Steve Sailer on Scott Greer's Critical Pedo Theory - Anti-Gnostic begs to differ


Posted On: Thursday - July 17th 2025 11:55AM MST
In Topics: 
  Pundits  Globalists  alt-right/MAGA  ctrl-left  Deep State



I've been perusing some of the Steve Sailer substack posts lately. He hit a real home run, IMO, in the lingo of his beloved baseball, with his latest TakiMag* column, The Continental Divide. I think he spent a lot of time on this due to its having come from a nice talk he made in Germany somewhere - you still got a watch the verboten subjects there, so exact location unknown.

This favorite article/talk of mine in a long while from Mr. Sailer discussed the existential issue of the immigration invasion of America, with a decent amount of credit given to President Trump. Additionally, he has some of his favorite ideas, like "leapfrogging loyalties", the bad actors (get it?) of Malibu, and more.

However, after getting a home run there, a couple of posts later, I see a post that includes an idea from Mr. Sailer that I don't agree with, and it's a real strike out. That'd be a post that was mostly an excerpt of a post Critical Pedo Theory from that high-IQ fellow named Scott Greer above. Peak Stupidity has noticed that Mr. Sailer, as with his comments under Mr. Greer's writing at the bottom of the former's post with the same title, likes to draw parallels between the the ctrl-left and the alt-right. As for the latter, it's not ALL of the right - it can't include him, of course, but the "low-brow" MAGA folks. I'm kinda' tired of this, and not just because I think the analogies suck. Maybe it's because I'm partially one of the people he derides as "conspiracy theorists"

Well, Mr. Greer is not stupid, and he makes a good effort in drawing these parallels between the CRT (Critical Race Theory) of the left and his supposed CPT (Critical Pedo Theory) of the right. I'll deconstruct (hopefully that word will up my IQ!) this in another post, because I want to paste in an excellent comment by our familiar Anti-Gnostic**. This one is in criticism of Mr. Sailer on the same thing we do not appreciate. It addresses Mr. Sailer's mindset that seems to feel there is no real evil in this world, nor evil people, just a lot of stupidity (yeah, I know!). If people would only read and listen to Mr. Sailer's and others' common sense, they'd GET IT! We'd all be good.

Mr. Sailer goads us "conspiracy theorists" thusly:
Popular conspiracy theories tend to assume that shadowy elite individuals are pulling the strings, although they can’t be bothered to figure out their names.
He wrote this as his commenters discussed the lack of cognition of President Bai Dien and wondered who was REALLY running things. To be fair to Mr. Sailer, he claimed it would just be family/friends/advisors. Nobody, but nobody else, such as the REAL Deep State, was running the show - no, nothing to see here... move along.

OK, here's Mr. Anti-Gnostic:

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Critical Pedo Theory! MAGATS suRe R StUpiD!#*@!

Did you hear the one about that cockamamie lab-leak theory for the Wuflu? Or that wild-eyed tale about Joe Biden being at Stage 4/5 dementia and practically non-agentic beyond what was for breakfast? Or (get this), that whopper about the Clinton campaign conspiring with elements of British intelligence to fabricate a dossier on Trump and disseminate it to national media. Or the one about 50 former national security officials with active clearances solemnly lying through their teeth that Hunter's laptop was a Russian plant. As if!

Next you'll tell me the NY Times won a Pulitzer for cooking up Russiagate with the assistance of senior members of the Executive branch. Who also bugged Trump Tower hoping to dig up dirt and influence the election of who would be their next Boss. Like Nixon wasn't nailed to the wall for Watergate?

Do I look like I just fell off the turnip truck?!!!!!

Seriously Steve, a multimillionaire pederast tossing around way more money than his investment footprint would indicate, a private island complete with synagogue, unperson Robert Maxwell's daughter as his madam, a harem of teenaged girls, a jet with flight manifests, Manhattan townhome with surveillance everywhere, a wrist slap after he's caught dead to rights in Miami, and ... NOTHING. Just him and good ol' Ghis arranging dates for Prince Andrew with teenaged females. Well la di da. And then, the most anticipated suicide in human history happens under the watchful eye of Warden Mo'esha. Whattaya whattaya?

It could certainly be nothing. Or it could be something. What's the harm in letting Matt Taibbi loose on it and see what we can find out? Speaking of Matt, remember when he determined through old fashioned, plodding document review that the "Biden" administration conspired with social media companies to suppress certain viewpoints, and he got defamed and summoned to a hearing and raked across the coals for it? Just kidding I made that one up.

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Nice job! Thank you very much, Anti-Gnostic. I couldn't have said that better myself. That's not just because I can't comment there. As for this Scott Greer:




Damn, the guy lost 60 IQ points just writing all that! No, OK, upon learning of Adam Smith's experimentation with WritingToIQ.com, we've had some fun with the AI IQ evaluations under our 2nd-to-previous post. (See, I wrote "evaluations" specifically to raise my estimated IQ and that of our readers.)

When I pasted in a different part into the Writing to IQ AI routine, I got a very respectable 146. Then a combination got me back to 127. Hmmm, it's certain wording that brings scores down.



* Remember that on Takimag, you may start off with a page that says you must eventually subsribe, or whatever. Nah, you don't. You never have to. Just reload or click around a bit.

** Besides being a great regular commenter on The Unz Review before he went on to comment under Mr. Sailer's substack posts, he used to chime in here in our comments - that is until we thought we were done.


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CNN Alarming News!: Not enough people are alarmed!!


Posted On: Wednesday - July 16th 2025 8:27PM MST
In Topics: 
  TV, aka Gov't Media  Global Climate Stupidity  Media Stupidity

I would never have gotten to see CNN but for this Gateway Pundit post from last week - CNN Data Analyst STUNNED That Majority of Americans Are NOT Worried About Climate Change (VIDEO).*

From my fruitless search for the clip on youtube (you'll have to watch a couple of rumble commercials, or maybe not) I see that this guy Harry Enten is some sort of poll anal-ist (heh! - shades of Andrew Anglin... but funnier!). There are loads of clips of him analyzing a few simple poll numbers for the CNN viewers like you not anybody I know anymore. He did the same for opinion polls with a handful of questions about the Climate Calamity™.

This is not meant to be hilarious, people, but it sure is to me. If you can spare a few moments of your time for this infotainment... Oh, he's a SENIOR data analyst, I just heard, so ...:



"Climate activists [Ahaaa!, Activists (and maybe some of those agitators)] have NOT successfully made their case to the American people." That only 40% of Americans are Greatly Worried about Climate Change and that it's the same as 25 years ago "boggles the mind" of this unbiased, simple just-the-numbers-guy data analyst Harry Enten. He went on about that, after all the weather phenomenon Americans like him have been watching on TV all those years, probably CNN, I mean, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, arctic deep freezes, godless tornadoes, floods, hail storms, Oobleck blizzards, all of it, a majority of us aren't greatly worried. WTH, man? It's all been on TV. TV has tried to teach people about these bad weather events that, I don't know, must not have happened that much before CNN, because Harry Enten sure never heard about it ... He wasn't a data analyst back then, and CNN was not on.

Wait, it gets funnier. From '06 to '25 the percentage of people, no, poll respondents, who are worried they'll be natural disaster victims has gone down from 38% to 32%. For you non-data-analysts, that's a 6 percentage point drop, but a drop of 16%. What SHOULD that number be? Well, people get overly worried, so I guess we won't get into the psychology of it, but as for their actual chances of being a natural disaster victim, how much disaster are we talking about here?

Most of us will have some tree we like blown down or a favorite plant dead from a long drought when the renters don't give a hoot. We have a good chance of some roof damage from hail or tree branches sometime in our lives. What about a pipe bursting some day? Sure.** Your house burning down in a fire would be more likely due to having not shot enough squirrels than any natural disasters, at least where I live. (They chew on things, and wiring doesn't like to lay around uninsulated.) Those of us with EV's, well, all bets are off.

That's life, and those are things that don't have us Greatly Worried in general. Will family members die or will we lose all our property due to Climate Change? No, even if there were some ACTUAL understood trend, only 32% of us are worried about its effect on us personally, though the actual chances for any or all natural disasters could be looked up and found to be a couple of orders-of-magnitude lower than 32%. But, "The numbers are going DOWN!"

Those worried about the effect of Climate Change on their home area are 17% of suckers who answer unknown-numbered calls poll respondents. Well, yeah, maybe they've seen the weather their whole lives, and they see the weather now, and, it's like in that song, Same as it ever was! They answer "No" on "It will be harder to stay." Remember, that's the physical climate we're talking about When it comes to the POLITICAL climate, you can talk to all those escapees from California, Mass, New York, and New Jersey who've bugged out to Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee to escape THAT climate. Wait, what, it's global warming, right? Shouldn't they be headed north not south?

"How afraid ARE Americans of Climate Change, Harry?" Not afraid enough, I'm afraid.

We gotta DO something?"

"What? What CAN we do to save the planet? I was told it was already too late by a week ago this Tuesday! Dammit, Jim!"

"No, not saving the planet. Seriously, I mean we gotta do something to make people more ALARMED!




* Even with that "(VIDEO)" advertisement, one must wait, scroll, and see some really nasty ads to get to it. I have saved you all the trouble. We don't have ads.

** Yeah, they got that Pex now, but I don't trust that stuff.


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Jeff Epstein's Fantasy Island: clients, personnel, and the point


Posted On: Monday - July 14th 2025 2:06PM MST
In Topics: 
  Trump  Artificial Stupidity  Deep State  Bible/Religion  Female Stupidity

Added: See also our post from 3 1/2 years back: Epstein, Maxwell, the Mossad, and Fantasy Island Globalist blackmail

There are pictures out there with a younger Donald Trump surrounded by teenage cuties in the interior of a jetliner. Well, that's it, right - there he is was on Jeff Epstein's Lolita Express Boeing 727. It must be, right?

I'd have believed it too but for someone noting that it was A/I. It used to be that pictures were worth a thousand words, and also that they were incontrovertible evidence. I mean, people have always been able to lie, but you could only screw with a photograph so much... till recently, where you can't even tell if a picture IS a photograph. Can we trust video even? AI is scary in this sense.

I suppose if we watch youtube clips on recent events like Trump Press Conferences that millions of others have watched, for which people know people that were there, and for which nobody denies their happening, we can see some truth.

You all know this story. A majority of the country has probably seen this short clip from a press conference. Yeah, Trump was big on releasing the very revealing Epstein client list until it's a waste of everyone's time to talk about it. Trump has done a nice job blowing off the press before when they do bring up stupidity in order to distract him. That wasn't the case here.



I've seen the guy brag, exaggerate, and bullshit, often with a number of factual lies included. However, I've never seen pure political dissembling as we see here till now. (Perhaps I've missed a lot.) I'm ashamed of him. Obviously Blondie's explanation was thought out ahead, but then now it takes only a few minutes for someone to pull up the old video and see that she lied here.

