A Great War never even heard of - the Taiping Rebellion
Posted On: Monday - August 26th 2019 7:30PM MST
In Topics: History China Bible/Religion World Political Stupidity
Peak Stupidity's facetious post on Superpower Battle of the Chicken Titans featured (in one corner) General Zuo, known to Americans as General Tso, of sweet/salty/fatty chicken ignominy. Here's a follow up on the real war that this Chinese general was part of, and this was no laughing matter.
(Again, a lack of quality Jap cameras hampers our post.)
A friend brought this up 5 years or so ago to me, the fact that over the course of history there were wars in China the size of 20th-century World Wars of the West (and the whole world, of course) that most people have never even heard the name of. By "size", I mean how many MILLIONS of men maimed and killed. One such, and I believe this is the one he was referring to, was the mid-19th-century Taiping Rebellion. There is a nice compact write-up on a blog-site called "Daylight Atheist", written by Charleston (WV), Gazette writer James Haught*. For the record (of some sort), here is the Wiki article with quite a bit more detail.
As the Wiki article says from the get-go, this was no mere rebellion. It's called the Taiping Civil War** or the Taiping Revolution. Though not 1 in hundreds of Americans have heard of this Taiping Rebellion, for the Chinese it is a major part of their history. This war went on over three times as long as, and included the ~ 4 year time period of, the American Civil War**. Estimates of the men killed from just the fighting are at least 20 million, with maybe 50 more million, some of the latter dead from disease and starvation. At the least, there were 40 TIMES the deaths as there were in America at that same time in history, as almost as many Americans died in wartime than in all other wars of ours combined***.
One could of course put this as a proportion of population, and as pointed out long ago, China had more people at the time under discussion than the US has EVEN NOW! That would make America's proportion of the population killed (655,000 out of 31,000,000), 2.1%, under 1/2 of China's lowest estimate (20,000,000 out of 430,000,000), 4.6%, that could have been up to a horrific 15-20%! Just in absolute numbers, though, this was a culling of a big chunk the warrior population.
I had thought of Christian missionaries around the world as not having that much long-term influence, and I've mentioned before the Chinese lack of religion after the Communists drilled it out of them. People will tend revert to their old ways after the brave Christians get kicked out, as a group. However, this Taiping Rebellion, from back when China was Taoist, Buddhist, and all that, was started by a guy, one Hong Xiuquan, who had read some of that literature that Christians regularly leave wedged into the mailbox. Mr. Hong was under the mistaken impression that he was Jesus Christ's kid brother.
Hong said God commanded him to “destroy demons,” meaning officials and supporters of the reigning Qing Dynasty. [quotes from the James Haught article]Things got ugly very quickly after this.
Hong proclaimed the “Heavenly Kingdom of Peace” (Taiping Tianguo), and began raising a volunteer army to wage the opposite of peace. Oppressed peasants in southern China flocked to him, partly because of his miracle message and partly because they felt bitterness against the ruthless northern Qing government.This "Heavenly Kingdom" bit rings a bell, don't it? Oh, yeah, that sounds very much like the "Heaven's Gate" (only 39 dead - no biggie) cult of 1997 fame, and then the "People's Temple" of San Francisco with branch offices in the jungle at Jonestown, Guiana (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story).
The Qing Dynasty was the last of China's many multi-century-long dynasties through its 5,000 year history, and was ended after the child "last emperor" (of the movie) and the Empress "Dowager"**** Cixi at the beginning of the 20th century. General Zuo, the reason for this post out of nowhere. was on the side of the Qing government.
Early rebel victories against Qing troops in 1850 caused the Taiping army to swell beyond 700,000. One of leader Hong’s top aides — Yang Xiuqing, who claimed that his utterances were the voice of God speaking through him — became a secondary commander. Together, they mandated a puritanical society inflicting the death penalty for various vices and imposing strict separation of sexes.Yeah, see, now just as with Jim Jones, and fellow Commie Mao Zedong of one-century-later China on his Long
Although polygamy was banned, Hong, the supposed younger brother of Jesus, had a harem of concubines.
(I couldn't get any better resolution than this - sorry.)
Qing Dynasty rulers struggled to defeat the snowballing mutiny. Several local resistance militias were organized. The largest was the “Ever-Victorious Army” led by American commander Frederick Ward. After Ward was killed in 1862, command was taken by Briton Charles “Chinese” Gordon. Hiring expert foreign commanders for local mercenary defense armies was expedient during that chaotic period in China.This is interesting. I learned when reading up for that (linked-to just above) Long March article, both sides of the century-later Commie vs. Nationalist Civil War had Germans to help the with war strategy and tactics. It always comes down to "our Germans are better than their Germans", doesn't it?
Here's a tidbit from the end, after the
Hong’s body was exhumed and burned, and his ashes were blasted from a cannon, to deprive fanatical followers of a gravesite where he could be worshipped as a divine martyr.I've said it before, the Chinese LUV their fireworks. (They did invent, gunpowder, you know ...)
General Zuo had a big part in the Chinese government's side in ending this war. Think of this, as you munch down at the China King Buffet. As Paul Harvey would have said, had he written for this blog, "Now, you know the rest of the story." I guess the Chinese don't do very much in a small way. Though it's a small tidbit of history to us, the Taiping Rebellion stands as possibly the biggest war of all time.
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* Note that this blog is not my cup of tea, but it's owner, one Adam Lee, just included the whole Charleston Gazette article.
** Somewhat as with the American "Civil War" that was mostly State against State, not neighbor against neighbor, the term "civil war" does not quite fit. In China, the rebellion name is more appropriate in that one section of the country rebelled. In the US war, on the other hand, it was more a matter of several States, quite legally seceding from a loose compact that didn't make that part quite clear enough. As much as we'd rather use "War of Northern Aggression", or, at least "War Between the States", we're trying to be concise ... trying ...
*** This Wiki table shows that there were right near 700,000 total deaths in all other wars vs. 655,000 during the War Between the States.
**** Yeah, the Chinese are in need of better translators. They think we are supposed to know terms like "dowager" and "capitalist roader". They are not sending their best English speakers to write history.
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Trash in the rivers - get off our case, zookeepers!
Posted On: Saturday - August 24th 2019 8:34PM MST
In Topics: Treehuggers China Environmental Stupidity Geography
Off a tweet by a commenter named Dave Pinsen on an iSteve thread, I'd like to post a follow-up to Peak Stupidity's "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo..." of a year ago last spring. If you recall, I was very annoyed that we had to be harangued by a treehugger zookeeper about plastic in the rivers THE ENTIRE TIME that we got to watch the sea lions and seals get fed.
The tweet in question here flew away somehow like a little birdie, but the article it linked to is Just 10 streams carry 95% of all river-borne plastic into the ocean (from a site called BigThink). Here's a nice map from that site, showing these 10 rivers that are conveyors of the most plastic garbage to the ocean:
I like the article because it's not preachy. It just gives a bunch of facts with the numbers.
Every year, plastic kills around 1 million seabirds, 100,000 sea mammals and inestimable numbers of fish. The volume of plastic trash in the world’s oceans is currently estimated to be around 150 million tons. No less than eight million tons are added to that every year—that’s one truckload every minute. Between 0.5 and 2.75 million tons come from rivers alone.I'll give these German environmental scientists (note, these are REAL scientists) credit for not giving precision that's not backed up by accuracy. Firstly, even at the high end, only 30% or so of the plastic in the ocean comes out of the world's rivers. Who's dumping the rest of the plastic trash into the ocean, and where?
