White House Christmas greetings troll
Posted On: Friday - December 24th 2021 11:57PM MST
In Topics: Humor Zhou Bai Dien
I almost felt sorry for Creepy Joe here, but then he's already been a politician for half a century, and I think of how much hate he has for Americans and the his anti-White talk. I thank the caller. Let's hope he doesn't wind up in a dark hole underneath Washington, F.S. for years as yet another political prisoner.
Brandon: "I think we lost him."
Dr. Jill: "Yeah, I think we lost somethin'."
They used to claim old Ronnie was pretty far gone, dementia-wise, during the latter half of his 2nd term. This sort of thing didn't happen, though.
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Chappaquiddick, the movie, the man, and the manslaughter(?)
Posted On: Thursday - December 23rd 2021 6:28PM MST
In Topics: History Movies
Over 3 1/2 years back, Peak Stupidity noted with interest that a movie was coming out shortly about the late politician Ted Kennedy's negligent manslaughter of a young lady trapped in a submerged car back in the summer of 1969*. This happened on the island of Martha's Vineyard, south of Massachusetts' Cape Cod peninsula, or, really, on a tiny part-time** sub-island called Chappaquiddick, part of the town of Edgartown. I was looking forward to seeing Chappaquiddick then, as VDare's brought it to my attention in a discussion of the "what if"*** politics, in this article.
I wrote a post at the time titled The Lion of the Se
That all said, the movie is pretty decent. Of course, there is no real suspense. That also means I don't have to worry about spoiling the ending. Yes, Mary Jo Kopechne dies of suffocation in the air pocket that was left in the submerged Oldsmobile Delmont 88, after Kennedy drunkenly slid it off a bridge that crosses Poucha Pond. The movie does a nice job of sticking to the story over just a couple of days. This was from the day in which the newest Knight of Camelot wannabee (actually, per the movie he wasn't sure if he wanted to be) sailed a regatta and partied with the campaign staffers of his late brother Robert, and got friendly with staffer Miss Kopechne, through the night of the wreck, the cover-up, hand-wringing, and decision-making (i.e. spinning) through the night, the discovery of the car and body in the morning, and a little bit on the local political fallout, or lack thereof.
I read a complete book on the Chappaquiddick incident about 15 years ago. I don't remember many details, but the general gist of it is adhered to pretty well by this movie. Besides the part about all the young Democrats believing having ANY of the Kennedies in office was best thing since sliced bread for America, all true, I guess, Chappaquiddick, the movie, doesn't get into national politics very much except for a nice scene in which the narrative from Ted Kennedy's screw-up is developed. .
The movie doesn't make too much effort to cover for Ted Kennedy's own cover-up of his negligence. This is not ancient history, after all. Though it wasn't the era of ubiquitous video yet, there were witnesses to various sightings of Kennedy before and after he drove the car off the bridge. In one case, Mr. Kennedy made an effort to HAVE a witness, as an alibi. The movie shows Kennedy walking outside of his hotel room to make small talk with some guy, so that guy would be a good witness to Kennedy's having slept at the hotel with no alarm or anything out of the ordinary going on. That wasn't necessary, though, as it didn't fit any of the lies that were bandied about by Kennedy and his accomplices in spin, cousin Joseph Gargan and Gargan's friend Paul Markham. Therefore, I don't know if it would have been easy for the movie makers to have spun the whole thing, though oftentimes they just figure the lies will get through.
The movie shows the local police chief as a complete shill for the Kennedy family. The chief even hooked up Ted Kennedy with a pilot friend to fly him back to mainland Mass (well, semi-mainland, as in the Cape, where the compound was) so that he could avoid questions for the press near the scene of the crime.
Back to Gargan and Markham, accomplices-at-lies, the movie has a scene showing some powerful national political figures**** making a serious effort at coming up with a narrative that doesn't suck. They even deride and laugh at the efforts of Kennedy and his cohorts. I guess the future Liar of the Senate learned more about how to spin and lie from this event which had to have helped him in his future long career in politics.
The movie covered the cover-up activities well, but did not show exactly what went down in the car submerged in the pond that night. That is fair, as it will now never be known to this world exactly what Ted Kennedy did in those moments. The movie shows Gargan and Markham both diving into the pond hours later (after Kennedy finally told them what happened) and trying to get the doors of the Oldsmobile open.
I keep wondering how Kennedy got out of the car, yet, after that, there was no getting in. Was he able to get out before it sunk, yet whichever door he opened closed behind him before the car went down? This pond wasn't very deep, and it'd be an easy dive. Yet, even at 10 ft. down, though that old-timey car was nothing near water-, much less air-tight, it could have taken longer for pressure to equalize than there was Oxygen for Miss Kopechne, and a couple of psi differential would have made it impossible to open a door.
He couldn't have swum out an open window, I don't think. I would imagine Miss Kopechne could swim, but if not, then she may have stayed in the remaining air pocket, were she lucky enough for the floorboards to allow one. Would she stay in the cabin of the upside-down car out of fear, rather than try to get out. In this case, the doors would have no pressure differential. Anyway, the movie shows the windows closed.*****
Could the doors have been jammed shut due to the low-speed impact of the roof hitting the bottom of the pond? That's another possibility.
Ted Kennedy had never "had any recollection" of this important piece of the story, from the time he told anyone about it. I don't believe that. Then again, I don't know if I've ever been as drunk as a Kennedy either.
No matter about all that, Ted Kennedy purposefully put off telling anyone who could have helped rescue Mary Joe Kopechne while he came up with his narrative, yet I read that she may have been alive for a few hours! I am no lawyer, so my "negligent manslaughter" wording is probably not so accurate. As for the morals of this guy, when push came to shove, he showed that they were poor. Yet, that's the kind of people that become Lions of the Senate in this country.
Wait, that was no movie review. Since this is supposed to be a movie review, after all, Peak Stupidity will make one small effort to make this sound like a professional review:
The actors do a good job representing young people of the era. I guess that credit should go partly to the costume department. A guy named Jason Clarke plays the lead, Ted Kennedy. Maybe it's too much to ask, but could he have tried to sound like a Masshole from the Boston area? He only talked with the right accent ONCE, as I recall. Here's what you do, if you're the director: You sit Mr. Clarke down in front of the computer and play Simpsons Mayor Quimby clips over and over until he GETS it. Can't do the accent? Get off the set, man! We'll get someone who can.
That's all I got. The lighting was fine, the casting was fine, production values, whatever they are, were apparently fine, as the DVD didn't get stuck in the player. ;-}
I recommend Chappaquiddick as an engrossing movie and a good history lesson. As opposed to Ted's older brother Jack's book Profile's in Courage, this movie could be part of a series called Profiles of Politicians.
* What else happened that summer? Well, the first men to ever do so, 2 Americans, set foot on the moon. That mission was happening at the same time - the landing was 2 days after Kennedy's actions and 1 day after it's discovery. That was very timely for young Ted, as press coverage went, and this was pointed out in the movie.
** It's connected by sand part of the time, as it for some years at a time. (I guess one good hurricane can change that completely.)
*** "What if" meaning, what if Ted Kennedy had gotten actual justice and pushed out of politics. That's a no brainer - we'd have been better off, all else being equal.
**** Some of these are men still known as important political figures of the time even now. You can watch the movie and see if you have heard of them.
***** An engineer friend and I had a 20 minute helpful discussion on this whole thing. (He liked my text message: "Hey, I need to ask you something about pressure differentials and Ted Kennedy's car.") One thing I brought up is that it's no given that windows would roll down under that differential as, say, 2 psi on 3 or 4 ft2, that's a half ton possibly of a normal force resulting in lots of friction on the window rubber seals.
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The booster shot scam revisited
Posted On: Tuesday - December 21st 2021 7:09PM MST
In Topics: Humor Scams Kung Flu Stupidity
This post is a correction of Peak Stupidity's 2 week-old post The Booster Shot Scam. In fact, it turns out that that previous post was erroneous in its main point. That point was the people were arranging their Kung Flu booster shots in a manner to guarantee them something like a week of paid time off. Well, that's true ... in a way ...
I worked with a another fairly young guy (mid-to-late-20s) who has taken the vaccine and a booster shot. In this case, his wife had been required to due to her teaching job, and this guy went with the flow. I'm not at all endorsing this sort of thing, mind you, but that's not the story. He told me that he had gotten a paycheck that was not to his liking, i.e., it didn't seem to add up. During the pay period, he had taken that booster shot to get a couple of paid days off.
