Posted On: Saturday - July 26th 2025 9:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government Scams
We had something more light-hearted to post today, but that'll have to come on Monday. As I read about Trump's admonishment to Europe to stop the invasion - a very good point on his part - I came a cross some of his bragging that was a straight-out lie. Either that or he just, like totally forgot that LEGAL immigration portion of the PRP.
Peak Stupidity doesn't do tweets. We do use MS-Paint though, so this will have to do - but it doesn't seem to want to go viral like this:
Talking in soundbites precludes getting into qualifying details, so I guess we can first assume that Trump was referring to people entering the country to stay. Plenty of visitors and Americans too come and go everyday. I foresee the argument here that Trump was just talking about the US southern border. However, he was giving the Euros a warning, along with bragging about his job (can't argue with that job though!), but the warning is about getting invaded by foreigners. Sorry, but officially legal methods, like coming in for asylum, etc., are still very much part of the invasion of Europe and the invasion of America.
I feel pretty lucky* having gotten to the USCIS webpages that simply give Immigrant Visa** issuances for every month and separated by "post". This seems to be the foreign city with the visa office that initially worked with the applicant. The data is presented very simply, and to the single number. Since the table for any month - I picked May '25, as it's the most recent month with data - is long, I have pasted together a few sections for a quick discussion.
Tegucigalpa? That's in Honduras. I just replied to SafeNow in our comments today that I too am a big Geography buff. I remember this from 6th grade Western Hemisphere Geography. OK, there's just a couple of these types of visas issued, and, well, there's a couple of hundred of that other and... this is just one city issuing foreigners American Immigrant Visas of the all the visa offices around the world. The table is long - it's just for May '25! There are 12 months in a year, and the years go by, and yeah, it's great that we finally control the southern border, but that's not the end of it.
Vienna doesn't sound half bad. I just included that to link to a post with great Billy Joel music. Vienna may no longer be waiting for you, if you change your mind. What's that next one, Vientiane? It sounds like another nice European city, but, sorry to tell you, that's the capital of Laos, on the Mekong River. (I imagine the name comes from the time of French rule.) I also had to look up Yerevan, that's at the very end, by the total. OK, that's in Armenia.*** I mean, I THOUGHT I was a Geography buff!
My aim in including parts of that chart was to show the total. That's 46 and 3/4 thousand in one month. Unless May is some big visa month, we can extrapolate that make half a million annually.
I was glad to have found those numbers so easily, but a search for the H1B numbers, not the ONLY visa type that comprises the Indentured Servitude business, was subject to that scam Peak Stupidity reported on here. [Reported, hell! We been scammed by that 60,000 + 20,000 = 85,000 "cap" bullshit too, for years! I'm STILL pissed! - Ed.]
Without my asking, duckduckgo's Artificial Stupidity kicked in and, well, it's as stupid as one might expect. It's been scammed too, and it hasn't learned from our post on the matter.
To DDG AI: Peak Stupidity! DO! YOU! READ! IT?!
I did some searching without AI, and got to this site. You may remember from before that the sites that you can reach easily to get H1B numbers are those that are serving prospective H1B visa-ites. They want to encourage budding Indentured Servants, so they have all the numbers. That little line in our fake tweet below the Total 480K H1B Registrations Filed for 2025 is cut off, so here:
The total number of H1B registrations filed for 2025 was 479,953. Out of these, 470,342 were declared eligible for H1B registrations. Eligible registration means registrations without failed payments or duplicate ones.... and, he's almost sure to stay here. We discussed that "lottery" business that brings the numbers WAY past that bogus cap, by a factor of 5 or more. To be fair to Trump, per a Forbes article, we learn of a New Trump Immigration Policy: Ending The H-1B Visa Lottery. The title is very encouraging, but, no, as I read it, it doesn't sound like he's actually ending this at all. (Of course, Forbes is fine with that.)
Each year, employers submit H1B registration applications, which USCIS shortlists through the H1B visa lottery system. Those selected in the H1B lottery have the opportunity to file form I-140, a Petition for non-immigrant workers. Once the form I-140 is approved by USCIS, the candidate is allocated an H1B visa that lasts up to a maximum of six years.
So, that's that. It's been only 6 months that Trump's been in office, but this ~90,000/month (that's over a million annually) rate does not = "Last month, we had nobody enter our country"! I don't mind the guy talking shit, but, in the context of a warning about the PRP, this is a flat-out lie.
