An optimistic take of the Canadian trucker protest from Timur the Lame
Posted On: Friday - February 25th 2022 9:20AM MST
In Topics: Globalists Liberty/Libertarianism People's Revolt
(I'm pretty bad with this part of history, so I had to look up the handle of this Unz commenter to realize he was the 14th century Turkish/Mongolian conquerer of a bunch of western and central Asia - Tamerlane. Mr. TheLame or Timmy won't do.)
Even with a dozen posts or so on the front burner, I want to get to the slightly more current ones first. This post is a cut-and-paste job from this commenter who participated in a fairly civil (as much as can be had with some people) thread under the Ilana Mercer* column Good vs. Evil: Canada’s Truckers Battle Justine Trudeau for Us All
Tamerlane's comments are more optimistic than most views I've read of the results of the Canadian trucker protest. I can't insert all the comments, even just between Tamerlane and one PeterAUS (I assume, an Australian), as it'd be too long. I'll just put 3 of this best ones here, in order, and you'll have to go to that thread to read some context. This is verbatim:
I wrote a lengthy narrative as to the provenance of the convoy while many readers of this site were in mild confusion about what really was going on. You can access that through my comment stream if you are so inclined.Next:
I will just state the Cliffs Notes version for my reply. They didn’t plan for the situation to evolve as it did. They are not revolutionaries and had no leadership structure because it was basically a joy ride to show their displeasure.
They were shocked by the grassroots support that they accumulated along the way as well as the international support that cascaded in. They stumbled into what a big brain scholar would call a “tide of history”. Then they were honour bound by this support to hold the line and get some basic results.
Being honest salt of the earth types, they then figured that having a meeting with the top SERVANT of the people or someone authorized to make a decision was in order, a little give and take and they will merrily turn around and go home.
They didn’t realize that they had tweaked a global monster’s face, and a monster is not human. And the rest is what we observe today. Faced with overwhelming odds, they still decided to defend. An American might compare it to the Alamo, a jew to Masada.
Either way, their honour is intact.
Cheers-
Yes, I agree with your points and fair commentary and so will try to respond as I see it without the box method. Well first of all, your question about did all who support the Truckers join the protest is an unfair observation because of among other things there are obvious geographical limitations. I think that they even got support from Tibet.And, lastly:
But if you looked at the donation explosion and considered that to be a form of joining the movement, well then yes. As one of the eventual leaders explained in an interview, they set up the GoFuckMe account expecting maybe $40-50K in total to offset costs for fuel and repairs and within a couple of days they had $150K and realized that this was getting serious. Of course you know that in 2 weeks they had $10 million, got screwed and the GiveSendGo collected same that amount in a few days. I consider sending money to be joining. Of course being Doxxed makes it official-ha!
Now about honour not being enough in a fight I disagree. There are many problems someone would have to take that stance. The most obvious would be that then only winners are honourable. A purposely poor example I will give is if a drunken brute husband pummels his long suffering wife, is he the honourable one? Actually that might even work as a metaphor.
To answer your last query, yes they will fully support everyone incarcerated and reimburse everyone involved for lost wages, costs etc… $10 million will easily cover it. It is in the lawyering stage right now and if there was a single tiny shred of humanity in the system it could be resolved in a humane fashion now that the Golem got his way. But evil people don’t roll that way. They enjoy inflicting suffering and wallowing in ghoulish vengeance. So we will see.
I personally think that they won great victories though they may not even realize it themselves. A lot of normies now realize that the (child) Emperor has no clothes. The useless media moved closer to total irrelevance. The goons will see looks of contempt coming at them from even kindly old ladies. Oh, and it may not even be over yet!
Cheers-
All right, I see that am in the proverbial “a fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer” scenario so let me just make an observation. You seem to frame everything into a military context of tactics, supply procedures etc.. added to a supposed real life example in your own environment so I don’t know if you are ex-military or just a Warcraft nerd projecting real life.These comments are anything but lame. It is a pretty optimistic take, though, with the assumption that Canadian governments still feel a compunction to obey courts of law and such. I hope Tamerlane is right. If so, this is very encouraging. The American trucker convoy gathered for the start in Barstow California a couple of days back and is heading east, to meet up with more convoys coming from other directions. Give your support any way you can... well without getting your money ripped off by the government.**
First off, I thought that we agreed that this was not a planned insurrection let alone an armed one so all your useless questions about logistical contingencies are moot. Totally.
Support within 60 km? Did you perhaps read about the numerous blockages along the span of 3000 km that took place and are still taking place at this time? Did you see people hanging off bridges all through their route? Did you see the non trucker protesters marching through Toronto yesterday? It is called an organic insurrection. It is people who haven’t heard of , let alone read Bukhanin, Bukharin, Lenin, Rousseau, Hobbes or even the idiot Unabomber but know when they have been fucked over and decided to act, tragically as it turned out thinking that they had a responsible government.
Don’t you worry your pretty little head over the legalities, there will be a tsunami of civil suits. With all the video, supported by witnesses and iron-clad chapters from the Charter a lot of them will be successful. The Fed’s lawyers will throw in terms so as to not disclose the details and thereby contain the outrage. The media of course could miss the stories entirely.
The Trucker’s legal entity is filing Federal Charter suits as we speak. This could have very important consequences for the system.Very important if it eventually proves that we are not sovereign citizens. At this point it is the law arguing against the law. No room for nefarious influence.
So you see friend, pending the eventual outcome, the Truckers could have theoretically won the biggest battle for citizen’s rights in Canadian history!
Cheers-
I attended the huge pro-gun rally in Richmond, Virginia in January of '20, and Mr. E.H. Hail attended the anti-mandatory-vax rally in Washington, FS, just a month ago. Yeah, we perhaps both got lucky to go to events that had no agent provocateurs and weren't picked on as "examples to discourage the others" by the Feral Police State. There is something really exhilarating about participating in something big, after spending time reading and writing about all the grief. It must be a great feeling to be in one of those big rigs headed east!
* I used to read her writing regularly, but she has turned me off as of a couple of years back. She seems to be one of those all-too-typical Libertarians who are not Conservatives, in particular by having no clue on racial matters.
** That's the subject that Alarmist brought up in comments, resulting in a post to come shorty.
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The smiling face of evil
Posted On: Thursday - February 24th 2022 6:22PM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics
"He looks like a nice guy.". (That's what they always say after some dude shoots a couple of people in the back - I've said it myself.) He doesn't look thuggish at all, like way too many black guys do. In fact, he was a university professor!
I'd have been glad to have never heard of Tyler Stovall. It's just that I spend (WAY!) too much time on the Steve Sailer blog site on The Unz Review. Mr. Sailer's best material seems to be the posts that display the stupidity of, and refute, material in the mainstream Lyin' Press print outlets. That would usually be either the New York Times (actually, that newspaper should sue Steve Sailer for commissions, finder's fees, something, as that provides half his material!), the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and a few others I also would be much too sickened by to click to them.
Right away, I want to explain that, by "stupidity", it's often more like evil, and, as for refuting material, that's not gonna change a soul's mind- it's the entertainment value he must be after. That's the thing about Mr. Sailer's best posts - they are both entertaining and enraging, out of him and the Lyin' Press, respectively.
I came upon Washington Post: [See?] the Ottawa Trucker Convoy Is Rooted in Canada’s Settler Colonial History the other day. As is often the case, Mr. Sailer doesn't really stand up for principles, such as freedom, etc., but his goal here was to point out the idiotic-sounding arguments of the reporters and their sources, which do relate to race, one of Mr. Sailer's biggest topics (and it's brave of him for writing about it).
This one part really got to me, though it's not the main topic of the post:
The notion of “freedom” was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued. The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy.(There is a lot more stupidity on either side of this paragraph, if you want to get the context.)
"Freedom is intertwined with Whiteness", got that? This is not stupidity, but deliberate evil lying. It's not that the concept of freedom and liberty are things only the White man would want. It's just that only the White man has evolved to a level in which he can not only really understand and explain these concepts via reason and logic, but he has the integrity and willpower to uphold them. Others have been riding the coat-tails of all this in the Western World (most especially, the English-descendent world) for years.
There's a reason these people, both the Lyiin' Press reporter and "historian" Tyler Stovall, want to tie the two together. See, the Commies of old did not have it this easy. They could talk about class, but they didn't have a ready-made, Emmanuel Golsteinesque whole race of men who are simply the bad guys. This is the logic the Commies like Tyler Stovall want to get out there: Because “White supremacy” “It’s OK to be White”, or even no sign or slogans but just being or acting White are considered bad now, the linking of "White" to "freedom" helps them explain why "freedom is BAD, mmmkay?"
"You hate White things, right? Yeah, OK, well, freedom is one of them. You need to start hating freedom. We're way ahead of you on this, so let us help get you started. Vote for Totalitarianism - it's anti-White!"
Like they say, "he
An insightful scholar and author dedicated to social justice and the advancement of minority scholars, Tyler touched the lives of countless students, faculty and staff in his nearly two decades on our campus,” Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer said in a joint campus message. “We knew Tyler as a skilled educator and as a thoughtful, generous, and kind colleague. He will be missed tremendously.”Mr. Stovall got lots of accolades, and he learned and then taught at many colleges. This guy was indeed a scholar, but I don't know how much of that is pure Affirmative Action.
