Wish we were back in 1984?
Posted On: Monday - April 24th 2017 11:30AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Pundits Orwellian Stupidity
Following is the introductory paragraph of a great article on VDare.com written by a recent law school graduate named John Reid, Supreme Court Precedent Says Berkeley Must Let Ann Speak–And Protect Her From Antifa, Too!:
In the mid-1960s, left-wing University of California Berkeley students refused to abide by the administration’s restrictions against campus political activism, launching the so-called Free Speech Movement, which is widely credited for sparking campus radicalism across the country. Alameda Deputy County District Attorney Ed Meese prosecuted the students, and Ronald Reagan made their lawlessness a top campaign issue in his successful 1966 California gubernatorial election. Subsequently Reagan became President and Meese became his Attorney General—and the campus radicals took over universities from the top down. With their cultural power consolidated, free speech no longer serves the Left, and the birthplace of the “Free Speech Movement” is doing its best to keep Ann Coulter from speaking.It's just interesting to compare the goings-on at the very same place to within 100 YARDS, during the time Ronald Reagan was governor of California to right at 50 years later, as the antifa (what the fuck kind of term is that - very gay sounding) vs. free speech advocates are battling it out now. Back in the 1960's the free speech advocates were the "good guys" as being a commie/socialist lefty against the establishment was seen as good. As seen in the picture at the top of the VDare article, Governor Reagan had tear gas sprayed on the crowd from a chopper (looks like one of those old "Jolly Green Giants"). Now, the free speech advocates are the "bad guys", as they are conservative right-leaning people who are against the establishment. See, that is bad nowadays, as the establishment are the "good guys" because they are the commie/socialists, see? No? Yeah, quite confusing, that.
About the specific rules being made by the University of California - Berserkely administration, Mr. Reid writes:
For the sake of argument, let’s take Berkeley’s claim that they are primarily concerned about student safety at face value. No one honestly believes Coulter will prompt her supporters to violence. Rather, everyone correctly assumes that Antifa activists will try to shut down her speech violently like they did to Milo and others. No one besides Antifa are violently attacking political speeches in Berkeley (or in the rest of the country) and they only do it to the Right.He then, as a lawyer would, brings up court rulings and such to explain why the UC Admins. behavior is completely wrong. First of all, these people are out for their cause of shutting down anyone who speaks truth about immigration and any conservative issue for that matter. They don't want this truth to be heard, and they will not listen to any logical arguments against their behavior. They can't win that way, so they don't play that game. Forget arguing with these people!
Thus, any regulations based on public safety effectively become censorship aimed solely at the Right, by granting the Antifa a “heckler’s veto.”
Secondly, one really does not need the lawyerly arguments to see how positively Orwellian these antifa a-holes are.
Let's digress one paragraph. Where does the "Orwellian" come in, and what about "1984", you ask? The Englishman George Orwell wrote the novel "1984" back in the late 1940's as a warning against an overpowering oppressive tyrannical state, something American is close to now. The globalists want this whole deal globalized, to match the book, I guess. I didn't know when I read it in 1978 that it was supposed to be an instruction manual, but that's how the left and a big part of the modern "conservatives" apparently saw it.
Where the Berserkely "antifa" people get completely Orwellian is not just the completely obvious lies that they are not against free speech. They are, or Miss Coulter, and that Milo guy and other conservatives would have been able to give talks to the people that want to hear it, and these commies could have stayed at the coffee shops drinking frapachinos instead of hopefully getting their heads bashed in. This is the Orwellian part you will hear on the college campuses: "The university is concerned with the safety of the students. Because, possibly if this Coulter lady gives a talk, some of our students, who are in no way obligated to show up and listen, may come and try to beat the crap out of the speaker and the audience. That is unsafe, so we can't allow Miss Coulter to put the safety of our students in jeopardy.".
Yes, and talking about things we don't think people should hear is not free speech. People we beat up on are the ones that cause violence. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. You've read it before in the book. Now you can see it in person.
One thing is different from the story in Mr. Orwell's "1984" however. The good guys in Oceana did not have AR-15's with Nikon 12x scopes. Big Brother, you magnificent bastard, we've read your book!
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"Conservatives" punting on health care? (That's the left's evil plan in action)
Posted On: Monday - April 24th 2017 3:42AM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government alt-right/MAGA
Though it hasn't been written about much in particular over the last week or so the Obamacare health
Now, there is not enough space on the server to go through the complete ruination of what was long ago a free market, over the many years, but especially since the passing of that "affordable", chuckle, "care act". (Here and here are 2 PeakStupidity posts leading to great Ann Coulter columns on this, anyway.) This post is another in what may be quite a few that urge the conservatives to just listen and take some advice from the libertarians and constitutionalists. I can see an essay coming about this, but also another one urging vice versa, for the libertarians to take advice from the conservatives.
What I'm slowly getting at is that I've read lately lots of editorials and such from the alt-right and conservatives in general saying we shouldn't worry our heads about this health care thing, and even agreeing with government health care! People just have such short memories, or else small imaginations, to not remember when things were more free, or at least, for young people, imagine free markets. It's very annoying to read this stuff from otherwise intelligent people.
