The Daily Stupid - edition #53643, Part D, and RIP Martin Rojas
Posted On: Saturday - July 2nd 2022 5:42AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Humor Pundits
One piece of this post has nothing to do with the other, but I wanted to put a short note at the bottom, as a new connection came to ligt.
Mr. Adam Smith's full Daily Stupid color edition #53643 headlines are here. This is the last section, and very timely it is! In fact, after we gather a little more information, Peak Stupidity will have a post about the pilot shortage as related to the Kung Flu and the associated vaccinations.
Regarding the reference and picture of Otto Pilot: If you don't remember the 1980 movie Airplane, a parody of the serious movie Airport (from 1970. Dean Martin is the Captain in this 1st of the series), well, you are really missing out. Go get it, now!
Again, thank you, Adam Smith, for putting a bright face on the daily stupidity.
I was not planning to mention the passing of Conservative writer/pundit Martin Christopher Rojas, but for a slight virtual connection I just realized. He died very recently at the very young age of 29, with no cause given in anything I've read.
Mr. Rojas was born to a Chilean immigrant father and an American mother, and he grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had been a writer for the American Renaissance magazine/website, which deals with White issues and the politics that cause said issues, OK PROBLEMS. Because there's quite a bit of overlap, especially on immigration issues, between AmRen (as it's called) and VDare, many of Rojas' articles have appeared there too.
Nowadays, with the ctrl-left really ramping up their destruction of careers and their growing outright violence, Conservative writers often use pen names. Per Jared Taylor*'s obituary, Townsman of a Stiller Town and VDare info, Mr. Rojas was known alternately as Chris Roberts, Gilbert Cavanaugh, Hubert Collins, Nathan Doyle, and Benjamin Villaroel.
I remembered enjoying the articles by "Hubert Collins" on VDare, and then, upon looking more, I realized I'd read him under the other names too.** Just now, when reading John Derbyshire's June Monthly Diary - his diaries are always great reading - I noted that his link to info on the prophetic Jean Raspail book The Camp of the Saints*** went to a "Chris Roberts" review. Hey, I remember that now! I can't remember if Mr. Rojas' review was what got me to finally get and read the book, but his review, titled THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS: This Century’s ‘1984’ was very good. Due to that being the case, I saw no reason to write another review, so Peak Stupidity just posted our review of his review 5 years ago.
VDare writers have mentioned young Martin Rojas numerous times this week, with references to his work. I remember also reading his great reporting job on poor southern West Virginia, in particular the town of Welch and McDowell County a year ago. It's a good bit of interesting reading. Here: Grace and Grit in Southern West Virginia
* The editor/owner of AmRen, one of the most civil and genteel men I've seen on-line (in videos) and mentioned and linked to in/by Peak Stupidity a number of times.
** VDare has a Writers link at the top, so one can find his articles that way. Sometimes that's the best way to search on that site for anything that's not on the front page.
*** This link goes to the Good Reads site. I don't link to amazon for books anymore, but I did check, since my '17 post. They only sell used copies: $114 for a paperback and a thousand and something for a hardcover. I'm pretty sure this book is meant to be memory-holed by now, but VDare sells it, and then there's Adam Smith again. (If you find a .pdf or other type file on-line, I'm sure the readers will appreciate it. I'd be sure to put that link in here.)
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Wave that flag. Wave it wide and high...
Posted On: Friday - July 1st 2022 4:14PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity The Russians The Neocons World Political Stupidity
... NATO's time done
come and gone, my oh my!
Nope, this is not Peak Stupidity's Independence Day post come early, so our bloggers could take off the long weekend. We'll have our usual Grateful Dead US Blues music up on the 4th. This is about different flags. I noticed that a neighbor of ours' blue and yellow "UKRAINE! UKRAINE! UKRAINE!" flag seemed brighter and neater than ever.* My 10 y/o pointed it out, as he has other of these flags around the neighborhood.**
It took one of commenter Hail's comments (under the post Keep Cash King below) to remind me, but with an additional point that I'll add in.
This neighbor is a hard-core member of the ctrl-left and has been for as long as I've lived here. I know that from the yard signs touting the usual suspects. After understanding her political stupidity, her yards signs became useful to me, as she would put them out for any old odd-numbered year election, maybe some Tuesday in June, and I would make the un-planned small effort to go vote against whomever was on the sign.
Why does someone like her fly the Ukraine flag? Neither her last name nor first name sound Ukrainian. She's not all "rah, rah, USA" and for anything our MIC comes up with, like lots of people supposedly on the right are. There's no American flag next to it for one thing. (Thanks, Mr. Hail.) I don't know about this particular neighbor, but it's not like all the Ukraine flag fliers are Jewish and have that whole "Cossacks are coming!*** mentality about the Russians, well, lifted for that short 70 yr. stretch due to Communism is good, mmmkaay?
60 years ago, this lady would not be pushing for "closing the missile gap" to keep the Russians at bay, and if she kept up would have been on the side of Castro, the Sandinistas, Salvador Allende, Angolan gorillas****, and any other of the Commie Resentidos around the world that "the Russians" were supporting.
It's nothing but mindless media brainwashing, I suppose. They've been a part of the ctrl-left Establishment for so long, that it's just what you do: They say "Go Ukraine". You put up a stupid blue and yellow flag on the house. You know support NATO, not something you'd have done when the organization mattered, say in 1980. I do wonder if this war were still going on during the Trump 2.0 administration, whether that flag would still way-ave ...
PS: Peak Stupidity concluded early on (at least by March 5th of this year) our post Is the Russia/Ukraine War another piece of Infotainment? with a "YES". I have nothing to argue on the war there, as I simply don't know much about any details, other than the instigation of the trouble 8 years ago by the American Neocons. You just won't read much about it here, but I understand the interest for anyone of Ukrainian or Russian background, armchair Generals, those working in the
* At this point, it's only about 2% of the houses that are Ukrainian-themed, but it had been closer to 10% back in the Spring.
** I think I'm kinda seeing things lately, as I also had that odd feeling about the ice cream containers being possibly smaller, as mentioned in the last post.
*** Thanks, iSteve Sailer, for the concept.
**** Sorry, spell check says I got this right.
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You scream, I scream ...
Posted On: Friday - July 1st 2022 9:05AM MST
In Topics: Inflation
... we all scream... about inflation? No, for ice cream, right?
Over 5 years ago, in our first post with the Inflation topic key, Peak Stupidity discussed Inflation by Deflation. The "deflation" is the reduction in package size of products sold by volume or weight.
That post described an example of a pretty sneaky change in the size of those plastic Dannon yogurt containers. The details from that post were:
The price went down recently. Then the size changed from 6 oz. down to 5.3 oz. (these are weight ounces) last week. Firstly, as a technical guy, I like round numbers, so 5.3 oz. or even 5 oz is a dumb package size. But secondly, notice that the package shape is very similar - maybe 50 thousandths taken off each axis of the oval and about the same off of the height. It'd be hard to be sure a calculation on this matches the 11% decrease in volume, as the fill level may also be changed. Hey, this would be a cool project for the kids!Going back at least 15 years now, as I remember where I lived at the time, I followed this "inflation by deflation" deal in ice cream. Yes, we all scream for ice cream, and I am partial to Bryers. That company, and some of the others, but not all, went on a 2-step size reduction program. What had been a 1/2 gallon (8 cups*) container for many years went first to 1.75 gallons or 7 cups and then to 1.5 gallons or 6 cups within a couple of years.
