Sex in Sports: The Men's WNBA
Posted On: Tuesday - August 11th 2026 6:18PM MST
In Topics:   Genderbenders  Feminism  Female Stupidity  Bread and Circuses
Continued from The Women's NBA. I changed the two titles slightly so this one wouldn't be ghey.

The political interest in the WNBA has to do with the Genderbender "Trannie" nonsense. Player Sophie Cunningham, the hot one*, is against there being ex-men in women's sports, or at least the Womens National Basketball Association in which she plays.
That question, as if it ever should have needed to be asked, has been a big one in national politics. At the local level, Peak Stupidity mentioned a humorous story of ex-man participation in Minnesota sports by 6 ft. tall formerly Charlie Dean (I'd have guessed Marion) Rothenberger. He pitched a 6-0 shutout to help his team win the girl's softball championship - you go, ex-man! Peak Stupidity had two points to make in our post on the story, A big softball in the fight against stupidity.
1) The "softball" is that, though this was not an intentional trolling job, Mr. Rothenberger pissed off enough softball girls, parents, and fans, with his great pitching, that it likely set back the movement against your Tampon Timmahs and such.
2) There's no reason for the Federal Gov't or even ANY government to be involved in this stupidity. From our post:
Can Americans ever realize that not every single facet of life must be decided by government? It's bad enough so many things are. Unlike vaccines (at times), girls softball is not mandatory. You don't have to let, or even make, your girls play in this league and put up with this genderbender stupidity. These girls in the Minnesota High School league aren't making a living at it.The current Genderbender story involves WNBA basketball. Sophie Cunningham put the common-sense thoughts that men are better than women in sports AND men can't just up and become women to words. Ooooh, big fow paw there, Sophie. Nobody in the league wanted to hear that out loud.
Sickening. [From the story linked-to]
Well, yeah it is, but what's really sickening is that you people feel so helpless about this and won't DO ANYTHING. Don't complain about the judges and legislators. Don't go asking for Trump for help. (He has helped, though it's not really his business, and he'll probably TACO out of this one too.)
This is really easy, like hitting a slow-pitch softball sailing right over the plate. Quit en masse. Play your games at another ballpark in town. Take your balls and go home. (Pun not intended and hopefully not applicable!)
See there are two groups of Commies and weirdos that are crashing here in the intersection of Feminism and Genderbending, respectively. "Intersectionality" is the term used a lot to describe this clash of stupidities. In this case it's an intersection with no
The Feminists are insistent that women can do anything men can do and BETTER. So, rules not withstanding, it shouldn't be a problem for the women if some WNBA team wants to draft and play a couple of men. I mean, if their stupid asses want to lose like that, let 'em. The Genderbenders are insistent that these ex-men are just that, no longer men. If they are woman, they should be just as good or better than men. You'd want them on your own team, and the rules obviously allow women on the court.
The truth is, of course... not... at all like this. The girls on the court, the coaches, the fans, EVERYBODY, knows it's silly BS. But, this is both of these groups' stories, and they're stickin to 'em. At least one coach, Stephanie White of the Indiana Fevers***, is stickin' to it, under pressure of trolls, that is, a few former decent basketball playing men. She's between a rock and hardplace, declare "bullshit" or keep on bluffing until The Fevers loses a game in a 100-0 shutout. Home court fans don't take too kindly to shutouts in basketball.
What can Ms White say? Well, this:
“I don’t ever believe that exclusion is an answer,” White said, deviating from Cunningham’s stance. “I just don’t. I do think, you know, when we think about various levels of sport, various governing bodies of sport and things that go into that, like I said, I’m not— I’m not educated enough at the different levels. I know growing up I played with the boys all the time. There weren’t girl sports.Oh, I bet you did. "Not educated enough." and "Exclusion is not the answer." That's not a decision. Will she let ex-men play on the team or not?
This guy, one Royce White, played basketball at one point - I really don't know or care to keep up. He's decided to try out of the WNBA. I enjoyed this video of him below. Not only is it a great trolling job, calling the bluff of Stephanie White, but he tossed out some great MAGA comments at the end.
I came upon Royce White's video on The Gateway Pundit with Former NBA Player Royce White Throws on a Wig and Embraces His “Feminine Era” Ahead of 2027 WNBA Draft Bid. Uhhh, "auru", maybe, Jim Hoft? I'm not sure about that from the guy's quote.
Oh, he's a GOP US Senate candidate for Minnesota. I'm sure he'll go far with that... better keep this day job.
The 6-foot-8, 35-year-old is now testing out a blonde wig and declaring he’s entered his “feminine era” as he prepares for the 2027 WNBA Draft.There's the day job that might pay handsomely. It's probably all for the fame, campaign, and the money, but either way, nice job, Mr. White. (Hey, there were 2 "Whites" in this whole silly story but no White men involved. Ain't that America?)
“As I stated a few days ago, I am declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft,” said former NBA player and current Republican Senate candidate in Minnesota, Royce White.
“I identify as a sometimes identifying transgender woman! My wig is in the mail,” he said.
Royce White said he will pursue legal action if the WNBA denies his bid.
* There'll be no doubt for you once you check out the link in Alarmist's first comment under the last post.
** I didn't note it, but all 5 of the South Carolina Grahamnesty-replacement candidates mentioned they were against ex-men participation. Those election results are coming out tonight, BTW. I'll check it out.
*** ... looking every bit as one would expect a WNBA coach to look.
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Sex in Sports: The Women's NBA
Posted On: Tuesday - August 11th 2026 11:24AM MST
In Topics:   Feminism  Female Stupidity  Bread and Circuses
No, but, wait... I don't associate the WNBA with anything sexy. I have neither seen a WNBA game nor seen even more than a 20 second clip of this small sector of the Sportsball "industry" that is a big part of America's Bread & Circuses. I would have no knowledge of anyone who plays in the WNBA, coaches in the WNBA, serves GatorAid™ in the WNBA, or writes about the WNBA, were it not for headlines on my go-to websites over the last couple of years.
I mean, men's basketball is Black! enough to be my least favorite sportsball choice were I to watch any of it. Whether or not to watch big aggressive black women play basketball was an easy call.
However, Americans generally like their sportsball - sometimes it's the subject for about the only small talk one can make, what with the weather being too political now. (See our old post Is sportsball rivalry splitting homes and relationships?* along with Part 1 and Part 2 of What's the matter with Sportsball?)
If you're gonna watch sports, it's natural to want to watch the very best of the players. That's what play-offs, "March Madness", the Superbowl, and so on, are all about. Who would want to watch the women? Their parents would

The news headlines about this Caitlin and now this Sophie have, at least temporarily, spurred some interest by Americans, even me, in the WNBA. It's political interest, though, not interest in the team standings or whose had the most rebounds, or who's dating whom.
Caitlin Clarke is apparently one of the very best players in the league, but the generally black teams, even her own, don't take kindly to some White non-lesbian horning in on their sports niche(s). They don't like the attention she's been getting as a White girl especially, even if it does bring in 10 x the attention and money into the league. (It's that crabs in a bucket thing.) So, they poke her in the eyes, clothesline her, "accidentally" knock her down hard.
It's bad enough for them that the White girl's getting all this attention, but worse, she's not even a lesbian... or it's bad enough for them that a straight girl's getting all this attention, but worse, she's White! Which way is the big problem for the WNBA players has been argued. One Ann Barnhardt, a serious Catholic blogger of some note**, seems pretty sure it's the former - priDEMONth: Let’s cut the crap – WNBA star Caitlin Clark isn’t being regularly assaulted on the court because she’s white; she’s being physically assaulted because she’s HETEROSEXUAL. I took Miss Barnhardt's word for this until I kept seeing headlines all over about "Caitlin's new partner". Are we talking a different Caitlin, the news gal or that guy Bruce, cause the Caitlins are proliferating? (How about we get back to Sallies, Sandras, and Susies? Now that'd be retro!)

What #7 is REALLY concerned about is hair. Hers is fake. Sophie's is real.
Whatever, but now there's a new and cuter White and straight WNBA player in the headlines, one Sophie Cunningham. Yes, she looks pretty nice. What brought her into the headlines was her reactionary stance about the admission of ex-men (h/t, Steve Sailer) into the National Women's Basketball League. We'll get to that particular political gentlewomen's disagreement in the next post, as we'll just note here that this is another White girl gathering attention away from all other players that nobody cares about. (Yes, right, we said it already, the parents and girlfriends.)
The stories of Caitlin and Sophie will die down - Caitlin may get "fatigued" and start a family, and Sophie's choice will likely prevail regarding the ex-men. Then, it'll be business as usual - nobody cares. It's simple why this is the case. Most women are not big sports fans like the guys are. Then, the guys want to watch the BEST players of a sport... EXCEPT, if the women are hot. It's just the game, but tall, muscular, aggressive women, as required by competitive basketball, are not hot.
A lot of men watch women's beach volleyball, at least, so the feminists and women sportball players ought to support this kind of thing...

... and women's pole vaulting. I mean, all jokes aside about women pole vaulters, the men are best at it, as with almost all sports. Why do we watch? Why do the youtube videos of rando young women sprinters and gymnasts get so many views?
(That was THE best "I don't know" ever in 12" diagonal screen B&W cinematic history! The rest of the clip is pretty good too - goes waaaaay back though.)
We don't even care who of these girls wins these 100 yard dashes or what country they hail from. (I am kinda partial to France right now...)
How can a woman get attention in those long baggy shorts and tank tops, when young women sprinters must wear what are basically bikinis nowadays. (Apparently, you can go a LOT faster.) I had a difficult time getting images of "women sprinters in the blocks from behind."

