Posted On: Tuesday - June 10th 2025 7:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Feminism Female Stupidity World Political Stupidity
Note: It's the American immigration stupidity that Peak Stupidity cares about above all - above all other nations' stupidity of this sort and above all other stupidity here too. This post was on-deck though, so if I don't write it tonight, I'll never get to it. It could be a lesson to us too.
Katie Hopkins is worried. She's a writer* for the UK Daily Mail. She's a woman too. (Well, I mean, you can't just assume...) As is often the case, women worry about women things, often with no regard to any other aspects of these problems. She's worried about the lives of women in Sweden.
If you are thinking that this is about the fate of the girls of ABBA in this later stage of their lives, you just may be thinking of 1970s or '80s Sweden, in which that might just be the most important news. That was a different country. Compassionate people of all sorts, lots of women and their boyfriends who are in it to get laid mostly, have changed the country since the time of ABBA. (Agnetha, Benni, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid, though one could change the order somewhat - 4 permutations is all. Combinations, maybe(?))
No, there's some serious stuff that Katie Hopkins is worried about. You gotta figure from the long headline - Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth. Well that sucks. Life can be sad there and not in the way described by the forlorn lover in the ABBA song below.
I didn't come to Sweden for the riots. Or because of Trump. In fact, I was supposed to be here in December — before airline strikes stood in my way.Why would Trump have anything to do with Katie Hopkins going to Sweden? Whatever... there's a whole lot of misery of Swedish women described here (nothing about the men), and I can't paste it all in. A 12 y/o was raped by a 45 y/o, both immigrants, so I guess that's a double negative or something, women have to run home from work for their safety, this single lady's apartment got broken into, her laptop stolen and her car keys, then the car (makes sense), and grenades, yeah, you find them set in trash cans for some purpose or other.
I came because I was asked. Repeatedly.
Swedish women reaching out by email, by letter, to quietly show me what has become of their country.
This is in one of the "go" suburbs, so imagine what the "no-go suburbs" are like!
She doesn't want her picture to be seen now. Not in case the migrants attack again, but because the feminists will come after her and hound her as a racist for speaking out. The migrant men scare her. But it is Swedish women who have silenced her.Hey, Katie Hopkins, guess what? YOU'RE! A! FEMINIST! You're very much a part of this attitude.
The (almost all Feminist) women of Sweden over the last quarter century have been so compassionate, pushing those non-compassionate men and the few mean stodgy traditional Conservatives to chillax and let these poor refugees come in from all over the 3rd World. They really couldn't have picked worse places than the Moslem world, Africa, and, yeah Moslem Africa to invite them from either. That's being REALLY REALLY compassionate. Moreso, they didn't really need to
The problem with this feminine compassion is that, without perspective, imagination, and foresight, you don't understand that maybe, just maybe, those old stodgy Conservatives who didn't want these poor refugees coming in by the hundreds of thousands have compassion too. They might have even more of it, likely some compassion for the future generations of Swedes, who might really have enjoyed growing up in the safe, quiet, peaceful White environment as they did.
Later I went back to walk the no-go suburbs, ending up back in the centre of the town. A week earlier this place was torched and looted as the world looked on.What a brave reporter is this Katie Hopkins. Unfortunately, she's had to notice some things. But "this place was torched", passive voice, as the world looked on. I'm not sure what Katie would have had "the world" do about it. I have some ideas of my own...
I wondered what was strange, besides the weird calm. And realised it was that I was the only woman in the place. Everyone else was young, African and male. Speaking Arabic. Hanging about, utterly without purpose.
Frustrated, I asked a few of them what they were doing, what was the point, what they would ever achieve by standing about. The mum in me was furious.Now, that's not nice at all! Yet, Miss Hopkins proceeds to tell us readers that this is not about Moslem, Christian, young or old. All the women, like young Swedish Lucy, are scared. All the scary people, where DO they all come from?
'F*ck off, you white woman whore, go suck your mum,' they replied, and proceeded to demonstrate what they did to their 'little white girlfriends'.