The price will go back up in a while, and then, after much sweat, many staff meetings, changes to expensive packaging molds and machine settings, talks with the label printers, and so on over at Dannon, they've made an effective 11% price increase that nobody (but PeakStupidity) has noticed.
The trick there was that they kept the lid the same size (or very close) and tapered the rest of the formerly rectangular prism shape. By the 2nd change it was very obvious, but did anyone else notice?
We bought some Breyers ice cream that was on sale 2 for 1 yesterday for a treat. Because we don't buy it so much (it's probably been a year), when I was still well outside the freezer from the I had an inkling that they'd done this thing again. I looked at it carefully, and then saw the description. Nope, my inkling was wrong this time. However, I'd be willing to wager a hundred bucks that we'll see more inflation by deflation of this product within a couple of years. It's been a long time, the US Dollar is not workless yet, but sure worth less, and people forget.
I won't miss that century note a whole lot anyway in 2 years, the way things are going. Mark my words, or, to keep up with the modern world, bookmark this page.**
* Official volumetric cups, of course. Yeah, that's olde British/current US units, but that's the way it is.
** Nah, the way this site is set up, it'll get you to the home page, I think. Post #2323 - see you in 2 years!
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The Daily Stupid - edition #53643, Part C
Posted On: Friday - July 1st 2022 6:59AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Race/Genetics
I'll repeat that I'd have liked to put this whole issue #53643 cover on one page, but it'd have been hard to read, so sorry to have to split it up.
Here's the full page.
We'll have the Part D tomorrow, and here's hoping illustrious commenter Adam Smith will have some more of this for us!
Later, I've got a short post on inflation and then Mr. Hail reminded me of another one. We are getting backed up here for the week. Tomorrow is the anniversary of some unique event, so we must have a post about that. (It'd probably be futile to attempt a guess at this one.)
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The Daily Stupid, edition #53643- Part B, and the near-daily Rockford file
Posted On: Thursday - June 30th 2022 12:31PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Genderbenders TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Cars World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Great stuff, Adam! It's a nice addition to the pure verbal analysis of The Stupid.
Instead of a stand-alone post on The Rockford Files, let me put a few nostalgic observations of a few episodes of Season 3 of the delightful mid-late-1970s TV show here.
The 7th episode of Season 3, titled So Help Me God was quite a bit different from the normal show. The plot was almost all about Jim Rockford getting railroaded by a Grand Jury for something he had no part in or clue about (at the beginning) and his and his main squeeze*/lawyer Beth Davenport helping him get out of the jam. Finally at the end, there was writing on the screen about abuses of American's Constitutional rights by the Grand Jury system.
That was just odd, as it was a show with an agenda, albeit not a bad one. I suppose that would have been lefty stuff at the time, even, by lefty writers. However, the ctrl-left was only in favor of the Constitution because it helped them out back then. Nowadays, I guess nobody would even understand the problem they pointed out or give a damn.
OK, to the fun stuff now; In Episode 10, Piece Work, there was a guy named Murray whom I recognized from other shows/movies. That was Michael Lerner, who WAS in movies and on the TV a lot. OK, it's got nothing to do with that, but I noticed a parking meter with American red/white/blue decoration around the lens (probably glass back then). Ahhaa, it was from the Bicentennial celebration. Since this show was early on in the season, and they've been reading MCMLXXVI** at the end, this was AFTER the actual July 4th Gala Bicentennial, a remnant, I suppose. Or, the episode was filmed that summer. I can remember some of the long build-up to the Bicentennial of the United States. It wouldn't be very long now at all until the Semiquincentennial (Sestercentennial or QuadMillennial will do***), in 2026, but lots of us don't expect the United States to be there in one piece, so why spend the money on parking meter decorations?
Hey, this is supposed to be a fun post, so then, in this S-3, E-10 show, I noted another AMC Pacer on the road. That was one thing, but then (forgetting the details slightly) one of the main characters drove up to the hotel in a brand new White Pacer, like this was a serious show.
I took note of that, but, if that wasn't enough, in the next episode, The Trouble with Warren, super-high-IQ Warren, Beth Davenport's cousin and a "real turkey"****, evaded the American-built police car in a blue Pacer! Jim told him to pull of into a driveway of some mansion with a wedding in progress. The Valet who was parking it, an afro-headed black guy, then had the cops pull out their guns on him. C'mon! They should have known this guy was the valet and wouldn't have otherwise been driving a bright blue AMC Pacer. He'd have had a bright blue Cadillac El Dorado or something. Use your head, guys!
Then, Jim found a valet tag in a random jacket pocket in the coat room (man, the guy could think on his feet!), and it was the ticket for a white and brown Honda. Now, this may seem weird to you, but from the looks on Jim Rockford's face and my distant memories, this was not seen as a good thing! It was supposed to be, and may well have been, a piece of shit. I had to stop the player to read "Honda", but I don't know the model. A friend had this tiny - for those times, but even now - CVCC***** we assessed as a POS - but these were not your modern Accords. So, in evading the cops, it was a trade down from an AMC Pacer to a Honda.
Also in that Episode 11, The Trouble with Warren, Jim presented himself as someone from HR. He had to explain Human Resources, you know like "Personnel". Ahaaa! I'd thought it was quite long ago that this term came into being. I never did like it, as explained in Part 1 of Peak Stupidity's series called Human Resources - scourge of the Big-Biz World.****** I think the term came to be well known, rather than "Personnel", sometime at the end of the '70s or early '80s.
Jim was in this office building trying to figure out who these Fed goons were, when he did his usual Okie hick routine, asking questions to a White janitor. Got that? A White janitor! This was 1976 America. It was a TV show, and we didn't all get to participate in daily car chases around Los Angeles or live in a trailer by the beach in Malibu. Still, this was 1976 America.
* One would hope so.
** For our readers in Rio de Caca, who may not be Roman Numerate, that'd be 1976.
*** Though the city may be full of Latinos, I am not certain that our Rio de Caca readers will figure these out either. "QuadMillenial" would be the hippest thing to call it, IMO, what with the 2 CapitalLetters in one word and all.
**** Per Jim Rockford, but Beth had to admit that he was indeed "a turkey" by the ending scene. The guy Warren was back there smiling at that. "Turkey" was a nice gentle insult back then... think I'll try to single-handedly revive this one, but I could use some help from the PS readers too.
***** Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion, that stands for.
****** See also Part 2, Exhibit A - Toby Flenderson, and Part 3.
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Keep Cash King!
Posted On: Wednesday - June 29th 2022 3:16PM MST
In Topics: Economics Race/Genetics Orwellian Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
I realize that a retort to this post from many anti-Globalist, anti-Orwellianism, anti-Totalitarian, anti-lots-of-stupid-shit readers will be simply "well, don't participate". I will not argue that, as I do agree - American patriots getting out of the whole system - "off the grid", as they say - is our best option.
However, I'd been working all day, then running around, and it was 4 PM and time for some kind of lunch at the hub airport terminal. This very place was among a few that Peak Stupidity alluded to in one paragraph about another aspect of, customer service, such as it was, in our post To the 3rd World - Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu!. This time, I didn't go back and forth to 3 places to see which one could handle the line of 4 people in the 20 minutes I had. I picked the taco place, and got to the register (behind ONE guy) in only 2 minutes.
Peak Stupidity noted over a year ago - as an example, in Cashless Covfefe, that the Kung Flu PanicFest was being used as an excuse for retail establishments to take no cash payments. Now, it's some other excuse, one that's hard to get to the truth of with your average fast-food workers. ("We got no bank in here." was what I heard. Whaaa?) Is it "supply chain issues", with cash? That at least sounds better.
