Good news regarding auto artificial stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 24th 2025 10:08AM MST
In Topics: Trump Cars Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government
It's a minor piece of news, as generally Peak Stupidity readers would be the type to avoid this annoyance to begin with. If you are a buyer of new or fairly-new cars, you might just be glad to hear that the start/stop bug, errrr, feature is something you'll be less likely to have to base a purchasing decision on. This is the system in which ... well, let me put it the way Trump's EPA Chief Lee Zeldin did, as excerpted in this Gateway Pundit article:
Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it.ZeroHedge has the story here, with, as usual, a generally funnier and savvier set of commenters. (The ZH story comes from The Epoch Times.)
With our most recently acquired 30 y/o Jeep being the 2nd newest vehicle in the fleet, this newest piece of complicated artificial stupidity is not something your PS blogger will EVER have to deal with personally. That is, unless the '28 Cortez Administration will mandate retrofit for all extant motor vehicles per Motor Law - Phase I* ... ugggh, after that visit to the porcelain goddess, I'm fit to type some more... I drive with the windows down a lot - A/C (not AOC!) is not so prevalent in the fleet - and I am still always a little surprised to hear an engine start next to me at the stoplight. You've got to be old-school to have that initial reaction "whewww, good thing he got it going again!"
Why? Why cut off the engine and restart it so damn often? Well, it's the planet... or virtue signaling, or to be more understanding, people wanting to save a few bucks yearly at the gas pump. No, really, if drivers wanted this feature so much, it would not have to have been incentivized by the EPA, as it is. Per GP:
The EPA does not require stop-start technology, but automakers that adopt it are given extra fuel economy credits.My appreciation for Lee Zeldin notwithstanding, there should by no incentives by the EPA, better yet, no EPA period. Per ZH:
The feature became increasingly common under fuel efficiency rules implemented during the Obama administration, expanding from fewer than 1 percent of new vehicles in 2012 to about 45 percent in model year 2021, according to EPA data. The agency notes on its website that start-stop systems can improve fuel economy by up to 5 percent, with the biggest benefits under stop-and-go city driving.45% have it! GP says it's 65% for '23 models, so that's just one more reason not to buy new, ever. I'm not sure if it'd be like one of the old options - could you save money by purchasing a car without it? Then, that 5% - hell, I save WAY more than that by driving efficiently, including not incurring inefficient acceleration gas wastage at damn 3-way stop signs.** Oh, wait, but also:
An Obama-era regulatory impact analysis from 2012 estimated that start-stop systems can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.8 percent to 2.4 percent, depending on vehicle type and size, compared with baseline models.Ahhaa, that Climate Calamity™ card can be used for anything. I'm glad to see that Mr. Zeldin actually cares a little bit about keeping the stupidity level slightly lower for us American who "see the stupidity inherent in the system. [/Monty Python***]
Here's some of that stupidity. I know, these starter motors (and mechanisms) are not your Daddy's starters. They are obviously made for 20 x the normal number of cycles. That's a guess, depending on your type of driving. Or, to be cynical here, are they made for only a little bit higher duty, but you'll have to replace yours quite often, like, say, each time you change the oil?
OK, mechanical quality aside, what about the effect on the engine of this many more starts and stops? Engines of all sorts, right on up to big power plant turbines, are made to run steady-state. Things work optimally then. Not having coolant and/or lubricant in all the right places for a spell upon start-up and shut-down means extra wear, out of proportion to normal running time. Hmmm, I also wonder how emissions, maybe even ACTUAL pollution, changes during these non-steady-state phases of engine life.
Then there's the additional complication, as If 21st century vehicles aren't already! I'm pretty sure I've driven at least one rent-a-car with this engine start/stop feature, and the reader may have too. The very slight push on the gas pedal, as detected by the (now) electric throttle, will kick on the starter. The, call it "anticipation", feature in which the starter kicks in when one's foot is taken off the brake - or I believe even enough to drop the pressure somewhat - takes sensors and wiring. There's a timer to begin with, to initially "shut her down" All of this is taken well care of using digital logic, so there's yet another (of dozens or hundreds!) computer - the start/stop computer. No refunds on electronic parts! ("We've told you that. See, now you have a spare $300 start/stop computer, in case ...")
More features mean more expensive repairs at 100,000 miles. I have half a mind that believes that this is just another "feature", like automatic windshield wipers, that was designed just because IT CAN BE. We have the sensors, and any decision-making you can think of can be easily programmed onto a chip. It's cool to be able to do his, so let's do it.
Finally, this is the curmudgeonry coming out here - I don't care how many dummies have lived through testing, I don't trust the system. I don't like that the car is not ready to go unless some unnecessary complicated digital system does what it's supposed to do, every time, maybe in the middle of an intersection. No, no thanks.
To be fair, from ZH (I didn't know this regarding the rent-a-car(s) I'd driven):
... In most vehicles, drivers must press a button to turn the feature off each time they start the car.It'd be 2nd nature after a month to mash that button upon getting on the road, but why should I pay for it?
Thanks, Lee Zeldin, and President Trump too, for the small favors. What I resent is that we have to hope for just the right people to stop the unConstitutional Feral Gov't edicts that introduce these minor annoyances in our lives.
Anyway, next time, let's get serious and go after the California Air Resource Board - motto: Making life more difficult and miserable, one edict at a time.
* Old Rush reference - please listen just for great the sound, if nothing else.
** If I get pulled where my wife did - not likely because I know what these guys drive - I may bring up that "I'm just tryin'a save the planet, man!!" (Would it help to weep about Mother Earth in front of him? Probably depends on the cop ... but, no... I'm also afraid that sort of thing might bring forth the drug dogs.)
*** Instapundit loves to use that line in various ways. We agree.
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Trump v S. Africa
Posted On: Wednesday - May 21st 2025 9:02PM MST
In Topics: Trump Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
The guy's amazing! Nobody, but nobody, would throw the truth about these anti-White violent blacks back in their faces like this, right there with the press at a diplomatic gathering, no less. Maybe someone like MTG might, but only NOW, after Trump again showed his pro-White stance to the nation and the world. He's a hell of a leader at times.
The reader has probably seen clearer and longer clips of the taunts and threats of the Black! South African rulers and huge crowds. Regarding the latter, is it just me or has pretty much every other Peak Stupidity reader, hell, White man in America, who's seen that, had some daydreams and done some tentative planning involving bombers and tactical nukes? Actually, i went through thinking about how to make sure a interceptor/bomber combination (some version of the F-15?) could drop a nuke and then get well clear.
My thoughts moved on to more practical ideas, like basic incendiary bombs. There's no call for nukes here, really.
The violence level and the threats to the White man, especially the Boer (farmers), is nothing new over there. What's new is that the President of the US is talking about it and providing at least a small solution, asylum. That genteel S. African President you see in the video might really believe his bit about it's all within the rule of law - it probably is. However, one can see that the Afrikaners have every reason to want to GTFO, at least those who have no plan for defense or to take a stand one day. (They are greatly outnumbered, about 10 to 1.)
I got to this viral video - everything out of Trump goes viral, doesn't it? - via ZeroHedge. The article, written by one Brandon Smith* is Watch: Trump Stuns South Africa's Ramaphosa, Plays 'Kill The Boer' Clip In The Oval Office, Destroys NBC Reporter.** What I noticed about the long stretch of writing by Mr. Smith after the video is that he WON'T GO THERE.
As Peak Stupidity does for other bad political regimes, Mr. Smith mentioned the Communism and Authoritarianism in South Africa. Yeah, Communism was part of the impetus for black rule. (This stuff didn't start just recently.) Yes, the place is Authoritarian. However, what's very clear to anyone who WANTS to see is that this is a racial matter. In all those words, race was mentioned but never named as the obvious problem. Too many of the blacks want the White people dead.
Even Elon Musk didn't go there. I saw a video today elsewhere of his being remotely interviewed by some lady in a big auditorium. He did a nice job throwing the question of (to paraphrase) "Is this anti-White racism OK with you?" back at her. She wouldn't answer. However, Musk added that neither the White behavior prior to the handover 3 decades back nor the current black behavior was OK. Even Trump didn't go there, but he went far enough for me!
You want the truth?! Let me do the history one first. These Bantu tribe black people you see there came to the land already settled by the Boer, who had been in the area since the 1600s. The other tribes, Xhosas and Koi's were there in small numbers. The Boer settled and BUILT the country, so Bantus came in for work and a better life than they'd made for themselves in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. One can blame the Boers for making the choice of that cheap labor, but I wonder too if they could have kept them out even if they'd wanted to. S. Africa should be the Boer's land.
Now, to what nobody wants to say, yet. The Apartheid system had to exist for the place to be a 1st World country, which it WAS. (Anyone else still remember?)
Face it, black people can not run things like countries. Keeping the White man in power was THE only way to keep the place from turning into a shithole. Who wants to bequeath a shithole of a country to one's children and grandchildren? Envious, vindictive, stupid, violent people do. That's where it stands today.
See? I knew it - to the Lyin' Press:
PS: While trying what should have been the easy way (NOT!) to search for the ZeroHedge article (had to find it on the site), duckduckgo provided a blurb from
* Peak Stupidity has mentioned this guy before, more than once.
** In note here that the URL for this post does not match the article title. This is a ZH thing that I've seen before. They will update the article and include a new title too. This gets confusing and also makes it impossible to find older articles by title sometimes.
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[UPDATED - 05/24] Corrected some basic history based on comment by GautengVol.
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Satan in a pants suit
Posted On: Tuesday - May 20th 2025 5:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Feminism AntiChrist Hildabeast ctrl-left
Peak Stupidity did not coin that colorful phrase to describe the Hildabeast. It the pants suit fits, well, there he sits.
