More on Tommy Robinson and the Soldiers
Posted On: Thursday - October 25th 2018 10:03AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny
(somewhat continued from the previous post)
In this post, I want to refer the reader to John Derbyshire's Proud Boy Persecution Shows Street Fighting Has Arrived In America. Next, the Military?. Mr. Derbyshire brings events in America and England together for a comparison on the state of rising political violence. I don't say that as a bad thing, as "those who make peaceful revolution impossible ...*, etc. The "Proud Boys"/antifa small street battles in NYC and then in Porltand, Oregon will be the subject of a separate post or two here on Peak Stupidity, but there was a good reason Mr. Derbyshire compared/contrasted the two.
Let me get to the latest on Tommy Robinson, which resulted FROM his friendly meeting with the white British soldiers that I showed yesterday. Although that last one was about feeelings, I must admit, this will be facts of the matter. The Globalist elites of formerly-Great formerly-Britian, just as with the ones we are burdened with, absolutely don't like racial solidarity in the white population. It's these white males who are just too prone to getting organized, forming associations, and getting out and doing things to help their people. The elite (not always as an arranged plan, or even conciously - see the good video in Rebuttal of Peak Stupidity), just don't take too kindly to that. They do want a non-competitive (with them, that is), financially-strapped, government-dependent population like that of the old 3rd-world. (We live in the "new" 3rd-world, see?)
The British military, just like ours, has the higher ranks filled with political cuck types through and through. The PC has infested the lot of them, and it hasn't impacted effectiveness only because neither force has been in a REAL WAR with equal manpower AND weaponry. When the SHTF, things will get real, and as forecasted here, the stupidity stops. These 2 militaries (and the rest of the West's, I can readily assume) aren't at that point yet. When the British Army brass got ahold of that video, it had to worry them quite a bit. Tommy Robinson is the opposite of PC, which, regardless of his other alleged politics**, makes Peak Stupidity part of his fan base indeed.
One of the soldiers was discharged from the Army due to allegedly many other wrongs committed (I don't want to say infractions.). This was supposedly the last straw, the one that broke the camel's back and all. Yeah, bullcrap, but the camel thing reminds me of the point. England has a significant Moslem population. (See Western World committing demographic sooeee-cide, along with Part 2, and Part 3.) The government kowtows to that population over the regular native British for various reasons, including globalist inclinations, spite, and cowardice. On the other hand, the British Army, and its other forces, join with the American in most of our invade-the-world strategy, as still our best ally in our offense. Part of the involves going around killing Moslems, and that is part of the job of these friends of Tommy Robinson. Yes, it's ironic.
The latest from this story is that many other British soldiers, not just those who posed with Mr. Robinson, have shown support for this "Soldier X" via anonymous (no displayed faces) pictures, along with calls to Mr. Robinson. Peak Stupidity has been trying to beat one concept into our readers for a while (see the whole series of Battle Lines are Being Drawn - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.) That is, they can't arrest everyone, they can't fire everyone, and, in this example, they can't DISCHARGE everyone. In this Breitbart article on the events this is spelled out by the soldiers, so they already understand the concept. This is all stuff we can learn from 1960's America. As much as I don't agree with most of what the protests were about, these people stuck together in the kind of numbers that can't be defeated with Anarcho-tyranny. That's what it was (and still is, in the courts) in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anarcho-tyranny. The peaceful (so far) alt-right was not in big enough numbers. They could be beat around and bulldozed in the justice system. 10,000 of them would not have been.
What it comes down to, were the British Army to keep this stuff up, is mutiny. That is the downfall of any armed force, where discipline is the key to effectiveness. Mass disobedience of orders is considered mutiny. What the hell are they going to do about it, though? Will they fill up the ranks with non-mutinous foreign-born or foreign ethnicity soldiers? They might think that a good idea, as they me compliant out of a lack of any historic British morals, not to mention their support for PC and anti-whiteness.
However, what then about the white British former soldiers? The term Freikorps comes to mind. This is where history from a century ago is coming back around to rhyme, folks. I've noted this before. Those German groups, well really squads, of ex-soldiers were battle-hardened Great War (WWI) veterans that lived in the terrible economy of reparations-destroyed Germany. With nothing going for them otherwise (sound familiar?) and the establishment and other political groups (i.e. Commies) bent on destruction, these guys banded together to raise all manner of hell. Does the British government want that? No, they'd better be kind of careful here. This Soldier X thing could turn into something about much more than Soldier X and Tommy Robinson. That'd be something to behold. To defuse this now though would show weakness. I think the brass is in a pickle.
Listen to Tommy Robinson himself in the video above. He's no Churchill or Enoch Powell, but it's worth a listen to ... seems like a right decent bloke.
* True he was a Kennedy, but he was
** This seems to happen with anyone who gets in the limelight from the alt-right - there are always those who bring up some defects in their personalities. I notice that these detractors are neither out in the street fighting the antifa nor standing up for free speech, or ANYTHING, for that matter. Judge the man's actions. We're FOR this guy!
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Hey Tommy, Tommy, Tommy Robinson ...
Posted On: Wednesday - October 24th 2018 9:11PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity
First off, I really need to hear this chant in it's entirety. I keep hearing snippets on videos, or 100 voices smeared together, so I don't think I've got it. I read somewhere it's from the crowd that attends
I will include more of the latest on the Orwellian Anarcho-Tyranny in Britain and it's military force, as related to Tommy Robinson, tomorrow. However, I just wanted to show this 30 second very uplifting video. It is uplifting to me, but more so, one can see that the support of his fellow real British young soldiers is for Mr. Robinson too. Now, what you can see, and what I have to say here quickly is contrast to much Peak Stupidity implorement (yeah, not a word) to the reader and Americans to read what people say and do, rather than getting the (often faked) emotion on TV to decide what to think. I've got to say, though, that the emotion in this video is something else. As he says, but his big smile shows moreso, this show of support from his real countryman was worth all [the British police state shit] that he's been through. What a feeling it is, too!
More on this tomorrow, as it's really a bigger story than that of Tommy Robinson, and we'll link to a great (as usual) John Derbyshire article to explain.
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Trump and the Caravan - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - October 24th 2018 10:47AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government
(continued from previous post)
As Peak Stupidity left off, the Caravan of Undesirables is somewhere in Mexico, northbound and down. You'd think, with the internet and all now, one could get their exact position easier than it unsuccessfully seemed to me a minute ago, compared to 1973, the time and publish date of the fictional Camp of the Saints. In that book, near a million dot-Indian riff-raft (get it?) were floating, or steaming toward the Mediterranean coast of France, and roughly kept track of with the same morbid foreboding interest. The similarities between that story and this current event are striking, probably good for a post to come. [Duly noted - Ed]
This post is to be about President Trump more than the caravan, I just reminded myself. You may want to quickly
First, before anyone gets any underclothes out of position here, this is a standard disclaimer: NO, Peak Stupidity would NOT have rather had the Hildabeast in this office (or really anywhere, she can have any effect on ANYTHING). We are glad Donald Trump was elected, including over ¡Jeb!, and even Ted Cruz*. We still like the guy.
Now, the problem is that our President is ineffectually watching this caravan like the rest of us, or those who watch TV, very much like on the radio in Camp of the Saints. It's pathetic, as I stated in the previous post. It is shameful that we should have to worry about it. We do, but it is big infotainment too, that may or may not distract for the issue of the normal hundreds of 1,000s of illegal aliens that come in day-in and day-out. Many feel, as per the Sailer headline, that this will shed more light on the problem and bring out Conservative voters to vote "R" in these mid-term elections.
"Yes!", they exclaim, we are #¡Winning!**. We'll have a red tsunami, or at least no blue wave. Hey, guys, um, we have had a Republican majority Senate and House, with the best president we could have expected, for 2 years running, already! I imagine things being much worse if we'd have had anybody (we had a chance to elect) but Donald Trump - see disclaimer above. However, things are still not getting any BETTER. We really have got to at least get to where we've stopped digging. That'd mean a serious border barrier, total curtailment of the cheap-labor work visas, and a moratorium or 75-90% cut in all legal immigration to boot. That'd be just the stopping of the digging. We could go somewhere from there.
Now, I'm not here, today at least, to explain what the President should be, and should have been, doing better. It's more about this attitude of people that if we keep electing the right people, it'll all be good. NO, IT WILL NOT BE ALL GOOD. An imaginary conversation may do a better job for me on this than regular text:
PT = President Trump
TS = Trump Supporters/Voters
FB = Federal Bureaucracy
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Stardate: Today # of aliens present: Toward 30,000,000
PT: "We will do something to stop this caravan at the border."
FB: "Yeah, well, we will dispose of each case, in court, per the law and the judges, when the perps come back on their court dates."
TS: "Either way, this is great. Now, we've really gonna get out the vote!"
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Stardate: Early November this year, after processing
# of aliens present: 7,000 more, plus the usual thousands getting through weekly.
PT: "You see what's happened, people? We need better judges and a better Congress and Senate. Please vote."
