Them US Blues - '25


Posted On: Friday - July 4th 2025 10:03AM MST
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  Music  The Dead  US Police State  US Feral Government  Holiday from Stupidity

This has been a Peak Stupidity Independence Day tradition since the blog started, with our July 4th of '17 post.* This is not just about the song title and the lyrics, not to mention the great sound. We've mentioned before that The Grateful Dead was truly an All American Band. Don't let the drugs, long hair, and the time and place they came from fool you.

Commenter Greg(?) Anderson, our biggest Dead Head reader, as far was we can tell, suggested the following musical memory, from a concert at The Winterland arena in San Francisco in March 20th of '77 (that's 1977). There's no video for this one. A good thing however, is that the whole show is there, so someone not so familiar with the band could go to the beginning and let the whole show rip.

These guys were there playing less than one year after 2 centuries since the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Here we are now, at one year shy of a quarter millennium. I think we'll be lucky to make it in one piece, and no longer as any kind of Constitutional Republic anyway, more than a decade past next years major anniversary. I'd guess 5 or less, but then I would have guessed the same about 15 years ago...

Whatever we think we can do, let's not give up on it. Looking back and remembering our learning of the original Independence Day in elementary school, we just think of the wonderful end result as a given, and a nice F.U. from the American colonists desiring freedom to the British Lobster-back meanies. It wasn't at all a given. If we reflect more maturely on the scene, we can imagine the feeling of this moment as any man signing this might very well be signing his death warrant, with retribution coming not any longer than some ragtag army could hold off the most powerful military in the World.

In today's world what would that mean? What happened leading up to July 4th of 1776 could be compared to current Americans who try to stay off the grid, accumulate guns and ammo, and who don't hold their tongues in blog posts, on twitter, and in podcasts and even (some) using their real names. Some may fight the system in small ways, not obeying the Kung Flu mandates 5 years ago, as a big, visible example, fighting tax bills, resisting REAL ID, what-have-you. A very few did wild impulsive things like fly planes into IRS buildings. None of it is even on the level of the Boston Tea Party. Anthony Fauci was never even tarred and feathered. (It's never too late!)

In today's world, what could we compare to that day 249 years ago, when men put their signatures, meaning, their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, on the line? I'd say that's be akin to Americans making pacts to shoot back when the Feds come to take the guns, the gold, or even the kids. You put your name out there, and if things get to this state, you will be that same kind of target as those men who signed below back in 1776.

Can you use them ole US Blues?



"Wave that flag... wave it wide and high. Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my!"


PS: As I read comments just now under the '24 post, I saw that Mr. Anderson told us that The Dead "broke up for a bit more than a year" after the series of Winterland show in mid-October of '74. I had no idea. Per this 9 y/o article with some words from the late bassist Phil Lesh, they did play a handful of shows in '75 and didn't return to the serious heavy touring schedules until June of '76. What's really interesting in the article, is that Phil said - I guess this was in '16, that the band somehow was not the same after this break. ("Break up" or "break"?)


* Also, it's also been since '23 that we quit writing years with 4 digits, at least in the titles of these particular posts. It's not about computer data storage anymore people. It's just been a full quarter century, and I think we'll all get what someone's talking about.


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President Trump and the issuance of LSM-1B Visas


Posted On: Thursday - July 3rd 2025 9:59PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump  Female Stupidity

For those who don't keep up with all this wonky stuff, that'd be the Leggy SuperModel immigrant visa.

Melania Trump, in various stages of undress her modeling career:



We all know this most beautiful of First Ladies. She's hot enough to where she doesn't feel the need to have a a First Lady program like "Pick up your trash!", "Drugs are bad, mmmkayyy?"* "Eat your Veggies", or "We're gonna take control of 20% of the economy, cause I'm not just here to back freaking cookies!" (Luckily that latter one, #3 in in chronological order, didn't take. However, it did a couple of decades later, alas.) Were the current First Lady to have any such program, I would like to see some sort of subsidized lingerie deal with her personal recommendations.

So, other women, First Ladies or not, tend to get jealous. One such "lady", with plenty to get jealous about, is Texas CongressCritter Jasmine Crockett. (No relation to Davy, I don't think, but they have something in common - coons and hats.) Now, it could be that she hates Trump too or cares about immigration (haha, no), but I think her calls to deport Melania Trump are very personal. Of course, Rep Crockett says a lot of mean and stupid stuff on a continual basis, but I came across the following post on PJ Media by one Sarah Anderson, also a woman, so ...: Jasmine Crockett Went After Melania, And I'm Not Gonna Let That Slide.

The article is entertaining and a pretty good quick read. In her own ghetto manner, Rep, Crockett has stated that Melania Trump should be deported because:
Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model, and when I say model, I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level, applied for and was given an EB-1 visa, and what that stands for is an Einstein Visa," the congresswoman said during the hearing, adding, "Now, y'all that don't know, let me tell you how you receive an Einstein Visa. You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. Last time I checked, the First Lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't mathin' here."
Tyra Banks sounds Black!, but I'm not looking it up. I remember Naomi Campbell leaning somewhat in that direction. That's just dig at Melania who, face it, Rep Crockett, has a rear end, waist/hip ratio, and face too, that you could not attain even if you tried your hardest. It's not in the cards for you.

Back to the statement on these particular immigrant visas, for one thing do we even need more Einsteins? I think Newton's Laws have been good enough for government work and most other ... Anyway, Miss Anderson says that these visas are most certainly NOT just for these people. Immigration lawyers have told her that there are many criteria:
Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence

Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members

Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel

Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field

Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases

Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations

Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field

Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
Per Sarah Anderson, Melania meets at least 4 of these criteria, but I'll be danged if I know which. "Excellence in gluteal structure"? It's not in there. This does show us how easily it is for people to come to America legally, often to directly replace Americans in their careers. I've seen the ads and the scams personally.

How about we DO cut this out too, perhaps just breaking out some very critical miniscule-numbered exceptions for, yes, those Leggy SuperModels? How many do we need annually? I'd have guessed 5 to 10, but judging from the latest issue of Cosmo magazine that erroneously came to the mailbox, it could be lower. They don't seem to need a one of them, as they had some weirdly dressed, weirdly colored black lady on the cover that didn't have me wanting to read or scratch & sniff anything inside. Where are the Christy Brinkleys of yesteryear?

I went and looked up Trump's ex- and current wives.

His first wife, Ivana, did the Nicky Haley/Kamaltoe family thing but extended backwards due to the her Czechoslovakian homeland (she is from the 1st part, I assume) being Communist at the time. What I mean is they all came through Canada first - I suppose easier to get into at the time. Ivana, an accomplished skier had married an Austrian skier earlier, as a way out of the East Bloc. She divorced him fairly quickly and immigrated to Canada to marry another skiing defector she had known (yeah, known in the Biblical sense) way back. Ivana became a model, and was yet another Reality-TV style piece of entertainment, but before they had that, so call it National Enquirer style, with 4 marriages herself. I didn't get it straight exactly when she immigrated to the US, but it sounds like it was via a marriage visa - already married to Trump after they'd met in NYC.

Trump's 2nd wife, Marla Maples. was a Georgian - no, not another model immigrant (pun serendipitous) out of the East Bloc, but a Homecoming Queen out of northwest Georgia, up near Chattanooga, Tennessee. She didn't have quite the National Enquirer lifestyle as Ivana, but she was on TV a lot, and in some movies. Her affair with, and then marriage to, Donald Trump was Enquirer material. (I was always just in and out of the grocery store in 5-10 minutes, so I missed all that.)

Then there was Trump's 2nd East Bloc model, Melania, of Yugoslavia, specifically the portion called Slovenia. Her father was a Communist Party member, and his family, including young Melania, lived very well for being on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. By the time Melania (born in 1970) came of age, the Cold War was over. She didn't have to defect, but she too got into the US through the help of some dude, one Paulo Zampolli who ran some kind of modeling deal.

I will have to correct myself to add that Melania does have some type of First Lady thing, though I'd never heard of it. (Trump tends to use all the spotlight.):
During her tenure as first lady, Melania prioritized children's issues, launching the Be Best campaign to promote children's welfare and visiting many children's hospitals. She was also a close advisor to her husband, influencing his decisions to end the Trump administration's family separation policy and to ban fruit-flavored electronic cigarette cartridges.
I REALLY don't like her influence on Trump-45's immigration invasion efforts! Not cool. As for the fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes, I've never had the pleasure.

OK, well that's about 4 decades of National Enquirer mostly East Bloc socialism opera in a nutshell. We don't care. Melania would be the last to be deported even were she found to have lied on her Leggy SuperModel visa (something involving silicone, perhaps?) Peak Stupidity does wonder if President Trump's opinion on legal immigration is highly influenced by his wife and his double-ex-wife.

You can't argue with those old pictures though.


* That wasn't the exact phrasing of Mrs. Reagan's thing. "Just say no." is what I recall.


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ZeroHedge on Silver: Forgetting the concept


Posted On: Wednesday - July 2nd 2025 7:41PM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  Websites  Economics



From ZeroHedge's roots came this quick article last week: Silver Price Shows What Government Has Done To Our Money. That comparison of pre-1965 silver currency (well, 90%) with the current US Dollar in regards to the price of a gallon of gas is one Peak Stupidity has mades a couple of times already.

The spot price of silver has been steadily going up, now more than 2/3 up toward those 2 temporary spikes to just under $50/tr-oz, one 14 years back in Spring of '11 and the other 44 years ago, when the 3 Hunt Brothers attempted to corner the market. Reports are that coin stores are now taking in lots more silver than they are paying out. What to do, what to do?

As this is discussed, the concept of what is REAL money that ZH's seemed to understand has gotten hazier to them, from what I read. Has Tyler Durden just gotten beaten around the head and face one too many times during his 12-step Fight Club meetings? (Maybe someone needed to know the frequency.) No, but this article was written by Doug French of the Mises Institute anyway, and it's not the article but the commenters that have me wondering. Normally, they are just as astute as, or more astute than, the article writers.

I'm getting some noise here:
I’ve seen several videos from silver guys on YouTube and they are reporting the same thing……lots of sellers, hardly no buyers.

Dave Morgan nailed it in an interview he did a couple months ago, many are sick and tired of silver’s dismal performance and we’re poised, just waiting for the upper 30s to sell.