It's to the point where I read*** that youtube is censoring these very popular videos that I used to shamefully view on occasion. I mean, it would keep feeding me new ones, so ... Now, why in the world would youtube want to give up money and ban these? See the Family Ties answer above, or else, I guess Feminism beats profits.
I was able to find the following anyway. This one is a learning video, Female Sprinters Physique explained. Just mute it. We don't need an explanation.
"Sprinting is a great little sport there, if you're looking for a slim body for sure." It's in Australian, but I was able to translate.
If any of you Peak Stupidity readers are offended by this video please chime in. Do please copy a link to your favorite WNBA plays. We'll get to it.... next century.
* Interestingly, the image on top of that nearly 9 y/o post uses the meme of "I don't always drink..." etc. I hadn't known it (the commercials, I guess) were that old.
** Late Lindsey Grahamnesty detractors and American Islam non-acolytes may enjoy the video in Peak Stupidity's old post #123.
*** I've got no link and might not have an easy time searching, but I did read something about this either on youtube itself or elsewhere.
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From the "Grass is Always Greener" files
Posted On: Monday - August 10th 2026 8:37AM MST
In Topics:   Genderbenders  General Stupidity  Immigration Stupidity  Lefty MegaStupidity

The Gateway Pundit has kept us up on these "Grass is Greener on the other side of the
"I’m a scholar of the far right who has fled the United States to Canada, and I need help. The situation in Canada is absolutely dire for Americans who don’t know. The housing crisis here is worse than in the United States."Immigration enforcement! It's not just the evil Americans doing this.
"I lived in LA for six years, and I have not faced rent as bad as it is here. When my partner, our cat, and our dog fled the United States, we headed north with the goal of being close to where our families are located, which is on the West Coast."
"So we are now in British Columbia. More specifically, we are along the Sea-to-Sky Highway in the Greater Vancouver area. We are attempting to find housing on the western side of this region. My partner and I are here on a visitor visa, which allows a possible six-month stay for Americans. However, while you’re here on a visitor visa, you can’t work."
The GP also kept us up on another refugee from America, one who requested asylum in The Netherlands, also, cause, Trump. This one is an ex-man (h/t, Steve Sailer) who fled the alleged persecution of weirdos like himself. This now Jane-Michelle Arc - clever, that's like Jane of Arc - likely changed his name from John Michael Arc. I see breasts on him, but, nonetheless, it's a man, baby!
Mr. Arc complained about his Dutch accomodations a month ago. It seems the Dutch authorities have been able to keep their sense of humor amongst the PRP madness in their own land by giving this guy refuge in a town called Ter Apel. How much havoc can one weirdo tranny do in a nice little town? He should not be persecuted by the tolerant Dutch people, but:
The Dutch town of Ter Apel has a population of just 10,000 and was just sabotaged by its own government.In that month ago GP post, Mr. Arc sounded kind of worried:
Over 2,200 asylum seekers were dumped on this town, most of them young, Muslim men. The center used to house asylum seekers tops out at 2,000, so, according to local news reports, “between 40 and 100 asylum seekers have spent their days outside the centre.”
“It’s scary. It’s legitimately scary. I decided that my mental health is degrading so substantially, being here, that I just need to get out,” the dude in a dress said. “The situation I have in the U.S. as a trans person — not good, right? — but here I will be hurt or killed.”Not good in the U.S.? Yeah, nobody likes to be made fun of, even if he (OR SHE!) deserves it. Yeah, but these Moslems have less tolerance for anybody unlike themselves, most especially weirdos like Mr. Arc, than do Western peoples, that tolerance lately being very much to the detriment of the latter.
There's been an update to the story of Dutch Asylee, Jane de Arc. Trans American Who Fled “Trump’s America” for European Asylum Camp Admits It Was “the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Done” — Returns Home After Facing Real Danger from Muslim Migrants. That's really unfortunate for us, but the Dutch take this immigration stuff seriously. I mean, what an ingrate, right?!
After failing to win asylum, Dutch authorities treat the United States as a safe country of origin and have rejected similar American claims, Arc returned to California last month.Oh, so he was never actually granted asylum then. I'm not sure why the Dutch immigration authorities don't get serious with their Moslem asylum candidates too. (NO! Don't send them here!)
True to form, she quickly resumed complaining: America is “really, really loud and overwhelming” and “everything is so expensive.”Open hostility? If we did some of that open hostility, could we get him to leave again? I hear Uganda is nice this time of year.
San Francisco groceries, she noted, make Dutch prices look reasonable. She still claimed “transphobia is quite overt” back home, yet conceded the U.S. felt more comfortable than the camp full of migrants from cultures that often view transgender ideology with open hostility, according to The New York Post.
People like "Jane-Michelle Arc" aren't just wrong about the grass on the other side of borders. When things get real, their complaints will amount to nothing. They don't want to know, but the grass is not greener on the other side of history for them either.
PS: Jim Hoft, proprietor of The Gateway Pundit used "she" or just wrote "Arc" for this ex-man. I don't know if Mr. Hoft is a bit woke, not paying attention, or just thinks his writing is more clear this way.
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Guns & Roses Muzak, Slim Whitman, Martians, and The Breeders
Posted On: Saturday - August 8th 2026 6:31PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Humor
I don't know if the term "Muzak" is used so much anymore, or Muzak itself, for that matter. There is hold music, of course. Muzak was a brand name*, from back in 1954, though the type of music, instrumental versions of pop music for background music in stores, etc., has apparently been around since 20 years earlier than that.
A generic name for this was "Elevator Music", because yes it was played in elevators. You can see that in old TV shows and movies, but this is no longer a thing. (It interferes with the computer-generated fake old-timey mechanical sounds, I guess.)
In a post about Haitians in Ohio, Peak Stupidity embedded a great Pretenders song, My City Was Gone, in which Chrissy Hynde sings "and Muzak filled the air, from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls." That line came right to me one day, when I stopped to take a break on a long road trip in Marshall, Minnesota. There was Muzak playing out of speakers on the main street sidewalks! That was pretty annoying and a good reason to vow to never set foot again there. This was well before Minnesota was subjected to a whole lot more woe than Muzak. Now perhaps the Muzak could be used to calm down protesting snowflakes and keep any potential aliens away. Slim Whitman music is, of course, even better for the purpose:
It was always fun to catch songs you really liked being played as Muzak and make fun. It is still around to some degree, as last week somewhere I heard a Muzak version of Guns & Roses' Sweet Child 'o Mine. The Muzak folks have been ... sort of ... keeping up, I'll give them that, but, no, you can't be doing this! It hurt my brain to where I felt like one of the Martians. Here's the original:
Whewww. Much better! We feature 1970s music a lot here, but G&R sang this in the late '80s, and I remember right where I was when I first heard the great guitar riff by Slash, and it was on a TV at a bar with this very video. (One BILLION. views... probably some
Going forward into the next calendar decade, commenter Mike Tre on TUR embedded this Summer of '93 song by The Breeders that I hadn't heard since that time period. As with old REM music, the lyrics are hardly intelligible, but this doesn't matter. Cannonball was considered "Alternative Rock", and NOBODY said "Alt-rock". I'd call that a fairly vague genre - mostly stuff that wasn't "hair band" music or Grunge, I guess.
The song's most definitely not Muzak, but we can't be sure there's no Muzak version of it either. This mostly girl-band was:
Kelley Deal and Kim Deal (sisters, I gather): Guitars and lead vocals
Josephine Wiggs: Bass and vocals
Jim MacPherson: Drums
That's it for the blog-week, Peakers. I WILL get to that Chinese (money) Laundry story shortly - there's just too much stupidity in tabs on tablets and phones all over the place to handle. Have a restful Sunday.
* Wiki says the brand name is gone now and all operations "have been integrated into Mood Media".
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Inductive Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - August 8th 2026 11:10AM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Science  Peak Stupidity Roadshow

That's an induction loop embedded in the pavement. These are everywhere. Nope, this is not an Orwellian Stupidity post. Unlike Flock cameras, and all the rest of the surveillance network around us, these output no information besides a change in current from an inductance change, based on a steel mass above them, for purposes of controlling stop lights, gates, or the like.
I'd thought they were even simpler than this, but wiki has a decent description:
When a vehicle passes over the loop or is stopped within the loop, some of the vehicle's ferrous body material increases the loop's inductance, in the same principle as including a metal core within a solenoid coil.That's fine, but what if you're on a bicycle? There's one gate that I have to get through that uses key-cards for entry and has one of these sensors for exiting. I used to be able to trigger it by riding the bike in a very tight holding pattern. Then, the thing was set less sensitive, so I had to get off the bike and move it near the ground over the loop. Now, that doesn't work, and I must climb the fence to get out, use the card, and get my bike outside... or ride around to a walk-through gate.
However, the peripheral metal of the vehicle has an opposite effect on the inductance due to eddy currents that are produced. The decrease in inductance from the eddy currents more than offsets the increase from the ferrous mass of the engine, and the net effect is an overall reduction in the inductance of the wire loop. The decrease in inductance tends to decrease the electrical impedance of the wire to alternating current. The decrease in impedance actuates the electronics unit output relay or solid-state optically isolated output, which sends a pulse to the traffic signal controller signifying the passage or presence of a vehicle.
At traffic lights, these induction loops can be a problem for people riding motorcycles, bikes, scooters, and the like. Traffic lights are set up for various modes of operation, and this is a good thing. I'm so used to the, well, not "smart" lights, as "smart" has its own connotation now, but let's say fairly bright traffic signals, such that any purely timed one with no traffic passing through on the crossing road irks me now. It's wasteful. ("How dare you!" I exclaim.)
For many years, a nearby small signal light has been set up to have the slightly busier crossing road normally green. It WILL NOT turn green for our road unless the loop is triggered. There is some timing involved too: Our road stays green for 10 seconds, I'd figure*. Then, if it just went back to red, you can't make it green again for another 30 seconds or what-have-you. It all happens in that galvanized steel box on the one corner. The loops must work though.
I used to walk my kid through this intersection when I'd bring him to and from school. It's been a decade now since we both watched a grown man on a bicycle waiting there for a green light. There were no cars in sight. I told the gentleman nicely, "You've got to run this light. It won't change till a car comes up". (I wanted to teach the boy how this works anyway.) He didn't like my lawbreaking advice one bit! He didn't like my lack of respect for the Authoritah of this traffic signaling device. We had a few words even. I still see him ride, but I've not gotten to see how he handles the light ten years later. Has he learned anything, or does he just show up late to work?
The next incident involved my pulling up behind a car that ws hanging back from the intersection behind a bike. I try to give other bicyclists plenty of room too, but unfortunately that car was too far back to trigger the light. We were all going to be sitting there awaiting a car from the other direction for who knows how long. I went around both just to get a small portion of my vehicle over the loop. The driver went into a rage, even after I explained to him how things work.
Lastly a 10-15 y/o (I can't tell) Indian girl on a bike was there the other day. I pulled by her and over the loop. Her parents must have told her to NEVER NEVER go through a red light. I told her through the open window that she'd be there a long long time if no car triggered the loop on in the pavement. I don't think she gets this... but I bet she can spell "induction loop", "Eye, enn, dee, you, see, tee, eye, oh, enn, ell, oh, oh, pee, induction loop".
Common sense has lost out to rote memorization and respect for electrical authoritah, it seems. Inductive stupidity.
* I've seen that some of these more bright traffic lights are set to keep a green longer if more traffic is flowing at the time. You don't need AI or even a massive bunch of software to help traffic move lots more efficiently.
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Mixed thoughts on Thanksgiving from a BiPolar Communist
Posted On: Thursday - August 6th 2026 11:15AM MST
In Topics:   Commies  Immigration Stupidity  Music  Healthcare Stupidity  Female Stupidity  Holiday from Stupidity
Her name is Francesca Hong,and she's got mental problems, she's a Communist, and she's running for Governor of Wisconsin. "Hello, Francesco, welcome to our joint 12-Step Program this morning! Please clap."

