D-Day: Invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe, 80 years ago today
Posted On: Thursday - June 6th 2024 10:01PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders History US Feral Government
(There are also other good D-Day photos here on the Denver Post site.)
It was not THE longest, but a long day today. This post was meant to be here in the afternoon, but it's still in by the anniversary date. That's 80 years, 8 decades, 4/5 of a century!
No matter our opinions of whether World War II, Western theater at least, should have been fought at all and what the participants reckoned they were fighting vs the current state of their "free" "democracies", I admire the bravery of these men. I admire the amazing amount of planning and action, the air, sea, marine landing, and ground operations, all of it. I doubt any country today, including China, has it in them to implement a plan this grand.
From PJ Media's Steven Green here:
“Men of the West” manned the ships, flew the planes, hit the beaches, and airdropped in. It was fragile human bodies that endured the shelling, the bullets, and the rigors of what Eisenhower deemed the “Great Crusade,” the most logistically ambitious undertaking in human history… and a moral cause almost without parallel in history.I don't know, but perhaps if the West had dealt more intelligently with Hitler, the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe could have been let alone to fight and probably defeat the Communist Soviet Union. That way, the West would have not have had to deal with them for 4 decades longer.
Those men saved Western Europe from the Nazis and also from “liberation” by Joseph Stalin's Red Army. The final battle lines our men drew just 11 months after D-Day soon became Stalin's Iron Curtain, where the West stood firm yet again against totalitarianism."
In other words, those men saved the world.Does that include current-day America and the West, because, it sure hasn't stayed saved?
There are damned few of those people left, their numbers shrinking daily. You can forget the numbers but never forget them, what they did, or what they stood for.No, they shouldn't be forgotten. I've twice watched The Longest Day. It was made in 1962. I'm so glad the full movie was available on youtube. It's one of my favorite WWII movies, 3rd to Bridge on the River Kwai and Patton. (Maybe Kelly's Heroes might be next.) Here you go:
Long ago, on June 6th of 1984, President Ronald Reagan gave a great speech at Pointe Du Hoc, above what the Allies had dubbed "Omaha Beach". The 100 ft cliffs there were scaled at the expense of the lives of Army Rangers to establish a presence on the mainland of Europe* to bring the war to the Nazis and right on into Berlin with a year's time.
Whatever else - good or bad - you want to say about Ronald Reagan, he made great speeches. From this "Voices of Democracy" page, I'll excerpt just a portion his speech at Pointe Du Hoc, 4 decades ago, exactly half way in time between D-Day and today.
"[11] Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.That was then, 1944, and this was all still pretty reasonable in 1984. In 2024, this is the Potomac Regime flag. Would the Army Rangers have scaled the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc knowing that this was what they were fighting for?
[12] The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
[13] You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.
[14] The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought — or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.
[15] Something else helped the men of D-day: their rockhard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do. Also that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”
[16] These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.
[17] When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together."
We all know the answer to that question. Yet still, that's what happened 80 years ago today.
* At least from the west, as opposed to from the south, through Italy.
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Corrections to rock, paper, scissors post
Posted On: Thursday - June 6th 2024 8:21AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity
Correction of this post.
(Meme, along with others elsewhere, courtesy of E.H. Hail, with help from Adam Smith.)
As I wrote in that last post, a different angle view can give a different story. The short, violent scene in Mannheim, Germany a few days back is something that Peak Stupidity, as others, should have waited to see more to comment on. However, most of what I wrote still applies. The theme of rock, paper, scissors does not apply to this small scale event for one reason, as can be seen. Thanks to the AS-420 network. (That's the Adam Smith channel), we have the video below:
Again, 1/4 speed makes things very clear. I've tried to keep in mind that the guys in the video didn't have the luxury of moving, and especially thinking, in a 1/4 speed reality. (The policewomen pretty much did.)
We can see that the (per Dieter Kief) expert fighter in the black jacket/white pants had been working to subdue the Moslem assassin. One of the Pax Europa protest guys in a blue windbreaker was beating on the wrong man, this guy in question. Now, the cops had come over to the scene, but they were still most assuredly NOT doing their job. They'd let the black jacketed fellow help, but only one of these cops, the bearded and ironically Moslem one, was attempting to get closely involved. (I know, the guy had a knife, but a couple of more big guys could have come in close to take care of the assassin then and there.)
I get that the police wanted to push away the fellow mistakenly beating up on the one guy taking care of business. However, as they pushed him away, with the unfortunately now deceased Rouven L. being the one to (accidentally, from my view) tackle him, they lost focus on the threat. The threat was Sulaiman still with a knife in hand. 3 seconds went by as 3 cops to the front of and in sight of the knife-wielding attacker kept back - I don't particular blame them - and one woman cop behind the guy did NOTHING. She could have tackled him from behind and out-of-sight, but you know, diversity and all makes us stronger, though sometimes more dead...
Again, it was all happening fast, but there is one big question in my mind here. I can see that the late Rouven L. saw Sulaiman getting up. Why then, did he get back down on top of the hapless protester? The latter was doing no harm at this point. Was Rouven really trying to protect the protestor? I find that hard to believe, as my reaction would be to face Sulaiman, even it it were just for a moment before quickly retreating. A hit to the man from below to knock him way off his feet (Judo, anyone?) would be an idea, but I surely wouldn't put my back to him. Did Rouven not see the knife at this point or think it wasn't so much of a threat?*
Anyway, analyzing video footage from a couple of angles in 1/4 time inside at my leisure is one thing. What happened in Mannheim was a bloody mess.
However, I think it's high time, as per their very small protestations so far, that these enforcers of the Establishment realize that who their
Yes, it was ironic that the cop who was of the most help here was a Moslem guy. It was a good shooting too.***
Rock, paper, scissors still applies to the big picture. The Establishment paper that has wrapped itself around the White male bedrock of society doesn't understand that scissors still beat paper. We're hoping to change the rules so rock can bash them too.
Oh, and as another follow-up, per DPA(?), via yahoo news,,
The motive of the 25-year-old perpetrator, who was born in Afghanistan and was unknown to police, is still unclear. He underwent surgery after sustaining gunshot wounds during his capture, according to police.Unclear... as through a glass, darkly ...
The man, who lives in the western German state of Hesse and is married with two children, has been accused of attempted murder.
* Before looking at this closely, I'd thought that Rouven L. may not have seen Sulaiman get back up, hence, he may have thought he'd control the one guy while his team took care of the real threat. However, he was looking right at the scene though.
** Yet, as with the case of Charlottesville, Virginia 7 years back, the LAW was there in the first place to keep an eye on these men, not to protect them.
*** It was about 2 seconds too late to protect his colleague, but he could have killed innocents otherwise.
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Constituent phone calls and constituent services
Posted On: Wednesday - June 5th 2024 5:41PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor ctrl-left
I couldn't find the best "file photo" as it's only one sign that I see all over the neighborhood, and I don't want to divulge real names. This guy is a Democrat, and the signs are all about because he's running in a primary for this State House district XXX [REDACTED].