She's truly evil. The GP pundit take on the HIldabeast's Population Replacement extension Programme is not totally accurate. I'll get to that.
The above is from a recent Gateway Pundit post. They've even got video. I think youtube was worried that displaying the antiChrist - not sure exact chapter and verse here - would destroy their servers, but rumble has it. I couldn't find the GP tweet clip as a stand alone, so here's Alex Jones, errr, discussing it.
No, I mean, Alex Jones doesn't really discuss stuff. I give him kudos for his spirit, but I am not completely sure whether his rants are somewhat for show rather than all out of righteous anger. So beware, but you'll get out of this what I will discuss(?) here in the 1st few minutes:
Conservatives' recent encouragement of Americans to have children is what the Hildabeast is ranting about here. Now, I'll actually agree with her on one point - the monetary incentives (strictly unConstitutional at the Federal level but NOBODY even cares about that part) have not been working elsewhere. This is not the time for that long-promised continuation on the question of fertility worries, but how can it be a bad thing, even if it's just talk, to support mothers and children?
It can be, if you're a Communist spawn of Satan though. Watch the one part where she directly says she's against Christianity and against the nuclear family. That's... yeah, that's a Communist thing, no doubt about it. Communism can't abide with competing religions and children that aren't brought up by the State.
Her take on those unenlightened MAGA people who like and want children: "What we really need from you women are more children. What that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children." At her advanced age, how could she not understand that this IS what women were born to do? If she does understand, then why is she against women being happy doing what they were born to do? If it saves just ONE CHILD from being never born... Didn't they, the ctrl-left used to always worry about that ONE CHILD? Which one fits here, stupidity or evil?
Per the GP headline, the Hildabeast wants to extend the Population Replacement Program some more - to see that only immigrants ("Legally and UnDocumented?*) are the ones having lots of children. What she said was something slightly different, to paraphrase: MAGA doesn't make sense because they want more children, yet they want to deport the people having lots of children. That's an evil way to leave out the most important thing. Americans want more AMERICAN children here. We don't want the PRP-X, with the children of non-White** people from all over the world overwhelming the American White children. "It doesn't matter - muh GDP!" Is that what she believes or what she would like us to believe?
Wouldn't an antiChrist behave just like this? This topic key is going to get more use going forward, I got a bad feeling ... aaaaand that's it for tonight - Sweet dreams, Peakers.
PS: Great comment on GP from one Will B. Candid:
One day a house will land on her, just like in the movies...Outsanding!
PPS: To clarify, this is Satan in a Pants Suit, not Devil with a Blue Dress, in case there's any confusion within the readership. I sure hope there wasn't!
* Isn't the opposite of "legally" "illegally"? I guess I'm too much of a stickler.
** How about a bunch of big fertile Afrikaner families? What say you, Satan in a Pants Suit?
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Google searches for the John Birch Society
Posted On: Monday - May 19th 2025 7:52PM MST
In Topics: Internets Music Websites Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism
They're a great org - I can't keep up with all the newsletters and magazines, along with the others, but I seem to agree with nearly everything the John Birch Society stands for. I need to send in my yearly dues (reminder to self).
Since, our last post was about internet searches, I'll start the week of with this short observation. I wanted to paste in a link to this organization for an Unz Review comment. I was pretty sure the main site is simply jbs.org (yes, it is), but I figured I'd search on google to make sure. I see that I cut it off of the screenshot, but my search was simply for "John Birch Society":
I see wikipedia up top for lots of searches on people and organizations, but look where the blurb and link to jbs.org ended up. It's after a page from The New Yorker and even the Niskanen Center (wait, who the hell are the Niskanen Center?), and NPR, sorry, npr. npr says the organization is secretive, so I guess I'm breaking internet silence here by even mentioning the jbs. Yes, it's very extreme indeed these days to be pro- Liberty and Christianity and anti- Globalism and Communism.
In our post Peak Search Results, really, "Peak Useful Internet Search Results", we stayed non-political with our speculation with 3 reasons for Peak Search being behind us - I guessed '10-'15, somewhere in there. This above - that's political. We know where google stands.
And now, after a 2nd time suggestion by Mr. G. Anderson, here is the 1950s-60s ctrl-left folk band The Chad Mitchell Trio singing The John Birch Society. Now, Peak Stupidity likes us some good music and making fun is OK, but I inserted "ctrl-left" here to be. nice. From my reading just now, these guys were as good as Communists. I mean, they had a song making fun of Barry Goldwater supporters, for cryin' out loud.
OK, they can't have been hard-core Communists, because they were having fun.
This was a short possibly non-interesting post, so let me add a Nielson Ratings update here. I mentioned they send $5 bills now with the survey diaries. Inflation, you know. A few years ago it was either 2 or 3 bucks inside each inbound envelope. Cash is good. We filled out the diaries honestly, basically indicating that we don't listen to the radio. Of course I had to add my one embellishment (as mentioned in the post linked-to here) about pulling up to some ghetto thugs car and hearing a little bit, till I rolled up the windows. That's pretty much my phrasing.
Well, they wanted a name for the check to send me. I can't do that, HAL. I've been using a fake name the whole time, something along the lines of Joe Blow. OK, we won't get the money. Just now I received the check they sent anyway, made out to (something along the lines of) Joe Blow. How can I cash that? Anyone got any ideas? 50 bucks is 50 bucks. It's money for nothin', but, yeah, cash is King, bitchez. Next time, all cash in advance, or no data for you.
PS: I had to fix my link to jbs (missing the https: etc.), and I see that duckduckgo does better. The first big blurb featured up top goes to the John Birch Society site.
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Artificial Intelligence understands Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 17th 2025 4:46PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Internets Websites Artificial Stupidity
Bing has been very helpful for those searching for answers about Peak Stupidity lately. They got that AI stuff goin on*, right up top of the search results page.
We're LUVIN' it! That first sentence shows that Bing's AI has read thoroughly our "About" page, titled here all by its lonesome (still!)** on the left side-bar What is Peak Stoopiditee?. I wrote that sometime in '16. I kinda wish that Bing had included the rest of our 1st paragraph:
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.However, archaic-looking website search beggars can't be choosers, so we are very happy to see this show up at the top upon a search for "peak stupidity".
This AI blurb just sucks you in, doesn't it? You pretty much HAVE TO click. The top normal - not AI, I guess - result that comes up at this point is the following:
I remember 2 of the posts clearly - clicking on the images just gets one to a bigger, clearer image - but I did write a post on the 1st 3 and surely something that included that pride images. We are proud that one of the pictures taken by the Peak Stupidity staff (hello!) appears. That's the 3rd one, of a big Falun Gong march in Toronto, Canada.
Unfortunately, the main link goes to our blogworks page, which lacks the 3 other frames on the page, those being a quarter-century ago website feature. Having the frames was cool then - sometimes sites would have horizontal scroll bars along with the vertical ones, and many of them on the page - it was all scroll bars back in the day! MOAR scroll bars! [/IT manager] We loved it!
The text below the images goes to our post Fake History Rhyming Over One Century, in which we linked to E.H. Hail's essay on a book about tariffs in American history, Alfred Eckes on the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930 and its long-lasting civic mythology. However, clicking that text on bing gets one to a different post of ours, So-called Pope Francis finally lightens up.. (He died.). Interestingly, the post numbers are 10 apart, 3236 vs 3226. Did the software mess up due to the post numbers? I don't know. Stuff's hard to find here, even for me!
Here's the 2nd normal search result:
Again, this 2nd search result has some text from our Peak Stoopiditee About page. I hovered over the 2nd tab to show the title of one of our facetious sections within. Yes, I spelled "modeling" with 2 "L"'s then, but I think both ways are correct. I just spelt "spelled" correctly too, I think, but this one tends to confuse me, in this age of Peak Stupidity.
And now, to hearken back to those old '16 - '17 days of the blog, we present some olde music that has not a damn thing to do with the post. It's The Edgar Winter Group, from 1972, with Free Ride. This one's great!
Have a great Sunday, Peakers. We'll have more stupidity next week. You too, AI - keep on reading, and you may even learn something, if that's even possible.
PS: Notice in that blurb that the word "delve" appears. I think it was Steve Sailer who noticed, as he is wont to do, that AI uses that word a whole lot. Perhaps a random synonym (RS) function could be called by AI. It's not like that does the kinds of calculations that take nuclear plants to power.
* Peak Stupidity uses the term Artificial Stupidity for AI along with other "smart" new "features" of society. This term was coined by the writer John Derbyshire.
** The link to Adam Smith's compilation of on-line books, known as "Peak Stupidity Book Club", will go there.
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Outrage
Posted On: Friday - May 16th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists
Gateway Pundit has an almost sickening amount of ads and hype, but I'll give Jim Hoft, proprietor, credit for continuing to cover our side of the most important issue, the immigration invasion. I am glad to see that he and his writers used the term "illegal alien" too, rather than euphemisms, while they're at it.
Part of the hype on GP is the use of BREAKING!:, DEVELOPING:, SHOCKING DISCOVERY!:, etc. in front of their titles, like this was coming off a teletype in 1975. In the story for this post, however, OUTRAGEOUS: is warranted. In fact, more outrage might be expected, especially out of one man involved, the father of this 24 y/o woman recklessly killed by a 15 y/o illegal alien.
GP reports OUTRAGEOUS: Soros-Backed DA Gives Probation and Community Service to Unlicensed Illegal Alien Who Killed Young Woman in Car Crash. I thought it worth watching the 4 minute TV news clip.