Well before she could possible have attended such programs, Francesca Hong was born in Madison, Wisconsin in early November of 1988. Her parents, as could easily be guessed, were immigrants from the Orient. I'd have guessed from China from the name, actually it would have been more likely Taiwan or Hong (but, of course) Kong at that time. From her face, one might well guess Korean, and he'd be right.
Google AI tells me that her Father, Jinkuk Hong, came to the U.S. so he could study for a doctorate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ahh, geeze. So he wasn't an important engineering specialist or mathematician. Apparently, we needed more Sociologists at the time, badly. Her mother, Youngjoo Hong, well not so Young at the time of this writing (probably not Jewish either), was initially a stay-at-home mom who later earned a degree in Education from UW-Madison and worked as a public school teacher in Wisconsin for more than ten years.* The "American" Hong has a younger sister named Theresa.
That was in the late 1980s. Korean immigrants are some of the more assimilating types - it helps when your whole country doesn't come here en masse - but, additionally, immigration was still different in the 1980s. Multiculturalism was not a big thing yet. It was still OK with everyone that you fit in and became an American as best you could.
What do lots of immigrant families who aren't your Engineers, computer geeks, and such do to fit in with society? They start restaurants. There's generally lots of demand from people sick of Ruby Tuesday/Friday AppleChile's and such. Then, there are The Foodies too.

It looks like a nice cool quite place to enjoy an hour of rest out of the heat, with that won-ton soup, some tea, noodles and lots of chicken dishes. Well, that's Chinese, but, whatever... you get the scene.
Mrs. (at the time) Hong started a restaurant with her White husband Matt Morris. He is a chef. She says she's a chef. They ran Morris Ramen, probably one of the Top Ramen places, there on King St. in... Madison, Wisconsin.
How does a woman like Francesca Hong because a DSA Communist radical who trashes Thanks-freaking-giving then? The NY Post recounted what Miss Hong said 6 years ago about this American holiday. (Hell, we all get wacky during Pandemics, don't we?)
At the height of the Covid pandemic, Francesca Hong, who is the frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee in America’s Dairyland, said that the beloved holiday needs to be scrapped, and that America “should have done this in 1621.”(The "[sic]"s weren't mine, so that must have been a tweet being brought to light.)
She added: “If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it.”
Now, Miss Hong is a politician, no matter how wacky, so her recent defense of her anti-traditional-Americanism was the usual mush. From The NY Post:
I’m a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when i was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for 7-8 years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.So, will you ban Thanksgiving once The People take over the Wisconsin prefecture, or not? She's not enamored by a few other holidays either:
But Thanksgiving is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities. So I think there I wanted to make sure people understood there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
And the position I’m running for right now — and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that’s able to bring more people to the table.
These include rants against Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas.Well, it's more like the following for all these holidays:
In 2024, she used the occasion of Mother’s Day to remind everybody they should be sad.By "some", she means herself, and by "others" she also means herself. UNEARTHED INTERVIEW Reveals Wisconsin’s Dem-Socialist “Abolish ICE and Prisons” Frontrunner for Governor Admits to Being Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder, Cutting Herself On Purpose, Spent Time in Psychiatric Hospital.
“Today can be a beautiful day of celebration for some, and a difficult or melancholy day for others. Whatever mother’s day means to you, please be gentle with yourself and kind to others,” she wrote.
I'm not sure why the Gateway Pundit writers don't understand why Radical Leftist Francesca Hong Does Total 180 – Now Claims Thanksgiving is Her Favorite Holiday!. She was against Thanksgiving before when she was on the low pole of her BiPolaririty, and she's now FOR Thanksgiving while on the high pole of her BiPolarity. What's the problem? She's a mental case.
Peak Stupidity did not write this post in order to make fun of real mental problems. At least Miss (now) Hong is not Bi-Sexual too or one of the newer made-up genderbending ailments. It's a real health problem that Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong has... but the problem is just that "Gubernatorial candidate" part. Is there ANY OTHER Communist the DSA of Wisconsin could have come up with? Is there any way someone could have run that's NOT even a Communist?
That gets to the gist of the other problem, maybe the trigger of her mental problems (though they are usually genetic). She was not just born in Madison, Wisconsin. She went through years of schooling in Madison, Wisconsin, played soccer (there ya' go, a gateway sport) in Madison Wisconsin, and then went to college at The University of Wisconsin, which IS IN Madison, errr, Wisconsin. It was Communism all the way up.
Being the daughter of leftwing immigrants (Sociology? Please!), was another factor. It was NOT OK for her to appreciate the Thanskgiving tradition of these colonists that her family was now living among, after coming from Korea. (You might call her parents colonists themselves even, except they moved to a BETTER society, not a shithole.) Seeing the nice White extended families together with their turkeys and stuffing and cranberry sauce... time to totally remake society. Hey, Communists do that. Cool!

It is also possible that Miss Hong was not the best of chefs either. Making noodles and kimchi is one thing, but when your turkey comes out dry and you can't make stuffing, it's, yeah, time to totally remake society.
Now THAT'S how you get someone like Francesca Hong.

Crazy eyes... I thought there was an old country song. I'm no psychiatrist that could try to medicate her problem, but I imagine she'd have been happier with an intact family still - she's got a daughter - cooking and hosting at the restaurant, than being a radical politician and [shudder] maybe the Governor of Wisconsin.
Finally, what has been called being BiPolar the last 3 or 4 decades used to be called Manic Depression. There was a song - had nothing to do with mental problems, but has some manic guitar. It was one of Jimi Hendrix's best, IMHO. You need to go to 11 on this one!
Jimi wrote that 60 years ago next May.
* Was it plagiarism when I pasted in those two parents' backgrounds straight off of AI? I mean, hell, they get stuff off of me without any quote marks, and... well, how is AI gonna sue me anyway?
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Being Lindsey Grahmnesty: S. Carolina US Senate Candidates - Mark Lynch Rocks!
Posted On: Wednesday - August 5th 2026 7:09PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26
South Carolina, where all but one of 7 Congressmen* is a Republican and they win the Senate generally these days, is replacing the late favored incumbent Lindsey Graham. Someone's got to be Lindsey Graham, and Peak Stupidity hopes it's not his sister.
I spent the hour to watch the following video of a alleged debate among 5 candidates running in the upcoming GOP special Primary election for US Senate from South Carolina. It was hosted by some fairly congenial* host and WIS Channel 10 (the NBC affiliate) from Columbia. I had to write "alleged" because, though it was well and mostly fairly run, it's hard for any real debating to go on when candidates are given 45 seconds to talk each turn.
The reader may want to check this out, keeping in mind that one can skip youtube ads and then skip the music bits that I believe are there for that antiquated TV viewing audience. (What a concept!) That might get you down to well under 50 minutes - I cut off a minute of fancy newsey music off the beginning to help. The format was a series of questions asked by S. Carolina newsmen (and women), many of whom were weirdly overdramatic. (It isn't a news report from Neek-ahh-raque-wah!. Just ask your question.)
It was somewhat humorous too that the host told the candidates she was starting with the guy with the lowest polling numbers and going up! That was Mark Sanford, ex-Governor of the State (2 terms, '03 - '11). He'd been a US Congressman from the State's District 1 (almost all but the northern part of the Low Country) both before and after being Governor. There too were one Russell Fry, current District 7 Congressman (NE part of the State), Ralph Norman, current District 5 Congressman (South of Charlotte, NC - big north-central chunk), Mark Lynch, an Upstate businessman (big appliance sales business), and then instant-Grahmnesty-replacement Darline. (She has worked for the State government for years.)
A week ago, well before this debate, Peak Stupidity endorsed Mark Lynch. Our main reasoning was that he was the 2nd to Lindsey in votes in the original Primary, 29% vs 57%.*** After watching this, we see that he is by far the best of these 5 candidates. This could serve as a 2nd and more heartfelt endorsement.
Peak Stupidity will comment below the video. If you want to be unbiased and check whether you agree, watch first. Or not, cause not all of us have most of an hour to put into some random State election.
Let me start with the worst. I don't want to see another woman that will turn into one of those worthless tennis-shoe wearing Maine or Washington State ladies. No. Darline Graham answered the first question - how much she would ally with President Trump, truthfully, and she gave that same answer for EVERY question. It all boiled down to whatever Trump wants (fair enough, as that was the deal, or she wouldn't have been there.) However, Trump will only be around a while. Then, what?
That Darline cannot think for herself could be seen when she mentioned the $39 Trillion debt. Ralph Norman had just brought the number up, albeit off by a few trillion, 45 seconds earlier. Why not link your answer to his? Because she was reading a script in her memory, that's why. I don't think she heard a word he'd just said!
I just watched some of this again, and Darline Graham ALREADY looks the part of the worthless Maine/Washington women. (I know there are others elsewhere. Mental block here - that's a good thing.)
The 2 current US Congressmen, as Mark Lynch duly noted late in this debate ("Career Politicians", he called them at just under 39 mins. in), are just talking-points spouting standard-issue politicians. I was not impressed with either of them, and all they said was forgettable.
Mark Sanford was not too bad. He was one of the 2 that didn't answer that he would basically never disagree with Trump. He has his own ideas. He WAS Governor, you know, which he reminded us often.
With one very minor exception - Mark Sanford cutting on Russell Fry about spending - Mark Lynch was the only candidate to criticize anyone else there. Granted, the whole thing was fairly friendly, as I guess the pollsters told their candidates that being argumentative wouldn't be a good look. I think it looked pretty good though on Mark Lynch.
Being all about immigration here, above and beyond the basic questions and answers, Mr. Lynch pointed out Rep. Fry's support of Lindsey Graham on this point. (It would have been too much, I guess to add "You know why he was called 'Lindsey Grahamnesty', right?" Too soon? Not soon enough, IMO!)
In his concluding remarks (stupidly combined in this format with some Medicaid question), Lynch proceeded to talk about the lies out of the old Graham in the original campaign. Better still, he talked for the second time about Ralph Norman's support of some bill (Allies Act?) that allowed 8,000 Afghans (I LUV how he said it) to come in.
Mark Lynch was the ONLY candidate to mention specifics, such as H1B visas (before he was cut off), legal immigrants on welfare, police involvement in deportations, the odious deal of connecting the SAVE act to the NDAA with combined intelligence with Israel, price fixing in our Socialist healthcare (just ran into that personally), what's not good about data centers, and the Flock cameras - yes, nobody else has put a thought into that bit of Orwellianism. as he himself noted. This is a good guy.
It's not something we knew last endorsement, but Peak Stupidity has learned that Mark Lynch is far, away, and well above the other 4 of this group of S. Carolinians trying to be Lindsey Graham.
PS: Why in the world would youtube show me ads for James Talerico during a GOP debate? Even if I were a DSA nutcase from Texas, I'd have still turned him off at "This is a small ask." "Ask" is a verb, asshole! Go back to school.
* The exception would be "the black guy" long-worthless Jim Clyburne. The other Senator is black but Republican... I dunno...
** ... but she was VERY rigid in holding the candidates to their alloted times, I mean within half a second! I guess you have to do that to keep on schedule and leave time for the commercials.
*** A slightly unfair deal was that Mr. Lynch's TV blurb at one point read "Lost to Lindsey Graham". Sure, but the other 4 weren't even in it.
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CO2 "Emissions" in Metric Shit-Tonnes: China DESTROYS Germany
Posted On: Tuesday - August 4th 2026 6:27PM MST
In Topics:   Global Climate Stupidity  Trump  China  World Political Stupidity
China had to be exempt from required cuts in "emissions"* of 1 of the 2 PRODUCTS of combustion, per the Paris Climate Accords, cause, you know, it's still a "Developing Country" and all that. (Don't let Pooh Bear or the CCP hear you say that, even if in jest as we do! They don't get many American jokes over there, not even the Coca~Cola one.)
This is just another piece of stupidity that should clue us in that the Climate Crisis™ is nothing but a big Con-job, the BIGGEST, in fact!. Yet many of the governments of The West have fallen for it, or just as likely, conned their citizens. Germany is such an example. China, not being part of The West, is a counterexample.
All of Europe, The US, Japan (not sure if they get the breaks), and every other country that wants to virtuously turn down the heat, turn up the A/C, turn down the lights, and, oh, not manufacture so much stuff, can go straight to NET-ZERO for all China cares. Yet, the way China is producing energy, the "net" Carbon Dioxide produced around the world will be higher than during the good old days of the American muscle cars, I mean, if you care about such silliness.

