A Convergent Infinite Series of Illegal Aliens? #DoTheMath
Posted On: Thursday - January 23rd 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Science
(Note: The "Science" topic key was applied above, but that's only due to the lack of a "Math" tag. We're not adding a freaking math tag.)
I liked Calculus I and Calculus 3. The 2nd class, in between, involved a lot of tricky integration concepts and procedures that you just couldn't see in your head. The beauty of Newton's ideas, in 2D in I, then 3D in 3, can be nicely visualized. Taking that infinitely small differential element in either rectangular or polar coordinates, defining it correctly, applying stresses, heat fluxes, whatever, then defining boundary conditions, and summing an infinite number of them up - the process called integration - to get a nice useful equation out of it is a thing of beauty.
We did infinite series also in the first class. For the life of me, I never saw where all those fit in. I could do the math, though, and some of the results were amazing. There are convergent series and divergent series. I left my math book somewhere, so from this wiki page (would they lie about math, even?!) we read:
More precisely, a series converges, if and only if there exists a number ℓ, such that for every arbitrarily small positive number ε, there is a (sufficiently large) integer N such that for all n ≥ N,On this page, the examples of divergent series all sum to ∞, but I don't think that's part of the definition. (I would know for sure if I
|Sn − ℓ| < ε
If the series is convergent, the (necessarily unique) number ℓ is called the sum of the series.
Peak Stupidity has discussed a magical mathematical result, The Eleven, a number of times already.* The unique constant, 11 million, still crops up in immigration invasion mathematical discussions. Here's one, from within this otherwise informative ZeroHedge
It's so weird, right?! This is why infinite series can be really cool. Illegal aliens have come into America in net rate numbers ranging from 1/4 million to a million, yearly, for half a century, at least. (Operation Wetback put the kibosh on the practice for a few years, but people forget - that's why you need a BORDER.) An estimate was made with that number 11 million, back in 2000. Since then the same rate, with a series of 1/2 a million this year, 1 million the next, etc. has been holding, and yet this convergent series still sums to 11 million, no matter what the value of n! Math is cool! It's hard, but it's cool.
Oh, what about that Dark Brandon/Mayorkas surge of 12 million in less than 4 years?
PS: In math, we have to be VERY CAREFUL with definitions. What does Nate Hochman above mean by "some"? In this context "some" = " the sum of all non-retarded people".
PSS: Yes, this mass- (if it really becomes one) deportation program is very exciting for patriotic Americans. It's been 70 years since the last time, Operation Wetback** under Dwight Eisenhower, but at least half a century since there should have been another. Again, Bring Back VDare!! (Will they start the site back up if Leticia James is bounced?)
* There's discussion about a
** There was not a lot of Political Correctness back in 1954, was there? One wonders why.
*** Ha, at first I'd written a semi-homophonic era, errr, error.
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Mt. McKinley v Denali
Posted On: Wednesday - January 22nd 2025 10:37AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Trump Pundits
In our previous post on the ongoing Trump Blitzkreign of Executive Orders, I did not list everything, and there was no particular order there, other than "if you really care that much about TikTok, you can just get the hell out of this right country now!" I didn't mention the name changes.
Though the rest of the post is paywalled, I got a little bit out of the Steve Sailer substack post The Name Game: Confusing the Elderly in Their Declining Years to bring up the same point I often have a problem with. No, he's right, mind you. He's eminently reasonable:
That [having a Denali National Park with (still-named) 20,300 ft.* Mt. McKinley as its big feature] seemed like a reasonable compromise to me at the time. With both names in effect, you could use whichever one came naturally to you with only moderate chance for confusion.Yes, of course Øb☭ma would change anything he could to erase the history of the White men who built the country. President Trump will reverse that.
In contrast, complete name changes confuse everybody past about their sophomore year in collage, and provide fodder to the easily offended, encouraging their tendencies toward obnoxious verbal puritanism.
Hence, in 2015, Obama changed Mt. McKinley to Denali (not Mt. Denali, just Denali).
Hopefully, Trump is going back to that compromise of the 1980s: reversing Obama’s 10 year old name change of Mt. McKinley to Denali but also leaving Carter’s 45 year old Denali National Park.
Look, I'm just not worried about how far Trump goes on this reversal of the history revisionism. If you're one of those old folks who accepted the new anti-White, anti-Southern, anti-American names for things with no pushback, I'm sorry, but I'm not all broken up about your ability to keep up now. Why didn't you just keep using the old names? I do. (Yeah, OK, road signs...).
We're in a Culture War. Luckily, for now, it's mostly a war of words. The ctrl-left has been winning this thing for a half century now, with a big successful surge within the last decade. Trump is right** to push back hard. Rename the forts back! I know, it cost millions to rename them just a couple of years ago, but the military apparently has a lot of money to blow. Use 1 % of that Ukraine money - it'll be more than enough. Unz Review commenter Jenner Ickham Errican*** had this to say (his bolding):
Might be smart and amusing to roll with the tit-for-tat renaming thing: Now that the Left has started it, it can’t be stopped. Agree and amplify, as a wiseguy once said.Heh!
For instance former Fort Bragg, currently Fort Liberty, should now be renamed Fort Forrest (after Nathan Bedford). Then it’s Fort Leo Frank, and later Fort Literally Hitler…
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You might just be The Most Reasonable Guy in America. That's a great thing when it comes to gathering people to our side. When it comes to the other side of the Culture War, though, they DON'T CARE how reasonable we are. Some of them likely understand and even agree, but this is not about understanding and agreeing. It's about power with them. They are erasing history in order to humiliate and (hopefully, in their minds) eliminate the White man. If you push back, don't worry about being reasonable, OK?
Trump is a fighter on our side in this Culture War. No, "Gulf of America" is stupid - if anything, geographically, it's going the wrong way. Keep it clear that there's a big gulf between the US and Mexico. However, Trump should get a lot of support and hopefully start a trend with this un-renaming thing. I'm all for it. Keep those E.O.s flying!
PS: I suppose the reader may be thinking: If you didn't read the whole Steve Sailer post (it said 1,800 more words), how can you comment about it? See, I agree with him on the specifics. I just have never agreed that we're gonna work out all our problems by being reasonable with the other side.
* Sure, that's only 2/3 as high as the tallest, but it's the highest "base to peak" mountain on earth. Well, don't freaking start at the base, then!
** No, I don't want him to FIXATE on this. There are more important things he should be doing, BY FAR, but he is that high-energy guy, so let him spend a little time on this.
*** Reads as "Generic American" - took me 2 or 3 years to figure that out (or be told, can't remember).
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Feelin' Stronger Every Day? - 8 years later
Posted On: Monday - January 20th 2025 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump US Feral Government
Happy Martin Luther, Doctor King, Reverend, J.D., CPA, RN Jr. Day! It's a good day to practice your shot groupings. We did. Wait, that's not what Peak Stupidity and the country are so excited about...*
Peak Stupidity featured this same great Chicago song we've got here today on the day before Donald Trump's inauguration 8 years ago. At that point, the blog had been in operation less than 2 months.
I am not so excited this time around. Perhaps I should be MORE excited than last time, because this Administration is much better arranged and staffed with people on Trump's side** in the war against Globalism and for Americans than the crowd of '16. However, I'm 8 years older and wiser, Donald Trump is 8 years older and... hopefully wiser but too old to change his egotistical blowhard personality "archetype", if I may.
One thing going for us is that this time around Trump is rightly pissed about the Totalitarian actions and woke madness that have come down upon all of us recently. That's nice, because, though Trump cares more about Trump than he does about America, our righteous anger is in synch with his.
Nope, the same as 4,8,12,16,20, 24, 28 ... actually ALL years ago, I didn't watch this what is more akin to a coronation than a simple swearing in per US Constitution I heard about it from my wife.*** I'm not happy with the VIllage People (no matter how straight they claim to be), the Black! pandering, and whatever else I can't remember and don't want to. It's the Executive Orders in this age in which we've decided to Bid Hello to Kings again - talking Rush here, not the Old Testament - that mattered today and will for the next few days and weeks., If those "stroke of the pen, law of the land - kinda cool"**** E.O.s aren't what we need and have demanded. The following are not in any kind of order:
1) The J6: This is not the most important issue as far as helping the country - a multi-million illegal deportation program is - but it'd be the biggest immediate signal that we are not continuing the Banana Republicanism. Contrary to what some ex-Green Beret Political Prisoner said, I'm NOT happy if it's just the non-violent prisoners. ALL must be released. The most riotous of the lot were pikers compared to the arsonist, looter, violent crowds all over in Summer of '20. I read that he has ordered 1,500 released. Though I'm not a Be-Bono-moaning Latin American-style Mother of the Disappeared, I am very happy about it so far.
2) The rejection of the Paris Accords. Trump-45 got us out of this particular part of the Climate Calamity™ scam, but Dark Brandon signed us back up in '21. We can keep this yoyo-ing up until we're beyond the climate's Point of Know Return . (No, that never seems to work somehow.) Perhaps America would have never lived up to our end of this stupid and odious agreement anyway, but this shows that Trump sees this (lately dubbed) Global Boiling for the scam it is. We will have more about this recently-neglected subject shortly on Peak Stupidity.
3) Freezing of Feral Gov't hiring (minus the military and other exceptions) along with a freeze on new regulations. Great!! [/Early 1980s Ronald Reagan voting Peak Stupidity staff] It's unfortunately not 1980, so these are nice thoughts but entirely too late to avoid ... let's call it "trouble". Oh, and this executive order is actually something the President, being, you know, Administrator of the Executive Branch, is supposed to be doing.
4) Some paperwork to beat inflation. From what I read, neither the FED nor gold standard were mentioned, so... yeah, guys, good luck with all that!
5) Immigration control and reversal. (For the latter hey like to use"remigration" now. Whatever. It's not about what THEY like.) I don't know the details and, as written here a number of times since their suspension of operations last Summer, we miss VDare dearly. (Here's hoping that link will go to more than difficult-to-get-through archives sometime again.) It was 3 days ahead, but hopefully it will hold that NPR worries Immigrants and advocacy organizations brace for Trump's Day One actions. The bracing was 3 days ago. We want to see the impact. Stay
The 10 anti-invasion points described here starting with "Declaring a National Emergency at the border" sound very good. We'll see what Trump gets around to...
6) TikTok lives to waste people's time another day - actually 75 days for now on a pause from being banned. Oh, wait, this one is definitely in order here in this post.
I'll put my white pill prescription renewal on hold too. There are side effects I don't want to experience. Stupidity is listed top of the bottle. Let's try music again.
I wrote this same 8 years back - don't bother listening to this one unless you have good speakers with some serious amount of bass.
Chicago at the time of this song from Chicago VI was:
Peter Cetera – lead vocals, bass
Robert Lamm – keyboards, backing vocals, Hohner Pianet
Terry Kath – guitar, backing vocals
Danny Seraphine – drums
James Pankow – trombone
Lee Loughnane – trumpet
Walter Parazaider – tenor saxophone
We wish Godspeed to President Trump-47 and a way for him that avoids the stupidity of Trump-45. If not, hey, we're MAGA, and we'll get somebody else.
* There was another fairly big event that happened on that Commie race hustler's birthday back in '20. (Makes sense calendar wise - 5 years and 2 leap days between these psuedo-birthday Mondays.) Peak Stupidity's lead blogger thought it big anyway, as yours truly attended the very big gun rally held in Richmond, Virginia. See There's great power in numbers - Case study: Richmond, Virginia and Richmond gun rally - a lesson about ignoring the narrative. It was also very cold - same month in which these same type extreme weather events seem to happen.