I’m holding onto mine but can fully understand anyone who sells.
No, Dave Morgan nailed nothing. Holding real money is not an investment. It's just keeping one's wealth. "Performance"? I don't need precious metals to perform. They should just stay put. Just waiting to sell? For what? Is it time to pick up more of those green pieces of paper or bits on a server. Are they now something valuable all of a sudden?
I agree, but what happens if the local coin dealer goes out of business, where does one sell?

I would never consider boxing up my silver and mailing it to an online dealer...no way.
No, bad idea indeed. This next guy sounds on the ball though:
"You should be buying silver, gold, and platinum. Actual physical bars or coins of it. Not stocks or options. If you don't hold it you don't own it."
I'm not sure about platinum, just because in SHTF or post-SHTF times it may not be easily recognizable. Anyway, that was a generally good comment, but among all these, if we really understand real money, we ought to phrase things differently.

You're not BUYING anything when you accumulate precious metals. You're giving away some green pieces of paper or bits on a server to get some MONEY. That's a good deal. That sucker on the other is getting that junk in return. Neither are those folks backing up the truck to unload at the coin store SELLING. They are buying a bunch of green pieces of paper and computer bits with their money. That's not a good deal. It's not if you get the point of real money in these times, to hold onto one's wealth.

I like the funny stuff. The discussion got into inflation, as did the article:
Went to Costco yesterday & the Kirkland big brown coffee tin was $20. Pre pandemic $12. During the COVID peak it rose to $17 than down to $14 where it’s been hovering ever since. Does anyone know WTF is going on?
Juan Valdez got a Yuge raise and he needed a new donkey.
LOL!

From a Columbian coffee bean picker on a burro, we segue to a part-Mexican, but all Gringo, lady named Linda Rondstadt. She was one of the best of the 1970s musicians during a great decade for music and has belted out some other great songs here on Peak Stupidity. (We also reviewed part of a movie about her.) Speaking of silver here.... they say they don't need it, but if you've got none when the SHTF, you'll hear about it ... I will say, like Linda, that I also would not care for the TVs in every room (this was in the day of heavy expensive cathode ray tubes.)



I believe that's Glenn Frey introducing Linda Ronstadt, who was instrumental in the formation of The Eagles. She brought Don Henley into her band and then Glenn Frey. Then her boyfriend J.D. Souther (you'll see his name in the songwriting credits often) suggested Randy Meisner for bass guitar, and Linda suggested Bernie Leadon. (The latter played guitar her, but he played the banjo many of the band's country rock songs.)

If you get back to the 1970s in a time machine, bring back a ton of a silver for me and a ton of vinyl... record albums that is, black gold... hell, just bring back Linda.


PS: Linda Ronstadt did not usually write the pop songs she sang. This one was written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes a couple of decades earlier. It was first recorded by one Wanda Jackson, but later those British Springfields (as in Dusty) had a top 20 hit with it in 1962.

OK, now I'm LOLin at myself. The lyrics say "with a tear in every room". For all those years, without no internet and with my Lyricosis flaring up on occasion, I'd thought it was TV. I'm NOT taking it back!


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Thom Tillis rage-quits the Senate - Good Riddance!


Posted On: Tuesday - July 1st 2025 8:27PM MST
In Topics: 
  Trump  US Feral Government



I like the title of this ZeroHedge article. "Rage-quits", haha! I do wish, however, that this guy was really quitting, as in today. No, Thom Tillis will complete his Senate term, which extends through January of '27 and not run again.*

Trump is not so happy with anyone in the GOP, even MAGA types, who don't agree with his Big Bulbous Bill. That includes some who are very principled and are otherwise on his side, like Tom Massie and MTG. There should be a time and place for changes in this bill, though we can't imagine that anyone could turn it into something actually fiscally responsible. Trump is Trump though. He has threatened to help primary out this North Carolina Senator next time.

From a long Trump Tweet. He does "the weave" even in his tweets. (I cut that off.) Look at the ego on this guy - he saved the North Carolinians! Get outta here.



I'm pretty much with Andy Jackson on this stuff. North Carolinians are the concern of North Carolina and the NC Governor.


Senator Tillis said:
"In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species," Tillis said in a statement, adding "It underscores the greatest form of hypocrisy in American politics. When people see independent thinking on the other side, they cheer. But when those very same people see independent thinking coming from their side, they scorn, ostracize, and even censure."
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
"As many of my colleagues have noticed over the last year, and at times even joked about, I haven’t exactly been excited about running for another term. That is true since the choice is between spending another six years navigating the political theatre and partisan gridlock in Washington or spending that time with the love of my life Susan, our two children, three beautiful grandchildren, and the rest of our extended family back home. It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election."
Yeah, he's gonna walk before they make him run.

One of the traits Peak Stupidity doesn't like about Trump is his hissy fits. Is he actually the First Woman President? OK, maybe it's the Reality Show President. However, we've long said that the tactic of threatening to (and following through with(!), a real problem for Trump) campaigning against those who block his policies should be part of a big strategy. Rather than part of such a strategy, often this action is part of a hissy fit. With Thom Tillis as the target this time, it has been a valid hissy fit.

I know a guy very well who helps with Presidential, State, and local campaigns in North Carolina. He does this independently, and in '20, he worked against Thom Tillis in the Senate primary. Thom Tillis, he told me, is a traitor on immigration. This is issue 1 for both of us, so that's enough. If he says Thom Tillis sucks, then Thom Tillis sucks.

Then, as I read through ZH commenters under this article, I came across, as is likely, someone who has local knowledge and is not just ranting.** Commenter Tyberius wrote:
North Carolinian here.

Tillis is a rotten, uniparty, two faced, cowardly, duplicitous, self serving, kleptocrat.

We collectively say, good riddance!
Peak Stupidity concurs. By a stroke of luck, President Trump did the right thing this time.



* Is it possible that Trump & Co. are really playing some 5-D chess, such that they would rather have him stay until that date than risk a bad appointment or special election? It's not really up to them when the guy leaves, unless they know just how much to tweet the rage in this guy. Turn it up!

** Not just ranting, that is. It's ranting, but ranting based on local knowledge.


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Being all you can be, I suppose...


Posted On: Monday - June 30th 2025 6:15PM MST
In Topics: 
  General Stupidity  Movies  Americans  US Feral Government  Race/Genetics



That's one of the many funny lines* in the 1981 movie Stripes. Man, some of those Saturday Night Live comedians and others were pretty young 44 years ago. John Candy, maybe the 2nd, after John Belushi, in a sequence of hilarious fat guys from that show (Chris Farley being the next(?)), died young as fat guys unfortunately tend to. The others are old guys now.

But this post ain't a movie review, except to say "It's kind of dated. The Cold War was still ongoing."... oh, and to add "and look how skinny the people were back then." John Candy, in his role of the fat-guy misfit among the other misfits, was an exception. He had a time getting through the physical training, but he had the spirit, as seen above. It was a farce.

I miss those guys!



This farce has become reality for the present-day US Army. This is not news to me, but I will relate an anecdote:

As we were ready to depart about 20 minutes late on an airline flight out of the hub, things dragged on more. I was in my seat when the Captain came on the P/A: "We have soldiers coming from various flights, and, this being the last flight** of the night to our destination, we will wait for them. I was in the Navy. My First Officer was in the Navy. We're gonna hold the flight." He was so very proud.

I can tell you that it's not usually up to the Captain to do this, but he wouldn't get in trouble doing this a handful of times either. This airplane was not doing a turn-around upon arrival, in which case this longer delay could jeopardize connections on the way back, ruining many passengers' days . The plane was staying the night, so barring tight rest-times (not the case), in a way, it didn't matter much besides that the plane was still taking up the space at the gate. (This DOES matter, many times.)

These soldiers started trickling into the plane and down the aisle. I saw one White guy out of about 30 of them. The rest were black/brown/Oriental. That's not the biggest, ahem, thing I noticed though. These people were BIG. Not one in 4, by my estimate, weighed what one would expect in, say the time of Stripes. I'd say of the others, they averaged 30 to 40 lb. overweight. These were no lean, mean, fighting machines!



I guess this IS being all you can be in today's US Army. There aren't Soviets anymore, as in Stripes, but if our NeoCons, including that Orange NeoCon, somehow get us in a real face-off with the Ruskies, I think those Ruskies will be amused, as these "soldiers" make John Candy look like, yes, a lean, mean, fighting machine.

I really would have liked to see that Captain's face, if he'd been saying goodbye to his "fellow servicemen and women" as they disembarked that night. How proud would he be next time?



* Peak Stupidity used one of the funniest scenes - from the start of the movie and not part of the join-the-army story - at the bottom of our old post Citizenship in the Nation - with Harold Ramos, the guy with John Candy here.

** It wasn't though. There was one more late flight. I told the First Officer that upon arrival, as he was on the jet bridge. Next time, don't assume, or you will make an ass ... different movie, sorry.


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New York going full Commie


Posted On: Saturday - June 28th 2025 7:23PM MST
In Topics: 
  Commies  Lefty MegaStupidity  Music  Socialism/Communism  President DeSantis



New York City's been full of Socialist money-grabbers, their brains in tatters, for half a century. That's nothing new. What's new again this century, with history rhyming from a century ago, is that it's full of foreigners again, this time even stranger, and to the tune of 40% of the population of the city being foreign born.

You got rats on the West side, bedbugs uptown...

This week though, we can see that this is only part of NYC's problems. Wit the D-primary election of the pro-BLT-G++ gay-looking* Moslem "newcomer" Zohran Mamdani, NYC has gone full Commie.

You NEVER go full Commie!



Oh, sure, he says he's a Socialist, but that's nothing but a gateway ideology. You start with a little taxpayer-funded coke, some barbiturates, qualuudes ("a bottle of reds, a bottle of whites, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight... oh, oh, oh, oh, oh..." and next thing you know you're lying face down in an alley, having had the crap beaten out of you by a rival faction...oh, and plus the heroin.

Free shit of all sorts, artificial rent control, MOAR programs, it's the usual. The foreign Moslem** influence is a twist. First of all, the Commies only want the genderbending, gaiety, feminism, etc. for the causes of destruction - later these people will end up in the same ditches as everyone else. Then too, Islam and all the left stuff don't play well together. Islam and Communism don't either, as Communism cannot abide a competing religion. I'll be a scene, man, a regular circular firing squad, as termed by Steve Sailer, though much less virtual than those he describes.

