117 y/o Nun survives the Kung Flu ... Fauci still freaking out...
Posted On: Saturday - February 13th 2021 5:56PM MST
In Topics: Humor Bible/Religion Kung Flu Stupidity
... and he's only 60% of her age.
The Anchorage Daily News reported A French nun survived the Spanish flu and both world wars. Now she’s beaten COVID-19 days before she turns 117.* Sister André is said to be the 2nd oldest person in the world, screwed over by some old broad in Japan. She was born in 1904. She was teenager during the Spanish Flu Epidemic, so this Kung Flu is kid stuff to her:
When Sister André turned 115, Pope Francis sent her a personal letter and a blessed rosary, according to FAMVIN, a religious news service.Even SPAM from the Commie so-called Pope Francis wasn't enough to phase this lady.
After her diagnosis with covid-19 in mid-January, Sister André was asymptomatic. Blind and in a wheelchair, the retired nun who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic and both world wars told France’s BFM TV that she wasn’t scared when she tested positive because she is not afraid to die.Then there's this fuckin' guy:
In this Panic/AntiPanic battle of Expert v Nun, Peak Stupidity picks The Nun in a technical knock-out.
* This site was not picked purely randomly. It took 10 minutes of duckduckgo browsing to find an article that didn't link to a news page that jumped around like a bunch of Mexican jumping beans for 5 minutes or one chock full of lefty crap.
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Hotel Haiti - Introduction
Posted On: Saturday - February 13th 2021 1:47PM MST
In Topics: The Future Race/Genetics Customer Care
I can already see that the material in my head for this subject is too long for one post. This one will be an introduction, the 2nd will be about competence, the 3rd one about caring, and the last a conclusion.
The subject is labor, low-level and manual labor, using the example of hotels, because that's what where I run into this. It's where these thoughts came from. I'm not up for multi-colored bar graphs or spreadsheets here with data from the significant number of types of non-White people in the American labor force. I could use the divide between 3rd-world vs. white, but my focus is mostly on black vs. white employees here. Suffice it to say that the 3rd world, as in Hispanics for the most part, in our big immigrant and immigrant-derived work force lie in the middle.
Here's the deal: I try to get along. Black people have been living in America longer than my ancestors have, and, yes, people need work. I stay in hotels quite often on the road, and I can tell right away which ones are black managed. I can tell whether things are going to work pretty well or not.
This post is not about the housekeeping help. They are of all persuasions, 99.something% female, though it's rare to see any young white girls. I respect this labor, mind you, and I sure wouldn't want to do that work for years on end.* However, it's not something that requires much thinking or customer service really. Competence does matter, but I'm not exactly mister Spic & Span as far as noticing things amiss. This is about the proper running of a hotel.
Black service employees can be great to deal with in many of the aspects of the job that involve interaction. They are gregarious. They can be hilarious. I can see that they enjoy talking to customers and it sure looks like they enjoy being there. Some are pretty hardworking. I just talked to a guy driving us that has 2 other jobs and was just doing this deal to help a friend.
However, this gregariousness often comes at the expense of the other aspects of the job. Some of the white people at the front desk perhaps realize that they have a mess of work to do in the back (often, in fact, there is no one in the front these days, we've noted.) The management part of the job requires some thinking. It's not always fun and games with the customers. You can't just throw free stuff or discounts to everyone either. That many of the black people in these position lean toward, and spend the most time on, the gregarious interaction side of things is due to either/both that they don't really have the competence to do the other work right or/and they just don't understand or care that the hotel has got to stay the hell in business too.
I think of the scene (couldn't find it on YT, or it'd be here) on The Office in which Michael Scott notices that every one is so uptight and not relaxed, mon, after he comes back from Jamaica. Why can't we all be like those relaxed black folk down in the islands? Everything was nice down there on vacation, right? Well, of course, it's because there are competent white people that have created what they've got down there for tourism. They set all of it up. It can keep running with the native labor, but it can't keep running forever.
As Steve Sailer shows us almost daily in his posts on NY Times articles (usually), our elites and our "good whites" are trying to tell us that, dammit, all fields of employment should have equal, excuse me, equitable** numbers of people of whatever races. That is, unless they are already there in overwhelming numbers, such as in the NBA, and then, well that's the best diversity you can get. There are going to be problems. Do these people see this coming and not care?
At some point, without the competence and caring of White people, things trend, if you will, toward a 3rd-world environment. It is happening slowly now. Maybe it's too slow for some of us to notice. It can accelerate.
* BTW, I've noticed that the housekeepers don't keep up with the soap operas so much as they work these days. I hope that wasn't a management requirement. Maybe the TV's are so damn complicated (haha, to me!) that the housekeepers don't bother. More likely they get on phone calls on speaker phone with family and that sort of thing.
From commenter Alarmist, I'm thinking of the Mexicans here, we need to put up another "Telenovelas are Hell" video soon.
** iSteve has fun with that term "equity", as in "yes, this move will lower the equity in our housing."
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Final Tubman-thumping post
Posted On: Friday - February 12th 2021 11:07PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Race/Genetics
she drinks a lager drink, she drinks a cider drink ...
In this final post on Tubmania, continued from here and here, we'll have to do this while the Peak Stupidity lawyers are away celebrating Black History Month down in the Cayman Islands. (There's something about company bidness too, so's they can write it off.) I didn't pass the bar yet myself, but I know enough to cover our asses here: Disclaimer: We at Peak Stupidity have no idea of whether enhancing US currency is legal or not.
It was fun when we were kids. We'd draw a joint hanging out of the mouth of historical figures in the history books and maybe sexual organs or devil horns or something. We could start defacing the Tubman Twenties right away, with mustaches, maybe some whips and chains, or, yeah, a joint hanging out of her mouth. Get creative. Cashiers and bank tellers still have still gotta take them - tell 'em that's the way you got the bills. There's plenty of plausible deniability to go around. I know, "we're grownups. I! GET! THAT! I'm just not taking this crap lying down.
They say ridicule works pretty well against Political Correctness and Totalitarians ... that and long guns, of course..
I know I'll hear that this is not the biggest issue in the world, compared to the immigration invasion and the China-controlled Bai Dien administration selling out the rest of our country to China and calling patriots "domestic terrorists". That's not to even mention the financial SHTF moment that is coming, like it or not. On these social issues, though, we just can't keep letting ourselves get pushed around and taken advantage of. My Dad really emphasized that for me as an individual, not letting myself get taken advantage of. It'd be great if White Americans collectively would take a little bit of my Dad's advice and quit letting themselves get pushed around. We've still got some control over this stuff.
How about a start here? Let's run this Harriet Tubman currency into the ground. A little Tubthumping is in order. We get knocked down, but we get up again, they're never gonna keep us down!
This song comes out of nowhere, and it seemed to come of of nowhere when it was first on the radio, in 1997. It's a weird one, at first seeming a little too much like rap to continue listening to. It gets good though, and I like that "Danny Boy" bit by the female singer stuck in there. I'd never heard another song by this British band Chumbawamba before that and never have since. It brings back memories of a single month, I'd guess November of 1997.
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Happy Year of the Ox!
Posted On: Friday - February 12th 2021 12:54PM MST
In Topics: China World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
Chinese New Years is here, a deal that wouldn't have meant a hill of beans to 95% of Americans 25 years ago. The way things are in today's world, I'm surprised that today has not already been Executive Ordered into a National Holiday* in support of this Ox thing by the Bai Dien administration. The question for the CCP this year is whose ox is to be gored? It's been the American working man for a quarter century,
These years of the animals are even sillier than the Zodiac of Western World superstition. After all, there could be something about the seasonal climate that affects something about our being born at a given time of year... or something... if you stretch it... Is there anything in nature, climate cycles (don't get me started) or astronomy, that has to do with 12 year periods. No, there is not.
