China Covid~Zero Policy - Hu is Gu?
Posted On: Monday - November 7th 2022 5:26PM MST
In Topics: China Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
Gu is who.
Lately, Peak Stupidity has gotten dragged back, kicking and screaming, like a Chinaman with an orange Health Score, into the discussion of the Kung Flu PanicFest. Much of what needs to be discussed is residual vaccine coercion stupidity and the hopefully-coming recriminations as Americans finally realize how stupid and destructive this has all been. We'll have more on that latter - continued from last weeks's China Covid~Zero policy additional info. - tomorrow or so, but I want to continue a little bit today on our discussion of the worst ever of the PanicFests. That would be the latest Chinese re-start of it, known as Covid~Zero, which, amazingly, was implemented this very year, 2022!
We want to start with an apology. It wasn't that the story was wrong in general. It's that the guy with the explanation of China's reason for running this ridiculous Covid~Zero campaign is not a government official but a Chinese banker type, some sort of Chinese VP of Singaporean investment firm Temasek and bank StanChart. My Chinese source let me down on the info. on the position of this guy. At the end of that post, we asked Hu this could be. It is not Hu but Gu, one Gu Junhui (顾均辉). I guess he doesn't represent the government. However, this is what this big businessman thinks. What does Mr. Xi think? What kind of madness is he up to?
As I wrote in the discussion I had with commenter Sam J., this campaign is against the current strains of Covid-19, which are no deadlier than a Chinese Big Mac at this point. Mr. J's speculation is that the Chinese are not stupid and are doing this in preparation for a possibly coming seriously deadly virus, i.e. a biowarfare attack. Is this all just practice? Are the Chinese officials wise along with being Totalitarian?
Well, the thing is, if it were the case that this was a wise policy, saving China from future bio-destruction, the Covid~Zero policy over there could be more like a bunch of drills, in which you gather in one spot, get your health score verified regularly by officials, and test yourself every day. Oh, they do that stuff, but these are NOT drills.
This particular line of quarantine buses was in Henan province. This business is going on all over though.
A quarantine camp in Heiliongjiang, up in the cold-assed northern part of Manchuria. Granted, it's no pig farm, but is this really where these people want to be?
The Chinese economy, not to mention the minds of the people, is/are getting racked up with this uncertainty. One's business, large factory, apartment complex, neighborhood, and even whole city can be LOCKDOWNed at any time. All it takes is a positive Covid test result for any one person, or a bad health score due to the "smart" iEspionage determining that another person hung out for longer than some epsilon (approaching Covid~Zero) with someone else who had tested positive or had that bad health score. Once a location, that apartment complex or neighborhood, has been determined to be unwell, those uwell people, however it's determined get taken away to quarantine camps. Those can be far off, if there's not room in the unwell location. (See our recent post Thrown under the bus on the road to Covid~Zero for one bad ending to this story.)
For Mr. Xi and the Chinese Communist Party, the Covid~Zero program is about total control. Here's what it's about for the Chinese people:
I hate to link to twitter, as I just plain hate twitter. However, commenter Dieter Kief left me this thread that has info about this madness including pictures, two of them being the ones used herein.
We've had our own madness here. It's been nothing like what Peak Stupidity has been learning about the Far East as of late, but then we are an American site, and we care about America. We will discuss a Naomi Wolf article that Mr. Kief pointed out in another thread, and what exactly bugs me about that one in the next Kung Flu Stupidity post.
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Campaign Trail Therapy Fail
Posted On: Saturday - November 5th 2022 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Salesmen ctrl-left
(File photo above. I have no idea who the guy is.)
I have no argument against possible comments from readers like "You were wasting your time", "Voting is a waste of time", "We're not voting our way out of this." or like thoughts in other reader's heads. However, my wife wanted to go out and help the local GOP candidates for one morning, as a family outing. (Plus, there were doughnuts.)
I can sit here and stew about everything and take some of it out with blog posts. Maybe going out and "doing something" (really??) would be good therapy. It started out that way.
At the GOP office, there were about 6 young people running things. They had stacks of different campaign literature, maps of the hot spots to visit, and yeah, coffee and good doughnuts.
Since my wife noted that she normally saw old people involved, such as at the polling places, I told her afterward what the young people were about. I bet some were related to candidates, but all have some political ambitions, even if it's just getting to work on campaigns for the big guys. They may not want to be the next candidate ever, changing the world, but they want to be political staff or policy wonks. This is a hobby which most would like to do for a living. They don't have the attitude I do, as in, we're heading for disaster, and soon, and, though the voting probably won't do anything, the actual politics is serious business now. These young people think that, win or lose, this show will go on. It won't, but I didn't disabuse them of the notion.
We were glad that the young volunteers didn't want us to knock on doors, but rather just hang flyers on them instead. Talking to people for even 5 minutes per house average would take up much more time. (We only had the morning - less than 3 hours by that point.) Additionally, nobody in my family is the salesman type. Peak Stupidity has ranted enough about salesmen to have a whole topic key on them - here. I may have had enough of salesmen, in general, but I do respect what it takes to take the continual rejection and occasional abuse.
It was a beautiful day to walk the neighborhood, that is, the part in the map with the boundaries that I believe were statistically calculated to make the best use of the flyers and our time. Early on, we bought a couple of items at a yard sale early on that we had to carry around the rest of the morning. Yard sale notwithstanding, those people were nice and I think politically reasonable. We had some sort of half-assed pattern in covering all the houses, and it was enjoyable... up until this one guy...
Yeah, well, as I walked up I mentioned to him one thing about the change in the US Congress district boundaries, OK, yes, gerrymandering, and from his reply, I understood he was not down with what I was about to give him. "OK, well, I'll save the piece of paper, cause..." (cause I had a "killing the planet" joke coming), but, before I could turn around the guy said "scram!" in a menacing way. That set me off, because, as I wrote, I am not cut out to be a salesman. "We don't agree, but you don't need to be a dick about it." It got a little worse, I left, and I realized that this campaign therapy was a failure.
It got worse yet around the corner. Apparently it is NOT OK to go on porches of people who don't agree with the literature you're handing out. It's where the mailman, UPS, FedEx, and the Amazon guy go, though. Yet, two houses in a row had people who came out bitching. It might have been 3 houses, but by then I'd replied and headed out of bitching range down the street. I don't know how that happened - I really think some app was involved. We had only about 15 flyers each average by that point, so we headed toward home and passed them out with no trouble. (I told my son, for the one house with the Ukraine flag and the known lefties, that this one was just for fun.)
This is not my kind of therapy. I know what psychologist Jordan Peterson would have to say about it. We'd have been much better off staying inside and cleaning our rooms.
Well, OK, that was a week of eclectic stupidity. We'll finish that thing about Affirmative Action next week, but this "forgive and forget" Kung Flu thing has really got our, and apparently a whole lot of others', ganders up. We'll have more on that, at least one about the Naomi Wolf article linked to by commenter Dieter Kief. They'll be that election too... I hope my family turned the tide, but ... if I'd only been nicer to that one guy ...
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Kung Flu PanicFest - Forgive and Forget?
Posted On: Friday - November 4th 2022 7:29AM MST
In Topics: History Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
Above is the title of an Atlantic magazine article that is said to be from a whole issue of that monthly magazine on the same subject. That subject would be forgiveness for all the stupidity and people associated therewith of the 2 year-long devastating Kung Flu PanicFest. That last term is important. The Covid-19 was not devastating in and of itself. The PanicFest that was made from it was devastating to liberty, economies, and civilization around the world.
I strongly resist reading ANYTHING from that ctrl-left rag of a magazine*, but a link got me to this one: LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY by one Emily Oster. Yes, rather than being taken seriously, this article would be better put in the Osterizer - I'm guessing the writer has heard that one before.
Readers, and, I think most especially, the blogger E.H. Hail, would appreciate a thorough, errr, not fisking, per se, as that's too easygoing, but how about an evisceration of the advice Mrs. Oster deigns to give her readers. Look here** on Mr. Hail's Hail to You site for his large compendium of posts on the PanicFest. He may want to write a post on this very article, or others from that Atlantic issue, himself - just a friendly suggestion!
Let me say first that, though she is a Professor at Brown University (yeah, I know!) and an economist (yeah, I know!), Mrs. Oster (married for 16 years with 2 kids) has written some interesting stuff and is NOT particularly a Panicker as judged from her record. She's written a lot about parenting, including best-selling books. Interestingly, as related to current politics and vaccines, I read this from Wiki:
Oster published a dissertation for her economics Ph.D. from Harvard University, which suggested that the unusually high ratio of men to women in China was partially due to the effects of the hepatitis B virus. "Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women," pointed to findings that suggested areas with high hepatitis B rates tended to have higher male-to female birth ratios. Oster argued that the fact that hepatitis B can cause a woman to conceive male children more often than female, accounted for a bulk of the "missing women" in Amartya Sen's 1990 essay, "More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing." Oster noted that the use of hepatitis B vaccine in 1982 led to a sharp decline in the male-to-female birth ratio. Sen's essay had attributed the "missing women" to societal discrimination against girls and women in the form of the allocation of health, educational, and food resources. In April 2008, Oster released a working paper "Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China" in which she evaluated new data, which showed that her original research was incorrect. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt saw this as a sign of integrity.Yes, that shows integrity. It also shows that she was wrong in her PhD dissertation. People who make mistakes need forgiveness, right? Well, let's get to the article, as that's where I got dis-enamored by Emily Oster. The very first paragraph had me already pissed off at this lady, with the memories of this bullshit flooding back in...
