On Moslems in Ireland - just one anecdote
Posted On: Tuesday - March 19th 2019 4:14PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Educational Stupidity
Seven-year-old Mohammad entered his classroom in Dublin on the first day of school.
“What’s your name?”, asked the teacher.
“Mohammad,” he replied.
“You’re in Ireland now,” replied the teacher, “so from now on you will be known as Mike.”
Mohammad returned home after school.
“How was your day, Mohammad?” his mother asked.
“My name is not Mohammad. I’m in Ireland and now my name is Mike.”
“Are you ashamed of your name?” his mother asked. “Are you trying to dishonor your parents, your heritage, your religion? Shame on you!”
And his mother beat the shit out of him.
Then she called his father, who beat the shit out of him again.
The next day Mohammad returned to school.
The teacher saw all his fresh bruises. “What happened to you, Mike?” she asked.
“Well, shortly after becoming an Irishman, I was attacked by two fucking Moslims.”
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AntiChrist-frontrunner Spawn Suffers SJW Spat
Posted On: Tuesday - March 19th 2019 8:58AM MST
In Topics: Humor AntiChrist Hildabeast ctrl-left
Near the time of our Blog-Birth, in December of '16, Peak Stupidity posted our thoughts on the possible AntiChrist candidates in American politics. Our speculation on the Øb☭ma, the Hildabeast, and, finally, the Soros, put us in a quandary. It's not like a lot of research has been done, and sources seem few and far between regarding this 3rd rail, if I may, of American politics, beating out Social Security* by a pubic hair.
Chelsea Clinton may or many not be the offspring of one ex-President William J. Clinton, but there's no doubt on the whole internet that she is the spawn of one of our AntiChrist possibilities. As much as Bill Clinton was one sleazy, corrupt, very-likely murderous bastard, he did all of that out of self-interest, with little regard for anything about falling from Grace or some kind of War in Heaven. Nope, he was just in it for the money, fame, and poontang. The other one, who shall be named the Hildabeast, has some very real AntiChristaline properties. The spawn of this marriage of political convenience, Mrs. Chelsea Clinton, of New York City, though a part of the ctrl-left, just does not seem AntiChrist material. Can it even be passed on genetically, and if so, does it skip a generation? Further readings of the Book of Revelation may be in order. (Hopefully, it's on the internet and hasn't been banned by some other AntiChrist candidates.)
Mrs. Chelsea Clinton, shown in the picture above "of child" is having her 3rd. That is admirable to Peak Stupidity, especially because we have not heard of any late 1970's-horror-movie type incidents of any OBs being bitten in the neck to bleed out during delivery for EITHER of the first two. Of course, that is just the exact sort of thing that'd be kept hush-hush for our privileged elites, come to think of it.
No, really, good on Chelsea Clinton for being a three-time Mom. No matter how feminist the Hildabeast is, would she not still be proud and happy, AntiChrist or not? I would hope that, if she really spends time with her offspring, Chelsea Clinton would become a bit more conservative. This finally leads to the point today, which from a NY Post article (warning, may jam up your browser, so don't keep it loaded long) about this Mrs. Clinton suffering a SJW's spittle and accusations of her speech being a cause of the ChristChurch massacre.
Let me digress again, here, the place is ChristChurch is it? It's not MohammadMosque, come to think of it, so what the hell were those people doing there in New Zealand to begin with?! Really, this is not to say they deserved to have been slain, by any means, but, again, as per Peter Brimelow's article discussed yesterday, the whole idea of importing such a dissimilar culture is some high-level stupidity! You don't get kind of stupidity at the dollar store, no, you've got to go shopping on 5th Avenue or Rodeo Drive for this shit.
Oh, yeah, well, blah, blah, the dot-Indian-looking SJW verbally ripped on Mrs. Clinton, per the NY Post:
“After all that you have done, all the Islamophobia that you have stoked,” senior Leen Dweik angrily tells Clinton in a since-deleted viral video posted Friday night by student activist Rose Asaf. “This right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words you have put out in the world.Miss Asaf was virally angry, see, and Miss Dweik was literally seething ... who TF are these people?
“The 49 people died because of the rhetoric you put out there,” seethed Dweik, wearing a Bernie Sanders 2020 T-shirt — and referring to Clinton’s criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel last month.
“I’m so sorry you feel that way,” Clinton, a co-founder of NYU’s multicultural center who is pregnant with her third child, responded, prompting other students to chime in.OK, enough defending of Chelsea Clinton, possible, but unlikely spawn of the AntiChrist, against some idiot Moslem loudmouths. I gotta agree - "I'm so sorry you feel this way." is one really asinine comment that I've heard too much of myself (did Chelsea get it from her Dad, when told "No, that's no cigar! I'm not doing it!"?). Listen, if you don't agree with an in-your-face SJW like this, then tell him off; there's no need to be sorry.
“What does ‘I’m sorry you feel that way’ mean? What does that mean?” a person shouted from the crowd
OTOH, is this questioning of her right to have her opinions, no matter how idiotic, going to possibly nudge Mrs. Clinton in a Libertarian direction? That assumes a certain amount of logic, so ... OK, I don't know whose side to be on, but it's very nice rooting against both. That's one thing about this "Coalition of the Fringes" thing (Steve Sailer terminology), especially with the Blue D-squad of The Party, in which white people (especially men, but women too now) have been sidelined. That's where you just make sure the Gator Aid is full, and take video with your cell phone. In ZeroHedge parlance, go long Orville Redenbacher!
* Here's Part 2 on the Social Security
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Two Great VDare articles
Posted On: Monday - March 18th 2019 8:58AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites US Feral Government alt-right/MAGA Big-Biz Stupidity
It's another "hey, read this" post, but VDare does have some great writing, oh, and I'll point to 2 articles, both from today.
Peak Stupidity has not posted on the Christchurch, New Zealand massacre for a number of reasons. Without a TV, it's not like I hear much about it besides what I WANT TO READ, but I'm guessing it's 24/7/2-month-long(?) infotainment at this point. Besides it being covered nonstop, to where you've heard all you want to hear about it, I couldn't do as good a job making a point as Mr. Peter Brimelow.
In Christchurch Massacre: Yes, It’s Terrorism, Yes, It’s Tragic—and Yes, Elites Could Halt It, By Halting Immigration. But They Won’t., Mr. Brimelow, who owns the jernt*, does such a polite, civil, and erudite job of saying what would have taken multiple cusswords and special characters for the Peak Stupidity blog, that it's just as great a read, as you'd get here. ;-}
What it boils down to is simply this: What did you people think was going to happen?! (By "you people", I mean the Globalist and ctrl-left massive-immigration pushers.) Not only do you act through your government puppets against the will of a majority of the people to replace them and their culture, but you do your best to suppress all dissent. It's not even that people can't vote their way out, but they can't even get together to try, without being accused of "hate crimes", de-"platformed" off of the social media and possibly fired or even arrested. Did you all think nobody will fight back? Hey, I'm not condoning a mass murder any more than most others, but this is what's gonna happen. I thought you all wanted a "conversation". If your conversations are going to be the usual lectures without any chance for any civil input from the alt-right, then that input will come in the form of lead.
Mr. Brimelow includes the John F. Kennedy quote that Peak Stupidity has mentioned before:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."The 2nd article today that I ask the reader here to read is by "Washington Watcher", who's October '18 article on "Tech Totalitarianism" was discussed just this past Wednesday" with a bit of dissension. In Christchurch Massacre Spurs Tech Totalitarians—But They Have Enemies Trump Could Work With, If He Would Focus, Mr. Watcher pretty much alleviates my concerns with his ideas on how these TT's COULD be dealt with (though, this "Trump Could Work With" part of the title is quite optimistic at this point!).
