Roots ZeroHedge on Gold Confiscation 2.0
Posted On: Friday - June 6th 2025 1:01PM MST
In Topics: Commies Websites US Police State Preppers and Prepping Economics US Feral Government The Future
I've written before that ZeroHedge was my favorite web site back in '10 -'12. Then, I just realized, I'd used the phrasing "Roots ZeroHedge" before too, this year even in the post Roots ZeroHedge post explains the Rock & Hard Place thing. (I guess that's why it came to mind.)
I especially enjoy the words of the comments on ZeroHedge. There are still a handful whose names/avatars I remember from back when, but most of these people may be the next generation, having been toddlers when their Dads were pecking away, explaining to Mom, "I'll be at the table in a minute - there's someone whose wrong on the internet!"
ZeroHedge has plenty of dud posts these days, since they've branched out, but The Next Gold Confiscation: What It Could Look Like... And How To Avoid It reminded me of the olde days. I learned a lot back then, and the way things are looking, all that great discussion in the comments* may pay off later than I'd thought then, but sooner than I'd like it to now. (I got to get me a side-scanner sonar first... or something.)
Yeah, that Socialist, Commie-loving bastard, or was it Communist, Socialist-loving bastard, made that move to ATTEMPT to confiscate gold from Americans 92 years ago in order to enable the Feral Gov't to create and spend more money. I say attempt, because, per ZH comments and my own thoughts written here before, I doubt they got most of it.
I've written about the many news stories I'd read about in the 1980's and earlier about "100 ounces of gold found in walls of old farmhouse", or the floorboards, or out in the yard, whatever. The government couldn't easily find the stuff, where you bought it, who you bought it from, etc. 1933, '34, it was a different time, you understand ... [/Old black man reminiscence] Additionally, were I the nephew that inherited that old rusted-tin-roofed farmhouse on the 20 acres, and I was the one who pulled apart the rotting floorboards, well it wouldn't have been no news story, I can tell you.** There was probably a lot of that.
Well, this post by one Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, in this decade-and-a-half later ZH article since the time this was common there, engendered lots of discussion in the comments that brought me that far back. I seem to remember that the posts were mostly by "Tyler Durden" himself (or their selves) back in the day, but I recall they made more sense. Normally comments are better than the articles/posts themselves on most (MOST, not ALL!) websites, and here in the year '25, well, yeah, they rip Mr. Giambruno a new one from the get-go. See, his solution for those worried about the Feral Gov't looking for, finding, and taking one's precious metals, aka, real money is:
How to Protect YourselfYeah, own some paper that says you own gold, paper that the Government can nullify a lot easier than it can send enough Feral agents over to your
The good news? There are practical steps you can take to avoid this kind of expropriation.
Sure, you could renounce your US citizenship. But let’s be honest—that’s a drastic move and not realistic for most people.
Thankfully, there’s a far more practical solution. You can do it right from your living room.
Own gold in a Roth IRA.
Because the government will not tax the Roth IRA. 🤣 Anyway, America is broke, most people do not own gold, and those that do, have tragically lost it in boating accidents.
The tragic boating accident theme is classic olde timey ZeroHedge.
Well, I could read the comments for hours, so let me just insert a pair of comments that bring me back to the fun of ZeroHedge of yesteryear.
Besnook:
I have dementia. I don't know if I own gold and have no idea where I put it if I did.Jaycurve:
What are you talkin about officer…those police came and took it yesterday….well tarnation you tellin me those fellas weren’t police officers…you better get after em real fast…yeah they looked just like you two fellas.There's plenty of great prepper-style discussion and other "news you can use".
There's so much lower-hanging fruit that the Feral Gov't can steal that I'm not sure they wouldn't have awakened too many people by the time they went for the physical PMs. It was ZeroHedge back then where I read - in comments, I'm sure - about a possibility that they first may not quite steal anything but may make more rules about "Yeah, it's a minor accounting thing, but this obscure law just requires one to keep half his 401(k) in T-bonds. No big deal. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it." Then, in general it's a whole lot easier for them to steal the
At the end of the day, the great ZeroHedge commenters will have one last rallying cry, "Gold, bitchez!!" Yes, that classic comment can be found under this post, but it sure took 'em a while.
* I have never been signed up to comment, then or now. I can IMAGINE how much time I'd have spent. I don't think I'd have been employed today, honestly!
** Remember the story of the California couple that found, not just 100's of gold coins, but some of great numismatic value, on their property? What... just why... how could you even IMAGINE it'd be a good idea to inform the Communist Government of California about this? If you're that naive, you don't DESERVE that money. Did you take yourself for the next Ronald Reagan, trusting the Congress on the enforcement side of the Amnesty bill?
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Blundering toward Defcon 5?
Posted On: Thursday - June 5th 2025 10:10PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Trump The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Peak Stupidity has reported on almost nothing and personally not kept up with the Ukraine/Russia war since early on. Our opinion is that the America Government Neocons should not have instigated it 11 years ago, we should not have been involved, and that all having happened, President Trump should keep a promise and get us uninvolved.
Donald Trump's ego has had him wanting to be the peacemaker that put the whole world at peace. Take the Middle East, please! Come on! American Presidents have been trying to "solve" the problems there since, in my own memory, Jimmy Carter. He thought he had it licked. That was almost a half century ago.
Then, Jimmy Carter and the rest of them with the hubris to think they could settle things did not write The Art of the Deal. Trump has fancied himself a great dealmaker in his businesses - perhaps he was - and figured he could do some great deals as President. Really, as far as the Bully Pulpit and international diplomacy goes, that's what you want, a good dealmaker. I was pretty impressed myself seeing Trump in action, almost as if in a reality TV show, during that Zelensky press conference 3 months back.
The American President still has some pull, especially regarding wars that America pours money into. However, obviously Trump's dealmaking on the Ukraine/Russia, with all that pull he has, has gone off the rails. Peak Stupidity has gotten interested at this point because the drone attack on those Russian nuclear bombers* has even us pretty worried about ensuing escalation.
A friend sent me a short video with some discussion of this attack on the latest (can't find it on yt right now) podcast by Irishman George Galloway, who advertises his videos as MOATS, Mother Of All Talkshows. One major point his discussion hinges on is that the Ukraine could not have carried out these attacks without help from American satellites for guidance. I don't know enough to dispute this. Assuming this, Mr. Galloway summed things up pretty simply:
If President Trump actually knew about this attack beforehand, he is pretty heavily on the side of The Ukraine at this point. One couldn't expect any more diplomacy out of Vladimir Putin and Russia. Also, it'd make Trump a liar (and no longer just a bragging bullshitter). If President Trump didn't know, then he is not really in charge as Commander-in-Chief, seeing as NeoCon Senators Graham and Blumenthal and others must have helped make this attack successful behind the President's back. Whatever diplomatic efforts he's made will be meaningless if Trump's not in a position to guarantee what promises come out of his mouth.
What would one expect the Russians to do at this point? Do these NeoCons really believe we're (via the Ukraine) going to destroy this major power without any pain? By pain, I mean some real destruction. How reckless are these NeoCons? Who do they really work for?
We will see what kind of retaliation will ensue. With a significant part (40%?) of their nuclear bomber fleet destroyed, perhaps the Russians will figure they might as well use the rest of them.
With the benefit of hindsight, historians have often wondered how Europe could have blundered into the huge waste of men's lives that was World War I. Couldn't have it been prevented easily enough?
Regarding the Cold War, even in hindsight, it's not easy to figure how that 40 year stand-off in Europe and in proxy locations on other continents could have been avoided. Communists of the 2nd World** were not going to stop trying to corrupt and convert one country after another, and the non-Communist Free (1st) World worked to contain it. That there were thousand of ballistic missiles, sub-based missiles and on-alert bombers that could be used in anger very quickly made this period a time of general worry. Something really bad could happen at any time, if someone slipped up.
Thanks to President Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, the old Pope Paul II from Poland, and millions of American military men, engineers, and technicians, the Cold War was put to an end just over 35 years ago. The Soviet Union Russkies became simply Russians again. The threat of nuclear war was drastically reduced.
What has been done since then? Instead of enjoying the "peace dividend" and our fleeting Sole Superpower status, America has slowly boxed non-Communist Russia into a corner with NATO, an organization that was obsolete as soon as the Cold War ended. Now, we've got crazy NeoCons recklessly bent on destruction of Russia, seemingly not caring that Russia is still a heavily nuclear-armed nation.
You thought that Doomsday Clock and Defcon stuff is only something from old movies and the memories of older Americans? It can come back. To think that these blundering moves toward another Defcon 5, happening in front of our eyes, can be seen as stupidity even in foresight!
During these Cold War high Defcon level times, at least you figured smart people would de-escalate things. Now, where are all the smart people? I don't see ANY smart people involved.
Peak Stupidity may be the least of our worries.
Good night. Sleep tight.
* They've been exposed due to a treaty with the US to, yeah, prevent nuclear war with more visibility.
** That term wasn't used much, but it was implied that the Communist Bloc - and China - were the 2nd World, to explain why the 3rd World was called that.
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Roger Devlin on the White Fertility Destruction wrought by Feminism
Posted On: Tuesday - June 3rd 2025 7:19PM MST
In Topics: Feminism The Future
I came across the fantastic 36 minute F. Roger Devlin talk below somewhat serendipitously. I'd read Jared Taylor's enthusiastic report from the 4th Awakening conference, this one held this past late May in Helsinki, Finland. This pro-White, anti-Population Replacement Programme conference had the theme, this time, of "The rising tide of color".
There are 5 videos of the speakers embedded* in Mr. Taylor's post, out of the 7 he discussed. I want to later watch 3 more, including the talk by Mr. Taylor himself.
Mr. Devlin had not known of the theme, but anything related to both the PPR and reduced White fertility fits right in. The only thing is, Mr. Devlin used Finland as an example - it both being a place where the PPR is not yet fully in progress AND, well, that's where the conference was - to give a talk on his explanation for low fertility without the factor of high immigration. He DID discuss the immigration issue very briefly, but I ask the potential viewer to remember that this first 3 minutes (including his intro.) is not why I called the talk fantastic. It was the discussion of the evil of Feminism.
Before, I go on, it's only been a year since our last post, but if I ever get back to the series on "The Depopulocalypse", remember, I'm not against it. There's just the one big caveat I've got. The other posts were Part 1 - - Part 2, and an Anecdotal Interlude. Those posts were put up Sept. 8th, Oct. 3rd, and Nov 16th of '23, respectively. Yikes! I think I've lost a few readers there.
However, caveat NOT aside, as Mr. Devlin notes in his intro., he explains in the rest of the talk that the culprit responsible for low White fertility is Feminism. He's quite clear about this. I see nothing to argue with him on it either. Without much ado, only a few remarks, I'll let the reader see if he agrees that F. Roger Devlin is right on the money.
