Trump v DeSantis: Round 8 - Birthright Citizenship
Posted On: Wednesday - May 31st 2023 12:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump President DeSantis
Only one punch as been thrown in this round in the Trump v DeSantis fight*, but this was a good one. Peak Stupidity has stated before that we'd like to see plenty of words, hell, punches too, fly between Trump and DeSantis, as long as they were about THE ISSUES. The "DeSanctimonous" and "Meatball Ron" stuff is both stupid and worthless.
I want to see a good fight. That means good discussion, loud arguments, nasty tweets, WHATEVER, so long as they bring out the problems that need to be out there in the open. Regarding the existential Immigration Invasion issue, the Anchor Baby loophole, aka "Birthright Citizenship" is a very big part of the problem. We have mentioned this scam before, but only briefly, such as in a post of right at 3 years back (during Trump's last year as Pres.) that so happened to be titled Give Trump a Break - ummm, NO, no more breaks. For the legal-eagle take by Ann Coulter, see FOX NEWS Anchored In Stupidity On 14th Amendment. We also have a kind of rant about it here.
This post comes by way of yesterday's James Fulford article on VDare, rump Promises To Abolish Birthright Citizenship, To Usual Shock, Horror (Your Move, DeSantis!). Off of Breitbart news (surprisingly, VDare's link to Breitbart is no good right now):
Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024, rolled out a new policy pledge on Tuesday in which he promised if elected he would sign an executive order on day one of his second term in office effectively ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and so-called “birth tourism.”First day in office! Yeah, sure, that'll happen. Last time, per Mr. Fulford:
Yes, I know Trump may not keep this promise. He promised it when he was in office, and then kept letting himself be talked out of it.This Anchor Baby loophole is a BIG part of the immigration invasion. It has both legal and illegal components, I mean, if you assume the deal is legal to begin with. Those who break into the country via the southern (and now quite often, northern) border and those who get in through ports-of-entry airports just have to stick around long enough to have a baby or two, even, if by a stroke of extremely bad luck, American ICE agents end up finding them. The child is, ipso facto, somehow an American citizen.
The rich Chinese woman getting sent to Seattle to pop out a bug-out baby*** is an example of the "legal" component. She just came to see the Space Needle, is all. Who knew she'd give birth that very week?
Well, I am glad to read about Trump's promise, whatever few Continental dollars it's worth. As a VDare tweet, not Trump himself, said, "Ron DeSantis, your move?" Yes, I want to hear exactly what Ron DeSantis thinks about this. Let's get the problem out in the open for all Americans to understand the details of. VDare and Peak Stupidity can't do it all, you know!
If Trump had gone through with an Executive Order 6 damn years ago, that would have stemmed multiple millions of these "birthrights". It's not that I believe in the concept of the President making law, but a deal for a temporary halt until, say, the fairly Conservative SCROTUS got on it would have been a great way to do it. Unfortunately, Trump is no good with, like, plans and shit...
If Ron DeSantis says nothing about this issue, then I've lost a lot of hope in him. If he agrees with the idea that Trump just put out there, then I will be thrilled, as he has a pretty good record of doing the things he's promised.
Donald Trump is a bullshitter. I do write that to distinguish him from a liar. That's important. For this example, I don't doubt that he would like to do what he stated in the 3-minute video as reported by Breitbart. He just may not get around to it, is all. He doesn't sweat that "getting around to it" stuff so awfully much ...
Elwood Blues explains the concept to his brother Jake, well, sort of:
"What was I gonna do, take away your only hope?" Fitting, huh?
* Previous posts: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 - - Part 5 - - Part 6, and Part 7.
** That column of hers is from August of '15. Miss Coulter's first paragraph:
Based on the hysterical flailing at Donald Trump—He's a buffoon! He's a clown! He calls people names! He's too conservative! He's not conservative enough! He won't give details! His details won't work!—I gather certain Republicans are determined to drive him from the race.My, times have changed! Miss Coulter would agree with that "hysterical flailing" and "buffoon" bit today.
*** I gotta admit, I'm LOLing at myself for just coining that one. See, when the Commies drop the hammer on some corrupt $1200/mo salaried Chinese public official who owns a couple of 1 1/4 million dollar houses on the American west coast, he may need to bug out. That includes the money and the family. You just need a sponsor - oh, maybe his son who went to the UW can do it. How convenient!
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Pew's Constant
Posted On: Tuesday - May 30th 2023 7:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Pundits
Peak Stupidity has already discussed the 25 year ridiculously stagnant value for the alleged number of illegal aliens in the US, that assumed but completely bogus 11 Million. (That was posted just 3 days over a year ago.)
Steve Sailer does this one right though:
"Pew" comes from the Pew Center. Steve's grammar isn't quite right here, but his snark is A+ top grade!
Should we assign a normal English letter to this constant or a Greek letter? Either way, it's really great to have a constant that's easier to memorize, rather than say, Avogadro's 6.02 x 1023 nucleons/gram. (Actually, it came right back to me.)
11,000,000 is a Rational Number even. Well, it's rational if you're a mathematician, and rational if you're a Lyin' Press reporter, but an imaginary number for those of us who keep up with Immigration Invasion.
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Big Business and small-scale corruption
Posted On: Tuesday - May 30th 2023 10:55AM MST
In Topics: Globalists Economics Americans Big-Biz Stupidity
There was a whole lot to be proud of about America and Americans going back a ways. One thing, representative of the types of people who founded and settled the country, was the great deal of social trust. The iSteve commenters and the like will often note that it is the northwestern European peoples - Scandinavians, the English, French, Germans, and one could expand this a bit - who are genetically prone to creating high-trust societies. I agree with them.
In other lands around the world* there is no such thing. This results in not only a lower quality of life (life, that is, not material possessions), but also economic transaction "friction". If one can't trust the word of another man, and business can't be conducted with handshakes, and with always someone trying to "get over" on somebody else, more time must be spent in verifying, suing, fighting, or whatever.
The Old America was a high-trust society. That was, and still is to a degree, on the small-scale. I don't claim that governments at all levels, Captains of industry, the MIC, etc. haven't been corrupt for a long time. Before the Feral Gov't became this overreaching Beast that it is and Big Biz became oppressingly Woke, most of us didn't have to deal with or care about the high-level stuff.
What if it's a matter of Big Biz vs the people? Should we work in a high-trust manner in and with the Big Biz world of today? It's not the 1950s through '80s, with IBM and GE workers being set up for guaranteed, stable, Middle-Class life. They don't care about taking care of their Human Resources. Worse yet, they actively hate their straight White men employees.
Short answer: NO. We should not work in a high-trust manner with Big Biz. Modern big corporations are down with the Globalist agenda. Whether an employee or a customer, it's something we should all be fighting back against. The example of the push for cashless payments is an example and a Peak Stupidity fixation. We have a number of posts built up on this topic with the Economics topic key. As specifically related to low-level corruption, I refer the reader to Keep Cash King! and Keep Cash King II - the Tower of London each with an example of my using cash through a corrupt deal with a cashier.
Interestingly, both instances of my paying cash to the cashier who simply pocketed it involved Black! cashiers. The White lady at the same location as in my 2nd example, wouldn't budge, as noted in this follow-up post. What does that tell us? This lady figured taking my cash was wrong, period, and wanted no part in any petty corruption.** Those high-trust genetics are still at work, and they may be the death of us! (More on this.)
This post came out of the downright hilarious story of corporate D.I.E. stupidity discussed by a guy I know who reads the New York Times, one Steve Sailer. Peak Stupidity discussed a different aspect of this story in our recent post This is no way to operate a country. I commented to the effect that, with this money-wasting stupidity going on at the top level at Uber (and probably more box-checking wokeness a driver must pretend to agree with to keep a contract with these idiots), I would be even less averse than before to corruptly cut out the middle-man. (That'd be Uber itself. I believe it's 25% that they take off the customer's agreed-upon fare, based on what my driver friend told me a few years back.)
Imagine you're barely scraping by, doing this Uber thing, running all over the place at night transporting decent people, but many drunkards, and some people you really don't know about. Uber Corporate feeds you the whole Wokeness line, with threats if you decide for yourself you don't like and won't take some of the worrisome passengers. Then, you hear about this waste of your money - that 25% cut - with that D.I.E. bullshit at the headquarters among those highly-paid people who hate the very guts of people like you.
What do you make of all that? Well, I don't know about you, but I'd start making and handing out business cards. No, you don't have to MAKE them, on the spot, like Jim Rockford in his Firebird. Maybe they shouldn't even be too official looking, for some of that tasty plausible deniability. ("No, Sir, that was just a note in case my customer lost his phone and needed to call me - people leave stuff in my car all the time ... you know ...")
This is a level above the muffin or taco "purchases", as your Uber customer already has no problem using his piece of iCrap and CC for payments and being tracked, and whatever-else-have-you. This isn't about that particular principle, though making a point about cash being King would be nice. No, relying on Uber to initially hook you up with passengers, making your own side deals is indeed small-scale corruption. Remember though, that they hate your guts.
My friend who drove for Uber until they yanked his contract (too many fenderbenders) would bid(?) for some trips that were 100 miles each way. He's a sociable guy and he could get to know the people on these long trips, and they may very well need to have done the trip again. Well, Uber even makes sure that the driver and passenger have the other's phone #'s , so just a remark or two about "next trip call me directly ahead of time, and I'll give you a better deal" may suffice. Or, yeah, hand out business cards. There's word of mouth too.
I have no respect for these Globalist, hateful, asinine, Big Biz Corporate Wokesters. At this point, I'd have no qualms about using their marketing "genius" to drum up enough business to enable me to cut out this middle-man and do business on my own. This is not 1950 or 1985. It's more than another 35 years after that, and this is another country. Once more, remember, that they HATE your guts!
* OTOH, I read that it's the same in Japan and perhaps S. Korea. I have not been or dealt the the people in these places enough to know if it is really of the same level and quality.
** It's not that there was a proper way to deal in cash - that was the basic problem. The Big Biz running both these places wants people out of cash. There was a drawer underneath the
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West German Mathias Rust's landing in Red Square
Posted On: Saturday - May 27th 2023 6:40PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity The Russians History
This happened 36 years ago tomorrow - we hardly ever post on Sundays, though.
Well, it's not a very round numbered anniversary, but we didn't think about it last year and who knows what we'll be blogging about 4 years from now?