There is a lot of superstition in China, especially with regard to numbers. I posit that this superstition is a replacement for the religion that has been beat out of the Chinese people by 40 years of hard-core Communism. Commies are jealous gods! These animal years are mostly in fun now and another gimmick for retailers, but there are people that still take it too seriously. I mentioned somewhere that there was a a small but measurable baby boom at the start of the Year of the Tiger in 2010.
This Spring Festival holiday is BIG. It's like our Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Independence Day rolled into one. If ANYONE Chinese is going to travel ANYWHERE to visit family, it will be doing the Spring Festival. Fortuitously, if you are a Totalitarian ANYWHERE in the world, it was during this time last year that the Wu-Flu coronavirus, later dubbed the COVID-19, or Kung Flu on Peak Stupidity, spread out from whatever lab or market in Wuhan. You couldn't have picked a better time to see the world if you are a virus, excuse me, BoV, Being of Virality. (I don't want to read any PIC disparaging, germist remarks about these Kung Flu BoVs, such as the usual tropes about "they ought to live in segregated petri dishes" and evil talk about "a final antiseptic solution")
One big custom during the Spring Festival is the passing out of red envelopes. These envelopes usually contain cash, though, even 3 years back, I've see red envelope phone apps.. For some of us, they may contain pictures, such as, I dunno, pictures of our grown-up sons cavorting with 14 y/o Chinese ladies, you know, or whatever...
This guy in the White House and his minions are at war with patriotic Americans. At the same time, his administration will continue the foreign policy, on hiatus for the last 4 years, of supporting out outside enemies too. He's had the support of the Chinese CP through the election year, with, besides some of the printed-in-China ballots found around, likely lots of dirty tricks done with the help of Chinese internet cadre, such as one Peak Stupidity discussed last summer . Joe Biden is the Booboo to Xi Jinping's Yogi Bear.
* Knowing this doddering fool in the White House and the same in the House and Senate, I would imagine they'd fuck up the date anyway, due to time zones. This first day of the Spring Festival, the first date of the 2-week-long New Years festivities based on the lunar calendar, is already history in China. They are 13 hours later in time than Washington, FS, as in noon today in "The Federal Shithole" is 1 A tomorrow morning in China (yes the whole country - it's one big time zone**).
** That's no big deal to brag about either, as has been argued on the iSteve Sailer blog. You can't fool Mother Nature or her son, the sun, that is.
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Feminism and Islam Intersectional Stupidity
Posted On: Thursday - February 11th 2021 9:16PM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness Feminism Race/Genetics
I saw this cartoon about the year it says it was written on the bottom right, '16. A while later, I spent 1/2 hour, maybe more, trying to search for it to put up on Peak Stupidity. It's hard to search for things like this if you don't know some details of the wording. I just had the general idea of what I was looking for in my head. Anyway, I could not find it then. A commenter with the handle Harry Baldwin* embedded the cartoon on unz today, and I am so happy to be reunited with it.
I could write more about the intersectionality bit that Steve Sailer discusses often. I spent too much time with family stuff (nothing wrong with that) and too much commenting on unz (yeah, that's a problem, "Hello, my name is REDACTED, and I am an unz commenter." OK, Step 1 down, 11 more to go) today, so I'll just let the cartoon speak for itself. Nice job, Dixon Diaz!
* Mr. Baldwin suggested that there was probably an element of censorship to my not ever being able to find this cartoon, also.
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More on the Tubwoman Twenty
Posted On: Wednesday - February 10th 2021 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Economics US Feral Government Race/Genetics
Oh, Lordy, pick stack a day!"
Yesterday Peak Stupidity worried about one aspect of this pending black currency in the post Tubmania and the Cashless Economy. I think that most Americans do not like to fight any of these small battles, so they won't do anything that might cause a scene or a name-calling to try to marginalize these new twenty dollar bills. This change is likely to push the cash-paying hold-outs toward using their plastic cards, so as not to get any of this currency that is embarrassing and degrading to us.
As we discussed in these pages ["in these pages", really? Who TF do you think you are, William Safire?!- Ed] long ago, we at Peak Stupidity have chosen some of these small hills, not to die on, but to not have any beer and chips during the Super Bowl at least. I can tell you right now, that I'll not be changing my method of payment to debit at the store or restaurant registers. What I will do is to use a lot of tens.
Being an Andy Jackson acolyte , I supposed I should be no fan of Alexander Hamilton, a acolyte of this big government and big banking proponent. Still, he beats the living hell out of Harriett Tubman though (no, not literally he didn't. Don't cancel him, please!)* Really, I do not seem to use many tens. The fiver is the new one, and the twenty has become the new five, just in a couple of decades, it seems to me. Benjamins are still a bunch of trouble to use and still cause a little worry about losing a folded up stack of 5 of them or so. I'm not a fan of US Grant either, but those fifties could start coming in handy more. I'll give the lady a fifty for an $18 Big Mac meal - no, I don't live in NY City, but I'm just thinking ahead about 5 years - and just politely say "I need tens, please."
Oh, sure, at some point it will get to the nitty gritty, with some big sassy black lady, looking a lot like the $20 bills herself, going "what's the matter? You got something against this money?!" One could make a lame excuse at that point, or one could just stand up, and yeah, probably not end up going shopping there again. One may be surprised, though, by some support from others, but then again, I don't see much courage on a day-to-day basis.
I've thought about stocking up on Jacksons. I still have plenty of incandescent light bulbs from '10, which are holding up better than I had thought. These bills have a good shelf life, but it'll get weird in about 5 -10 years at most, when most young people won't recognize them. I noticed that when the larger portrait of President Jackson was put on the twenties, it didn't take but 5 years before the older smaller-portrait bills looked antiquated to me, as if they came from breaking into someone's numismatic collection due to a cash flow problem. That's not a long-term solution.
With my great disdain for feminism, one our most destructive forms of stupidity, I was pleased back in the day with the way Susan B. Anthony was marginalized all to hell by us vending machine aficionados. It's one thing that people would request bills over the coins at the bank. That wasn't all because of the feminist on the coin, but also because $1 dollar coins are strange to most Americans (it's been a WHILE). However, when one would put a fiver into the machine for a Coke and get 4 of those coins, he had to dispense with those somehow. By using them in vending machines (right back atcha', slick!) or bringing them to the bank, we put the kibosh on that whole idea of pushing the feminism via currency. I don't know how exactly it went down, but when's the last time you saw one of those abominable dollar Anthony's?
It'll take a lot more courage to do the same for the Tubwomans when the term racist will be thrown at us, rather than just "I keep losing those coins, ya know..." I'm up for it, though. How 'bout y'all?
* Hell, they both lived in the early 19th century, and it was a small country, so maybe he did beat her occasionally.
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Just Another Serf on the Imperial Workforce
Posted On: Wednesday - February 10th 2021 8:44AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits US Feral Government
Unz writer (or at least that's one of his outlets) C.J. Hopkins has another great column up, called The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror. This guy was said by some commenters to be a lefty, at least before the Kung Flu PanicFest woke him up, and he does insist on this "GloboCap" term that irks me a bit. However, he's right on the money here, and he may as well be Ron Paul. People say the ideas of the far left and far right meet around the other side. I don't think so - this guy is just getting a clue is all.
Speaking of getting or already having a clue, a commenter on unz whose comments I've really liked goes by the handle Just another Serf. This comment of his, under the C.J. Hopkins article in question, is a great concise vignette, if you will, of the average low-level Imperial Washington FS cadre that we Conservative Domestic Terrorists are dealing with in the millions.