I left saddened. Saddened that in a country so proud of women's rights, that leads the way on maternity and female equality, pockets of life like this exist.Katie Hopkins is either really stupid, or, failing that, too much of a proud Feminist to connect the dots. Had women not been in Swedish politics and voting, none of this would have happened. Some men with ACTUAL compassion and wisdom would have stopped this invasion of foreigners after a few rapes and a few hand grenade explosions or even before.
Here, she just couldn't help herself:
When Trump turned the world's attention to Sweden by clumsily referring to the effects of mass-migration on what used to be seen as the most liberal country on earth, the country was ready and waiting to blow.Trump has been quite right about what's happened in Sweden. Still, speaking clumsily(?) is bad. Being told to go suck your Mom is apparently less clumsy.
I would love to tell Katie Hopkins "I told you so!" This doesn't work with women though. "What does that even mean?!"
I really like this next ABBA song and the whole Greatest Hits album, with only one song a bit too sappy to be played in front of people without embarrassment - Nina, Pretty Ballerina. This band put together a number of hits albums. This is the one with one couple kissing on the park bench, while the other 2 band members, on the back, don't seem to be getting along. Originally, the song was from the March 1973-released album Ring, Ring (Good title song too!) It was originally sung in German, but released later in English in English speaking countries like
Now, in this duet, the girl singer is pretty sad. It's like this:
Day is dawning and I must go.Bjorn and Bennie wrote the song. The male part of the duet is by Bjorn, and the female part is both of the girls. Yeah, the song's #SAD, but not as #SAD as the modern lyrics would have it, something about getting raped twice this week and nearly blown to smithereens by a hand grenade... uhhhh, so anyway, enjoy the old European world of a half century ago, even if only in your head....
You're asleep but still I'm sure, you'll know
why it had to end this way.
You and I had a groovy time,
but I told you somewhere down the line
you would have to find me gone
I just have to move along...
* No, never heard of her before.
Comments:
Ganderson
Saturday - June 14th 2025 7:46AM MST
PS
Vilhelm Moberg wrote four novels about the great migration:
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna), 1949
Unto a Good Land (Swedish: Invandrarna 'The Immigrants'), 1952
The Settlers (Swedish: Nybyggarna), 1956
The Last Letter Home (title in Swedish: Sista Brevet Till Sverige 'The Last Letter to Sweden'), 1959
The books deal with Karl-Oskar and Kristina Nilsson who migrated from Småland in southern Sweden to Chisago (not a misspelling) County, Minnesota. The novels were very popular in Sweden, and I assume that since they were translated and published, popular in the US as well. The town of Lindström in Chisago County, about 40 miles north of downtown St. Paul, celebrates Karl-Oskar Days every summer. There’re statues of the pair in the town square. The movies from the early 70s, the Emigrants, and The New Land starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman are worth a look. I think the movies were recently remade starring one of the Skarsgård boys.
One can draw a rectangle from Chicago to somewhere in NoDak, down to Omaha and back to the Windy City; most of the Swedes settled there. There were, however a few places around the country where us square heads settled: Worcester, MA, Jamestown , NY, Seattle , and a few other spots.
Vilhelm Moberg wrote four novels about the great migration:
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna), 1949
Unto a Good Land (Swedish: Invandrarna 'The Immigrants'), 1952
The Settlers (Swedish: Nybyggarna), 1956
The Last Letter Home (title in Swedish: Sista Brevet Till Sverige 'The Last Letter to Sweden'), 1959
The books deal with Karl-Oskar and Kristina Nilsson who migrated from Småland in southern Sweden to Chisago (not a misspelling) County, Minnesota. The novels were very popular in Sweden, and I assume that since they were translated and published, popular in the US as well. The town of Lindström in Chisago County, about 40 miles north of downtown St. Paul, celebrates Karl-Oskar Days every summer. There’re statues of the pair in the town square. The movies from the early 70s, the Emigrants, and The New Land starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman are worth a look. I think the movies were recently remade starring one of the Skarsgård boys.
One can draw a rectangle from Chicago to somewhere in NoDak, down to Omaha and back to the Windy City; most of the Swedes settled there. There were, however a few places around the country where us square heads settled: Worcester, MA, Jamestown , NY, Seattle , and a few other spots.