One thing that stood out here was that even the "negotiated settlement" (and what exactly does THAT mean within the criminal legal system?) involved "up to" 2 years in youth corrections. "Up to" means it could be 3 months! Youth corrections means this kid would have been able to skip a couple of years of drudgery in American taxpayer supported High School and have something to brag about to his amigos. Note that this was what the Dad was OK with! However, that's too harsh per the new Soros District Attorney.
This is sick. The victim's Dad just hopes that her killer will remember her, oh, and make something of himself. I don't know what I'd do. This father has 3 other kids, it looks like, so going off reservation, so to speak, and exacting actual justice might ruin the rest of his life. It's difficult to imagine what one would do in a similar situation other than I sure would not "hope he will remember her and make something of his life"!
Lastly, the illegal Mom was set to take this kid back to Colombia. Now, he is requesting asylum. Yeah, Canada won't even let in drunk drivers*, and America is supposed to offer asylum for kids that drive 90 mph in the city and smash young ladies to death? We probably will, barring President Trump getting involved.
* 1 offense within the last 10 years and 2 period.
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Parable of the Good Somalian
Posted On: Thursday - May 15th 2025 2:13PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion Anarcho-tyranny
Commenters on The Unz Review liked our turn-of-phrase, so it's the title here.
Wait, though. The Good Samaritan parable of Luke 10 was about being decent to wayfarers - it could be you some time - anyone remember hitch-hiking? The Somalian from that recent viral story and our post Shiloh and the Somalians, which is NOT the name of a
The alleged child-molester Somalian rightly reckoned that his capturing young Mom Shiloh Hendrix on video not even SAYING "nigger", but admitting to saying "nigger", would scare the living out of her. (She wouldn't even have to have had directed the word to anyone, but she did.*) Due to the topsy-turvy world of Minoritarianism** and Anarcho-Tyranny*** we live under, someone both Black! and a recently-arrived foreigner from some complete shithole of a country has been entitled to lord it up over measly regular Americans. We're supposed to stand down and apologize profusely to pre-empt virology, which doesn't necessarily help, so there goes the job, career, marriage, and so on...
Thing was, Shiloh Hendrix was fed up with threatening Somalians and wasn't putting up with that crap last week. That was the right thing to do, it turns out. But, it didn't have to have been. Her courage paid off, to the tune of $3/4 million (though to be fair some of that is extra needed right now to keep her life from being ruined).
Here's where this post gets a little rambling. "Somalian" works well for this joke about the parable, but that's not why Peak Stupidity has been using that term. Yes, it's erroneous, if you want to get all official about it. "Somali" is the adjective and the noun to describe and name someone from Somalia, there in the northeastern horn of Africa. We at Peak Stupidity PURPOSELY say this wrong and not just because we enjoy being low-brow.
I present to the reader a video we've embedded in a post a year back, the 3 1/2 minute speech in The House by our favorite CongressGal Marjorie Taylor Greene of north Georgia for the point of attempting to officially censure CongressRagHead Ilhan Omar. The censure was never gonna come close to happening, so this is old useless news, but just watch the beginning, if nothing else. Of course, "Congresswoman from Somal... errr, Minnesota" was the best part, but MTG uses "Somalian" as the adjective/noun too. We have more in the post about MTG v IOU.
It's great! Saying "Somalian" rather than "Somali" pisses off the virtue-signaling folk who want to show their worldliness. These are the people who speak perfect English but say "Nee-ka-raq-u-wah" and "Alley Hondro My-ork-ass". (The latter is one we write here, but that's to make fun.)
The use of "Somali" and all the other correct terms and pronunciations would be fine if the discussion were on a travel forum, but this is America. Why do we need to know "Somali"? Before the big invasion, there was no reason to have to know that term, unless you were traveling to (or bombing) the northeast horn of Africa. No, we're Americans, and we'll say it our way - You say "Somali", I say "Somalian" - let's call the whole damn thing off!"
I'm pretty sure MTG knows the correct term to describe people from Somalia too. We sound like 2 rubes, I guess, very much like this guy, in a more innocent era when French was very foreign. Excusez Moi, that's "Francais" to you!
Oh, and we don't do accent marks here either, because that's some foreign crap too. (Sometimes they slip in via ctrl-c/ctrl-v.) Two rubes! That's what you people take me and MTG for!
Oh, the parable, right. I wish Jesus had come up with a parable to teach people like this Somalian asshole how to act as an appreciative guest among his often-unwitting hosts. There probably is one. Failing that, the Book of Shiloh ought to teach these people to try to learn about their host society and who built it. Shiloh was, in fact a city in the Bible where the tabernacle was located before it was in Jerusalem. Additionally, from some site, Shiloh is a reflection of our sinful nature, being surrounded by enemies, gathering as a church, and needing a savior. We all do. However, this kind of fits here. For Minnesota Shiloh, at least $777.5 thousand given by ~30,000 people ($26 a person ave.) is a big help.
Now, finally, this version of the Parable of the Good Samaritan fits well here too. Since there aren't Samaritans around these days, at least in their Biblical days form, substitute in "Somalian", or "Somali" if you like:
The clip above is from a long-ago show "That Mitchell and Webb Look", as corrected by our commenters from "Monty Python" and mentioned here.
OK, that's enough. There's more pressing stupidity we've got to get to.
* "Picanniny" would have been more accurate. Thank you for that reminder, Adam Smith. It didn't used to much of an insulting term either.
** I can't say he coined it, but I first read this term in comments by UR's AnotherDad.
*** OK, Anarcho-Tranny, spell check, that works too!
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President Trump forces the ctrl-left Commies to show their true colors.
Posted On: Wednesday - May 14th 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics ctrl-left
I have only once considered that maybe Donald Trump REALLY does play that 5-D Chess. That thought involved his claim or boast, if he was not bullshitting, that he appointed Nikki Haley US Ambassador to the UN in order to get Henry McMaster into the South Carolina Governor's office - see When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump*
If that really were the case, that would indicate that Trump is actually a very smart wily guy in the manner of, well, not Wily Coyote but actually his nemesis, The Roadrunner. I suggested Trump use this tactic regularly in Free Advice for a future President Trump.
I don't know. Trump does a lot of, if not stupid, ignorant things quite often. He sucks at numbers and perspective. However, my conjecture in this post is that his reality TV, showman, celebrity background has helped him help America. He seems to know exactly how to draw his and OUR opponents into making themselves look ridiculous. Now, I guess this new instance of that with the offering of refuge in America to deserving, but White, oppressed Afrikaners is something he's doing based on his caring for these White people. However, it seems to have also drawn the anti-White ctrl-left people into looking downright evil in front of the world.
The hypocrisy of the anti-White opponents of letting this small number** has been explained all over. It's perhaps too obvious to discuss here. Let's look at one example of it that both warms the heart and gives us a look into the soul of the anti-White ctrl-left. Gateway Pundit reported yesterday Episcopal Church Ends Refugee Partnership with U.S. Government — Cites Moral Opposition to Resettling Persecuted White Afrikaners from South Africa. Look into the soul of Bishop (Bishop?) Mariann Edgar Budde above. She hates us.
We figured it was all just stupidity when the Lutherans up in Minnesota, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and a core of under a dozen of these groups thought they were doing The Lord's work in bringing masses of strange foreigners to America. Years ago, VDare led me to the site of the stalwart Ann Corcoran, documenter of this madness on her site Refugee Resettlement Watch. (The site's up, but it's been over 3 years since she's written. Hopefully, she has just got fed up and retired.) Now everyone should know better:
The same Episcopal Church that prided itself on aiding persecuted people from war-torn regions is now walking away from its commitments simply because the next wave of refugees are white Christian farmers — victims of violent racial targeting in post-apartheid South Africa.In a screed, one Sean Rowe, also a Bishop, stated:
The church claims resettling these families would violate their ‘moral line,’ according to Religion News.
n light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.Good, let's not waste another $53 million (~$15,000 per refugee) of our money. And no, Racial Justice and Reconciliation don't sound Communist at all, no, of course not. It's not like they've formed a Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee or something that brings White people in for Struggle Sessions or anything ... yet.
It has been painful to watch one group of White refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many non-White others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.Being 8% of the population in a Black!-run country is a dangerous condition by definition. (We have links in that last post on this issue to our 8-part series about the fall of S. Africa, starting from a long article about the place. It's getting bad, and White people WILL be hardest hit. Oh, and when they come here they won't be parasites off the taxpayers like the 100x more other refugees either. Maybe the Church could even make a buck off of the Afrikaners... tax free!
Sean Rowe, the Episcopal Bishop, continues:
As anti-White Christians, we must be guided not by political vagaries, but by the sure and certain knowledge that the kingdom of God is revealed to us in the struggles of those non-White people on the margins. Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable,unless they're White, as we would care for him, and we must follow that command.I don't know how the above will appear to the reader.. It's ACML (Anti-Communist Mark-up Language) and may vary in appearance depending on your browser.
That's a small story as far as this big story of Trump's having drawn the anti-White ctrl-left Commies out of the woodwork and into the limelight. Here's a story from Trump's end: Trump Shames Media for Ignoring ‘Genocide’ of White Farmers: ‘If It Were the Other Way Around They’d Talk About It’
While speaking at the White House, Trump took a moment to shame the media for the lack of attention given to some of the atrocities happening in South Africa against white Afrikaners — a topic the president cares deeply about.
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” the U.S. president told reporters. “But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
“But whether they’re white or black, makes no difference to me.But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”[No, you don't have to do this!]
Trump then swiftly turned his ire toward the establishment double standard when it comes to race-based issues.Trump has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by leaving out those stupid disclaimers. Say it: "I'm pro White people because I am one. Get over it."