Well, it coulda' been a WHOLE LOT WORSE, right? Have a happy Sunday people. We here at PS will try to chillax.
PS: I don't intend the numbers to be comprehensive (hate that word now). There are other legal ways in, as refugees and what-have-you, so this total is bound to be low.
* I gotta say, I like these very simple year 2000 style sites that aren't clutter with distractions and simply give a bunch of links in order. This reminds me of the NTSB site with lists of wrecks by month. The US Gov't doesn't need ads, so I find using the sites very pleasant.
** I wrote above that you may notice many different number/letter combinations to signify these various and sundry visas, from Fiance to Leggy-Super Model. As opposed to these, there are the Non-Immigrant visas, also of various and sundry types. These can be abused as well.
*** Per Steve Sailer, they really like Los Angeles so should be moving there. OK, no prob, hopefully.
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[UPDATED 07/27:] I meant "post", not "station" re the USCIS table.
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Comments:
Adam Smith
Sunday - July 27th 2025 2:00PM MST
PS: Afternoon, y'all...
๐ผ'๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐, ๐๐ข๐ก ๐ผ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ "๐โ๐ ๐ต๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐ "...
Pretty good memory there Mr. Moderator. A little more than five years ago you wrote post 1541 titled ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐...
๐ผ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ . ๐ด๐ ๐ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฝ๐๐๐, "๐ผ๐ก ๐ค๐๐ ๐'๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐; ๐๐ก ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐๐ข๐๐๐ โ๐๐ก".
Which prompted me to make this fake Trump tweet...
https://s.faketrumptweet.com/kcrta8ld_1hkihd9_j6s7df.png
While looking for the first graphic I also found this one...
https://i.ibb.co/yLnp0V5/bullshit.jpg
Which works too but was not the one I was thinking of.
Thanks for the new article, Mr. Hail!
(I look forward to reading it.)
I hope you're all enjoying your Sunday as much as I am. It's hot here today and I'd like to get out and mow the back 40 but I'm also waiting for it to cool off a little. I just gave the kitten a bath and we're going to dose her with flea drops when she dries. Grilled a nice Tri-Tip for lunch which means we'll have roast beef sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. I'm going to make some worm casting tea and tend to the garden a little. But that's about it. Nothing exciting going on. I probably should wash the car but I'll probably let that slide until tomorrow or something.
Anyway... Happy Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
๐ผ'๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐โ๐๐, ๐๐ข๐ก ๐ผ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ "๐โ๐ ๐ต๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐ "...
Pretty good memory there Mr. Moderator. A little more than five years ago you wrote post 1541 titled ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐...
๐ผ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ . ๐ด๐ ๐ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฝ๐๐๐, "๐ผ๐ก ๐ค๐๐ ๐'๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐; ๐๐ก ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐๐ข๐๐๐ โ๐๐ก".
Which prompted me to make this fake Trump tweet...
https://s.faketrumptweet.com/kcrta8ld_1hkihd9_j6s7df.png
While looking for the first graphic I also found this one...
https://i.ibb.co/yLnp0V5/bullshit.jpg
Which works too but was not the one I was thinking of.
Thanks for the new article, Mr. Hail!
(I look forward to reading it.)
I hope you're all enjoying your Sunday as much as I am. It's hot here today and I'd like to get out and mow the back 40 but I'm also waiting for it to cool off a little. I just gave the kitten a bath and we're going to dose her with flea drops when she dries. Grilled a nice Tri-Tip for lunch which means we'll have roast beef sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. I'm going to make some worm casting tea and tend to the garden a little. But that's about it. Nothing exciting going on. I probably should wash the car but I'll probably let that slide until tomorrow or something.
Anyway... Happy Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Sunday - July 27th 2025 9:57AM MST
PS: Hello, Alarmist. Is that what they call it? Besides bug-out locales for some strange single me, I don't think Central America has too much to offer - maybe as vacation spots, but BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
Moderator
Sunday - July 27th 2025 9:55AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, thanks for the advice on Forbes magazine. There's more recent news out about Trump and the H1Bs that my wife showed me, as I told Mr. Smith. I don't trust him on this, and I won't trust the deal they make unless I see some numbers.
I don't feel so stupid, knowing that even AI has been fooled by that "cap". I wish more articles would explain this, but so long as they give the real numbers and not spit out that 65,000 + 20,000 = 85,000 crap all the time. Shades of that 11 million number...