Moderator
Friday - June 13th 2025 6:04PM MST
PS: Nice to see you on here, Mr. Anderson. I hope ABBA has grown on anybody who's heard them, as it's only been half a century since their heyday. I imagine that Al Stewart, in contrast, is someone whom you've enjoyed for the whole time.
ABBA might have grown on you simply because popular music has gotten SO MUCH worse in comparison.
Is that opera by Bjorn and Benny about migration by the Swedes alone or all Scandinavians? If you go to cemeteries in Seattle, you can see lots of Scandi names.
ABBA might have grown on you simply because popular music has gotten SO MUCH worse in comparison.
Is that opera by Bjorn and Benny about migration by the Swedes alone or all Scandinavians? If you go to cemeteries in Seattle, you can see lots of Scandi names.
Ganderson
Friday - June 13th 2025 4:00PM MST
PS Nothing to add; y’all are correct.. I didn’t much care for ABBA in the 70s, but they’ve grown on me.
Benny and Björn wrote an opera called Kristina från Duvemåla.based on the Vilhelm Moberg novels about the great migration to the upper Midwest. Good stuff
Benny and Björn wrote an opera called Kristina från Duvemåla.based on the Vilhelm Moberg novels about the great migration to the upper Midwest. Good stuff
Moderator
Thursday - June 12th 2025 11:50AM MST
PS: It's nice to see you on here, Dieter Kief! I'm glad Mr. Sailer agreed with that paragraph - it's his was of thinking and mine too.
Thanks for all the additional PS's too... I dunno...
Thanks for all the additional PS's too... I dunno...
Moderator
Thursday - June 12th 2025 11:49AM MST
PS: That behavior of those Swedish guys was kind of strange indeed, GautengVol. They may be so used to an environment in which you can't say anything* - maybe too many tattletales for HR all over the place at home. You'd think one can get away with "yeah, it's OK where I live at least" or "What a shame, yes." without further explanation or questioning.
* There's a funny scene in "The Office" in which, depending on how you say that, it has completely different meanings.
* There's a funny scene in "The Office" in which, depending on how you say that, it has completely different meanings.
Dieter Kief
Thursday - June 12th 2025 5:28AM MST
PS
German TV about women-responsibility: Oat-milk brand supports Trump - -so - - the blonde one: "We had a family meeting because we were all feeling bad about that and debated what we could do. - Should we really ban this oat-milk - but it tastzed so good . . . "
Did I mention she is a social worker?
https://x.com/DrLuetke/status/1933127281234338260
German TV about women-responsibility: Oat-milk brand supports Trump - -so - - the blonde one: "We had a family meeting because we were all feeling bad about that and debated what we could do. - Should we really ban this oat-milk - but it tastzed so good . . . "
Did I mention she is a social worker?
https://x.com/DrLuetke/status/1933127281234338260
Dieter Kief
Thursday - June 12th 2025 3:28AM MST
PS PS
PS
PS - third attempt - - -
Thx. Mod . - Very welcome! - I'm in debates with quite a few of well-meaning middle-aged women here in Germany*** - and I'll translate that and send it to some of them.
***some of them going after me publicly... dear Lord in the heavens above! - Steve Sailer yes-ed a post of mine today on X wich debtaes why people shy away from the immigration/multiculturalism /IQ-problem. I wrote to him:
"People don't want to argue about these things - they want them to disappear - because they feel disturbed by the presence of such insights. Their world is different - and therefor they want the common discourse / language to be different. - They sense that it would be easier that way. Nicer too."
I also posted something bout Darwin's take on ignorance in The Decent of Man/Introduction:
"This work contains hardly any original facts in regard to man; but as the conclusions at which I arrived, after drawing up a rough draft, appeared to me interesting, I thought that they might interest others. It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. The conclusion that man is the co-descendant with other species of some ancient, lower, and extinct form, is not in any degree new."
Summa summarum: Sancta simplicitas.
(Katy Hopkins' is an interesting mind!)
PS
PS - third attempt - - -
Thx. Mod . - Very welcome! - I'm in debates with quite a few of well-meaning middle-aged women here in Germany*** - and I'll translate that and send it to some of them.