In that previous post here, I'd stated that getting the US Feral Gov't involved in determining what is censorship is a really bad idea and WW concurs here. (The background story is the D-Candidates proposals including an inadvertently good plan by Chief Warren):
That “nondiscriminatory dealing with users” part of her plan offers the possibility that Warren would crack down on censorship. Her proposal also empowers “federal regulators, State Attorneys General, or injured private parties” to sue tech giants that violate these rules. That potentially gives the victims of tech censorship the power to right their wrongs in court.The author then points out that much of "Conservatism, Inc" uses the big-biz Libertarian idea of leave-them-be just based on their decent treatment by the Googles, etc, due to not going too far off the reservation by spouting off too much truth. He states that National Review, perhaps the flagship of Conservatism, Inc. gets donations from Google. I see how it goes ...
But of course this would be implemented by progressives. And anyone whose attended college know what that can mean.
Similarly, #MeToo’d Senator Al Franken (D.- MN) offered similar criticisms of tech power in 2017 op-ed and urged Congress to do something about it. But Franken also wanted Big Tech to do more to suppress “hate speech” and “misinformation.” State power was to be wielded to break up tech giants and make them more effective censors. [We must not let big tech threaten our security, freedoms and democracy, by Al Franken, The Guardian, November 8, 2017]
* Just some Archie Bunker- (of All in the Family) speak from years back, meaning "joint", which is also Olde Americanne (see that extra 2 letters adds cache**) for what, "platform"??
** See the last paragraph in that post linked-to for my beef on that stuff.
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Is Man-Bun guy the new Long-Haired Hippy?
Posted On: Saturday - March 16th 2019 7:45PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Curmudgeonry
You see a lot of this hairstyle on younger men these days. It's a "man-bun", as that clump of hair on the back of the top is called for women. On women it is not particularly sexy (I'm sure not meant to be) but on men I think it looks damn weird. It's not effeminate, I guess, but "may I ask why?" I suppose this is about the most Curmudgeonly thing there is to say, and yeah, we've been through this before.
I wasn't around for it, personally, but could you imagine the thoughts in conservative's/curmudgeon's heads upon seeing the first really long-haired guys walking around. The disdain level had to be off the charts. Then there were The Beatles and other rock&roll combos (they used to call bands that). Once the women were OK with it, then all bets were off, and it's hard to make fun of a large group of guys with long-hair, unless you have an even larger group.
I suppose, then, that I should feel the same way that most men felt about the long-hair by 1968 - the women don't care, it saves money on haircuts, and if you can't beat 'em (cause they sometimes fight back), join 'em. Still, I don't see any reason to want to look like one of these guys today with this type of hairstyle. I don't think I will ever come to appreciate the man-bun. It's just another small piece of stupidity, and as the kid at the grocery said, as I wouldnt' let him card me for the 1/2 case of Miller High Life, "You need to know how to pick your battles."
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Stopping the complete replacement of Americans
Posted On: Saturday - March 16th 2019 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Dead/Ex- Presidents
This short post today could easily be a summary of the whole purpose of VDare.com, one of Peak Stupidity's favorite political websites (#2 on the blogroll on the right --->). I'll just preface it with a word or two about my tremendous disappointment in President Trump. If he'd really had it in his head to do what I'm posting below, starting 2 years and a coupla' months ago, and been 1/2 the art-of-the-dealer he boasted he was, the world would already have been changed for the better.
In a series of posts called Ronnie vs. Donnie (Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and a Conclusion), and starting from a boast of President Trump's, Peak Stupidity compared Donald Trump to Ronnie Reagan. We found Trump the loser in this comparison by far.
President Reagan, with the help of Maggie Thatcher, Helmut Kohl of West Germany, the old anti-Commie (what a refreshing though) Pope John Paul II, Pole Lech Walesa and millions of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and mechanical/electrical engineers and technicians won the Cold War against very big political odds, just in the US alone! That was the most important issue for any sane American of that era. President Trump, with a Republican (yeah, mostly cucks, but still) House and Senate, did pretty much, well, SQUAT on the most important issue of THIS CURRENT ERA!
This prescription for stemming the tide is just for the record, I guess. It's pretty much what Ann Coulter, PS #1 pundit, would put in a summary, too, and the President had her ear to some extent until he got butt-hurt about her criticism of his accomplishing, well, SQUAT, on the existential issue of the immigration invasion. Would that the President read Peak Stupidity (we don't care about any nasty tweets back - we're not tuned in to that shit - I don't even want to know what's the frequency, Kenneth?!"
Here’s how it’d have to go, people to have any chance of fixing things: When you are in a hole, the first thing you do is STOP DIGGING! That’s what the border “wall” (a decent working barrier would be fine) is about. This must be done before or simultaneously with the next steps, or there is just no point.
The next steps are:
1) There are tens of millions, call it 30-40, of illegal aliens in America. They must be deported upon arrest for any crime, or upon failure of an E-verify check, upon notification to ICE from anybody, or anything else other than random stops just for Orwellian “citizenship checks”. Once this starts happening in earnest, there will be millions who will realize it might be better to go home under their own power than to be caught in this system, with its “indignities” and such.
2) I don’t just mean Hispanics that came across the southern border. There have been millions of illegal entries due to overstaying of Visas of all kinds – student, fiance, work, and tourist visas. Information on most of these people is KNOWN. Finding them can be a different story, but it’s the job of the Feral Gov’t to take care of this. Also see (1), as in, once this is seriously underway, many (especially the tourist overstayers) will want to get out to keep their “good name”.
3) There are millions of legal resident Green-Card holders, foreign “nationals”, that is. 10-year Green-Cards should be rescinded, with a few month’s warning. The 2-year card holders should be scrutinized, by computer, and then by people, to discern whether they legitimately ought to be here.
4) Just as important as the border barrier is: An immigration moratorium of indefinite duration – I’d suggest 5 decades as a start – bringing numbers of legal immigrants down below 100,000 to max 1/4 million yearly must be put into law.
As much as the courageous legislators and executives who could get this done would be called every name in the book, all of this is perfectly Constitutional and one of the few areas that the Federal Gov’t SHOULD be involved in. Hear me now, or believe me later, this stuff must be done, if America is to survive in any form most of us think of as America. If President Trump had gotten this going, I’d be his 2nd biggest fan in the world, rather than thinking he’s a retarded liar and a coward.
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Nice Church ladies destroy Lewiston, Maine
Posted On: Friday - March 15th 2019 8:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Student and other Snowflakes
Peak Stupidity has discussed the extreme conflagrations that happen when one mixes the two compounds Nice and Stupid together before, specifically regarding the city now called Minnegadishu (more here), once a part of the great white north. Nno, it hasn't been moved, that's not it.
Lewiston, Maine is a much smaller city, though still fairly large for the nice rural state of Maine, Steven King country. In reply to a commenter on the unz site about how exactly a population 36,000 nice small city, once a big paper mill town, could now be 1/6 Somalian, I have a reply here. Let me just say that looking up information on population was almost sickening. The nice snowflake types that don't necessarily have to stay in Androscoggin County, where there are over 7,500 "refugees" OUT OF (east) AFRICA. One touts the greater abilities of the high school soccer teams. Really, is that, in addition to Cuisine Change worth getting replaced as a people? Will Lewiston really be Lewiston, or Maine be Maine, when the nice compassionate church-based importers of these people have had their fill? When will they stop compassioning the living hell out of the state of Maine? Well, this post is just to explain how they get away with it:
The “good” compassionate people importing these unassimilable masses never cared what happens to Lewiston, Maine, or anywhere else, as showing compassion and showing that they are compassionate to others is the important thing.