Mr. Jones, let's call him, has moved up the political ladder from some volunteer neighborhood what-have-you (MOAR 4-way stop signs!) to city something-or-other, and he's been in this office at least once already. It's hard to believe that in this socially Conservative State, this piece of work has gone right up the ladder. That's this district, I guess.
I don't take others' signs down, what with my lack of my own front-end-loader, and then there's that directive from my doctor to not drink anymore*... I do resent getting 20 pieces of mail from the same freaking guy though, even when it's a good guy.
I! GET! IT! Pro-BLT-G, walk-friendly shopping district (yeah, it's gonna cut out some lanes, but who needs lanes to drive?), and all the ctrl-left clap-trap that I really don't expect here from the local guys.
It was time to call this Rep of "mine" about the 20 pieces of junk mail. I guess Mr. Jones is not THAT big a hot shot, as the phone number went to his mobile phone as connected to his car. He barely let me get a word in after I told him nicely that I'd gotten too much mail and asked if he could please make it stop.
I did bring up "Don't you left-wing people want to save the trees and save the bees, and all that? This is a lot of paper wasted, man."
Apparently that's not a problem, but this was a great opportunity for Rep. Jones to tell me what he was doing to raise property values in the neighborhood. He did bring up constituent services.** He went on for a while. Maybe it was due to the car hook-up, but I could not get a word in for 2 minutes. Finally, "Yeah, that's great about THIS neighborhood, but it's all for nothing if you people work to keep this country going straight to hell."
Well, yeah, but constituent services ... like, MAKE! IT! STOP!
* The Doc said I don't have to drink any LESS, but just don't drink any MORE.
** Which will never happen now, as I had to text him my address at the end of the call to get him to stop the mail.
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Rock, paper, scissors: Mannheim Multiculti version
Posted On: Tuesday - June 4th 2024 6:45PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny World Political Stupidity
Note: Correction and clarification coming tomorrow. The one guy (black jacket/white pants) was more involved, as can be seen in other footage, which changes the story significantly. IMO, it doesn't change my overall point on the Establishment having taken aim at the Germans rather than on the enemies of the Germans.
Also, thanks to Adam Smith, this Bitchute-hosted (on the ASN network) same clip should play. I will insert the other angles in the correction post. This one is not fake, but it misses one important part of the action.
This is a couple-of-days-old story. I gotta say that Steve Sailer's post title on this one is most excellent: Victims Subdue Islamist Knife Terrorist Until Cops Liberate Him. You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next! That's a parody of the ubiquitous clickbait headlines one would see on yahoo.com and often The Gateway Pundit*.
The image above shows the moment that Afghan invader Sulaiman -
What is clear is that a group of far-
(Sorry about the video. I didn't see that coming. You'll have to go to the youtube, but no sign-in is required - it wasn't for me just now, at least.)
Do any readers remember the fun kid's game called Rock/Paper/Scissors? I always liked that one, even as an adult. Winning takes more than just luck, as you can only come out ahead by using Psychology. ("What's the other guy thinking?" "What does he think I'm gonna do next?") This happening in Mannheim was a quick game of Rock/Paper/Scissors played to the death. Let me explain.
In the grand scheme of Wokeness, all around the Western World, White people, especially White men are to be treated by the Establishment as the underprivileged. That is, they deserve no privileges. Others, especially including foreign
At the same time, White men are the bedrock of Western society. Scum like this Sulaiman assassin would not be coming there/here without White men having built the places, because they'd have been just like their homelands. Yet The Establishment supports them. White men are the rock, and The Establishment is the paper that covers rock. Who are the scissors? That's an easy one.
Let's get down to the level of this action video clip. The German cops were probably near at hand, at this location in Mannheim, due to Michael Stürzenberger and his group being considered the far-right, Enemies of the State. That sounds backwards after my definition below****, but remember that the German Establishment does not care about the existence of Germany, at least one populated with Germans. That'd only hamper their ability to control everything. No, this group, even with a small peaceful protest or rally is the enemy of The Establishment, and these cops are an enforcement arm of the latter.
So, naturally, when a bearded Moslem guy is running amok stabbing men of this peaceful group with a large knife, as a cop, by instinct, you go for the dangerous guys, meaning the blue-windbreaker-donned White men. After all, they're the Enemy of the State. (The guy with the knife is just a Newcomer.) Already injured, a couple of the White guys had been helping to control, neutralize, or at least keep themselves away from the Moslem assassin. Rock beats scissors, after all, though in the kid's game, I never pictured that working very well. You can bash the scissors, but it takes a lot to get them to not work.
Back to Mannheim, again, a few of the men of the peaceful protest group had already been wounded by this Newcomer and at least had him on the ground. There is the one guy with a black jacket/white pants in there involved, too, but, no matter, the one cop ended up on top of (one of) the wounded White man protesters. Even if this cop didn't mean to bring him to the ground, he stayed on top of him. Was he protecting him? Bull. No. The White man was being detained... giving the Moslem assassin a chance to get up.
So, rock was in the processing of giving a proper beating to scissors, but then paper does beat rock. (Having a badge helps.) However, who knew there was going to be one more round? Yeah, scissors broke loose due to the stupidity of the cops, and the one cop, Officer Rouven L., who wrapped himself around the White rock, got beat by scissors, actually a big knife. He has since died.
The irony and resemblance of Rock/Paper/Scissors can be cut with... a knife ... Still, I really can't laugh about it, with the likely decent White German Rouven L. dead at 29 years old. As for the big picture, that's different. With the intention of enforcing Anarcho-Tyranny the enforcement arm of the German Establishment took a hit from the (other) REAL enemy of the German people instead. Will they learn anything? Will they realize they are working for the wrong side? Officer L. might have known that for a while, as he didn't die till 2 days later.*****
Thirty officers of the Mannheim police have called in sick, possibly in protest against a German political leadership that refuses to address the dangers of radical Islam. Two dozen of the officer’s colleagues paid tribute to their fallen comrade, removing their hats during a gathering Sunday at the site of the attack, The Independent reported.I guess they've learned something, but German patriots like Michael Stürzenberger are still being persecuted. Taking one's hats off won't cut it. Oh, and the German left protested against the memorial services. The Moslem Sulaiman was shot by one of the cops, but he'll make it. An Australian news site notes at the end of its report:
There was no longer any immediate danger to the public following Friday's incident, police said in a statement.That depends on what you mean by "immediate".
PS: All those women cops were pretty much useless, BTW. They never took action until the action was over.
* As per our site review, there's WAY too much of that sort of thing. I have come to know which titles to avoid now on that otherwise helpful news site. In this case, GP's 1st post on this story, by Richard Abelson, has the reasonable title German Islam Critic Michael Stürzenberger Sends Thanks from His Hospital Bed After Terrorist STABBING ATTACK. The GP has been keeping up with patriotic Germans' fight against Islam in their country for a while - see Germany: Six Months Hard Time for Criticizing Radical Islam from 1 3/4 years about about Mr/ Stürzenberger.
** See also our Addendum.
*** I've got no idea why they don't print his last name.
**** At this point, it's very clear that the term "far right" is used for people in any Western society who believe in keeping their nation intact. It's not bad to be far-right then. You're a traiter if you're not.