***some of them going after me publicly... dear Lord in the heavens above! - Steve Sailer yes-ed a post of mine today on X wich debtaes why people shy away from the immigration/multiculturalism /IQ-problem. I wrote to him:
"People don't want to argue about these things - they want them to disappear - because they feel disturbed by the presence of such insights. Their world is different - and therefor they want the common discourse / language to be different. - They sense that it would be easier that way. Nicer too."
I also posted something bout Darwin's take on ignorance in The Decent of Man/Introduction:
"This work contains hardly any original facts in regard to man; but as the conclusions at which I arrived, after drawing up a rough draft, appeared to me interesting, I thought that they might interest others. It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. The conclusion that man is the co-descendant with other species of some ancient, lower, and extinct form, is not in any degree new."
Summa summarum: Sancta simplicitas.
(Katy Hopkins' is an interesting mind!)
GautengVol
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 11:22AM MST
PSA few years ago I had the opportunity to work with some Swedish guys from one of those big IT multinationals. So I asked them about the situation in Sweden, as I had heard horror stories about grenades being thrown at police stations and things like that. They assured me that everything was fine in Sweden, nothing untoward happening there at all, I was dumbstruck. Then about a year later I read a comment on UNZ about someone who asked a Swedish guy what was happening in Sweden and his experience was exactly the same as mine, there was nothing untoward going on in Sweden at all. Swedes are strange people.
Moderator
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 9:35AM MST
PS: "ICE Barbie". Right! Man, I should have used that in the post "Women in charge: Blue-jean Baby and Sister Golden Hair"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3265
"I'm sure there are people who claim not too, but they're probably lying. I bet even hardcore, headbanging, safety-pin-in-nose punk-rockers secretly like ABBA." Haha, probably so.
I can see being a little embarrassed when playing "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" I wouldn't blame one of those types to do a stage dive on me if I called out to The Clash(?), "Free Bird!! If not that, Nina, Pretty Ballerina!!"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3265
"I'm sure there are people who claim not too, but they're probably lying. I bet even hardcore, headbanging, safety-pin-in-nose punk-rockers secretly like ABBA." Haha, probably so.
I can see being a little embarrassed when playing "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" I wouldn't blame one of those types to do a stage dive on me if I called out to The Clash(?), "Free Bird!! If not that, Nina, Pretty Ballerina!!"
Mr. Anon
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 6:40AM MST
PS
ABBA was great for Sweden's brand: two attractive women signing catchy, wholesome pop tunes. Does anybody not like ABBA? I'm sure there are people who claim not too, but they're probably lying. I bet even hardcore, headbanging, safety-pin-in-nose punk-rockers secretly like ABBA.
It is indeed sad what has become of Sweden, and all the rest of Europe too.
ABBA was great for Sweden's brand: two attractive women signing catchy, wholesome pop tunes. Does anybody not like ABBA? I'm sure there are people who claim not too, but they're probably lying. I bet even hardcore, headbanging, safety-pin-in-nose punk-rockers secretly like ABBA.
It is indeed sad what has become of Sweden, and all the rest of Europe too.
Mr. Anon
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 6:35AM MST
PS
@SafeNow
$ 20 million sounds pretty lean to maintain the Coast Guard's Infrastructure. I'm sure it has gotten wokified (like every other government agency), but the CG is the one service branch that is not involved in the enterprise of sticking our noses where they don't belong around the World.
Noem seems to view every government job as a vehicle for self-promotion of the most obvious and visible kind. When she was governor, she did all those TV ads inviting people to come to which-ever-Dakota she governed (South Dakota, I think) because there were jobs there. At the time, I didn't think it much of a stretch. She was the governor and is certainly telegenic. But then she became "ICE Barbie".
I don't think that Noem is the one doing the budgeting for DHS. That is all being done by Russell Vought, the head of OMB, who is the driving force behind DOGE and the current campaign for government cost cutting (Musk was just the front man). I don't oppose all of the cuts and certainly welcome the dismantling of the DEI infrastructure. However, Vought strikes me as the kind of guy who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
@SafeNow
$ 20 million sounds pretty lean to maintain the Coast Guard's Infrastructure. I'm sure it has gotten wokified (like every other government agency), but the CG is the one service branch that is not involved in the enterprise of sticking our noses where they don't belong around the World.