Oops, nope. This guy is no dumbass, but he had also been under the impression that he would get this time off paid. What it is, is that this sick "occurrence", as its called, is not counted for any kind of discipline for people making way too many sick calls. But, at the very bottom of the memo, it says that this time off will not be paid. Yes, it is in fine print.
I can't think of any words more descriptive of, and appropriate to, how I feel about this news than those of American sage Nelson Muntz:
See, people indeed WERE arranging their Kung Flu booster shots in a manner to guarantee them something like a week of paid time off. as I stated in that previous post. However, they haven't been reading the fine print! They won't get it!
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More Ron Paul Goodness
Posted On: Tuesday - December 21st 2021 8:30AM MST
In Topics: Pundits Liberty/Libertarianism Kung Flu Stupidity
Ron Paul's latest is Omicron: the Lockdowners’ Last Stand. I wish. Can we wipe them off the face of the country like the last of the Mohicans?
As to be expected, Fauci reveled in the emergence of the new variant, warning of “record deaths” for the unvaccinated. Similarly, President Biden warned that this would be a “winter of death” for the unvaccinated.Is it possible to have a very city-specific Winter of Death? You can probably guess what city I am (of course), just speculating about.
But here’s something the media isn’t reporting about the omicron outbreaks: they are taking place among the fully vaccinated. Cornell University, with 97 percent of the campus fully vaccinated and a mask mandate, has announced that it would return to online only instruction after a massive Covid outbreak. Likewise, the National Football League has postponed several games this weekend due to Covid outbreaks, even though the League is virtually 100 percent vaccinated. And the National Basketball Association, which is above 95 percent fully vaccinated, has just announced that due to a surge in Covid cases it too will postpone games.Here's the gist of it from the, as usual, quite optimistic Dr. Paul:
Fauci loves to say that to question him is to question science, but this has nothing to do with science. It’s about power. Fauci, the political authoritarians, and the corrupt Big Pharma billionaires are trying to make a last stand, desperate to push omicron as a justification for further tyranny and profits. But actual science is not cooperating.I hope, but I kind of doubt, it's a last stand. What I hope also is that Ron Paul can stay around without cancellation for a long time to come. His Liberty Report is worth taking 1/2 an hour for each week.
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Immigration M.A.D.ness
Posted On: Monday - December 20th 2021 3:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music History World Political Stupidity
Anyone younger than 35 y/o today would not know anything of this fairly recent history from any personal experience or following of what were current events. That was a long period of time, enough for most of us to think it was the way it would always be, that there was a Cold War with a continuous threat of nuclear annihilation between the two principals, the USA and the USSR. From 1949, when the Soviets successfully test-blew their first atomic bomb, stolen from the Americans, and only 4 years after the American's first success, until 1989, that was 40 years even of this threat.
From barely having enough fissionable material to come up with enough bombs to have a small chance using long-range bombers, to having so many thermonuclear (fusion) warheads that they almost didn't know what to do with them, the situation changed rapidly. Yet, the constant was that the Americans felt the need to have enough of a threat to prevent the Soviets from thinking about starting nuclear war, and, per the left, vice versa*.
From the threat of nuclear attack via strategic ultra-long-range bombers, to the creation of ICBMs, to the establishment of the "nuclear triad" (which included the former plus submarine-launched nuclear missiles), along with the invention of MIRVs (Multiple Independent Rentry Vehicles), i.e. a dozen warheads sent separately off of one missile, things escalated rapidly. It was a hell of a time to be a mechanical engineer!
With this escalation, a new strategy of both sides solidified. This was called Mutually Assured Destruction. The idea was to have enough destructive power** to wipe out enough of the enemy's civilization, such that the enemy would not think of striking first and "winning" a nuclear war per any meaning of "winning". One way to win a nuclear war could have been to strike the enemy's nukes out of commission before they got into the air and then launch at its cities. This resulted in the strategy of "hardening" one's missile silos in huge amounts of concrete and earth. Thereafter, one needed even more megatonnage to blow up said ICBMs, with that being perhaps the primary game and blowing up of cities being a no-brainer afterthought(?!)
The subs were another story, hence the high-stakes game of better silencing and better detection of underwater sounds. Then, there were still the strategic bombers, the American BUFFs (8-engined B-52s) and the Russian Bears (Tupolev-95s), and the detection equipment such as the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line in the Great White North.
As for M.A.D., it may have been made fun of by the left, but was not "MAD!" in the British sense, as in crazy. Nobody with any sense wanted this thing to start. (The question was, "did everyone in power have enough sense?")
Well, that was fun, but I haven't gotten to my point of this post yet!
Peak Stupidity gets behind on CURRENT "current events", as we used to call what's now just constant stupidity. The topic today is month old news now and not something I am particularly interested in. As a Libertarian isolationist, I don't feel the need to give a rat's ass what's up with the Russia and the Ukraine, or Belarus and central/western Europe. However, I am an avid VDare reader, and they sometimes cover some topics that aren't America-related but are examples for us on what to do or (usually, lately) what NOT to do.
(Or perhaps, these should be called Multiple Iimmigration Re-entry Vagrants.)
This story is amusing too, as another "hoisted on one's own petard" deal. It seems that a flap between Belarus and Poland and the EU, has resulted in Belarus using immigration as weaponry. Steve Sailer had two posts excerpting the NY Times. It's almost as if Mr. Sailer enjoys reading the Grey Hag, as he snarks NYT: "Risk For Leader Of Belarus: Migrants He Lured May Want To Stay" and NYT: E.U., Accept Your Punishment By Belarus. Then, the excellent reporter Washington Watcher II (yes, there was a "I") had much more of this story in Immigration Is A Weapon, EU Says. Democrats Using It Against The Historic American Nation.
This is rich. We've been told for 30 years that "Diversity is Strength". Immigration is supposed to be so good, the more the better. Why DOES the rest of Europe see Belarus' actions as a threat? It's not like they send over immigrants who destroy your own immigrants first and then blow up your cities, right? Wait ...
If you see something as a weapon to be used against you, then you cannot at the same time believe you need more of it. That's causing massive headaches in the brains of the left in Europe now.
If we admit that ballistic immigration, strategic immigration bombing, and, in general, the triad of land-based, sea-based, and airborne immigration is bad, is it not time to look into how this was handled during those 4 decades of the Cold War?
Firstly, we don't need unilateral disarmament! It was a stupid idea as advised by the American ctrl-left during the Cold War (we were asked "if the Russians love their children too - yeah, no shit, Sting, just sing and play the bass), and it'd be a stupid idea now. "You send in 100,000 Iraqis, we''ll launch an equal megatonnage of Haitians." That's the way it ought to go.
Should we institute a new SALT treaty, to be hashed out at the UN? That would be Strategic Arrival Limitation Talks. Let's do more than talk. Let's cut down the numbers!
"No Pukes!"
"Arms are for cuffing to the border fence!"
"Berzerkely is a Refugee Free Zone."
... bumper stickers should be issued. OK, I got that last bit from a song (Union Man) on the same Neil Young album as a song Peak Stupidity featured years ago*** that mentions "the old DEW line".
For today, we have a not quite as old Rush song, from their Grace under Pressure somewhat-of-a-concept album from 1984. This one, Distant Early Warning was written in the heyday of music videos, and I'll always remember the video with the song. (Shoot, I didn't even get to cruise missiles in that very short MAD discussion!)
* This point hinges on the question of whether the Soviets really believed that the (at that time) reasonably under-control US Gov't would have wanted to initiate war against the core of Communism. Mostly, the American policy was one of "containment", keeping it from spreading further. On the other side, it's more credible that the Soviet (and Red Chinese, perhaps) government, under zero control by its population, would have taken out the West via nukes if it could have.
** Regarding the history of nuclear weapons in the Cold War, the destructive power of the weaponry was put in units of "Megatonnage". It's not a unit of power, though, but of energy, and is not about the mass of the weapons. One Megaton is the amount of energy equivalent to the exploding of a million tons of TNT. Yes, there was plenty to blow up the man-made works of the world!