Nope, I think Big Biz is totally down with the Orwellian cashless business and would be with other policies of smart-phone-based control that are going on full-bore in China right now.* As Michelle Malkin just wrote about in her newest column, American Big Business is cowardly. I would put it this way: the Big-Biz companies are full of craven cowards who would sacrifice competency, employee morale, and even profits**, if it gets them in good with the Establishment narrative, as dictated by Big Government.
OK, let's get to the rest of the anecdote finally. I ordered the one small taco for over 5 bucks. I was told that this place would not take cash. I raised a slight bit of hell, telling everyone behind the counter that it was not legal to refuse legal tender. There was no yelling, but just an impasse. Because they hadn't made food for me yet, the way this place works, I had no leverage beside just causing a hold-up (only about 30-45 seconds really).
I offered solutions, as usual: "Hey, can one of you use a store card or something? I'll pay ya'." Nah, "we have no bank." Again, whaaaa? "We can't make change." "OK, no problem, here's a five, and let me get out the change. How much is it with the tax?" You know, with the cards being used, I'm not sure the employees even look at the sale amount anymore, as she didn't know. She wouldn't or couldn't tell me the price, like for the damn taco I was standing there trying to buy! The thing was $5.35 or something on the screen above, so as I started to do a sales tax calculation in my head, she just said "OK five, we're good." "Let me get the change." "Nah, we're good."
I didn't mention that this establishment was solidly, errr, dark behind the counter yet, but that explains some of this. I waited my 10 minutes for 5 people's food to get "made", and proceeded to eat the taco that was about 5-8 x the price of the ingredients. (I know, I know!) While I was eating it came to me: Hey, if the register is not useable, then what happened to the 5 bu... ohhh, right. I gotta say, there's easily a contentiousness and/or corruption-prone difference of a factor of 5 or 10, on average, as compared to this being a White operated place. No, the money was being pocketed by someone, the cashier or the manager.
One more thing: I remembered too that when the manager came over to help, she told the other girl twice something about "void it", but no more about "OK, now do this ..." Ahaaa!
At first, this idea pissed me off, but only for a few seconds. It's not these employees' fault that this Big-Biz outfit was not set up for taking cash from me. Let them get screwed out of 5 bucks or to put it another way, out of 1 oz of ground beef, about 1/10 of a tomato, 0.1 oz. of lettuce, and a soggy shell. I liked the hot sauce though, and I can get that for nothing!
All in all, I think this went pretty well. I think it was a pretty good arrangement. It doesn't bode well for future 1st-Worldliness in America, but it's not like Big-Biz wants to go that way anyway. As Peak Stupidity has written many a time, they want the White Middle Class GONE. Hey, Corporate Globalists, you're missing some profits, you say? It wasn't me who went woke and hired no competent White employees. I and your line employees didn't discourage the hell out of people with Pride Day, Black history month and every other kind of month. I didn't want this Orwellian payment system. Maybe next time, I'll see if I can arrange the same deal purposefully without having to explain legal tender and Revelation Chapter 13***.
We'll only get back to the 1st World on our own, separate from the Establishment, off the grid. I guess I could have done without a 5 dollar taco. I was told long ago "You need to know how to pick your battles." Yes, I do. This is one of them.
* For lots more on this, either read the Kai Strittmatter book We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State or at least the 4-part Peak Stupidity review that will scare the bejusus out of you about the future and present of China: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- and Part 4.
** After all, there can always be bail-outs.
*** Nah, I didn't get that far, but one day ...
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[UPDATED 6/29 Evening:] I added the paragraph about the "void it" discussion at the register.
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The Daily Stupid, edition #53643 - Part A
Posted On: Wednesday - June 29th 2022 5:18AM MST
In Topics: Humor World Political Stupidity
It was March of '21 when Peak Stupidity's illustrious commenter Adam Smith treated us with his hilarious The Daily Stupid front page with headlines of all the Stupidity that's fit to print. Now, as USA Today did in or around the summer of 1983, The Daily Stupid has switched to color! (Yes, it's expensive, but nothing is too good for Peak Stupidity.)
Mr. Smith put the link to his newest headlines many months ago, but I could not fit it all on a page here without it being unreadable. I finally got around to splitting the page up (not very hard, so sorry about the delay). They'll be 3 more from this edition's front page.
Here's the full page.
PS: These edition #'s date from Mr. Smith's estimated start date of American stupidity (I guess), sometime in the year 1875 AD.
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Zhou Bai Dien: "I did that", and VDare's A.W. Morgan
Posted On: Tuesday - June 28th 2022 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Zhou Bai Dien
I liked this A.W. Morgan post on VDare right away due to the title and image, as much as it's a sad story for someone. Of course, the Lyin' Press will want to make Americans feel bad for this. We must have done SOMETHING wrong, and we must amend by ruining our country even more quickly!
Screw 'em. I didn't load 50 people into the back of a semi-trailer in the heat of June down at the Texas border. I didn't support nearly-open borders that encourage this shit. I would say that this ought to be good deterrent, as bad as the deal was for the poor bastards (and even some ninos and ninas in the trailer). However, this alone won't stop anyone. It'll be considered just a low-odds hazards of the trek, I imagine.
For the Potomac Regime bent on The Great Replacement, it's a great excuse for sob story and an acceleration of the policy.
I had about 3 tabs with other great posts by this new VDare writer A.W. Morgan, along with this latest one.
For the last 2 weeks, I've meant to mention him. I can tell this writer is a real fighter. There's no biography on the site for this guy, but from some of the many posts he's written, I assume he is another insider or former insider of the immigration enforcement organizations. The biggest thing I've noticed is that this guy writes A LOT! He's written an average of a post every other day in June and he's written one every single day on average in April and May. All of them have been packed with very good info.
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The Amazing Supernatural 6th Sense of Ron Paul
Posted On: Tuesday - June 28th 2022 2:13PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Economics Media Stupidity
I had wanted to post this yesterday, as an Unz Review commenter had embedded this in a thread under one of the Ron Paul or other writer's economic posts. I thought yesterday's post about the inflation redux should come first though.
The 3 minute-long video clip below is from the MSNBC Morning Joe lefty-news and financial info. TV show on May 15th of '09*. "Joe" is Joe Scarborough, and he had a co-host then named Mika Brzezinski. Though only the co-host, Miss Brzezinski should really take top-stupidity billing here.
The housing bubble that these TV pundits were discussing had just crashed, during the summer/fall of '07 in some locations and into the Spring of '08 in others. It was caused both by FED-caused lower-than-natural interest rates (rising from 1% in Summer of '03 up to 5% by Summer of '05 then back down to the 4.5 - 3% range at bubble-bursting time. (The FED just kept fucking with things to no avail!) and by the Feral Government's long-term intrusion into mortgage lending, cause, usual black dysfunction.**
Anybody with common-sense Econ 101-style (and specifically without the further Econ-102-style BS) knowledge of economics and who kept up with things could have seen both the housing bubble and the subsequent burst of said bubble coming for years. Peter Schiff had, Ron Paul had, and I would have, had I kept up with any of it***.
To some degree, Joe Scarborough is just promoting his guest, as it sounds like he was not much in disagreement. However, he also sounds at times here as if he is amazed that one could SOMEHOW - I don't know how - PREDICT these very obvious consequences of artificially low interest rates and government intrusion into private business.
Congressman! How could it be that you knew this, on the banking committee in 2003, and nobody else did until after the collapse?Dude!