In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!”That's it, you or your husband, or both, were turning your toddler into a panicky freak. As I'm sure the author would know from her (probably pretty good) writing on parenting, the little ones take after the parents a lot. So, they had their little boy trained to yell at a little girl based on garbage they "learned" from the government. Nice!!
These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.You didn't know, but those of us with common sense did!. As a matter of fact, I like hiking too, and we made it into the Olympic Mountains during that time. (Some idiots wore masks, we didn't, and I made no effort to get out of their way - 100 ft drop off into the fir trees or a chance of the Kung Flu, the choice is up to you!) I might have thought they were stupid, but I never minded people wearing medical face masks, Bazooka Joe style bandanas, or whatever. What I minded was people telling ME that I had to do this, in the woods or anywhere else.
[My bold to replace italics in the original.]
I have been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I’m co-teaching at Brown University on COVID. We’ve spent several lectures reliving the first year of the pandemic, discussing the many important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty.Oh, Lordy! I really hope it's an elective, for the sake of the students trying to keep a good record. Mrs. Oster brings up this "uncertainty" and lack of knowledge about the Covid-19 a lot. That "we didn't know" was not the problem. To paraphrase the great Ronnie, it wasn't so much that the EXPERTS with their mandatory policies were ignorant, it's that they KNEW so many things that weren't so.
The writer then describes her position on the closing of the government schools (and they closed ALL other schools too). Her position was that they were closed for too long and that the children were not very vulnerable to the Kung Flu. OK, great, but that implies that she believes it was up to authorities to decide this closing and opening, and they just went too far. Bull! They went too far when they made these decisions FOR US in the first place. That's especially the case with those ALL other (non-government) schools, and churches, and clubs, and businesses of all kinds. It's not a matter of "not enough knowledge" and "uncertainty", and "we didn't know". It's a matter of the rights of the people being trampled, whatever you know or don't. They were trampled. I'm not forgiving that shit.
Another example: When the vaccines came out, we lacked definitive data on the relative efficacies of the Johnson & Johnson shot versus the mRNA options from Pfizer and Moderna. The mRNA vaccines have won out. But at the time, many people in public health were either neutral or expressed a J&J preference. This misstep wasn’t nefarious. It was the result of uncertainty.The whole damned vaccine program was nefarious. It was nefarious because it was made mandatory. The only reason we didn't all get jabbed by these "missteps" is that the people started resisting. The forces that tried to coerce Covid vaccines on the public eventually gave up.
Remember when the public-health community had to spend a lot of time and resources urging Americans not to inject themselves with bleach? That was bad. Misinformation was, and remains, a huge problem. But most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society.First of all, don't be dissing Clorox. Clorox has electrolytes - it's what antibodies crave. Yeah, 2 years of back-and-forth misinformation has Americans much less trusting in the whole medical establishment. (That's a good thing, BTW.) On the "working in earnest" part, there's that thing about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
The people who got it right, for whatever reason, may want to gloat.Nope, we don't want to gloat. We want the people responsible for trampling Americans' rights pushed into ditches and buried so this doesn't happen again.
We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. Los Angeles County closed its beaches in summer 2020. Ex post facto, this makes no more sense than my family’s masked hiking trips. But we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks, too.This woman will NEVER get it. Precedents in Totalitarianism have been set. Do we want to forget that? Do we want to forget those responsible? Do we want to forgive all those who let it all happen, like Mrs. Oster, with her quibbling only about the timetable?
These control freaks shouldn't be in the same country with us. They have no understanding of liberty and the rights of the people. The useful idiots of the PanicFest like Mrs. Oster would have no idea why I don't want her in the same country. As for the actual Totalitarians that implemented the PanicFest, well, let me ask these Atlantic writers, did the Romanians forgive and forget about Nicolae Ceaușescu?
* Though I am thankful for the entertainment coming from Steve Sailer posts taken from articles therein.
** There are only 11 posts of his on that first page, so you will need to click the [Older Posts] button to get to his long series - maybe 15-18 posts, as I recall, that are in his specific "Corona Panic" series. He's been on top of this since the beginning.
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Fun with Jordan Peterson...
Posted On: Thursday - November 3rd 2022 5:36PM MST
In Topics: Humor Pundits
... but first, you ought to think a boot cleaning your room.
These videos are making fun of the pundit/psychologist/philosopher Jordan Peterson. I like the guy, and I assume the 2 guys who made the videos don't dislike him either. That's one thing about Conservatives - we don't get bent of shape over some humorous ribbing of our own - see this one with Donald Trump's analysis of Scooby Doo for a hilarious example.
Peak Stupidity has displayed a video of Jordan Peterson before only a couple of times. The first was an hour, 43 min. video of an interview with Camile Paglia. (I don't really know who was interviewing whom.) The 2nd was a video of him being surrounded and harassed by ctrl-left when he was trying to give a lecture. He took it outside and gave us a pretty good example of how to remain calm amongst the nutbags, but I don't think I've taken that lesson to heart.
Well, anyway, it's his Canadian accent and mannerism that make Jordan Peterson fun to imitate. He's close to the mark on that "cleaning your room" mantra too. Even cleaning about 1/3 of my desk off recently eased my mind. A cluttered space makes for a cluttered mind, at least for me. Enjoy the short videos!
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China Covid~Zero policy additional info.
Posted On: Thursday - November 3rd 2022 7:55AM MST
In Topics: Humor China Kung Flu Stupidity
Well, I really could have used this information yesterday, BEFORE I wrote that post! However, this semi-vague but important take on the asinine Lockdown II - Covid~Zero! program in China does not conflict with anything I wrote in it.
My Chinese source gave me more information, this time from one of the Ma's mouths, on why Xi and his gang are doing the stupid things they do. No, they are not afraid of some new (actually, this time?) really deadly virus coming from their enemy America. One of the other big officials of the CCP has stated something that has apparently precipitated out from the same black cloud of stupidity.
This Chinese high official discussed the Government/Party's worries about the same old dang Covid-19 thing that even the most paranoid school principle in the land here treats as the sniffles by this point. He says the Chinese people must still be protected from the ORIGINAL Covid-19 and its variants. Here's where I can't tell if he and his Party are really that stupid or just playing the fear card for the cause of Totalitarianism:
They must keep the case count down in China! As it stands, 90 million Americans, so they say, are still deathly sick with the disease. Many of them have Long Covid. They will die! (Well, that's true ..) (Personally, I think "Long Covid" is a combination short-cut and euphemism for "run out of my bank of normal sick time.") The CCP is telling the Chinese people that America - along with other countries around the world - is being devastated by the virus as we speak, and it will only get worse. The idea is to keep the Chinese people alive and well for the time it takes the rest of the world to die off... then, the Chinese can take over without firing a shot.
You thought that stupidity was only a Western thing? Hey, I did! It don't mind telling you that. What I mean is, even if this CCP leader IS lying to the Chinese people and not stupid enough to believe his own lies, he's still got to be pretty stupid to think nobody will see through this to the truth. Then again, "nobody" might only have to include Chinamen. They've been clamping down more and more on information flow there over the last (at least) 5 years. Lately, they even cancelled John Derbyshire's wife, for crying out loud, he figures for gossiping about friends and (I imagine) sharing mooncake recipes!
Is the CCP going all North Korea on us? Maybe Albania, but with Chinese characteristics?
Now, by this point, ! can see even the most loyal, regular Peak Stupidity reader going "Hey, look, you've got no names and no quotes. Come on, man!" OK, well, this stuff comes off of Telegram and personal conversations. Things get taken away fast on the Chinese internet. OTOH, this propaganda ought to persist though. Anyway, I DID try to get the name of the CCP official. Here's how that went:
"OK, who's the guy who said all that?"
"Huh?"
"No, I don't mean Hu. Or, is it Hu? Is that who said this stuff, Hu?"
"Hu do you mean?"
"The guy that said all that stuff! Who was it, Hu?"
"I don't know..."
"I Don't Know's on 3rd!"
Except for that last line, as my source is not Abbott & Costello savvy, I swear that's how it went. Really, though I did have that Hu Jintao in my head, forgetting what his deal was, I remembered after that conversation that he's the guy that was dragged out of the big 5-year CCP meeting recently. I'd guess Hu was against all this newest LOCKDOWN-II. I'll get more info later.
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Continuing Covid-one-niner Coverage on Clorox and China
Posted On: Wednesday - November 2nd 2022 7:28PM MST
In Topics: China Kung Flu Stupidity
(BTW, I cannot remember what the * was about. I'll look for this again and report back.)
There's lots more to discuss here about the vaccination business that just won't die, but this post will just be a quick one on this and that. Somehow, we often drift toward writing about China. For the case of the Kung Flu, that does make sense now, as this cloud of stupidity seems to have been blown by the upper-level Easterlies all the way across the Pacific where that air mass has been stalled over mainland China for months running. There's a trough and occluded front near the surface above Beijing that is funneling some of the most violent of the stupidity ... OK, I'm no weatherman, but I know which way the wind blows...
The sign above was seen much closer to home. In fact, I saw it the very same day, and right after, I wrote the post Cloro-Prepping, but it has stayed on my phone till now. Really, should we have been simply using Clorox this whole time? Could we have avoided all the LOCKDOWNs, social distancing, and face diapering, if we had known the secret? How 'bout the generic store brand... no, not trying to be a cheap-ass, but I mean, $7.59 a gallon? Wait, it's not a gallon? 121 ounces don't make a gallon, do they? Who knew? Only Peak Stupidity knows*.
