Ann Coulter's Tweet Tears Trump (a new one)
Posted On: Thursday - December 20th 2018 10:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
Peak Stupidity does not have a tweet recevier, or whatever you need to tune in to get these things, but our perusal of VDare.com yesterday showed the tweet above, along with our #1 written-pundit's ass-ripping article . I'll tell you, I still remember when Miss Coulter was kind of a go-along-with-the-crowd GOPer, way back before 9/11/01. My, she has grown! Please read the whole column, as I'll just excerpt a small bit:
Maybe I'm a literalist. A zealot. When people kept telling me to be patient—the wall is coming!—I nursed a private hope that I was wrong, and they were right.Yeah, she may have been just a bit more naive than this writer. I've written before, in When did the Feral Government get out of control? (pt 1) that it was a far back as 1995 when I had any optimism that the power of our Feral Gov't would be diminished or used for good. In the time since, now more than 2 decades, I've just not seen anything get better. Every major change in policy has been for the worse. Why would I expect anything seriously helpful to Americans to happen with President Trump in office? I didn't change my story overnight here. I still think that his use of the modern, tweet-based bully pulpit is good, and he meant to do good. I just never really saw how it was going to happen.
It is now crystal clear that one of two things is true: Either Trump never intended to build the wall and was scamming voters all along, or he has no idea how to get it done and zero interest in finding out.
In answer to Ann Coulter's question above, nope, I don't think Mr. Trump was scamming the voters. It's the latter factor - he doesn't have any idea of how to get things done. I've written over and over now, that if the President had picked loyal trusted advisors and department heads, he could have had them take care of the hard thinking and planning. Something really extraordinary, policy for the good of regular Americans could have resulted. He didn't do that, and that hasn't happened.
There just wasn't much time for writing this evening, and if Trump has lost Coulter, his biggest fan, I don't know what to tell you that isn't bleak. However, VDare writer James Kirkpatrick has some more wonky optimism in Time For "Cocaine Mitch" To Deliver; House Passes Wall Funding Bill, Goes To The Senate*. Mr. Kirkpatrick reckons that the President might have read Miss Coulter's tweet (what power she's got!), and who knows? Maybe you have to keep shaming him to get anything done.
One thing that the reader must understand after reading about this wall funding, including Mr. Kirkpatrick's article about the details of the money, is this: IT! IS! NOT! ABOUT! THE! MONEY! As Peak Stupidity back-o-the-envelope-calculated almost 2 years back construction of a serious border barrier and maintenance of the same would incur charges of roughly < 2 hours of the yearly $4,000,000,000,000 US budget one time, and then < 1 hour's worth yearly, respectively. That is assuming the usual cost overruns and corruption, too. Those that block any serious border control are not worried about this chump change. They want open borders, so arguing about the money with them is just futile.
* I couldn't help putting in this title here. "Cocaine Mitch"? That's kind of funny, as it doesn't really seem to fit for this guy that reminds me of a terrapin ... OK, maybe a tortuga to be charitable.
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Minnegadishu and Mary Tyler Moore
Posted On: Wednesday - December 19th 2018 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Student and other Snowflakes Humor Feminism
Mary Richards was the name of the 30 y/o lady character who worked in the WGM-TV newsroom in the 1970's TV show titled from her real(?) name, Mary Tyler Moore. The show was supposed to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, explaining the picture in the previous post of the beautiful Victorian style 3-story house. That was Mary Tyler Moore's TV house, and, no, that particular one probably will not get zoned into Somalia-land, or Minnegadishu. I'm sure it's a public landmark due to the TV show, and after all, it was already a triplex, with Mary Tyler Moore sandwiched between Phyllis below and Rhoda above. By "sandwiched" I don't mean what you may be thinking. This was, besides the left-wing feminist agenda, a family show.
Speaking of those thoughts, and looking at her legs below, I didn't really remember Mary Tyler Moore in this way, though I guess that's easily explained due to being too young to understand:
with landlady young Chloris Leachman and a young girl.
Nope, Mary was bound to never get married, per the show - too busy in the newsroom.
Anyway (she's dead now), as you can see in the top photo above from the intro. to the show, Mary was a happy gal living in the beautiful great-white-northern city of Minneapolis. She had "nothing days" that (this is per the theme song) she could "suddenly make all seem worthwhile", and many dates, but the newsroom career job precluded her getting married apparently - this was a sore spot with my Dad, who could see through the feminist agenda of the show soon enough.
Speaking of this TV newsroom, Ms, I think it was already, Richards worked with the anchorman Ted Baxter, writer Murray Slaughter (later to leave the fake-news business behind and become a cruise-ship Captain), and the boss Lou Grant. The anchorman is made out to be a vain conservative (unrealistic) clueless moron (fairly realistic), but then the rest of them are lefty types, with only Mary being the Minnesota-nice lady type, as the other 2 gave off a Jewish, NYC vibe, more lefty than Mary. Oh, there was one token black guy working at the station, if I recall correctly ... probably an FCC thing (seriously, for real life, even back in the 1970's that stuff had started.)
What I'm getting at here is that the characters on the show represented very well the kind of people that would be just really keen, dontcha' know, on bringing in some new residents from exotic foreign lands to their fine white city. The feminism and general left-wing agenda viewed in The Mary Tyler Moore show is exactly what has, in real life, caused the mess that Minnegadishu is in now. A male-dominated Conservative culture would probably draw the line somewhere, let's say at 1,000 African arrivals - to the WHOLE DAMN STATE.
I'm really not sure Mary Tyler Moore would feel safe in throwing her hat up into the air without worry about it getting stolen in modern Minnegadishu, much less go jogging in imaginary (least in my mind) skimpy bright red shorts around the many downtown ponds. I guess there are the Somalian ladies now who may want those jobs at the TV station (with help from AA... you know, the legacy of slavery and all...), and could easily live 6 to an apartment in Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis' old house. Diversity is good, right? Just change out one set of people with another set. Besides the cuisine change, we're all exactly the same.
It's not just the legs. I want my Mary Tyler Moore!
Note below in the theme song that they had nothing but white people, even though I doubt that was the shows' producer's intention. Minneapolis was 94% white at the time of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and is now in the low 60%'s.
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A taste of Somalia - 2: Minnegadishu
Posted On: Tuesday - December 18th 2018 8:08PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Race/Genetics ctrl-left
It's right here in the great white(?) north, across the Mississippi River from St. Paul, our own taste of Somalia. In a recent post Peak Stupidity ranted about the Foodies and their incessant need for Cuisine Change in America. We mentioned the Somalian inroads into America via the Minneapolis (soon to be Minnegadishu) concession. You nice Minnesota ladies and un-excitable old-stock men invited a few poor, poor refugees because you felt sorry for them, and for the vibrancy and the food. Well, it beats the same Swedish meatballs and whitefish every night don't it, Mom? You betcha'.
Sure, the new cuisine is one thing*, but now the pet project of the nice socialists and ctrl-left instigators is running into a few snags. See, assimilation is not working, as in never does when you have large numbers, and even less so when the goal is to assimilate black Moslem people from the horn of Africa:
The thing is, the new arrivals don't really like to live in, much less keep up, the nice dwellings like Mary Tyler Moore's TV-land house pictured above. They want the zoning laws gotten rid of, and the ctrl-left is only too glad to help. From the BareNakedIslam website, we learn MINNESOTASTAN: Minneapolis’ far-leftist City Council votes to end anti-Muslim “racism” by moving mostly low-income/welfare Somali Muslim families into upscale neighborhoods. Things are fixin' to get vibrant like the outer shells of the electrons of a coupla' thousand moles of Sodium atoms thrown into a toilet bowl by a budding high-school chemist/2nd-degree-burn victim.