One could say the same about Ron Paul's discussion of FED currency creation and inflation, the subject of yesterday's and many other day's Peak Stupidity posts. Again, could he know this?! Inflation was in the 1970s and it's here again, weirdly. Like a Poltergeist, it's baaaaccckk!
Just understand the simple stuff and don't listen to Congressmen and talking heads, and you'd have seen it too.
Back to 2009 on TV, it's this Mika Brzezinski who, a few seconds earlier (01:35) really stole the show here, and makes my point, with that one line:
"OH! MY! GOD!"
[BubbleStart - not housing bubble, but bubble of Mika Brzezinski's thoughts:]This guy, he's like Carrie, no, wait, he's not telekinetic, like, what's that other movie, that Bruce Willis one ... a 6th freaking sense! 5 years ago, he KNEW! Does Ron Paul have a DeLorean? He doesn't LOOK like a time traveler. How is this possible?! [BubbleEnd]
Dang, that 6th sense of Ron Paul's coulda' helped me out. He should have told us to buy gold in the 1990s and early '00s! Wait, likely he did.
PS: Big kudos to Ron Paul, for, even in his 80s, still trying to warn people or at least explain what has already happened financially! He and his one helper do the 1/2 hour DAILY Liberty Report****. In addition, Ron Paul has his own homeschooling curriculum. I can be pretty damn sure the books he picked for American history and Economics will not disappoint me.
* There's a 10 minute clip from later that year, 9/15 with another nice job by then-Congressman Paul in an interview I found here on a site called Dot Sub.
** Though the Hispanic $10/hr gardeners who got 3% down, variable-interest-rate loans on $350,000 McMansions in Arizona, cause "HOUSING! ALWAYS! GOES! UP!" were able to nicely get in on this deal too. Steve Sailer used to write lots about this on his iSteve blog.
*** I had no reason to care about housing prices at that time. I will brag that after reading some sites including the now-Communist Seattle Bubble blog, by '05 I did see it all coming.
**** The Unz Review used to host these, but I couldn't find it on there just now.
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Mister, we could use a man like Chairman Volcker again...
Posted On: Monday - June 27th 2022 7:52PM MST
In Topics: History Economics US Feral Government Inflation Dead/Ex- Presidents
Does anyone here remember these buttons from the time of President Gerry Ford? OK, at least do you remember seeing them at the flea market for 50 cents? Well, now they'd be 5 bucks, what with inflation ... * The 2022 version of a lapel button, since people don't have lapels for them anymore, would appear as an image on TikTok or mass text message from a modern President like Zhou Bai Dien thusly:
No, buttons or text message were never gonna cut it half a century ago, and mass text messages won't now. I was too young back in the time of those "WIN" (Whip Inflation Now buttons to understand that the law of Supply & Demand applied to currency as well as anything else, but I do remember an explanation of inflation during the 1970s that I naively agreed with:
"See prices go up, and employers then have to raise wages accordingly. Since they're paying higher wages, costs are higher, so they must raise prices. It's a vicious cycle."Yeah, that sounded right to me at the time, but I guess the news reporters of the time weren't too much brighter or more honest than those today. I don't recall (but then I didn't read/hear so much economic news at that age) mention of the US having just taken the dollar off the gold standard a couple of years before (these buttons). I don't remember mention of this FED creature (from Jekyll Island - nice vacation spot, BTW) at that time either. Where in hell was Ron Paul?**
"We just need to get off this cycle, and it'll all be fine. If we can hold down prices, then the whole thing STOPS."
Nope, it wasn't that vicious wage/price spiral. It was simply the Supply & Demand Law as applied to currency that was being created more easily, now that the government wasn't required to back up people's or country's dollars with gold.
Note: This song is not the same as the one by The 10,000 Maniacs. I hope it doesn't hurt anyone's feelings here, but Natalie Merchant is a better vocalist than Edith Bunker. Hey, somebody had to say it.
Just under 50 years later, older Americans may be feeling that Deja vu thing. It took long enough - as Peak Stupidity, with our Inflation topic key has long noted, real inflation since the mid-1990s has averaged 4-5%, not the 1-2% that our BLS green-eyeshade boys have been publishing for years. Now, we hear much more talk about "Hey, I just paid $7,99 for a pound of whatever. Can you believe that?!", and "I don't know why it's more, Sir. It's everything. Shit's goin' up."
It started with taking the currency off the gold standard back then. Then, Jimmy Carter-appointed FED Chairman Paul Volcker had the interest rates raised up right up against 20% (by December of 1980). This caused high interest rates on borrowing, especially mortgages, and a recession that [waves hands] reduced the inflation rate.
I think it will take some more reading and perusing the web by yours truly to relate the rate of money printing to inflation over the years since than. Federal money borrowing via Treasury Bills and Bonds continued through through the years, and there was never again a REAL surplus***. What we can say is that the Federal borrowing went from $1 Trillion/yearly (more than 1/4 of government tax receipts) to $4-5 Trillion for the PanicFest. That was all borrowed money, as in created out of thin air. Who knows what the real inflation rate is now? If you go shopping much, you may be forgiven for not believing the US Government's 8 1/2% number, bad enough as that would be.
Our post title here is a trick. We CAN'T use a man like Chairman Paul Volcker again. As Peter Schiff knows and has explained, Ron Paul has also, and Peak Stupidity has many times on these web pages, the FED is between a rock and a hard place on interest rates. Keep the rates the same, and inflation goes up, up, up, up! (I've been shattered!) Raise them seriously (not 50 basis points*****, no, much more than 500 basis points), and the stock market crashes and the Federal Budget is seen to be the sham that it is (with more than half of tax receipts going to interest).
America is not the manufacturing powerhouse of the Free World as it was 45-odd years ago, and it's a highly indebted nation now. We have no recourse but serious financial pain. Hey, Archie and Edith, no, where YOU were then... those were the days!
History doesn't repeat, but it (kinda) rhymes. Instead of "Whip Inflation Now", how about "Whip Joe Biden Now" buttons?
* Yeah, I know, there's nostalgic value too, of course. This is what sucks about that whole Jordan Peterson "cleaning up your room" bit. Lots of people might still have valuable Batman™ steel lunch boxes or WIN buttons if not for all that. Hey, I was close! A guy on ebay wants $6.49 for a Whip Inflation Now button, but if you buy 4 you can get 'em for $5.19 each.
** He wasn't long in coming, but during Nixon's time he was still in Texas delivering babies. He got elected to the US Congress in 1976.
*** That Clinton-era surplus was a gimmick done by merging the formerly separate Social Security receipts/outlays, still well in the black then, with the rest of the budget.
**** I like his title for that column too: End the Fed and Get More Doritos.
***** The economists' term for 0.01%, made up to have us thinking they are smart guys or something ...
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SCROTUS rules. Gavin Newsom hardest hit.
Posted On: Saturday - June 25th 2022 9:59PM MST
In Topics: Feminism Trump US Feral Government Legal Stupidity Guns
You haven't seen the dark days yet, Gavin. Those'll be when we need to use the guns, due to years of the policies of people like you.
It's not like Peak Stupidity pays attention to NOTHING but our own lived experiences as Wise White-tinas. I read the news on Steve Sailer's blog. (Haha, what would you expect?) The comments under that post are very good, but they almost solely discuss the abortion ruling.