I understand the point that the fix to this healthcare mess is not as urgent as other things President Trump was voted in to accomplish, the primary of which is the southern border and US sovereignty. I agree, first things first. Also, there is no doubt that fixing the mess caused by 60-odd years of Feral Governement interference in the health care market cannot occur easily, i.e., with a lot of financial pain and unfairness in the interim. However, to just throw up ones hands, saying, let's give up on this - seems like we'll just be like England and Canada with the government in control is entirely un-American.
Even if they don't care about free markets in principle, what the alt-right especially should think about is this: What's going on in government-controlled health care is more re-distribution of mostly white working people's money to others, just as is done with most government programs. This health care business is BIG money, though. As much as the white male gets screwed in job prospects, education, and welfare scams, do you alt-right conservatives just want to bend over even farther? If we had constitutional government, NONE of this screwing over of the white man in particular could take place. Work with us constitutionalists a little bit, conservatives!
I think the lefties are seeing their best wet dreams come into fruition as the conservatives punt on this important loss of freedom, 15% of the whole economy, I've read, and that percentage will keep growing with our present demographics, or at least until the financial crash that is coming.
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Eat mor shark!
Posted On: Saturday - April 22nd 2017 5:44PM MST
In Topics: Humor Treehuggers
This is probably not related to any post written since the beginning of Peak Stupidity, but, what the hey?
After talking and thinking about eating good fish for dinner, the subject of shark meat came up. Fish steaks, just meat cut transversely, just seem tasty than fillets, which are pieces of the meat cut longitudinally. Maybe it's just because the fish steaks I've had had been grilled on the barbecue - very tasty stuff.
Shark meat is supposed to be good too, and most fish meat is good FOR YOU, much the better. The thing about sharks is, at least the big ones, is that they like to eat us too, every bloody chance they get. You young 'uns, having not seen the movie "Jaws", maybe don't think this is any big deal. Have, you ever heard the expression "We're gonna' need a bigger [whatever]"? Well, that's from "Jaws", people, and those big sharks are scary bastards, at least according to Constable Brody and the scientist Richard Dreyfuss.
I think that the more sharks we eat the less chance we have of getting partially or wholly eaten by them. It only stands to reason. Now, your environmentalists will go off about interfering with the food chain and all that. I personally want to be completely out of the food chain. We should just have the whole food chain on our menus. I want out, and let these animals worry about the damn food chain. The same goes for mosquitoes. Yeah, yeah, the birds eat 'em, so if we get rid of them what will they eat. I'm sure they can find something more tasty, as they obviously are not really enamored with the taste of mosquitoes, or there wouldn't be so damn many around.
We need to find a good way to eat mosquitoes, in fact. Most people have had entirely enough of their nonsense, and it's time to find a good cooking method, probably involving deep-frying, as anything deep fried tastes good. Shark steaks with a side of fried skeeters! Now that's what I'm talking about!
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Racist babies, what're ya' gonna do?
Posted On: Saturday - April 22nd 2017 4:28PM MST
In Topics: Websites Race/Genetics
Jim Goad is one of the main writers for the website Takimag. Peakstupidity does not have it on the blogroll mainly just because the site is kind of cumbersome (must be lots of scripts runnin), and it has locked up my computer before. The commenters there are very well educated, but the threads usually go on for 300-600 comments - takes a while to read. Maybe I'll put it on the blogroll soon. Anyhoo, besides Steve Sailer, who writes an article a week there, but can be found mostly on VDare and unz.com, Mr. Goad is the best writer on this conservative site, where the subjects are decay of society, race relations, and the immigration invasion (both here and in European countries).
In The Original Sin of Our Times, an article about a Canadian study (also discussed here by Steve Sailer) that purports to prove that babies are basically racist by 6 months old, I guess as early as an psychological testing has any meaning. I'm not arguing with their results, but the spin in the academic paper is that we need to fix this. Perhaps, being loyal to and having more trust in, your own "tribe", so to speak is built into us, just as it is in other animals, for damn good evolutionary reasons.
Jim Goad:
But the natural-born instinct for “group survival”—at least when manifested among whites—has been twisted into a mental pathology of the highest order, the Original Sin of our times. In other words, the anti-racist and decidedly anti-scientific activists “have meddled with the primal forces of nature,” and it won’t end well for them, because nature is far more powerful than ten billion fanatical ideologues could ever hope to be in their most savagely totalitarian dreams.I would say I couldn't say this better myself, but if you are a regular reader, you man remember that I have. PeakStupidity's line was "IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE!" (that goes for life in general, in addition to margarine, BTW) ;-}
Jim Goad concludes:
It’s time to begin aggressively pushing the perfectly rational notion that humans possess a tribal instinct that is every bit as natural and strong as the sex drive. Aphorisms such as “birds of a feather flock together” and “blood is thicker than water” did not originate from some deluded, inadequate sociopath brimming with hatred and fear, but from careful observation of how nature operates.
So what do we do with all these racist babies? Leave them and their brains alone, and start working to fix your own deluded noggins.
Let me set the record straight that this blogger said nothing racist up through 20 months old, when I was a toddler and no longer a baby at all. Of course, girls start earlier.