*** See Oh, this country sure looks good to me... but these fences are coming apart.
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Step into Christmas
Posted On: Saturday - December 18th 2021 6:43PM MST
In Topics: Music
I had another post I was going to write, with the pictures already saved, links stored, and everything. It's too much for today though, so here is some music to end the blog-week.
It's already a week till Christmas day. We'll have some real Christmas music later, but for now, let's Step into Christmas with Elton John. I really like that country-style guitar lick played by Davey Johnstone. This one is from Christmas time 48 years ago:
That's a great "wall-of-sound" sound by Elton and his usual band:
Davey Johnstone - guitar
Dee Murray - bass guitar
Nigel Olsson - drums
and it sounds all 3 singing backing vocals. Elton's lyric writer, Bernie Taupin appears in this video playing bells at 2:00.
Next week, Peak Stupidity will have the post I had in mind today, on immigration as weaponry, a beyond-Steve-Sailer-level fisking of one of the pieces of sheer stupidity he presented from the NY Times, a movie review, maybe something about the R.C. Christian Guidestones Guide, and then some time off. Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Revisiting Shen Yun
Posted On: Saturday - December 18th 2021 10:40AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity China
No, no, no, not Shen Yang! That's a city* in Manchuria. I'm never goin' back. We're not talking about a Chinese MSG-based delicacy either. I'm getting confused myself. I asked for some Shen Yun, hold the MSG, and I got Mu Goo Gai Pan, ... the comedy duo, Mu is the straight man, and Goo is the funny guy. Mr. Gai Panned their whole routine in the Chinatown Daily Worker, saying it was too Bu Wai Zhee.
Sorry, that one came straight outta the comments in Peak Stupidity's previous post on this Shen Yun crowd. Commenter MBlanc46 noted back then that'd he'd seen loads of ads in his area for this anti-Commie ballet troupe. The ad above is for the same, but for the '21-'22 ballet tour.
Note the anti-Communist theme of this year's tour. Inside, the brochure, it says:
Come see what the Chinese Communist Party doesn't want you to see. Every year since its inception, Shen Yun has had to overcome the CCP's attempts to sabotage the performance.So, you're taking the fight over here? But, per last year's FAQ, there will be no Kung Fu (hence our preference for the Monster Truck show instead...). Fighting Communism by ballet dancing - well I've heard it all now.
For millennia, China' s dynasties were home to a world of profound and bountiful culture. That all changed in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seized power. Viewing China's spiritual and artistic heritage as a threat to its atheistic and materialistic ideology, the communist regime spared no effort to eradicate traditional Chinese culture and anyone who stood firm to defend it.,
Then Shen Yun came with a mission to revive this 5,000-year-old [John Derbyshire says 3,600 years, so I'm goin' with that, sorry.] culture
Look, I've got no problem with ballet dancing per se. I've definitely got no problem with anti-Communists. The thing is though, well two things, they want a couple of hundred dollars a ticket for them to fight Communism in China by performing ballet, and why don't you keep this fight in China?! Per the previous post on this Shen Yun crowd, they are allied in some way with the Falun Gong, who, per the CCP, were fighting the CCP by stretching and calisthenics. There was that old Chairman Mao saying, power comes from doing lots of jumping jacks. No, that wasn't it.
Peak Stupidity wrote a post a couple of years back about the stupidity of importing a civil war, in Sweden. That one was about importing ~ equal numbers of Iraqi and Iranian Moslems who don't particularly get along back in the Middle East, so there's no strict guarantee that they will get along in Sweden. Now, we have a large number of Chinese people living in America as citizens or in various stages of the immigration process, legal or illegal. I suppose it's good that they can get some influence from the other side of the story vs. the CCP propaganda. However, I think it would be better if the Chinese people living here for good would live as Americans, concentrate on the American Communists, and leave that whole China scene behind.
Really, are there Americans in China performing ballets or just having rallies, pro-Trump or anti-Zhou Bai Dien? Pick some random countries that have a few Americans. Do Americans in Germany have political events about American politics? If you're living in Germany or in China, you lay low (especially in the latter case), you live as the Germans/Chinese do, and you ask yourself "why in the heck would the average German/Chinaman want to go to my special political ballet?"
There's been so much of this in America done by Americans over the recent years, since the 1960's (hmmm, what bill was passed in 1965?) The Cold War, American influence for its sake, and pushback against this, was one thing. At this point in history, I don't know what foreign places have anything going on that is our business. Bomb the Serbians, kill Kudaffy, protect some rocks off of Japan from the Chinese, protect one group of Koreans from another group of Koreans, c'mon man, we're flat broke!
For years you'd see those Free Tibet! (or was it Free Tibetan Coffee!.) bumper stickers. You want to free Tibet? Good on you. Go to Tibet and free Tibet - your bumper sticker is not helping free Tibet.** Now, the deal is we have so many people from foreign lands that are not going to leave their old animosities behind.*** Unless their politics affect America, I don't care. Leave it behind on the border, at the airport, in that shipping container you came in ...
No thanks, Shen Yun, I'll save my $200 for "Let's Go Brandon" signs.
* Formerly Muckden, but even Chinese people don't know that, cause, Mao.
** Whichever side they were on, you've gotta give those idealist young men in the mid-1930s that went to Spain to fight in that civil war some credit. Even Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, a clueless fool at the time, decided to fight on the "Republican", aka Communist side, picked up a gun, and spent months on the battle lines. See our review of Homage to Catalonia.
*** It's nothing really new. This goes back over a century to the southern Italians - It should have been "No, Vito Corleone, you have to go back." (It's hard to say "no" to a man named Vito.) It's all good now, but it's been a century!
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America's Ruling Class of the early '20s
Posted On: Friday - December 17th 2021 8:01PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Pundits Globalists Books
The political cartoon above was drawn by Elliot Banfield whose work is often published in Claremont Review of Books. Writer and frequent Peak Stupidity commenter E.H. Hail has a very interesting analysis of this depiction of America's current elites here on his Hail to You blog.
It's great to read another post by Mr. Hail (been too long!) I'll leave it at that here and ask the reader to check out his take on the types of people represented there in the balloon and possibly comment.
I've always wanted to take my family up for a balloon ride just once. As a non-member of the Ruling Class, I will forego the champagne and just bring a six-pack of Miller High-Life instead.
I also always liked this song. It's by The 5th Dimension from 53 years ago. They weren't Ruling Class, but they did clean up at the Grammies.
Lastly, for the kids, I had a favorite book back in my childhood from the Time-Life "Yearling" series called The Twenty-one Balloons. I highly recommend it for 9 to 12 y/o boys.
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The Potomac Regime
Posted On: Friday - December 17th 2021 10:45AM MST
In Topics: Pundits Globalists US Feral Government
I had never run into the term "The Potomac Regime" for the heart of the US Feral Gov't in Washington, F.S. before reading VDare's James Kirkpatrick's article An American Warns Eastern Europe: The Potomac Regime Is Not Your Friend (Or Ours) a couple of days back*. I really like this terminology.
As a Chinaman in Mao's Red China, a regular
Along with that, the namesake of the city Washington, F.S. (see what I mean, that's Federal Shithole, in Peak Stupidity parlance) takes a real beating based on our disgust with the, yes, "regime" there. You've got the "Father of our Country", a guy who could have remained President for life, who did the right thing, and that's after leading the American Revolutionists to victory after 8 years of war. Yet, a large portion of the citizens of the country he founded revile the word "Washington". Yeah, leave it out.
No, we have nothing against the Potomac River, per se, but that's where this Federal Shithole of a city happens to lie. I assume that he coined it**, so I thank James Kirkpatrick for a very appropriate term for the evil cabal who run things in the nation's capital. In fact, we will appropriate it, with attribution till (fingers crossed) the term comes into common use. Then, we actual Americans can talk more clearly about "regime change", as seems to have been a big thing for this very crowd.
The Potomac Regime.
* That article delves into more US involvement in places that we have no business being in, but also one other topic that will result in a humorous post to come.
** I just duckduckwent it, and other than a guy at What Really Happened who excerpted a small part of Mr. Kirkpatrick's article - with no attribution, but his title links to the article on VDare, I got nuthin'.
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Peak Stupidity Field Trip - The Georgia Guidestones - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - December 15th 2021 7:05PM MST
In Topics: History Globalists Geography Peak Stupidity Roadshow
(Continued from Part 1.)