I don't want to get into the general abortion discussion myself here, but I will say that Roe v Wade was unConstitutional from the get-go. It's pretty sad that a half century of SCROTI has let 50 years of unConstitutioality go by. Right around 30 years ago, a friend of mine discussed a book he'd read by Robert Bork, a potential SC justice the President Reagan 1987 appointment, the confirmation of which the ctrl-left derailed. Anthony Kennedy was then appointed/confirmed instead. He was decent, but voted in favor of the former in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which reaffirmed in principle (though without many details) the Roe v. Wade decision. [per Wiki] He was also kind of a Globalist with his favoring International Law.
Robert Bork was a real Conservative and Constitutionalist, hence his opposition to the 1973 decision which anyone who can read the one sentence of Amendment X would know is none of the Feral Gov't's business. The late U-Boat Commander Ted Kennedy, who only killed one adult, but not any babies that we know about objected thusly:
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is--and is often the only--protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.(That's from the wiki page I linked-to above.) I don't know, man. Other than the free association at lunch counters, not the biggest damned issue in the world, I don't see any of that coming from the mind of a Conservative Constitutionalist.
Anyway, my friend told me a lot about Robert Bork and this book. I remember his telling me of how the use of the Due Process clause to justify Roe v Wade was judicial rectal extraction. Too bad he didn't get confirmed - it was 58 to 42 against it, not completely along red-squad/blue-squad lines.
That was somewhat off the topic, so let me just state that I'm glad to see on The Unz Review that even Steve Sailer and lawyer/commenter Jack D. appreciate and understand State's rights.
Regarding the gun ruling, I ended up going to the Washington Examiner, whose site did NOT bounce around like a Mexican Jumping Bean this time, so I was able to calmly read Supreme Court gun decision could topple gun laws in liberal states. The gist of it is that the few States (7) that have "May Issue" concealed carry permit laws must stop the arbitrary screening they do.
Note: There are 3 arrangements going: 1) "May Issue" 2) "Shall Issue", and 3) Constitutional Carry - no permit required besides Amendment II. The last No-CC State was Illinois, but it dropped that restriction 10 years ago
The Washington Examiner article has a portion of Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh's concurring opinion. He does mention counties too, but I think this ruling should apply to New York City's issuing of the very few gun carrier permits to only famous or rich people... and black thugs need not bother. We'll see on that.
This isn't going to solve our most basic problems, but I'm glad to see President Trump's 3 appointments to SCROTUS vote for, if not Conservatism, just as good, Federalism. It was said to be 6-3 (SCROTUStices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were the dissenters.), but Fox News notes:
The vote was 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi law, but Chief Justice John Roberts [cough, sellout!, cough, cough] didn’t join his conservative colleagues in overturning Roe V. Wade. He said he would "take a more measured course."The gun rights decision was split 6-3 also, but without cuckery from Roberts. It was on a strict R-appointeed/D-appointee line.
The feminists have been dealt a blow against their "laws off MY BODY!" mantra, and the Communist Gavin Newsom was dealt a blow against his wanting to keep the California population naked and afraid.
Well, that was a busy blogging week. Next week, that Guidestone goodness may yet appear, we'll have something relating the Kung Flu to the Jan 6th protestors and some humor, we'll have more music, and also The Daily Stupid. Along with that, other stupidity just pops up everywhere. Thanks for reading and writing in!
PS: Gavin Newsom is only in this post because that tweet was in the Washington Examiner article, and it really pissed me off.
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A quadfecta of Curmudgeonry
Posted On: Saturday - June 25th 2022 10:34AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Environmental Stupidity Race/Genetics Kung Flu Stupidity
If you had been a subscriber to the Peak Stupidity financial newsletter, you too would have sold your holdings in the Wipes Sector in January of '20. Dammit!!
These curmudgeonry posts are easy, and this time we can cover a lot of topics in one shot. Long term readers may be familiar with Peak Stupidity's fixation with the exercise machines and the often erroneous electronics (for that, check the Artificial Stupidity topic key). The newer model consoles, at least Precor and Life Fitness, are better, IMO, and I've got no complaints about that this time.
The Kung Flu stupidity comes in here due to that very minor silver lining discussed already at the bottom of this post. The wipes shown above, from an industry that has been greatly blessed by the Kung Flu hysteria, have been at the gyms since they reopened* sometime slowly in late '20 or so (my recollection), and they make more sense than towels.
The "Save the Planet" environmental stupidity will come in for a minute here, as I just discussed this with someone who does longer workouts. Yeah, if you pour sweat on the weight bench, a towel will help you clean up after yourself. I go hard, but for a fairly short time on the machines - whatever sweat does fly around, it's pretty much evaporated by the time I get off this thing. (Hmmm, maybe I'm not doing this right...) I'm not worried about the planet here, but I simply do not like to waste anything - food, labor, energy, etc ... in this case, towels. As related in these pages in Green is the new sheap-ass**, that post specific to hotels, it's about money, too, and I respect that.
Then, a black family came into the gym. I imagine the Dad could have been serious about working out, but not really the wife or the kids. There was a very good chance it was fixin' to get loud in there. Luckily, I was only a minute away from finishing up my workout, so I didn't get to see. I was going to get one of those alcohol wipes or just the spray bottle and paper towels, to clean this thing off, as I would do any time.
Nah, no wipes were there, as the small pack was empty. Though I was glad to be able to use the exercise machine to begin with*** in this pretty fancy chain hotel, this was a black operated place through and through. The reader can get more of my point here from the 16-month-ago 4-part Hotel Haiti series of posts: Introduction -- on Competence -- on Caring -- and Conclusion.
It wasn't like I had a 5 minute debate in my head, but my 3 second thought process went quickly like: "OK, they've got towels only, but using a towel is really worthless and just plain a waste. It's not my problem that they won't replenish the wipes - Supply Chain problem, or competence/caring problem? Haha, I believe I know! These people are in here, but well, do I care what they think so much? Nah. I'm not your average virtue-signaling White guy. Eat my germs, bitchez!"
Whaddya' mean?! What attitude problem?
PS: Now that I've brought up the Kung Flu tangentially really, I would like to point the reader to E.H. Hail's latest post on his Hail to You blog: An “extremely wild” Corona-Reckoning may be coming in 2022-2024, Matthew Peterson of the Claremont Institute predicts. I hope a reckoning will come, but I'm doubtful. The ctrl-left Totalitarians haven't paid for any of their damage in a long time. I would like to see the day though and even be part of it.
* Yeah, now I did forget to mention that small, but possibly still significant, effect of the Kung Flu PanicFest in that latest Excess Deaths Revisited post. With the gyms all closed to keep the germs away, how many cardio patients let their vascular systems get weaker for that 1/2 a year or more? That CAN matter.
** See also Toward Sustainable Stupidity on the virtue-signaling reason for recycling vs. the actual, monetary one.
*** When these things go down now, they may not get fixed for many months. "The Corona", nah, that won't work anymore, so "Supply Chain Issues". Yes, it IS hard to get lots of parts these days, but it's mostly hard to get people who actually care ... to, like, order them and stuff...
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Rockford Files update and one minor POS
Posted On: Thursday - June 23rd 2022 9:21PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Cars Books
That'd be Piece of Of Stupidity, not Angel Martin of The Rockford Files.
I won't mention the cars this time, as I did here and here. ("The Rockford Files" private detective TV show is a small bit of fun for us here at Peak Stupidity - 3 more posts on that show are here, here, and here.)