His father was a child psychologist, and his mother directed the South Side Settlement House, a community center in Columbus, Ohio. Both of Stovall’s parents were active in the growing civil rights movement, with activists and guests of their local NAACP chapter visiting their home regularly. Their efforts inspired Stovall’s own political activism, including joining a Race Relations Club at his public high school and giving his first public speech against the war in Vietnam at age 18.OK, we've got another red diaper scholar. Here's the last from him, as he went full Lyin' Commie:
His most recent book White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea earned Stovall even more attention and acclaim. Numerous critics connected the book’s theme that, as Stovall writes, “at its most extreme freedom can be and historically has been a racist ideology,” with the January 6 attack on the U.S. capitol. “White Freedom has much to tell us… about how racism has been built into so many of our systems and institutions, and about how what we see as freedom isn’t really freedom at all,” wrote Brock Kingsley in a piece written for Chicago Review of Books.Here's how a Long March through the Institutions works:
“For me, Tyler should be remembered as a scholar who firmly believed that the writing and teaching of history was a political act,” said Michael Vann, professor of history and Asian studies at California State University, Sacramento, who studied under Stovall for his PhD at UC Santa Cruz. “Throughout his long and vibrant career, Tyler used his path breaking research, critical analysis, and engaging lectures as weapons in the fight for social justice.Sure, you didn't have to take the guy's courses, well unless they were required courses... but you didn't have to go to UC Santa Cruz to begin with, great surfing notwithstanding. We could all just avoid these lyin' sacks of shit, but then:
a) They are spreading their evil lies using our tax money.
and
b) Their "scholarly works" are what the other infiltrated Institutions of American society use as their guides.
Good riddance to this smiling face of evil, Tyler Stovall, and the like. Most of them won't just die off so easily in the future.
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Dr. Robert Malone and E.H. Hail at the anti-vax-mandate rally
Posted On: Tuesday - February 22nd 2022 5:09PM MST
In Topics: Websites Kung Flu Stupidity
I'd meant to write this quick post since seeing the Jan. 23rd anti-vaccine-mandate rally via live-streaming that day. I watched an hour and a half of it or so. I was impressed by a certain part of Dr. Robert Malone's talk.
As the speakers shivered up there on the podium and gave their fairly short talks about medical issues from the experimental vaccines our elites want us all to take, along with their political opinions about the tyranny of this attempted mandate, I was especially impressed with the straight talk out of Dr. Malone about the children.
One could go over the numbers and how stupid it is to try experimental medicine on people who have almost no risk of getting seriously harmed from the disease itself. One could talk about this usurpation of the rights of parents to take care of their children. Robert Malone, however, gave some serious, straight talk to the parents. I won't quote exactly, but the gist of it was this, to paraphrase him:
"Think about what would happen if you let your child be vaccinated or even make this decision yourself. Either way, if some permanent harm would come to a child of yours, you will not only spend the rest of your life dealing with the medical problems, but the guilt and grief will be on you until you die too. Do you want that?"
That's some straight talk there. I was pretty surprised and impressed that Dr. Malone put it this way.
I checked the website of one of the original anti-Panic bloggers, Mr. E.H. Hail's Hail to You, today for the first time in at least a week. I had been wondering when his next post would be and whether it would be about his experience at last month's event. Well, he put it up just today, and it IS. I will read Scenes from the “Defeat the Mandates” rally (Washington D.C., Jan. 23, 2022) and thoughts on its place in Corona-Panic history in a short while.
I hope you all will get a chance to read Mr. Hail's post. I am looking forward to it.
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Tiananmen Square Reloaded: Ottawa, Canada
Posted On: Tuesday - February 22nd 2022 2:45PM MST
In Topics: Globalists Liberty/Libertarianism World Political Stupidity
That title came to me just a few minutes ago, and it's not the main story here. I am more familiar with China than the average American, but that was not the case 33 years back, in the summer of 1989. That was the time of the Chinese pro-Democracy movement*, and, honestly, as discussed in Citizenship in the Nation, I'm not sure how many Chinamen even deeply involved in that movement really understood democracy from a hole in the ground, much less what a Constitutional Republic is about. They were a brave bunch though. I'll give them that.
There are a few similarities though. I will note these in this post, in which, knowing our readers could have been following the Canadian trucker convoy protest on thousands of other sites, I'll just give some opinion on the way it ended.
Here at Peak Stupidity, I perhaps give short shrift to overarching conspiracy theories over the idea of the elites of this world and their followers simply being idiots. Hey, we pay good money for the URL here, so why not stupidity over evil? However, I am indeed coming around to the explanations of more nefarious causes of the events in this time of near-Peak Stupidity. I think in the case of Justin Trudeau vs. these salt-of-the-earth plain old Canadian truckers, it's pretty obvious that this is not just about a moron of a Prime Minister making dumb calls.
This young pretty-boy, the son of likely the most famous Prime Minister of Canada in its history, or maybe the son of a different Communist, is not on his own here. The question of who moves his puppet strings brings up the very public knowledge of his being a star of the World Economic Forum up-and-coming youngsters who are supposed to help implement the "4th Industrial Revolution".
I have not watched the whole video below, but I present just the first couple of minutes to show the introduction by Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF there in Davos, Switzerland 6 years back.
(Sorry about the captioning. It's hilarious how the software does not know what to make out of "Fareed Zakaria"! "Hey, we paid for Globalist software, dammit!")
The most important thing I got out of this (as pointed out by an Unz Review commenter) is how Mr. Schwab speaks of young Trudeau's "loyalty". He most definitely means loyalty to the Globalist WEF and its plans, not to the people of Canada.
Were he on his own, I think Premier Trudeau may have been pretty open to a friendly meeting with some of these truckers, maybe making a face-saving deal, telling them in Trump-like** fashion how they are all good folks, and that we've licked this Covid thing anyway, so we'll ease off... till next time. These guys like to be popular with "the people". That's not the plan that Trudeau is a part in implementing, though.
The elites know that the PanicFest they implemented, and now the experimental vaccine (experimental not only in nature, but in its forced global implementation) have slowly become very unpopular with too many people. Perhaps they expected the little people to take and get on-board with this new Totalitarianism in the same way the world got on board with that introduced as a "response" to 9/11. This trucker protest may have scared the Globalists.
It's one thing if it's just about vaccine passports and the shots - again, "we can make a few promises and make them go away, you know, slow things down for a while". However, this protest and others to come can easily morph into demands for other changes off of the Davos crowd's "4th Industrial Revolution" script. The "Yellow Vest" movement in France is an example.
The Tiananmen Square "Democracy" protest in Peking, China 33 years back, having started off as a simple demand for less corrupt leaders***, turned into a demand by some for a change in the whole system of government. Call it "protest creep". I would guess the Canadian protests in Ottawa could have crept into some demands about ending the evil population replacement policy, being accelerated big-time as I write. It could have and damn well should have! That's not all we might very well demand either.
The way this Canadian protest ended, with mounted soldiers, who still call themselves "police", breaking up the crowd, and maybe a few bones too, and with the purely Totalitarian confiscation of expensive rigs, bank accounts, and with trials and imprisonment to come, does remind me also of what I learned about Tiananmen Square. I have some inside knowledge of people whose lives were derailed**** afterwards, even though they did not actively participate there in Peking but just showed their support in some manner, perhaps posters in support. Does that sound familiar? Those ministers who work as puppets for the Globalists have come up with punishment for anything they wanted to.
The punishment for acting up is widespread and encompassing, including for those not directly involved: Bought a trucker a Coke Zero, eh? Well, there goes that pension plan you counted on. Hey, I don't exaggerate by that much. The rule of law is being blatantly ignored. I don't see what's going on there in Ottawa as much different than Stalinist actions or that of the Deng government in China.'
One more similarity with Tiananmen I see here is that the Totalitarian regime of the moment used enforcers that are not your standard beat cops. See the military vehicle up top, and note that some of these, errr, troops, have no insignias. The Chinese way was to use military troops from far away provinces that would feel no compunction about firing away at the people.***** It's only going to get worse when the Canadian people (and the same here) are further replaced by foreigners who don't give a damn about them.
Finally, there's a reason the big powers, the Communists of the old USSR, the Totalitarians in China, and the Globalists now, feel the need to clamp down hard. Think about it. Some of the covid/vaccine restrictions in Canada have been lifted anyway, as of late. Why not have arranged a nice friendly settlement instead of how this was ended?
My opinion is that the Globalists are trying their best to prevent anything like this from happening again, due to that protest creep problem. It's not just about the very specific complaints from the little people there up north. They will brook no more little people's complaints from anyone, anywhere. Or ... so they think ...
* Peak Stupidity published 3 posts in remembrance of the Tiananmen Square protests and crack-down on the 30th anniversary of the event. (Occasionally, we set alarms on our phones for these things.) See Freedom in China? On the Tiananmen Massacre 30 years ago., Freedom in China, Tiananmen Square, and Freedom in America, and Tiananmen Square and the American Press.
** That's one guy that I cannot see being a puppet of anybody. Oh, threatened by the Globalists/Deep State, yeah surely. A sucker for the beltway "experts", definitely. I can't see even the world's most incompetent Globalist HR Department picking out a guy like Donald Trump to do their bidding!