I started reading the ..pdf file book that commenter Adam Smith kindly found and linked to in the comments for us that "Robert Christian", creator of the Georgia Guidestones, wrote. It's only 125 pages of fairly large text and easy reading, so I got about 1/4 of the way through in 1/2 hour before life intervened today. Because I'm not through, I'll leave plenty of other interesting discussion about the Georgia Guidestones - some already started/covered in the comment under Part 1 - aside till I am.
This post is as close to a tour-guide version as Peak Stupidity can get. Really, that's not very close, as for example, the first advice for the visiting tourist from us is, as usual*, Don't spend the whole time taking selfies! It's not like there aren't pictures of this monument on the internet - just look at the top right here. You can photoshop yourself in and save the gas for airfare, but you really ought to have more trust from your friends, family, and blog readers such that they will believe you really were there. It's not like a picture of your finish in an Ironman. Even Peak Stupidity readers, as cynical as they are likely to be, will believe I was there without pictures that would destroy anonymity. You do, right?
Why go here at all nowadays, since one can get everything on these stones, and the base and plaque, off the internet? I guess one could say that for historic tourist destinations of all sorts, but there's something about being there. I'm glad we went.
If you're driving an hour or 3, I'd say just give yourself about an hour at the site before you get bored and need to drive into Elberton for Taco Bell (then, because it was locked up due to PanicFest after-affects, we crossed the street to KFC). Granted, if you came across the ocean because this is something you just HAD TO see, well, go to lunch, come back for another coupla' hours and sit in the sunshine to show that it was all worth it.
As I wrote, nobody came from too awfully far during the hour we were there. Two 20-something guys came from Upstate South Carolina, about an hour and a half drive for them, and one of them told me he was pretty into this thing, and he had come a few times before. He was no fanatic of any sort. There were families from the eastern suburbs of Atlanta, one from Lawrenceville. The kids of various ages got bored after 20 minutes and went running around the 5 acre property. (I believe that is the brighter green area shown in the aerial photo last time - that'd be a square 467 ft each side - looks about right.)
Seeing as there were about 5 "parties"** there at a time, maybe 8 during our hour there, I suppose that day could have seen a couple of hundred visitors trickle in. However, this was a really nice day.
There's no visitor's log. What kind of Globalist illuminati types wouldn't leave a visitor's log that they could use to come get us later? Just sayin'...
Besides the "just being there" thing, as witness to something kinda different and a little spooky, there is the construction of it to admire. Of course there are buildings, bridges, and towers that are much more impressive, engineering-wise. It's still something that this J.C. Christian and his backers spent the effort to make this modern-day Stonehenge. When we compare the quality here to the Stonehenge in England, we can really take to heart the complete BS inherent in the believers in the noble savages or just primitives of pre-modern times and their "building with their bare hands, what we still can't do today". C'mon, man! See our old post The great works of the ancients ... with no Caterpillars for more, but I'll just say for now that, 41 years later, these polished stones with professional engraving have stood up nicely. Well, Stonehenge 1.0 is a lot older, come to think of it, so that'll be a great comparison post for later: Stonehenge v Georgia Guidestones. There was one slight screw up in manufacturing on one of them, I noticed.
Speaking of all that, there is that astronomical aspect to this monument. Really, it isn't much, and the .pdf that Mr. Smith rounded up doesn't have too much to say about this part. I guess if you build something like this, you feel obligated to include a sundial...
Nah, don't pay for an airline ticket just for this. If you can include a stop by while on a trip taking you within 100 miles, well, why not? The best things about a visit to the Georgia Guidestones - there are no mouthy tour guides, and this one must have been left out of the Chinese charter tour routes! (Too many drivers getting lost and letting the GPS steer them toward the other Stonehenge?)
* For starters we have at least 2 posts that mention this: At the Beach and The Ugly Chinaman.
** Hey, that might be a really good place for a party at night, UGa students! (The gate gets locked, but it doesn't mean much.)
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Ron Paul goes the extra mile
Posted On: Wednesday - December 15th 2021 6:42AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits alt-right/MAGA
Dr. (real Doctor, that is) Ron Paul is the penultimate Libertarian/Constitutionalist. Had we a few hundred Ron Pauls in Congress for significant portions of the last century, Peak Stupidity would not have to exist. (If at all, we would have had to confine ourselves to the topic of World Stupidity, with the bigger travel budget that that would require.) However, in holding onto a great nation, Libertarianism alone does not cut the mustard. There must be the RIGHT population and Conservative ideas must reign too. Peak Stupidity explained this in the long-ago self-reflective post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?.
I tried. In the late winter of 2012, during his campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination, I told Ron Paul in person "Hey, if you want to win REDACTED State, you need to talk about illegal* immigration." That was in front of a bunch of people, so Dr. Paul felt obligated to respond with something about "I'm all about following the law..." It kind of faded out, because he was leaving the rally anyway, but I don't think he was trying to simply blow me off. Ron Paul does understand the problem.
In 2012, perhaps Dr. Paul figured that bringing up this type of topic would get him even worse media coverage. Sure, it does. But any publicity is good publicity, so could Ron Paul have Trumped Donald Trump on this issue 4 years earlier and just rocketed to the top, damn the Lyin' Press? Nobody will ever know.
As much as I agree with and enjoy Ron Paul's weekly columns and Liberty Report videos (the latter only when I have time), I have not expected him to go all the way down the road of alt-right Conservatism and talk about race/ethnicity wrt the subject of immigration. (I am glad to see that Tucker Carlson has started down that road.)
Well, I was pleasantly surprised by Ron Paul's 2nd-to-latest column** Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is a Joke***. In this one, yes, he went the extra mile down the road on the racial/ethnic angle on immigration, further than I'd ever read him go before. The rest is for background and quite good, as always, but the (my) bolded part is what I'm talking about here:
European Union member country Hungary is the only EU country not invited to participate in the “Summit for Democracy” even though it has undeniably held fully democratic elections since the end of communism 30 years ago. There is no question that Hungary is a democratic country, but it is not invited to Biden’s “Summit for Democracy.”OK, he doesn't write "race", but you get the idea.
Why? Because the Biden Administration does not like Hungary’s democracy. It does not like the fact that the Hungarian people have voted for a conservative government that occasionally pursues foreign and domestic policies at odds with the dictates of Foggy Bottom and Langley.
The Biden Administration does not like that Hungary resisted the mass invasion of refugees from countries and cultures absolutely alien to Hungary’s history. Biden does not like the fact that Hungarians have voted time and time again for a conservative government that openly professes Christian values. But what they hate most is that when Washington says “jump,” Budapest doesn’t always ask “how high?”.
Nice job, Ron Paul! (I wish you'd have said this sort of thing on the campaign trail in '12, though I guess if it were in 1992 or something, it would have been even more beneficial.)
* I will give my usual caveat here that I DO understand the the legal immigration invasion is just as important of a problem, maybe even more so sometimes. I didn't have time to spout out a thesis abstract in this particular situation.
** We do tend to get behind here sometimes.
*** BTW, as you may see from the title, the main subject matter of that column matches what we wrote here.
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The Emergency is over.
Posted On: Tuesday - December 14th 2021 1:37PM MST
In Topics: Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Morning Constitutional Kung Flu Stupidity
So, says D-squad Governor of Colorado Jared Polis. I don't agree that ANY of the ginned-up PanicFest from this latest virus out of the Orient constituted an emergency of any sort, much less an almost 2-years-long emergency. (Is there such a thing as a long-term, possibly life-long emergency?).
Per Fox News' Jessica Chasmar, as published on the The New York Post site, Colorado governor declares COVID-19 emergency 'over' despite Omicron. With her use of the scare single quotes*, it doesn't seem like this Jessica Chasmar is perfectly OK with this. "Despite Omicron", she worries in the headline. Yeah, well, there's a new strain of influenza out too, Jessica. How do I know that, you ask? They come out all the time. Yet, we'd be long out of Greek and Latin letters, and hell, probably Chinese characters too, if we kept "emergencies"** going on for influenza.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, declared in a new interview that the COVID-19 emergency is “over” and that he won’t be implementing another statewide mask mandate in response to the spread of the Omicron variant, explaining that if people aren’t vaccinated at this point, it’s their “own darn fault” if they get sick.Indeed, it's not always the case, but people often get sick due to their own damn*** fault. Oh, and I suppose you could say, Governor, that if they keel over from blood clots after TAKING the vaccine, it's their own darn fault. I would hope you'd agree.