It's related to cars though. In the Season 3 episode Coulter City Wildcat, Jim Rockford's Dad Rocky wins a lottery for oil rights on a land parcel that has a well already on it putting out oil out the ying-yang. Greta Thunberg would not have approved when Jim opened the valve to see and oil poured out at a rate in multiple gallons per second onto the ground. What struck me is the price that Jim used for his quick estimate of how much money, he, Rocky, Angel, and maybe lawyer Beth Davenport* were going to be getting used a price of a barrel of oil of 12 bucks. This was 1976, after the 1st oil "crisis" in '73. Yep, go here for a history of West Texas Intermediate Crude, but be sure to turn off "inflation-adjusted". That was about right, of course. Per this graph, that 1st shock in '73 only brought this benchmark oil from ~$4/Bbl up to $10-$11 and then there was a slow rise through the mid-'70s from there to ~$16.
Well, with the champaign flowing, Jim's (or was it Beth's) quick estimate was $42,000 each after all taxes, expenses, etc. Rocky seemed a bit disappointed, surprising to me, as that would be be a couple of hundred thousand bucks in buying power of today's money. However, Jim meant that was per day! Yeah, well, you can't keep the show running like that, and you know Jim almost always doesn't get paid, so, no, the US Government Geologist came in with some bad news about the deal.
I know there was something else neat or funny, but I can only remember one thing that I've seen more than once. Jim is chasing someone or being chased in his Trans Am on the dirt - a couple of shows later it's in a huge garbage dump, yet everyone's tires are squealing! Whaaaa?
Oh, and in the latest episode I watched, the worthless Angel Martin got married (the girl was fairly pretty) as part of a con. Late that same night, Jim heard a knock on his trailer door (no, he hasn't learned yet), and it's Angel, with "Jim, my marriage is on the rocks." Haha!
(Thanks for bearing with me on this, readers. It's just some fun for relief from the stupidity of the modern world.)
Now, onto the minor POS, the book in question (with part of the cover shown below) came from one of the FreeLittleLibraries,
It's just the introduction by Christopher Caswell, the very 1st page, in fact that has an error that I think anyone who has some perspective would catch. It's says there are 140 billion square miles of ocean on the surface of the world. Come on, Chris Caswell! Come on, editors! That'd be "million" - I did a quick calculation using 4πr2 for a 4,000 mile radius earth and the oceans being 3/4 of it. That gets me 150 million mi2 . Yeah, the guy meant 140 million. Couldn't anyone catch that on the first page?! It's not a numbers book - that was one of very few I recall. Remember "DIMS", people. Does It Make Sense?
* I can't remember already how she was involved, but Jim would have treated her pretty well anyway. He would have been able to pay her back each time for tacos for breakfast, for example.
** I had no idea that William F. Buckley was such an accomplished sailor, having sailed the Atlantic Ocean even.
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In memory of, and justice for, Jupiter Paulsen
Posted On: Thursday - June 23rd 2022 11:11AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Media Stupidity
Her real name was Daisy.
From an anonymous North Dakota (probably Fargo) resident going by "Dakota Witness" on VDare a week back, I read Protest In Fargo ND Over Murder Of White Child By African Immigrant. Media Ignores I'll just let this witness (to the protest and maybe more) have his say here:
The name of Daisy “Jupiter” Paulsen has never appeared in the New York Times or the Washington Post, and over a year after her brutal murder in Fargo, ND at the hands of African immigrant Arthur Prince Kollie it’s now less likely to appear than ever. That’s because her father, Robert Paulsen, desperate over the institutional failures that led to her death and over what seems to be the increasing likelihood that Kollie will escape punishment, has allied with the radical National Justice Party, described by critics like the virulently anti-white Anti-Defamation League as “a virulently antisemitic white supremacist group,” to protest the scandal. Of course the short-term result is an even more intense media blackout. But Paulsen obviously felt he had no choice.(As usual, VDare has loads of links for the reader who wants more details.) About the protest this past June 4th:
On Saturday June 4th, the anniversary of Kollie’s crime, some 40-50 people led by local grassroots organizer Peter Tefft and NJP chairman Michael Peinovich marched through Fargo’s downtown. The peaceful protest (Video) started at the victim’s home and ended with a picket in front of the Fargo courthouse. It was shadowed by a small group of self-identified “Antifa” members (Video), who mocked and jeered the white activists and the family they had come to support. Neither national nor local media covered the march, despite it causing a lot of discussion in Fargo.That bolding is mine to illustrate how sick these antifa Commies are. About the murder of the girl:
Jupiter Paulsen’s tragedy began on June 4th, 2021, when she left her home to visit her mother’s house. As she passed through a strip mall, Kollie allegedly began following her. Then, without provocation, Kollie allegedly stabbed and strangled the cornered white child in a savage attack that lasted 25 minutes.This would have never happened if there was a working justice system in the country, as if it were a century, even half a century, ago:
Kollie attempted to escape when a witness confronted him, and he was filmed in a store trying to change out of his bloody clothing. (There’s no suggestion of any sexual assault, although the prosecutor suggests robbery was a motive.) Jupiter was taken to hospital, where she died of her catastrophic injuries. She was 14 years old.
Among the institutional failures contributing to Jupiter’s death: America’s Refugee Racket. Kollie, who is originally from the Ivory Coast, immigrated from Liberia, probably under North Dakota’s refugee resettlement program. (Typically, the corporate media hasn’t bothered to ask.) In the U.S. he was a habitual offender who was in and out of prison. So much for screening.That sounds like the whole story, but Dakota Witness wrote more about the struggles of Jupiter's Dad and family, the racial aspect, the destructive refugee resettlement program (they've got BOTH kinds of compassion, Hebrew AND Lutheran!), and more...
Shortly after Kollie was released from a one-year sentence for a previous violent felony in 2020, he was arrested again for the unlawful possession of a firearm, discharging the firearm, and drug possession. Court records show that on May 7, 2021, less than a month before the girl’s murder, Kollie was sentenced to two years in prison.
This has been the 1st half of the article, pretty much, but please go read the rest. I wish just 10% of the country would read VDare. That'd be enough to cause the hell-raising we need. Speaking of hell-raising, if I were Robert Paulsen, I can't be sure, because it's not me, but I think whatever I would be doing now is something I can't discuss on the internet.
This is not some top news story, because this is NOT the only such incident of murder and mayhem by people who shouldn't be in the country, much less out of prison. Additionally, as you can read, the Lyin' Press has been covering this story, with a pillow, until it's dead*. Peak Stupidity has posted this specific one to help get a few more thousand people to learn of it.
* Hat tip to blogger IowaHawk for that line.
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LittleFreePropagandaDistributors
Posted On: Wednesday - June 22nd 2022 5:01PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Books
This is not a book review, but not for lack of finding a copy.
No, I swear I didn't change the height/width perspective of the image above. Why would you even think that?
Peak Stupidity has had a handful of posts on the nice "Stuff White People Like" idea of the LittleFreeLibraries that you may see in your neighborhood. We've had them around for at least 5 years, but it's been 13 years since a guy named Todd H. Bol had the idea and made the first one. There are said to be in the (white) neighborhood of 100,000 of these around. (That was last year.)
In LittleFreeLibraries in the leafy neighborhoods, we discussed the SWPL aspect of these things and the lefty slant of many of the adult books. That's to be expected in my neighborhood, where there are still BLM signs, when you can see past the occasional Ukrainian flag and the "Everyone Welcome" signs too.
