Kyle Rittenhouse Amendment II Celebration Day
Posted On: Monday - August 25th 2025 5:04PM MST
In Topics: Commies History ctrl-left Morning Constitutional Guns Holiday from Stupidity
Peak Stupidity says drop one of the other Federal Holidays, preferably Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, because if nothing else, and there's a LOT else, the name is too damn long. I see a problem with the proximity to Labor Day, but then Federal workers could merge it all into one long 9-day holiday, get out of town, and give us all a break.
We don't use the word "hero" lightly around here. The Kung Flu drug store employees who actually braved all the germs and came into work to sell skittles, Arizona Ice Tea, and cold medicine just didn't cut it as heroes. That's just me, I guess. Seriously, there are other cases I could bring up in which the word "hero" is used and I don't agree. Kyle Rittenhouse, however, is, yes, a hero.
He shot and killed 2 Communist attackers and wounded another with his AR-15 in Kenosha Wisconsin in self-defense 5 years ago today. That alone doesn't make him a hero, as much as it was some nice shooting under extreme duress. That he came out 15 miles from home that night to protect businesses under arson and other destructive attack is a good start. He became a hero, I would say, by being there and then doing what needed to be done, and being a great example of one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
The primary reason for it is, of course, to enable us to defend ourselves against an out-of-control beast of a Federal Gov't, or any oppressive government. Since the antifa and the BLM thugs were basically sanctioned by the Feral Gov't of '20, Kyle Rittenhouse's use of his AR was a pretty close example of the point of Amendment II for us.
Since this is 5 y/o history, the reader may want to refresh his memory of what happened that night - Peak Stupidity posted KYLE'S LIFE MATTERS! 4 days later.
Lest we forget why Mr. Rittenhouse shot 3 men, I will remind readers that Gaige Grosskreutz, wounded in the arm, had been pointing a handgun at our hero. One of the 2 men killed, Anthony Huber, was about to bash his head in with a skateboard. A skateboard is in that case assuredly a weapon. Joseph Rosenbaum, the dumbass, grabbed the barrel of Mr. Rittenhouse's rifle and got 4 rounds to various and sundry of his body organs. Either way you do it, play Commie street games, win Commie prizes.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of the murder charges laid on him based on self defense 15 months later, on November 19th of '21. Maybe that could be the holiday. I like today though.
I'm not so sure about either remark... just sayin..."
Mr. Hail, in the comments here, reminded me of his post “The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse” (2021) from Nov. 22nd of '21, possibly written right then due to Mr. Rittenhouse's acquittal 3 days prior. Mr. Hail has got lots of info on the "victims" and more, along with The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse by Clifton Hicks:
PS: I'd like to thank the Unz Review/iSteve commenter Old Prude (he's written in here once or twice) for this idea.
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[UPDATED 08/25 late-night:] Added link to E.H.Hail's post and the song.
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Attorneys General Gone Wild!
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 4:20PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
NOTE: Title corrected after our receipt of a nasty voicemail from William Safire.
Cops have bodycams now. Though often "so tiresome", some of the footage taken can be really entertaining. Why do we enjoy these clips of those drunk and disorderly government officials and public figures getting arrested? Think about it. I wouldn't have watched this one were it Chris Christie getting arrested... or even William Safire.
You're gonna wanna' watch this. You're gonna watch because the drunk and disorderly ones are decked out women in slinky dresses. In this one, from the New York Post article RI prosecutor threatens cops to shut off body cameras while being arrested for alleged trespassing: ‘You’re going to regret it’, we can see the teaser of Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan in her pink dress, kind of unkempt.
Wait, is she really Assistant Attorney General or Assistant TO the Attorney General? There's a big difference:
So, yeah, most views of these clips of Attorneys General Gone Wild! and such are from we men who expect, with all the jostling around and drunkenness, there are pretty good odds there will be wardrobe malfunctions. "Wardrobe malfunctions" are the stuff of clickbait videos that have suckered even me once ... or a coupla' dozen times.
The Assistant (to the?) Attorney General's* friend Veronica Hannan is much feistier in this footage, so yeah... it wouldn't be anything worth watching without her previous consumption of all the wines cooler and Pinas Collada, would it?
Whether you care for all that or not, I ask the reader to at least skip to 05:20 in, when Miss Hannan, the one in the silky lemon yellow dress, is escorted into the unit, that is, the cop car. 5 years back, within a week or less after the reprobate George Floyd overdosed - you may have heard about that - there were lots of videos on youtube that I couldn't find again later.** One was cop bodycam footage of the attempt to force Mr. Floyd into the back of the cop car. (This was quite a while before Derek Chauvin had him pinned down on the ground.) He also had his legs stretched out to prevent the door being shut. Let me tell you, if you notice here that it was a quite a struggle to put 100 lb Veronica Hannan into the back of a cop car, imagine how it went with 6 footer, over 200 lb, drugged-up George Floyd! Worse, imagine Chris Christie, even if he weren't resisting!
OK, here's the video you've been wanting to watch:
Well, there's another blog week for ya'. Peak Stupidity WILL get to those estimates on illegal alien labor savings as a proportion of prices for goods and services. There's other stuff we've been meaning to write about too. Have a happy Sunday!
* I know that ain't right. We're gonna hear from Mr. Safire again, I just know it!
** They didn't even appear in the hour and 42 min. long movie The Fall of Minneapolis.
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An AntiChrist looks at 95
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 7:39AM MST
In Topics: Music AntiChrist Globalists Bible/Religion
If you ever have a problem with a post title here on Peak Stupidity, think song lyrics.
I can really see how this guy could be one of the antiChrists. I'd been confused on this issue before, but, yes, there can be multiple small-A antiChrists working under the one big one, per Revelation. Things are pretty bad, but I don't think Big-A AntiChrist has arrived yet on the scene. (Perhaps he has already been hatched in some fetid nest in Washington, F.S.)
About this particular one, Peak Stupidity has been remiss in not noting George Soros's 95th birthday till now - it was 8 days before Ron Paul's 90th. You can go back half a century, 2 years more than half this creature's life ago, and I doubt you'd have heard anyone say "Yeah, he seems like a pretty good guy." No, George Soros life has been about making shit-tonnes of money through financial dealing that occasionally bankrupt entire governments and influencing societies toward his liking. I can't think of anything constructive George Soros has done. Most of his philanthropic projects I've read about have ulterior political and/or financial motives, and I don't like said motives.
I wonder what his childhood was like...
Well, we don't have to wonder anymore, cause we've got Wikipedia, ;-} Check out "Early Life" of György Schwartz here, and note the following lower down on his page:
As a child, Soros fantasized about being a God/. In his book Underwriting Democracy, he wrote, "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." He later elaborated on that passage in an interview saying, "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."Okeedokey, then ...
I only kept up with this possible antiChrist because ZeroHedge touted his birthday... in a way. The writer, one Parker Thayer, celebrates A Legacy Erased: Happy Birthday, George Soros. Alex Soros is one of 5 of George Soros' spawn. He has 4 sons, 2 from his 1st marriage and 2 from his 2nd. Alex Soros, from the 2nd marriage (the other son from that coupling being an artist) is the antiChrist heir apparent, I guess, but it's
Over the last few years, he has handed over control of his empire to his son, Alex, and Alex seems unable to do either of those things successfully.On the money end, Alex seems more of a virtue-signaler than his Dad, the spoiled brat, so he's lost his ass in Rivian (Normal, Illinois) electric vehicles. Then, getting politics involved to help his business interests, he supported that fat-ass Stacey Abrams in Georgia (with a Rivian plant involved) to no avail. The rest of his politics are pure American ctrl-left.
Alex Soros is married to former main squeeze d' hildabeast, Huma Abedin. In the words of George Castanza, I gotta say, "You coulda' done a LOT better!" He's a powerful Billionaire. What stupidity! I guess love is blind, and it's a match made in hell.
Really all I care about is the damage George Soros, with his heir trying to help, has done in destroying America. He does have 3 houses in New York, so I guess he's not done with America. (A guy sent a pipe bomb to him in '18, but that was a bust.) The (very) elder Soros has been clever in his political support. Rather than spend 100's of million of dollars in attempt to sway the big elections, when a guy like Trump can still ruin it all, he started his Soros D/As project maybe a decade back. You might have $18 Billion, but you still have to stay on a budget. So, you spend just a few hundreds of thousands on these much less publicized campaigns for Districts Attorney [No, No, that's NOT it! - William Safire], who will have the power to screw up cities even worse than ever by letting violent criminals go free to kill some more. One wonders how many Americans George Soros has indirectly, but purposely, killed this way.
You can get them elected, but after too much mayhem, even city people will have had enough.
Today, more than a dozen Soros DA’s have been removed from office by recalls, scandals, or simply not seeking re-election. And the spike in urban crime ended up being a key factor for the Democratic Party’s defeat in 2024.Maybe his spawn Alex just doesn't have the fire in his belly, or back where he came from, to do this societal destruction right. The conclusion by Mr. Thayer:
The demise of the Soros DA is more than a rejection of Soros’ legacy on criminal justice policy. It was also a rejection of his legacy on immigration. As one might guess from a name like “Open Society,” Soros is a proponent of open borders. One reason Soros began funding DAs in 2016 was to create “sanctuary cities” that would be the heart of the so-called “resistance.”
The second election of Donald Trump—in a race where crime, immigration, and the IRA were three of the major issues—was America’s personal slap to George Soros’ face. Today, on his 95th birthday, his legacy is in shambles.As usual, I went to the comments for more fun reading, but I haven't found a real standout yet.
Happy Birthday, George!
Parrotheads would already know this, but our title here comes from the title of a very poignant Jimmy Buffet song, if you're a son of a son of a sailor. I'm not, but I know someone who fit this song well. This song not from the Son of a Son of a Sailor album, as one might expect. A Pirate Looks at Forty is from his album A1A* from 1974. This ballad has good lyrics as usual for Jimmy Buffet and with a great tune, very much like He Went to Paris.
Here's a live version from 1991. It's not as polished, and it doesn't the have good harmonizing vocals like the studio version. Also almost 3 minutes of the beginning is some dialog about the Key's sailor and bar fly the song is about. He's still there... in an urn.