Maybe Rock, Scissors, Paper better describes it, with real rocks, scissors, and I never did getthe paper beating scissors aspect. (Paper wraps scissors, but so what?)

Apparenlty, Communism is cool again - what'd I tell ya', 7 1/2 years ago? NYC is a far cry from the Seinfeld days of only 3 decades ago, when even Jewish New Yorkers made fun of Communism and Communists. These New Yorkers today, apparently the White lefties, per polling, have forgotten all about this evil and don't even hide their stupidity on the subject anymore.

This POS Mamdani too, he's not hiding anything. He admits he wants Globalist Intifada, so that'd be Globalism mixed with Communist agitation with a bit of Islamic stupidity mixed in. What could possibly go wrong? New York's been shatterred, splattered, smothered, and covered, already by years of Totalitarian rule (thinking Bloomberg here) but more damage from the corrupt ctrl-left DeBlassio. More importantly, the Population Replacement Programme has long used NYC as a launch site for their weapons of huddled mass destruction.

Now, the local political scene has some strange bedfellows crawling under the sheets, as typically incompetent and corrupt Black! Mayor Adams has become the guy to support due to the way the votes are spread out among the candidates left (well, they're all left) in the race. It's amusing to me to see this current Cuomo (how many of these guys are there in New York?) having been ousted by someone further to his left. Then, also amusingly, per GateWay Pundit, Jewish Organizations Urge Mass Evacuation from NYC After Radical Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Democrat Mayoral Primary. Haha! Evacuate! I guess voting Republican is unthinkable and much more difficult than packing all one's stuff and moving to Palm Beach.



We're still big fans of once-and-future possible President Ron DeStantis here at Peak Stupidity. (We've got a post to come about him.)

Well, NYC has one-Party rule like a lot of Communist errr, you know, places, like California. Then, though, it was years of the fairly large Jewish contingent of NYC voting D that helped eliminate that serious GOP option. So, the political maneuvering at this stage reminds me of the Parliamentarian deals in Europe in which they all work to marginalize one party. I'm not in favor of it here or there. It'll be fun for those of us who generally stay away from NYC to see how this latest try at Communism will play out. Who knows? Communism just might work this time! A century of experiments involving 2 huge countries and about a dozen smaller ones, with the 1st World as a control group is just not a big enough sample size.

As far as bugging out goes, it's not just Jewish residents, but big Finance people of all stripes - I know there's quite a bit of overlap - who will not thrive in their Big Finance world under a Communist Loon. They deserve all this too. Big Biz hasn't been Conservative politically in a long time. Beware, Florida, LOCKDOWNers incoming! Sorry, though, Dixie and Suwanee Counties are full! You'd hate the mosquitoes, and there are no beaches, you can't get good bagels, and the government schools don't have polo. You don't want to move there, believe me.

Peak Stupidity has already featured Billy Joel's*** Miami 2017. We've very lucky that the old TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test has recordings of these great rock and pop start from their primes. They have this very good version of this song live. Video beats just audio with one picture, normally, but, I really, really like the wild New York (non-Communist, I should add) audience participation in the version recorded in 1980 at Madison Square Garden - normally Nazi territory, IIRC - so, again, from Songs in the Attic:



Billy Joel wrote that in 1975, so the lyrics were to be about 42 years into the future, but now it's right at 50. He very well may be right... he may be crazy.... I think "right" - give it less than another decade. I can see picking up the Yankees, but I'm not sure why the Bronx ought to stay. Sinking A.O. out at C - not a bad idea at all. We'll likely see People dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic, some kind of fashion, shattered, shattered... you want to see shattered, my Yankee friends, see your city under Communism. Indeed you'd better move to Miami or your brain may well be battered, splattered all over Manhattan.... It's just what they do.

My new hashtag to spread around NYC:

#PogramsNotPrograms!


If we're unsuccessful on squashing Communism on this beachhead in NYC, my question is, who will build the wall this time? The Commies will want to wall people in as we work to keep them out, kind of a combination of Berlin and Cuba. Maybe there could be a cooperative effort, during a detente of sorts... or, for Manhattan, we could blow the bridges, as Billy Joel sang about.

We will have to require visas for entry into the US, if we even have diplomatic relations. An old guy in Kentucky 40 years ago asked my Dad if Kentucky even had diplomatic relations with New York. Ha!

Anyway, Peak Stupidity readers in the New York area, with what's left of the weekend, it may be prudent to stock up on popcorn by the 55 G drum, as pretty soon you may need ration cards.


* I mean, I saw a picture of him wearing a barista smock over his bare chest, looking like one of the Village people... I don't know which village, either the East Village or Greenwich Village... I don't spend a lot of time there.

** There is a law out there passed in the 1950s that says this new immigrant can be arrest for promoting Communism. That won't happen.

*** There's another Billy Joel lyrical reference in this post, along with all those from The Rolling Stone's Shattered.


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Juneteenth and the modern legacy of Black! slavery Enslavement


Posted On: Thursday - June 26th 2025 10:45AM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  US Feral Government  Race/Genetics  Holiday from Stupidity

I'm late by a week. I don't even know if Popeye's Cajun Fried Chicken has deals anymore or if the nearby Zippy Mart does either on malt liquor. (What exactly IS malt liquor anyway? It's just beer in larger cans, right?) I'm talking Juneteenth, which has slipped by under the radar here at Peak Stupidity.

We didn't celebrate anyway, but there was one remark made. The YMCA league canceled a practice session for the kids. I'd thought it was the usual pussy-world thing of "It's too hot! The children will die!!" No, it was due to Juneteenth, and I put a word in in a text back that this was a "garbage holiday". (I was in a hurry - coulda' thought of something better to say.) There was no reply, which is a good sign, but then it might have been one of those accounts for which replies go straight into the ether (not -net).

Someone else chimed in about this High Black! Holy-Day. She's our favorite illegal immigrant* CongressRagHead outta Minneagadishu.



Omar Ilhan, or Ilhan Omar - I can never keep this straight - not worth trying - has a whole lot of things that she hates about the U.S. of A. I'm surprised she hasn't gone back home, what with all the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, colonialist shit going on 'round here. It's just GOT TO BE better in the ole Somalia. I mean, geeeze, slavery , that is, Enslavement of people, just ended in this country only 160 years back... excluding the few, very minor episodes of it going on now in the enslavement-friendly immigrant communities... just cultural differences that we should celebrate, well, not on this particular holiday - see The Horrible Legacy of Slavery Continues ....

Anyway, shit was bad, see, so Rep Omar (D-SO) wrote a nice tweet.



She deleted it after a while. It turns out that in Rep Ilhan's old country, enslavement is still going on. Worse, yet, it's enslavement of Black! people. I'm pretty sure, otherwise I would sure hope some Black! helicopters, maybe camo, would be on the way. It's Black!folk Down over there in Somalia right now.

I am not surprised, as the Moslem world was the worst over the centuries when it came to forcing people into slavery. They took millions of black Africans, castrating the men, and then not as many, but still millions of White Europeans. The Crusaders didn't kick enough ass, IMHO. I don't think your average Afro-American Juneteenth celebratory BBQers, malt liquor drinkers and shots-ringing-out folks have any idea of the slavery ongoing TO THIS DAY in Somalia.

One wonders what Rep Omar's countrymen and country-pup-tenter enslavers need enslaved people for in this modern age of C-17 and C-5 (former) Military Airlift Command capabilities of delivering cargo-cult stuff on demand complaint. We've outsourced a lot to China, but I have heard that some of the not-so-mechanically-declined Somalians have been forced to work in outdoor sweatshops producing BMW and Maserati brake calipers and enslaved cylinders.

Here's the situation on the ground hot sand today:



Ilhan Omar really ought to STFU and GTFO. There's work to be done over there. She ought to bring her brosband too, as, after all, the goats aren't going to fuck themselves.


PS: Maybe that last sentence was uncalled for, but I read that from a ZH commenter and just HAD to use it. Thank you, whomever!



* Based on fraudulent application for citizenship. To be fair though, who knew you couldn't marry your brother?


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Bomb, bomb Iran: Trump, MAGA, and the ctrl-left.


Posted On: Wednesday - June 25th 2025 8:01PM MST
In Topics: 
  Trump  The Neocons  alt-right/MAGA  ctrl-left



We really don't think it's going to come to this, BECAUSE of MAGA, but that graphic is pretty good nonetheless.

My hopes that Trump's bombing of Iran's nuke facilities is a one-off have been boosted by seeing the story of his non-stately "statement" that "They [Iranians and Israelis] don't know what the fuck they're doing!" Firstly, to address that, the ego of that guy is really amazing. Nobody else, over 45 years since the Shah, has made "such a deal" with the Moslem Mullahs and Israel, but Trump is just such a deal-maker. (I mean, he wrote a book!) But, they've ruined it! I say to President Trump regarding (in particular) this matter that "You don't know what the fuck you're doing!"

Perhaps guys like Ron/Rand Paul, the Paleo crowd, the bum Thomas Massie, and so on, DO know what they're doing when they say we ought to stay the hell out of all this. It'd be great if this was the only learning experience of this type needed by Donald Trump. I doubt it.

I've said before that Trump is the 1st woman President. He tends to have hissy fits and get excessively vindictive. His words against the principled stalwart Kentucky Congressman Massie are an example. He's on your side, man.* He's just against non-defensive wars, which are most definitely not "America First!"

Let me bring up some fallacies now that have been brought up to show how this bombing is bringing down MAGA, or something.

1) Just that, this is the END, my friend, of MAGA. Indeed, many of us MAGA people are pissed. More wars for Israel, as sold to us as saving the world, are not making America great. They are making us broke that much faster. If there is any goodwill left after 35 years of blowing the huge amount America had accumulated during the Cold War, this will see it's blown too.

However, if you ask Peak Stupidity, the stopping and REVERSING of the PRP (in its form, the immigration invasion, both legal and illegal) is Job 1 for MAGA and in MAGA as a phrase. Lots of us don't like this act, though polls say not so many don't, but we care more about what he's been accomplishing on Job 1.

If this becomes Afghanistan II or Iraq III, I imagine MAGA will need to find someone who doesn't TACO to The NeoCons. It doesn't look like it will.