Per the article, of those 10 rivers on the map, 4 of which flow solely through China, the Yangtze River that goes west-to-east through the center of the Middle Kingdom carries more trash than all the other 10 rivers. That means a lot when you also read that the rest of the world's rivers combined barely equal to one of the number 2 or 3 rated of these worst plastic-carrying rivers. In other words, the Yangtze is mostly to blame for this river-borne plastic trash polluting the oceans, and the zoo lady should have just shut her damn mouth and let us watch the seals and sea lions in peace. The next time she's got something to say, it damn well ought to be in Chinese!
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Victoria's other secret
Posted On: Saturday - August 24th 2019 9:04AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Big-Biz Stupidity
I don't know if is it my getting older, or just jaded, but it's no longer the case that just thinking of the name of this lingerie chain store gets me aroused, not to mention walking by the store in the mall. It turns out that all these "unmentionables" that are actually mentioned after all with terms and everything on the internet store (not a porn site, but will do in a pinch ;-} ) are not really the secret to Victoria's success. Victoria's secret is that she dresses like a slut.
Now, before I go any further, let me mention that the joke above was truly LOL-worthy, back when we just started saying "LOL". Since I can remember very well the place that I heard the joke, I can pin down the time-frame to the mid or late 1990's - yet, I cannot for the life of me find a reference to it (duckduckgo, then bing, then the goolag) on the internet. I remember it was one of the Rosannes who said it even. It's weird to me that this funny joke wouldn't show up with top billing.
Maybe, in the current era, it's NOT FUNNY anymore. It's not funny because there are even funnier things going on, but not "haha funny", just current-era genderbender stupidity. The latest thing is a push for Victoria's Secret to feature a trans-sexual as one of their underwear models. The specific ex-man* in question is one Carmen Carrera, formerly a guy named Chris from New Jersey, and not to be confused with Carmen SanDiego ("Who in the hell is Carmen SanDiego?" you say. NO - it's "Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?")
"It's a man, baby!"
Now, one may be easily fooled - panty hose are amazing things, much less the unmentionables. However any future ads featuring Mr. Carrera would be better off not showing us the unmentionables. As much as the whole point of Victoria's Secret lingerie is to reveal a whole lot but cover just a titillating bit, there is going to be a new Victoria's secret, a secret probably better not ever revealed, if you want to sell underwear. The new secret, psssst ... is that Victoria used to be named Victor.
Now to get serious and political for a paragraph or two, or four, how would it be a good thing for these enticing ads, probably more looked at by men than women, to not feature the sexiest REAL women? Women don't want to emulate a transexual, and men would be afraid to look at another ad again for fear of being aroused! I'll say in this store chain's defense, that this does not sound to be the store's idea. It's a petition, per the Daily Mail article linked-to above with 22,000 signatures of people that think this is really important.
Yet, Victoria's Secret wants to sell sexy underwear, and that depends on advertising more than with a business like, say Advance Auto Parts. I mean, I'll go buy a set of shocks for the car's rear end without seeing a picture, but if I want a set of panties for the woman's rear end, they'd be better off it I see it on a woman in a picture. That'll turn me into a motivated buyer.
Now, Peak Stupidity has explained numerous times that the current economy is one of crony capitalism (old name - "fascism") with Big-Biz holding sway over Big-Gov to get anything done to keep them in business and the small guy down. We think the media business, as one example, might as well be department of the US Gov't and not really in business to make money but as an arm of the State to spread the propaganda. Big-Biz seemingly has nothing to lose by supporting the "globohomo agenda" and all of the modern stupidity.
Victoria's Secret, like other big business, is ready to kowtow to any piece of current-era stupidity that the elites and their ctrl-left minions are pushing. This genderbender stuff is, of course, one of the big ones. Still, these people are supposed to be trying to sell sexy lingerie (that means underwear for those of you in Del Boca Vista). I mean, eewwwww!
* Not to be confused with the X-men. They are normal ... for today's world. "Ex-man" was coined by Steve Sailer, I think.
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The Mall of America
Posted On: Friday - August 23rd 2019 9:50AM MST
In Topics: Salesmen Americans Race/Genetics Big-Biz Stupidity
We had to spend a number of hours at the "Big Box" stores a few weeks back, before our family vacation trip. That expression, the "Big Box", is very appropriate, as your Wal-Marts, Targets, Best-Buys, Costcos, etc, are just very big bright open boxes. There's no character to them, of course, being part of Big-Biz large chains. Additionally, unless you like living in an ex-urb (just not my thing, but many don't have so many choices), these places aren't going to be nearby. In fact, maybe the real estate agents are using the Big-Box store as a selling point now. "Pretty good schools, within easy walking distance, around and round a big spiral with no sidewalks, to the fashionable Big-Box and Chipotle district!".
Therefore, it could have been a very unpleasant couple of days shopping for a digital camera the first day, and then going back the next for a swap out for a non-defective one. (It's kind of old-fashioned buying a camera of any sort nowadays, but my wife really wanted something better than the phones.) Yes, again, the Japanese branded camera was made in China, and therefore subject to the usual Q/A of cheap China-made crap. The time wasted was indeed annoying, of course, but the interaction with the whole Big-Box crowd was not unpleasant as expected.
It was the usual diverse crowd that you're gonna get anywhere in a public area nowadays, unless you are in parts of New England or northern Idaho. Yet, in this case, it was a good experience with both the salesmen (and one young lady*) and the crowd too. The first young guy really loved cameras, especially film ones (really?!), and I spent 5 minutes explaining to him what B&W developing was all about before he steered us to the camera that would be best for us. Then next day, during the return/swap-out of the first one, we ran into a black guy who was a real expert on these things. (We had to first find out whether the problem was somehow user error - nope, it was CC-mC!) It was all surprisingly pleasant.
Especially surprising to me was the atmosphere. Even with the bunch of partial English-speakers and other diversity of the customers, everyone was polite and got along nicely. Perhaps I should come back on after-Thanksgiving "Black Friday" and see if this still holds. Perhaps not! Anyway, this gave me thoughts that led to this post: I see why people get sucked into this "diversity (if not our strength, which is flat-out ludicrous) is OK" business. They seem fine with it - in the store. Sure, we can get along splendidly. After all, except for THIS GUY, lots of people are happy to be shopping. They like acquiring more stuff. (Is this country run by women, or what?)
You know, you don't have to be there. Nobody has forced us together into the Big Box. When it comes to your neighborhood, your church, or your kids' schools, though, once you pick them, you've got to be there, quite a bit. You really don't want to be forced to continually deal with people that are not like you and have nothing in common. That's why the same people from the store will go to church the next morning with almost all white people, or black, hispanic, or Chinese. That's why people get really worried about who moves into the neighborhood, and parents especially, as those people's kids will be at school.
It was kind of a nice Kumbaya-style thought there, "yes, see, we can all get along". This what many of the Snowflake types must believe all day long. It's not what the globalist elites who arrange this stuff really believe, as they just want to destroy the place, traditional America, that is.
To elaborate, our elites don't want to destroy America as with a nuke. It's just that, as I've written many times, they just don't want any uppity, self-motivated, mostly white guys, who have discretionary income to form associations, work for political change, and start businesses that complete with Big-Biz's Big Boxes and that sort of thing. They want the 3rd world environment full of people that are so happy to be able to get that deal at the Big Box store today - savings today on toilet paper, school supplies, and milk chocolate rations - come now! We even sent a coupon right to your phone.
