain someone ...
NOTE: This post was to be a one-part post to make just one point. I will make that point, but this background on Nikki and then Henry (McMaster) was pretty interesting, with its own points I wanted to make here. I hope the reader is somewhat interested also. Next, we'll discuss replacement SC Governor Henry McMaster much more briefly, and then get to the point... Anyone seen the point? Where's that confounded point??
* It was kind of boring, as chick flicks can often be, but back in that day, when a big movie came out, we felt obligated to go see it.
** It's a stupid way to run a party primary, is it not?
*** The requirements for the Office of US President require a clarification on this, not like anyone cares about the Constitution anymore, but hopefully the same goes for Mrs. Haley too.
**** I can't help but include the following clip, surely a repeat for us, just for the bit about the names:
Hey, they are from the Rhandawa family too, it sounds like.
***** He was also a graduate of a White private High School, albeit in a ritzier area, Hilton Head Prep. What else are ya' supposed ta do??
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