I know people who are as Conservative as can be who just can't get that Buchanan phrase "A Republic, not an Empire". (One in question likes Pat Buchanan's pro-White stance, but just can't ...) We must control the high seas, or the CCP will... all that... However, as much as I want it ended, "Invade the World" does not HAVE TO go along with "Invite the World". The Cause & Effect regarding the 2 parts of this nice Steve Sailerism have been discussed on this blog before.***

2) Some evil people of the ctrl-left (I can't remember, but types like that Jasper P.O.S. from Texas or Commies from New York) AGREE with you MAGA people against the bombing. That there comes straight under reducto ad Hitlerum, as in "You won't eat your butterbeans, and you like steak. Hitler was a vegetarian, so you're a Nazi" (I don't know if that would have worked with my Mom, so we made every effort to flush them down the toilet instead. I hate 'em to this day!)

Even if it weren't just the fact that these ctrl-left people I agree with that agree with me do so because they are anti-Trump - they'd have been fine with all of this had it gone on a year back - that we happened to be aligned on an issue does not mean that MAGA has split, with a big splinter group that will vote for A.O.C. This logic is unsound, to put it generously. Splitters!

3) Trump, as we've already written, is prone to disparaging people on his side if they don't play ball on everything. Sometimes that can be a good thing in a leader.

However, Trump has not been doing everything right. His downright stupid statements and even policy dictates that backtrack on Job 1 are a big example. I hope his underlings ignore his stupidity in this matter and plug along, as if their hearing aids had failed. "Something about farmers and hotels??? I dunno. His lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out."

So, how about MAGA being allowed a little leeway to disagree with the Big Man? After all, millions of people spent millions of dollars and hours to help him get where he is, for not his sake, but OUR sakes. I think we'll be OK if Thomas Massie can criticize the Big Bulbous Bill, for all our good. It's being torn into pieces, as we speak, anyway so criticism of the right things would be helpful right now. We'll be OK if the few principled MAGA politicians speak out against the possible starting of yet another forever war.

Is Trump too old to take any advice? Does he already know it all? Trump-45 proved that widely off the mark. Trump-47 is much better, but he still could learn something from, say, Marjorie Taylor Green:



(This one's a file photo from when she was pushing to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.)


I'll get back to MTG. Matt Gaetz, a guy I wish were the Attorney General right now, had some text "conversation" with his own mother spied upon on an airplane flight and revealed on Tic-Tok. (What a world!) I feel icky - OK, it's not right - reading it, but not being able to stop reading, I noted that Mr. Gaetz explained well to his Trump-worshipping Mom that Trump might need some guidance. Yes, Trump could use a lot of guidance, guidance up the wazoo, in fact.

I'll end this with MTG's statement, which shows that MAGA is not ditching Trump and splitting up, but there is simply a disagreement here, between principled people... and un-principled people who think deal-making is the be-all-to-end-all.



(I hope you all can read that. It should blow up with some decent amount of resolution.)


"Enough is Enough" - yes, I hope. MTG's bit about bombing drug cartels is ... a real stretch... but I agree with the gist of her statement. Note that she's not abandoning MAGA or Trump, or going out to vote for A.O.C. in 3 years.


PS: I added on "MAGA" to the alt-right topic key. Adding new topic keys at this point will result in lots of tedious work that won't ever get done.


* That's the same as it was with Jeff Sessions** 8 years ago.

** Thankfully, ex-sportsball coach Tommy Tuberville turned out to be great on the immigration invasion too. That was just dumb luck though.

*** Ahaaa, there's that very John McCain caricature image from National Review that Commenter Hail mentioned under the last post.


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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran: Recent history


Posted On: Tuesday - June 24th 2025 6:34PM MST
In Topics: 
  History  Trump  The Neocons



I will admit that I got sucked into the NeoCon narrative of Trump's attack on Iran to some degree. Being generous here, I think it's possible President Trump did too. No, it's not another war, they want us to understand. It's just this one time, or, well, if the nukes are still there, a few more. We've got to save the world from rogue nations with nukes, no matter what it takes. These guys might just start Armageddon. That's the way I've been hearing it and reading it from people who are otherwise MAGA/America First types.

That all seems familiar to me. Oh yes, if we have any kind of memory and go back 22 years, we can recall months to years of talk about Iraq and THEIR dubya emm dee (WMD), those Weapons of Mass Destruction. I never did get the story on what exactly they were and how they were a threat to America. Being quite a bit younger then, I mistakenly assumed that Bush and his guys knew a lot more than I did about it. Additionally, how this was at all connected to 9/11 was a mystery I've never seen solved.

No, but we're just taking out the nukes this time with no big war planned. (That's a good idea, if it were really the plan, because Iran is a country of 90 million people, not all who are 3rd-World incompetents and the US military, well, that's a post to come shortly.) It's DIFFERENT this time. It doesn't feel different at all though. "Boots on the ground" or not, has Trump started another wasteful, destructive forever war? Another parallel is that people against this warmongering are being mocked. Another one is that there are already "alerts" out about new terrorism, likely with new "security" programs being planned to take away what's left of our freedoms. I don't like ANY of this, and no, it's not what I voted for

The BIG parallel though, being talked about more than it was 22 years ago, is that America has waged unprovoked war on behalf of Israel. This is not America First. What threat is Iran to America? Oh, right, they've been chanting "Death to America" on the streets for 45 years... so let me go back 2 more decades.

I'm going back to 1979 now. After the Shah of Iran had been deposed by the notorious Ayatollah (assholla) Khomeney*, 52 Americans were taken hostage and held at the (former by that time) US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days starting in November 1979. It might be beyond the memories of most Americans, but it was A BIG DEAL for those 444 days.

American tempers flared and anger was at a high level. It didn't help that most Americans, I along with them as a young kid, had not followed the history of the situation with the old Shah. (He had come to America to get treated for his cancer at some point before the Moslem fundamentalist coup.) We were pissed, and maybe we didn't want to know what brought this all on. The title of this post comes from the use of a then-not-so-old (14 y/o then vs. 60 now) Beach Boys'** song called Barbara Ann to rally anger against the country that had been holding 52 Americans. (I don't want to embed this happy and very catchy song here in this post.)

There was the Jimmy Carter-led military's failed rescue attempt in April of '80 that made America look even weaker. Most of another year went by, and this long-running event was very possibly the biggest factor in Ronald Reagan's election win at the end of the year (with perhaps, some many say, some subterfuge involved).

Well, do you hold a grudge with people who are old and/or dead by now for those events of 1979-80 and that some people chant in the streets? Now there's another parallel with the warmongering in Iraq 22 years ago (and one could go back another 13 years from there too). The Bushes were at odds with Saddam Hussein. Not our problem. That was no reason to start a war that was in no way for the defense of America.

I don't know, perhaps Iran would/should (in some ways) think of 2025 America as "The Great Satan" due to our massive corrosive cultural influence anyway, but without our backing Israel so completely, I doubt we'd be so much their enemy. Israel has much more to worry about, as Big Islam does want them dead. Sorry, but still, starting wars and enacting "regime change" on behalf of Israel is simply not America First.*** That regime change thing goes back to the Shah and the 1950s, as this whole thing comes around full circle. (The rhyming of history for these particular political events is not quite on a century cycle.)

I'm not falling for that America-saving-the-world-from-destruction excuse this time, being older and wiser.

As is often the case, there is too much to write about on this subject for one post. The next one will be about Trump's bombing's effect on American politics.



* I realize it's not spelled this way, but since spell-check won't help me, I'll play along with Steve Sailer's deal on Moo-i-mar Cadaffey, and figure it has thousand of spellings. (I'm just covering for laziness here, honestly.)

As an aside, I was young then, but I have a hazy memory of seeing some interview on the B&W TV of that very Ayatollah, as he was living in France, before this crisis and before any regular American had heard of him. I thought later that I should have paid attention more to what some raghead had to say.

** They didn't write it. It had been written by one Fred Fassert and recorded by The Regents in '61.

*** Commenter "The Alarmist", AWOL for a while here but busy with his own blog, noted in the comments that perhaps this is part of some brilliant deal among Israel, AIPAC, and Trump - this deserves its own post.


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The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World


Posted On: Friday - June 20th 2025 12:49PM MST
In Topics: 
  Humor  Treehuggers  Environmental Stupidity

This one's for you, Greta.



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The Ire of the Irish


Posted On: Thursday - June 19th 2025 6:52PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  People's Revolt

Really, Ulstermen, I suppose.



I don't have any of it in me genetically, but somehow I've got some of that Irish quick-temperedness and love or raising hell deep within me. I REALLY got into the hour and a half video (since restricted by age) of British rioters against Population Replacement in Rotherham, Yorkshire, last August*. From our post Rotherham Riot Movie: Rising of the Yorkshiremen:
For me, watching the video below was the equivalent of going to an action film in the 1980s. We don't go out now, the screen is about 0.01% the size, but the action is here and I inside I strongly feel myself being part of the action. One difference here is that this one is real and happening very nearly NOW. I would rate "Yorkshire!, Yorkshire!" as my favorite film of the century so far.

I wrote that I was heartened to see the rioting in Southport and London. Here I was 10 times heartened.

[SNIP]

This hour and a half of action was, again, the best thing I've seen in a long time! I was right there with these blokes. When they yelled at the cops asking whose freaking side are they on, I wanted to be yelling, when they threw rocks, I wanted to be throwing rocks, when they started throwing furniture at them, I wanted to be throwing the furniture.
There might be something wrong with me, I dunno... You just get the feeling that raising hell is the only way to change things. That is the conclusion the Irish seem to have come to, after the tremendous change of their nation over only 3 decades from a Conservative Catholic low-tier-1st-World but IRISH country to a DIEverse Globalist playground. In this case it is Northern Ireland, a separate country, but with the same hot-tempered folks I guess. It was not Nigerians or Somalians but Gypsies, aka, "Roma" this time who did violence against their unwitting hosts.

What are ya' gonna do, bring a petition to Belfast and present it to whatever diverse character is supposed to be leading the Northern Irish right now?** No nation in the West is having any luck with that type of effort. (Perhaps the Danish are an exception - I still have my LEGO post to come.)

The picture above is a screen-shot from a video with some guy in a protest being interviewed by a woman as they walk. She's asking the same old questions about "what happened to cause this anger". What happened was yet another couple of young girls raped by foreign "migrants", and, well, people had had enough. Tempers flared, to put it mildly. I doubt they would have come to what ensued, had there still been a non-Anarcho-Tyrannical state apparatus for redressing grievances.