** Yeah, there will be some exceptions, I'm sure. There may have been one already, as Vickram has been said to be dropping out of the DOGE committee. Since his anti-Americans stance on the H1B visa issue, I'd be glad if he were to just (be made to) walk away.
*** This makes an interesting comparison to '16. She didn't care about politics much until about '18-'19. She did ask me, however, to help her register to vote in Summer of '16. I told her I'd be glad to if she planned on voting for Trump. There was too much hemming and hawing out of her, so that was a no-go!
**** That link goes to a site called News with Views and a page from one Debra Rae. From what I've just read, she's kinda cool.
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Budget Cutting v Austerity
Posted On: Saturday - January 18th 2025 8:10AM MST
In Topics: Humor Economics Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Socialism/Communism
I saw this ZeroHedge headline yesterday:
I know I have had a bad feeling about this "Quoth the Raven" guy from before, as he must have written something stupid. In this case, I see someone with the Libertarian point of view who has no idea of how much of a Welfare State the US is. One
Back in December, Peak Stupidity posted Will the DOGE save our economy? (short answer: NO) with a graph that explains* why budget cutting cannot replace austerity in a Welfare State. It IS austerity.
I remember the stories about cries from the people in Greece and such countries with half-assed semi-Latin-American economies. Their Welfare State is huge, so when any significant amount of the budget is cut, there is, by definition, austerity, with lower welfare payments and other grift being doled out, meaning lots of people feeling that financial pain. "No more austerity! Just save the economy!" "Whut?"
We're in the same boat as the Greeks... manned by the same Ben Hurs at the oars ... no, not like that. You can cut around the edges, DOGE guys. Take out OSHA for instance, and the country will become more prosperous just due to the freedom from onerous creativity-killing regulation alone, even if all the employees were still paid and given money to shoot pool all day. If you did quit paying them, that's still small-time cutting, though. If you're trying to make a serious dent in that $2,000,000,000,000 yearly deficit**, you've got to cut out some of the meat. That means Social Security - that 3rd rail, so don't use anything made of metal - and Medicaid.*** You do that, and you'll hear the cries about Austerity!! for the first time in this country.
It would be the first time you heard that here, because America has been borrowing and spending for the last 90+ years (starting with Roosevelt devaluing the dollar), and with nary a peep about it over in the 21st Century, almost a quarter of it having gone by. Our Feral Gov't considers decreases in the rates of increase of government programs to be "cuts". Real cuts in the discretionary budget - now only a small proportion of the spending - will put gov't employees out of work, a good thing in the long run, but with pain to be felt. The massive cuts needed to put a visible dent in a deficit, well, nobody wants to get into those.
Real budget cutting IS austerity, when you've gone full retard Socialist. Next time, if there is a next time, you don't get yourself into this position. Nevermore!, quoth the raven.
* The graph in that post was meant to display something else, the big increase in interest payment amount as part of the Federal expenditures. However, it also shows us where the rest of the big bulk of the money has been going.
** Cutting the deficit, unless it's to ZERO, means that debt is still going up! However, seriously cutting it would have a major psychological effect, as in, "we are approaching the abyss more slowly now".
*** Yes, the Offense budget is a big part too, so that's the place to start.
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RaDaSS, the concept
Posted On: Thursday - January 16th 2025 9:00PM MST
In Topics: California The Future Science
Now, for something completely different!
That's Rapid Detection and Small-scale Supression. That sounds awfully MIC-like, I realize.
I had 3 other posts to write, which will be coming. However, as I read all about the Los Angeles fires from "a guy" who lives there, I thought I'd throw in an idea in the comments. It's just
Lots of the not-necessarily technically-oriented, but astute and worldly, commenters on Mr. Sailer's Unz Review blog wrote their ideas about what has gone wrong in Los Angeles and how to stop a disaster like this in the future. Let anyone say "Climate Change", even in your heads here, and I'm sorry, you can just get off this blog right now. Step off, Jack! (Or Jonathan.) Enough of that "unexpected, extreme weather events" bullshit. It gets hot in southern Cal, it's really a desert kept livable by a century of amazing engineering work and upkeep by the White man, and, yes that the place is now "no country for White men" has a whole lot to do with this disaster.
I won't get into any more of that here. On the non-political, practical side, there were loads of suggestions about better building materials, more and higher up reservoirs (helps to keep them filled too!) and tanks, mandatory ce-ment ponds (sorry!), piping all over the hillsides, and AnotherDad with his "Ring of Golf", haha! Besides some general simple building code changes, all of these are 10's or 100's of Billion dollar ideas. How about we do some out-of-the box thinking? See, Mr. Sailer, in his Takimag article on the fires*, Mr. Sailer rightly noted that America was a can-do country in the past, and California, per his timeline and personal/historic knowledge, flipped from that to a can't-do State with a 5 year period. It was '69, '70 ... it was a
No, big projects like the Los Angeles aqueducts that took water from the Owens Valley across the State and later from up north (Mono Basin, etc.) of a century back aren't things that can be done anymore.** "No can do."
What HAS changed since then that we CAN take advantage of, even in this world of D.I.E.? Remote sensing is one.- I'm not happy about the privacy aspects, but satellites and drones can observe with better and better resolution, storage, and speed. Secondly, drones have gotten pretty amazing in capability for other uses via modern (same thing, fast, high-storage, and cheap-sensor-laden) electronic technology.
Here's the idea: Due to the conditions often to be had in southern California, fires can spread rapidly. How long an interval must pass from detection by residents, patrol aircraft or whomever until firemen are actually at the scene with their equipment? The difference between a small fire still burning only a fraction of an acre and one burning down a whole hillside already maybe a few minutes or a big part of an hour, depending on those conditions - type of vegetation, temperature, and especially wind. Putting out a fire that just started would take a whole lot less water or retardant than one that's been burning down a hillside for an hour. I wish I had some numbers on this - average fire size as a function of time. (Again, it depends on a whole lot of variables besides just time.)
I don't have specs on military drones, but there are drones one can buy that can carry as much as 500 - 1000 lb. Most of those heavy-lift ones are for aerial spraying of crops, replacing the old Ag Cats (Grumman LUVS cats!), Air Tractors, Thrushes, and other cropdusting planes, and unfortunately, their amazingly skilled pilots***. I don't know the specs on the military ones, but obviously some can carry many tons. See some military drone/UAV**** info here. The ridiculous prices show us how much the MIL is scamming us!
Yeah, that's only a 150 gallons of water or retardant, lots more with the bigger military drones, but, compared to major infrastructure projects all around the huge Los Angeles basin, even military prices would be peanuts, and you don't need to pay those. A newly designed drone for the specific purpose could be used, with a few hundred made to be on stand-by. As a bonus, perhaps one small missile or two could be mounted, ready to blast to pieces the illegal aliens or mental cases who started said fire.
Let's get into that part. Speed is important, but jet aircraft speeds are not necessary and would probably be dangerous*****. Since some of these drones (the quad-copter or other helicopter style) need NO runway, one could find plenty of locations to base them - each with a decent-sized (filled-up!) water tank on site. For the winged machines, I imagine a hundred or two yards would do for a short-field craft. So, for a 5 minute response time, just an example (a number that is the crux of the whole idea), at 120 kt. flying speed, you'd cover a 10 mile radius, with a minute or two at most required for launch. Mr. Sailer puts the LA basin at 4,000 mi2 in his article. Allowing some slop for overlap (we're talking circles within a rough square), only 50, maybe 75 sites would need to be set up for these normally-on-standby operations.
It's not a "green" thing for me, as the reader should well know, but since the round-trip and mission time would be so short these drones could be electric, or, if Avgas or Jet-A (for a turboprop) powered, would not need a whole lot of fuel. That weight saved means more water or retardant can be carried.
Now, going out of order here, seeing as the "RaD" is for rapid detection, I'll mention something about remote sensing. (This is 2nd mainly because I don't know so much about the current state of it.)
There've been fire towers around big forests for I suppose a century, and aerial patrols by medium-low flying slow single engine planes having been done for easily half that long. One can see smoke from a long ways. However, pinpointing the position can take a while. With remote sensing, I know the resolution is amazing these days, down to feet. A fire burning a few square feet could be detected. Very accurate position information can be determined through image processing software. This can be done very quickly.
There's a nice fairly short overview article in Science Direct - Remote sensing for wildfire monitoring: Insights into burned area, emissions, and fire dynamics. This article is satellite-biased, I'd say, giving short shrift to UAVs/drones in one paragraph. There's a lot to say, based on cost and ability to improvise, for high-flying drones to do this work.
The article mentions some causes of false alarms, such as sunlight reflections off surfaces. However, the beauty of remote sensing in various wavelengths is that one (and eventually some software) can use just the right ones to find the "signature" of a fire only.
Of course, some known non-destructive fires, such as refinery flares or what-have-you could be put into a database to be ignored. Anything out of the ordinary though, could quickly result in the launch of a small-scale fire suppression drone. The quick response time would hopefully result in an arrival at a fire that is still small enough to be put out with those 100 gallons or whatever.
Back to the low-level small-scale suppression drones, I can see a whole lot of fun science/engineering involved in optimizing the suppression effectiveness. You've only got a small amount of water or retardant, compared to a series of helicopter drops or a blast from an overhead DC-10(!). Again, software can do about anything, so the spray pattern could be tinkered with to get the maximum effectiveness. Is it better to drop a whole lot of water around the periphery to stop the spread? Maybe a lower-rate sprinkling on the whole thing does more, with a number of runs taken. I don't know, but it'd be some fun theoretical modeling and (most of it) great experimental engineering work. Decide what works best, and make the drones do it that way.
That's the idea. One thing needed would be an air traffic avoidance feature based on the commonplace ADS-B. It'd look bad if an air crash was due to a drone hauling ass across the neighborhoods of LA to put out a barbecue. The way electronics are in today's world, if you can think of the logic, you can program it in.
This is Peak Stupidity's suggestion to improve the lot of Los Angelenos who might otherwise decamp to the real America, to the detriment of us all. To me, the cost would be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude lower than any other serious suggestions I've read of.
It's rad! It's badass! Hence, it's RaDaSS.
PS: I do know how fast fires spread from personal, errr, arson events. We only meant to burn a piece of potassium in a Dixie cup from the lab one day out in the weeds. I even brought my Mom's gardening water pot with us. Before you could say "hey, fire!", about 4 ft square was alight. It got worse quickly - it'd been really dry and the wind was up.
Luckily, the parents were away during the whole time we ran in to call the fire department, they came out with 4 trucks and put it out, they left, and the whole lot next to our house was blackened. "What happened?!" "I don't know. The field was on fire, so we called up and the fireman came and put it out." "OK." Whewwww!
* Yeah, I've not seen him write so much on one subject in a long time. (NOBODY mention the Kung Flu! [/Faulty Towers, was it?]
** There was a lot of political and actual fighting about it then, but, no matter what you think of that, there'd be no Los Angeles as we know it without the water projects. (Maybe that would have been for the best when we look at it now, but in the 1950s through '70s - man, it was probably the best place and time to have ever lived on Earth.)
*** They don't talk about long landings off the runway, so much as hitting fence posts. That's how low they fly.
**** Even from reading this "droneblog" web page that purports to explain the difference in many, many words, I don't get the difference!
***** That'd be one of the things to work out - flying these things in the busy airspace. Somewhat slower is better, lower is better, and they must keep away from airport runways.
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[UPDATED 01/17:] Added the one paragraph starting with "Back to the low-level..." I'd be really excited to be doing that kind of work. It's not for the stupid, ungrateful, and uncaring - Diversity need not apply.
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¿Esta la mierda golpea el ventilador?