Here is Just another Serf's comment in its entirety:
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I really appreciate Unz and the authors assembled here (not to mention, most of the commenters). It would be rough to have no reliable access to narratives countering this grotesque gaslighting we are being relentlessly subjected to.
Imagine being one of these creatures “employed” in one or another of these federal or media agencies tasked with fighting the war on domestic terrorism. At some level, you know you are involved in a repulsive effort to destroy what are your fellow citizens. But you are living in the enchanted city, even if it’s just a quickly constructed townhouse in a vaguely affluent Maryland or Virginia suburb. Maybe you’ve got some low level clearance to compliment your GS level. You’ve got an electronic badge that will get you into some floors of a few agency buildings. That late model BMW is your pride and joy. You’re paid well enough to indulge in restaurant meals. Although, it’s takeout only these days. As I imagine a majority of these drones are now female, shopping for clothing and dressing for work (which now includes coordinating your masks with your outfit), occupies a large portion of their mental processes.
You’ve never produced a thing of real value in your life. And now your sham career is increasingly about harming those rubes living outside the emerald city. Well, not so much harming them, but grinding them into bloody pulps.
It must be hard facing that everyday, for whatever number of these workers retain a shadow of integrity or a vague memory of a distant America.
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Oh, and the picture above comes from an article with the title below, from the Wall Street Journal:
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Tubmania and a cashless economy
Posted On: Tuesday - February 9th 2021 8:20PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Economics US Feral Government Race/Genetics Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
This post will go back to a philisophical discussion that has occurred on conservative comment sections all over the internet, including on this site, "are these people evil or stupid?" "Both" can be an answer too.
I have read that after President Trump's temporary nixing of the effort, the anti-White, anti-American, anti-history, PC enforcers will soon get this Tubwoman placed on the 20 dollar bill. It's interesting that when I read articles for more details, I never got anything telling me who exactly has the authority. It may indeed be just an Executive Branch function, held by the Secretary of the Treasury, but it seems like this symbolism on the currency of the realm should have been important throughout our American history.
What I did read is that the last time any changes to the persons pictured on the paper currency were made was back in 1929. Ex-President Grover Cleveland got the bad end of things, getting kicked off the twenty, but at least relegated to the thousand dollar bill (worth so much back the last time they were printed (1969) that he may not have been seen by many Americans on it). Alex Hamilton* was put on the ten, and Andy Jackson was moved from the ten to the twenty. Since then, the cosmetic changes in bills, such as the enlargement of the portraits that was done 10-15 yeras ago, were just not something anyone but collectors cared about.
This change is a big thing. It's anti-White hatred being rubbed in our face, this replacement of a very powerful and important American President, soldier and statesman by some Black History Month character. There's plenty of bad stuff involving redistribution of your wealth and income to black people on the docket of the Bai Dien/Harris crowd, all of it more important economically than this Tubwoman bit. However, this will be very soon rubbed in our faces directly, every time we buy something with cash or sell something with cash. I can see lots of White people seeing this currency for the first time in their hands and having thoughts such as "OK, that's about it. This is not my country. I need to take that scouting trip to Uruguay for real. This place is irredeemable!**"
The reason I brought up the stupid v evil question at the beginning of this post, is because I could imagine a devious plan here. The elites could be using this Tubwoman currency to take us to a cashless society in a hurry. Americans, with good reason, have been slow to go all cashless as some Euro countries are going and China*** has pretty much already gone completely. Peak Stupidity sees the evil in it, but all one has to do is to read two verses in Revelation - Chapter 13: 16-17. We have expounded on the mundane problems with going cashless, along with the evil due to the enablement of full government control in the posts Chipotle - no credit, no debit, and hold the E. Coli, Cash is King - (Part 2), and Cash is King - (Part 3) .
With the White people, still the people with most of the money, disgusted with the new currency, that could help accelerate the process. As usual, I don't see this as the devious conspiracy that it could be. I just see a lot of evil people that want to erase White history, and push this PC racial crap in our faces. It happens to align pretty good with that other goal too though, that other evil people are down with.
What will we end up doing about this indignity at the bank or check-out counter? What will you do about it? What will I do about it? I've got a lot to write about this one, with a few ideas. Some have been discussed a bit in the comments under the recent Amren article The Humiliation of the Harriet Tubman $20 by Scott Greer, so the reader may want to check that out before I get back on this subject tomorrow.
* who was on the $2 bill between 1862 and 1869, and replaced by Thomas Jefferson on that bill, not so common for most of us.
** in the words of pundit Paul Kersey.
*** See China roves Big Blother rong time for our information on Chinese society's having gone very near cashless in one decade.
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America's Kung Flu recession, women hardest hit! - Part 7
Posted On: Monday - February 8th 2021 8:48PM MST
In Topics: Feminism Economics
(Continued from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.)
It's been almost 3 months since the last installment of this series of fiskings of one of the most comprehensive pieces of feminist stupidity the Peak Stupidity staff has ever run into. By gum, we're going to finish the job! If not today, 1 or 2 more posts ought to do it.
The article in question is America's first female recession, by a piece of work with the handle Chabeli Carrazanna. Chabeli Carrazanna?! Who makes up these handles? How 'bout "The Rubber Ducky", "The Pigpen", or "Snowman"? This article attempts to get us readers to worry that working women are being hurt the most by the Kung Flu. The author bemoans the poor hotel housekeepers, most of them immigrants, that have lost their jobs due to the hysterical PanicFest we are undergoing. Gee, I wonder which faction of society is tops in hysteria. I also wonder if the American working women might have more jobs if occupations, such as hotel housekeepers were not dominated by cheap-labor legal and illegal immigrants.
Let's just pick up where we left off. We heard that "we're all going to lose" due to the "caregiving crisis". As Peak Stupidity explained, there is a caring crisis here. We couldn't care less. We don't give a shit. That is our caring crisis,
Experts say coronavirus has helped many people understand, some for the first time, the challenges women have been juggling for decades. Child care is now a line item on multiple recovery proposals.I see. We need more caring. We need people to care about giving us money. Remember how Peak Stupidity has been worried about higher-than-advertised Inflation? Note, that the amounts of free money requested off the mostly male taxpayers go from $5 Billion to $10 Billion to $50 Billion, all in TWO PARAGRAPHS. Now, that's a high inflation rate! Gimme, gimme, gimme...
The Democratic coronavirus relief package, called the Heroes Act, proposes setting aside $7 billion through the Child Care and Development Block Grant that would allow providers to get emergency help for payroll, cleaning supplies and other equipment. The bill passed the House but has stalled in the Senate.
Senate Republicans released their own stimulus proposal in late July, a set of bills collectively known as the Heals Act, that would allocate more money to child care. The bills call for $5 billion through the Child Care and Development Block Grant and an additional $10 billion in “back-to-work” child care grants to help centers pay for additional costs brought on by the pandemic and to re-enroll children.
Democrats have called the plan “unworkable.” Both sides are meeting to discuss a joint proposal that could pass both chambers.
Advocates, who applaud the renewed attention on child care, also caution that neither plan as they stand now sufficiently addresses the estimated $50 billion infusion needed to stabilize the industry.
The issue is expected to continue garnering attention as the 2020 election draws near. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who cared for his two sons as a single father after his wife and daughter died in a car accident in 1972, has released a caregiving plan that spans 10 years and earmarks $325 billion specifically for child care improvements, including free pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds; childcare tax credits of up to $8,000 for one child to low- and middle-income families; raises for child care workers; and incentives for businesses to build child care centers on their premises.Lots of Dads care for their sons, you nitwit. Do you mean "took care" of his two sons? ... with no help whatsoever? I doubt it. Then, we see how Hunter turned out. "$325 Billion" OK, now we're up to real money, even over 10 years. It's just another 1/3 of a Trillion bucks to add to the deficit, I guess.