The poor bastards who’ve got to live with the huge change to their quality of life and culture for now on (with always a downward trend), know right away it's gonna be a bad thing, and may go to those initial town hall
“We’re just bringing in downtrodden families, plus maybe a couple of poor teenagers, from Somalia. I hope there are no racist xenophobes here. If so, it’s only 15 asylum-seekers to our town of 30 thousand – how can you be so mean and nasty to object?!” Well, nobody objects. Nobody in town wants to have everyone else there look at him like that nasty foul-mouthed bad guy that isn’t compassionate enough to provide a “room at the inn”.*
At the next asylum-seeker meeting for another 20 asylum-seekers, its just the same, except you won’t even find 1/2 the people there from town to show up to object, as they can imagine how embarrassing it would be. This goes on for years, and people have kids. People find it easier to move to a different town than to say anything. You’d think that’d be silly… but no, it's pretty much all that's left to do.
The famed fiction author Steven King is from Maine, or even OF Maine, as his novels are often written with his homeland as the setting. This most famous of Maine citizens lives quite a ways away down east, as they say, or at least way east, there in Bangor. I'm not really sure how his novels will read, if he writes them with the same setting a few years hence. I guess he'll be able to fit gang fights somewhere into his story of the supernatural. I'll just wait for the movie again.
"... well ... ya caaan't get theah from heaah!"
Before the next town gets this treatment from the (tax-payer supported, I forgot to tell you that) Church organizations with their greaat compassion for, well, sure as hell not you!, you may just want to speak up, per note below*. This is no joke. They will not be assimilated. You will be replaced.
(I got this image off of the Huffington Post, believe it or not,
having gone there to read the sick stuff in support of Lewiston's population replacement.)
* Now, if they had gotten together ahead of time, with 100 men of the community putting together a presentation on what happened in the last “Lewiston, Maine” after it got inundated with “aslyum-seekers” and proudly resisted, it may have never gone that far. However, people are too deep into their Bread and Circuses to have time for this. It also takes guys with real guts.
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What to do about the Tech Totalitarians?
Posted On: Wednesday - March 13th 2019 8:48PM MST
In Topics: Websites Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Orwellian Stupidity Legal Stupidity
Did Jeff Bezos slow realization of his dream that Amazon.com be the place for the world buy anything and everything go to his head, or change him in some way? He may not be a totalitarian, but his company is getting that way.*
Beyond the discussion in the previous post about Amazon's book banning ways of recent days, and specifically the very bad idea of having the US Government take charge of anti-censorship, is the more general subject of what to do about these Tech Totalitarians. That is some nice VDare-generated (I think) terminology, though the word "tech" has really been bastardized to wrongly apply now only to computer technology. One can read hundreds of well-written, thought provoking articles on various forms of Tech Totalitarianism on VDare by a multitude of writers.
I found an article by VDare's "Washington Watcher" from last fall, that had caused me to do some thinking at the time about this pernicious problem we have now that Amazon.com is pretty much the place to buy ANYTHING, eBay is by far THE on-line used-goods place, Google has 92% of the search traffic, PayPal controls the payments for the purchases, etc. Yeah, they do monopolize their respective parts of the informational, commerical, and transactional on-line scene.
In Google vs. Trump: “The Good Censor” On Collision Course With The Patriot President, Mr. Watcher argues for Big-Gov to DO SOMETHING. Well, as I argued in the previous post, that could be a very bad idea, well, it pretty much WOULD be. Does anyone remember the "equal time" business in some law from the '70's that said radio stations or shows had to give equal time for opposing views? Yeah, it didn't work out too good. It's easy for the Overton Window to be shifted to where Rachael Maddow is your conservative. That depends on who's in the bureaucracy that runs the shitshow that would result from Feral Government being the arbiter of fairness. No, no, and no!
There are still a lot of ideas in the article however, and others like it. Mr. Watcher brings up this monopoly of service in all these internet-tech areas being broken up by government. That's more reasonable, but can Amazon or Google be broken up like Standard Oil? Even the phone company (yes it was just "the phone company" back in the day), Bell, after being broken up in 1982 into 7 regional companies, your Southern Bell, Bell Atlantic, US West, etc., all kinda came back into place as AT&T some years later. The whole scene had changed by then, first with the various long-distance providers, and later with cell service.
Are these companies basically utilities now, that must be regulated like the regional electric company? I get the idea that, nobody is going to build a new set of high-tension lines parallel to the existing ones to do business. Whoever owns the lines has pretty much got customers over a barrel if they want to squeeze them. Is it really like that with Amazon though? Sure, they have a big market, but there are different sites to buy auto parts, others to buy sports equipment, etc. However, the ability to first find these via a search uses another near-monopoly. Then, the payment system is another monopoly. The internet itself, unlike the high-tension wires, or even the actual fiber optic cables that are the backbone of it, is not really OWNED by anyone. Data can go in all different directions, making it very hard to control the whole deal, not that people aren't trying, cough, China, cough, cough.
Mr. Washington Watcher and others argue that the Libertarian leave-business-alone idea is just not going to cut it when dealing with these big giants of the information world. I have already stated that no, we can't play whiffle ball, when the ctrl-left, Globalists, and Commies are playing hardball. Leaving it be assumes that competition will rise up. That is difficult due to the inherent monopolies formed, as Peak Stupidity has discussed user-generated content and difficulty of entry into one of these markets.
Real Conservatives or any other dissidents that want to really be able to operate productively on the internet would have to build their own world on it - all parts of it. You make a site for selling otherwise-banned books, and the Google hides you. You've got a video channel to help, and youtube (owned by Google) hides you or takes your stuff off. You get the world of mouth finally, and, well, the payment site bans you. No, it's not easy.
Does the reader remember the Alta-Vistas and Lycoses of yesteryear? It was over 20 years back now. There WAS real competition in search engines, but I will give Google credit: Those search engines** all sucked in finding stuff compared to Google's ability now. OTOH, go back a few more years, and I can remember first going on the www. Nobody at my level had the knowledge to explain to me what the browser program was, as compared to the site itself, and how anything at all worked. They just told me to go to some "brown cow" site to find this one thing, and I figured there were a few hundred places to be, ON THE INTERNET. Haha, I was even then probably off by 3 orders of magnitude. The search programs didn't really have that much to work with. It would not have helped any to hide a website, as it probably wouldn't show up either way, and friends just told you the names of good websites. And WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
OK, enough reminiscing here, but it does make me think of one great part of the software world that seems be old hat now: Open Source. These generous geeks (no sarcasm there) spent months of their lives helping us write software, write documents, work out numbers, run websites - servers, databases, scripting language, all of that with their own open-to-modification software, preventing Microsoft from being quite the evil that they well could have been. What is new with GNU? That will be a topic for another post.
One more thing in this long post, somewhat inspired by the ideas, even that I don't agree with in Washington Watcher's article. This is where Washington, FS comes into the picture, in fact, and is an idea I can positively get behind. There is already a "Communications Decency Act", passed in 1996 as the internet world came to light in the minds of politicians. One particular Section 230 of this bill lets websites off the hook for indecent content, basically preventing them from liability, as "interactive computer services". In the best terminology to explain this, the website is not the "PUBLISHER" of the information on the site, while the actual writer, the "content provider" can be liable. As Peak Stupidity discussed, the excellent idea of letting the users (think Amazon reviews, youtube videos, blurbs in pages found by Google) generate the content, beside being of great benefit in saving an impossible amount of work, gains immunity for these "content providers".
Washington Watcher (I imagine it's not solely his idea) says, take these Tech Totalitarians out of Section 230 immunity. Let them be liable for lawsuits involving all the content, and watch them squirm. The suggestion is that President Trump could push this idea through was made in this article from October of '18. That was before Trump was DEAD TO ME, though.
It's a complex subject, but this Tech Totalitarianism is a 21st century problem, unimaginable 20 years back. What's the solution going to be? I don't know yet, as Peak Stupidity is not really a Solutions Provider.
* BTW if he's gonna be a rich possiblly-evil bastard, he really needs to do better with the chicks. If you're gonna lose $35,000,000,000 by leaving the wife, you really ought to be able pick a 22-y/o hottie. Yes, she would be in it for your money - get over it!