Posted On: Tuesday - January 14th 2025 8:40PM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation Peak Stupidity Roadshow
That's Espanol para SHTF.
Remember what Peak Stupidity has been ranting about regarding the demise of the US Dollar? Yeah, you'll get your SS check for $2,750 a month. However, the US Gov't's calculation of CPI increases to help you keep up with inflation is, shall we say, unsound. They can't really have SS and the entitlements keep up with the actual rate- that defeats the purpose of inflation in gnawing down on that debt.
So, you're down in Latin America living the high life as a rich fat American like pundit Fred Reed. You've had a lady coming to clean the house weekly for $20, another lady to be your girlfriend for slightly higher, and... then ...eat that, bitchez!
To think Uruguay has been considered a possible bug-out location.
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OK, OK, joke's over. Those prices are in pesos. Still, down in Montevideo, I expected the US $ would go farther. It was ~ 42 pesos to a buck, so those prices are $4.75 for a small, just under $6 for the medium, and just over $7 for a large. ¿Como se dice "¡Super Size Mi!"? Let's zoom out a bit from that sign:
Well, maybe the beef is better... Weendee Tomas say "¡¿Donde es la carne, beetchez?!"
We did not partake of the McCombo's down in Montevideo, but we did get down there finally to check the place out. Peak Stupidity will have a number of posts coming for info and entertainment - Infotainment*, they call it.
* ¿Did David Letterman coin that term? I has assumed so, but that's probably not the case. [¿How long we gonna keep doing this? - Ed.]
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A few numbers on H1B and the completely bogus "cap"
Posted On: Saturday - January 11th 2025 12:00PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity University Trump The Future Big-Biz Stupidity
See, this is when we miss VDare.com the most. Instead of going through a bunch of websites to find the truth on the H1B and other ID-visa (Indentured Servant) numbers, Peak Stupidity could have pointed the reader to multiple VDare posts with all the numbers you need. We are still hoping for some sort of downfall of Black! fat-ass NY Attorney General Leticia James, so that VDare could rise out of it's archival ashes.
Commenter E.H. Hail noted Peak Stupidity's way-off numbers in our most recent post on the H1B visa battle. We have corrected that post and apologized. The numbers in my head, from 2 decades of reading VDare were off because of one thing I'm almost certain of now, H1B visa caps. They are a complete joke!
The reader can see from one of the tables on this page on redbus2us.com* for the last 21 years that "cap on H1B visas" has been 85,000. That's 65,000 "Regular Quota" and 20,000 "Masters Quota" yearly. To serve Americans - NO!!! it's an anarchist's cookbook!
Before then, BTW, per a chart here, the cap popped up from 65,000 "normal"** to 115,000 in '99-'00, then up to 195,000 during Bush Jr.'s 1st term. (Granted, a big share of those applications were not approved for a couple of those years, '02-'03, but that was just 9/11 fall-out. The Moslems/Arabs came even faster, though, on their student visas and such.**)
These numbers for the "cap" are more of a joke than the Feral Gov't debt ceiling. At least the latter is put of a vote every time - about yearly anymore - to kick that can down to the (coming) end of the road. There's no vote on busting the cap here. "TECH" titans decide how many more Indentured Servants they still want. Once the cap is reached, as RedBusToUS helpfully informs
The whole thing is just a 3 century later kindler and gentler version of the Charlestown slave market. "I need 10 more field hands for the cotton, a dozen for the indigo, 20 house servants." They had to send someone to the auction and give requests verbally or in writing, as there was no website back in those days. Now, I'm sure there's a portal and an app for these "TECH" titans to order up some more
To get finally to the raw numbers, Mr. Hail's link goes to 3 bar graphs, of '13 through '18, from the US State Dept - H1Bs, H1As, and H2Bs. The latter two are for imported nurses and then "temporary non-agricultural workers" (say, the foreigners running all the rides at the State Fair - Americans don't know how), respectively. Let me just concentrate on the H1B's due to their being the big discussion going on, and that the whole system of "non"-immigrant visas is overwhelming. Mr. Hail gave numbers in the comments, along with his own take on Trump's failure on this. There's a less data-heavy article on the BBC site that gets into the H1B issuances and Trump here.
I'll point the reader to some other, also slightly old, data, here on this US Customs/Immigration page. It has '07 to '17 data, broken up in terms of country of origin, occupation of Indentured Servitude, general type of business doing the indenturing, age range, and compensation. Indians are 2/3 to 3/4 of the recipients, hence their presence in America being heavily "bandied about" on twitter, and the Chinese are the next highest, around the 10% level. Other nationalities, taken individually fall well behind, at less than 3% for the highest (Philippines).
The share of these Indentured Servants brought over for IT work is a majority, 60% or so, of the total. So, Indians in IT, by the millions, is what this particular visa type is all about. The numbers are high, in the high 200,000 to low 300,000 ANNUALLY, from another site I looked at - it was more current. Then, in '24, Dark Brandon went FULL TRAITOR and brought it up to 3/4 of a million!
There you go, a few numbers, as a correction and to inform our readers. The polemics will continue until morale improves or we meet together in Montevideo. Actually, no, but that's another few posts to come ...
PS: Jared Taylor has an Unz Review post out on this subject. I found the image above a few days back, but Mr. Taylor wryly noted for his article, "Seventy-two-point-six percent of the people who come in on them are Indians, 12.5 percent are Chinese, and only about 2 percent are white, but naturally, the sample visa you find on the internet is for a Frenchman!"
* Holy crap, it took me till just a few minutes ago to understand what the URL means. That's "Red Bus to (the) US". Yeah, the site is one little part of the whole LEGAL immigration scam apparatus.
** Normal, master's degree, whatever, they are all staying, and they are all hired for jobs actual American could be doing.
*** The 2 stories in that post are of African immigrants owning slaves in the US, but there have been stories of Indians in New Jersey doing the same. Again, bring back VDare!
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Steve Sailer, the "Rightists", Justin Castreau, and Big Mike
Posted On: Friday - January 10th 2025 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Commies Genderbenders Pundits Americans
It's quite a cast of characters we've got in the title. I wrote in the postscript of Peak Stupidity's previous post that I'd read* over the recent SteveSailer.net substack article Is Justin Trudeau the son of Fidel Castro?, along with the (as usual) interesting and well-written comments.* I read it BEFORE I wrote that post on Mr. Castreau (who's unfortunately not resigned YET), but that didn't stop me from using the terminology in question here.
I feel I must state here first that I'm a big fan of Steve Sailer and am glad he's gotten closer to the spotlight lately. America would be, if not better off, at least more enlightened and truth-seeking were this pundit read widely or a regular on Fox News (haha, not agonna happen). However, here's a case in which I can see that a peacetime consigliere, as he is, doesn't get some of what's going on in the political world.
Let me excerpt the part of his post I refer to:
Young rightist memesters tend to be ignorant about how formidable was Pierre Trudeau, who during his 15 years as prime minister more or less re-founded the British colony of Canada on the model of his own bilingual self. (Pierre was one of 3% of the population who grew up fluent in both English and French.)Who are these "Rightists" of which he speaks? I suppose that this term is at least nice and symmetric with "Leftists" - we use "ctrl-left" here because it's clever and symmetric with "alt-right". However, "Leftist" must be used due to the complete misusage of "Liberal" for the last 60 years. Those who are now Libertarians would have been Liberals a century ago. The root word is "liberty". Since the 1960s "Liberals" have not been for liberty at all - it was all just expediency within the Long March.
So they assume Pierre must have been some cheese-eating surrender monkey who was of course cuckolded by Fidel Castro on his honeymoon.
And what if the theory is true? Due to their ignorance of Canadian history, rightists have been asserting, in effect, that Justin Trudeau enjoys the Nature of the most glamorous opponent of America, Fidel Castro, and the Nurture of the biggest man of 20th Century Canada, Pierre Trudeau.
And that proves Justin Trudeau is a wimp because … well … they'll get back to you on that one.
By "Rightest", I figure Mr. Sailer means "Conservative", a perfectly fine term. Is he not one of these? In nobody's imagination is Steve Sailer anything but a Conservative. He must mean those low-brow, (sometimes foul-mouthed), conspiracy-theorizing, often less civil, pundits and memers only, which doesn't include him.
Because he's certainly not low-brow, Mr. Sailer does not understand the mindset of those who are, many of them true Conservatives within MAGA, who are pretty much the only Americans against the UniParty and the Globalist Commies. Whether he likes them (us?**) or not, they (we?**) are surely on his side when it comes down to the so-far-still-cold Cultural Revolution.
The point of the Sailer post in question here is to correct we Rightists for being Wrong when it calls to the name-calling, along with it possible slander, of the Commie Canadian Prime Minister Justin Castreau. (See? There you go again!) We'll get to his reasoning. Within the comments there is much discussion of the claim by we Rightists that Justin "Trudeau" is the illegitimate son of the old Cuban Commie Fidel Castro. That's not really the point of THIS post, so let me then bring in a couple of comments that relate to it. I really like this 1st, short and concise one, by one "Approved Posture", even though I don't agree with 2/3 of it:
The Castro paternity theory is both completely false and utterly compelling.Ha! I don't see how this theory is so obviously false, and since I'm not a People magazine guy, the story is not particularly compelling to me, but yes, I love it and hope it will never die! Why? We'll get to that too.
I love it and hope it will never die.
Let us now bring the last character, Big Mike, into the discussion. In our recent post On Matt Gaetz and Big Mike, we made the same point as we will here. We argued against a similar scolding correction of the record to the crazy MAGA folks, that time against Unz Review site proprietor Ron Unz and regarding former First Person Michelle Øb☭ma instead.
To summarize our point of that post, yes, using the term "Big Mike" implies "She's a man, baby!", which is something we have no proof of. Peak Stupidity's opinion is that Michelle Øb☭ma is most likely just a big-boned lady, who could use to burn off the buns some by, say, getting on a bike or eating more of that broccoli she's been trying to push on us Rightist rubes. However, she's been blackety-black anti-White throughout what we know of her life, so, without other non-jeopardizing ways of pushing back, we like to give her shit. It's due. It's fun, too, so, sorry Ron Unz or Steve Sailer, logic and reasoning aside, she's Big Mike.
Well, Mr. Sailer wrote some logic involving nature & nurture, Castro and Pierre Trudeau, to show that we are being stupid by saying Justin Castreau (oops) is the son of Fidel. This completely misses the point. He doesn't understand that we don't call him that based on any kind of People magazine style interest in the guy's background. We haven't spent the time to think about that. As we wrote last post, the (still, for a while, unfortunately) Canadian Prime Minister is a Totalitarian Globalist Commie in nature. Is this from the genes of Fidel Castro or Pierre Trudeau, or nurturing by ... WHO CARES?! Castro is one of the big Communists in history, and that's why we use the name here. It's due, it's fun, and this ridicule is one small way we can push back.
Actually, I remember that the very good commenter R.G. Camara said this all better than I have:
Steve, you seem fixated on the idea that questioning Justin's parentage is for the purpose of calling him a wimp. It has nothing to do with that. Stop that.Heh! Exactly.
Rather, it's a three-fold smear: (1) calling his mother a whore; (2) calling his leftist Canadian father a wussy cuck; and (3) explaining/comparing Justin's communist actions (debanking opponents, violently running over protesters, limiting protests, enlisting his state press to attack opponents, murdering civilians through healthcare "suicide", etc.) with Fidel's.
In other words, its a political and personal smear, but nothing to do with Justin's masculinity.
I realize you have a soft spot for Justin, as you've stated in the past. I also realize that Justin's charity boxing match win showed people that a left-winger could be personally tough, contra to the traditional communist-wimp image, and that act has drawn your own personal attention. But not everyone is so fixated on the match or about reasserting old stereotypes on each left winger, and this smear certainly isn't part of it at all.