This violence got more personal than that we discussed from England last summer. Rather than the smashing of windows, throwing of things, and setting of small fires (with minor violence against the Bobbies trying to shut them down, with nobody staying at the Holiday Inn Express hurt (though maybe a little wiser in the morning), this time individual houses of immigrants were set alight. ZeroHedge has the story a week ago: Sex Crimes Spark Three Nights Of Anti-Immigration Riots In N. Ireland
In the wake of yet another alleged sex crime perpetrated by non-natives, a city in Northern Ireland has been rocked by three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots. In this case, two 14-year-olds arrested on Sunday stand accused of attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on the previous night. The ensuing wave of arson, vandalism and anti-police violence -- which has left more than 32 officers injured -- has spread from Ballymena to other towns, prompting authorities to deploy reinforcements from the area and to request 80 officers be dispatched from across the Irish Sea. [Bolding in original.]
This is not the first time:
"She was taken into a house and brutally sexually assaulted on Saturday evening," a woman identified as a relative of the latest alleged victim told a social-media interviewer. "There was a mattress in the garage." According to their conversation, this was the third incident in a fortnight, with at least one of the other incidents also involving a teenage girl.
What started out as a literally (gotta insert that nowadays) peaceful protest changed to a riot. I know the feeling. Something inside you says "OK, that's enough!" This feeling is extremely contagioius.
Following this latest sexual attack, what started as a peaceful Sunday vigil in protest of the sex crime and support of the victim rapidly turned violent, as angry residents broke away from the main event and set out for an immigrant-heavy part of the town of 31,000 residents, where they set homes ablaze, built barricades and hurled blocks and other objects at police. A pregnant woman had to be evacuated when her house was set ablaze. Authorities have condemned what they call "hate-fueled acts and mob rule."
Authorities should have remembered an important thought of President John F. Kennedy's***:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.


In a calmer moment, I don't think your average Irishman wants to burn a pregnant woman out of her house or anyone else either. OTOH, an astute commenter - there are quite a few on ZH, if you look carefully - noted that there were threats of arson against people who might take government money to house these foreigners. A very popular comment by one RedNemesis reads:
Now go burn down the houses of the government officials who imported these animals.
That's some calm cool-headed thinking. That's the problem though - this violence comes out of hot-temperedness, so the officials won't feel it, unless one lives in the wrong neighborhood... one with all those foreigners and violent N. Irish blokes..



Another thing discussed (this was originally from the NY Times, I just realized) was that people in some of these infested N. Irish towns are putting labels like the above on their houses to proclaim their lack of Gypsicanity or Moslemness.
“No one, now or ever, should feel the need to place a sticker on their door to identify their ethnicity just to avoid being targeted,” lamented Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill in a Wednesday statement.
I shouldn't have to either, but still, perhaps I should put a "Black! residence!" sticker over my front door to avoid my being targeted by government officials with anti-White D.I.E. policies, heavy income tax burdens, emergency room bills for illegal aliens, etc ... The sticker companies are hurting, what with the end of the Kung Flu PanicFest and the millions of floor stickers. Why not a sticker that says "Not a Government Official" or "Not a Globalist Nation-Destroyer"? They oughta sell by the millions.

If not the people of other nations learning something from these Ulstermen, maybe even the Globalist rulers could learn something... maybe mull over that JFK warning for a while...



* More:
The Riots in Britain: Lyin' Press version
England Burning: Enough is Enough!

We wrote those 2 before the one excerpted above. Then, we really got into details of the rioting in the next week or two:

Rotherham Riots: Two-Tier Policing
Rotherham Riots - The Cops
Rotherham Riots: Scenes of the hotel "guests"
White Riot - UK reporter Wesley Winter cucks out, with, of course and appropriately, The Clash.

I had images saved for a couple more even. Peaks Stupidity is assuredly your go-to site for riotanalysis.


** Yeah, let me get this straight. They are a part of The United Kingdom, while (southern) Ireland is not. They are not a part of Great Britain, which encompasses only the one island to the east of them. I really never knew nor cared before. They're all a bunch of limeys, no? No. OK, they all talk funny, but they talk funny differently.

*** We are hoping that if Peak Stupidity posts it enough times, the quote-check sites will be obligated to explain that Peak Stupidity is not the originator of this one.


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A Complete Unknown


Posted On: Tuesday - June 17th 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: 
  Music  Movies  ctrl-left

It's been a while since Peak Stupidity has posted a movie review. A Complete Unknown is the name of this movie about Bob Dylan, which was released last year. If you know anything about the musician, the music, or the times, then you'll of course be familiar with the song that the title refers to.

I saw the movie recently, but I hadn't seen the preview (now called a "trailer" - lets just call it a preview):




Since I just now watched that, let me just say that the preview sure has the story jumbled around as far as the timeline. The movie stayed on a linear timeline, which is generally a good thing.

As long-term Peak Stupidity readers would have read time and again here, I will not have my time wasted by movies with agendas (ones I don't like, that is). This was movie number 3, and I already barely remember the other 2 I'd started off watching, for ~ 25 min. on one and only 5 or so on the other. The review would not be here if I hadn't made it through this movie, so let me say that there doesn't seem to be much of a woke agenda in A Complete Unknown.

Obviously a historical movie about the mid-1960s is going to show things I don't like - a quick scene of some Black! (Martin Luther Kang's crowd, I think?) guys in suits that get Bob Dylan writing a song, and then, well, the whole scene, man! However, this movie was pretty clean, as far as Wokeness goes, and we're talking 2024 here! Shocking!

The actors in movies don't matter a lot to me. If I can believe they are those people, then that's good enough. The guy playing Bob Dylan sure had me thinking he was, as did the pretty woman playing Joan Baez. Since there were obligatory* underwear scenes including the latter, I looked pretty closely, and I will say that they even reproduced my memory - from record album covers, I guess, that she's a little hippy. Ooops, I can see that might be confusing to the reader. Joan Baez was a normal-sized hippie, but in the movie, the actress is just a tad wide at the hips. Do they actually cast people to have the same figures? The guy playing Bob Dylan was skinny, as I'd expect of Bob Dylan. Oh, Johnny Cash, played by some guy, has a decent part in the movie. I had no idea that he'd been a big influence on Bob Dylan.

This movie is no comprehensive biography of Dylan. The story starts as he arrives in NYC, and it ends only a couple of years later. It's about the huge folk music, turning to protest music, scene in those mid-'60s years, and Bob Dylan sure was in the right place at the right time. One might also say he played a big part in creating that scene.

I don't know how closely this movie adhered to the details of this portion of the life of Bob Dylan, originally Bob Zimmerman from Minnesota, but early in the movie, he meets Woody Guthrie, folk music legend, slowly dying in a hospital, as middle-aged Pete Seeger spends lots of time keeping him company. This is where the music starts. He played a song or two for Mr. Guthrie, and both Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger saw what a talented songwriter this young Bob Dylan was. If any viewer might have aspirations of being a music star, the movie might make him a little optimistic. It shows Dylan playing in a few bars and then rising to the top, chased down by adoring fans, in no time... seemed like 6 months flat. Must be nice. Did he write any songs complaining about all that within his repertoire. Yes, I think. Commenters might want to name a few.

About the music, finally, A Complete Unknown did a nice job with that. The appropriate great Bob Dylan songs can be heard during certain scenes, and there is plenty of re-enacted concert footage. Not all songs were played through in the concert scenes, which is to be expected, but more importantly, they weren't played through as other scenes, as in a musical. That's what I couldn't stand in Rocketman, what could have been a much better movie about Elton John. I don't like musicals, and this wasn't one.

We've all heard lots of Bob Dylan songs here and there. I can't say I've ever owned an album, as I was never that much of a fan at all. I've enjoyed the songs he's written as sung by other artists, such as The Byrds. There's the well-known Puff the Magic Dragon "by" Peter, Paul, and Mary, one that I can honestly say I've never heard the songwriter's version of.

Because it's about folk music and shows what a big influence Bob Dylan had, this movie has me appreciating him more. (I also hadn't known how big his repertoire was.I've heard about all the songs the movie had playing - he wrote a LOT of great songs.) This isn't spoiling the movie, as it's all known by older music fans, but a big part of the latter half of the movie involves Dylan's interest in other musical styles. I thought his going electric was MUCH later, maybe the 1970s sometime, but it was during the end of those few (couple?) of years of the protest-folk music heyday. This is per the movie timeline, and at that '65 Newport Folk Festival, again per the movie, the fans were pretty pissed off at Dylan's having left them without their protest-folk hero. Perhaps these scenes were in the movie to get just a little bit of action in. (There was one minor fist fight otherwise - this is not quite in the Action Movie genre.)

A song featured at the beginning was So Long (It's been good to know ya') by Woody Guthrie**. The song is ancient sounding that it seems like from a century ago. Well, no, it's only been 90 years.***

So Long is played again in the ending scene, as Bob Dylan leaves the disappointed fans and his most loyal and pretty girlfriend and rides his motorcycle back to New York. Woody Guthrie had died too. The was a poignant and appropriate ending for this story of the American folk and protest music heyday.

Peak Stupidity is somewhat SHOCKED, SHOCKED, to have liked a movie from not only this century and this decade, but last year! If you don't like the music at all it would suck, I imagine.

Well, we've got to embed ONE Dylan song, at least! Though he sang songs I favor more, this is the one the title comes from.





PS: You (might) know how, before the internet, you'd have to be lucky to be able to get complete song lyrics, as only sometimes they might have come printed on the album cover or liner notes****? Well, folk music is one genre in which the lyrics do matter a good bit. Bob Dylan's words are not hard to understand. Somehow, I missed this one line in The Times, They Are a-Changin' maybe THE biggest protest song from this era, at least as far as the acoustic folk songs:
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land,
and don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Your old road is rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand,
For the times, they are a-changin'.
The mothers and fathers were probably right most of the time. The times, though, they WERE a-changin', not least due to subversion instigated by lyric writers and some Communists behind the scenes. (Not shown in the movie.) Wait, is Peak Stupidity calling Bob Dylan a Communist? No, real Communists tend to have crappier music, written by people in dull, olive-drabbed clothing. OK, then don't ask me about John Lennon.



* Or maybe "obligatory" only applies to (a younger) Signorney Weaver in Aliens movies.