Yeah, it was an OK experience with diversity for a couple of hours there. People like to consume, consume, consume, so they are usually happy in the stores, except, as mentioned, on Black Friday, and then you really don't know what horrible thing diversity may bring, even in the Mall of America. Come to think of it, that's what the elites want for us. They would like this country just be be one big mall.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Mall of America, and to the public and Richard Stands ... "
* The young lady had a lot of unexpected integrity (well, they don't work on commission, is part of it) to explain to us about a phone that, without being unlocked, would not be the best thing for us. They did not have the unlocked type, so gave us this info. just to be helpful You don't get that all the time.
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Let's just nationalize The NY Times
Posted On: Wednesday - August 21st 2019 6:22PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Media Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity
As I wrote in the previous post, pundit Steve Sailer, known as "iSteve" from the name of his former blog, read the NY Times, at least enough to root out the complete bullshit almost on a daily basis. Were Peak Stupidity to do such a thing, the time wasted and anxiety caused by such a practice would make us extremely hypertensive, albeit with a side-benefit of increased regularity. Mr. Sailer does yeoman's work in this regard, bringing the bullshit to the forefront. The Peak Stupidity department has not yet been able to hire any competent yeoman, so there's that too.
The big thing lately with the NY Times and other Lyin' Press outlets is, per Sailer here*, a big pivot from the no-longer-believable (by anyone) Russian collusion in election '16 narrative to a new one. Mr. Sailer's post NYT Editor: After Failure of Our Russia Mania Plan A to Get Trump, We've Launched Our Racism Mania Plan B, gets into some details with some idiotic back-and-forth conversation between NY Times "intellectuals". It's kind of touchy, because as they pivot to racism talk, they have to actually include people of a different race, such as nominally gay columnist Roxane Gay, an obese black woman, in the creation of this new narrative.
More Steve Sailer writing, in the full-length Takimag column 1619: Founding Fallacies describes the new strategy of the ctrl-left and their media department, the NY Times. I hate to excerpt too much from another great column by Mr. Sailer that you ought to go read right this minute**, but I'll include just a bit:
There haven’t been slaves in America for 154 years. So the topic of slavery might seem of little more than antiquarian interest, just as the now-vanished Rocky Mountain locust was a subject of immense concern in the 19th century, but of very little in the 21st.Great writing there! There's only one little piece, right near the beginning, that I don't agree with:
But polite discourse today demands that we attribute the continued racial distinctiveness of African-Americans—such as their low average wealth and test scores and their high average crime rates—to the Peculiar Institution in order that white Americans be blamed, demoralized, divided, and exploited.
Yet, all over the world, sub-Saharan African communities tend to share somewhat similar characteristics.
[SNIP]
A cynic might observe that the purpose of The New York Times venting endlessly about 400 years ago is because Times subscribers have controlled racial policy for the past 55 years.
Yet for about the past 45 years, African-Americans haven’t made much relative progress. Thus during the Great Awokening of the second Obama term, the dogma hardened that today’s blacks are pathetic puppets of events in the increasingly distant past: Emmett Till, redlining, and slavery in 1619.
And therefore whites must pay. (As everybody knows, what it’s really all about is money.)
As reassurance that this latest intrigue would not fizzle as ignominiously as the Times’ previous machination,...I beg to differ on this bit. Maybe the goal of this big 2 1/2 year narrative push was impeachment, so, OK, that wasn't reached. Maybe you could say the “Russians are coming!” thing has fizzled, but it sure served it’s purpose pretty well. Maybe it would have happened anyway from this President who can’t seem to concentrate for 10 minutes and make a damn strategy, but this thing has distracted President Trump from enacting even 5% of Candidate Trump’s agenda for the whole 2 1/2 years. . I’d call that a successful piece of journolism intrigue, myself.
Anyway, the new narrative is a racial one, as you can read from the article or excerpts above (and if you go to the first link, you can read that this is not some conjecture on the part of Mr. Sailer. These "journalist" are talking about this new push out in front of everybody (well, everybody who reads that rag, that is). That brings me to my own amazement at the state of our "newspaper of record".
Good times ... good times ...
They don’t even try to pretend anymore. Probably what the angst at the NY Times about their change in narrative is really about is that they don’t have as big a budget as they ought to. Any decent propaganda outfit in the old Soviet Union, Red China, Cuba, or Oceana would have had a bigger share of the nation's budget available to it, and RESPECT too, dammit! Those other organizations, back when Communism wasn’t so half-assed, would not have had to put up with the nominally-gay, obese black blob of human protoplasm that's part of this NY Times "conversation" having anything to do with the assignment of work and the seniority list.
One excerpt about the now-abandoned Russia collusion narrative had "That was a really hard story, by the way, let’s not forget that."
Just WTF does he mean by “hard” here? Doing the reporting is not hard. You just report what this guy said, what that guy said, what happened here, and what happened there. I guess it is “hard” if the job is working for years to make some narrative work out to your liking. Just listen to this following crap, and replace “cover” with “generate” and "interpret", and you can see what the actual job of the NY Times is:
I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier: How do we cover a guy who makes these kinds of remarks? How do we cover the world’s reaction to him? How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies? How do we cover America, that’s become so divided by Donald Trump? How do we grapple…Grappling is what happens when the truth doesn’t fit the narrative well enough. Gotta grabble … yeah, it's hard. This is not how reporting-the-news works. It is exactly what one would expect from a propaganda department of a Communist country though.
It’s just time to do what should have been done long ago by the Clinton Administration, Let’s go ahead and put the NY Times on-budget, so they can get the job done!
* He's got a number of other posts referencing this ludicrous revision of history to make 1619 (year of importation of the first of the relatively few slaves (compared to say, Brazil or the Caribbean islands) THE important date in history.
** The unz version, for enjoyment of the comments, is here.
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That was Easy!
Posted On: Wednesday - August 21st 2019 10:10AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity
Having been on a trip with eyes wide open, there is enough stupidity in mind for 2 weeks of blogging. It's a matter of sorting it out. Then there is the usual stuff pointed out by Mr. Steve Sailer on his excellent iSteve blog (the motto of which should be: "I read the NY Times so you don't have to!"). However, this morning, my curmudgeonry about a topic discussed before (see Chipotle - no credit, no debit, and hold the E. Coli", along with "Cash is King - (Part 2)", and "Cash is King - (Part 3)" for more) got the better of me.
At the drug store a lady buying 2 items that totaled something like 3 dollars and 20 cents was ahead of me, as I waited to buy a couple of last-minute school supplies. I know it was 3 dollars and 20-odd cents because of the fact that I had to stand there for nearly 5 minutes to buy a 3-ring binder. See, the lady was trying to use a credit card that must have been a bit worn out*, and was swiping the living hell out of it, up, down, try up again, faster, faster, why not slower, I don't know ... Did she not have 4 bucks on her? How about in the ashtray of her vehicle, as it should always have some change (old prepper talk here)?
It's not just the lack of cash, though. As I commented in the 2nd stu-paragraph of "3 minor doses of stoopiditee. It all adds up, though.", sometimes there are transactions going on that are more complicated than the sale of a home would have been in the 1950's. Was the lady trying to make sure she got that 55 cent discount on one of the items which required an account? Hell, that was me the very day before, so I can't bitch too much here. Yesterday, I put in the usual made-up but well-remembered phone number, and it was a no-go from Houston
Well, the lady today did not have the 4 bucks in cash, so she kept trying until she finally successfully paid for the 2 minor drug store items. I just imagined going back 30 years, when it would have taken all of 30 seconds. What you did back then is just freaking PAID FOR STUFF, not conduct complicated electronic transactions. That's what I did, just pay. "That was easy! Cash is still King, bitchez!