That said, Justin's mother is a whore, his Pierre was a cuck, and Castro Jr.'s political actions are like his dear old evil Cuban daddy's actions in Havana.
The thing is, the paternity of Justin Castreau is NOT known. I guess I don't really care who is his Dad, but there's quite a big reason to think that Fidel Castro could have been. The mainstream story is no sure thing. With Big Mike however, we lean toward the mainstream story, and answer could more easily be ascertained, but who are you going to get to do it? Good luck with all that ...
For either of the two and anyone else to come, this isn't about logic - it's about ridicule. All of these types need to be ridiculed. It's a good first step.
* I'll reiterate here that I'd love to participate, including sending in money, but due to my problem of spending too much time already on the www, I've refrained. I'll read whatever goes up to the pay wall, unless it's about Hollywood, golf, architecture, or golf architecture. ;-}
** Is Peak Stupidity low-brow? You can judge yourself. We have no problem with that term.
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Good riddance (coming for), Globalist Commie Justin Castreau!
Posted On: Thursday - January 9th 2025 11:26AM MST
In Topics: Commies Trump Globalists World Political Stupidity
A big THANK YOU is due Donald J. Trump for this. About a month after the '24 election, my white pill prescription had run out when it comes to the Bloviator-in-Chief. However, he really has already made a favorable difference in world politics via the use of his mouth. I give him all the credit he deserves for doing his bluffing and BS'ing about tariffs on Canadian goods, causing the worry and turmoil that seems to have caused the downfall of Castreau.
10 things we need to know? Nah. There are only 2 things we need to know, really:
1) Justin Castreau is a trained Globalist, having participated in those WEF young leaders forums or whatever-the-heck they called them. He's just another of many groomed nation-destroyers. Castreau's been doing one hell of a job at it too, as Canada has had proportional immigration rates with a movement of people that hasn't been seen since, likely, the Exodus. (The latter was in the other direction, of course. Let's call it "remigration" this time.)
I was positive I'd written a post on these huge rates, something like 1 - 1 1/2% increases in the population yearly! His Government is very proud of that too - it must please his Globalist mentors greatly. Actual Canadians are a minority of the population of Canada's largest city, Toronto. From back in '21 even, wiki says that 1.2 million out of the 2.8 million residents are "European", as in White. 43%! We've seen this ourselves in person. From wiki also: The city's foreign-born persons comprised 47 percent of the population, compared to 49.9 percent in 2006.. Oh, that's good, right? Nah, their kids are born here, yet, not particularly Canadian.
This has been treasonous, to a level that, as bad as it's been in America, is even worse. From the Great White North to a diverse multi-cultural hellhole in half a lifetime, now that takes a lot of destruction.
2) Castreau is also a major Totalitarian. We saw this during the Ottawa trucker's revolt in early '22 against the attempts at a full mandatory Kung Flu vax programme. Later that year, in The Semi Fascists O' Canada, Peak Stupidity mentioned the persecution by the Castreau administration of the truckers via lawfare and de-banking, etc. In fact, even those who just supported this peaceful protest (no sarc.) were persecuted.
We bandy about the term Communist quite a bit on Peak Stupidity. I've said pretty much the same before, and I'll say it again, history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme. Das Kapital or Little Red Book in hand or not, these are the same people of a century ago. By "same people", I've meant the same types of people, Los Resentidos (the Resentful Ones). Speaking of the story in the link, for Castreau, he's not just the same type, but perhaps a direct chip off the old Commie block:
Our commenter M explains that the headline from yahoo is incorrect. It's parliamentary-government-style complicated:
If only he had actually resigned.Thank you, M. I did have to look up prorogued. To use another British/Canadian expression, Castreau has also prorogered (professionally rogered) the Canadian people.
What he's actually said is that he will resign when the Liberal party elects a new leader. So that leader should be able to slide right in to that slot. Meanwhile, he's still prime minister. And he's prorogued Parliament until March, meaning no possibility of being tossed out until then.
He hasn't been tossed out already because the Liberals have been supported by the NDP in votes.
The NDP leader now says they'll no longer support the Liberals, so if it comes down to a vote they're gone. But who knows if another deal will be worked out.
Shades of Biden wrecking as much as he can while he's still in office though.
PS: Yes, I DID see this Steve Sailer post on his substack site. Yes, I DO have a lot to say about that! (It wouldn't fit here, so there'll be a post soon.)
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[UPDATED: 01/10:] I'd spoken too soon about Castreau's resignation. Including commenter M's explanation. The rest of the post still stands, and we are remain hopeful.
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We get letters ♫ ♪ ♬
Posted On: Wednesday - January 8th 2025 9:36AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
♫ ♪ ♬ We reply too.
Anyone remember Late Night with David Letterman? I think this was back when it was on REALLY late at night, starting at 12:30A. I don't know if it was band leader Paul Shaffer doing this (definitely not the vocals), but there'd be a quick jingle, "We get letters!" Then, David would do some kind of wacky thing or other ...
I felt a little bad about having sent 2 out of 6 letters back to the RNC, Lara Trump, Donald Trump, or some such combinations, using their own postage, to tell them what I had a beef with them about. Once the election was over, that felt like bad sportsmanship, as things really looked up. (It may have been that prescription my Doc ordered up... don't rightly know...)
Well, now that this YUGE issue of the H1B visas has come to the forefront, something I'm very happy about of course, I had something else to reply with:
♫ ♪ ♬ It's in the mail. ♫ ♪ ♬
I don't really expect a reply.
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The J-6 Political Prisoners - We Hear Their Heartbeats
Posted On: Monday - January 6th 2025 10:03PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music US Police State US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny
It's been 4 years since the event, a large peaceful protest with a small riot involved, not the worst anyone had seen, even within a couple of years prior. The handful of people killed there were killed by the Potomac Regime itself, one in cold blood. Since then, with insurrection as an excuse (this in a heavily armed nation, with no guns in hands of the protestors), America has had in the neighborhood of a thousand of our own citizens taken Political Prisoner and kept in Washington, FS dungeons by the Regime's Dark Brandon and minion Alejandro Mayorkas.
The latter is a Latin American name that reminds me of something. Down in those parts, there are so many streets named after the dates of various revolutions, counter-revolutions, and what-have-you. Communists come, then there's no way to oust them without going violent. Juntas, they call them, take over and often go too far in the other direction.
It's the unfortunate innocent victims of the latter that are mourned in story and song, with not much said by officialdom about the victims of the Communists.
U-2 singer Bono sang a song about "The Disappeared" as a track on The Joshua Tree nearly 40 years ago. Being Bono, of course his sympathies lay with the Communists, probably some of them that we were to sob about along with his song. I don't guess new Medal of Freedom winner Bono would want to write a song about the January 6th Political Prisoners and the anxious thoughts of their mothers and fathers.
He wouldn't have to write a new song even, as Mothers of the Disappeared is pretty generic. Would Bono ever think about doing this song in some type of awareness fundraiser for our Disappeared? Nah, I guess it doesn't work like that.
Midnight our sons and daughtersDo you hear their heartbeats, President Trump? Please, on January 20th this year, we ask Libertad for our Presos Políticos. (Hey, if we're gonna be a Banana Republic, we may as well speak like we're in a Banana Republic.) This should be done on Day 1. We don't even need a Junta. MAGA will do for America.
were cut down and taken from us.
Hear their heartbeats.
We hear their heartbeats.
In the wind we hear their laughter.
In the rain we see their tears.
Hear their heartbeats we hear their heartbeats.
Night hangs like a prisoner,
stretched over black and blue.
Hear their heartbeats.
We hear their heartbeats.
In the trees our sons stand naked.
Through the walls our daughters cry.
See their tears in the rainfall.
Oh, and after this is over, I think a Latin American style sign like that above, English or Spanish for the connotations should replace the "D Street" signs. Per a quick search 1900 D Street is where the DC Central Correctional Facility lies. We don't know if all the Political Prisoners are there. They are The Disappeared.
This shit's gonna get worse - even more Latin American - if we don't escalate a counter-revolution against the Communist Regime.
PS: I'm reading an interesting article from 2 years ago about these Patriots.
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Presidential Medals of Freedom - The AntiChrist wins
Posted On: Monday - January 6th 2025 8:43PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist Hildabeast Zhou Bai Dien
... I should say the AntiChrists (plural) win, as there are said to be multiples, with one big guy.
From what I've read Dark Brandon* has been trying to poison the situation for the incoming Trump-47 in all kinds of ways. Part of it, I suppose, is to create a large legacy of stupidity that won't soon be forgotten.** Then, he's in a bad mood over the coup that took him out of power last summer, so he's probably doing much of this out of spite. He'll spite the whole country, as if he hasn't done enough - he doesn't care at this point... maybe never did.
The pardons were disgustingly Banana Republican. The latest egregious good-bye move by Brandon has been to award Presidential Medals to some seemingly random characters and a few non-random creatures of an evil nature.
What's that medal about? I just read:
The award is considered the highest civilian honor in the United States, created to honor “an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”Upon looking back a ways on the Wiki page, which goes back to JF Kennedy, I see that winners of this medal have been mostly political figures but also athletes, musicians, artists, Big Biz icons, with no particular connection to freedom that I can discern.
Yes, there you go - a guy with the Kung Flu face mask on presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to some recipient wearing the same. Yet somehow that picture doesn't convey a spirit of freedom in the least...
Then some soccer player, one Lionel Messi, who plays in 2 foreign countries, Argentina and Miami, was awarded this high honor. I don't know. I call this sport Communist Kickball in fun, but I don't see the freedom in a sport in which they'll penalize you for catching the ball when it's coming right at you, and when you simply throw the damn thing.
I can see that some of these picks may in some way satisfy (2) or (3) above, perhaps chefs that promote Whirled Peas, but just how do the following 2 creatures fill the bill, supposedly based on (1)?
Yeah, it's the Hildabeast. Brandon's trying to just rub it in here. Peak Stupidity suggested some candidates for AntiChrist 8 years ago, near the beginning of this blog. Yes, the Lying-out-of-pure-habit Hildabeast was suggested to fulfill this Biblically prophecy when we hadn't realized there could be more than one. Øb☭ma was considered earlier.
There is one really great fit for AntiChrist, and, yeah, Dark Brandon went there with his most egregious pick for this medal.
OK, I guess I get the idea. Joe Biden figures he's going to hell. He may as well accumulate some good will ahead of time, so he can get a few favors in returnity ... maybe get the heat turned down... call it saving the planet.
* We've taken to calling him that more lately, and it seems to fit with this post.
** I wonder what will be on display at Brandon's Presidential Library? His daughter Ashley's diary would be appropriate, as would a montage of screen shots from his son Hunter's old laptop. Visitors ought to be able to read some of his old speeches - if not, I guess they could go to the county library and read the originals.
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Commentary on the H1B visa x-battle from a non-combatant
Posted On: Tuesday - December 31st 2024 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Americans Race/Genetics Anti-Social Media
NOTE: Big correction of the H1B visa issuance numbers! . That's not to mention the removal of the hyphen.
I stand by our polemics here, but, man, I am very much embarrassed by the (now corrected, with some strike-throughs for continuity) last words here about the size of the H1B visa program. I had numbers in my head from years of reading about these many abusable visa programs, but I've been off by a factor of 4 or 5 - NOT ACCEPTABLE! Sorry.
Because of my graphics difficulties (in a post in which they most needed) for one thing, and that I want to post something else first, a post about these H1B visas will appear in a few days.