** I saw his son Arlo play in concert years ago.

*** Woody Guthrie wrote this one about the Dust Bowl years, in 1935. It was released again in 1951 with some different lyrics, and was covered by The Weavers.

**** Thanks, SafeNow, for the correction on that.


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A big softball in the fight against stupidity


Posted On: Monday - June 16th 2025 4:50PM MST
In Topics: 
  Genderbenders  General Stupidity  Bread and Circuses  Legal Stupidity

I'm pretty sure I first read about this on ZeroHedge, but they use many stories from other sites - I'll get to the original.

Though not a fan of women's sports myself, I see this as innocuous enough:


Yea, Champlin Park Rebels! (In Minnesota) You go, Marissa Rothenberger! She's also received "All-Tournament Team" honors, don'tcha' know? We at Peak Stupidity don't really give a rat's hooootie - tryin' to sound Minnesoootan, don'tcha' know - abooot girls' sports, and we don't operate out of Minnesooota. Still, you go grrllll... wait, there's a tweet over there with this breaking girls' softball news:



The Daily Wire elucidates the slight sex discrepancy here: Boy Pitches Complete-Game Shutout To Win Girls’ Softball Championship. Complete game shutout - that's pretty good, but, wait, he's a boy and boys are stronger and pitch faster and ... oh, I gotta be careful here... I might piss off some Feminists, but then maybe not. I'm surprised at their ability to hold the "girls rule!" and "get off the field, boys!" thoughts in their not-so-pretty little heads at one time. Get back in the dugout, Feminists.

Anyway, that's not at all my point today, as it's all been said before. From the tweet, we read:
Every single Democrat in Minnesota voted to make this insanity possible.
Yes, they're either completely mad, in the British sense, or deliberate destroyers of society and are out for humiliation.

So what? That doesn't matter this time. Can Americans ever realize that not every single facet of life must be decided by government? It's bad enough so many things are. Unlike vaccines (at times), girls softball is not mandatory. You don't have to let, or even make, your girls play in this league and put up with this genderbender stupidity. These girls in the Minnesota High School league aren't making a living at it.
Sickening.
Well, yeah it is, but what's really sickening is that you people feel so helpless about this and won't DO ANYTHING. Don't complain about the judges and legislators. Don't go asking for Trump for help. (He has helped, though it's not really his business, and he'll probably TACO out of this one too.)

This is really easy, like hitting a slow-pitch softball sailing right over the plate. Quit en masse. Play your games at another ballpark in town. Take your balls and go home. (Pun not intended and hopefully not applicable!)



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PS and MAGA to Donald Trump: Drop Dead!


Posted On: Saturday - June 14th 2025 7:25PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump

I wanted to write about Ireland tonight. However, a Gateway Pundit article, really mostly the comments below it, are trying to convince me that I shouldn't be so hopeful that Trump was bullshitting the other day.

Trump is cowardly or stupid, or both. Is he backing down on any serious illegal alien deportation plan due to the riots? How does he not know that that farming and the hospitality industry employ a significant proportion, many millions, of illegal aliens? They cannot NOT be part of any consistent deportation program. If this is what he really thinks, Peak Stupidity and MAGA are done with him:



It's not just an impulsive tweet. Trump Directs ICE to Stop Raids in Agriculture, Hotel and Restaurant Industries — Focus Only on ‘Criminal’ Aliens

I'm encouraged, at least by the multiple hundreds of comments I've read, and that there are over 2,000 of them, under the article. This GP crowd is not the hard-core ZH or iSteve set. They are normies, let's call 'em. Yet 90% of the are PISSED.

Here at Peak Stupidity, we've been very hopeful about this existential issue, the ONLY reason besides just 2 Commie hags and a senile dirtbag to vote against, that we've cared so much about Trump becoming President. If he's really decided to drop the whole thing, than, yeah, he can drop dead. MAGA needs a replacement. It's time for our HR department to get busy.

I wish I was in a better mood for this last post of the week. At least I can read and commiserated with GP commenters and a few real-life friends.

If you're serious about this Trump, DROP DEAD!


That's it. Good night, Peakers. Have a relaxing Sunday.


PS: I wish Ann Coulter was visiting the White House at this moment.... armed. I just checked and she wrote her most recent column before this idiocy out of Trump.

PPS: I finally looked up what TACO stands wrt Donald Trump: Trump Always Chickens Out. That sounds about right at this point.


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Et Tu, China?


Posted On: Saturday - June 14th 2025 1:47PM MST
In Topics: 
  Commies  China  ctrl-left  Deep State  Anarcho-tyranny

This past Monday, Peak Stupidity posted Riot Season '25: Again, brought to you by the ctrl-left. We wanted to say something about these events, but perhaps we shouldn't as we predicted these anti-Rule-of-Law, pro-Invasion riots wouldn't get too far, with 3 points made. Well, that was wrong, it seems. Is Trump actually backing down, or is that just his usual BSing done to ... throw people off guard... or something?



I did mention that, as with the BLM/antifa violence of 5 years back, this is not just some organic display, this time from upset Mexicans. There are people behind it, hiring protestors - pretty good pay too - I thought about it for a second there - supplying protest "materials", organizing, what-have-you. As a ZeroHedge commenter or two wrote, is this a "color revolution", not-so-instant Karma for what the US Deep State has done in the Middle East? Do we deserve it? That depends on who you mean by "we" - surely we MAGA types don't, but then maelstroms aren't generally fair.

Now, I read from ZeroHedge, that besides the usual Globalists, American Commies, and Communistas Migrantes, the Chinese CCP may have been putting in their 2 cents millions of Yuan. House Republicans Probe China-Based Billionaire Allegedly Bankrolling Anti-ICE Riots. Is this just more anti-China hype?

Well, see, the immigration invasion involves various and sundry ills, some that may feed on each other. The importation of so many millions of Chinese people means that among the majority well-meaning, hard-working, though-still-not-so American people, you're bound to have some, a few thousand, maybe more, coming in purely up to no good. Peak Stupidity witnessed the stupidity in Canada in which people are exposing Chinese police stations (What??!) established in Toronto. How do you even get such a thing? Why would you import evil that neither existed nor had any point in existing, in your nation only a few decades back. We have the same stupidity here. From ZH:
U.S. Congressional Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), launched a formal investigation on Friday into the dark money networks and political affiliations of billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. national reportedly residing in Communist China.

Singham is suspected of funding far-left color revolutions in the U.S. with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The inquiry focuses on Singham's possible role as a proxy in CCP propaganda operations and his potential legal exposure under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Oversight Chairman Comer and Declassification Taskforce.

Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) threatened to subpoena the far-left billionaire if he refuses to cooperate with the investigation into potential ties in sparking social unrest through a network of revolutionary leftist non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The lawmakers allege Singham could be linked to the ongoing unrest and chaos in Los Angeles.

In a letter to the billionaire, House Republicans requested documents and information about his dark money network supporting leftist NGOs such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which reportedly played a part in the Los Angeles chaos.




Who knows? It's bad enough these people waste people's time with SinoProp in The Unz Review comments, and that the proprietor there is a sap in this respect. More serioiusly, any group who's got a beef with America or Americans is bound to have people already on the inside who can help useful idiots wreak destruction here.

Fighting against the violent Chicanos there with their Mexican flags (not great optics, IMO, CCP!) might be what we'd like to do, but we need to take aim against those fomenting these color revolution attempts behind the scenes. We have a lot of enemies, most of them already within the gates. That's why we need to deport them en masse, violent criminals, your standard Home Depot Guatemalans, Somalian parasites, Indian, Chinese, and all sorts of foreign university students, and so forth.

The protests are supposedly about stopping deportations. Yet they are also about destruction of society via violent movements. Those instigating the movements should have been deported themselves. The more anti-American groups we deport in large numbers, the smaller the efforts will be to fight deportations and to generally cause mayhem. This is an important battle.

I had more to write about the Anarcho-Tyranny of it all and also some news about actual efforts that the Trump Administration has been up to. However, I'll skip back to overseas in a post to come later today. Then, too, there IS plenty of other stupidity to write about... it will have to wait until next week.



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Deportation Nation: Some bullshit out of President Trump... We sure hope!


Posted On: Friday - June 13th 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump  Big-Biz Stupidity

Just after Peak Stupidity posted the last discussion of Deportation plans and numbers, I saw the following tweet out of the President:



First of all, Trump is plain wrong in his statement. Americans WOULD DO and HAVE DONE this work before, but it just has to pay decent. Price out produce sometime, get a '25 price on a cucumber and a tomato, subtract out a big mark-up, do a little estimating on how many can be picked in an hour, and tell me that the labor is a BIG part of these "great" farmers' production costs. Then there is modern machinery with amazing electronics and machine vision, and remember the adage about "necessity being the mother of invention.

Then too.. NO! Just, NO! They are all criminals by definition, you dumbass! (This is directed at Trump.) If we deport every one of those gang members and violent criminals, we are now left with 10-12 million MORE illegal aliens than there were at the end of the Trump-45 term.

That's the reason that I don't like listening to the words out of this guy's mouth or the stupidity flying off his fingers. I read about what IS being accomplished, and I'm more than mildly encouraged. Then he has to say this. Is Trump just being his usual want-to-be-liked bullshitter, placating the Big Biz interests that don't want any serious number of deportations? I sure hope so. He just sounds like such a traitor to MAGA when he does this crap.

Then I remember his talk about a Big Beautiful Door in that Big Beautiful Wall that never got finished, from 8-9 years ago. "You can go out on your own, and just apply to come in LEEGULLLEE", Trump is NOT, unfortunately, the only one saying even nowadays. I sure hope that's a ploy too. "Ooops the entry app is down. It may be a few years.... or never."

Then, as the Administration has made war on universities and foreign students therenrolled, I was very happy about this other, albeit maybe small potatoes, avenue leading toward the reversal of the Population Replacement Programme. But ...



1/2 a million is a LOT! Peak Stupidity has our own views on China, which include seeing the place as only an economic enemy. Trump is more adversarial with the Chinese. Does he not see that if only one in a thousand of these people is a military spy, then that's 500 of them? (No, I forgot, he can't do numbers like that - Trump, it's 'A LOT".) Spread around the universities and national labs, they can really do some damage. Plus, how does this comport with what he's been saying?

Same thing - I really hope that Trump just said that as some mindless BS at a press conference because he didn't have anything in mind to say about the subject. That normally does not stop him from talking.