That's no way to do units, because I can't tell if they're metric shit-tonnes or Imperial shit-tons. What's the diff, though, the way this graph is headed?
Here's the thing. China's being very very bad, see, but it's hard to talk to them. They don't listen. YOU go talk to Chairman Xi, cause I'd rather have to explain something to The Godfather... the original. "Whatcha' matter, you! You bring up Carbon emissions on this, the day of my daughter's wedding?"
Germany has long been known to be not just a manufacturing powerhouse but a QUALITY manufacturing powerhouse. You really need some power to be a manufacturing powerhouse or to manufacture a powerhouse, for that matter. That was no problem in the past, as the industrious Germans could be counted on to build nuclear plants that... well, I'd rather live a couple miles from one than 50 miles from a Chinese built plant. Yet, with the help of the GUIs (Green Useful Idiots), the Globalists got the Germans to shut down all nukes. The Germans are thinking twice about this now, last I read, but the economic damage has been done.
Say what you want about the officials of the Chinese CP/Government (one and the same), and WE WILL, yes, they are corrupt, Totalitarian, and evil, but they aren't suicidal like the German officials. Which is better? I hope you have battery back-up so you can write to us here about the Cheap China-made Crap that is about all one can buy.
Where does America stand on this spectrum of suckerdom for the Climate narrative? The internet says we're in the middle at 7 billion tonnes. However,the middle doesn't mean much when you compare China's 12 billion tonnes vs Germany's current 0.6-0.7 tonnes - had to squint to even interpolate it above. A log scale would be best.
You don't see America going full green though. That's not just about the data centers. Even well before, it DID MATTER that a guy like Donald Trump became President. He took America out of the Paris Accords during his 1st term, but then Bai Dien put us back in. Then, there's been Trump'47. "Just when we pull 'em back in, he pulls us back out!" - Globalist Godfather "Big Klausey" Schwabino
* "Emissions" is purposely used by the Climate Alarmists in error, as See Oh Two Ain't Real Pollution! - yes, listen to some AC/DC!
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Olde Saturday Night Live on Neek-aah-raque-wah!
Posted On: Monday - August 3rd 2026 7:29PM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  Humor  Political Correctness
I thank Unz Review commenter Blanc de Chine for embedding the hilarious video that we present below.
Peak Stupidity has made light yet in all seriousness about the stupidity of Americans being told to pronounce foreign place names THEIR way, even though it's not vice versa. Then somewhere we've mentioned the politically correct newscasters and such who speak perfect English until they get to the foreign place names, at which point they proceed to go all out with their extreme Spanish, and maybe occasionally Chinese or Swahili or Bush-man clicking.* Spanish is ubiquitous and easier, so that's usually the case, and "Nicaragua" is the best example.
Therefore, this 1990 skit I'd never seen before was so fun, as it confirmed and affirmed this particular pet peeve.. This skit - with Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Mike Myers, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey, and guest host Jimmy Smits (and was that the actual sports guy Bob Costas?), is now from 36 years back. I've got two points:
1) As "Blanc de Chine" noted, this shows the that particular politically correct habit of newspeople goes back that far, or they wouldn't have been making fun of it.
2) You could still have fun on TV in 1990. Just watch!
Your lead blogger spent too much time today doing some company stuff and arguing about the Climate Calamity™ Con-job on TUR to have a meatier post up. We'll get into the Climate stuff tomorrow then, after being so hyped up about it.
* I wish someone would do a sketch like that, some real click-bait.
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Kung Flu Reminiscing
Posted On: Saturday - August 1st 2026 7:35PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Kung Flu Stupidity
The previous post got somewhat off the topic I wanted to discuss, but, Fauci's Diary just cracks me up. Moving on, I don't know if you could call what's been going on with the public recriminations of the 6 year-ago Kung Flu PanicFest - FINALLY! - could be called "reminiscing". The word has a connotation of the remembrance of fun or good times.
What's going on in these hearings is anti-reminiscing about those times from nearly 6 1/2 to about 4 years ago. We're still pretty pissed whenever we think about it. Almost nobody actually liked living a Panic-Filled life, even those who believed in it all. For those of us who didn't, we didn't enjoy the economic and social destruction of the PanicFest either and, at the same time, were horrified at the weakness of the American people that bought into the Matriarchic style Totalitarianism.
Being able to say "I told you so, you Totalitarian freaks!" in front of the US Congress and X is nice, but this is not justice. Except (we hope) in places like Florida where the State government is involved, nobody's going to jail for what he did to America during the PanicFest, much less ending up at the whipping post or gallows pole.
I guess the only people really reminiscing are the Fauci's and such, with dreamy eyes about their power and fame, and people of the Regime Media, who had so many worried eyeballs on their talk shows and websites with the colorful thematic maps. It was fun while it lasted for them.
We can only hope that some weeks or months of this anti-reminiscing on the PanicFest can get Americans to LEARN SOMETHING... or there WILL be a next time.
We're still on a 1970s music kick, so for the end of this blog-week, we present another Easy Listening band from that time, The Little River Band. They had a handful of hits in the mid/late '70s, generally from 3 of their albums, Diamantina Cocktail, Sleeper Catcher, and First Under the Wire. Ha, I had no idea until just now these guys were Australian.
Youtube had a couple of good live versions, but it's just not right for me. People in the 1970s didn't watch music videos.
During their prime, The Little River Band was:
Glenn Shorrock – vocals
Graeham Goble – guitar, vocals
Beeb Birtles – guitar, vocals
Derek Pellicci – drums
David Briggs – guitar
George McArdle – bass guitar
Rather than struggle to keep up with the news, Peak Stupidity will have more general subject matter next week, including yet more insider info on Chinese illegal immigration shenanigans. Other than that, I have no idea yet. Have a happy Sunday, Peakers.
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Dear Diary,
Posted On: Friday - July 31st 2026 6:33PM MST
In Topics:   Music  TV, aka Gov't Media  Legal Stupidity  Kung Flu Stupidity