His explanation hinges on the mismatch between men and women, as Feminism has obscured their traditional roles, the ones that made the big Father-supported decent-sized nuclear family doable and a source of satisfaction all around. You've read of this from Steve Sailer and others, I'm sure: Ironically, all those women making the big bucks now find it harder than ever to obtain traditional female happiness, as their nature** has them desirous of provider men, meaning those making more than they do. How in the heck is THAT supposed to work? This is extremely dysgenic, even if we were to have higher fertility. (Should we, under these conditions? It's all part of the same problem though...)
I had not ever heard of a "Family Wage", as that's how long it's been since the term's been used. As a Libertarian, I would not like to see anything mandated, as much as it might help reverse things. However, it didn't have to be, back in the time when people understood a "family wage" was something good, and laws weren't necessary. That didn't work after the ctrl-left pushed and pushed Feminism - there were multiple waves, see?
OK, I hope you enjoy this. I'll probably watch it again soon.
* All these videos, including Mr. Devlin's talk, are on the Odysee site. I got somewhat lucky figuring out how to embed this one, and from now on, any Odysee hosted videos, or I sure hope so.
** I almost forgot since yesterday - Mr. Devlin is clear that the White Euro nature and sex-differing instincts are different from that of, say, Africans.
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New York Times Graphical Stupidity... or, yeaaaahh, evil
Posted On: Tuesday - June 3rd 2025 10:59AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Pundits Media Stupidity Science
Note: You must say that "yeaaaahh" in your head in Steve Sailer's interview voice. It works better that way.
Peak Stupidity and probably most readers here would have read or heard from Semi-Deplorable pundit Steve Sailer on his revelations of the George Floyd Martyrdumb having resulting in lots more Black! deaths than the averages before that fatal date with Fentanyl Dustiny.*
These deaths have been in the form of more black-on-black murders and more fatal car wrecks. We, based on the NOTICING by Steve Sailer, can determine that both were due to the same factor, the lack of police presence. The cops spent even MOAR time at the doughnut shops. Well, your Peak Stupidity lead blogger is no sycophant and big supporter of the "men in blue". (Note the lack of a blue & black stripes emblem up top.) Too large a share of the police are about the same level of crooked as George Floyd was, yet, black men seem to act worse without a strong police presence. That's yet another observation by Mr. Sailer that I can confirm.
Anyway, I've heard about this and seen the graphs enough times now. This post is about graphs themselves more than the data and revelations by Mr. Sailer. The NY Times has gotten into the Black! Death Increase story and pretty much butchered it due to erroneous/misleading graphs.**
See, Steve Sailer really hates it, and rightly so, when the Lyin' Press he reads come out with stories that he's already looked into in depth and butcher them. The question he and his commenters (and the old REAL Deplorables in his Unz Review iSteve Open Threads) have is do the NY Times writers incompetently "butcher" these graphs or is it malice. I'd put it as stupidity v evil, a contest of competing factors that we witness often.
Let me get to the graphs, because in iSteve's posts about it, I think there's something regarding the graphing technique that neither he nor any commenter has gotten straight. The first post (both hankfully not paywalled) was Happy 5th Anniversary of the Racial Reckoning. He pointed out stupidity/evil of this misleading graph:
His follow up post, written after he wrote a letter to the "Newspaper of Record" corrections dept. (the writer or editor, I guess), is about their attempt at a correction. That was to done I guess to both save being eviscerated even more on AntiSocial Media and placate iSteve. He's spent a lot of time on this and gotten it right. I'd be rightly pissed and doggedly get on these liars or incompetents. He wrote The NYT Corrected Its Ludicrous George Floyd Homicide Graph ..., but nobody is happy with the correction. They just took out the freaking vertical George Floyd Martyrdumb line to show that "We dunno. Shit's gotten bad." (Graphical displays of burrito coverings inventory are hopefully forthcoming.) I'm not even going to show this one. Just picture the above without the Floyd line and label.
Mr. Sailer assumes incompetence, but he's a nice guy. He writes out of (in, actually) a closet and has a nice dog. About the initial NYT graph, he wrote:
The usually competent graph designers at the NYT placed the dashed vertical line indicating Floyd’s death after the 29% increase in homicides in 2020, when the large majority of the explosion in murders followed the cultural revolution of May 25, 2020 as the cops retreated to the donut shop.(I'll forgive the lazy-assed spelling of doughnuts just this once.)
Mr. Sailer, from his 2nd post, after the "correction" (he also pasted in his nice, as usual, letter to the Editor):
Your graphic artist made the obvious mistake of creating a line graph that attributes all homicides of 2020 to January 1, 2020, so the vertical dashed line for Floyd's death follows rather than precedes the big surge.A " cosmetically improved version" of his much more revealing ~ weekly data with bi-monthly (every-8-weekly) tic marks - graph is this:
In contrast, here's my graph of weekly CDC mortality data of black homicide and motor vehicle deaths from the beginning of 2018 to mid-November 2024 (the CDC imposes a 6 month lag on reporting murders and car crashes to let coroners have time to do their work).
OK, look, I've written this before. It's 1/4 of a CENTURY into the 3rd Millennium now. Can we quit writing, and especially SAYING "twenty twenty x" yet?! His labels on his x-axis would be a little cleaner without extra characters. [/micro-rant]
Here's the problem in the first place. The data of deaths compiled by the NY Times are for deaths at end-of-year. I can see where you would want a cleaner graph, only yearly than Mr. Sailer's one. Here's where the 2nd stupidity v evil question comes in. (I'll get to the 1st last.) Did they deliberately go with yearly data to obscure the important point of Steve Sailer's? More importantly, did they make the graph with end-of-year tic marks WITHOUT labels purposefully to "fact check" any correlation that Mr. Sailer made? Was that stupidity (incompetence) or evil (lying)?
I read plenty of comments by people generally seeing the problem. The Floyd Martyrdumb happened on May 25th of '20, 40% of the way through that leap-year. (Yeah, to get more accurate.) That's where the vertical line is, so "What's the problem again?" - NY Times writers. Yeah, but the deaths for all of '20 are at the '20 tic mark, which most people would figure is the start of the year. This is the point that nobody seems to have made well... till now.*** It's not just about the resolution of the time-scale.
Obviously, Mr. Sailer's graph fixes the problem. If you want to be truthful, you just paste that in. However, and I'm being very generous to the NYT here, if you want that cleaner, simpler graphs, you can either do this:
Or this:
I cropped out both the main title**** and the source information from these 2. The latter would be the same, of course, but the big main title might have to change, which is a real problem...
I like the 2nd one better. With my 1st, I can see readers arguing (no, not you guys, NTY readers), "No, he died a year later. You got it wrong." No, that's the end of '19, see? May of '20 is after that, 40% of the way to the end of '20.
On the 2nd, there'd be no such argument. I suppose one might argue "The deaths for '20 are way higher!" No, but that the start of '20. See the '21 tic mark and data points? They reflect the data for the year '20, which is the start of '21, is it not?
Or, they don't care and are just evil liars. Let me get to that 1st point of asking the question, stupidity (incompetence) v evil (lying)?
From the very beginnning could the NYT writers not have made some effort to search for (or on X – I don’t partake, so would they very obviously have heard of iSteve?) the info that Mr. Sailer has written and spoken about HUNDREDS of times? Could the writers have possibly tried and missed getting his information? There’s censorship by the “fact check” sites, in which the true stuff is relegated to page 8 of search results, but really, could they not have easily found the weekly graphs?
If the NTY purposely ignored Steve Sailer and just made their own graphs anyway, I’d call that evil already from the get-go. After that, one could lie with graphs or else just let incompetence take the ball from there.
PS: As commenter Ralph L. noted on TUR, a bar graph would be best for this data, which is just yearly totals. However, then you can't make the point about the Floyd mark very easily. (Put a line between the '19 and '20 bars, I guess...)
* Does it come in dust form, I mean if you like it that way? I dunno... I'm tryin' to make a pun here so cut me some slack.
** In this case, they didn't get into the car wrecks, but displayed police shootings, as that was what their narrative was apparently about. (I don't read the NYT, with VERY rare exceptions. THIS is why.)
*** That's just my opinion - maybe I didn't get the gist of some of the commenters' writing. There will be more comments too, so ...
*** I like that method, having a Main title and then a sub-title that states something about the numbers being measured. In this way, you don't need a label for the vertical axis.
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[UPDATED 06/03 evening:] Fixed typo (40%, not 49% in one place, noted that the 2nd curve was police killings by adding (what is now) the 2nd footnote. Also, iSteve's data is weekly, but just the tic marks are every-8-weekly. Finally, I noted that a bar graph is best for data that is only good to the year, as one can't assume anything from the graph shape between years.
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The Kovid Kids
Posted On: Monday - June 2nd 2025 6:49PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
This post is sort of timely. I don't write that due to our many dozens of posts about all types of Kung Flu PanicFest madness having come out fast and furious 5 years ago. It happens that I wrote a comment under the very last post in reply to Adam Smith with an anecdote (of mine) about not taking a doctor's worries about my boy's slightly late speech development seriously. Then, I had a conversation with a lady who told me that her boy was one of the Kovid Kids. She was referring to speech development problems.
Our full disclosure policy says I should add that this kid has some other minor problem with his tongue (longer on one side than the other). I dunno. However, she brought up the problem of speech development in "the Kovid Kids". At 6 y/o now, he is considered a Kovid Kid.
What? I'd never before heard of the term. However, 5 years ago Peak Stupidity posted discussion about possible problems for children we might see in the future due to the ubiquitous face-masking.* Oops, it's the future now. My post was one of a 12-parter: Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 6.
If you recognize this and the next picture - they're in reverse order from the original post - you have a great memory. The Kung Flu's been bery bery good to you. Remember the times - parents, well, the Kung Flu Kompliant ones - would wear face masks while pushing their little ones in the baby carriage. I don't want to remember if they put any masks on the babies - toddlers had 'em. Here's what I wrote then, 4.8 years back:
Can you imagine what the little ones are thinking, though? If you are a 2 y/o toddler, you may have solid memories only going back 1/2 a year or so. You will think this is the way the world has always been. Adults don't show their noses and mouths in public, in the same way that they don't show their pee-pee's and ass-cracks... OK, well, some of them. If this goes on for, well what will it be, another year, two(?), what kind of impression of the world will this be?I didn't think about speech development. Look, if they pay me to do Developmental Psychology here, I'll do Developmental Psychology here, going forward. The thought that babies may learn how to talk by reading lips is an interesting one though.