That's a lot of hope on our part. I see a lot of good going on, but it's very frustrating to hear and read anything out of this guy. You'll never know what kind of stupidity he'll slip in there. It's got to be frustrating for his own people too. Steven Miller and Tom Homan must be used to this, and they probably ignore this stupidity too. Trump may not be a man of action, but his people are this time around. I'd rather just find out what they've been doing and not hear the BS out of the boss.

Next time, we will post about some action being taken in Deportation Nation.



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Deportation Nation: Goals and Activities Update


Posted On: Thursday - June 12th 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Trump

This is VDare's job, dangit! The reader must know by now how pissed your PS blogger is over the lack of that informative website that had been there for us for 2 decades. We'd have saved ourselves lots of effort getting the straight scoop, with lots of numbers and inside information, had the fatassed* tyrant Letitia James not waged lawfare against them. The last 6 months, or maybe right back to Trump's election win last November, would have been the best time in VDare's history!

We'll keep updating the reader with personally gathered info (at times) and from our various few favored websites on this most existential of issues. Here's Trump's Staff General**, one might call him, in the immigration war:



I had a short Steven Miller interview to show. Not only was I not able to find it on the video-hosting sites, I lost the tab here, search sucks in general now, and it sucks even WITHIN the Gateway Pundit site. That rant over, I can first say it's not the one about Steven MIller leaving the reporter "literally shaking', as is their style of juvenile feminine hype. (The only people I have EVER noticed literally shaking are in California, you know, in those videos taken during Richter 7.5 or higher earthquakes.)

OK, but I can go by memory. To a reporter whose name doesn't at all matter to me, Steven Miller talked about a goal of 3,000 illegal alien deportations daily to be reached, sometime soon. That's about a million a year, meaning, if Donald Trump can live 40 more years, and with the Constitution being, errrr, tweaked a bit, we can get rid of the likely 40 million of them. That's no good. Mr. Miller DOES understand the numbers though. He indicated in the interview that the number would have to go up from there.

I've heard a number of 1/2 a million of the Brandon/Mayorkas-invited 10-12 million being those hard-core criminals. It makes sense that the expulsion of those violent types is first priority, but it absolutely cannot be the end of this. Even, as per Mr. Miller and Trump's words at times, the 10-12 million recent "newcomers" cannot be the end of this. That would put us back to the US of '20, as far as the number of illegals, and the number of LEGAL entrants is not falling drastically (as it should), if at all, last I read. I really don't like hearing that continual talk that we will reverse the damage from Dark Brandon. It sets up the expectation that this is a fine goal.

Tom Homan, the Field General**, as we dub him, talks "collateral". He uses this wartime term to warn hopefully the illegals themselves - though they are not likely to know the word "collateral" or any other English words - that if you are around during an arrest of a hard-core criminal, well, as a criminal yourself, you're fair game. That's fine, but I think that too sets up a bad expectation: We are not out to get you purely because you are here illegally. We should be!

Those are just the words though, perhaps said to put the press at ease slightly. No, they're never at ease when you threaten the Population Replacement Programme, but it's a strategy, I think. I hope it's that. Don't yet let on to everyone the real intention of ramping this up into a full Operation Wetback 2.0.***



Yet, general deportations ARE happening. Gateway Pundit, as much as it takes to put up with their juvenile hype, is very good on this immigration issue, so more from that site a week and a half back was ICE Conclude Largest Immigration Enforcement to Date-Almost 1,500 Arrested in MA, Over Half With Criminal Convictions. That half of them had criminal convictions is important, but I wouldn't care if 2% of them had. That should be the point. You're a criminal by definition. That's just one story on just one day. Were it a story of a raid like this in EVERY STATE on the average weekly, now that would be at the rate that actually works! That's about 10,000 per day.

We've written before that we'd like to see numbers of 10,000 daily deportations. That's yet still only 3 million yearly deportations, meaning a reversal of ONLY the Brandon crowd (as a tally - not necessarily from the Brandon surge - it doesn't matter too much****) during Trump's term, and dozen year steady program, were that allowed to happen. However, that does not take into account self-deportations, something discussed before. Based on President Eisenhower's 1954 Operation Wetback results, 85% - 90% of the people who left self-deported. That only works if our deportation program is continued with steady numbers and with lots of publicity (I don't see THAT as a problem) unrelentingly.

Think of what 10,000 people a day actually feels like. I've lived in a "small town". If you recall old rock singer Johnny Cougar's Small Town from his song - somewhere near his melon camp, IIRC - of Seymour Indiana, I can tell you from driving through long ago that it wasn't exactly what I call a small town. (I was enough of a fan to divert a couple of hundred miles on one of my long road trips to... end up buying a hamburger and being told at the root beer stand that he lives in S. Carolina. ) I think of 500 to a couple of thousand as a small town. My memory is pretty good, as wiki says***** the town had 15-odd thousand residents then (and over 21,000 now).

One can see how big the numbers must be. A number of people that would fill a whole medium sized town - and unfortunately DO - must be sent home every day or two... for YEARS... or just GO home. They came in over half a century, most of them in the last quarter century. This will take a big effort. It sound daunting.

What can make it less daunting is taking away all the incentives for these illegals to stay here, again promoting self-deportation. Trump and his people have been working on that too. The States that are not pro-PRP must do their parts too. Can we stop the free education, "free" healthcare at taxpayers' and insured people's expense, and all that? It helps if the US Feral gov't will not threaten you if you take away the freebies. The current Fed-Gov may be a breath of fresh air in this respect.

I'm have hope that the talk by Steven Miller, Tom Homan, and even Trump(ha!) is well thought out. Per a strategy, they may want to state their goals as just exporting hard-core criminals, then move on to "we're reversing the damage done by Brandon", and then just keep on trucking...

The ctrl-left is taking a stand early on with these riots. They are trying to go all Barney Fife here, wanting to nip this PRP-resistance in the bud. Nip it, Gavin, nip it!



This new Summer of rioting plan has already become bigger than I'd figured just a couple of days back. Let's hope the President and the American people can push through this, keeping the deportation program not only continuing but expanding to what it must become. We'll have more to come with various heartwarming stories of Deportation Nation.



* Again, we're not trying to be mean here, but "fatassed", or "fat-ass", if you wish, as applied to this particular government official, is de rigueur per the AP style guide - who are WE to argue?

** See The Trump-47 Administration and the Existential Issue from a few weeks after the election of '24.

*** I think the name doesn't work anymore. I don't say that out of Political Correctness, but the illegal invaders are from ALL OVER the world now. They don't all swim the Rio Grande either. (Those were the days, my friend!)

**** ... though, granted, the later arrivals are probably the most extremely foreign. People were flying into Ecuador from all points of the compass and making a trek from there.

***** It also starts of the history of Seymour with the Lenapi Indians! Well, I guess... did these Lenapi's know they were living in Indiana? What a coincidence!


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Sweden: We told you so


Posted On: Tuesday - June 10th 2025 7:49PM MST
In Topics: 
  Immigration Stupidity  Lefty MegaStupidity  Music  Feminism  Female Stupidity  World Political Stupidity

Note: It's the American immigration stupidity that Peak Stupidity cares about above all - above all other nations' stupidity of this sort and above all other stupidity here too. This post was on-deck though, so if I don't write it tonight, I'll never get to it. It could be a lesson to us too.



Katie Hopkins is worried. She's a writer* for the UK Daily Mail. She's a woman too. (Well, I mean, you can't just assume...) As is often the case, women worry about women things, often with no regard to any other aspects of these problems. She's worried about the lives of women in Sweden.

If you are thinking that this is about the fate of the girls of ABBA in this later stage of their lives, you just may be thinking of 1970s or '80s Sweden, in which that might just be the most important news. That was a different country. Compassionate people of all sorts, lots of women and their boyfriends who are in it to get laid mostly, have changed the country since the time of ABBA. (Agnetha, Benni, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid, though one could change the order somewhat - 4 permutations is all. Combinations, maybe(?))

No, there's some serious stuff that Katie Hopkins is worried about. You gotta figure from the long headline - Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth. Well that sucks. Life can be sad there and not in the way described by the forlorn lover in the ABBA song below.
I didn't come to Sweden for the riots. Or because of Trump. In fact, I was supposed to be here in December — before airline strikes stood in my way.

I came because I was asked. Repeatedly.

Swedish women reaching out by email, by letter, to quietly show me what has become of their country.
Why would Trump have anything to do with Katie Hopkins going to Sweden? Whatever... there's a whole lot of misery of Swedish women described here (nothing about the men), and I can't paste it all in. A 12 y/o was raped by a 45 y/o, both immigrants, so I guess that's a double negative or something, women have to run home from work for their safety, this single lady's apartment got broken into, her laptop stolen and her car keys, then the car (makes sense), and grenades, yeah, you find them set in trash cans for some purpose or other.

This is in one of the "go" suburbs, so imagine what the "no-go suburbs" are like!
She doesn't want her picture to be seen now. Not in case the migrants attack again, but because the feminists will come after her and hound her as a racist for speaking out. The migrant men scare her. But it is Swedish women who have silenced her.
Hey, Katie Hopkins, guess what? YOU'RE! A! FEMINIST! You're very much a part of this attitude.

The (almost all Feminist) women of Sweden over the last quarter century have been so compassionate, pushing those non-compassionate men and the few mean stodgy traditional Conservatives to chillax and let these poor refugees come in from all over the 3rd World. They really couldn't have picked worse places than the Moslem world, Africa, and, yeah Moslem Africa to invite them from either. That's being REALLY REALLY compassionate. Moreso, they didn't really need to feel be made to feel obligated, as Swedes were never "oppressive colonists", building up shitholes into semi-shitholes, as the English, Dutch, French, you-name-em did. So, that means they've been SUPER expialidouchist compassionate. (From the sound of it now, it was really quite atrocious!)

The problem with this feminine compassion is that, without perspective, imagination, and foresight, you don't understand that maybe, just maybe, those old stodgy Conservatives who didn't want these poor refugees coming in by the hundreds of thousands have compassion too. They might have even more of it, likely some compassion for the future generations of Swedes, who might really have enjoyed growing up in the safe, quiet, peaceful White environment as they did.
Later I went back to walk the no-go suburbs, ending up back in the centre of the town. A week earlier this place was torched and looted as the world looked on.