(Thanks for the image, Adam Smith!)
I hear tell from the www that's there's been a new mini Soap Opera out or a Telenovella, if you will, starring a bunch of Congressional TV stars you may know from other shows and this one evil villain, played by Anthony Fauci.
It used to be that housewives and hotel maids would pass some of their tedious work time watching the hour-long Soap Operas that would appear, one for each of the three TV networks.* There were commercial interruptions, but it was still a whole hour each weekday, continuing day to day with the exciting stories of these beautiful people in As the Days of our Lives Turn and The Guiding Light for All My Young and Restless Children or something like that.
It's different now. You only get a couple of minutes at a time for each of these shows. I can't imagine how you can make beds and vacuum when you have to keep clicking stuff every couple of minutes. But, commercial free! (Or maybe not.)
Not only that, but I heard these episodes have been very repetitive so far, with the evil villain saying the same lines each show, always something like "Under the advice of my attorneys I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution... line, please! ... to refrain from answering your questions." To make it more exciting they should have that "right" creature being invoked appear as a ghost or demon, perhaps with projectile vomiting. Nah, but Soap Operas never had much action in them, as I recall (cheaper to produce, I'll give 'em that).
Having a diary does fit in with a good soap opera. This seems to generally be a woman thing. Men might have research notebooks, log books, spreadsheets, bedpost notches, what have you, but diaries? That's pretty odd to begin with for a supposed to Infectious Disease research Scientist like DOCTOR Anthony Fauci. Yet he has one or had, and it has been exposed to the world during this Kung Flu Reminiscence that is really the theme of the show.
1970s "Easy Listening" musical artists could get pretty intense with this business too. Note too the high-level vocabulary in this song, written and sung by the band Bread's David Gates back in '72.
What's happened to Anthony Fauci in these latest Soap Opera episodes can be embarrassing. I'd hate it too if my diary got photocopied multiple times for discovery at a deposition or worse, it went viral on the web.. Well, since TV is the subject of this post, my modern favorite, as any regular reader would know**, is The Office.
You may very well want to back it up to the beginning - this is funny! Ha, at 4:36 HR dweeb Toby Flenderson requests a copy of Michael's diary too!
Here's the rest of the diary scene:
As with the Soap Operas back in the day, in this modern www version, there will be no action sequences.. Nobody will be jailed, whipped, or seen waiting by the gallows pole.
These last two 1970s songs are nothing close to Easy Listening. Gallows Pole by Led Zeppeling off their Led Zeppelin III in '70 is from an old traditional song but amped up greatly by Jimmy Page and, well, all of them. Whipping Post by The Allman Brothers from their '69 self-titled album. There's the 22 minute jam version on Live at Fillmore East from a couple of years later.
And finally, because we are one of those Public Educational websites, Peak Stupidity has no commercials, so we will put in a quick word from our sponsors. This post sponsored by The Office and The 1970s.
* I don't count that Learing Channel, ETV or whatever. They were too high-brow to have Soap Operas. Instead they had Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
** Long after I was already off the TV, some young lady on the sidewalks of Canton ripped and burned 4 seasons of The Office for me. I'd never heard of it, but the first year British show (she couldn't tell the difference) and remainder America show became my funniest TV show ever.
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Zhou Bai Dien - final word on Chinese blackmail?
Posted On: Thursday - July 30th 2026 12:50PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26  Trump  China  Zhou Bai Dien

Peak Stupidity introduced the Zhou Bai Dien topic key for a post written on October 1st of '20 titled The Lyin' Press of 1988. The post was about the long-forgotten (by most Americans) major story of Senator Biden's plagiarism from the 1988 Presidential campaign. Yes, that WAS long ago, but not quite so much in '20 or '16 when the plagiarist ran for VP. Since then, we're up to 106 posts with this TK attached, if I counted right.
The choice of a topic key, of course, was a play on Joe Biden's relationship with China, something obvious to anyone who just read headlines about son Hunter and his relationships IN China well before that election time. Underage sex, drugs, and I don't know how much Rock & Roll were in the stories, and I found it hard to believe that Hunter Biden was that charismatic and handsome that the young Chinese girls (and drugs) just up and swarmed him as if he were a 6th Beatle. The Chinese aren't stupid and young Bai Dien didn't get something for nothing.
The most Peak Stupidity wrote about this damaging connection between Bai Dien and the Chinese was in a 3 year later post - Bai Dien, Ctrl-left, Globalists, and Big Biz caught Red Handed. That was a book review of Peter Schweizer's Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win. The Bai Dien family was
Since then, we've switched to writing "Dark Brandon" or just Brandon more, because i really like those. Has the issue of blackmail of Dark Brandon for 4 years or 8 by the Chinese government been forgotten? I guess he can't do any more damage in his current state of unoccupancy of the office and his mind.
I feel vindicated though, after reading a recent PJ Media/Matt Margolis article, Bombshell Documents Point to China Blackmail Efforts Targeting Biden Family. Yes, you have to view some Regime media clips to get some of the story, with an interview of one Catherine Herridge, who seems on the up and up. (I know nothing about her more than she's Canadian born, and reported for CBS, then FOX news, and has been on the case of Chinese subterfuge in America since at least '17.) She's gotten ahold of some declassified documents. (Between this and Fauci's diary, Washington vacationing beachgoers have got reading material for the rest of the summer. The Epstein Files are on hold at the local branch of the library.)
Mr. Margolis begins:
Do you remember how, during the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump warned voters that China knew things about the Biden family's business dealings that gave Beijing real leverage over Joe Biden? He said Biden was compromised, and the legacy media rolled its eyes, called it a conspiracy theory, and moved on.I do remember that. Then, as the writer mentions too, the ctrl-left blocked investigation of that badly misplaced Hunter Biden laptop computer. They turned the story around and turned it into part of the Russia, Russia, Russia story that it was Trump who was influenced, and by those OTHER former Commies. If this was planned, I must admit that was brilliant. It distracted TV news viewers for a couple of years along with distracting Trump himself the whole time.
Emmy-winning investigative reporter Catherine Herridge has spent years digging into the Biden family's foreign entanglements, going back to her coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. While combing through newly declassified material tied to China's 2020 election influence operation, she found something that should be front-page news everywhere: government records referencing Chinese blackmail efforts aimed squarely at the Biden family. Herridge laid it out for Katie Pavlich on Katie Pavlich Tonight on NewsNation.The Administrative State is being slowly turned around, or so we read and hope, so the cover-ups and distractions that Mrs. Herridge described are over.
"I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China," Herridge said. "It was for President Biden's daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family."
A week or so ago, President Trump gave a speech that centered on Chinese influence on election fraud. Peak Stupidity leans heavily to thinking that Trump wouldn't care a whit about any of this had he officially won the election in '20. If it's not personal, he doesn't care so much. It is, though, so he does. That's a big story itself, but we just appreciate that our coinage "Zhou Bai Dien" for the former President is still a good one. "Dark Brandon" is more encompassing - it includes his evil work of arranging the big invasion of foreign hordes. Compared to the Population Replacement Programme, the Chinese influence is so... existential.
In answer to the title question, probably not.
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Anti-White Anarcho-Tyranny
Posted On: Wednesday - July 29th 2026 9:04PM MST
In Topics:   Race/Genetics  Anarcho-tyranny
Perhaps it might have been dubbed a "human interest" story last year, but since the legal system has gotten ahold of Shiloh Hendrix, it's become an important case, a case of pure Anti-White Anarcho-Tyranny. Peak Stupidity thought of the verdict against Mrs. Hendrix for saying the Worst Word in the World, as a 1st Amendment Exception, one not ratified or passed by Congress, but one set by precedent by an anti-White Minnesota judge... pending appeal.
I haven't read much by Liberatrian/Conservative Paul Craig Roberts since he removed commenting ability under his Unz Review columns. I did catch the headline and subsequently appreciated his column on this WWW matter White Female Democrat Judge in Minnesota Establishes Precedent That It Is an Offense for a White to Refuse Deference to a Black. So, he sees it as a story of required White deference or obsequiousness to Black! people.
Mr. Roberts refers to Kevin DeAnna's (formerly Greg Hood/James Kirkpatrick) thoughts that a blasphemy law has been created. I'll give Mr. DeAnna's podcast with these thoughts a listen later one.
Whatever way you think of it, that the aggrieved party itself is full of people that use this Constitutionally excepted word or blasphemy against each other is ... kind of odd. That points to PCR's take. It's just a way to humiliate White people - we simply cannot say this word, EVER, while niggers can use it freely.
This Anarcho-Tyranny is described nicely by the meme that Adam Smith provided us the other day. (I'll shrink this down byte-wise in a day or two.)

Thanks, Adam.
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Mark Lynch for (R-SC) US Senator
Posted On: Tuesday - July 28th 2026 6:42PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26  Trump  Female Stupidity
South Carolina politics is something of a niche topic here on Peak Stupidity, as are excercise machine displays (oh, hey, it's been awhile!), inflation, and The Dead.
Therefore, we displayed our righteous anger at President Trump in mid-July with the post Trump meddling in South Carolina's Business. That post had to do with Trump's cajoling the S. Carolina Governor Henry McMaster into appointing the late Lindsey Graham's sister Darline as a US Senate temp/placeholder for half a year.
This stupidity got MUCH WORSE when Trump came out in support of Darline Graham's run* for the special GOP Senate Primary that will be held 2 weeks from today.

I don't think I've said my full piece yet: I get that Darline has worked in State Government, and she has been somewhat involved in her older brother's business. More importantly for Trump, she will be grateful enough for a while (big point) to vote the way Trump wants her to. Then, of course, she will be a NeoCon based on both her late brother's and Trump's influence. That short term benefit is, I believe, all President Trump cares about.
No matter what happens after that, Trump doesn't care. The glory of his works matter more than any long-term future to him.

With the big assumption that the United States is still in one piece 20 years hence, let's imagine what Conservatives around the nation might be saying then. "How did South Carolina get this vacuous liberal sneaker-wearing (shades of Washington State's old Patty Murray) RINO to begin with, and why do they keep voting for her over there?!" People change, but women especially are "entitled to change their minds". That's a saying because that's a real thing. Women have no qualms about blowing off principles and going back on their word.
Trump has just introduced a new instance of this type, Peak Stupidity predicts, IF she wins this Primary. South Caroline Republicans win at this level ... but then, if Darline Graham is the candidate to run against Dr. Annie Andrews, who cares? I wouldn't be too motivated... but I did read this tidbit on wiki about Annie the Peditrician:
She said she decided to run for Senate after President Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health.Wow! That one hits pretty close to home - see 3 out of 5 patients agree - Don't Trust your Doctor.
Well, the filing period ended today, so we took a look at the candidate list here on AP news. Regarding Darline Graham first, I was pretty sure Governor McMaster was down only with the one favor. (We explained why he owed Trump in that "meddling" post.) I figured the following:
McMaster made no reference to Darline Graham as a placeholder or symbolic appointment, although a person familiar with McMaster’s thinking but unauthorized to speak publicly said the governor, in selecting her, had never contemplated that she would run for the seat herself.I suppose she IS the frontrunner because Donald Trump made it so. HOWEVER, Trump attempted to annoint the SC Lieutenant Governor Pam Evette as the GOP Governor candidate, and she lost in the run-off back in June. Good!
Here are some of the filed SC Senate GOP candidates besides Mrs. Graham:
Ralph Norman is a US Congressman.
Mark Sanford is an ex-Governor.**
Dave Buckner is "the black guy".
A handful of others, one lady who was a Greenie and wants high-speed rail (!?), a guy who lives in Charlotte who said he'll move down, one Sam Shepherd, not the astronaut, but an engineer at least, a son of a football coach , and a couple of others.
The upstate businessman who came in 2nd to Lindsey Graham a couple of months back, at 29% vs 57%, is Mark Lynch. He seems to be a good Conservative. It's a different race after the switch in Grahams, or is it? Shouldn't Mr. Lynch be the front runner this time? Wouldn't he be without Trump's having meddled in the whole thing because "This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey"?