TS: "You got it. My ballot's been in. We need an even bigger share of the white vote, and, with this development, we'll get it!"
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Stardate: Two years hence. # of aliens: 1 million or 2 more. Oh, and a few more million offspring attain voting age.
TS: "Well, in these last two years, we've not seen a serious stop to the immigration invasion hole digging, per the Peak Stupidity blog. We've got loads of R's in office, but not all of them turned out to be on our side. Dang, let's try harder."
PT: "If you elect me, I'll do my best, at least as well as my treasonous underlings let me. I've been tweeting about these bastards for years!"
TS: "You got it. We now need about 75% of the white vote to win, but we can do it, as everyone's REALLY, REALLY PISSED NOW about this immigration problem."
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I may continue this later, on, but do I need to? Let me summarize. It will not matter how many Red-squad people are in office, if we let this problem go on for much longer. Sure, this problem brings OUT the Conservative VOTES, but it also BRINGS IN the non-Conservative VOTERS.
* The guy SOUNDED better on immigration than Trump, and maybe he would have been, but I absolutely did not trust that he meant anything he said. (Yes, I could be wrong, but kinda doubt it.)
** Sorry, I didn't know what to do with all those spare upside-down exclamation points. ¡GET! ¡USED! ¡TO! ¡IT!
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Trump and the Caravan - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - October 23rd 2018 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government
The last I'd read was that there are supposed to be 7,500 Central Americans in this Caravan 2.0 of the ongoing, as-of-yet unopposed, immigration invasion of America. Let me tell you what happened after the last one, what was it, 1 1/2 years ago? I tout VDare as the go-to site for information on immigration stupidity for a good reason. They have detail-oriented writers, general policy idea writers, insiders and outsiders, all of it. The story on that last caravan was that almost all of the illegal invaders were let in.
Let me explain. We have "rule of law", allegedly. There is processing to judge the validity of these "asylum" claims (pretty much a mockery of the term, that), then individuals are put into categories. Unless one of these people JUST HAPPENS to be identified as some wanted criminal, he'll be given some case #, be told when to show up at the proceedings, etc., etc. They are no longer detained after a certain point, just told when to come back! Yeah, would any of these people be likely to come back to go see the judge? Could any of them be identified once they leave the area? NO and NO. "We don't neeed no steeenkin' processing, Senor."
Peak Stupidity does not know all the details, I freely admit. I do have the big general picture, and part of that is that this big Feral Gov't bureaucracy is not on America's side, as of yet. That is President Trump's fault. He has every right, as head of the executive branch, to fire, fire, and fire employees, until he gets the kind of staff that will implement patriotic Americans' wishes. I've been through this before (I think). Judges can make all the judgements they want, but these ICE/Border Patrol/etc. employees have lots of discretion, just as a prosecutor does. Try going through immigration via the proper channels as an American, at an airport, and see how much trouble in CAN be, if the guy wants it that way.
Now, Americans have many suggestions for the solution here - confiscate or block remittances (money wired home to Ole Mexico), start closing consulates, etc., and Trump has his threats 2.0. It's all kind of pathetic, really [/Deputy Fife]. After all, right now, these many thousands of Guatemalans (along with probably other mixed-in potential trouble-makers of all sorts) are still in the territory of Mexico. It shouldn't be our business where they march - a REAL COUNTRY would have a REAL BORDER that'd be a waste of time for 7,500 people to march 2,000 miles toward. It shouldn't matter. Instead right now, we have a policy of hope. We're hoping we can stop an appreciable amount of 7,500 people from illegally entering and staying in our country at will. Yes, that's our strategy.
This post is not just about, and America's problem not just with, this, and that last, caravan of unwanted illiterate 3rd-worlders entering, or being let to enter. It's a big show right now, and though the numbers are not small, they are pretty much negligible compared to the everyday illegal entries that have been going intensely for > 3 decades, getting us up to estimates of 30 million or so. We don't know definite numbers, due to the obvious undocumentedness of it all, but this caravan could be a few days worth, and maybe a week's worth of illegal entries going on all year long and not publicized as this big piece of infotainment is.
The deal is, though, that the immigration problem is again being brought to light, really by both sides. I believe the ctrl-left are so confident now that they have their whole base of voters energized by showing this illegality and impending destruction of the rest of America. The Republicans, at the same time, are glad this will bring the pro-Trump base out to vote, after seeing this on TV. The follow-up post to this will emphasize how the result of this election might not change a damn thing about the overall problem. It'll be more about President Trump and the voters and less about the caravan. (It should be tomorrow - trying to beat the caravan, at least!)
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Rebuttal of Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - October 22nd 2018 7:47PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Globalists
The video here is basically a rebuttal of the whole concept of this website.
Mr. Devon made a very good video, that will keep your interest for the whole 9 minutes. The gist of his view is (right at 4:05 in) is:
What needs to be understood, right now, is that it's not that they're [the elites, or ruling class] too stupid or too cowardly to do the right thing. It's that they ARE doing the right thing. They're just doing it for them ... for their families ... for their culture ... for their societies.Mr. Blackpilled Devon sees the ruling class as very different from everyone else. He sees us as the honest, hardworking, noble ones. The Globalist elites, the way he describes it, being devious and all-powerful, see us peons in the same way a modern-day cattle farmer sees his cattle, or a kid sees the ants on his toy ant farm.
It's very tempting to believe all of this, due to the good guy/bad guy aspect of it. We are all the good guys in the video, at least you all reading this blog (well, if I do have any Globalist elite readers, welcome, and remember to put capital "PS" before each comment, bitchez.) Peak Stupidity has bad-mouthed the elites of America and most of the world as the bad guys too, I'll admit. However, we see stupidity all around, and we write posts about it whenever we see it (and the mood strikes). I don't think things are quite so cut-and-dried as Mr. Stack's video makes it out, due to:
1) As we discussed in Stupid vs. Evil and long-term conspiracy theories, are there really family's of these elites that are so bright that they plan out what goes on, or have control of events, for periods in the centuries? Nah.
2) Stupidity does not stop at class boundaries. Take the Kennedies, please (oh, you have already, fine ...) Nope, though many are evil, many in these elite classes are just too stupid to do the right thing. Mr. Stack denies that, but then, are all the terrible policies being implemented really good for some of them and their progeny in the long run? I don't think so, but they persist.
3) If these people have been in total control for so long, how do you explain 19th and 20th century America? Is this a new thing? The video maker doesn't go into any history. He describes just the here and now, so I don't know how he reckons things came to be this way.
4) See the quote above. Are they really living in totally separate societies and cultures from us? Sure, the elites are far enough apart to not understand many of the real everyday problems of us peons. They've got islands to go off to, and penthouses up near the 1000' cloud deck. Yeah, but we can reach them just the same. We are not quite like the cattle going into the slaughterhouse. God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal.
Please view this one, even though this guy could put us out of business, with his 35,000 views:
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Paper or Plastic?
Posted On: Saturday - October 20th 2018 12:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity
Yeah, that's pretty unsightly, so it's a good thing most AMERICANS in America don't litter much anymore. Wait a second, who the heck is Lady Bird Johnson? That's gotta be the reader's first question. In this 1 1/2 y/o Peak Stupidity post, Washington FS and First Ladies, we discussed an unwritten (least in the US Constitution) convention has been "trending" for 4 score years or so, that Presidential First Ladies* have their own programs of some sort. It SHOULD not be (doesn't mean they aren't) funded by any taxpayer's money, as these ladies were never elected. It's about using the bullyess pulpit, if I may, to jawbone the country into become better. If we knew how to say "that's not who we are" all those years, believe me we'd have heard that.
Per the post linked-to above, then, one can read that the wife of the scumbag Socialist Lyndon B. Johnson, had a program against littering. That beats Moochele Øb☭ma's "eat-your-vegetables" by a hair, I guess, and is definitely better than Nancy Reagan's "just-say-no" anti-drug thing. I'm not sure what the name of Mrs. Johnson's program was, but I'm guessing the "litterbug" term was a part of it. OK, so American did slowly ease up on the littering, from my recollection of many years later.
"We" are more concerned now with not killing the planet, as if that's really possible. No, don't try it, please, as Peak Stupidity just re-upped our URL, and you "can't take it with you". The latest treehugger concern is with our using the plastic grocery bags. When these people say "THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!", unlike the old use of this phrase in jest, they mean it. They want to bring us back about 30-odd years to paper grocery bags only (or bring your own). Thing is, those paper bags can't be carried easily** and they fall apart in the rain. Yeah, they CAN be used as textbook covers. I am sure that they are quite a bit are more expensive for the grocery stores than the plastic ones. The storage and use of the plastic ones has been honed down to a science (not by scientists, though, by engineers).
It can't be about the space these things take up in the landfills. Peak Stupidity has been over this same thing with the current grasping of straws (see Part 2, and Part 3). These bags are EXTREMELY thin.