** Now there's another stupid piece of geek-terminology stolen from real life. How, in any manner, does a computer program resemble an engine?
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Books, Big Brother Bezos, and Big Government to the rescue?
Posted On: Tuesday - March 12th 2019 9:30AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness US Feral Government Orwellian Stupidity Books Socialism/Communism Big-Biz Stupidity
Due to some of the Orwellian type of action being taken (well, if you can call punching in some flags in the database, "action") by the Four F.A.G.S. of the Apocalypse lately, there is talk of getting the US Feral Gov't involved. The latest, per a Ron Unz article that got long and veered completely off the subject*, American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship, is Amazon.com's ramp up of the banning of books certain people don't like. Mr. Unz does bring up these certain organizations, and the ADL and $SPLC are two of them. Why Amazon listens to them is your guess, but my guess would be that they feel the need to suck up to whomever the Feral Gov't has been sucking up to.
With this censorship by these large "private" entities, there's lots of writing all over the web about what should be done about it. We should all know that the US Constitution's Bill of Rights very first Amendment is a ban on the US Federal Government's control of speech of any sort. No, that doesn't include private entities. The arguments over whether these huge natural monopolies (see The F.A.G.S. space and new competition) are truly private, and what deal, so to speak, the US government should have with them. Many arguments on the breaking-up of these monopolies and the immunity from libel due to being publishers vs. whatever have good points. Discussion of those arguments will be the subject of an upcoming post.
I've been in on-line arguments about this too. My problem is with the people that think the solution to this Big-Biz Stupidity is to simply have the US Feral Government take control, you know, for our own good and all that. I don't know how someone with even a minute knowledge of US political history, what with ONE CENTURY now of encroaching central government, could really believe this would be a good thing. Really, Socialists, do you think that the US Government will put the kibosh on censorship? Who will make the determination of what is censorship? Do you think that particular bureaucracy will be manned by just thinking (maybe?) people like yourselves? Have you known people in the US Government?
Most of us with any experience in life know that with plenty of exceptions, the rank-and-file in the whole millions-of-employees US, State, and local governments are NOT your type to appreciate freedom. They'd have quit by now, otherwise. There is a large preponderance of left-wing, D-squad people in the employee ranks, as, after all, they do want to keep their jobs. The bosses, as a matter of fact, want to be boss of MORE people, so they'd like there to be MORE jobs. This is common sense to most of us.
Take a look at the people in Big-Ed and at the Universities. Do they seem like the small government proponents to you, seeing as their paychecks come from government, meaning part local, part State, and part Federal taxes?
So, let me get this straight, alt-right Socialists: You want the US Feral Gov't, who's been running scams for years to outsource your jobs, deliberately replacing you as a people, and taking big chunks of your life's labor to give to irresponsible people to raise THEIR kids with, to run a very fair system to make sure the F.A.G.S. and others play fair? This is after you've seen the fairness of Affirmative Action and Hate Crime" enforcement, right?
Is that still a yes? Well, in that case, I may need to attend one of your conventions, should the Feral Gov't make a positive effort to defend your right to speak there, haha. I will be bringing some promotional materials regarding some very nice swampland I am selling in south Florida ... big lots ... of mosquitoes, copious brackish water ... hurricane-proof large lots... they're a steal, people! See you all there.
BTW, It's just a shame about Amazon.com though. Mr. Bezos was a hard-working (grew up on a cattle ranch) guy who had not just a bright idea ("Hey, sell stuff on the internet!"- pretty much the only big idea of Internet Bubble 1.0), but worked his ass off to turn a garage operation into 2 big warehouses selling books, music CDs, videos, and software within a couple of years, by mid 1998. Well, those "big" warehouses became obsolete and the hundreds or so really big automated ones selling everything one would want, along with the always bullet-proof web-site, IMO, being a "platform"** for selling all kind of crap that they don't even have to handle.
Did Mr. Bezos go wrong? Is he really in charge, or did some Deep State that he no coulda' refused suck him into the evil of censorship of the original wonderful things that he loved and started his business for, books?
sure, you get old, but you don't have to turn evil ...
... nobody's got a gun to your head, right? Wait ... does he?
* I highly respect the guy, but he went off on some large tangent about the particular subject matter on the books getting banned, rather than sticking to what's going on with Big Brother Amazon.
** "Platform" for a virtual entity is one of those PSPP, Peak Stupidity Pet Peeves. It bugs the crap out of me, in fact, but I guess is still a useful term. Why do geeks have to appropriate their words from the physical world? Make up your own stuff, geeks!
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Full-time Commie, O'Cassionally Cortex
Posted On: Monday - March 11th 2019 9:39AM MST
In Topics: Commies Elections '16 - '26 Lefty MegaStupidity Deep State Socialism/Communism
After Peak Stupidity's quick introduction of the current crop of Blue-Squad candidates, the Old Pharts and the Young Turds to those blissfully uninformed, we will focus the quick post on one of the Young Turds, affectionately (only because she has a big rack) known as O'Ccasional Cortex.
Zerohedge has been pretty damn good in defending real Capitalism, as opposed to the current American economic system as of late, kind of a change, in my opinion. After the 29 y/o junior Senator spouted off some amazingly stupid ideas while in the ctrl-left's Texas headquarters of Austin, Mr. "Tyler Durden" posted AOC Slams Capitalism As "Irredeemable" System. Now, I could expect some silliness from a young millennial, and especially a halfway-decent-looking millennial chick with a nice rack, but how does someone like this become a US Senator?!
It's true the the Washington political scene has become filled with older and older people, as people have been just living healthier and longer (see Passing Peak Rich Old People). There were many young turks in the past though, as we can specifically look to the Kennedies. President John Kennedy was one of the youngest to take office (as was Bill Clinton in the early 1990's), though in his 40's. His brother Robert, US Attorney General (no, no nepotism there, but he was smart enough not to pull a Trump and hire the enemy) was in his mid-30's. Steven Miller, President Trump's only worthwhile appointee, IMO, is still 33 y/o, and he's very much aware of both political history and current politics. Going back to the Kennedies, though one may not have agreed with their left-wing policies, for the time, these people had knowledge of history and US citizenship that just makes Miss Cortex look like a complete retard.
Some of the Zerohedge commenters (as usual, fun reading) suggest that the reason this ditzy broad "came out of nowhere" is the same reason one Mr. Øb☭ma came out of nowhere. He was 1 1/2 decades older, but he also suddenly got put into a candidate spot for US Senator from Illinois, as the other D-candidate was quickly dispatched by some scandal. (Was that just luck for Mr. Øb☭ma?). After not even a full term of voting present, if he could make it in to do so, and spouting out some community organizing racial bullshit, all of a sudden he was a Presidential frontrunner. Both instances are indeed kind of odd, and there are plenty of Deep State operatives with the money and resources to make it all happen. Could this new young ditz even have the wherewithal to BE an operative of any sort though? Being an operative takes a little more brains than being a bartender, unless things are more advanced than I thought and they are operating her brains and mouth using an app from their underground bunker in Langley.
That theory doesn't hold water once you hear what comes out of this lady's mouth:
"Capitalism is an ideology of capital - the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit...so to me capitalism is irredeemable," she said.... while wearing nice clothes and sitting in a plush studio, using modern electronics, all produced in factories that lots of nasty CAPITAL to build. The Communist idiocy out of this woman is just too soon to be part of some brilliant plan, as, if you can stand to watch this stuff*, I can't see how you wouldn't just be motivated to pull the level for Trump again (for reasons of "the lesser of two losers" this time),.