*** Yeah, sure, that works every time. "We just need less corrupt people!" Never mind that the Big Gov. they have no problem with makes corruption inevitable.
**** One was a bright Electrical Engineering student who was nowhere near Peking at time, but due to his support in some manner, was banned from the universities. He ended up TV repairman.
***** China has a real "geographic discrimination" thing going on in general.
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President's Day and other PS tidbits
Posted On: Monday - February 21st 2022 6:57PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics Inflation Dead/Ex- Presidents Holiday from Stupidity
The first I heard of today's day off from school (only yesterday) was due to a "teacher work day". I guess it's pretty bad that I forgot, but there used to be 2 holidays, one for The Founder of our country, General George Washington, and another for the tyrant Abraham Lincoln for forcing the country together at the expense of opt-out Federalism. Since then it's been "You can secede anytime you want, but you can never leave..."
I remembered the two from my day, but now this Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior thing is observed with more fanfare than George Washington's birthday. Clown Country, indeed! At least in the elementary school, they do call it President's Day. Then, I saw my wife showing me Donald Trump observing this in the same manner as Father's Day. No, dummy, this is not some type of "All Presidents Day" - it was just plural due to being about both Abe and George.
I had though about, if anyone else, I would go for a Calvin Coolidge Day. That's what a traditional Liberty-loving America ought to celebrated - a President about nothing. Well, as it turns out, without my having even mentioned Silent Cal, my 4th grade boy told me that he was born on the 4th of July*, so that doesn't help.
To add more insult to the in-your-face Marty King bull, we just saw on the wall of another school a flyer about some contest involving drawing Harriet Tubman for the 20 dollar bill. Just over a year back, Peak Stupidity spent a good deal of time wondering what the plan will be once these odious pieces of fiat currency finally come out. (President Trump put the kibosh on them temporarily.) The 3 posts are Tubmania and a cashless economy - More on the Tubwoman Twenty and - Final Tubman-thumping post. Now I'm thinking the first thing I will do is get about 10,000 bucks worth of tens, unless they become woke themselves before then.
she drinks a lager drink, she drinks a cider drink ...
She is not to be confused with another historical figure, one Aunt Jemimah.
I explained to my boy that hey, I don't really have anything against the woman, per se, but if you're going to get to the level of someone of that status in history, there would be 10's or 100's of thousands of White Men or women who would deserve the spot first.
Coincidentally, just the other day, some other kid from the Cub Scouts informed me that Miss Tubman used the observation that moss grows on the north side of the trees to help in her underground railroad operation. Holy cow, these kids are getting "wokened" even more than I though! "Uh, yeah, every Boy Scout knows that", I told him. "That's not any big thing. I don't really care much about Harriet Tubman. There's been slavery all over the world, and it's still going on..." "In Africa!", the kid chimed in. Ha, he's not too far gone. I hadn't even noticed that some younger Mom was sitting with us. Not a peep came out, luckily, because I wasn't in the mood to hear it.
In I ain't raisin' no snowflake, Peak Stupidity related some fun monkey-wrenching my son and I were doing at the U involving post-it notes. I haven't been in that building in a few months, but I see now that our notes may have caused some consternation from the fragile snowflake set. Or, they just cleaned up. The blank post-it notes and the markers are gone. One note of my son's managed to escape the purge, something about "stop the stupidity". (No, I did not dictate this note. It was some great independent thinking!) Hmmm, I may have to stop by the drug store stationary aisle next time ...
Finally, we revisit The Rockford Files for a minute. That first half of season 1 I've been watching was 48 years ago! That means there's been not a small amount of devaluation of the US dollar, hence price inflation, in that near half century. This big-shot finance guy (the actor was very familiar-looking, BTW) who Jim Rockford was feeling out for info on the evil financial company that was screwing him over stuck Jim with a bill for their 2 gourmet hot dogs. (Rockford seemed to have this happen very often, haha.) I mean, these were foot-longs with the trimmings on a nice platter, at a food place inside the office building, so pretty fancy. Wel, Jim looked at the bill and was shocked: "6 dollars and 36 cents!" he complained.
What would 2 gourmet hot dogs with the fixing and sides** in a nice cafe inside a spiffy office building cost now? I'd say at least $20 before the tax - Rockford's bill was including the California sales tax.. That's a guess though, as I don't live in that world and am trying to eat a bit healthier than Jim Rockford, with his frequent visits to the taco stands. Time to go to the Money Chimp. This table tells me the combined State and local tax would be 6.0%. Of course, we're guessing anyway, but lets just use $22.
The Chimp says 2.6% is the compounded inflation rate. Let's see. That long period includes a half decade of wicked high inflation (well for non-Wiemar America, that is), then a tailing off period, then the period in which I maintain it really was very low - the mid-90's through mid-'00s, and then a slowly increasing rate up through this Zhou Bai Dien "I did that --> era, as in, now. Interesting.
From what I read from people who never have explained why it should be so, the FED has targeted 2% as the ideal inflation rate. Ideal for whom, is the question. In my humble opinion, It's not the ideal rate for a responsible guy who puts away many multiples of $6.36 in the expectation of it being able to buy the same amount of hot dogs or anything else a half century later. He would find it buys less than 1/3 the hot dogs. The rest of the money has been stolen. Well, we're at closer to 10% inflation right now, so even the American who doesn't care about the little financial stupidity details might start to care. If he does, he may want to read Dr.*** Ron Paul's latest column, The Federal Reserve: Enemy of American Workers.
We hope to get more focused tomorrow. First on the docket is a Peak Stupidity's take on the end of the Canadian Trucker protest.
* That was in 1972, 96 years after the Declaration of Independence.
** I don't feel like searching for the scene right now, but these were at least foot in diameter platters full of food.
*** Yeah, unlike Marty King there, this guy IS an actual doctor.
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Me and the IRS
Posted On: Friday - February 18th 2022 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor US Feral Government Taxes
I've probably written multiple times before (and there will be a "Taxes" topic key coming) that I have, and I show, no respect for the IRS. I do the tax calculations on their paper forms for a number of reasons.
1) I see no reason to have an "account" of some sort by going electronic, with even more of my personal information given. I don't even give them my real phone number, which is kinda pertinent to this story today.
2) I want to physically send the returns into the middle of the pile on April 14th or thereabouts - I don't even give a damn anymore if I'm a day or two late. I don't know how big that pile is anymore*, but that's the idea.
3) I would hate doing even more on-line stuff.
4) This is a biggie too: I will neither pay ANYONE one zinc cent, nor buy the cheapest piece of software available, to help the IRS out, or even myself. It's bad enough I'm paying lots of money that is mostly used to screw me and my country, but I'll be damned if I'm going to shell out more money to help me at it.
So there you have it. It's not that hard really ... especially when you don't care that much whether you get everything right. They can write me back, as they have before, to tell me I messed up and I owe them or vice versa. Easy, peasy.
I got a letter sort of like this a few weeks ago, in fact. However, instead of it telling me I made a boo-boo, this one says that the IRS simply didn't get my '20 return. However, they have credited me with the money that I sent in for tax due. Wait, what ?? That check that they deposited was stapled to that tax return! (Yes, I know it says not to staple it, but remember that "no respect" thing? "I tell ya', I look over this guy's return, and he's got deductions for lingerie he bought for my wife. No respect, I tell ya'.") You got my money, but you didn't get the forms. It was all stapled together, so it's not like the mistake was on my end. What's it gonna be next year, "my dog ate your return on Federal Bring-your-pet-to-work day"?
I do make the effort to make a couple of copies of the returns each time, mind you. However, I don't think I'm gonna let the IRS off this easy. It's not like they wouldn't charge me penalties and actual SERIOUS interest, if the mistake were on my end.
No, I have a letter coming, which I may or may not publish on Peak Stupidity. It will read something like this: Hey, listen, IRS, I can't be "papering" over you people's mistakes. Whoever it was in your offices that collected my check for deposit had to have handled my tax return. Could you go and find out who that was? It's not like I haven't been in your situation, so let me offer a few pieces of advice from my Mom: "Keep looking. Look again! It'll turn up."
Country singer Johnny Paycheck has the same attitude as that seen here on Peak Stupidity way back in the late 1970s.
Johnny Paycheck was best known for his song Take this job and shove it., another song with a bad attitude. The song here was written by Don J. Scaife, Gladys Scaife, Phil S. Thomas, and Ronny Scaife, but I believe Mr. Paycheck took it to heart. From the Wiki page, we can read "In 1990, he filed for bankruptcy after tax problems with the IRS. "
There won't be any posts tomorrow and (as usual) Sunday, due to other obligations, so here's wishing the Peakers around the world a great weekend! Next week, more polemics about the story unfolding in Ottawa right now, more Big "TECH" Anarcho-Tyranny, a different sort of inflation post, finally something on that "R. Christian" book that explains his Georgia Guidestones, and likely more Kung Flu stupidity. See ya'.