Governor Polis went on in this interview (audio on the NY Post page) about how easy it is to get jabbed. Yeah, you betcha' it is. It might be too easy, in fact, but I'll get back to that. The guy is enamored with these vaccines. OK, I've got no problem with his opinion, due to:
"And at this point, I think it’s almost like they made a deliberate decision not to get vaccinated,” he added. “I still encourage everybody who hasn’t been vaccinated to get protected. And for those who are, make sure to get that booster after six months. The data shows it’s important and very likely even more so with this Omicron variant.”Right you are, Guvna! Yes, that's it! There's no "almost like" to it. It was a deliberate decision. Us anti-vaxxers, in Unzian terminology are not lazy about it. How perceptive of Governor Polis! We deliberately chose and still choose not to get vaccinated.
Polis said he supported local jurisdictions instituting their own mandates according to their individual needs, but that the state should stay out of it. [My bolding.]Excellent! See, now, even though I imagine Jared Polis, being a lefty from the D-squad, is otherwise an idiot and terrible for the State of Colorado, I give him lots credit for the American attitude seen here. By "American", I mean Constitutional Republic understanding American, as were lots of us in the old days.
It's real simple, folks. If it doesn't affect you, mind your own business, and leave others the hell alone. It's one thing to try to affect change as a community, leaving others to voluntarily comply or not, but government should have no part in it. "Encouragement" of Coloradans to take that vaccine? Fine. However, as Governor Polis said, "the state should stay out of it".
"The emergency is over,” he said. “You know, public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that’s just not their job. Public health [officials] would say to always wear a mask because it decreases flu and decreases [other airborne illnesses]. But that’s not something that you require; you don’t tell people what to wear. You don’t tell people to wear a jacket when they go out in winter and force them to [wear it]. If they get frostbite, it’s their own darn fault.Darn straight is is! Though, actually, it's probably the lack of gloves or socks/shoes that would result in frostbite. Most people get it on their extremities, not on their torso. Hey, I don't expect this guy to understand the human circulatory system, when he can't even ... OK, I did not plan to bad-mouth the guy here.
There IS plenty to argue with this guy about regarding his opinion on the vaccine. We who see problems with it are "in a bubble", he says. There's more. However, I will not argue here but praise Colorado Governor Jared Polis for being an American here. And he's on the Blue-squad, no less. Thank you, Sir!
Would you find much of this talk by politicians in other countries, especially of the left? I mean, they could state this, but what do they have to back it up with? We've still got those little scraps of Amendment X that some of us have rescued from the shredder.
PS: Denver, Colorado is a long way from Margaritaville in the Florida Keys, but this "it's your own 'darn' fault" bit has put the song in my head. If you remember the lyrics, Jimmy Buffet, always a great lyricist, ended the choruses thusly, in order:
"It's nobody's fault.",
"Hell, it could be my fault.", and finally
"It's my own damn fault."
"Yes, and some people claim that there's a woman to blame...
but I know, (steel drums), it's all Fauci's fault."
There was to be no music today, but, well now, whatdya', you know? It's 5 O'Clock on some server somewhere.
Yeah, the song's been overplayed. There are plenty of good ones from the same album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
* Just single-'s, at least, so there's that ...
** See, I'm using double-"'s because continuing PanicFest "emergencies" ARE worriesome.
*** Peak Stupidity bloggers are not in high government positions, so we can say "damn" instead of that darn "darn".
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Then they came for Santa Claus...
Posted On: Monday - December 13th 2021 8:32PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
... and I said nothing, because all I got last year was a stupid fruitcake anyway ...
From Info Wars Army*, we read Santa Claus Arrested By German Police For Not Wearing Mask. I'd have thought they'd have had to extradite him from the North Pole, or stake out a fireplace somewhere on Christmas Eve.
Really, this is beyond Clown World now. I am amazed that there are really places in the world that require one in seriousness to wear these face masks outside. As for America, as I wrote in Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!, I really don't think there are many people left who take the masks seriously, health-wise.
But, rules are rules, I suppose, and Santa Claus, long white beard and all, can spread germs like the best of them. I wonder if this guy has little children sit in his lap and tell him what they want for Christmas (probably simply "my life back"). There's not a whole lot of social distancing going on there. I couldn't blame the guy if he threw down the towel, the red suit, and the beard, after this, figuring this PanicFest has destroyed pretty much all fun now.
(I got this picture off a tweet on the same InfoWars page.)
How shameful for this to happen in a place that is so much a part of Christmas culture and tradition and Christianity period. Well, we've still got this song on youtube ... for now...
(Couldn't find the American pop standard on youtube, what was it I saw Mommy bailing out Santa Claus,.)
* I'm not familiar with the "Army" bit, but this may be others taking over for Alex Jones, since he's been cancelled, or just a different URL for the same reason.
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Some people ya' just cain't reach...
Posted On: Monday - December 13th 2021 6:43PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Pundits Orwellian Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
This could be it. Do we have Ron Unz, on the side of the anti-Panickers now?! This is unprecedented .. he's a phenomena, man ...
In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984, one of the many interesting concepts was the notion of “Crimestop,” the ability of well-trained citizens to self-censor their thoughts before they strayed into dangerous and forbidden territory. As conveniently summarized in the Wikipedia entry, Orwell wrote:The Orwellian nature of the Kung Flu PanicFest? Preach it, Brother Unz!Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.Given the existing and ever-growing number of forbidden topics in contemporary Western society, this concept may or may not be applicable. Perhaps thoughts are being self-censored or perhaps merely words. Lacking eyes into human souls, it’s obviously difficult for us to distinguish between the two cases.
In any event, that concept entered my mind near the end of November when I began reading a full page of book reviews in the Wall Street Journal entitled “What Happened in Wuhan,” with the descriptive subtitle “Four books pursue theories of possible origins of the Covid-19 virus—and the question of cover-ups.”OK, yeah, Ft Detrick, Wuhan, yeah, yeah, it came out of some lab... OK, fine, but about the media and government created PanicFest, the LOCKDOWNS, the push for mandatory vaccination, the Totalitarianism, from this just another virus out of the Orient... go on ...
Our global Covid catastrophe is probably the most important historical event since the end of World War II, and with its second anniversary now upon us, serious books analyzing the origin have finally begun to appear in print. I have extensively written on exactly this topic since April 2020, ...
.....
Until recently the media might have relegated any such discussion of Covid origins to the “fever swamps” of the conspiratorial fringe.
We don't care about the COVID origins, Ron Unz! That's not the big story here. Damn! Some people ya' just cain't reach....
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Peak Stupidity Field Trip - The Georgia Guidestones - Part 1
Posted On: Saturday - December 11th 2021 6:25PM MST
In Topics: Music Globalists Geography Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Going along with the big stuff going on in the world, with the Globalist-influenced (if not planned) Kung Flu PanicFest, and increasing Globalist actions all over, we decided to take a Peak Stupidity field trip to the town of Elberton, Georgia to check out the 41 y/o Georgia Guidestones.
This 19 ft tall nearly 120 ton granite monument has inscriptions in 8 languages. We'll write more about the 10 admonishments(?) in another post, but I would say only 1 or 2 of the ten should in any way piss of a Libertarian or Conservative. Additionally, there is the famous number 1, associated by many with what's going on with mandatory vaccinations with an experimental virus:
Hmmmm ... Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Says who? To whom?
Well who's this all written for? It was definitely made to last. 1979, when the specs were drawn up and the money paid, was still during the Cold War time. One will notice that English and Russian are together at the front of the stones facing the road. The languages of the 2 superpowers of the day would obviously have been considered the most important. I wonder it the idea was that this monument was a guide to the remnants of humanity after a nuclear war, with instructions to get it right next time! Maybe humans would be back to beating bones on the ground as in 2001, but before 2001, but hopefully still literate, so they could see the sun come through this one hole, say "hey, God is wise" and freaking evolve... I dunno ...