* BTW, a cashier long ago showed me a trick to enclose the card in a plastic grocery bag (the usual very thin kind) and swipe it then. It seems to work, when I ran into a problem - maybe it's a static electricity problem?? (I didn't have a chance to talk to this customer, as she was frantically swiping and wouldn't have listened to me.)
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Racist Sentiments from the Ole East Bloc
Posted On: Monday - August 19th 2019 9:13PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics Socialism/Communism
It was our first day in Prague, Czechia*, and we saw 2 black people out of tens of thousands of people we must have set eyes on in this former East Bloc country's capital. Yet, somehow things are running fine there. Have we been told wrong by the experts who tell us what to believe on TV?
Note that there are no obligatory black kids.
Again, yet the country has not fallen apart!
This was so refreshing. Yeah, you ($PLC hate-perusers - I know, OK, I hope, you're out there...) can call me those names. I don't care. Listen, black people have 2/3 of the huge continent of Africa. By no choice of their ancestors, there are 40 million or so in America. How about lets leave a few areas white and just see how that goes?
Many of the Socialists of an otherwise alt-right bent on-line will tell you that it's BECAUSE this country was Communist that it hasn't had the hell diversified out of it via population replacement. That is supposed to indicate the Communism/Socialism is good, and what they mistakenly think is capitalism (the crony capitalist/fascist system America runs on today) is bad, see.
On this point, Peak Stupidity maintains that those 43 years that Czechoslovakia/Czechia was under the thumb of Soviet Communism was not the reason there are things for us to envy there, and in Hungary nearby. I think the real advantage the former East Bloc nations have today is two-fold:
1) The Commies had defeated these nations from the outside. In the meantime, the US and Western Europe had kept the external Commies at bay, while mounting a piss-poor defense, if any, against the internal ones. Those internal Commies, distributed thoroughly among all the institutions of our society, are doing a bang-up job of destroying traditional culture. Was the USSR not sending their best minions, ones who understood that one must destroy the whole country? They thought they had these people licked already, I suppose.
2) Peak Stupidity speculated about the long-term effects of Communism on the Russians and the Chinese a while back. As far as these East Bloc countries, 43 years of that shit have at least made them worldly-wise and politically aware. That may be the reason they have been rejecting the dieversity and multi-cultural BS that is ruining the West.
PS: On the next day, we hung out in some open squares in the beautiful city of Prague. In these places, there were quite a few more black people, both among the tourist set, and the crowd hawking cheap stuff to, or entertaining, said tourists.
* It's hard to keep up, but they dropped the Slovakia 26 years back. Time flies! It is Czeck-o-slo-nothing now, but is more commonly known as the Czech Republic or Czechia
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The Ugly Chinaman
Posted On: Thursday - August 15th 2019 1:43PM MST
In Topics: China Geography
It's just an expression!
Before I get far into this post, let's get this Peak Stupidity pre-emptive apology out of the way. "Ugly Chinaman" is an expression, or meme, if you will, taken here from the "Ugly American" one, based on a movie and book from 70 and 60 years ago respectively - hell, read the Wiki. I really shouldn't have to do this, but then, the Chinapeople in question don't know the expression, being not very versed in the culture of the West. That is exactly part of the problem, and where this expression comes into use. It's not about being literally ugly (in the literal sense, for a change, of the word "literal"!). No, the "ugly Americans" were just the tourists throwing their money around, having lots more than the general population of the host countries, acting what the Europeans would have called uncouth, and especially not trying to get into the culture of the place.
Of course, not all American visitors used to, or currently, act in this manner. There are plenty of Americans who "do as the Romans do" when in Rome. No, you don't have to bath regularly ... OK, now I'm the ugly American again, so let me back up. You don't complain that this or that is "not the way we do it at home" and "our way is better". You try the real Italian food, rather than having the iPhone search for and direct you to the nearest Pizza Hut (gotta admit though, NY pizza beats Italian pizza). You learn to relax, and not expect stores to open at any certain time. When they do, you shop for a few items for the day at one of the small markets, and don't complain that there's no Wal-Mart with large cases of Mountain Dew and 40 flavors of deodorant - cause, guess what, you don't need the deodorant - again "do as the Romans..."
There are Americans who even fit in in China and other places in Asia, or at least the Orient. It's not easy. They are different people with much different cultures. Experience it for at least a while, and you'll get a better learning experience than just following the young lady (usually cute, though) with the pennant, explaining this and that which could have been learned off the internet. "OK, now we will all use the toilette. You've got 10 minutes for that and some shopping, and then it's off to ... well, if this is Tuesday, it must be Rome."
As American visitors to Europe were thought of in the past, I believe the dozens of millions of Chinese tourists that traipse around the cities of the world nowadays are the new version - the Ugly Chinamen. They are everywhere, in American cities and elsewhere in the Western world. Just to get some really rough rectally-extracted numbers, let's imagine just 5% of Chinese families with the money and the inclination to travel. I really think it'd be a lot higher than that, but that'd be 70 million. Many take advantage of the tours, as they are just as, or more than, as savvy consumers as Americans. These are the large groups that crowd something as big as the Roman Colosseum (though the arena with the Gladiators, Christians, and lions, is off limits), the hotels, and the sidewalks.
More power to them, I say, as it's great that they have the money to get to see things and the Western ways that their parents just 30 years ago would have no hope of getting to see. Go back 50 years, and even learning about the West was greatly discouraged. With a culture much more alien to Europe, and to America, as America's culture has been to European, then you get this phenomena of the "Ugly Chinaman". These aren't the quiet types you see in math class. The kids can be quite loud, as an artifact from life in China, where people are crowded together, and well, that's not really an excuse, they are just loud. After almost 4 decades of the 1-child policy (recently lifted), there are plenty of spoiled children.
As for the parents, well the people can be quite arrogant, having that 3,500 y/o culture and all, probably more than Americans were even in our economic heyday. They've got to just go see all the standard tourist sites rather than just hang out and experience the culture, they really can't give up their taste in Chinese food even for a week*, (and by God, Italy is not the place for that behavior), and then there's the picture taking.
The latter was bad enough in the days of the Japanese and the 36 pics-per-roll Kodachrome era. Now, with the unlimited photo-shooting, the selfies and especially the Chinese girls posing with one leg forward to accentuate one side of the buttocks and the 50 year-old peace signs, it's really out-of-hand. Peak Stupidity commented on this before, and we'll just have to excerpt this one paragraph:
It's the continual selfies or posed photos everywhere in front of every damn thing that makes me think "do you not think people will believe you, if you said you've been here? Are you taking the pictures to prove it? If not, don't you think you can download a better picture of this place without idiots posing in the way?Is it that you don't think your friends will believe you if you just tell them you've been to the Roman Colosseum?
If you live in a tourist city or go to the big American national parks, than you'll already know about the new hordes of visitors. Yeah, they are mostly good people, and they sure work hard enough to deserve these vacations. Every place it seems, wants that tourist dollar as some easy money. One might find, though, that the residents not in the tourist "industry" and governments that get part of this loot, don't exactly feel the same way. Remember, smiles everyone, smiles!
* Whether they are similarly staffed by mostly illegal aliens as in America, there are Chinese people running Chinese restaurants about every spot on the globe excepting the oceans.
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"Go ahead and visit Vatican City, "
Posted On: Wednesday - August 14th 2019 10:51PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist So-called Pope Francis
♪♫♬ "We're gonna visit Vatican City,
Go ahead and tour in Vatican City,
like modern men, and modern girls,
we're gonna live in the modern world." ♪♫♬
♪♫♬ "Why worry 'bout the Muzzies?