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Collective Soul - some modern music (1990's, anyone)
Posted On: Wednesday - April 19th 2017 7:57PM MST
In Topics: Music
Just to prove music hadn't gone completely down the tubes until the late 1990's, here is a song called "December" by Collective Soul. During the times this Atlanta band was big, I was already past the point of trying to remember song names, and band members. I just know that I have 3 great CD's by these guys. What a great sound!
I'd figured the song's name was "Baby, just spit me out", but the lyrics don't matter, as I've been saying over and over!
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Battle of Berzerkely
Posted On: Wednesday - April 19th 2017 7:38PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity University Trump
James Kirkpatrick is one of the best writers at VDare and he writes The Battle(s) Of Berkeley–Someone Is Going To Get Killed. Where Is Trump?
If President Trump comes through with most of his promises on immigration and American sovereignty, as we stated in this post, the rest of his flaking out can be forgiven. One would hope that he could get his Attorney General, Mr. Jeff Sessions, to get involved in prosecuting some of the hard-left rioting crowd, but it'd probably be more fun if they get they're heads bashed by some of the patriotic Americans at these "battles" anyway.
I really wish this stuff had been going on during my college days. I'd have liked to be part of this, on the right side, of course, and I'm not saying that just due to the visage of Miss Lauren Southern in the picture below.
Were this a serious battle, like in real wartime, women like this would be way in the back, as it should be. You wouldn't see the cute smiling faces were this to get truly serious as a war.
....This is what I couldn't have said better myself, which is why I like reading this guy, James Kirkpatrick.
Of course, the “whole Trump administration” doesn’t seem to care too much about what is happening one way or the other. Even Attorney General Jeff Sessions, though he is taking action on immigration, has not cracked down on “antifascist” or extreme leftist groups around the country who openly declare their intention to attack Trump supporters. There has been no effort to secure free speech on campus by withholding federal funding from universities who deny the First Amendment.
And far from standing with his populist supporters, President Trump is reportedly on the verge of dismissing Breitbart head Steve Bannon, which threatens to sever his link with his populist base.
But the new movement that is emerging is not dependent on Trump himself. Indeed, Trump is merely a symptom of the larger counter-revolution against a hostile elite which thinks it has the right to control what Americans are allowed to think, say and vote for.
Americans increasingly recognize the totalitarian Left for what it is. And the Beltway Right and Donald Trump himself can either back up those who are willing to fight for America’s First Amendment rights or they will simply be left behind.
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Warren Buffett, crony capitalist, selling out the country, literally.
Posted On: Wednesday - April 19th 2017 6:55PM MST
In Topics: Globalists China Economics
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." Joseph Stalin, probably lifted by him from Karl Marx.
Stalin didn't know squat-all about real capitalism, or he could have converted the USSR out of it's decrepit state of tried-and-true-failure Communism to rival the US. It's too bad our country has mostly forgotten what true capitalism is about, except at the level of small business, which gets daily hammerings by the crony capitalists that work with our Feral Government.
So, "When we hang the crony capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." There, FIFY, Dead Uncle Joe. (carry on; continue to rot in hell.) Zerohedge reports on exactly this phenomenon as Warren Buffet markets American real estate to foreigners on a large scale. This tends to price Americans out of many primo areas of the country, especially the west coast cities.
From the article, "Warren Buffett Now Selling US Houses To Chinese Oligarchs",
As Bloomberg reports, HomeServices has been expanding under Buffett by opening new locations, forming a 2012 venture to expand licensing operations and then working to capitalize on demand from non-U.S. buyers. The unit hired Realogy’s Peter Turtzo in 2015 to push into international markets and recruited Mitchell Lewis from Christie’s International Real Estate in September to build operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
As a result, on April 17 Buffett's HomeServices announced an agreement to advertise its U.S. homes on Juwai.com, which attracts about 2 million visitors a month. The portal hosts sites on both sides of China’s “great firewall,” meaning consumers can access the information inside the nation from more than 400 cities and also from more than 160 other countries, according to a statement Monday.
“The Chinese have overtaken all nationalities besides Americans as the leading buyers of property in the U.S.,” Gino Blefari, chief executive officer of Irvine, California-based Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, said in the statement. The Juwai.com accord and other efforts overseas “make it much easier for Chinese real estate buyers to find and shop our property listings.”
It stands to reason that when one runs out of prospective domestic buyers, the next logical step is to approach those who have been engaging in unprecedented money laundering on a global scale in the form of "real estate purchases" which are nothing more than parking funds offshore (and far away from China's banks) while leaving the newly purchased house unoccupied.
What a scumbag this Warren Buffett is! Didn't it used to be that even the biggest railroad barons and the oil tycoons still cared about Americans, were proudly American, and weren't in their business to sell out the country?
I do have some slightly personal knowledge of the Chinese money laundering described in the following paragraph. No matter how supposedly capitalist China is said to be, the hardest working people there are usually not the ones that end up with the big bucks. It's the corrupt government officials (all levels and types of governments) that make, say, $600/month salary, that somehow have enough money to buy a house in Huntington Beach, Cali, and some left over to pay exorbitant tuition at a university for their kid, to obtain a worthless piece of paper (they don't know this last part yet) and to establish a foothold for this bugout-o-China location.