The Kung Flu Stupidity cloud seems to have been blown off from my location. At the Halloween carnival at the school, it was as if the whole PanicFest had never happened. Is it all because everyone is so confident due to the vaccines, cause I hate to spook all those hot halloween Moms and their kids, but, uhhh, we never did get ... ahhh, never mind, carry on.
On the other hand, I've read the stories from Mr. Ganderson and others about Massachusetts, and others about various other States. I will say that I'm happy to see Federalism in action. Of course, most of what went on, and still is going on to a degree, in the more Totalitarian of the States is undoubtably illegal per their State Constitutions. Still, this PanicFest has been said to have gotten people voting with their feet. Unfortunately, some of the same people vote with their grubby hands for the same crap their feet voted out of.
I talked to a lady who was sitting waiting on a delayed flight at LaGuardia airport a while ago who had just moved to the South. I was pretty blunt - "Yeah, lots of Yankees are moving there [her new location in particular]. Hey, you aren't going to vote that same way..." "Oh, no, no, no! We're really happy to get out of here, and I like the way the people are ..." Well we talked politics for an hour or so. It was very enoyable. She's not one of them.
On to China (not physically - I really don't think I'm goin' back again). Peak Stupidity featured about a dozen posts this Spring and Summer about the LOCKDOWN resurgence in China and their quest for the formula for Covid~Zero. Yes, it's stupid, really, really stupid. They are a smart bunch of people. Is there something they know but we don't? Well, I've read some recent articles about the Gain of Function virus research labs and their work on making Omicron a REAL honest-to-God deadly virus again . (Is this strictly necessary?!) Some, cough, cough, Ron Unz, cough, opine that the Chinese are rightly fearful of the dastardly Americans sending over these deadly germs again to come and wipe them out. (Wipe them out?! 1,400,000,000 people? I mean, come on.)
Is the Chinese government (actually the CCP that rules the government) trying to do its best to protect the Chinese people from a real massive epidemic? Do they mean well and are just going
No, this is about control. This Xi Jinping they've got in near-absolute power now is the biggest control freak in his position since Chairman Mao.
I'm hearing from people in China that the people are not fearful of the germs, but they are of the government willy-nilly mandatory LOCKDOWNs and quarantining.
It wasn't me originally, but Instapundit linked me to yahoo-finance and this like about Pooh Bear over there - How Xi sacrificed China’s future in pursuit of total power. It rings true though.
The lockdown created an atmosphere of fear. “Everyone felt scared. Not of the virus. But about being sent to these makeshift Covid hospitals,” says Maggie, who didn’t want her surname to be used.If you think the Kung Flu Panic was bad here ...
“You didn’t know where you’d be taken to, or how long you’d be there. Some people had their flats broken into in the middle of the night and were taken away. Or their homes were ‘sanitised’ when they were in quarantine and a lot of their belongings were ruined. I didn’t believe this would happen in Shanghai.”
But she believes she’s lucky. A white-collar job meant she could work from home. Others haven’t been so fortunate.
The world’s strictest lockdown has destroyed both lives and livelihoods – and there is no guarantee it won’t come back. But its architect has just become China’s most powerful ruler since chairman Mao.
* That post is called Inflation by Deflation. We have also posted a building materials version of that concept along with one on tires.
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The John Birch Society v Agenda '30, formerly Agenda '21
Posted On: Tuesday - November 1st 2022 4:37PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Globalists Americans Liberty/Libertarianism
I take (as the old folks used to say) about 4 magazines these days. I don't have a chance to read more than ~10% of the issues of any of them.. OK, if I quit commenting on The Unz Review, I suppose I'd open up time for most of them, but that's OK. Though I enjoy the reading, I get all of these due to my being a member of each of their organizations. One of these magazines is The New American, which is sent to me each month by the John Birch Society.*
So, my 11 y/o son reads it. Hey, though the John Birch Society's New American ought to be part of any kid's homeschooling curriculum, I don't push it on him. He started picking it up and reading it during and after dinner or lunch. You're never too young to learn about what the John Birch Society's been warning us about for the last 64 years. According to wiki, the group, founded by Robert W Welch, Jr....
... is anti-communist, supports social conservatism, and is associated with ultraconservative, radical right, far-right politics, or libertarian ideas.I'm glad to see a more positive Wikipedia political page for a change! Also:
The society rose quickly in membership and influence, and was controversial for its promotion of conspiracy theories.What exactly are some of those conspiracy theories? According to Wiki, who knows everything:
The society opposes "one world government", the United Nations, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and other free trade agreements. It argues the U.S. Constitution has been devalued in favor of political and economic globalization. It has cited the existence of the former Security and Prosperity Partnership as evidence of a push towards a North American Union. The JBS has sought to reduce immigration.Well, duh-uhhh! So in other words, so far the conspiracy theories of the JBS have been proven out by history. Thank you, JBS - you are the wind beneath Peak Stupidity's wings!
The JBS supports auditing and eventually dismantling the Federal Reserve System. The JBS holds that the United States Constitution gives only Congress the ability to coin money, and does not permit it to delegate this power, or to transform the dollar into a fiat currency not backed by gold or silver.
The JBS opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the women's Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.
Now that's not what this post was to be about, but I'm glad to give these guys a plug here. I just got a 3-page letter from them, with warnings about Agenda 2030. Per the letter, it was this organization that helped caused the Globalists who planned out Agenda 21, starting (per the letter) at the 1992 Earth Summit, to miss their deadline, hence it's now Agenda 2030. Well, I don't know about that for sure, but we were given 9 more years anyway - 8 at this point, to get our shit together. For a prepper, that's a good thing.
Peak Stupidity can't keep up with it all, as we've written before. Some of the business this letter I got discussed, and of course, millions of pages on the internet will tell you, is far more about evil than stupidity.** (That is, at least at the higher-levels of it, we maintain.) The Climate Calamity™, in the new parlance, is being used as, not the only, but a big excuse to clamp down world society along the goals of Agenda 2030.
I have not kept up one bit, or written here about, the Ceylon ... OK fine, just this once ...Sri Lankan, troubles that were going on a few months back and are probably still are. However, per the JBS, the farming policy and resulting disastrous economic damage and famine there were due to the push for Agenda 30 using the Climate Calamity™ as an excuse.
It was pretty early in the life of this blog, the winter of '16/'17, when Peak Stupidity did some writing on the Global Climate Stupidity topic, based on our experience with engineering modeling, There are at least 15 posts there, if the reader is interested. The gist of all of it, as per the title of a series, is that there is no working mathematical model of the Earth's climate, dammit! However, and this is an important one. even if one of these models were tested and shown to be making reasonably accurate medium-term predictions of conditions around the globe, and we take the worst case predictions per the tolerance ranges - that creeping red stuff on the illustrations - that is absolutely no reason for the implementation of the Globalists' Agenda 30!
Were it all tested science, still it'd simply not be that big a deal, no matter if you pick even the worst case scenario (at least out of the papers of actual Climatologists). The way the Climate Calamity™ is being used, for one to scare the useful idiots (stupidity, not evil) and more importantly, as an excuse for control, is the story here***.
Back to the Ceylon story, from the letter:
Sri Lanka was the first country to be lured into the trap of Agenda 2030. In 2021, its Democratic Socialist government restricted the import and use of certain fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to force farmers into organic farming based on the false and dangerous premise that nitrogen emissions and pollution [sic: both? Seems like one and the same lying term] must be cut. Afer the first growing season, this policy was quickly reversed as yields plummeted, farmers went bankrupt or quit outright, and hunger swept the country. Yet, the damage was done. Even after rolling back these policies, the country continues to deal with shortages of food, fuel, and medication, as well as rolling electrical blackouts, 50+ percent admitted inflation, and a default on $78 billion of foreign loans (it's officially bankrupt). The country used to be an agricultural exporter, but it can no longer produce enough food to feed its own people!If you've studied any of the history of Chairman Mao era China, this may sound familiar. In his retrospectively-very-awkwardly-named Great Leap Forward of 1958-62, Chairman Mao planned out very well what the farmers he ruled would do to produce more steel. Gotta meet the 5-year-plan goals and show up those Roaders, ya know. Something like 30 million to 40 million Chinese people starved to death in the aftermath of the economic destruction, around '60-'61**** - no, not purposeful evil, but stupidity mixed with absolute power, so the same thing. In the case of the JBS account of the recent goings-on in Ceylon, I'd say it was a much more purposeful and planned-out destruction:
Next, the globalist vultures swooped in. The international Monetary Fund stepped in to "help" by providing a "rescue plan" "that is expected to allow major foreign agri-businesses and Communist Chinese interests to come in and pick up farms, land, and other assets on the cheap," according to The New American. [OK, I know, that's us.] These globalists helped to create a crisis, took advantage of it, and enslaved the country.There's more, in which the people fought back, ousted the President... but he's baaaackkk. This letter mentions this same Globalist plan being implemented by the EU in Holland, something I have read about.
There is a story about a Globalist project in our own Iowa, again with a Climate Calamity™ excuse. This one involves a 1,300 mile carbon dioxide pipeline! Do they think we are ALL stupid... or is it more like helpless? Nitrogen is 78% of the atmosphere, so it is plain ludicrous to call it pollution. Though CO2 is a trace gas, it's in and out of our very lungs all day long, and, better yet, it's what plants crave!
These Globalists definitely have an agenda, and it's all about them owning everything, and the people "owning nothing and being happy." (The happiness part is optional.) I will try to be more active in the John Birch Society, one organization that is clear about our needing to fight these Globalist scum.
In the comments, Mr. Ganderson has steered us to a folk song by the Chad Mitchell Trio from 60 years back.