PS: Peak Stupidity has written other posts about this antiChrist candidate. See Psychopathic, ex-Nazi, Commie Globalist disses Donald Trump - - The latest actual AntiChrist according to our part-time intern - - 60 minutes with the AntiChrist, and First rule of AntiChrist Club.
* Highway A1A is the Florida east coast road. It's stays to the east of the I-95, but is sometimes combined with the US-1. Jimmy was referring to the portion that connects all The Keys, I assume.
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Africans marginalized by the Mercator Projection
Posted On: Thursday - August 21st 2025 12:25PM MST
In Topics: Music Geography Race/Genetics
The World is a
Well, some Africans are all bent out of shape about th... oh, no pun intended there... they feel kind of marginalized, to put it in 21st Century terms. The Legal Insurrection site (Instapundit Glenn Reynolds links to them a lot) reports that these Africans' problem is the Mercator Projection. African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”. The "disinformation" is Africa being displayed on maps using this projection as smaller than it is. The sub-headline:
The reason? African Union member unhappy with the relative size of the continent presented on those maps, as it makes them feel…marginalized.It's a mine is bigger than yours thing, but with continents. Why have White mapmakers been marginalizing Africa, hence, any Africans with chips on their shoulders (don't they all?) for well nigh 4 1/2 centuries? It's gotta be just pure hate.
It's not all maps though, but the Mercator Projection, as normally aligned, has this error of areas nearer the Poles displayed as larger than areas nearer the Equator.
First of all, what IS a projection? See the figure above. To get that Wal-Mart globe paper onto a flat rectangular one must find a way to "project" the sphere's surface onto a rectangle that is positioned around it. One can think of this "projection" as using a light source to project every (almost) part of the map onto said surface and the tracing it out on the flat surface. Or, what you really do, after imagining this, is use math.
Math??? Yikes. I was led to believe there would be no Greek!
The diagram above from wiki shows the idea behind a Mercator projection It is one of multiple ways to transfer the surface-of-a-sphere picture of the world to a map sailors and, dare I say, World Conquerors and Colonizers could use. Why didn't they just carry globes? Kinda' hard to plot a course on one in the Captain's quarters ... In fact, as compared to other projections, the Mercator was deemed best for sailors keeping Rhumb Lines. These course that cross latitude lines at the same angle were easier to sail than other methods. They, BTW, are not Great Circle routes*, though for small distances, such as day-long drives it doesn't matter. In fact, the Flemish Geographer and Mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (see, he wasn't Greek, so...) who first presented his namesake projection in 1569, mentioned the difference:
Even for longer distances, the simplicity of the constant bearing makes it attractive. As observed by Mercator, on such a course the ship would not arrive by the shortest route but it will surely arrive.That's always the main thing. (This was well before Greta and the Climate Calamity™.)
Well, see, most people don't do a lot of sailing across the ocean these day, what with the long-range widebody airliners and all. Those who do sail have GPS and other than navigating the harbor and to the marina, probably couldn't even tell you on a globe where they really are. So, why use this Colonizer-made, Africa-marginalizing map projection now? (And let's not forget the Central Americans!)
Besides that we are used to this projection, that it preserves angles between lines/curves such as roads, makes a variant of the Mercator the best for the web mapping companies** and their amazing very usable software. Yet they bitch...:
Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the ‘Correct The Map’ campaign led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa has revived the debate, urging organisations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection, which tries to reflect countries’ true sizes.Sure, that explains the gap.
“The current size of the map of Africa is wrong,” Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter, said. “It’s the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”
Fara Ndiaye, co-founder of Speak Up Africa, said the Mercator affected Africans’ identity and pride, especially children who might encounter it early in school.
Yes, Africa is a huge continent. I remember learned how huge when reading the book From Cape to Cairo*** a couple of decades back. It's 6,000 miles from Cape Town, S. Africa to Cairo, Egypt!. I noted in our post on the old S. African Airways, 1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (CtDC - Part 7) regarding a fuel stop in Kano, Nigeria:
... of the 5,600 statute mile shortest distance, Jo-burg to Palermo - the latter [segment] which could be considered entry to Europe on a direct route - is 1,130 miles, 4/5 of the whole route.Yet, with such a big continent to draw talent from, I don't think any Africans invented ANY map projections. I don't think they know how to make maps. What's to map there, anyway?
As the Chinaman said:
Oh, and who made the best music about Africa? A pale White lady out of some Celtic place named Enya did, that's who.
PS: I watched the entire Empire of Dust docu-frustration recently. We'll have a review of that one.
PPS: I've never watched The West Wing and likely never will. Commenter Adam Smith sent me to a web page about this map envy business and it had the following video from that show. If fits this post pretty well. Thanks, Adam!
* See Peak Stupidity's quick discussion of Great Circle routes, in Moslem call to prayer and the Great Circle route. Our follow up was titled Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender. One might see why we needed that 2nd part.
** We saw one of those google cars while driving home the other day, and it came right by our house as we were exiting the car. Unlike last time, I didn't have the time and wherewithal to flip off the camera. (I still have a blurry screenshot of me in front of my car flipping off the camera long ago.)
*** Were I to review it, I wouldn't give it too many kudos due to minor anti-Whiteness. Also, there is another From Cape to Cairo by some African author. Beyond that, there is also From THE Cape to Cairo, written about a trek over a century ago.
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They call him Dr. No ("call him Dr. No") - Ron Paul turns 90
Posted On: Wednesday - August 20th 2025 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media History Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Ron Paul at less than half his age in the year of America's 200th birthday - the Bicentennial, with family and the Gipper:
In the US Congress House of Representatives, they called him Dr. No, a name taken from the villain of the very first James Bond, 007 movie (1962). That attempt at a slur was due to firstly that Ron Paul is a physician, but it was about Ron Paul's very strange habit of voting NAY! on all bills that were unConstitutional. I mean, WHO DOES THAT?! Yeah, we could have used a few hundred more men like Ron Paul over the last half century, probably a full one plus a dozen*.
Going back a ways, Ron Paul was born and grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He got his M.D. from Duke back in 1961, then did his internship at Henry Ford in Detroit and then his residency in Ob/Gyn at Magee-Womens Hospital back in Pittsburg, and has said he's delivered over 4,000 babies. (Believe you me, delivering a baby is easier than delivering a Constitutional Congressional Bill. I'm not a woman though, so ... can't be sure.)
After a couple of years in the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon during the early Vietnam era ('63-'65), Dr. Paul and family moved to Brazoria County Texas. (It's on the Gulf coast, the next county SW of Galveston County.) During his medical residency time, somehow he found time to read the classic Libertarian texts. (I'm basically following Wiki here...) it was Nixon's closing of the Gold Window in '71, ending backing of the US $ by gold that got him into politics. Some do it for the power trip, others do it for the poontang, but nobody else, I don't believe, has gone into politics due to his anger at the end of sound monetary policy!
Anyway, Ron Paul first got into the US Congress in '76 just 3 months before our country's 200th birthday. (It was a runoff election to fill a vacant seat.) He was a Republican until I guess he couldn't stand that anymore in '87, tried to do it as a Libertarian, and then went back to try to work with the R-squad (no "red v blue" yet) of the UniParty from '97 through 2013.
Between his various stints in the Federal Shithole, Dr. Paul did his Ob/Gyn work, published political and financial newsletters, and ran a numismatic coin dealership.
I used to vote Libertarian from the time George H.W. Bush didn't care we'd read his lips about taxes and then spoke in Spanish for a few seconds at a campaign event. (That was enough for me!). I gotta say, in '92 and '96 I should have voted for this guy, a smarter and more capable proto-Trump By 2012 though, the national Libertarian Party had become a stupid joke, at least at the national level. Ron Paul figured he'd go for the GOP nomination to get somewhere. He was marginalized by the Regime Media because he was not going to play UniParty games. They may have heard a little bit about Dr. No. Lots of young people really took to him during that campaign.
Stop me if you've heard this before... nah, you can't really... so, there I was, at a Ron Paul rally in the late Winter of '12. I got myself up to the front to watch his talk. Then, as he was leaving, Dr. Paul shook some hands. As he shook mine, I told him nicely "Hey, if you want to win [REDACTED STATE], you've gotta talk about illegal immigration." (I'd been a VDare reader for 7-8 years already by this time.) "OK, I'm all for enforcing the law..." he started, and I don't remember the rest. He is an honest guy. If illegal immigration was not going to be his main issue, he'd tell you that. It wasn't. Four years later, it was for the Presidential election, but Dr. Paul was behind the scenes already, still writing and (at some point) producing his video Liberty Reports.
Now, did Dr. Paul understand what Peak Stupidity has said many times to admonish the (ridiculous!) Open Borders Libertarians?**: These particular masses of newcomers you're OK with - uhhh, you know that 99% of them will never vote Libertarian, much less subscribe to Reason magazine, don't you?*** I don't know if he understood that then. He has written columns withing the last few years that assure me he does now.
We still have this soft-spoken real American Constitutionalist with us, one year before the 250th birthday of this country, still teaching Americans who don't know any better about so many things in his columns, and almost always with an optimistic paragraph at the end. I'm sorry to say that I don't share his optimism.
I occasionally don't agree with Ron Paul, say, about tariffs and eVerify, but that's 1% of the time. Wait, did I write that he's a soft-spoken guy. Let me go back to the year 1988. This Morton Downey Jr. was just another Jerry Springer/Herr-aldo type, but Ron Paul was not up for taking any shit here:
I recall things being pretty civil politically back in the 1980s, but then, this was daytime TV! Check out 2 1/2 minutes in through at least 3-4 minutes. Also, if nothing else, hop over to 12:25 - 12:45. Great TV! ... or something... No soft-spoken teacher was Ron Paul 37 years ago. (He was already 53.)
I am so glad we still have Ron Paul to kick people around in America, even if it's in a nice friendly manner. Alas, now well into the PRP, we are a different enough country such that not much of his elucidation of basic principles of limited government reaches anyone who cares. I've got one more thing to say, based on that episode in '12. People oughta listen to me, if they know what's good for 'em!