The kid on the right below might have an obsession with not showing his face when he grows up. He may have the same dreams about leaving his face mask at home, you know, like those dreams where you go to the office and realize you forgot to put your pants and underwear on. (Usually it's just the pants, unless it's one of THOSE dreams... with Ivanka working in the same cube as me ... Jared is my reporting manager with his web cam... we've all probably had this one ...)
First, one must get over the idea that when children are too young to talk, it's because they wouldn't know what to say. I really thought that until some examples taught me otherwise. No, they might know perfectly well what words they want to say by some age, but they cannot get their lips, mouth, and throat to make said words.
Moving on from that, I'd figured that children just try all different things with their lips/mouths/throats until they get closer and closer to the sound they want to make. That's trial and error learning. This idea about their learning how to make sounds by reading the lips of others speaking to them is pretty cool. I don't know if it's right - they don't even pay me to go on the internet and ...
OK, fine. I've found lots of blurbs based on the search "children learning to speak by lip reading". One of them is Science! News, but not knowing the political aspirations of that publications, I went to Speech Buddy to read this interesting article. It refers to a study by one David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic U. (Nice spot!) Keep in mind here, English is all the children's family language - fancy that! - as they watch videos of women speaking to them in English and Spanish:
When the speaker used English, the four-month-olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The six-month-olds looked at the eyes and the mouth equally. Interestingly, the eight and 10-month-olds studied mostly the mouth while the 12-month-olds, started shifting their attention back towards the speaker’s eyes.How they learn to roll those "r"s is beyond me!
However, when the babies heard Spanish, researchers saw that the 12-month-olds studied the mouth longer- similar to the younger babies. These children struggled to interpret the information and needed the extra clues to make sense of the unfamiliar sounds.
OK, I looked at some more articles, but others also mention the same study from '12 or so, which made this learning-to-speak-by-lip-reading concept a new one only 13 years ago. Really? I'm amazed, because this sounds like the kind of theory that would be very fun and interesting to develop experiments for. Wait, someone did one in '20 too - I almost forgot. They called it the Kung Flu Infotainment PanicFest... well, some of us called it that.
This masking deal was perhaps an inadvertent experiment on speech development, as the real experiment was on compliance with Totalitarianism. The experiment on the children's development is not one I'd think most parents would have voluntarily signed up for, were it advertised by the local university Psyche Dept. "Your kid will spend his first couple of years in a somewhat mother-alienated environment. There will be complimentary Chic-Fil-A gift cards!"
Yet parents all over the place decided they must be part of this experiment, that decision itself being part of an experiment ... very meta. Now there are Kovid Kids, whose speech development has been delayed.
I'm not just basing this post on the experiments mentioned and the one Mom's experience. From My Wellness Hub, well, that's what I came upon, COVID-19’s Silent Impact: Speech Delays in Children:
A Startling Rise in Speech DelaysHere are the factors to which the problems are attributed:
The pandemic has reshaped the landscape of childhood development in ways we’re only beginning to understand. For many little ones, their first words, an eagerly awaited milestone, have been delayed. The data speaks volumes about this emerging challenge. According to the Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center, a notable shift occurred during the pandemic. In pre-pandemic times, they reported a 20% failure rate in speech evaluations among children. However, in the heart of the pandemic, this rate alarmingly rose to 50%, with even higher rates in areas of greater economic challenges.
1) Reduced Social Interaction
2) The Digital Shift: Increased Screen Time
3) (absence of) Outdoor Activities
4) Mask-Wearing and Speech Development
From discussion of (4):
Lastly, the widespread use of masks, while crucial for health and safety, has had unintended consequences for speech development. Masks can muffle sounds and hide facial expressions, both essential cues in learning language and communication. For young children, seeing the movement of lips and facial expressions is a critical part of understanding speech and language.Yeah, understanding these factors... lots of us intuitively understood these factors 5 years ago, during the PanicFest! We were told to shut up and put a mask on.
Understanding these factors is essential in addressing the developmental needs of our children during these challenging times.
Strategies for Parents and CaregiversYou want a conversation? You can't handle a conversation! We tried to tell you that you were panicking and to calm the hell down. We asked you to have perspective and note that no commandeered Fed-Ex vans were driving around calling out on a P/A "Bring out yer dead!" We pointed out that no kids from the school were hospitalized or we'd have all heard about it and kept our kids home, attendance policy be damned. We listened to your worries and found you steeped in stupidity and overly compliant under Totalitarianism.
Embrace the Power of Conversation ...
We
PS: It sounds like the boy in question is a very bright kid and will do fine.
* We had a whole 5-part series called March Mask Madness, but the post in question here wasn't one of those.
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What were once Las Vegas card counters are now Autists
Posted On: Saturday - May 31st 2025 11:10PM MST
In Topics: Music TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness Movies Educational Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
... and apparently, that's not legal even though it's perfectly within the rules of the game, because the House must come out ahead, and you must lose!
I guess we can keep going with this title style forev..[Just no! - Ed.] No, seriously as opposed to "ADHD victims" we can be sure there ARE actually Autistic men. (OK, women too, but the traditional diagnoses of this mental problem for real skew 4:1 male:femaie.*)
Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man - "Rain Man" is how the autistic Charlie Babbitt remembers his brother Raymond**, played by Tom Cruise - portrays an example of a serious case. It's just a movie, but this mental condition is real and can be bad enough such that the (dare I say) patient cannot live a normal life and it's a big burden on the parents. I highly recommend this 1988 movie just for entertainment and heart-string-pulling value.
I've told this anecdote before: There was a contest at a Halloween party in which one could get a jar or 2 of Candy Corn for coming closest to guessing the number of pieces in each of the 2 jars. (Candy Corn is great stuff! It's REAL corn you know ... well, High Fructose Corn Syrup, so yeah, right?.) I told my then 6 y/o son to pick round numbers (to the nearest 5), just to teach him the difference between precision and accuracy. He picked 125 and 140 - something like that - and got them BOTH RIGHT ON THE MONEY! That bit of luck, and it WAS, thankfully, because one would know if his child's got mental problems like REAL autism, called for some Rain Man toothpick and Las Vegas card-counting jokes, of course.
In the ex-iSteve threads on The Unz Review, there was some discussion on the changes in rates of Autism diagnoses. The increase has been phenomenal or ridiculous, depending on how you explain it. Let's look back.
If you go back too far, you'll get muddled definitions of Autism, often including other serious mental problems. However, by the mid 1960s what exactly IS autistic was being sorted out. Per this website***:
Leading up to the creation of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, in 1965 psychologist Victor Lotter developed a list of behavioral statements for identifying and diagnosing autism. Teachers of 76,388 children between the ages of 8 and 10 attending schools in the Middlesex area completed the test. Children identified by teachers were then further assessed to confirm their autism.A nice chart from the times when Psychiatrists would not mince words follows. Numbers of autists were estimated:
Lotter believed this was sufficient data to diagnose autism, which was considered a behavioral condition at the time. He noted the initial prevalence of autism within a population of 4.5 in 10,000.(That's 1 in ~2,200 for our readers in del Boca Vista. Also, the use of the term "behavioral condition" is interesting.). They hadn't separated out "childhood schizophrenia" from autism until 1980 per this interesting reading, but then this schizophrenia, thankfully, must have been low, as the numbers of autistic kids did not go down. Autism was a "Communication Disorder" in the '70s and became a "Pervasive Developmental Disorder" by the next decades. The numbers then like this:
The new understanding of autism and the neurodevelopmental aspects of the disorder expanded the diagnostic criteria. Now, ‘Impairments of reciprocal social interaction’ were reported to occur in 21.2 of every 10,000 children in the area studied, of whom 4.9 presented with a history of ‘typical autism.’I detect some mission creep already in those early 1980s. I'd almost forgotten about this one:
In 1981, she [Either one of Psychiatrists Lorna Wing or Judith Gould - the writer is far from an autist here - just careless.] coined the term ‘Asperger’s syndrome’ after reclaiming a 1944 article on autism by Hans Asperger.We'll get back to that. OK 1 in 2,000 or so children being autistic is believable. I was around in the 1980s and even prior. I didn't know anyone in the whole school who was autistic, but then, they may still have been at separate schools, and this would have meant only been a handful or two or three would live in the area by probabilities. DIMS? (Does It Make Sense?). Yes.
If you search for numbers for the modern day, you'll see blurbs that worry that the 1 in 35 autism occurrence ratio of 5 years ago has gone up even higher, to 1 in 30! This is very obviously garbage. Has autism increased by a factor of 60 over 45 years? DIMS? No.
To digress only slightly here, Peak Stupidity has been dead-set against the mandatory Kung Flu jab since the beginning of the PanicFest. It was my personal reason that I wasn't worried about the Kung Flu to start with that had me neither caring about nor wanting this "vaccine". Then it was the mandate part - not what you do in any kind of free country, then, the more personal, corporate mandate threats, and finally there was the politics. We (my immediate family and all other family members but one) took a rain man(?) check.
OK, that pun is there for a reason - it's funny. Also, before the whole Kung Flu Infotainment, there already WAS an anti-vax movement. Parents had their various reasons for not wanting vaccinations for their kids. Just the sheer number of them required (NOT! Don't let them tell you that.) might be a little worrisome to anyone. It's in the many dozens, heck, maybe toward 100! Generally, the biggest worry has been that the vaccines' "medium", if you will, the base material, may cause autism. I will not argue any of that here. It should be enough to say that these vaccines should not be mandatory.
We're talking autism here. If there has been a rise, maybe a big one, of this mental problem due to vaccines, it still did not bring the occurrence ratio of autism to 1 in 30. That's a ludicrous number. That'd be 10 people at the elementary school. No. Way. Now that doesn't meant that this school might not CLAIM that there are 10 kids with autism there... and more with Asperger's ... and more with ADHD... hell, the only normal kid is that one boy on the monkey bars, and he's still a little off, hanging upside down and screaming "I'm a bat! I'm a bat!" (Fond memories, indeed!)
Peak Stupidity discussed the reasons for the high number of "diagnoses" of ADHD and such last time. Teachers don't want to deal with boys with lots of energy. Parents might not like to hear that their kids are not normal, but then the perks for being a victim of "a diseases" are not bad, not bad at all.
In the case of diagnoses of autism, the 1st factor is not present, but the 2nd is. Additionally, I present another factor that applies for ALL of these supposed mental conditions that have someone greatly increased in the population of American kids. What was once personality is now a syndrome.
Seriously autistic people have this focus on detail, sometimes - "autistic savant" is the term - with amazing mental skills at the expense of social skills. Unfortunately, for serious cases, the latter means they really can't function in society. A kid said to have autism these days is a boy who is very focused, maybe, yes, at the expense of some social skills, but so freaking what? That's his personality! Not everyone is a "people person". What "people people" don't understand at all is that not everyone WANTS to be a people person.