OK, I just HAD TO check it out. Thickness is in the range of 15 to 22 MICRONS. Let's do the math [But, but, I was led to believe there would be no math ... - Ed]. I'm gonna work in English (Standard) units, so sorry. I just measured one and got ~ 12 x 14 inches for the other dimensions, call it 175 in2, including smearing in the handle. Don't forget there are 2 sides, so, using the thickest stuff, that works out to right around 0.3 in3 of plastic. Now, I don't expect these to ever crush down to the size of the raw plastic. The more I think about this, I'd guess there's quite a bit involved in figuring this out, as eventually, even with a big compacter, small pockets of trapped air will just stay under pressure. Let's be conservative and say that there is a factor of 3, so each bag takes a solid 1 in cubed, once it gets to the landfill. If one goes back and forth a lot to the store, maybe you use 10 of these a week? Oooh, that's a cube of 2.15" per side. I believe we'll be OK on this, but I'll get back to this taking-up-of-space thing again a paragraph later.
I'm gonna guess the problem environmentalists have with the plastic grocery bag is what you see up top in the photo: LITTERING! Yeah, but, from the days of Lady Bird Freaking Johnson (at least) we've had LAWS against littering. Please don't give me the old THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW routine. I know that one, and there already are laws. How about enforce the laws once in a while?*** I've seen the littering problem worst in Mexican immigrant and Chinese immigrant areas. That's who they are, I guess. No, again, we don't want to talk about that, not only the worse problem from different cultures, but just the problem of bigger raw numbers making all environmental problems worse. We've covered the "don't want to talk about it" business long ago in More on the destruction of California, and the obvious exacerbation-by-numbers in Toward Sustainable Stupidity. The latter post also discusses landfills, BTW.
So there I was,
Fine. Now the reason the end point was 7 years was because I was moving. I dutifully grabbed all these bags and brought them to the store from which I'd (mostly) got them from, as they'd advertised recycling of them. I learned "Oh, we don't do that anymore." Besides wasting my time, in the midst of moving, I'd been the treehugging recycler for 7 years for absolutely nothing. "OK, I don't have time for this shit ..", and I dutifully threw the load of them in the store dumpster.
BUT, I'M NOT A LITTERBUG! That's all it takes.
* Yes, I know, maybe we'll have a "First Man" soon. I would not be a good thing, and for the Presidential Candidate some have in mind, maybe his program would be cleaning up the reservations, as Peak Stupidity has begun to wonder, Are American Indians slobs? ... oh, and clamping down on scalping (of tickets, of course!).
** I'll give Trader Joe's and these places, or really the manufacturer's, kudos for making them with handles. Even with that, under any decent g-loading, they pull off. Do you remember carrying 3 of the paper ones in each arm, back in the day? They still don't allow for carrying a few bags at the handlebars of a bike, as plastic ones do.
*** It's really the same thing you run into regarding illegal immigration.
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Speed of Sound by Coldplay
Posted On: Friday - October 19th 2018 8:27PM MST
In Topics: Music
I heard this song in a store the other day, and had to think for a bit if this was the one I'd posted a long while back by this band. Nope, that other one was Clocks, but they've both got a really great sound. Speed of Sound is from Coldplay's 2005 album X&Y. That's all I know - I haven't made an effort to keep up with who bandmembers are, what's their "discography" history, or whether they are still around or long-since dead, in quite a while. I'll just listen, thank you very much.
It's a very good melody, but it's that very-catchy short keyboard breakdown part that make the song. As I wrote in the post on Clocks, I just don't want to ever overplay it, as the great feeling from listening to it will then be gone.
Hey, WT?! I just listened to Clocks again, and the keyboard breakdown part there is strikingly similar. It has a different rhythm, but it goes down a scale with 4 notes, the 2nd and 3rd being the same. No wonder the songs remind me of each other.
I usually try to put band musicians names here on music posts to credit them with the great sounds, but I had neglected to in that previous post. So, the British band Coldplay is:
Chris Martin – vocals, piano, synthesizer
Jonny Buckland – electric guitars
Guy Berryman – bass guitar, backing vocals
Will Champion – drums, backing vocals
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[Updated 10/20, evening:] Added more about the similarity to their song Clocks.
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White man send smoke signals to Chief Spreading Bull
Posted On: Friday - October 19th 2018 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Global Financial Stupidity The Neocons ctrl-left Deep State
Lieawatha speakum great bull! White man have to listen!
I'd gone kinda of roundabout on the unz site via the comments section (it's very good for this) to this interesting article, Unsolicited Advice for an Undeclared Presidential Candidate. I'll give this guy, Andrew Bacevich, credit right away. He knows that the Honorable Senator representing the nations of the upper Massachusetts didn't ask for his advice, and I doubt he thinks she's gonna read it either. That's the thing with these "open letters" or smoke signals, if you're that inclined: I don't think they usually get to the receipient. When these types of high-level intended-recipients actually read letters, they are usually have return addresses with the words "Deep State" in them, and some cash or pictures inside.
That aside, I'd been ready to write an ENTIRELY different post this morning, as I'd gotten to the comment section of this article haphazardly, as I mentioned above. The comments, including some by Mr. Ron Unz himself, were on the "banksters" and the housing crash (part 2 of that coming soon to a neighborhood near you). Now, Mrs. Warren here has actually said some reasonable things on the financial aspects of the housing bubble/crash/bailouts. The fact is though, as I'll put in the subsequent posts on this, Socialism is NOT THE SOLUTION, as Capitalism was NOT THE PROBLEM. Your intended recipieint, Andrew Bacevich, is another Socialist. So, I need to address the topic in the comment section - it's worth doing, as Peak Stupidity has not really addressed the root causes of that stuff yet under the Global Financial Stupidity topic key. That's coming, but I'll address this actual article for a bit, since I read it.
Mr. Bacevich implores the Senator (not using any Faux names for now, because there are too many, and I just haven't homed in on the best yet!) to implement a foreign policy, were she elected president, of withdrawal from the foreign entanglements, rational dealings with Russia and China, etc. I have no problem with any of what he wrote on that. I agree wholeheartedly on this advice to any American president, but man, then the idiocy of this writer come out in spades:
You are an exceedingly smart and gifted politician, so I’m confident that you have accurately gauged the obstacles ahead. Preeminent among them is the challenge of persuading citizens beyond the confines of New England, where you are known and respected, to cast their ballot for a Massachusetts liberal who possesses neither executive nor military experience and is a woman to boot.Hahaaa... OK...
Without possessing the most minimal of qualifications to serve as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Who can doubt that gender and race played a role?Yes, Mr. Trump played the trump card - that one with the white male joker. That got him well over 50% of the male vote, even slightly over 50% of the (white!) female vote, while blacks vote 90% for the democrat every time. Yeah, something played a role (immigration stupidity, perhaps?) Here's the thing, Bacevich - real conservatives and libertarians, and some of the few that call themselves "liberal" (though not when their own guy is in office) understand the stupidity of this "invade-the-world" neocon business. They have since the end of the Cold War. That is indeed a good starting point of the rise of the Neocons (Part 2) and since I've excerpted 2nd-to worst stupidity of this writer of unsolicited advice, here's a very much smarter excerpt:
The Cold War ended three decades ago in what was ostensibly a decisive victory for the United States. History itself had seemingly anointed us as the “indispensable nation.”Indeed! [/Instapundit] It's still kind of hard to read alternating rationality and stupidity in one article. It gets worse again, though:
Yet here we are, all these years later, gearing up again to duel our old Cold War adversaries, the Ruskies and ChiComs. How, in the intervening decades, did the United States manage to squander the benefits of coming out on top in that “long twilight struggle”? Few members of the foreign policy establishment venture to explain how or why things so quickly went awry. Fewer still are willing to consider the possibility that our own folly offers the principal explanation.
By the time you are elected, the 20th anniversary of 9/11 will be just around the corner, and with it the 20th anniversary of the Global War on Terrorism. Who can doubt that when you are inaugurated on January 20, 2021, U.S. forces will still be engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and various other places across the Greater Middle East and Africa? Yet in present-day Washington, the purpose and prospects of those campaigns elude serious discussion. Does global leadership necessarily entail being permanently at war? In Washington, the question goes not only unanswered, but essentially unasked.