“And the newspapers, and the media, and the television media doesn’t even talk about it,” Trump continued. “If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about.”
Trump finished by stressing: “I don’t care who they are, I don’t care about their race, their color, I don’t care about their height, their weight, I don’t care about anything.[Stifle yourself, Donald! You don't have to do that!]
The people on the other side, such as these evil Bishops of the Episcopal "Church", have a lot to lose by being exposed. President Trump is still couching his words with those stupid disclaimers at times, but is it not obvious that he's the most pro-White President since the beginning of AA? Nice job, President Trump!
PS: Per this wiki page, White S. Africans (the English-descended and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners) number 4.5 million out of 62 million people in the county, 50 million of which are Black! black (not coloured, Indian, whatever). That's no good. The word beleaguered doesn't begin to describe their situation. Let's be good Christians and let 'em in. These Episcopal Bishops are evil.
* Weird title but it was part of a weirdly named series of posts (from a movie).
** Even if it will be the whole 60-70 odd thousand people, which it won't, due to damn judges, that's roughly 1/4 of the YEARLY H1B visa-holders that have been let in. It's below the general yearly number of all non-White refugees who come in - even before the last 4 years' invasion. As compared to Brandon/Mayorkas' "newcomers", this is not even 1% to balance the 10-12 million non-Whites that have come.
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ZeroHedge summary of 3 Trump options against pro-Invasion Lawfare
Posted On: Monday - May 12th 2025 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government ctrl-left Legal Stupidity
A couple of weeks ago on Peak Stupidity we had a Reader Friend Suggestion: Judge shopping for re- and pro-active Reverse Lawfare. This friend, who has started commenting as "Coulda Had Lee Rille" (disclaimer: not his real name... not ANYBODY's real name), asked for input from any legal types on whether any of this was feasible or legal. He obtained some answers from Unz Reveiw commenters.
The ZeroHedge post I saw today, Trump's 'Nuclear' Deportation Options, did not bring up Coulda' Had's ideas, but the author, one James Rickards of The Daily Reckoning, summed up the already well-known possibilities nicely. Mr. Rickards focussed his article, as per his title, on immigration measures by Trump, though this judicial obstruction tactic can and has been used by the ctrl-left of stop other policy by Trump and others.
Therefore, the 1st portion of the article is a good summary of the struggle the Trump administration is having with its deportation efforts. At this point, those efforts are still mostly aimed at the violent gang members, convicted criminals and other of the worst aliens that most obviously should be sent out of this country NOW. That's why it's a real sight to see, when the ctrl-left is working so hard to defend your Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members who've already raped and killed people. It takes a sicko to work to stop their exit from America, a leftist-principled sicko, but a sicko nonetheless.
What I don't like here in the article is a trend I have predicted. Rather than see the big picture that there were already a rectally-extracted-but-ballpark 30 million illegal aliens here before the Brandon/Mayorkas treason brought in 10-12 million more, people are forgetting the initial 30 million! This writer writes as if the 10-12 million is the ultimate goal. I'm afraid the Trump administration will start thinking that way too. With all the success in the world, they'd figure they're done, when we've gone down to accumulated numbers from 2020!
I have not yet looked to see if any of the astute ZeroHedge commenters - they are a mixed bag - have corrected Mr. Rickards on this matter. That aside, his summary of 3 possible ways to stop/avoid the judicial obstruction is good quick reading:
One is for the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling that district courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions, can only issue orders for the plaintiffs in the case and not the entire class of illegals, and that the courts have almost no jurisdiction over the conduct of foreign policy. Those rulings would empower Trump’s deportation programs.Let me be brief on my analysis of these 3 options:
The second way is for Trump to ignore the courts and proceed as planned. Critics will scream this is “unconstitutional”, but it’s just as unconstitutional for courts to ignore their limitations and intrude on the power of the executive branch. It’s an outcome the courts will have brought upon themselves.
The third way is to abolish the district courts, or at least some of them. That’s not as radical as it sounds. The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to structure the court system any way it likes with the exception of the Supreme Court. Congress created the district courts and Congress can abolish them as well..
1) I'm pretty sure someone has pictures of John Roberts with naked little boys or something just as incriminating. He can positively be counted on to let America down when he is needed. Trump really screwed up his 3 SCROTUS picks, arguably at least 2 of them. I don't think we can count on (1) happening.
3) Congress can do a lot using their Constitutionally specified powers. They don't though. There's no way any of this will happen. If it miraculously did, activist judges would obstruct any legislation that did away with their jobs. Hell, wouldn't you?!
Ooops, I skipped over (2).
2) This is the only method that can work. This is not the America of 1985, in which perhaps we could work to form an across-the-aisle coalition to solve these problems. Now, one side WANTS these problems. The other side has half its people WANTING these problems. Of the rest, half of them care more about being thought well of in Washington, FS, so they can be welcomed at the cocktail parties.
Trump needs to do an Andy Jackson. He started off the Trump-47 term with a Blitzkrieg. The ctrl-left has formed its skirmish line made of activist judges. It's time to get the tanks back into formation and roll on through. Lighting war does not stop for Judge Boasergs. How many divisions do these judges have? They should be squished into the mud under MAGA's tank treads.
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The Brown LA Haze
Posted On: Saturday - May 10th 2025 8:36PM MST
In Topics: Music California Global Climate Stupidity Cars Environmental Stupidity
"Land Ho!" Nah, it was more like "Hey! There's a big freaking island out there!" Long ago, I spent some time in Los Angeles. I'd been there for a few months already, spending lots of time right there at the coast. I can't remember if we were at Hermosa or Manhattan beach, but as I hung out with my colleagues I saw that huge island, Santa Catalina,
What the hell was that thing doing out there all of a sudden? Well, obviously visibility had been less than 35 miles, really MUCH less, so I hadn't seen Catalina during all the time I'd been there, due to that brown LA haze, that particulate smog that used to fill the LA basin. What was that stuff? Particulate pollution can be a lot of stuff, water droplets and particles, including, yeah carbon. It's not gaseous pollution, or you wouldn't be able to see it. Californy resident Jed Clampett explains this to a visitor:
With those wide-open freeways - yeah, I'm going back a ways!* - and, the new car culture, and way before the CARB**, car culture was big in southern Cal. See American Graffiti and songs by The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. This was long after the heyday of those guys and the movies, but the cars were all there, even more of them still and still spewing out quite a lot of particulates.
You get all that nasty stuff into the air from non-ideal internal combustion. (Stoichiometry - now there's something to chew on.) There's Nitrogen coming into your intake (78% of air) that's OK for the working fluid but the idea is not to make Nitrogen compounds. Then, there's the carbon in the form of soot particles. Auto pollution controls and engine electronics, etc. have done a lot since that day I finally viewed Catalina Island from the LA beaches. With all that the chemists and engineers of that age had to deal with, I don't believe Carbon Dioxide would have been considered a problem. After all, it and water are the 2 PRODUCTS, not BY-PRODUCTS, of ideal combustion of hydrocarbons. The Hydrogen combines with the O2 to make water, and the Carbon with it to make CO2. What't the problem?
In fact, my old not-so-clean-burning muscle car is kinda MORE carbon neutral than Greta might give it credit for. After all, if I'm sending the Carbon out the tailpipe as soot, then it's not being combined with the nasty planet-killing Carbon Dioxide. That's good, right? Any Chemists, Chemical Engineers, car guys, or just smart asses have anything to say about this? It doesn't sound like it, but comments are always welcome here.
Californians and their government, and I use "their" loosely here, have gone beyond worrying about real pollution. They did a good job with it, but you don't just quit saving the planet just because the air is cleaner. Saving the planet pays pretty well, so you find something new. The Climate Calamity™ pays very well!
In the meantime, I'll now feel good about saving the planet as I drive my muscle car that spits out soot to save from putting it into greenhouse-gas form. I'm not in LA, so I'm not responsible for that brown LA haze. Come Monday, it'll be alright...
For the ParrotHeads, this one's from Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. Perhaps it's been overplayed, but it's a nice tune. As for the lyric line that is the title of this post, let me tell you, I could NOT figure out what Jimmy was saying until about 20 years after I'd heard the song. How were you to find out? We didn't have the internet, dammit, much less fuel injection, catalytic converters, unleaded gas, and a view of Catalina Island. It just came to me one day.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers. Thanks for reading and commenting. Come Monday, there will probably be another post.
PS: Because I saved the top image on that date, it was at that time of our 2 posts about the work done, and video made by, Climate Sanitist Tony Heller, aka, Toby Flenderson (Part 1 and Part 2) that I thought about this one. For the life of me, I can't see where that one led directly into this, but I can actually remember my thoughts of that moment.
* Perhaps the mid 1970s, Jim Rockford's time, were still before the time of the ubiquitous traffic jam, but that's just going by a TV show. (They didn't want to film really, really tedious car chase scenes I guess...) Commenter SafeNow could tell us the answer.
** They had carburetors, yes, but not the California Air Resources Board.
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Road Construction Update
Posted On: Saturday - May 10th 2025 8:59AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Political Correctness Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Going on 8 years since the last time, hence the last post written, since I noticed a non-Feminist, non-PC construction alert sign, I saw another. Has this "opportunity" for a pro-Feminist struggle been missed? I just can't recall.
It's one thing to use completely different wording, like "Road work in progress" or "Road work ahead" that does not necessarily have an agenda but just a different way of saying the same thing. Have I missed "People at work", "Workers working" (yeah, I know), or anything else that is PC?
This is a good sign, pun intended. Are people getting fatigued of the everyday PC/wokeness, or is it that, basically nobody cares to make new signs? The latter thought had me motivated to write this post because of another sign also there, associated with this one. The other sign tells one to merge left, as the right lane is closed ahead.