So, there you have your kid, or just as likely, that kid in the class you teach, who knows more about glazes for clay than you ever cared about. Maybe he loves the math and you think this is kind of obsessive, as why would anyone like math? (I mean, you barely got through that damn college algebra getting that Masters in Ed, by the skin of your
We're not just talking children here. How about all the adults officially diagnosed as having one of these syndromes, when they are nothing but people with differing personalities? "Doesn't play well with others." Do people who do "play well with others" ever realize that there are people who DON'T WANT to play well or AT ALL with others? Most of them COULD play well with others (something that these others don't get), but they LIKE being by themselves ... a lot! This is not a mental problem. I would conjecture that it's those people who would go crazy spending a whole day by themselves that have mental problems! ... but I won't ... because it's just personality... and Peak Stupidity has an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity here.... [/Michael Scott]
Now, the mission creep of these syndromes involves classifying people as "on the spectrum". "He might seem just pretty rowdy, but you need to know where he falls on the ADHD spectrum" "You say he's just a bit shy, but that means he's somewhere - on the low end, mind you, so don't fret - on the autism spectrum." They've got spectra for everything now - I'm not sure how the BLT-G++ crowd likes the appropriation of their beloved rainbows for mental problems, a totally different thing... no, wait....
There you go: "Your child is just a little over the rainbow... somewhere... way up high..."
Peak Stupidity has discussed this spectrum business before. I would hope anyone who has referred to me as being "on the spectrum" is only talking about the supplements I may need for extra magnesium (can't get enough of that stuff!)
These kids, the ones who are a little different, because personalities do vary, you know, should properly be said to be "on the Flintstones":
Finally, perhaps it's the schoolteachers and the principals (NOT!) those who want all the kids to be equal cogs in the machine, who are OFF the visible spectrum, and that's the problem. Some lie way below the red in the microwave range, frying the brains of all around them. Others are on the other side, in the Ultraviolet, giving off an aura that causes disease but does at least enhance drug experimentation.
There's one part of the spectrum we all need to stay off, and that part goes from ~50 to 200 MHz - the TV band! Peak Stupidity recommends one treatment to help people get off that spectrum. It's called Federal 125 grain NYCLAD™ .38 Hollow-Point. Kill your TV!
OK, look, no, show tunes are not a thing here on Peak Stupidity. (This is not Mark Steyn here.) Yet, the song is in my head now, after all this talk about spectra. From the old classic The Wizard of Oz, it's Judy Garland. The lyrics are very good I just realized.****
This post was nuts! OK, have a happy Sunday, Peakers. Enjoy your place on the spectrum!
* The ratio was bound to change as the total numbers increased greatly due to the factors discussed here.
** ... and, IMDB has this backwards, or, I should say, the unpaid "content providers" do.
*** It's called He's Extraordinary and is a site for "extraordinary people", their way of saying autistic (and maybe for other mental problems). I just don't like the euphemisms. I'm sure this terminology CAN make a parent of an autistic kid feel better until, as always, the general population gets the meaning after a while, and it'll be said with sadness. OTOH, as with the Rain Man in the movie, some of these people ARE extraordinary, and not just extra ordinary.
**** I tend to HATE movie musicals, so I tend to zone out waiting for the story to continue.
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What was once Hyper is now ADD
Posted On: Friday - May 30th 2025 8:07PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Educational Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
Note: This has turned into Human Factors week here at Peak Stupidity. There was the humor about Mr. Floyd (one of them) and then the female stupidity factor. Today and tomorrow we will focus on psychological factors that are not usually really...
Our title yet again reflects an old Doobie Brother album title. We speculated a long time ago "I think that name is an early criticism of euphemisms, something I'd never thought about before." Google AI just now speculated:
The title "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" suggests that behaviors once considered morally wrong or undesirable have become commonplace and accepted, evolving into regular habits.I don't know. I think it's just a change in terminology, with the meaning staying the same. A "vice" is now a "bad habit".* AI might be right though, but I'll leave it up to The Doobies.
Alright, because of my deficiency there in attention span, that did not at all get to the point here, so let me talk ADD, which has actually been ADHD for quite a while now. Kids used to be Hyperactive, that's all. We just called them "hyper", not understanding that this prefix alone did not reflect our meaning. Said kids did not have a psychological condition. They were not on some "spectrum" - they just were extra-active, or maybe a little out of control.
In that era of the hyper kid, we also had many more male teachers in lower education. I don't say a majority of mine were, but as compared to now, there were a lot. The local elementary school here and now has ZERO male teachers in the classrooms. There's that Assistant Principal (the guy that was there with the laptops in a near deposition situation when we didn't bother to email about our boy being out for a few days.) There's the gym teacher. That's it.
Schools are filled with boys AND girls, we ought to remember. The girls do better in the "sit down for 7 hours" situation than the boys. Male teachers are, well, men, so they know slightly more about the mindset and boundless energy of the boys. The female teachers, at least the modern ones, don't. Therefore, instead of sending the slightly out of control, formerly "hyper", kid out of the room to run 20 laps or getting him to do 25 push-ups, they determine he must be made to sit there and behave, period.
To make this happen, they put 'em on drugs. You can't just start
Full disclosure here as mandated by the PS Legal Team:
I was NOT hyper, but I did have my own ADD license tag for a while. It just so happened that those three letters, with 3 or 4 numbers at the end, were on the plate on one of my cars for years. I was so glad to get a new sticker each year rather than a new plate, but, alas, due to my LACK of hyperactivity, I never got around to trying to get away with parking in handicapped spaces or arguing parking tickets in court**.
AI does a pretty good job of sorting through the BS, but after sorting... it's still BS:
"Diagnostic term?" Uh oh. After a diagnosis you usually get treatment. Boys, or I should say, the parents of boys, have been cajoled into "treating" their high activity with Ritalin, etc. It probably helped that being a victim of something, anything, is helpful for breaks in test-taking, college admission, and even career advancement these days.
I know adults who told me about their having taken Ritalin as a kid. Did it cure them, because, I didn't know it was supposed to be a permanent "cure" for being a high energy boy, and these men seem perfectly fine and relaxed now. I imagine they'd have been perfectly fine without having taken drugs for years. Who knows what years of "treatment" with these drugs do? Is something missing?
I have never agreed that ADD and ADHD are real mental problems of any sort. They are just descriptions of personalities that teachers don't know how to deal with. How is it that there was there no such thing as either when I was a kid, yet there are millions now of cases now.
They all say there is the very occasional Excitable Boy, in the Warren Zevon song sense. Is that what the schools have been doing, trying to avoid that very rare lawsuit about some excitable boy?
Warren Zevon relates the story:
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best.That's all it was. ADD, my ass.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
He took in the 4 A.M. show at the Clark.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark.
"Excitable boy," they all said.
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom.
"Excitable boy," they all said. (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
After ten long years, they let him out of the home.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones.
"Excitable boy," they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
Well, he's just an excitable boy.
Here's the pro-Ritalin song from the late great Warren Zevon:
Here's the anti-Ritalin song (Peak Stupidity's take) from The Eagles. However, Desperado is a Concept Album, one of the very best of them, so the song 21 must come first. 21 and out of control:
We'll get to autism tomorrow, definitely real for some but also overblown in its use as a diagnosis, maybe for differing reasons.
* When you think of smoking, that used to be a "vice", but it became a "habit", with the word "vice" coming into dis-use even by the cops. (Miami Vice was on 4 decades ago, and where is the Vice Squad now? WTH was the "Bunko Squad" anyway?!)
** "Your Honor, I'm ADD. Between this disease and the double vente expresso I had at the coffee shop, I was too wired to keep a watch for the meter maid, Rita. I throw myself at the mercy of the court."
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Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy
Posted On: Thursday - May 29th 2025 10:40AM MST
In Topics: Humor Feminism US Feral Government Female Stupidity
As if Blue-jeaned babe Kristi and Sister Golden Hair aren't enough as examples of women leaders being a bad idea, Peak Stupidity presents a real Piece of Work, exhibit A-1 Prime, S. Carolina Low-Country CongressDramaQueen Nancy Mace. What's unfortunate is that she is MAGA. That just bolsters the arguments of people like Steve Sailer, that MAGA is full of low-brow conspiracy theorists. This lady does is not helping my counter arguments.
Low brow? Yeah. Conspiracy theorist? Not in the way one would think.* The only conspiracy Rep. Nancy Mace is currently interested in is what her ex-fiance is up to with the home security cameras. That sounds personal and not so important for Congressional hearings on America's many problems, but... she's a woman, and OMG, there's me, naked! See? I'm gonna blow it up for clarity.** "The House Oversight (get it?) Committee Secretary shall enter these photos into .... what? He's in the Congressional unisex restroom right now? OK, when he gets back..."
Gateway Pundit can be good for these "human interest" stories, and I liked their headline: Rep. Nancy Mace Shares Nude Photo of Herself During House Hearing on ‘Surveillance in Private Spaces’ (VIDEO) No, don't get excited. The video is a whole bunch of extremely boring womansplaining, and she's wearing glasses, and she doesn't take any clothes off the whole 17 minutes. Skip it. Instead, let's go to the wiki page on the Honorable CongressDramaQueen Mace from the 1st Districk of South Carolina.
The wiki page is a hoot. Nancy Mace was an Army brat, her Dad, James Emory Mace, having been a Captain in Vietnam, awarded medals seriously for bravery there, and having become a Brigadier General. Miss Mace was not the 1st woman to be admitted to the Citadel, an "honor" that goes to one Shannon Faulkner, who, after a multi-year lawsuit to open up the male bastion to women, lasted 3 days. I remember this story. It was the heat - you know, summer in S. Carolina ... and also large quantities of noodle casserole that did her in. (NOT KIDDING!)
However, with help from her Brigadier General Daddy who ran the Corps of Cadets, Nancy Mace was the first woman to graduate, in 1999. One more male bastion had been destroyed. America being the world's Sole Superpower at the time, who cared, right?! Kick ass...
I first thought this deal went very much along the lines of Steve Sailer's points about Dads with only girls wanting them to be surrogate sons. However, Miss Mace has a brother who's a heart surgeon (along with having a sister too). I don't know, does she have a male-leaning personality? Maybe she DID, but nature has taken over, as we can read and see.
After that time at the Citadel, taking the slot of a man who would have loved to have attended, Miss Mace got degrees from the U. of Georgia in Journalism and Mass Communication. In other words, nothing constructive was to come out of her from then on.
Her politics have been spotty since she first got into it, volunteering for Ron Paul in '12, winning a special election for a SC State House seat in '17, and getting into the US Congress in '20. Details are on the wiki page. The parts I like are her stance against Øb☭macare, her voting out Kevin McCarthy, and the very minor deal of her refusal to pronounce Kamala's first name the way it's supposed to, which I honestly still don't know - I just like that attitude.