Peak Stupidity has a thing for these wild men and their daring deeds in their flying machines or exits therefrom. We celebrated DB Cooper's jump out of the back of a Boeing 727 at night through the clouds in Washington State just north of Portland, Oregon 50 years later, to the minute! Then, we blogged about Larry Walters and his flight up to 16,000 ft. over the Los Angeles basin in a lawn chair held aloft by weather balloons, 40 years after the day.
It's time for another anniversary of the exploits of a another somewhat nutty young man. 18 y/o German Mathias Rust flew a rented Reims* P-model Cessna 172 and landed it in Red Square in the heart of downtown Moscow on the Thursday May 28th of 1987. Red Square, in a simlar fashion as Tienanmen Square (also a "red square" in a couple of ways) in the heart of Peking China, was near the Kremlin, Command Central of Mother Russia. Well, it was the USSR still, as the Cold War was still ongoing in 1987. (This is why I used the term "West German" in the post title. There was a big difference then!)
He could have been shot out of the sky but for a number of factors, confusion - his small primary-radar echo was thought to have possibly just been a flight of geese, some hesitation and perhaps mercy - a request for permission to engage by interceptors was denied - and then a loss of radar coverage by the Soviets.
Per the Aviation Geek website, with a nice retrospective on the event - The story of Mathias Rust, the German teenager who humiliated the Soviet War Machine by landing his Cessna 172 in Moscow’s Red Square - things would have gone a lot worse for young Mr. Rust had this been the "deepest, darkest" days of the Cold War. It'd call them the 1950's through 60's, but that is arguable. (That's what the comment section is all about, people.)
This was a crazy stunt, but it's not why I think Mathias Rust was a nut, like Lawnchair Larry and, more so, D.B. Cooper. He was young and very inexperienced (50 hours under his belt), so he could be a bold pilot. Experienced or not, the nuttiness is that Mr. Rust, before this Moscow flight, had spent a lot of time flying over cold, cold water and large stretches of it in a single piston-engined plane. He'd flown over the North Sea to Scotland, the Faroe Islands, and even Iceland. He'd flown from Keflavik, Iceland to Bergen, Norway in one leg, of which 600-odd nautical miles were over water. He had ferry tanks placed where the back seat normally is, as some of his routes (including his famed one) surely required it. That one stretch, at at 110 knots airpeed, would have been 4-6 hours, depending on the winds aloft. (That engine burns ~ 7 gallons/hour when leaned out at altitude. The normal tanks hold 38 G useable, so at 4 hours, one should be on the way down to an airport.)
One should keep in mind that GPS was not available to aircraft in 1987, with light aircraft being lucky to have them by the mid-1990s. This matters a lot for the overwater flying for 2 reasons:
1) One must have good ded reckoning skills or he will be Dead, Reckoning.
2) Were one going down into the water after an engine failure or fuel starvation, even if miraculously ditching succesfully and not succumbing to drowning and/or hypothermia, and he got off a MayDay all, he'd be doing well to report an position accurate to 50 miles. That's a HUGE area to be searched. It scare me just thinking about it.
Anyway, that May 28th in '87, Mr. Mathias took off from Helsinki's Malmi field just after Noontime, telling the tower and/or departure controllers he was heading west to Stockholm. Instead he turned east after a short while, quit talking on the radio, and was then out of radar contact by Espoo, Finland, on the northern shore of the fairly narrow Bay of Finland. He crossed the Estonian coastline, flying
One can read elsewhere about the story of the Soviet defenses and such. Mathias Rust made his landing at Red Square about 7P local time. Moscow is in the same time-zone as Helsinki, so that was a nearly 7 hour flight.
The Aviation Geek article describes the Soviet take on the matter this way:
The fact a Western Sport pilot could sneak into the Soviet Union and land in front of the Kremlin at the very heart of the Soviet Empire resonated far beyond Soviet Borders. All the Billions of Rubles spent on Soviet Air Defenses, and the very existence of the Soviet Air Defense Forces (PVO) appeared to be a gigantic waste of money. After all, how could the Soviet Military defend the Rodina (Motherland) from Western Air Attack if they couldn’t even stop a 50-hour Private Pilot in the world’s most common light aircraft? However, the events of that flight showed both a liberalizing trend within the Soviet System, and a mishmash of command-and-control miss-coordination which resulted in Rust’s Cessna being allowed to continue flying all the way to the heart of the Soviet Empire.Hmmm, I detect shades of the Chinese "weather balloon" story.
Mr. Rust was arrested and put on trial 4 months later, in September of '87 (much better treatment for him than for our own Political Prisoners, I'd say). He was sentenced to 4 years in a labor camp for hooliganism - "hooliganism", what CAN'T that cover?! - and for disregard of aviation laws, and for breaching the Soviet border. He wasn't put in a labor camp, just a normal prison that I'm sure was safer than a modern American one, and then he got out in just under a year, as a goodwill gesture by the USSR after the signing of the latest nuclear missle treaty by Reagan and Gorbachev.
Per his Wiki bio Mr. Mathias' later life had some serious problems, just as with Mr. Walters, and, well, forget Mr. Cooper, as it's doubful he had a later life.
While doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived. He was convicted of injuring her and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but was released after 15 months. Since then he has lived a fragmented life, describing himself as a "bit of an oddball". After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant. In 2001, he was convicted of stealing a cashmere pullover and ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 DM, which was later reduced to 600 DM. A further brush with the law came in 2005, when he was convicted of fraud and had to pay a €1,500 fine. In 2009 Rust described himself as a professional poker player. Most recently, in 2012, he described himself as an analyst at a Zurich-based investment bank.It takes an oddball to do these sorts of stunts, but the world appreciates a few oddballs. Peak Stupidity sure does, anyway.
Aviation Geek relates this homor out of the Soviet people after the political embarrassment of Mathias Rust's flight of diplomacy to Moscow.
After Mathias Rust’s landing in Red Square, Muscovites joked the place was now Sheremetyevo 3, as Sheremetyevo 1 and 2 Airports are still Moscow’s primary international airports.Nice flying, Mathias Rust!
* Reims is the variant that was built in France, under liscense from Cessna Aircraft (of Wichita, Kansas).
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[UPDATED 05/29:] Corrected direction of Keflavik to Bergen flight and associated winds aloft time enroute or over water.
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LIFE, the movie
Posted On: Saturday - May 27th 2023 4:31PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Movies Race/Genetics Science
This isn't about "Life" the bored game - I forget the rules - it must have been boring - and not "Life" the breakfast cereal - this is the one you could get away with if your Mom didn't read the nutrition info, as grains of sugar were kind of hidden in what looked like mini-wheats. We refer to a fairly recent Science Fiction movie ('17 release) titled LIFE. The LIFE referred to with the title is extraterrestrial life, from Mars.
I really try to give these movies a chance, once I get them started. I want to like the movie, so I don't have to start another, and I just hope the thing is not too heavy with PC, now Wokeness. I took a chance on this one, getting beyond the point of no return, so I can write this review anyway.
As a Sci-Fi movie, this one was in the middle as far as the science goes. I see one end, and I'm talking books now, really, as the work of guys like Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov. They spent time trying to picture how the future COULD work based on their knowledge of science. Things were supposed to make sense for those readers who knew some science. The opposite end for me was Ray Bradbury's novels. I mean, you just got out of the rocket and started walking around on Mars. He didn't explain ANYTHING. Still, because Bradbury was such a great writer, I liked his stuff the best of all of them.
LIFE is in the middle on that - nothing too technical is thrown at the viewer, but the space station with its bio-lab seems reasonable. A sample of material from Mars is captured, and this won't spoil it - there is some micro-scale life from the Red Planet in the sample.
OK, now about this crew. Yeah, they are somewhat diverse, but still the 5 or 6 occupants of the station are amazingly comprised of mostly White people, with a Japanese guy in there and half men. (There are no sex scenes, BTW, so not like the old Sci-Fi books I used to read.) Here's pretty much the only reason I'm writing this review at all, since the movie is nothing special:
There's the double-diverse Black! and handicapped bio-lab scientist - he had no use of his legs. OK,look, I know that checks 2 PC boxes at once, but, dammit, this is spaceflight! You can accommodate* the handicapped with ramps and handholds in bathrooms. It costs money, and the former takes room, but it's doable. From the general story of this movie, there's no doubt that space flight is no routine thing in this future. The station has just room for those 5 or 6. When you're trying to lift stuff out of Earth's gravity well, ounces count, bitchez! You can't add 50 or 100 lb of handicapped equipment.
Well, this guy was a crack life scientist. He wore glasses, so he must have been really smart. That's an interesting aspect of this choice of character - I mean, contact lenses have been around for many decades, so they'd have them in the future too, right? Is this guy only wearing glasses so we'd believe he could really be a crack biologist, good enough to be picked for the mission of another who could actually get around in an emergency? That's raciss, man!
Then, I'm pretty sure this scientist did mention in the movie that his handicap had kept him home and away from the usual crowd, so that he'd had the time to become a crack biologist, rather than a crack... errr ... salesman.
OK, fine, I suspended my disbelief in the idea of choosing a handicapped person for a space mission. Here's what shocked me, though. Of all the crew members, this Black! guy was the screw up! Yes, now not to spoil the movie, but it's just possible that he made a mistake in dealing with this Martian life form that would, well, destroy all humanity. Can you do that in the 21st Century? I don't mean destroy humanity, but cast a Black! person as the biggest screw-up in a movie. That's it, Casting Society of America, you'll never work in dis bidness again!
I give LIFE the movie one thumb up for the courage or at least disregard of Wokeness by the screenwriter and the casting company. Also, the story was OK. It's not a date movie, as it could have been with really nasty alien life form, the usual human-sized drooling and dripping insect-like creature who will scare your date enough to where she grabs you a lot. Nah, this life form was kind of amorphous, but it was still going to kick humanity's ass. If it hadn't been for that stupid .... We'd have been better off if he'd been out in the hood with his homies, killing only a small fraction of humanity.
* I don't believe in any mandatory accommodation by government, mind you, as the market could well take care of this. I'm talking voluntary niceness here.
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The end of Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage"
Posted On: Friday - May 26th 2023 8:27AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Totalitarianism
This Totalitarian Potomac Regime Police State has been accelerating more than I would have ever predicted, even 3 years ago. It's not Zhou Bai Dien himself, a mere puppet-mouthpiece who mouths nasty threats at the American Patriots in between his bouts of senility (or maybe during), who's the problem. The Deep State, the Globalists, the Communists, all who are behind the destruction of this Republic must feel that it's time to go all out with this shit. I must admit, I'm still not really read for it.