We get "FREE" pre-kindergarten out of it. Here's where you see the real evil in this feminism. Those $8000 tax credits are for encouraging all parents to send their kids to be raised by the State at 3 years old. We can't have them learning from their parents. They might learn some ungood ideas, and plus their Moms need to be working, giving care and shit to other kids. That all makes sense... if you're a Communist.
“If we truly want to reward work [and have hardworking taxpayers pay for it!] in this country, we have to ease the financial burden of care that families are carrying,” Biden said during a July speech in Delaware announcing the plan. “We’re trapped in a caregiving crisis, within an economic crisis within a healthcare crisis.”Now, see, that's not plagiarism this time. Winston Churchill said "riddle", "mystery", and "enigma". This Biden speech was different... and you can't prove anything!
Actually, Peak Stupidity calls it this all a bitter-sweet bitch session, wrapped inside a HFCS-laden financial SHTF, inside a crackly crust of hysteria. No, it's pretty tasty when topped with marinara sauce and served with unlimited garlic bread. Churchill estate, don't sue us. We own NOTHING!
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Cancelling the Cancellers
Posted On: Saturday - February 6th 2021 4:11PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Humor Political Correctness Media Stupidity Race/Genetics ctrl-left
This comment by El Dato under a Steve Sailer post was off topic but linked to a great story about goings on at the NY Times. (It's right up Mr. Sailer's alley, IMO, so I would have expected him to give a thanks to El Dato and post about it later. Maybe he will - he thoroughly reads the NY Times, so you don't have toooooo...)
Russia Today asked yesterday Canceling their own? NYT's lead Covid-19 reporter resigns after reprimand for use of ‘N-word’ fails to appease co-workers. Even this Russian website, way over across the old DEW line, is scared to use the word "nigger". [Owwww! We haven't started yet! - Ed.] Are they afraid we may launch a first strike? I could see that. MADness, I tell you.*.
This article is hilarious.
Donald McNeil Jr., the New York Times' top reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic, has resigned after management's decision not to fire him for innocuously using the “N-word” left many staffers at the newspaper “outraged and in pain.”I feel your pain, people. I'm sure you'll be able to get him back, once we get the Romans, errr, Feral Gov't, to arrest him.
The episode began when a student on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru in 2019 asked McNeil whether he thought her classmate should be suspended for using a racial slur on a video made years earlier. The reporter, who was on the trip as an expert to inform the students, repeated the slur when asking the girl about the context in which it had been used.So Mr. McNeil was trying to find out what the problem was and why some girl used the word "nigger" (Owww! No! Stop. You don't get how this works!) to get to the root of the problem. He was only trying to find fault and mete out the appropriate punishment, but he needed to use that word in order to do his job as an enforcer, see? Slurs are bad, mmmkay, but enforcement of PC is good.
Allegations regarding McNeil's conduct on the trip recently came to light, and Times management last week decided on an undisclosed punishment but stopped short ofstoning[oops, sorry. - Ed] firing him because his use of the N-word wasn't hateful or malicious.
This Don McNeil character is 66 years old, so you know he's seen a few Monty Python movies in his day. You really gotta wonder if he still thinks some of this stuff is funny, because, granted, I'm not in his sandals, but would he not feel like he is one of the characters in the scene here**?
"Look, I had a lovely supper, and all I said to the waiter was, 'this halibut is good enough for Jehovah, mah nigga'."
I'm telling you, we are living in Bizarro World - we have to read Russia Today to get wind of the lies in the NY Times. I'm wondering if it's possible the Russians could deliver paper copies to me, via paradrop from a knock-off U-2 high-altitude recon. aircraft. Here's the last part on the McNeil story (they cover 2 other incidents - please read the whole thing):
McNeil, whose coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, wrote a letter of apology to co-workers and resigned. The 66-year-old reporter had been at the newspaper since 1976.Because of this incident, we’ve lost a TOP COVID-one-niner reporter, TOP MAN, I tells ya. It’s egregious! It’s atrocious! It’s LAMENTABLE!
"They'll stone you when you're an expert in Peru.
They'll stone you when you're reading in the loo.
They'll stone you when you're writing for the Times.
They'll stone you, when you're sixes, sevens, and nines."
"Oh, my, my, my, I'm the lone crap shooter,
playin' the field every night.
Baby, I can't stay.
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin' (dice),
roll-oh-ohl me and call me the tumblin' dice."
Sorry, but that Dylan song was draggin', so it turned into the Rolling Stones' Tumblin' Dice as sung by Linda Ronstadt, in my head.
* MAD stood for Mutually Assured Destruction, a strategy for avoiding the big hot war that could have occurred during the Cold War.
** From The Life of Brian. A lot of Christians protested the sacrilege in this movie, real and/or imagined, but take note that they didn't shoot, stab or stone anyone about it.
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Games People Play, in the Middle of the
Posted On: Saturday - February 6th 2021 8:48AM MST
In Topics: Music Healthcare Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
On the last day of the notorious year 2020, Peak Stupidity put up the post Prognosis Positive about my experience with the corporate world's concern about my being exposed to the dreaded Kung Flu.
"You wan a*^&bod*$ wit daaa." "Whaaat?? Take that mask off so I can understand you!" "I SAID, you want antibodies with that?"
Since that time, some interesting and fun possibilities have been going through my mind on how employees in the Big-Biz world can take advantage of the Corporate world's willful involvement in the Kung Flu PanicFest. I don't think this involvement is really due to a deep fear of death or illness to the employees, but it doesn't hurt them any to go along. It's the small businesses that are being fucked in the ass by these LOCKDOWNS and other Totalitarian measures. It's been great for Big Business. When Dr. Al Bendova (more on him in an upcoming post) from the Feral Gov't says bend over, Big Biz says, "how many toes should I touch, Sir?!"
Well, see, they want you to stay home for 14 days if you've been directly exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Well, OK, that means he's got antibodies, anyway. Nobody has required a test for those exposed though, like myself The 2nd time I heard that I had been, I again had that positive attitude*, but I was told that so long as I didn't have symptoms, it would be no problem for me to come in. The story may have changed because it's getting ridiculously complicated. From what the high-level mathematicians tell us, we're all within 6 degrees away from Kevin Bacon's saliva, so... just sayin', should we shut the place down? Big Gov will bail us out, of course.
From whatever that type of higher math is that tells us how many degrees we are from Kevin's Bacon, we go to game theory, which tells us how employees can game this shit. I told someone about my experience with the HR guy, and missing out on some work. We started talking about this deal, and ideas came up, thusly:
"OK, your college buddy's wedding is what day now? Oh, a week from tomorrow. But they won't let you take the time off? What if I were to take a COVID-19 test, well, wait, when should I take it? I worked with this other friend last week, and he doesn't have a wedding to go to. He wants to work. So, do you want me to wait for the weekend, and then go take one? Then, if I'm pozzed, I can call you first, so you can work on you fake symptom accent, than the HR guy a couple of days later so you've got time for that destination wedding. (Oh, don't worry, as long as you don't die on the plane, they're not gonna know.) We really need to start a Facebook group on this shit."
Now, I don't plan on doing this, as I like the job and don't want to stay home for 14 days. The 25 y/o or so guy I worked with a few days back told me he got the Kung Flu and stayed inside for two weeks. "It was nothing - I just had a fever of 95 something ..." "Whoa, not 95, that's some other major problem, man." (I'm thinking, fell asleep in the bathtub for 12 hours!) "Yeah, right, it was 99.5, that's it, just for a few days." His wife got it, of course, and they had to shut down the small school she worked at. The economic ruin from this PanicFest is cascading.