Why worry 'bout the Commies?
Vatican City's got everything covered." ♪♫♬
I tell ya, get a Tom Petty song in your head, and it's pretty persistent. I'd rather tour his home country of north Florida than the house of the
Granted, it's partly that we've already done a lot of walking and children can't always keep up. It's not like the Vatican is that old, either, the palace itself being, let's see, CCCXXVI - (- XXIX), carry the V, add the ... what the? ... * years younger than the Roman Colosseum**. However, I'd rather not give another funny colored piece of my tourist "dollar" to the house of this ignorant Commie. Were it Pope John Paul II, a man who was instrumental, along with Ronnie, Maggie, Lec, etc, in ending the Cold War, still living in the Vatican City, I'd make a special effort to visit. Right now, I just don't have the stationary supplies for a good sign, saying something like "Is the Pope Catholic?"
We made it at least to one nice Italian restaurant of the style you'd see in the movies. As we ordered some anti-pasta, I had to explain to my boy what that meant. In fact, I gotta admit that I thought the same as my kid, as if this food is "against" pasta, as in some sort of battle of the digestive tract. No, per the menu, this "anti" means "before", so one eats it before the pasta. That's what we did. As for the so-called Pope, well he's most certainly not from before Christ, so his being a potential AntiChrist is not at all like the benign AntiPasta.
The wife gets upset when I get too political while on vacation anyway. We'll let so-called Pope Francis be, this time around.
* More on Roman Numerals in a post to come.
** The Wiki date for the inauguration and finish dates of the Colosseum do not match what we saw there. How can that happen? Are we talking about the same Colosseum? I'll trust the signs inside the actual one over the internet.
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The tourist dollar and funny money
Posted On: Monday - August 12th 2019 2:06PM MST
In Topics: Economics Peak Stupidity Roadshow
I've lived in parts of the country before that are attractive to tourists. There may or may not be a lot more the local economy, but the "tourist dollar" is seems desired by local government and business as easy money. It's true - no real "industry" has to occur, with available resources, a skilled workforce, cheap power or cooling water, etc. You just have to serve lots of food at marked-up prices, have lots of hotel rooms, and make room for double-decker and amphibious buses (usually not the same ones) full of Chinese people*.
The world over wants to make itself full of tourist attractions vs. having real industry creating wealth, simply, well, in the words of Bizarro-era JFK, "we choose to do so, not because it's hard, but because it's easy!" There is an economic point to made that the world can't run just on people showing other people around, just as with people serving each other burgers and expresso, as discussed a bit in long-ago post "Thoughts from the coffee shop ...". Someone's got to create wealth, but this economic stuff can really mess with one's head, if you get into it much, and I'll leave a post on that for another time.
The point here is about the spending habits of tourists. I've been there, and we've mostly all been there. You're over in London or Rome, Shanghai or Santiago, and you've budgeted some extra money to make the trip enjoyable and memorable. One thing most people don't want to do is spend a majority of the time comparing prices and trying to get the best deal on the lodging, transportation, and souvenirs, oh, other than those Chinese "tourists" at the outlet malls. I've been there (no, not the outlet malls so much) a few times, realizing later that, yeah, I know the best way to stay in this foreign city, but I'm on the way home and may never come back. Leave that work for the people that write the Lonely Planet guidebooks and that. It's time to let go, and add it all up when you get home to help plan for the next one.
Therefore, you're bound to be a spendthrift while on vacation, especially on foreign trips. The tourist cities know that, as that's how they come up with the big bucks. Historic Charleston, S. Carolina won't make as much money off foreigners from New York than off of honest-to-God foreigners from London or Shanghai.
There's another reason though, that I thought about just recently. It's the funny money. When you go to Europe for example, you may know the exchange rate to the penny** and be keeping up with it during your two-week vacation. It doesn't matter though, when you get a bundle of that colorful, different-sized*** funny money. You tend to think of it as you do Monopoly money. "Well we got this wad of this money stuff, we need to use it while we're here, and I don't feel like thinking much about it." You may even do the conversion in your head every time you consider or make a purchase. Still, it's this funny stuff, and it just doesn't FEEL like money. (As if the US Dollar, represented by pieces of green paper, IS!)
"Here I can't read this coins with the fine print - take a few of them. Yeah, OK, so it's 2 purple papers and 1 orange one - here" Is this possibly how the Federal Reserve Board members feel?
* I did have some experience with a Chinese tour here in America that, though purportedly to see the sights, just took everyone to a couple of outlet malls for shopping ... a three hour tour ♪♫♬ ...
** Speaking of that, if they're not getting tight with the giving out of visas, now would be a good time to tour China, with the exchange rate being 7 Yuan to a US Dollar, about 8-12% more favorable than it's been through the last decade.
*** It's a good feature for the blind, don't get me wrong, but those different-sized bills piss me off, as they always get away from each other when folded up in my pocket. They are asking to get dropped on the ground.
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In My Time of Dying
Posted On: Saturday - August 10th 2019 8:48PM MST
In Topics: Music
Just to be timely tonight, the well-connected, charlatan-financier Jeff Epstein, supplier of sex of all sorts to the elites, "killed himself" in prison today. He was off his suicide watch, you see. As with tornadoes, a suicide watch is pronounced when the conditions are right, and a suicide warning is pronounced when a suicide has been observed in progress. I guess it was the latter today.
No, really, there are so many people that didn't want this guy to ever say another word that there has probably been a glut of special assassins on the market, bringing bargain basement prices. It's not much of a conspiracy theory if we all saw this coming.
Peak Stupidity will have to be very light on posts this coming week, we are sorry to say. In the meantime, we have been shortchanging music fans of the Zeppelin, so this one is a long-distance dedication (yeah, long, long distance) to Jeff Epstein:
In My Time of Dying is from Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It's an 11 minute song from a double-long album, as this band was part of the Album Oriented Rock crowd. A.O.R. was one of the widely implemented radio "formats" through the mid-1980's at least, and regular people knew what "AOR" meant even. The idea was "we're not putting this on one of those single 45 rpm discs" (even if it were a song of normal length). "Buy our whole album or screw you!" The albums were usually well worth it back then.
Peak Stupidity has featured this greatest of bands before with Houses of the Holy, Ramble On, and Misty Mountain Hop and The Battle of Evermore. Only the best for the Peak Stupidity readers. Have a good night.
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Blondies have more fun
Posted On: Friday - August 9th 2019 9:51PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Humor Feminism
Per the always informative and stupid, UK Daily Mail (much like the junk mail I get daily here in The States, we read about the latest activities of the past-prime musical artist Debra Harry, aka, "Blondie". (Actually Blondie is the name of the band too, and should get more credit than bands usually do.)
In a scene very reminiscent of The Office's Dwight Schrute CPR scene*, Blondie, the 66 year-old singer cut open some naked dummies of herself at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Gala and "both shocked and disgusted attendees". No, I doubt it. I don't think you can shock and disgust people in the Art or Rock & Roll business.
We're not sure what message this action was supposed to convey but it was successful in shocking the crowd.Mmmmm, red velvet cake is my favorite.
Fortunately the wounded dumby [sic, hahahaa!] didn't spurt blood as Harry reached into its chest and withdrew its heart.
As Debbie held the heart in the air it was revealed that it was in fact made of red velvet cake.
It's a party, and so long as it's not the taxpayers paying again, party on Debbie. Ohhh, wait...