PS: Note, early on in that video, Ron Paul talking about imagine taxing cigarettes to where they're "5 dollars a pack!" Ha, you've got to go to the Res for that now. Ron Paul understands the reason for Inflation more than anyone, so I doubt he's actually surprised now by cigarette prices.
PPS: Oh, yeah, the title of this post reads kinda funny, but that's because I've got the lyrics of the KIZZ song Doctor Love in my head now. ("They call me Doctor Love (call me Docter Love...)") I try not to be too mean to the readers, so we will not embed this one. That band played lots of better ones.
* That'd bring us back to 1913. Lots of very BAD things happened in the US Gov't from that year through a handful more. Then, there was FDR... don't get me started...
** Not nearly all Libertarians and Constitutionalists - the latter less so - are Open Borders idiots. Those Reason magazine imbeciles, yeah, I wrote them a nasty letter telling them to use the rest of my subscription money to buy a clue, oh, about 17-18 years ago.
*** See the first half of our old post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?.
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BUILD! THE! WALL!
Posted On: Tuesday - August 19th 2025 7:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
Remember that one - it goes back a full decade now! Where IS this wall of which you speak, President Trump?
Well, firstly, that was a great sound bite and rallying cry, but I, and hopefully a lot of others, realize that a secure border does not have to involve a wall. You wouldn't build a wall if the situation was urgent, which it WAS and IS.
If an Army takes some territory and wants to keep it, does it arrange for transport of metal plates, build on-site concrete plants, and so forth? No, you set up some barb wire or concertina wire, move back a hundred yards or two and set up a second barrier while keeping an eye on the first. Then you shoot whoever makes it to the no-man's-land in between, or before, while they are trying to breach the first barrier. Miles and miles of secure border can be created on the cheap and in days. OK, readers, I'm no military man, so don't bring up tanks. The invaders we're talking about don't got no steeenking tanks.
Peak Stupidity discussed back-'o-the-envelope numbers while mistakenly excited only 2 months into Trump-45. From the names of the posts, Border control vs. the interstate highway system and Border control maintenance vs. defending some Koreans from other Koreans, the reader can see that we were making comparisons on cost for building a serious border barrier and for maintaining one. For the former, we compared it to the cost per road construction up to the standard of the Interstate Highway System. Form the latter we compared it to the cost of, well, yeah, what the title says.
But, what the heck, damn the costs, an actual wall would be fine by me... FINALLY. Naysayers of Trump-47 may think it's the same-old-same-old regarding the immigration invasion, but Peak Stupidity begs to differ. We had plenty of bad things to say about Trump's ego, his ways, and his Reality-TV star personality last week. That's not the case here.
With all their hype, the GateWay Pundit site had a really good article with actual figures for a change, on further construction of The Wall. I was saving this post from 2 weeks back based on one by Antonio Graceffo's article: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trumps-border-wall-major-progress-massive-funding-2025/. Well, funding is one thing. A secure border is another. At first the numbers sound not negligible, but very small in the scheme of things, a 1,900-odd mile border:
Construction activity has accelerated rapidly across multiple sectors of the southern border. As of June 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has initiated more than 80 miles of new permanent border barrier projects across the San Diego, Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, and Rio Grande Valley Sectors, with these projects currently in various stages of planning and construction.Hah, see, I read this after I wrote that above. So long as the army/guard stays down there, actually defending the country (what a concept!), that can work just fine. OK, but we're talking small stretches first:
Additionally, CBP has deployed approximately 145 miles of temporary barriers in collaboration with the Department of Defense and Texas, including concertina wire, razor wire, chain link fencing, and Normandy-style vehicle barricades.
In March 2025, the administration awarded its first contract of the second term, paying Granite Construction Co. $70.2 million to construct approximately seven miles of new barrier in Hidalgo County, Texas. This was followed by a significantly larger contract in June, when Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. received $309 million to build approximately 27 miles of new border wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.Now those numbers DO sound negligible. Are they that peanuts? Well, I'm sure the locations are the big entry points per terrain and current trafficking patterns. Can't invaders just go around? The invasion force is not an army though. I would hope we could hold entrants back until all easy access points are secure.
Notice the numbers here. They lean toward ~ $10 million per mile! That is 4-lane Interstate Highway mileage level cost, with no big land purchases necessary, not nearly the effort in building drainage and bridges. My gosh, the Feral Gov't can spend some money. It's $2,000 per foot. Looking at the wall makes me think that's not crazily out of line (just the tall steel plates - how much are they?) This is also about 10 x my back-'o-envelope calculations, but then again, I was fine with chain-link fencing, concertina wire, and a no-man's- land.
Let me get back to the LENGTH being built. From the Big Bulbous Bill, the border control funding of which was outlined by PS a while back:
The scale of planned construction under this new funding is massive. The legislation will fund the completion of 701 miles of primary walls and 900 miles of river barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.Let's see, the article says ~$47 Billion for the wall, meaning 3x as much, $30 million per mile on average! Man, the US Gov't knows how to blow money.
Here's the worrisome part:
Administration officials have outlined ambitious timelines, planning to construct 85 miles of new border wall in 2025 alone, with hundreds of additional miles planned for 2026 and beyond. Border Patrol leadership has indicated they would like to add up to nearly 1,000 miles of additional barriers in the coming years, contingent on continued congressional funding.What are these "coming years"? No, this could be done in a year - that's 5 miles a day.
As with the naysayers on deportations and their "you would need half a million buses!" (No, dumbasses, you don't do it all on one day.), you don't build it with one crew. Looking at the wall as it's been built so far, it looks like 16" on center steel plates set up on concrete piers of some sort. Let's start by specifying a crew of 10 guys working the augers, the concrete pouring, the small cranes and snorklifts, with a little hand labor bolting the plates down. Could they not build 50' of wall a day, that's 40 panels, 4 per hour for a long shift?
It would take 500 such crews to build 5 miles a day, without counting lots of other work, such as transporting and setting up concrete plants, hauling the concrete ingredients and the steel, surveying, support, etc. The cost per day, that's 50 ft of wall, for this labor, with great pay and some overhead is on the order of $10,000. That's $200/ft of wall. There are the costs for the machinery and all the rest of the labor, plus the steel plates. Perhaps, $2,000 a foot is very reasonable, but not that $6,000 per the latter number above!
Anyway, my point above was about the manpower and timetable. America is paying for a 5,000 to 7,000 mile logistics chain to support 20-odd thousand soldiers, sailors, and airmen to defend that one group of Koreans from that other one. 1/2 to 1/4 of them could be at work building the Big Beautiful Wall in a year. Don't let them tell you otherwise. We can't let them tell us otherwise! Those "coming years" per the excerpt above may never come.
If I may go back to the money one more time, as much as it is in absolute numbers for the average Joe Blow, we're quibbling about chump change when it comes to US Feral Gov't spending. I said $2 Billion, you say $47 Billion, no, let's not call the whole thing off, because that factor of 20X - $45 Billion difference is 2/3 of ONE PERCENT of yearly spending.
Will we BUILD! THE! WALL! chanters be fooled again? I don't dare say. Though it's not the only front in this invasion, the southern border is important, and President Trump is doing a great job with this so far.
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Trump, the Census, and Apportionment of Representation
Posted On: Saturday - August 16th 2025 9:40AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump US Feral Government Morning Constitutional
That title sounds all high & mighty, but we're just here to give Trump some praise today after all that bashing of him most of the week. Here's what he's good at:
Only a small portion of Americans are really into the politics, by which we know lots of what goes on as a given, as we assume that everyone else does too. (Speaking of "assume", I shouldn't assume you all assume that either.) President (or not) Trump, in his Reality-TV star mode, brings to light in front of the whole American public things that haven't been before.
We think everyone knows the anti-White destruction that's been going on in South Africa since the place was given over to Black! rule 3 decades ago. Nah. Lots of people had no idea. They don't care. Maybe they do a little more now, after Trump made a big deal about the anti-White hate, violence, murder in that now collapsed society. No other President would have invited that Presidential thug here and show him video in front of the World. Kudos!
I've written this week, with 2 examples, that Trump often won't care until it gets personal. (One wonders if he, the President, would have even known about current S. Africa without recent input from, say, Elon Musk.)
The Presidential elections have been pretty darn personal indeed for Donald Trump, since 10 years ago this summer. Has he ever thought about the other aspect of illegal immigration's effect on elections, not just that they often CAN, and are encouraged to vote, but that, the more that are counted in the Constitutionally proscribe decadal Censuses, the more electoral representation certain States have? (California is by far the biggest example.) I've gotta admit that this had never clicked with me either until the time I wrote Illegal Aliens' effect on Election '16 2 months after that '16 election.
The 1st aspect, their voting, is illegal, but then so is entry to the country without permission. The 2nd, however, is unfortunately NOT proscribed, to cite chapter and verse, in Article 1, Section 2 thusly:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."Free persons", it says, and 3/5 of slaves. Where do illegal aliens fit in? What about this "in such manner as they shall by law direct"? Who's "they" there? "They" sounds like the members of Congress, but I"m not sure.
I don't know. Firstly, I'm glad that President Trump has brought this up to give lots more American a clue on how we are getting screwed in one more way. Secondly, he may very well have the power to specify the counting method, though surely, per the Constitution, the next census will be in 5 years. Stripping out suspect numbers from databases, now, well, that's not a bad idea. Were Deportation Nation to ramp up to a serious level numerically, just the idea that illegal "status" must be obtained might actually have them staying in the shadows for real, better yet, in the shadows of big shade trees and their sombreros, back home.
I know, he only cares because it's personal to him, but yeah...
Good work, President Trump. Keep the Blompfkrieg rolling.
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Peak Stupidity in the South Carolina Low Country
Posted On: Friday - August 15th 2025 4:01PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Political Correctness
It started with an unfathomably stupid move, the arranging for "cheap" labor for the harvesting of rice and cotton. The results of that stupidity will probably be with us through the life of this nation. We're into more recent news in this post.
(Note: Dashcam imagery. All rights reserved - not part of Mr. McLeod's official campaign portfolio.)