Noem seems to view every government job as a vehicle for self-promotion of the most obvious and visible kind. When she was governor, she did all those TV ads inviting people to come to which-ever-Dakota she governed (South Dakota, I think) because there were jobs there. At the time, I didn't think it much of a stretch. She was the governor and is certainly telegenic. But then she became "ICE Barbie".
I don't think that Noem is the one doing the budgeting for DHS. That is all being done by Russell Vought, the head of OMB, who is the driving force behind DOGE and the current campaign for government cost cutting (Musk was just the front man). I don't oppose all of the cuts and certainly welcome the dismantling of the DEI infrastructure. However, Vought strikes me as the kind of guy who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Moderator
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 4:41AM MST
PS: Those are just details, SafeNow, the docks and the runways. She doesn't want to worry her pretty little head about it. Now, I say, that all the cuts to "discretionary" spending in the world will still not save the budget anyway. I like the cuts to the worthless D.I.E. people and USAID, etc. though. Elon has a good reason to be mad that all the D.O.G.E. work, or I guess most of it, was for nothing, if you're gonna make a budge that funds it all again.
Moderator
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 4:39AM MST
PS: Thanks for the compliment on these thoughts of mind, SafeNow.
At this point, California has been much farther overrun than Sweden has, still. I'm just going by recall here, but 10% of Sweden may be foreigners. For California, the White people left are what, 30%? It's when we start tabulating the next generations, the demographics of the school kids, that it looks even worse.
At least the Cali "newcomers" are not majority Moslem. OTOH, drug cartels are even harder to remove
At this point, California has been much farther overrun than Sweden has, still. I'm just going by recall here, but 10% of Sweden may be foreigners. For California, the White people left are what, 30%? It's when we start tabulating the next generations, the demographics of the school kids, that it looks even worse.
At least the Cali "newcomers" are not majority Moslem. OTOH, drug cartels are even harder to remove
SafeNow
Wednesday - June 11th 2025 1:06AM MST
PS
This is ON-topic, because I think it is an example of how women think differently from men. Kristi, as the DHS head, is in charge of the USCG. She has just proposed a 90% reduction in the annual budget for maintaining shore infrastructure - - from $400 million to $20 million. Shore infrastructure maintenance, my theory goes, is a guy-thing. Repair the pier. Repave the airfield. Fix the plumbing and mold infestation in the barracks.
This is ON-topic, because I think it is an example of how women think differently from men. Kristi, as the DHS head, is in charge of the USCG. She has just proposed a 90% reduction in the annual budget for maintaining shore infrastructure - - from $400 million to $20 million. Shore infrastructure maintenance, my theory goes, is a guy-thing. Repair the pier. Repave the airfield. Fix the plumbing and mold infestation in the barracks.
SafeNow
Tuesday - June 10th 2025 11:56PM MST
PS
I hadn’t sufficiently thought about the difference between feminist compassion and reality-based, foresight-based, conservative compassion. Thank you for the brilliant paragraph on this. One of your best ever, and there have been a lot of superb ones.
The Sweden invasion effect of rape must be compared to the U.S. invasion consequences. The U.S. invasion effects, while not as horrific as a physical rape, are actually worse in that (for a Californian) these are more pervasive and more intrusive into every aspect of daily life. California for now, but this is inevitably coming to the U.S. as a whole.
Btw, thanks for the ABBA-world look-back. Heartbreaking, but important. Me and Susie had so much fun.
I hadn’t sufficiently thought about the difference between feminist compassion and reality-based, foresight-based, conservative compassion. Thank you for the brilliant paragraph on this. One of your best ever, and there have been a lot of superb ones.
The Sweden invasion effect of rape must be compared to the U.S. invasion consequences. The U.S. invasion effects, while not as horrific as a physical rape, are actually worse in that (for a Californian) these are more pervasive and more intrusive into every aspect of daily life. California for now, but this is inevitably coming to the U.S. as a whole.
Btw, thanks for the ABBA-world look-back. Heartbreaking, but important. Me and Susie had so much fun.
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