Across the spectrum of activists, Minneapolis 2040’s proposal to allow multifamily housing — first fourplexes, then triplexes — in every neighborhood in the city has generated the most debate. The city’s long-range planning director, Heather Worthington, has said that, in general, the proposal aims to “diversify” housing citywide and reverse some of the damage from historical exclusionary zoning policies. (In other words, working hard in order to be able to afford a home in a safe neighborhood is considered “exclusionary.”)The thing is, hehe, ha, hahahaaa, that .... wait ... I read this news article with a smile on my face. Sorry, I just couldn’t help it, though, suffice it to say, I don’t live in Minneapolis (if the Peak Stupidity reader here does, than I apologize for that outburst). The snowflakes have only themselves to blame as this new vibrancy changes the rules in their formerly nice, formerly quiet abodes in the great formerly white north. The zoning laws are designed to prevent nice neighborhoods having the "neighbor" part torn off. They've been in place a long time, so there's no reason to change ... I know you had a deal Minneapolitans, but rule-of-law, zoning rules, etc. are not part of the Somalian culture.
“There was redlining here, and that kept people of color (Muslims) from having the same resources and opportunities as white people,” said Salica. “We see the 2040 plan as one step — one important step — in reducing that.
There are ~ 20,000 Somalians in Minnegadishu now, and though a still small minority, they will have a disproportionate impact on the culture of that city. Why do I have a song in my head called You've got another thing coming.?
* About the food, per commenter Anon7 on unz:
I’ve been fascinated by African cuisine ever since I was invited to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in the early 1990′s. Of course, I looked up traditional Ethiopian food on the nascent Internet and found that it consisted mostly of small amounts of bark and nuts, usually followed by long periods of famine. I never went back to the restaurant.Well as we've been told: As horrific as large-scale famine is, if our diverse cuisine becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.
** For the excellent Fargo clip (as related to Ronald Reagan) see Part 3 of our Donnie vs. Ronnie discussion.
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More of the Papal Bull
Posted On: Tuesday - December 18th 2018 9:20AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
I'd read an article on VDare a few weeks back, so this post is lagging behind. As is mostly the case for what we document here, the stupidity is widespread over space and time. It's been a while since any discussion about the stupidity of the So-Called Pope "we've" got now. Therefore, it's time for Peak Stupidity to put another verbal beatdown on this Commie Francis, his coterie of Cardinals and Bishops (whichever is higher, I haven't played a game of chess in ages). Notice I put "we've" in quotes, as I'm not a part of that Catholicism crowd, so we can write anything here with no fear of excommunication. (Can a website be excommunicated? That's the kind of stuff these people should be discussing, rather than ...)
VDare writer Eugene Gant IS a practicing Catholic (it does take a lot of practice), and he's pretty uspset about the Papal crowd's deliberate ignorance, and covering up of molestations, of boy parishioners by priests. That story has been around for a many decades, of course, and could be better summed-up by someone more in the know. It's not just these head Catholics' refusal to own up to this, that's got Mr. Gant upset about his church but it's the way they defer all the evil and blame, per A Catholic Layman Wanted His Bishops To Talk About The Lavender Mob—But They Wanted To Talk About “Racism”!.
If you do keep up with the whole sexual-abuse scandal, you may still want to read Mr. Gant's column as, per VDare's usual style, he has many links in his writing to sources (they are left out in our Peak Stupdity excerpts here). I'd read a book or two some years ago about the Middle Ages, one of them specifically about the Catholic Church "management" over those years. Read about the Borgia-era Popes sometime. Orgies, drinking, carrying-on, it was a scene man. The good thing is, any kind of news of bad behavior could take weeks, months, or infinity to get around. We have our eye on these people now. (The so-called Pope would do himself and all of us a favor by not tweeting at least.) Some of those Middle Age Popes do make current Commie Francis look like something of a choir boy in comparison. However, as discussed before here, it's the current guy's submission to PC, Islam, and Globalism that we have a problem with. Eugent Gant writes:
Make no mistake, this crisis is about an adult homosexual conspiracy in the Church. For years, the Main Stream Media peddled the pedophile-priest myth. Catholics believed it and served the interests of the hierarchy. But most of the victims weren’t children. They were teenagers and young men. The revelations about Cardinal Theodore “Uncle Ted” McCarrick and other reports disclosed an ugly truth too secret too long: deviants are in charge, even in Rome. [Man Says Cardinal McCarrick, His ‘Uncle Ted,’ Sexually Abused Him for Years, By Sharon Otterman, NYT, July 19, 2018]Hey, not my problem - I'm not a card-carrying member. It's the sheer hypocrisy that warrents mention here. These top Vatican men are now haranguing their parishoners about their supposed RACISM to deflect attention from all the ugly things going on under (or by) their leadership:
Vatican cops busted a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in one of the city-state’s apartments. [ Pope knowingly gave Vatican apartment to gay priest later caught in cocaine-fuelled orgy , by Lisa Bourne, LifeSite, August 29, 2018] Homosexuals such as McCarrick built a network to gain control of the chanceries and even elect a Leftist like Pope Francis. Check out the story of the “St. Gallen Mafia.”[ Leader of St. Gallen ‘mafia’, “Ante-Pope” Martini prepared the way for Francis, by Julia Meloni March 9, 2018]
That’s right. The bishops strapped on armor and sallied forth with a brave statement against racism. What courage to go out on that limb! The vote was 241-3. [Bishops approve pastoral letter against racism, by Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service, November 14, 2018] (I’ve not been able to find out who the dissenters were).Mr. Gant uses both common sense and his Biblical knowledge to refute some of this stupidity out of the Catholic leadership. This follows from the last excerpt, so I've included > 1/3 of the article. We've been better about this copy/paste style over the last year, but here goes anyway:
Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love—A Pastoral Letter Against Racism, from the bishops’ openwideCommittee On Cultural Diversity, flatly and falsely informs the Catholic layman—the same layman some bishop might well have molested—that he is most likely a racist. Don’t worry whether a McCarrick-favored priest might molest your 15-year-old son in the sacristy. That white guy by the baptismal said Trump’s right on the migrants!
Besides telling a minimally-educated Catholic nothing he doesn’t know, the letter conscripts one of the Bible’s primordial stories to impart the bishops’ false message, then peddles claims they know are false. This isn’t a profound letter from thoughtful men educated in theology and philosophy. It’s more like a lazily-assembled hit piece from an intern at the $outhern Poverty Law Center. [Oh, if only! You may have heard of the $outhern Poverty Law Center here before, as right now, lowly Peak Stupidity can only wish we had the attention of an intern at the $outhern Poverty Law Center ... sigh ... Ed.]
Herewith a few choice quotes, followed by commentary to unpack the misleading or outrightly false claimsI guess another piece of Papal Bull will have to come out to answer those tough questions. Notwithstanding the hypocrisy that Mr. Gant covers here, he should understand that the perforative "racist" does not have to be taken as the ultimate in being an evil one. It hardly means squat anymore, and don't sweat the name-calling anyway. I suppose it's hard hearing it from the people who are supposed to be the religious leaders that provide you with advice in following God. At least in Protestant Churches, you can shop around. They have to put up with these guys until the 2nd Coming.Racism arises when—either consciously or unconsciously—a person holds that his or her own race or ethnicity is superior, and therefore judges persons of other races or ethnicities as inferior and unworthy of equal regard. When this conviction or attitude leads individuals or groups to exclude, ridicule, mistreat, or unjustly discriminate against persons on the basis of their race or ethnicity, it is sinful. Racist acts are sinful because they violate justice.What do the bishops mean by “superior,” “inferior” and “unworthy of equal regard?” They don’t say. Part of the fun of growing up Catholic was thinking the Micks in your parish were better, smarter and tougher than the Wops in the parish three blocks over, then beating them in Catholic Youth Organization basketball and stealing their girlfriends to prove it.
But, of course, that’s not what worries the bishops. They mean white and black. Or white and brown.
Good enough. What if I refuse to shop in a certain part of town because blacks predominate and I don’t want to get mugged or murdered? What if I tell my white, 100-pound daughter not to walk to her car in a dark parking lot if she sees five blacks shucking and jiving around it, obviously up to no good. What if I think admitting blacks with low grades to college is a bad idea because they can’t handle the work? Am I a racist?
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A taste of Somalia - more American Cuisine Change
Posted On: Monday - December 17th 2018 8:12AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Race/Genetics
While trudging through an airport last week I tried to avoid watching the electronic exhaust of the Lyin'Press, that is, those CNN-spouting screens hanging from wall and ceilings. One of them happened to blare out something while I was coming up under it, with a caption/headline on-screen saying "A taste of Somalia." Now, don't quote me on the exact country, but it was some African shithole that was Kenya or Ethiopia, if not Somalia. This news story was about the opening of some new restaurant or district of restaurants serving us this cuisine that we couldn't do without, hence the need for ruination of American society via uncontrolled immigration ... or something.