Lastly, the Zerohedge article shows a tweet of Miss Cortex, with her "Green New Deal" initiative, being meat-space-friended by Bill Nye, the Science guy. This is timely news to me, as I had borrowed some of this guys educational videos before. The boy was too young to watch them then, preferring to watch youtube videos of fire trucks rolling down the road over and over again, here and there and everywhere (actually, Bucks County, Pennsylvania - must be a big fire truck fan there)! Now, the boy's a few years older, so he can understand when I tell him that we won't be getting those videos, as the guy's a Communist.
*- Personally, I've never even heard this lady talk. I didn't watch the ZH embedded youtube video, as I've already enjoyed my breakfast the first time.
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Infotainment - The race for Blue Squad Leader
Posted On: Saturday - March 9th 2019 10:27PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Bread and Circuses
Just to explain the title, Peak Stupidity maintains that the US Gov't is full of people from just one party, The Party, with its red and blue squad. The differering squads allow folks to be infotained on TV, just as with the other circuses (half of "Bread & Circuses", as during the decline or Rome), such as the football games or NCAA March Madness. At this time, seeing the lack of effort by President Trump to fulfill his most important campaign promise, or ENTIRE REASON for his campaign, this seems more true than ever.
Since the deal for a long time is that US Presidents are to serve for 2 terms, unless something has really gone bad for them, the red squad won't provide us with the race-for-the-top infotainment this election "cycle". However, the Blue squad will. It's sickening to me just to hear about any of these people, but I'll just mention the field of real winners the Blue squad has got to entertain us, just in case you haven't heard of them. The 1st 3 are older white people. Do they "deserve" to have the job because it's their turn, as in the old political ways?
Socialist, lawyer, Indian Chief,
Does the old VP that hangs aound Washington still automatically get the nomination slot? I don't think that'll happen due to the demographics of the blue squad. This ain't 1988. That will affect the chances for the Indian Chief and the Socialist as well. With their great love of dieversity, it's not like these 3 should have anything to complain about. They should welcome more diversity into the ranks of Democrat presidential candidates. Did they think 2 elections of the Øb☭ma were going to pacify the people of colors? Haha, there's no compromising among any of these people. That's kind of the fun in watching this stuff (or at least reading about it on Steve Sailer's blog, in my case).
No, there's a new crop of young, or at least younger, people of all kinds of colors and ethnicities that deserve to be given this top slot because of diversity. Hey, you guys came up with this stuff - OWN IT, BITCHES!
Now, we may have thought that the Øb☭ma elections were a major change from the past, as this
This may make the red-squad folks very happy. How could any of these people keep the various dis-united, I mean diversified, groups happy and voting for him? Trump will trounce any one of them, you say. That would be something to be very glad about if President Trump were doing anything serious to help us. Based on what he's accomplishing now for us, I'd say what difference does is make that he can beat any one of these people in the '20 election? A 2nd term will do no good if it's anything like his 1st so far.
OK, OK, I can be thankful that the Hildabeast is not this very moment berating the white men for something or other. I would rather have Trump win again than any of these Socialist, ctrl-left, anti-white assholes. I guess decent talk out of President Trump is better than nothing, but it's not stopping the slide of America into ruins.
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General Dieversity
Posted On: Friday - March 8th 2019 9:27PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Race/Genetics
(Friendly fire, unfriendly fire, we don't care.)
He's not just a 4-star general - he's chief of staff of the Air Force. A guy like David Goldfein might explain why the Navy Sailors and Marines call the operation the "Air Farce", but then again there are probably lots of General Goldfiens in their top ranks too.
Paul Kersey, writes on unz White United States Air Force Chief of Staff Argues Racial Diversity Is "Warfighting Imperative" Because a Black Airmen Taught Him Bandaids Were Racist. You've just gotta read this one yourself. It's one of those stories that generate the phrase "I can't even ..."
OK, I can, a little bit. This hard-core Political Correctness in the top ranks of the American armed forces is not new. One can go back to Army General George Casey after the Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood massacre, whose statement "Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse", displays some of this extreme stupidity from people who really can't be that stupid.
Mr. Kersey points out another guy, a Brigadier General that seriously worried Air Force Thunderbirds too male, too white, top general warns. It's difficult and dangerous enough to fly a fighter jet, period, even in peacetime, especially the landing on carriers and formation flying. Now, you want the men to fly in the premier aerobatic squadron (OK, tied with the Blue Angels), greatly dependent on these 5 others with their lives each and every show, but with people who aren't necessarily the best?! I guess this guy doesn't care about people in airshow crowds either. Maybe the cost of a new F-16 could be something to change his mind, but I guess 50 - 100 million dollars is chump change within the military budget.
Nah, but I should really correct myself on what I do know about scum like this: They are not stupid. They are evil. They became evil when they became cowards - cowards because they'd rather spout out, and lead based on, this diversity bullshit when they do know better. Their status and retirement money are more important to them than, not only plain truth, but having the US military in a condition to fight a REAL WAR. Here, their management in US Feral Government and in the high ranks, are involved in goading on Russia and China into fights, when they have in their minds the fighting that the American military has been doing all over the world against the little guy.
This PC stuff will not fly if our government ever gets us into a real war with an enemy with even close to the manpower and firepower we have. I would not hesitate to call Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein a TRAITOR, as his actions will greatly reduce the confidence of the real airmen in the US Air Force to be able to just do their jobs without interference in who they fly with.
BTW, as just a blog note, Peak Stupidity has been getting quite a few of the ideas for our posts from writers on the unz site lately. We're trying not to just be a repeat of what the reader could read over there.
There's still greater than 50% of material consisting of expounding our own original stupidity concepts. Unz.com does have some very interesting articles, but more importantly, especially under Steve Sailer's blog, lots of noticing of new and unusual sources of stupidity that we just don't have the resources for (a subscription to the NY Times is expensive, right?). We could easily go to Drudge for more ideas, but, as mentioned before, his politics have gone downhill, and the shitshow of a world that he presents with his headline/links (refreshed every 2 minutes!) is a distorted view of reality, even in this day and age.
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Major police effort solves hate-hoax haaaachuuu!
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2019 7:37PM MST
In Topics: Humor Cars Race/Genetics
(Image shamelessly downloaded off Breitbart.)
DATELINE: Lamar, SC (Darlington County), HateDate: 03:04:19
Per this amusing story of stupidity, South Carolina Mayor Charges Racism After Car Defaced, Then Police Find the Facts, this worrisome case of hatred against Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson, mayor of the northeastern South Carolina metropolis of Lamar, SC has been solved. Between the horrific but untrue hate-case involving Jussie Smollett and his Nigerian accomplices, and many other terrible, but debunked, cases that have been building up in the public, uhh, $PLC's consciousness, race relations look pretty grim indeed. In this latest near-crime in rural South Carolina:
Darnell Byrd McPherson, mayor of Lamar, South Carolina, quickly assumed she had been the victim of a hate crime after finding a yellow “sticky substance” painted over her and her husband’s cars recently, according to Newsweek."All in the grooves", man that's low! It gets worse:
McPherson told the media that the substance “got in all of the grooves” of the autos that were sitting outside the couple’s home.
My husband went out to the car to get some things out of the garage,” the mayor told Newsweek. “He says, ‘Somebody’s painted your car!’”They may or may not have been completely cross-shaped, though some racists say that it was just "lots of all-night pig barbecues being held near the time of the drag races." A likely story, right? I mean, who eats barbecue in S. Carolina, especially that vinegar-based stuff?
McPherson added that a neighbor also alerted her to the substance.
The incident caused her to assume she had been a victim of a hate crime.
“I likened it as a hate crime because No. 1, there’s a history in our town of Lamar,” the Lamar mayor said.
McPherson harkened back over 40 years when she claims that “burning crosses” were commonly seen in the area.