The South Carolina Low Country is not sending their best... to the Governors mansion up the Interstate in Columbia. Though he came from Florida, Mark Sanford held a seat in the same 1st Congressional District (Go South Carolina!) - represntin' Charleston and down the coast through Beaufort and Hilton Head, up toward Georgetown, and inland through Moncks Corner, both before and after he was Governor of the State.
Gov. Sanford, in that executive position from '03 through '11, was a decent enough Conservative as most have been in the Deep South*. Unfortunately, he got himself embroiled in a People magazine style scandal by having an extra marital** affair with a woman named Maria Belen Chapur. She sounds sexy going by the name alone, and I even removed the accent mark! She was no illegal alien, this Miss Chapur, but she did live down in Argentina, where the Governor of the SC went surreptitiously while his family and good folks in the State were to believe he was out hiking on the Appalachian Trail. I remember reading "We were without a Governor for a week and didn't know it!" I've got no problem with that. That's the sign of a Conservative State. The State got over it, and Mark Sanford continued on as Governor, and then represented that District 1 again.
A couple of years later there was elected a real piece of work, one Nancy Mace, discussed, with a short bio., here 2 1/2 months back in the post Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy. Uh, yeah, now she's running for Governor, for the GOP.
Now another Low Country gentleman, one Mullins McLeod, running for the Democrat nomination for the Governorship, has been in the news lately. The GateWay Pundit, always good for some gossipy style stories, reports “I’m Superman, Godd**n It…I’m Gonna Kick Your F**king Teeth In!” – South Carolina Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Goes on WILD Tirade As He’s Arrested in His Underwear (VIDEO). Yes, there is video - it's an hour long. I'm sorry that I don't have the time to put into watching that. Now, were it Nancy Mace in this story, I could find it in me to squeeze a viewing into my busy blogging schedule.
I don't know where they're getting these people. The thing is, South Carolina and most of the Deep South States don't have the madness that one sees in your Californias, New Yorks, and now Colorados and such. The people, Black! or White, at least, are generally more socially Conservative and don't go for the complete madness. However, some individuals do get a bit wild and wacky - I have not even gotten to a prospective Senator Grahamnesty primary opponent, an interesting character named Andre Bauer. Another time...
The only reason I started this post to begin with, however, is just this one quote from a SC D-squad member who, as the rest of the party feels obligated to admit, wants to be rid of Mr. Ranty McUnderwear (and socks too...) The quote from one Christale Spain in the GP article:
“After reviewing the transcript of the dash cam footage from his recent arrest, it is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being instead of a campaign for governor."Now that's a new one! I mean, "has gone off the deep end" is a nice idiom we all know and love. There are many others. What's this...? "navigating"? "Profound Challenges"? Nah, he's just nuts. So is that Mace lady. Is "navigating profound challenges" the new "one fry short of a happy meal"?
PS: Peak Stupidity wrote a bit about the current SC Governor Henry McMaster in Part 2 of our series When Henry replaced Nikki. He spent a year as Governor after being appointed when Nikki was appointed UN Ambassador. (we speculated here, in the 3rd post, that Trump may have been pretty wily with that move.)
McMaster then won the elections in '18 and '22, so he cannot run again per term limits.
* Yes, Nikki Haley was generally a Conservative, having grown up most of her life in the State, but her NeoCon ways and lust for power detracted from that.
** It wasn't the first marital affair that was the problem but that extra one was.
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The Trump beatings will continue until morale improves
Posted On: Thursday - August 14th 2025 9:59AM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
This week's blogging has inadvertently turned into Trump Fest here at Peak Stupidity. I see a couple of more posts coming too, so HEADS UP!
Any readers who are not appreciative of the Trump bashing here, skip to near the bottom, and it'll get better.
In another bout of Banana Republicanism, President Trump is angry at FED Chairman Jerome Powell due to the latter's not lowering interest rates. The basic "Federal Funds Rate" is targeted at 4 1/4 - 4 1/2% right now. (Imagine what natural, free market price-of-money interest rates would be without a FED.) The rates have been raised over the last few years to try to fight inflation. More on that...
Just as with the BLS numbers, no, I don't put it past any branch of the US Gov't now to work against this guy who is not part of the Deep State and has been screwing with the well-established Administrative State. Powell IS probably against Trump.
However, well, come on! Inflation will roll on as long as the FED keep creating currency out of thin air to support trillion dollar deficits.
The GateWay pundit doesn't do too much real thinking. It's a MAGA-leaning site, at least, so the opinions ring true, but, they go along with Trump in President Trump Threatens a “Major Lawsuit” Against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Unleashes Fire On Him After Seeing Latest Inflation Data.
AS TGP readers know, Powell has stubbornly held interest rates steady for months despite plummeting inflation numbers, claiming the tariffs will possibly reverse the trend. As a result, Americans are having great difficulty affording homes.OK, but, I thought we didn't trust those BLS numbers. Peak Stupidity sure doesn't!
On Tuesday, the latest inflation numbers came in. Once again, Powell was proven a fool as inflation held steady at 2.7% in July, shy of the 2.8% Wall Street expected.
Oh, about the lawsuit. You can't sue a guy for interest rate manipulation, can you? Shouldn't we have been suing the pants off them since 1913, in that case? No, the lawsuit is nothing but a tantrum. See, the new FED building will end up costing something like $2.5 Billion as opposed to the planned $1.9 Billion. Yes, Trump is a real estate man, so he doesn't like those cost overruns. In the meantime:
Yeah, the DOGE clock actually looks significant, but that assumes all cuts were in the Big Bulbous Bill. They weren't. Our financial problems are not about the FED building, with a waste - if you include the whole thing, which you should - of, oh, back-'o-the-envelope about 0.12% of just the DEFICIT, the overspending for this year annualized.
As for the main point, no, Jerome Powell is between the same rock and hard place as the rest of the FEDs over the last decade at least. Raise the rates to fight inflation, and the interest on the debt becomes nearly 1/2 of all incoming tax revenue. Lower it, and inflation goes up... but, no, Trump says he's got it all under control, with help from a new BLS lady perhaps.
President Trump rages:
“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell must NOW lower the rate,” Trump stated. “Steve Manouychin really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser.”Yes, I'd forgotten that. Trump hired the guy! Sorry to bust your Reality-TV bubble, Trump, but inflation will continue due to spending such as your BBB and the numbers that you could see above. Even if rates were back to 2%, interest paid on that $37.2 Trillion would be 3/4 of a $Trillion, which is 3/8 of that deficit. Now, even if you would end MIGA and cut half the military expenditures, interest payment would take more than that savings.
“The damage he has done by always being Too Late is incalculable, the president added. “Fortunately, the economy is sooo good that we’ve blown through Powell and the complacent Board.”
Hey, he's not a numbers guy. I knew that going in, well, starting this post. He should shut his pie hole about the FED and Jerome Powell because that's all water long ago under the bridge.
That's our Trump rant for today, but there's also the general MAGA movement - that he still leads - to think about, which, besides the MIGA end of it, is doing a lot of #Winning! (Well, I'd like to see real people in real jail too.) Let me paste in a great comment in its entirety by Unz Review commenter Dmon that includes the optimism that Peak Stupidity still has. This includes writing about points we've made here before. (I have put in 2 paragraph breaks and reinstated the cuss words):
As Trump (or maybe just the meme) said, “They’re not after me. They’re after you. I’m just in the way”. So when Trump was elected the first time, they immediately ginned up a coup, staged an armed revolt, suppressed the 1st Amendment and rigged an election. Then they tried to jail Trump and anybody who defended him, established a literal Ministry of Truth, imported foreign invaders and tried to force everyone in America to become a subject of a medical experiment. They essentially told every Trump voter that you are nothing – we can do whatever we want to you. We can tell you boys are girls, we will cut your child’s dick off, we will make you kneel to a drug-addicted gorilla, just because we can.Look, I HATE
It doesn’t matter what you think of Trump. If you’re going to let them do that to you and get away with it, then you might as well just curl up and die. So what do we have now? For the first time in God knows how many years, it’s OK to express pro-White opinions. Shiloh Hendrix and the woman who got stomped in Ohio can receive donations without the state stealing them. Opposing DEI is a legitimate viewpoint, and victims of it are suing and winning. Invaders are actually being deported. And the deep state lying sacks of shit and the woke AWFLs who support them are actually getting a (small so far) taste of their own medicine, and at least having the insufferable smug smirks wiped off their faces. For probably the first time in decades, White people again feel like part of a living, great civilization, the one that made the modern world.
It is beyond Trump – when Trump pisses off his constituency, they let him know, rather than making excuses for him. But it is because of Trump. I don’t care if Trump goes after these fuckers because of principles or just for simple revenge – his revenge is my revenge. And there is no rebuilding without revenge – that’s like painting over termite damage. The vermin must be removed.
Along those more optimistic lines, we'll have some #TrumpWinning regarding voting and also the southern border later this week. Morale will then improve.
PS: Why the "Feral Government" topic key on this post? The FED is not Federal (neither does it have any reserves), but anyway, we are pretty much beyond adding topic keys, so that had to do.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit B: That BLS Lady
Posted On: Tuesday - August 12th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
Our point is that Trump often will not take a problem seriously unless/until it involves him personally. Yesterday we presented Exhibit A for our case.
Exhibit B is Trump's very recent firing of the woman above from the Feral Gov't's Bureau of Labor Statistics. You'll find quite a bit of mention of this small government bureau in the many Peak Stupidity posts on Inflation. These "green eyeshade boys", well, after D.I.E. not so much (see image) are responsible for disseminating loads of economic stats, but it's inflation and unemployment figures that are their bread and butter. Those 2 measures are probably the most important for the average American, so it'd be really nice if we could get accurate numbers.
Peak Stupidity has mostly discussed the highly-suspect well-lower-than-we-see inflation figures over the many years. There are reasons the unemployment numbers have not reflected reality since a change back in the 1990s. Anyone "looking for work" for more than 6 months is not counted now - personally, I think that started so the BLS could use numbers obtained from unemployment offices - which still don't count everyone*** so, not a nefarious move. Still, the inaccuracy, on the low side, remains.