The Peak Stupidity blog has discussed this aspect of the immigration problem before, in The Stupidity of the Foodies. However, I'm writing this addition due to this stuff was phrased there on the TV. A taste of Somalia made me wonder if those TV talking-dummkopfs have ever really had a taste of the country of Somalia or a taste of Somalian-enriched areas of America.
You want at taste of Somalia, you TV foodheads? Why don't you go to Mogadishu (the one in the Old Country, not the Minnesota concession), eat your favorite food there out on the street, and stay as long as you like.
All countries of the world LUV LUV LUV millions of immigrants, right? When you go off to your new life in Somalia, bring your papers, your bribe money, and bring your AK (unending-arguably your AR)!, as Somalians don't take Visa for their fly-shit infested outdoor dining, and not even Diner's Club. Reliable Toyota pick-up truck, $4,000 in bribe money from a government official ... fine outdoor cuisine, $1.75 ... not being found dead on the street and getting shipped back to New York in a Military Airlift Command C-17 for a funeral attended by Christiane Amanpour, PRICELESS!
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Long Marches, never-ending marches, and Revolutions
Posted On: Saturday - December 15th 2018 9:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Music Feminism China Curmudgeonry
The "Women's March" is the newest feminist movement, purporting to stand, or hopefully march to somewhere, for the right to all the feminist ideas that haven't already been destroying society. They'll be out there wearing those pink pussy hats that they knitted themselves via grrrll powah, made from inexpensive yarn made by machinery built by men, arriving via transportation built by men on roads built by men, carrying their supplies produced in factories built and run by men, oh, including some feminine products developed and built by men. From the Women's March very own website, run by software and on hardware designed/built by men, we read:
And we’re committed to deepening relationships with any community who has felt left out of this movement. We want to create space where all are welcome. We are trying to build an intersectional women’s movement.Yeah, at the intersection of stupidity and retardation ... OK, I promise that I did not write the post to knock feminism. This stuff just comes out.
Let's stay inside and knit more pink hats for THE MARCH.
The point here is about just the name of this movement, the Women's March, and other movements like it. See, a march is a transient event, not a long-term thing. You walk a ways, yell some shit, get tired, and it's OVAH! This irks me, as with another example to come shortly.
I guess there could be a march that lasts a while, say the Long March of the Chinese Communists from October of 1934 to October of 1935. This 3,700 to 5,500 mile trek, depending on whom you talk to, but still a pretty daunting distance even for the Forrest Gumps of the world, is big in Chi-Com lore. The Commies like to call it a march now, but it started as a retreat from the Nationalist Chinese under General Chiang, and only 10-15 thousand reds were left out of > 100,000 after Mao's contingent got far enough away (for a while) into Guizhou province in deepest yellowest China. Even so, it was eventually over. A march is a thing you do, not a movement.
Since Communists were mentioned, this brings up the other BIG example, which is the use of the term "revolution" for a long-term movement, rather than the transient phenomena of (most times) war or other turmoil to change the system of government. Our great founders of our country for instance, started a revolution and fought this 5-year Revolutionary War, and then it was over.
The Communists (isn't it always!) OTOH, in various lands around the world have had on-going "revolutions" for decades upon decades.
It was especially a thing with the (as of yet) longest-term Commie of them all, a thorn in the side of Cold War America, Fidel Castro (pictured above, starting a revolution as a youngster in 1959). It didn't matter whether it was now 1970, 1980, 1990, or 2000, the revolution was still on. You could have been born 20 years after the Cuban government of Fulgencio Batista was overthrown, and Cuba had been a shithole for years, but you still needed to "support the revolution". If you wanted some liberty or free markets, well, you were "against the revolution!"
That type of talk was big with the Chinese Communists too, but lesser so, from my recollection with the Soviets of the USSR. I tell you what, if the same damn sorry-assed place has the same sorry-assed economy and the same broke-assed population as it did 5 decades ago, there's nothing revolutionary about it, my cigar-smoking amigo.
"But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
you ain't gonna' make it with anyone anyhow ..."
Finally, in this Beatles song from 1968, note that the first verse (verses follow the choruses in this one), John Lennon sings "If you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out (in!)" I am conflicted about where I stand with regard to the politics of this guy, even 50 years later.
If I must, for the youngsters, The Beatles were:
John Lennon - Guitar, vocals
Paul McCartney - Bass, piano, vocals
George Harrison - Guitar, vocals
Ringo Starr - Drums, backing vocals (very occasionally lead vocals)
Peak Stupidity featured John Lennon's music before with Nobody Told Me, and Paul McCartney with Helen Wheels and Junior's Farm
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Ronnie vs. Donnie: Conclusion
Posted On: Saturday - December 15th 2018 3:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Americans US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents
(continued from the "Intro.", "the Personalities", "Foreign Policy", and "Domestic Policy")
Peak Stupidity has a habit sometimes of sticking with a topic right through the point of boring even our lead blogger. I need to finish this, and perhaps my thoughts (intro) from 2 1/2 weeks back after President Trump Bragged "I Blow Ronald Reagan Away" will get me interested again here.
Though he got co-opted in some manner by the Deep State, possibly around the time he was shot, Ronald Reagan was the Conservative for the times, back in 1980. He'd been a thoughtful principled conservative since the 1950's in Hollywood (a feat in itself) and he stayed one until the end. Sure, there were some mishaps and some badly misplaced trust over his Presidential terms, but I just can't say much bad about the guy. There's a guy worth lowering the flag for, and Americans did, back in 2004.
People said that President Reagan was too old to work hard, sleeping in some meetings, etc., but really, because he was wise enough of an executive to pick the right cabinet heads and advisors (mostly, perhaps excepting the VP), it didn't matter. Nobody says the executive does any real work - he lays out the strategy, approves or rejects the tactics proposed by advisors, and watches it pan out.
Besides the most-important accomplishment of ending the Cold War, something no American would have imagined at the start of Reagan's presidency, he held the line as much as he could on domestic policy. He did get hoodwinked on the US Feral Gov't welfare spending, but, as written, he never had a GOP-controlled House to help him.
Donald Trump doesn't have a lot of highfalutin principles and, I suppose, never claimed to have. He does seem to be on the side of real Americans, so people such as me have not sweated his lack of understanding of the Constitution, just as a small example. That was only due to the enthusiasm for Mr. Trump as one man he cared about the existential job to be done - fixing the immigration invasion. Nope, I didn't care that he was a playboy and how much corruption went on with his big-time real estate business in New York City. He was the candidate since who knows when (maybe since the 1920's) to bring up the immigration problem as a main issue.
Mr. Trump is the high-energy guy, and, with his being almost the same age as Reagan was, that's an amazing thing. It doesn't help, though, if the energy is expended via tweeting out replies to Lyin' Press detractors, getting sucked into the whole 2-years-long-now contrived brew-haha about The Russians! Without having a good loyal staff to work FOR, rather than AGAINST him, he wastes this energy trying to do things on his own, or fighting his own employees.
President Trump has not come through on his main goal, or his supporters' main goal, the control of illegal and legal immigration into the US. I don't think things are going to be easier for him either, as he goes from a cuckservative-controlled House/Senate to slightly-less-cuckservative/Democrat controlled chambers. The book about his presidency about which Trump based his brag on list loads of itemized accomplishments. Most of these are economic numbers that are based solely on the optimistic expectations of Americans. Sure, you're gonna be more optimistic knowing there is not some type of Hildabeast in the White House bent on complete destruction of traditional America. I would never argue that I'd rather Mr. Trump had lost the election in '16.
The fact is, if the existential problem of immigration is not dealt with, any of the economic accomplishments will be for naught. I still hold out a little hope, but so far President Trump has failed us.
In conclusion, No, President Trump, you do not "blow President Reagan away". As of right now, President Reagan still blows you clean out of the water!
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I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings
Posted On: Friday - December 14th 2018 9:19PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Americans US Feral Government
There's a glut of Curmudgeonry posts backed up in the Peak Stupidity pipeline. If they don't come out, the pressure will build up to levels capable of fracturing the entire website ... she no canna' hold, Captain, she'll blow she will!