Peak Stupidity endorses Mark Lynch for US Senate.
I hope South Carolina voters again ignore the meddling of Donald Trump in the State's politics.
* It's more like she only ran to begin with due to his influence and support.
** This is the guy of "Appalachian Trail" fame back in '09. One can look it up that way, but the story is he surreptitiously visited his girlfriend in Argentina while governing South Carolina, and "out hiking the Appalachian Trail" was his excuse.
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Scamming America: The Heartwarming Story of the Tolentino Family
Posted On: Monday - July 27th 2026 6:58PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Lefty MegaStupidity  Media Stupidity  Anarcho-tyranny  Female Stupidity
Weirdly, I'd had this article slated to be discussed here on Peak Stupidity "any day now", though I came upon it in early May, but the writer's name is one I just came upon again yesterday. (No, I didn't remember, but) this Drew Pavlou was also the writer mentioned by Unz Review commenter YetAnotherAnon, an interesting and informative British guy, in this comment regarding overseas projection of Chinese Communist Party power, in Australia. Now there's another post to be written "any day now".
The substack site I came upon in May is called Drew Pavlou's Iceberg Journal, and it contained his article The Heartwarming Story Of How New Yorker Writer Jia Tolentino's Parents Ran A Human Slavery Ring. Miss Tolentino is no relation to Quentin Tarantino, so, Steve Sailer, you can quit reading right here. She's not even Italian, so I'm no longer craving some good meaty lasagna with the appropriate wine and unlimited breadsticks.

Nevertheless, "Progressive" New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino is kind of fetching in that picture... from what I can see. She's Filipina, her parents having gotten to America via Canada, as seems to fairly often be the case these days. She grew up a Southerner, in Houston, Texas, was a Pi Beta Phi perfect little sister at the University of Virginia and sang in the a cappella group The Virginia Belles even.
Rather than sticking with the Greeks and settling down as a woman, young Virginia Belle Jia Tolentino went off with the Peace Corps for a year in Kyrgyzstan (whaaa?), and, worse yet, went to grad school at Michigan in Fine Arts. That's not what ya' do... but I suppose this explains how one becomes a wacky progressive, such as:
Appearing alongside far-left agitator Hasan Piker for a New York Times podcast, Jia admitted to repeated acts of shoplifting against ]["from", it should be] Whole Foods, before encouraging her readership to go out and commit theft: ‘‘Everyone, try it. See what happens.’’I'll pass. Now, I don't think it applies to Miss Tolentino either, but there IS that dilemma about whether a man should let his family starve or break the law by stealing a loaf of bread... might as well be some kind of fancy gluten-free bread while he's at it. Of course, Jia Tolentino does not provide for a family, there is EBT now, and well, it's not about that...
Jia encouraged people to steal from the Louvre, before effortlessly pivoting to endorse Luigi Mangione’s infamous murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Sure, if your family is REALLY hungry, you can sell some of that art and take them to the local Parisian Olive Garden for unlimited soup and salad... and breadsticks. It's only right.
But, friends, that's not what I'm here to write about someone writing about today. Mr. Pavlou's article is about the sheer gall of this Progressive woman having ANYTHING at all to say about ANYTHING since her parents were up to no good, some silly human trafficking thing ... she reckons it was just a minor story that is causing too much of a stink for her years later...

Thanks, but I'll let Mr. Pavlou tell me the rest.
In a since-deleted blog post, Jia described the situation as a ‘‘reputational time bomb,’’ which I guess makes a lot of sense given the slavery.I like the snark out of this guy!
Jia writes: ‘‘Around the time I was born, my grandmother founded an agency placing nurses from the Philippines in U.S. hospitals that were experiencing a skilled labor shortage.’’No
She then spun up a cute story about how her grandmother and parents lovingly helped Filipinos migrate to the United States in search of better opportunities, only to be crushed by the forces of evil American racism and white supremacy: ‘‘This was Texas in the years following the Patriot Act, and basic human and constitutional rights did not seem to be granted to brown non-Americans accused of such serious crimes.’’
Now, the only problem with this story is that her parents ran an actual slavery ring.
I decided to go and read the court documents.
Her parents trafficked hundreds of immigrants into the US, then threatened them with deportation if they spoke out against abusive living conditions and predatory loans that forced them into a kind of indentured servitude or modern day slavery.
Her parents ultimately stole almost $2.8 million USD in fraudulent visa fees before being indicted on 40 counts of money laundering, conspiracy to smuggle immigrants, and visa fraud.

Mr. Pavlou continues:
According to court records, the fraud worked like this:Hence the Eye-talian sounding name, Tolentino. If you're gonna be a mobster, you need to sound like a mobster. "It's Boss Tolentino on the phone, says he's just bustin' some balls." "Never go against the family", he says, as he strokes his imaginary whiskers (cause he's actually Oriental).
The Tolentino family took school administrators on free trips to luxury beach resorts in the Philippines.
In exchange for the luxury holiday, school administrators would then ‘‘interview’’ Filipino teachers and agree to hire them to their school district.
At first, the school district promised to employ 55 teachers.
With this preliminary order, the Tolentino family charged each of the teachers $10,000 for a non-refundable deposit and extracted a promise to pay up to 50% of their US salaries for their first few years of employment.
Before even making it to the US, most teachers were therefore placed in debt roughly equivalent to two years of median family income in the Philippines.
This debt quickly became crushing because the Tolentino family business Omni Consortium worked with a predatory loan shark company called Blue Pacific to deliver loans at an annual interest rate of 60%.
Blue Pacific - this illustrious beacon of justice - required that each “recruit” have a co-signer in the Phillipines: co-signers were threatened with jail-time if “recruits” were unable to make monthly payments.
Most teachers then promptly failed to make monthly payments, because the Tolentino family failed to secure their promised employment.
Far from being forgiving of their trafficked slaves in such adverse circumstances, the Tolentinos decided to punish non-payment by charging an additional 10% penalty to the loan payment, plus an additional 5% interest.
If you see lots of excerpts from one article in one post on this site, and we're not fisking the whole thing, you can bet it's very very good writing. Drew Pavlou did a nice job, and I recommend you read the whole thing. You'll enjoy it. Mr. Pavlou concludes:
So the lesson is this: if you really MUST enslave Filipino teachers while boasting about breaking the law and killing your political enemies, you have to at least pay lip service to progressive pieties in the pages of the New York Times and New Yorker.Well, I mean, after the trial they lost a couple of big properties, $80,000, and the '96 Mercedes and '99 Beemer. Ouch! I sure hope they dug up the cash from under Carmela's oregano plants.
I'm gonna back up and include a little more:
Zero consequences. She continues to lead an epic, cool as fuck life in a $2.5 million Brooklyn mansion while writing for the New Yorker. You have to respect it, the fact that she lives without limits, without any moral guardrails. Nietzschean. BAP pilled in many ways.What a country! You don't have to be Italian anymore to run a mob racket, and you no longer need sailing ships to run slaves. Even recent immigrants can do it.
Where it becomes a bit unfair, though, is that she insists on bitching and nagging the rest of us into servitude and submission. Her family are allowed to operate epic baller Andrew Tate trafficker-slave ring operations, but God forbid we take a fucking sip from a plastic coffee cup.
Scamming Americans and scamming America - that's what most immigration has been about.
PS: Some of these enslaved folk were able to get "T" visas and become yet more immigrants who may or may not ever act like Americans. The "T" doesn't stand for Tolentino.
PPS: Interestingly, after writing a diatribe, I, Thee Dread in her book Trick Mirror explaining how marriage is a bad deal for women, Jia Tolentino married a long-term boyfriend and has had 2 kids. Hopefully the man of the house won't really have to steal bread from Whole Foods to support the two youngsters after the property tax payments on the Brooklyn mansion, you know, with Mayor Mandami and all stickin' it to the
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Get your kicks on Route 66
Posted On: Saturday - July 25th 2026 3:26PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Americans  Geography  Peak Stupidity Roadshow
I got a brochure recently that taught me that Springfield, Missouri was the birthplace of Route 66. One would think the road would have started at one end or the other, Chicago, Illinois, or Los Angeles, California, likely the former because LA was not so big a place a century back. OK, but a century ago, in 1926, a stretch of Missouri Route 14, going from St. Louis to Joplin was designated the first stretch of the famous US numbered highway Route 66.