That reordering ought to begin with three neglected developments that should be at the forefront of a Warren Doctrine. The first is a warming planet.OK, that was about it. At that point, upon writing this guy off as anyone to listen to (whether you're the intended recipient or not), I accidentally scanned to the next paragraph unfortunately:
Climate change poses a looming national security threat with existential implications. With this summer’s heat waves and recent staggering storms, evidence of this threat has become incontrovertible. Its adverse consequences have already ruined thousands of American lives as evidenced by Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Irma (2017), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), and Michael(2018), along with Superstorm Sandy (2013), not to mention pervasive drought and increasingly destructive wildfires in a fire season that seems hardly to end. It no longer suffices to categorize these as Acts of God.First, I have to mention the skip between '05 and '17 on the hurricanes, just because it was exactly in 2005 when the Global Climate DisruptionTM crowd came out with their biggest prediction (aside from the
Man, I can really get off topic, as I read some bullshitter who's sucked me in with a snippet of truth, can't I? This became a "fisking" of just one random article on unz, so I apologize on behalf of the entire Peak Stupidity staff, but here's the point of this post: There may be, and have been, open letters, smoke signals, TV pundits, blogs, and all other manner of attempted influence on people running for US President. Is this writer not aware that the same suggestions (the good ones, on foreign policy) were made to the Clintons, Bushes, Øb☭mas, and Trumps*?! What difference did it make? The same Neocon policies HAVE been going on since the end of the Cold War, as the author wrote correctly. It's not just that none of these people make an effort to listen to you and your unsolicited open letter of advice to candidate Dances-with-Banksters.** They have other people that pay a lot more money than our tiny bit of taxes that pay the Presidential salary. Those folks have been having their way for 3 decades and it won't change without a lot more than one squaw reading your smoke signals.
* At least in this case, Candidate Trump was a listener to, and a DRIVER of the discussion on ending the Neocon's war on the world. He's still trying to work on it, against his Generals and whole Deep State apparatus, Yet, the big vitriol is directed at him, because he wasn't "qualified". Ha!
** That'll be used in the later post, as, again, the comments under this unz article have got me in a mood to attempt to explain that stuff why socialism sure won't put a stop to the financial stupidity.
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Learning to live with the lies
Posted On: Thursday - October 18th 2018 8:01PM MST
In Topics: Feminism Female Stupidity
Nope, this one is not about politics, as the title would lead one to believe. It's probably best not to write from a personal position of semi-darkness - Peak Stupidity's job is to shed light. However, I just could not get any spirit up for that post on Chief Spreading Bull, aks Fauxahontas, or a review of a really strange-ass movie, or the next Environmental Stupidity post. There'll be time for some of that tomorrow, I'm pretty sure.
This is just a quick word to
There are some who possibly don't have a problem with hearing the ranting and raving about what he's been doing wrong and how she can't take this or that anymore. More power to them, in this respect, though I think these would be the guys who are just used to bullshit, giving and taking it. For those who like to take people at their word and try not to bullshit except when joking, it's very hard to get one's self to give up on that for a few days. You've got to, though, for your own sanity. Tuning out may or may not work, so just get your brain in gear that you are hearing a load of chemically-induced crap, not much different from the ravings of a 1960's liberal arts professor in the midst of an extra-dosage LSD trip, oh, except it's personal. The lies come at you, and you must realize they are lies. A couple of days later, your woman may even tell you that, yeah, she didn't mean any of it, i.e., yes, those serious problems you two were having and threats, and tears were just lies.
Then, somehow, you are supposed to get back to really listening and understanding a few days later. How can we take people like this seriously? It's kind of a drain on one's own sanity. Yeah, the best thing is to somehow get away at the appropriate times, as Peak Stupidity has discussed 14 months back. (Hey, I wonder it the dates work out to an exact multiple of 28? I would not be at all surprised.). From that old post:
It is something that many religious texts have discussed over the millennia. Proverb 25:24 of the Old Testament, for example says "It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.". [King James Version]. Now, this must be taken in light of the times in which it was written. What I mean is, the roofs were flat back then. All the proverbs in the world aren't going to help you when you roll off a 50% slope and fall 10 ft to your death. Anyway, details, details ... modern interpretation could easily have us read "woman on the rag" for "brawling woman" and "man-cave" for "corner of a house top". That is the point, we men need plans for these 2-5 day periods to be completely away, but it must be constructive time for us too - we could be working on updates to blog software just as a random example.Feminism has made these problems a lot worse on the men. An effort to just stay away by hanging out with the guys is not good enough anymore. You're supposed to sit around and take this, and make one bad move, and THE STATE may be called in to relieve you of your husbandry duties. The kids suffer, but you've got your duty to them. Like I wrote at the top, it can be a dark time. Just remember that the lies you're hearing are just that. Nobody holds a woman to her word, so don't make the mistake of trying. It always gets better.
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The Coming Out of Lindsey Grahamnesty? - Part 3
Posted On: Wednesday - October 17th 2018 6:48PM MST
In Topics: Globalists The Neocons Deep State
(continued from this post, from yesterday.)
At this point, I'm veering off into a more basic discussion than whether Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty, as seen in his performance in the US Senate recently, has come out as a patriotic American (or at least a guy that tries to represent them). This is about the whole behind-the-scenes scene. It's not comprehensive, by any means, as none of us at this level really know. It's just Peak Stupidity's attempt to answer the question of whether anyone in high office in America CAN, much less, IS TRYING, to help us maintain our original nation in any way, shape, or form.
BTW, between the writing of these posts, Miss Grahmnesty just tweeted something a day or two ago indicating that he was going to trade off amnesty for a wall, or some such traitorous thing. Yeah, so he's not come out. That kind of answers the question for that guy (hence we are back to full-insult mode). Judge Kavanaugh indeed got confirmed with the help of this guy - what does that prove now? (They'll be a bit more on this later on.) Yes, things seemed to have changed for the better with this one Senator after his buddy (or some sort) died, but I'm guessing it's business as usual now.
Let's write more about guys like this:
As I wrote in the last post on this topic, it's likely not the simple multi-millionaires that determine what legislation gets passed in the US Feral Gov't. It's the real power behind the scenes, such as the Globalist scum-bag above, who put the big money into the campaign coffers of their puppets to make the policy they want (and we don't). Let me emphasize one thing yet again: As we stated in Stupid vs. Evil and long-term conspiracy theories, we don't believe there are any - long-term (centuries-long) conspiracy theories, that is. That's not to say there haven't been powerful families and powerful foreign interests pushing policy on unwitting Americans for a long time. We just don't think there are long-term plans drawn out, but just the same stupid or evil ideas getting pushed by the same types, over and over.
In the case of the US Senate, I don't believe that the plans for more Neocon, Immigration-Invasion, etc. legislation or non-legislative acts of power are written out or verbally communicated in meetings. It's just that large portions of the august body of the US Senate understand what "you have to do" to keep getting the big re-election/un-offical-bribe money. Whether it's making sure we are generally on the offense against anything anti-Israel, supporting the Global Climate DisruptionTM idiocy, or bringing in 100,000's of "refugees" into America to stay and make foreign colonies here, it's just "what you do". Well, if you don't, you are an outsider, and the wife bitches that the press and everyone else at the Washington, FS cocktail parties shuns you, or a lot worse is threatened to happen.
That evil guys, like the one above, are not omniscient, but he knows where (who) to effectively invest his money. Back to Miss Grahmnesty and his star performance, I imagine there were people who reassured the whole Washington insider crowd in some way that, "yeah, don't fight it too hard. We'll get our way in the long run with this guy. Feel free to do what you need for constituent-retainment this time." It doesn't have to be a memo, just the word on "the street" - probably some street on an island somewhere where they bugger kids, I dunno. Sure, Kavanaugh has been billed by the good guys (VDare is my source on this) as a real patriot on immigration. Yeah, and Judge Roberts was supposed to be a Constitutionalist too, as I recall. Then, he goes casting the deciding vote to say that a mandate by the Feral Gov't saying everyone must pay money for a service (health insurance) is just perfectly constitutional. Yeaaahhhh!! [/Kramer, Cosmo]
There are probably Globalist or Deep State people that know that this new Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh will do the right thing (for them) when the time comes. You're quite right that I'm a glass-empty guy on this stuff. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised. I don't see it happening, only because I've been following American politics for quite a while. Since the mid-1990's (more here, regarding the Supreme Court, in particular), things just don't get better in American politics. They just don't. To fix things here, people are going to have to get beyond politics.
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Youtube down - looks like hackers, and more power to them.
Posted On: Tuesday - October 16th 2018 6:55PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor
Haha! I noticed this first here on Peak Stupidity. It got me a tad worried, until I saw the same thing where all the youtube embedded vids should be on unz.com. Ron Unz, the site owner/editor/programmer does not mess around. If his site doesn't work correctly, I usually would suspect the whole damn Internet Protocol has failed! ;-}
Here I was all set to write a post on the card-, or at least DNA-carrying Senator Fauxahontas of the nations of the lower Massachusetts. It's just as well, as there is so much funny material on that deal, I hardly know where to start. As I looked for a related music video to match the post, I saw that youtube is not working correctly, period, even just view on the site directly.
Woah, I just checked Peak Stupidity on a mobile browser - not so pretty right now! The embed frames seem to have screwed up the formatting on the main page. Sorry folks, it should go away when youtube gets its act together.
Yes, I did write "more power to them". I appreciate a good hack like this, since it's humorous, in addition to the fact that youtube is part of the Orewellian F.A.G.S., they tyrants of TECH, as it were. (See The F.A.G.S. space and new competition). I will miss them by tomorrow afternoon or so.