Look for a few more, before the posting goes back to some of the themes covered as of late. Here today we will just rant on about a topic broached during the discussion of the extended mourn-porn* in the Lyin' Press for our Dowager ex-King, Bush I. Look, he died, I! GET! THAT!
When did the George HW Bush, or 41 (?!) die anyway, more than a week ago? I am still seeing flags at half-mast all over the place. Did another piece of royalty die in the meantime? Should we possibly just keep the flags where they are to cover all the possible US Feral Gov't former executives that may croak daily?
Surprisingly to me, the whole State Funeral bit has been going on since the early years of this country. I would have thought that these independent freedom-loving men would not have been interested in making a big deal of the death of an executive of one branch of their Federal Government, having said "Farewell to Kings" not so long before.
I suppose it's just the fact that it's been one after another, with Juan McAmnesty, nothing but one Neocon Senator from Arizona out of 100, being accorded this royal treatment 3 months earlier, that's got me sick of this. Let us avoid this mourn-porn as much as possible (though I wrote this post earlier, I saw flags STILL at 1/2-mast just an hour ago!)
Peak Stupidity featured the excellent Rush song, Closer to the Heart 1 1/2 years back, so here is the title song of their album, A Farewell to Kings:
*H/T to one Mr. Anon, who apparently would like to remain anonymous, for that term from a comment of his.
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Taking the Wall Street Journal, ass-backwards
Posted On: Friday - December 14th 2018 10:46AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Pundits Curmudgeonry Economics Media Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Back in the day, the Wall Street Journal paper newspaper was seen by me as a fairly-erudite information-packed part of the mainstream media*. There was a 1 1/2 year period during which I made an effort to buy the paper version at an old-fashioned newsstand/store on the way home from work, my goal being to learn more about business. I enjoyed my routine of trying to learn from this newspaper, except from that Money and Investing section, which was damnably boring until I realized it was also full of trading-advice via after-the-fact explaining by a bunch of bullshitters. I quit reading that part, and I am happy to say I never took any investing advise from this newspaper.
The other 3 sections were interesting enough for a while, especially the occasional, often-humorous, story on small business. I would save the editorial section for last because I enjoyed it back then. I was fooled by the "conservatives" who wrote in, with the exception of a nutball lefty named Al Hunt. Was he on there just to piss the readers off? I don't know why else he was. The immigration stupidity, especially as espoused by editor Robert Bartley, was just beginning to kick in for me at this time.
Well, the price of a paper WSJ went up by a quarter one day, and, as economists who could tell you about demand-elasticity very well know, my demand was about as elastic as pair of underwear worn for five years by that fat chick that gotten taken out by that Dodge Challenger** in Charlottesville. That is to say, I quit reading what I then considered a rag, the extra quarter just being the straw that broke the Lyin' Press's back.
What the hell this post is all about is, that I happened across a paper version for some post I thought I wanted to write, and subsequently read an excerpt from the WSJ also. These writers still do the same thing: They write numerical changes in their verbiage in the WRONG ORDER! "Ass-backwards" is the term of art. It's been like that since I read the paper daily, and it's irked me the whole time. It's like this: "Due to the latest FED announcement by Mr. Yellen, short-term treasury yields dropped sharply today, to 2.71% from 2.86%, and we coulda' told you that ahead of time yesterday, but nope, you wouldn'a believed us.". Note the "to" BEFORE the "from". "Trading volume on the Big Board rose slightly today, to 2.16 billion shares traded from 2.13 billion shares." What the hell is wrong with these people? That's my beef today, but this has been happening for a long time.
Look, you dipshit writers, we read from left to right. That's the way numbers should go to. Picture a graph in your head. Got it, WSJ writer?! The Peak Stupidity reader is right now reading this post to the right side from the left side. How stupid does that sound?
I think this style has been picked up by writers outside of the Wall Street Journal. They would like to emulate this pseudo-erudite style, and additionally are mostly too innumerate to even notice what's wrong with it. For years later, not due to my having taken*** the paper copy (I don't see how) subscription offers would come in the mail, every 3 months or so. I would dutifully put them in the nice post-paid envelope they provided me with, with the words "FIRE AL HUNT! Then I'll think about it." or "Close the borders!" across it. Some poor Filipina girl, at a mail-opening facility in Manila, may have learned something, I can hope, from my demands, but those Editorial Idiots at the WSJ have gone TO more clueless FROM clueless.
* Looking back, that would have been my term too, as opposed to those that are more accurate now, the Lyin' Press, Government-Media, or the System Media (h/t James Kirkpatrick of VDare).
** Yeah, but it's just one of those retro versions, not at all the same as a real 1960's or '70's Challenger.
*** Now, that's an interesting phrase you hear from old people, from the day when people "took" Time Magazine or "took" Better Homes & Gardens. To "take" it meant, as in, having a subscription. In my WSJ case, I didn't "take it" unless I was missing a quarter!
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Therapy for our hard-working Lyin' Press
Posted On: Wednesday - December 12th 2018 7:10AM MST
In Topics: The Russians TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Media Stupidity
Well, the Peak Stupidity blog has been trying very successfully to avoid the Lyin' Press infotainment, in all it's forms. I find it amazing that the last time I even so much as glanced at any of the reporters, talking heads, or newspaper headlines and had to put up with anything regarding THE RUSSIANS! was 1/2 year ago, yet, apparently this ginned-up BS is still going on!
Per commenter Lurker on unz.com, the folks that are still truly worried about THE RUSSIANS! may be well-advised to enroll in some psycho-therapy sessions. Apparently, they've got new methods now, but some of the well-paid illustrious members of the Lyin' Press should easily be able to afford that old stand-by, electro-shock therapy. AC/DC, 2-phase/3-phase, 115 kV to as low as 220V, there are protocols for everyone now. It sure couldn't hurt, right?
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Protest Creep, Movement Creep, and Co-option
Posted On: Tuesday - December 11th 2018 7:49PM MST
In Topics: Commies Liberty/Libertarianism World Political Stupidity
(Did it really take them 2 years to get going?
The big bank bailouts were in '08, and these guys were around in '10.)
In the previous post on the gilets jaunes, or Yellow Vest, movement* Peak Stupidity coined the term "Protest Creep" (Yes, we have a mint in the back of our
What is this movement creep? Well, ostensibly the first protests were just about this increase in the diesel fuel tax. It'a about more now, though. This is to be expected. Once the participants realize how much power they have (and often how much fun some of the ass-kicking of officials and the destruction is), they'd naturally want to bring up some other beefs. There are things that have been stewing in all of us, and the time is ripe in France now for the population to air their grievances to the elites. That's all fine. If the movement goals creep onward and upward, eventually it becomes a real revolution.
One could say the American Revolution went on along similar lines, at least until the Declaration of Independence put many men's lives, fortunes and sacred honor directly on the line. There were incidents 10 years before, and then things would quite down, then a new tax on this and the Boston Massacre, then the Boston Tea Party, etc. It wasn't until the goals of the "rights of Englishmen for Americans" movement got high enough that it all got wrapped up into one goal, a Great Brexit, way before "Brexit" was cool, you might say. Of course, it all worked out well for the Americans in general, but that's definitely not usually the case.
Within many political movements, there creeps something else, infiltrators of political ideologies that want to take advantage of the momentum for their own purposes, like say... I dunno ....
COMMUNISM?!
Yes, that's the history of lots of these things, going back a century or more, as I think of Bizzaro Germany (more here.)
Do you remember those "Occupy Wall Street" people seen in the picture at the top? It was supposedly first about the big bank bailouts and the economy tanking (not due to that, but the bailouts being an egregious example of the problems). The occupiers never seemed to be any kind of Ron Paul libertarians to me from the get-go, but these people got more Socialist and Communist in their demands as time went on, their camps got filthier, and their leaders got stupider:
Yeah, that's the kind of slogan a Commie would take to, indeed. The Occupy Wall Street movement may have been somewhat, let's say, unsound, at the start, but it got co-opted toward a total Communist, totalitarian vibe by the end. It was kind of like those anti-Globalism protests way, way back, in 1999-2000 in Seattle, Washington, but more long-term and filthier. Those anti-Globalists may have originally been on the right track, but their complete lack of conservatism made pretty much everyone hate them. Did some Commies infiltrate and originally-decent movement? I don't know, as I never learned enough about it.