“Oh, we're meetin' at the courthouse at eight o'clock tonight.
You just walk in the door and take the first turn to the right.
Be careful when you get there, we hate to be bereft,
but we're taking down the names of everybody turning left.
Unlike the case for your average REM song the lyrics are easy enough to understand, so I'll leave the rest out besides:
"We only hail the hero from whom we got our name.
We're not sure what he did but he's our hero just the same."
Yeah, honestly, I'd have to look him up too. However, though this song at the fairly early end of the Communist Long March through the American Institutions***** was likely written in the spirit of fun (and who can resist banjo music?) one wonders about that Chad Mitchell Trio. I think someone needs to exhume these guys.
PS: In another post to come soon, I want to discuss Globalists vs. Communists, and why Peak Stupidity uses the latter term quite often, with appropriate derision.
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[UPDATED 11/02:] Added The John Birch Society by the (likely Communist) Chad Mitchell Trio, per commenter Ganderson.
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* I noted recently that, though I'd not kept that name in my memory, there've been 3 Peak Stupidity posts that referred to articles in The New American before. See Fireworks from China, Our favorite VDare writer Jack Dalton on the American Commies, and Zhou Bai Dien hands over the keys.
** We just can't go willy-nilly changing our URL to PeakEvil, though, on our shoe-string budget. I did check just now, and it's still available (.com, that is).
*** That should sound familiar. At least for the Kung Flu, there was a bad virus going around. The entire world climate? Nah. They don't freaking know squat. (At least give me detailed physics behind the Ice Age process and tell me when the next one's coming. If you're gonna make a climate model, that may be an important part of the input, just sayin...)
**** One of them was the grandfather of someone I know.
***** That is, for MOST of the institutions. As I learned from the soon-to-be-reviewed book Blacklisted by History about the Joe McCarthy era, they'd already gotten very far into the Feral Gov't by 1962 - even by 1945 they had.
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Harvesting the fruits of a half-century of Affirmative Action - Part 4
Posted On: Monday - October 31st 2022 8:24PM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Race/Genetics
Continued from Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
Part 4 was unexpected. Being not really a current events site per se, Peak Stupidity bloggers had not learned of the upcoming Supreme Court cases on Affirmative Action when we started this series. However, there's a lot on the internet about it - see Supreme Court to Hear Cases Against Harvard, UNC on Affirmative Action from the Breitbart site*. We'll discuss this now in Part 4, and they'll be yet another,.. and maybe another ...
Please note that the two SCROTUS cases are about admissions to college - the 2, of course, in the headline of the article above. This is not a big case that could result in the overruling of precedent set in place 55 years back. Yes, it was unConstitutional precedent, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore. I don't think prospective non-White government and business employees have much to worry about here, as far as losing their privileges anywhere other than college admission. People seem excited about it anyway.
My favorite sites have included writing on these upcoming decisions. VDares's Washington Watcher II notes that Conservatism Inc. Focuses On How Affirmative Action Hurts Asians–Ignores Its Impact On Whites Aka Americans. In other words, even people against AA are often too afraid to state that AA is bad for White men.
I've disagreed with the illustrious Ron Unz lots, especially on the Kung Flu Stupidity. However, he has done yeoman's work over the last decade in gather statistics on, publishing nice graphics and conclusions about, and even starting court cases about, Affirmative Action cheating by Ivy League colleges for admission. Since Mr. Unz also does yeoman's work in touting his own yeomanism, one can read more from his latest article Challenging Racial Discrimination at Harvard. Mr. Unz also concentrates on the Asians (I guess it's Orientals and •Indians, so I'll use his "Asian" here) that are getting screwed. However, he does analyze the non-Jewish White Americans who are getting screwed even harder, admission-wise. That is admirable. Ron Unz most definitely does not bend to any pressure, real or imagined.
However, even regarding the narrow issue of college admissions, as compared to the whole gamut of Affirmative Action, Conservative anti-AA decisions in these cases won't mean much. I don't think it's being overly cynical seeing all the ways these woke-ass admissions people will get around any ruling. There have been workarounds for the California anti-AA ruling in the mid-1990s. Texas authorities did it by using High School grades to guarantee admission for some. They know, to be sure, that High Schools vary widely in amount of learning going on. Then, others use the term "Holistic", as in, we'll look at the big picture, for woke essays and sob stories of disadvantaged childhoods, and merit, what merit?
What if the Bakke case (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke) that I barely remember from 1978, in which a White man was screwed out of admission to Medical School at UC Davis due to quotas gets overturned? Yeah, well, supposedly there have been no quotas.
Sorry, but I'm not optimistic about anything changing drastically in college admissions, but then too, regarding the subject of Ron Unz's extensive investigation and analysis, who cares? I would never want my child to attend one of the Ivy League colleges, no matter how much merit would have him “deserving” it. Integrity is more important than money and power.
Notice who the elites that have come out of these ESTEEMED Institutions have been, those in high places in American Feral Gov’t and “Industry”. I suppose one could say we want “our” people back in there, but honestly, White/black/BLTG/Hispanic/Jewish, whatever, the people out of these Institutions have been ruining America since before I was born.
To paraphrase Bad Orange Man, they are not sending their best elites.
That was a digression, so let me wrap up by saying that these Supreme Court cases are only scratching the surface of this Feral Gov't and Big Biz administered anti-White edifice built over the last half-century. A Feral Government full of Conservatives would not be able to break it up. It would take Libertarians who realize that it's most of the unConstitutional Government itself that has to be demolished with extreme prejudice.
PS: This issue being right in his wheelhouse, Mr. Steve Sailer has one recent article so far on AA - Roland Fryer: Robots Can Replace Affirmative Action. (I'm sure they'll be more.) Though he does lament the screwing over of smart flyover-State White kids, as usual, Mr. Sailer never comes out and states that AA is simply wrong.
* ... this one picked picked because it was the first non-lefty site result from the DuckDuckGo search I did just now - number 17 result of the search for "supreme court affirmative action case". There was a Deseret New page for which I wasn't sure of the bias until I clicked to make sure. Yep, most references were to the NY Times and NPR and it was slanted as can be. Oh, and spellcheck does not know the word "Breitbart". Yeah, sure, a likely story ...
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Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
Posted On: Saturday - October 29th 2022 8:54PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Media Stupidity
... and occupants of campus radio studios too.
This post comes from my comment under the most recent post with its anecdote of Affirmative Action 45 years back in the radio broadcasting business.
One good feeling about working a volunteer job is that you don't need to worry much about being fired. I won't say who this was either, but this guy I know who worked as a volunteer at the campus radio station was (heck, still is) a big Carpenters fan. I don't know about now, if there even are still campus radio stations, but then they played some very eclectic stuff. This station demanded that the DJ's played nothing that could be construed as "commercial", as the idea was to not compete with any commercial stations.
So, though he was a big fan, this guy was told he couldn't play the Carpenters anymore. The very next day, though, you might have heard stuff like "... lookin' down on creation, it's the only explanation I can find." and "Surely time will lose these bitter memories, and I'll find that there is someone to believe in and to live for ... someone else to..." over the airwaves. "Hello? All-hit radio-o-o-o! You are the 4th caller... today. Hey, babe, what would you like to hear?." "-----" "Excuse me, I'm sorry, but you've got to talk a little closer to the phone." "We've been observing your earth..." "You've been observing our earth?" "No, we've been observing your SHOW, and you're fired!"
OK, it may not have been exactly like that on the phone. He WAS fired, though. So what? As I recall, that was not long at all before Karen Carpenter tragically died from her Anorexia. Anyway, The Carpenters take priority over campus radio station management. The paragraph above comes in a little bit garbled from the strange introduction to the very unique Carpenter's song Calling Occupants... of Interplanetary Craft, written a few years before the incident of this post, but after most of their classic music.
It was ... when was it ... nineteen seventy-seven, seventy-eight... it was a different time, you understand...* see, in nineteen seventy-seven, America was in the ending phase of a big fad involving space and extraterrestrial beings. It was really most of the decade, partly a carry-over from the late 1960s, during which there were books about flying saucers, extraterrestrials who'd come to the world in ancient times, ancient people rafting across the oceans, all kinds of weird shit. As for space travel and extraterrestrials, this stuff was in the movies - Star Wars, ET (that cute Extra Terrestrial), Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. That latter movie came out just after The Carpenters released this song.
There's a nice write up about this brother and sister duo Richard and Karen and this song on a blog by "Musical Aficionado" here.
During those Jimmy Carter "malaise" years, Americans were in dire need of help from someone somewhere... likely nobody in this world was gonna help, so, making a contact of the "3rd kind" with ETs** was the best plan they had. We need those ETs now more than ever.
In your mind you have capacities you know
to telepath messages through the vast unknown.
Please close your eyes and concentrate
with every thought you think
upon the recitation we’re about to sing.
I was going to write that last post on Affirmative Action, what, if anything, we can do about it on the job, in our lives, and in our society in general, today. Instead that one will have to be next week, coming with some Kung Flu stupidity and more current events. Thank you all for reading, writing, and listening!
* This silly Ken Burns-interview-style talk is from the most hilarious video you may ever see - The United Negro Space Program featured by Peak Stupidity in a more serious post of almost 5 years back, Apollo 12 Lunar landing footage from > 48 years back. I don't know why it cracks me up so much. Someone on an iSteve thread referred to this humor just a couple of days back too.