* Well, I went ahead and did a very cursory duckduckgo search. Haha, the first blurb told me "Paper Returns Are 'Kryptonite' for IRS." So much the better!! I haven't found the number I want yet, but I also just read The IRS Just Issued a New Warning to All Taxpayers by one Kali Coleman on a site called Best Life. The sub-headline says: "THIS 2022 TAX SEASON IS SET TO BE MORE HECTIC THAN EVER BEFORE." Hahaaa! Not my problem. I just send in the money and fill out the forms to the best of my ability in the hour and a half I allot myself.
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Jim Rockford - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne
Posted On: Thursday - February 17th 2022 8:43PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Cars
Peak Stupidity wrote about our enjoyment of Peak Rockford Files a month and a half back. Peak Rockford Files, the James Garner detective show set in Los Angeles, California, was likely at the beginning of the show, MCMLXXIV, oops, that's the Roman Numeral for 1974, as you have to figure out at the end. I don't' know for sure - I'm still reviewing Season 1.
We've got this topic key here TV, aka, Gov't Media obviously for the propaganda out of the idiot plate, formerly idiot box. From my long-term memory, and now from my current watching of about 1/2 of Season 1, I am very thankful this show had not much of an agenda, just entertainment.
I found the most fun show yet in the In Pursuit of Carol Thorne*. This was Rockford at his and its finest. The character Jim Rockford does honest work as a private detective for 200 dollars a day (plus expenses). He has been in "the joint""**, so is worldly-wise and has picked up on the ways of criminals, making him hard to fool and a good detective. However, he comes across quite shady himself often.
This episode is great because everyone in it is a con man. Jim Rockford's (very pretty***) suspect, just released from prison, was one Carol Thorne, who Jim was hired to follow to lead him to an elderly couple's missing son, as his former girlfriend. Not only is she a con artist, just as clever as Rockford, but both of the supposed parent's who hired him turn out to be con artists as well.. Their alleged son turns out to have also been a party to the big robbery committed by the whole lot of them.
There are the usual car chase scenes, but when the whole group, on the way to catch up with that stolen million dollars, gets pulled over, we get the hilarious scene shown above. (Of course, you'd have to watch the show.)
I may have written that Jim Rockford never gets his $200/day fee due to (usually) his women client's sob stories, but he sometimes does. I've seen him get a few checks for which it's not implied that they will bounce. What's funny here is that Jim's "finder's fee" for helping out poor Carol Thorne, or then the other conmen and conwomen, goes from 10% ($100,000 in '74 is like a half million today) down step-by-step to 10% of the "son"'s share ($25,000) to 10% of that guy's fee for returning stolen money ($10,000), to $5,000 somehow, and eventually, if I remember correctly, $2,000. Hey, that still was a pretty good sum in 1974.
What I really like is that the guy (the missing "son") that the other thieves and Jim Rockford see as the most naive and stupid of the crew, is seen at the end as the nicest and most honest. OTOH, I think Jim will have some benefits coming from Carol Thorne at the end too.
Just looking back and forward from this episode, I really liked looking at the early '70s cars in a previous one. They've got cool old cars in every episode, of course, including Jim's Pontiac Firebird. The episode I refer to had Rockford being followed through a parking garage and then losing said tail in an outdoor parking lot right after that, during the beginning of the show. Man, one in 10 cars is a VW bug, and the rest are huge land yachts! I don't know all the models, but this show is a classic car lover's dream. I mean, they weren't set up there - those were the cars around 48 years ago.
I also saw the 2nd use of a light (single-engine) aircraft in an episode shortly after this one, the first use being in episode 1, as described in that previous post. In this case it was a 180 Hp Cherokee that (STILL!) goes by the tail number N3620R. (I looked it up, and of all things, it's owned by someone out there in Temecula, California - town (well, city now) whose name I first learned of from, yeah, The Rockford Files.) Cool! The episode didn't have details, but Jim hired someone to fly him to somewhere in the desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, where a car, OK, another land yacht, was set up for him to chase down the 2 young lady con artists hauling ass on this route with some loot. The transportation in the Cherokee and landing in the desert**** was his way to get well down the road ahead of them.
If I ever saw this stuff, I have completely forgotten it. This is very enjoyable. Why have cable TV or even a receiver and be subject to the Gov't Media agenda, when you've got the old America of The Rockford Files?!
* This was well before The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, a 1981 movie made as a fictional account of the rest of the story of the real D.B. Cooper, whom Peak Stupidity covered exactly half a century later here.
** He was innocent of the charges, as he mentions often, and had been pardoned by the Governor. Hey, that would have to have been Ronald Reagan. Way to go, Ronnie! Trust, but verify.
*** As it the usual thing at Peak Stupidity, I really couldn't care who the cast are. This lady was pretty then, she's old or expired now, so what difference does it make?
**** Nope, this one didn't up and blow up.
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More face diaper anecdotes... but wait, there's MORE!
Posted On: Wednesday - February 16th 2022 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Inflation Customer Care Kung Flu Stupidity
(Continued from here and going on forever(?).)
I found one of the new black non-woven-material face masks on the concrete patio outside the coffee shop. Maybe somebody though I was some poor shmoe who was still skeered about the OMG-icron but can't afford my own medical face mask, much less a designer model. Nope, I just wanted to scan it for use in any further posts about this new style, even less communication-friendly type of mask, as described and modeled by a beautiful blond mask model in Moar fashion accessory anecdotes.
Then, a couple of days later I was at the food court in a big airport terminal, of course maskless as far as I can push it. Three flight attendants were eating nearby. The prettiest of them, which I could tell because they were eating, let her face mask of this type fall from the table onto the floor. This was an area with lots of foot traffic and spilled food. I saw her pick it up, and I was sure she would not throw it away. "Hey, the 17 second rule applies.", I told her. "You're good." All of them smiled. I maintain that nobody takes this mask business seriously, except in a control freak sense, not a medical sense.
This next little tidbit involves are oft-utilized "Customer Care" topic key too, because this was a phone call I was on for help with heath plan stuff. The call actually went much much smoother than have the rest of the customer service calls that Peak Stupidity rails about. After all, I just mashed "0" twice and got a live person. It's 2005 again! However, I thought the call was taking an immediate bad turn when I could hardly make out what the lady (as best I could tell) was saying. Oh, man, where is this call going, another obscure island off the Philippines, maybe a former penal colony off of French Guiana, old Ceylon, I don't freaking know!
"Uh, where am I calling? Are you Russian?" I could not make out so much, but that was my best guess. It was just all fuzzy. "No, something, something ...Ohio." Wow, what a break. It took 30 seconds for us to get straight that, her voice was fuzzy as all get-out and she would call back. When she did, it was not any better. "Don't tell me", I said, "Are they making you wear those face diapers? Is that the problem?" "Nah, we .. something, fuzz, fuzz, fuzzz...." I think that was a "no".
This was not the usual crappy signal that you get with the modern pseudo "land-lines" which aren't cell phones but still use some cheap low-capacity part of the internet. We described that whole piece of stupidity in From "hearing a pin drop" to "how 'bout a door slam?" long ago.
Anyway, I was able to get my questions answered satisfactorily through the fuzz, but that was only because the lady was an American. I thanked her for being one on the phone with me.
Finally, because I forgot in that Valentine's inflation post, here's what I was going to put there:
Not only is there price inflation of the goods and services we want or need for daily life, but there is also fine inflation. No, I'm not "fine with it". I mean that even the TSA fines for defending one's 4th Amendment rights in airport terminals has gone up. It used to be an even number, a round $10,000. The cost of being instructed on Totalitarianism has gone up, like everything else. This stuff started in 2002 using the Feral Gov't standard $10,000 fine, so using my favorite on-line compounding calculator page on Money Chimp, I got 1.66%* annual inflation in TSA fining. Well, OK, that goes along with the BLS green-eyeshade boys' numbers, and that near Mark 'o the Beast number there is pretty fitting too.
But wait, there's even MORE! As a special bonus, to cheer up the Peak Stupidity readers today, there is this news from my local pharmacy:
* That calculator only lets me use 2 digits after the decimal, but the interpolation between 1.66% and 1.67% gets me 1.664%, too close to the Mark o' the Beast for comfort.
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The Women of Wausau
Posted On: Tuesday - February 15th 2022 7:16PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
The town of Wausau in central Wisconsin has long been some kind of ground zero of Refugee Resettlement to middle America. (Before getting deeply into the immigration stupidity, all I knew about the town was some big insurance company that was advertised on TV back in the day.) It was the Hmong people, Cambodian/Vietnam mountain border people who were allies of the US during that war, who were invited to settle in this most unlikely of places for many years after that conflict.
More recently, it seems to have been the Afghans, from another lost and even more pointless foreign war, that have been invited to Wausau, Wisconsin. VDare's James Fulford tells us about Another “Ordeal Of Immigration In Wausau”?—Dem Pols Desperately Downplay Their Imported Afghan Sex Criminal
I will interrupt this post with a couple of big exceptions to the point, not something done here too often at Peak Stupidity. There are some former refugees from Vietnam that I know who are great people. They're not Hmong though, and I have no idea what they think of the Hmong. They are definitely not Afghan. As with all immigration issues, numbers are of the essence.
Secondly, I also know women who are childless, some for medical reasons and others not, who do good in the world and for our country. Many spend that female energy on children of their extended family, nieces and nephews and what-have-you.