Also, what you wrote here about Trump is in your new post. Agreed - that's his ego for you. I'll be sure to advertise your new post tomorrow. I've read the whole thing, and I'll try to get some comments in today there.
I don't feel so stupid, knowing that even AI has been fooled by that "cap". I wish more articles would explain this, but so long as they give the real numbers and not spit out that 65,000 + 20,000 = 85,000 crap all the time. Shades of that 11 million number...
Also, what you wrote here about Trump is in your new post. Agreed - that's his ego for you. I'll be sure to advertise your new post tomorrow. I've read the whole thing, and I'll try to get some comments in today there.
Moderator
Sunday - July 27th 2025 9:50AM MST
PS: SafeNow, we play some chess in my family too. I'm not the biggest fan, because after I got trounced too many times (no, not by my kid!) I gave it up for a few decades, at least. We even set up some local chess tournaments. The venues were not like the big place you described, though. I will have to ask the GOOD chess player in the family if he's heard of that Chess House in Armenia.
Yes, chess is great for one's thinking. I think the chess players' calling it a "sport" is a bit overboard though... That the school kids all study it is good to hear, maybe shades of Russia, not that far away. Our family member taught chess to Chinese middle-school(?) students in America whose Tiger Moms I suppose, wanted to force that way of thinking on them. It sounds like only some of the kids appreciated the lessons - others were sent out to the hallway if they didn't want to participate, which caused a fuss from someone.... he doesn't do it anymore.
Anyway, I brought up that 100,000 to 200,000 number, something at least reasonable. Sure, if a few were Armenian chess players, that's a whole lot better than Somalian khat-chewers.
Yes, chess is great for one's thinking. I think the chess players' calling it a "sport" is a bit overboard though... That the school kids all study it is good to hear, maybe shades of Russia, not that far away. Our family member taught chess to Chinese middle-school(?) students in America whose Tiger Moms I suppose, wanted to force that way of thinking on them. It sounds like only some of the kids appreciated the lessons - others were sent out to the hallway if they didn't want to participate, which caused a fuss from someone.... he doesn't do it anymore.
Anyway, I brought up that 100,000 to 200,000 number, something at least reasonable. Sure, if a few were Armenian chess players, that's a whole lot better than Somalian khat-chewers.
Moderator
Sunday - July 27th 2025 9:41AM MST
PS: I suppose that's just what I would have said were I not in a bad mood about it, Adam. I'm not sure if I remember that graphic, but I could see one being based on the Jake and Elwood conversation in "The Blues Brother".
It's just that he was there to bring to light the damage that is being done to his ancestral home, along with all those sceptered islands. I suppose for them, what he bragged about fits. It sends a bad message back to those in America who think it's all cool. Even with a serious number of deportations, there's that other doorway - fine if it were 100,000 or 200,000 yearly, but it sure ain't.
I just read another thing - since Mr. Hail brought it up, about the changes to the H1B lottery entrants (these are the ones that bring it from that "cap" of 85,000 to the half million mark!) My wife showed me, and she was please from reading the headline. Only gonna be higher-paid workers - I see some BS here. At least he's talking about it .... hopefully without Elon Musk around.
It's just that he was there to bring to light the damage that is being done to his ancestral home, along with all those sceptered islands. I suppose for them, what he bragged about fits. It sends a bad message back to those in America who think it's all cool. Even with a serious number of deportations, there's that other doorway - fine if it were 100,000 or 200,000 yearly, but it sure ain't.
I just read another thing - since Mr. Hail brought it up, about the changes to the H1B lottery entrants (these are the ones that bring it from that "cap" of 85,000 to the half million mark!) My wife showed me, and she was please from reading the headline. Only gonna be higher-paid workers - I see some BS here. At least he's talking about it .... hopefully without Elon Musk around.
The Alarmist
Sunday - July 27th 2025 6:59AM MST
PS
โGooch Cityโ ... I know it well. Donโt really care to have ANY of those Hombres y zchicas legally allowed in the USA, thank you.
Mr. Trump, build that wall !
Trump the concept is proving to be better than Trump the man... Sad!
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โGooch Cityโ ... I know it well. Donโt really care to have ANY of those Hombres y zchicas legally allowed in the USA, thank you.