** No, not EFTs - Extra Terrestrials. You're thinking Exchange Traded Funds. They're not gonna help you.
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Harvesting the fruits of a half-century of Affirmative Action - Part 3: Anecdotal Interlude
Posted On: Thursday - October 27th 2022 11:34AM MST
In Topics: Music Media Stupidity US Feral Government Race/Genetics
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.
This Affirmative Action screwage story goes back to the late 1970s and is a personal story about someone I know well. It was the late 1970's, you gotta remember ... there were these people who we thought of as near-gods who played music off of vinyl records over something called Amplitude Modulation radio... we didn't know any better ... it was a different time you understand...
Being a Disk Jockey, or DJ for short, was seen as, hell, it WAS, the coolest job around. Plus people needed money at that lucrative $2.65/hr, which undoubtedly could buy more than the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 does now*. This guy needed the money for college, liked music as much as I do, and of course, wanted the glamor - actually because the radio station in question played country music, the glamor level was not high enough for the job to be any kind of chick magnet. Still, we're talking 1,000 Watts of radio power!
In a place where you generally had to know someone to get a job, this guy was lucky to get an interview from an ad in the newspaper, as I recall. He got along well with this prospective boss of about 8 employees in total, because they both liked rock/pop music, though they'd be playing country (back when it didn't suck), and they both knew the broadcasting business was cool.
This was the beginning of the summer when said guy could have made some decent money working, well, as many days and hours the boss would want him to. "Nope", the boss called soon after the interview. "It's the FCC, see. They are pushing for all stations to hire a black person sometimes for Affirmative Action. I'm really sorry. I've got this one guy, and maybe if he doesn't work out..."
OK, remember the part about this being a country music radio station? There WAS this guy named Charlie Pride. Yes, I! GET! THAT! [/Tucker]. However, black people simply did not listen to country music, and this new black employee would know nothing about it and not care about it either. It's not like they didn't have their own stations to listen to - I mean it was all "on the air". Besides the soul station, one of the 10 or dozen "formats" that Billboard magazine used to categorize what we'd now call "content" coming out of those transmitters was Urban Contemporary.** Nobody expected a station listed as such to play anything but music by black musicians. Additionally, nobody expected a station with that format to hire any White guys either.
Yep, said individual lost out on a money-making opportunity and an enjoyable job for the whole summer, as this small business was obviously under pressure from an, or "their" ABC regulatory agency, back in the 1970s. This AA stuff goes back a long ways, which is the point of this anecdotal example.
"Maybe if he doesn't work out...", the boss had said. He didn't. I can't remember if this black guy quit or got fired, but at the end of the summer, the station was "free" to hire the protagonist of this post. Said protagonist had to commute from college to work this job on the weekends, which he did and enjoyed it very much for a few years until the commute part couldn't work out. He and that boss were friends from the beginning and have kept up with each through this very day.
That's pretty much what the place looked like.
Just one more fun part of the story. It was country music after all, and, though there was lots of good stuff in those days, both these guys liked the great rock and pop of that era more. (Don't get me started on the Disco again, please.) Most music played was from 45 rpm singles, with the hit or prospective hit song on the "A side" and another on the "B side" Some stray 45's ended up in the studio. So, this guy's got a great Paul McCartney and Wings song playing, called Junior's Farm. The telephone rang in the studio. "Errr, Bill? Yeah, I mean that's a great song. It does have 'farm' in the lyrics and all, Bill, but, no, that's not country music. Please stop."
For some "crossover", that is, pop music that was also big on the country music charts, you could go with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, especially when nature called for more than your bladder... ***
All's well that ends well? I don't know about that. AA cost this guy a fun summer and a couple of semesters of tuition money. We've been getting screwed for so long, it seems to be ... 2nd nature calling.
* Granted, low-level employees in low-pay industries are paid more than that generally, but it's still crap - thanks immigration enthusiasts!
** Compared to the -
*** That's not to make light of the actual story (great video in our post here), but I truly did not know the song was about a real event until years later.
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Pittsburgh focus group REFUSES TO FOCUS on the narrative!
Posted On: Wednesday - October 26th 2022 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 TV, aka Gov't Media US Police State Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism
I got to this video via VDare initially in today's post Normal Trump Voters (A) Know More Than MSM Reports And (B) Don't Care What MSM Thinks by long-term writer James Fulford. (VDare had it on a tweet, so I'm glad I could find it more easily than is often the case.)
This is a great video. I don't know how much more politically aware these 10 "focus group" members from Pittsburgh, Penn. are than the average Conservative or Libertarian. If this is average, I am really encouraged from having seen this.
It's not like these ten decent folks have any great insight that goes above and beyond. What they say is common knowledge and common sense. It's just that, well, the Lyin' Press (arm of the Feral Gov't) is not at all down with the use of common knowledge and common sense. The look on the face of this young Elise Jordan character* says it all. Note that this is the video's official MSNBC caption under "see more":
In a focus group led by Elise Jordan, Pittsburgh-area Trump voters weigh in on the events of January 6, why they say Trump could not have stopped the violence on January 6 and House Speaker Pelosi on January 6."Led by" is right. I'd thought that focus groups were about asking questions and noting the general gist of the answers, such as "OK, so the general consensus is that it tastes great and is less filling?" that you'd get from an old Miller Swill Lite** marketing focus group. This cute but clueless-looking and retarded-sounding reporter spent the time trying to lead the group toward the Police State narrative on these 1/6 Political Prisoners.
[My bolding]
I really have a hard time determining this from that clueless Snowflake attitude, from the very beginning with "... and he was photographed breaching one of the restricted areas. Is that OK?" like she's about to cry. Check out the look on her face. Is she just plain stupid or a lying sack of shit?
This is stuff we've all known and wanted to say to these Lyin' Press people. This nice Pittsburgh crowd did this for us. From a focus group being led to explain that President Trump should have somehow stopped the protests and rioting that day, we see the focus shift to "Free the Jan 6th Political Prisoners!" Enjoy!:
I liked how the group brought up the murder of Ashli Babbitt (more here) by Capitol cop Michael Leroy Byrd. This was in response to the reporter's 2 1/2 year-old lie about another Capitol cop Brian Sicknick who died due to a pre-existing*** health problem and not a thrown fire extinguisher.
* I'd never seen or heard of her before in my life, honestly, which is obviously a good thing.
** I'm sorry. If you're gonna drink Miller at all, just drink the old Miller High Life, not that genuine draft crap or Lite. It's just more genuine, and, come on, it all looks the same swirling around and down the porcelain goddess 4 hours later.
*** Not to make light of the guy, a Trump supporter and all around nice guy per one of the Capitol cops I talked to about this (see 4th paragraph of the post linked-to above about Ashli Babbitt's murderer), but his was pre-riot condition and nothing about his health insurance. No, I don't mind calling it a bit of a riot, but compared to what the ctrl-left gets away with, this was a peaceful protest.
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Same Stuff, Different Decade...
Posted On: Wednesday - October 26th 2022 1:32PM MST
In Topics: Commies History US Feral Government Books
I mean 7 decades ago! What I'm posting about today was happening before and during the time this guy was being vilified by the US Senate and that day's Lyin' Press for trying to stop Communist infiltration:
Yes, I did finally finish the book, Blacklisted by History about 1940s-'50s Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. A review is forthcoming, of course, but we'll have this and maybe another post or two about specific parts of the story, as Peak Stupidity has before - see Young Commies in LUV and Truman v McCarthy, McCarran, and Ike - beforehand.
This small episode that Senator McCarthy brought to light is but an insignificant part of the Communist infiltration, espionage, and (usually non-physical) sabotage that went on in the American Feral Gov't starting in the mid-1930s. We are talking the year 1953 here*, but then that's just the time when McCarthy's subcommittee investigated the VOC - (Voice Of America) and the USIS (US Information Service) reading centers. These Cold War operations had been running for a few years already, so the subterfuge had been too.
Regarding the VOA, there were even infiltrators who had purposely pushed
for unsuitable siting of the station on the West Coast - that's how bold these people were. The story here (from the next chapter after the one on the VOA) is of those USIS reading rooms, basically libraries in as-yet-nonCommunist overseas locations to spread alternate political views from Communism.
One thing this book shows is that, as McCarthy would investigate one piece of subterfuge, it would lead to cascading stories of others. That's how this investigation started, as author Stanton Evans explains it in, Chapter 35: The Burning of the Books (pp 467-477). Among other books, the subcommittee found out that the works of celebrated black poet and admitted Communist Langston Hughes were in a bunch of these libraries. In fact there were 16 different titles, a total of 200 of his books, in 51 different locations. Just to be clear, these were in the taxpayer funded anti-Communist reading rooms in Europe and Asia (including China**).
Here's where the author gets pretty entertaining. From the hearing:
QUESTION [from McCarthy's loyal council Roy Cohn]: Now let us take those [Hughes' books] that you think followed the Communist line. Do you feel that those books should be on our shelves throughout the world, with the apparent stamp of approval of the U.S. government?Here's the good part:
ANSWER: I was certainly amazed to hear that they were. I was surprised; and I would certainly say "no".
Committee counsel Cohn would further inquire if these works "should be included in a program to fight communism today?" To which the witness answered, "I would think not."*** Quizzed as to whether such books were something "you would want included in our information program," the witness responded, "I would not." Such materials, he said, ought not to be on the shelves of tax-supported U.S. libraries overseas.Haha! OK, granted, Hughes had gotten better by then. ("Broken with Communism" is how the author puts it.) Still, the guy was pretty straight honest about it.
This threefold assertion that the early works of Hughes shouldn't be in our official information centers came from the world's foremost expert on the writings of Langston Hughes, as the witness being questioned was Langston Hughes himself.