Luckily, the LPD (Lamar Police Dude), actually the Darlington County Sheriff's Deputy, Robby Kilgo, broke the case later in the hour:
“We found it to be pollen. There was no reason for us to collect a sample.”What? Who'd have known about those Oak trees in South Carolina? The thing must have growed up like
This case may have been overblown, but there's a long history, you white people, you - This is the same kind of … achoooo…. same damn …. achooooo! Geeze!… sniff… shit that they …. waaaachooooiey! …. hand me that roll of toilet paper …. shit that they …. uhhh, uhhhhhh … pulled on that Emmett Ti ... chooooo … ill!
I guess Lamar is too small to have a car wash, but how about Darlington? I’ve seen cars turn so yellow-green this time of year that you really can’t tell what color they are supposed to be. Of course, if you’re not a sell-out to whitey, you’d have a bright enough purple, green, or orange car to where the color shines through. Clear-coat, baby!
Is it really a black/white thing, or just a problem of underprivileged Lamar, South Carolina being a self-serve car-wash desert?
PS: I will admit I first got wind of this story from Mr. Steve Sailer, in his post The Yellow Peril of Hate Stalks South Carolina, with good humorous comments as usual.
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Respect mah electronic Authoritah!
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2019 9:38AM MST
In Topics: Humor US Police State Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Discussion of traffic rules, modern vs. older vehicles, and deaths of pedestrians by Artificial Stupidity in a recent Steve Sailer article - it's one of his many side interests - brought up a few thoughts for this post. Also, we have a new topic key, Traffic Stupidity. It's so hard to keep organized among the myriad flavors, if I may, of stupidity these days.
I was spending some time out in Seattle, Washington years ago. Things may be different today, with an influx in the Pacific Northwest of not only large amounts of immigrants, like everywhere, but also with the huge big-money influence of Amazon.com and other computer-tech giants, making for a different population.
At that time, however, I did notice that, as completely opposite from in the east-coast big cities, both drivers and pedestrians were very polite. I'd hardly ever hear a car honk the horn. You act like that in Boston, and the Massholes will figure there's something wrong with you, or you'll get a ticket for a non-working horn. The pedestrians were rule-following to a fault, a fault that I'll point out in a bit here.
As a pedestrian, I figure I'd walk across the street in downtown Seattle, it being one of the west-east (going up, well, then down later, and up again!) streets downtown, as it was a small one, and nobody was coming. I did indeed see that electrical red palm at the other side, but well, you can't spend your life letting electronics tell you what to do. Ahaaa! That's what I should have told the cop. Anyway, a very nice and polite cop came up to me as I reached the other side 50 ft away or so. "You know that was a red signal for pedestrians, right, sir?" (uh-oh, "sir" - I don't like the sound of that!) "Yes sir, but there was no one coming and ..." "It's jaywalking - how about you and I going back across, and you wait for the signal?" "Uh, yeah, but I'm going this way", I pointed to the north. "I can give you a ticket, or we can just walk back across." "Yeah, OK, lets head back."
I did have to keep an eye back for him until my destination, but it wasn't a big price to pay for avoiding the $50 or so. He was such a nice and polite guy, that was the thing, really, or I'd have given him a lecture about safety. "What could I tell him?", the reader may well ask.
When walking just a day or two later, I did wait for traffic, as this was the big 3-lane, one-way street going through downtown Seattle the long way (really NW to SE, parallel to Elliot Bay). It was busy, and I'm not stupid, just not particularly law-abiding. About 20 people built up there. As the light turned green, and that electrical box showed us the white outline of the dude crossing in some hurry, people just started moving. Well, I had to see behind one guy, and then look the other way (yeah, it was one-way, but still, it could have been ME coming - did that mistake once!) before I would step foot off the curb. However, an old lady at the front, with NO ABILITY WHATSOEVER to move quickly, took no look, either way, saw that white signal, and just stepped on into it ...
... no, were you waiting for description of a dead body ending up 20 ft in front of the bus? There was no bus, but yes, that could have happened, which is indeed my point today. The old lady has so much trust that this electronic signal to her was the be-all-to-end-all. Peak Stupidity usually rags on the younger people about this, but there's a different reason here. It's not like the old lady was really into electrical gadgets. It's just that her mindset had TOO MUCH RESPECT FOR AUTHORITAH, in ANY form.
On the one hand, the city of Seattle set up this sign to be obeyed. On the other hand, people run red lights and do all sorts of stupid stuff. Blindly following and trusting an electrical sign over your common sense and the stupidity of the population is no way to go through life,
Alright, I know you want to see some bus/pedestrian collisions, so this montage from the movies is pretty good. If nothing else, or you are short on time, at least go to 01:15 and see the scene from Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais (the British The Office boss). It's a good movie.
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The different levels of Prepping
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2019 7:56PM MST
In Topics: Music Preppers and Prepping Inflation
Peak Stupidity has not spent much time on Prepper posts. There are lots of good sites out there, John Wesley Rawles SurvivalBlog being perhaps the most well known and useful. Besides the old Zerohedge commenters, who had lots of very good advice in the past, there's Mac Slavo out there with his SHTFplan blog. This guy has spent time in Bosnia during the worst of times there just over 20 years back. His big gimmick in the past was to write in terrible English, to prove, IMO, that he was a bona-fide Bosnian or something. Anyway, upon looking at that site just now, it appears to be a newer, lower-key version of Zerohedge now, in terms of the article topics. (It really looks pretty interesting.)
How is the discussion about politics on ZH and SHTFplan even prepper stuff at all, the reader may ask. Well, let's discuss some different levels of this preparedness. Preparedness for what? That's the question. Long term readers, or anyone who has read our "about" page, would know that Peak Stupidity's big theory is that stupidity will peak and drop drastically once the financial crash coming delivers serious economic pain, and likely, political turmoil to most of us - especially those who are of the non-prepper persuasion (more on what this means below).
On the top of the post, you see the high-level prepper creed. If one has an inkling that the turmoil to come will end up in a real collapse of our just-in-time, highly complicated modern economy, with shortages, power loss, and reversion to 19th century medical care, i.e., TEOTWTWAWKI (pronounced like it's spelled*), then this stuff, taking a whole lot of work, will be deemed necessary. I highly respect the folks that are working on the family or neighborhood level to make their lifestyle sustainable even through the near worst-case scenario. Stocking up of diesel fuel, long-shelf-life foodstuffs, guns/ammo, along with thousands of items that could help enable survival, along with learning some of the old ways with some of the new technology good stuff.
One can read the websites in which proper ways of canning, distillation, re-loading, etc are endlessly debated. Is it going to be all for nothing, though? There is no way to have a good time-line, so this work can seem futile and even embarrassing at times. None of us know how things will go down, as history doesn't exactly repeat itself, it just rhymes. We don't know the next line.
Will this once-great nation slowly slide into a multicultural low-trust, high-stress society like Brazil, with no particular Shit hitting any Fans, but just a low-keyed worsening of the quality of life? Will certain regions finally break up after having enough of
Your plans should certainly be different depending on how you think it will go down. Rather than a complete change of lifestyle requiring basically a 2nd job as a prepper, the next level, based on the anticipation of the Brazil scenario, may require re-thinking job prospects or a relocation to an area with the biggest concentration of your kind, as politics get more tribal. Is it even worth hanging on here, if no one will fight, and the people slowly morph into people that aren't worth fighting for anyway? Maybe a complete bug-out to start the family off in a new land (even better, with others of like mind).
There are plenty of other levels lower or in between. For all anticipated major changes, thought must be put into the issue of MONEY. If one is a prepper at all, besides holding onto real property and resources, one must consider what will happen to the US dollar. The high-level preppers are well aware of this. They have discussions on junk (meaning specifically NOT made of junk) silver, gold and other forms of REAL MONEY. Others, who don't anticipate being truly "off the grid", favor bit-coin and other cryto-currencies (as discussed by Peak Stupidity before, it's a great form of currency for transfer, but is it a great store of value?).