That's the full route, all 2,450 miles of it. That's obviously not the most direct route - one can go across the whole country on one of the southern routes in about that distance - but there are cities to pass through and mountains to avoid.
A Chicago to LA Great Circle route, the shortest distance without tunneling through the Earth, something Peak Stupidity discussed long ago, would look like a curve toward the north instead. It would arc up north of a straight line on the normal map projection through northern Iowa, a bit of S. Dakota, across NW Nebraska, SE Wyoming, the NW corner of Colorado, NE to SW diagonally across Utah, and a bit NW of Lost Wages, but I don't know exactly, not having a globe on my person today.
Alas, no not really, the numbered US Highway system was upstaged starting in the mid-1950s with the Interstate System, an amazing job in that old can-do country of ours.
There are plenty of US numbered highways extant, of course. I don't think many a Peak Stupidity reader would be more than 10 or 20 miles from one, unless he's out in the real boonies. The most famous US Highways are probably the US-1, Key West through Maine (nearly) east coast route, the US-2 across the whole country on the northern route, and US-101 up from Los Angeles, mostly a bit inland up California, then across the Golden Gate, more up through California, then up the Oregon coast, more inland in Washington and up the west side of the Olympic Mountains, across the north slightly inland from the Juan de Fuca Straits and back south on the east side of that square-shaped mountain range down toward Olympia. I can't remember for sure, but I think Washington State got smart and didn't hold to the large-scale N-S system on the signage, i.e., if you're heading west from Port Angeles, signs will say US-101W. Anyone here sure of this?
As for the venerable Route 66, you can't get quite as many kicks anymore on the REAL old road.
Here's a nice site describing that some of the original road has been incorporated into new numbering, some has been realigned or bypassed, and there's even a dirt portion. Please don't bring your GPS (as the only commenter on that page desired)! Where are the kicks then, I ask you?
Hey, and these guys below didn't write* the song, and they weren't even Americans! Yet, how could they not fall in love with the place back in 19 sixty-
Well, if you ever plan to motor west,
try to take my way.
That's the highway
that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66.
Well, it winds from Chicago to L.A.,
more than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route 66.
Well, it goes from St. LouisBobby Troup, King Cole, Crosby, Manhattan Transfer, the Stones... all got their kicks, singing Route 66.
down to Missouri.
Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty.
You'll see Amarillo
and Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, SanBernadinoBerdu, ...
Whoa, Route 66 was only 38 years old when Mick and the Stones sang this! Now it's been a whole century... and these guys are still playing... this song? Something's really off here.
* It was written by one Bobby Troup way back in '46, about a 10-day road trip to Hollywood the aspiring songwriter and his wife Cynthia took in their Buick on part of the US-66 from the US-40 rest of the way to LA.
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First Amendment Exception for the Worst Word in the World
Posted On: Saturday - July 25th 2026 8:21AM MST
In Topics:   Race/Genetics  Anarcho-tyranny  Legal Stupidity  Morning Constitutional
Remember young Mom Shiloh Hendrix? She was the lady that had some words with a Somalian "newcomer" at a park in Rochester Minnesota last year. Peak Stupidity kept our readership up on her viral story in May of '25, with Shiloh and the Somalians and Parable of the Good Somalian.
I figured, End of Story. This poor White woman said THE WORST WORD in the WORLD at the playground one find day after being angered by a common black habit of little ones not taught well by their parents, theft. Then, she received the usual extreme cancellation treatment and threats for that, had to move out of town (cause it's THE WORST WORD in the WORLD) and received over $800,000 in small donations from helpful fellow White people.
I thought the story was over until...

Shortly after I saw that, I read more from The Gateway Pundit: Verdict Reached in Shiloh Hendrix Case After More Than Eight Hours of Deliberation.
A Minnesota jury has delivered a split verdict in the disorderly conduct trial of Shiloh Hendrix, finding the 37-year-old mother not guilty on the count related to her words directed at the eight-year-old Somali boy who was stealing from her, but guilty on the count stemming from her comments to the man who filmed and confronted her at a Rochester playground.GP bolded it, so why not here?
For some reason, the charges were Disorderly Conduct. I'm no lawyer, but that charge usually doesn't apply to simple arguments or shouting matches between 2 individuals alone.* However, it sounds better than charges of offensive speech, at least to anybody who's read one certain document and honestly sworn to uphold it. Blogger Nicholas Stix, writing on substack now, has more of this story than I will write about here.
These words from the Somalian Sharmake Omar illustrate the crux of this matter:
After he began recording the incident, Omar said the woman’s reaction surprised him.See, some Somalian welfare migrant is entitled to lord it over a poor White American, in her own land. White people must know their place.
“I thought she was going to deny it and walk away when there was a video, and she saw that I was recording. She doubled down and even tripled down now,” Omar said.
There are words, like "nigger", that we're not to say, and young Shiloh had showed the utmost in gall and lack of awareness of her place in multicultural America. By saying a word only niggers are allowed to say, with Mr. Omar being such an honorary and also de facto nigger, White Miss Hendrix had gravely sinned. Then, SHE DOUBLED DOWN!
Denying she said "nigger" and walking away is what would be expected. What Shiloh Hendrix did was not back down to the very real threat of ruination of her life for her outburst after being sick of badly parented black children messing with her and her son. That took real guts. However, her life did get ruined, until the support of thousands of White people. Now, if White Americans generally didn't back down per this example, the power Somalian Omar had in his hand that day, and also this day during this trial, would disappear.
Anarcho-Tyranny held sway in court, though, this day. Without getting into the legal aspects, it seems as though the reason Miss Hendrix was found innocent of the first charge was lack of proof. Nobody had cameras out yet. The second charge was for the utterance of his Worst Word in the World by the defendant on camera. Ipso facto, there's your proof - guilty of
This Minnesota court has ruled for an unprecedented special exception to US Constitution Amendment I for the WWW. I don't recall its ratification by 38 States. This special exception for the word nigger should be reviewed by the SCrOTUS - all we need is 5 out of 6 overriding opinions, after we subtract out the dyke, the spic, and the nigger.
* Per Nick Styx, Minnesota law does have one example of this charge that's close:
“Minn. Stat. 609.72 – Disorderly Conduct: Prohibits abusive, obscene, or offensive conduct that reasonably causes alarm or anger, including racial slurs and aggressive public behavior.This is enforcement of "Minnesota Nice", I suppose, but no, not for non-White people. Nah, they are not expected to be Minnesota Nice, don'tcha' know?
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Roots Stupidity - Beware: The internet can be wrong!
Posted On: Wednesday - July 22nd 2026 5:23PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Internets  Music  Artificial Stupidity  Science
We've been into politics here, most of the time, because, as the man paraphrased, "You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in YOU!" We'll get back to one of our niche topics, the stupid pick of someone's sister Darlene for US Senator and the special GOP Primary that's heating up. We'll also talk Communists some more.
Let's get back to our roots today, though, with 3 items of stupidity.

1) Yahoo units:
They locked me out of my long-term emails a year ago, so yahoo is of no use to me. I'm not sure how I got to this headline. Florida dumped half a million oyster shells into the Gulf of Mexico [sic]. No one expected the results to be this good..
Besides that "Florida", the place, can't DO anything at all, but PEOPLE in Florida can, this half a million number seemed ... a bit fishy. I think, and perhaps the yahoo headline writer should have, "Does it make sense?" I can imaging a thousand oyster shells barely filling up a 55 G trash can at the restaurant. 500 trash cans full of shells is something a spot in the Gulf would not even notice. The article itself says 500,000 tons though, dumped over a 17 year period. That's 30,000 tons from Florida restaurants yearly, ~80 tons a day, something that "DOES make sense".
Those yahoos have no feel for numbers. Put them on the political beat or email customer care. Those Florida naturalists, BTW, did a nice job with the reefs off Cedar Key, as reported by real reporters. The fish, turtles, and dolphins are lovin' it!

2) Answers.com:
This web site has answers to your questions. In response to a stupid question, you can expect a stupid answer, even from The Internet. However, I didn't ask what I think is a stupid question yet got a stupid answer nonetheless. It's not supposed to work like that!
While playing around with simple Carnot Cycle COP calculations for our post The Warmth of Collectivism v The Coefficient of Performance, I wanted to check myself on 459 degrees on the Rankine scale being equal to standard room temperature, 68F and 20C. It'd been a LONG while. I remembered 459R, but was that 459 = 0 C, a common value one might want, instead of Room T? Better
The most promising results blurb that came up was for my question (expecting AI, but it was useless) was from this Answers.com page.
Me: "What is room temp on the rankine scale?""Room Temperature" has a specific meaning in Science, not just, say, the temperature in a room in our house before we ended up on window units only. The range in Fahrenheit is reasonable for yes, some rando family's average living room, and the Rankine range would have matched it if it weren't off by 100! Anonymous got it wrong 16 years ago, and whoever updated it 2 years back didn't fix this erroneous information.
Anonymous
∙ 16y ago
Updated: 5/23/2024:
Room temperature on the Rankine scale is approximately 560-570 degrees Rankine. This corresponds to around 68-77 degrees Fahrenheit on the more commonly used Fahrenheit scale.
I hadn't seen the front page of answers.com till just now, while getting an image. OK, that explains it. Next time, I'll have to make use of that other website, RightAnswers.com.

Hah! I had a real problem finding "drunken Indians by the road" images. "Drunken Native Americans by the road" worked MUCH better!
3) Full-Blooded Alcohol Content:
American Indians, "Feather Indians" or "Casino Indians", if you must, have a big problem with the firewater. That's unfortunate, because they like it so much.. which is... that's the problem.
Via The Gateway Pundit, which has some really sensational stuff at times, we got to the News Nation Now site with an incredible, make that non-credible, story about 2,000 Indians being missing or dead in Arizona. Arizona Medicaid fraud case: Up to 2,000 Native Americans dead or missing, attorneys say. That would be heap big story, if true. Perhaps it's really a handful of Indians, but, anyway, they were kidnapped and drugged with alcohol and what-not by people scamming them for $Billions in Federal "care" money. The stupidity in the reporting is apparent early as who those evil people are was never mentioned (but something tells me they are not your standard-issue Arizonans).
For the sake of this post, though, here's a real nugget of stupidity contained within:
Wood described one victim found with a blood alcohol level of .543, more alcohol than blood, who he said was dumped on the street outside a sober living home.Look, I'm no biologist, doctor, nurse, "First Responder", or any other kind of "Health Professional". I'm no State Trooper, Precinct Captain, Special Victims Unit Leader who drives the black van, or any other kind of LEO or other armed member of the Zodiac. I had to take a written driving test at 16 y/o - not sure I could pass it again right now - but I don't know how old I was when I understood that "blowing a point oh 8" does not mean 8% alcohol is in my bloodstream but only .08% is*. (Seems like a pittance - I'm not sure what the big deal is.)
Writers Jesse Weber and Tatiana Carter, hell, anyone who writes about drunkards, really ought to know this, so as not to be off by a factor of 100 in his article. I know it's just stupidity, but that could be interpreted as very racist toward our Indian brethren. OTOH, I gotta respect ANYBODY who can drink so much that his blood alcohol content achieves the level of 54.3%. I'd be babbling on, jumping out of moving vehicles, and eventually visiting the Porcelain Goddess for an hour or two just at that last .3%!
54.3% Blood Alcohol Content - I ain't livin' long like this....
Rodney Crowell wrote this one, but Waylon had a minor hit with it in 1979.
* By mass, I think, not volume. I'll check.
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Please, please, Mr. Postman, look and see...
Posted On: Tuesday - July 21st 2026 6:20PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26  Music  Trump  US Feral Government