Mr. Trump, build that wall !
Trump the concept is proving to be better than Trump the man... Sad!
๐
Hail
Sunday - July 27th 2025 12:08AM MST
PS
What is Trump?
Trump is someone who is fine with getting credit without results.
There are other people out there who really want results. to the point of being okay with getting the results without getting credit.
Faced with the choice, Trump much prefers the first (no results but yes credit and praise).
What is Trump?
Trump is someone who is fine with getting credit without results.
There are other people out there who really want results. to the point of being okay with getting the results without getting credit.
Faced with the choice, Trump much prefers the first (no results but yes credit and praise).
Hail
Sunday - July 27th 2025 12:04AM MST
PS
"To be fair to Trump, per a Forbes article, we learn of a New Trump Immigration Policy: Ending The H-1B Visa Lottery. The title is very encouraging, but, no, as I read it, it doesn't sound like he's actually ending this at all. (Of course, Forbes is fine with that.)"
FORBES somehow, at some point, became mostly clickbait-driven. The article titles are all sensationalist or provocative. The content rarely matches the hype that is delivered by the headline.
In short, don't trust FORBES in the 2020s.
"To be fair to Trump, per a Forbes article, we learn of a New Trump Immigration Policy: Ending The H-1B Visa Lottery. The title is very encouraging, but, no, as I read it, it doesn't sound like he's actually ending this at all. (Of course, Forbes is fine with that.)"
FORBES somehow, at some point, became mostly clickbait-driven. The article titles are all sensationalist or provocative. The content rarely matches the hype that is delivered by the headline.
In short, don't trust FORBES in the 2020s.
SafeNow
Saturday - July 26th 2025 11:21PM MST
PS
I did NOT need to lookup Yerevan, because I was actually there. This was an alumni tour of the โSilk Roadโ countries, and so there I was, in Armenia. As a chess player, I was very excited to visit the famous Yerevan โChess House.โ Bear with me, because this will be more than a personal anecdote. The name says โhouseโ but it is much more than a house. It is gigantic. The coach of the national junior team welcomed me with great hospitality, dropping everything to give โa player from America!โ a 20-minute tour.
Hereโs the โmore-thanโ part. Some elementary-school kids started arriving in buses. With their chess workbooks. To receive coaching and play matches. You see, chess is A REQUIRED SUBJECT in Armenian elementary schools. The U.S. could learn from this. Chess teaches logic, planning a strategy, and most important, wires the brain to have a long, patient attention span. Okay, this would probably never work here, on a mandatory basis. But it should be encouraged as an option. And, we should allow more of these patient Armenians come here.
I did NOT need to lookup Yerevan, because I was actually there. This was an alumni tour of the โSilk Roadโ countries, and so there I was, in Armenia. As a chess player, I was very excited to visit the famous Yerevan โChess House.โ Bear with me, because this will be more than a personal anecdote. The name says โhouseโ but it is much more than a house. It is gigantic. The coach of the national junior team welcomed me with great hospitality, dropping everything to give โa player from America!โ a 20-minute tour.
Hereโs the โmore-thanโ part. Some elementary-school kids started arriving in buses. With their chess workbooks. To receive coaching and play matches. You see, chess is A REQUIRED SUBJECT in Armenian elementary schools. The U.S. could learn from this. Chess teaches logic, planning a strategy, and most important, wires the brain to have a long, patient attention span. Okay, this would probably never work here, on a mandatory basis. But it should be encouraged as an option. And, we should allow more of these patient Armenians come here.
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 26th 2025 11:00PM MST
PS: Drumph isn't a liar...
He's just a bullshitter...
(Insert Trump-is-a-bull-shitter-graphic-from-a-few-years-back-that-I'm-too-lazy-to-look-up-now-because-it-is-way-past-my-bedtime.jpg)
Anyway ... โฝ
Thank you...
And Many Thanks!
I hope you all have a most glorious Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
He's just a bullshitter...
(Insert Trump-is-a-bull-shitter-graphic-from-a-few-years-back-that-I'm-too-lazy-to-look-up-now-because-it-is-way-past-my-bedtime.jpg)
Anyway ... โฝ
Thank you...
And Many Thanks!
I hope you all have a most glorious Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
That post is interesting, because, upon reading it, I see that Trump has learned a lot and has changed a lot. However, he's still Trump. I'll address Mr. Hail's nice new post now.