Speaking of the Occupiers again, around this time near the end of the 1st decade of this century, there was the Tea Party movement. It was not exactly the type of Tea Party movement mentioned above, ready to raise hell and dump someone's private stash of tea into a harbor while dressed (very un-PC'ly, I might
The movement creep within the Tea Party was originally for the good, support for certain kinds of candidates, downvoting of Øb☭macare, more term limit talk, etc. However, the infiltration this time was not by Commies, as they would have been weeded out like a pot plant in my neighbor's Yard of the Month. There were instead establishment conservatives, no liberty-lovers they, who used the Tea Party to elevate themselves above their status as standard Washington, FS Beltway regulars. Some of them were indeed still better than average conservatives, but they were bound to let most of the principles of the Tea Party slide, when they obtained their goals of national political offices.
... but not stalwart enough to really help the movement.
Some of the neocons nudged their way in:
And then there's Beck:
Any questions?
* BTW, just as a Libertarian, I'd have been pissed off to begin with to be required to carry a yellow vest in my vehicle. That is the law over in France, they say, and that's where the yellow vests came from. Laws like that were reason enough for Revolution in our forefather's time. I think bright yellow and orange are getting so ubiquitous, that our eyes may just see them as background scenery after a while.
** As written here, Mrs. Palin was the only reason to have even CONSIDERED voting for the Neocon scum McAmnesty.
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The Yellow Vest protests and "Protest Creep"
Posted On: Tuesday - December 11th 2018 11:26AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity World Political Stupidity
It's about time to write something about this encouraging hell-raising political movement in France. The French, and the Europeans in general, are big on the whole "general strike" thing, and just strikes in general. Peak Stupidity will not get into strikes and labor union discussion right here (good one for a coming post, I suppose), but there's a lot Americans don't like about this sort of thing. If you travel in Europe, possibly northern Europe partially excepted, you will run into the train not running, cabs not driving, and just general annoyances that we aren't used to putting up with in America. The General Strike thing, in particular, is something people here could perhaps not fathom. We do like to do our jobs, government workers partially excepted.
The origin of the protests in France over the last week seem to be a bit confusing from the articles I've read. A big tax on diesel fuel (taxes on fuel being a BIG Euro thing, many times more than 100%) supposedly was the impetus. I've also heard of it being President Macron's talk of this extra tax money being used to mitigate the feared Global Climate DisruptionTM causing the good French people to have had enough. President Trump had mentioned that, per sources I've read, and that of course, has been dismissed by the Lyin' Press. The continual forced extraction of the labor of the French workers in the form of taxes, to pay for stupid projects around the world is reason enough to raise hell. That is nothing but good conservatism. However, the French are not in general good Conservatives but fairly Socialist. What they are becoming is more nationalist.
As they think of what "their" governments in Paris and Brussels are doing with their tax money, the out-of-control immigration of foreign free-loaders, seems to be now part of the protests. Then, they want Macron out, for sure a worthy cause itself! (There is a caveat - to be replaced by whom?). It's become a case of protest creep over there.
Protest creep can be good. All the problems that the patriotic French may have with their government should be aired. If, as is the same case in America, the French and Euro governments are working against the people, they should be changed and opted-out of, respectively. While you're having this general strike, inconveniencing a lot of your fellow French and causing a lot of damage*, etc, you may as well make it comprehensive.
However, what I'll write in the next post is that often these protests, or eventually, movements, get co-opted. That's the problem the French are probably running into right now.
* As far as the damage goes, it could indeed be a lot, but I'm really getting pretty cynical about what the Lyin' Press would have to say about it. From the BBC (what should I expect? Right?), we read:
Le Parisien newspaper reported that in the capital about 50 vehicles had been burnt and dozens of businesses vandalised, with some of them looted. The authorities in the city say that riots have caused millions of pounds of damage.50 cars? Are you serious? I think the Moslems burn 10X that many each night during the right time of the month (or wrong time of the month depending on whether you are an auto owner or pyromaniac)! I believe the Lyin' Press figures we are all innumerate or have no memory whatsoever.
Regarding the immigration portion of the demands of these French protesters, I believe they'd have to torch most of the structures in all of France to equal the LONG-TERM damages (just the monetary part) being done by the extensive Moslem infestation that their "leadership" has burdened them with.
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His name was Patrick McCalley
Posted On: Monday - December 10th 2018 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Race/Genetics ctrl-left Orwellian Stupidity Educational Stupidity
Peak Stupidity is not known for being compassionate, sharing, and all that crap ... we call out the stupid whenever and wherever we see it. You won't see a lot of sob stories on here, but this one is kind of close. I'd like to just illustrate today how bad the effect of the oppressive, Orwellian, anti-white-male establishment can be, even at the high-school level.
It's been two years ago now, but, because there is now a lawsuit, a sad story we missed, out of maybe many more like it, caught the attention of the Peak Stupdity blog. In the semi-Lyin' Press New York post, "Excessive Fear" after in-school suspension drove Air Force hopeful to kill self, we see a tragic result of the ctrl-left cultural repression at the lower-ed level. A 16 y/o high-school kid killed himself as soon as he got home after 'suffering “extreme and excessive psychological distress' while being questioned by an assistant principal about two racially inappropriate Snapchat messages he sent to another student." Again, as written above, this could be taken as a sob story about some student snowflake, as "in my day, they slammed us on the ass repeatedly with a paddle with small holes in it just to make it swing that much faster" (yeah, I always thought that hole thing was just a crock, just said to put more fear into the students).
I believe there's a lot more to it than that, though. Did you get the part about the racially inappropriate Snapchat messages? Yes, back in the day, it would have been more about blowing up toilets with M-80's, fighting in the halls, or smoking (too much) dope in the parking lot, with the exception of the last, much more serious actions than sending "racially inappropriate Snapchat messages"... one would think! However, times are different, and the cultural oppression, just as severe at this point than that of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is serious business. Making comments, even jokingly, about the wrong people - the correct races, ethnicities, sexual orientations and lately sexual out-patient organ-conditions - is very very bad. To make that clear, anyone non-white, non-straight-unadulterated male has a higher caste ranking than, say this Patrick McCalley, who made the simple mistake of writing the incorrect Snapchat (WTH is that?) messages.
See, the cops came, which can scare any diligent non-thug of a student who has plans for his future:
Patrick “remained isolated” in a closed room as Carmel High School assistant principal Toby Steele and Carmel Police Officer Phil Hobson questioned him about the messages. He then wrote a “self-incriminating statement” under the penalty of perjury and was told he was being expelled or suspended from school, the lawsuit claims.An arrest for any charge, no matter how stupid it sounds to the sane, is an arrest on his record nonetheless, and the HR ladies don't take too kindly to that. Really it'd be better nowadays to have a conviction for blowing up a toilet with an M-80 than even the CHARGE of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGING, OMG!
Yeah, next thing, even if Big Brother of the school could not really get the boy expelled, he would be an outcast for the rest of his time in this high school, once the facebook shunning came down on him. I don't mean to say this lightly - it's how bad the young ones have been brainwashed by 9-10 years already of this anti-white, anti-male indoctrination at the government propaganda camps. It take a very loyal girlfriend not to break up with him over this. This making fun of the correct people - IT'S! JUST! NOT! DONE! More from the NY Post article:
Prior to the incident, Patrick had been an “outstanding student” at the school, where he was a member of the marching band, jazz band and concert band. He also had no prior disciplinary infractions and was preparing for a future in the United States Air Force.Yeah, it is very sad. I could be callous as usual and say this kid was a snowflake but it really doesn't sound like it. High school kids don't have any perspective yet. The school and "questioners" made Chris into the worst person in the world. In addition, it's not like any other kids would likely visibly support this boy. Besides the brainwashing, even a truth-seeking youngster would not likely be brave enough to publicly defend his friend on this BS. Chris McCalley was all alone in this struggle.
“When Patrick awoke on October 6, 2016, he was a happy, well-adjusted boy and had just received email correspondence from a representative of the United States Air Force and was excited for the future when he left his home for school,” the lawsuit states.