It was not immediately clear if and how Berkshire assures that the funds used by wealthy Chinese buyers are not of the "hot money" variety, meant to be parked away from China's perilous financial system and in the process raising prevailing prices to nosebleed levels in any given MSA, as has been the case in recent years with both the Vancouver and, more recently, Toronto housing markets. As a reminder, the US National Association of Realtors remains exempt from Anti Money-Laundering provisions, quite happy to take the money of any and every global buyer, regardless of where the funding came from.Zerohedge keeps up with these stories very well.
Oh, please don't confuse this scumbag Buffett with another Buffett, hopefully unrelated. One could only wish that Warren Buffett were wasting away in Margaritaville, searching for his lost shaker of salt instead of a new way to sell out his country.
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From the Department of Who Cares?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 18th 2017 7:45PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Pundits
Funny, I don't feel any tension at all about this, in contrast to most of the other Drudge headlines that usually, when seen in one viewing, make me feel that the world will be ending very soon.
A) What strike?
B) What writers? What do they write about?
C) Who cares about Hollywood?
D) Is it gonna cost me any money? No? Again, who cares?
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Comment on Republic Airlines dba United Express fiasco/infotainment
Posted On: Tuesday - April 18th 2017 7:28PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Americans
Except for a quick mention here along with an appropriate song lyric and music to placate the parrotheads, we have not mentioned that week-old dragging-the-passenger-off-the-plane incident. Hey, it's not like it is timely news that must be obtained hourly off the phone like the Dow Jones index or the current apparel being worn or pulled off of Miss Laura Kardashian (we hipsters call her LaurDash).
Anyhow, the main impression I have of the entire recorded part of this incident was the complete lack of civility or just normal thinking-human behavior on the part of about everybody involved. I won't get into all of the details about how everyone should have handled themselves, but it's the common theme witnessed of people behaving like incoherent kooks that cannot seem to make good judgements and talk well enough to keep the behavior civil.
You had your gate agents, and maybe you've got more details than me, but c'mon, up the ante a bit, do some small bit of thinking about who would be better to "request" a de-planing to, or just call up the bosses who can give authority for more resources to be used in this special case.
You had your security rent-a-cops who should never been called in the first place, as there was no criminal activity* going on or any that had happened. Their job then, since they WERE called, was to handle this guy, not to knock the crap out of him. 4 guys should be able to restrain the guy calmly (I know they had no business being sent to do so) without banging him around. An old fashioned peace-officer type could probably just have talked the guy into stepping off the plane eventually.
You had your nutty doctor, who should have just verbally raised holy hell up at the podium once off the plane. Let them know what trouble this will cause, whether people will die because you couldn't make it down to Louisville earlier. Screaming while being dragged down the aisle does not become a medical doctor, not unless he were getting arrested at a protest rally against free-market medicine or something.
Even the video takers acted like Jerry Springer guests. How about just a little calm dialogue, or if not that, just take some action, don't scream out stupid stuff while you're filming yourself.
The thing is, as bad as everything looked on here, it was one incident among perhaps thousands approaching this level of trouble that occur each year, but that are handled calmly. Maybe not everyone is happy with the outcomes, but they just don't usually make Americans out to be bloomin' idiots, like this particular piece of info-tainment, which is what it really was - a TV producer's dream - something to keep the viewers in front of the tube for most of a week.
As a friend of mine and I were discussing this, we came up with a couple of funny scenes that could have occurred. One was just better judgement by the agents as to what type of person should be (or given the most incentive to be) bumped. "Who else do we have on board? That guy's an engineer, no, leave him alone, oh, this guy runs a small company, don't bump him". "Attention, passengers, is there anyone on board for which it absolutely doesn't matter whether you get to Louisville tonight? Show of hands, please. OK, are there any of you for which it doesn't matter what happens to you today, tomorrow or any time, as in nobody cares really? Any government people, DMV, how about women's studies majors? Anyone? Anyone?"
The 2nd idea was a somewhat cryptic announcement over the aircraft P/A, something like: "These 4 passengers, please come out to the jetbridge to discuss your upgrades" might do the trick. As the passengers get fully on the bridge, one agent distracts them with a stack of bogus boarding passes while the other one starts backing up that bridge at full speed away from the plane. Finally, one passenger at a time gets that WTF?! look in his eyes. One of them takes a leap toward the still open main cabin door, but, alas, he is not really in shape and lands face down on the ramp. Hilarity ensues!
* Although, the fact that the man went back onto the plane makes him sort of like a stowaway in that sense, meaning that is a big deal and considered to be illegal due to TSA stupidity, not the airline's stupidity. In the old days, a stowaway was just a problem due to his not paying for his trip (and creation of a slight error in weight/balance for the airplane), but now it is a "big damn deal" because of our commie-inspired TSA, as his name was no longer connected with the flight after the agents first bumped him in the computer sense.
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Conflict Resolution ... (how long) will you be my neighbor?
Posted On: Monday - April 17th 2017 5:44PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
This is not one of the ideas I had planned to write about this evening, but it just came up. This is about the small conflicts over things that could be called trivial that persist and turn into trouble that goes on for years. I just started a small conflict with a neighbor over a leaf pile - a leaf pile!! Haha, yeah, a leaf pile. The problem is that we all have our idiosyncrasies and mine is territorial. It is not even worth getting into too much detail, but, as I want to write something more on the (outdated, at this point, but still interesting) story, info-tainment really, about the Republic Airlines, dba United Airlines incident, it makes me think more on how conflicts can blow up like that.