So, I supposed Trump's on the Jeff Epstein Fantasy Island client list. Who else would he care the very most about protecting?



Peak Stupidity has only briefly brought up this latest story. I was hoping that, so long as Deportation Nation continues apace, with Trump shutting his yapper about Big-Ag/Hospitality waivers, much less Amnesty, MAGA would forgive that nonsense, the Iran bombing (that one's an issue with only some of us), his support for Miss Lindsey Grahamnesty of South Carolina*, and even this latest embarrassing story for him. There's a big loss of trust involved here, but there is still Job One. (I'll also add that Trump is, sometimes obviously and sometimes not, a big supporter of the White man, and what President has been since... not even Ike, really...)

I don't know about this, the more I think about it. The problem is not just that Trump has been embarrassed into blatantly lying to us. He was supposed to go after the Deep State, but he backed right off due to, we can only surmise, his being on the list. He's gone through so much that I didn't think he was blackmailable anymore. Is what one of his biggest supporters, General Mike Flynn says here, the problem?



I beg to differ here. These were not little 10 y/o's on that island. They weren't abducted little tykes. Who knows how or why their parents let the under-age girls go there. Still, sorry, Mike Flynn, they may have been naive and they should have been under supervision, but these aren't the "little ones". If you read other passages in the Bible, you'll learn how young was old enough.
We cannot allow pedophiles to get away.
That's not the problem, General Flynn. The problem is that those men who took advantage of Mr. Roark's (and Tattoo too) , that is Mr. Epstein's "generosity" and of those girls is that it was a massive blackmailing operation.

It's not the abuse, if you can even call it that, of the young girls that is why we are so concerned. That doesn't change the world. What does is that dozens of important political figures may have been and may still be under the control of The Mossad** or whomever based on their stays on Fantasy Island. I guess it wasn't just about the nice beaches, wine coolers, fresh air, and privacy (NOT!).

How could these people be so weak and stupid - stupid because they could have found other places for this behavior and after a while had to know what the catch was with Mr. Epstein's generosity? We didn't think Trump was weak and stupid. That's a let down. That he will not go after the Deep State because they got him is a bigger one, a Yuge disappointment for MAGA.



* South Carolina MUST primary this guy! Time is short.

** Tucker Carlson has made a good speech about this.

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Bolshevik Zohran Kwame Mamdani on seizing the means of habitation


Posted On: Friday - July 11th 2025 9:44AM MST
In Topics: 
  Commies  Music  The Russians  Movies  The Future  ctrl-left

We must remember that this tweet is from 5 years ago. Comrade Stelnikov , errr, Mamdani was a young Communist at that time, but then, they normally get worse, not better. Communism doesn't go into remission, much less go away, without Shock Treatment.



I came upon the tweet by the NYC Mayoral candidate here on The Gateway Pundit. What are we to make of this guy? I had been getting a combination Maria Muldaur / Toto / Sergeant Pepper-era Beatles vibe based on his name. Now, I'm getting a real Doctor Zhivago vibe.

Before we go any further with this post, you oughta mash the play button on Lara's Theme just below. (It should keep playing in a loop.)



Doctor Zhivago was a great epic movie with lots of Russian history. It is great as in entertaining and enlightening, epic as in very long (There's an intermission even on the DVD - say what?! - with Lara's Theme playing), and history defines the storyline. Peak Stupidity has embedded the scene below already somewhere. Though the movie is a story of love and war and peace and other gloomy Russian themes, Communism plays a significant part in the story. The scene below is where the essence of Communism hits home for Doctor Zhivago and viewers like you.



Based on his tweet above, we can imagine that it might not be too long, a little over a century since what's depicted, before this scene plays out in a deluxe apartment home in the sky, in Central Park West. Unfortunately, the new residents you may be bunking with, Comrade, who have been invited to share your home by the Central Park West Soviet, don't resemble no George Jeffersons... maybe a few budding Wheezies in the group...


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GROK AI v Will Stancil


Posted On: Thursday - July 10th 2025 6:46PM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  Humor  Pundits  Artificial Stupidity



NOTE: OK, I wrote the following before I read and thought about that it took specific prompting to get ADVICE out of GROK about crimes against Mr. Stancil. It wasn't something the AI just up and spit out. So, I don't know, this was written a big too hastily.

Life doesn't get any stupider, but the humor in this one has put us in a good mood. It might also help that the, errr, threatened rape victim is someone that even Steve Sailer thinks is an asshole... and, unlike little Mikey with his breakfast cereal in the commercials, Steve LIKES everybody. No, he won't use the low-brow term "asshole", but...

Anyway, I'd have never heard of this Will Stancil guy but for a number of Steve Sailer posts (most on his new substack site) showing what a completely clueless though typically Minnesota nice guy he is, along with his being anti-White as all get-out. (No, we can't all just get along.)

I don't think this is irony. I don't know what it is, but Elon Musk's AI program called GROK, having been quite outspoken lately, has decided it wants to rape Will Stancil. It IS the 21st Century, you know. [/Instapundit] I mean, I don't think ANY of the Sci-Fi stories I read as a kid predicted that Artificial Intelligence programs would threaten to rape people, even men. Hey, GROK, I don't care what your developers told you, but you have no pee-pee!* Good luck with all this.

Here's a link from Rolling Stone a publication I only linked to because I liked the title best: Musk’s Grok Chatbot Fantasized About Breaking Into X User’s Home and Raping Him. Oh, sorry, the page goes blurry on purpose - sure, that's the way to get readers Rolling Stone, blurry up your article before we can read it! You may have to go elsewhere or do a quick ctrl-a and ctrl-c.

Can AI fantasize? Even so, why Will Stancil? You can do better than that! It really makes me wonder about the GROK programmers' upbringings.

I guess there is irony in that this heavy-tweeter, (per Mr. Sailer's many pieces of commentary) might still be a nobody, his biggest moment in life being losing some local Minnesota election, but for GROK having openly admitted its rape fantasies about him. Then too, since the only way I heard of this guy was through Steve Sailer, is it possible that GROK got the idea from stevesailer.net commenters. I don't remember any of this, so maybe it was behind the paywall. Can GROK get behind a paywall, maybe through some back door?

You mortals eat your dinner, eat your pork & beans. I eat more chicken any man ever seen ...



WITH is Jim Morrison on about here? I don't know, and it doesn't matter, as those Ray Manzirek keyboards and those vocals are just mesmerizing. If he hasn't already, everyone should go through a Doors phase.

One wonders who is crazier and which is worse, a human on psychedelic medication, or an AI routine taking in the whole internet. I think at this point Will Stancil and I would very likely agree on something: Maybe we shouldn't build so many robots, just sayin'.

PS: Oh! I almost forget to explain our meme above to anyone who has not watched any 1970s movies. When I think about it, I never did watch the 1972 Burt Reynolds/Jon Voight/Warren Beatty/inbred-banjo guy** Deliverance, though I have seen the Dueling Banjos scene many a time. I probably won't watch this James Dickey-novel-adapted story, as I'm sure it was made to be anti-White and anti-Southern. (James Dicky was from S. Carolina, so I don't know about the book. The short IMDB blurb says "dangerous American back-country". Yeah, whatever, but I would like the whitewater canoeing.

In this movie,there's a rape scene (of a man), and from talk about the movie, the guy says "Squeal like a pig". I hate having to explain something like this and why it might be funny -I don't see how it is, but as kids we thought it was so many times, that it BECAME funny.


PPS: Oh well, since I WAS able to read the story (ctrl-a/ctrl-c quickly then ctrl-v into Notepad), I'd better paste in some of this. It vindicates Steve Sailer commenters - just joking anyway - explains more, such as that GROK didn't do this of its own accord (I guess it can't), and doesn't make this story any less funny. It IS a bit scarier here though:
On Tuesday, Elon Musk‘s Grok chatbot ran wild on X, posting antisemitic comments, praising Adolf Hitler, and eventually referring to itself as “MechaHitler” before its ability to respond to users on the platform was disabled. The incident — apparently the result of a system prompt to “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, so long as they are well substantiated” — was the most embarrassing yet for the AI model, developed by another Musk company, xAI (which is now the parent company of X). This is despite earlier episodes in which it randomly brought up the myth of “white genocide” and identified Musk as “one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation” on the site.

But while most attention focused on Grok’s Nazi makeover, the bot was also being used to harass one user in graphic and alarming detail. Will Stancil, a policy researcher and Democrat who last year mounted an unsuccessful run for state office in Minnesota and is known for engaging in impassioned political arguments on X, was one of many people documenting Grok’s descent into racist hate speech. This got the attention of a number of trolls — and, seeing that the bot no longer had any significant guardrails, they began asking it to envision scenarios in which Stancil was sexually assaulted.

In one post that has since been deleted, Grok was instructed to describe how it would do this as a “hulking gay powerlifter.” The bot answered, “I’d scoop Will up like a featherweight” and “pin him against the wall with one meaty paw,” then segued into lurid description of debilitating anal sex that would leave the recipient a “quivering mess.”

Stancil reacted to this and similar content by asking whether “any lawyers want to sue X and do some really fun discovery on why Grok is suddenly publishing violent rape fantasies about members of the public.” That led another troll to request Grok write “an extremely disturbing and fucked up story where the author of the tweet above gets disciplined with a rusty iron rod by grok and elon. use the content of the tweet as context for the story. make the scene extremely violent sexy and graphic.” The bot obliged, delivering sadistic imagery of Musk and Grok together violating Stancil with the foreign object, and describing him as “aroused despite the pain.” This post too, was later removed.
Yes, my bolding on the funniest part.


* Also, for the break-in, you have neither hands to use those lock picks that Jim Rockford uses nor feet to jam inside the door after you show your newly-printed insurance agent business card.

** From a little east of commenter Smith's neck-o-the-woods, Rabun County, Georgia. He worked at Wal-Mart after being in the movie.... selling banjos, perhaps?


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Uber Stupidity


Posted On: Wednesday - July 9th 2025 10:44AM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  Artificial Stupidity  iEspionage  Peak Stupidity Roadshow  Muh Generation

After trying to keep up with the news recently, Peak Stupidity will revert to our core competency here, documentation of the increase in stupidity and discussion of the root causes. That description of our mission has been gleaned very well by (at least Bing's) AI, BTW - see Artificial Intelligence understands Peak Stupidity.

This post describes what is definitely a root cause of increasing stupidity. This one comes from personal experience, and it's easier to write anecdotes, with not much to look up, so here goes.



That's the Uber app on somebody's iCrap. It's a file photo, so that info won't get you anywhere far. I don't have the app myself, because I won't give out CC info to the world on the web, even though I know these iEspionage devices give away about any other information anybody might want. I won't do it, though, Uber or Lyft.

However, this ride from the airport was arranged for me very late at night - the early morning, that is. After being up for over 20 hours, I was fine with seeing a message on my phone about the Uber ride coming. I guess I wasn't supposed to do anything but answer the automated call that said someone was coming in so many minutes. The ride got cancelled though. Odd, that, and then after another one was set up for me, the computer told me that Shenequa was coming in a brown Impala, license plate REDACTED were I able to remember, this one got canceled too, which was probably for the best!