Funny subcommittee meeting aside, the point here is that the same ctrl-left behavior that we see today was happening 70 years ago. Also, the ctrl-left of the time used some of the same tactics as they do today. History shows that Joe McCarthy, as per the title of the chapter in Mr. Evans' book was a book burner. Then again, history is full of shit. McCarthy never called for any books to be banned from being written, sold, or read anywhere, much less burned. He just did not approve of the US taxpayers being charged for books on Communism being supplied to USIS overseas libraries built to counter the Communist narrative.
Nowadays, our local tax dollars pay for lots of library materials on ctrl-lefty subjects, which we don't object to. Then too, they will often neglect or refuse (probably not even worth asking) to obtain popular materials on Conservative subjects, along with featuring all the wokest, most left-wing stuff in the world out in front. Nobody complains, because Joe McCarthy has passed on.
Same shit, different decade.
* It was early '53 when McCarthy and his committees really hit the ground running. That was due to the GOP wins in the '52 elections.
** I can't easily find information on the USIS to begin with, much less all the locations of these reading rooms. As for China, I'm pretty sure that library would have changed its format by October of '49.
*** This is not the review, but it seemed like the editor got worse and worse about correcting non-sentences near the end of the book.
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Happy Diwali from Michael Scott
Posted On: Tuesday - October 25th 2022 7:43PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Political Correctness Holiday from Stupidity
Since commenter Alarmist brought up the •Indian holiday Diwali earlier, and I know it's around today, Peak Stupidity will include a greeting to our readers, some perhaps of this persuasion.
Back about 15 years ago, after I'd been off TV for a while already, a nice Chinese woman sold me 4 seasons of The Office TV show on DVD's on the streets of Canton. This set me back 2 US Dollars. I'm pretty sure everything was on the up and up, intellectual-property-wise. She said something to that effect, but, you know, with the tones and all, I am not certain.
Branch office manager Michael Scott is the most lovable politically-incorrect character since Archie Bunker. If you don't like Diwali joke songs, perhaps that's because you shouldn't be here. Enjoy!
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Harvesting the fruits of a half-century of Affirmative Action - Part 2
Posted On: Tuesday - October 25th 2022 7:11PM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government The Future Race/Genetics
Continued from Part 1.
Part 1 described how the good intentions from lots of people without a real understanding of the differences between the races got this Affirmative Action process going over a half century ago. I'd say most of the American population not living in the deep South had to be pretty naive during that era. Others knew what was what but were outvoted and disparaged with nasty names.
At the end of that post, Peak Stupidity asked "Who knew that Affirmative Action would metastasize to peoples who weren't even IN America in 1967?" During this same time period - the mid 1960s - the same bastards behind AA and other Civil Rites implemented a program to encourage the massive immigration invasion we started feeling a couple of, arguably three, decades later . Back in 1965, not too many Americans of any ideology could have foreseen how this would change the country.
For some reason, which we will mention later in the post, many groups of these newcomers became beneficiaries of Affirmative Action along with the black Americans who did have ancestors subject to slavery. Again, though it's not the subject of this post, Peak Stupidity doesn't fall one bit for these sob stories and for the punishment of the innocent great-great-great-grandsons for the sins (of a very few of) the great-great-great-grandfathers. You want to talk reparations? Fine, that's another story - you may want to pore over the Peak Stupidity Reparations Plan at your leisure.
To digress slightly here, let me mention two otherwise very good pundits who are for AA, but only for these DOAS - Descendants Of American Slaves. Both Ann Coulter and Steve Sailer think this way. I understand that their point is about the numbers. When you add in all the new groups, even without including half the population, the women, more than half the population nowadays would be on the receiving end of the AA racial spoils system. These two pundits figure that's too many, and everyone but American legacy blacks has no claim ... you know ... against the pay and careers of the average White guy who never did them any harm. These two pundits are suckers for holding this opinion - perhaps "surrender monkeys" would be a better term. It's nothing but appeasement. Wrong is wrong, period.
Oh, but it's just the disadvantaged groups that are allowed to screw us out of pay and jobs, they tell us. Hey, not my problem, but I do note that it's almost every group that gets to claim being "under-represented". Chinese people may not get an advantage in hiring where they already predominate. However, if it's a career in which a the Chinese are not good at or even into, say, sports announcing, they can go bitch to the Feds and, "Holy Cow! He's outta there!" In the meantime, as a White guy, good luck getting the Feds to help you avoid job discrimination a the Chinese buffet restaurant.
One gets the feeling after a while that this Affirmative Action for (almost) everyone is not an effort to remedy the harm done to people in the past - as stupid as that idea is anyway. No, I've been getting the feeling that it's simply about screwing over the White man and nothing more.
My point with that digression, though, is to note that the sheer numbers of AA beneficiaries is much higher than it would have been with just the black population subject to it. By its definition, mandating the use of race or ethnicity as a factor in hiring, means AA has been increasing the employment of the unqualified. That's what this post is really about. Finally, we're getting to the point of this series.
The numbers still allowed AA to be tolerable for society as a whole in the 1970s and '80s. The White male population in the critical parts of the workforce was still a big majority. Those in the less critical jobs would suffer in trying to keep the AA hires up to speed or at least keep them from doing too much damage to the product or service. Others at the high end could keep above the fray and get the hard work done, as the big shots in management could tell the world how this diversity was the strength of the company, and "see, Feral Gov't, we're playing ball. Now, quid pro quo, Clarice."
Though White men were being hurt continually at the lower levels, back in the '60s and '70s American engineers, computer types, technicians, mechanics, pilots, etc. were almost all White men*. It worked. Society worked.
The numbers of people hired based on skin color, face-dotage, lip size, what-have-you, and not based on merit, is huge now. There are no longer enough of the competent to cover for the incompetent. Peak Stupidity mentioned this factor in our observations of the service at hotels nowadays in the 2nd post of our series Hotel Haiti - - On Competence.
55 years, almost 3 generations, has America very far along on this Affirmative Action experiment. At this point, it's not just the getting screwed over and having to live as 2nd-class employees for White men that is a result. The numbers of the incompetent for the job are big now. The incompetent have been mandated to be employed in all industries and in all jobs within them.
The picture at the top is of a collapsed pedestrian bridge on the campus of Florida International University in Miami. The bridge, touted to be a great example of female and minority engineering, collapsed due to a mistake in the design as it was erected in '18. Six people were killed.
OK, is that cherry picking of one incident? We read of occasional structural failures here and there every few years. However, if this society is not to see increasing numbers of failures of engineering like this, an overwhelming number of competent people must remain employed in the technical fields. Yet, they are being kept out or driven out by the wokeness, part of which is basically AA on steroids.
Will there be more of this sort of thing? Did the well-intentioned supporters of AA in the 1960s ever foresee it would go this far? Being scared to ride on a n airliner or cross a bridge is one thing, but there is a more general bad result that we have harvested from the half-century of Affirmative Action. It's all types of jobs being done by a big contingent of the incompetent. Getting things done is more difficult, and things are just getting shoddier.
It's harder to get worthwhile help at Lowes or Auto Zone. It's harder to get a plumber or carpenter who knows what he's doing. It's hard to get a vehicle fixed right, hell, fixed period. Don't even worry about your order being right at the fast-food joint. Just be glad if the cashier remembers you're there. (Better off not going in, of course.) Bank tellers are slow as molasses. Roads are torn up. Signs on the road are ass-backwards**
I'd thought recently that the shoddiness I see was solely due to the long-lasting effects of the Kung Flu PanicFest on small business. I'm not sure though. We seem to be going more and more toward the 3rd-World in ways I can see almost weekly. It's some bitter fruit off some trees that I sure as hell did not plant.
* By the 1980s, there were already quite a few foreigners, especially Orientals, who got into the technical fields. They were still hired based on merit though, from my recollection, as America was getting the smartest of the bunch. That's not the case anymore.
** Before the bend it said "right lane closed", but it was the left lane that was closed. That's what I saw just today.
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Chinese and the 4 tones
Posted On: Monday - October 24th 2022 8:10PM MST
In Topics: Humor China
Peak Stupidity wrote something on this subject over 5 years ago - On the Chinese Language .. and some music from
A friend and I were in a taxi cab in downtown Shanghai, China, having been sent to a hotel by Shanghai Connie - no, no relation to Shanghai Lil (who never used the pill) of Rod Stewart's "Every Picture tells a Story (Don't it?)" This guy driving the taxi did not seem at all familiar with the directions our Chinese friend had told him. Oh, did I write already that the city of Shanghai is about as big as 3 New York Cities? Well, we tried to jog this guy's memory of the neighborhood and street with our best pronunciation of the address "Loo Wah Loo" (see, the 2nd "Loo" means street, so that should have been easy).A serious effort at being fluent in Chinese* requires the Western student to get into his thick head that one of the 4 tones is an integral part of each syllable. Those 4 are the downward pitch, upward pitch, down-then-up, and flat but higher sound. Believe it or not, the 3rd one is the one that I find easier to say correctly and pick out while listening. That last one is likely why the language sounds so sing-songy.**
I did my best to get the address across to this taxi driver, but I am not good with languages other than FORTRAN and a little C. He was shaking his head and looking up at buildings out the window. Not good, not good at all. My friend can do a good Beavis AND Butthead and other imitations, so he was all "I've been learning some Chinese on youtube, I've got this!" He sounded a lot better: "Loo Wah! Loo?!" Oh, did I write already that there are 4 tones in Chinese pronunciation? Hey, it sounds easy, but if you are not used to using them, you will just figure you said things correctly when you have not. "Loo! Wa-ah Luooo?"