Peak Stupidity will comment, but we have no bloggers embedded ;-} - get it?* - in this major ex-tweet war over what is an IMPORTANT and URGENT issue. It's 1/2, roughly by the numbers, of the Immigration Invasion issue, the EXISTENTIAL one for America.
By now, regular Peak Stupidity readers must have noticed that we don't embed tweets here. That's because we aren't even members. We have no blue bird icons, no LIKES, no followers, no leaders even. Screw it - it still confuses me who is responding to whom. No, I got the grammar, I don't get the format - worse yet, I don't WANT TO get the format.
It's the world though, and, I'll face it that the GOP-dividing discussion is on that "platform". I will give Elon Musk credit for getting amazing work done over these years, considering how much of a distraction the Anti-Social Media is. In fact, it relates to the big discussion. Part of the new incompetency mode that America is in** just has to be related to that people can't put their phones down. You've got a woman cutting your hair who will have to respond to something - maybe a funny tic-tok video, or a tweet about Taylor Swift's new hair style. In the meantime, some guys loading up your furniture put down the couch (and sit on it?) to tweet out "Screw Vikram!". It's not that I don't agree (on the latter - not sure about Taylor Swift's hair), but I see this in all occupations. People cannot concentrate for long like they used to.
Though thankfully I'm not all in there, madly typing on a 4" screen, LIKING, de-following, blocking, and getting banned on Day 1, I've read actual articles and and some tweet-fests pretending to be here and there on this H-1B question. It's a big battle generally between MAGA and the GOPe. Peak Stupidity is 100% ALL IN in favor of MAGA and an America for Americans.
As much as he's helped MAGA, maybe just for his own reasons, and doesn't like big government, Elon Musk is a Globalist. He wants his cheap Indentured Servant labor, dammit! As amazing and important a guy he is, Peak Stupidity has not mentioned him very much.*** Let him do what he does, but, when it comes to politics, we don't care and can't care what he tweets all day long. What he wants right now is the wrong thing for America. LEGAL immigration is part of the Population Replacement Programme. Elon is a White guy. I guess he doesn't care about his kids in this way.
Former pill salesman Vikram, OTOH, has apparently gone completely
Let me paste in text from a couple of tweets off of Breitbart to comment on:
The most down-in-the-mud, no offense intended, part of the brewhaha has been the torrents of insults flying back and forth between White Americans (many likely in the IT field who know what's what) and the •Indians on twitter. Lots of ungratefulness and immoral tribal behavior can be seen on the part of the latter. The former have decided it's time to let it all out too. I agree with them, and I'm glad this has come to a head. Barring Elon Musk temper tantrum interference the arguments should continue till we straighten this out (for Trump). We have no Kier Starmer here in America, as hopefully a guy like that in the same position here would be simply assassinated before he got too grabby.
One Neera Tanden, of the old Newport, Rhode Island Tandens, I presume, wrote:
I am an Indian American who was born here and it's crystal clear that the Democratic Party sees me as American and a large part of the base of the Republican Party does not. I hope Indian Americans remember this moment at the next election. They don't see you as one of them. And…And this matters why again? Only 22% (source) of you Indian women intended to vote for Trump in '24. We don't expect to make it up in volume in '28.
One Kekius Maximus wrote:
Yes.He's talking about MAGA people. Well, yeah, he's not wrong - we do need to remove ourselves from the GOPe. The divide over this important issue shows us why. (Or sure, if we can get our dues back, by all means, remove us yourselves.)
And those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.
Scott Adams, supposedly one of the good guys, wrote:
MAGA is taking a page from Democrats on how to lose elections while feeling good about themselves.The election is over. Nobody in '28 will remember what happened in '24 anyway, but this question might as well be resolved now, before Trump does something completely
There's Musk himself, telling anyone like me that if we are against the H-1B program in its entirety, we should f__k ourselves in the face. I'm having real problems with that... imagining who could even do that, and how. This, and a big chunk of the tweets I've written are examples of the problem with rage on x-twitter. It's gotta be too easy to send something you regret a minute later and for a long time afterward. They warned me about email in that regard long ago.*****
See those retorts of mine? I could go on all day. I'd be good at it. I'd also not be married anymore, and my kid would have a really bad example to follow. So, since I'm not, I have a little time left to get to the point of this post.
The point of all this is to get The Donald going in the right direction on LEGAL immigration. Sure, Congress supposedly has something to do with it all, but we've got just under 1/2 Democrat destroyers, another big chunk of GOPe, slightly less jacked-up destroyers, and then MAGA. MAGA includes Trump - he built the movement, but, that doesn't have to last. Still President Trump is the one we need now to fight the Population Replacement Programme. We've been very very hopeful about the ILLegal side, but Trump's always been wishy-washy, at best about the LEGAL side. That's not good enough, as LEGAL and ILLegal immigration numbers have long been of the same order of magnitude.
Not too long ago, Trump came out with that "stapling of Green Cards" BS. I don't know - he does BS a lot, and it usually means nothing. Maybe there was even some strategy in there. (Act conciliatory - don't want immigrants to be mad or anything - get people complacent on that stuff until later, when you lay the hammer down.)
I was very hopeful when I heard Trump talking very strongly in interviews about Birthright Citizenship. That's a BIG ONE when it comes to legal immigration. VDare had that on its wishlist of Trump actions for a long time and would have been very excited lately. Here's what I think Trump's deal on the Bug-out Baby loophole is: He understands it's inherently a scam, just as we do. Other visa types are ripe for scams too, but the numbers aren't so large as they are for this one, and not all are inherently scams by design. So for Trump, the Bug-out Baby loophole should be eliminated because it's a scam, but not out of an incentive to reduce immigration numbers PERIOD.
Interestingly, as something I did follow at the time,
Since Elon Musk likely brought Trump over the top in '24, with his partial-but-serious removal of x-twitter censorship and general support, I imagine Trump is very grateful. Not only that, but as he's a highly successful technical guy, Trump must worship Musk as his #2 idol (#1 being, of course, Trump). Musk must have Trump's ear a lot. Though normally not a bad thing, due to Musk's greed and/or stupidity in his quest for cheap foreign labor, we can't have Trump consistently following Musk's advice, as he did Javanka's (even worse!).
No matter what flaws he does have, I don't seen Donald Trump as a guy who will do straight-out political payoffs. ("You support me, and I'll bring up your H-1B visa numbers.") He knows now that MAGA is not with him on everything, especially when he's about to screw the pooch in the fight against the PRP. Who will he listen to, the "TECH" Globalists or The Americans, MAGA, that is? We're hoping for the best. In the meantime, keep on tweetin'. (Oughta' be a bumper sticker.)
Finally, let me add that this H-1B visa discussion could be considered
Though a (big) skirmish in the numbers sense, this discussion, if I can call it that, has been and is, very important, as it must surely will branch out into the question of all the various forms of overwhelming LEGAL immigration. (About all we can brag about is that "Hey, well... like, Canada is worse!) The arguments probably already have branched out. This is a very good thing. 10's of millions of Americans can discuss what a few 100 thousand (max) have been discussing for years.
* I cracked myself up with that one - old www geek joke there.
** Our posts on this topic are kind of spread out, unfortunately.
*** One of the many reasons I quit regularly perusing The Gateway Pundit is that, every few paragraphs, there'd be an interruption with "Elong Musk said this!" and "Elon Musk LIKED that!" I don't care.
**** Sorry, 2nd time there. See, if you say "completely mental" to yourself in an upper-class British accent, you may, like me, remember the scene from one of the funniest movies ever - just saw it for the 3rd time A Fish Called Wanda.
***** In fact, only 6 months ago, I stopped myself from writing an email that would have gotten me into some trouble. I would have been right, but I waited half a day and mellowed it out.
****** I'd like to keep up there rather than reading all over the place, but, more importantly, all their archives would be organized again for the orders-of-magnitude more readers that may want to learn something. Hear me, Elon Musk?
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[UPDATED 10/03:] Peak Stupidity apologizes for major errors in the numbers here. Thanks go to Mr. Hail for his correction - we'll have a post including his info and more soon. I really thought I had the rough numbers in my head on this, as I have for a lot of things. I didn't this time. I have no idea from what area of this PPR business the 50,000-80,000 numbers came from, besides one possible thing. I'll get to that in the post to come - H1B caps, a complete scam!
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Twitterers Tear Tech Titan a new one
Posted On: Saturday - December 28th 2024 5:43PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Globalists Scams Anti-Social Media
(Quick note: Readers may know that Peak Stupidity doesn't cotton to the term "Tech", when it is (normally) used just to refer to software technology. There is other technology that takes a lot more brains! However, in this case, #Alliteration!)
Which is it, lack of imagination or greed? Both?*
As a non-adopter of x-twitter, I have stayed out of the fray in this amazing intense battle of words (images/videos) I've read about regarding the push for MORE LEGAL immigration between the Musk/Vikram/etc crowd** and real Conservative pro-Americans Patriots like Steve Bannon, Steve Sailer, and Laura Loomer. Perhaps Trump never intended to cut it back - probably I'll write a quick post on this - but then he DID quite well on it as Trump-45. I'd thought his "stapling green cards to diplomas" bit was just more stupid BS or even political tactics, but if Musk is going to have his ear as he does now, we are right to be worried.
Rather than rehash this important verbal battle, we'll do something different. We'll show some pictures instead, to illustrate our point of how Elon Musk has no freaking clue of what America was before he came. I wish I had my own photos to share, as the modern www has a lot of ways to hide the truth. However, during the era in question, we didn't want to all keep bulky 35 mm cameras with flash attachments in our pockets and take (what'd be the equivalent of in the modern world of) 47 rolls of 36 exposure Kodachrome a week, what with the costs in Wal-Mart overnight developing ... I have not a one picture to illustrate my point, and then, I'd have violated PS operations security posting any. (If I get fired, I don't know what kind of crap you'll be reading here...)
Here's the deal, Elon Musk: Due to your age and your having moved to America in the early 1990s, perhaps you have never seen the America built by and run by American White men almost solely. It worked pretty well, as one may gather simply by reading the history of the 1st 200 years of this country. However, it's something else to know it, and I was there. Engineering schools, including the grad schools were populated with American White students, with a more diverse mixture only at the big grad programs - they could get smart people from all over the world for diversity, and oh, yeah, the full out-of-State tuition $$$.
I hate that I could find mostly B&W photos that make the time seem so ancient. It wasn't that long ago.
Again, bing images came out with more B&W pictures of what I want to show than it could have. The following photo come from this web page on the obscure blog of one Rob E. Buxbaum. It show Mr. Buxbaum's Chemical Engineering PhD cohort at Princeton Univ., finishing up in the year 1980. Mr. Buxbaum looks like he should be singing for "just another band out of Boston"***. He's the Brad Delp-looking guy at the right of the 3rd row back, looking at something far away from the camera. (Shouldn't he have been a math PhD or something?)
Let me do a count or 2 off that image. I'm just going to have to guess that guys 2nd to 5th from the left up front are their Advisors, so let me leave them out. Of the 47 PhD awardees there's one black guy. There are 6 Oriental guys, a couple of other darker-hued dudes, one who looks like he's from the 19th Century for some reason and another who may have been driving part time for the California Highway Patrol, and 3 ladies. That's about 77% White males, but that's Princeton.
I know what went on in the 1980s through 1990s. It wasn't until the mid-'90s that grad schools in Engineering started to become seriously Oriental and Indian. These people could be set to workin' on the Departments' research**** for low pay and a rough family life. The fact that most of them would find a way to stay in America was the carrot to keep them. Americans had, like, lives and all, and wouldn't take the very low-stipend jobs.