I would like to say that everyone involved in that airliner incident, at least the ones on video, acted so uncivilly, and just not like calm human beings, that I couldn't see myself doing what any of them did. There will hopefully be a post in the morning on this. After this evening, I realize that there are certain people that one just can't deal civilly with. In my case, I believe it is both of our personalities. There are people with whom you are better off not talking and whom you just need to avoid, even a next door neighbor. It has been many years, but we just will never get along.
One thing I have learned from a friend's experience is to just take action, even if it might hurt one's pride, to put a stop to the conflict by giving in before (and this is where it relates to another post to come on the "student snowflakes" and the like) before it gets to the "I'm telling!" phase. It would never be on my part, but by "I'm telling!", I mean telling the law, getting city code enforcers, the tax assessors and all the various and sundry government bureaucrats that are paid to find and cause trouble, involved.
This friend is not sure that his old lady neighbor has died or not, but the best clue he has is that nobody from the city has come by in a long time to tell him what the hell he needs to work on, on the outside of his house, to comply with "THE LAW!" It had been going on for years, maybe the better part of a decade, that people on the taxpayers' dimes (well, Benjamins more like) had him working basically for them, not at his own pace, on this fixer-upper house. I don't think that my friend could even remember what small incident started the "I'm telling" phase, and I sure don't.
All this is my way of telling you, when your instincts tell you to let something go, and just "see and avoid", like Visual Flight Rules, you should listen. Some people ya just cain't reach.
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Happy Easter - and 3rd point on Trump disappointment
Posted On: Saturday - April 15th 2017 7:33PM MST
In Topics: Trump Holiday from Stupidity
It's been a busy few days, reader(s). However, there is no shortage of things to write about in the stupidity "space". I do want to comment on the now out-of-date story about that Republic Airlines flight (dba United Express) fiasco, which represents a whole world of stupidity on the part of just about everyone directly involved. More coming on Ross Perot as a precursor to Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and the 1986 illegal alien amnesty, and some humor, just to name a few things.
Anyhow, to complete the elaboration on the post regarding Trump's disappointing breach-of-contract with us, his voters, I will address point 3. Point 3 was the question of how long Trump's supporters, the regular patriotic Americans and nobody else (besides Ann Coulter), will support him. Trump had campaigned on "America First", and part of that was the pretty obvious point that actually defending the country is more important than spending money we don't have to keep meddling in affairs of the rest of the world. "Meddling" is too weak a word, anyway; it's bombing, strafing, droning, and whatever. What's been happening wrt Syria, N. Korea is the same warmongering that we would have expected from a Hildabeast administration and basically all others since Ronald Reagan (and one could arguably include him too).
Per this post on the 2nd issue raised here, Trump had better not flake out on the immigration promises or he will lose all of us supporters right away. We've been through this crap with both George Bushes. I don't mean specifically believing they would uphold our national sovereignty, just that they'd act like conservatives. They didn't, and we were fooled. We didn't want another Bush (¡Jeb!), or any of the rest of the establishment GOP this time for that reason. Patriotic American voters have FINALLY learned their lesson on this.
Ann Coulter here, as usual lately, said this all best in "We Want The “President Of America” Back—Not “The President Of The World". Here's a bit of her writing:
While most of the left wailed about the return of Nazi Germany under Trump, savvier liberals saw his vulnerability: flattery. All we have to do is praise him! You’ll be shocked at how easy it is.
And, boy, did they lay it on thick with the Syrian misadventure. No sucker’s bait was left on the floor. Cable news hosts gushed, “Trump became president of the United States tonight!” On MSNBC, Brian Williams called the bombing “beautiful” three times in less than a minute. Sen. Lindsey Graham (one of the “women of the Senate,” according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) compared Trump to Reagan. The New York Times headlined an article, “On Syria Attack, Trump’s Heart Came First.”
My nightmare scenario: Trump and Jared watching TV together and high-fiving: DID YOU SEE THE NEWS! THEY LOVE YOU! All Trump had to do was pointlessly bomb another country, and it was as if a genie had granted his every wish.
Looking for some upside to this fiasco, desperate Trump supporters bleated that bombing Assad had sent a message to North Korea. Yes, the message is: The Washington establishment is determined to manipulate the president into launching counterproductive military strikes. Our enemies—both foreign and domestic—would be delighted to see our broken country further weaken itself with pointless wars.
We've got to support this guy on what we want most, enforcement of our sovereignty. If that doesn't happen more seriously soon, we just can't treat this guy like our leader - there are plenty of leaders out there. So, the answer is, as soon as most of us were to realize that this guy is just playing to the crowd on border control and legal immigration, while really trying to please the Washington establishment, he will be dead to us. I am hopeful he's just been conned on the foreign policy stuff.
We can still take some time to be thankful this Easter Sunday that we don't have the Hildabeast in front of us nightly on TV (if you still have one of those - shoot it center-screen).