This brings us to the lowest level, people who are wise enough just to store items to avoid inflationary losses. They may not think of themselves as preppers at all, but buying items in bulk when they are on sale, understanding shelf lives of materials and rotation of foodstuffs, etc, sure is prepping to me, if only for the one thing, higher, maybe hyper-inflation to come. Peak Stupidity had one short post on prepping for inflation 2 years ago.
No matter what level you are on, and whether you consider yourself a prepper or not, if you are very concerned with the near-term future of the US of A, and you make plans accordingly, YOU ARE A PREPPER. As a definition to distinguish who are NOT PREPPERS, I'd have to designate those who live paycheck-to-paycheck as non-preppers (see also Credit? Forget it! You got it? You get it!). After all, if it will be a crisis if the family has no income for even one month, even during these "good times", then one is not prepared for anything!
* OK, we'll just explain the acronym with an REM song - the term is about the only thing you may be able to make out, out of Michael Stipe's rapid-fire lyrics.
This band, REM, has been featured here and here already, if not another time or two.
Since I didn't publish the band members' names in those previous posts (I really try to do this for musical artists, REM was**:
Michael Stipe – lead vocals
** He just died - I had no idea!
Peter Buck – lead guitar, mandolin, banjo
Bill Berry – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Mike Mills – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals.
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Health-Conscious people on the spectrum
Posted On: Monday - March 4th 2019 8:57PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry Healthcare Stupidity
This has been bugging me for quite some time. I don't have any friends "on the spectrum" (as far as I know) or even any friends that use the phrase "on the spectrum". From reading commentary on-line, however, I'm really getting sick of that crap! It's bad enough new psychological or personality problems are being made up on the fly for unruly 8 year-olds, and people who like computers. Why not call them brats and geeks,
The term "sperge" and "spergy", as noun and adjective, respectively, seem to be used on-line to describe guys who are on the geeky side. It is short for an individual who has this "Asperger's" syndrome, no, defect, no, disease even? No, no it's not anything to do with after-effects of incidents involving accidental sitting on barbecue grills, if that was your first thought. This is supposedly a problem in which one does not care about people matters, and cares a whole lot more about technical matters or just things, over people.
Not being a "people person" is now "oh, he has Asberger's - so sorry to hear that". Damn, it's just a type of personality! There's nothing wrong with not liking other people too much (at least outside the immediate family), except to anyone of the opposite extreme, who can't understand it. I hate to tell you, but most non-people-people DON'T WANT to be people-people - it's not that they CAN'T be.
This "on the spectrum" bit refers to a range of strengths, I guess one could call it, of any psychological problem. The red must represent just a little weirdness, then your orange, yellow, green, and blue lead to the purpleness of bat-shit crazy. OK, I get that, but it should refer to real, serious psychological problems. Being nerdy is not one, yet that is what people seem to mean now when they say "on the spectrum". Well, if it's a problem, wouldn't it matter WHERE on the spectrum the guy is? If you really want to use this spectrum business, you should say "this guy's in the orange, but seems damn close to yellow some days.", like that. If you are on the spectrum yourself, maybe in the infrared, just a little too much into computers, say, you may want to describe these people with personalities you don't like in terms of RGB, Red - Green - Blue, the primary additive colors. "Hey this guy's a bit weird. I'd call him a FF8A00 in hex."
Let's just ditch this spectrum business completely, come to think of it. It confuses things. I've always thought of older people who don't eat enough veggies and milk as on the Spectrum, as I've seen them pick up those bottles at drug store. "My Dad's Doc told him that he's not getting enough Calcium and Iron. So, now he's like, on the Spectrum."
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CPAC, gutsy Michelle Malkin, and Swift Airlines
Posted On: Saturday - March 2nd 2019 11:49AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
With the President being completely worthless, whether intentionally or not, on the existential issue* of out-of-control immigration, things look very bleak. There's the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, being held the weekend in Washington, Federal Shithole as we blog. Per VDare writer James Fulford yesterday, Michelle Malkin Called Out Immigration Disaster In CPAC Speech That Gets Standing Ovation (with video).
(Yes, we've had a few slight beefs with her minor Statism here, here, and here.)
VDare's "Washington Watcher" has more on the conference and the disappointing relegation of the most important conservative issue to one session. Read CPAC and Trump Disappoint Immigration Patriots. Michelle Malkin Issues Both a Wake-Up Call as opposed to taking depressants, if you're on too much of a bipolar high. Michelle Malkin was apparently the only bright spot, not least because VDare's leader, Peter Brimelow, was not even invited to this "conservative conference.
Not only that, but a race hustler lefty from the past (I used to watch Glenn Beck disparage this guy 10 years back!), one Van Jones, was invited to tell the conservatives:
The conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of [criminal justice] reform… take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.Yes, conservatives should be proud of that one move at least, releasing black prisoners from jail early, that's the ticket. It'll get votes and clean up the streets ... or something ...
[No, I'm sure he doesn't cuss at home either]
Any reader wanting to really keep up with the immigration-invasion issue ought to really read VDare daily. (Hey, it's right there on the right ---> ) Give it 10 to 20 minutes per day, depending on how fast you read.
I figure it's time for a little cheer here, so I'll relate my running to a pilot who flies for an airline called Swift Air. These guys have got over 30 Boeing 737s that are used almost solely to transport the most violent illegal aliens that have been convicted of felonies in the US back down to their home countries, almost all in a southerly direction. They transport roughly 120 - 150 of these "scum de la scum" at a time, with 10-15 armed-and-ready-to-rumble "flight attendants" daily out of a number of detention centers in the US via Miami and points south.
The pilot even told me that he and the guards have seen people and/or names they've recognized from previous flight; "frequent fliers", they call them. Do people in high places still really question why we need a real border wall or barrier, or do they just want this invasion to happen? Some of the aircraft do 2 turns a day down there (bringing mechanics with them as they DO NOT WANT TO GET STUCK!). You'll like this - Swift Air's radio call sign is "Repatriate".
* This one makes 132 Peak Stupidity posts with this topic key attached.
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My Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - March 1st 2019 9:13PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
How long has this "my" business been going on? It all started with Gate's Geeks in one of the middle 1990's versions of Windows. Was it Windows-95? What had been the File Manager became "My Computer", and then things just grew from there. You had "my documents" and "my pictures" first in the Windows operating system. Everyone in business must have thought that this was "my best fucking idea ever" and had to name their services, and now their "apps" "my something-or-other".
You've got "my healthcare", "my Wells Fargo", "my AARP" and "my stool sample records". I had thought that the 1970's were the "Me Decade". If that's the case, the people of the 1990's all the way through the present must be the "My Generation." Come to think of it, did The Who start this thing way, way before Bill Gates taped his glasses together and saw the future of my lame-ass-operating-system?
It's just so juvenile sounding. "Hey these are MY pictures, and MY documents, on MY Computer. Don't touch MY stuff, any of you homos, or I'm telling MY Mommy!" I was really hoping this would go away back 10 years ago, but it seems to be growing still.
I'll give Apple credit, at least for not being involved in this "my" thing, but that might be a copyright issue, or maybe even patent infringement. Can you now patent the stupid idea of putting "my" in front of nouns as a theme? Apple has their own theme, right? Everything is an app, instead of a program. I suppose that's clever, as programmers used to refer to "applications programming" versus "systems programming". The former were pieces of software meant to do something to help a user, while the latter were programs made to make the computer system run. Applications programs became known as just "applications", a really terrible term. It was what it was, so you've got "app" standing for both "application" (program) and Apple. That's kinda slick, but I'm sick of it too!
If you think this all is not stupid enough, then please download the My Stupidity App to consolidate all your stupidity in one place.
The Who sings My Generation off of their debut album way back in 1965. This was an aborted attempt to start a new genre of music called "stutter rock". It d-d-d-didn't r-r-really take.
The Who was:
Roger Daltrey – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, percussion.
Pete Townshend – lead and rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards .
John Entwistle – bass guitar, horns, backing and lead vocals.