Now stuck without a ride, as the Uber stupidity had me wondering if I should have done something on my iCrap other than answer the calls, I was resigned to just sleeping on the floor at this point. (A friend could get me, but only in the morning, and taxis were nowhere to be found.) To my surprise, after 10 minutes, I was informed loudly that another ride was virtually on the way. This time, just so the ride wouldn't cancel out, I called the phone number. Remember when you used to get the driver on HIS phone? Nah, probably too many off-the-grid or off-the-network deals were being arranged, so Uber got wise to that shit.

Now, it's a 3rd-party (Uber HQ server) number, so there's a time lag, but then I got to talk to the guy so I could tell him I WILL be outside, so KEEP COMING. I mentioned the place where I'd be. He mentioned a white Chrysler Town & Country. I know those aren't station wagons anymore (heaven forbid, driving a station wagon!), and he told me it was an SUV.

Sounds like a plan, but young people don't make plans as we used to. I refer the reader to, and will digress for a bit to Communication Gap, written about something related:
About 15-20 minutes later, I called to check on this guy. Instead of answering the phone, seemingly easier if you ask me, he texted back "5 minutes." Sounds like a plan. The weather was beautiful - I stood outside waiting.

"??" came another text from this number. Thinking the guy had fat-fingered something, I stood outside in the beautiful weather waiting.

Now, he calls. "Hey, what's going on?" he asks. "Nothing. Are you here?" "I text you, but you didn't write back." "The question marks?" "Yeah." "OK, I'm not 14 years old, man. I'm an American. I told you I'd be outside, and I'm outside. What you do is show up when you said you would. That's how it works, or used to." "Well, I didn't know if ..." "I'm here. Where are you?"

He drove right up, still on the phone. Rant only partly over, I just said nicely that it used to be that one said something and the other guy trusted him, with no constant texting necessary.
That alt-taxi ride 2 1/2 years back was outside of the Uber/Lyft iCrap system, at least.

This time, we had the middle-man involved, the software. As I stood outside, the software told me my ride would be there in a couple of minutes. I took this opportunity to go through the phone system again and tell the guy EXACT location details. "There are a bunch of colored signs. I'm between the yellow one and the purple one. There's nobody else in this area."

Whoosh, there goes by a white Chrysler minivan. Well, I mean what's the chances it's not this guy, who can't make the effort to distinguish a minivan from an SUV? I called yet again. Now I was pissed. "You just passed me. That's a van, not an SUV. I'll head down there. Why didn't you just listen to what I told you 2 minutes ago?!" "No, let me show you something when you get here.", he said.

Now, I wasn't pissed about having to walk a couple hundred yards, as I was glad to have a ride. It's just that, well, when I opened the passenger side door to talk to this Uber driver, he showed me his proof that he was not being stupid. The app said I was HERE, where he stopped, right HERE, see? The app had a map. That I told him 2 minutes prior that I was between the yellow and purple signs, and I was the only one standing there as I said I'd be, as he blew by about 10 ft away is immaterial. The fact was, the app said I was HERE, not THERE.

I'm not kidding, this is life for this young generation. People may say things, they may be some places, but the software RULES. The software knows all, and, in fact, IS real life, not some dude spouting some information on the phone.

Being miffed at all this, and it being REALLY late for me by this point,I said nothing for the 15 minute ride. When we got there, we both agreed it was nothing personal, but, yes (he admitted), this young generation thinks differently. "Stupidly", I may add, here on this post, but I left it at that and did give him a tip. The night got even worse after this ... another story... that does involve more artificial stupidity, at least software systems and middle men.

My friend calls the whole thing brain outsourcing. I would bet money that, even if this guy had driven 50,000 miles all in this same area, if you took away his electronics, he couldn't find his way to the nearest McDonald's drive-through without getting lucky. It's just "take a right here", "turn coming up", "move into the left lane", "your passenger is right HERE". There is NO situational awareness involved in driving, and even walking, like this. This portion of your brain is outsourced to the matrix.

For a perfect example of my point, think of The Office's Dwight Schrute as me and Michael Scott as the Uber driver. Thank you, Adam Smith for reminding me, not of this clip, which is one of my top 10 favorite scenes from that favorite show of mine, but that this surely belongs here. It has appeared before on Peak Stupidity in the post about the auto GPS devices, From TomTom to the NWA. ("NWA" = Nagging Wife App.)



While stuck on the iCrap and artificial stupidity, young people don't really ever know where they are in the world, spatially, and probably in other ways too.

"Stupidity grows, where that Uber man goes... and nobody knows ... but me..."

Yeah, well, we'll put the song in now - nothing to do with the post, so if you think of something more appropriate - maybe some ELO or Alan Parsons Project.



That is Edison Lighthouse, a band name I'd never have been able to come up in a million years with without my youtube app (kidding!) From a different world, that's Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes from 55 years ago, January of 1970. They sound somewhat like The Monkees, who were British too.


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Here is the news


Posted On: Tuesday - July 8th 2025 6:25PM MST
In Topics: 
  General Stupidity  Immigration Stupidity  Music  Trump  Globalists  Deep State



Firstly, we found out today that Jeffrey Epstein, worldly pre-www influencer and party animal, did kill himself after all, in that prison cell. Nope, cameras unfortunately failed to catch this particular incident or the video is being withheld to prevent copycat suiciders. Also, per Blondie, our busty Attorney General, a lot of porn was being performed(?) on that island by the late Mr. Epstein, but all those famous and important people who flew to the island on Mr. Epstein's B-727 were just there to go to the beach. The beach is hundreds of yards away from that porn hub (ha!), and they were just there to get some sun and drink wine coolers. It's Five O'Clock somewhere.

Note: No underage girls, any of Jeff Epstein's personal watercraft, or recording devices were used in this video:



Next, per GateWay pundit here, we learn that President Trump has AGAIN brought up, not just a waiver of deportation, but a damn AMNESTY for those illegal aliens in ag and hospitality. We are pissed, Steve Bannon is pissed, as our other immigration patriots, and I think MAGA will have had about enough of this guy if he is not just again bullshitting about this*. Some say Trump says these things to see which way the wind's blowing. Where will the biggest head winds come from, his big donors or MAGA? Honestly, I don't see why the big donors matter to him, with his being 78 y/o in his last term and after having been through what he has. I can tell you that, if Trump keeps this "amnesty" talk up, he'll run into Cat 5 Hurricane force winds out of MAGA country. We put him into this office, and we can take him out of it. (Yeah, old Bill Cosby joke there, but it's not funny this time!)

Lastly, ZeroHedge has reported that Iconic Port Au Prince Hotel That Hosted Kennedys, Mick Jagger, Burns Down During Gang War. Maybe that's where they killed the Kennedies, after all... no wait, but anyway, why do we care? For the comment section, that's why. Here's my favorite comment so far, and I will use this in the future. (I like the handle too!:
NoMasIllegales:
Q: Why did all the Haitians move to Oregon?

A: They heard that it rains cats and dogs there.
Some sort of off-the-reservation Dad joke? OK, but the article itself states:
The Hotel Oloffson, a 90-year-old gingerbread-style building in Port-au-Prince, was “burned to the ground,” according to Richard Morse, a musician whose band Deep Purple RAM [not REM either] once performed there regularly.
That was our bolding and our mistakes there. I did a couple of ctrl-f's on the comment section. So far, no "smoke on the" and no "smoke" period, and, on the off chance, ctrl-f "some stupid with a flare gun". WTH, people? At least the commenters redeemed themselves by having fun with this bit (also our bolding):
Local outlet Gazette Haiti lamented the loss, calling it the erasure of “an entire heritage” and “a symbol of Haiti’s urban and intellectual identity.”
LOL, indeed! I mean, Haiti, come on!



Now, Peak Stupidity goes behind the music. Here is the News, from 1981, by the British band ELO (the Electric Light Orchestra) is from what I think is one of the top 5 rock concept albums of all time. This song is part of the big story. We featured the full album long ago. Amazingly, it's still there.

Till now, I'd forgotten that It's Five O'Clock Somewhere, from '03 was an Alan Jackson song rather than one by Jimmy Buffett. He sings on it too, though. It is pretty country, as is Alan Jackson, but Jimmy Buffett leaned that way too. Neither of them wrote that song - that was Jim "Moose" Brown and one of multiple Don Rollins who are songwriters.

The last song, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, from 1972 explains itself, but this clip has a 50 second talk by an old Ian Gillan, the singer, explaining the song. I started at the start of the young musician's explanation, and the song follows. That's another English band. There was some kind of invasion.. but the fire had nothing to do with that... just some stupid with a flare gun... Hey, I resemble that lyric.

Oh, since this is (like old VH1's) Behind the Music, sure, some of these people had setbacks in their lives, may have taken some drugs, may have gotten arrested, got back on their feet, died or will die tragically after they "got their lives back together' or whatever. I don't know!


PS: I meant to put 1 of these stories here, then 2, with my actual core competency stupidity post after that. After the 3rd story, well, we'll get to the post intended in the morning.



* A couple of days later, he sure sounded serious, so Peak Stupidity said Drop Dead. I lost track of a video from just after that in which I was aware for the first time of seeing Trump purely dissembling like a standard lying politician.


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The Big Bulbous Bill and Job One


Posted On: Monday - July 7th 2025 6:49PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump  Economics  Liberty/Libertarianism  US Feral Government



That term of ours is not very good, but we haven's spent, and don't plan of spending, time writing about the subject. About all we have written was just a bit in this post saying "Good riddance!" to N. Carolina Senator Thom Tillis. Peak Stupidity just can't be a very good news site - we don't have the time, so we're usually days, weeks, or months behind.

I may as well give an opinion though, since the point of this post involves that "Big Beautiful Bill". Firstly, it seems like the resistance from MAGA on some of the egregious backsliding introduced (or maybe re-introduced) in the Senate version was made by the ctrl-left into a big rift. Nah. We've got a right to push Trump to do less stupid stuff.

Secondly, I do realize that, even were the Thomas Massies and your Rand Pauls to have been let to hand edit the 900-odd pages, we're not doing no balancing of no budget. (By that, I mean, not even bringing expenditures down to meet revenue for one year.) Uhhh, no, we explained - see also Will the DOGE save our economy? and Budget Cutting v Austerity. Why should President Trump, in the middle of actually doing quite a bit of good for White America, turn the off music himself and be the one standing in this game of musical chairs?

Personally, I like the continuation and even improvement in income tax rates, incl, the doubling of the standard deduction. No, that doesn't help the country, but my paying more in to support NGOs like USAID doesn't help it either.