Oh, this young man told me that the loss of sense of smell was the biggest symptom. He couldn't tell he was burning the toast, he told me. What's new? That sounds like my wife's cooking, for which she often uses the house smoke alarm as a timer.
Back to the gaming, what does happen after people get vaccinated? Won't they test positive, and what's the difference regarding spreading the virus? Commenter Bill H. brought this up, and Mr. Adam Smith has lots of links on this topic under the last post which I haven't checked out yet.
Yeah, two (or more) can play at the PanicFest game. It's easy because the Big Biz world wants us all to STAY SAFE, they say, above all else, like making money, staying in business viably, etc. That's what they say, anyway. This covering of our faces is a new thing, but the covering of our asses has been around quite a while. It's just Games People Play.
NOTE: Alan Parsons fans: When you get to 0:58 in this video PLEASE do not immediately call the FBI. For the sake of the legacy of good rock music, we beseech you to refrain from reporting this keyboard player. There is even a small chance that the Alan Parsons Project keyboard player was NOT involved in an insurrection against the Government of the United States of America 40 years later. Either way, for the love of Rock&Roll, let's all shut our pie holes.
This Games People Play is from 1980 (got big in 1981) by the Alan Parsons Project, a British band that played from 1975 to 1990. It's from their album The Turn of a Friendly Card. It was sung by neither Alan Parsons nor he other core band member, Eric Woolfson. The singer you see in the video is a guy named Lanny Zakatek. This is the first time Peak Stupidity has featured this band, but this one is NOT my favorite by any means. I put it here to match the post title. I think it's the singer - I don't like his vocal style, compared to Eric Woolfson's on the song Eye in the Sky, for example. The band's famously arty or progressive song The Raven had Leonard Whiting and Alan Parsons doing vocals, though Alan Parson's voice came through an EMI "Vocoder" for the weird sound. That was some cool stuff for its time.
This band was unusual in having loads of different lead singers. The same one seen here though, Mr. Zakalek, sang also on the hit song I Wouldn't Want to Be LIke You from I, Robot, so he was no slouch, but it's just not my style.
Like Steely Dan, just featured, past Wednesday, here, this band made "smart rock". OK, that'd be the term today, especially if they had guitars connected directly to the internet, or some such BS. Like Steely Dan, The Alan Parsons Project had intelligent lyrics. Who else would have concept albums based on Science Fiction stories (I, Robot) or on classic writers of American Literature (Tales of Mystery and Imagination - The Raven is from that album, of course)? **
Also like Steely Dan, this band had 2 core members*** and then a whole bunch of session musicians that would come and go. A difference is that, unlike Steely Dan with Donald Fagan singing lead on all the songs (except for in a couple of the early years), Alan Parsons used many different people to sing lead vocals. That's kind of a weird thing for any band, as usually someone wants to be the big star in front of the crowd.
That all said, when I read the post title here, I get The Spinners' song Games People Play right away instead of this one, but Peak Stupidity already featured it last May. Yeah, I like the Spinners's song better.
* As mentioned in that previous post, I know I've been exposed to a lot of people, with no face masks on any of us, if that really matters, since this thing started. I'm just not worried about it for myself and my family.
** Then there's the History Rock genre, but it belongs to Al Stewart alone, of whom Peak Stupidity is a BIG FAN.
*** Per Wiki here's what these two guys did:
Alan Parsons – production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar.
Eric Woolfson – composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production. (He was temporarily gone for 2-3 years in the late 1980s.)
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Why is it always "Maskers, Maskers, Maskers"?!
Posted On: Thursday - February 4th 2021 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
This image is from Part 9 of our Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic series. Tough call, but I'd say she's cuter then even Marcia Brady. How can we be sure, though, with her face diaper on?
Besides fixating a whole lot on China, as we tried to explain recently (Part 1 and Part 2), Peak Stupidity has been fixating on the face masks, or face diapers as we like to call them, above all the rest of the Kung Flu Stupidity*. Our readers have actually gotten a reprieve for over a week on this subject, but WE'RE BAAAACK! We'll explain this fixation with the wearing of these face diapers, or, actually with the NOT WEARING of these.
You'll hear or read, from the hysterical folks at the park/store or from the hysterical commenters under the unz blog posts, respectively, that we who are dismissive of the face masks are the selfish ones. We just don't like 'em too much, you know, like some of us don't like pastel colored shirts or tube socks. If we would just get with the program and put on these items, we would be "keeping us all safe". If we'd only all comply, we'd be done with all this Kung Flu misery a lot quicker. It's a small price to pay, wearing this simple fashion accessory, and we are being selfish for making a big deal about it.
Needless to say, we at Peak Stupidity disagree wholeheartedly with that bullshit. Let us explain though:
1) We've heard so much contradictory information from the "experts" over the last year, including regarding these face masks, that lots of us feel like fools for having listened to any of it. Specifically, the masks were supposed to be worn for a few weeks or a month to "flatten the curve". Other than in a few places that most of us don't care about (NY City), there was no curve to flatten. The whole story has changed, and the timeline for the wearing of the masks has increased over 10 fold already, with no promise of an end to it. Furthermore, what happens with the next virus? Is wearing a mask over one's nose and mouth going to become the new normal? I don't want to go there.
2) These cloth or non-woven materials worn over the nose and mouth are not the same as handkerchiefs worn in the breast pocket for flair, or different style socks that we are not used to. These things impede breathing, one of the most important functions that keeps the human body running. They are not innocuous.
3) The fact that most Americans are acting like government has every right to make them do something to impede their breathing has caused me to lose any of the hope that I had that this place can remain something like a Constitutional Republic.
Selfish, my ass! We're the only ones willing to put up with fellow Americans freaking out around us, willing to put our jobs on the line, and will to be inconvenienced in order to fight against this blatant Totalitarianism. It's the people who meekly comply who are being selfish. They choose harmony, compliance, and convenience over making any effort to stop this Totalitarianism.
The enforcing of face mask rules are about COMPLIANCE. There's been lots more tyranny than the masks coming from this Kung Flu PanicFest. The LOCKDOWNS are the biggest, and of course they are worse fo the economy than the mask requirements. Wearing the face masks is the most visible signs of compliance though. Unless you have a serious, non-hysterical health concern, which I don't think most people really have, you are doing a great disservice to what's left of freedom in America by wearing your face diaper. You are showing that Americans will comply with ANYTHING.
So, Peak Stupidity will keep on with the anti-mask posting. Ridicule may be the best medicine for the Kung Flu.
* NOTE: We've added the first new Topic Key in a while, this Kung Flu Stupidity one. Things related have been given the Healthcare Stupidity key till now. Yes, I know, why the hell not do that a year ago? How did we know, though, that this would be such a big overblown PanicFest.
I'll get them all changed by the end of the day, and some ought to have the Healthcare Stupidity tag taken off, unless both apply.
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Any Major Dude will Tell You
Posted On: Wednesday - February 3rd 2021 7:47PM MST
In Topics: Music
If you don't have this song in your head still, from some words in the previous post, you may not be quite the Steely Dan fan you thought you were, my friend.
Any Major Dude is from one of the best band to come out of an era full of great music, Steely Dan, from their1974 album Pretzel Logic. The much more famous song off that album was Rikki Don't Lose that Number.
Any major dude with half a heart, surely will tell you, my friend,
any minor world that breaks apart falls together again.