Except, the right lane WAS NOT closed ahead. We're getting back to this topic of decreasing competence, and we may see it in all walks of life. I get that the orange barrels and cones are put just off the street for the times the road work is not in progress. It'd not be efficient to keep picking them up and putting them on trucks at night. This "Right Lane Closed" sign, though, ought to be put to the side and turned 90 degrees. Hell, it's cloth, I think, so just roll it up.
Back in the days when Curmudgeonry posts were half the blog, we asked People can't merge ... is there an App for that? (This one was almost right at 8 years back.) I don't take that post back - merging really is a lost art.
A few weeks ago, I saw a lady stopped completely in the middle lane of 5 lanes of highway, with her left blinker on because she wanted to get into one of the 2 lanes that forked left, over 1/4 mile away!. She was a sitting duck there, when all she had to do, even at that point, was gun it, get up to 50 mph or so, and slide over. Or, just suck it up, and don't fork left - the phone will help you get back where you want to go anyway. Madness!
Upon seeing the erroneous "Right Lane Closed" sign, for days now, I question whether some of the merging hesitancy is due to the incompetence of the road crews or their managers. In a sports car, one may not see what's ahead, lose some time merging, and then realize that was for nothing. In a taller vehicle, I could see that there was no reason to merge - both lanes were visibly open. There's no telling now, whether the signs mean it or not. Just keep going, and if we really have to merge, oh well, wait until 100 ft. away, stop, and we'll all have a traffic jam. That's the new normal.
Finally, there's a stop light nearby that used to work "smartly", I have to say, as the side road of this T-intersection didn't have much traffic. It'd stay green until a while after a car on that side road tripped the sensor. Then, the red for he main road would be short, but a little longer if it detected a number of cars flowing through still. Smart, with no internet required! (For now.)
Once the road was paved though - one of the proud few! - the signal reverted to olde timey timer-style. The main road will have a red light for no reason now. Ha, it's funny to think that this would have sounded stupid 40 years ago. "Whaddya' mean, for no reason? It's some wiring and some lights!". With some tweaking allowed, the timing of one direction vs. the perpendicular, all you had was timing back then. Now, though, you can do better, and we are used to that. However, after the paving job, the traffic engineers must send some technicians out to re-program the box. That hasn't happened. It's been half a year.
Get used to the new World - smarter devices, stupider people.
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Trump taking pro-White action
Posted On: Friday - May 9th 2025 10:59AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics
The guy on our right looks a lot like a S. African guy I know, but the guy I know is an English-ancestry S. African. I can hear his accent in my head when I look at this picture.
I have no idea where most Peak Stupidity readers get their news from. Our commenters are known to be an erudite set, so I wouldn't think their "Conservative" outlet would be Fox News or the usual RedState, Townhall, etc sites. I bring this up because I've gotten the feeling from comments on The Unz Review that many real Conservatives have a bad opinion of President Trump-47 since these last >100 days.
I imagine if you were to watch the guy, whether on Fox news, various youtube/rumble/bitchute clips, wherever, you'd be bound to get a bad impression of The Donald. He runs his mouth too much, and changes his mind seemingly randomly. He is, after all a wrecking ball*. There's something to be said for not listening to a word out of his mouth - as has been the case for me for at least a couple of months - and just read about some very important and successful efforts he HAS made.
Regarding the picture above, I cannot be sure this effort won't be blocked by rogue destructive judges, maybe by the same freaking guy(!), but it's a work in progress. Per The Gateway Pundit, Trump to Welcome First Batch of White South African Refugees Fleeing Government-Sponsored Racial Persecution to U.S. Within Days.
On February 7, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order halting all U.S. aid to South Africa, citing “government-sponsored race-based discrimination,” including racially discriminatory property confiscation.Yeah, no shit, but then has ANY President or Majority leader or ANYBODY called the racist Black! rulers of the former 1st World country of South Africa out for this?
It can be recalled that South Africa’s EFF leader Julius Malena was again calling for genocide against white South Africans at a rally last year.It's been really bad, and the destruction of that country since the 31 year-ago handover of the country from the White man to the blacks is in an acceleration phase now**.
Instead of another 100 thousand here, 50 thousand there of 3rd-World people, supposed war refugees***, asylees, parolees, etc., Trump is welcoming up to 60-odd thousand White Afrikaners. Yes, they are NOW from the 3rd World, but they are not 3rd World people. Besides that these Boers (the other term) are hard-working people, as opposed to the 10's of millions of other "newcomers" over the last decades, they will actually, albeit minutely, slow the decline of the White population here. Thirdly, for their own sake, their home is going down quickly, and, if not already, they will be in great danger. These are deserving refugees. A tweet from some dude notes:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump officials plan to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate an influx of white South Africans within days, according to a government source & internal memo viewed by @LeverNews.I can't tell if he's pissed or happy, but I'm not about to wade into some confusing tweet-fest to find out!
The influx is happening as Trump bans other refugees.
It's not the numbers, as we're talking 1,000 this year, even if not judge-blocked. The southern border is nearly under control, so we've stopped digging, but the deportation program had better be ramped-up 10 or 20 fold if it is to be serious. That's not what this move is about.
This move by President is openly pro-White. Additionally, I just read a couple of articles about Trump firing 2 black government officials. I know, there are millions of people in the Feral Gov't, and "women and minorities will be hardest hit!", but these were specific firings. One was a deputy director of the NSTB, and the other was the Librarian of Congress. (I'm guessing she was too loud.) These 2 firings are not big deals in of themselves, but how many Presidents would have been too cowardly to fire a black lady, directly, and in plain sight? I'd say all of them, in the past.
President Trump will get called all sorts of names whether he does these sorts of things or not. He's got 3 3/4 years to change things. Why not go all out?
Therefore, I really think that Conservative Trump detractors ought to spend a little time thanking the man for pro-White moves like this. Nobody else would have had the guts.
PS: This is probably the only one of hundreds of posts here with the Immigration Stupidity topic key that is pro-immigration. Save the Boer!
PPS: While I was looking for the GP article on one of the black ladies fired, I found an alleged update on THIS story. It does have the following:
“Trump’s policy is a bold, necessary correction,” said a spokesperson for the Chamber of Commerce. “While the West bends over backward to help every other group under the sun, these people—Christian, European, hard-working—have been abandoned. Not anymore.”Say what you want about Trump, but you should mention this too.
* I am not sure if it was Peter Brimelow himself, another writer on VDare, or someone else, who coined that term. It fit for Trump-45, and it fits now. However, I think we've got the crane placed in a much better spot this time!
** Roughly 2 years back Peak Stupidity published an 8 part series of posts, Cry the DeConstructed Country based, to start out, on one article by a long-time expat to America who came back to visit. They are:
Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4: Anecdote on Anti-Apartheid - - Part 5: Cold and Hot Wars, and the Commies, of course - - Part 6: Africa Wins - - Part 7:
1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens and Part 8: As Falls S. Africa...
*** No doubt some are refugees due to American caused warmongering. As much as we'd like it to stop (and this is NOT one of Trump's successes) that's still only an excuse. They may have to leave home, but they don't have to come here. See our discussion of this point in our post Invade the World/Invite the World: Cause & Effect.
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"Houston, we habe Papam."
Posted On: Thursday - May 8th 2025 2:39PM MST
In Topics: Americans Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
The white smoke has wafted out of the Vatican chimney - apparently it's much easier to pick a Pope when stoned. Is the new Pope
We weren't so sure about that standard joke question "Is the Pope Catholic" with the guy they had the last dozen years. We were pretty sure he was a Communist though. Due to our disgust with the Papal Bull out of so-called Pope Francis, we didn't even go take hundreds of pictures of the Vatican while in Rome. (Well, "don't as the Romans don't", they say... it would stand to reason ...)
Amazingly, not only is the new Pope Leo XIV (14th for those readers out there on the other side of Hadrian's wall), a straight** White man, he's an American! It's about damn time. Without checking anything, that also increases the chances of his not being a Communist. We'd better check though - we got the internet, so ...
That this new guy, Robert Francis Prevost, didn't pick Pope Francis II as his alias, seeing as he could have used his middle name - easier to remember, if nothing else - is a good sign to start with. OTOH his last name comes pretty close to "Prevert", which is how many of us like to pronounce "pervert", so not so great a start there. OK, fine, let's go to the wiki page.
Robert Prevost was born in 1955 in Chicago and lived his childhood in Chicagoland (Chicagoans' term for Greater Chicago), specifically Dolton, Ill. That town might ring a bell, if the name of Black! grifter Mayor Tiffany Henyard rings a bell. That business happened much later than then-Mr. Prevost's time in "the far south side of Chicago", per wiki. You'd think he might have a clue on racial reality, but we'll see. I won't bring up every detail of the man's schooling, mostly divinity schools of various sorts and lots of it. He decided to be, or started becoming, I should say, a Priest at age 22. At age 30, he went down to Peru to the Augustinian mission for a year or so, and then came back in '88 and stayed through '99.
Peru, huh? That's worrisome, but then, I remember first hearing of the Shining Path Communists down there from a Peruvian friend from that very time. I wouldn't think this guy would be too enamored with Commies after the "antics" of the Shining Path, but, again, who knows. (He didn't join up, at least...)
However, Father Prevost does have a THING about Peru, and it can't all be about Machu Picchu, olde turtles, and llamas. He was down there again for 11 years starting in '14 as Bishop of Chiclayo. I seriously first thought that was a typo on the wiki page, but that's a place, and he became titular bishop. (No, that's not ... we'll get to the harassment business...) By THING, I mean that Prevost obtained citizenship of Peru, in 2015. What exactly is up with that?