Now, the guy was shrugging, but then I finally realized that I had put a business card for the hotel in my pocket, so I handed it to him. That seemed to do it. "Ahh! Loo Wah Loo!". "That's what the fuck we've just been saying!" my friend and I said at the same time, happily. We got to the hotel, and of course, after that jinx of simultaneous expression, someone should have been buying a coke. However, both of us having heard the whole "Me Chinese, me play joke ..." cultural microaggression enough times in our youths, we both thought better of it.
It's really difficult to realize that if you say "cat" accented differently that a Chinese-speaker is not trying to be a jerk about it, but he really doesn't take in that sound as the same syllable each way. The other side of that is that, because we use accenting for different reasons, such as conveying emotion, we may interpret the Chinese tones as having a meaning that is not intended - they just go with the words. That's the 2nd anecdote:
The same friend from the taxicab told me how he had been talking to some lady in the north of China on the phone. That'd be in the big city of Tianjin, east of Peking. This lady was giving him directions in English to get there, in fact. As he mentioned the city in question, she corrected his speech. "No, TianJIN!"
Well, the way I wrote it is how it sounded to him. "Hey, take it easy, lady! I'm new at this, OK?" ... is what he wanted to say, but then, firstly, she had no reason to be mad, but then, also, she WASN'T mad about his mispronunciation at all. She was just trying to instruct him on the accenting of the 2nd syllable, which was the falling tone. We naturally interpret it as urgent or angry. It wasn't. It was just Chinese.
It's a great wall... I'm fine with that.
* Mandarin is just the standard Peking form, but all the dialects have this property.
** My Mom told me long ago about people speaking Chinese sounding like they were singing. This was in a time when China was still a deep dark mysterious place to almost all Americans, and I sure never thought I'd actually go there. (I'm pretty sure I'd never even met anyone FROM there at that time.)
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CDC recommends Kung Flu vaccine be added to kids' "schedule"
Posted On: Saturday - October 22nd 2022 4:28PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
My wife sent me a link to a video of Tucker Carlson talking about this additional pushing of what I'd thought was a lost cause by now, the non-beneficial, unhealthful Kung Flu vaccine, onto school kids. Apparently, someone got the risk/benefit ratio backwards on the spreadsheet. Instead of significant risk / zero benefit, a divide by 0, meaning "does not compute", a "1/x" function was applied and the CDC thinks risk to benefit ratio is 0, so why the hell not?
Well, I couldn't watch the video my wife set me with my phone, it having been dropped on a hard surface one too many times. Youtube doesn't make it easy to find*, so instead I've got this just-over-a-minute-long video from Lyin' Press outfit ABC that tries to smear Mr. Carlson as being wrong.
Tucker Carson said "that a CDC decision was likely coming to force children to get the vaccine for school". OK, that's the ABC guy's wording, as Mr. Carlson wouldn't have said "was likely" - he'd have said "is likely". I don't know if that's exactly what Tucker said, as they hid the freaking video!
If that's what he said, In the literal sense, yes, the ABC guy is correct. The CDC can't mandate anything. However, as a youtube commenter who may as well be our own Adam Smith** wrote:
Lies by omission. Yes they can't mandate it directly but every school that follows this list WILL mandate it.Right. This same clip says that "updated lists will be given [by the CDC] to doctors to be recommended to patients of all ages". Lots of people still trust their own doctors, and most doctors are not known to buck the system.
The main worry is that these vaccines will be put into the CDC's recommended vaccine "schedule" for school kids of all ages. Schools will blindly follow, as they are the very least likely to buck the system. They ARE the system. In the spirit of his warnings, then, Tucker Carson is quite right.
There are 2 things important I get out of this:
1) As I've written before, the CDC is an ADVISORY agency. No, their pronouncements are not mandatory. However, it takes a man with perspective, confidence, and common sense to not blindly take their advisories. Donald Trump was not that man. Per another video I just saw, Ron DeSantis IS.
Some State Governors in addition to Florida's DeSantis also had their skepticism. Unfortunately, many more were of the cover-your-ass, zero-tolerance (as in "can't go wrong making a mountain out of a molehill") variety, and then their were the die-hard Totalitarians like Michigan's (probably soon to be re-elected) Governor Gretchen Whitmer ***
2) It's a good thing that Americans have lost a whole lot of respect for the medical establishment over the last 2 1/2 years. I hope they will remain skeptical. Let the CDC mouth off all they want. Better yet, shut it down, as like the boy who cried wolf too many times, next time they're really onto something important, who's gonna listen to them?
* I did try bitchute, but I gotta admit I didn't try too many search strings.
** If not, it's somewhat of a coincidence. Then, the guy's channel does not have but one video, but Mr. Smith's channel has more.
*** See also a Governor Gretchen Whitmer - I wonder what her childhood was like. and Michigan v Sweden in Corona Challenge.
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Harvesting the fruits of a half-century of Affirmative Action - Part 1
Posted On: Saturday - October 22nd 2022 10:25AM MST
In Topics: History US Feral Government The Future Race/Genetics
(Really, it's been over 55 years, going on 6 decades.)
The image above, of the recently collapsed walkway/bridge designed by AA engineers in south Florida, is a better fit for Part 2 of this series. I figured out early on that one post on this will be too long, just as a title with a description of this part will end up too long also.
So, this post is a background of how we all got into this Affirmative Action quagmire. The 2nd post will be the real point, with a discussion of one of the increasingly visible and widespread results of this policy, that is, other than it being mandated screwing over of White men for the last 55 years. The 3rd post will be an interlude, with an example of AA from pretty dang long ago that's humorous for all but the couple of people on the bad end of it. Finally, Part 4 will ask what, if anything, we can do to avoid these results. (What are these other "results" that I mentioned? Look at the bridge, for one thing. However, there's more to it.)
I will not cite legal precedents and stats from Wikipedia here. For one thing, that impedes my writing, and this is polemic writing, not some Idiot's Guide to the History of AA. IOW, I don't need an Art Deco-style commenter (from Unz Review, whom I like OK otherwise) giving me stats that have no background and mean nothing without a real understanding of the long-term big picture. This has been going on in America, in clear view, since the mid-1960s, and I was HERE for most of it.
I don't see it as one specific piece of Affirmative Action legislation, decreeing that "White Men are hereby going to get screwed to help promote black people and women in the American Institutions." Government bureaucrats, at the Federal level - at first - but then at other levels when they followed suit, or just complied "how high, Sir?!" had plenty of discretion in their "rule-making". (Those are laws that DON'T get voted on by elected individuals). Starting from the purposeful increase in hiring of blacks and women in government, it increasingly became a widespread policy of forcing business* to do the same thing.
All the time, people were being told there would "be no quotas", which is a complete lie by definition. If you force hiring based on anything but employer's wishes - merit being obviously the main thing - then, there must be quotas.
Now, this is speculation, as I don't know the thoughts of the American population of the time AA was started. However, there are plenty of well-intentioned people I have dealt with who have had the same attitude... probably till fairly recently. That would be mostly Americans living far away from the Deep South, along with some do-gooders even there. I can understand the attitude, that Jim Crow policy was evil, the black people have been held down, and it's the least we could all do to pay it back with a little help from our government.**
You'd have to have had a real understanding of race differences to not get suckered in by this, something probably only prevalent in The South at that time. As for women, big beneficiaries of AA, men surrendered yet again to the Feminists, and figured a little of this may shut them up, at least. Big Biz wanted the cheap labor, and this was part of the destruction of the nuclear family - so 2 birds ...) Also, for all of this policy, of course, one would have to have an attitude of "screw the Constitution, screw fairness, and screw a few (not me) White men, full speed ahead."
There was a lot more damage being done by the Feral Gov't in the middle/late 1960's in addition to AA . Worse than AA was the Welfare State and the dysgenics of demography that it produced. A half century ago, though, that was not foreseen by most people. White people still made up 85-90% of American's population back then. Making this sacrifice of, hopefully other, White Men's livelihoods may have reasonably seemed like a small price to pay for the long-term benefits of black society being lifted up to White society levels.
So, almost all traditional American working people have not ever been in an environment in which the White Man ISN'T being continuously screwed out of school admissions***, pay, jobs, and whole careers. That people are used to it doesn't mean that it's not flat-out wrong. Additionally all those do-gooders have got to know, a half-century later, that AA has been a complete failure in bringing up black society.
Since then, Affirmative Action has become worse for another reason. Who knew that Affirmative Action would metastasize to peoples who weren't even IN America in 1967? I'll get into this in the next part.
* That's not just Big Biz either, as my example in Part 3 will attest to.
** This reminds me of President Reagan's mindset during the 1986 illegal alien amnesty, as this was to be the last of it, and the basic problem - border control - would be taken care of. Ronald Reagan later regretted the deal he made, and what he'd signed, very much.
*** I can hear ahead some reader's possible objections that "some of these places are private. They don't have to ..." Yeah, they do. Government pressure is often encoded in law, and if not, these admissions people know what's good for them.
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Sudden spike in the Stupidity curve - mathematical models flailing...
Posted On: Wednesday - October 19th 2022 7:29PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders General Stupidity Humor Educational Stupidity
We interrupt our regularly scheduled stupidity with this special broadcast of extreme idiocy... This is no Orson Wells novel, people - it's real, man!
I can't even come up with a topic key that fits this form of stupidity in the least. It's been impossible for the Peak Stupidity Forecasting Department (a guy named Josh in Bombay) to even get started in modeling this discontinuity in the stupidity curve, that the latest Michelle Malkin column has brought to light.