HAPPY EASTER, READERS! (posting will resume on Monday with extreme prejudice)
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I don't think I'm gonna ever let him cut on me.
Posted On: Wednesday - April 12th 2017 6:15PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor
Apropos only to the crazy scene on the Republic Airlines plane the other day, the worst part of which was just the ridiculous, almost non-human way all parties in that incident acted, there is this one lyric line that would apply to that doctor dragged off the plane:
From this verse:
"We'e stayin' in a Holiday Inn full of surgeons;
I guess they meet there once a year.
They exchange physician stories
and get drunk on Tuborg beer.
Then they're off to catch a stripper
with their eyes glued to her G.
But I don't think that I would ever let 'em cut on me!"
Jimmy Buffett, "Miss you so Badly"from Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes:
Plus, the parrotheads have been feelin' no luv here lately. Mucho apologies!
Listen to all the lyrics - they're clear enough to not need to be in pixels here. What a great songwriter!
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The Trump flake out?
Posted On: Wednesday - April 12th 2017 6:02PM MST
In Topics: Trump
To address the 2nd concern from the post two days back, "What is wrong with Trump?", we ask "Does this flake-out of Trump's cover everything?" Whether it's just temporary or not, this neocon action by Trump is in definite contradiction to his campaign statements. It's good to hold out hope, but I don't see how this is some type of "3-D chess", as people term the idea that this guy is just some genius, and everything he does is in a part of his strategy to implement policies we elected him to.
It is true that no matter what trouble the warmongering talk causes up to all-out warfare, if Trump were to keep his promises to turn around the out-of-control foreign invasion, it is still a win for us in the long run. In other words, if the situation isn't turned around soon, all other problems just won't be important, as patriotic Americans wouldn't care anymore what happened to our country. The immigration problem is existential as the goateed kids say.
The problem is, since Trump flaked out on this promise, and more so on his whole stance on "America first", will he flake out on the rest? It's not like he's got any other branch of the Feral Gov't on his side. It's Trump, the leader, and many, many loyal Americans that can change things - who's the next leader in the wings if this guy has flaked out completely?
Another thing to be concerned about is that these wars that are supported by the neocons and globalists seem to be one half of the "Invade-the-World, Invite-the-World" strategy, first explained by Steve Sailer (the article in the link is not even close to the time when Sailer came up with that - it's probably been a decade and a half). It used to be "let's fight them over there, so we don't have to over here", but now it's, "well, we better let some of them come here, as it's only fair since we bombed the shit out of 'em over there". "Oh, BTW, now they are fighting us over here, so we need to fight them over there even more!".
If Trump is supporting one half of this, what should be called "Burn down the world, but replace the Americans first to make our hidey-hole safe"* strategy, why would he not stop on the other half? Has he already been convinced to abandon immigration control? It doesn't look like it so far. Let's hope he's not playing games like the rest of the politicians have been doing on this for 30 years, since they duped Ronnie Reagan into a bad deal back in '86.
It's definitely not time to give up on the president, but he needs to know to shape the hell up and trust his instincts that led him to victory in 2016. Who knows, once the ball gets rolling for border control, maybe it can keep rolling even without this guy, but the job must be done by Americans without the politicians - they are 100% against us.
* OK, that doesn't come off the tongue easier - I can work on it.
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Washington FS and First Ladies
Posted On: Tuesday - April 11th 2017 5:26PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump US Feral Government
I have been in the vicinity of Washington, FS*. It would have been too disheartening to visit any of the government sites other than maybe Jefferson's memorial and the Air/Space museum, but no time for it anyway. It has only been the last 15 years or so in which I would have told anyone who asked that I feel ashamed of this place and "our" allegedly-federal government.
This is the opposite of what we heard from our deposed first lady of 2008-16, who had uttered that she "for once, felt proud to be an American" or some such thing. Of course, that 1st lady only cared about Black America, not America, and she was wrong anyway to be proud. 50 years of socialism have ruined black America along with a lot of the rest.
The first lady thing made me think that only one thing better now is we have a classy beautiful woman as first lady as opposed to some type of affirmative-action wookie. It's not enough to make me a proud American, but I do like her picture [cause it gets page views? - editor]:
Really, I don't know if she's classy or not, and I don't know if she's fashionable. A hottie like that looks good in anything shorter than a full-out, jihad-ready, burka-tent. We hear tell Jacqueline Kennedy was classy and all that too, but PeakStupidity does not claim to be a fashion site, nor should we be.
If we as a nation even survive long enough to care, I do wonder what Melania's "thing" as first lady will be**. Michelle Obama had the whole "eat-your-vegetables" nanny campaign, Nancy Reagan had the "just-say-no" to ingestible substances nanny campaign, and way way back, before most of our readers' times, there apparently was Lady Bird Johnson's (what kind of name is "Lady Bird" anyway?) "don't-be-a-litterbug" nanny campaign. That must be the first lady's job, though I missed that section and article in the US Constitution. I really don't think any of these*** were bad on the scale of what the rest of the Feral Government does. We can ignore the nannies, but we can't ignore the people with guns that will come if we act like free men.