I am not the type to believe all the #MeToo women's nonsense, and I give the Catholic Priests some leeway too. Lots of people lie. From wiki:
Alleged victims of abuse from two priests, dating back to 2007, said that Prevost failed to open an investigation in 2022. According to the Diocese of Chiclayo, Prevost met with the young women in ...Ohhhh! Women, whyn't ya' say so? Seriously, I've been dinged myself for not making mountains out of molehills, Prevost was not the alleged perpetrator, and I don't know what they mean by "young" here. So, I'll leave that without further comment. Plus, it was Peru. If no donkeys were involved ...
There's plenty more to learn, and I'm sure Ann Barndardt will and will tell us what she has. I'll read there later. In the meantime, ZeroHedge, in American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Announced As New Popehas some more info including some of his recent anti-Social media statements. I went through it. It's not pretty, especially his re-tweets and original tweets on the US Immigration Invasion. The same old short-term sob stories appear, with no regard to the long-term sob story of the sad demographic future. Well, they got THEIR walls, so, and there's no great rush of people into Peru...
... which seems to be Robert Prevost's, aka, Pope Leo XIV's, country. I take it he's a dual citizen. He was down there for 1/3 of his life and more than 1/2 of his adult life. I've got a feeling we've got another Liberation Theologist on our hands, maybe not a complete 1970's style Commie, but not an American Conservative theologian either. I should say, YOU'VE got another Liberation Theologist on YOUR hands. I wash my hands of this guy. You got it, Catholics. Good luck with Uncle Leo and all that!
This time around it sounds like the question is not "Is the Pope Catholic?" It might be "Is the Pope a Commie?", but the real question is, "Is the Pope an American?" Is he an American from Chicago or an "American" from Chiclayo?
* Jackson someone... anyone? Jackson Browne from... anyone, anyone coke-something, anyone?
** Actually, we don't know this for sure. I'll have to listen to him talk first thing.
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Isaac Asimov unavailable for comment
Posted On: Wednesday - May 7th 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: Music China The Future Science
I'm just phoning it in this evening - kinda tired.
Though unfortunately it's not the case socially and politically. we are starting to see a world of technology that had been envisioned by Science Fiction writers whose short stories, novels, and novellas I read as a kid. Does anyone remember Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics? Perhaps his novels never got translated into Chinese. One wonders about the Quality Assurance on the software.
Don't worry - this guy was on a test stand of sorts. Once he's standalone finished and has a sticker from Q/A, and all the paperwork is in order, he can't hurt a human. It's built into the software... and will be in all the upgrades too... and we're pretty sure about that ...
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto... NO! Can't do it.
As appropriate (though somewhat dated, with "Made in Japan" and "My brain is IBM") that song would be for this post, Styx was at their best in the 1970's, which ended for them in, actually 1981 with the great album Paradise Theater. Peak Styx was IMHO 1977 and the Grand Illusion album.
Styx was:
Tommy Shaw – lead vocals, acoustic lead guitar
James Young – electric rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dennis DeYoung – keyboards, backing vocals
Chuck Panozzo – bass
John Panozzo – drums
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Peak Stupidity University Sociological Observations versus Theory
Posted On: Tuesday - May 6th 2025 7:33PM MST
In Topics: University Female Stupidity
At the bottom of our post last week entitled University Bubble Housing, we foreshadowed this post, saying "Next time: What one can't help noticing around campus."
Since I'd looked at a whole bunch of stats on the University in question with the rapidly growing housing capacity yet questionable growth prospects, I wanted to discuss one of them in particular. That is the sex ratio, often mistakenly called gender ratio, which I must admit, is probably clearer in this context than sex ratio. (Sounds like "who's gettin' any?") Here is that pie chart:
Let me get a couple of things out of the way here. Firstly, I'm sure most Peak Stupidity readers are aware of societal trends enough to know that the numbers of University enrollees would be skewed toward woman at this point. Secondly, the reasons and the implications have probably been discussed by you all, likely in the comments section of the old iSteve blog, as that's well within Steve Sailer's wheelhouse. Therefore, I won't get into all that here.
This is one university, so to get more general data, I did my best with my sorry-assed search skills on the www. For the recent few years, I get the ratio for the whole US as anywhere from 57.4% women to right at the numbers for this school, approaching 60% women. Oh, so it's significant, but the number of women is only 20% more than the number of men. No, this is why some of us went to the university!... besides that there are so many women there - ;-} - that's 50% more women than men! Nice! (If you're horny.)
That means that if you sit there at the student union and wonder if you'll be able to get chicks, you can think "I'll write off 1/3 of these girls as too homely and we're still even." Does that work? Some say no. I was not in a fraternity, so your mileage (heh) may vary.
Is there anything that we can notice that has changed due to this now-heavily-female-skewed university attendance. Yeah, Noticing. I'm no Steve Sailer, but I still have that Y chromosome, so I can't HELP but notice some things at the university campus or within a mile radius.
Butt cheeks. You can see a lot more. Perhaps the girls were generally slimmer when I went to college, which is very important, but of the many who are now, I have noticed this trend. They wear shorts that show significant amounts of material that I don't recall were visible years ago. It's something else, I tells ya'.
I see a correlation, with the observational numbers - I mean, I can't go measuring parts of people - and the theory, which supposes that these young ladies, many, or probably most, there to start that MRS degree, have to "work" harder these days to attract attention, since they outnumber the men 3:2. There's more competition and that means that you've got to show off more skin than the next
Since I've brought up Steve Sailer throughout this post, let me take a cue from him and propose a law, somewhat (but not) akin to his Law of Female Journalism.*
Peak Stupidity's Law of Female University Student Hotness: The higher the female/male enrollment ratio at a university, the higher the average amount of ass cheek visible.
Sociological Observation. We have not even gotten our research grants approved yet. Still, it's what we thanklessly do here.
* You'll have to read the book, or, yeah, look it up on the www, for the exact wording.
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Shiloh and the Somalians
Posted On: Saturday - May 3rd 2025 5:16PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics
This is a screenshot from The Gateway Pundit, not the video itself. It's at the bottom.
No, that wouldn't even be a good name for a rock band*. In Minnesota, don'tcha' know? Shiloh obviously sounds like a Southern girl's. name, and Somalians, I mean what the...? I'd have figured a Rochester, Minnesota girl would be Natalie, Marge, Helen, Mary... Tyler Moore, or something, and we were led to believe (in a 1970s TV show) that there'd be no Somalians in a place like Rochester, Minnesota.
OK, we're being facetious here, as we HAVE kept up with the immigration invasion, including the refugee resettlement scam. As if they hadn't already screwed up by creating a big welfare State in the upper midwest to where native blacks from other States moved up, the nice White Minnesota ladies invited 10's to 100's of thousands of foreigner blacks from Somalia, repeating a 200-400 year old mistake.
Well, for this "N-word" story today (one I just read about today, after reading "Shiloh" here for a while in bewilderment) the difference between mistakes made by Shiloh Hendrix's possible 20th generation ancestors vs. those made by her parents' or grandparents" generation doesn't matter. This could have happened either way, with either "community". As I watched the viral video of Miss(?) Hendrix admitting (OH! GOSH!) to calling a budding little thief a nigger and not backing down, I had a memory from years ago of some little black girl grabbing something of my boy's off the bench at this same type of playground. Her little brother seemed to be eyeing stuff too. It was the appropriate time to give my son John Derbyshire's The Talk - non-Black! version. He was about 4 y/o, so I had to abbreviate it quite a bit, to "You have to keep an eye on 'them'." I don't remember having known who the Mom was there at the playground, and luckily, yes, we have no
Miss Hendrix must have had the word "nigger" nearby in her head, meaning she had some experience with racial matters. No, it's no longer Mary Tyler Moore's Minnesota. (... and this is Rochester, even, not Minneagadishu.) You get pissed, and the bad words come out... rude, but it ain't no crime [/Billy Joel]. OTOH, stealing someone's diaper bag at the park is, but it was a little thief, so whaddya' do? Usually nothing - just walk away and cool down.
Mr. concerned good
I'm sorry if I don't pay attention to, or really care about, foreign students who get kicked out of the country for speech of some kind, that is, as compared to the de facto ban on certain "Hate Speech" by the Establishment, in which free speech has been limited for 2 decades. It was very nice to see Shiloh Hendrix not back down to this race hustling Somalian... and multiple times at that. I suppose once you're already on camera, the rest of them are free, as they say.
Young people especially know how video is everywhere, and it can put your good or bad moments "up" for all the world to see. Yet, young Shiloh thought "Screw it, we shouldn't have to take grief from some worthless foreigner for not putting up with theft from my little one in our formerly White spaces." I am very glad to see that she is getting a lot of support from (ya' gotta figure) White people around the country and also that she has not backed down, as of press time.
Will the BLM types and Commie goons be stirred up by their leaders to start another Floyd campaign 5 years later, in the same State even? Well, see, nobody died... but then, saying "nigger" is worse than murder, apparently. I'm guessing even the Snowflakes of Minnesota won't put up with any more of that. The Commies will have to come up with something else, because, single-motherhood, arm-long tattoos and all****, Shiloh Hendrix is something of a hero. I don't proclaim the following in jest, as the wording suggests:
(AI cartoon kindly provided by Adam Smith, without his permission.)
In comments below, Adam Smith has given a link to Shiloh's GiveSendGo page. It's up to $619,000 and climbing, with many small donations. It's perhaps hypocritical for me to urge people to Give, Send, and Go(?) when I haven't, but I seriously have a problem with apps and personal info for ANYTHING that doesn't need it. I send checks and cash. Were I to be sure to have a good address for this young lady, I may send her $100 and a nice thank you note. Hopefully she's the type that cares about what happens here not solely for her ability to get away (but where?! This was Minne-freaking-sota!) from this "community", but I also hopes she does care, and is proud of, her probably unintentional blow for free speech in America.