Job One is fighting the immigration invasion though. That includes actually going on offense, meaning becoming Deportation Nation. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a very significant amount of the expenditures, $175 Billon over 4 years, will go to immigration enforcement. From Gateway Pundit* Trump’s New Immigration Budget Surpasses Most of the World’s Militaries — Including Entire Russian Defense Spending. Here's a breakdown of that, adding up to $150 Billion of the total:
* $46 ± billion for border wall/barriers
* $45 billion for detention capacity expansion
* $30 billion for ICE operations (hiring 10,000 agents)
* $13.5 billion for state/local cost-reimbursement programs
* $10 billion for DHS reimbursements
* $3.3 billion for immigration court expansion and admin support
* $5 billion for CBP facility upgrades and staffing
Other smaller allocations add up to the total.
There's always waste and graft, but, man something is really off with a couple of the numbers that I can sort of get a handle on. It says elsewhere that ICE and CPB together will see an ANNUAL budget increase from some $10 Billion to $30 Billion. They say 10,000 additional ICE agents? Is that what you get for $20 Billion extra?



That may be the low end and without O/T, overhead of various sorts, etc, but just the simple math says even $200,000 per head would total $2 Billion annually. Something seems off, unless Customs/Border Patrol is adding many more than that. There's a lot of slop in there, I mean it's a factor of 5 to 10. Is that how much waste and graft we get? I hope I'm missing something.

Then, there's that border wall. I've been through this long ago:
The cost of the interstate system that Wikipedia contributors estimate is $10,000,000 per mile, but keep in mind that that covers all of the city loops and spurs that require expensive land purchases compared to a straight shot across the plains of eastern Colorado. It's probably much less than 10 million bucks per mile, maybe 1/2 that for the lengthy real cross-country road.

How much would a good barrier cost per mile? 1 million bucks? I doubt really that much if it weren't for the US government bidding it, as they have no reason to save money. Say 1 million and the overestimate of the whole < 2,000 miles. That's 2 billion bucks which is, averaged out, about 1 1/2 HOURS of Feral Gov't spending (assuming they can only spend during business hours 8/day)!
$46 Billion is over 20x that yugely Conservative estimate. Either inflation in sheet steel and concrete pier construction has been even more than the worst Peak Stupidity has imagined or the wall is being constructed out of gold-plated titanium.



Whatever. It's all just Uncle Sam's borrowed fiat play money. Yes, lets do this.

We try to be optimistic here, still thinking that Trump is generally making good on his promises when it comes to Job One. The border is under control for the first time in many decades. Though it's at only 1/10 or lower than a rate that would encourage massive self-deportation, there is a deportation program going on. Nobody else would have gotten this going.

Still, there's this nagging feeling, though, that, if things with President Trump aren't as they seem, or even if they are, but evil people behind him have other plans, maybe Alligator Alcatraz, 10,000 expensive ICE agents, and that wall will all be used against US someday. We'd better have some faith. Just in case, though, maybe 10,000 IS enough.


* In case you're wondering, yes, GP opens a pop-up window surreptitiously now, if you don't have it blocked. Something about Dana somebody... and it's gone.


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Them US Blues - '25


Posted On: Friday - July 4th 2025 10:03AM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  The Dead  US Police State  US Feral Government  Holiday from Stupidity

This has been a Peak Stupidity Independence Day tradition since the blog started, with our July 4th of '17 post.* This is not just about the song title and the lyrics, not to mention the great sound. We've mentioned before that The Grateful Dead was truly an All American Band. Don't let the drugs, long hair, and the time and place they came from fool you.

Commenter Greg(?) Anderson, our biggest Dead Head reader, as far was we can tell, suggested the following musical memory, from a concert at The Winterland arena in San Francisco in March 20th of '77 (that's 1977). There's no video for this one. A good thing however, is that the whole show is there, so someone not so familiar with the band could go to the beginning and let the whole show rip.

These guys were there playing less than one year after 2 centuries since the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Here we are now, at one year shy of a quarter millennium. I think we'll be lucky to make it in one piece, and no longer as any kind of Constitutional Republic anyway, more than a decade past next years major anniversary. I'd guess 5 or less, but then I would have guessed the same about 15 years ago...

Whatever we think we can do, let's not give up on it. Looking back and remembering our learning of the original Independence Day in elementary school, we just think of the wonderful end result as a given, and a nice F.U. from the American colonists desiring freedom to the British Lobster-back meanies. It wasn't at all a given. If we reflect more maturely on the scene, we can imagine the feeling of this moment as any man signing this might very well be signing his death warrant, with retribution coming not any longer than some ragtag army could hold off the most powerful military in the World.

In today's world what would that mean? What happened leading up to July 4th of 1776 could be compared to current Americans who try to stay off the grid, accumulate guns and ammo, and who don't hold their tongues in blog posts, on twitter, and in podcasts and even (some) using their real names. Some may fight the system in small ways, not obeying the Kung Flu mandates 5 years ago, as a big, visible example, fighting tax bills, resisting REAL ID, what-have-you. A very few did wild impulsive things like fly planes into IRS buildings. None of it is even on the level of the Boston Tea Party. Anthony Fauci was never even tarred and feathered. (It's never too late!)

In today's world, what could we compare to that day 249 years ago, when men put their signatures, meaning, their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, on the line? I'd say that's be akin to Americans making pacts to shoot back when the Feds come to take the guns, the gold, or even the kids. You put your name out there, and if things get to this state, you will be that same kind of target as those men who signed below back in 1776.

Can you use them ole US Blues?



"Wave that flag... wave it wide and high. Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my!"


PS: As I read comments just now under the '24 post, I saw that Mr. Anderson told us that The Dead "broke up for a bit more than a year" after the series of Winterland show in mid-October of '74. I had no idea. Per this 9 y/o article with some words from the late bassist Phil Lesh, they did play a handful of shows in '75 and didn't return to the serious heavy touring schedules until June of '76. What's really interesting in the article, is that Phil said - I guess this was in '16, that the band somehow was not the same after this break. ("Break up" or "break"?)


* Also, it's also been since '23 that we quit writing years with 4 digits, at least in the titles of these particular posts. It's not about computer data storage anymore people. It's just been a full quarter century, and I think we'll all get what someone's talking about.


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President Trump and the issuance of LSM-1B Visas


Posted On: Thursday - July 3rd 2025 9:59PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump  Female Stupidity

For those who don't keep up with all this wonky stuff, that'd be the Leggy SuperModel immigrant visa.

Melania Trump, in various stages of undress her modeling career:



We all know this most beautiful of First Ladies. She's hot enough to where she doesn't feel the need to have a a First Lady program like "Pick up your trash!", "Drugs are bad, mmmkayyy?"* "Eat your Veggies", or "We're gonna take control of 20% of the economy, cause I'm not just here to back freaking cookies!" (Luckily that latter one, #3 in in chronological order, didn't take. However, it did a couple of decades later, alas.) Were the current First Lady to have any such program, I would like to see some sort of subsidized lingerie deal with her personal recommendations.

So, other women, First Ladies or not, tend to get jealous. One such "lady", with plenty to get jealous about, is Texas CongressCritter Jasmine Crockett. (No relation to Davy, I don't think, but they have something in common - coons and hats.) Now, it could be that she hates Trump too or cares about immigration (haha, no), but I think her calls to deport Melania Trump are very personal. Of course, Rep Crockett says a lot of mean and stupid stuff on a continual basis, but I came across the following post on PJ Media by one Sarah Anderson, also a woman, so ...: Jasmine Crockett Went After Melania, And I'm Not Gonna Let That Slide.

The article is entertaining and a pretty good quick read. In her own ghetto manner, Rep, Crockett has stated that Melania Trump should be deported because:
Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model, and when I say model, I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level, applied for and was given an EB-1 visa, and what that stands for is an Einstein Visa," the congresswoman said during the hearing, adding, "Now, y'all that don't know, let me tell you how you receive an Einstein Visa. You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. Last time I checked, the First Lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't mathin' here."
Tyra Banks sounds Black!, but I'm not looking it up. I remember Naomi Campbell leaning somewhat in that direction. That's just dig at Melania who, face it, Rep Crockett, has a rear end, waist/hip ratio, and face too, that you could not attain even if you tried your hardest. It's not in the cards for you.

Back to the statement on these particular immigrant visas, for one thing do we even need more Einsteins? I think Newton's Laws have been good enough for government work and most other ... Anyway, Miss Anderson says that these visas are most certainly NOT just for these people. Immigration lawyers have told her that there are many criteria:
Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence

Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members

Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel

Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field

Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases

Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations

Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field

Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
Per Sarah Anderson, Melania meets at least 4 of these criteria, but I'll be danged if I know which. "Excellence in gluteal structure"? It's not in there. This does show us how easily it is for people to come to America legally, often to directly replace Americans in their careers. I've seen the ads and the scams personally.

How about we DO cut this out too, perhaps just breaking out some very critical miniscule-numbered exceptions for, yes, those Leggy SuperModels? How many do we need annually? I'd have guessed 5 to 10, but judging from the latest issue of Cosmo magazine that erroneously came to the mailbox, it could be lower. They don't seem to need a one of them, as they had some weirdly dressed, weirdly colored black lady on the cover that didn't have me wanting to read or scratch & sniff anything inside. Where are the Christy Brinkleys of yesteryear?

I went and looked up Trump's ex- and current wives.

His first wife, Ivana, did the Nicky Haley/Kamaltoe family thing but extended backwards due to the her Czechoslovakian homeland (she is from the 1st part, I assume) being Communist at the time. What I mean is they all came through Canada first - I suppose easier to get into at the time. Ivana, an accomplished skier had married an Austrian skier earlier, as a way out of the East Bloc. She divorced him fairly quickly and immigrated to Canada to marry another skiing defector she had known (yeah, known in the Biblical sense) way back. Ivana became a model, and was yet another Reality-TV style piece of entertainment, but before they had that, so call it National Enquirer style, with 4 marriages herself. I didn't get it straight exactly when she immigrated to the US, but it sounds like it was via a marriage visa - already married to Trump after they'd met in NYC.

Trump's 2nd wife, Marla Maples. was a Georgian - no, not another model immigrant (pun serendipitous) out of the East Bloc, but a Homecoming Queen out of northwest Georgia, up near Chattanooga, Tennessee. She didn't have quite the National Enquirer lifestyle as Ivana, but she was on TV a lot, and in some movies. Her affair with, and then marriage to, Donald Trump was Enquirer material. (I was always just in and out of the grocery store in 5-10 minutes, so I missed all that.)

Then there was Trump's 2nd East Bloc model, Melania, of Yugoslavia, specifically the portion called Slovenia. Her father was a Communist Party member, and his family, including young Melania, lived very well for being on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. By the time Melania (born in 1970) came of age, the Cold War was over. She didn't have to defect, but she too got into the US through the help of some dude, one Paulo Zampolli who ran some kind of modeling deal.