***** He had been medically put into a coma... to keep his organs for someone... might be a needy Newcomer ...
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[UPDATED 06/06:] Though I've corrected a lot in a subsequent post, I struck out the direct responsibility for this Moslem being in Germany belonging to Herr Merkel. Thanks for the correction, Mr. Hail. I'd assumed, due to this guy's young age (25).
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Surprising search results
Posted On: Monday - June 3rd 2024 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump
This is actually the results of a search of search requests... easy for me to say. Your own personal searches may vary ever so slightly.
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Holy Health Plan Stupidity,
Posted On: Monday - June 3rd 2024 6:37PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity Customer Care
It's hard to start off the blogging week many times due to the confusion on what's coming after a day or day and a half, off the editing window. There are required follow-up posts from recent or long ago others. There is new stuff I read over the weekend*. There are ideas for posts that have been in my head for a while, some with links and pictures already saved.
When I don't know which way to go, usually some stupidity gets foisted upon me before I can even sit down to write. This is the usual Customer Care/Curmudgeonry/ Big Biz stupidity, but I may have a bigger point here.
It could have been very simple to deal with the dentist had I my Dental Plan card. I just couldn't find it. It shouldn't be so hard to get the numbers off of it from my company, the health care plan company, or just the website. "OK, I'll get this and call you back in 1/2 an hour."
Well, it took every bit of that 1/2 hour. There were no company direct numbers, as they offload this stuff. The company website just sent me straight over to the "Benefits"** site. Because of the Hippo Laws, I think, one must provide some special long-lost login to the website. I tried various ways. 5-10 minutes went by, though this was overlapping with the "customer care" calls.
First I made 2 different phone calls to 2 different "800" numbers, mashing as many "0"'s as it took to get live people. From the names, both of these were Black! women, the 1st with a more hard-core Black! name and the service to match. At least I was told that, though the dental plan name was the same, there was a separate company dealing with this. The 3rd number, more directly to the dental people, should have been the charm. It took 3 calls though:
1) After being asked to type dos for Espanol , I mashed enough zeros to get to Virtual Alex. I don't talk to Virtual Anybody, so I kept going with the zeros. I ended up with about 6 zeros showing when I got told, pertly, as usual, "OK, I'll get you to someone who can help." First, though, I was told I could do a survey afterwards - that'd have been lit - and then the call was answered but with nobody, no music, no nothing, going on for 2 minutes. I had to bail on that one.
2) This time I dialed zeros to get to and through Virtual Alex, but non-Virtual Someone Else in marketing or IT had previously decided that that was too quick, and I couldn't be trusted. I was told "Goodbye" fairly nicely by the software and hung up on.
3) The same thing, but with a little more care put into my zero-mashing, got me to a girl in the Philippines. (I asked.) Her accent was unusually tough at one point, so I had to ask her to say each word slowly. Still, after telling her nicely (she sounded sweet) that "No, I don't have that Member #, or I wouldn't have had to call here", and her getting other info. from me, I got what I needed, which is the numbers that are on that card that will probably turn up in the next few days.
There was no time for the survey. How could I do a survey anyway, when I hadn't see her legs?
I checked when I called the dentist back. Yep, 1/2 hour had been wasted. Now, I know that the idea of all these attempts at making me deal only with software is to reduce the number of employees everywhere, or at least American ones. That the whole process is much more stressful than dealing with one individual, say, the company, that could just look up what was on that card doesn't bother these Big Biz honchos.
There's something more to this, whether part of the Globalist programme or just a happy side effect. Personal local contact is being blocked as much as possible. Someone from my company is someone whose name I could remember. I could remember whether he is knowledgable or helpful. Nope, you are forced to deal with software, or at the best, someone on the far side of the world whom you'll never meet nor talk to again. I don't like any of this!
* Yes, I should stay off the internet completely, but "should" ain't "do", unfortunately.
** Long ago "benefits" started to mean health care plans alone.
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Aurora Borealis
Posted On: Saturday - June 1st 2024 9:26PM MST
In Topics: Music Science
I've seen the "Northern Lights" from the Pacific Northwest from high places on cold winter nights. They never looked like more than a vague fairly dim bluish-white curtain. The solar storm 3 weeks back generated a much brighter and more colorful northern lights that could be seen from much farther south. This was said to be the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years.
(Solar) coronal mass ejections have magnetic fields that interact with the Earth's own magnetic field. Lots of energy is transferred to the Earth's magnetosphere, 10's of thousands of miles up. That's all I know. besides "Where was this EMP of which you spoke?" I was A-OK One Second After, but we've got other things to prep for now. Anyway, I snapped this picture that night:
For this kind of thing, especially when one uses the Latin scientific term, Aurora Borealis, New Age music is a must. There'll be another time and place for Yacht Rock. Who else, then, but Enya fits the bill tonight?
Enya, aka Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin - come on!! - recorded the wonderful Shepherd Moons album in 1991. Book of Days is one of my favorites from it. Enya often sings in some other-worldly language, perhaps Klingon, perhaps this one. It's hard for me not to try to make English words in my head out of the lyrics. This one is in English, though, but lyrics don't matter so much when you have good melodies and a sound like this.
Good night, Peakers. Thanks for reading ... and hopefully listening!
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Omar v ADL in Circular Firing Squad
Posted On: Saturday - June 1st 2024 11:24AM MST
In Topics: Websites The Neocons
I have had even more respect for the insight of Steve Sailer after reading through most of his book. Many of these have been mentioned together by pundit Dennis Dale in this post of his. Illustrious pundit/commenter E.H. Hail has written a new post (finallyl!) with more on Mr. Sailer's positions and changes thereof, with Dennis Dale on Steve Sailer: the perils of success.
Peak Stupidity brought up Mr. Sailer's great terminology of the "Coalition of the Fringes" and the "circular firing squad" that surely will and IS resulting recently in Steve Sailer's concepts in action.
Now, even NeoCon Instapundit* is "noticing" the circular firing squad.
(Unfortunately, the site doesn't include the posting dates. This post was from a few weeks ago. We do know that it was posted at 7:30 AM that day.)
Professor Reynolds is getting there. He's wrong in that it's not just standing idly by and sneering that they do. The ADl and its sister Hate Org, the $PLC, would be the ones doing the smearing. They'd also be the ones the Governments and GFNGOs (Government Funded Non Governmental Organizations) rely on for bogus hatedata stats and advisement.
As an off-off-Broadway Hate Site, Peak Stupidity hates ungrateful anti-American, anti-White Moslem immigrant grifters like IOU**. We think even less of the ADL. So this is good stuff. Someone buy some popcorn. Someone else buy a few cases of .308 from Cheaper than Dirt. Let's encourage the circular firing squads with the gift of live ammo.
* The site owner and long-term pundit, U-Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds is unfortunately still reflexively NeoCon, but it's also one of his prolific bloggers, Sara Hoyt, who is biased as all get-out. She posts there late at night.
See more here.
** Ilhan Omar, Undocumented. Check out MTG v IOU in that link.
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Peak Stupidity's 3,000th post!
Posted On: Friday - May 31st 2024 9:26PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Websites Humor
I can't take credit for the meme this time, as much as I'd like to. I came upon this one fortuitously a few months back.