Then, companies could put out ads for the EXACT special research work that these guys had done officially to show that they tried and tried but just couldn't get a White man, or any American, for the job. The ad was focused on the one guy already in mind. It was a scam. I saw an example of this in the early '90s.
Then there's the IT world. It was still composed of lots of American men and a decent number of women in 2000. Again, I was there! I remember talking to a cube dweller in '99 who told me he was planning on moving to a new city soon. I figured that was for a new job, but he told me "Nah, I just have a good friend there. I'll get a job in a couple of weeks or so..." The castes of Indians had not yet begun to take over and keep out the White man. (Sounds like old B&W movies with John Wayne, but no, that's not at all what I'm ...)
Elon Musk, you've been talking out your ass. You weren't there, or you weren't paying attention. You know damn well that so much of your space business is built on science and (non-software) technology developed by the White man back during the days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Do you seriously not know who was doing all this amazing work back then? Tell me, who are these guys?:
Don't give me this BS about how the White man is too retarded to build rockets, you liar. The problem we've got, as with lots of government-caused screwage, is the bug, nay, feature for some, that these changes are not easily reversible. The first step, though, would be to stop importing Indentured Servants to put the Americans out of competition.
Yes, that's the right term, Indentured Servants. These H-1B visa imports will be working for da' man as long and hard as he demands. 60 hours at low pay? Whaddya' gonna do, quit? Your Green Card process will stop. You might have to actually go home and do your fantastic work for your fellow Oriental or Indian society. Or, yeah, you become an illegal alien for some years and get that fixed after a while.
BTW, in case I hear again that the Chinese all want to go home now, I just learned of a kid from the mainland of China who is trying to stay after spending 5 years getting some not-anything-special degree from a not-anything-special State U. paying full tuition. The guy could barely speak English when he came, but those TOEFL tests can be gamed. He had to do remedial English, hence the 5 years. His Mom spent beaucoup bucks sending him through so he can somehow get to stay in the US. Do we really need this "foreign talent"? Fortunately, the only thing stapled to his diploma so far was a bill for the cap and gown.
This was from the beginning of this MAGA v Tech Titan battle:
We can only hope that President Trump eventually listens to his common sense, which should tell him to listen to the 3 Steves, Miller, Bannon, and Sailer. Musk helped you a lot, but tell him to stay in his lane, when it comes to stopping and reversing the Population Replacement Programme!
* As initiated by a Trump pick of another pro-mass-immigration (but, but, LEGAL!!) Indian for some high-level position.
** I usually don't read ANY of the Unz Review commenter "Corvinus'' comments and even the replies to those. I learned 6-7 years ago that he is a real time-waster. However, I failed to mention the obvious motivation of greed on Musk's part, and I didn't skip Corvinus this time and noticed he caught this. Is he improving in some way? I really hesitate to write back.
*** The song is Rock & Roll band from the self-titled Boston album, one of The Greats.
**** One of the most egregious aspects of this was that, for these foreigners to work as Professors, they had to teach at least a class or two yearly. Poor undergrad Calculus, Physics, Chem, or Engineering students would have to put up with trying to learn under a guy who had a thick accent and could not really understand the questions posed in class.
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[UPDATED 12/30: ] Oops, I'd left out the field that Mr., Dr., that would have been on that date, Buxbaum and friends got their PhD's in. That'd be Chemical Engineering, probably THE hardest major.
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The decline of The Woke - who do we thank?
Posted On: Thursday - December 26th 2024 11:56PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Political Correctness Trump
I'm not at all saying "The Woke"* has been nearly eradicated, but I'll get to that.
That's Amy Wax above. She's been a valiant fighter against The Woke. You can read about her travails, being suspended from parts of her position at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (Penn, for short) Law School, and being struggled against here and there for saying some obvious facts about race and ability, to, guess what, pass her classes at Penn Law School. It seems she ought to know, but not many would have the guts to straight out say things she has.
She also has made no effort to avoid the "wrong people". One of them has been Steve Sailer. Speaking of Mr. Sailer, the writer from which I learned of Professor Wax, I did a search for you - there are dozens. I'll add here that she's not just some political warrior - she's a smart lady, being a neurologist along with being a lawyer. (Regarding the latter, she seems like one of the 1% trying to give the others a good name.)
Now, I understand the question of Amy Wax having a special status, being a woman and a Jew, but, nah, she's the real deal. It might have been humorous, I suppose, for her to have claimed sexism! and anti-semitism! when politically attacked, but she didn't. She's too honorable, and, then too, she's too far gone for that to help her now. Read what's on the podium in our image. Yep, she went there, as they say figuratively, but, no, Professor Wax literally attended and spoke at the latest American Renaissance conference. When you work at an American university, you don't just up and come back from THAT!
Amy Wax is not the only one who's been fighting back, of course. The question that's come up lately, right here is, why has The Woke been under attack and declining lately? Who's responsible for this welcome development?
Though he never used the word "fad", I got the feeling that Mr. Sailer, when he fairly recently wrote a few times that The Woke was fading out, thought of it that way. Sorry to bring up an oldey, but, well it's not like the Pet Rock or (even further back) the Hula Hoop. People got sick of these things on their own. The former was just silly with no visible benefit, but at least the silliness of either of these did not harm anyone else. Nobody needed for these fads to end - they just did. That's how fads work.
Now, I believe the reason why Mr. Sailer thinks of The Woke as something that's going away simply because it's SO stupid is two-fold:
1) He does not think there is any Deep State** or Globalist elite conspirators or just evil people that want this stuff to continue and even expand.
2) As we'll discuss, crediting Donald Trump for anything is not a Steve Sailer thing. We all know that Trump is an egotistical boor, maybe someone you might call "low brow", but I don't hold this against him as much as I believe Mr. Sailer does.
That all said, Mr. Sailer HAS credited Trump, I think. The post of his I linked to is short:
Here’s a question:I DO credit Trump, so I think I'm in agreement with Mr. Sailer for now. The Woke is simply no kind of fad, though. Here's my take:
Since the election, there seems to have begun a general cultural shift within institutions away from wokeness. The opposite happened the previous time Trump won in 2016.
How come?
And what’s next?
The election of Trump was the cause of the waning of The Woke. If it’d gone the other way, the Cultural Revolution 2.0 (which is what this is) would have only intensified. Wokeness would NOT have faded out. There are evil people behind it all, not just the idiots you see in tweets and on TV.
It’s not just the man, Trump, and his plans to at least clean out the BS within the Feral Gov’t that will be the change. It’s that Americans have shown that they have at least this one way of fighting back, voting successfully for someone not of the UniParty. What’s important is that the people – the brave Amy Wax types, but also millions of others in lower positions – can count on SOMEONE in power, if not “having their backs” if they resist, at least not being certain to railroad them, out of school, out of jobs, or into prison like Derek Chauvin and the Brunswick 3.
Is this counterattack against The Woke just some organic thing?
Mr. Hail, commented under said iSteve post that I and others are getting the cause & effect backwards. His logic was simply:
Both shifts happened before the (respective) elections.Commenter Prester John agrees and expounded on this:
Well, here you may be confusing cause with effect. In 2016 Trump was the middle finger to the Beltway Ruling Class. In 2024 the second middle finger was raised, this time against the social movement that followed 2016. Social movements in this country are like firecrackers: generally they flame out and explode, after which they become a spent force. Same for wokeness. While it caught on with academia, Big Media and other Beltway Class apparatchiks, from the very beginning it never caught on with John Q. Public out there in flyover country who had other priorities than what percentage of the enrollment in Harvard Law School should be black. As with all social movements Wokeness, which was incoherent to begin with, degenerated into silliness and humbug. Quite naturally, John Q. Public’s response in 2024 was the same as it was in 2016–elect Trump. The only question that remains is whether any of what we call “Wokeness” will remain permanently embedded in society.What I neglected to reply to Mr. John with was that The Woke hits everyone. It's not only about Yale Law School admissions. It's not only about pundits getting canceled from The View. It affects anyone with a corporate job, who has to worry about what he says and put up with being bombarded with ridiculous lies that he'd better not question if he wants to stay employed. It screws with the minds of students from Kindergartners to 5th year grad students.
What I did (remember to) reply with is to ask Mr. John and Mr. Hale what would be the situation if the vacuous but most assuredly Woke Kameltoe Harris had won the election? It’s not about what that dumb ditz would have said or done, but what the whole Regime apparatus would have. I don’t think ANYTHING Woke would be let to be toned down in any way, as much as, yes, people have had enough.
The people have had enough of a lot of crap, but they don’t want to get violent yet, so the Regime keeps pushing. The pressure behind the wokeness would only have gotten higher, both due to the same types as the face of the Regime and the fact that they would be more emboldened from having won with that vapid broad.
Let me look at the other side of it, election-wise. I voted for Trump all 3 times based mostly on his anti-invasion stance***. If he'd lost this one, even if the Regime didn't continue the Bai Dien surge, without deportations, America has been lost.
Yes, voting for Trump was also a big middle finger (as Prester John wrote). This counterattack against The Woke by he and his people feels good. Were the face of the Executive Branch still part of the Regime, I don't know if we'd have gotten very far with fighting this woke ... should I call it ... pandemic? Who would have the back of the Amy Waxes, Jared Taylors, and Steve Sailers, when the American Kier Starmers came for them? The only solution would have been to go to the guns.
This is most assuredly not over. I've seen with my own eyes that the Big Biz world hasn't perceptively shed The Woke. They do like to stay in good with the Feral Gov't, so perhaps there's just a lag right now. What we've still got is the useful idiots, some who really believe, to go back to the one example, that Amy Wax is somehow wrong about her students and others who know in their hearts she's right but can't bear to think like that, so cognitive dissonance rules their minds.
Behind these are the evil Communist types who want to humiliate traditional Americans by making them pretend to believe ideas that they know are wrong... oh, and ruin the country with D.I.E. incompetence in the process. For them having unqualified heart surgeons, rocket scientists, and rocket surgeons, for that matter, is a feature, not a bug.
Back to our minor disagreement, I wouldn't say that Trump started the counterattack, but he's leading it right now. We'll have more to say about that guy soon... it won't be so supportive.
* "Wokeness" doesn't sound so right as the noun. "The Woke" doesn't refer to the people directly here, but it could, I guess. Here I write the term in the same manner in which one would refer to "the Clap".
** As opposed to what I'd call "The Administrative State" (H/T, Tommy), as discussed in Will the REAL Deep State please stand up... and much earlier in What IS the Deep State?
*** Yes, I don't keep up, so the post on the BIG brewhaha with Musk, Trump, and Vikram (with Bannon in our corner) on the LEGAL immigration is coming still.
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Merry Christmas from the Peak Stupidity gang and Paulie
Posted On: Wednesday - December 25th 2024 3:13PM MST
In Topics: Humor Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
He looks like he's gained some weight since the time I used to watch The Sopranos.
This comes straight from Miss Ann Barnhardt. I suppose this opens up a whole can of worms when it comes to Trannie puns, though we've already come up with the Trans-Am and auto Tranny humor.
It's only occasionally that I get to Ann Barnhardt's site, but I learn something each time. Below is the Peanuts Christmas show clip, surprisingly still on youtube. Even if you aren't religious at all, this likely brings some very nice memories to many.
Miss Barnhardt says here that where Linus quotes Luke 2:14 as “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”, the Latin actually translates to “Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.” There's a big difference.
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Targeted Cultural Destruction and a deep dive into Tragic Dirt
Posted On: Tuesday - December 24th 2024 7:20PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Trump
[I won't show any images or video of a human being on fire in the subway. It's plain sick. - Ed.]