Before these last couple of years, there were plenty of obvious infringements of liberty, of course. When it came to the 1st Amendment, the Regime has had its Lyin' Press arm, and the Big Biz "TECH Totalitarians" in charge of suppressing speech and creating the narrative of Constitution-respecting patriots actually being enemies of the State. Well, that's true, in a way, we are enemies of the Regime, but not of America. It's quite the opposite, regarding the latter.
Things have recently gotten much more serious. Protestors, doing at worse a little rioting and trespassing, but protesting government action, are now shot dead from close range by Regime police with no repercussions, they are jailed en masse with no trial as Political Prisoners, and now a leader of a long-term movement to respect the Constitution has been sentenced to jail for 18 years (after being held 2 years before without trial). How many of the Bill of Rights that the Founders fought a war with the British over to enact have been violated.
Just one is the latter portion of Amendment I, reading "Congress shall make no law ...[Other Rights, and]... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Oh, yeah, not quite peaceful, was it? That was a few of them who could be at worst charged with trespassing, a few with battery, etc, but not insurrection! Anyone who was THERE in the 1960s or seen video, knows that the massive protests over many years were not so peaceful themselves. The Conservatives of the Establishment of that era, respected the US Constitution though - that was a a big difference. This Regime not only doesn't respect the Constitution, it charges those of us who do with being White Supremacist Enemies of The State.
That brings me to Mr. Rhodes. I'd read about his group, the Oath Keepers, when it was being founded, about 15 years back. The idea was that this group would be made of people who were in positions in which they could, and others DID, act unConstitutionally, as cops in particular, but office-holders and others too. The name of the group boasts that these are men who will actually keep the oaths they made to the US Constitution, required to be taken by them on the 1st day of the job.
I don't know all the details, but I did read that Mr. Rhodes had encouraged others to bring guns into Washington FS on the Jan 6th '21 rally at the Capitol in Washington, "if needed". They had that right. He probably has a better handle than most of us on how this conflict is accelerating. Was he serious about "hanging Nancy Pelosi from a lampost", if it came down to it? I don't know. "Seditious Conspiracy" is how the Regime judge put it. I have had this quote from President Kennedy in mind for a while:
About that Judge now, one Judge Amit P. Mehta, as Mr. Hail noted in the comments, I don't know if we can thing of him as an American. There is an immigration invasion to this Totalitarianism.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
I've made this point numerous times (here, for one), but I'll do it again. Whether high IQ like the •Indian judge Amit P. Mehta or low IQ people from Somalia, almost NONE, maybe 0.1% of the newcomers to this country, give a damn about any American ideals that Stewart Rhodes and the Oathkeepers do. They make their way through that citizenship test, if they even bother, but it’s just about better economic conditions (for now) than where they came from. Nobody comes for the Constitutional Republicanism.
How will the old White guys who really understand and care about the ideas of the Constitution fill their ranks? We are getting outnumbered much more quickly than how it’d have gone with the progeny of the 1970s population. From the Fox News article I linked to above:
Mehta applauded law enforcement who responded to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Really, so Michael Leroy Byrd kept his oath to the Constitution by killing a defensive 100 lb. woman? Maybe that's some different oath, one taken by loyalists to the Potomac Regime.
"The heroism of those who were protecting democracy as we know it. They laid their bodies on the line.… There is nobody more emblematic of keeping oaths than those police officers," the judge said. "You, sir, present an ongoing threat to the safety of this country."
Finally, regarding the post title, I refer to the Paleo-Libertarian/Constitutionalist Claire Wolfe from the Pacific NorthWest whom I occasionally read from back in the day, maybe 20 years ago. The quote of hers that I most remember, which applied at the time was
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”I'm starting to think that innocent age is past.
PS: Claire Wolfe's most famous book was 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness. That was 26 years ago, but some of her homeschooling and other off-grid ideas Claire Wolfe apply even more so now. It may be the best peaceful solution.
I will refer the Peak Stupidity reader now to an excellent speech (transcript) by Roger Devlin given at the Scandza Forum in Estonia recently. (Jared Taylor was to speak there too but was kept out of Europe by the Polish government, via his 3-year ban of '18 being purposefully extended to the time he was to give his speech.)
I beg our readers to read the entire fairly long Roger Devlin speech. It covers about all of what's going on, but with some hope at the end. That hope goes along with what Claire Wolfe implored Americans to do 25 years back.
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This is no way to operate a country.
Posted On: Thursday - May 25th 2023 1:21PM MST
In Topics: The Future Race/Genetics Big-Biz Stupidity
I am so glad that pundit extraordinaire Steve Sailer reads the New York Times for me. I sure wouldn't read a word from them otherwise, after having seen hundreds of his excerpts and commentary. I've written on those pages admonishment that nobody on the other side of the huge political divide gives one damn about the common-sense reason and logic of Mr. Sailer's arguments. He's not writing for them though, I think... I sure hope, anyway!
No, but that doesn't mean there's no purpose besides entertainment for some of his posts on this stupidity in the NY Times and the rest of the Lyin' Press he peruses daily. A recent post of his, Uber Suspends Its Asian DEI Boss for Objecting to the "Karen" Ethnic Slur, is a great example. Firstly, this story is hilarious. There IS that entertainment factor, and Mr. Sailer has some especially great commentary there! I'm hoping some German literary man - maybe our Dieter Kief here - could come up with a long German word to best describe the feeling I get reading about the estrogen-fueled Shitshow of Diversity that is apparently an example of an average ho-hum day at the headquarters of Uber, Inc. The word should have connotations of a combination of self-contained knee-slapping laugher, "I told you so!", detestation, and relief at one's not being any part of it.
Here's a sample. I believe the words within square brackets are from Mr. Sailer, as he tries to figure out the spread on the diversity points:
Dara Khosrowshahi [Iranian], Uber’s chief executive, and Nikki Krishnamurthy [South Asian surname but might be a white woman with an Indian husband], the chief people officer, last week asked Bo Young Lee [East Asian], the head of diversity, “to step back and take a leave of absence while we determine next steps,” according to an email on Thursday from Ms. Krishnamurthy to some employees that was viewed by The New York Times.That excerpt is so telling, so clarifying to me on what the modern corporate-HQ world is like, that I can keep my conclusion here pretty short.
“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” the email said. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”
Employees’ concerns centered on a pair of events, one last month and another last Wednesday, that were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience” and hearing from white women who work at Uber, with a focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona.” They were intended to be an “open and honest conversation about race,” according to the invitation.
Diverse bitching biddies in the boardroom can't get any actual work (remember work?) done! Even non-diverse White bitching biddies can't, but diversity just distracts even more from the regular bitching.
What is Uber's deal? Oh, yeah, they run a website with lots of reservation, payment, tracking, etc, software that hooks up their contractor taxi drivers with potential riders. The corporate world of Uber ought to be concerned with keeping good drivers on the roster while still taking a serious cut, perhaps training drivers on a bit of their own automotive finances, so they won't quit as soon as that one car quits, reassuring passengers that they are safe from rape, robbery, or worse, reassuring drivers that they are safe from rape, robbery, or worse. They developed the food delivery business, Uber Eats, for those drivers who aren't people, people or are maybe a little scary on the road (the sub sandwiches don't complain). This company as run by the women described above doesn't seem concerned with any of that ACTUAL, core company business.
Are there really a lot of Americans out there who think the types of people described at Uber HQ can run Big Businesses and keep a real economy going? This was to be short conclusion, so that'll be a question for another post.
But, NO, they can't. This is no way to operate a country!
* For more from Peak Stupidity see the 3-part series "There's a lot of ruin in a nation.": Part 1, - - Part 2, and Part 3
Along this same vein you may want to check out: Will America be looted by China?: Part 1: Intro. - - Part 2: Housing - - Part 3: Big Business - - Part 4: The Fruited Plain - - Part 5: The Wilderness and Part 6: Conclusion - The Golden Rule .
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Cry the DeConstructed Country - Part 5: Cold and Hot Wars, and the Commies, of course
Posted On: Wednesday - May 24th 2023 7:07PM MST
In Topics: Commies University History Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
(Continued from Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.)
The Cold War was on. It was a different time, you understand ... Really, there are lots of readers who may not understand. Anyone under 40 y/o would not know a whole lot about the goings-on during the 40 year-long Cold War, unless he does some history reading. He'd have been about 6 y/o when it was all over.
During the long Cold War stand-off between the US and the USSR, there were attempted and accomplished "proxy" wars all over the world. These were instigated by one side or the other to try to change governments or help regimes stay in power in order to keep these "non-aligned" nations aligned "our" way. Every continent in the world other than Ant-freaking-artica and arguably Oceania* was subject to this.
We all know about the hot wars in Asia, starting not with Korea, actually, but more like the Nationalist v Communist civil war in China. Of course, there was the East Bloc in Europe, settled very early on, with a few hiccups** for the Communists. South and Central America, well, most countries down there have flipped from Commie to military junta back and forth with the frequency of a cheap East-Bloc radio. (See Mormons, Commies, Shitholes, and Crown Jewels). We all know who backed and rooted for the Communists. These proxy wars came right on up to 90 miles off the State of Florida, with Cuber*** turning Communist in the amazing long-lived Revolución! started by Castro, leading up to some nearly nuclear action shortly thereafter. (The Soviets propped up the place to their - their OWN - very end. Los Revolución in Cuba continues unabated...)
That covers 5 continents, leaving 1, Africa. Africa had a fair share of the Cold War, including hot proxy wars going on, as the next
I am not covering this whole topic here, but I'll note that the country of Angola, still in southern Africa a couple of countries north of S. Africa had a lot of this going on. Freed from Portuguese colonization 48 years back, during the Cold War, this land is another shitholier-than-thou component of Steve Sailer's World's most important graph.****
The two big political factions in Angola, UNITA and the Communist MPLA were united against Portuguese rule. After that win, they were enemies, and the Soviets and Cubans (yeah, with some of that extra Soviet money) supported the MPLA, while the US and S. Africa supported UNITA. This went on from 1975 right on up through 2002 (long past the Cold War). However, the big struggle, and the time when the superpowers really gave a hoot, was during the Cold War time. I can remember seeing graffiti in places about UNITA and the Commies, at a time when I couldn't give a damn personally what happened to the shithole of Angola. However, the Free and Communist world vied for resources in Africa, as much as for political support or for bases of operation. South Africa has got its share of those African resources - and we sure don't mean Human Resources. It's the stuff in the ground.
Going along with all that, there has been, of course, a Communist component to the destruction of the once great White nation of South Africa. Is it the case that just about anything that involved societal destruction over the last century had Commies behind it, directly or indirectly? Just asking.