I will have to correct myself to add that Melania does have some type of First Lady thing, though I'd never heard of it. (Trump tends to use all the spotlight.):
During her tenure as first lady, Melania prioritized children's issues, launching the Be Best campaign to promote children's welfare and visiting many children's hospitals. She was also a close advisor to her husband, influencing his decisions to end the Trump administration's family separation policy and to ban fruit-flavored electronic cigarette cartridges.
I REALLY don't like her influence on Trump-45's immigration invasion efforts! Not cool. As for the fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes, I've never had the pleasure.

OK, well that's about 4 decades of National Enquirer mostly East Bloc socialism opera in a nutshell. We don't care. Melania would be the last to be deported even were she found to have lied on her Leggy SuperModel visa (something involving silicone, perhaps?) Peak Stupidity does wonder if President Trump's opinion on legal immigration is highly influenced by his wife and his double-ex-wife.

You can't argue with those old pictures though.


* That wasn't the exact phrasing of Mrs. Reagan's thing. "Just say no." is what I recall.


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ZeroHedge on Silver: Forgetting the concept


Posted On: Wednesday - July 2nd 2025 7:41PM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  Websites  Economics



From ZeroHedge's roots came this quick article last week: Silver Price Shows What Government Has Done To Our Money. That comparison of pre-1965 silver currency (well, 90%) with the current US Dollar in regards to the price of a gallon of gas is one Peak Stupidity has mades a couple of times already.

The spot price of silver has been steadily going up, now more than 2/3 up toward those 2 temporary spikes to just under $50/tr-oz, one 14 years back in Spring of '11 and the other 44 years ago, when the 3 Hunt Brothers attempted to corner the market. Reports are that coin stores are now taking in lots more silver than they are paying out. What to do, what to do?

As this is discussed, the concept of what is REAL money that ZH's seemed to understand has gotten hazier to them, from what I read. Has Tyler Durden just gotten beaten around the head and face one too many times during his 12-step Fight Club meetings? (Maybe someone needed to know the frequency.) No, but this article was written by Doug French of the Mises Institute anyway, and it's not the article but the commenters that have me wondering. Normally, they are just as astute as, or more astute than, the article writers.

I'm getting some noise here:
I’ve seen several videos from silver guys on YouTube and they are reporting the same thing……lots of sellers, hardly no buyers.

Dave Morgan nailed it in an interview he did a couple months ago, many are sick and tired of silver’s dismal performance and we’re poised, just waiting for the upper 30s to sell.

I’m holding onto mine but can fully understand anyone who sells.
No, Dave Morgan nailed nothing. Holding real money is not an investment. It's just keeping one's wealth. "Performance"? I don't need precious metals to perform. They should just stay put. Just waiting to sell? For what? Is it time to pick up more of those green pieces of paper or bits on a server. Are they now something valuable all of a sudden?
I agree, but what happens if the local coin dealer goes out of business, where does one sell?

I would never consider boxing up my silver and mailing it to an online dealer...no way.
No, bad idea indeed. This next guy sounds on the ball though:
"You should be buying silver, gold, and platinum. Actual physical bars or coins of it. Not stocks or options. If you don't hold it you don't own it."
I'm not sure about platinum, just because in SHTF or post-SHTF times it may not be easily recognizable. Anyway, that was a generally good comment, but among all these, if we really understand real money, we ought to phrase things differently.

You're not BUYING anything when you accumulate precious metals. You're giving away some green pieces of paper or bits on a server to get some MONEY. That's a good deal. That sucker on the other is getting that junk in return. Neither are those folks backing up the truck to unload at the coin store SELLING. They are buying a bunch of green pieces of paper and computer bits with their money. That's not a good deal. It's not if you get the point of real money in these times, to hold onto one's wealth.

I like the funny stuff. The discussion got into inflation, as did the article:
Went to Costco yesterday & the Kirkland big brown coffee tin was $20. Pre pandemic $12. During the COVID peak it rose to $17 than down to $14 where it’s been hovering ever since. Does anyone know WTF is going on?
Juan Valdez got a Yuge raise and he needed a new donkey.
LOL!

From a Columbian coffee bean picker on a burro, we segue to a part-Mexican, but all Gringo, lady named Linda Rondstadt. She was one of the best of the 1970s musicians during a great decade for music and has belted out some other great songs here on Peak Stupidity. (We also reviewed part of a movie about her.) Speaking of silver here.... they say they don't need it, but if you've got none when the SHTF, you'll hear about it ... I will say, like Linda, that I also would not care for the TVs in every room (this was in the day of heavy expensive cathode ray tubes.)



I believe that's Glenn Frey introducing Linda Ronstadt, who was instrumental in the formation of The Eagles. She brought Don Henley into her band and then Glenn Frey. Then her boyfriend J.D. Souther (you'll see his name in the songwriting credits often) suggested Randy Meisner for bass guitar, and Linda suggested Bernie Leadon. (The latter played guitar her, but he played the banjo many of the band's country rock songs.)

If you get back to the 1970s in a time machine, bring back a ton of a silver for me and a ton of vinyl... record albums that is, black gold... hell, just bring back Linda.


PS: Linda Ronstadt did not usually write the pop songs she sang. This one was written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes a couple of decades earlier. It was first recorded by one Wanda Jackson, but later those British Springfields (as in Dusty) had a top 20 hit with it in 1962.

OK, now I'm LOLin at myself. The lyrics say "with a tear in every room". For all those years, without no internet and with my Lyricosis flaring up on occasion, I'd thought it was TV. I'm NOT taking it back!


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Thom Tillis rage-quits the Senate - Good Riddance!


Posted On: Tuesday - July 1st 2025 8:27PM MST
In Topics: 
  Trump  US Feral Government



I like the title of this ZeroHedge article. "Rage-quits", haha! I do wish, however, that this guy was really quitting, as in today. No, Thom Tillis will complete his Senate term, which extends through January of '27 and not run again.*

Trump is not so happy with anyone in the GOP, even MAGA types, who don't agree with his Big Bulbous Bill. That includes some who are very principled and are otherwise on his side, like Tom Massie and MTG. There should be a time and place for changes in this bill, though we can't imagine that anyone could turn it into something actually fiscally responsible. Trump is Trump though. He has threatened to help primary out this North Carolina Senator next time.

From a long Trump Tweet. He does "the weave" even in his tweets. (I cut that off.) Look at the ego on this guy - he saved the North Carolinians! Get outta here.



I'm pretty much with Andy Jackson on this stuff. North Carolinians are the concern of North Carolina and the NC Governor.


Senator Tillis said:
"In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species," Tillis said in a statement, adding "It underscores the greatest form of hypocrisy in American politics. When people see independent thinking on the other side, they cheer. But when those very same people see independent thinking coming from their side, they scorn, ostracize, and even censure."
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
"As many of my colleagues have noticed over the last year, and at times even joked about, I haven’t exactly been excited about running for another term. That is true since the choice is between spending another six years navigating the political theatre and partisan gridlock in Washington or spending that time with the love of my life Susan, our two children, three beautiful grandchildren, and the rest of our extended family back home. It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election."
Yeah, he's gonna walk before they make him run.

One of the traits Peak Stupidity doesn't like about Trump is his hissy fits. Is he actually the First Woman President? OK, maybe it's the Reality Show President. However, we've long said that the tactic of threatening to (and following through with(!), a real problem for Trump) campaigning against those who block his policies should be part of a big strategy. Rather than part of such a strategy, often this action is part of a hissy fit. With Thom Tillis as the target this time, it has been a valid hissy fit.

I know a guy very well who helps with Presidential, State, and local campaigns in North Carolina. He does this independently, and in '20, he worked against Thom Tillis in the Senate primary. Thom Tillis, he told me, is a traitor on immigration. This is issue 1 for both of us, so that's enough. If he says Thom Tillis sucks, then Thom Tillis sucks.

Then, as I read through ZH commenters under this article, I came across, as is likely, someone who has local knowledge and is not just ranting.** Commenter Tyberius wrote:
North Carolinian here.

Tillis is a rotten, uniparty, two faced, cowardly, duplicitous, self serving, kleptocrat.

We collectively say, good riddance!
Peak Stupidity concurs. By a stroke of luck, President Trump did the right thing this time.



* Is it possible that Trump & Co. are really playing some 5-D chess, such that they would rather have him stay until that date than risk a bad appointment or special election? It's not really up to them when the guy leaves, unless they know just how much to tweet the rage in this guy. Turn it up!

** Not just ranting, that is. It's ranting, but ranting based on local knowledge.


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Being all you can be, I suppose...


Posted On: Monday - June 30th 2025 6:15PM MST
In Topics: 
  General Stupidity  Movies  Americans  US Feral Government  Race/Genetics



That's one of the many funny lines* in the 1981 movie Stripes. Man, some of those Saturday Night Live comedians and others were pretty young 44 years ago. John Candy, maybe the 2nd, after John Belushi, in a sequence of hilarious fat guys from that show (Chris Farley being the next(?)), died young as fat guys unfortunately tend to. The others are old guys now.

But this post ain't a movie review, except to say "It's kind of dated. The Cold War was still ongoing."... oh, and to add "and look how skinny the people were back then." John Candy, in his role of the fat-guy misfit among the other misfits, was an exception. He had a time getting through the physical training, but he had the spirit, as seen above. It was a farce.

I miss those guys!



This farce has become reality for the present-day US Army. This is not news to me, but I will relate an anecdote:

As we were ready to depart about 20 minutes late on an airline flight out of the hub, things dragged on more. I was in my seat when the Captain came on the P/A: "We have soldiers coming from various flights, and, this being the last flight** of the night to our destination, we will wait for them. I was in the Navy. My First Officer was in the Navy. We're gonna hold the flight." He was so very proud.

I can tell you that it's not usually up to the Captain to do this, but he wouldn't get in trouble doing this a handful of times either. This airplane was not doing a turn-around upon arrival, in which case this longer delay could jeopardize connections on the way back, ruining many passengers' days . The plane was staying the night, so barring tight rest-times (not the case), in a way, it didn't matter much besides that the plane was still taking up the space at the gate. (This DOES matter, many times.)

These soldiers started trickling into the plane and down the aisle. I saw one White guy out of about 30 of them. The rest were black/brown/Oriental. That's not the biggest, ahem, thing I noticed though. These people were BIG. Not one in 4, by my estimate, weighed what one would expect in, say the time of Stripes. I'd say of the others, they averaged 30 to 40 lb. overweight. These were no lean, mean, fighting machines!



I guess this IS being all you can be in today's US Army. There aren't Soviets anymore, as in Stripes, but if our NeoCons, including that Orange NeoCon, somehow get us in a real face-off with the Ruskies, I think those Ruskies will be amused, as these "soldiers" make John Candy look like, yes, a lean, mean, fighting machine.

I really would have liked to see that Captain's face, if he'd been saying goodbye to his "fellow servicemen and women" as they disembarked that night. How proud would he be next time?



* Peak Stupidity used one of the funniest scenes - from the start of the movie and not part of the join-the-army story - at the bottom of our old post Citizenship in the Nation - with Harold Ramos, the guy with John Candy here.