The act proved controversial as some audience members began to chant: 'Violence Against Women! Violence Against Women!' in protest to the simulated violence.Hey, ya big dummies, dummies feel no pain. Their hearts are made out of red velvet cake, for cryin' out loud. Appalling, no Black Forest cake for the lungs, which could sure belt out a good song back in the day.
One insider described the event as 'controversial and unnecessary' and added: 'This is appalling for women all over the world who suffer domestic violence.'
Peak Stupidity already featured our favorite Blondie song, disco-rocker Heart of Glass, but here's her (IMO, of course) 2nd best. As we dream of an end to the stupidity, "Dreaming is free":
This was from the Eat to the Beat album (previous Blondie song featured, Heart of Glass, was from Parallel Lines. Hey, Wiki says this song was inspired by the sound of ABBA, so it ties in with the previous post.
The band at its peak:
Debbie Harry - Lead vocals
Fred Smith – Bass (1974 - 1975)
Nigel Harrison – Bass (1978–1982, 1997)
Gary Valentine – Bass, guitar (1975–1977, 1997)
Frank Infante – Guitar, bass, backing vocals (1977–1982)
Billy O'Connor – Drums (1974-1975)
Clem Burke - Drums (1975 - )
Jimmy Destri – Keyboards, backing vocals
* part of Peak Stupidity's fun First Responders expose series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6
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Importing a civil war, in Sweden
Posted On: Friday - August 9th 2019 9:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity World Political Stupidity
"ABBA-Lou Akbar!!"
We're used to the immigration stupidity here at stupidity-central. We've only got 162 posts on this stupidity with said topic key. I'd thought we'd seen it all. Sure, the Western nations' taking in of huge numbers of people from extremely far away in distance and culture is apparently just what you do. America has been going on with this stupidity for well nigh (actually over, but I just wanted to write "well nigh") 5 decades running.
If it came to awards of some sort here, Sweden could very well take this one. We've commented on the stupidity of the changes of this decent, though Socialist, country of ABBA's time turning into a vibrant violent place, in The ruination of Sweden - "Finally facing our Waterloo!" and Feminist Cops vs. African "Refugees" - venue: Modern Sweden. In that latter post, the un-Swedish-like violent disagreement was one for which we could root for both sides ... to lose, that is. "You go, girl! You go, bro! Yeahhh! C'mon, you're both losers!"
In a timely article by Jake Bowyer of VDare*, Trump Vindicated—Immigrant Violence Getting REALLY Bad In Sweden, I ran into something that is even worse than the usual immigration stupidity. Mr. Bowyer gives a lot of stats on the Moslem violence directed against each other and the (REAL) Swedes, with particular focus on Stockholm, Goteburg, and Malmo. Among all the numbers of people from all over the shitholes of the world, I came to:
Stockholm, population 910,000, is home to 16,400 Iraqis and 11,600 Iranians.Yeah, sure, that's what you want. You import, in close to equal numbers, a bunch of Iraqis and a bunch of Iranians. Weren't these people in a big war in the 1980's**, that even involved poison gas attacks? See, Iraqi Moslems and Iranian Moslems are of some different sects that do not get along. It's thought by the left-wing Swedes (OK, most of them) that it'll be different when they come to lovely white Socialist Sweden. "It's different here. We hope to have them around the bonfire at city center holding hands and singing Kumbaya like the rest of us Swedes."
We've imported large numbers of unassimilable immigrants of some extremely-foreign places ourselves, so who are we to lecture the Swedes, you may say. Yeah, but have we been importing both sides of a civil war before? Is this just a new version of the Neocons' theme "We need to bring them over here so they won't fight over there and can fight each other over here ... or something"? Is Sweden just bored with the stupid sport of soccer - is that what this is about?
PS: The reason I called this post "timely" is that Peak Stupidity commenter Ganderson will very shorty, if not already, have boots on the ground in-country to report to us on the situation. OK, if not boots, maybe Birkenstocks on the ground, as is more likely for a Dead Head ;-}
* The name sounded just a tad familiar when I read it. I see that this writer has been mentioned before as a writer of a review of Tucker Carlson's Ship of Fools.
** That was one that America should have stayed way out of (even more than for the usual reasons), but didn't. We should have let them beat the hell out of each other.
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Superpower Battle of the Chicken Titans - Sanders v Tso
Posted On: Thursday - August 8th 2019 8:17PM MST
In Topics: Humor China Americans
That'd be Colonel Sanders vs. General Tso. A commenter on unz a few days ago added some humor to my oft-mentioned (not on PS) comments about these 2 well-known chicken-sellers. He suggested an epic rap battle in the spirit of one of the few I've seen, the econ-rapping of Free-market Libertarian Fred Hayek vs. Keynesian John Maynard Keynes. (I hate rap, but it's pretty fun and even educational for some.)
Peak Stupidity doesn't do rap, but, in the spirit of Shark Fest week, we'd still like to have a contest between these 2 high-ranking chicken officers. The odd thing is, per the Biblical quote from Jesus, that a prophet has no honor in his home land, the Kentucky Colonel Sanders is well known in China* just as that face on the KFC signs and maybe some of the food wrappers. Then, though the Chinese may know very well the history of General Tso, they would never have heard of the chicken dish attributed to him in America in places that sell Americanized (extra salty and sweet) Chinese food.
(Sanders! ... anders! ... ers!)
This man was a "Kentucky Colonel", an appellation given to men of note and accomplishment in that Commonwealth (that's what it's called vs. a "State") Harland Sanders did not command a division or battalion of soldiers, though he did spend 6 months in the US Army, driving wagons in Cuba. His background included dozens of jobs, fights with law clients, and shootings, before he developed his pressure-cooked chicken recipes and then built up his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise, as documented on this Wiki page.
(Zontang! ... tang! ... tang!)
(Our apologies for the image - damn cheap Japanese cameras.)
General Zuo (Tso), from the Commonwealth, no, Province, of Hunan, was a famous General, instrumental in the Qing dynasty's winning of a huge war to put down the mid-19th-century Taiping Rebellion. This war was so huge, with dozens of millions killed, and the Taiping folks so interesting, that it deserves a Peak Stupidity post to come. Mr. Zuo's background was spotty in its own right, as he failed the exam to attend the Imperial Academy 7 times, before changing his direction in life. It is thought that he is not likely to have had time, between fighting and running provinces, to cook a whole lot of chicken, much less a bucketful.
"Get a bucket of chicken, it's a barrel of fun.
Good-bye ho-hum."**
After fattening up Americans for 7 to 8 decades running (depending on where you live), Kentucky Fried Chicken is working on fattening up the Chinese peasants a bit. The chicken tastes the same, but you may want to hold on some of the sides. It's not only differing tastes requiring tweaks to the recipes, but perhaps some cheap unauthorized ingredients that make finger lickin' a really bad idea. However the late Colonel (he died almost 40 years back) is kicking ass in the Middle Kingdom.
(No, Communist Central Government, we're absolutely NOT changing it to General Zuo's chicken. It's bad enough about freaking Peking!)
[This post is making me hungry!! - Ed]
Like every "Chinese" dish one can get at the $10.99 buffet, there's gotta be some cheap chicken in it to make the numbers pencil out under the table. Next time you go, check how many of the dishes involve chicken. This one doesn't have the kick of your Kung Pao, but it must be something special what with the name of the famous General Zuo Zongtang of the Qing Dynasty behind it, oh and the extra MSG.