Part of the Cold War game was for one side to disparage the ills of the society of the other. The Soviets were at a BIG disadvantage there, once the West got wind of what really went on in the place, well, after Walter Duranty and all that.
The Soviets tried their best, however. Racism, yes, America was racist. South Africa was obviously a racist society. Sure, but that's why it WAS a 1st world nation, only one of previously 2 of them (before Rhodesia fell into Zimbabwe). I doubt that many of the Soviet leaders and spokesmen actually cared one iota about the Black! man in American or Africa. They likely understood why S. Africa was organized the way it was. Still, what they wanted was economic or societal destruction of any 1st World country they couldn't turn. The charges of racism were just some of the best propaganda they had.
Now, in the Conservative America of the early 1960's and prior, that talk would have fallen on mostly deaf ears. "Spout out all the agitprop you want, Khrushchev, we know a hell of a lot more about Blacks! than you do." I'll get back to this in a couple of paragraphs.
What the Soviets could do was infiltrate the politics of countries like S. Africa. There's a good article in the South African History.org site titled The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, on the Communist infiltration into S. African politics. This stuff had been going on a long time, starting about a century ago. That page has a wealth of information. Here's a blog with some decent information too, written by "Michelle-Antoinette", actually a guy named Fred.
The Anti-Apartheid Black! contingent in the country were thick with Communists. That was all part of the world-wide external Cold War, with that one proxy operation going on in South Africa. There is more to the story though.
By the middle 1960s in America, the ctrl-left had infiltrated some of the Institutions, to some degree. The universities were one. The media had been infiltrated part-ways, but not completely yet - see Peter Brimelow on high-brow TV long ago and the current S. Africa. The charges of racism by the Soviets may not have swayed Western leaders and South African Whites, but they sure took hold in the ctrl-left of the West. This was part of the internal war against Communism, one which most Americans had no idea we were even involved in.
I remember some of this. The infiltration by the ctrl-left of the universities and (enough of) the press, put the anti-Apartheid movement in the forefront of peoples' minds. That Swedish girl in Part 4, not a Communist as far as I'll ever know, was swept along with it all. That also included powerful American and other Western politicians. Immense pressure was put on the White South African government to relinquish power. At one point, its only friend nation was Israel.
That anti-Apartheid movement went against all Free World interests in the Cold War, amazingly ... but not amazingly if you understand the idea of the Communists' internal war. It's not like Mr. Reagan or Mrs. Thatcher would have wanted S. Africa to go native, but the pressure from the left was high. Perhaps it was the Cold War that staved off ruin for the nation of South Africa for a another few years. By 1994, it was done for.
* Papua, New Guinea, and Indonesia are considered part of this continent. There was rebellion brewing in the this area in the late 1950s, and the USSR shipped arms to Indonesia. During the Kennedy administration, the US pressured the Dutch to sacrifice Papua's independence and transfer the territory to Indonesia as part of their relinquishment of their old colonies. The idea was to keep Indonesia on the side of the 1st (free) world.
** There were uprisings in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in '56, and Czechoslovakia in '68.
*** Well, that's what John F. Kennedy called it, back when it was hot.
**** On the west coast/side of the continent, the place is 80% bigger than Texas. It has grown from 26 million people to 35 million over the last only 8 years! (Sure, that's under 1% of that 2100 4 Billion, but this is now, and the fertility rate this past year was calculated at 5.2 births/woman.)
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Peak Stupidity Travel Advisory
Posted On: Tuesday - May 23rd 2023 1:40PM MST
In Topics: Humor Race/Genetics President DeSantis
Occasional Travel Advisories are a service provided at no cost to all Peak Stupidity readers. Until further updates by the NAACP and collaborating non-governmental AWGAA's* are received, Peak Stupidity recommends that our readers avoid travel to any States that are not Florida.
We had this advisory post in mind yesterday, with the image already stored, but I noticed this morning that illustrious race-realism commentator Paul Kersey has put this story up on his blog - I'll Have a Coke... NAACP Issues Travel Advisory to Florida, Meaning State Is Free of Imported Black Crime. Seeing as he has linked to, and excerpted a lot of, a report from the APS (Associated Press Sycophants) network, I'll use that one too.
You may very well want to read Mr. Kersey's post, with the comments that will appear. I must add that here at Peak Stupidity, you will get more snark at no additional cost. Here we go:
The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.Upon reading between the lines just a tad, or down into the article, the reader can see that this intro. paragraph is TRYING to say that Gov. Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida have been bucking the Regime Narrative. GASP! FEDERALISM!!
The NAACP, long an advocate for Black Americans, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state’s largest job sectors.Ag is still tops - they've got lots of cattle and citrus.
OK, so, unless you are heading down to Florida for Black! bike week, some other looting event, to organize some of the Beaners under Communism, or to visit the gay bars, Florida will be more White than normal. This loot-cott, as they (meaning, "we") are calling it, could last right through the year, providing tourists with a White Christmas. (I'm only dreaming of it...)
The warning approved Saturday by the NAACP’s board of directors tells tourists that, before traveling to Florida, they should understand the state of Florida “devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.”In other words, the State of Florida has had enough of anti-White ass-kissing. I do understand, NAACP Board of Directors, and I'm LUVING IT! It's not like I'd even think of going to Disney World, but knowing there will be much lower chance of the enrichment seen in World-Star Hip Hop videos might just bring in some parents that have been on the fence.
I'll skip a bit and mention that the Mayors of St. Pete and Tampa tweeted out their messages of dieversity and inclusion stupidity, as non-committal as they could be about it. Governor DeSantis has not responded to an email "that was sent" (nice reporting - it doesn't say who sent it!) to his office. I don't blame him one bit.
The Black! folk are mad because:
... the DeSantis’ administration in January rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers also have pressed forward with measures that ban state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory, and also passed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses.They've been taking away the high-paying make-work jobs and mandatory anti-White indoctrination. Who is it again that doesn't like this State? The
a new law that prohibits local governments from providing money to organizations that issue identification cards to people illegally in the country and invalidates out-of-state driver’s licenses held by undocumented immigrants, among other things. The law also requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a citizenship question on intake forms, which critics have said is intended to dissuade immigrants living in the U.S. illegally from seeking medical care.Made-up identities and medical care stolen from insurance customers and the taxpayers are a God-given right, you know! Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislators are dissuading illegal aliens from staying in the country, dammit! Yeah!! Who is it again that doesn't like this State?
The gay and Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato (+Guacamole) crowd doesn't like:
Recent efforts to limit discussion on LGBTQ topics in schools, the removal of books with gay characters from school libraries, a recent ban on gender-affirming care for minors, ...I remember an old Crosby, Stills, and Nash song that the good Governor may have taken to heart. Teach your Children Well is getting just a bit easier, not to mention Treat your Children Well, regarding life-destroying medical procedures. Who is it again that doesn't like this State?
The group Equality for Florida detests, and I quote, "Florida’s slate of laws and policies targeting basic freedoms and rights", such as
... a law allowing Floridians to carry concealed guns without a permit contributed to Equality Florida’s warning.That makes about 1/2 the States in the country now**. Does that mean the NAACP will advise the Black! folks to avoid those 24 or so other States?
Therefore, Peak Stupidity advises all readers to spend no tourist money anywhere but in the State of Florida, and IN CASH. I mean, drive through the night. Don't pay for hotels until you cross the border. Buy as little gas as possible to make it across the St. Mary's on the 95, to Hillard on the #1, Jennings on the 75, or across the Perdito River on the I-10. We advise you to enter the State of Florida on fumes.
That is, until we rescind our advisory when this shocking disregard of the Regime Narrative by the State of Florida subsides - our best estimate and hopes indicate NEVER.
Who is it again that doesn't love this Governor?
* That'd be Anti White Grift Advancement Agencies.
** Due to the efforts of patriot and well-known NRA leader Marion Hammer, the State of Florida was first on many of the first CCW efforts.
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The Scottish Quicky
Posted On: Saturday - May 20th 2023 4:03PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Humor Southern rock
Nobody seemed to think this one was funny yesterday. "Never, never, never give up!" is what I say.
How do Scottish men refer to a quicky?
First we'll embed some David Bowie music. Suffragette City is from his 1972 album entitled, to be thorough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It's usually called Ziggy Stardust. This was a "B side", that was the song on the verse of the old 45 rpm "single" records (actually doubles) that was not supposed to be the intended hit song. Starman was the "A side". I've never heard it yet.
I really need to listen to that whole album, called one of the best Rock Operas ever, a type of concept album. Though not a rock opera as I understand the term, ELO's Time and The Eagles Desparado are my 2 favorite concept albums.
Oh, the punchline: "Wham, bam, thank you, lamb."
We have a commenter named "Ark Builder". That name reminded me of this Atlanta Rhythm Section song of the very same year but completely different style. It's from the first and self-titled album from the band. If you've never heard of this one, well, join the 99.999%. A slow ballad that'll grow on you Forty Days and Forty Nights is one of the more obscure songs from this nearly obscure (at this point) Southern Rock band.
That's Rodney Justo singing. After this album, he left the band and was replaced by Ronnie Hammond.
Great ending of that song for this end of our blog-week. We will get in those 2 movie reviews at some point, there'll be 2 posts at least on the ruin of South Africa and its inherent warning to Americans, and other stuff will surely pop up. Have a great Sunday, and thanks for reading and writing!
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More on Richard Hanania
Posted On: Saturday - May 20th 2023 2:10PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Race/Genetics
It's only due to our having posted a long "fisking" of one of his Substack articles that Peak Stupidity is writing anything more about pundit Richard Hananai. Keeping up with the thousands, maybe millions of pundits (anyone can be one - you're lookin' at him!) with interesting commentary does not fall under Peak Stupidity's business model. However, since we gave this pundit a hard time in Trump v DeSantis: Round 7 - Richard Hanania Substack post yesterday, we need to follow-up in the interest of fairness.
Before I wrote yesterday's post, I read this interview of Richard Hanania on a website called Daily Campus. It's from over a years and a half ago, keep in mind. Mr. Hanania was billed as "President of the Center for Study of Partisanship and Ideology". The description of this "center", which doesn't have to be an actual place, and probably isn't, is on the CSPI "About" page. The "team" consists of Mr. Hanania, 2 other professors, a PhD candidate, and a communications director. They dole out small grants. Make of that what you will. Anyone can run a "center". The site's home page lists the Center's policy issues and positions there-on. It seems pretty Conservative, and I have no problem with any of them.