Yep, since our first post on November 28th '16, we've averaged 1,09 posts per day over those 2742 days. (That's 34 days in '16, 6 full years + 1 full leap year, and 152 days this leap year as of today.) Not counting Sundays, that's about 1 1/4 posts daily.
As much as Peak Stupidity management pushes us hard to make the goals of our 5 year plans (and New Deals), quantity is not our biggest goal*. The posts have gotten longer, but that's not always a good thing. I want to get away from the daily news again and concentrate on the creme de la stupid.
Then too, as evil as this world is getting, I kind of wish I'd started blogging on PeakEvil.com. (Last I checked, the URL is available.) Our staff has not modeled this Evil - lots of
Additionally, our technical staff, a guy named Josh in Bombay, have resigned to spend more time with their families, after having used up their sick time bank due to "Long Covid". (Honestly, I have speculated that what it was is that Josh didn't really like our remarks and use of special characters for his •nicity.)
I want to thank all the readers and most especially those who write in, usually in support of our writing. The site is here for enjoyment by both parties. Peak Stupidity's rise to the Fortune 500 is still in the future. These would be most welcome, had we a tip jar here. We don't have a body like AOC so we don't expect tips, or anything further, to be put in.
I wish the World could be less stupid again, even with the loss of business this would entail. We keep holding on, to yesterday...
Talk about some obscure music, Holding on to Yesterday from the band Ambrosia is some of that. I like the sound of this 49 y/o song from this band out of Los Angeles (San Pedro), California.
David Pack - lead vocal, guitar
Christopher North - organ, pianos, backing vocal
Joe Puerta - bass, backing vocal
Burleigh Drummond - drums, backing vocal
Daniel Kobialka - violin
PS: Regarding the point here, often hard to get back to, I haven't checked out the site visit/view/etc. stats in quite a while. I'll present some numbers at 8 years in.
* We do want readers to keep checking in daily, so we try to avoid big gaps of 3 days or more.
** NACA isn't what it used to be. Neither is NASA.
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Donald Trump convicted - now we're all in.
Posted On: Thursday - May 30th 2024 9:06PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 US Police State Trump Deep State Totalitarianism
9 months and 299 posts ago, Peak Stupidity displayed this same image. That post was Donald Trump arrested, surges in polls. This farce of a legal system, both at the Federal and State levels has been going on for more than those 9 months. One may have thought the idea of this lawfare was to keep Trump from campaigning as long as possible. Of course, the charges have been too stupid to warrant any convictions.
However, after seeing a conviction by a jury of his non-peers on whatever bogus charges this was about - all 34! of them - I see that the Deep State and Feral Gov't Establishment have gone full Totalitarian.
The REAL charges against Donald Trump are as follows:
Charge 1) The defendant cares about and defends Americans.
Charge 2) The defendant was party to an effort to obstruct the Population Replacement Program. This is a RICO offense.
Charge 3) The defendant has refused to join the UniParty.*
Charge 4) The defendant has been privy to an unauthorized election win on or about the 8th of November 2016 AD.
These are serious charges by the ctrl-left and Deep State. Guilty as charged, your Honor! It was important that the Trumped-up charges be drawn up to snag this offender, as the real charges have not been written into the Constitution in a timely manner. (It's like Al Capone, you know, and the tax evasion... We always get our man.)
They know that we and non-retarded people on all sides know that the Bills of Attainder charges, the trials, and now this decision are the actions of Totalitarian governments . They no longer care that we know this. They've even got their own Lavrentiy Beria as Chief Enforcer:
Now, there is plenty of room for speculation and jokes to be made about the possibilities of the election win of a guy who's running from prison. I don't feel in the mood for that just now. Whichever way it goes, the complete loss of trust in elections and the legal system in this country means there'll be real trouble. These are so far from the old days of light-hearted politics. As
We're all in now. Voting for Trump is a must. Of course, the Government and its minions can do the same as in '20 however, even more blatantly. Therefore, before and after this '24 election, I think and hope that big rallies will be held at some point by people who know very well what happened to those at the Jan 6th, 21 rally. Knowing what happened, what do you differently the next time? We won't expand on that thought here...
* A mandatory membership into the UniParty has been precluded by the fact that he is rich and can't be Epsteined due to his ability to get poontang easily on the mainland.
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Correction to the correction. It was James Fulford, writing in red text in a VDare Peter Bradley post who wrote that. Mr. Fulford referenced a non-tweet from 1953 of Robert Heinlein from his observations during a visit to Peru.
Sorry, Confusion reigns when you've got tweets, replies to tweets, transcriptions of tweets, red text, I don't know WTH...
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Peak Stupidity targets bad attitudes
Posted On: Thursday - May 30th 2024 12:15PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics Customer Care
I've got a friend who lives in eastern Tennessee. While describing the general situation of society there he mentioned the lack of "negritude" in those parts as a very nice plus. Without getting into the etymology, almost all of us would inherently understand the idea. In that very White (for 2020's numbers) part of the country, sure, things are not just fine by any means. Good jobs are scarce, there are meth heads and crime is not at all unknown.
Still, though it may rarely appear in White people too, that basic attitude of uncaring for society or anyone is part of our working definition. That attitude has been made worse steadily, and especially since the Martyrdom of Fentanyl Floyd 4 years back. At this point, Black! people can do no wrong. This creates an amount of undeserved self-esteem and great privilege that, well, I'd rather have nothing to do with.
Much of our Curmudgeonry posts here on Peak Stupidity overlap (there's that Venn Diagram thing ...) with "Customer Care" stories. Seeing as the problems seem to be getting more numerous, I tend to wonder if the problem is me, not others. It's not always this negritude that's the problem, but let me just describe the quick scene at the Target store.
This store has been the Target (uggghh) of multiple posts here, most of them related to the Kung Flu PanicFest. In fact, and also to be fair here, the friendly black lady subject of Targeted for hysteria - Aftermath* may very well have been
At this check-out counter, I had some moderately heavy stuff. There were bags of pet food mostly for donation. I tried to help out by moving them close to the counter - they've long had scanners connected by cord to the "registers". Well, the scanning wasn't working after multiple efforts, so I suggested she type in the 12 digit ISBN or whatever "harmonized" code it is that the bar-code represents. That didn't go well. "That won't work." "Yeah, it will, let me read out this first one." I read her out one number, she punched something in, and it didn't work. Instead of concentrating and figuring it out (there IS a way) she showed off that attitude.
This was not the workplace or the Highway Department. I didn't have to take this, so I simple backed off, leaned on the empty counter behind me, and pulled out my phone to read Peak Stupidity comments (thanks, you guys!!) I was just not going to participate in this show of negritude. You want help from me - then you be nice. Otherwise, go ahead, I've got all day.
Yes, there were people behind me in the line probably thinking I'm the lazy, uncaring, unhelpful guy letting the woman do the heavy lifting. I don't care - 5 minutes later - instead of 2 - I was on my way.
Was it just MY attitude? I thought back later that on this same day I'd dealt with black ladies 3 times while doing errands. I had no problem with either of the other 2:
1) At the post office, it was very cordial and nice. I've been to that branch enough to where I and this older woman recognize each other. Also, oddly, there was nobody else in there, so there was no hurry or stress.