However, Nancy Mace did NOT support Trump in the claims of election fraud in '20. She was FOR BLTG++ until Trump came back, and now she is against all that. Something tells me she blows with the winds, in more than one way.
There was some weird incident at the end of last year with one James McIntyre, a foster care activist. He shook Citadel graduate Nancy's hand too hard.
Another witness stated that McIntyre "took her hand with both of his hands and shook her arm up and down in an exaggerated, aggressive handshaking motion". Mace refused paramedics' assistance, but stated in court documents that she felt "pain in her wrists, arm and armpit/shoulder due to the incident".It must have been brutal. I mean, she was in the Corps of Cadets.
Everything else out of this drama queen is all women, women, women first, rather than America first. At this point, it has become, my body first, which is pretty hot but not for just anyone to look at, as per my picture shown to the Congressional Oversight Committee, and on viral video. Hey, we just report on stupidity here - we are not capable of making this up.
This whole time wasted by alleged-MAGA Piece of Work talking about cameras and privacy was actually about her personal problems with her ex-fiance. (She's been married twice already and is a single Mom of 2.) Gateway Pundit now:
Mace also repeated her allegations against her ex-fiance before Tuesday’s hearing, writing in an X post: “Today I will show my naked body on one of the videos predator and rapist Patrick Bryant took of me and many other women. Without our knowledge. Without our permission. And without our consent.”Monsters, I tells ya'! But, but, I didn't know he was a monster when I got engaged... for the 3rd time!
“This naked silhouette is my naked body. I didn’t know that I had been filmed. I didn’t give my consent. I didn’t give my permission and this particular video that Patrick Bryant recorded of me on his secret camera, he saved for over three years without my knowledge.”
“Today I exposed a monster whose victims deserve justice. The victims also deserve stronger federal and state laws to protect them,” Nancy Mace said.
These victims who deserve stronger Federal and State laws are... Nancy Mace... who sits in the US Congress... immune there from charges of slander by just some monsters with the other side of the story of a 7/9 on the hot/crazy matrix.
MAGA can do a lot better than this. No more Nancy Maces! Let's get some hard-charging men up there in the House of Representin', rather than more drama queens.
PS: Here's a statement from the ex-fiance:
Mace’s ex-fiancé told South Carolina-based Fits News: “I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false. They are malicious and deeply personal. My mistake was loving and trusting someone who later weaponized our relationship.”When you see anywhere close to this level of crazy, believe the man. You'll be right 95% of the time.
* There IS a section on the wiki page, which we'll get to, entitled "Extraterrestrial life".
** Honestly, I can't make heads or tails out of that image. I've tried! Then again, I've failed the Rorchach test every time I've taken it. My therapist moonlights as my ophthalmologist, so normally we do a combined Rorchach/eye exam, which gets... tricky.
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Women in charge: Blue-jean Baby and Sister Golden Hair
Posted On: Wednesday - May 28th 2025 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Music Feminism US Feral Government Female Stupidity
"How does my tight butt look in this tacticool gear?", asks Kristi Noem, Secretary of Motherland Security. "Look at my hair. I'm Sister Golden Hair!" says Pam Blondie, US Attorney General... picked, stupidity, by President Trump. (Yeah, both of them.)
What about Surgeon General, is that vacant now? Sure pick the fat Black! broad to show you're not sexist or racist, or better, some Sister Golden Hair Surprise to keep people watching the TV. It doesn't matter. Well, I mean, make sure she's not allowed to open her mouth next Plandemic or anything like that...
It’s OK to have your battle-axes, your Maggie Thatchers and such, and then the occasional high-spirited anti-Establishment MTGs. These pretty women though, like Kristy Noem, Pam Blondie, and so on are NO GOOD. They are real women.* As such, they do care about their appearances and being seen as often and by as many people as possible more important than getting things done. It’s who they are, which is fine, but don’t freaking appoint them to anything, for cryin’…
Yeah, it's kind of tough for a woman who doesn't want to be called an old "battle axe" but wants to be a part of running the world. Too bad. That's not what you're made for. HIllary Clinton tried to explain all this, but unfortunately, she's an anitChrist and lies more easily than she breaths. What she said, but the opposite.
I don't know why Tom Homan is not Secretary of Motherland Security rather than an underling. Yes, Kristi in the tight blue jeans was a decent GOP Governor for North Dakota. I don't even like that, because the whole thing reminds me too much of Nikki Haley of South Carolina. Women put their feelings first, and principles can change in a heart beat. After all, a woman is entitled to change her mind, right? ("Yeah, but not when she's the ... "Hey, you're the dumbasses who voted for her."). But, I do like her in blue jeans, as a woman, not someone who should be forming a strategy and developing tactics.
Appointing Pan Blondie as Attorney General to retributive ass was a mistake. I don't know what the deal was with Matt Goetz, but some other firebrand who would have come out of the gate with a thousand subpoenas and arrest warrants - for Merrick Garland, Alley Hondro Mayorkas, Leticia James, etc. - is who we needed. Blondie may get to some of this, but her hair and nails come first.**
We've wasting a lot of time with this. Commenter AnotherDad pointed out in a couple of comments that the Chinese Politburo is made of all men, 24 of them, and all Han Chinese. The Chinese tried their hand at Feminism only for the purpose of instilling in the population that they were equally minor cogs in the great Wheel of Communism back in the Mao era. That did save The People money on fashions and fashion accessories along with cosmetological supplies (the money saved to be used for cosmology instead) - Chairman Mao's famous Rice Bowl Cosmetology.
Say what you want about The People's Republic, and we often do, but the people in charge aren't silly. They may be inherently stupid often, but they are not silly.
This promotion of hot women, or any generally, to positions of power is silly. Trump and America don't have enough time for this stuff.
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Speaking of America, now with Sister Golden Hair in my head, I've got to embed it here. That band America was only big for a few years, but they made some great soft-rock music. To this day, I remember the names of this trio, who formed their band as Army brats in London: Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek, and Dewey Bunnell.
That song is half a century old! Now, there's an anniversary for you.
OK, now, since I re-titled the post, Elton John's Tiny Dancer oughta appear too. Forget he's gay when you listen to this. It's Bernie Taupin who wrote it, though. I can't remember if he was gay too, as that biographic movie Rocketman wasn't one of my favorites.
This one is 4 years older than that! The couple of seconds of piano intro. is almost the same as, but a little inverted from, the intro. in Journey's Feelin' That Way from 7 years later. (It's not worth a lawsuit.) We featured the latter song here before and noted that It ABSOLUTELY MUST be played together with Anytime That You Want Me. Don't not do that!
PS: After doing a little thinking about writing this post, I ran into the story of an exemplary Piece Of Work that would have taken too long to make fun of in this one post. We'll get to her... yeah, Nancy Mace. Holy ...
* That's not to say MTG is not a real woman and pretty in her way, but she's one hell of an exception. Can she be cloned?
** There was always a question, too, of her support of George Zimmerman's attempted murderer, some big black guy who ended up rightfully dead. Did Trump miss that? (Mr. Hail would have more, being - I think - from Florida. Hopefully we'll hear from him soon.)
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Important Anniversary missed
Posted On: Tuesday - May 27th 2025 7:15PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Race/Genetics
This is the one we mentioned in the last post.
Firstly, Peak Stupidity has a mutually beneficial deal with Alcoholics Anonymous - we don't compete with them with any new 12-step programs, and they don't criticize our unorthodox support for the sobriety of George Floyd. He's been sober for 1,828 days straight.* "My name was George Floyd, and if alcoholism were the worst thing I've done... "
From UR commenter Mike Tre came the following, as Mr. Tre noted that George Floyd is probably looking better now:
George Floyd died of a drug overdose 5 years ago the day before yesterday. Yeah, so what...
Someone else noted that the BLM and antifa crowd really aren't going to remember George Floyd. He was, after all is said and done, just a worthless, violent Black! reprobate. No, they want us to remember the power they had over the cucks of this nation and around the world for a whole summer and more 5 years ago.
A quick Peak Stupidity survey follows. It'll only take a minute of your time, I swear... except for the part about listening to some great music.
Who will I most likely remember 10 years from now?
[ ] George Floyd, ex-resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota
[ ] Floyd Lawson, ex-resident barber of Mayberry, N. Carolina
[ ] Pink Floyd, ex-rock band from England.
To get you started pondering the question:
PS: Going completely off this subject, I am getting worried about Mr. Hail. His last post on his site was on April 4th, His last comment thereunder was on April 10th and his last one on The Unz Review was in mid-April too. I haven't checked, but it's likely been that long here. I'll write him a message on his blog. We hope he's OK and just busy.
* Don't forget that there was 1 leap year in there, '24.
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Memorial Day
Posted On: Monday - May 26th 2025 8:18AM MST
In Topics: Holiday from Stupidity
Americans are in general happy to a) be out of school, b) have an extra day off for fun long weekend, and c) enjoy the warmth of summer. Memorial Day is not one of those holiday that should suggest "Happy" something-or-other be said, but we do that for all holidays and anniversaries. (I'll get into one of those other anniversaries
It's a time to memorialized those American men killed in the various and sundry wars America has been involved in over our 1/4 Millennium history. Lots of these men did not make a choice to even be there and lots of others, being young, were not so wise, but brave and honorable. A decision to be "in the service" has not meant a very great risk of death or maiming in war over the last half a century, since the 2 large hot wars of the Cold War were over. I'll get into that later on (in the post and later today).
Commenter SafeNow brought up thoughts of the death of an American member of the Coast Guard killed in war, one Nathan Bruckenthal. Yes, the Coast Guard, guarding SOME coast. (Straight from wiki) Nate Bruckenthal was killed in the Iraq War, becoming the first to die in wartime action since the Vietnam War. Bruckenthal and two U.S. Navy sailors were killed while intercepting a waterborne suicide attack on an offshore oil terminal off the coast of Iraq in the northern Persian Gulf in 2004. Bruckenthal was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device and the Purple Heart for his actions.
Yes, the Coast Guard.. off Iraq. I was thinking AMERICAN coast whenever I think of the Coast Guard, but what do I know? This military branch was formed 110 years ago for that purpose. As of now, (also wiki):
Due to ever-expanding risk imposed by transnational threats through the maritime and cyber domains, the U.S. Coast Guard is at any given time deployed to and operating on all seven continents and in cyberspace to enforce its mission.No, they should be guarding THE coasts... of America.
I never even agreed with their mission of intercepting the schools of those square grouper*, much less their inclusion in the US world-warmongering. That wasn't Nate Bruckenthal's call though. R.I.P.