Keith Moon – drums, backing and lead vocals.
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Exclusive: TV actor and 2 Nigerians do something STUPID!
Posted On: Thursday - February 28th 2019 9:41AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor
It's the right time, I suppose, for the Peak Stupidity blog to "journalize" on the Jussie Smollett caper. We deem it very important not to jump the gun on these hate-hoax stories, until all the evidence is in, and we can be really, really sure, that this is not just the most stupid thing we've ever heard of.
A friend mentioned some of the details of this story that I had tried very hard not to keep up with. (I almost had to turn off Steve Sailer for a little while, though I will repeat myself here that he IS the one, after all, who has been explaining and detailing the hate-hoax streak that America has been under the influence from, for 15 years.)
Oh, yeah, right, the friend told me about Mr. Smollett's paying his accomplices by check, because accomplices are not known to be the type to take cash or something, you know, wanting to be on the up-and-up with the IRS and all. The clear image of the 2 guys appearing very clearly on the Hate-Hoaxers-R-US security camera buying supplies is also pretty hilarious. We don't expect cat burglars anymore in America, or, say, the type guys that do those Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Six (the prequel) heists, or the kind of thinking that takes a guy like Monk to figure out. Nah, just one TV actor and a couple of Nigerians don't have the time and resources for that sort of planning ... and brains either. Still, could you not think even 1 step ahead of the lowliest Affirmative Action hire of the Chicago Police Department?
As for the Nigerians, the best joke I've heard so far about the Jessie Smollett caper involved them. One "Bill Jones" opines: "How dumb do you have to be to pick the only two Nigerians on the planet who are no good at hoaxes?"
It's a real shame that it took a case this stupid to go viral to bring the real problem of racial hate-hoaxes to the forefront. However, though I've never watched the TV show Mr. Smollett
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"She can tell you 'bout the plane crash ...
Posted On: Wednesday - February 27th 2019 7:10PM MST
In Topics: Websites Media Stupidity
... with a gleam in her eye."
Atlas Air, a freight airline flying just under 100 widebody aircraft* lost 3 of its pilot group of over 1700 four nights back. It's true that it seems not as big a deal when there are no paying passengers, with their complete reliance on the planes, pilots, and mechanics of the airline for their safety. This crash, along with Fed-Ex, UPS, and other cargo carrier's crashes indeed don't make the news for months and months on end, as they do for the passenger airlines.
This is still sad for the families and friends of the 3 pilots lost. Additionally, this Boeing 767 is not a plane only in use as a freighter. The model is in use by Delta, American, and United Airlines, just to name the 3 big US carriers with ~ 160 of them flying 200-odd people back and forth to mostly Europe and South America. Whatever the cause of the Atlas Air crash could very well have to do with how these planes are maintained or how the pilots fly them, on the passenger airlines too.
Therefore it's interesting that there seems to be not much follow-up all over the web. I would not know about TV news, but would have not have missed headlines on yahoo (after logging out of mail), and other mainstream sites, were this a wreck with passengers killed. I checked Drudge, a site I've avoided lately for various reasons**, and saw nothing on this crash, just 4 days later.
What can you say? Yes, it's not news to people, as they are not cargo, so "it won't happen to them". There are probably not enough "journalists" in the Lyin' Press with the brains to follow the aviation business with enough knowledge to understand that this crash could still be very pertinent. It's been quite a while since I've picked up the USA Today that serves mostly as a hotel doormat (more here on that rag). They do cater to the businessman by running small articles with tips or info on airline travel on Mondays, least last time I looked. They must have read that Monday is the biggest business air-travel day. Fine, but, I doubt they care either about the Atlas accident. It'd be up to the bloggers, the people that have the brains, and spend the time, to understand an industry, to keep us up on the investigation.
What it comes down to is not just that nobody is interested and journalists are stupid, but also that it's not scary enough to get enough readers. "If it bleeds, it leads." has always been the mantra of the Lyin' Press, and I guess that's just a demand problem. Scaring the crap out of you pays, at least they figure based on their circulation numbers, such as all those USA Todays that we thing are just doormats.
Don Henley, formerly of the 1970's country-rock, then just rock, band, The Eagles***, wrote of this back in
I'd put the whole song here, but, though Don Henley wrote some great scathing lyrics back in 1982 (must have been after he got a freakin' clue about the world), but the tune really isn't that hot. From Dirty Laundry:
I make my living off the Evening News
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry.
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here.
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear.
Come and whisper in my ear.
Give us dirty laundry.
Kick 'em when they're up,
kick 'em when they're down.
Kick 'em when they're up,
kick 'em when they're down.
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde
who comes on at five.
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash
with a gleam in her eye.
It's interesting when people die.
Give us dirty laundry.
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom
got a running bet.
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry.
You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone.
Eat your dirty laundry.
[Chorus]
Dirty little secrets,
dirty little lies,
we got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie.
We love to cut you down to size.
We love dirty laundry.
We can do "The Innuendo".
We can dance and sing.
When it's said and done,
we haven't told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!
RIP, Atlas Air 3591 crew.
* 40 of the 767s, > 50 747's of various types and 6 Triple-7s.
** Now, the simple flat page that loaded quickly and again every 2 minutes or so (to give Matt Drudge more "hits") has more ads slowing down my reading, and he seems to be plastering the site with on-going anti-Trump headlines. Fuck that.
*** Featured before on Peak Stupidity here, here, here, and here.
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"Boston Woman" back in the shadows
Posted On: Tuesday - February 26th 2019 6:47PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
Perp Rosiane Santos not enamored by the gentleman's Trump hat ...
... opts to come out of shadows ...
... will be headed back into shadows ...
Peak Stupidity has noted before that the stupidity in this country is so high as to put up with illegal alien entrants into the country not exactly "living in the shadows". This lady, which just as a first guess I'd say is Brazilian*, was living a "quiet life" in the town of Falmouth, at the mainland end of the famous ritzy Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. I guess you can't say that's living in the shadows. Is it "living in the bad acoustics", then?
I don't know, but she sure had no problem coming out into the sunlight, or at least in front of this restaurant patron's phone. Per the clunky ad-heavy Boston CBS site's story Miss Santos had already pushed Mr. Turner's face into his food in non-solidarity with his choice of head-wear. (Maybe it's just how you eat in Brazil - when in Brazil, do as the ... wait a minute, that's the problem. Falmouth ain't in Brazil!) It just takes a lot of damn gall, that's all I'm saying. She's an illegal alien, living that quiet life, not too worried about getting sent home, cause Open Borders and shit. She comes right out of those shadows to push a guy's face into his refried beans and have words with him... well, is it gall or stupidity? We can't have too many stupid people coming in either, as we're about all peaked out heah!
Check out Miss Newscaster Lisa Hughes at about 10 seconds into the video on the page linked-to above. She seems shocked that this lady is, YES, "living in the country illegally" (not an ILLEGAL ALIEN, per se, but just an alien resident who is here illegally, that's all.) She's shocked, as she somehow doesn't know there are 20 - 30,000,000 others here. Really, as ignorantly stupid as news people are today, I could believe she's truly shocked at this.
The good news is that Miss Santos got pulled into the legal system by ICE to be, YES, LET GO to come back for removal hearings. Of course, that's gonna happen ... yeah, the day pigs start flying ... into Logan Airport ... on the ILS. Though this will be another illegal alien not deported, Rosiane Santos will at least go back into the shadows, so, there's that
PS: BTW two questions:
1) Why can't people take video with their phone's long axis aligned horizontally, as that's the kind of graphics we want here at Peak Stupidity?
2) What is it with Latin American women and names with "Rose" in them? Why are there so many variants on Rose? It's starting to piss me off.
* That's not just a random guess from her looks. There are lots of Brazilians living in Massachusetts now, especially on the Cape, working on the politicians compounds that Americans just won't work on, apparently.
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