About that interview, now: It's fairly short and readable. I'll mention just 2 points I disagree with, with a general take in between. As I noted in that previous post about him, with the excerpt of a Steve Sailer excerpt of him (whewww!), his opinion on big media is way off:
The media does a good job holding the left accountable for outrageous stuff. But most stuff they let slide. Right-wing media doesn’t work either. Republicans don’t hold themselves accountable either.First of all, whaaaa?! Secondly, uhhh, Republicans ≠ right-wing. OK, well, he's clueless on how the Establishment/Regime media works and who they work FOR.
However, in almost all of this interview, Richard Hanania tells the truth, with some good points that Peak Stupidity would have endorsed, or already has. He talks about quite a few issues. In his answers on the appropriate issues, he is Steve Sailer - light. Very light. In his answers on the appropriate issues, he is Ron Paul - light, also very light. For a Professor, this guy doesn't think very deeply... yet. Hopefully, that's "yet" because he's a young fellow.
I chalk up to Richard Hanania's youth and inexperience that he is clueless on the American politics involving Donald Trump's presidency and campaigns and his and Ron DeSantis' motivations.
Then, one last question appears at the end:
Tell me about your opinion on COVID. Explain what you mean by, “COVID is the new TSA.”I sure like that line - we've written pretty much the same, in COVID / TSA twin peaks of stupidity, 3 years ago! Our pundit-under-review's answer:
You have this vaccine. The vaccine solves the problem. The odds of death or hospitalization are basically zero. You have to move on with your life at some point. People should get vaccinated and move on with their lives.Or, not. We could move on with our lives without taking this vaccine. That solved my problem even before there was one. I moved on by mid-March of '20. Unfortunately, the country didn't.
In fairness again, here's the rest of his answer - good enough for me:
The TSA basically makes you take off your shoes. They don’t work, and people are able to get stuff past them. There are not many terrorists out there. As a result, the TSA is just making air travel unpleasant and take forever. Similarly, if this is like COVID, we may need to wear masks for the rest of our lives. It’s a tragedy that we don’t let people move on. Anything beyond that is hysteria.Very good. Finally, I usually want images at or near the tops of the posts, but I'll note that Mr. Hanania is very based when it comes to race. I don't know, but it sure seems like he's getting his opinion and facts straight off of Steve Sailer's writing.
Yeah, I put aside my basic principles and went to a (his) twitter page. There's a lot more there. So, Richard Hanania is one of the good guys, BUT, he doesn't have the wisdom and depth of the kind of pundit I want to read from.
Keep on writing, and keep on learning, Richard Hanania.
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Covid Contagion rages at CDC Convention
Posted On: Saturday - May 20th 2023 7:21AM MST
In Topics: Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
Not the Babylon Bee, as more people seem obligated to write nowadays. (It used to be "not the Onion".) The story comes from the Washington Post I read this on a site called Just the News: CDC investigates after dozens test positive for COVID following CDC conference.
"CDC is working with the Georgia Department of Health to conduct a rapid epidemiological assessment of confirmed COVID-19 cases that appear to be connected to the 2023 EIS Conference to determine transmission patterns," agency spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.This is the outfit that was supposed to guide Americans to a proper course of action to prevent ourselves from catching the dreaded Kung Flu.
About 35 people have so far tested positive, after the conference in Atlanta last week, which was the first in-person Epidemic Intelligence Service meeting in four years, officials said.
Attendees told the Post that many people at the conference did not wear masks or practice social distancing.Disease Controllers, probe thy selves!
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UPDATED 05/21:] Changed the last sentence. Much better now!
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Trump v DeSantis: Round 7 - Richard Hanania Substack post
Posted On: Friday - May 19th 2023 4:20PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Websites Trump Pundits President DeSantis
Peak Stupidity started the Trump v DeSantis series last Fall, with 5 posts - Round 1 - Personalities, Round 2 - Immunity to Kung Flu Panic , Round 3 - Immigration Invasion, Round 4 - Tag Team? , and Addendum - David Cole article. We picked it back up mid-March with Round 6 - The Ukraine/Russia War(mongering) and Round 7 - Quantity of Hatred Generated.
We're starting back up today based on the writing, and our criticism thereof, in a Substack post by one Richard Hanania. Substack is a "newsletter" amalgamator. For the life of me, I can't get a number for the count of writers, who could be bloggers, pundits (Ann Coulter is on there!), fiction writers, whatever, whom one can support with subscription fees or not. (In this case, it's gonna be NOT.)
Steve Sailer introduced his readership to this Richard Hanania in a post this January, Hanania: "Why the Media Is Honest and Good". From that laughable title, one could tell without even getting into the details that Mr. Hanania is a fairly clueless fellow. His take was that, there were a few exceptions from the truth, but ...
There is a major exception when it comes to the “holy trinity” of liberalism, that is topics having to do with race, gender, and sexual orientation, but even here the problem is not lies as much as that the press is blinded by ideology. The facts they give you even on these sensitive topics are usually correct, but it’s simply that the interpretation of these facts is wrong.Blinded by ideology but doesn't lie? Uhhh, no. The MSM lies six different ways from Sunday. Mr. Sailer helpfully pointed out ways.
Anyway, our commenter Dieter Kief pointed me to another Richard Hanania Substack post the subject of which is right in Peak Stupidity's wheelhouse: The Biomechanics of Trumpism. I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but this guy is really full of shit. I don't claim Mr. Hanania to be a liar but just a bad interpreter of human motives and political happenings. I'm gonna excerpt a large part of the article. There's so much wrong, but I have some time today. Here's the start with his thesis on Donald Trump's popularity:
The mainstream understanding of Trumpism has now gone through three iterations. In 2016, his success was said to prove that Republican voters wanted something other than Paul Ryanism. Trump voters were angry about the loss of manufacturing jobs, racists lashing out at a changing America, or patriots justifiably angry at a changing America.If he means "changing via immigration invasion", then, yes, (a) and (c).
In the face of political science data and real-world experience, people eventually dropped the “economic anxiety” talking point. Trump for the most part governed like a typical Republican on economic issues, yet his support stayed constant, and the cult of personality only deepened.There's a little bit right here. The economic issues most certainly did NOT get better, but Americans had so much faith in Trump and trust in his BS, that confidence went up. Trump didn't drop the economic issues. As usual, he just didn't have any kind of plan about them (other than the tariffs, for which I'll grant him kudos). The movement was always largely about the existential Immigration issue. Mr. Hanania didn't write a word about it!
Somewhere near the end of the Trump presidency, we therefore moved towards a new conventional wisdom, at least among smarter analysts, that his movement was about political correctness and social issues, with economics having little to do with it.
Anti-woke conservatives therefore came to believe that they knew what to do: give the people “Trumpism without Trump.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have a candidate who could take on Cultural Marxism directly, without all the distractions, legal troubles, and election denial? Surely the voters who saw Trump as the answer to their grievances would jump at the opportunity to vote for such a leader, if only given the chance.The election denial is important and should be for anyone. Yes, Trump's distractions and fixation on the legal troubles (not the legal troubles themselves) were a problem. More importantly, Trumpism without Trump means the taking of the same political positions, but by a man who can actually get these things done! 10 x the action, with 1 /10 the bullshit.
Mr. Hanania now moves on to Ron DeSantis:
With overwhelming majorities in both state legislatures, the Florida governor went about checking every box on the list of conservative grievances: critical race theory, gender ideology, DEI, abortion, vaccines, election integrity, universal school choice, guns, immigration, taking on Disney as the purveyor of woke propaganda. According to the Florida Speaker of the House, DeSantis just in the last year has signed “four sessions’ worth of legislation.”What follows is a graph of poll numbers for Trump and DeSantis, from one SMALL PERIOD - March 5th to April 30th of this year - with Trump going from the mid-40%'s to 52% and DeSantis from 30% to 23%. Really? Is this confirmed to be due to DeSantis fighting for Conservatism in Florida, while Trump runs for office? All of "this" (that Mr. Hanania mentions) matters in that Ron DeSantis became a national figure DUE TO his actions on these issues. Though it started before the vaccination threats, Governor DeSantis' stand against the Kung Flu Totalitarianism first got Conservatives like me to even know who the guy is. During that time, Trump had no confidence to do what was right, was a wishy-washy Anthony Fauci / CDE sackhanger for a while, till he wasn't, and served as a very poor leader during the PanicFest, which was underway for the last 10 months of his term.
All of this should have mattered. But here’s what’s happened as DeSantis has been signing one conservative bill after another, just over the last two months alone.
Come on, Richard! What else happened during these 2 months involving Donald Trump? Think, McRichard, think! Oh yeah, there was something going on with the NY City attorney's bringing of bogus charges against Trump. That's all "put him in jail, so he can't be in office" Banana Republic stuff, but it's publicity for Trump nonetheless. If they'd have given me a chance to answer a solid question in a poll last month, I might say the same, even over DeSantis, just to push back against this behavior of the Regime.
Trump comes out ahead with his supporters when he fights the Lyin' Press, as we/they hate them as much as he does.
Now that we’ve run the “Trumpism without Trump” experiment, I see us entering the third era of our understanding of Trumpism. Analysts are finally coming to the realization that this isn’t about trade, immigration, or gender ideology. It’s not about issues at all. There’s simply a deep and personal connection between Trump and the Republican voter. At most, how one talks about issues matters in an indirect way; Trump has to pay just enough lip service to things that Republican voters believe to reassure them that he is their leader.Of course it's about issues, THOSE issues you just mentioned, and more! There's a deep personal connection because we finally found a politician who actually cares about Americans and those issues, and we'd hoped he would do something about them. Some still hope that. Most of them are
But unlike DeSantis, he has little to fear from contradicting them, like he’s done over the years on things like Planned Parenthood and vaccines.So far, he has had little to fear. As the budding Officer and Gentleman Mayo noted "We got nowhere else to go!". Till recently, that is. Ron DeSantis hasn't even declared he's running yet.
Take the war in Ukraine. [Please! - Ed.] When Tucker asked his opinion on the conflict, DeSantis responded by calling it a territorial dispute that wasn’t that important to the United States. This position works for Trump because he’s been saying NATO is stupid and we should try to get along with Russia for eight years. DeSantis moving towards a similar position at the most convenient time possible, in response to a question from Tucker no less, looks extremely weak.This guy Hanania has got the whole thing backwards. DeSantis sounded very good on this issue, and Trump sounded OK in his usual muddled and confused way. (See Part 5 linked-to above.) Then, a day or so later, Trump sounded better, and DeSantis backtracked somewhat under pressure, because it was obviously not the most convenient time. Now, I'll give that last win to Trump. Trump has no principles, but he uses common sense on Russia. (Oh, and it goes along with his seeing the Russia Collusion for the 3-year distraction it was.) No, he didn't even think about getting us out of NATO after mentioning that during the '16 campaign. That was just bullshit, as I figure, is likely the case with his statement on the Ukraine. Per Richard Hanania, bullshit is good. At least, he says that's what Trump's got over DeSantis as far as winning elections. (More on this below.)