Well, doing a post this way is not a good idea, as it gives away the point at the beginning. There are many exceptions, but I see a big problem with childless women* being in charge of things like, say, immigration policies. This case is at a local level, but Mayor Katie Rosenberg of Wausau illustrates my point. After reading Mr. Fulford's article about Mayor Rosenberg's new pet Afghans and the trouble they've been - I guess she thought the Afghans would tie the whole room together - for the poor suffering AMERICAN people in Wausau, I had a thought:
Is part of the impetus for this "Refugee" Resettlement Racket misplaced compassion of these nice ladies that should have been aimed at their never-born children?** I looked up this new Mayor, and my hunch was right that she was childless. Katie Rosenberg's biography says she has. political career but no kids. Would she have a different attitude if she used that female super-compassion on her children? If she had had children, might she have been a lot more careful in who she invited to live in the formerly nice upper-midwestern town?
They've just got to have someone to nurture, you know, or they ain't themselves. Sure, one (for now) of these poor Afghans have gone astray and sexually assaulted a woman (this time), but we can teach them to fit into our cozy community just fine, you betcha'! I don't know whether all the people of central Wisconsin would agree, especially those trying to raise children safely, don'tcha know? Could the nurturing instinct in these women be re-routed to some other end, some plants in a greenhouse or something, perhaps?
This is not the first time Peak Stupidity has gone down the road of these thoughts. Almost 5 years ago we posted some info from a tweet about Childless European Leaders. This can't be allowed to go on.
* Peak Stupidity kind of has a problem with women in charge, on any issue, period, in fact.
** Another widely recognized BIG part of the impetus is the usual - $$$$.
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Tired of Tyranny - Tucker on the Truckers
Posted On: Monday - February 14th 2022 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Globalists Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
This is pretty encouraging stuff. We'll see if this Canadian Trucker Convoy and protest will start something big worldwide that gets self-sustaining. Peak Stupidity is perhaps too optimistic, but we just added the topic key People's Revolt of 22 for posts focused on this exciting development.
We've had plenty of posts with our favorite video pundit, Tucker Carlson, before. I haven't watched enough Tucker lately, and it'd behoove me to watch clips nightly as the best way to keep up with the heartening start of the People's Revolt against the world's tyrants. America is a world leader in much of the tyranny, so isn't it time that Americans took the lead against them.
Personally, I'd just call them Commies, but maybe that's just me. Speaking of which, there's some rumor about Justin Trudeau, the Little Potato, being the illegitimate son of Fidel Castro*, he of one of those long-ongoing revolutions himself.
I guess it would be more accurate to call what's going on a Counter-Revolution.
For some real Orwellian stuff, watch at 08:00 for a minute or so.
* Some one should trick him into speaking a little Spanish and see if the alleged Fidel in him comes out.
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Happy Valentine's Day
Posted On: Monday - February 14th 2022 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Poetic Stupidity Inflation Holiday from Stupidity
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
19.22?
"Shit's gone up..."
Wait, isn't that a Haiku? Sorta? Yeah, we've got a Poetic Stupidity topic key, so why not?
I did suggest to my wife that I get roses tomorrow when the go on sale. Yeah, she was glad that was just a joke...
Anyway, really, that's the only answer you're gonna get if you question prices. I hadn't looked at the natural gas bill very closely for the coldest month here, January. It is the highest bill we've ever gotten by far. I knew we'd had the heat on higher than usual, but then again, there was a warm week and a half at least. Upon inspection, I could see our usage (in compressed ft3, hence "therms") was only up by 5%. It was the price per therm that was the big change. Natural Gas - up 28%! Electricity, up "only" 6.5%.
House insurance is up, but I don't have the record on me from previous years that is separate from some of the car insurance payments. However, I have one datapoint clear in my head. For the same house, 30 years back, it was $300 annually. We are in the mid-$800's now. I get 3.5% annual inflation compounded. OK, that's not terrible, but it's not the BLS 1 - 2% we've been FED (pun intended) for many years. It takes a whole 20 years to lose 1/2 your money. You'll hardly notice it.
Wait, but this house has gone up in price too, so it's all good, right? I guess. It's everything. "Shit's gone up." No it's really: "$18.99 a pound for steak? Honey, the dollar has gotten more worthless again."
The Peak Stupidity readers are a bright and experienced crowd, so the following is probably not necessary,
Remember how much any of your savings in US currency are being steadily stolen. Put the savings from your life of labor in something real - real estate, precious metals, foreign currency, whatever, I don't know. OK, this is really advice to myself. I DID see this coming but didn't really act early enough, as a prepper should.*
No reason we can't grow our own roses, right? Chocolates are a bit harder.
* No, I didn't do it ALL wrong, but I somehow thought things would move a little more slowly.
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Ignorance was bliss - the early 1990s
Posted On: Saturday - February 12th 2022 8:16PM MST
In Topics: Music US Police State History US Feral Government
Now, I can't remember what got me thinking about that time and the reason to write this post. It was, like, a week ago. (I remember people didn't like, use "like" like that, so much, except for the latter purpose, if nothing else...)
Unless one is of the ctrl-left and/or a dedicated Communist from the get go, or lived in a bad time and place in history, he usually doesn't think of periods of his life based on what was going on politically. I could say that about my time in the early 1990s, right at 30 years ago. It's not that I wasn't already well aware of the politics of this country, thanks to lots of input from my Dad, but, I didn't obsess about it, much less have a blog (not an easy accomplishment in 1992!)
I was having fun then, and one could argue that it was my personal life that makes me remember this as still a pretty decent time to live here. However, I don't think it was that. I was struggling with money for some of that time, and I was struggling with other stuff for much of it too. What it was too, though, is that the early 1990s were a time before I personally realized that America was consistently headed in the wrong direction. This was before 3 big problems came to the forefront of my mind at least. I was young then, but even for most Americans, these 3 were not big issues yet at that time for the same reasons they weren't for me. They hadn't really metastasized, or we were all just not as aware, as say, a younger Peter Brimelow.
That name of course leads me to the issue that is most existential to American, the immigration invasion. Though the illegal Hispanic immigration had been big already - see 1986 Illegal Amnesty - Ronald Reagan's regrets - and especially right then during Senor Bush's* BIGGER amnesty, and it'd been over 25 years already since the Hart/Cellar 1965 immigration act, the numbers hadn't accumulated so much where I lived, anyway. You did see too many Mexicans around, and, yes, I was tired of seeing that. There were some big contingents of Chinese grad students and a few •Indians, but these, and other friends of mine at the time, were just a select very decent and smart people, who had not come over in massive numbers. Only one decade before this period, anyone from Mainland China was a rarity to be noted and met by the local dignitaries. No, I was nowhere near NY City.
I just didn't see what was coming. It was not, in fact, till over a decade later, that my Dad got through to me on the issue of the massive immigration problem.
Then, there was the continual increase in Totalitarianism. As I wrote in Part 2 of When did this country get out of control?, for me, it wasn't until the middle of the 1990s that I started to see that every question of freedom vs. authoritarianism seemed to go in the latter direction. In the early 1990s, all it had been for me was experiencing the Feral Gov't's blackmail of the States regarding the 55 mph speed limit and, later, the same with the 21 age limit for alcohol sales. There were still people, even in the US Congress of all places, that argued about the Constitutionality of proposed laws.
The US Gov't Waco, Texas murders were perpetrated in 1993, which gave us a preview of things to come. In my State, it was only by the middle of that decade that everyone was pretty much in agreement - yes, you can just stop cars at checkpoints, because, drunk driving. No violation of any Constitutional Amendment IV was even imagined, because who read that stuff anymore? Then, 9/11 happened, and things got much worse. By 2005, the SCROTUS said Kelo v New London "yeah, Big Biz can just go appropriating property, but the government's gotta help arrange it."**
In the early 1990s, I might have had a few pet peeves about government overreach, but I didn't see the big rise in Totalitarianism coming yet. Who did? (Well, Lew Rockwell probably, and Vin Suprynowitz - see "Papiere bitte!" - "Your papers, please!" and memories of Mr. Vin Suprynowicz*** - at least).
Then there was our country's foreign policy. The Cold War had just ended. We'd won. The money to be saved by not having to guard most of the free world ought to have added up to a lot. We had built up goodwill all around the world. What could go wrong?
Most Americans living in 1992 would have experienced that usually out-of-mind, but still existent, threat that the Cold War could one day go hot at the nuclear level for their whole lives until a couple of years back. Let's see, you'd have to have been born before 1942 or so to have some memory of a time before the looming USSR Cold War nuclear threat was around. So, that'd be anyone 50 or under knowing of nothing else bigger, foreign policy-wise, until just about then, 30 years back.
I've left off the internal Commie infiltration we see blossoming now with the Cultural Revolution in progress, the hard-left D-squad, and so on, because that is something that I wouldn't have even thought of in the early 1990s.
Of these 3 now-huge problems with our country, likely in the order I wrote about them in urgency (most to least), there wasn't nearly so much to worry about in 1990, or so it looked. Why would I, or my fellow Americans, feel a need to pay close attention to it? We all have a life to live. We know we will be mostly wasting time trying to solve the country's problems ourselves, and well, those politicians will hopefully not get too far off the rails.