As for who these instructions were written by, a guy who called himself "R.C. Christian" arranged for their production with the Elberton Granite Finishing Company and paid well more than the job was worth, as Joe Fendley of the firm thought he was a nut and jacked up the price to discourage him. That price was OK, and the monument was built and set up on the highest point in Elbert County. This is in northern and far-eastern Georgia, well up-river (and lakes) from Augusta. Elberton is 15 miles west on Georgia Hwy 72* from the bridge across Richard B. Russell Lake (on the Savannah River) on the other side of which is Calhoun Falls, South Carolina, with the next biggest town, Abbeville**, SC another 13 miles east. Going from Elberton to the west 30 miles on the 72 will bring one to the city of Athens, Georgia. The monument is about 6 or 7 miles north of town on GA Hwy 77.
It was unveiled on March 22 of 1980, and since the time of Mr. "Christian"'s purchase, the 5 acres site has been deeded to the county. More geography here: It's not like this thing is on some big hill, for all to notice. The site is just a slight rise in this county of gently rolling hills. In that case, why build this thing in an obscure (still) portion of Georgia? Easy, that's where the granite is! The signs on the road into Elberton say "Granite Capital of the World". 120 tons of granite costs a pretty penny to ship, I'm guessing.*** Hey, sometimes these Globalists have to scrimp and save too, just like the rest of us future Guidestone followers.
It's just a nice small spot. Nobody had come from any farther than we had (that doesn't help, does it, as you know how cagey Peak Stupidity can be), and about 6 or 10 cars could park in the lot. Everybody there was friendly.
I'll write more about this field trip next week just for some fun posts on something different.
We've got to have some music for this end-o'-blog-week post. Seeing as the deal now is to feature music that goes along with the post, we have a Peak Stupidity favorite artist (see here, here, here, here, and here), the "other Gerry", with the smoothest male voice in modern pop music. It's Mr. Gerry Rafferty, from his 1979**** Night Owl album.
He says:
"You need direction. yeah, you need a name.
When you're standing in the crossroads every highway looks the same."
After a while you get to recognize the signs.
So if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time."
Have a happy Sunday, readers!
* Conveniently that same designation, #72 is given to the South Carolina section of the same E-W road.
** Famous for being the real setting in the 30 y/o movie Sleeping with the Enemy, for the scenes in which Julia Roberts was supposed to be in Iowa.
*** Each big vertical rock must weigh ~ 21 tons, so each could still go on a regular flat-bed, I think. I wish I'd measured the width, but from my pictures, compared to their 16' 4" height, they can easily fit in a lane. How about it, Adam Smith?
**** Hey, right around the time these guidestones were being manufactured.
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CCP v MOSSAD
Posted On: Saturday - December 11th 2021 9:06AM MST
In Topics: Globalists China The Neocons World Political Stupidity iEspionage
In this past Wednesday's post, Epstein, Maxwell, the Mossad, and Fantasy Island Globalist blackmail, I didn't put much explanation at all into why I chose the Israeli Mossad as a good candidate for who would have been in charge of the late Jeff Epstein's Fantasy Island honey trap. My main point in that post was that compromising politicians and business elites with a project like that seems by far the easiest way to gain leverage on political power in the world. I have read less, and therefore know less, about the Mossad than I do of/about the CCP even, so this post again is nothing but speculation. I don't think I want to get involved in gathering evidence either, as both of these groups don't screw around!
The CCP is the Chinese Communist Party, founded one century ago this past October by intellectuals Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with help from the Soviet Communists and the Communist Internationale organization. The Mossad is the Israeli version of the CIA, formed 72 years ago day-after-tomorrow on the recommendation of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. That was only a couple to 4 years after the American CIA was formed, depending on whether you mark it by the appearance of its current name.
Why is it just these two possibilities? Why not The Russians? My answer is that it is not 1985, '75, '65, '55, or '45 (time of the founding of the CIA) anymore. The Cold War has been over for more than 3 decades, and I'm guessing the big bad Russian Bear would be happy if American would just leave it the hell alone. Then, there's the CIA itself, but I'll mention them again near the end of this post.
CCP v Mossad may seem like an apples-to-oranges comparison. After all, the CCP pretty much IS the government of China, as in, whatever The Party* says, the government does. The Mossad is just one agency of the Israeli government. Yes, the CCP has groups tasked to do espionage and subterfuge, but I just don't know the names of them, while the Mossad "brand" has been known for a long time, so I'll put it this way for convenience.
I don't believe the Chinese want to take over the world militarily, though they ARE taking over the world economically. The CCP want to remain in control of the Chinese people. However, Chinese people are all over the world, and the CCP would like those Chinese people to spread its influence. Does the CCP want to influence US politics? Sure, they have done so in small ways during the '20 Presidential election, based on info from my Chinese sources. Then there's the leverage they likely have already on the current President - we don't call him Zhou Bai Dien on this blog for nothing. The money it would take to develop that Epstein Fantasy Island set-up would be chump change to the Chinese.
What about the Israeli Mossad though? Israel is not a huge place, and doesn't have a huge population, so it will never be (well, full-out nukes aside) and huge military power or a huge economic power. I won't get into details in this post**, but the formation of Israel in 1948 created enemies in and of that action itself, and it sits in an area of natural enemies. Israel cannot directly exert great overt power in the region, but it sure can exert big amounts of covert power via control of American politics. In my opinion, it's not so much that their goals are to get rid of this regime ("regime" is used for the "bad guys" only) or that regime. I believe that the Israelis simply want American military equipment and manpower to stand ready in the region for their defense, 24/7/365/Kingdom-Come.***
As I wrote in that previous post, it wouldn't take a whole lot of resources to pull this operation off for years, as compared to other ways of using covert influence on US and world politics. The honey pot idea has been around likely since there have been honeys with pots. It takes just a little imagination, and they've got it over there, and you figure, hey, let's see if this thing scales.
To pull something like this off, it would help to have already an in and influence in the American culture already. Little Saint James Island in the US Virgin Island chain**** was bought by an LLC solely owned by Mr. Epstein in 1998, so it could have been over 20 years that the place has been a Fantasy Island**** for adult fantasies. The large-scale mainland Chinese diaspora to America is a recent thing, starting in earnest about 25 years ago. They are just now starting to be imbued in the culture. OTOH, the Jewish diaspora has CREATED lots of the culture and has been imbued in it way before the Mossad, and the country it works for was in existence.
Then, there are other options for the Chinese at this point. When you make most of the electronics used around the world, and you do what the CCP says you do, you most likely have embedded iEspionage enough to have some influence. Then, when this diaspora is made up of mostly engineers and scientists, only one in 1000 who may be spies (here's one and here's another), well, you can get the technical information easily. I don't know if the CCP really needs to run a Fantasy Island for purposes of influence through blackmail. The Israelis do.
Finally, as for the CIA, I would say that it's the same as with the Chinese. Would they not have so much information already at their fingertips? Oh, they are forbidden to have access to NSA data from the Utah data center, you say? I hear Judge So-and-so of the nth Circuit Court is ruling on that. Only thing is, someone who knows Judge So-and-so pretty well unfortunately put certain photos and video of hers (or his, let's not be PIC) on The Cloud. Oops. I hear Judge So-and-so has ruled that there's no conflict or Constitutional violation, it turns out. At least on Fantasy Island, you know whose got the video and what video they've got. Smiles, everyone, smiles!
PS: Coincidentally, I just read John Derbyshire's VDare post Smollett, Maxwell, Potter—Another Bad Week For The U.S. Justice System this morning, while taking a break from writing this one. In it, he has a section about G. Maxwell's father having connections to the Mossad. Mr. Epstein is discussed too:
Was Epstein, like Maxwell, working with Israeli intelligence at some level? It's not improbable. I refer you to Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown’s book published this summer, Perversion of Justice, delving into some of the mysteries of Epstein's life and death.That's interesting*****, but I have not so much interest in the details here - this is just about motivation and the big picture.
* Sound familiar? We have close to a one party system ourselves here, with the 2 squads, red and blue, to entertain other notions about it.
** Though I do have a post I've been meaning to write about the origins of the country.
*** Yeah, that's not going to be for so long as they think. You know, if they were REALLY smart people and had been REALLY thinking ahead about this, they would not have influenced this nation toward the immigration invasion and the lefty politics that have brought this country toward such ruin that it will not be able to keep all that power in their region for very much longer. Nice thinking there!
**** I should have given some geographic info already, for cryin' out loud! Sorry 'bout that. I also neglected to give the reader the late-1970s - early '80s TV show reference before.
***** Also, John Derbyshire is a really good writer. I recommend the whole post, though I don't know enough to say I agree with him on his take on the trial of this Smollett caricature, err, character.