Here's the video from Adam Smith's youtube channel (No, you can't use the clicker there, Meathead!)
If the youtube MiniTru Dept. strips it out, Adam has provided us with 2 other sources. Thanks!
PS: This isn't unexpected, but it's too bad Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit has nowhere near the courage of young Shiloh. His post on this story reads "N-Word" in the title, and he made this into story of the criminality of the Somalian playground-goer rather than any defense of Shiloh Hendrix and free speech. Beyond that, he advises discretion of his readers (hence my not having cropped that out above) due to, what... the one word? Cuck!
* Hat tip to good old Dave Barry.
** See this take on the parable of The Good Samaritan.
*** Not to be confused with a guy named Omer, who was involved in some crime with him. It used to be you wouldn't get confused by Omar/Omer because THERE! WERE! NONE! in America.
**** From thoughts of Greg Hood in the article on this story linked-to up top also, The Battle of Shiloh. Yes, clever title there.
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Senator Josh Hawley reintroduces the PELOSI Bill
Posted On: Friday - May 2nd 2025 7:26PM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government
They're calling it an Act, but an Act is only created when a Bill is passed, by both the House and Senate, and then signed by the President (or via the override of his veto by 2/3 aye's in both the House and Senate. The PELOSI Bill, an acronym for Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments is surely not going to. US Congressmen and Senators have too much invested in the status quo.*
Yes, the PELOSI Act! Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is a clever guy. I mean, that there is funny, no matter who ya' are... unless you're Nancy Pelosi or one of the stockbrokers who work for the many millionaires in the House and Senate.
Really, even if one of the Communists of the American left had come up with such a great acronym, I'd find it humorous. That wouldn't happen though, because the ctrl-left have no sense of humor. We at Peak Stupidity do, and this is so funny because it fits so well.
Nancy Pelosi is something on the order of 1/4 $Billion filthy rich. It pays to be a 20-term servant of the California taxpayers. Additionally, if you don't want to be eating cat food when you retire (aka, die) from the office, there's insider trading, designed to help one augment the meager $174,000 annual salary plus the $49,500 override for serving as Speaker.
* Surely that pun was intended, the reader may ask. Indeed it was, and quit calling me Shirley.
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University Bubble Housing
Posted On: Thursday - May 1st 2025 7:45PM MST
In Topics: University Economics
The reader may have been expecting "Housing Bubble" together, as we've written about that before. (See our old posts with my favorite Case-Schiller graphs off one particular blog I used to like: Housing Bubble 2.0 - West coast, university towns, minorities, to be hardest hit! - - Housing Bubble 2.0 - (Part 2) - Voila, an American Dream - - One year after our last post - Housing Bubble 2.0 going Bubblicious and Checking in on Housing Bubble 2.0- Bubble or just high inflation?.) I've been wrong too many times about housing prices, as you can see from the titles*, so here I discuss the University Bubble, prompted by my seeing so lots of new housing being built.
The "University Bubble" is something Instapundit Glenn Reynolds used to discuss, or actually, point out articles about, and I saw a post of his about it a couple of months back. Is this anything real?
Is it as with the manufacturers of socks I buy at Target, there's just one architect doing all of these?
There have been traffic jams as work had to be done out into the busy streets around this whole city block apartment complex being built ~ 3/4 mile from the center of the nearby University. I looked the builder up. They are a big company that builds these structures all over. Regarding this particular one near us, depending on which site you read, there will be 600-odd or 900-odd bedrooms. (Based on units, also 2 different numbers, the apartments will average to 3 bedrooms.)
These are not dorms, owned by the U., but they are mostly definitely for students. They are expecting a WHOLE LOT of university students. That would be a whole lot MORE. This is after 20 years of my seeing new housing being built all over, and it's not going anywhere.. I just found a nice web page for the University of REDACTED stats on student population. Student population attending this campus has increased 18% in the last 10 years, but unfortunately, the data doesn't go back past 11 years ago.
Interestingly, at first, I found it odd that, for all years I checked, the number of students in each academic year-category went up from Freshmen, sorry Freshpeople, through Seniors. Whaaaa? Don't students drop out anymore? (Well, now there's "grade forgiveness" and basically lower standards and all the student loan money you can use, so .. don't call us, child, we'll call you....) Freshman class sizes are about 1/2 of Senior class sizes, and Sophomore and Junior are in the middle and fairly close to each other.
Ahaa, this shows that there are plenty of students that have transferred from other schools, most probably from less expensive community/tech colleges.
I see a pie chart that says 17% of the students get Pell Grants, but no pie** about student loans held. THAT would have been more helpful. It was not easy to get consistent numbers, but for American college students in general, I get that about half of them exit (graduate?) college with student loan debt. The average amount is not as much as I'd thought, somewhere around 25 big ones. (That's only half of a new pick-up truck.)
Is this continual growth in college student population, ahem, sustainable? I see 3 factors in this possible University Bubble:
1) College student age population. I know I read something by Steve Sailer predicting lower numbers of American available to attend college, but Census Bureau data doesn't agree. this link on the CB site goes to a simple spreadsheet. There's a slight drop going on, with the population of the 20-24 y/o, 15-19 y/o (about 1/2 of these 2 of standard college age), 10-14 y/o, and 5-9 y/o (a decade before college age) groupings going from 22.3 million, to 21.6 million, to 20.7 million, then down to 19.9 million. It's not a drastic change. With some averaging of the oldest 2 groupings, we'd see a drop of 5% over 5 years and 10% over 10 years. (This is assuming President Trump keeps on doing what he's doing at the border, what with all those future Valedictorians and all...)
That reduction is not what I'd call the popping of a bubble.
2) The financial burden of student loans. We have an idea of this burden numerically. However, we don't know whether or when students, or more like their parents, will start balking at accumulating debt that may have served no purpose, depending on major. IOW, will potential students and their parents stop supporting this cycle of tuition increases***, with taxpayer support for it all? I guess this depends on the rest of the economy, the outlook of which is not rosy.
3) The point of going to college. There's a video I've seen referenced in multiple place recently by some famous (not to me!) guy who recommends not going to college for lots of young people. With automation and AI possibly wiping out lot of the rest of the white collar jobs, will it get even harder to enter one of the careers that college education is important for?
There will always be a need for engineers, doctors, scientists, etc., but most of those attending college are in other majors. Is there really a point now, when most student have no resemblance to real humanities scholars of the past? College has become a rite of passage and 4 years, sometimes 5, of good times and that's all. Your parents went, they still buy the sweatshirts and ball caps, and everyone follows the sportsball teams, so ... why not? The future of this spending of half a decade just for fun and inertial reasons depends, yet again, on the economy, the outlook of which is .... yeah...
One would think the businessmen at the large firm behind the erection of these 600-900 student housing complexes know what they're doing. I don't know about that. I think someone, somewhere is gonna lose his ass.
Next time: What one can't help noticing around campus.
* OTOH, I was right in thinking that Housing in China was going to take a dive. That's what I've been hearing about from personal sources.
** There's another very important simple pie chart in there that I'll discuss in another post.
*** And don't forget FEES either! They're not your parents' $20 lab fees anymore. They are significant... but they are not tuition. (Don't ask me how they're not.)
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Pat-25 Helo Pilots - NY Times with some below-the-fold details
Posted On: Wednesday - April 30th 2025 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Anti-Social Media
No, it's an expression from the days of paper newspapers. Please don't fold your computer screen. Peak Stupidity takes no responsibility for this or any other stupidity recommended on this blog. [Ker-ching!! - PS Legal Dept.]
We got hung up on this story on Monday with that old-timey but still very stupid and confusing Feminist-implemented grammatical stupidity. Before we move on, let me restate from Adam Smith's comments (also mentioned by ZH commenters) that it was NOT the NY Times doing this stupidity.
Moving on, this post is written to start to answer the question posed a week after the Army UH-60 Blackhawk/Canadair* CRJ-700 jet mid-air crash in the terminal area of Ronald Reagan Field (aka, Reagan National, code KDCA**), Did D.I.E. cause 67 people to die?. The next day we discussed the D.I.E. factors in regard to the helo crew, who, even at that point, were known to be THE cause of the crash
Let me paste in a bit from that post, and then we'll add some more based on that NY Times article that Gateway Pundit and ZeroHedge referred to. (BTW, thank you so much, Adam Smith, for the links! One link is to the article on the web archive site, so I didn't even have to click on the NYT website, something I'm loath to do.)
I don't know how the relationship would have been between a higher ranking officer getting trained and her instructor. I emphasized her, notice, because I can see that being a part of a problem.
I talked to a former Army helicopter pilot today who assured me that, no, there's no big deal about a higher-ranking officer receiving instruction from a lower one. Each knows where he stands. Oh, that was he. I don't know the guy well enough to ask him about problems with the sexes in said situation. Some would say it's a bad idea to have women involved in military combat roles period. I would tend to agree.