After all, I did spend some time helping in the '92 Presidential election, and, of all things, it was a Democrat (his name was Paul Tsongas). Then, when Slick Willy pulled ahead, I supported Ross Perot for a while. You vote, you watch some Rush Limbaugh on the TV with a friend, you help out occasionally, you subscribe to a political magazine or two****, and you feel good enough about that. After all, it's just politics, not life.
Ignorance is bliss, they say. It's nice to not have to pay attention to it all. That's where I was in the early 1990s, politically. I guess most Americans were the same then and well before then. Most Americans seem to have been in blissful ignorance long since then too.
It's a great country when the politics interfere so little in life and don't seem to be any long-term threat. That was 1992. That's not 2022. How many Americans have come out of this blissful ignorance? Even if you still don't care about politics, politics really cares about you now. Sure, ignorance is bliss ...till it ain't.
Of course, some early '90s music is in order here, and on another venue, Mr. Alarmist embedded a favorite group of mine, The B-52's with a song from the '80s, but I can still use Kate Pierson here. This one is REM's Shiny Happy People from their1991 album Out of Time with Kate complementing Michael Stipe on vocals. I know I've featured this one before. What a shiny, happy time.
Yes, that Kate Pierson was something else! Wiki says REM (with Kate Pierson) performed this song on Saturday Night Live on April 13th of that year. I can find clips of rehearsals on youtube, but not of the show itself.
* It was a snippet of that guy's 30 seconds or so speaking in Spanish at some event in 1988 that turned me off of ever thinking of voting for him.
** This case got Peak Stupidity comparing China favorably to America on the issue of Eminent Domain in the post Fireworks from China.
*** First time I got his name right without copy/paste, and the other 2 of our posts in this series are here and here.
**** Yes, I shamefully admit it was National Review for about 5 years. Before that, it had been The American Spectator.
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What CAN'T the Russians do?!
Posted On: Friday - February 11th 2022 10:10PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Globalists Media Stupidity ctrl-left
I don't think the Russians would care what we do over in North America, so long as the American Gov't would keep its military and its minions a couple of hundred miles away from their territory. They probably don't care very much about the elections here either, as the Deep State will operate the same either way*.
In the eyes of the ctrl-left, the Russians, that is, the USSR then, could do no wrong during the 70 years of Communism. It was those Western imperialists that kept starting trouble. Over the last 30 years, this has changed 180 degrees.
Now the ctrl-left, via the Lyin' Press, blames Russia for everything. Donald Trump winning the '16 election? Rigged by the Russians!. Peaceful protests causing mayhem in American cities in the summer of '20? Stirred up by the Russians! Hunter Biden's laptop being full of incriminating evidence? Planted by the Russians!
Incredibly, the latest event to be blamed on the Russians is the Canadian trucker convoy/protest. In a great letter** by Ottawan Gunnar Alredsson on VDare, "Canadian Truckers Send Memo To Elites—You’re Out Of Touch", there's a short video of some talking woman-head on the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Canadian State TV) blaming Russian "actors" for the actions of Canadian truckers who want their country back.
That Vlad Putin is something else! He's got his hands all over the place, playing 5-D chess with a direct line to Bobby Fischer. See? General Patton was right. He should have marched his 3rd Army another 1,000 miles east so we wouldn't have to be dealing with The Russians now.
* Maybe they had some hope in Trump in that regard, as we did, but he let us all down soon enough.
** Please read this one for other reasons than the media Russia-blaming stupidity. This is a very uplifting piece of writing about the goings-on up north.
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El Gato Malo on the 2-week vax statistics scam
Posted On: Thursday - February 10th 2022 9:57PM MST
In Topics: Websites Kung Flu Stupidity
(I remember un pequito Espanol from 1985 - he's The Bad Cat)
Peak Stupidity has never gotten deep into the numbers regarding the risk/benefit of the experimental Kung Flu vaccines. Our position is based on principle and based on our perspective, as obtained from years of being simply alive and aware. I'll quickly re- or re-re-state these two, in order.
1) I have been against the vaccine for myself simply based on the unConstitutional government edicts that have tried to make the shots mandatory. I've used the phrase "this is not the Black Death 2.0" before*, and even if it were the Black Death, we would not NEED the vaccine to be mandatory. Were I seeing 1 out of 25 people of my age expiring of this thing, even 1 in 50, I might be headed down to get the jab early in the morning to beat the line. It'd depend on MY calculations or feelings about risk vs. benefit. It'd be MY call.
2) Over the last 6 months, after seeing and hearing of multiple problems that people I know have had, I don't want the vaccine for that reason additionally.
I have not paid attention to all the stats and details simply due to my being very sure I will not be getting this experimental "treatment". However, if we're going to cover the last, but important piece of Totalitarianism that "our leaders" have extracted from this PanicFest, it's time to comment on this new revelation to me about more of the Establishment's lying with stats.
Peak Stupidity has been neglectful in not following up on too many of our (and iSteve's) commenters' suggestions for research on the numbers regarding the nasty and often deadly side effects and the efficacy, risk/benefit, respectively, of the vaccines. I thank Dieter Kief and others for all his suggestions. Mr. Kief has got me finally looking into to a great simple explanation about the quite important errors (likely purposefully) introduced in the data regarding whether the people behind the numbers are vaxxed or not for 2 weeks AFTER getting a shot. It's this comment by Hypnotoad666, right out in front of me as I read that iSteve comment thread, that got me finally over to Mr. Kief's recommended Bad Cat Substack blog.
This is a simple point that I'm sure many of us who suspect those healthcare "authorities" and the Lyin' Press of trying to scam gullible Americans via statistics have thought of. However El Gato Malo presents some simple numerical examples to show the
It's already obvious that counting those 2 weeks after vaccination as non-vaccinated, due to some lag time, is going to cause errors on the side of more non-vaccinated cases (and beyond cases, when it comes to that). Oh, I suppose this 2-week period is the norm used for this type of statistics, but as the Bad Cat notes, that's a problem when you don't have any true control group in an honest experiment.
The Bad Cat's examples are nothing but simple arithmetic based on an example of getting the Kung Flu at the same rate whether vaxxed or not. Why? That is, he wants to demonstrate the fake good efficacy rates that come purely out of the shift of the sample during that 2 week period.
For good numbers on vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated problems (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths), moving people from an actually vaccinated category to an official non-vaccinated one is a problem that is worse when you aren't talking about a 2 year study, but just a few months, as is the real case - El Gato uses only a 1 month period to show a near worst-case example of bogus numbers. The discrepancies would not be nearly so extreme were the data calculated over one year with that 2 week mis-attribution. (See the way the sample calculations are done in the examples to understand this.) However, Senor Gato's examples are pretty good based on the fact that the efficacy numbers for the vaccinations HAVE been determined only over a pretty short span. Well, they tell us you need a new one after a short while anyway, as you've got a new strain coming along, and the current vaccine can't handle the new one.
Now, one could name some variables, one each for the average rate of the vaxxed getting the virus and one for the unvaxxed. Another would be the time period of the determination of effectiveness, or lack thereof. Then, the percentage of people being vaccinated per time period would be another. You could plug and chug and see the effect of these. Great, but these are not really known and not constant over time either. That takes us to another even bigger factor.
How does one separate covid-style ill health effects from the vaccination itself vs. those that would happen to from an infection of the virus? What if those effects are the most intense during those first 2 weeks?
El Gato Malo shows us that even if these vaccines were completely ineffective, this 2-week-after-vaccination un-vaccinated status scam can make them look pretty effective. Worse yet, for 2 weeks, maybe the most important weeks, the ill health effects of the vaccines are being shifted to being the ill health effects of NOT taking them.
This is a statistical scam. But, they'll just say that Peak Stupidity also has a bad cattitude. Thank you, Senor Gato Malo, for elucidating this scam with your examples.
* Covidiots like the iSteve commenter "HA" have said this is a straw man. Nobody said it was the Black Death 2.0. Personally, I like to use the strong language, but let me put it this way: This Kung Flu "pandemic" is not the big scare to me that these commenters and writers have kept saying it should be either. How about that?
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Stuff a 10 year-old used to know - lost to history or lost to stupidity?
Posted On: Wednesday - February 9th 2022 6:16PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Peak Stupidity is not all politics all the time. Sometimes, we just deal in your standard everyday stupidity. These post usually end up with a Curmudgeonry topic key. (There are quite a few built up here!) It's the usual question: Are people just getting more stupid, or is it just my getting sick of people?
Yeah, you try to teach kids the safe way to do things. Walking along the side of the road is what you'd figure is one of the simplest things. You need to see who's coming at you. People, OK, sober and/or non-British/Aussie/Kiwi's, Hong Kongers, or Japanese, drive on the right side of the road. Therefore, if there's no sidewalk or path well off the road, you should walk on the left side, so you can see who's coming at you. There's a much better chance to get out of the way of a driver who's not paying attention.
In our neighborhood, the cars aren't going very fast. Sometimes, we'll stay on the right, if we just took a right, we're only going a block or two and then we're going to take a 2nd right turn. Most of the drivers are very courteous and will get as far out of your way as they can. The thing is, it's not most of them that may maim or kill you though, just the one.