It’s interesting to contrast how the two candidates have dealt with the rise of anti-vaxx sentiment within the Republican Party. DeSantis has taken the most anti-vaxx position of any national politician, successfully seeking a grand jury investigation of pharmaceutical companies. This goes beyond the normal positions of simply opposing mandates or questioning the safety of the vaccines, but involves potential legal consequences, although I’m pretty sure this will go nowhere. Trump, meanwhile, says he’s had a booster, and has attacked DeSantis for refusing to discuss his own vaccine status. When he gets booed for it, Trump backs down, granting something to his followers, but in a half-hearted way. The DeSantis conversation goes something like this:Right, as a man of principle, Ron DeSantis fought against the vaccine mandates from the beginning. Seeng as he is one of the few Governors, and politicians period, who understand Federalism, he kept Florida at a low level of Panic and higher level of freedom, so much so that, they HATE him for his freedoms! Hanania's imagined conversation snippet of DeSantis is ridiculous. He was NOT going with the flow. He was ahead of his "base", because he didn't even have a base yet until WE realized that this guy has principles and fights, and wins too.
Republican voters: We hate vaccines!
DeSantis: Oh my God, you hate vaccines? You won’t believe this, but I hate them even more!! Other guys talk about leaving you alone not to take them, oh, but we need to go much further. I’m calling a grand jury to investigate this, we’re going to lock Pfizer up! It’s about time us conservatives started pushing back against these tyrants…
On the other side:
Trump: You know, I was boosted. The vaccine was a great accomplishment of my administration.
Republican voters: Boo! We hate vaccines!
Trump: Fine, whatever, do what you want, let’s talk about something else. Hey, did you guys see that women’s weightlifting thing?
Republican voters: cheers, laughter.
Trump, on the other hand, as per Hanania's more accurate imaginings, is, yes, a good talker and bullshitter. "Yeah, well we don't agree because I am stuck with my big Moonshot Vax win claims, and you've never seen such #VaxWinnning!, so, himmm, boos?, yeah, well I'll change the subject. I can't lose if I keep talking ..." is what he wants to say, but instead he may talk about something else like this culture war genderbender stupidity that he'll never get around to doing anything about. DeSantis will.
They both chase the voter. But there’s a difference between chasing a girl by trying to morph into what she wants, and making compromises in the process of drawing her to you.We're not trying to pick up chicks here, Hanania. The voters aren't all clueless woman . I understand this is analysis of the support of these 2 candidates, not your own views. This psycho-analysis doesn't cut it, though. You mistake standing on principle for being a pussy.. or something like that.
I’ve also been fascinated by the contrast in the way each candidate has handled the liberal press. The DeSantis team has labeled journalists as the enemy and refused to talk to them. Trump, meanwhile, has scheduled a CNN townhall for next week, even as he kicks an NBC reporter off his plane.They both KNOW that Lyin' Press journalists are the enemy. Patriotic Americans know that too. That's why they lap up things like the Town Hall, in which Trump got a chance to call out their lies, upon lies, upon lies!
At a gut level, people understand that part of the reason DeSantis won’t talk to the media is that he’s afraid of them, while pretending that he’s standing on some kind of principle. We all know that if DeSantis goes on CNN, he might be forced into a gaffe, or his voice might crack at the wrong time in response to a hostile question.WTH, man? "We" know nothing of the sort. Governor DeSantis has had no fear of the media, from what I've seen of him in Florida. He sometimes might not have as much time as Trump does to be in the media spotlight, because he's actually, you know ... doing stuff.
Ron DeSantis is smarter than Donald Trump. Instead of letting the Lyin' Press make accusations that he'd have to waste hours and days refuting, on and on, he might have a plan, as I have suggested, to change the press. Talk to the non-Regime-adjacent press. Invite unbiased journalists to the press conferences. That takes something called "a plan". Trump has no idea what this "plan" thing is.
Does the term “gaffe” even have any meaning in relation to things Trump says? Can you imagine his voice cracking under any circumstance? And it’s not just Trump’s voice. Observe how little his facial expression changes when a hostile reporter lands a blow, and compare it to other politicians. Some men worry about saying the wrong thing when talking to a woman, but the higher status male is the guy who can say whatever he wants. This is the difference between DeSantis and Trump."Higher status male"? Again with that "please the horny women" thing? Is that what's going to win elections?
When I note things that Trump has done right and DeSantis has done wrong, I don’t mean to imply that Trump has been consciously playing 4D chess every step of the way. Trump may not have an explicit model of what he’s doing at any point in time, any more than a spider weaving a web can visualize the end product that results from following its instincts.True, dat! That's OK in a campaign, but not so much when trying to form a strategy in order to enact policy. "Well, OK, he still wins", may
The “Meatball Ron” slur lands because it hits at another immutable characteristic — that is, the ethnic issue, an underexplored topic in our race-obsessed culture.This is the most idiotic part yet, were I to put it to a poll. Holy crap, Richard, nobody has even thought about Italians as anything but Americans* for 50 years, unless they live in NYC or New Jersey, and then at least 30. No, the slurs are just for fun. DeSanctimonious was a poor effort. Meatball Ron at least is fun. It doesn't "land" anywhere - it just makes me crave some of Carmela Soprano's food. More psycho-analysis follows:
The catch-22 of the DeSantis campaign is that he can’t credibly stand up to the bully, nor ignore him. One hesitates to ever say that a campaign is over this early, but if there were ever circumstances to do so, it would be in this race.Ron DeSantis doesn't need to stand up to Trump the bully. What he could do is keep pushing Conservative policy in Florida, while he campaigns on that, along with ideas (ideas, not bullshit platitudes) about how to get some of this done at the Federal level. Above all, he must tout his plans for stopping and reversing the immigration invasion, both illegal and legal.**
This Richard Hanania doesn't understand and doesn't get right any of the politics here. Trump did not become President because he can talk well - he talks in freaking circles - or his looks, stature, hair style/color, or personality even. He got there because he was the only one talking about the immigration invasion, on our side about it, AND as someone we could probably trust on that.*** Along with that, he doesn't mince words when fighting against the media on the Regime Narratives, which thrills us all.
However, Ron DeSantis gets it too. He has principles, meaning he doesn't flail around in the wind, on issues around which Trump does. DeSantis has taken action in his State. We know about that. He cares about the same Conservative issues. Is he a guy that we can trust really means it? That's probably the only thing holding him back. Some Trump acolytes truly believe Donald Trump is THE ONLY ONE. There's no changing their minds, I admit. As for the rest of us, we actually care about action and principles.
Richard Hanania doesn't get that. I don't know how to be nice about this, but his article sucked. I'll have a bit more regarding this pundit, but I don't plan on reading him again****, much less subscribing.
* Mr. Hail has a nice long article on Ron DeSantis' background on his Hail to You blog: The ancestry of Ron DeSantis: son of Florida, grandson of industrial Ohio, great-grandson of Italy.
** He has so far not been so forthcoming on the latter.
*** We could, as far as he means, still today. It's not all about meaning well anymore - 4 years went by.
**** I read an interview of him, and that's what I'll go by for a much shorter follow-up post.
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Immigration Invasion: Trump/DeSantis/The States/American Patriots v The Regime and The World
Posted On: Thursday - May 18th 2023 4:38PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Trump World Political Stupidity President DeSantis
I'd wanted to write more about some of the details of the southern (border) front of the Immigration Invasion in yesterday's post on the subject. The post was getting too long as it was though. VDare, as I mentioned, has great writers, many of them Fed-Gov insiders, with so many details.
I've found it difficult sometimes to find specific articles I've read there after a few days, without remember the writers of them. There are many* who've been very busy keeping us up, but I'll mention here Federale, Former Agent , Washington Watcher II , and A.W. Morgan . If you want to know details, political, technical, legal, etc. keep reading these guys.
I also want to mention writer Allan Wall, as I have before. He doesn't post as much as those others, but his are long comprehensive articles. Mr. Wall lived in Mexico for a decade over a decade ago, is married to a Mexican lady, but is an immigration patriot. His specialty is in relating the story from the Mexican angle, as he lived there and knows Spanish well. About half of his articles come under the "Said in Spanish:" header, meaning he will give us the Mexican (or sometimes other Latin American) angle on the story.
Mr. Wall reports Mexican President And Foreign Minister Bash Republicans, Demand Mexican-Americans' Loyalty, Limit Deportees. Well, Mexico IS a foreign country, after all, and its leaders are looking out for their people only... well, their people in Los Estados Unidos de Mexico AND their people in that other Los Estados Unidos, del Norte. That's what you do, at least the first part, if you're a real nation.
Nah, we don't have that kind of thing here unfortunately. Our traitorous leaders and high-level bureaucrats, as discussed in the previous post, are working hard to fight the American people to keep this Population Replacement going. The countries from which the "refugees" / "asylees" are coming from are not only ungrateful for our unwillingly dealing with their riff-raff, but they interfere in our internal politics on this existential issue. They encourage loyalty to Mexico, in this case, while informing us what we must do to welcome the illegal aliens.
Hand it to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard. They’ve quite correctly sized up Traitor Joe Biden and his Border Treason, and of course are behind it 100 percent. At their morning presser on Friday May 12, they not only announced that they wouldn’t “accept” GOP efforts to close the border, but also bashed a governor, a congressman and a senator, boasted about Mexican-Americans being loyal to Mexico, and bluntly said Mexico would limit the number of deportees it would accept. About the only thing they didn’t announce was a plan to retake the American southwest and rename it Aztlan.Now, I've given President Trump shit for not following through on MOST of what he promises, but he had come through, albeit in his own way, on this issue pretty well by '19-'20. (See our post President Donald Trump: the Bad, **the Good**, and the Ugly from just before the '20 election.) I wrote "albeit in his own way" there, because all of Trump's under-the-radar moves that drastically brought down illegal immigration - at least from that direction - were temporary. We don't have Kings who live as long as QEII. (And, we don't want them.) We need laws and people in power who will keep them in place. We've had none of that.