Let me start where last post left off. It wasn't until a few minutes after my ending that post with the following (starting with the Rolling Stones lyric): "Don't mind the maggots!" .. or worse, much worse...." I remembered what worse is. The story about that Guatemalan illegal alien, already once deported by the Trump Admin., setting a lady on fire on the NYC subway and burning her to death is most definitely much worse, probably worst. I found out about just when finishing my post.
Nope, that's not part of the long racial story of the post, but they (the Potomac Regime) just had to make one NYC subway ride be the worst. As my white pill prescription runs out again, with no refills allowed, I will post something about Trump & Musk that I'm fairly angry about. For now, though, since Peak Stupidity was AWOL during the Haitians eating the cats (and dogs) discussion*, I will get back to that along with some thoughts I had during that period.
If it were our family cat, I'd have had to do something. It's sickening enough to see primitive behavior in America, even if it'd have been poor strays. However, that whole story was not really about the cats and dogs, as much as that gave the Regime destructive operation visibility they likely didn't want.
We're talking about flooding a town of (formerly) 60,000 residents with 20,000 (33% more) primitive, violent extremely-foreign residents. It's not like they are expected to assimilate, or they'd have spread them 20 each to 1,000 towns. They did this to little Springfield, Ohio - not particularly randomly, as it was about some Big Biz quest for cheaper labor (screw the Ohioans!) - and they could do it to anywhere else at will. Maybe some town is simply too White and too MAGA. Maybe the local county Sheriff has been upholding the US Constitution too seriously. They can just target your home for cultural destruction... or could, hopefully**
I watched many videos of Springfield, Ohio residents complaining about the cultural destruction of their town. Even with all the destruction of their town going on around them, almost none of them ever got to the truth that must be said. It's not only the jobs, the schools, and the nasty foreign ways. After all, if it were 20,000 Estonians, even if they did eat cats, I think Springfield, Ohio, and America could have dealt with it.
No, almost nobody said that a significant number of Haitians will most assuredly turn their Springfield into a shithole, because they're Haitians.
So, let me get to the point about Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt theory*** Other than just pure evil, the motive for the Communist Resentidos types, what else would be the thinking of those who don't seem to have a problem with mass extremely-foreign and non-White immigration?
A possible answer to that came to me about the time of the eating of the cats and dogs. I think I've gotten into their heads, so let me write it out here. It goes like this:
Haiti is a shithole, for whatever reason. We went there on a mission, and it was just hopeless. I don't want people to have to live like that. We have so many great places here in America they could live. It's not fair for them to have to live in their shithole while we all live in nice places.That's it. I believe that's the thinking involved. There's nothing evil there - it's just plain stupidity. How do we know all this? It's our core competency here.
Let's invite them here. We have enough room to get all of the Haitians away from that shithole. We can help all of them! They will very much appreciate living in our, and what can also be their, nice places.
What I really don't get is those people who complain about some extra people, the Haitians, living in our nice places with us. Do they want them to keep living back in that shithole? How mean!
* I will admit that Trump does a really great job as a showman, pushing against the Narrative with humor and just the right angles. His short-term McDonald's employment and then the garbage truck deal are what I'm talking about too. Those things may have won him the election... which is ... honestly, quite sad really, when we think of the American political sphere of yesteryear.
** That other post about - I'll spill it here - LEGAL immigration may mean they still can, just in a more civil manner. The cats and dogs will be OK... I mean, depending on the caste or prefecture.
*** Was that coined by Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, a combination of the 2, or whom?
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Charles Bronson, Bernie Goetz, and Daniel Penny ride the NYC subway - Go ahead, bite the big apple!
Posted On: Sunday - December 22nd 2024 8:11AM MST
In Topics: History Movies Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Guns
... Don't mind the maggots!
It was 40 years ago today. Stricken from the record:
In the meantime, let me push Silicone Sister Greta down one notch and also ask the reader to check out Mr. Hail's post, within which he tries to get to the bottom of the modern-societal causes behind a 15 y/o girl's killings at a Christian School.
🎼 🎶 It was 40 years ago today.
Bernie Goetz took the New York subway.
Teens were running round inside the car,
so he didn't have to shoot too far.
So, let me introduce to you,
the tale forgotten o'er the years.
It's Bernie Goetz's one man vigilante plaaaaannnnn. 🎶
As I wrote of Peak Stupidity's recent post Donald Trump and the Daniel Penny verdict: Hope for the White Man?, I thought back on the rare White-man perpetrated NYC subway shooting by one Bernhard Hugo Goetz. Fortuitously for our penchant for anniversary posts, this incident went down on December 22nd of 1984, right at 40 years back. I remember this news story and some follow-up stories myself, well before the internet.
Among Daniel Penny's recent heroic (the word used for reasons we explained) takedown of a menacing serially-criminal black man, Bernie Goetz's semi-justified shootings of 3 black "teens" 4 decades back, and then some of the story in the movie Death Wish* from one decade prior to that - a half century even - we can find a few things to compare, when it comes to America racial "progress" and Anarcho-Tyranny. We'll go in reverse order here, from recent to the far past here.
Mr. Hail had it right in his comments prior to our Daniel Penny post. If it were the summer of '20, and I say, right up through this election, Mr. Penny would have gotten railroaded like Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Most especially that summer, the Black! thugs and their racist Sharptonesque instigators would have been out for bloody revenge for that
I won't repeat that post, so, in summary, Trump doesn't have your back, but the fact that their is pushback against the long-ctlr-left-infiltrated justice system means you just may not be railroaded. True, much of the system is State and local, but then as the Brunswick 3 learned, the Feds and the Lyin' Press can get involved and make your local non-pross** into a big deal that sends even the guy taking video to prison for decades. That no Double Jeopardy business is for pikers! (The oughta-be-unConstitutional*** prosecutor-shopping may remind you of similar action wrt Bernie Goetz 40 years back.) We need many years to reduce the damage done intentionally by George Soros. We've already gotten a start though. Is Elon Musk MAGA's own George Soros? There's another post...
Let's go back 4 decades from today. America, and that includes New York City too, believe it or not, was MUCH Whiter than it is now, by an even 20 whole percentage points (81% vs today's 61% for America as a whole****). The cops, the courts, the whole system were much Whiter, so being railroaded as a White man was not quite as much a worry. However, the Lyin' Press had been pushing the Black! narrative for 2 decades already - we'll get to that re: Charles Bronson.
Born in 1947 to a Jewish Mom and German Dad, Bernard Goetz, grew up in upstate New York on the family's dairy farm. He spend time in a Swiss boarding school, and ended up graduating in EE and nuclear engineering (NY University - '69). After a divorce, he'd ended up living and working in his own electronics business in Greenwich Village, NY (south end of Manhattan Island). His life in NYC, if we go back to '65, when he would have started college, was not long after the City was a White inhabited pleasant center of the business world, maybe by less than a decade. 10 years or so can bring a LOT of change though...
On or about, [No, "ON"! #REALPeakStupidity Legal Dept.] December 22nd of 1984, Mr. Goetz shot at 4 menacing black "youths" that were vaguely threatening him with a NY City subway car on the downtown-bound Number 2 line. (Does not refer to bums, filth, and the maggots). From this reasonably unbiased site*****, one may read some short descriptions of the event and the background:
Throughout several stops, the number of passengers fluctuated, but when the train left the 14th street station, about 15 or 20 passengers were in the car.Without an understanding of changes in technology since 1984, this may sound confusing and poorly written. We MUST remember, or imagine, for you under-25 y/o readers, that there weren't cameras all around. Passengers certainly had no cameras to take video, and even tourists, if they hadn't already bailed out of the car, would have had only so much film to take a shot with. As for security cameras within the subway cars, I guess they were not installed yet either. All that was expensive technology at the time.
Suddenly, five of the men grouped together. There was a quick scuffle, and then in front of the train car, one man opened fire on four of the others.
The man was Bernhard Goetz, a man who made headlines when he defended himself against his would-be muggers in a subway car in New York City. His actions would spur a series of debates over race and crime, the limits of self-defense, and to what extent civilians could rely on the police for protection.
Mr. Goetz hit 3 youths with his S&W .38 revolver (good choice!******) and missed the 4th, who he got to later. From the same article:
According to Goetz, on the afternoon of December 22, he entered a full subway car as it was pulling out of the 14th subway station. He entered through the rear of the car and took a seat on one of the benches.Without video taken from several angles and analyzed by 100 million people before the subjects even got home (Bernie didn't go home for a week, though), that old world of ours was quite different:
At that point, he says, four black men accosted him. The men in question were Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrel Cabey and James Ramseur, all teenagers from the Bronx, who had been on the train when he entered.
The version of events differs between retellings and varies depending on who’s doing the retellings. Canty and Ramseur claimed they were panhandling and asked Goetz if he had five dollars, while Goetz claimed they cornered him and demanded money. Allen pled the Fifth Amendment when questioned about the circumstances.What do they mean by 2 versions of events? There's no contradiction there. When 4 black guys are in your face, just "panhandling", you've got a threat. Let me jump around, going back nearly 4 years, to find out, why Mr. Goetz was so prone to this immediate action of "removing the threat".
In 1981, Goetz was attacked in the Canal Street subway station by three young men who he claimed were trying to rob him. They threw him through a plate glass door and onto the ground, permanently injuring his chest and knee. Despite his injuries, he was able to assist a police officer in arresting one of the men.I note that wiki, along with simply not wanting to provide a simple separate bio. page of Bernard Goetz, did not mention the permanent part of his injuries. Let's see, his chest and knee, was it? Who knows if he had chronic pain or maybe some kind of life-long health problem? That's what "permanent injury" means. So, excuse Mr. Goetz if he didn't feel like being nice to these "youths" and was quick to the draw. He was not all broken up about those black men's rights.
Unfortunately, the man was only charged with criminal mischief. Goetz was angered beyond belief, resentful of the fact that the others had gotten away, and the one who hadn’t barely received a slap on the wrist.
Bernie had had enough of the black dysfunction. Wiki makes sure to bring up something he'd said at a neighborhood meeting, their being no history of texts, tweets, and tic-toks to dig into, something he admitted he'd said. One Myra Friedman recalled the Mr. Goetz having noted that "The only way we're going to clean up this street is to get rid of the spics and niggers" at a community meeting eighteen months before the shooting.". That was prevented from being used by the prosecution in court... '86, '87... it was a different time, you understand. Seriously, the White man could still get a fair trial, with the proper rule of law, not men. As I alluded to earlier, there was something like the prosecution shopping foisted on the Brunswick 3 in '20. There was initially no indictment brought on anything but the gun charge, but then the city of New York went indictment or Grand Jury shopping. Railroading the White man was not so easy back in the 80% White America of the mid-1980s.
Now, as opposed to Daniel Penny's having intended to restrain, not kill, whoever the Michael Jackson impersonating fool was last year (and, from what I've read, he likely DIDN'T kill him, as with George Floyd), Bernie Goetz blasted away like Dirty Harry, or someone we'll get to shortly. I won't go making myself an expert and claiming it was honest clean self-defense. However, here's his testimony of the situation. From a skinny bespectacled White guy who was threatened by 4 "teens":
I've been in situations where I've shown the gun. ... The threat, when I was surrounded, and at that point, showing the gun would have been enough, but when I saw this one fellow [Canty], when I saw the gleam in his eye ... and the smile on his face ... and they say it's a joke and lot of them say it's a joke." Asked what his intentions were when he drew his revolver, Goetz replied, "My intention was to murder them, to hurt them, to make them suffer as much as possible.". Goetz also said that, after firing four shots, he moved to Cabey and said, "You seem to be doing all right, here's another," before shooting him again.Dude, "you were fearing for your life." After that... what'd the lawyer tell you? Mr. Goetz was too truthful a man for that.