Indeed, though, as Ron Paul just wrote in his latest column, Governments Lie. (That's another nice truthful comment from this nearly 90 y/o Constitutionalists' Constitutionalist. - Reminder to self!)
To Trump and his "strictly personal" policy finally, this BLS is supposedly a nonpartisan organization, say, like the NOAA or the NTSB. We're not so sure. Dark Brandon appointed Erika McEntarfer, to head the BLS in early '24. I'm sure people in positions like this come and go, with not too much thought being given to political concerns. She was just a manager of a bunch of accountants, right? Nah, not anymore. See, the ctrl-left does nothing in a fair and impartial manner unless forced to.
I'm going to link to ZeroHedge on this one, as this kind of thing has been their "core competency" since I first read there over a dozen years back. "No One Can Be That Wrong" - Trump Fires Labor Statistics Boss After "RIGGED" Jobs Data. I gotta say, for me and I'm sure a lot of people, statements and actions like this seem like pure Banana Republicanism Don't like the economic reports from those government peons - fire 'em and get people who will give you better numbers, dammit!
However (and Ron Paul agreed, I'm glad to see), Trump is right about this. I don't have a link****, but I can remember that ZeroHedge reported at the time the story of that ridiculous revision of an unemployment "print"***** that brought it from an 800,000 gain in jobs - going by recall here - down to a couple of 10,000s. Not only that, but Americans, that is non-aliens at least, LOST jobs. I can definitely believe that the BLS performed shenanigans on behalf of Dark Brandon, Jill, the DS, the Autopen, Kameltoe, and the gang. There are details in the ZH post. (My memory is not bad at-all.)
HOWEVER, if this was somewhere in Trump's Reality-TV star head, why did he not fire Erika McEntarfer when he took office? The election was over. I suppose that big revision from a big GREEN very good unemployment print before the election to a small RED one afterwards didn't matter. No, it doesn't matter until it does again.
Over the whole time Trump has been involved in national politics, has he cared a whit about the BLS itself, much less any of the numbers they'd come out with? Now, when the numbers are not so good - and another one, the monthly deficit (not sure that's from the BLS), does not look good either - Trump decides to fire the messenger (and, yes, the "fixer") I mean, the Golden Ages is suppose to be upon us any day now. NOW Trump is taking this personally.
PS I just remembered an Exhibit pre-A, if you will. That was Trump's long postponement of doing a thing about major internet/antiSocial Media censorship of Conservatives. There was action he could have taken during those 4 years of -45 via Part 230 of the Communications Act. He didn't bring it up until he finally realized all the censorship may just affect his '20 election chances**, way too late in the game. Here's our post from Halloween day of '20, 3 days before the election: Big-"Tech" censorship and Section 230.
In that post, we referenced a 2-week older post (part of a series), titled President Donald Trump: **the Bad**, the Good, and the Ugly. This will sound familiar now:
Yeah, "the hard way" is how Mr. Kirkpatrick puts it. President Trump didn't worry about all this too much when it was Alex Jones getting cancelled, or Laura Loomer, or the Proud Boys or whomever else. Now it's about that big NY Post story on the Biden scandal that is very important for Trump in this last stretch leading up to the re-election. (Haha, note that I'm still on his side.) Trump's people and I believe the NY Post's tweets were wiped out for whatever normal Orwellian reasons Twitter comes up with for this sort of thing*. Suddenly NOW this Section 230 of the Communications Act is important! The personality of this guy, man, amazing, just amazing, you wouldn't believe ... [/Trump]I wrote that nearly 5 years ago. I knew I'd mentioned this personality defect before.
I mean, it's been years of this Big Tech censorship crap and the Trump administration has done nothing but occasionally bluster about it. It's been empty threats. Now, down toward 2 weeks before the election, the President wants to at least threaten them with legal action by the FCC or someone. Really? Can't those 2 Big Tech titans wait it out a couple of weeks with whatever kind of obfuscation their $500/hr lawyers can come up with and see how the election turns out? This stuff should have been in progress and either changing the law or putting some serious fear into these people long before now!
But no, see, now it's PERSONAL! Come on, man!
** All other things equal, which they were not.
*** I've been unemployed for a number of periods and only went into one of these office ONCE. I didn't get any money, because the paperwork was going to be a mess, so I walked out, never to return.
**** Did I mention yet on this blog that internet search sucks now?
***** We Economists use that term- you wouldn't understand. Neither would I.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit A: Washington, Federal Shithole
Posted On: Monday - August 11th 2025 6:26PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Race/Genetics
We've got so much more to write about, but stuff comes up in the news that makes me exclaim "See?!" This will probably just a series of 2 posts, but lots more examples could be presented based on this thought.
I don't say Trump takes everything personally. My contention is that many problems here in America have to PERSONALLY affect the guy before he does anything about them. These can be problems that affect the whole of us, but, until Donald Trump is personally harmed, often, he doesn't get it. It's not happening, or he never thought about it before... It takes a big ego to be like this.
Granted, it WAS personal when the ctrl-left waged lawfare against him for a couple of years. That he takes all that personally is quite understandable. Generally too, the people he'd like to take righteous revenge on are the types we'd all like to see thrown in dungeons. Win-Win, for the most part...
Peak Stupidity will present 2 examples of this.
For this example, we bring up the news story* involving the beating taken by one of Trump's former employees a week ago as the man valiantly protected his girlfriend from Black! "teens" that had attempted to car-jack the couple. Because I am not quite ready to live Idiocracy at this moment - maybe in a couple of years - rather than the commonly used moniker, let me state that this victim of racial violence was one Ed Coristine. This young man had been an instrumental player on that DOGE committee** we heard so much about for half a year.
It wasn't Trump himself who suffered this time, so his motivation is personal loyalty, not a bad thing. However, plenty of White men and women, hell, every other race, sex, creed, orientation, whatever, have had the crap beat out of them or even been murdered by violent black men in Washington, FS. Did Trump not know that this is "a thing" in this city? More broadly, does he think Washington FS is unique in having this problem of inner city violence?
I do understand that this city is unique in that, per the US Constitution before the "Home Rule" law signed by Richard Nixon 52 years ago, the US Congress rules the nation's capital. Since the attack on his former employee, Trump, the would-be King, is attempting to take control of that city himself. If the Congress won't lift a finger, I don't blame him on the particulars. Does he have enough energy, "bandwith" the software co. managers used to erroneously call it, to worry about this, with thousands of more important things to deal with?
"Is the prevention of black violence in the inner city of Washington not important?", one might ask. It's not, because this solution doesn't solve the general problem. Trump hasn't even mentioned the general problem, that our inner cities are all violent shitholes due to the "people who live there". Whatever solution to rule the FS is proposed, it won't work because those people still live there, and live in all other inner cities.
How can you not know about this half-century-running problem? Has Trump never hung out in the bad hoods in NYC? Has he been that pampered? I've thought of him as being street smart, more than your Nancy Pelosis and Hildabeasts, at least. Perhaps, due to this attack on his personal employee and maybe friend, Trump could get to thinking, "Hey, there's a lot of violence in some other cities too! Let me look at those graphs in these Steve Sailer tweets! Wow, you've never seen so much mugging. Much too much mugging. We gotta do something..." Yeah, "What's to be done?"
At least he cares. It's not just America's business. Now it's PERSONAL!
PS: Thankfully, Mr. Coristine had nothing worse than a concussion (may still have long-term effects) and a bloody nose.*
* Man, internet search is getting worse and worse. It was hard enough to find a photo of the young man all bloodied up - I'd seen it before - as the images from the search for "edward coristine beaten images" (or "carjacking") showed him in his normal state.
A search for "edward coristine medical condition" didn't help me get that info easily either. The articles were 5 days old, at least. Finally, one from the day of the happening gave his medical condition at the time.
**... their work likely having been for nothing other than to illustrate the evil of the ctrl-left. The Big Bulbous Bill turned those savings into peanut... shells on the floor.
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Jerry Garcia gratefully(?) Dead 30 years today
Posted On: Saturday - August 9th 2025 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
We lost this great musician 30 years ago today. I bet certain readers and one particular commenter thought Peak Stupidity had forgotten.
Nope. I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that The Dead's lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia died at age 53. I'm not trying to be too dramatic here, as if it a day we lost one or some of the many Kennedies* or something. 9/11 was another day like that. With Jerry's death, though, it was more that I was in the same place I often was, but that summer I had had thoughts of following the band around.
I've never owned a VW Microbus. I don't make bead necklaces, create decorative paraphernalia, or package up drugs, say, for trading for tickets. In the Summer of '95 though, I had a decent amount of money in the bank for that time and my lifestyle then. I worked on my own schedule. Why not drive my favorite and only American sports car around the country to a handful of shows? I could watch the girls twirling outside the shows while sitting in the hatchback, not doing drugs but miraculously enjoying the show anyway. I might have needed a miracle, as they say, to get tickets. Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore...
I was on the front porch when I heard something on the radio. That was the end of that proposed plan and that all-American, one-of-a-kind musical band.** I just sat there and I had to blast out some Dead for an hour. The neighbors were more understanding then.
I did go to 4 shows, 3 in the '80s and 1 in the '90s, one at which I didn't actually SEE the band, but I got to hear the music very well from the hillside above. It was... an experience, man ... The Dead started playing with that name 60 years ago, they played for 30 years, and the end for Jerry was 30 years ago, August 9th of 1995. The music lives on, more than for any other band. I read that there are existing recordings of ~95% of the 2,300-odd shows. They were a hard-working band. Without subtracting out a couple of dead (pun serendipitous) periods, that number of shows means they played music on over 1/5 of all those 10,957 days.
Here are two of the goodbye songs that Jerry and Robert Hunter wrote:
Ripple:
There is a road, no simple highway
between the dawn and the dark of night,
and if you go no one may follow.
That path is for your steps alone.
You who choose to lead must follow,
but if you fall you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.
Brokedown Palace:
River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy.
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago.
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home.
Goin' home, goin' home,
by the waterside I will rest my bones.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul.