2) At the bank, there are usually from a handful of people to, much of the time) nobody else in there. Same thing. Also, they really need to be polite there. People might just decide to take a bunch of money out otherwise.
PS: So as not to need yet another post, I'll mention that the next time in Target I dealt with a smiling fairly-pretty Hispanic cashier. The only problem is, her English was nearly NIL. You don't notice that normally. "Hello" "Swipe or tap here", etc. can be memorized. However, "Can I get 10 ones back in my cash?" (cash-back, using the store as a bank) did not ring a bell. I tried 3 ways! Coincidentally, a guy in line wanted a ten for his 10 ones. He was a White guy, so I didn't need to bother to count. What a country!
* That post, on the mask-wearing as late as Fall '22, was the last of what turned out to be a 4-part series. Previously, Peak Stupidity had posted the original post, an addendum, and then an amended addendum.
** Something I've thought about before is that the nicest and/or prettiest check-out girls will get the fewest, or maybe no, short breaks from the job. A real stand-out hottie will have a continuous line, barring the store being empty - that's just
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East Into The Sunset
Posted On: Wednesday - May 29th 2024 7:29AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Books
Note: Right now, VDare is selling this book for $15. You just have to email them and maybe send an old-fashioned paper check.
Andrew Morrison, the author* of East Into The Sunset, was a US Border Patrol Agent for 20 years. The full name of the book includes Memories of Patrolling in the Rio Grande Valley at the Turn of the Century. Agent Morrison's time down there was only his 1st 5 years ('99 - '05) of his career at the BP, before he moved up to the Canadian border. Things have changed over the last 5 years up in the north, but at the time in question, the Mexican border was where all the action was, hence the book's concentration of stories from the author's time down there.
Firstly, so as not to make the Peak Stupidity reader wonder as long at the previous readers of this book would have, here's the deal with "east into the sunset": The guys working the Rio Grande portion of the US/Mexico border - all of the Texas border, 1250 miles from El Paso/Juarez down the river to Harlingen/Matamoros/South Padre - referred to downriver as "east". (Mr. Morrison explains this in more detail.) As with most rivers there are big bends** here and there, so portions where the author/BP Agent worked would have been flowing to the west, but still regarded as east as far as directions used in planning, radio communication, etc.
This is a book of closely related short stories. After Mr. Morrison gives his own background and a description of the BP training, he reels off (possibly in hundreds of) stories of his time working the Rio Grande in the goal of keeping foreign invaders out of America. Most of these were recovered letters and emails to his family back on the East Coast. The stories do not all fit on a timeline, though generally they follow these ~5 years of the author's BP work in the region. Some of the stories were put together as they are stories of a certain subject or to make the same point. These may be from early to late in this period.
As usual for me, but even more so in this book, I could not follow every single character, and some were true "characters" too. "Wait, who's this guy I'm supposed to remember again, and from what story?" There are a lot of agents written about. I didn't feel the need to keep up with them all - the stories are very good, once you get used to Mr. Morrison's style. (You've got to remember that most of these were formerly letters.)
Some things that I had no idea about previously follow: One was the use of seismic sensors - this is back up to 25 years ago now - to detect footsteps out there in all that land. There were false alarms, but generally these were helpful in finding out where illegals were moving when already away from observation points on the river or on the Texas bank of it. The fact that OTMs (Other Than Mexicans)***, unless known criminals, I suppose, were being taken for processing to be released into the US even back then is not something I'd known. Also, that the relations between the Border Patrol and the illegals was non-violent to the extend written about was somewhat surprising. Just as now, the agents had to worry about being Derek Chauvined. (There are some stories on this aspect of the work, often quite amusing.)
Since I mentioned these OTMs, along the lines of the present situation, BP Agents would sometimes let them alone or even actively avoid them. Detaining them meant time-wasting paperwork spent on people who were not going home, while it could have been spent actually sending Mexicans home or (more of the time, from what I gather) keeping them out.
A majority of the BP Agents in this region at the turn of the 21st Century were Hispanic. There was corruption, but Mr. Morrison doesn't give the impression that the Hispanicity of his colleagues had them avoiding the job. The stories of the lazy and uncaring agents vs. those who wanted to do the job, like Mr. Morrison, included White, Black!, and Hispanic agents.
It's the case with a lot of jobs that there are people who don't mind doing busy work or anything, whether at all related to the basic goal of the operation, and those who do mind. There are those who simply are there for the paycheck and years-o'-service. They don't care about the mission and lean toward avoiding trouble vs. doing the job. Others are gung ho, like Mr. Morrison. I would put myself in that latter category for the work that I do.
Therefore, we read about Mr. Morrison's desire for the boat duty, going up and down the river looking for invaders. The use of inner tubes to cross, including to hold some baggage, sounds to have been prevalent. Mr. Morrison slashed usually-temporarily abandoned inner tubes and some in full use, IIRC in many of his stories. He was known to be the King of inner-tube slashing.
I'll stop here regarding the particulars. The Peak Stupidity reader may want to enjoy them himself.
Let me end with one important point. Things are different now, having changed drastically starting January 20th of '21. The invasion is being planned and encouraged at this point. Though 100's of thousands yearly, maybe some years up over a million, crossed illegally into America during those years and in the places described in this book, things were still different. The Feral Gov't (and their behind-the-scenes instigators, Big Biz and nation-wreckers) didn't at all mind the illegal aliens coming, but they did not actively PREVENT the Border Patrol from at least TRYING to accomplish its mission. Andrew Morrison was one such agent who worked against the higher-ups to do the job that patriotic Americans have always wanted done.
As the lady said, though, "At this point, what difference does it make?" That applies here, but it shouldn't stop the author of East Into The Sunset, from being proud of his work. Thanks to Andrew Morrison for the good reading too.
* He writes a roughly-twice-monthly column on the Washington Pundit site in addition to pseudonymously writing elsewhere.
** In fact, the Rio Grande River (in GW Bush terminology, where, you know, family values don't stop or even get waterlogged) has a Big Bend National Park.
*** During this time period, "OTM" meant Central American, maybe Brazilian, but not more than a very few OTNW (Other Than New World?) Nowadays, the
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Ron Paul is wrong about something.
Posted On: Tuesday - May 28th 2024 3:39PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump Pundits China Economics Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Zhou Bai Dien Taxes
Also, the Pope is no longer Catholic, and dogs and cats have been recently seen living together in purrfect harmony. I never thought I'd live to see the 1st thing, though!
Great Libertarian and Conservative Ron Paul's recent column says Biden’s Tariffs Are Another Nail in the Dollar’s Coffin. I strongly disagree with the gist of the column.
I wouldn't say the wording of Dr. Paul's column title is necessarily wrong. There are plenty of other nails, though, and, worse than being in this rare disagreement* with the great Ron Paul is that I agree with Zhou Bai Dien here. (I'm also surprised, having figured Bai Dien has been under the whip hand of the Chinese, seeing as how the CCP must have many pictures and videos of Bai Dien's only surviving son in some "compromising" situations. Hence, our appellation.)