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The Coming Out of Lindsey Grahamnesty? - Part 2
Posted On: Tuesday - October 16th 2018 9:48AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Globalists US Feral Government The Neocons Deep State
(continued from the previous post.)
or more like, "Remember our orders!"
Besides just continuing to give the Senior* Senator from South Carolina lots of insults due to the long political memory of Peak Stupidity, the questions remains: Are any of these "conservatives" in government for real? Do they really want to help Trump and patriotic Americans (try to) keep their country, or is it just a show.
As to Lindsey Grahamnesty in particular, my feeling is still "NO" on both. I would like to be proven wrong over the next few years, in which, case, I'll lighten up on the "light in the loafers" quips. We'll see if what happens during another amnesty push. Oh, you don't see one coming? That's how they want it. I'll use the right spelling from Miss Lindsey's last name even, if he opposes the next amnesty, and supported President Trump on border control.
In the particular case of this guy, there is something weird about his changing after the death of Juan McAmnesty (as the reader may already know, not a popular guy around here, even in death... well, more popular in death, at least.) We can come up with even more jokes, but Senators Graham and McCain were (some sort of) buddies, with McCain seeming to lead this pair in supporting the "invade-the-world, invite-the-world policy very strongly.
I'd figured that both of them were under the thumb of some really big-money Globalists of the Deep State. Don't get me wrong, Senators are all multi-millionaires these days. (Hmmmm, they must be very frugal folks, as the current salary of $174,000 gross just doesn't seem to amount to that much after taxes and food and ties and stuff. Maybe they save some of that per diem money by eating fast food, I dunno?) However, that is not the level of big money of the big Globalists behind the scenes that want certain specific things accomplished - cheap labor forever, multiculturalism in order for a smooth transition to a world-wide 3rd-world, you know, that kind of thing.
Was Graham under only Senator McCain'g thumb? Did he come out of his conservative closet since the death of that (other) scumbag? I don't know. I just think the pressure is from guys bigger than McCain, such as the gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson. Imagine, one guy from Nevada was helping re-elect** a South Carolina senator to implement amnesty and control gambling, all for his casinos all of them 2,000 miles away. I'm just not sure how that was supposed to help the 5 million S. Carolinians at all, yet this is the senior Senator from South Carolina, one of 2 representing that State in that "August Body" in the Washington, F.S. I believe it's the same with all of these Neocons.
Grahmnesty may have had plenty of reasons to help confirm Judge Kavanaugh, such as the fear of this #metoo on the white guys getting out of hand and being used against people like him (mentioned yesterday) or fear of the SC voters actually remembering this in 2022 (probably unfounded, and that goes for all states, nothing personal). Since he was going to vote YEA as he did, why not make it memorable for his voters and conservatives around the country. Put on a show - get on youtube! (Not everyone is famous enough to get on youtube, right... no, wait...)
I could be wrong, but more on that, and the way I
* Not in the "gumming down his creamed corn at the early bird special" kind of way, yet, but they all seem to stay there until their 80's nowadays.
** No, it doesn't help that voters don't come out for the primaries, and just pull for R or D for the final election.
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The Coming Out of Lindsey Grahamnesty?
Posted On: Monday - October 15th 2018 5:00PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media US Feral Government The Neocons
It's a week or two since the end of the whole SCOTUS "advise and consent" drama, but there's a reason it's still pertinent to discuss this guy, Miss Lindsey Grahamnesty, or Senator Lindsey Graham, I'll start calling him, if I actually end up believing he's a decent guy 2 or 4 years from now. Time will tell, and that's what this post is about, rather than specifically about the Senator's "spirited" defense of the S. Court nominee, Judge Kavanaugh. (I honestly forgot this judge's first name just now, so let's just call him "Judge".) Could Peak Stupidity have been wrong in our number of posts decrying almost all politicians at the high level as psychopaths who don't give a rat's hootie about Americans and their future? Did Senator Grahamnesty just come out as a real conservative, not the Neocon hack he's been for a coupla decades?
I'll say again here that I don't watch any TV, but a friend suggested I watched just the 4-5 minute video of Senator Grahamnesty's rant during those hearings. Yeah, it's uplifting to hear someone tell some truth and stand up against the ctrl-left and feminists for a spell. I can't tell if it's just an act for sure. I believe it is, but more on this shortly. Because, I haven't watched any TV in some time, I'm used to getting the news from where I want on the net. In general, I think that's better. The politicians and their Lyin' Press department can act and lie all they want, but all I get is what they said, along with what they did, or what actually happened later. I really believe things would be different in politics if people did this, and the TV was not a factor - a guy can dream, can't he?
However, there is a lot to be learned from our intiutive senses upon watching these people run their mouths. Many people can get a good sense of the truthfullness, or lack therof, from verbal and nonverbal ques. Write what you think in the comments (PUT "PS" first!). My opinion, especially after the 2nd viewing, is that the Senior Senator from SC was PROBABLY acting. Yes, it would have been a good acting job, better than any laymen could do, and better than most actual actors. However, politicians are WAY BEYOND the level of the Hollywood movie people! Acting is pretty much their live's works. These people have high degrees of a quality one may readily call psychopathy.
Mr. Grahamnesty sure sounded like he was on our side. Peak Stupidity itself wondered, a few weeks back, when this farce was still going on,
Even though I know they want to cuck-out (most of the R-squad of The Party), I wonder if these guys are thinking “hey, if that made-up ridiculous story ends up derailing this nomination, imagine what will happen if the press learns one little inkling of my past at college… or, uhhh, last year, for that matter.” Lots of the anti-Trump GOPe may be trying to work in cahoots with the D-squad, but they could be smart enought to realize that, NO, they are not safe, come election time.Was he really as irate as he looked though? It's not like he is in any danger of being #metooed by some young lady, IMO (pound-me-too! by other than a lady, well, ...*). Something tells me that a general consensus was formed, whether by a real plan, or just a general feeling, within the Red Squad of The Party that Kavanaugh was going to be OK for the Feral Gov't's purposes. Mr. Grahamnesty's tirade sounded contrived to me. I really wish it didn't, even if that does go against a number of things I've written on the Red Squad/Blue Squad concept. I'll continue on this in the next post on the "coming out of Mr. Grahamnesty.*
This same stuff can be trotted out against any one of them, just to get a ctrl-left, or non-white of any kind, in office 2 or 4 years from now. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, white members of Congress. They would be wise to put a stop to this business, even if only out of self-interest. Miss Lindsey is probably the best example of this, and Miss Grahamnesty’s position has been a SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
* OK, Peak Stupidity does have a habit of giving anyone we don't like a lot of grief with whatever insults we can come up with. We freely admit to that. It comes under the strategy of ridiculing those who are indirectly out to get us. That's why I wrote near the top that if this Senator has acted like a conservative by his next election, I will quit giving him grief verbally on this web site, and call him by his real name. It takes me a long while to forgive things like trying to amnesty millions of illegal aliens.
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Cheap China-Made Crap - who's responsible?
Posted On: Monday - October 15th 2018 6:31AM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Economics
shame if Chinese Q/A were to happen to it.
Peak Stupidity will never run out of items for the topic key Cheap China-Made Crap, as, well, everything you buy is made there, and not all of it seems to work. I thought about the tire repair kit story after I'd planned to write about the toy above, so here goes.
The foam glider pictured above is not meant to last forever, obviously. I! GET! THAT! It's bound to have worse crash statistics than a squadron of Kamikazes... but, but... look at all those LEDs. Kids like lights. The Chinese like lights. It's a win-win.
Before I mention what was wrong with this product, let me discuss one thing first. Whose fault is it that one can't buy many consumer goods that aren't shoddy? Until fairly recently, it's been American companies specifying the manufacturing of the products, right? There is plenty of corruption on the China side, but the design of the products has been mostly done on the American side. I'm not necessarily faulting the engineers, as I think the marketing folks probably have a big hand in bringing costs down to where the parts specified are crap.
One could say that it's the consumers that drive this, as they are the ones buying the junk at the Wal-mart/Target/K-mart/Sears low prices. They won't settle for the same products at 25 - 50% higher that might just be better made. Sure, but do you have a choice at all now? No. You did in 1995, but I guess we blew it by going for the Chinese stuff. That may not be the case either, as per Inflation and Chinese Imports and Exports, my recollection is that the Chinese products were more decent back when the flood of goods started, in the mid-1990's. The companies saved money on the labor, at first (big money), but then profits had to keep rising, and they started gunning for the cheapest parts. At this point, Americans are even more used to throw-away stuff then they used to be (see the longer post - Cheap China-made crap in a throw-away country), so the companies don't see quality problems as any kind of problems at all. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.
It's the current era now, though (it usually is), and at this point, it's specification of cheap components by the engineers/marketers/production managers, corruption via substitution of even junkier stuff in China, and no respect for Q/A that add together to create a lucrative topic key here on Peak Stupidity.