But within minutes of leaving the school after being summoned to meet with Steele, the teen decided he no longer wanted to live.
“Patrick’s father, Christopher McCalley, arrived at the home shortly after Patrick but was too late to prevent Patrick from shooting himself out of the despair caused by Defendants’ actions at school that day,” the lawsuit states. “When Christopher McCalley saw Patrick, he called 911 and tried to stop Patrick’s bleeding. When law enforcement officers responded to his 911 call, Christopher told them this had to be because of whatever just happened to Patrick at school.”
I don't want to blame the Dad at all (and I wouldn't, OTOH, blame him either if he took this more personally out on people at this school than a lawsuit does). It's just advice now, for other parents. Please, please, spend time with your kids to get them used to listening to the truth from you. They must be made aware early on that the world is full of lies. Possibly, if his Dad had talked over some of this anti-white-male BS with him, whether it's telling him to be careful in everything he says (shame it has to come to that) or how to handle any trouble that comes from what he says, it may have given the boy more strength. Yeah, it's a sob story because I feel so sorry for the father of Chris McCalley, a victim of the Orwellian school system of Carmel, Indiana.
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History's rhyming - 1/2 or full century meter?
Posted On: Saturday - December 8th 2018 2:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity History ctrl-left
More thoughts on the ctrl-left violence that's been escalating over the last 2 or 3 years in America came while I was writing the previous post on the verdict in the James Fields (Charlottesville street battle) trial. Back in March of this year, Peak Stupidity posted a 6 part series - "There's battle lines being drawn" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6), comparing the political violence occurring nowadays to that of 1/2 century ago, during the famed '60's. We also speculate on how this new bout will turn out.
The image above does show a car being blocked, or so it seems. There were protests, and there was tear gas sprayed around. Some people did beat on each other. Are current events nothing but a repeat, but without the great music? I wasn't there, but sure did read and hear more stories of what went on when it was a lot fresher in people's memories. Though most of the protesting was peaceful back then, especially as the hippies did not go for the antifa look, methods, and utter stupidity, there was, of course, quite a bit of violence. People took over university buildings, and they did block roads, as now, but, no there are a couple of major things that are different now.
The first big difference between the '60's political protest scene and that of the '10's is that back in the day, The Establishment was not of the left. The institutions of America had not yet been infiltrated by the long march of the left yet (though they sure were cranking it up then). R or D, people in charge of governments were hard-core conservatives compared to today. Read about California Governor Ronald Reagan TAKING BACK OVER the Univ. of California, Berkeley some time. University administrators may have wanted to appease the students, but they were not yet down with the stupidity. The press had an agenda already by the 1960's but they were not the completely one-side Lyin' Press of today.
Finally, as related to this sickening James Fields verdict, the justice system was in no way a tool of the left. Rule of law, due process, and, hell, even the US Constitution, were taken very seriously by the conservatives that ran the institutions. The left could take advantage of that when protesting and/or getting arrested when getting violent, but it wasn't run by them. See, they don't care about rule-of-law and due process, now that they are running the show. That's not something that one shouldn't have seen coming a mile away.
The second big difference is that America now is a collection of diverse people and diverse ways of life that in no way resembles the America of 1968. (The Ted Kennedy sponsored, LBJ-signed immigration act of 1965 had not resulted in much accumulation yet in 3 years.). Though millions of Americans were against the Vietnam War, wanted some kind of "civil rites" for "fairness", wanted to take drugs without hassle, etc, the country was still very united culturally in so many ways. (See, that was the result of it being > 40 years since the severe-curtailment of immigration due to the immigration bill of 1924.). Granted there were hard-core anti-Americans, including, but not limited to, Communists behind the scenes. However, the "shock troops", the guys running around in the streets and blocking cars, that was, did not HATE America and Americans. One could more likely peacefully talk over the issues with them once everyone washed the tear gas out of their eyes. Yes, these protesters wanted some changes for the good, and stupidly lots more for the worse, as taught to them by the guys behind the scenes. However, almost every man and hot, albeit smelly, hippie-chick on the street cared for his country.
We are not in this situation today. The antifa in Charlottesville would never have been interested in a peaceful back-and-forth discussion of heritage and the value of the General Lee statue in the part that summer day. They were only interested in putting down any peaceful resistance to their agenda from the alt-right. They knew that any police action was going to be in their favor, as it was right from the beginning. (Please read some on the events that day, even if just in that same article.) As for the 2nd difference, most of the ctrl-left today have been steeped-in, if not brainwashed about, all things American being hateful, and white people being the cause for all the ill in the world, for minumum 13 and up through 18 years. They don't like anything about this country and want it destroyed. Again, this is the attitude of the shock troops on the streets, not just the evil bastards behind the scenes, as has always been the case.
I'm of the opinion that this rhyming of history that we are seeing is not a rhyme of 1/2 century ago, but more like of a complete century in a different locale. That's be the Germany of the 1920's and '30's. It's not exactly the same, and that's why they* say history doesn't repeat, but sure does rhyme.
The "boxing into a corner thing" is not just in the realm of violent acts on the streets. It's also a more large scale thing, as I mentioned in the previous post (near the end). The Communists, along with, unintentionally(?), the victors of WWI had made it hard for the Germans to get their economy out of a deep quagmire and to live normal lives. The Communists wanted badly to make Germany into another USSR of some type (just experimenting, you know, to see if it results in that Utopian working-man's society). Just as today, the left calls the conservatives names** and puts forth all the lies, making it unreasonable for normal people to defend themselves peacefully. That first verse has been already read .... how will the second one go?
This 5 minute video (thanks to unz commenter "Wayfarer" for finding it) explains why the right better understand that the left is beyond being reasoned with nicely:
I'd almost forgotten, but the Peak Stupidity blog featured another "Black-Pilled" video by this Mr. Devon Stack less than 2 months back. The guy makes some powerful points, and he gets lots of views. (I suppose I should join his "channel" or whatever you do.)
* Somebody that I can look up later, sorry!
** No, they couldn't use fascist or Nazi just yet.
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Guilty as Planned - The James Fields Charlottesville Verdict
Posted On: Saturday - December 8th 2018 12:42PM MST
In Topics: Cars alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny
This is one of the most timely posts here on Peak Stupidity, though that is not our forte. Nope, the TV news is not blaring out around me, as in some homes, so, though I may miss some current events, I miss the brainwashing infotainment, hence, have a much better idea of WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON. So, when reading this article by a friend of the defense on unz.com this morning, along with the comments, I noted that just yesterday, Mr. Fields, the young man on trial on charges of murder via automobile back in the middle of the Charlottesville, VA antifa attacks in the summer of '17, was found guilty of 1st degree murder, supposedly after a fair trial of a jury of his peers. (This was after this article was published, but there are comments from after the verdict.). No, it wasn't manslaughter, more appropriate for a man trying to get out of a bad situation in a panic. It could have even been self-defense, as couldn't a 300 pounder like that destroy the entire cooling system, raising engine temperatures within minutes on that hot summer day, causing a seizing of the cylinders and thus rending the vehicle inoperative for an escape? (OK, now that last would require a really crack lawyer - speaking of cracks, too soon?)
First, without even going into this bit of "justice", one can learn that part of the Anarcho-Tyranny on display there was what went on afterwards as far as criminal charges to the ctrl-left antifa vs. the Unite-the-Right group. The latter, if you recall had gone to peacefully assemble to speak about saving a General Robert E. Lee from cultural destruction. Some were appropriately armed for their own safety, as, well, you can't keep being beaten up or running forever. There was not one of the antifa who were ever given meaningful criminal sentences, even the ad-hoc flamethrower users, the guys who dragged a man into a parking structure to beat hell out of him, and the rest who used violence condoned by The State.
The fat broad who Mr. Fields hit with his car at a fairly slow speed while trying to get out of the whole area was the only one who died that day - that is a fact. However, if you don't already know the details, please read the article linked-to above. A blog post is not the court of law, but there is lots of evidence to give a reasonable doubt of Mr. Fields' alleged intention to murder the lady with his car. The discussion in that article and comments also includes doubt about the ability and motives of the public defender, and the partiality of the judge. The Mayor of Charlottesville and his deputy are apparently hard-core ctrl-left, making one wonder why a trial with this publicity (including a completely asinine, ignorant statement by our Tweeter-in-Chief*) couldn't have been moved to a different venue for a fair trial. There was no escaping the hostile media, but he may have gotten a fairer judge and jury.