(I can't import a picture so easily now, so that will come, along with some more discussion on joining the military.)
* On the land end too, it's all Fentanyl, Fentanyl, Fentanyl!, when it should be about keeping out the PEOPLE, stupid. My opinion is that if you kept out the masses of cheap labor, traditional Americans' lives would be better such that they woud not feel they needed to OD/suicide on these drugs.
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What was once Stupidity is now Foolishness...
Posted On: Saturday - May 24th 2025 6:41PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Artificial Stupidity
... that is, according to Bing AI, which has done some thinking about Peak Stupidity. It has obviously consulted
Well, I mean, it's not wrong...
A few months back, Adam Smith pasted in a link for us to a song that I hadn't listened to since about the time it was on the radio, nearly 30 years ago. Why those lyrics have not come into my head since this blog's been active is a mystery.
This is The Refreshments* with Banditos, from their 1996 album Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy.
Well it's just you and me, baby.That's very 1990s, obviously before the day of ubiquitous cameras. It would have worked too, most definitely the part about the fake ID!
No one else we can trust.
We'll say nothin' to no one,
no how or we'll bust.
Never crack a smile or flinch or cry
For nobody.
So give you ID card to the border guard.
Your alias says you got John Luke Picard
pf the United Federation of Planets,
'cause they won't speak English any ways.
Everybody knows
that the world is full of stupid people.
So meet me at the mission at midnight.
We'll divvy up there.
Yeah, everybody knows
That the world is full of stupid people.
Well I got the pistol so I get the pesos.
Yeah that seems fair.
So put the sugar in the tank of the sheriff's car
We'll slash the deputy's tires.
They won't get very far
when they finally get the word
that there's been a hold-up.
Sorry, AI routine. We're stickin' with "Stupidity". We're damn sure not gonna pay GoDaddy for another URL!
OK, Peakers, we got busy this week, and next week will probably be similar. We've got stories about crazy female CongreffsDramaQueens coming, more immigration stupidity (but, of course!), and finally, hopefully, that post about Deflation. Have a happy, relaxing Sunday. Stay offline a while... I
* ... not to be confused with The Replacements with Paul Westerberg, the guy with Dyslexic Heart.
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Good news regarding auto artificial stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 24th 2025 10:08AM MST
In Topics: Trump Cars Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government
It's a minor piece of news, as generally Peak Stupidity readers would be the type to avoid this annoyance to begin with. If you are a buyer of new or fairly-new cars, you might just be glad to hear that the start/stop bug, errrr, feature is something you'll be less likely to have to base a purchasing decision on. This is the system in which ... well, let me put it the way Trump's EPA Chief Lee Zeldin did, as excerpted in this Gateway Pundit article:
Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it.ZeroHedge has the story here, with, as usual, a generally funnier and savvier set of commenters. (The ZH story comes from The Epoch Times.)
With our most recently acquired 30 y/o Jeep being the 2nd newest vehicle in the fleet, this newest piece of complicated artificial stupidity is not something your PS blogger will EVER have to deal with personally. That is, unless the '28 Cortez Administration will mandate retrofit for all extant motor vehicles per Motor Law - Phase I* ... ugggh, after that visit to the porcelain goddess, I'm fit to type some more... I drive with the windows down a lot - A/C (not AOC!) is not so prevalent in the fleet - and I am still always a little surprised to hear an engine start next to me at the stoplight. You've got to be old-school to have that initial reaction "whewww, good thing he got it going again!"
Why? Why cut off the engine and restart it so damn often? Well, it's the planet... or virtue signaling, or to be more understanding, people wanting to save a few bucks yearly at the gas pump. No, really, if drivers wanted this feature so much, it would not have to have been incentivized by the EPA, as it is. Per GP:
The EPA does not require stop-start technology, but automakers that adopt it are given extra fuel economy credits.My appreciation for Lee Zeldin notwithstanding, there should by no incentives by the EPA, better yet, no EPA period. Per ZH:
The feature became increasingly common under fuel efficiency rules implemented during the Obama administration, expanding from fewer than 1 percent of new vehicles in 2012 to about 45 percent in model year 2021, according to EPA data. The agency notes on its website that start-stop systems can improve fuel economy by up to 5 percent, with the biggest benefits under stop-and-go city driving.45% have it! GP says it's 65% for '23 models, so that's just one more reason not to buy new, ever. I'm not sure if it'd be like one of the old options - could you save money by purchasing a car without it? Then, that 5% - hell, I save WAY more than that by driving efficiently, including not incurring inefficient acceleration gas wastage at damn 3-way stop signs.** Oh, wait, but also:
An Obama-era regulatory impact analysis from 2012 estimated that start-stop systems can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.8 percent to 2.4 percent, depending on vehicle type and size, compared with baseline models.Ahhaa, that Climate Calamity™ card can be used for anything. I'm glad to see that Mr. Zeldin actually cares a little bit about keeping the stupidity level slightly lower for us American who "see the stupidity inherent in the system. [/Monty Python***]
Here's some of that stupidity. I know, these starter motors (and mechanisms) are not your Daddy's starters. They are obviously made for 20 x the normal number of cycles. That's a guess, depending on your type of driving. Or, to be cynical here, are they made for only a little bit higher duty, but you'll have to replace yours quite often, like, say, each time you change the oil?
OK, mechanical quality aside, what about the effect on the engine of this many more starts and stops? Engines of all sorts, right on up to big power plant turbines, are made to run steady-state. Things work optimally then. Not having coolant and/or lubricant in all the right places for a spell upon start-up and shut-down means extra wear, out of proportion to normal running time. Hmmm, I also wonder how emissions, maybe even ACTUAL pollution, changes during these non-steady-state phases of engine life.
Then there's the additional complication, as If 21st century vehicles aren't already! I'm pretty sure I've driven at least one rent-a-car with this engine start/stop feature, and the reader may have too. The very slight push on the gas pedal, as detected by the (now) electric throttle, will kick on the starter. The, call it "anticipation", feature in which the starter kicks in when one's foot is taken off the brake - or I believe even enough to drop the pressure somewhat - takes sensors and wiring. There's a timer to begin with, to initially "shut her down" All of this is taken well care of using digital logic, so there's yet another (of dozens or hundreds!) computer - the start/stop computer. No refunds on electronic parts! ("We've told you that. See, now you have a spare $300 start/stop computer, in case ...")
More features mean more expensive repairs at 100,000 miles. I have half a mind that believes that this is just another "feature", like automatic windshield wipers, that was designed just because IT CAN BE. We have the sensors, and any decision-making you can think of can be easily programmed onto a chip. It's cool to be able to do his, so let's do it.
Finally, this is the curmudgeonry coming out here - I don't care how many dummies have lived through testing, I don't trust the system. I don't like that the car is not ready to go unless some unnecessary complicated digital system does what it's supposed to do, every time, maybe in the middle of an intersection. No, no thanks.
To be fair, from ZH (I didn't know this regarding the rent-a-car(s) I'd driven):
... In most vehicles, drivers must press a button to turn the feature off each time they start the car.It'd be 2nd nature after a month to mash that button upon getting on the road, but why should I pay for it?
Thanks, Lee Zeldin, and President Trump too, for the small favors. What I resent is that we have to hope for just the right people to stop the unConstitutional Feral Gov't edicts that introduce these minor annoyances in our lives.
Anyway, next time, let's get serious and go after the California Air Resource Board - motto: Making life more difficult and miserable, one edict at a time.
* Old Rush reference - please listen just for great the sound, if nothing else.
** If I get pulled where my wife did - not likely because I know what these guys drive - I may bring up that "I'm just tryin'a save the planet, man!!" (Would it help to weep about Mother Earth in front of him? Probably depends on the cop ... but, no... I'm also afraid that sort of thing might bring forth the drug dogs.)
*** Instapundit loves to use that line in various ways. We agree.
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Trump v S. Africa
Posted On: Wednesday - May 21st 2025 9:02PM MST
In Topics: Trump Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
The guy's amazing! Nobody, but nobody, would throw the truth about these anti-White violent blacks back in their faces like this, right there with the press at a diplomatic gathering, no less. Maybe someone like MTG might, but only NOW, after Trump again showed his pro-White stance to the nation and the world. He's a hell of a leader at times.
The reader has probably seen clearer and longer clips of the taunts and threats of the Black! South African rulers and huge crowds. Regarding the latter, is it just me or has pretty much every other Peak Stupidity reader, hell, White man in America, who's seen that, had some daydreams and done some tentative planning involving bombers and tactical nukes? Actually, i went through thinking about how to make sure a interceptor/bomber combination (some version of the F-15?) could drop a nuke and then get well clear.
My thoughts moved on to more practical ideas, like basic incendiary bombs. There's no call for nukes here, really.
The violence level and the threats to the White man, especially the Boer (farmers), is nothing new over there. What's new is that the President of the US is talking about it and providing at least a small solution, asylum. That genteel S. African President you see in the video might really believe his bit about it's all within the rule of law - it probably is. However, one can see that the Afrikaners have every reason to want to GTFO, at least those who have no plan for defense or to take a stand one day. (They are greatly outnumbered, about 10 to 1.)
I got to this viral video - everything out of Trump goes viral, doesn't it? - via ZeroHedge. The article, written by one Brandon Smith* is Watch: Trump Stuns South Africa's Ramaphosa, Plays 'Kill The Boer' Clip In The Oval Office, Destroys NBC Reporter.** What I noticed about the long stretch of writing by Mr. Smith after the video is that he WON'T GO THERE.
As Peak Stupidity does for other bad political regimes, Mr. Smith mentioned the Communism and Authoritarianism in South Africa. Yeah, Communism was part of the impetus for black rule. (This stuff didn't start just recently.) Yes, the place is Authoritarian. However, what's very clear to anyone who WANTS to see is that this is a racial matter. In all those words, race was mentioned but never named as the obvious problem. Too many of the blacks want the White people dead.
Even Elon Musk didn't go there. I saw a video today elsewhere of his being remotely interviewed by some lady in a big auditorium. He did a nice job throwing the question of (to paraphrase) "Is this anti-White racism OK with you?" back at her. She wouldn't answer. However, Musk added that neither the White behavior prior to the handover 3 decades back nor the current black behavior was OK. Even Trump didn't go there, but he went far enough for me!
You want the truth?! Let me do the history one first. These Bantu tribe black people you see there came to the land already settled by the Boer, who had been in the area since the 1600s. The other tribes, Xhosas and Koi's were there in small numbers. The Boer settled and BUILT the country, so Bantus came in for work and a better life than they'd made for themselves in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. One can blame the Boers for making the choice of that cheap labor, but I wonder too if they could have kept them out even if they'd wanted to. S. Africa should be the Boer's land.