* FS = Federal Shithole
** Just in case the administration has visited PeakStupidity this evening, I'd like to push a favorite nanny issue that Melania might have expertise in -
Melania Trump's campaign could be more of a "naughty nanny" campaign, rather than just a regular nanny campaign, dub it nanny 2.0. Here's a song about a naughty nanny that apparently had an influence on Mr. Freddie Mercury's life, but it may have backfired, now that I think about it:
*** I don't recall what Laura or Barbara Bush's nanny things were - maybe theirs were internal campaigns within the CIA. We also can recall no such nanny campaign from the Hildabeast, but she wouldn't be satisfied with the job of nanny - she was sent up from below, after the opening of the 7th seal, for better and bigger things.
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Updated [4/12 evening]: Added note **, moved note ** to be note ***, and added Queen video to match note **. Got it?
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Has Trump been Neo-conned?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 11th 2017 3:42PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons Deep State
To address the 1st concern from the post yesterday "What is wrong with Trump?", we'd like to discuss what possesses this president to be a warmonger in the continuation of policies of the "commanders-in-chief" of the last 3 decades (or so).
It may have been written here (search features coming some time!) that during the presidential campaign (before PeakStupidity had seen the light of day) Trump just had qualities that would make him hard to bribe or blackmail. That is, he was already famous - on TV and in NYC, he was very rich, and he never claimed to be a straight-arrow. The 1st 2 qualities mean that he was not in this thing under someone else's control, say donors for some specific cause. The last quality would be something that could be used against a Jim Baker TV-evangelist or any of the candidates that claim the moral high ground as one of the primary issues. Everyone should figure Trump is a playboy type, he's on his 3rd wife. If there were pictures of his cheating out there, I don't think that his voters would have cared a bit about it.
I don't think the same could be said for most of the US senators. The more you learn about specific ones, the more your realize it's mostly a depraved bunch of people. It is to be noted that almost all of these people leave the senate as multi-millionaires. Many of them don't start off that way, so ....
So, what's the deal? What could the CIA or anybody else with access to NSA data, which is basically any communications, purchases of goods or services via anything but cash, and almost anything one does outside in the city limits these days. Oh, I forgot to add, probably one's location at any point in time since he purchased his first smart phone. I guess one could come up with something, but I'd thought Donald Trump was a pretty tough guy - tough enough to handle a bit of shame. In fact, it seems he enjoyed arguing about the hypocrisy of the big brouhaha about his locker-room talk during the campaign, for example. Could you bribe this guy? How much more money does he need? He lost a decent amount just by committing to the campaign, due to silly boycotts by the SJWs and assorted opponents. I think he couldn't be bribed.
It could be that some threats were made to the effect of "Look what happened to JFK" or "We already put old Ronnie in his place the 1st year - we may choose a larger caliber than .22 this time". It makes me really wonder what happened during the Ross Perot campaign in summer of '92. To me, Mr. Perot was the closest thing we had to a Donald Trump in the recent past. I should say, Mr. Trump was the closest thing to a Ross Perot. Mr. Perot, if you recall, or bing it, dropped out of a fairly successful campaign due to concerns about the safety of his family. This was a business leader/entrepreneur with about the order of magnitude of wealth as Donald Trump. You don't seem to hear much about what really happened in July 1992, and Perot, after re-entering the race received almost 19% of the popular vote.
OK, this was going to be a short post, but it's not happening. I'm just to the next question: Is this guy irresponsible enough with his power to take advice from his daughter. The story is that Ivanka Trump saw pictures of (allegedly?) gassed children and her distress made Mr. Trump decide to DO SOMETHING. Well, listen, it's terrible for innocent children to die period, but it sure doesn't help the lot of them to start a war. How many have died but just didn't appear in pictures in wars started by our commander-in-chiefs before in wars that are not in defense of this country? This rule-by-emotion crap is not acceptable! We ran into this with the pictures of some drowned kid washed up on the beach in southern Europe. "Oh, we must help these people invade our lands more safely!" was the response to that photo. I don't guess thinking emotionally and making irresponsible policy based on photos takes into account some rapes of kids in Germany by Moslem invaders, does it? That's the problem with this feminine rule-by-emotion. Compassion is only for short-term events, but there is no compassion for the long term terrible effects on lives and future lives when no masculine logical thinking and judgment is involved.
Nancy Reagan was always criticized back in the 1980's for using horoscope data to influence Ronnie in making policy, but there was no evidence that the man listened to her. With Trump this may not be the case. I don't like it.
Lastly, the son-in-law of the president, Jared Kushner is known to be not just a neocon, but in good with the big neocons. Is this guy influencing his father-in-law? Trump may need a Bannon type to lay down rules to him - "get this would-be power couple the hell out of the White House. Go see them on weekends at the golf course and come to their baby showers or fashion shows, but that's all!" Trump has seemed wise enough, as described in the previous post, to pick the right people to guide him in the past. However, he may have just not trusted his instincts and judgment and is letting the powerful neocon and MIC crowd make him doubt that he has been right - "we can't be the world's policeman anymore". I would add, "due last but not least that we are broke beyond all recognition", BBAR, FUBAR, whatever.
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Skynyrd - Truck Drivin' Man
Posted On: Monday - April 10th 2017 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans Southern rock
Dedicated to a friend and part-time reader of this blog.