Rebecca Lobach, using her leverage as a member of the IN crowd during the Bai Dien Reign Administration, moved up the ranks to Captain very quickly. I imagine the whole "Grrrylll Power" thing took with her. What could go wrong, indeed? What kind of attitude did she have that night when flying with a lower-ranking man? She'd broken that plexiglas ceiling. Was Andrew Eaves, still Pilot in Command of the flight, as the instructor, a little bit wary of being too tough on his student? There'd be a number of social factors at work. Again, I don't know, and nobody can be sure, until the pertinent parts of the voice recorder transcript are released. Will the military ever release that?The 2 NYT reporters, Kate Kelly and Mark Walker's discuss 5 "takeaways" (can't stand that term) from "The Times investigation". What? I was expecting it to say the "NTSB Investigation", as that's where the info is coming from. What the NY Times DOES have, rather than an investigation, is apparently access to the Blackhawk's (and possibly CRJ's too) Cockpit Voice Recorder transcript. I'd like to see that too, as I can only get so much from Kelly's and Walker's last, 5th, takeaway, the one that has the important information on what the helo crew did that night.
The other "takeaways" show the 2 authors slight ignorance about aviation, as much as they try to understand things. We'll have more on this stuff, just for the record in an other post. This last one, The Black Hawk pilot failed to heed a directive from her co-pilot to change course., is that key point held for the end, cause, yes, shhhhh, Diversity Hire. Rebecca Lobach was one. Even after her name was withheld for a couple of days so that her anti-Social Media self could be scrubbed, we all found out that she had become a Brandon Administration political figure, until, sucks to be her, Trump won the '24 election and she had to go back to just old flying helicopters (something some guys might have loved to have GOTTEN to do to fulfill their dreams, but for Diversity).
What happened, as gleaned from the NY Times writers' summary of the CVR transcript? As we had thought happened, in contradiction to the claims of former helo pilot I'd talked. To be fair, I didn't bring up the sex/diversity angle, just the conflict between rank and instructor/student relationship. I'd say commenter Alarmist summed up the problem succinctly on Monday:
I missed the part where he called out "My Aircraft" and took control to avert disaster.
I guess you don't interrupt girl-bosses in the New US Army.
Right, hopeful suggestions don't cut it after a while. "Take us down to 100 ft radar alt, now." might have been said, but, otherwise, yes "My aircraft!" or "I got it", and do what needs to be done. That's an important part of an instructor's job. NY Times "investigators" Kelly&Walker - LLC, two hundred dollars a day... PLUS EXPENSES - either don't understand this or could not shake that PC/Wokeness, being worried about the NY Times editor in chief calling out "My newspaper!"
Of course, this lady pilot was not up for the job, but I put more blame than that above on the Warrant Officer Eaves, the Instructor pilot too, than just what was written above.
The 2nd big mistake he made was something I have gleaned from this article, but this, along with the 1st point would be clearer had I the CVR transcript. It really sounds like this pilot's use of the visual separation exception to other air traffic control methods was a quick crutch for him, requested a couple of times quickly recklessly as a way to continue the trip down the Potomac on that Helicopter Route 1 without hassle. It's a published procedure that they were not following anyway***. The Tower had told the helicopter (as in the 2 crew members both listening to the radio, one would think. where this traffic was and that they were coming around to land on 33. Some of this may have been missed, as in "stepped on" (on Live ATC, one cannot detect the reception, only the transmissions), but that does't excuse anything. You either positively see the specific aircraft in question or you don't claim you can maintain a visual on it.
It's likely that neither pilot had the PSA flight in sight when they needed to, and it's possible they didn't even try looking for it. That would explain why the instructor wanted to go down and left besides just for compliance's sake. It's also very possible that neither of them knew the layout of Reagan Field enough to understand that an approach to runway 33 would put a jet just over their heads coming from the left, if they were where they were SUPPOSED to be, even.
Until we read the CVR transcripts, we can't be sure what as said between the lower-ranking and White male instructor pilot and the woke Diversity hire token pilot during those critical moments. How hesitant was this instructor to take charge due to worries about being written up later as a bigot or male chauvinist pig? (Haha, it's That '70s Show here at Peak Stupidity. Maude is on next.****) A few extra seconds of hesitation can get lots of people killed.
This team of 2 from the "Paper of Record" sure didn't want to get into THAT part. It was just that she wasn't doing what she was told, that's all. What would be the NTSB recommendations to prevent that sort of thing? That it shows the very real dangers of D.I.E., when push comes to shove, well, will there be some recommendations based on THAT? I believe that's a bridge too far, even for the NTSB, one of the few organizations in the US Gov't that I support and appreciate.
We'll have more to say based on the first 4 takeaways (ugghhh!) from this article, but our conclusions won't be much different from before.
* The news"papers" use Mitsubishi now, but they bought out that particular part of the Canadian conglomerate Bombardier ("Bombadeer" in English), who had bought out Canadair a few decades back.
** The "K" is the international code for US airports, and DCA is District of Criminals Aerodrome, if I'm not mistaken.
*** That the geometry for use of that helo route at the same time traffic was landing on runway 33 (or T/O on 15 for that matter, but I think that'd be rare) doesn't work is something to be explained in the next couple of posts on this accident.
**** Thanks go to my friend for remember these terms as I had a Brandon moment in progress.
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Pat-25 Helo Pilots - wading through grammatical stupidity
Posted On: Monday - April 28th 2025 7:50PM MST
In Topics: Websites Political Correctness Media Stupidity
It was a tweet on Instapundit, by Alex Berenson (he of anti-Corona-Panic fame) critiquing a NY Times article on this past January's fatal mid-air crash of Army "Pat-25" and PSA, dba American 5342, that got me back into this story yesterday. The CVR from the helo (along with from PSA's CRJ-700) with excellent sound quality, per the NTSB, is out somewhere, such that the NY Times could get to it.
I'd noted early on that the pilots of the Army Blackhawk helicopter were completely at fault for the crash. There are always contributing factors, but this doesn't change the basic blame. Peak Stupidity asked Did D.I.E. cause 67 people to die? and then discussed the D.I.E. social factors in The pilots of Pat-25 about a week after the crash. In addition to bringing up D.I.E. as a root cause,in that tweet, Mr. Berenson objected to the way this "Newspaper of Record" only got to the real story of the mistakes of the diversity helo pilot* at the end. Does he read Steve Sailer, because I'm pretty sure pundit Steve Sailer has been first in being all over those writers for putting the important stuff in paragraph 18 or 25
Perhaps Peak Stupidity may have been first in noticing this were we prone to READING the NY Times. We won't, generally, but this story was interesting enough to where I tried to get to the original article, especially to see how and where the writers got that CVR transcript. Alas, tweets suck! I spend=t time going to twitter, back and forth, gave up, and then figured I'd go on 2 go-to websites for the story.
That's where this post turns into a story of Media grammatical stupidity - we'll get to the real story soon. OK, Gateway Pundit (review there**) is full of ads and hype. I got sick of it about a year ago. However, I can usually find news on a timely story that would interest Conservatives there. Yeah, I found their story.
As I'd expected, the writer Christina Laila knows nothing about aviation. That wasn't the problem. The problem was the confusing pronoun usage that truly impeded intelligent conveyance of a story. Let me get this straight. D.I.E. hire or not, it's possibly Army Captain Rebecca Lobach did get into the weird Woke pronoun business. However, the politically erroneous pronoun problem here, and worse to be described later hearken back to Feminism. This is the use of "they", "them", and "their" for 3rd-person SINGULAR when the sex of said person is not known. We discussed this way back in First post on Feminism - starting off at a low stupidity level. The deal was, we can't use standard English male pronouns for unknown sex. It'd be "sexist".
Yeah, that's a pretty low stupidity level compared to today's, but it's, after half a century, still damned annoying and confusing. What I didn't get to in that post (because they used to be short!) is that these pronouns will be used even if we DO know the sex, and even if the sex is female! I thought at least Feminist would like us to use "she", "her", "hers"...
So, I'm there trying to quickly get the gist of things on GP, and I see the following (reproduced as best I could because the site fixed it since yesterday.)
On Sunday, The New York Times released new details about the fatal crash and it revealed Rebecca Lobach repeatedly ignored warnings from their right seat about altitude.Well, enough of that - I went over to ZeroHedge to read this:
Lobach’s male co-pilot, an Army flight instructor, directly told them to turn away, and they flew straight into a passenger jet.
It was worse there!
Let me spell out what the Times buried deep in their article: The Black Hawk pilot received clear, explicit warnings about altitude from their co-pilot.You couldn't tell who's doing what and who's telling what to whom, were you not already familiar with the story. No, the blameless unfortunate crew chief is NOT one of the plural people here. There are only 2! In aviation, if ANYWHERE, you want clear communication, which is, in fact part of the very story of the crash.
The co-pilot explicitly instructed them to turn away from the passenger jet. And what did they do? They ignored those warnings and flew straight into the path of an American Airlines flight carrying 64 innocent people.
Yet, this gobbledygook is written all because of a bunch of bitching by some Feminists 50 years ago. If we're (and Trump sure is trying!) going to shut down D.I.E. and wokeness, the least we can do for starters is to reverse this old-timey pronoun stupidity. Maybe, then, we - talking Peak Stupidity here - can get to the additional information on the Pat-25 helo pilots in that fatal crash.
PS: As you can see, it was not "Tyler Durden" who wrote the ZeroHedge article, but, rather, one Matt Margolis of Conservative PJ Media. Still, Tyler Durden is Blogger-in-Command of ZeroHedge, so he should have taken control of the pixels, just as Warrant Officer and Instructor Pilot Andrew Eaves should have taken the stick from them, you know, them, I mean the one(s?) flying that Blackhawk. See?
PPS: The GP commenters are an OK lot, but not as bright and fun, IMO, as the ZH guys. The ZH guys gave the writer appropriate criticism for this confusing pronoun stupidity.
* Blame can be put on her instructor too, but we'll get to that in the REAL POSTS on this story.
** See also our Addendum to that. Also, a bit later, I got pissed off and wrote about Gateway Pundit Spanish-language "outreach". That was about the time I quit reading regularly.
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