That all said, what's the complaint this time?! Well, the glider above has a switch for its LEDs on the bottom that can be turned off, so's one doesn't run out the batteries while it sits in the toy box. We got it home and inserted the 3 batteries, after which the wing is attached simply, and then noticed this switch would not turn the lights off. Yeah, it had an "OFF" position, but that didn't work. I thought of the work-around of just pulling the batteries out each time we got done with it, but then had 3 second thoughts:
1) Taking the wing off and on to get to the batteries, along with one small wiring connector, was bound to wear out this glider as much as crashing it would.
2) Why should I do that workaround? We just bought the damn thing.
3) To get things to ever change, the manufacture must get some feedback. I don't mean a nasty email, a note on yelp or 1-star review on amazon. People learn better when they lose something. This company, Firefox Toys needed to lose the 20 bucks to learn anything. Way back, at the beginning of this blog, I wrote, in China, Inc., where quality is job 4,
Same as usual, the people at the store don't have time to know or care about what broke. I understand that, but I always let them know the story. I quit feeling bad about returning anything that may be broken due to slight misuse (up to the point of being backed up over by the car). I told the one girl, to the effect of: Hey, I'll keep coming back with these until we've got use out of 'em. I wonder whether the US headquarters will do the math and compare selling 3 or 4 of these for the cheap price versus 1 good one at double the price?* I know, I know, math is hard, especially for these CEO's.One difference with the purchase of this glider was that it was a Mom & Pop operation (I only saw the Pop), so the guy did care, when I came back. It was all very friendly, and I asked out of concern whether the owner would lose out. No, he told me, and I was sure glad to hear that.
We picked out another one. Just to check out the switch on the new one (and to keep my batteries I had left in to show him the problem), I took the parts out of the new glider's box and tested the switch. Yea, it worked! Oh, well, since I dug into this, are all the parts there? No, they sure weren't! The 2nd plane had no horizontal tail. I was decent enough, just because this was NOT a non-caring chain toy store, to tell him "I'll use the stabilizer from the old one with the rest of the new plane". That saved the strapped Chinese firm from having 2 returns instead of 1, not really my intention. I just don't like waste, though, and couldn't help myself on that.
Nice Q/A job, Firefox Toys. Out of a sample of 2 there was one electrical defect and one missing part, meaning 2 non-functional toy gliders. I'm no statistician, but I just can't imagine those are good numbers!
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ICE jails Chinese Spy Si Chen
Posted On: Saturday - October 13th 2018 9:31AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music California China The Neocons
and not under arrest for anything (far as we know):
She's probably not even kin to Si Chen, and they're not all spies, see?
(Note: Listen I couldn't find a photo of the lady in question,
so this is all I could come up with.)
VDare now has a continuing series with stories of arrests by ICE, Iimmigration and Customs Enforcement. If you've read this Peak Stupidity for any significant length of time, you've gotta know that we are NO FANS OF THE US FERAL GOV'T. Immigration and customs (people and stuff) control is one area that is actually a Constitutionally approved function of the US Gov't (look under the preamble* to see "provide for a common defence" - nope, they were wise men, but not the best spellers ;-}
It is good to read about what does get done to export the serious criminals of the immigration-invasion set, but it's just drops in the bucket so far. There IS the effect of discouraging the rest from staying out in the sunshine, but it's not enough. BUILD THE WALL! After that, the deportations will mean something positive, not just a decrease in the negative.
The latest ICE arrest report post, from today is ICE: Los Angeles-Area Woman (Si Chen) Sentenced to Federal Prison in Scheme to Smuggle Restricted Space Communications Technology to China. Notice even VDare called this Miss Si Chen an LA Woman, specifically from Pomona, though they normally would not be so PC. She is NOT a citizen, and probably not a green card holder; she's just called a "Chinese National". Was she just over here doing the defense industry jobs American electrical engineers just won't do? What WAS she doing here, besides:
... Chen used several aliases and a forged Chinese passport to conceal her smuggling activities. Chen used a Chinese passport bearing her photo and a false name – “Chunping Ji” – to rent an office in Pomona where she took delivery of the export-controlled items. After receiving the goods, Chen shipped the devices to Hong Kong, and from there the items were transshipped to China. The parcels shipped to Hong Kong bore her false name, along with false product descriptions and monetary values, all done in an effort to avoid attracting law enforcement scrutiny.When you read these types of stories, just like with any kind of standard criminal behavior, you know there are lots more that didn't get caught yet, and plenty that never will. Even the ones that do, for the piddling amount spent by the Chinese gov't, they may have cost the America defense industry, OK, offense industry, 10's of millions in development costs. There are plenty of actual Americans who can do electrical engineering and electrical technician work, but the universities bring over the foreigners for the bucks. No one involved seems to give a rat's ass about the future.
You've also got to really wonder what the Neocons (see 2nd part also), have to say for themselves about stories like this. Their "invade-the-world, invite-the-world" strategy** is not working out too well here. They are the ones that LOVE LOVE LOVE the massive immigration from EVERYWHERE (we don't care), yet if they want to keep invading the world, they'd really better think about the technology-dependent state of the US military, and it's ability to keep its advantage. Otherwise a very serious amount of people will get killed in a non-lopsided real war.
Should these neocons be ragging on Russia, much less China? The Russians have been getting more cozy with the rest of the Asians, as we piss them off every day. One can't blame them. Screw with Russia, and the Chinese may just remotely flip that one transistor that makes all that hardware just go to "stand-by" mode. They'll be a lot of blinking LEDs that are supposed to be steady!
BTW, the CNBC (caution, "System Media") article on this story is LA woman arrested on charges of smuggling US space technology to China. Who are you all kidding? Miss Si Chen just doesn't sound like an LA woman, and definitely not THE LA Woman. Sure, things were pretty whacked-out in Los Angeles in 1971 when Rock legend/weirdo Jim Morrison sang this. However, California was still a paradise then, and Chinese people could not willy-nilly arrive in California, get a job in the defense industry, and go about sending high-tech items to China. I don't even think anyone in China knew how to read a blueprint back in the Mao era anyway - too busy struggling against the capitalist roaders and/or starving to death.
Listen to The Doors and tell me if Si Chen is the LA Woman the song evokes:
"Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows?
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light,
or just another lost angel?"
(The rest of the song, from the album of the same name, is about the city Los Angeles, not any particular woman.)
The Doors were:
Jim Morrison – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, synthesizer
Ray Manzarek – keyboards, vocals
Robby Krieger – electric guitar, vocals
John Densmore – drums, percussion
* In case I get a retort to the effect of, "well, 'to promote the general welfare' is in there too", which is abused to no end, there is VERY SPECIFIC wording in the Bill of Rights to tell us that the government can not do most of what is done to "promote the general welfare".
** If you can call stupidity a strategy, that is, this term was coined by either Steve Sailer or someone else at VDare, to the best of my recollection.
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Fred Reed's Lifelong Siesta - Part 2
Posted On: Friday - October 12th 2018 9:06PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Curmudgeonry
(continued from previous post)
When I cut off the previous post, I was not done venting my feelings about the pundit Fred Reed, he also being an example of plenty of others that annoy me with hypocritical stupidity.
From a pundit who used to lay out very well and entertainingly how this country has changed for the worse, he is now not just all things Mexican, but anti-every single thing about America and Americans. He writes that Americans should calm down about the huge illegal alien invasion, learn to get along with the Hispanic people living here (people HAVE been pretty damn tolerant, Fred), and appreciate Mexico more. On that last point, he seems to always look at Americans as rubes, who don't get out enough to dispel their notions of Mexico being nothing but corrupt Federales (well, they are!), donkey sex shows, travel via burros, and siestas. Americans, in fact, travel a lot more than when I was younger, and especially when Fred was. I seriously doubt, with their significantly lower average income, that Mexicans are just worldly wise, and don't have any erroneous stereotypes of America and Americans.
Anyway, I can let all that go. What angered the hell out of me enough to write these 2 posts, though, was more than that. Fred Reed is now against the opinions and work of any Americans that are trying to FIX the damn problems that he bitches about bi-weekly. Mr. Reed complains about America becoming 3rd-worldy, yet he hates the writers from VDare who have been documenting the increasing problems due to the huge influx from, oh yeah, the 3rd world! (I still wonder whether his animosity toward VDare is just over money, maybe a coupla hundred bucks, as he used to write for them for a short while, then he didn't.) Mr. Reed writes nasty things about President Trump and the deplorables who support him in order to fix the problems that Reed has been pissing and moaning about for a coupla' decades.
Let me just put this in imaginary-conversation form to make it real clear why Fred Reed sucks:
FR: "Americans shouldn't badmouth people from my (new) country."
Americans: "We'd love for Mexico and Mexicans to stay as they are... down there. Too many, including a lot of the worst of them, are living here."