Don't they pass down this information anymore down to the kids? How about to the adults? I see them too, walking on the right side, not looking back either. They are oblivious to the danger from someone not paying attention. If their parents never passed down this tidbit to them, could they not draw on their own common-sense? Do they need an app for this?
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My dream interview
Posted On: Wednesday - February 9th 2022 7:11AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
There's plenty more that Peak Stupidity has in mind to write about than this post. However, this one has to come into pixel form right now, and you'll understand why in a minute.
This was a dream interview I had for a job at a "TECH" company, right there in the heart of it, the Bay Area. By "dream interview" I mean, literally. By "literally" I mean, literally literally, unlike that word's common usage by, well, the type of people in the interview room I was in ... in my dream. I would not be able to write this post if I had not woken up due to my rant at the end of said dream this morning.
Seriously, you know how it goes if you have a dream and don't wake up right afterwards. You don't remember it at all. Wait, so how do you "know how it goes"? I just figured that out long ago. If you get woken up during a dream, it will be vivid as all get-out, but if you don't, possibly one detail may just pop out at you the next day, but you sure won't have enough material for a blog post. There you go. That's why I'm writing this right now. Had I somehow been able to spill out the whole dream within 15 seconds, I'd have a very entertaining long post here. Hopefully, this is good enough.
I was in a fairly large board room in a tall office building in what I was under the impression of being San Francisco. (Well, I mean, if I thought that's where it was, than that's where it was. It's a dream anyway.) This company had some kind of big web site that was widely known. I sat there knowing that I am no software expert, with only a little informal training and a small amount of experience. Why they wanted me there never came up, but I knew that they had my meager (in that field) resume. They needed me for something though, and I was prepared to do my best there at this boardroom table.
There were about 6 people in the room, but the manager-to-be was doing most of the talking. She was at least 1/2 Oriental, and sort of cute, but not hot. These business suits ought to have shorter skirts, and BTW, maybe it shows you how behind my mind is on things, as, who would be wearing business suits in this business anymore, if they ever did, and what in the world would we be doing in a big office building anymore (more on this at the end)?
I already can't remember what this manager girl talked to me about other than her adding "I'm a divorcee", which had something to do with something. I thought it was unusual for that to come out in an interview, and no, unfortunately for all of us, this wasn't leading to one of THOSE kinds of dreams! After some more talk, I was about to ask about this divorce of hers but remembered you don't do that. Everything was all business-like and the others, all middle-aged guys in suits too, told me a few more things. Someone showed me a video of the big day when the company had an IPO and the CEO was going on CNBC. That day was past though, I and I had the feeling the place was beyond its heyday, whatever the hell it was that they did.
At some point, and I REALLY wish I could remember, as maybe this would tell me something about myself too, the young lady got in some disagreement with one of the guys and bitched him out. I was not in agreement with her, but, again, I was pretty clueless on the whole deal. At some point we moved to another floor in the tall building for some reason. It wasn't to look at anything tangible though, not even computer screens, so I don't know what the point in moving was.
I never knew what they did there. The girl, with some additional talk from the others described what I would be doing. I thought that maybe I got the idea. "OK, so you want me to find bugs in the code?" (See that's what I did for a while at another job, and it was a great way to learn all the software. However, that non-dream job was at a small company in which one could get a handle on all the software.) "No, that's not it at all." I explained the bit about "well, it would be a good way to learn your software..."
Nope, it was something vague, well this was a dream after all, and it's over an hour later, about liaisoning with people, about bringing people in through my contacts, and, oh, the pay never came up! Hey, wait a minute, was this a Pyramid sch ... ooops excuse me, Multi-level Marketing opportunity? It wasn't that though. I was just so behind what they were about, that I didn't know what this job would be.
OK, well, the interview was over, with no resolution on anything. We all headed out of the room toward the elevators (I remember we were on the 26th floor), and finally I decided it was time to speak up.
"I don't know what this job is! This whole operation makes no sense to me." "Listen, I don't do all that crap on-line. I'm not on Linked-In. I never joined Facebook. I don't join shit! I don't even know what the job is, and I don't want anything to do with this f___ing bitch!" Said "bitch" was inside the elevator before us, with the doors almost, but not all the way closed. See, as in real life, I didn't need the job that badly.
As I left the office building and the dream, I thought about some more things I wanted to say to the potential manager girl, some conservative thoughts about "maybe your job is to stay home and have some babies" and the like. Man, this was worse than thinking of the right thing to say on the way home. I was awake now, and there was no way to get back into that dream to tell these "TECH" idiots what I really thought about their whole lifestyle.
PS: I didn't write this post in order to get a dream analyzed, though maybe that would be interesting. I believe the thoughts came to me from my reading of Michelle Malkin's writing in her latest column* about her and her husband getting banned from AirBNB. Then, there is another article, from VDare's Eugene Gant that Ron Unz kindly posted about the large •Indian infiltration of the Big-Tech business - "The Indian CEO Virus"—Is It Good for the Historic American Nation?. I'm getting really sick of those people.
Secondly, this is the 2nd post about a dream I've had. The first was about a pleasant dream in the midst of the Kung Flu PanicFest - I had a dream .... After I woke up, I did remember that the dream for this post had nothing related to the 2-year-long PanicFest in it. Nobody was wearing face masks, and we were sitting close together at the big boardroom table. Boardroom?!! Geeze, even before the PanicFest, lots of these people would have worked remotely, and they definitely would be now.
* There are LOTS of comments there this time, heartening for a number of reasons. (One is just that I'd like Mr. Unz to keep her on. He likes page views.)
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Anarchy in the UKraine
Posted On: Tuesday - February 8th 2022 6:38PM MST
In Topics: The Russians The Neocons Deep State
I, hence Peak Stupidity tends to miss a few big stories due to not being subscribers to the Establishment Infotainment. Just as I was very surprised over a year into his Presidency, due to my not hearing anything about it, that the '16 election Russia Collusion story was somehow still a thing* - see Nothing but Distractions - I've been surprised again with "what it this Ukraine stuff?!"
I know there was a big deal involving the Russians and the Russian contingent in that land a few years ago that the US had no business being involved in. It's back, and apparently, it could get as stupid as the beginning of WWI was, with nukes. I don't know any details, I never wanted to know, but I get the info. second-hand. I don't write this to sound proud of that, but just to note that it says something that Americans, with all the serious destruction going on in the "homeland" must now be worried about a totally unnecessary problem that the US Deep State and the Neocons have created.
In another good thread** under a Steve Sailer post, in this case simply titled Ukraine, commenter Physicist Dave says, "they are drunk with war". In my terminology, "they" would be the Neocons and the Deep State.
The Deep State people have been addicted to power since the end of WWII, with the OSS crowd turning into the CIA with at least a legitimate enemy for 40 years, as inept as they were at fighting it.
The Neocons have been drunk with power and war only since the end of the Cold War over 30 years back. As the commenter Almost Missouri noted in that thread, these are a lot of the same crowd (mind-set-wise) who were overly sympathetic with our biggest Cold War enemy due to, well, their being lefties/Communists themselves. However, after Ronnie, Maggie, the West German leadership, Pope John Paul II, and millions of American and other Western engineers, technicians, soldiers, sailors, and airmen won the Cold War, the Neocons were very jealous about the new American military sole super-powers. They wanted them some of that.
Whether it’s been to keep the American military close by in the Middle East for a half century to support Israel (whatever the specific wars – it doesn’t matter), or beating up on some Christians in the Balkans on behalf of some Moslems, just for the hell of it(?), or spreading the new (evil, IMO) American values around the world, or else, there was no stopping it. That’s changing.
Sure, they are fooling gullible Americans on this. Some old-fashioned conservatives who don't pay attention to the long term big picture may still have this idea of Russia as the 1980s USSR in their heads, as seen in the photo above (likely in their heads). For others, the Neocon and the Lyin' Press are just pushing this stupidity that lots of us see as bizarre because, for the former, the Establishment goes along with it, and, as for the latter, these hysterical ninnies on the TV news spout it all because they don’t know any better.
NATO was formed to fight the USSR. The USSR has been gone for 33 years. Disband NATO! (If you recall, President Trump said he would, but then he was quite the bullshitter. I mean, could the Commander-in-Chief at least order American units not to participate in any NATO programs? Sure he could, if he had some confidence and didn't get snowed by his hand-picked anti-Trump Neocon advisors.)
I don't know very many details of the Ukrainian situation. I don't care to know any more than what I already know - that American military action there has nothing to do with the defense of the United States. I couldn't have imagined even 20 years ago that I'd be rooting for Russia over America in a possible military engagement! Does that make me a traitor? I believe that makes me a patriot. As for the two former Cold War polities, 2022 Russia is not the Cold War era Communist USSR. 2022 America is not the post-WWII leader of the Free World, but is now broke, woke, and and a sick joke.
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40 years ago, if you told me you were pro-Russia, I would have called you a Communist.
30 years ago, if you told me you were pro-Russia, I would have called you a gracious winner.
20 years ago, if you told me you were pro-Russia, I would have called you a Conservative.
If you tell me you’re pro-Russia now, I would call you an American Patriot.
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* Oh, yeah, and then it went on another 2 years or more, I dunno...