If Peak Stupidity has seemed Manic-Depressive lately, sorry, it's BiPolar now, on one certain topic, well, let us explain. We're back and forth on President Trump because we cannot stand his personality while we still appreciate the work the Trump-47 Administration (not all the one man) has been doing on Job #1.
Even that goes back and forth from pole to pole in the news, as nearly every policy move made outside of the worthless UniParty-run Congress is rejected by a judge, allowed again by another judge, rejected again... and so on. Most of what we read about and get excieted about doesn't make it through this "process", but then some does. That's out of hundreds and hundreds of policy efforts.
The biggest WIN, by far, has been the closing up of the southern border as tight as it's been in about 3/4 century - The Epoch Times via Zerohedge, says the Border Patrol Records 14 Straight Months Of Zero Releases At Southern Border. "First, you gotta stop digging." is that 1st Law of Holes.
Since that UniParty crowd in the House of Representin' has been making every effort to NOT pass the SAVE act that requires ID and citizenship for the act of voting.* Again, Trump & Co. have changed policy to work around this refusal by working with the US Post Office, which IS, after all, one of the very few bureaus of any sort specified by the US Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 says, and I quote:
The Congress shall have Power...To establish Post Offices and post Roads;The Executive Branch is in charge of administering all this, so we now read that we are the "forth" stage again regarding the USPS and their being tasked to double-check the delivery of mail-in ballots: Trump Admin Wins HUGE Court Battle Over Mail-In Ballot Rule that Requires States Submit Voter Lists and Ballot Barcodes Before Postal Service Will Deliver Federal Ballots. (That the Gateway Pundit is excited doesn't mean so awfully much. Every title's in CAPS, they're always excited, and stories are always, DEVELOPING!, BREAKING!, HUGE! or some other such sensational thing...)
We're hoping this one stays in place long enough for times like this, November 4th of '20. The image is from our post Is it all gonna come down to Philly or Carson City?? Send lawyers, guns, and money ...

The election cheating by the D party will continue, and it'll only get worse if the DSA folks (more about them later this week) take more power. The latter folks only need that ONE win by a hair, and then there will be no more elections** on which anyone need worry his pretty little head about cheating.
We had a great postman until 3 years ago, but now we've got the D.I.E. guys (one is nice enough to bring catnip though). Will they follow the policy down at the Post Office?
These type of people are nervously sitting on the edges of their fat asses about it.

This brings back a vivid memory - Please, Please, Mr. Postman was probably one of the first 5 pop music songs I every heard on the radio. Before my time, it was a Motown hit for The Marvelettes, and apparently The Beatles sang it a couple of years later. I missed that, and, sorry, I like the White Bread version, with the great double (tenor and baritone) saxes and the great guitar lead by one Tony Peluso. DisneyLand looked kind of normal too half a century back.
Nobody can accuse this cutie with the beautiful 1970s hairdoo of having had a fat ass, that's for sure.
There must be some word today-ayy-ayyWhat a beautiful voice Karen Carpenter had!
from my voters, so far away.
Please, Mr. Postman, look and see,
if there's a ballot, a ballot for me...
[saxophones, at some point]
I've been standin' here awaitin', Mister Postman,
so-oh-oh patiently-eee-eeey,
for just an ink... jet printed ballot,
or maybe more, in trucks on a pallet... oh, yeah...
[guitar solo]
* A funny set of tweets and memes seen lately has compared these voting requirements with that required to allow one to avail himself of unlimited pasta at The Olive Garden.
** We've just seen this with that Daniel Ortega fellow down in Neek-a-rock-whaa**. Nicaragua's Ortega says 'never again' for elections after two decades in power. Wait a cotton-pickin' minute! That guy's been a Communist Strongman (no offense intended) down there since Reagan's time!
*** Sorry, some of the Peak Stupidity writers have their resumes in with the Regime Media. Don't mind them - they're just practicing.
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KDJT(?), humility, United Airlines, and fun with Airport Codes
Posted On: Monday - July 20th 2026 8:19PM MST
In Topics:   Trump  Big-Biz Stupidity
It's very easy to get extremely annoyed and frustrated at Donald J Trump's personality. Commenter E.H. Hail had something to say in this regard in the comments under the previous post. (Nothing about the Carnot Cycle was discussed, weirdly...)
You may want to read there, but I have a distinction about what's up with this guy that will go with a minor story about airport naming and some BS out of United Airlines' management.
I've called out Trump's ego as something extreme Is the problem just that, though? OK, it's a LOT Of things, but I think that doesn't pin down one of the major things I don't like about him. Maybe General Patton or Ronald Reagan had a bigger ego... who knows... though I doubt it. The problem is not just that. Trump has the completely lack of modesty. That's what bothers me. During the 3rd month of this blog, Peak Stupidity discussed A good trait of Americans, which was Humility, or so I thought at the time, with my example of President Jimmy Carter. (Sure, it's possible that was just his outward persona, but that matters too.)

There are dozens of stories, the big new Air Force Ones, the Whitehouse ballroom, etc, that show this Reality-TV man's distracting himself and others from real work for his ego. This one sounds pretty small: Palm Beach International Airport has been renamed Donald Trump International.
OK, to start with, I'm glad the name hasn't been changed from some guy who long ago BUILT the whole place or something. I've seen too much of that. (Take *Martin Luther* King County, Washington, for example. Sure, take it! It's not the beautiful place it used to be.)
Fine, this is small potatoes, I suppose. Palm Beach is Trump's home away from New York and Washington, FS, and I'm sure he helps the local economy.
However, the lack of humility in this and other stories shows up in WHO pushes for the monuments, renaming, what-have-you. If you're any kind of modest at all, say you're Ronald Reagan, and you really do have an ego (I dunno, not saying) that has you wanting an important airport named after you, you don't go publicly pushing for it. You may hint to some powerful friends that this would be a nice gesture. Maybe you are more modest than that, kind of like a normal person and just hope in your heart that people do appreciate you and name something big after you.
Publicly pushing for it and bullying people about it is unseemly as hell. It's disgusting. Since I've mentioned President Reagan, let me point out a post from late Trump-45 entitled Reaganesque Presidential Statesmanship vs. Clown Act Donald Trump. We also had a 5-part series Ronnie vs. Donnie.*
Long ago (I'll find the post later), I discussed the naming of a couple of airports. President Jimmy (no longer James) Carter had the small uncontrolled** airport at Americus, Georgia (KACJ), closest paved strip to his home town of Plains, named after him. Just as his brother Billy was said to have done, one can just stop the plane and let a guy out with the engine (or both) running, so he can take a quick leak. Nobody cares!
Ronald Reagan, OTOH, did have an important - not so big, but important - airport named after him, Ronald Reagan National (KDCA) near downtown. Washington. Probably it'd be best for you not to tell your pilot friend to hold it at idle, so you can go pee between the taxiways... you know, Terra and all. There's a difference in humility that showed up between these two examples, so what's the big deal about Trump and Palm Beach? He could have pushed for John F. Kennedy to be renamed. Actually, that's something I would have expected! It's that he's so public about his wanting this legacy - there's the complete lack of humility and modesty.

Finally, I'll get to the small United Airlines story. Per The Gateway Pundit, United Airlines Offers Free Flight Changes to Avoid Landing at Newly Named ‘President Donald J. Trump International Airport’ – Company Calls Internal Memo “Poorly Worded” After Exposure.
According to an explosive internal memo obtained by Live And Let’s Fly per FOX Business, United Airlines executives actively instructed their reservation agents to give free pass upgrades to anti-Trump crybabies.An "explosive" memo, GP? Did the memo eat some bad lettuce?
The leaked memo ordered agents to use their “empowerment” to waive fees and offer no-cost flight changes to Miami or Fort Lauderdale for anyone triggered by President Trump’s name!
OK, that's a lot of unnecessary drama there. I CAN see United doing this, though, as UA's CEO Scott Kirby is the woke son of a bitch who said his airline would push for 50% non-White-male pilots as a policy. (I really think NOBODY wants that, when it comes down to boarding 35 minutes prior to departure time.)
UA spokesmen sort of backed down on this "change-fee bias" or at least said they did:
United Airlines quickly went into damage control after the memo surfaced. The company told FOX Business that “the message was poorly worded and not accurate.”(The 4th, but initial, letter K is used for international compliance reasons.) I don't know if that's really backing down or just the realization by Marketing/Sales that this could cost a lot of money if it gets out of hand.
A United spokesperson added: “United customers are able to make changes to a ticket without a fee for many reasons. However, our policy doesn’t allow for changes because of an airport’s name or three letter code.”
"Well, I don't want to fly into Bush Field to go to Houston." "OK, we can re-book you to Hobby Field, no charge." "I'm going to Minneapolis, but I REFUSE to enter a terminal named after an America Firster, that Lindbergh guy!" "OK, but like, we'll have to rent a gate, hire new agents, and have the aircraft taxi over to the Humphrey [there ya' go!] terminal. Errrr, there might be a slight, err, upcharge."
United Airline Management probably feels very good about themselves for helping out the true Trump haters, but the lawyerly/business types don't really want the hassle if everyone getting political on either side were to get in on this action.
Have some perspective, all of you virtue-signaling airline travelers. Imagine if you had to travel weekly on business in and out of Sioux City, Iowa. It (K)SUX to be you. That's what your checked luggage would say. I was REALLY surprised that the city fathers and mothers haven't gotten the code changed since the expression came into vogue. What they are doing, however, is to make lemonade out of a lemon. Per UPI, Sioux City Airport embraces SUX identification code. Nice, Embrace the suck! I like it. They've even got T-shirts.
PS: Palm Beach probably will not change the airport code. Reagan Field is still the nice DCA, obviously "District of Criminals Airport" rather than MIA (was taken, but guess) and Americus is still ACJ for "AmericCus Jawjuh" rather than PNT.
* Intro.
Part 1: The Personalities.
Part 2: Foreign Policy.
Part 3: Domestic Policy.
Conclusion.
** "Non-towered" is the new FAA nomenclature, because it worries people less.
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