When the demon is at your door,
in the morning it won't be there no more.
Any major dude will tell you.
Any major dude will tell you.
Walter Becker and Donald Fagan WERE Steely Dan, but they played with lots of other great musicians. The band playing on this particular song was:
Donald Fagen – lead vocals, electric piano, background vocals
Walter Becker – Background vocals
Jeff Baxter – electric guitar
Denny Dias – electric guitar
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
David Paich – electric piano
Chuck Rainey - Bass
Jim Gordon – drums
Peak Stupidity has featured Steely Dan 4 times previously, with Aja, Black Cow, Dr. Wu, and Bodhisattva.
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Spring Cleaning for Preppers
Posted On: Wednesday - February 3rd 2021 6:50PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Preppers and Prepping
The downfall, or "4th Turning", in Strauss & Howe* terminology, of America is accelerating, both politically and economically. (The latter is simply hidden by DOW 30,000, is all.) Any major prepper will tell you, my friends, just as an arborist will regarding trees, that the best time to prep (plant one) is 10 years ago. The 2nd best time is right now!
Peak Stupidity is not a prepper site, per se**, though we have this Topic Key. I strongly believe that putting some time into thinking and acting along the lines of the preppers is something we all should do. What I've found, blessedly, is that the wife has come around on this only of late. Over 10 years ago, when I started buying unleaded fuel stoves, fuel stabilizer, and food/hygiene/first-aid items in mass quantities that even the Coneheads would consider excessive, she, don't know a better way to put it, didn't freaking get it. It was Zerohedge that got me going. As much as the site has deteriorated content and usability wise since then, I am glad I spent time on that site.
Yes, some of the stuff rotted to all hell. Not only was I rash and uncaring about shelf lives, but we just don't have the room to do it right. Over the last year, between the anarcho-tyranny of the BLM/antifa violent peaceful protests (vs. the Capitol Gang having a fun afternoon) and the long Kung Flu PanicFest, I have realized that we are in a place with quite a few Karens, along with male hysterics. (There's a post coming about wood burning.)
Then there is the school, a good one kid-wise, but what's the point when the kids must wear face masks, stay behind plexiglas and even maintain 6 ft distances at recess (when the teacher's looking)? We have a few years to decide based on our schedules, but I'm not sure if our schedules will work with the schedule of the deterioration of America, leading to the SHTF. "5 years too early is better than 1 day too late" is another truism from the preppers.
While looking for an image for this post, I came upon the one above, and it was from this ABC news story - This Is How Preppers Do Spring Cleaning. I'm really surprised that a top-level Lyin' Press outfit like ABC news published an article like this without being sarcastically disparaging to every subject of the article. Kudos to writer Colleen Curry, but do note that this article is from 7 years ago. The subjects of the article are likely domestic terrorists now, from what I'm hearing.
Miss Curry:
The words "spring cleaning" may conjure images of sparkling kitchen counters and dust-free closets, but there's another part of your life that could use a clean sweep too, according to experts in emergency preparedness.This is kind of what we need at our place, but I think it ought to be a full permanent bugout to a new abode with more land.
It's time to spring clean out your emergency kit.
"We recommend doing it every six months and basically setting it as a tradition," said Phil Burns of the American Preppers Network, who offers tips on how to make sure your kits are up-to-date. "On Easter and Halloween is when I reset all of my bugout kits."
The bag should have food supplies, including shelf-stable granola bars, powdered milk, jerky, dried soups, or freeze-dried meals, as well as water or water purification systems, clothing and emergency shelter like tents and blankets. Basic medical supplies and tools are also helpful.OK, this is mild prepper stuff, for an earthquake, hurricane, or something. The article was not about prepping for what is coming for all of us, the SHTF on a nationwide (worldwide?) basis. I saw no mention of guns and ammo. (I know, I know, that'd be a bridge too far for ABC News.)
Anyway, it's good to slide into that prepper mindset again, especially with my wife a lot more onboard with the idea now. The problem with getting out a ways is "the schools", but she is also quite a bit more onboard with the idea of homeschooling. We are both seeing the agenda already being taught in 3rd grade via purposeful wrong perspective (as in, black people and slavery are the most important parts of American history) and omission (one has to go to Peak Stupidity, of all sites to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage and landing - here, here, here, and here). It's been about enough already.
A spring cleaning is due here, maybe '22, maybe '23 or later.
* I'm really, really gonna write a review of Generations, combined with The Fourth Turning by Strauss & Howe, sometime soon, at least before the SHTF and we can look at their nice arrays of what our archetypal cohorts (I'm a Nomad, what's your sign?) are supposed to be doing during this turning of the cycle 'scuse me saeculum , before burning the book for fuel.
** We recommend John Wesley Rawles' Survival Blog, in its 16th year, though there are loads of others, and many of the Constitutionalist sites (Lew Rockwell, as I recollect) have sporadic good prepping articles too.
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Trump on Scooby Doo
Posted On: Tuesday - February 2nd 2021 7:26PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump
To be precise, this is Trump impersonator James Austin Johnson on Scooby Doo. This guy is REALLY good. If you take your eyes off the video, you will see Donald Trump in your head. It also helps make it funnier if you know something about the old 1970s cartoon Scooby Doo.
While this video is hilarious, it'd have put me in an even better mood if this guy, Trump, not Mr. Johnson, and not Scooby Doo, had come through for Americans a lot more than he had. Mr. Trump is a fun guy, and I'm sure he'd not be upset at the imitation. I wish we could laugh with him as friends. I don't think enough of him to want to laugh with him now.
Well, OK, just a couple of criticisms. Why does James Johnson need to take his video while walking around? This is a guy with 100,000 views on this video, and a couple of million on his next one (but I thought this one was funnier). Is he that busy to where his time is that valuable? In the next one, he is driving. These Millennials, always on the move... and on the internet while on the move. Oh, and he wouldn't have felt obligated to wear a face diaper for part of his routine, had he just sat the hell down, or stood up, in his apartment making this. And, for cryin' out loud, hold the phone sideways for the aspect ratio!
Nice job though!
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Why is it always "China, China, China"?! - Part 2
Posted On: Tuesday - February 2nd 2021 8:16AM MST
In Topics: China Economics
(continued from part 1.)
I guess not all PS readers got the joke of the title and image last time either. It's from an old famous scene in The Brady Bunch, in which sister Jan, the middle girl in age, is jealous of all the attention given to he older sister Marcia. Go figure. Marcia Brady was cute!
This post gets to why Peak Stupidity IS all "China, China, China!", as opposed to Part 1, in which we expounded on why we need to get over China as a military threat of any kind, at least for now.
"It's the economics, stupid", in the words of a guy who was one of the most guilty of giving away Americans manufacturing might to the Chinese. (Getting attention and getting laid by anyone, ANYONE, but the Hildabeast was much more important to Bill Clinton than some silly thing like the future of America.)
I have mentioned this before, in that post about Paul Tsongas, that I can recall a snippet of a conversation I had with a friend about this subject, way back in the middle 1990s. We used to talk politics for an hour or so each week. He asked me how it's going to turn out for America when all these jobs we had (still a lot) went off to China for the Chinese to do at cheap rates. He was very prescient, but I, being a hard-core Libertarian economically (and not knowing the history of tariffs in America) argued for these free trade deals. "Well, it'll work out to whoever can get the job done for less. That's the way it should be. Thing will equalize out." Ooops, yeah, I don't show enough humility on here, but sure, I was wrong. This equalization had happened, as our former solid middle class gets down to a level of the Chinese pseudo middle-class, and it'll get lots lower if we don't start creating our own wealth.