The politics of the illegal immigration from Mexico and points south was something President Trump did know how to make good deals on. He had President AMLO down there somewhat on board. I'm sure it wasn't all Trump's charm, but threats were involved. I've got no problem with that - that's how you make deals in favor of your own nation, after all.
Mr. Wall says this better, as he has more details in his head:
So what a difference American leadership makes. Just a few short years back, President Donald Trump compelled AMLO and Ebrard to reduce the number of illegal aliens crossing Mexico to get to the United States by threatening stiff tariffs on Mexican exports. Indeed, AMLO was notably conciliatory towards Trump. But now with Biden as president, AMLO is on board with the Biden-Mayorkas Great Replacement plan. Of course, that’s more to his liking anyway.The following tweet that Allan Wall included shows how these 2 parties, the Mexican and the Potomac Regime, are working against us together:
Sam 🇺🇸 | 🦅 | 📡On our side, we did and still do have Donald Trump. We also have Ron DeSantis. Just today, from A.W. Morgan, I read DeSantis Sending NG Troops, State Cops To Help At Southwest Border. Internal Secession Is Moving Ahead. (I LUV LUV LUV that "Internal Secession" part!) It's not an army, but then, if you actually, really, truly want to get the job done, you don't need General Patton's 3rd Army, just the right people and arms in the right places:
@Rudio1John
DHS is using an encrypted online chat room to tell Mexico where to send illegals to cross the border to avoid TX National Guard and DPS officers. DHS is using border detection tech to track TX law enforcement to alert Mexico where/when illegals should cross. #BidenBorderCrisis
Here’s the contingent:So, let's see. We American patriots have many State governments (hopefully Texas Gov. Abbott means it), Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and a contingent in Congress on our side. The other side is the Potomac Regime and the rest of the world.**
101 Florida Highway Patrol Troopers
200 Florida Department of Law Enforcement Officers, in teams of 40
20 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officers
800 Florida National Guard Soldiers
20 Emergency Management Personnel—including radio technicians, logisticians, mechanics and planners
Five available fixed wing aircraft with monitoring equipment and downlink capabilities with two aviation crew teams
Two Mobile Command Vehicles and two command teams
17 available unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and support teams
10 vessels—including airboats, shallow draft vessels, and mid-range vessels
They augment the Texas Tactical Border Force that Governor Greg Abbott deployed last week. Those troops are stopping the invaders where they can.
The rest of the world can jawbone us, as does this Marcelo Ebrard, and they can serve as enablers and a 5th column. The Potomac Regime, however, is doing the heavy lifting. I don't think they will sit still if the States get this invasion under control. We're gonna see what Federalism is about, pretty soon.
PS: There's a whole lot more of interest in Mr. Wall's article that I didn't get to.
* For whatever reason, a new writer who was my favorite, one Jack Dalton, hasn't had anything published on the site for 6 months unfortunately.
** Even those countries not sending riffraff while berating us are ambivalent about this problem at best. Perhaps the Euros may commiserate by some point.
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Yet more Die-versity at the movies
Posted On: Wednesday - May 17th 2023 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Humor Movies Race/Genetics
These are not the 2 movie reviews I've mentioned. They are still coming. Back under the Peak Stupidity post Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!, Commenter Alarmist linked us to a Substack page advertising the following documentary.
It's about time we quit marginalizing Black! Polar Bears! Thank you!
Then, Adam Smith led us to a our newest Netflix feature, as billed by lead Creative and Marketing Director for the film, E.H. Hail:
The Elon Musk Story.
....... Coming soon to Netflixes near you.
....... Executive Producer: Adam Smith
....... Special appearance by: Steve Sailer
....... a Peak Stupidity Production.
Thanks, guys!
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Governor DeSantis fights the Bai Dien/Mayorkas-run Invasion
Posted On: Wednesday - May 17th 2023 1:22PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Zhou Bai Dien President DeSantis
Florida is, of course not a border State. (There are only 4 on the southern border, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, going E-->W.) The State of Florida has had its own invasion problem going back through the worst of times, the Jimmy Carter-permitted exile of 125,000 Cuban criminals - dubbed the "Mariel Boatlift" - 43 years back, in Spring through Fall of 1980.
Having had the Jewish/Yankee and Midwestern influx too, Floridians know about Population Replacement. Now that the more comprehensive Population Replacement program run by the Globalist elites has been ramped up for the entire country as run by Zhou Bai Dien and Motherland Security traitorous Mother Mayorkas, we are all experiencing this. Governor DeSantis has been fighting back. His Martha's Vineyard stunt wasn't about numbers but about payback, humiliation (if that's possible with those people) and visibility.
Now, the good Governor has done something to help, albeit temporarily, stem the surge of numbers like 300,000/month* that could be coming once Title 42 is lifted by the traitors of the Bai Dien administration.
Title 42 is something Trump talked about in that "Town Hall" the other night. It was put in place to slow down immigration using the Kung Flu as the excuse. Nobody, but nobody, on either side of the invasion question really thinks this is about disease anymore. Plenty of diseases are being brought in, but the traitors have never been worried about that - even during the middle of the Kung Flu PanicFest - as Population Replacement is much more important to them. The Patriots, including Donald Trump, want this program to go on, even in its weakest form (without the "Remain in Mexico" - until BS-asylum-claim hearings are held - program) diseased people or not. Trump should have stated this plainly the other day, instead of bullshitting about it.
In anticipation of the lifting of Title 42, the traitors have instituted a parole amnesty that will let these invaders into the country more easily (better explanation below and in my link). Gov. DeSantis has found a judge in Florida who issued a Temporary Restraining Order on the parole amnesty. That's for 2 weeks. VDare's Federale reports the details in Biden Regime Parole Amnesty Given A Partial Smackdown. That's just for 2 weeks. It may mean nothing, but at least Ron DeSantis is working WITH us patriotic Americans.
Another VDare writer noted that these uses of judges is usually a thing of the ctrl-left, so they should not be SHOCKED, SHOCKED! about it. James Fulford says the left has been doing for decades. From Federale's post:
The Biden Regime has been using a parole amnesty for mass illegal immigration for almost two years. It took another wild step recently when in anticipation of the end of Title 42 expulsions of illegal aliens, the Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) authorized mass parole of the increasing flood of illegal aliens that the Biden Regime is releasing, instead of serving the aliens with the official charging document, initiating deportation proceedings: Form I-862, Notice To Appear (NTA) or even the lesser version of the NTA, the Form I-385, Notice To Report (NTR), an order to appear at an ICE SVU office. It gives the lie to the claim by visa fraudster and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas that the border is secure and not open.(VDare has links everywhere.) He included a tweet from our nation's Motherland Security Directorate. I'll just put the text in:
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
The U.S. has & will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. The U.S. border is not open to illegal or irregular migration, & U.S. immigration laws remain strict even as the COVID-19 public health Order known as Title 42 ends.
Explained here ➡️ http://DHS.gov/immigrationlaws
Complete lying sacks of shit, they are. It's very blatant these days.
Thank you, VDare, for providing ALL the news of the immigration invasion, legal and illegal, with all aspects of the problem described, by a crack staff with inside knowledge. The immigration stupidity is America's EXISTENTIAL problem, and VDare is the site that covers this best. I recommend everyone read it every damn day... till it's over ... one way or another.
* As per VDare's Peter Brimelow's 10,000/day number he quoted in a video interview I watched yesterday.
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Cry the DeConstructed Country - Part 4: Anecdote on Anti-Apartheid
Posted On: Tuesday - May 16th 2023 6:17PM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
(Continued from Part 1 , Part 2, and Part 3, but this one is an anecdotal interlude.)
(I have an actual photo of the scene I'm trying to represent, from an actual camera, of the Swedish fellow hitchhiker of this story by the side of the road with our sign.)
It was long ago in a Europe full of Europeans and gangs of people like me, young adults having a blast traveling around the continent*, meeting Europeans and each other, carrying backpacks and Youth Hostel and rail passes. I spent a week and a half in Ireland** It was the late 1980s.
It turned out that in Ireland, though my rail pass was valid, the trains didn't go very many of the scenic places I wanted to visit. Due to my low budget and still dormant stupidity, I couldn't and didn't, respectively, rent a car***. Hitchhiking was the only way to get many places, particularly the scenic Dingle Peninsula, etc.
I had met up with a fellow young traveler, a Swedish girl. Ahhhh, no, a) she didn't look like any members of ABBA and, not due to this at all b) we didn't do more than travel together for 3 or 4 days. Here we were, outside some little shop, waiting by the road in the rain trying to catch a ride to Galway. (I only remember that because we made an 8 1/2 x 11 page sign at one point.) Nobody stopped for us for 4 hours.
Finally, a well-dressed Yuppie (well, that was the general term at the time) in a nice Saab stopped for us. He was going the same direction, so we rode with him for an hour or more. We talked about the destination and such, then other things ...
Oh, about South Africa, here's finally where this post is related. "Apartheid" was the system the White South Africans used to keep the Black! residents - who numbered well more than them - under control. Otherwise, something bad might, MIGHT, happen, "those mean racists" thought. That country had been under heavy political pressure by virtue-signaling lefties all around the Western World for some years already to end Apartheid. I'd seen it myself in left-wing areas in this country.
She being a young lady from Sweden in the 1980s, well, you can imagine the political opinions of my companion in the back seat of that Saab. I also figured the helpful man driving us was a Conservative as I was. Somehow she just had to get started on the evils of Apartheid and how it had to end ... I didn't know her well enough to nudge her in some way and shake my head, as in "This is no good. Stop."
We'd been out waiting for a ride for 4 hours, and that was in a good spot. Was this guy gonna stop the car any second and tell us to both get out of the car? I wouldn't have blamed him if he had. You don't get in political arguments (unless it's an Uber driver). She stopped after a few minutes. I think we all became silent for a while. We did make it to Galway that day.
I haven't thought about that incident more that a handful of times since, usually when thinking about the nearly defunct practice of hitchhiking. This Swedish lady is a whole lot older now. I wonder if she's gotten any wiser... not about how to behave while hitchhiking but about the races and the sorry state of South Africa.
That was just an anecdote. What South Africa needs is an antidote, not an anecdote. That'll be much harder to come by.
* Don't take that term too literally. This was in the UK, definitely part of the continent of Europe per Geographers describing the world, but not per the folks in the UK or in individual countries IN Europe , for which they have a good point geographically too.
** I was just in the south. The "Troubles" were still going on, but a young man doesn't care too much. This was just based on time and the problem of transportation.