I noted in our review of the Appendix* of the book Walking through the Fire by immigration patriot and cuck nonetheless Steve King that I would put his book in one of these nearby. It's been 2 months now, and we just checked - the book is still there. Is that good or bad? At least the library owners did not pull it out and burn it in the fireplace (you know, carbon footprints and all...). OTOH, nobody wanted to read it. That's splits off into another good/bad decision. Do the adults that look at this library know the guy's a cuck or are they too lefty to want to read any book by an immigration patriot or any Republican? More likely than all of that is that nobody yet has heard of the guy OR the book!
On another block, in front of another house of lefties - I know this due to a phone call that I discussed in It's a Beautiful Day in the Leafy** Neighborhood.***, there were 5 copies of the Stacy Abrams book above. What was the deal there? Did these people buy a bunch of the books to support this fat-ass, big-time Georgia racial politician, and they just need to get rid of these copies? Maybe they really want the neighborhood to read this book. Maybe their LittleFreeLibrary branch will double as LIttleFreeKindling this coming winter. I should be fair and at least leave them there, as people have the Steve King book.
I guess the moral of this post is that LIttleFreeLibraries can be efforts of generosity, but then they may also be used instead of a trash/recycling bin for those too guilty to go straight to the trash can - Let's all work toward Sustainable Stupidity!
* The basic book review is here.
** Yeah, I kinda got that "leafy", meaning White and, yeah, leafy, from iSteve Sailer.
*** Peak Stupidity did provide equal time to the non-White side of the LittleFreeLibrary thing in Extreme black wokeness and LittleFreeLibraries - stupidity or lies?
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That's a man, baby!
Posted On: Tuesday - June 21st 2022 7:45PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Lefty MegaStupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness Pundits
Blogger Steve Sailer has some very good posts,* especially when the subject is one of his bigger interests. He has discussed the ex-men (his own clever terminology) quite a few times, that is male-to-female tran-sexuals*. I need to start writing "trannies", as the word"tran-sexual" always puts a very good rock song from a weird-ass movie into my head for at least 1/2 an hour afterwards.
I wish I could say "only in LA" with regard to this one, as the story is about an LA "family guy", now "family girl", I guess. However, this stupidity has long since spread. The background of the Tur nuclear family is very interesting, before all this genderbender stuff - Mr. Sailer's title is Happy Father's Day to Chopper Pilot Zoey Tur.
You can read the story there, but I found 2 videos, one serious, and one humorous, that I wanted to post. I can't find the whole 15 minute video from some Headline News Network(?) talk show that is in the comments there, but the reader may well have gotten too disgusted to get through it. That's not only due to the featured stupidity, but also in seeing how rigid, authoritarian and intolerant of other opinions the whole panel of
I didn't start this short clip at 01:50 (for some context), but that's where you can see the ex-man Zoey Tur threaten Ben Shapiro on TV, with no recognition of it by the rest of the pundits. After you see this, think about the roles having been reversed. Imagine that some White guy about 50% heavier in muscle than a person-of-privilege (i.e., anyone but a White man) did the same thing. It'd be the worst thing since the death of the worthless black reprobate George Floyd.
What this incident really shows us is that "Zoey", actually Bob Tur has the strength and personality of a man, no matter what pattern dresses and color lipstick he wears. Can you imagine an ACTUAL women ever behaving in this way? Even the fat black ghetto trash women with their hair-pulling butt-kicking brawls don't act like this. Face it, in the words of Austin Powers, that's a man, baby!"
The Family Guy clip below starts off very funny, as that show can be. (I haven't watched but 20 episodes maybe, randomly, and not this one.) However, no matter how funny the kid Stewie is, I could see by the end of this 4 minutes what the opinion of the writers of this episode is. It seems pro-ex-men to me, but see what you think.
As a staunch Libertarian, let me put it this way: There ought not to be a law banning any of this crazy stuff, by adults anyway. Well, there never has been, as far as I know. However, before this country entered the "Crazy Years" and approached Peak Stupidity, society has wanted nothing to do with people like this. There ought to be no law against that either. That's the problem we are running into, being told that we must agree with this bullshit.
Yes, there are the occasional weirdos.** I would think they'd just accept that they are weirdos, as they did in the past, I'd be nice if people on TV shows, and now kids' teachers in government schools, could still admit that these people are weirdos, or, failing that, at least not teach our kids that they must agree they aren't weirdos.
Finally, if the way that dude threatened Ben Shapiro doesn't demonstrate to you what real sex differences are, you are lost in this world. I'd carry concealed next time I were on a show like that, were I Mr. Shapiro, like hero of mine Senator Joe McCarthy on Meet the Press 72 years back.***
* Some are linked to in our previous few posts on these ex-men, mostly specifically about their competing in women's sports, something I think is hilarious and entertaining more than anything. See Steve Sailer on the X-men, with Peak Stupidity's take and Another power of the Ex-Men
** I knew 2 men, one 20 years ago and one over 30 years back, who "became women". (One was still at the job - just a guy (oops!) who worked there that I talked to a couple of times. As for the other, I only heard about his doing this a few years later - you'd have NEVER thought it'd be that guy either!)
*** Actually, it wasn't concealed. He kept a pistol on his lap during his 5th time on the show. As I wrote in that post, "what a country!"
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Update: Apple mystery solved. Still a bug, but there's a workaround
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 5:23PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Totalitarianism
Ahhhaaaa! A picture of Gretchen Whitmer was in the storage of the Photos program on said device. I must have saved it for use in a post (shouldn't have to begin with, bug notwithstanding). There is another picture, near the beginning of the set of them, that also appears at the top. I should have checked this first.
I don't know why it's any of Apple's business to put small images from the Photos program on the main screen, but that's smart software for ya'. This is the easy workaround: Do not save pictures of nasty Totalitarians ANYWHERE on your own computers. They will appear again somewhere else, maybe in real life too.
UPDATE: OK, in the comments of the previous post, I found out that readers here can do better searches than the site owner, who WRITES THIS STUFF. Thank you, Mr. Hail, for finding the 2 posts here, the first of which has that picture of Gretchen Whitmer that kept bugging me: Governor Gretchen Whitmer - I wonder what her childhood was like. and Perspective vs. Hysteria
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Apple users: Beware of the Whitmer bug
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 4:55PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Totalitarianism
This post was originally to be titled: Who is this broad, and why can't I keep her off of my screen?!. You'll see why shortly.
There is a nice Apple iPad that I was given to use for work. I try to keep it "clean" and not do anything other than work-related tasks on it. Seeing as I'm still much more used to a pre-Windows-10* "desktop", without strange pictures and videos flying about, I don't know how to deal with the home screen stuff on these devices, other than to not put/have anything on there but the icons.
Usually, I just go straight to the 4 or 5 icons of the "apps" - programs, that is, that I use regularly. However, beside a weather report from Cupertino, California, pretty far from home** there are a few other blurbs, as I am wont to calling them, on the screen. One that keeps being on there is a picture of this older lady in a blue dress wagging her finger as if she's lecturing me. I didn't know who it was until I took my first guess about 10 minutes ago. That horrid scene, reproduced even larger above, is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
I'd first thought that this evil Totalitarian broad was continually appearing up there because Peak Stupidity had that picture up at one point, and, you know, the software is so damned smart that it just KNOWS I want to see her on my screen often. However, there are 2 arguments against this:
1) I use the browser on that device, as with almost other program on it, for work stuff only. Peak Stupidity hasn't been pulled up but a handful of times.
2) I looked for posts here that involve Governor Whitmer, and I only found these 2 so far: Michigan v Sweden in Corona Challenge and Michigan Totalitarian bitch exercises her Social Distancing Waiver
Hey, I don't have a TV so that I won't have to put up with being lectured by, or ever have to see, bitches like Gretchen Whitmer. I'm not in the Michigan State Legislature for that reason too, along with many others.