FR: "It's a done deal. You've got to live with them. There's 50-odd million Hispanics in America. They've been assimilating just fine. I'm not arguing you need to let more in."
Americans: "No, they haven't been assimilating, or we wouldn't even be worried about this. We just need to stop the flow with a wall, one of the primary reasons we voted for Donald Trump."
FR: "A wall is such a stupid idea. Walls don't work. Trump is an idiot to talk about this stupid wall."
Americans: "Sure a wall will work.* The problem is that President Trump has not come through for us."
FR: "Donald Trump is s tyrant!"
Americans: "Uhh, no, we kinda wish he were, but if Trump were a tyrant, we'd have a border wall with Mexico."
FR: "Trump is a tyrant! And, you have all sorts of stupid stuff happening with SJWs, feminists, corrupt politics, and the police state, that I've been watching on TV."
Americans: "That's what we are trying to stop by electing outsiders, like Trump. We've been making websites, writing articles, giving talks, getting out the vote, and putting down our hard-earned money to try to fight this stupidity."
FR: "You're all a bunch of mean, xenophobic fanatics."
FR: "Your country is going down the tubes. You've got so many groups of people that will never get along. It wasn't like that in my youth. Now, it's bad, so I left."
Americans: "Yes, you're quite right. Our best bet now is to stop digging. Then, maybe we can fix things."
FR: "Fix things? You're a bunch of hateful Americans ..."
Fred Reed writes often of his upbringing in the Tidewater area (the SE) of Virginia, when America was still the freest land ever seen on this Earth. Since he's left there, he's traveled the world, writing about this problem and that. Now, from Mexico, where he can't do anything to help, he writes about this problem and that and those damn hateful bastards that think they can fix things. Has Fred Reed ever done anything constructive since he left Tidewater Virginia? He's made a living documented the stupidity, but has never lifted a finger to fight it. That's why I titled this "Fred Reed's Lifelong Siesta", the former working title being "Fuck you, Fred Reed!"
* Peak Stupidity has discussed the practicality and usefulness of a border barrier with great alacrity, if we may say so ourselves, here, here, here, here, and here.
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Fred Reed's Lifelong Siesta - Part 1
Posted On: Friday - October 12th 2018 6:19AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Curmudgeonry
This post has been stewing in my gut for some time now, and I did promise to mention this pundit while writing about other sites on the short Peak Stupidity blogroll last week. Let's get it out - it'll feel a lot better afterwards.
Fred Reed is a good writer (can't deny that) whom this blogger has enjoyed since the early 00's on his still existing FredOnEverything site. He writes like the battle-worn gonzo-journalist type who's "seen it all", gotten cynical as all hell, and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him or his opinions anymore. Hey, we can relate to that! The Curmudgeonry topic key is associated with this post due to Mr. Reed, not this writer, the usual reason. His past articles, and even about half of his current ones, are great eviscerations of feminism, race-unconsciousness, big government, etc. There's a lot of overlap with Peak Stupidity, in fact, and I will admit right here that Mr. Reed writes about it in a more readable manner. Whatever.
Fred Reed left the good old USA (should be emphasis on old) about a decade ago to live in Mexico and has a new family there. Good on him. As I wrote in Down to the banana republics .... went Fred Reed, it'd be very tempting, as a single guy especially, to get out before Peak Stupidity. I did warn Mr. Reed, or anyone reading, that it'll be nice living off the US dollar, until it's not anymore. He now writes as an outsider commenting on the stupidity he sees in his old country.
This is the first part of the stupidity of Fred Reed that I've finally gotten sick of, causing me to quit reading the old man. As a resident of Mexico, Mr. Reed sees the good of the country that is often not extolled here by real Americans. See, we patriotic Americanas are kinda worried about being completely overwhelmed by 30,000,000 (OR SO!) of those who are more of the riff-raff than Mr. Reed's senora's friends at the engineering schools, art museums, and beautiful cafes. I don't doubt that there are nice things in Mexico. More power to you, Mr. Reed, in your newfound Mexicanity, living down there on your SS in US dollars. However, your country's slow invasion of America is just something we never wanted and are trying to do something about. (More on this in a bit.) Fred Reed's newest thing is to write some, well half the time, decent commentary, and then put his Mexican travel brochure information at the bottom. We're the assholes, though, for not having all nice things to say about Mexico.
It's not just his stupidity on immigration, but his complete AntiAmericans-ism (note the bold "s" there) embedded in almost all of his articles, that is just erroneous. Mr. Reed does not live here, and must only come to visit his grown child(ren?), so therefore makes the stupid mistake of thinking TV is pretty much reality. Yes, we've become nearer a Police State since he's left. Yes, there's extreme feminism around, enough to make most non-Westernized countries paradises in THAT respect. Yes, there are 32 or more other flavors of stupidity that one can observe, especially ON TV. It's not the way we all live, though, Fred. You should have known during all your time in Vietnam, riding around with cops, and all that stuff, the TV isn't reality. Did you forget all that? Mr. Reed thinks all Americans are stupid morons at this point, because he glues his eyes to the Kavanaugh hearings, and the like. It's time to get out, Fred, see a donkey sex show, drink some tequila with the Federales, and enjoy the real Mexico. See, two can play at this game.
I believe one more aspect of Fred's exaggerations is that the American customs/immigration service often treats Americans like crap on arrival into the country nowadays, in a way that should be reserved only for people from countries like, say, I dunno, Saudi Arabia, and maybe Mexico? It is one area of the Feral Gov't that needs to be tough, but they do act like arrogant assholes lots of the time. Then there's the TSA, of which I have nothing but abhorrence for, as a Constitutionalist. Upon seeing these 2 organizations on every trip, Mr. Reed probably sees this as the state of all things. It's tunnel vision, not something that a seasoned reporter/pundit like Mr. Reed should have. Upon getting this malady in his old age, maybe he should quit the pundit business and sell chicklets and blankets* at the border.
I don't have to Reed this guy, of course, and I won't anymore. I haven't really explained why I have a real animosity toward him yet, so ... coming in Part 2 just a bit later, end of business day for sure! The post title will make more sense at that time.
* Now, there's some Montezuma's Revenge for ya. The European settlers accidentally gave them small pox supposedly via the blankets, so now they sell us blankets that fall apart in the wash. Bastardos!
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Lifeline Screening is a SCAM
Posted On: Thursday - October 11th 2018 7:39PM MST
In Topics: Salesmen Healthcare Stupidity Scams
I promise to not make more than a post or two about this sort of thing each year. I don't even have an appropriate topic key for badmouthing consumer scams. It's not really what Peak Stupidity is all about. I was ready to start up the anti-pundit ranting again, but I got something in the mail from these people today, and it was the last straw. Thousands and thousands, or so, of Peak Stupidity readers should be aware: "Lifeline Screening" sucks!
It was a couple of years ago when I saw that they had a van parked at a location that I'd visit anyway, right when I needed to do a simple lab test. The price seemed reasonable. I regretted this move before I even had the needle in my arm, as the reception lady asked too many questions and couldn't tell me exactly when they'd get back to me. It was more than a month, and that was after giving them grief on the phone, and having to go in to another lab and pay more money to get the results I'd needed by that time. I just recalled that, on the phone, these scammers wanted additional information on me before they would even talk to me about what happened to the test results.
Then the results, when they finally came, instead of being fairly precise numbers with ranges, came in pretty red/yellow/green striped bars with vague answers to questions like: How much low-density cholesterol is was (about a month back) in a deciliter of my blood. It didn't give me 1/2 of the numbers of the panel that the Doc had asked me to get.
You'll see the Lifeline Screening vans parked at schools or churches. Avoid them.
Back to our usual stupidity programming shortly, and I'm stuck on a learning curve in getting all the embedded videos quickly (yeah!) working again.
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Sunflower Bean - Crisis Fest
Posted On: Wednesday - October 10th 2018 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Music Artificial Stupidity
Here's a song from, what do they say, LITERALLY the CURRENT YEAR.
I'd never heard of this band until the other day, listening to a number of their songs while working out. That almost didn't help me find them either. The thing is, it's not like you hear DJs much anymore - the music comes from Spotify or just people's own collections. I.e. nobody comes on to tell you the song or band names., so I was desperate to catch some lyrics that were specific enough to look one of the songs, hence the band, up.
OK, readers, before you chalk me up as an idiot regarding the Artificial Stupidity, specifically the ubiquitous phone, I do know there is a program, oh, excuse me app, for this. I am trying to pin it down, but I think at least 8 years ago, maybe as much as 10, a friend showed me how the phone could identify a song, as he held the mike up toward the music at a restaurant. I was very impressed and still am. It's not just the separating the noise from the signal well enough. I am just impressed by whatever database and other software is used.
Think about this: In digital form, the music is nothing but bytes representing a wave of amplitude. At some normal sampling rate though, with 2 bytes use per sample, even 5 seconds of the song may be > 100,000 bytes. OK, this sample of numbers in sequence must be compared to 100's of thousands or millions of songs. How do you order a search like this? I'm no database guy, but I am very impressed. It found the song in about 10 seconds or so, but I'd have been impressed if it took all day.