I would say the poor young man was railroaded as a big lesson taught by the ctrl-left to the alt-right yesterday. They want you to back down next time immediately after their minions start anything up. They want you to think of James Fields rotting away in a max-security prison next time, so you will just let yourself get beaten up, or, better yet, never show up for any rally, protest, or other event to defend your people and heritage. As a matter of fact, they would rather you not speak up or write about anything against the ctrl-left establishment period. See, they can work on controlling Twitter, Facebook, and Google (most of The F.A.G.S.). They've got TV fairly locked up (with one dude going rogue that they've been trying to get a handle on recently.). However, going out and speaking in public, now that's something that's really in-your-face and totally un-called for. Freedom of speech is for the establishment, not the haters, right?
The Peak Stupidity blog posted Don't let yourself get (Reginald) Dennyed to relate the experience of Mr. Fields in light of what happened to an innocent truck driver caught in, then pulled out of, his vehicle during the LA riots of 1992. It's always been a big tactic of the ctrl-left over the years to block roads and vehicles with their bodies. Look, they have nowhere important to go, unlike the drivers on the way to work. I believe they look forward to so enraging a driver that he will go berserk and just hit the gas. (They hope they can get out of the way, a lost cause for some like your big victim of Charlottesville, but I'm not sure they care about their fellow, uh, protesters.). It's a quandary to be in that situation as a driver for a number of reasons. Depending on how violent the people are, and what they have for weapons, they may not just do costly damage to the car. They may be able to get inside at some point after breaking a window/windshield. At that point, the driver, especially the unarmed one, is in a bad situation. I'm pretty sure, he'll wish he'd tried to push through the crowd already.
Additionally, the question comes up again, how long can we keep taking the abuse? A single man without a family to worry about, caught in this situation, may have more of a big picture in his head. "How long are we going to take this?" "Enough is enough." The other thoughts will be "I don't want to be James Fields." Those thoughts will conflict, but sometimes the decision was made unconsciously long ago. When the adrenaline starts pumping through the body, and seconds count, one's action will follow that decision made long ago. See, these ctrl-left shock troops really want to put us in that situation. I believe they haven't thought it through. After this verdict today, the next guy stuck in a car with a mob surrounding it, if he really feels like there is no way out, will not go 28 mph. He will floor it. I hate to put it this way, but he’ll remember what the 1st one costs and that the rest are free. That’s what it’s gonna come to, unfortunately.
Some people remember what happened to Reginald Denny, beat senseless on the street. Others don't, but will just go with their instincts. It's a bad idea to box people in a corner, on both the small scale, as in one panicked (or NOT) guy in a car, or on a big scale, as what they are doing to normal American society. You don't box people into a corner because, civilization and all, we are still animals. Just like with the squirrels, who, as cute as they may be (or NOT), YOU DON'T BOX THEM INTO A CORNER!
*Trump's statement was made in haste and ad-libbed, almost per usual:
I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family and this country. And that is — you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. That’s what I’d call it.I would appreciate the President getting involved, but not by shooting his mouth off. He could have the DOJ question whether proper justice was served today in Charlottesville by the ctrl-left establishment. That ain't gonna happen though ...
And there is a question. Is it murder? Is it terrorism? Then you get into legal semantics. The driver of the car is a murderer, and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing.
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Pearl Harbor attack - 77 years ago
Posted On: Friday - December 7th 2018 9:22PM MST
In Topics: History
The "day that will live in infamy", per the words of US President-at-the-time Franklin Roosevelt, is still remembered by some, such as we here at Peak Stupidity, I doubt there are so many who would understand the infamy part, as 77 years is ancient history for the younger people, and the Japanese of today don't seem to be the same as the brutal, viscous, Emporer's armed forces of 1941 (and right up to the point of being bombed to the stone age in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945).
There is lots of writing that discuss the possible reasons or even justifications for this attack. The President FDR seemed to want to get America into WWII to help the English, though a big share of Americans wanted to stay out of it. He and the Feral Gov't of the time may have not only tried to box in the Japanese with trade policy, but there is lots of information out there that says the President had warnings ahead of time, but wanted this attack to start the war ... shades of 9/11 there.
That back story nonwithstanding, this was a terrible attack on those sailors, soldiers and airmen, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that December day of 1941. Over 2,300 were killed, and > 1,100 were wounded. 97% of the mostly men killed were military personnel. Survivors of Pearl Harbor would have to be at least 95 y/o or so now. One wonders what they might think of today's America, and whether that big nasty war was worth it.
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Ronnie vs. Donnie - 3: Domestic Policy
Posted On: Friday - December 7th 2018 10:44AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Americans US Feral Government Dead/Ex- Presidents
(continued from Part 2)
In this post, I will include discussion of the existential Immigration issue, though it could easily be considered foreign policy too (the subject of Part 2).
The times are/were indeed very different, those of the Reagan vs. Trump presidencies. Just the financial situation is a world different, both the sorry state of the US economy today vs. in Reagan's time, and the part directly due to government, the spending and the national budget and debt. President Reagan had a chance to stop the out-of-control growth in spending by the Congress, to some degree. He did have the House (the branch that spends the money) in Democrat hands the whole 8 years, by 20% to almost 40%, but NOT so the Senate, which was 12% to 20% in the GOP's favor (see When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL?). Mr. Trump had the slight House and Senate majorities for the 1st 2 years.
I don't think either of these men did a good job in reining in spending. The debt has been going up steadily (perhaps steadily on a log-scale) since before Reagan's time. Mr. Reagan could not take care of this himself with the Democrat-held House, but then he supposedly had this general deal with them. The defense budget would have to be increased to build back up the military and hold our own in the Cold War (we did a lot better, it turns out!) The D's were supposed to cut the welfare state portion of the budget in return. Keep in mind, they were different D's than that of today. Some of them were much more conservative than the R's of today. Anyway, Mr. Reagan, like that mild-mannered guy in Fargo reckoned "but it's my deal here, see ..." No, the deal was not honored, or, in hindsight, there was no deal after all, apparently.
President Trump wouldn't fall for any deals, as he doesn't have that misplaced trust (except for his ill-picked advisors) that Reagan did. Trump has to fight everyone, and any deals he does seem to make are bad deals (more on this re: immigration). Mr. Trump is no Libertarian to begin with, so I wouldn't have expected him to purposefully make any headway in cutting back THE STATE. (I figured if he'd kept his foreign policy promises, and scaled back the US military, the budget may get a break, unintentionally.) In addition, the Republican-"led" Congress of '16-'18 did not consist of many of the Reagan-era types who were actually Conservatives. He had to deal with the Paul Ryans and other scum who will not be of any help in any conservative policy. That is a big disadvantage that Reagan didn't have, even WITH a large-majority Democrat House of Representin'.
Neither president stopped the Feral Gravy-Train juggernaut, nor did any of the guys in between.
Mr. Reagan was a real conservative, almost a Goldwater Libertarian in his principles. No, he didn't lead in that way, as his one of his first campaign promises reneged on was the one in which the brand-new Department of Education would be nixed. It had just been put into place during Jimmy Carter's presidency to FULFILL a campaign promise as payback for votes from the teacher's unions. (Yes, it IS much more easy to fulfill a big-government campaign promise - why do you ask?). Working against the Democrat-led spending body those whole 8 years did not help him, of course, in this respect. Mr. Trump has had the legislative branch on his side for 2 years, but, again, they are not the conservatives of yesteryear (or any year), and Mr. Trump never said he was a fiscal conservative or libertarian. So, in other words, WE CAN'T WIN like this, hence the doom coming, per Peak Stupidity's many posts on Global Financial Stupidity.