** It wasn't though. There was one more late flight. I told the First Officer that upon arrival, as he was on the jet bridge. Next time, don't assume, or you will make an ass ... different movie, sorry.


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New York going full Commie


Posted On: Saturday - June 28th 2025 7:23PM MST
In Topics: 
  Commies  Lefty MegaStupidity  Music  Socialism/Communism  President DeSantis



New York City's been full of Socialist money-grabbers, their brains in tatters, for half a century. That's nothing new. What's new again this century, with history rhyming from a century ago, is that it's full of foreigners again, this time even stranger, and to the tune of 40% of the population of the city being foreign born.

You got rats on the West side, bedbugs uptown...

This week though, we can see that this is only part of NYC's problems. Wit the D-primary election of the pro-BLT-G++ gay-looking* Moslem "newcomer" Zohran Mamdani, NYC has gone full Commie.

You NEVER go full Commie!



Oh, sure, he says he's a Socialist, but that's nothing but a gateway ideology. You start with a little taxpayer-funded coke, some barbiturates, qualuudes ("a bottle of reds, a bottle of whites, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight... oh, oh, oh, oh, oh..." and next thing you know you're lying face down in an alley, having had the crap beaten out of you by a rival faction...oh, and plus the heroin.

Free shit of all sorts, artificial rent control, MOAR programs, it's the usual. The foreign Moslem** influence is a twist. First of all, the Commies only want the genderbending, gaiety, feminism, etc. for the causes of destruction - later these people will end up in the same ditches as everyone else. Then too, Islam and all the left stuff don't play well together. Islam and Communism don't either, as Communism cannot abide a competing religion. I'll be a scene, man, a regular circular firing squad, as termed by Steve Sailer, though much less virtual than those he describes.

Maybe Rock, Scissors, Paper better describes it, with real rocks, scissors, and I never did getthe paper beating scissors aspect. (Paper wraps scissors, but so what?)

Apparenlty, Communism is cool again - what'd I tell ya', 7 1/2 years ago? NYC is a far cry from the Seinfeld days of only 3 decades ago, when even Jewish New Yorkers made fun of Communism and Communists. These New Yorkers today, apparently the White lefties, per polling, have forgotten all about this evil and don't even hide their stupidity on the subject anymore.

This POS Mamdani too, he's not hiding anything. He admits he wants Globalist Intifada, so that'd be Globalism mixed with Communist agitation with a bit of Islamic stupidity mixed in. What could possibly go wrong? New York's been shatterred, splattered, smothered, and covered, already by years of Totalitarian rule (thinking Bloomberg here) but more damage from the corrupt ctrl-left DeBlassio. More importantly, the Population Replacement Programme has long used NYC as a launch site for their weapons of huddled mass destruction.

Now, the local political scene has some strange bedfellows crawling under the sheets, as typically incompetent and corrupt Black! Mayor Adams has become the guy to support due to the way the votes are spread out among the candidates left (well, they're all left) in the race. It's amusing to me to see this current Cuomo (how many of these guys are there in New York?) having been ousted by someone further to his left. Then, also amusingly, per GateWay Pundit, Jewish Organizations Urge Mass Evacuation from NYC After Radical Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Democrat Mayoral Primary. Haha! Evacuate! I guess voting Republican is unthinkable and much more difficult than packing all one's stuff and moving to Palm Beach.



We're still big fans of once-and-future possible President Ron DeStantis here at Peak Stupidity. (We've got a post to come about him.)

Well, NYC has one-Party rule like a lot of Communist errr, you know, places, like California. Then, though, it was years of the fairly large Jewish contingent of NYC voting D that helped eliminate that serious GOP option. So, the political maneuvering at this stage reminds me of the Parliamentarian deals in Europe in which they all work to marginalize one party. I'm not in favor of it here or there. It'll be fun for those of us who generally stay away from NYC to see how this latest try at Communism will play out. Who knows? Communism just might work this time! A century of experiments involving 2 huge countries and about a dozen smaller ones, with the 1st World as a control group is just not a big enough sample size.

As far as bugging out goes, it's not just Jewish residents, but big Finance people of all stripes - I know there's quite a bit of overlap - who will not thrive in their Big Finance world under a Communist Loon. They deserve all this too. Big Biz hasn't been Conservative politically in a long time. Beware, Florida, LOCKDOWNers incoming! Sorry, though, Dixie and Suwanee Counties are full! You'd hate the mosquitoes, and there are no beaches, you can't get good bagels, and the government schools don't have polo. You don't want to move there, believe me.

Peak Stupidity has already featured Billy Joel's*** Miami 2017. We've very lucky that the old TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test has recordings of these great rock and pop start from their primes. They have this very good version of this song live. Video beats just audio with one picture, normally, but, I really, really like the wild New York (non-Communist, I should add) audience participation in the version recorded in 1980 at Madison Square Garden - normally Nazi territory, IIRC - so, again, from Songs in the Attic:



Billy Joel wrote that in 1975, so the lyrics were to be about 42 years into the future, but now it's right at 50. He very well may be right... he may be crazy.... I think "right" - give it less than another decade. I can see picking up the Yankees, but I'm not sure why the Bronx ought to stay. Sinking A.O. out at C - not a bad idea at all. We'll likely see People dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic, some kind of fashion, shattered, shattered... you want to see shattered, my Yankee friends, see your city under Communism. Indeed you'd better move to Miami or your brain may well be battered, splattered all over Manhattan.... It's just what they do.

My new hashtag to spread around NYC:

#PogramsNotPrograms!


If we're unsuccessful on squashing Communism on this beachhead in NYC, my question is, who will build the wall this time? The Commies will want to wall people in as we work to keep them out, kind of a combination of Berlin and Cuba. Maybe there could be a cooperative effort, during a detente of sorts... or, for Manhattan, we could blow the bridges, as Billy Joel sang about.

We will have to require visas for entry into the US, if we even have diplomatic relations. An old guy in Kentucky 40 years ago asked my Dad if Kentucky even had diplomatic relations with New York. Ha!

Anyway, Peak Stupidity readers in the New York area, with what's left of the weekend, it may be prudent to stock up on popcorn by the 55 G drum, as pretty soon you may need ration cards.


* I mean, I saw a picture of him wearing a barista smock over his bare chest, looking like one of the Village people... I don't know which village, either the East Village or Greenwich Village... I don't spend a lot of time there.

** There is a law out there passed in the 1950s that says this new immigrant can be arrest for promoting Communism. That won't happen.

*** There's another Billy Joel lyrical reference in this post, along with all those from The Rolling Stone's Shattered.


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Juneteenth and the modern legacy of Black! slavery Enslavement


Posted On: Thursday - June 26th 2025 10:45AM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  US Feral Government  Race/Genetics  Holiday from Stupidity

I'm late by a week. I don't even know if Popeye's Cajun Fried Chicken has deals anymore or if the nearby Zippy Mart does either on malt liquor. (What exactly IS malt liquor anyway? It's just beer in larger cans, right?) I'm talking Juneteenth, which has slipped by under the radar here at Peak Stupidity.

We didn't celebrate anyway, but there was one remark made. The YMCA league canceled a practice session for the kids. I'd thought it was the usual pussy-world thing of "It's too hot! The children will die!!" No, it was due to Juneteenth, and I put a word in in a text back that this was a "garbage holiday". (I was in a hurry - coulda' thought of something better to say.) There was no reply, which is a good sign, but then it might have been one of those accounts for which replies go straight into the ether (not -net).

Someone else chimed in about this High Black! Holy-Day. She's our favorite illegal immigrant* CongressRagHead outta Minneagadishu.



Omar Ilhan, or Ilhan Omar - I can never keep this straight - not worth trying - has a whole lot of things that she hates about the U.S. of A. I'm surprised she hasn't gone back home, what with all the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, colonialist shit going on 'round here. It's just GOT TO BE better in the ole Somalia. I mean, geeeze, slavery , that is, Enslavement of people, just ended in this country only 160 years back... excluding the few, very minor episodes of it going on now in the enslavement-friendly immigrant communities... just cultural differences that we should celebrate, well, not on this particular holiday - see The Horrible Legacy of Slavery Continues ....

Anyway, shit was bad, see, so Rep Omar (D-SO) wrote a nice tweet.



She deleted it after a while. It turns out that in Rep Ilhan's old country, enslavement is still going on. Worse, yet, it's enslavement of Black! people. I'm pretty sure, otherwise I would sure hope some Black! helicopters, maybe camo, would be on the way. It's Black!folk Down over there in Somalia right now.

I am not surprised, as the Moslem world was the worst over the centuries when it came to forcing people into slavery. They took millions of black Africans, castrating the men, and then not as many, but still millions of White Europeans. The Crusaders didn't kick enough ass, IMHO. I don't think your average Afro-American Juneteenth celebratory BBQers, malt liquor drinkers and shots-ringing-out folks have any idea of the slavery ongoing TO THIS DAY in Somalia.

One wonders what Rep Omar's countrymen and country-pup-tenter enslavers need enslaved people for in this modern age of C-17 and C-5 (former) Military Airlift Command capabilities of delivering cargo-cult stuff on demand complaint. We've outsourced a lot to China, but I have heard that some of the not-so-mechanically-declined Somalians have been forced to work in outdoor sweatshops producing BMW and Maserati brake calipers and enslaved cylinders.

Here's the situation on the ground hot sand today:



Ilhan Omar really ought to STFU and GTFO. There's work to be done over there. She ought to bring her brosband too, as, after all, the goats aren't going to fuck themselves.


PS: Maybe that last sentence was uncalled for, but I read that from a ZH commenter and just HAD to use it. Thank you, whomever!



* Based on fraudulent application for citizenship. To be fair though, who knew you couldn't marry your brother?


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Bomb, bomb Iran: Trump, MAGA, and the ctrl-left.


Posted On: Wednesday - June 25th 2025 8:01PM MST
In Topics: 
  Trump  The Neocons  alt-right/MAGA  ctrl-left



We really don't think it's going to come to this, BECAUSE of MAGA, but that graphic is pretty good nonetheless.

My hopes that Trump's bombing of Iran's nuke facilities is a one-off have been boosted by seeing the story of his non-stately "statement" that "They [Iranians and Israelis] don't know what the fuck they're doing!" Firstly, to address that, the ego of that guy is really amazing. Nobody else, over 45 years since the Shah, has made "such a deal" with the Moslem Mullahs and Israel, but Trump is just such a deal-maker. (I mean, he wrote a book!) But, they've ruined it! I say to President Trump regarding (in particular) this matter that "You don't know what the fuck you're doing!"

Perhaps guys like Ron/Rand Paul, the Paleo crowd, the bum Thomas Massie, and so on, DO know what they're doing when they say we ought to stay the hell out of all this. It'd be great if this was the only learning experience of this type needed by Donald Trump. I doubt it.

I've said before that Trump is the 1st woman President. He tends to have hissy fits and get excessively vindictive. His words against the principled stalwart Kentucky Congressman Massie are an example. He's on your side, man.* He's just against non-defensive wars, which are most definitely not "America First!"