I don't want to repeat things said before many times on this blog, most recently in the 6 part series Will America be looted by China? - - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Therefore, I'll just restate that we have been losing an economic war with China for a long time. OK, not just losing, but giving away territory for the simple hell of it. As we wrote last time, giving Most Favored Nation status to, and making unfair (to us) trade rules with, China for 25 years is like having started the Pacific war with Japan by first renting out our bases in Hawaii, the Aleutians, and the entire West Coast to them in 1940.
I give ex-President Trump lots of credit for being the first high official to do a few things, or even talk about, for that matter, the problem with our unfair trade deal with China. This is why, no matter his incompetence, bumbling, and bullshitting, I still think Donald Trump was on the side of actual Americans. With Zhou Bai Dien in office, I think things will get back to normal or worse for us in the economic war.
The reason Peak Stupidity has fixated on China lately is not that I didn't already know about this economic war for a long time. I've inherently known that this Service Economy* wasn't gonna cut the mustard for America. Perhaps for a decade now, especially as I got into Zerohedge for a spell, I could see that this massive outflow of US dollars was getting us into big trouble. The numbers (i.e. the yearly trade deficit vs. the value of American assets) are scary.
The thing is, I didn't see China as so much of a threat until I learned, very recently, how the Chinese Communist Party has such control of the place still. It's much worse since even 3 years ago, as Xi Jinping has become President for Life (head of the CCP comes with that). This isn't a benign economic juggernaut, as perhaps the Euro Zone may have been thought of, that we are dealing with here.
Americans had better realize how important this economic war is, because we don't want to lose this one. It won't be those nice Chinese small businessmen, the software guy you know, and those cute illegal alien waitresses at the King Buffet that we'll be dealing with.
Problem #1 for us is the likely civil war to come. Problem #2 is the economic war during which we've been taking a huge beating, whether we see it or not.
* That's a link to Part 1, here's Part 2, and Part 3 is linked to above with mention of Paul Tsongas.
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No more Polack jokes, please!
Posted On: Monday - February 1st 2021 8:05PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Political Correctness Cars
It's not that Peak Stupidity is in the throes of a period of Political Correctness here. Polack jokes have been fun. I didn't really get the "Polacks are stupid" premise to begin with, though, having never really known any Polish people besides one roommate long ago, and he was bright enough. (I don't remember asking him to screw in a light bulb, so I'm not completely sure about him.)
No, our request here for the cessation of these jokes is simply based on embarrassment. Who are Americans and other English speakers to make jokes about any foreigners now, with the stupidity going on that can be made fun of so easily by others? Even Volvo of Sweden, a PC heaven, has seen fit to make fun of the English-speaking readers of their ad, yet leave the Polacks alone:
The American/Euro joke in this case was about our Genderbender nonsense, spread far and wide as a most important issue. Note that the English language ad has an interracial gay couple with a daughter, adopted I guess, but who knows, while the Polish ad shows a normal couple (although the guy does look a little too swarthy for a Polack).
This is an ad not for the car itself, but for employment. The virtue signaling in it is likely there to sell cars too though. If they think this ad will help sell cars to any normal Americans, or make them more likely to consider Volvo for employment*, well, no, surely they are joking with us. I don't see a Polish joke in the Polish ad's graphic.
It's now time for the world to make fun of Americans, I guess. Peak Stupidity will refrain from Polish jokes in the hopes that the Polacks won't notice us and the stupidity here. Wetback, Negro, Wop, Jap, Chink, Kike, and Canuck jokes are still strongly encouraged.
* I suppose even for normal people, if the wife is about to pop out a few kids in the next few years, one could take advantage of this offer. Otherwise, this ad just screams "HR ladies! Ahhhhhh!"
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[UPDATED 02/02:] Commenter Alarmist informed me that "EMEA region" in the ad means European Middle East Africa region. I changed the wording. As The Alarmist wrote, I don't think the Moslem world would take any more kindly to this crap that Peak Stupidity does (a mark in their favor). I'm guessing the idea was to virtue-signal and put some Wokeness in the face of the English speaking world, while still advertising their employment policy.
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Why is it always "China, China, China"?! - Part 1
Posted On: Monday - February 1st 2021 8:20AM MST
In Topics: China US Feral Government The Neocons World Political Stupidity
I could well understand the average Peak Stupidity reader having gotten fed up with all this posting about China recently. Just about a year ago, near the beginning of this Kung Flu PanicFest (back then, it was still the Chinese version), we were still of the opinion "live and let live." The attitude has changed, and we'll explain this in a couple of quick posts.
No, Peak Stupidity has not turned into a den of Neocons overnight (on the lunar calendar?). We are Libertarian, or maybe "Constitutionalist" is a more acceptable term nowadays. We have written many times, such as our introduction to the Neocons (here) and just reiterated by commenter "Some People Call Me Maurice" a couple of days ago, America is way too broke for this policing-the-world crap, even if it WERE the right thing to do. It's not.
It's completely unConstitutional for the American military to be defending anyone or anything but the land and people of the United States. I was about to write "and IN the US", but then the Marines and Barbary pirates having it out very early on in this country, 217 years ago, was Constitutional in that the Navy is the ONLY branch of the military even allowed and they were defending American men. That's water (get it?) under the bridge now, of course, the business about having no standing army.
So, you know we are bonafide here, with that digression. Let me get to the point, which is Taiwan. Taiwan is the island where the Nationalists of China retreated from the Communists to 70-odd years back, as the Commies under Butcher Mao took over the mainland of the country. Keeping that place away from the hands of China and the CCP was a worthy endeavor throughout that 4 decade period through the end of the Cold War. The 3 more decades since have been the time of the Neocons. It's been about having a blast, blasting people all over the world on whims, as the sole superpower till, well, about now. Much of the Neocon effort was in support of Israel, no doubt, but not all.
Can we let go of the idea that "we must defend the South China Sea shipping lanes", "but, the Spratly Islands!", and "what about the Koreans and the Japanese?!"? Hey, every one of these nations (and we can count Taiwan as one for now, airline, since-defunct, in-flight magazines* notwithstanding) have huge trade surpluses with America. We have been selling out our manufacturing capability to all of them. Let's just let them take care of themselves. They can spend their own money on defense against China. "Oh, but we come out ahead by having bases all over there." Again, for what?? We're broke, and we'll be lucky to keep our country intact even without any wars overseas.
Let's think about the treaty with Taiwan that we have. I'm not gonna read the thing, but whether it says Taiwan is obligated to reciprocate in our defense or not, they never were going to do that. They will worry about themselves only, and it may lead them to capitulate to the CCP at some point.
Sorry, the Cold War has been over for 32 years. Taiwan, from what I've read, is a nice place, much cleaner and more orderly than China. I've never been. It would be a shame if it gets absorbed into what's turning into another totalitarian world over there in the Middle Kingdom. Life's a bitch.
After I'd already planned on writing this post, I read the latest transcription** of a "Radio Derb" podcast by John Derbyshire. In segment 04 of this one, he gives his opinion of the likely near-future Taiwan situation. Please read the whole segment, which is a reply to a reader's confusion over the pundit's opinion, but here's the summary:
We can't save Taiwan, except at a cost the American people will not — and should not — accept. That's a grim truth that I say with no pleasure at all.I agree except for that very last part. The military brass who push the SJW social experimentation on the military will only learn the problem with their stupidity if they end up personally lying in ditches with serious wounds. The Neocons that cheer on these wars would probably have to be dead before they changed their minds.
My own acquaintance with Taiwan goes back nearly 50 years — to July 23rd 1971, according to the entry visa stamped in my passport. I love the place; I have fond memories of it; in a just world Taiwan would be an independent country; I shall weep to see them fall under the horrible lawless ChiCom tyranny. I just don't believe we can stop it; and if we try, the best outcome will be a humiliation for us. The worst doesn't bear thinking about.