On the subject of the immigration invasion, this is where President Reagan's naivety and trust cost Americans dearly, as Peak Stupidity explained here regarding the 1986 illegal alien amnesty, and as regretted by Mr. Reagan later per his own words. In the case of President Trump, because the situation is so much farther along, meaning WORSE, now, immigration was his most important issue. Put it this way: he wouldn't have been in office today, if he hadn't have railed about this problem from the day he stepped out of his hotel in 2015. What's he done? I don't think anything of major note could be said in regards to the current president's accomplishments here. It's just been a shitshow, I'm very sorry to say. I refer the reader simple to the Immigration Stupidity Topic Key for much more discussion.
In summary, accomplishments in domestic policy to make things better for regular Americans did not happen much during either of these presidencies. That's not to say it's been any better with the 4 jokers in between either, BTW. As a comparison between the 2 men, though, Mr. Reagan failed due to misplaced trust along with the impossibility of getting his way in beating against the wall of the large Democrat majority. Mr. Trump is failing due to misplaced trust in his advisors, lack of understanding of what his powers are, and large distractions from the Lyin' Press. I'll get into the relationship between these two Presidents and the media in the next round of Ronnie vs. Donnie.
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The George HW Bush '88/'92 Presidential campaigns
Posted On: Thursday - December 6th 2018 5:22PM MST
In Topics: History US Feral Government The Neocons Dead/Ex- Presidents
Another great column by Peak Stupidity's number 1 pundit, Miss Ann Coulter, brings up the myth/ancient history of Bush's Finest 30 Seconds—The Willie Horton Ad. This is a very interesting and informative correction of the Lyin' Press narrative on the much-maligned Bush campaign ad, back in 1988, along with something on the famous GOP campaign operative, Mr. Lee Atwater. He may have been the last Republican campaigner to fight like a man, by telling the truth.
In 1992, Mr. Bush did not win the election for these reasons:
1) People DID remember that he lied with that “read my lips, no new taxes” bit. We were still not used to ALL of them being liars yet. Now we are.
2) Ross Perot got something like 19% of the vote, taking much more from the R-side than the D-side. Bill Clinton got 43%, if my memory is on point.
3) He had already been blowing the promised peace dividend, and I think people thought an old-fashioned (yeah, ‘cept he wasn’t) Democrat would change that. Haha, yeah, right?
4) I’m only one guy, but as I wrote already, some of his proto-globalist crap was not sitting well with people like me. The Bush family has big Mexican connections, or at least interests. My quick thoughts about his speaking in Spanish on the campaign trail, mentioned in the previous post may have occurred to others as well - "This guy is a Globalist", though the term wasn't in vogue* yet.
I guess you could lump (4) into (2), come to think of it. I really miss Ross Perot. That’d be a guy for whom I’d be sad about when he leaves this world.
* Not even in Vogue magazine, as their articles, if you're not distracted by underwear ads, tended to be about how to have sex better and differently.
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Where in the world is
Posted On: Thursday - December 6th 2018 4:57PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media US Feral Government The Neocons Deep State Dead/Ex- Presidents
[Obscure early-'90's CD-ROM software reference there - Good luck with that - Ed]
Correct answer: Who Cares?
(Yeah, he was probably a fun guy. I'll give him that.)
I thought that this post would be most untimely, as it's pretty late for breaking news. Yeah, ex-President George H.W. Bush has died. I! GET! THAT! Lucky for Peak Stupidity, I'd glanced at the TV while traveling today, and Lo and Behold, there he was again, being buried! Was it file footage, or was this funeral today? I'm sure the astute reader knows the answer already ... I don't care!. What is this deal about going on for a week about some guy who was chief executive of the executive branch of the US Feral Gov't 26 years ago?
I'm going to bring up a post written here when John McCain, then sitting Senator from Arizona, died this summer, called Juan McAmnesty, Rot in Place. To quote that post's quote of another post (whewww!):
It'd be one thing if he were just a retired, possibly reclusive old man living out his life by this point. I wouldn't go into mourning for his death IN ANY SENSE, but I couldn't see any reason to write or say much about it besides "hey, John McCain (Ted Kennedy) died, did you hear?" That's not the case. This guy was a US Senator, one out of 100, and one of the most influential ones, until the day he died. If his dying is the only way for Americans to be rid of his influence and power, then, yes, I'm glad he died!So, that's just it regarding Mr. George H.W. Bush. I'm not glad he died. He was a human being, at this point in time (well before whenever it was he died), a retired gentleman living his life out, and kind of a fun one at that. The more I've learned about this guy since the time of his Presidency, the more I know he was part of the Deep State/Neocon efforts (even, if unintended) in the destruction of this country. He's not been in power to do more of that, so, if he died, he died ... whatever, as they say.
As a sort-of obituary here, let me write a few things about the man that I know. I can tell you that I never voted for the man. In 1992, I voted for the proto-Trump (though quite smarter) Ross Perot. What happened 4 years before that, to cause me to vote L (Libertarian) was, in a way, kind of prophetic regarding the future and especially the Bush family. I can remember quite clearly to this day, that I saw a quick cut on TV showing candidate GHW Bush speaking for less than a minute in Spanish to a crowd. "WTF?" was my first thought, and my 2nd: "Why is he pandering to foreigners?", and my 3rd: "If the audience is not foreigners and this is in the US, then why can't these people assimilate and speak English?" That was enough - no vote for the guy outta me, though he won, as I recall.
Mr. Bush was the last 1/2-way dignified US President, if that matters in this day and age. He was most obviously a smart man, and his supposed conservatism, and after 8 years of President Reagan, made us figure that the decent times would continue. The Cold War was almost over, a very sudden thing that would not have been expected even 3 years earlier. That would provide a peace dividend that should let Bush bring the military home, save money after the USSR-destroying military build-up, and maybe even get the budget balanced.
What did Mr. Bush do with the big peace dividend, in terms of both goodwill and (theoretically) extra money that did not need to be used to defend the entire 1st world anymore? He blew it all to hell with this New World Order crap. It’s not like I heard that term but the one time, and I was paying attention to politics then too. Was it orders from the Deep State? I mean, no self-respecting American would have thought "New World Order” was anything good for the U.S. of A.
President Bush got a big lift in support from Gulf War(1) as Americans WERE gung-ho about it, but that was just because it was a chance to see the great firepower that had not been used against Soviets (thankfully), and it was such a wipe-out that hardly anyone knew an American killed there. Lastly, it made people feel very good about the future where the “good guys” had the upper hand everywhere. We didn’t know the good guys were supposed to continue waging war all around the world .. not the plan, far as I knew. The Neocon stuff, such as the boxing in of Russia, the FORMER USSR now, by NATO, started with this guy. NATO should have been disbanded by this Commander-in-Chief, instead, as a relic of the Cold War. The Neocon stuff was just cranking up during the beginning of the 1990's, and Peak Stupidity and lots of other conservatives sure didn't see it coming.
Mr. Bush's CIA background, from way back, well before he may have been quite involved in the Reagan assassination
As I wrote way above, I always liked this President based on personality. I did like that he jumped out of an airplane on his birthday at 90 y/o.* Throwing up on a Japanese politician was pretty cool, I suppose, though not really in-line with the whole dignity thing. Speaking of that, I enjoyed his way of speaking about “that Act-Up** crowd”, haha, and still remember the “wouldn’t be prudent” imitations on SNL.
Yeah, that's all the memories for now. I am so thankful for not having to put up with the TV infotainment regarding an ex-President dying. Has it been a week again, as with McAmnesty? Come-on, people, we don't' have Kings and Queens here, so the guy's position was simply chief administrator of the executive branch. Are we going to put the flags at half-mast for every chief executive and his brother? We may as well keep them at half-mast, or just get shorter flagpoles. I guess this is just the Government Media's usual way of showing how big and important THE STATE should be to us American subjects.
* Sure, in the picture above, it's just a tandem jump, meaning the guy doesn't really have to do much but move out of the plane correctly and put his feet on the ground, but heck, he was 90. Wow!
** Funny, I've never forgotten that line, but had no idea until reminded, who that Act-Up "crowd" was ... just as well.
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#MeToo hits up President Trump
Posted On: Tuesday - December 4th 2018 7:37PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump
Yeah, I just had this old .jpg lying around in the computer gathering dust, so why not? Trump hasn't been doing very well in the 3 (Intro, Pt. 1, and Part 2) Ronnie vs. Donnie posts, so it's time to show that Peak Stupidity still likes the guy (well, much better than the alternatives at the time).
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