See, I'm not a total curmudgeon - I do appreciate the power in this stuff. However, I am still a bit of one, as I don't carry my phone around like some sort of appendage. Therefore, at the gym, I had to remember those lyrics, as I wasn't going to quit my workout in the middle.
BINGO, youtube found it for me, not a regular web search.* The band is a modern one, which I'd figured while working out, named Sunflower Bean with a hot-blond lead singer who does like to show off her body (moreso in some of the other videos). However, she sounds good, and plays bass too, which seems to always make for a good band. (See, The Beatles and The Police, the latter a 3-man band too). This song, Crisis Fest is the one I recalled the lyrics to. From their '18 album Twentytwo In Blue, it's damn good stuff, for the current year, anyway. The energy in it reminds me of a 10 y/o song that I'll put up later this week.
Julia Cumming** - bass and lead vocals
Nick Kivlen - lead guitar and vocals
Jacob Faber - drums
They are from the NYC area, like KISS, the Spin Doctors, but I'm not sure who else, really.
* BTW, as I searched, I came upon a few erroneous results that I had to listen to to check. One was the typical modern music that I don't like, with the vocals going up and down on single notes in a fashion that is tiresome, annoying, or more like just sickening. I wanted to show that, but I'll save it for another post when I'm trying to cull down the readership. ;-}
** Yes, that's fortuitous, I suppose ...
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[Updated 10/14:] Cut off the first 50s of the video. I'd forgotten to do this. I don't know these people, so I don't get off on watching them mill around the bar. It's a good song, people, just play it.
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Cannibalism as microAggression writ LARGE
Posted On: Wednesday - October 10th 2018 7:50AM MST
In Topics: History Race/Genetics
Imagine a knife coming down toward your chest, as you're held/tied down, knowing the guy's gonna pull your heart right out. What would you call that, a macroAgression? That's not enough. At that moment, it'd be an ∞- aggression.
The Kevin Beary article on historical accounts of cannibalism and other violence practiced by the savage original inhabitants of these couple of continents here has gotten even this hardened blogger triggered. (Linked-to yesterday, but HERE.) Triggered by cannibalism! Man, do I feel like a Snowflake?! It's one thing to get triggered by accounts of 35 year-old male-on-female horseplay, white men having good jobs, or words like "coed", "history", and "work". That's all quite understandable. The fact that the savage Indian inhabitants of the Americas used to regularly cut out the hearts of live people, then cut all the limbs off and eat them, while others who were going to be next watched, is just a multicultural factoid, nothing to be alarmed about. It was their culture, stupid.
I would hope that the lady in the picture would totally understand that what was happening to her was literally these people's culture. She doesn't, well didn't, look like the type to be a multiculturaphobe. It's either get eaten or be called a racist. Lady, you made the right choice ... umm, in the movie (no, I don't know which one, but it looks juicy)*.
I got on kind of a roll lately with this "pre-Columbian Americans sucked" theme (here and here, but Beary's article just added to my point. He writes about the Aztecs in Mexico, satirized (maybe, right?) in Cortez the Killer by Neil Young, giving historical accounts. See civilized people wrote shit down. It sounds like, at least for the Aztecs, cannibalization and unwanted non-sterile thoracic surgery was no rare occurrence. From Bernal Diaz del Castillo's The Conquest of New Spain:
Every day they sacrificed before our eyes three, four, or five Indians, whose hearts were offered to those idols, and whose blood was plastered on the walls. The feet, arms, and legs of their victims were cut off and eaten, just as we eat beef from the butcher’s in our country. I even believe that they sold it in the tianguez or markets.This was an account of the explorers'/conquistador's personal experience at the court of Montezuma, right there in current-day Mexico City.**
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They strike open the wretched Indian’s chest with flint knives and hastily tear out the palpitating heart which, with the blood, they present to the idols in whose name they have performed the sacrifice. Then they cut off the arms, thighs, and head, eating the arms and thighs at their ceremonial banquets. The head they hang up on a beam, and the body of the sacrificed man is not eaten but given to the beasts of prey.
Now, lest the reader think "yeah, well, those were their Indians. Our Indians rocked. They lived peacefully, didn't have to go to work every day, smoked them some good peace pipe wacky tobbacy, and got to bang those hot squaws all day, until we came with our pox-infected blankets.", Beary has something to say here too. However, there's plenty of history written down by our own forefathers for 3 centuries about how the Indians lived. It's not like we have to make it up, but I guess that makes lots of people feel better. This is particularly about the Iroquois of present-day upstate New York, but there were lots of violent tribes:
["The prisoners" here, are the Algonquins, BTW.]Go ahead, Neil Young, can you write a few more verses to perform live on Cortez the Killer? Nevermind, just play that long guitar lead.... Hey it was almost still the 1960's, so one should probably cut Mr. Young some slack (NEVER on the Southern Man thing though!) That was the time in which all white American history was realized to be bad, see by the people under 30, who knew everything, you know, like all young people do. It's just the idiot parent generation that put up with that crap that needed the real beat down... but I digress ;-} The narrative that the white settlers were a bad thing for these 2 continents was started 50 years back. It's time to put the kibosh on that narrative.
They bound the prisoners hand and foot, rekindled the fire, slung the kettles, cut the bodies of the slain to pieces, and boiled and devoured them before the eyes of the wretched survivors. “In a word,” says the narrator [that is, the Algonquin woman who escaped to tell the tale], “they ate men with as much appetite and more pleasure than hunters eat a boar or a stag …”
The conquerors feasted in the lodge till nearly daybreak … then began their march homeward with their prisoners. Among these were three women, of whom the narrator was one, who had each a child of a few weeks or months old. At the first halt, their captors took the infants*** from them, tied them to wooden spits, placed them to die slowly before a fire, and feasted on them before the eyes of the agonized mothers, whose shrieks, supplications, and frantic efforts to break the cords that bound them were met with mockery and laughter …
[The torture was] designed to cause all possible suffering without touching life. It consisted in blows with sticks and cudgels, gashing their limbs with knives, cutting off their fingers with clam-shells, scorching them with firebrands, and other indescribable torments. The women were stripped naked, and forced to dance to the singing of the male prisoners, amid the applause and laughter of the crowd …
On the following morning, they were placed on a large scaffold, in sight of the whole population. It was a gala-day. Young and old were gathered from far and near. Some mounted the scaffold, and scorched them with torches and firebrands; while the children, standing beneath the bark platform, applied fire to the feet of the prisoners between the crevices … The stoicism of one of the warriors enraged his captors beyond measure … they fell upon him with redoubled fury, till their knives and firebrands left in him no semblance of humanity. He was defiant to the last, and when death came to his relief, they tore out his heart and devoured it; then hacked him in pieces, and made their feast of triumph on his mangled limbs.
This is what angers me just as much as the purposeful destroying of the history of the great explorers, especially the great Christopher Columbus. The people living right here before Columbus came were savages, period, just as in all the Americas. There were some peaceful tribes, granted. However they were still savages, and I don't think most people understand that word. It doesn't by itself mean violent. It describes a people who have no civilization. When your people live off the land, move when it's fished out or hunted out, and never settle, then, by definition they are NOT CIVILIZED and are not part of any CIVILIZATION, period. They never built anything resembling a city, never invented anything beyond weapons and teepees, and never would have gotten to a level to build a ship like a Spanish galleon in a million years, if they kept that shit up.
I can see a retort by ctrl-lefty that "hey, there's evidence of cannibalism in Europe too!" Yeah, dude, that was more like 2,500 or more years ago, before lots of place had, yeah, you guessed it, CIVILIZATION. We got over it. In addition, there's no record of it being done on a daily basis, as with those Aztecs, if not daily, maybe semi-weekly or the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month. These American Indians were still doing this stuff 500 years ago and more recently. In Cortez's case, his people put a stop to it.
Let's quit getting duped by the ctrl-left PC false narrative on the Indian Question. Celebrate Columbus day by not going to work next year. If you can't sail the Ocean Sea, at least go down the river in an inner tube.
* OK, I checked around. My file photo comes from a movie called The Green Inferno. Due to this not-quite-illustrious review, Delete this Racist Movie: New Eli Roth Horror Flick Depicts Indigenous People as Savage Cannibals, I am SO DOWN for seeing this on blue-ray and just put a hold on it from the 'brary. Thank you, reviewer. No, I DON'T normally link to stupidity, but the URL sucked me in, and plus the guy's a PhD, right, so ...
** Fred Reed, take note - Montezuma's revenge is a dish best served living.
*** See that? Spread the word, if only for THE CHILDREN! If the real story of the Indians gets out, and saves even ONE CHILD from becoming a cannibal, it'll be worth it! (OK, "cannibaless", "cannibalee", WHATEVER.)
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