Now, to what nobody wants to say, yet. The Apartheid system had to exist for the place to be a 1st World country, which it WAS. (Anyone else still remember?)
Face it, black people can not run things like countries. Keeping the White man in power was THE only way to keep the place from turning into a shithole. Who wants to bequeath a shithole of a country to one's children and grandchildren? Envious, vindictive, stupid, violent people do. That's where it stands today.
See? I knew it - to the Lyin' Press:
PS: While trying what should have been the easy way (NOT!) to search for the ZeroHedge article (had to find it on the site), duckduckgo provided a blurb from
* Peak Stupidity has mentioned this guy before, more than once.
** In note here that the URL for this post does not match the article title. This is a ZH thing that I've seen before. They will update the article and include a new title too. This gets confusing and also makes it impossible to find older articles by title sometimes.
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Satan in a pants suit
Posted On: Tuesday - May 20th 2025 5:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Feminism AntiChrist Hildabeast ctrl-left
Peak Stupidity did not coin that colorful phrase to describe the Hildabeast. It the pants suit fits, well, there he sits.
She's truly evil. The GP pundit take on the HIldabeast's Population Replacement extension Programme is not totally accurate. I'll get to that.
The above is from a recent Gateway Pundit post. They've even got video. I think youtube was worried that displaying the antiChrist - not sure exact chapter and verse here - would destroy their servers, but rumble has it. I couldn't find the GP tweet clip as a stand alone, so here's Alex Jones, errr, discussing it.
No, I mean, Alex Jones doesn't really discuss stuff. I give him kudos for his spirit, but I am not completely sure whether his rants are somewhat for show rather than all out of righteous anger. So beware, but you'll get out of this what I will discuss(?) here in the 1st few minutes:
Conservatives' recent encouragement of Americans to have children is what the Hildabeast is ranting about here. Now, I'll actually agree with her on one point - the monetary incentives (strictly unConstitutional at the Federal level but NOBODY even cares about that part) have not been working elsewhere. This is not the time for that long-promised continuation on the question of fertility worries, but how can it be a bad thing, even if it's just talk, to support mothers and children?
It can be, if you're a Communist spawn of Satan though. Watch the one part where she directly says she's against Christianity and against the nuclear family. That's... yeah, that's a Communist thing, no doubt about it. Communism can't abide with competing religions and children that aren't brought up by the State.
Her take on those unenlightened MAGA people who like and want children: "What we really need from you women are more children. What that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children." At her advanced age, how could she not understand that this IS what women were born to do? If she does understand, then why is she against women being happy doing what they were born to do? If it saves just ONE CHILD from being never born... Didn't they, the ctrl-left used to always worry about that ONE CHILD? Which one fits here, stupidity or evil?
Per the GP headline, the Hildabeast wants to extend the Population Replacement Program some more - to see that only immigrants ("Legally and UnDocumented?*) are the ones having lots of children. What she said was something slightly different, to paraphrase: MAGA doesn't make sense because they want more children, yet they want to deport the people having lots of children. That's an evil way to leave out the most important thing. Americans want more AMERICAN children here. We don't want the PRP-X, with the children of non-White** people from all over the world overwhelming the American White children. "It doesn't matter - muh GDP!" Is that what she believes or what she would like us to believe?
Wouldn't an antiChrist behave just like this? This topic key is going to get more use going forward, I got a bad feeling ... aaaaand that's it for tonight - Sweet dreams, Peakers.
PS: Great comment on GP from one Will B. Candid:
One day a house will land on her, just like in the movies...Outsanding!
PPS: To clarify, this is Satan in a Pants Suit, not Devil with a Blue Dress, in case there's any confusion within the readership. I sure hope there wasn't!
* Isn't the opposite of "legally" "illegally"? I guess I'm too much of a stickler.
** How about a bunch of big fertile Afrikaner families? What say you, Satan in a Pants Suit?
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Google searches for the John Birch Society
Posted On: Monday - May 19th 2025 7:52PM MST
In Topics: Internets Music Websites Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism
They're a great org - I can't keep up with all the newsletters and magazines, along with the others, but I seem to agree with nearly everything the John Birch Society stands for. I need to send in my yearly dues (reminder to self).
Since, our last post was about internet searches, I'll start the week of with this short observation. I wanted to paste in a link to this organization for an Unz Review comment. I was pretty sure the main site is simply jbs.org (yes, it is), but I figured I'd search on google to make sure. I see that I cut it off of the screenshot, but my search was simply for "John Birch Society":
I see wikipedia up top for lots of searches on people and organizations, but look where the blurb and link to jbs.org ended up. It's after a page from The New Yorker and even the Niskanen Center (wait, who the hell are the Niskanen Center?), and NPR, sorry, npr. npr says the organization is secretive, so I guess I'm breaking internet silence here by even mentioning the jbs. Yes, it's very extreme indeed these days to be pro- Liberty and Christianity and anti- Globalism and Communism.
In our post Peak Search Results, really, "Peak Useful Internet Search Results", we stayed non-political with our speculation with 3 reasons for Peak Search being behind us - I guessed '10-'15, somewhere in there. This above - that's political. We know where google stands.
And now, after a 2nd time suggestion by Mr. G. Anderson, here is the 1950s-60s ctrl-left folk band The Chad Mitchell Trio singing The John Birch Society. Now, Peak Stupidity likes us some good music and making fun is OK, but I inserted "ctrl-left" here to be. nice. From my reading just now, these guys were as good as Communists. I mean, they had a song making fun of Barry Goldwater supporters, for cryin' out loud.
OK, they can't have been hard-core Communists, because they were having fun.
This was a short possibly non-interesting post, so let me add a Nielson Ratings update here. I mentioned they send $5 bills now with the survey diaries. Inflation, you know. A few years ago it was either 2 or 3 bucks inside each inbound envelope. Cash is good. We filled out the diaries honestly, basically indicating that we don't listen to the radio. Of course I had to add my one embellishment (as mentioned in the post linked-to here) about pulling up to some ghetto thugs car and hearing a little bit, till I rolled up the windows. That's pretty much my phrasing.
Well, they wanted a name for the check to send me. I can't do that, HAL. I've been using a fake name the whole time, something along the lines of Joe Blow. OK, we won't get the money. Just now I received the check they sent anyway, made out to (something along the lines of) Joe Blow. How can I cash that? Anyone got any ideas? 50 bucks is 50 bucks. It's money for nothin', but, yeah, cash is King, bitchez. Next time, all cash in advance, or no data for you.
PS: I had to fix my link to jbs (missing the https: etc.), and I see that duckduckgo does better. The first big blurb featured up top goes to the John Birch Society site.
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Artificial Intelligence understands Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - May 17th 2025 4:46PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Internets Websites Artificial Stupidity
Bing has been very helpful for those searching for answers about Peak Stupidity lately. They got that AI stuff goin on*, right up top of the search results page.
We're LUVIN' it! That first sentence shows that Bing's AI has read thoroughly our "About" page, titled here all by its lonesome (still!)** on the left side-bar What is Peak Stoopiditee?. I wrote that sometime in '16. I kinda wish that Bing had included the rest of our 1st paragraph:
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.However, archaic-looking website search beggars can't be choosers, so we are very happy to see this show up at the top upon a search for "peak stupidity".
This AI blurb just sucks you in, doesn't it? You pretty much HAVE TO click. The top normal - not AI, I guess - result that comes up at this point is the following:
I remember 2 of the posts clearly - clicking on the images just gets one to a bigger, clearer image - but I did write a post on the 1st 3 and surely something that included that pride images. We are proud that one of the pictures taken by the Peak Stupidity staff (hello!) appears. That's the 3rd one, of a big Falun Gong march in Toronto, Canada.
Unfortunately, the main link goes to our blogworks page, which lacks the 3 other frames on the page, those being a quarter-century ago website feature. Having the frames was cool then - sometimes sites would have horizontal scroll bars along with the vertical ones, and many of them on the page - it was all scroll bars back in the day! MOAR scroll bars! [/IT manager] We loved it!
The text below the images goes to our post Fake History Rhyming Over One Century, in which we linked to E.H. Hail's essay on a book about tariffs in American history, Alfred Eckes on the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930 and its long-lasting civic mythology. However, clicking that text on bing gets one to a different post of ours, So-called Pope Francis finally lightens up.. (He died.). Interestingly, the post numbers are 10 apart, 3236 vs 3226. Did the software mess up due to the post numbers? I don't know. Stuff's hard to find here, even for me!
Here's the 2nd normal search result:
Again, this 2nd search result has some text from our Peak Stoopiditee About page. I hovered over the 2nd tab to show the title of one of our facetious sections within. Yes, I spelled "modeling" with 2 "L"'s then, but I think both ways are correct. I just spelt "spelled" correctly too, I think, but this one tends to confuse me, in this age of Peak Stupidity.
And now, to hearken back to those old '16 - '17 days of the blog, we present some olde music that has not a damn thing to do with the post. It's The Edgar Winter Group, from 1972, with Free Ride. This one's great!
Have a great Sunday, Peakers. We'll have more stupidity next week. You too, AI - keep on reading, and you may even learn something, if that's even possible.
PS: Notice in that blurb that the word "delve" appears. I think it was Steve Sailer who noticed, as he is wont to do, that AI uses that word a whole lot. Perhaps a random synonym (RS) function could be called by AI. It's not like that does the kinds of calculations that take nuclear plants to power.
* Peak Stupidity uses the term Artificial Stupidity for AI along with other "smart" new "features" of society. This term was coined by the writer John Derbyshire.
** The link to Adam Smith's compilation of on-line books, known as "Peak Stupidity Book Club", will go there.
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Outrage
Posted On: Friday - May 16th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists
Gateway Pundit has an almost sickening amount of ads and hype, but I'll give Jim Hoft, proprietor, credit for continuing to cover our side of the most important issue, the immigration invasion. I am glad to see that he and his writers used the term "illegal alien" too, rather than euphemisms, while they're at it.
Part of the hype on GP is the use of BREAKING!:, DEVELOPING:, SHOCKING DISCOVERY!:, etc. in front of their titles, like this was coming off a teletype in 1975. In the story for this post, however, OUTRAGEOUS: is warranted. In fact, more outrage might be expected, especially out of one man involved, the father of this 24 y/o woman recklessly killed by a 15 y/o illegal alien.
GP reports OUTRAGEOUS: Soros-Backed DA Gives Probation and Community Service to Unlicensed Illegal Alien Who Killed Young Woman in Car Crash. I thought it worth watching the 4 minute TV news clip.
One thing that stood out here was that even the "negotiated settlement" (and what exactly does THAT mean within the criminal legal system?) involved "up to" 2 years in youth corrections. "Up to" means it could be 3 months! Youth corrections means this kid would have been able to skip a couple of years of drudgery in American taxpayer supported High School and have something to brag about to his amigos. Note that this was what the Dad was OK with! However, that's too harsh per the new Soros District Attorney.