Lynryd Skynyrd's Truck Drivin' Man from "Legend", 1977
The video has got some nice shots of the big rigs too.
"Well there's smoke from the stacks a-blowin'
And he don't care where he's goin'
The only time he feels right is when he's rollin'."
Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
Allen Collins – guitar
Gary Rossington – guitar
Billy Powell – keyboards
Artimus Pyle – drums
Leon Wilkeson – bass
Steve Gaines - guitar
Ed King - guitar
Bob Burns - drums
Larry Junstrom- bass
We need more Southern Rock on here.
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What's wrong with President Trump?
Posted On: Monday - April 10th 2017 5:18PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons
Is this guy Trump going to dash our hopes into the ground? The latest wrong move by him is the lobbing of cruise missiles into Syria, of which the news could be found everywhere over the last few days. PeakStupidity's and, we reckon, most patriotic Americans, disappointment about this is not the stupid neocon move itself, but whether this means that the man is not, or never was, or is no longer, good for his word.
The continuation of the endless warfare state (only seen to this degree in the country of Oceana in the book 1984) goes against what Trump rightfully argued in his campaign for president. True, he was never going to be a Ron Paul. He came across as being against the US being the "world' policeman" more for practical than libertarian reasons. It was also not the biggest issue, which was out-of-control immigration. That's what got him elected. Mr. Trump, though he never had the grasp of history and politics like a Pat Buchanan, seemed to learn from the right people and lean the right way once he did learn about an issue.
The immigration thing is a good example. Trump not only picked Jeff Sessions of Alabama for Attorney General, but the had sought him out for good advice on the immigration issue way back during the primaries. Another example is the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. This is a guy from NY City, remember; his world was one in which his bodyguards could carry arms, he and the rich and famous and well-connected were the only men who could seriously consider getting "approved" to legally carry a gun in NYC, yet he ended up thinking and talking the right stuff during the election for a very early endorsement by the NRA (well, it was against the HIldabeast, so you know ...)
The Syria thing is worrying for a number of reasons, each of which will be short a separate post to come:
1) Why is Trump being a neocon warmonger, when it is against what he seemed to believe before? Is it that he is under control of the "deep state"? How? If not that, is he running America's foreign policy to please his daughter and son-in-law?
2) If Trump has flaked out on his foreign policy positions, what else will he flake out on? The immigration issue has more of the rest of the US gov't involved, but he could have gotten a lot more done already.
3) How long will it take, or how many more stupid things like this, for Trump to lose the enthusiastic support of us patriotic Americans? Will it just be another George Bush (any one those worthless bastards) administration, meaning no slow-down in the stupidity?
It's just really disappointing so far, what we're seeing from this guy. He's just one guy, as I said, and needs our support in a multitude of ways. There are major impediments all throughout the Feral Government, but this Syria thing was a Commander-in-Chief decision; it's on Trump alone.
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Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Posted On: Saturday - April 8th 2017 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans
Are the good times really over for good?
Merle Haggard released this song in 1982, so the 3 songs from Thursday, Friday, and tonight are from 1973, 1980, and 1982. The future didn't look too bright for a lot of people back then, but the country got out of it ... for a spell.
"Are we rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell
with no kinda chance for the flag or the liberty bell."
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Oh, this country sure looks good to me... but these fences are coming apart
Posted On: Friday - April 7th 2017 6:32PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Americans
at every nail.
This is another song, from 37 years back this time, in which the lyrics would make one think it was written today. Neil Young was pretty left wing, and musicians in general are not to be listened to on politics. These lyrics just happen to ring true, like the stopped clock once or twice per day. It's also got the great backing vocals of Nicolette Larson, who also sang on Comes a Time and Sail Away.
"Hey, hey, ain't that right?
The workingman's in for a hell of a fight.
Oh this country sure looks good to me,
but these fences are coming apart at every nail."
"Coming Apart at Every Nail" from "Hawks and Doves"
I think you could talk to 10 Neil Young fans, and only 1 would have heard of the album "Hawks and Doves". It's a great album and I listened to it for the 1st time off a cassette tape one night while traveling across this country on a train. The 2nd cut "The Old Homestead" was pretty freaky in my head, as I recall - I don't know what Neil was on when he wrote this.
The first song in this series was American Tune by Paul Simon, yesterday, and there's one more to come.
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It's alright, it's alright, you can't be forever blessed
Posted On: Thursday - April 6th 2017 8:31PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans
This should have been the very first post of this blogsite. More than 40 years ago, Mr. Paul Simon nails it. Was he a prescient guy writing about the future of his country? No, times looked pretty shaky back then. However, America still had an economy that was by a long shot the strongest in the world, even with the problems we had, and it was still a far more unified place than what we have now.
Since, we recovered from the turbulent times of the late 60's - 70's, aren't we being too pessimistic to write this place off now also, as bad as things look? No, I don't believe so. It IS different this time - you can't be forever blessed.
"American Tune" was off the "There goes Rhymin' Simon" from 1973:
"We came on the ship they called the Mayflower;
we came on the ship that sailed the moon.
We came in the age's most uncertain hour
to sing an American tune."
There are 2 more songs in the same vein as American Tune that we will put up the next 2 nights here at PeakStupidity - 3 songs about coming apart.
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