It was Trump who finally did something to fight the greatly unfair trade situation with China, before Bai Dien. It was one of his actual successes. Peak Stupidity mentioned this in our book review of Josh Rogin's Chaos Under Heaven and explained more earlier in our post The Chinese are not happy with their > 20 year-long unfair! trade deal with America. I don't mean "unfair" here in the sense of "unbalanced". I mean unfair unfair, the way the Chinese have "reciprocated" ever since the Clinton administration and the Wall Street finance boys started giving away our manufacturing to China in the 1990s. I have a personally gleaned story on this that'll have to appear in another post. Yet, Ron Paul says:
Specifically, President Biden raised tariffs on products including Chinese-produced steel and aluminum and many components imported from China for use in manufacturing electric vehicle batteries. Tariffs on Chinese-made semiconductors are rising from 25 to 50 percent while tariffs on Chinese-made electronic vehicles are rising from 25 percent to an astounding 100 percent.GOOD!! Dr. Paul did not get into the importation of Cheap China-made Crap here. No matter the quality, manufacturing must come back to the US (and the invasion stopped too) or we're sunk ... like a 20,000 TEU container ship. (See Where's my stuff??)
I get Ron Paul's very principled stance on free markets. However, as with the flow of people, as I think he understands now, it's important for a country to be as self-sufficient/self-reliant as it can. Not only did America do very well on this score for a few centuries, but the Founders of this country were mostly FOR tariffs. Tariffs were, in fact, one of the main sources of income for the US Gov't through its early history.
"Customs Duties" are an indirect method of performing the same function as tariffs, making foreign products more expensive. The simple table below comes from an interesting 18 y/o paper, U.S. Federal Government Revenues: 1790 to the Present.
Look, if the Founding Fathers were fine with this, than who am I, and who is Ron Paul, to argue? More from his column:
Of course, the costs of these tariffs will be borne by Americans wishing to purchase electric cars and American electric car manufacturers that use material imported from China. These new tariffs thus undercut Biden’s goal of getting more Americans to drive electric cars.Well, first of all, that EV goal is just in the name of Globalism and destruction of the middle class (getting them onto public transport). Secondly, one puppet string running Zhou Bai Dien doesn't necessarily know what the other one's doing. The rest of the financial picture that Dr. Paul paints is true enough, such as:
If the dollar loses its world reserve currency status, the US government would lose the ability to “weaponize the dollar.” Other countries would then have less incentive to abide by US demands, including related to regime changes. It would also reduce other countries’ interest in purchasing US debt instruments.That's all good. and yep, I suppose it does mean that:
This would increase pressure on the Federal Reserve to monetize the debt, creating more price inflation and leading to a major economic crisis. This will not just end the US military and financial empire abroad. It will also end the welfare state at home.Uhhh, yeah, but isn't that what both of us and real Conservatives, real Libertarians*** all want anyway? It's not like even YOU, Ron Paul, with 545 clones in the Congress, could get us out of the hole we are in. The financial pain is coming, one way or another.
However, the end result may be a return to limited, constitutional government and a political class that realizes that Ronald Regan [sic] was correct when he told me that no nation has ever abandoned gold and remained great.Always the optimist, Ron Paul is, at least at the end of 95% of his columns. I like that. "Never, never, never say "never", ne dis jamais jamais."
"Better, better believe in forever, and it can be that way."
Styx never charged extra for the French lesson here, from their 1979 album Cornerstone. Tommy Shaw wrote this one and sang lead vocals on it. In their prime, Styx was:
Dennis DeYoung – vocals, keyboards, accordion.
James "JY" Young – vocals, electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, autoharp.
Tommy Shaw – vocals, guitars, mandolin, autoharp.
Chuck Panozzo – bass guitar, string bass.
John Panozzo – drums, percussion.
* I almost forgot. I also disagree on his stance against proposals for required use of eVerify. It get his point. eVerify is electronic intrusion by the Feral Gov't into our working lives. Yet, that's water under the bridge built by Amendment XVI** more than a century ago and taking this step as just one of many to halt the invasion is important. If the invasion is not stopped and reversed, Constitutional Rights will continue to mean exactly squat.
** See also Part 2 and Part 3.
*** From what I've seen during the last 2 presidential elections, the official Libertarian Party itself has become a real farce.
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Peak Stupidity Four Year remembrance of the Floyd Fentanyl Fest
Posted On: Saturday - May 25th 2024 10:03PM MST
In Topics: Music Race/Genetics
Has it really been 4 years already? Such an important event it was, on that May 25th afternoon in the Minneapolis hood in the
No, really we learned how the drug overdose death of some stupid violent black asshole, who just couldn't stop running his mouth and freaking out long enough to even have sense talked into him, could be made into a completely different story. We learned how contradicting on-the-scene video could be purged, the narrative could be controlled, and people could be cowed into supporting this fake narrative, all over the country and around the world.
If George Floyd had finally calmed down and gotten all the way into the cop car or the ambulance drivers or dispatcher hadn't been incompetent that day 4 years back, those who benefit from the destruction of America would have had to find another event to start on another day. As it went, as sick as it is, George Floyd is as famous as George Washington now. As Floyds go, other than Floyd the barber on Andy Griffith, I think of Pink when "Floyd" is mentioned.
Peak Stupidity has posted some of this band's music in the past. I know this song, off of Pink Floyd's 51 y/o Dark Side of the Moon*, has not been one of them. Enjoy Us and Them:
Out of the way - it's a busy day.
I've got things on my mind.
For want of an EMT and a real twenty
the old man died. ... good riddance!
Hmmm, I wonder why there's so little diversity in that old official Floyd video. Something should be done.
That 2 hour long video on economics will appear finally next week. There's an immigration story, among all the rest of the damage, that you don't read about much, to be discussed. We'll have short book review coming, if that's even possible here. More humor will come along with it all. Thanks for reading and commenting, Peakers. We hope you enjoy the rest of your hopefully long weekend.
* This one was famous for being on the top 100 album charts for years running.
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A killer D.I.E. Program at UCLA Medical School
Posted On: Friday - May 24th 2024 10:28PM MST
In Topics: University Race/Genetics Healthcare Stupidity
"Yeah, of course, I'm not headed to India just for my knee replacement - I'm going for the cuisine, and I figure, well, while I'm there..."
I read this Washington Free Beacon article, 'A Failed Medical School': How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA from an Instapundit link first. I should have figured Steve Sailer would be all over this one, as it hits close to home for him.
That is, besides this article being right in his wheelhouse - Steve Sailer has long been "noticing" the deleterious effect of Affirmative Action* and its more potent generic replacement Wokeness - also, UCLA is near his residence. He's not a young guy, and at some point he may need really important healthcare services from a medical facility that used to be highly esteemed.
This ought to hit home for ANYBODY above a certain age. We're not talking customer "care" or tech support on the phone here, cashiers who can't make change, or hack-job auto repair. The less proficient, to put it mildly, doctors that graduate UCLA's David Geffen (the music guy?) School of Medicine may maim and kill you in the future. People may want to put aside for a moment their extreme virtuousness, say, when it's their cardiac stent insertion on the line.