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Ann Coulter, extraordinary early anti-panic pundit
Posted On: Thursday - December 9th 2021 7:53PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Media Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
The above image is from an Ann Coulter column she wrote on March 25th of '20!.* While reading her latest column, The Fauci Who Cried Wolf, about the continued hype out of this lead Panicker now that OMΓ!, we're up to threat-level Omicron, I noticed that VDare linked to that older column. That column, How Do We Flatten The Curve On Panic?, is so amazingly far ahead of the curve of the general anti-panic crowd. Ann Coulter is phenomenal in intelligence. She has large amounts both kinds of wisdom, Conservatism AND Libertarianism!
Check out that old column, and you'll be amazed to read Miss Coulter's over 19 month-old writing saying what other pundits are only catching up with now. Regarding the contagious disease EXPERT Anthony Fauci of 38 years ago, she noted:
Speaking of which, here’s liberal sex symbol Fauci on AIDS back in 1983, when he was with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but not yet its director: "As the months go by, we see more and more groups. AIDS is creeping out of well-defined epidemiological confines.” (It didn’t.)Do you remember that? I think it was a lot easier for sane non-homo non-intravenous drug addicts to blow off this BS before the age of the internet, much less smart phones and twitter. On the other hand, there was not opposing information one could get so easily, as there is today. Back on the first hand, well, people had more common sense back in 1983, I'm guessing. I did not run into people who were afraid of French kissing due to information from the Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, no wait, he was actually just the Assistant TO the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.**
In 1987, Fauci warned that French kissing might transmit the AIDS virus, saying, “Health officials have to presume that it is possible to transmit the virus by exchange of saliva in deep kissing. That presumption is made to be extra safe."
Nowadays the lack of common sense has people wearing face masks while driving alone in cars, and some wear them in the swimming pool. I guess one could try French kissing with one these on, but the taste of cheap Chinese non-woven material would probably take the romance out of the whole thing.
In the recent column, Miss Coulter calls out still-Feral-Government-employed Anthony Fauci on his hype, as seen in a CNN (Jake Tapper) interview. An excerpt:
Long after it was clear that COVID was dangerous nearly exclusively for older people and the obese, Fauci lied, just as he once lied about AIDS being a risk for heterosexuals long after it became clear that it was almost entirely a problem for gay men and intravenous drug users.It has taken lots of lies to keep this PanicFest going. Anthony Fauci is the Liar-in-Chief of the operation, while pundit extraordinaire Ann Coulter has come through week after week with the truth. We don't have so much common sense here in 2021 America, but at least we have the internet. Thank you, Ann Coulter!
Instead of devoting massive resources to shutting down bathhouses and shooting galleries to stop the spread of AIDS, and blanketing older Americans with protections in the case of COVID, Fauci repeatedly claimed that everyone was at risk.
* That's when VDare published it - as you can see - so she may have even written it a day or two earlier. I don't know how that works.)
** Old The Office joke there that never gets old. No, I neither know nor care what Dr. Fauci's exact position in that organization was back then.
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Epstein, Maxwell, the Mossad, and Fantasy Island Globalist blackmail
Posted On: Wednesday - December 8th 2021 7:34PM MST
In Topics: Globalists World Political Stupidity
How odd is this, another post involving the venerable B-727 within 2 weeks? See Happy D.B. Cooper Day - 50 years ago this minute.
That's the Boeing 727 (with winglets, no less!) known as the "Lolita Express", which has been transporting political, business, and other elites down to privately-owned Fantasy Island in the Caribbean for a good time. No, most of the passengers don't learn of this island from "want a good time?" messages on the walls of bathroom stalls, (... be cool or be cast out?) This is having a good time for the Globalist private-jet-setters. The island in question was known as "Epstein Island" from the man, Jeffrey Epstein, who ran the, errr, resort, until his untimely errr, suicide, in prison two years back.
We're not going to find out anything more from Mr. Epstein, so the public's attention is on the trial of one Ghislaine Maxwell (a cut-and-paste name if I ever saw one - I'm NOT spending the time to memorize that crap!). She was basically the female pimp - pimpess, I guess, who arranged the sexual get-togethers between the big shots and the pretty and pretty-young ladies on the island. I mean, there are sandy beaches all over the place. You don't need big money if you're there just for the sand and sun*. Anyway, with this lady still alive with years worth of information about who has been doing what on Fantasy Island there, people are anxious to get the story from her. In other words, I don't know how long Miss Maxwell has to live.
I haven't paid any attention to the brewhaha around her trial. I know that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The absolutely corrupt are gonna corrupt ... absolutely - it's what they do, and I'm in no position to stop them or really care about this whole thing... so I thought.
I got more interested in this whole thing only after reading this interesting comment by one ic1000 under a Steve Sailer post. With all these big-time politicians Big-Biz elites and entertainment people (I don't really care about the latter) having partaken of their fantasies, you've gotta figure that most of them are compromised.
Mr. ic1000 wonders how Jeffery Epstein got from here to there:
In his late twenties, Epstein was an intelligent, handsome, extroverted math teacher at a tony Manhattan prep school. Some time later, he was an up-and-coming Master of the Universe, living the Jet Set life thanks to hundreds of millions in Assets Under Management.That's a good question. It's obvious that the whole operation down there was either ripe for, or more likely MADE TO BE, an opportunity to blackmail the elites of the Western world. (Hell, you can come from the East too, if you like the round-eyed girls.) The question is, why did this decent young man, but still a nobody in the scheme of things, get to be the guy who ran the whole show?
Why Jeffrey Epstein? He was no Bill Gates with delusions of Grandeur or George Soros with pretty clear-minded thoughts of Destruction. Did he work for one of these big shots? It seems like these big shots pretty much all visited the island for pleasure not business.
(I looked through the unz comments of the JohnnyWalker123 mentioned below for one of his many serious tweets but came upon this gem.)
I often tend toward the idea that these people in power just getting there by good (or bad) luck. I am curious about the timeline between Jeffrey Epstein just being this “intelligent, handsome, extroverted math teacher at a tony Manhattan prep school” and his having a lot of control over the levers of power in the world.
It’s not like a scheme by say, the Mossad would be very hard to think of, nor would it be hard to implement. Guys like sex. It’s job #1. Only certain people are in a position to be subject to these temptations, and the big politicians and other elites are in that position, fortunately (or not) for them. It could have been overt, and they gave him the scoop of how his life could be as the man in charge of Fantasy Island, with some serious threat if he backed out. Maybe they just gave him money and guidance to get started bootstrapping his resort operation without the big picture.
Did Mr. Epstein know that the goal was blackmail of dozens or hundreds of important men for the purpose of control of world politics? Maybe he was kept in the dark on this, with some of the (unknown to him), say, Mossad henchmen in certain positions because “hey, they need jobs, and we helped you get this nice pricey resort operation going”, till the end. Would he care? Maybe he started to, so that’s why he ended up “killing himself” in prison.
How easy a scheme is this one! It beats accumulating enough money to buy big chunks of industry. It beats setting up a James Bond lab and hoping some super-weapon will come out of it. It beat assassinating all kinds of people, taking a chance on discovery, and then having to repeat a lot of it when some clueless other guys who are not down with the program end up in those positions.
How do all these Globalist elites fall for this Fantasy Island honey trap to begin with? I don't know about the entertainers and Big Biz types, but for a politician, why NOT get involved in this? You get that young p**** with no press cameras around. Yes, the other cameras, about that… Why do you care? You have no principles. You’re a big-time politician – there’s no way you got this far with any scruples left, and then, they are blackmailing you for a reason. You will affect some policy that they want, so they NEED YOU. You could be set for life! After that …?
The only con I see is that once they’ve blackmailed you, you don’t have much of a chance for any bribe money out of them.
have no evidence myself of any of this, but this theory sounds perfectly plausible. This discussion is making me interested in the continual series of Unz Review commenter JohnnyWalker123's tweets he has been inserting on threads of any topic that kept shaking the web page around. The only thing is, as people who have been following this trial have noted, it sounds like all the real interesting stuff is being kept secret during that trial. But, of course.
At this point the reader may either agree with or legitimately question why I chose the Mossad (the CIA of Israel) as the organization that could have been in charge of this operation. We'll have more on that in a post to come.