Read Fists of Furry. You'll laugh, you'll cry... OK, I've heard just a little about the adults that wear dog, cat, or bunny outfits not just on Halloween (lately, that holiday has been more of a holiday for sluts). Sure, maybe in California there are a few weird individuals ... OK, I mean localized in San Francisco... alright, certain neighborhoods in San Francisco... who do this, but it's not like you're actually going to see this other than at Halloween parties.
Speaking of Halloween, coming up in a couple of weeks, BTW, long ago I had spent some time in Seattle, Washington. This was in an age when there were a hell of a lot of people there with not just butterfly tattoos and nose rings, but all kinds of tattoos and pieces of metal and (what looked like) rubber wine corks and other shit attached to their faces and extremities. Later, I was placed at the company's location in a more sane and normal part of the country. Yet, there at the facility one day was a cute girl with hair died bright green.
Me: "Oh, you're out from Seattle?"
Her: "No, it's Halloween."
Me: "Oh yeah, right."
This new deal is not just on Halloween anymore. If one can identify as the opposite sex, I suppose, if you're on a roll, why not as another species? They are sticking to mammals for now, and the term is "Furries". Per the column in a school district in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Furries have been attending school as of late. (Michelle Malkin sure knows how to pick a school district!) Here is the gist of what's going on:
February, a parent had informed JeffCo’s ”chief student success officer” Matt Palaoro about rabid furries at Wayne Carle Middle School who wore ”cat/dog ears, tails, fur gloves, collars, and leashes” while threatening peers who objected. The parent’s son reported that the costumed students would ”hiss, bark, scratch, and meow” at students who objected to the behavior.To be honest, some of that went on in my son's preschool too. You know "Let them eat dirt", is what some actually recommend.
Another child reported that the herd of furries would ”walk on all 4s in the hallway” and ”also eat with their face in their food.”
"Wait, not pre school?
Hmmm, Drake what?
Drake Middle School, you say ...
No, it's not normal... that's definitely ... not at all nor...
yeah, we have a group for this... Carol will set up the appointment." [/ Dr. Robert Hartley]
April, another parent reported furry sightings at Dakota Ridge High School. In August, Drake Middle School updated its dress code specifically to ban animal ears and tails. (The public records show that litter boxes were never mentioned; it was Datko’s group that discovered they were being used during lockdowns.)That's also understandable. Our cat, more of an indoor/outdoor than an outdoor/indoor, used the litter box when we put him on LOCKDOWN due to a road trip.
"... listen, Mr. Carlson, cat litter is still pretty inexpensive, so ...
Oh, they're not cats ...
well, dogs have also been known to ..
... people in fur suits have been using the litter box ..." [/Hartley]
There's more hilarity in Mrs. Malkin's article. It's not as hilarious when you realize this stuff is going on among Middle School kids. Actually, it's still hilarious - I have no other reaction. This level of stupidity is something even I am not equipped to deal with.
PS: A major point of the article is something I did mean to write about already in another post and will shortly. That point is that the school boards and "powers that be" are flat out denying things the parents and children have experienced. Disinformation campaigns are real thing these days. We'll have more on that.
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Gentrification fail on the ghetto frontier
Posted On: Tuesday - October 18th 2022 7:21PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics
It's easier for me to write post from personal anecdotes, as all the details are in my head. I've been lazy about this lately. There's still a point here, though, and we'll have some posts of a different sort coming.
We switch back to racial matters here. The problems seem to be bigger and more intractable than ever, due to the ctrl-left Establishment having steadily pushed harder and harder against the White traditional majority for years. 2020 was a real high for them, but then again, now talk about reparations is being taken seriously. I think that'll be a bridge too far, but who knows?
The family in question is younger than ours (the parents anyway), and the Dad is a real gig-economy type, and pretty adept at it too. The Mom too, also switches from various gig to gig, even though she's in a field in which she doesn't have to. Part of their income comes from this guy's holding onto the family's previous residences - all detached houses - to use as rental/AirBnB. I've known other people to do this, and it's a good way to build assets long-term.
As their primary residence had some problems and needed retrofitting, the man bought a house for them (3 kids) to live in that was very close to the ghetto. The piece of land the house is on is was, in fact, THE ghetto - 50 or 100 units in about 6-8 single-story buildings in rows - but they had been finally torn down. (Alas, the chicken restaurant on the corner of that piece of land then died too.)
These new houses are nice inside and (immediately) outside, but there is just that one row of about 10 of them with the 10 or so acres of empty land, formerly those projects, leading to a busy road in pretty much ghetto, with black areas also down the street both ways and across the street. The building of these new houses was a gentrification deal, with mostly White people moving in, from what I saw. It's just the one block so far. Thing is, usually it's not families with children at home that do the gentrification thing. It's too dangerous to be on the frontier, like a White family in eastern Texas in 1860, just too close to Comanche territory. Gay people often have a deluded attitude about blacks, which helps immensely, they have less to lose, and don't care about good schools*. Then, when the "Indians" have rolled up their teepees, families can move in. (Peak Stupidity had a post about gentrification written during the Saint Floyd riots called The current situation in gentrification nation, for your edification.)
It was too soon for this family. No, luckily it didn't end badly, with not even a thorough "cleaned out" burglary, such as happened to another friend a few years back in a different city. There was more to it, also. See, the developer who sold them the house hsf promised that'd there'd be loads more houses built, the idea being that that large piece of vacant land, formerly ghetto, would be filled by more of these new places. That never happened.
This guy told me about that broken promise, but he never would come out with the honest wording on what the problem was. Yeah, I knew what the problem was. It wasn't just that the value of this new place wasn't going up as he'd speculated on, but quite the opposite. More importantly, this wasn't a safe place for his family. He never said it like that, heaven forbid.
In fact, these two parent are half-woke. It's weird, because they are Christians and not into some of the stupidity, but they are somehow down with the racial "blank-slate" stupidity. I suppose they can often go together. However, you don't push your luck. After a couple of years, the family bugged out and moved back to their most recent previous residence. This time, I doubt they came out ahead from the place on the ghetto frontier.
So many decisions in American life that could have been easier must be made with threat of black dysfunction and violence in mind. This is no way to do business.
* This family was able to get away with keeping one kid at a school that's for a neighborhood of mostly White families, homeschooling one, and having the other in private school.
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Big Biz now mandates the prescence of the unJabbed
Posted On: Monday - October 17th 2022 7:23PM MST
In Topics: Big-Biz Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
The image above is from just over a year ago, Sept. 28th of '21, at the approximate time of max Kung Flu vaccine coercion on the American population. Big Biz, as an arm of government, was heavily involved. The image is at the top of a web page of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce website The Biden Vaccine Mandate: How to Prepare for the New Standards & Rules.*
No, I guess when you're in local government in America, as Peak Stupidity has noted before, you don't question. Instead you ask "how high, Sir?!" In this case, it'd be "how many jabs, Sir?!"
That web page is just where the image I wanted came from - it's nothing specific for this post. The following will be more personal.
During that same time period, one year ago, October 4th of '21 (just 6 days after that article linked to) Peak Stupidity related a story of a family member and his Big Biz** employer's insistence on mandatory vaccination of all employees. That included people, such as my family member, who had been working from home for a year and a half already!
In our post Just another Maskless Monday?, we related the story of this family member. An excerpt:
The FM's immediate boss was miffed by this development [his not giving in to the threat] and really, really didn't want this work to end up being done incompetently by some POS (People Of the Subcontinent?). The way out was a religious exemption, which was really no farce at all. The company came through at the last minute - OK about 4 hours from the retirement acceptance deadline.There's been a humorous aspect since that time, in which my family member was not even allowed to play ultimate frisbee or softball on the playing fields of this apparently now germ-free campus.
Here's the latest thing he told me about it. The end of October is the Drop Dead date ... well, I mean it could be if you and the vaccine don't get along... shouldn't use that term, I suppose... Anyway, anyone who hasn't gotten a medical or religious exemption from the jab by then will be fired. They will also get ZERO severance pay.
OK, I'm no lawyer, so I don't know if there'll be some legal recourse on that one, but my FM's point in telling me this was to note that this CEO is being just plain mean and vindictive with that. If he's a real Believer, I can see him wanting for his employees to be "clean" in some way. No, the vaxxed still spread the same germs, maybe more of them even, and, well, my family member can't spread it though the internet - even Dr. Fauci hasn't mentioned that one yet - but, yeah, they can all feel better ... or GTFO. However, what would the severance pay have to do with it? Is it a further threat to get people to take the jab, or is it about just being a mean asshole? My FM says the latter, and that's a shame how the guy's flipped like this.
Well, as of about a month ago, the company has decided that it's all better now. Vaccinated or not, it's all good... The latest is that employees not only CAN come back to the office, but because one boss said they all NEED TO be there on Tuesdays and a different boss said they all need to be there on Wednesdays, they all need to be there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
What-the-fuck-ever! It's really Clown World out there, Big Business Clown World, in this case. Don't mind the people such as my family member's wife, who'd also been a long-term employee and up and quit rather than get jabbed, and has been working at a new job for half a year. She misses her old friends from that company is all... Heckuva job, Clownie!
PS: This was not the Kung Flu vaccine story that I meant to write about, awaiting to find out a few details. That'll come in due time. Also, if you haven't read it, for the record, here is the Peak Stupidity position paper on The Vax from just under a year back.
* If you look at the link URL, you'll notice it says "Mandatory Vaccination Programs: Can we do it and how?" I guess that was the original title of the page.
** Actually, some would call it medium sized, with well over 5,000 employees.
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