Steve Sailer noted, to me, probably unfairly, that "Aaron Sibarium is that rarity, a journalist for a conservative publication who does actual investigative journalism." Yes, I agree completely that writer Aaron Sibarium did some serious Journalism here:
This story is based on written correspondence between UCLA officials, internal data on student performance, and interviews with eight professors at the medical school—six of whom have worked with or under Lucero on medical student and residency admissions.It's not just a scoop but the kind of revelation that puts stories like Watergate to shame. I just don't see that left-wing publications are better - they lie more, in fact. (Possibly he means the New York Times, which he, and another person I'll mention later in this post, still honor as some kind of "paper of record".)
I wish I had room to excerpt and comment on this whole article - please, please take the 5 minutes! Note that this real piece of
So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee's meeting.Yeah, haha, and that rate's going to the moon, lady, if people don't stop your madness.
Their reservations were not well-received.
When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, the two people said, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger.
"Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?" Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate's scores shouldn't matter, she continued, because "we need people like this in the medical school."
"I have students on their rotation who don't know anything," a member of the admissions committee told the Free Beacon. "People get in and they struggle."If they struggle and flunk out, that has still cost taxpayer money while screwing over candidates who'd be good doctors. They wouldn't be killing anyone via medicine at least.
Within three years of Lucero's hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report's rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.The 2nd half of 4 years of Med School consists of practical training in the hospital.
One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don't know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients.Oh, that can't be good.
"UCLA still produces some very good graduates," one professor said. "But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified."Those bottom 1/3, what do you call them? "Doctor." In the words of the late Jimmy Buffett, "I don't think I'm gonna ever let 'em cut on me ..." Yeah, but that (Miss you so Badly) was from a half century ago, when you had a choice.
This Lucero character is a 1-woman Woke machine:
Led by Lucero, who also serves as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion of UCLA's anesthesiology department, the admissions committee routinely gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.Another example of this:
First-year students spend three to four hours every other week in "Structural Racism and Health Equity," a required class that covers topics like "fatphobia," has featured anti-Semitic speakers, and is now the subject of an internal review. They spend an additional seven hours a week in "Foundations of Practice," which includes units on "interpersonal communication skills" and, according to one medical student, basically "tells us how to be a good person." The two courses eat up time that could be spent on physiology or anatomy, professors say, and leave struggling students with fewer hours to learn the basics.The time wasting aspect is just that, waste, in, say, the Big Biz world. In medical school, it's more serious - what knowledge and experience did the students miss out on during these ~10 hours of their weeks, a significant amount of their waking and now woke time in the day?
As soon as I read this great expose by Aaron Sibarium, I thought about Lionel Shrivers' recent novel Mania. One of the main characters in the book had an operation done by an incompetent doctor. It left him partially maimed and in pain for the rest of his life. Yet, in the book, as per our basic review, the "mental parity" program that allows this stupidity and incompetence is not race/sex related. No, the form of Wokeness that promotes stupidity is just another general flavor, with nothing anti-White about it. In fact, as we noted in our author criticisms, "Yet, Lionel Shriver specifically wrote, in 2 places, words to the effect of 'this MP is different from race and sex discrimination, which are real'." She's either being purposefully stupid herself, or she's scared to be truthful. I don't know why it'd be the latter as she is ensconced in out in Portugal, has F.U. money, and is old enough to not care about hurting feelings or being shunned by the "good people".
It's great that Mr. Sibarium wrote this article. If it gets to enough people, the Wokeness in this realm may actually be reversed. This is where the Wokeness gets downright scary and may overcome the fear in people of getting called names.
I read the article yesterday, and today I see that another VDare writer, Patrick Cleburne has commented on it too. In Who Wrecked UCLA’s Medical School? Jennifer Lucero—Another Woman Of Color Abusing Power., he concentrates on the evil Jennifer Lucero more than stats and the admissions controversy. He has written about "women of color", let's just say non-White** and non-Oriental women, who, when in charge, are running things into the ground. That last phrasing of mine has connotations of being non-purposeful. I wouldn't say that's necessarily true.
* Though, for niceness' sake, I guess, at least in the recent past, Mr. Sailer had still been in favor of some AA, just for Black! descendants of slaves, errr, the enslaved community. I've never read or heard him come out against AA categorically. He sure ought to.
** I wouldn't have even known this Lucero P.O.S. was non-White. She's obviously proud of it.
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Schadenfreude ++
Posted On: Thursday - May 23rd 2024 8:07AM MST
In Topics: The Neocons ctrl-left Orwellian Stupidity
Last week, Joe Hoft, twin brother of Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, reported on some trouble for some folks just wanting to convene in person to discuss issues important to them at a hotel. I mean... who would complain, right? You don't have to attend - nobody's got a gun to your head... Yet, we are told Pro-Israel Conference in Nashville Canceled Due to Threats from Antifa and Pro-Hamas Groups.*
This makes me happy. The cancellation of their little conference is unfortunate for this pro-Israel - both Jewish and Christian - crowd. I guess this is the very definition of Schadenfreude. On the other hand, I call it Schadenfreude++, because I think it's more than the usual Schadenfreude here, and I don't know any longer German word to cover my feelings on this. In this case the ++ is that I'm hopeful this happening is going to teach someone a lesson. That's just my feelings, but it probably won't.
A conference on Israel to be held in Nashville May 20-22 was canceled by the convention center on Sunday, on the guidance of Nashville police, due to pro-Hamas and antifa activists who bombarded the hotel with threats. .Hmmmmm... why does this story sound so familiar? Oh, yeah, that's because the small VDare anti-immigration-invasion organization had this same thing happen for A DECADE. They ended up making a smart move and using donor money to buy a small castle*** in the eastern West Virginia panhandle, so they couldn't be pushed around like this every year. As for this pro-Israel group,
Lawyers are involved, as are Senator Marsha Blackburn and the Governor of TennesseeI don't recall any Senators and Governors helping out the VDare organization over the years of their same problems. Maybe I'm just having a Brandon moment, I dunno... Convening as a pro America and pro White people group apparently is not something that Senators and Governors want to get involved in. Convening on behalf of Israel - different story.
VDare worked hard to find their own way to let people convene in person (see postscript). These people trying to meet this week ended up having it a lot easier, as per a follow-up post on GP, Dave Ramsey Saves the Day When Venue Pulls the Rug Out from Under Pro-Israel Conference.
After a Nashville hotel got cold feet and sought to cancel a pro-Israel event, Christian finance expert and syndicated radio host Dave Ramsey stepped in to be sure the event went on.The same happened for VDare, many times. Then, the city of Nashville rings a Bell, pun intended, also. The American Renaissance group had the same problem trying to convene, so from '12 on, so a dozen or 13 times now, they've been meeting at Montgomery Bell State Park, near Burns, Tennessee, about 25 miles west of Nashville.
The Sonesta**** Nashville Airport hotel was scheduled to host the pro-Israel event until an anti-Israel group made noise. The group Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville claimed on Instagram that the purpose of the event was to “celebrate the death of civilians and recruit new Zionists!”
“Call relentlessly until this event is shut down!” the post urged.
The pressure worked. The hotel canceled the event.