This is sick. The victim's Dad just hopes that her killer will remember her, oh, and make something of himself. I don't know what I'd do. This father has 3 other kids, it looks like, so going off reservation, so to speak, and exacting actual justice might ruin the rest of his life. It's difficult to imagine what one would do in a similar situation other than I sure would not "hope he will remember her and make something of his life"!
Lastly, the illegal Mom was set to take this kid back to Colombia. Now, he is requesting asylum. Yeah, Canada won't even let in drunk drivers*, and America is supposed to offer asylum for kids that drive 90 mph in the city and smash young ladies to death? We probably will, barring President Trump getting involved.
* 1 offense within the last 10 years and 2 period.
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Parable of the Good Somalian
Posted On: Thursday - May 15th 2025 2:13PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion Anarcho-tyranny
Commenters on The Unz Review liked our turn-of-phrase, so it's the title here.
Wait, though. The Good Samaritan parable of Luke 10 was about being decent to wayfarers - it could be you some time - anyone remember hitch-hiking? The Somalian from that recent viral story and our post Shiloh and the Somalians, which is NOT the name of a
The alleged child-molester Somalian rightly reckoned that his capturing young Mom Shiloh Hendrix on video not even SAYING "nigger", but admitting to saying "nigger", would scare the living out of her. (She wouldn't even have to have had directed the word to anyone, but she did.*) Due to the topsy-turvy world of Minoritarianism** and Anarcho-Tyranny*** we live under, someone both Black! and a recently-arrived foreigner from some complete shithole of a country has been entitled to lord it up over measly regular Americans. We're supposed to stand down and apologize profusely to pre-empt virology, which doesn't necessarily help, so there goes the job, career, marriage, and so on...
Thing was, Shiloh Hendrix was fed up with threatening Somalians and wasn't putting up with that crap last week. That was the right thing to do, it turns out. But, it didn't have to have been. Her courage paid off, to the tune of $3/4 million (though to be fair some of that is extra needed right now to keep her life from being ruined).
Here's where this post gets a little rambling. "Somalian" works well for this joke about the parable, but that's not why Peak Stupidity has been using that term. Yes, it's erroneous, if you want to get all official about it. "Somali" is the adjective and the noun to describe and name someone from Somalia, there in the northeastern horn of Africa. We at Peak Stupidity PURPOSELY say this wrong and not just because we enjoy being low-brow.
I present to the reader a video we've embedded in a post a year back, the 3 1/2 minute speech in The House by our favorite CongressGal Marjorie Taylor Greene of north Georgia for the point of attempting to officially censure CongressRagHead Ilhan Omar. The censure was never gonna come close to happening, so this is old useless news, but just watch the beginning, if nothing else. Of course, "Congresswoman from Somal... errr, Minnesota" was the best part, but MTG uses "Somalian" as the adjective/noun too. We have more in the post about MTG v IOU.
It's great! Saying "Somalian" rather than "Somali" pisses off the virtue-signaling folk who want to show their worldliness. These are the people who speak perfect English but say "Nee-ka-raq-u-wah" and "Alley Hondro My-ork-ass". (The latter is one we write here, but that's to make fun.)
The use of "Somali" and all the other correct terms and pronunciations would be fine if the discussion were on a travel forum, but this is America. Why do we need to know "Somali"? Before the big invasion, there was no reason to have to know that term, unless you were traveling to (or bombing) the northeast horn of Africa. No, we're Americans, and we'll say it our way - You say "Somali", I say "Somalian" - let's call the whole damn thing off!"
I'm pretty sure MTG knows the correct term to describe people from Somalia too. We sound like 2 rubes, I guess, very much like this guy, in a more innocent era when French was very foreign. Excusez Moi, that's "Francais" to you!
Oh, and we don't do accent marks here either, because that's some foreign crap too. (Sometimes they slip in via ctrl-c/ctrl-v.) Two rubes! That's what you people take me and MTG for!
Oh, the parable, right. I wish Jesus had come up with a parable to teach people like this Somalian asshole how to act as an appreciative guest among his often-unwitting hosts. There probably is one. Failing that, the Book of Shiloh ought to teach these people to try to learn about their host society and who built it. Shiloh was, in fact a city in the Bible where the tabernacle was located before it was in Jerusalem. Additionally, from some site, Shiloh is a reflection of our sinful nature, being surrounded by enemies, gathering as a church, and needing a savior. We all do. However, this kind of fits here. For Minnesota Shiloh, at least $777.5 thousand given by ~30,000 people ($26 a person ave.) is a big help.
Now, finally, this version of the Parable of the Good Samaritan fits well here too. Since there aren't Samaritans around these days, at least in their Biblical days form, substitute in "Somalian", or "Somali" if you like:
The clip above is from a long-ago show "That Mitchell and Webb Look", as corrected by our commenters from "Monty Python" and mentioned here.
OK, that's enough. There's more pressing stupidity we've got to get to.
* "Picanniny" would have been more accurate. Thank you for that reminder, Adam Smith. It didn't used to much of an insulting term either.
** I can't say he coined it, but I first read this term in comments by UR's AnotherDad.
*** OK, Anarcho-Tranny, spell check, that works too!
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President Trump forces the ctrl-left Commies to show their true colors.
Posted On: Wednesday - May 14th 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics ctrl-left
I have only once considered that maybe Donald Trump REALLY does play that 5-D Chess. That thought involved his claim or boast, if he was not bullshitting, that he appointed Nikki Haley US Ambassador to the UN in order to get Henry McMaster into the South Carolina Governor's office - see When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump*
If that really were the case, that would indicate that Trump is actually a very smart wily guy in the manner of, well, not Wily Coyote but actually his nemesis, The Roadrunner. I suggested Trump use this tactic regularly in Free Advice for a future President Trump.
I don't know. Trump does a lot of, if not stupid, ignorant things quite often. He sucks at numbers and perspective. However, my conjecture in this post is that his reality TV, showman, celebrity background has helped him help America. He seems to know exactly how to draw his and OUR opponents into making themselves look ridiculous. Now, I guess this new instance of that with the offering of refuge in America to deserving, but White, oppressed Afrikaners is something he's doing based on his caring for these White people. However, it seems to have also drawn the anti-White ctrl-left people into looking downright evil in front of the world.
The hypocrisy of the anti-White opponents of letting this small number** has been explained all over. It's perhaps too obvious to discuss here. Let's look at one example of it that both warms the heart and gives us a look into the soul of the anti-White ctrl-left. Gateway Pundit reported yesterday Episcopal Church Ends Refugee Partnership with U.S. Government — Cites Moral Opposition to Resettling Persecuted White Afrikaners from South Africa. Look into the soul of Bishop (Bishop?) Mariann Edgar Budde above. She hates us.
We figured it was all just stupidity when the Lutherans up in Minnesota, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and a core of under a dozen of these groups thought they were doing The Lord's work in bringing masses of strange foreigners to America. Years ago, VDare led me to the site of the stalwart Ann Corcoran, documenter of this madness on her site Refugee Resettlement Watch. (The site's up, but it's been over 3 years since she's written. Hopefully, she has just got fed up and retired.) Now everyone should know better:
The same Episcopal Church that prided itself on aiding persecuted people from war-torn regions is now walking away from its commitments simply because the next wave of refugees are white Christian farmers — victims of violent racial targeting in post-apartheid South Africa.In a screed, one Sean Rowe, also a Bishop, stated:
The church claims resettling these families would violate their ‘moral line,’ according to Religion News.
n light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.Good, let's not waste another $53 million (~$15,000 per refugee) of our money. And no, Racial Justice and Reconciliation don't sound Communist at all, no, of course not. It's not like they've formed a Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee or something that brings White people in for Struggle Sessions or anything ... yet.
It has been painful to watch one group of White refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many non-White others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years.Being 8% of the population in a Black!-run country is a dangerous condition by definition. (We have links in that last post on this issue to our 8-part series about the fall of S. Africa, starting from a long article about the place. It's getting bad, and White people WILL be hardest hit. Oh, and when they come here they won't be parasites off the taxpayers like the 100x more other refugees either. Maybe the Church could even make a buck off of the Afrikaners... tax free!
Sean Rowe, the Episcopal Bishop, continues:
As anti-White Christians, we must be guided not by political vagaries, but by the sure and certain knowledge that the kingdom of God is revealed to us in the struggles of those non-White people on the margins. Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable,unless they're White, as we would care for him, and we must follow that command.I don't know how the above will appear to the reader.. It's ACML (Anti-Communist Mark-up Language) and may vary in appearance depending on your browser.
That's a small story as far as this big story of Trump's having drawn the anti-White ctrl-left Commies out of the woodwork and into the limelight. Here's a story from Trump's end: Trump Shames Media for Ignoring ‘Genocide’ of White Farmers: ‘If It Were the Other Way Around They’d Talk About It’
While speaking at the White House, Trump took a moment to shame the media for the lack of attention given to some of the atrocities happening in South Africa against white Afrikaners — a topic the president cares deeply about.
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” the U.S. president told reporters. “But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
“But whether they’re white or black, makes no difference to me.But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”[No, you don't have to do this!]
Trump then swiftly turned his ire toward the establishment double standard when it comes to race-based issues.Trump has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by leaving out those stupid disclaimers. Say it: "I'm pro White people because I am one. Get over it."
“And the newspapers, and the media, and the television media doesn’t even talk about it,” Trump continued. “If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about.”
Trump finished by stressing: “I don’t care who they are, I don’t care about their race, their color, I don’t care about their height, their weight, I don’t care about anything.[Stifle yourself, Donald! You don't have to do that!]
The people on the other side, such as these evil Bishops of the Episcopal "Church", have a lot to lose by being exposed. President Trump is still couching his words with those stupid disclaimers at times, but is it not obvious that he's the most pro-White President since the beginning of AA? Nice job, President Trump!
PS: Per this wiki page, White S. Africans (the English-descended and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners) number 4.5 million out of 62 million people in the county, 50 million of which are Black! black (not coloured, Indian, whatever). That's no good. The word beleaguered doesn't begin to describe their situation. Let's be good Christians and let 'em in. These Episcopal Bishops are evil.
* Weird title but it was part of a weirdly named series of posts (from a movie).
** Even if it will be the whole 60-70 odd thousand people, which it won't, due to damn judges, that's roughly 1/4 of the YEARLY H1B visa-holders that have been let in. It's below the general yearly number of all non-White refugees who come in - even before the last 4 years' invasion. As compared to Brandon/Mayorkas' "newcomers", this is not even 1% to balance the 10-12 million non-Whites that have come.
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