One can find hundreds or even thousands of versions of these songs and pick better ones, but I put these two in for the clearest sound. Both those double albums, Live Dead, the one with the beautiful cover paintings of New York and San Francisco, and Reckoning, with its acoustic recordings, would be great introductions to the band. It's never too late.
PS: Since I found this on the way, here's Dave Letterman with Jerry and Bob from back 43 years ago, when they'd already been playing together 17 years. They play a nice Deep Elem Blues and Monkey and the Engineer for the Late Night audience.
* I remember exactly where I WASN't when that one Kennedy got killed - on the ski slopes.
** I can't just say rock and roll, because they played so many styles, sometimes together.
Also, I'm sure Dead and Company and the other spin-off bands were fun, but ...
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British Rising ... against the symptoms, but not for the cause.
Posted On: Saturday - August 9th 2025 9:37AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Internets Websites Political Correctness Globalists Media Stupidity People's Revolt
Peak Stupidity had gotten all excited at the time of our writing of this post at the beginning of this week. Is the REAL fight against the Globalist PRP really on? Will the Brits rise up?* I'm optimistic always, but some of the words from the Brits involved make me slightly less so.
First, as a correction to that last post, I have read that these marches were arranged online to a good extent, Kier Starmer's TruthBritain org be damned. However, they've been using Facebook. Seriously, Facebook?!. It's Twenty Twenty Five, you know... Good on 'em - whatever works. Secondly, though I'd read it, I didn't mention that the immediate causes for the protests are the housing of
These hotels were the focus of at least the one Southport riot that Peak Stupidity sharply focussed on a year ago. (Again, look under the Immigration Stupidity Topic Key for posts from last summer.)
I suppose there IS a use for X-Twitter, as it's been hard for me to find a place on the web to follow this the way I'd like to. That'd be a barrage of video clips - say a couple of minutes to half an hour each - of the marchers, showing the camaraderie, the songs, slogans, people pushing the cops back, maybe shoving some black-shirt Globalist-sent opposition members onto their asses, etc...
Youtube is nearly useless for unbiased or patriot-centered video, at least if one goes through the search functions. A commenter on ZeroHedge linked to the following 8 minute report in a thread under a post about happenings in Spain.** This is not one of the videos I really want to watch as described just above. However the guy is, no, COMES ACROSS AS, an unbiased reporter on the facts of these happenings in various cites in England. (In general, the protests are at or about hotels housing these foreigners.)
You'll see that the narrator, Mr. "British Stand, or that's the name of the channel, I dunno, sounds fair enough. When you let the wording he uses sink in though, "men often with no confirmed documentation, "concerned residents", "migrant accommodation sites", "legitimate safety concerns", "two sides of Britain", "a particular challenge to lore enforcement", and let's not forget "the far right", you realize it's not an unbiased report. The Overton Window is still wide open to the left/Globalist view, with no good angle on the cause of immigration patriotism.
The title with its "fairness": Nationwide SHOWDOWN: Brits Take to the Streets Over Migrant Crisis!. "Migrant Crisis", that's another one. We didn't know - importing millions of foreigners has caused a crisis somehow!
Yeah, and "the far right" basically means Nazi. I beg to differ that the German Nazis were far right - I don't recall any calls for limited government, hard-core gun rights and that ... Who's really been far right? Barry Goldwater, Jesse Helms, I don't know... but nobody wants to be "far right" now. So the protesters deny that term over and over. I think it was this video even that had an advert, as they say there, for a T-Shirt with "Not Far Right, Right so Far". That's clever, but someday I hope people will just retort with "So what? We're proud to be on the far right".
It's not just this video but the words from Brits being interviewed during the protests that's got me less optimistic. They talk about the "security concerns". Sure, that's a reason to be mad. They talk about how these foreigners are "unvetted". Sure, that's no good. They talk about the money supporting these worthless "migrants" that should be going to down-and-out Brits instead. Sure, if you do Socialism, it doesn't work well when you import additional layabouts.
Perhaps they've warned each other on Facebook or in person. It may be common sense fear of being taken away and banned from further marches, but these people just WILL NOT talk about the fundamental problem here - they are being REPLACED as a people! You might hear that in private, but I have hardly seen one or two instances of anyone telling these reporter types that the whole Programme is wrong because Brits have a right to their own country.
Let me put it this way. If these protests get really big, enough to disrupt British life, politics, and the economic goals of the Globalists, perhaps the Government can
"To address your concerns, people of Great Britain, here are our new policies:"
1) Security Concerns: "From now on, sentencing for those Moslems who feel up your 10 y/o's at the swimming pool, gang rape your daughters, set your cars on fire, and stab you all with scimitars for disrespect of Islam will be DOUBLED, nay TREBLED!"
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
2) Vetting: "We will be vetting all newcomers. Background checks will be performed on every person on every boat that crosses the Mediterranean. We will peruse absence and tardiness records from Afghani school systems. We will press government officials for complete information from all Senegalese DMV offices for driving infractions and suspensions. Ethiopian records will be scrutinized, scrute - in - eyezd, I tell you, for delinquent mortgage loans, judgments, and leans against huts."
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
3) Public Support: "The Government will no longer use British taxpayers' money to support newcomers' hotel stays, meals, phones, and toiletries. This will be left to charity. We are already in talks with 10 Soros-supported GS-NGOs who will gladly put up the money for
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
The British seem to be arguing against the many symptoms but not the cause. Hopefully we'll see something different as this goes on. Hopefully it WILL go on.
* I still want to write a post about the situation in the Euro countries vs in America, when it comes to resistance. This is not that post. I've gotta get more thoughts together on this.
** This is basically a note to self. I'll post about this, including a great concise comment from one of the long-term ZH guys next week.
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Wingnuts and going Postal
Posted On: Friday - August 8th 2025 7:36AM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation
(Not to scale. Larger than actual size... unless your phone is tiny.)
Yep, it's another real-world inflation post here. I present just a couple more inflation data points, but they aren't very precise ones this time. We're lacking accurate numbers from memory and/or accurate time scales.
That could be it above - no way to tell without a scale there - a 10mm / 1.5 mm pitch* wing nut. I was just glad to have found one, first of all, at Ace Hardware. I'd have liked one with even bigger wings for my purpose. I bought the single wing nut to hold the spare tire tight against the vehicle, with a fender washer and the threaded hook from the vehicle. It works. It cost me $2.89. Yes, $2.89 for a wing nut!? Yes, I sound like one, because, I swear you'd only have to go back 10 or 15 years to see them in a bin for, I dunno (that's the problem) maybe 35¢, maybe 55¢, I swear no more than a dollar.
While talking about the onesies or fivesies quantities at the hardware store, my friend and I agreed that inflation in these items can be easily ignored by the consumer of such. It's one thing if you're working on a project, specifying 200 carriage bolts, this many of these nuts, washer, etc. Then, a price change like this really matters.
To check this, I just looked them up on McMaster-Carr, and I see that in quantities of 10, these same (zinc-plated stainless) cost ~ 80¢ apiece, while in quantities of 25, they're ~60¢. I wish I had old numbers, but that's not out of hand. OTOH, for singles, Lowes shows English ones (per my very quick search), so I picked 3/8" and see them at just under 2 bucks.
So, these marketing folks who set prices have rightly figured that we don't notice or don't care, about these small items being 3, maybe 8 or 10 even, times as much in price as 10, 15, or longest 20 years ago. I agree. I just bought one wing nut and spent in the neighborhood of 2 bucks more for it, which, compared to inflation at the grocery, is peanuts (a very small can now). Still, though it's a small piece, that wing nut is in that BLS Basket 'o Goods... unless it's a cheap China-made basket, and it falls out a hole.
Anyway, I have neither an accurate time scale nor exact start number for wing nut (generally all small hardware) inflation, but it's like, A LOT.
Unfortunately, this is not the right chart. I found a USPS .pdf, but I cannot find the exact service we use. We aren't in a big hurry, but we do need a tracking number.
For this one I do have an accurate start price, but not a time scale**. My kid was in four of these coin clubs. Older readers may remember these same type clubs, particularly one called Columbia House, set up for music lovers. One would get vinyl records, cassette tapes, or yes, (sorry, I'm sure they were great, yeahhh...) 8-track tapes, in the mail. (Actually, one could get reel-to-reel tapes too.). The deal was, with no input from you, they'd send you one every month, and it was up to you to keep it and pay a fairly good price or send it back. The latter required paying the postage. If you were late, sorry, you owned the record and owed the money. This was not a good deal for lazy people,
These coin clubs, in fact, require postage to be spent every month, because it's not one record but a bunch of coins you receive montly, not all of which you are likely to need. Sending in $5.65 each month for each, even if we are prompt, for 4 of them was no good. Therefore, I got my kid to drop 3 out of the 4. Hey, it's better than his buying comics or bubble gum.
Unexpectedly (heh!) it took $7.30 this time for the same, 5 biz-days ground service with tracking. Since my kid has kept old receipts for those tracking numbers, he was able to tell me the old rate - $5.65. The increase is just under 30%. See footnote** - I don't have a time scale yet, but I may get into this more to get a reasonably good short-term (handful of years) inflation rate with compounding for this particular postal service. This also is a very small portion of the BLS Basket o' Goods AND Services, but they've gotta know about it. It's the government, after all.
Yeah, I know, perspective. These changes involve small portions of the basket as compared to our, and all Americans' spending on groceries. i've been shocked lately when my wife, also in shock about it, shows me some receipts. I used to do the grocery shopping for us going back 10 years or so. I see numbers that are double for the same general stuff.
In closing, yes this post title was misleading. I can see where the reader may have thought it was to be about something else entirely, about some other type of club with some different hardware. No, but if inflation keeps going like this, some wingnut just might go Postal. NOT FUNNY, haha.
PS: There was an old joke a musician made between songs during his show at the local bar. Here I though it was original - I don't think so: "Hey, I am in a great mood tonight, ya'll. I just signed a contract with Columbia Records!" We all felt good for him and applauded. "Yeah, I just have to buy one record a month, and after the end of a year, I get a free...." You had to be there. You had to be THEN.