** It's a long one, I warn you, with 526 comments as of my writing here.
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Joe Biden is a criminal Human Trafficker!
Posted On: Saturday - February 5th 2022 10:31PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Media Stupidity US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny Zhou Bai Dien
The image above comes from our post Truth in Trafficking Triumph of a year back. In that post, Peak Stupidity discussed the hype involved in governments and Big Biz using that that term to worry Americans about Americans, while it's almost all non-Americans, and their Latin American cargo of •Indian* or African** slaves that are "trafficked". (Quotes just due to the term sounding stupid.)
In this case the term Human Trafficking well fits what's been going on. Tucker Carlson has been on this story of criminal activity in the name of American destruction by Joe Biden. (What an amazing and courageous man of integrity Tucker has been in general!) In this case, the New York Post has broken this story too***. Last week, Amanda Devine of this outlet wrote 'Betraying the American people’: Leaked video reveals Joe Biden’s ‘hush hush’ migrant invasion. If you can get past the usual big-news-outlet-site mess of pop-ups and crap jumping around (just give it 2 minutes to do its thing), you will see that this is some real reporting. There's no inserted opinionating as in the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. - going by Steve Sailer who I can trust on this. (I won't click on that crap.)
Is there a way to change the Paper of Record from the New York Times to the New York Post? Easy swap there, same city, one word, should be a piece of cake. In my mind, if we're talking newspapers, it already is the new paper of record, and if I could subscribe to a paper copy, I believe I would.
About the story finally: The Biden Administration has been shipping illegal aliens from the Texas border to multiple places around the country via charter airline service. It's been in the middle of the night and been obviously done very surreptitiously. They just figured no one important would know and/or they wouldn't say anything.
In the New York Post story, the video shows one of the 737s involved parked on whatever ramp space they could find at the compact Westchester County (KHPN) airport, White Plains, NY, just up the Hudson River from NYC. They come in after tower hours, perfectly legally, but I don't know how many scanners (say those used and conglomerated on the Live ATC website) would be catching the quick traffic calls on the tower frequency made in the blind or to other aircraft. Those radio calls are not even required, other than for one's own safety. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the pilots had been told to not use the frequency other than to light up the approach, runway, and taxiway lights. OTOH, for Westchester Country A/P in particular, one could listen to the right New York approach frequency, as it's be really hard to get there from the south without talking to them.
I noted the logo on the tail of that plane, and it seemed familiar. That's the logo of iAero, formerly Swift Airlines. Here's one of their 30-odd 737s:
Their logo has changed with the name, but if you recognize Swift Airlines, you may have read the Peak Stupidity post CPAC, gutsy Michelle Malkin, and Swift Airlines of 2 years back. In that post, we praised the job Swift Airlines has been, and STILL IS, doing in flying the most criminal of the illegal aliens from detention centers in Miami, Florida and Alexandria, Louisiana (via Miami) to their home countries down south. They hold at least 150 criminal illegals and 15 armed guards in coach class. This is very much a Con Air style operation, and I'm pretty sure there's no beverage service.
Well, that's great, but the now-named iAero charter airline is the one involved in this large scale human trafficking operation. They have been contracted to do this by a company called MVM, which in turn, works for Joe Biden.
The MVM, Inc. web site says:
As a trusted professional services firm, MVM provides extensive domain expertise in the areas of counter-narcotics, criminal and civil investigations, public safety, and national security.On their "Services" pages, they say:
MVM’s diversified capabilities allow us to meet the rapidly evolving requirements of our customers and forecast future needs. We work collaboratively with our partners to employ innovative program management techniques and utilize data analytics to support decision making and performance management.That sounds like their communication officer's way of telling you jack squat. The site says the place has 800 employees. I doubt it'd be easy to find out who they are, much less talk with them. (The cop at White Plains tried, and the arrogant bastard at least let escape that, yeah, he works for Creepy Joe.)
One can track iAero's flights on the information-packed Flight Aware site**** using their code SWQ, taken from their old name and still-current call sign. (The code is already part of the link.) However, this company does lots of other flying, including some freight work for DHL out of/into Cincinnati. This human trafficking is only a small part of their flying.
One more problem with the tracking of these flights is the use of the "Dot Com" call sign. I applaud the FltPlan company for helping flights remain anonymous***** in this age of almost no privacy left. That company arranges for "Dot Com #" call signs for such flights. I have looked on the Flight Aware site for that code DCM and seen nothing, so perhaps they go along with the idea and don't display them. It's possible that we can't see these human trafficking flights using this resource.
Back to the NY Post story, we see that these illegal aliens (not minors, as liars have told us!) are being moved off the airplanes and onto buses, likely 3 or 4 of those big buses per 737 planeload. Those buses are spreading them out to wherever, I guess where the votes, cheap labor, and cultural destruction are most needed. This trafficking is not about sex slavery or illegal entry. It's about purposeful continued destruction of the country.
MVM, Incorporated and iAero, formerly Swift, Airlines are now regularly aiding and abetting the trafficking of hundreds of illegal aliens They are being whores for the Feral Gov't. It's real Anarcho-Tyranny when the Feral Gov't and Big Biz regularly annoy us with posters and announcements about human trafficking, insinuating that it's a problem that occurs between regular Americans, when it's the Feral Gov't itself conducting human trafficking!
Lastly, with the name Creepy Joe based on some of this election fraud's previous behavior around the children, I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Biden doesn't have a past of some other human trafficking, done as a freelancer.
* See New Jersey Jones and the Temple of Doom
** Yes, their horrible legacy of slavery continues.
*** That actual news organization did great work on the story of the Joe Biden laptop/corruption scandal back just before the '20 election, but, due to ... reasons ... it was never picked up by the main Lyin' Press. Hence, there WAS no scandal, officially.
**** Any IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) flight, which must include all flights at 18,000 ft and above (by law), meaning the altitude of most decent-distance jet aircraft flights, will show on this site, with the exception I explain above. Do they stay low and go VFR (Visual Flight Rules)? That may be against their FAA operations specs, but maybe not.
***** I.e., we can't track Bill Gates' or George Soros' planes so easily. It's mostly used by the business/corporate jet world.
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Groundhog Month
Posted On: Friday - February 4th 2022 4:41PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Race/Genetics
It's not just February 2nd. It's not just Punxsutawney either. Groundhogs all over, and people too, are experiencing Groundhog Day, the movie. Day in and day out, you come out of that hole hoping to not see any dark shadows.
Wait, what's that? It's a new Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. statue, or Rosa Parks, or Emmitt Till. They've already taken down all the Confederate statues they know about, so Punxsutawney Phil statues may be next. #GroundhogDayTooWhite!
Nope, back in the hole. It's STILL Black History Month. Come out in 25 days.
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Inspiration from the Canucks, eh?
Posted On: Thursday - February 3rd 2022 12:52PM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists Kung Flu Stupidity People's Revolt
Yes, we are about a week behind, due to the usual too much time spent on Unz Review reading and commenting, as you all know can be a problem. I appreciate the many informative and entertaining comments being written and posted in our own Peak Stupidity "threads" by our regulars and even by some irregulars.
We're gonna do what they said can't be done.
(Put the Totalitarians in their place, that is.)
Anyway, that Canadian Trucker protest is still going on up there in Ottawa, and per one particular Canuck I heard from on a clip, they may stay a lot longer. His statement was that he would drive his rig home only after the PM Justin Trudeau, the "little potato"**, resigned from office. Well, he'd have to be found first.
What I like about this, is that the truckers have a whole lot of power in big numbers like this. Not only can't you arrest them all, you can't even tow a one of them, much less tow them all. Besides impeding the important traffic flow into a city (like all of them) much dependent on the hard-working Deplorables, should the decide to do so, they can deprive a city of sustenance just by not going anywhere. Additionally, if they wanted to get violent, who's stopping all those big rigs?
I don't think many on our side WANT it to get violent yet. This trucker protest is a great middle road. It's more than writing letters to congresscreatures/ministers or standing out in the cold with signs. If the Globalist Totalitarians push things though, the power is with the truckers. I am glad to see so much support from around the world, coming to Washington, F.S., all the way from California, from what I read. (I hope to be there, somewhere, in support.)
The turn of events is very heartening and inspiring. I hope there will be a lot of protest creep, that is, the expansion of the pressure against other Totalitarian measures that have been laid on population.
I'm sure there's some other newer music to go along with the protest, but I don't know - at least instead of going back to the 1960s for inspirational protest music, we just have to go back to the mid/late 1970s trucker/CB radio craze for the Jerry Reed song above. Yes, C.W. McCall's Convoy is perfect, but we've featured it before, and I like the Eastbound and Down*** tune and banjo pickin'.
About Little Potato stashed there in a dark cupboard somewhere in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the Babylon Bee did a number on him. The article is different, but just as funny.
(You gotta love the swigs from the maple syrup bottle, eh?)
* I'm not sure if they can even be called "threads", since it's nothing but a submit-time-based linear listing.
** In Chinese, the word for potato sounds like "Too-doh"
*** It's from the 1977 Burt Reynolds/Sally Field movie, Smokey and the Bandit. Westbound and Down is the same song with slightly different lyrics about the trip out west to GET the rare Coors Beer. Do try to keep up! ;-}
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