Let me bring up some fallacies now that have been brought up to show how this bombing is bringing down MAGA, or something.

1) Just that, this is the END, my friend, of MAGA. Indeed, many of us MAGA people are pissed. More wars for Israel, as sold to us as saving the world, are not making America great. They are making us broke that much faster. If there is any goodwill left after 35 years of blowing the huge amount America had accumulated during the Cold War, this will see it's blown too.

However, if you ask Peak Stupidity, the stopping and REVERSING of the PRP (in its form, the immigration invasion, both legal and illegal) is Job 1 for MAGA and in MAGA as a phrase. Lots of us don't like this act, though polls say not so many don't, but we care more about what he's been accomplishing on Job 1.

If this becomes Afghanistan II or Iraq III, I imagine MAGA will need to find someone who doesn't TACO to The NeoCons. It doesn't look like it will.

I know people who are as Conservative as can be who just can't get that Buchanan phrase "A Republic, not an Empire". (One in question likes Pat Buchanan's pro-White stance, but just can't ...) We must control the high seas, or the CCP will... all that... However, as much as I want it ended, "Invade the World" does not HAVE TO go along with "Invite the World". The Cause & Effect regarding the 2 parts of this nice Steve Sailerism have been discussed on this blog before.***

2) Some evil people of the ctrl-left (I can't remember, but types like that Jasper P.O.S. from Texas or Commies from New York) AGREE with you MAGA people against the bombing. That there comes straight under reducto ad Hitlerum, as in "You won't eat your butterbeans, and you like steak. Hitler was a vegetarian, so you're a Nazi" (I don't know if that would have worked with my Mom, so we made every effort to flush them down the toilet instead. I hate 'em to this day!)

Even if it weren't just the fact that these ctrl-left people I agree with that agree with me do so because they are anti-Trump - they'd have been fine with all of this had it gone on a year back - that we happened to be aligned on an issue does not mean that MAGA has split, with a big splinter group that will vote for A.O.C. This logic is unsound, to put it generously. Splitters!

3) Trump, as we've already written, is prone to disparaging people on his side if they don't play ball on everything. Sometimes that can be a good thing in a leader.

However, Trump has not been doing everything right. His downright stupid statements and even policy dictates that backtrack on Job 1 are a big example. I hope his underlings ignore his stupidity in this matter and plug along, as if their hearing aids had failed. "Something about farmers and hotels??? I dunno. His lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out."

So, how about MAGA being allowed a little leeway to disagree with the Big Man? After all, millions of people spent millions of dollars and hours to help him get where he is, for not his sake, but OUR sakes. I think we'll be OK if Thomas Massie can criticize the Big Bulbous Bill, for all our good. It's being torn into pieces, as we speak, anyway so criticism of the right things would be helpful right now. We'll be OK if the few principled MAGA politicians speak out against the possible starting of yet another forever war.

Is Trump too old to take any advice? Does he already know it all? Trump-45 proved that widely off the mark. Trump-47 is much better, but he still could learn something from, say, Marjorie Taylor Green:



(This one's a file photo from when she was pushing to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.)


I'll get back to MTG. Matt Gaetz, a guy I wish were the Attorney General right now, had some text "conversation" with his own mother spied upon on an airplane flight and revealed on Tic-Tok. (What a world!) I feel icky - OK, it's not right - reading it, but not being able to stop reading, I noted that Mr. Gaetz explained well to his Trump-worshipping Mom that Trump might need some guidance. Yes, Trump could use a lot of guidance, guidance up the wazoo, in fact.

I'll end this with MTG's statement, which shows that MAGA is not ditching Trump and splitting up, but there is simply a disagreement here, between principled people... and un-principled people who think deal-making is the be-all-to-end-all.



(I hope you all can read that. It should blow up with some decent amount of resolution.)


"Enough is Enough" - yes, I hope. MTG's bit about bombing drug cartels is ... a real stretch... but I agree with the gist of her statement. Note that she's not abandoning MAGA or Trump, or going out to vote for A.O.C. in 3 years.


PS: I added on "MAGA" to the alt-right topic key. Adding new topic keys at this point will result in lots of tedious work that won't ever get done.


* That's the same as it was with Jeff Sessions** 8 years ago.

** Thankfully, ex-sportsball coach Tommy Tuberville turned out to be great on the immigration invasion too. That was just dumb luck though.

*** Ahaaa, there's that very John McCain caricature image from National Review that Commenter Hail mentioned under the last post.


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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran: Recent history


Posted On: Tuesday - June 24th 2025 6:34PM MST
In Topics: 
  History  Trump  The Neocons



I will admit that I got sucked into the NeoCon narrative of Trump's attack on Iran to some degree. Being generous here, I think it's possible President Trump did too. No, it's not another war, they want us to understand. It's just this one time, or, well, if the nukes are still there, a few more. We've got to save the world from rogue nations with nukes, no matter what it takes. These guys might just start Armageddon. That's the way I've been hearing it and reading it from people who are otherwise MAGA/America First types.

That all seems familiar to me. Oh yes, if we have any kind of memory and go back 22 years, we can recall months to years of talk about Iraq and THEIR dubya emm dee (WMD), those Weapons of Mass Destruction. I never did get the story on what exactly they were and how they were a threat to America. Being quite a bit younger then, I mistakenly assumed that Bush and his guys knew a lot more than I did about it. Additionally, how this was at all connected to 9/11 was a mystery I've never seen solved.

No, but we're just taking out the nukes this time with no big war planned. (That's a good idea, if it were really the plan, because Iran is a country of 90 million people, not all who are 3rd-World incompetents and the US military, well, that's a post to come shortly.) It's DIFFERENT this time. It doesn't feel different at all though. "Boots on the ground" or not, has Trump started another wasteful, destructive forever war? Another parallel is that people against this warmongering are being mocked. Another one is that there are already "alerts" out about new terrorism, likely with new "security" programs being planned to take away what's left of our freedoms. I don't like ANY of this, and no, it's not what I voted for

The BIG parallel though, being talked about more than it was 22 years ago, is that America has waged unprovoked war on behalf of Israel. This is not America First. What threat is Iran to America? Oh, right, they've been chanting "Death to America" on the streets for 45 years... so let me go back 2 more decades.

I'm going back to 1979 now. After the Shah of Iran had been deposed by the notorious Ayatollah (assholla) Khomeney*, 52 Americans were taken hostage and held at the (former by that time) US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days starting in November 1979. It might be beyond the memories of most Americans, but it was A BIG DEAL for those 444 days.

American tempers flared and anger was at a high level. It didn't help that most Americans, I along with them as a young kid, had not followed the history of the situation with the old Shah. (He had come to America to get treated for his cancer at some point before the Moslem fundamentalist coup.) We were pissed, and maybe we didn't want to know what brought this all on. The title of this post comes from the use of a then-not-so-old (14 y/o then vs. 60 now) Beach Boys'** song called Barbara Ann to rally anger against the country that had been holding 52 Americans. (I don't want to embed this happy and very catchy song here in this post.)

There was the Jimmy Carter-led military's failed rescue attempt in April of '80 that made America look even weaker. Most of another year went by, and this long-running event was very possibly the biggest factor in Ronald Reagan's election win at the end of the year (with perhaps, some many say, some subterfuge involved).

Well, do you hold a grudge with people who are old and/or dead by now for those events of 1979-80 and that some people chant in the streets? Now there's another parallel with the warmongering in Iraq 22 years ago (and one could go back another 13 years from there too). The Bushes were at odds with Saddam Hussein. Not our problem. That was no reason to start a war that was in no way for the defense of America.

I don't know, perhaps Iran would/should (in some ways) think of 2025 America as "The Great Satan" due to our massive corrosive cultural influence anyway, but without our backing Israel so completely, I doubt we'd be so much their enemy. Israel has much more to worry about, as Big Islam does want them dead. Sorry, but still, starting wars and enacting "regime change" on behalf of Israel is simply not America First.*** That regime change thing goes back to the Shah and the 1950s, as this whole thing comes around full circle. (The rhyming of history for these particular political events is not quite on a century cycle.)

I'm not falling for that America-saving-the-world-from-destruction excuse this time, being older and wiser.

As is often the case, there is too much to write about on this subject for one post. The next one will be about Trump's bombing's effect on American politics.



* I realize it's not spelled this way, but since spell-check won't help me, I'll play along with Steve Sailer's deal on Moo-i-mar Cadaffey, and figure it has thousand of spellings. (I'm just covering for laziness here, honestly.)

As an aside, I was young then, but I have a hazy memory of seeing some interview on the B&W TV of that very Ayatollah, as he was living in France, before this crisis and before any regular American had heard of him. I thought later that I should have paid attention more to what some raghead had to say.

** They didn't write it. It had been written by one Fred Fassert and recorded by The Regents in '61.

*** Commenter "The Alarmist", AWOL for a while here but busy with his own blog, noted in the comments that perhaps this is part of some brilliant deal among Israel, AIPAC, and Trump - this deserves its own post.


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The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World


Posted On: Friday - June 20th 2025 12:49PM MST
In Topics: 
  Humor  Treehuggers  Environmental Stupidity

This one's for you, Greta.



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The Ire of the Irish


Posted On: Thursday - June 19th 2025 6:52PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  People's Revolt

Really, Ulstermen, I suppose.



I don't have any of it in me genetically, but somehow I've got some of that Irish quick-temperedness and love or raising hell deep within me. I REALLY got into the hour and a half video (since restricted by age) of British rioters against Population Replacement in Rotherham, Yorkshire, last August*. From our post Rotherham Riot Movie: Rising of the Yorkshiremen:
For me, watching the video below was the equivalent of going to an action film in the 1980s. We don't go out now, the screen is about 0.01% the size, but the action is here and I inside I strongly feel myself being part of the action. One difference here is that this one is real and happening very nearly NOW. I would rate "Yorkshire!, Yorkshire!" as my favorite film of the century so far.

I wrote that I was heartened to see the rioting in Southport and London. Here I was 10 times heartened.

[SNIP]

This hour and a half of action was, again, the best thing I've seen in a long time! I was right there with these blokes. When they yelled at the cops asking whose freaking side are they on, I wanted to be yelling, when they threw rocks, I wanted to be throwing rocks, when they started throwing furniture at them, I wanted to be throwing the furniture.
There might be something wrong with me, I dunno... You just get the feeling that raising hell is the only way to change things. That is the conclusion the Irish seem to have come to, after the tremendous change of their nation over only 3 decades from a Conservative Catholic low-tier-1st-World but IRISH country to a DIEverse Globalist playground. In this case it is Northern Ireland, a separate country, but with the same hot-tempered folks I guess. It was not Nigerians or Somalians but Gypsies, aka, "Roma" this time who did violence against their unwitting hosts.