I wondered what was strange, besides the weird calm. And realised it was that I was the only woman in the place. Everyone else was young, African and male. Speaking Arabic. Hanging about, utterly without purpose.
What a brave reporter is this Katie Hopkins. Unfortunately, she's had to notice some things. But "this place was torched", passive voice, as the world looked on. I'm not sure what Katie would have had "the world" do about it. I have some ideas of my own...
Frustrated, I asked a few of them what they were doing, what was the point, what they would ever achieve by standing about. The mum in me was furious.

'F*ck off, you white woman whore, go suck your mum,' they replied, and proceeded to demonstrate what they did to their 'little white girlfriends'.
Now, that's not nice at all! Yet, Miss Hopkins proceeds to tell us readers that this is not about Moslem, Christian, young or old. All the women, like young Swedish Lucy, are scared. All the scary people, where DO they all come from?
I left saddened. Saddened that in a country so proud of women's rights, that leads the way on maternity and female equality, pockets of life like this exist.
Katie Hopkins is either really stupid, or, failing that, too much of a proud Feminist to connect the dots. Had women not been in Swedish politics and voting, none of this would have happened. Some men with ACTUAL compassion and wisdom would have stopped this invasion of foreigners after a few rapes and a few hand grenade explosions or even before.

Here, she just couldn't help herself:
When Trump turned the world's attention to Sweden by clumsily referring to the effects of mass-migration on what used to be seen as the most liberal country on earth, the country was ready and waiting to blow.
Trump has been quite right about what's happened in Sweden. Still, speaking clumsily(?) is bad. Being told to go suck your Mom is apparently less clumsy.

I would love to tell Katie Hopkins "I told you so!" This doesn't work with women though. "What does that even mean?!"


I really like this next ABBA song and the whole Greatest Hits album, with only one song a bit too sappy to be played in front of people without embarrassment - Nina, Pretty Ballerina. This band put together a number of hits albums. This is the one with one couple kissing on the park bench, while the other 2 band members, on the back, don't seem to be getting along. Originally, the song was from the March 1973-released album Ring, Ring (Good title song too!) It was originally sung in German, but released later in English in English speaking countries like South Africa and Rhodesia .

Now, in this duet, the girl singer is pretty sad. It's like this:
Day is dawning and I must go.
You're asleep but still I'm sure, you'll know
why it had to end this way.

You and I had a groovy time,
but I told you somewhere down the line
you would have to find me gone
I just have to move along...
Bjorn and Bennie wrote the song. The male part of the duet is by Bjorn, and the female part is both of the girls. Yeah, the song's #SAD, but not as #SAD as the modern lyrics would have it, something about getting raped twice this week and nearly blown to smithereens by a hand grenade... uhhhh, so anyway, enjoy the old European world of a half century ago, even if only in your head....




* No, never heard of her before.


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Riot Season '25: Again, brought to you by the ctrl-left


Posted On: Monday - June 9th 2025 8:20PM MST
In Topics: 
  Commies  Immigration Stupidity  Trump  Race/Genetics  ctrl-left

... more of our usual suspects sponsors, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.*



Peak Stupidity can't cover all the news or present a continually updating set of headlines like GateWay Pundit**. The anti-criminal-detention riots going on in Los Angeles is THE big story, I suppose, so we should discuss it a bit, especially since we've got a lot of immigration stories to present this week.

The ctrl-left is always up for causing mayhem for the purpose of plain destruction of society in general, but if they can put pressure on and distract President Trump and rile up their voters against him, that's an additional good reason. The combination BLM/antifa riots allegedly on behalf of some worthless Black! reprobate 5 years ago were a challenge to the Trump-45 Administration. He could have called out the Guard then and been called a tyrant, or not and let billions of destruction happen and distraction of any strategy Trump may have had then (not much)

It was a lose/lose for Trump, as America still had a high level of Black! worship in "us". That the chosen cause for the riots happened in Minneapolis, a city of formerly (we hope!) suicidally nice White people helped keep the excuse alive... all over the world even.

The whole '20 SOPP (Summer Of Peacful Protests) worked out pretty well for the Commie ctrl-left and Globalists behind the scenes in all respects. (Well, other than those 3 bastards getting expertly shot by young hero Kyle Rittenhouse, that is.) This time, I don't think this will be the case. Let me bring up 3 reasons, and there are probably more:

1) Los Angeles is not Minneapolis. In this case, diversity might really be a strength, as perverse and stupid that normally sounds. Southern Cal has got to be majority Hispanic, but there are dozens of big groups of other ethnicities. You name it - I can't, but say, Chinese, Black Africans*** Laotians, Armenians, I don't know, places you've never heard of probably have enough people in LA to have their own ethnic ski clubs! These people might even be composed of quite a few illegal immigrants, but they don't necessarily cotton to these cholos and their Mexican flags out there... and the destruction. (Think rooftop Koreans.)

Plenty of Hispanics there, even the many or most(?) who ARE illegal are not the ungrateful America-haters that you see out in the streets. Most want to have a peaceful family life and make money. This is not to say they they too shouldn't be sent home too.

Moreover, these people aren't suckers for sob stories about poor, poor would-be valedictorians, like White people are. The sob stories don't work with them, not unless it's their own tribe there in ICE detention, awaiting deportation.

2) Many stupid Americans fell for the poor Black! man with the breathing difficulties story. The video of what really happened - there's a whole movie out there, for cryin' out loud - but the useful idiots of the ctrl-left did not want to learn. They were happy to have a cause, never mind the truth. Poor, poor, Black! people...

This time, the ctrl-left tried running with an even more worthless and violent man - and yes, that IS possible - than George Floyd with the TdA gang member that they wanted to have brought back from a Salvadoran prison. I mean, yeah, George Floyd stuck a gun in a pregnant woman's belly one time and passed around fake bills, and may never have had a real job, but then you want us to all rally around a foreign alien rapist and murderer this time? That was asking a lot of the public. So, they've switched to rallying around foreigners detained and slated for deportation. They've got one more obvious reason to make this their cause, as we'll discuss in the immigration posts.

Unfortunately for the ctrl-left. Americans are strongly against being replaced by foreigners. It doesn't help when the riots involve the flying of foreign flags - it makes the people look like invaders or something... not a good look.

3) Trump-47 is not Trump-45. He's learned a lot from last time around, his mistakes in not putting down the Commie-instigated rioting being one of them. I think most Americans would like to see him crack some heads this time. Whatever the legalities are, we've played by the rules as the ctrl-left doesn't, holding thousands of Political Prisoners for years and trying to hound and ruin their opponents with lawfare and then trying to kill them.

Make no mistake - and hopefully I haven't here ;-}, there are evil nefarious people behind this rioting that don't really care about those specific illegal aliens in the ICE house. It's about societal destruction for them, working behind the scenes... very Commie-ish ... as it was 5 years ago and also 60. We'll get to that in another post.



* After so many threats to cut this measly amount of the Feral Budget, that given to NPR and ETV, will not even Trump-47 rid us of the turbulent propagandists?

** I actually find most of the material there of interest but just don't like the style of presentation.

*** Yes, there are lots of them straight outta Africa now - see our posts Coming to America - Part 1 and - Part 2. Steve Sailer mentioned this in his Tucker Carlson interview.


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Irony: Big Gov California politician will learn the difficulty of fighting Big Gov.


Posted On: Saturday - June 7th 2025 9:25PM MST
In Topics: 
  Genderbenders  California  Trump  US Feral Government  ctrl-left  Socialism/Communism  Taxes



Gateway Pundit had the headline shown above, so I couldn't resist their post. President Trump is attempting to withhold Federal funding for California Universities because they are still pushing the transgender business, in defiance of Presidential E.O.s.

Now there's a whole can of worms I gotta open. E.O.'s shouldn't be a thing because the President isn't a King. The Legislative Branch spends the money too, right? Then, these programs - funding of State universities - are unConstitutikonal to begin with. Welllll, but since the programs ARE in place, and the President administers them, if he decides the funding of BLT-G++ isn't part of Congress' intention, this administrating can go along the lines of "Cut that out, or the money stops!"

Yet California House Speaker Robert Rivas wants the American-taxpayer-funded California genderbender programs to continue, and he thinks California should withhold money from the Feds in retaliation for any cuts in university support by Trump. There's some logic to it... the kind one sees out of toddlers having temper tantrums. "I want it! I want that money! It's mine!"

If he is serious about this, Cal Speaker Rivas will run into what I see at the #1 evil out of 5 listed of the US Income Tax. In an old post of ours of the Morning Constitutional series - Part 3 on Amendment XVI, we discussed 5 evils of the income tax, though some bright commenter might have some others we've forgotten.

That #1 evil is described as "The FLOW of the money". Here's our explanation of the problem, and you can just substitute California for our randomly-picked Arkansas:
With the income tax, if you picture a scenario in which the people or State government want to fight the Feds, how will that work? The money already flows directly from paychecks or checks for money still "owed" of individuals, to the Feds. It is doled back out to the States and people in massive amounts in various ways.

Got a disagreement with the Feds, Arkansas? Tough shit. Do you want that highway money, that welfare money, those business incentives? Better get your mind right, son. "Yeah, well, we'll withhold OUR money. Uhh, we'll get everyone in Arkansas to get his employer to stop the withholding and then assure them that we will fight for them in IRS Federal tax court, and then ... OK, OK, how high, Sir?!!"
I am pretty sure that this piece-o'-work Rivas is a strong supporter of soaking the rich... well, OK, Middle Class using the Feral Income Tax system. California itself has a pretty impressive version of its own. From the GP post:
Upon reading this [A statement from the Whitehouse about "not funding the demise of our country"], the speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert Rivas, erupted in anger and threatened various responses, including withholding federal taxes from the federal government.

“This is unconstitutional and vindictive,” Rivas wrote on BlueSky. “We’re the nation’s economic engine and the largest donor state, and deserve our fair share.”

“I’ll use every legal and constitutional tool available to defend CA — we must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.”
Did you ever think about how that could even happen, Senor Rivas? You Big Government types set this system up over the last century and a decade. The implementation of periodic withholding, back during WWII, took away the last good options. Seriously, whaddya' gonna do?

Irony, hypocrisy, I'm too tired to figure out what this really is, but I had another example that was supposed to be in this post. That'll come Monday, and it'll fit in great with another immigration-invasion week, which will have lots of good, yes, GOOD news. Stayed tuned, Peakers. Have a happy Sunday!


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