What is Gretchen Whitmer doing on the screen of my work tablet? I have swiped her off of it about 10 times, but SHE KEEPS COMING BACK! Is she everywhere? Is she in The Cloud now? That could be a good sign, meaning she's no longer on earth. Anyone else seen her? If I knew how, I'd report it to Apple. They must know, as is obvious to me, that this is a BUG, not a FEATURE.
* What goes on on that Windows 10 screen is unfathomable. I got it before then. Honestly, I'm partial to a ">" prompt with a blinking cursor, so, don't mind me ...
** Yeah, I know. It's the home of Apple, Inc.
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It's long over, for the unknown soldier
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 1:32PM MST
In Topics: Americans US Feral Government World Political Stupidity
I've seen this a number of times lately. A bunch of army soldiers were mustered (?) in the airport, ready to either go to more training, or, very likely, to head overseas to "defend America". I don't have a word to say to them. A few times in the past I've sat near a group of them on the airliner and asked where they are headed. It usually is overseas.
No matter where it is they are headed, I have no reason to appreciate their being in the American Army. As I've written here before, not in the same words, that "thank you for your service" crap makes me sick to my stomach. These soldiers are not serving the American people in any way. Who they serve is the Deep State, the Neocons, and the Globalists?
I know, most of these young people join up now for the employment, as this American economy has sucked for quite a while. There are great benefits, if you put up with a little hardship - that's really not so much right now, when the American military fights only when it has overwhelming odds. (For more on this topic, see the Peak Stupidity posts Death from Above, Assasinations, and Declaration of War, Arrogance from the American Military, and Outside it's America.) That may change, and I'll feel more sorry for them
There is the diversity and gender stupidity that has me looking on some of these people with disdain. I see some of them and wonder "wait, these people are supposed to become lean, mean, fighting machines, and defend me?" (It's that much more disdainful when they've all got face masks on, even the freaking Drill Sergeants!) For the White men, I am sure they are in for a Dieversity shitshow. They will have to put up with the organized discrimination against them and the insults, indignities and stupidity, even though they are the very group that has the biggest percentage of people who will actually do the hard fighting, and the biggest percentage that is there to actually "defend my country."
No, of course I don't want to spit on them, as if this was 1960s'/'70s during Vietnam. They are not the instigators of the war-mongering of America. Upon the Vietnam War, it's easy to look with hindsight, but there were worries about the Communists taking over much of the world. The Korean War had been fought only a decade before with nearly as many American soldiers killed* as in Vietnam. OTOH, maybe we should have LEARNED from Korea.
Then, when was the last time soldiers WERE seen as defending their country by Americans? I respect those who did the "containment" of the Communists during the Cold War. Whether this country should have been involved in WWII OR WWI is questionable, but the soldiers were greatly respected. The last time American soldiers were truly defending their countries was during the War Between the States. I wrote "countries" (plural) as the Army of Virginia, for example, was defending what was basically their country back in the day of real Federalism, Virginia, from an invasion.
That was 157 years ago, though. Now, I don't see any defense of my home and land, my family, and myself coming from anything the US Army does. I have nothing to say to the modern American soldier.
* For a good book on that war, try This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness by T.R. Fehrenbach.
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Ann Coulter on 2,000 Mules and 10,000 Maniacs
Posted On: Saturday - June 18th 2022 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Music Trump Pundits
To be clear, Miss Coulter did not mention the 10,000 Maniacs, but that's just the latter part of our post here.
I do get behind on these "current events" (what we used to call the news when I was a kid). Commenter Dieter Kief pointed out the Dinesh D’Souza movie 2,000 Mules that is coming out, as an investigation of the '20 Presidential election fraud, and I didn't even know what "2,000 Mules" was until his explanation.
Ann Coulter's latest column has what one might call a quick review, which also contains a quick review of the failures of the Donald Trump Presidency. You may be able to tell whether her thumbs are up or down for this movie by the title - see , On 2000 Mules: Dinesh D’Souza’s Stupid Movie. I haven't watched this movie yet, but I disagree vehemently with Miss Coulter* on her contention that the election wasn't stolen based on what I have already seen. There was so much suspicious activity, there were so many opportunities CREATED for irregularities, and there was too much "coincidence" in the reversal of the vote in those last few States** that I don't see how it couldn't have been.
That doesn't mean I disagree with Miss Coulter on her discussion of how stupidly President Trump acted to lose votes. You can read how he screwed his voters in the column, including even something about alleged swindling of donor funds. . She then gave 3 errors she saw in the movie. Finally, she tells us why she is really pissed at Trump, as if we didn't know. She calls out many instances of Trump's contradictions (he's a bullshitter some of the time, face it) as President vs. Candidate, but I'll just paste in this last part:
Most stunningly, Trump blew off the signature promise of his campaign: the wall. While he was busy sucking up to Wall Street, Kim Kardashian, RINOs, Silicon Valley, the gun-grabbers and illegal aliens, not one mile of wall got built.I really, really, liked the comparison to President Reagan.***
He finally got around to the wall his last year in office. Total new wall across a 2,000 mile border completed during the entire Trump presidency: 47 miles.
Yeah, it's a total baffler how a president who spent four years ignoring his base could have lost.
Imagine if Ronald Reagan, after running in 1980 on winning the Cold War and slashing taxes, had gotten into office and started bleating about our "inordinate fear of communism," instead of opposing the Soviets at every turn and driving the New York Times to fits of apoplexy? What if he'd left the top tax rate at 70% and suddenly started releasing criminals recommended by Kim Kardashian? And, for the cherry on top, suppose he'd turned his presidency over to his bimbo daughter and nimrod son-in-law?
Well, I don't know about the 2,000 mules, but I do know about the 10,000 Maniacs. They were what was called an Alternative Rock band 30 years ago, and no, you didn't say "alt rock". Peak Stupidity has featured the music of this great band from Jamestown, New York, fronted by the great Natalie Merchant, a few times. 10,003 Maniacs features Hey Jack Kerouac, God's acre is a fenced-in hallowed ground features Lilydale, and Music for the depressed features Like the Weather.
I like the whole Our Time in Eden album. Though it was the song most played on the radio, it's been a long time, so I don't mind hearing These are Days again. This goes 30 years back!
This is a really upbeat song too with the lyrics of the chorus going:
You'll know it's trueYeah, likely I am. It's hard to feel this upbeat, though, at 30 years older, but more than that, in a country that's 30 years older and now contains 10,0002 maniacs!
that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something
that will grow and bloom in you.
OK, that wraps up Immigration Invasion Fest week, a "concept week" of blogging, with only 1 post out of 7 that didn't discuss this topic. We'll get back to our normal mode of interspersing various flavors of stupidity in with each other next week. There are plenty of posts built up at this point. Thanks to all of you for reading and writing! Happy Sunday.
* She also had another recent column, The Great Replacement Switcheroo—Replacing Blacks With Immigrants, with which I don't disagree with her basic point, but sure do with her pandering style. (Yes, that's normally unheard of out of Ann Coulter, but that's what I'd call it.)
** See Is it all gonna come down to Philly or Carson City?? Send lawyers, guns, and money ....
*** Peak Stupidity has a 5-part series from Nov-Dec '18 on Ronnie vs. Donnie after Mr. Trump bragged "I blow Ronald Reagan away." Yeah, right - here: Intro. -- The Personalities -- Foreign Policy -- Domestic Policy -- and Conclusion .
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