At this point, the Peak Stupidity judges have called it. It's Colonel Sanders by a drumstick! More Chinamen (and women!) know this Colonel Sanders, than Americans know of General Tso, much less the tremendous Taiping Rebellion/War, for that matter. Granted, most of the Chinese who see Colonel Sanders up on that sign reckon this was the man that led the American All Volunteer Group in flying materiel to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek over the hump, or possibly the guy that ordered the atom bombs to be dropped on Tokyo. That is, if they even know who won WWII.
Oh, and then there are the spices and the side orders. KFC for the win! Chickenfest is over for the season.
George likes his chicken spicy!:
* McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken, AKA KFC, have made the most inroads in the Chinese fast food business. They seem to be everywhere over there - I've seen nary a Burger King, Carl's Junior/Hardees, and damn if the Chinese would ever get the In-and-Out
** Song written by 1970's heartthrob artist Barry Manilow - I shit you not.
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Half-mast flags as a signal to the neo-Nazis
Posted On: Wednesday - August 7th 2019 7:30PM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits Media Stupidity
I guess that means to the 5% of them that aren't FBI agents. OK, Peak Stupidity really needs to give out some trophies, plaques, or SOMETHING. An NBC TV pundit named Frank Figliuzzi really deserves the gold for the rolling calendar year. Per Russia Today (can you imagine saying that 30 years ago? "From Russia Today ..."?), NBC pundit says Trump’s order to fly flags at half-staff after shootings could be nod to Hitler. Okaaay, then.
Trump issued a proclamation to lower flags to half-staff at the White House and other government and military buildings on Sunday to mourn the victims of shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The flags will return to full-staff on Thursday, August 8 — but former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence turned-NBC pundit Frank Figliuzzi has seen a possible conspiracy in the date.
Figliuzzi explained that the number 88 is “very significant in the neo-Nazi and white supremacist movement”due to the fact that ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet and“the numbers 88 together stand for Heil Hitler.”
Yeah, all those non-FBI-informant neo-Nazis will get the signal clearly, as we all watch those flags go down and back up, right? This is, in fact, a a sore point for Peak Stupidity, as we can't stand any more of this flag-lowering crap to begin with. First it's the death of ex-Presidents, then scumbag Senators that just wouldn't leave office (see Juan McAmnesty - Rot In Place). Then, the flags stay down for WEEKS at a time, not just one day, as the guy gets buried. This business is out of hand, as now the flags being lowered represent what exactly? If we regularly lower them for murder victims, then the cities of Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore ought to just buy shorter flag poles to begin with!
Russia Today again:
“So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one is thinking about this,”Figliuzzi said, warning about the “language and messaging” of the decision.Oh, the quotes are not just from "NBC pundit Frank Figliuzzi", but from "former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence turned-NBC pundit Frank Figliuzzi". Is that Assistant Director of Counter Intelligence or Assistant to the Director, Counter to Intelligence? Where do I send the trophy?
It is true that white supremacists use the number 88 as an abbreviation of ‘Heil Hitler’, but perhaps “no one is thinking” about it in this context because most people don’t think in terms of everything being a coded shout-out to neo-Nazis?
Figliuzzi said Trump did not necessarily pick the date “deliberately” but said it was still an example of the “the ignorance of the adversary” (white supremacists) that is being “demonstrated by the White House.”
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Is Donald Trump a woman trapped inside a man's body?
Posted On: Wednesday - August 7th 2019 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism Female Stupidity
Hey, we've come up with a number of theories for why this President is such a tremendous let-down for the patriotic American people: He's been "Neoconned", though Deep-Stated is probably a better term (more here). He is just a bullshitter who sucked us in during the campaign. Along with that he's a blowhard who compares himself favorable to Ronald Reagan*. He sucks at the art of the deal. He doesn't understand the urgency and magnitude of the existential immigration-invasion problem. He's very easily distracted. Instead of 5-D chess, he's barely competent at tic-tac-toe. It could be a any combination of the above.
We will now add another theory, just going by the talk out of President Trump's mouth after the El Paso shooting. This was documented very well by VDare's "Washington Watcher" yesterday in Trump Blows El Paso Response, And Maybe The Election. He Better Hope Congress Fails to Pass His Terrible Proposals. What I read was pretty disgusting. This guy no longer seems to be on our side, maybe for some of the reasons linked-to above. Some of the commenters under the Unz Review's posting of the article told me not to worry, as Trump changes his mind daily.
That brought up the point of this post. Trump reacts emotionally to things such as the terrible mass shootings of the last couple of days. I wish I could say that it is just pandering to the emotional among us (the women voters and the ctrl-left), but I think this guy genuinely can't think straight and runs his mouth based on his feelings. That brings up the tweeting, the obsessiveness of this habit of the President being another female-personality thing. It's always this constant blabbering about this slight or that, making fun of his (and our) enemy, the Lyin' Press (not wrong, but just make the corrections, don't get emotional), rather than his using the tweets as a tactic and part of the "bully pulpit". From one of the Ronnie vs. Donnie posts, we explained this a bit:
... Trump's problem seems to be, as I mentioned in that intro. post, that he thinks the talk is all that's necessary sometimes. Encouragement, when all about you, the media establishment puts out it's usual lies, is a good thing. It is no doubt very helpful in rallying the base to vote, but what good is voting if the politicians you successfully elect don't really do any good for you? That's what happened - two years of President Trump and a GOP House and Senate, and what ?? Nada. Nada whole lot. I wish the current President would use the bully pulpit and (yes, sigh..) even the tweets to target Americans to help him get the work done - "Impeach Judge X in this district in California." "Tell Congressman Y to vote YES on ABC, or you will not re-elect him." That would need some attention to detail, which Trump doesn't have, and his traitorous underlings refuse to take part in.There is that changing his mind every few days thing too. That's a very female trait too.
We have 3 female traits, the emotional responses, the blathering about non-essential business, and the changing of one's mind regularly, that seem to be "trending" with this guy. Therefore, my latest theory is that this guy is acting like a woman, psychologically anyway. Hey, I know he was a man's man and a playboy, etc., in the past. Is too much soy being used in the White House kitchen, perhaps?
After reading Mr. "Watcher"'s article, I sure hope the President didn't mean all of his statements of late. If that Red Flag law stuff (written about here and here) gets passed and Donald Trump signs it, he will have become another political enemy.
* Peak Stupidity's comparison between President Reagan and President Trump, the Ronnie vs. Donnie series, continues here - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and a Conclusion.
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A post of 2 sketches
Posted On: Monday - August 5th 2019 10:51AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Political Correctness ctrl-left Socialism/Communism
Steve Sailer posted a tweet from a guy named Pavel who infiltrated a meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America. Now, we don't do tweeting here, but I was able to find the video on youtube. Watch this 39 seconds and try to convince me that these people shouldn't be drinking sippy cups, waiting right now for 5 O'Clock for Judge Wopner to come on in the great room of the crazy house. Go ahead, convince me (in the comments - put "PS" first!)
I really would never have expected an Oriental woman, or man, for that matter, to actually be a part of this. Is is possible this woman is really a part of this shitshow? I just see Chinese people as NOT having this extreme PC stupidity as, way too many, Western white people, and I know many of both. I gotta admit, though, that the Chinese INVENTED the cultural revolution, so ....
A good commenter there on unz named BenKenobi, in this comment pasted in a video from an early 1990's Kids in the Hall show. (Some of the actors look really familiar.) Peak Stupidity has commented on the old TV show Seinfeld a number of times. That show was from that same time, and our post Not as much PC back in '93, featured the hilarious Indian Giver ('excuse me, Native American Giver) episode from exactly the same year, 1993, as this Kids in the Hall sketch.