* Hey, maybe someone should do some analysis as to how these Lolita-visiting elites have fared after getting all that vitamin D and some of that vitamin P. Help us, Dr. Fauci.
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Ron Unz finally seeing the light.
Posted On: Tuesday - December 7th 2021 8:58PM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity
We've gotta realize that, even though most of us here are Unz Review readers, it's is doubtful that 1% of Americans have ever clicked on the site, or maybe less than 0.1%. I believe it was either commenter Adam Smith or Mr. Hail of the Hail to You blog who did a few calculations to get an idea on the readership. Suffice it to say, Ron Unz is no Tucker Carlson or Ann Coulter as far as his number of followers go.
Maybe some of the bigger pundits or big wigs of sorts are readers though. Mr. Unz's site is still very important though, as one of what must be very few well-organized and prolific websites that allows such a wide variety of opinion to be offered, both of the many writers and the commenting crowd. I admire the man for keeping it going.
That doesn't mean the man himself can't be completely full of shit, however. I have a problem with his anti-all-things-Americanism. I don't mean big criticisms of most policies of the US Feral Gov't. I'm completely on-board with that. Mr. Unz just seems to see all problems of the world as caused by Americans. I strongly disagree.
That's all fine, but it was Ron Unz's panicked stance on the Kung Flu, with his (recall your best Carl Sagan voice here) MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Americans going to die from it bit, and his contempt-ridden disparagement of commenters and writers on his own site* that has had me scratching my head about him. How can a guy this smart not see the big picture here on this PanicFest with its resulting big increases in Totalitarianism? On this point, see our post Where have you gone, Ronald Unzio, ... for more. Additionally, the Hail to You blog has some recent discussion of that in the comments section of this article (on Florida lead Panicker Daniel Uhlfelder).
Well, Ron Unz's latest American Pravda article/column shows he is slowly but surely starting to see the light. Yesterday's article, American Pravda: Vaxxing, Anthony Fauci, and AIDS, contains his latest opinions on the Covid vaccinations mostly taken from his reading of Robert Kennedy Jr.'s new book The Real Anthony Fauci. It's the 2nd part of the title that tells us where Mr. Kennedy is going with the book - "Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health". I have not read the book. I think it would be well worthwhile for me to do so.
I won't go critiquing the whole column, as the reader can find 435 comments as of right now that do that very thing. Give yourself 10 - 15 minutes for the article and I suppose 2 - 3 hours for the comments. Enjoy!
I will give a summary of Ron Unz's changing position on the matter of the vax and those (formerly) crazy "wild-eyed anti-vaxxers" - yes, that's Unz phraseology in quotes, still from this article. Here's the deal: When it comes down to it, the guy is very reasonable about the vaccine, as we noted 3 months back in Ron Unz comments with some comment-sense. He's got a whole paragraph in this one with that same reasonableness (I'll start with one sentence earlier too.):
Moreover, the vaccination of children or the youthful seems very misguided given mildness of the illness for those age-cohorts.Right on, Ron Unz! The question I have is "just who do you think these wild-eyed anti-vaxxers are?" I haven't read many who are against every vaccine ever given, and not a whole lot against ANY other particular vaccine. It's about the experimental vaccine for the Kung Flu.
Mandatory vaccination efforts enforced by serious legal or employment sanctions are the explosive flashpoint of the anti-vaxxer movement, but these never made any sense to me. The vaccines appear ineffective in preventing infection or transmission, and their main benefit is to greatly reduce the risk of serious illness or death. So the vaccinated have little to fear from those who reject the needle, while the latter can make an informed—or perhaps emotional—choice in weighing the risks of a relatively untested vaccine against those of severe Covid illness. Given the extreme paranoia of a considerable slice of anti-vaxxers, heavy governmental pressure may even be proving counter-productive.
Not only that, but I've not read a thing by wild-eyed anti-vaxxers on Mr. Unz's own site that are for banning this vaccine completely. We've been angrily against the application of this vaccine being mandatory BY ANYONE and FOR ANYONE. Oh, well, hey, that's pretty much Ron Unz's opinion, as one may readily read above or in that previous Peak Stupidity post linked-to just above!
Therefore, ipso facto, Ron Unz himself is a wild-eyed anti-vaxxer. Yes, his eyes are kind of wild, come to think of it, and I'm sure they'd be wilder after a couple of shots... wait, I mean whiskey or vodka... no, not those other kinds of shots. They just cause pilots to drop dead in the cockpit, young soccer players to keel over during the 2nd period... stuff like that.
You gotta love this guy though. No, really, I like people with lots of intensity and spirit. I haven't minded Ron Unz's personal insults to me due to being so sensitive. It's more that I couldn't believe the guy could miss the big picture. I couldn't believe a guy who goes far down many rabbit holes in American history to tell us the real story could just go with the Establishment, Big Gov, Lyin' Press, all of them, on this huge issue of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
In the comments I pointed out above on the Hail to You blog, Mr. Hail refers us to what Mr. Anon wrote about how Ron Unz operates:
Ron Unz himself is still in character with the basic line he took in early 2020, though as someone, I think the commenter Mr. Anon once wrote, Unz will probably come out with a long essay in about 2025 which starts with these words: “I never paid much attention to the Corona Virus, busy as I was at the time with various software projects, but recently I was shocked to find out that…………… [insert Corona Anti-Panic side’s basic points from 2020].”I do remember that from before, and smiled at that take the first time too. It turns out that Mr. Anon's comment was from right here on Peak Stupidity under the "Where have you gone, ..." post linked-to above. Nice future impersonation there, Mr. Anon!
Yes, I am glad to see this important pundit see the light. I don't expect any "I was wrong, people" out of him. It'd be nice, though if he could learn from this and possibly have just a little more respect in the future for commenters on his own site who may have a lot more common sense than he does.
Yes, Ron Unz, there's been a lot of lies and BS out of the Globalists and Big Pharma about this vaccination. It may indeed be part of a nefarious plan. Even if not, mandatory vaccination is Totalitarianism. People have been telling you for a year that this is wrong and we have to fight it all, so, as the man said "Welcome to the party, pal!"
* He's nothing if not a very stalwart, fair man when it comes to not blocking much (commenter-wise) commentary and keeping on writers whose opinions he disparages.
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Limerick for the Kamal-Toe
Posted On: Tuesday - December 7th 2021 11:06AM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Race/Genetics Poetic Stupidity Dead/Ex- Presidents
We have written nothing but a possible occasional quick reference, and I couldn't even find one of those, to VP Kamal-Toe Harris but one time on this blog. That would be a post written just after the '20 election called Save
You may have noticed that Peak Stupidity pretty much prides ourselves on not caring about what stupid stuff the Feral Gov't "elected" "leaders" are up to there in Washington, FS. We especially don't care about their personal lives or working lives - if you want to call that working. ("Yeah, that's the way ya' do it, you play the sitar on your Dot-TV**... moova, moova...")
Along with other political wonk fans, Steve Sailer occasionally does. He noted again recently that Everybody Hates Kamala. That could be a TV show that I would also not watch. In the comment under his post, I found a gem of a limerick about the VP and the idea that VP Kamel-Toe did not get where she is just by
The original comment is here. This is a gem, but not nearly the only great limerick that has been posted on The Unz Review by the one they call Desanex. No, no, I mean, that's his handle, "the one they call Desanex." This gentleman was nice enough to officially(?***) let Peak Stupidity present his limerick here.
Half-black and half-subcontinental,
her assets were largely pigmental
and gender-related,
for people who hated
the Caucasian male Occidental.
As Vice President, Kamala Harris
did little except to embarass
herself, and that “bong”
that you hear is the gong.
(You remember that show with Chuck Barris?)
And the guy even has his punctuation straight, in a limerick! Nice job.
PS: There were 2 other commenters I remember that used to put in good limericks in those comments, "The Limerick King" (naturally) and "(Not) Eustace Tilley" or something like that, for the 2nd guy's handle. I think Mr. Desanex is number 1 at it. Thank you, Sir.
* We dodged a bullet with Geraldine Ferraro back in 1984, and might have gotten lucky with Sarah Palin in 2008, if "Maverick" scumbag Juan McAmnesty had won the election but kicked it 9 years earlier.
** Sorry, poor attempt at a •Indian joke there...
*** [No, no, no, don't look at us! - PS Legal Department]
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