Because it was the mid-1980s, not some time in the 21st Century, Mr. Goetz was found innocent of the everything but "criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree for carrying a loaded, unlicensed weapon in a public place". I ask the reader, where in the 2020's do you find "a Manhattan jury of ten Whites and two Blacks, six of whom had been victims of street crime"? You may find the latter, but not the former.
Here's one part that, sorry, make me crack a smile, though probably I shouldn't - this computer has cameras!:
Later in the tape, Goetz said, "If I had more bullets, I would have shot them all again and again. My problem was I ran out of bullets."Heh! ... but "Rounds" or "cartridges", man! OK, I can forgive him for not being a gun nut. His .38 held 5 rounds, BTW. "In all the excitement, I can't remember whether I fired 5 or 6 shots." "It cain't be 6, cracka', you only got a 5-gun!" Ka-boom! "Oh, I guess it was 4 then." Wait, wrong movie, so ...
Let's go back one more decade. In 1974, Charles Bronson starred in Death Wish. He'd been in a number of movies already, but this one was gave him his rise to stardom. This movie (see footnote*) was a perfect fit to the times. It'd been 2 decades since nice White New York City. Things had gone to hell by the mid-1970s. Movie goers were ready to enjoy a story of a vigilante, created by a home invasion with the murder of his wife and kid, and the lack of ensuing adequate justice. Mr. Bronson played a man who, before the murders, was a typical race-delusional lefty - something that was made it difficult for me to suspend my disbelief, due to his being Charles Bronson******* for one thing, but then that's kind of a recursive thing.
The killers of Charles Bronson's movie wife were 3 young White guys. OK, though it was '74, yeah, '74, a different time, you should understand that the mid-'70s it were right at one decade since the start of the Civil Rites destruction, the arguments, the protests, and the sets of laws that overrode the US Constitution. The media had been peddling this race-delustional garbage for a while already. It's just possible that White guys could have killed Bronson's movie family, but in mid-1970s NYC, that wasn't the way to bet. The movie got better...
As I think of the scenes of Mr. Bronson riding the NY subways later in the movie, revolver under his newspaper, seeking justice and revenge with no cameras around, I can't see how Bernie Goetz was not influenced to some degree by Death Wish. Americans at the time of the trial had to have thought of Charles Bronson and applauded Mr. Goetz as the real live hero version of Paul Kersey (see PostScript). I know I did.
From White New York City to (10 years later) Civil Rites to (10 years later) Death Wish to (10 years later) the Bernie Goetz self-defense story, to (40 years later) the Daniel Penny incident, changes in America's race problem and the Anarcho-Tyranny that's been used against the White man can be observed. All you have to do is ride the New York Subway. We've come a long way from Take the A Train to, only 20 years later on this, being Shattered and splattered... all over Manhattan. Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Don't mind the maggots!" .. or worse, much worse.... I just looked at the story of the woman being burned to death by an illegal alien on the NYC subway, as Mr. Hail mentioned. Too sick to even show a video... I'll post something on that.
Ha! "People dressed in plastic bags..." I never knew what Mick was saying there till just now.
PS: Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish is Paul Kersey. This name has been used by a guy, whose real name I don't know, who's written the Stuff Black People Don't Like column for a decade or so. For quite a few years, The Unz Review hosted it. I understand, this "Mr. Kersey" took a long break, with no posts, and no approval of comments even. Within the last week, site owner Ron Unz took off Mr. Kersey's blog completely. Not only that, he doesn't even have him in the archives, which is very unusual. (Mr. Unz welcomes all kinds of opinions and likes to keep them accessible.) I don't know what happened between the 2 men.
I'll mention too that this pseudonymous Paul Kersey had had a girl friend (don't know about girlfriend, one word or not) shot dead by some black guy in Atlanta, Georgia some years back, hence the Death Wish character name.
* That was the original movie. I'd seen the next 2 in the series over the years, and then I found out there had been a Death Wish 4 also. Well after my TV-watching days, about 15 years back, I watched them all in some clubhouse with cable TV - the commercial breaks were hellacious, however. I like this quick story from the IMDB page:
After finishing The Stone Killer (1973), Charles Bronson and [movie director] Michael Winner wanted to make another film together, and were discussing further projects. "What do we do next?" asked Bronson. "The best script I've got is 'Death Wish'. It's about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and he goes out and shoots muggers," said Winner. "I'd like to do that," Bronson said. "The film?" asked Winner. Bronson replied, "No . . . shoot muggers."
** Having been to traffic court numerous time, I remember that term. I was on the way to becoming a Legal Eagle, by going into court with an open mind and usually a few points to spare. (See also this update.)
*** I guess our Founders couldn't imagine any Regime would behave this way, even that of the British King.
**** Not counting the 35-45 million illegal aliens, who are probably less than 2% White.
***** For much more detailed information from the Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law, read this and that.
****** A New York Jewish man would not likely be a gun aficionado, and you have to know quite a bit to pick a good reliable semi-auto. Glocks weren't even around. Goetz bought his gun down in Florida. Is that why Jews retire to Florida, for the range time? (Also, Goetz's family lived down in Orlando for a while, with Bernie with them for a while after college, so maybe he did pick up some "gun culture".)
******* I remember his being in at least one, maybe more, of the classic WWII movies. OK, I looked it up here on IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase, still holding its own as a useful website). Besides The Dirty Dozen that I recalled, he was in The Great Escape - he did Westerns too.
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The Huge Silicone Footprint(s) of Greta Thunberg
Posted On: Saturday - December 21st 2024 7:31PM MST
In Topics: Humor Global Climate Stupidity Female Stupidity
In the comments under our recent post You will control NOTHING and be happy, Adam Smith discussed d a few editorials by people in the energy "sector" who deign to control our lives, in the name of the Climate Calamity™. They've got a new term, as their old stuff was getting tiresome:
𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡.I think Mr. Smith is being sarcastic in his opinion of us readers...
Because only a fool who lives in the woods or a commenter at PeakStupidity wouldn't want to accelerate the march toward decarbonization.
Decarbonization is something a species of carbon-based life forms should be especially wary of. I remember reading the sciencey type sci-fi books I used to like - what if the day on this other planet was a year long, what if there were 3 big moons, what if we were silicon-based instead of carbon-based creatures, etc.?
Mr. Smith kindly provided Peak Stupidity with the image below. I'd always thought AI was kind of gay, but not after this! Or IS this AI at all? If not, I will say that formerly-little Greta leaves a huge silicone footprint or two... not that there's anything wrong with that. No, not at all.
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E.H. Hail on the anti-Social Wokeness-Induced Mind Virus of Murderer Samantha Rupnow
Posted On: Saturday - December 21st 2024 11:14AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Educational Stupidity Female Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Anti-Social Media
Wisconsin Christian school mass murderer Samantha Rupnow's cause, per a short lame manifesto*, was anti-men, anti-male, period. How'd she become a violent radical feminist by 15 years old? She had only known about the Birds & Bess for what, 2 or 3 years?
I read this comment by E.H. Hail under a Steve Sailer post and figured we ought to post it. Mr. Hail's thing, among others is to relate the personalities and attitudes of interesting/notorious people to the times they grew up in. I wrote in comments here to Mr. Hail that:
I see that you're trying to get into the mind/mentality of this Samantha Rupnow as connected to the various portions of the crazy times she was living in. This reminds me a lot of the Strauss & Howe books ...I'll have more to say about Strauss & Howe (Generations / The Fourth Turning) later, finally. I didn't write this to disparage Mr. Hail, as his timelines are in the modern day, which all here have lived through.
Mr. Hail has more than once wondered "Who radicalized so-and-so?" His long investigation into one piece of work named Robin DiAngleo is one case, and another subject of such a question has been the SPLC's piece of
Who radicalized Samantha Rupnow? A society with anti-Social Media did, but how? Mr. Hail gets deep into it, as he is prone to do:
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The Wisconsin school shooter, Samantha Rupnow ,was age 11 when the Corona-Panic swept the field and conquered all before it in early 2020.
Assuming she was in 9th grade here in the 2024-25 school year, she’ll have been in 4th grade when the shutdowns, lockdowns, and Panic happened back in spring 2020. The following life-timeline may offer clues into why she did it, and windows into the struggles of millions of others (even if very few will ever do what she did).
– November 2009: Samantha Rupnow was born to two full-White parents. They are reported to have divorced, remarried, and divorced again. It’s possible the lingering effects of the Great Recession of ca. late 2008 to ca. 2014 affected the strength of this relationship, negatively affecting the mental health of the daughter through no fault of her own.
– mid-2010s: The girl emerged into a hazy sort of early consciousness of how the world works. She is in mid-childhood susceptibility to “narratives” (as we like to say these days) in the late-2010s, when children pick up certain views they don’t understand or cannot yet make sense of, but which do affect them. She had her seventh birthday the month Trump was elected for the first time (November 2016).
Important to her story are two things: (1.) she emerged into a heavily-online wider culture with lots of social-media toxicity, and in an era of a kind of cultural-default anti-White-Male Wokeness. She’ll have been exposed to some leading-edge elements of this sort of Wokeness in the blue-dot that is Madison, Wisconsin. That, despite her parents’ attempts to stem the tide by putting her in a Christian school. She’s perhaps already in something of a bad place when the weeks of the 2010s decade ran out, despite only being in the middle of 4th grade.
– 2019-20 school year: The shooter’s 4th-grade year — up to 40% of the school year is “lost” to shutdowns, restrictions, social disruptions to the point of isolation, depression, negativity.
Towards the end of her 4th-grade school-year and then all through the summer and all through the following school-year (her 5th-grade year), the culture was rattled now by the soon-“twinned” phenomenon of the Corona-Panic regime and an anti-White race-panic.
The early-2020s political climate (a particularly emboldened Wokeness) differed maybe in magnitude — in level of social-cultural saturation — but not so much in content from her earliest politically relevant memories from around the mid-2010s.
– 2020-21 school year: The shooter’s 5th-grade year — entire school year lost to normality.
– 2021-22 school year: The shooter’s 6th-grade year — most of school year affected by lingering effects of the Corona-Panic and perhaps the curriculum, too, places more emphasis on hero-worship of feminists, Blacks, LGBTQs, and more, reinforcing influences the girl had already gotten for much of her life and riling her up yet more.
– 2022-23 school year: The shooter’s 7th-grade year — Back to normality with regard to “Covid” rules and disruptions, mostly, but the school-curriculum and tenor of teenage discourse probably still affected a lot by the anti-White racial tone that set in after mid-2020.
– 2023-24 school year: The shooter’s 8th-grade year — The girl is reportedly depressed and suicidal throughout her 8th-grade year, and by this time had consumed much online content from “Incel” forums (Thanks to Adam Smith at Peak Stupidity for telling me what “Moid” and “Foid” mean), and a toxic sort of ideology had probably set in in which she blamed men for all the world's problems.
– 2024-25 school year: The shooter’s 9th-grade year — plans a mass-shooting and carries it out half-way through the school year, kills herself, leaves manifesto urging more males and pro-male women be shot in support of “radfem hitler” ideals.
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Those of us reading this in 2024, we all went through the “growing up” process I’ve sketched above, between childhood (as in the early-spring of the shooter’s 4th-grade year, when those pushing lockdowns and school-closures won the day) and mid-teenage (as when the girl shot several people are her school in the name of radical-feminism).
What kind of negative effects might the same disruptions and negativity of the early 2020s have had on us and our cohorts? It’s a humbling, and troubling, thought.
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PS: This girl was named Natalie Rupnow, but she went by Samantha.
* That was quick. Were she Black! or Tranny, I'd doubt we'd have gotten to read the Ebonifesto or Trannifesto, respectively, until someone had leaked it.
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