This is so unintentionally prescient of the current-era Political Correctness madness, that it's scary.
ewww! What is this even doing on youtube?! I can't even!
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Jumping the shark with Shark Mania
Posted On: Monday - August 5th 2019 8:22AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media History Americans Bread and Circuses
First, I thought it was just the fact that we had watched some TV the other day. As related last week in our 2nd post (3rd one if you go way back) on what is now "Nat Geo", there is this Shark Fest week or period of weeks going on. I don't think this is just the one channel. I saw a guy (not a kid, mind you) with a Shark Fest t-shirt on. Other people I know have heard about it.
I'll repeat this here, and as many times as it takes to wake people up about it, sharks are not our friends: As ranted about in Eat Mor Shark, Peak Stupidity stands firmly on the side of the shark hawks - sharks are ruthless killers with a 300,000,000 year-old mindset - they eat people, and we should eat them back, well, pre-emptively that is. They taste like, hell, BETTER THAN, chicken. If this ruins your immaculately-planned Shark Fest festivities, well so be it!
Like the Hammerhead above, who can see in almost all directions (per our kids books), I am a noticer. I don't have eyes like a Hammerhead, but, as is our mandate, I've been noticing the rise in stupidity in this country for years, and stupidity lies in the details. One of these details in my memory is of what was "trending" (we didn't use that word then) on TV and other media infotainment back 18 summers ago. It was 2001, remember that? Besides some long story about a congressman suspected, though later exonerated, of kidnapping a young pretty intern in Washington, there were a series of stories about shark attacks. Peak Stupidity's rants against these evil fish aside, shark attacks on humans are less of a threat than things like lightening strikes.
It was just the usual bread & circuses that summer 18 years ago, to keep the idiot boxes (the idiot "plates" were not around just yet) turned on, newspapers sold, and the eyeballs on the web-pages (the internet WAS around, and going like gangbusters). It was all sharks, sharks, sharks, though, until that September morning, when the country changed, or more accurately, WAS CHANGED, permanently for the worse.
Is this Shark Fest week nostalgia for that summer of 2001? It's probably just the usual distractions from the reality of our rise toward Peak Stupidity, but maybe something else big is coming. Like those Great Whites, either the world's elites are very very smart, or very, very dumb.
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Time Passages
Posted On: Saturday - August 3rd 2019 9:05PM MST
In Topics: Music History
I'd forgotten that Peak Stupidity already had an Al Stewart / History Rock week back 2 summers ago. Time sure passes quickly in the blog world. This title song from Mr. Stewart's great album Time Passages will end this week on a good note.
Because it must be hellacious to search for anything (so far) on this site, unless one is the lead blogger, I'll just list the posts with the Al Stewart songs Peak Stupidity has featured in the past. Yeah, I know, it's all on youtube anyway.
Roads to Moscow
Nostradamus
On the Border
Warren Harding and The Palace of Versailles
A Man for All Seasons
Over 40 years has passed since Time Passages, and it sure brings back memories.
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Little Landen in Minneapolis
Posted On: Saturday - August 3rd 2019 8:29PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
(pictures straight from Vdare)
This is a hard post to write. It's not Peak Stupidity's usual thing. There's no humor, very little snark, and more evil than stupidity to write about. Really, it's about sadness, compassion, and now some hope.
This story is about the boy named Landen (last name kept anonymous) who was thrown over a railing 40 ft. down to the floor below in Minneapolis' Mall of America 4 months back by a sick/evil man named Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda. Hey, where's that guy from? What's he doing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the great white north, with a name like that? Good question. We all want diversity, I guess
VDare's Jame Fulford (along with Steve Sailer) wrote a couple of posts about this right after it happened, one being Black Privilege Is Ultimate Cause Of Minnesota Mall Atrocity. I might have forgotten about it, but for an article about a month ago that gave the condition of the boy. It was very sad to think about all he is going through.
“Up until now we have let our hopes govern what we have revealed to the public,” they wrote in a GoFundMe update. “However, the injuries and severe complications have now resulted in more than 15 separate medical procedures or surgeries, including surgeries for two broken arms and a broken leg, removal of his spleen, procedures for fluid in his lungs and stomach, as well as for facial and skull fractures; and just this past weekend, he had a stent placed in a vein that runs through his liver because of the serious complications he continues to endure.”At the time I'd read the above, there was no certainty Landen would live through it all. I felt some serious sadness for this kid and his family. It's not the usual thing for me, but I prayed for this beautiful little boy. He probably won't be ever "just fine", but maybe he can come close, after many more months or years.
Well, People magazine, not any kind of publication you'd normally read about on Peak Stupidity, reported yesterday*: Boy, 5, Out of Intensive Care Nearly Four Months After Being Thrown from Mall of America Balcony. I was so glad to hear this. Landen is not OK, by any means, yet, but he's in a full-time physical re-hab facility.
The man who did this horrific act did this with premeditation. He's said by his Mother to have been mentally ill since 3 y/o, but you normally don't read something like the following, even from a really sick fuck:
Investigators said Aranda had gone to the mall “looking for someone to kill” and felt driven to aggression after being rejected by women he’d tried to speak with there, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE. Aranda told police he had first considered choosing to kill an adult at the mall the day before the incident “because they usually stand near the balcony,” but that did not “work out,” the complaint states.This article is unusual for a Peak Stupidity post in that it is just a very specific story, using the tragic story of this one boy to arouse compassion, something a woman, or, well, People magazine, would write. It is kind of a fluke that I took this one so personally. Is this not anything different from what Herr Merkel, Globalist, Commie of Germany did with that dead boy washed up on the beach of the Mediterranean a few years back (causing her to invite in millions of unwanted, unassimilable, young-male refugees from Africa)?
Yes, it most certainly is. I look at this story and try to get down to the root causes. In the case of little Landen, a man this violent and crazy should not have been in a position to do this - that means he shouldn't have been out of a crazy house . Next, whether it's PC or not, you've got to get serious and fix the root causes, if you REALLY don't want to see this happen again, and you're not just signaling your great compassion to the world. Even for just this one guy, 19 years in prison, meaning possibly his getting out in half that time, means we haven't fixed this problem. I don't really know if any weapon would have helped to defend against a sudden attack like this, but more carrying of guns by good people can help.
In Merkel's case, there was another story on the fate of that boy that just wan't told in one picture. As I recall, the kid's Dad had done a stupid stunt taking him across the Mediterranean from Africa to the beaches of Italy (there's more to that). As to the next poor kid having this fate, what you do is send these boats home. It's not compassionate for the relatively few on those first boats, but it sure is, in terms of stopping more such stupidity. As far as fixing the real problem, any thinking German knew that this invitation of the future bums, robbers, and rapists was a bad idea. It did not fix any problem, but caused so many more, in the name of compassion for show, with no serious thinking.
If you're the type, pray for this boy Landen to get through all of this with no serious permanent physical pain and a normal life. How could you go a day without thinking what you could have done differently that one day at the mall, were you the Dad or Mom? That's some mental pain there. Nonetheless, 10 years from now there will be some extremely compassion Minnesota snowflakes who, in their extreme compassion for Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, will help him get back loose. Compassion + Stupidity = Evil. Hug your kids.
* The quote about his previous condition is from People too and jives completely with what I'd read a month back. I'll give People a lot of credit for a plain just-the-facts article. The comments are pretty "based", as the kids like to say too. Some mention specifically what caliber round should be used to shoot this guy in the back of the head - amazing in this day and age.
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