*** See the footnote and also the post A man's home is his castle, in which I refer to this trip long ago.
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Trump's disgust and media lies upon lies upon lies
Posted On: Saturday - May 13th 2023 9:02PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Music Trump Media Stupidity
The screenshot above is the closest within 1/2 a second I could get to the exact point of Donald Trump's visible display of disgust with "moderator" Kaitln Collins in that town hall the other night. This was after this woman had asked him 4 times to get at whether he would honor the results of the '24 election* without regard to whether he thought it was fair or not. (Start at 1:00:45 for the questioning and 1:01:20 for Trump's look.)
Trump's answer that it would depend on whether the election had been conducted properly is fair enough. This grilling of Trump was not fair. The Lyin' Press would never question a D-squad candidate who questioned an election after a close one with strange discrepancies and a more crooked than 3rd-World voting system. Trump or whoever should just blindly accept the fraud? Screw that!
I cannot sit and watch or read the Lyin' Press for long. I get so sick of lies. It's lies upon lies upon lies. I was picking out a Rolling Stones song for the end-o'-week music, and the album Some Girls (1978) had this song, one I'd completely forgotten about. It's not really that great a tune, but it's good loud rock and roll. There's no way I could understand more that one or two lines of the lyrics until the internet told me just now:
Lies, dripping off your mouth like dirt.
Lies, lie in every step you walk.
Well that was a productive but pretty downer of a week, subject-wise, here at Peak Stupidity. Next week, we'll get to those movie reviews, finish on South Africa, discuss the border invasion surge, and have a little Kung Flu residue (that one is humorous), and we'll call out other a la carte stupidity when it's served up to us by this mad, mad, world. Thanks to all for reading and commenting.
* Assuming he's in it. If he's not, he won't care a wit. It's all about him, or it's nothing to him.
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Cry the DeConstructed Country - Part 3
Posted On: Saturday - May 13th 2023 8:41AM MST
In Topics: The Future Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
(Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 .)
We're talking about what was a White-run 1st-World country 3 decades ago, coincidentally, just before the people caved to pressure from the rest of the world to go Black!-run, South Africa. Part 1 had some really basic history, and Part 2 was about the destruction of the infrastructure. This post is about the White people still there.
Since 35-40 years ago, a couple of decent-sounding sources come close together at 610,000 or so White S. Africans having left. Right now, there are 4 1/2 million still hanging on there, though.
(Table taken from this '21 article form The South African site.)
From the same long, depressing travelogue by Michael Witkin, SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR WITH ITSELF, here's some more on daily life nowadays:
It was the weekly garbage day. I peered over the balcony from the second floor of the apartment I was staying at. About ten large bins were hauled out to the sidewalk to be picked up. Within less than a minute a deluge of beggars besieged the bins systematically sorting through the detritus, debris and trash. They would neatly empty the bin then would stuff unidentifiable objects into their pockets and into plastic grocery bags slung over their necks and shoulders like bandoliers. This is commonplace as I saw numerous times poor people fishing in trash cans for something to eat. A crust of bread, spoilage or maybe find an item that could be sold.
"Poor Whites” has become South Africa’s “New Subclass”. These are white families who have lost their jobs and fallen into poverty as a result of the policy of “affirmative action”, that is, preferential treatment for blacks. Living in total abject poverty, this destitute group is rarely discussed or acknowledged but is increasing in size. They survive in informal settlements away from the public eye; mostly in tents and hovels. They are mostly the disinherited, outcast and bereft Afrikaners that are bitter and dejected and feel abandoned."Reverse" racism. That's a cuck term that implies normally it's only the White people being racist.
This situation is depicted in TFI Global’s ‘You don’t need to die to see hell, just visit a white slum in South Africa’:“White squatter colonies, where there is little food, running water, and no electricity, live in shanties with rusted cars, ditches and pools of filth, and stagnant water with mosquitos swarming. Over two decades, the number of poor whites has steadily increased. ……Over 400,000 white S Africans are estimated to be impoverished. Reverse racism has been rampant and has ravaged the white population in South Africa. Targeted policies of the government has pushed the country to a near apartheid-like situation and the continued regressive policies have pushed South Africa into an era of subjugation of the people once more.”Published in 2020, the numbers are considerably higher now in 2023.
There have always been people begging on the streets; mostly blacks. Now however, they are joined by ever-increasing white beggars. I did see an entire family including small blond haired children with crude cardboard signs saying “Please help – God bless you” .The country has a Land Reform policy. As is usual in Communist-transitioning countries, "Land Reform" means "we're taking all your shit." In this case it's the Black!-run government taking land from White farmers, who are the only people there (the Boers, that is) who know how to farm. Gee, that doesn't bode well...
According to some reports, over 50% of South Africans live in poverty on less than $2.00 a day. Some have no access to sanitation, water or electricity.
Many of them are the Afrikaners, the descendants of the early Dutch settlers who have become dispossessed and feel betrayed, defrauded and deprived of their rights and of their strong heritage and beliefs. A large number of South Africa’s farmers are Afrikaners who unbeknownst to the outside world have been brutally murdered, their wives tortured and raped; their children shot. The government fails to offer any protection to its white farmers and there was a popular EFP (Economic Freedom Party) song, called “Kill the Boer” that the Equality Court ruled “does not constitute hate speech”. People are free to continue singing it and during a debate in Parliament about the farm attacks and the plight of white farmers, an ANC Member of Parliament felt immune to shout:“Bury them alive.”
At the end of the Apartheid, and the end of racial discrimination in 1994, there was joy and optimism and the promise of a unified society known as “The Rainbow Nation”. [ Heh! ]It doesn't work like that. Everyone can prosper, possibly, but White people have to be still running the place! Did he not get that? I don't know if the Archbishop was actually that stupid to believe all that. It's more likely he just wanted the power, making him kind of evil for an Archbishop.
This expression was coined by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu describing post-apartheid South Africa with the assurance of a total multi-racial society and a country where everyone has the chance to prosper.
Well, not exactly and Nelson Mandela must be turning in his grave witnessing what has become of the ANC. A caricature of itself, this ‘movement for change’ has itself ‘changed’ having morphed into an organized criminal conspiracy, eviscerating the country of everything it had, and gutting its citizens of all they have left. Today, South Africa is a country of “74 murders and more than 100 rapes a day.” (Business Tech Feb 17, 2023). The police chiefs are corrupt and they do not care for the sanctity of life but rather how much they will collect from another bribe. Of course there are those that do care passionately, and those that give to the country and their communities.No, that's not it! Just as Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, got it wrong in Animal Farm*, thinking that Socialism on the animal's farm didn't work only because the wrong animals (spoiler alter: The Pigs done it!) were in charge, this writer has it all wrong. It's not just that they've had the WRONG Black! leadership. It doesn't matter who they may have had. It doesn't work like that!
The irony is that the Rainbow Nation does not exist. “Equal opportunity” for whites does not exist. In fact, the abused minority of whites are discriminated against rigorously.Yeah, I bet. There's probably a shortage of people who "ever want to let him cut on me" too.**
Blacks get preferential treatment in employment, education and other areas. A white male is less likely to get a job over a black male. In fact, employment equity laws make it harder for whites to get work. Jobs in upper management go to blacks further ostracizing whites, and in a sense, sentencing them to more menial employment with the inability to use their talents to further themselves. It seems that today, whites feel that they are being punished for something they did not do.
The government has introduced an odious Quota System, a race-based policy that goes against the norms of society in this day and age.
While “Strict quotas are enforced for the degree in medicine and surgery. The intake of white students is capped at 2%” (Solidariteit Mar 26, 2022), there is a huge shortage of doctors and qualified medical personnel.
The racial quota admissions into universities, across the board, favor blacks over other racial groups. If you are a white student, it is increasingly difficult to get accepted into a university even if you matriculated with distinctions. Those of a darker hue with poor school grades are favored instead. If you did manage to graduate with a degree, you would then again be subjected to the quota system to obtain a Masters.Wait, payback? We've been trying to help. "Revere discrimination with quotas of 2% White? So, wait, you mean Affirmative Action doesn't end when all the quotas are met or exceeded? But, but... they told me this is just a hand up. Nope, we who are not stupid know the reality of it all, whether in South Africa or America. This is about power. The South African Whites gave up all power to the Blacks!. The White man in American has been giving power up gradually (for now!) to, well, pretty much everyone else.***
Why would a white pursue a degree (even if they could get into a university) when there is little future for them; being excluded from society and discriminated against? Today, they are the downtrodden marginalized scapegoats of South Africa.
There is a sense of this is “payback-time…..”
More polemic indignation to explain how this destruction could possibly happen, or be LET TO happen, will be in the next, probably final, post on this distressing story. We'll also explain why this is important as a lesson for us in America.
* That's our review, titled Animal Farm: Some allegories are more equal than others.
** From one of my favorite obscure Jimmy Buffett songs.
*** In California, right now, in fact, they are doing this some more, to the point of abject ridiculousness.
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Kung Flu Fever Dreams
Posted On: Friday - May 12th 2023 2:44PM MST
In Topics: University Kung Flu Stupidity
I'm gonna write this post now before the last image left from a dream last night is gone. This was not one of those weird dreams at all - everything was pretty normal...
I was talking to 4 roommates who were renting a house from me. I've done this in the past, but I'm not now, and the 4 guys in the dream were not people I recall.
They were telling me nicely that I owed them just over $800. They'd had to stay in hotel rooms for a couple of nights. Why? I figured that my property manager/ friend forgot to tell me something happened, such as he had to cut off the water or something like that. OK, well, not good, but stuff happens... no, wait, what?
"No, we had to move out for a couple of days because of Covid-19", the one guy told me.
"Uhhh, oh ...", I was trying to get a handle on this. "You guys got nothing to worry about with this thing though. You're young and in good shape."
He agreed, but informed me "Yeah, but we're gonna graduate soon."
Then, I realized "... oh, you guys have to make sure you don't test positive in order to graduate?" (This somehow all made sense in the dream, and, sadly, in reality too a couple of years back.)
"Yep, that's it."
"Oh, I see. Alright," (Somehow I owed them another 900 bucks too, but that part of the dream is gone. The $900 wasn't Covid-19 related.)
"That kinda sucks", I thought, while I was already gone from talking to them. Finally, it came to me: "This is bullshit! I'm not paying for this crap because the University is part of this PanicFest!"
This dream - OK not exactly normal because the times are not exactly normal - was right at the end of the official "emergency", but it's not like I've put much thought into the PanicFest in a long while. Oh, yeah, this dream could have been induced by my seeing some young guy at the Starbucks drive-through wearing a face mask in his car the morning prior. Yes, with the windows up. You're freaking me out, man!
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