And, looking on the bright side, the humiliation may be salutary for Americans. It may end our fantasies of imperial power and our futile missionary wars.
It may also prompt us to reform our military, from a colossally-expensive stage for the acting-out of social-justice and world-policeman fantasies to a real, meritocratic fighting force concentrated on homeland defense.
Now some of the American Cold War and longer-term allies around the world, such as Australia and New Zealand, pretty nearby, may be having some 2nd thoughts about having given the Americans so much grief for being the world's policeman. They have gotten used to the American military umbrella, nuclear and otherwise. Again, the Cold War is over, so we do need to get out. However, those countries, with their lefties that have been giving us crap all these years, may need to buckle up. One thing they SHOULD HAVE done is not let the Chinese infiltrate as immigrants. Most of them are not spies, mind you, but what exactly is going to be the mindset of a 5-year Chinese Australian resident when the shit goes down? Just whose side will he be on?
Not my problem. We need to GTFO of China's business, militarily. The reason Peak Stupidity has been going on about China a lot lately is that our war with them is economic, and it's been going on quite a while already. We didn't get the best start. Giving MFN status and making unfair (to us) trade rules with China for 25 years is like having started the Pacific war with Japan by first renting out our bases in Hawaii, the Aleutians, and the entire West Coast to them in 1940.
The next post on this will be about the economic war with China We'll try to explain why we write so much about it.
* See also the prequel to that story.
** I used this wording because Mr. Derbyshire usually has his podcasts out for about a week before he publishes the transcriptions, which take < 1/5 the time to read vs. listening. So, he may have a "more latest" podcast, but you can't read it yet.
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It's the World Gone Crazy Cotillion
Posted On: Saturday - January 30th 2021 11:14PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music
There are 4 or 5 other posts I was thinking of putting up for the end of the Peak Stupidity week. My mind got interrupted by some additional disturbing Kung Flu Panicfest shit that my wife passed on to me as I'd just gotten back from a fun trip out of town with some friends.
It seems even the local park is not a stupid-free zone anymore. (I never saw any flyers about a meeting!) A set of parents we both know, the Mom friendlier than the Dad, have 2 kids, the oldest who plays with ours and the rest of the fun park crowd most days. That kid* has been forced to wear a face mask for a couple of weeks now. I'd heard his Dad chide him about it a while back, and now the Mom was told to do the same ("told" is what I think, since she was in no way a panicker even 2 months back).
Now, since I was gone and my wife was out there, she was told that I seem to be under the impression that this Kung Flu is not real, and our kid should be wearing a face mask too. Well, with my not being there to defend myself, I didn't have a chance to tell the other Mom that, yeah, I agree there's this virus, but we all know that the kids are not vulnerable and they've been playing close together for 6 months now. Whatever they may have in their systems, germ-wise, has already spread around the group.
Do these people even remember the common cold and the flu, and how this works? They seem to have forgotten all common sense regarding infectious disease. They have lost all perspective about this.
When I hear this from people I know pretty well, I really have to sit there for a few minutes (luckily I was sitting down at home) and think "hey, am I missing something? Many of these people think I'm the crazy one about this, not caring about this most important Kung Flu." It's an unnerving feeling, thinking that maybe I'm the nutty one here. That only lasts for about 10 seconds though, as my perspective kicks in.
It's just the World's Gone Crazy cotillion here.
This one, co-written with Shel Silverstein, is from Waylon's 1979 album What Goes Around Comes Around.
It's the world's gone crazy cotillion.
The ladies are dancin' alone.
Side men all want to be front men,
and the front men all want to go home.
The meek they ain't inheirited nothin'.
The leaders are fallin' behind.
So I'm singin' my song to the deaf man
and dancin' my dance to the blind.
Nope, my boy ain't wearin' a face diaper to the park. Those parents can take their stupid elsewhere where it sells better. So I don't have to hear about it, I guess I'll sit or stand WAY WAY FAR away from the Crazy Cotillion, throwing the frisbee or writing blog posts.
PS: That Dad is a hard core lefty. Mr. E.H. Hail has noted that this panic/anti-panic divide does not fall along traditional American political dividing lines. I think crazy still does.
* The younger of the 2, about 2 1/2 years old, gets around the playground some of the time, with no mask on, which is somehow different. OK, he won't wear it because he's too little and it's cruelty, but how does this fit in with the narrative of the Panicfest, in that we're dealing with Black Plague 2.0 here? Shouldn't he be at home, though, in that case?
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For want of a washer - Part 2
Posted On: Friday - January 29th 2021 4:57PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Economics
This can be considered a continuation from the old Peak Stupidity post For want of a rubber washer, 45 minutes was lost.. This time, it was a fender washer, not enough difference to warrant another blog post, except for the Kung Flu tie-in. What CAN'T the COVID-one-niner do?!
The point of that previous post is that the draining of American manufacturing/human capital is making it harder to get things done as a DIYer. That is Do It Yourselfer(s), who were, in former America, probably # 1 in the world, yet we wondered, with a self-rebuttal, whether this ability would shift to China.
The local hardware stores are mostly gone, with Ace stores a middle ground between those local guys and the big-box stores. My problem was that I had forgotten that fender washer when I got the rest of the parts. I came close to manufacturing a part that would do the job (didn't have to be round, just take up the right space), when an errand I did for a friend took us close to a Fastenal. Well, I'd forgotten about those guys, but when it comes to that chain, they have any nuts/bolts/washers/screws, well, OK, fasteners, that I could ever want. (One often must buy in bulk though, but I could deal with that rather than spend 1/2 hour extra going/coming/at the big box store.)
Nope, I should say "HAD" everything ... because their closed sign telling us about the COVID sounded like this was permanent. It said wholesale customers only could make appointments or something, and get on the internet.
This is the problem, as related in the old post of ours. You can't just do every damn thing on the internet. If this little project was already working, and I wanted to engineer a bunch of them (not the idea, in this case), sure, I could wait for parts that I'd specified carefully, weed out the crap, and get a supply going. I just wanted a damn fender washer, though. On to the big box store it was, then.
I'll give 'em this, the big box store has a good hardware selection. You can get onesies of these washers, so I picked out 4 of each of 3 sizes of fender washers*. You just write down the 5-digit SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) on the bag. OK, but no pen was there, and I didn't have one. Not so bad, the first 2 digits were the same, so I repeated the 3 sets of remaining digits in my head on the way to the register. The point was to avoid the 10-minute price-check process.
Luckily there was almost no wait at the customer service area, as I needed to return 2 things I had thought I might need but didn't anyway*. "Hey, no pen, I gotta give you these numbers quick." Well, she didn't get half of them right, but I didn't care. 2 bucks, 3 bucks total, whatever, time is money. I could tell she wasn't getting it straight when one of them came up with "bolts XXX XXX " on the register. Who cares?! Just take the money. Were it one of the really uncaring black girls, I'd have been out of there.
I, even without a face mask on, realized the we couldn't communicate this way with the plexiglass. Since this cashier wore a mask for her job's sake, even with no foreign language problem (very common nowadays) she was coming through about 2 x 4 (like a 2 by 4 upside the head). I had to lean down to the 8" gap in the shielding down near the counter, put my face halfway through, and give her the SKU numbers! Peak Stupidity, my friends, is not just a URL anymore.
* That's what it's coming to, building up your own hardware store, it seems, just for when you might need something. How efficient is that though? Or I could go into the hardware business, or we could have a small community one close by, but we're going back to the beginning here...
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