* A fundamental difference in thread specification for SI vs English units is that SI (Does System Internationale sounds awfully Communist, or is it just me?) uses pitch - thread-to-thread distance rather than the inverse, threads per distance. I'm used to the English way, but the SI way makes perfect sense too. This is the same as specifying wavelength instead of frequency.
** I may look up more once I ascertain exactly what mail service this is, so I can see the previous rate rise and use that for my one-off run (vs, the rise).
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3 out of 5 patients agree - Don't Trust your Doctor
Posted On: Thursday - August 7th 2025 10:28AM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Not our pediatrician. One of the iSteve commenters brilliantly called this woman "HR Generic D.E.I. file photo woman" or something close to that. Steve really liked that.
Peak Stupidity doesn't think much of the 4 out of 5 doctors, mini-meta-study idea, as we always wonder what it is that the 5th doctor has a problem with? He might just be smarter than the other 4. In addition we are not big fans of social/cultural polling data either. I've been polled, and I didn't think too much of the experience, as in how my responses would translate to any interpretable opinion.
This post, then, is yet another anecdote. I can't give too many details about our encounter with our formerly very friendly and favorite pediatrician. A recent visit started out the night before, as my wife got through the patient portal. Hey, I did my part a year ago, which, of course, resulted in a post: It's portals all the way down!*. I try to lay low when it comes to politics with an occasional exception. One instance of an exception was in regard to gun ownership questions, as I explained in Now where DID I put that H&K anyway?.
Now, my wife, having long ago recovered from the Kung Flu Panic, by ~ Fall of '20, decided to put in a word about vaccinations sometime during her portal data entry effort. I felt the heat in the morning, as the Doc went on about vaccinations.
I'm in between here, because I do get the point of not wanting Tetanus or Meningitis. While we talked Kung Flu vaccines too, I found out that this Doc must have been one of the Panickers. We must have missed seeing her since that long ago, a great thing health-wise as far as this kid is concerned, and now a good thing going forward. She wears a mask now, and she told me "millions and millions!" of people died, in that old Carl Sagan fashion.
She explained the cost vs benefits of vaccines, as if I'd just never thought about that. When it came to the Kung Flu vaccine 4 years back, I knew I wasn't susceptible, so were even the very least of side effects - not at ALL the case - seen, my analysis would say no-go. The kids were not affected, so same for him. The reason my wife is adamantly against ANY more vaccines is partially that she's read about mercury in them, the big increase in autism (possibly a factor, but that 1 in 30 number is definitely cooked.) Additionally, now she's worried, with possible good reason, that these vaccines have the mRNA. That's a no-go for us too. Now, any vaccines are suspect, by people like my wife.
What it comes down to now is a lack of trust. We've seen the headlines about this. It's no longer just about the lying out of Fauci, Birx, and that gang. Like him or not, believe he knows a lick about science or not, we've got this RFK, Jr. as health secretary**, and he's not down with the standard narrative. The healthcare establishment does not like anyone rocking their boat.
Additionally, some testing of lipids says the kid's cholesterol numbers are bad. There were no tests for that when I was that age - even as a young adult, it was just the one number I got. Who tests the kids? Is this due to the no-longer infinitesimal chance of a kid having blood clots nowadays? We will go elsewhere for another lab test, as these ones do indeed seem bogus. (I won't get into details on why we think this.) No, Doc, we will NOT put a kid on Statin drugs!
I've known for a long time that the medical establishment is all about drugs, drugs, drugs, while I've got my own solid proof that diet matters.
We've now had to lie on both the portal (just to avoid possible stupid additional questions regarding personality) and in person to this Doc. That doesn't matter at this point, as we can't go back to this office anyway, because we are banned for not accepting new vaccinations. So, we won't get that Statin prescription. Things tend to work out...
Coincidentally, about an hour before I started writing this post, I came upon a ZeroHedge article, Most Americans Reject Fall COVID Shot, Don't Trust CDC Or FDA On Vaccine Safety. I can't even believe that governments are offering Covid shots still. It's good to
No, it's not just about the vaccine safety. The Kung Flu PanicFest set governments against doctors, doctors against patients, and patients against governments. It's had a big effect in bringing those numbers down to 3 out of 5. Don't trust that? You shouldn't - I pulled that out of my rear end.
Between not trusting polls and not trusting doctors, I don't know what to tell you. Trust in yourself, at least.
* Follow up post here.
** Whatever the org is, I don't agree there should be such a position and org to begin with!
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The 47th President's most important graph
Posted On: Wednesday - August 6th 2025 6:33PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Zhou Bai Dien
(Title borrowed from Steve Sailer's "World's most important graph" (most scary, too) which was shows leveling and falling populations in the world except a big rise toward 4 Billion in Sub-Saharan Africa.)
I'm gonna keep it fairly short this time. The graph doesn't quite "say it all", as they say, but it's actually way on the conservative side, numbers-wise. I got this off a ZeroHedge article yesterday, Border Encounters, Apprehensions Hit Record Low In July: Homeland Security. We've been apprehensive for 20-30 years about the PRP/Immigration Invasion, but that's not what they mean by that. VDare writers could have explained it better, but an "apprehension" has something to do with being detained, captured, or arrested, while an "encounter" sounds to be more like a sighting or an unplanned meeting.
How many of the "encountees" end up in the US? Why are apprehensions so much lower? Again, I wish VDare was in business, as I'd refer the reader to the experts.
Due to the differences between these numbers and the graph saying "encounters" while it looks like apprehension numbers, I'll paste in text from the ZH article:
There were 24,630 nationwide encounters with illegal immigrants in July, the lowest on record, down 2.4 percent from June and nearly 90 percent lower than the monthly average under the previous administration, the agency said on Aug. 1.
Border Patrol apprehensions hit 6,177 individuals in July, breaking June’s all-time low.
Enjoy:
Just as with numbers for arrests of criminals generally, we don't know how many people get away with it. In the case of this crimes of Illegal Entry Into a Nation, encounters and apprehensions are going to be lower than the total entries. The idea, though, is that they may be proportional, so these numbers are indicative of how many are TRYING.
During the arranged invasion for the 4 years of the Bai Dien Administration, because the Border Patrol was ordered to perform babysitting duties rather than border control, these numbers were much less a proportion of total entries. Not only that, but with the asylum apps that foreigners from all over the world could use to come in on "parole" (seen this paperwork in person and seen the guys using it), millions would not be part of either the apprehension of encounter numbers - they were legal to come in, get a plane ticket - through the TSA with that piece of paper, and get their free shit.
So, Trump has done a MUCH better job than even this graph indicates. Numbers aside, his making the effort to actually control the border makes the President the best one Americans have seen on this issue* since Eisenhower. It's BEEN a while!
Peak Stupidity will take the time to call out the stupidity of President Trump as we see it. However, when it comes to Job One, at least* this portion of the effort, we praise him highly. Here's something the guy SHOULD actually brag about - I'm sure he does!
* That is, the illegal side of things, and only the borders, meaning not counting the large numbers of visa overstayer illegal aliens. Then, there is the LEGAL side - Trump has been clueless and stupid on the subject, but I think he's been learning a bit.
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Good Genes v Bad Genes: The media brewhaha and a Meme
Posted On: Tuesday - August 5th 2025 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Female Stupidity
Continued from Sweeney's Bod and Sweeney's Bod - further comments. You may not see the end of Miss Sweeney, I mean she's still got her Jeans On, but here on Peak Stupidity this series on this now most famous of glamour models (not sure about Cosmo) will go err, tits up.
The big brewhaha regarding the politically titillating ad campaign is not just about a blow against the wokeness of ugly glamour models but also about genes and how they express themselves. First, here's our Jean/Gene memeL
We occasionally get Ducks Unlimited delivered to our mailbox. [What in the hel...? - Ed] Don't worry, Editor,= we'll weave back to the subject. Yes, I've been in a deer stand before, never shot one, but we've got nothing against hunting here at Peak Stupidity. However, the magazine is meant for a guy who lived in this place 2 decades ago. Well, it comes only a few times a year and the company sends billing envelopes too, so they're not completely stupid, as Big Biz seems to be getting... but I'm not forwarding anything either! The guy still owes me money.
Back in the day, it was Cosmo magazine that came every month when I was a lot younger. (No, I have no idea ... can't remember who it was addressed to...) Those hotties on the covers and in their ads for glamorous underclothing made for some intense, errr, reading. It's come back now, to another address of ours. In fact, I'd ripped off one cover before trashing an issue to scan for a post, but this'll cover it. The Black! lady on the cover was not fat, but she was wearing some kind of fool outfit, and it was all too dark to make out her shape even. At this stage in its and my life, Cosmo is not even worth opening to scratch and sniff anything. (Perfume ads, OK??)
This Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad campaign is not JUST about feeling it's OK to feature a blonde blue-eyed White woman in great shape. That's new again, but that's not all it is. The double meaning based on the un-captioned homophones "Jeans" or "Genes" is much more of a threat to the ctrl-left Woke enforcers. What are you trying to imply, racists, that hot Sidney looks good not just because of those jeans but because of her genes? That's where the Nazi talk comes from.
Let me say that Steve Sailer really ought to write more about this in vindication of his many years of writing about HBD. Though there was a "thaw" in the environment of genetic discussions in the late 1990s or so (per VDare), the winter of their discontent came on hard. It started with the enforced denial that human genes could possibly influence intelligence. (In dogs and cats, sure, but NOT PEOPLE!) Because one can simply reason from other human traits where genes are involved much more than nurture, it's been basically unacceptable to admit that genes express themselves, in genetics parlance, very much at all in humans. ("Yeah, that basketball star can jump high 'cause he's black, but that ain't got nuthin' to do with his genes.")
So, yeah, the Woke ctrl-left want to put the kibosh on this "genes" talk. They know what the commercials are getting at. The alt-right does too, and they are LUVIN' IT. However, I've been noticing that in this viral parody video of the anger of the left and in other discussion, the right has pretended that they know nothing. "Look at them get so upset about the hot busty blonde! It's about blue jeans, come on!"