What are ya' gonna do, bring a petition to Belfast and present it to whatever diverse character is supposed to be leading the Northern Irish right now?** No nation in the West is having any luck with that type of effort. (Perhaps the Danish are an exception - I still have my LEGO post to come.)

The picture above is a screen-shot from a video with some guy in a protest being interviewed by a woman as they walk. She's asking the same old questions about "what happened to cause this anger". What happened was yet another couple of young girls raped by foreign "migrants", and, well, people had had enough. Tempers flared, to put it mildly. I doubt they would have come to what ensued, had there still been a non-Anarcho-Tyrannical state apparatus for redressing grievances.



This violence got more personal than that we discussed from England last summer. Rather than the smashing of windows, throwing of things, and setting of small fires (with minor violence against the Bobbies trying to shut them down, with nobody staying at the Holiday Inn Express hurt (though maybe a little wiser in the morning), this time individual houses of immigrants were set alight. ZeroHedge has the story a week ago: Sex Crimes Spark Three Nights Of Anti-Immigration Riots In N. Ireland
In the wake of yet another alleged sex crime perpetrated by non-natives, a city in Northern Ireland has been rocked by three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots. In this case, two 14-year-olds arrested on Sunday stand accused of attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on the previous night. The ensuing wave of arson, vandalism and anti-police violence -- which has left more than 32 officers injured -- has spread from Ballymena to other towns, prompting authorities to deploy reinforcements from the area and to request 80 officers be dispatched from across the Irish Sea. [Bolding in original.]
This is not the first time:
"She was taken into a house and brutally sexually assaulted on Saturday evening," a woman identified as a relative of the latest alleged victim told a social-media interviewer. "There was a mattress in the garage." According to their conversation, this was the third incident in a fortnight, with at least one of the other incidents also involving a teenage girl.
What started out as a literally (gotta insert that nowadays) peaceful protest changed to a riot. I know the feeling. Something inside you says "OK, that's enough!" This feeling is extremely contagioius.
Following this latest sexual attack, what started as a peaceful Sunday vigil in protest of the sex crime and support of the victim rapidly turned violent, as angry residents broke away from the main event and set out for an immigrant-heavy part of the town of 31,000 residents, where they set homes ablaze, built barricades and hurled blocks and other objects at police. A pregnant woman had to be evacuated when her house was set ablaze. Authorities have condemned what they call "hate-fueled acts and mob rule."
Authorities should have remembered an important thought of President John F. Kennedy's***:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.


In a calmer moment, I don't think your average Irishman wants to burn a pregnant woman out of her house or anyone else either. OTOH, an astute commenter - there are quite a few on ZH, if you look carefully - noted that there were threats of arson against people who might take government money to house these foreigners. A very popular comment by one RedNemesis reads:
Now go burn down the houses of the government officials who imported these animals.
That's some calm cool-headed thinking. That's the problem though - this violence comes out of hot-temperedness, so the officials won't feel it, unless one lives in the wrong neighborhood... one with all those foreigners and violent N. Irish blokes..



Another thing discussed (this was originally from the NY Times, I just realized) was that people in some of these infested N. Irish towns are putting labels like the above on their houses to proclaim their lack of Gypsicanity or Moslemness.
“No one, now or ever, should feel the need to place a sticker on their door to identify their ethnicity just to avoid being targeted,” lamented Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill in a Wednesday statement.
I shouldn't have to either, but still, perhaps I should put a "Black! residence!" sticker over my front door to avoid my being targeted by government officials with anti-White D.I.E. policies, heavy income tax burdens, emergency room bills for illegal aliens, etc ... The sticker companies are hurting, what with the end of the Kung Flu PanicFest and the millions of floor stickers. Why not a sticker that says "Not a Government Official" or "Not a Globalist Nation-Destroyer"? They oughta sell by the millions.

If not the people of other nations learning something from these Ulstermen, maybe even the Globalist rulers could learn something... maybe mull over that JFK warning for a while...



* More:
The Riots in Britain: Lyin' Press version
England Burning: Enough is Enough!

We wrote those 2 before the one excerpted above. Then, we really got into details of the rioting in the next week or two:

Rotherham Riots: Two-Tier Policing
Rotherham Riots - The Cops
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White Riot - UK reporter Wesley Winter cucks out, with, of course and appropriately, The Clash.

I had images saved for a couple more even. Peaks Stupidity is assuredly your go-to site for riotanalysis.


** Yeah, let me get this straight. They are a part of The United Kingdom, while (southern) Ireland is not. They are not a part of Great Britain, which encompasses only the one island to the east of them. I really never knew nor cared before. They're all a bunch of limeys, no? No. OK, they all talk funny, but they talk funny differently.

*** We are hoping that if Peak Stupidity posts it enough times, the quote-check sites will be obligated to explain that Peak Stupidity is not the originator of this one.


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A Complete Unknown


Posted On: Tuesday - June 17th 2025 6:35PM MST
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It's been a while since Peak Stupidity has posted a movie review. A Complete Unknown is the name of this movie about Bob Dylan, which was released last year. If you know anything about the musician, the music, or the times, then you'll of course be familiar with the song that the title refers to.

I saw the movie recently, but I hadn't seen the preview (now called a "trailer" - lets just call it a preview):




Since I just now watched that, let me just say that the preview sure has the story jumbled around as far as the timeline. The movie stayed on a linear timeline, which is generally a good thing.

As long-term Peak Stupidity readers would have read time and again here, I will not have my time wasted by movies with agendas (ones I don't like, that is). This was movie number 3, and I already barely remember the other 2 I'd started off watching, for ~ 25 min. on one and only 5 or so on the other. The review would not be here if I hadn't made it through this movie, so let me say that there doesn't seem to be much of a woke agenda in A Complete Unknown.

Obviously a historical movie about the mid-1960s is going to show things I don't like - a quick scene of some Black! (Martin Luther Kang's crowd, I think?) guys in suits that get Bob Dylan writing a song, and then, well, the whole scene, man! However, this movie was pretty clean, as far as Wokeness goes, and we're talking 2024 here! Shocking!

The actors in movies don't matter a lot to me. If I can believe they are those people, then that's good enough. The guy playing Bob Dylan sure had me thinking he was, as did the pretty woman playing Joan Baez. Since there were obligatory* underwear scenes including the latter, I looked pretty closely, and I will say that they even reproduced my memory - from record album covers, I guess, that she's a little hippy. Ooops, I can see that might be confusing to the reader. Joan Baez was a normal-sized hippie, but in the movie, the actress is just a tad wide at the hips. Do they actually cast people to have the same figures? The guy playing Bob Dylan was skinny, as I'd expect of Bob Dylan. Oh, Johnny Cash, played by some guy, has a decent part in the movie. I had no idea that he'd been a big influence on Bob Dylan.

This movie is no comprehensive biography of Dylan. The story starts as he arrives in NYC, and it ends only a couple of years later. It's about the huge folk music, turning to protest music, scene in those mid-'60s years, and Bob Dylan sure was in the right place at the right time. One might also say he played a big part in creating that scene.

I don't know how closely this movie adhered to the details of this portion of the life of Bob Dylan, originally Bob Zimmerman from Minnesota, but early in the movie, he meets Woody Guthrie, folk music legend, slowly dying in a hospital, as middle-aged Pete Seeger spends lots of time keeping him company. This is where the music starts. He played a song or two for Mr. Guthrie, and both Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger saw what a talented songwriter this young Bob Dylan was. If any viewer might have aspirations of being a music star, the movie might make him a little optimistic. It shows Dylan playing in a few bars and then rising to the top, chased down by adoring fans, in no time... seemed like 6 months flat. Must be nice. Did he write any songs complaining about all that within his repertoire. Yes, I think. Commenters might want to name a few.

About the music, finally, A Complete Unknown did a nice job with that. The appropriate great Bob Dylan songs can be heard during certain scenes, and there is plenty of re-enacted concert footage. Not all songs were played through in the concert scenes, which is to be expected, but more importantly, they weren't played through as other scenes, as in a musical. That's what I couldn't stand in Rocketman, what could have been a much better movie about Elton John. I don't like musicals, and this wasn't one.

We've all heard lots of Bob Dylan songs here and there. I can't say I've ever owned an album, as I was never that much of a fan at all. I've enjoyed the songs he's written as sung by other artists, such as The Byrds. There's the well-known Puff the Magic Dragon "by" Peter, Paul, and Mary, one that I can honestly say I've never heard the songwriter's version of.

Because it's about folk music and shows what a big influence Bob Dylan had, this movie has me appreciating him more. (I also hadn't known how big his repertoire was.I've heard about all the songs the movie had playing - he wrote a LOT of great songs.) This isn't spoiling the movie, as it's all known by older music fans, but a big part of the latter half of the movie involves Dylan's interest in other musical styles. I thought his going electric was MUCH later, maybe the 1970s sometime, but it was during the end of those few (couple?) of years of the protest-folk music heyday. This is per the movie timeline, and at that '65 Newport Folk Festival, again per the movie, the fans were pretty pissed off at Dylan's having left them without their protest-folk hero. Perhaps these scenes were in the movie to get just a little bit of action in. (There was one minor fist fight otherwise - this is not quite in the Action Movie genre.)

A song featured at the beginning was So Long (It's been good to know ya') by Woody Guthrie**. The song is ancient sounding that it seems like from a century ago. Well, no, it's only been 90 years.***

So Long is played again in the ending scene, as Bob Dylan leaves the disappointed fans and his most loyal and pretty girlfriend and rides his motorcycle back to New York. Woody Guthrie had died too. The was a poignant and appropriate ending for this story of the American folk and protest music heyday.

Peak Stupidity is somewhat SHOCKED, SHOCKED, to have liked a movie from not only this century and this decade, but last year! If you don't like the music at all it would suck, I imagine.

Well, we've got to embed ONE Dylan song, at least! Though he sang songs I favor more, this is the one the title comes from.





PS: You (might) know how, before the internet, you'd have to be lucky to be able to get complete song lyrics, as only sometimes they might have come printed on the album cover or liner notes****? Well, folk music is one genre in which the lyrics do matter a good bit. Bob Dylan's words are not hard to understand. Somehow, I missed this one line in The Times, They Are a-Changin' maybe THE biggest protest song from this era, at least as far as the acoustic folk songs:
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land,
and don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Your old road is rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand,
For the times, they are a-changin'.
The mothers and fathers were probably right most of the time. The times, though, they WERE a-changin', not least due to subversion instigated by lyric writers and some Communists behind the scenes. (Not shown in the movie.) Wait, is Peak Stupidity calling Bob Dylan a Communist? No, real Communists tend to have crappier music, written by people in dull, olive-drabbed clothing. OK, then don't ask me about John Lennon.



* Or maybe "obligatory" only applies to (a younger) Signorney Weaver in Aliens movies.

** I saw his son Arlo play in concert years ago.

*** Woody Guthrie wrote this one about the Dust Bowl years, in 1935. It was released again in 1951 with some different lyrics, and was covered by The Weavers.

**** Thanks, SafeNow, for the correction on that.


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