I know that these people of the alt-right know it's about more than that, so why pretend? Is it a kind of trolling, trying to get the ctrl-left to say what the bigger problem is than just the cute White chick? I think we should take this opportunity to go all out and tell them "Yes, genes express themselves in humans too, and the expression is good in this one."
"Hey, look up. We're not talkin' to you."
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The British are Rising!
Posted On: Monday - August 4th 2025 4:44PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists World Political Stupidity People's Revolt Anti-Social Media
I got in a long waste-of-time of an argument on-line with some UR commenter for over a week about the Moslem invasion of Europe. I was told by this fellow that the White Europeans just haven't tried to reason with the Moslems about their fitting in and all... and raping and killing people... and their bringing their highly-foreign un-Western culture and religion with them to not-so-graciously establish in their new home. Regarding the latter, the White European people are supposed to reason nicely with their Globalist Governments on the matter too.
Otherwise, they've been creating a "Climate of Hostility" for these millions of new arrivals, he told me. I had to differ a bit:
Geeze, Western peoples, most especially Americans, are THE most tolerant people of foreigners there could ever be! Can you imagine numbers as proportionately large of strange foreigners being allowed to stay in China or Japan, Egypt or Ghana, Peru or Columbia, pick any continent except ones (used to be) full of White people? In small numbers, Americans have been so very welcoming to foreigners for many years.Let me paste in my last paragraph separately, and you'll gravitate towred the part in bold:
Enough is enough though. That doesn’t mean you just take it out on the nearest towel-head, but when these, mostly-ungrateful too, I might add, foreigners cause great harm to local people, at some point, the mood gets ugly, as it well should. It’d be great if the crowd could bash the windows of Kier Starmer’s and other Globalists dwellings once everyone is riled up, but, unfortunately, those people don’t, excuse the expression, “eat where they shit.”
So, the anger gets directed sometime toward people who are innocent, but the fact is, they shouldn’t be there! (Most especially when they broke in these lands.) I’ll tell you who is starting to get scared, the real “target population”. That is those Globalist nation-wreckers, especially those in the U.K. They would not be adding thousands of Thought Police to the rolls of Law Enforcement if they weren’t worried…. that some time in the near future, the anger will be taken out nationwide. Arresting and prosecuting a few tweeters at that point won’t work anymore.That was a week ago. The Peak Stupidity reader may now naturally assume I'm some kind of witch or maybe just the next Nostradumbass, as a real rising of the British people IS happening. It started 2 days ago - depending a bit on your time zone* - best I can make out from some of the tweets.
From the Gateway Pundit:BRITAIN HAS AWAKENED: Manchester MASSIVE Anti-Immigration Protest Shows Citizen Pushback Against Starmer’s Suicidal Policies Has Gained Unstoppable Momentum I have watched the few short Tik-Tok and X-twitter video clips on that site. What we see is large crowds marching, too big for the cops to be able to stop if they wanted to. If they tried it, the cops would get trampled. (I'd like to see that... I mean, if they tried it.)
Over a year ago, your Peak Stupidity blogger felt one with the rioters of Rotherham and Southport. I'd made a number of posts (rather than list them, I request you look at posts from last summer with the Immigration Stupidity Topic Key - our largest) in great detail on the happenings, focused a lot on one riot outside a Holiday Inn Express hotel housing PRP "newcomers". I'm telling you again, I know I'd been doing the same as these guys - it's best probably, as with January 6th of '21, that I didn't make it there.
The crowds in Manchester** - the biggest from what I've read, SO FAR - are peaceful. This is a big statement they are making, as are others around Great Britain. They can shut down the whole show. These Globalists such as Britain's chief Population Replacer Kier Starmer***, might be OK with a little battle here and there. Throw the White instigators in jail (gaol, is it, over there?), make a nice apology to the Moslems - or else! - for this Climate of Hostility, have BritMinTru put a few hundred people on the noTweet list, and call it a day. Nah, this bad, it's nationwide. Imagine a general strike. Globalist do not like economies shutting down. They live off the peons.
That's what can happen when people don't have so much to lose anymore. Let's imagine how this nationwide rising got started. I haven't read of any specific incident of horrific Moslem violence this time. Maybe there was, and it's been censored highly, you know, to prevent tragic backlash. However, a violent incident should not be necessary - the British people have had enough of the PRP long ago.
With the censorship of ant-Social media, it might not have been so easy to organize all this on Instagram or X-twitter. I can imagine a few people planning to come out and being seen and joined by other patriotic Brits. Word of any such rising in one city could get around whatever censorship, and then it comes down to the feeling one may have seeing his patriotic countrymen marching in the street for this existential cause.
Life is not so great for the White workingman in England to give pause - the feeling of joining one's countrymen must be fantastic. The larger it gets, the less there is to lose anyway, the more the camaraderie and the pride in being part of some possibly great movement finally that could change the whole direction of the country, Europe, the West, who knows?! Yeah, I'd like to be there.
How about in America? Why haven't we seen a big rising like this? That'd be a good subject for a follow-up post. In the meantime:
PS: Some of the crowd were singing Rule Britannia. I would get a lump in my throat, but I always heard it with a different melody in my head. Also, with their accents, they may as well be Michael Stipe singing Radio Free Europe.
* We may have people reading from all over the world. I haven't checked any IPs in a long time.
** In a half century (1971 - 2021) Manchester has gone from 96% White British to 49%. Right now, 21% of its population are "Asian", which in that neck of the wood generally means Pakistani, Bangladeshian, and Indian . It's the former two that comprise the Moslem hordes. There were ~210,000 Pakastanians in greater Manchester in '21. Who knows about now? Here's some Census info. from that year.
*** To me, if they have power and are not DOING SOMETHING to stop it right now, they are one with the programme.
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They say that backing up... is... hard to do...
Posted On: Saturday - August 2nd 2025 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Cars China
Doo, doobie, down doobie doo down down
come-a-crashah down doobie doo down down.
... Now, I know, I know that it's true...
I was actually looking for Oriental women driver videos for this post, you know, purely to randomize any kind of offensiveness that might have occurred. [NOTE: Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender™ - PS Legal Team] This guy backed up his bus on the highway somewhere in China... for a while anyway. This was so long ago - I hope everyone has recovered... and that no broken hearts resulted. (Not to be insensitive either there - the news lady said even that driver came out OK, amazingly!)
It's an old Neil Sedaka song. This is very "oldie" sounding to me, very unlike another of his that is still ALMOST as old at this point - that would be his 1975 hit Bad Blood with Elton John singing great backing vocals.
OK, Peakers, that wraps up this week of stupidity. We'll get to those 2 posts on the economics of hiring illegals, one more thing to say about that Sweeney chick, and plenty more already planned that will come to me at the time. Thanks for reading and writing in!
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How many times must a man be deported?
Posted On: Friday - August 1st 2025 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
... before he's forever banned?
The answer my friend, is blowin' out Trump's rear...
... wait, no, Peak Stupidity does, and other patriotic Americans OUGHT TO, give Trump a whole lot of credit for having basically closed the southern border. It's under control for the first time since, who, Eisenhower? Using the military is not a permanent solution though, so let's build that wall - 10 years after first chanting "Build the Wall!", can we simply build the dang wall? [/Juan McAmnesty lying mode]
We've meant to point out lots of stories to show that, though it's not a steady 10,000/day, maybe not even Steven Miller's initial goal of 3,000/day, deportations of various types ARE happening. I believe Trump thinks "If the
Note that this is 200 deporations in 6 months, BUT, that's for Houston, but then, that's just the sex offenders in Houston.
There's a lot to getting US out of this mess, the legal side of it, then wiping out incentives that keep illegal aliens coming in, or coming back. It's that coming back part that this post is about.
In the Gateway Pundit post that motivated PS to do this story, ICE Arrests Over 200 Illegal Aliens Convicted for Sex Offenses Involving Minors in Houston Area, I noticed something that confirmed a point I've been writing about for a while. That is, simply, without a serious border, people who get deported don't STAY deported..
My noticing here goes back to at least the time of the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco 10 years ago. Her innocent* murderer, one Ines Garcia Zarate, had been deported from the United States FIVE TIMES. What was the point of all that? The guy was in San Francisco, which is Back in the USA last I heard still, in July of '15, at the Embarcadero, and he just shot this 32 y/o White American dead.
In the VDare stories well before Trump came down the escalator about that same time, whenever I'd read about illegal alien criminals, most of the time, it'd seem, they'd been deported at least once. Often it was multiple times. So, let me drop in some text from the GP article about a few of these 200 sex offender illegals. I don't think it was at all the point of GP to make a point about the number of deportations, BTW. I think this is just par for the course:
Jesus Gutierrez Mireles, a 67-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico, who was arrested March 28 and has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and driving while intoxicated. ICE removed Gutierrez Mireles to Mexico April 4.I'd need the whole set of 200 rap sheets to get a good average, but see how it nearly always seems to go?
Jorge Zebra, a 48-year-old criminal alien from Mexico, who was arrested March 21 and has been convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor and sexual indecency with a minor. ICE removed Zebra to Mexico March 24.
Manuel Antonio Castro-Juarez, a 37-year-old, twice-deported criminal alien from El Salvador who was arrested July 18 and has been convicted of sexual assault of a minor and twice for illegal reentry. Castro-Juarez remains in ICE custody pending his third removal to El Salvador.
Jose Guadalupe Meza, a 40-year-old, four-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested June 24 and has been convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Guadalupe Meza to Mexico June 25.
Sergio Rolando Galvan Guerrero, a 45-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested July 12 and has been convicted of DWI and aggravated sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Galvan Guerrero to Mexico July 14.
They are either in ICE custody now, or they've been removed. Hey, wait, I know that one hombre, 3rd one down. That's Antonio, MAC-J, we call him. Hey, essay! Whaddya' know? Dude's my 2nd cousin twice removed.
Build it, finish it, guard it! Then, these violent cholos being removed will STAY removed!
PS: Still got the Bob Dylan song, Peter, Paul, & Mary version stuck in your head? I'm so sorry...
* ... or so the jury said, 2 years later in '17. He' s been out and about since...
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