From the GP follow-up story:
“I think that the hotel jumped the gun and decided that they were going to just sort of dump this Israel event a week before it was going to happen, which is very unfortunate for the hotel because that’s in violation of Title II of the Civil Rights Act as well as Tennessee state law,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty Institute, said, according to Fox News.None of these freaking people, not a one of them, would have ever come to the aid of VDare or AmRen when they'd had the same violations of Title II or whatever happen to them. Therefore, I feel Schadenfreude ++. Screw these people. I hope the Hamas and antifa freaks pull this stuff on them every year. "When will they ever learn?", the song goes.
PS: I didn't insert any links to VDare about their troubles over the years and the castle finances, etc. because they've got so much on it, one could find 50 posts, not to mention a Tucker Carlson interview of Mrs. Brimelow even, on it all.
At least Lydia got smart about making the conference contracts with the venues after the first few "mishaps". VDare made money off the cancellations, IIRC, in the many tens or a hundred thousand on a few later on. That's fine, but the deal was they wanted their people to be able to meet in person. That shouldn't be too damned much to ask in a
PPS: What's with the antifa freaks anyway? Are they actually being anti-US warmongering or just pro-violence and destruction? One would think they might be pro-MAGA, were they to look around and see the only political group in contention that is NOT pro-US warmongering. The antifa seem to be kind of aimless and nothing but hired help working for George Soros. By George, I think I've got it!
* The original post by Joe Hoft on his own site has gotten 1 comment over the 10 days. Though he's very involved politically in other ways, Joe Hoft's site is obviously more obscure than Gateway Pundit, which got 349 comments** on this article, likely the bulk of that within the first day or two. I'll say that the one comment Joe's gotten is not particularly sympathetic at all!
** Doing a ctrl-f for "VDare" (I'm getting to that) is not so feasible when one keeps running into "See More Comments".
*** For those who still let the corrupt negritude out of New York A/G Leticia James hold sway, let me note that the price of this castle would buy an ordinary dump of a house in San Francisco or even just a higher end McMansion in the Nashville exurbs.
**** WARNING: side effects of Sonesta include drowsiness, excessive carb-loading and fake eggs at breakfast, and The Clap when taken by the hour.
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Harrison Butker for Pope!
Posted On: Wednesday - May 22nd 2024 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders University Feminism alt-right/MAGA Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
It's not a thing here on Peak Stupidity to feature college Commencement speeches, one after another. We've sat through a number of them long ago. However the short speech by Harrison Butker at Benedictine College (in Atkinson, Kansas, ~ 50 miles up the Missouri River from Kansas City) has made a few waves and is worth a mention here.
We mentioned Super bowl winning KS Chiefs kicker* Harrison Butker in our previous post facetiously as a a guy who'd be a great replacement for Commie so-called-Pope Francis. I knew he was a strong Catholic from this post about him on Ann Barnhardt's site, but after watching his widely praised/widely criticized 20 minute speech yesterday, well, I take back my facetiousness right now.
Here's the speech, with the theme Staying in Your Lane:
I'd read about what was supposedly wrong with Mr. Butker's speech before watching it. Lots of people were not happy, not meaning the graduates of Benedictine College here, mind you, but lots of people. The Establishment does not like it when well-respected people don't respect the Narratives. At just before 12 minutes in, Mr. Butker spoke to the women graduates in particular for a couple of minutes. What he said would have been non-controversial a century ago. Had he said this a half-century ago, I suppose he'd have been a Male Chauvinist Pig to some, but I don't think anyone would have been aghast at the speech. Now, well, you can't just tell women the honest truth, that they'll probably be happier in life doing what they were made for. YOU! CAN'T! DO! THAT! That is, even if they agree with you.
As for those (just going by tweets displayed in disdain by Ann Barnhardt) who are upset at Harrison Butker's not going along with the in-your-face humiliation-based BLT-G genderbender nonsense, I found it hard to believe they'd had a problem here. From my listen, I only recall the one joke about pride in family not being what the Bible meant by that sin of "Pride", and that he, Butzker, wasn't referring to Pride Day. Man, are these people sensitive! If you can't take a joke... I mean ... well, no, they can't. Communists never could take a joke as I recall.
Supposedly, from headlines here or there, yahoo and such, the deal is that this speech included some disparagement of one Taylor Swift, a modern singer of great fame with a repertoire consisting of no particular music that I have knowingly heard. I did a search for both "Taylor" and "Swift" over the transcript of this talk, but "No matches". I guess I am really and truly out of the loop... doesn't bother me a bit.
I'm not a hardcore or any kind of Catholic, but that was a reasonably inspirational Commencement address. Furthermore, and more importantly, that was a very nice F.U. to the Establishment by Mr. Harrison Butker.** Guys like this ought to be the Popes. He's from "The Americas" and all, so why not?
* Peak Stupidity is onto the whole Bread & Circuses thing, so it wasn't till reading yesterday that I knew who the guy was, other than that he is a real Conservative who has pissed off many people being one.
** Mr. Harrison does have that F.U. money, in fact, so this was not so courageous an act as it would have been for some low level wage-slave. Why the latter would be making the speech then, is another question ...
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More of the Papal Bull off 60 Minutes
Posted On: Tuesday - May 21st 2024 8:40PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
We at Peak Stupidity had not even known this old TV show was still on, having shunned the idiot plate now for over 25 years. However, Gateway Pundit just embedded a 14 minute long interview by one Norah O'Donnell of this Liberation-Theology Commmie so-called Pope. Seeing that we have a topic key specifically for this guy, the reader may quickly understand that Francis Bergoglio is not so Pope-ular around this part of the internet.
If you want to know more, feel free to read about him on Ann Barnhardt's site. She's not enamored with the guy either, to say the least. As a hard-core Catholic, Miss Barnhardt gives a lot more Biblical and other details to explain that he is a usurper and evil man. I'm just glad I don't have to consider this guy the infallible boss of me, or consider him at all, other than when he runs his mouth like this.*
I like GP writer Ben Kew's headline, Commie Pope Francis Claims Stopping America’s Illegal Border Invasion Would Be ‘Sheer Madness’. That's the part that got me to play the interview clip. The CBS News site has the transcript. I could already tell what this O'Donnell piece of work was about as soon as she started out with "... first Pope from The Americas". I've got no argument with the geography here, but no, she wanted to show off her Globalist virtue right way. Sorry, Latin America is not America. How about an American Pope? I know one guy, name of Harrison Butker... may be out of a job and available soon enough.
I'm here to write about Mr. Bergoglio's words on America's most existential issue, but since I watched the whole clip, let me say: Though coming across as one naive, stupid, stupid man, I see that the so-called Pope has a little backbone. Or is he just being nuanced to avoid being blatantly against the words in the Bible? Norah was pushing him to go all out on destruction of the doctrine, but he was lukewarm about a few things, saying he's against women being Priests and Deacons.
That's not the case with Mr. Bergoglio's words on America's on-going invasion (hence, the GP headline). He goes full retard on this issue:
Norah O'Donnell: I grew up in Texas, and I don't know if you've heard, but the state of Texas is attempting to shut down a Catholic charity on the border with Mexico that offers undocumented migrants humanitarian assistance. What do you think of that?Oops, sorry to interrupt here, but I think it's GREAT! (That is, if Governor Abbott is not just grandstanding.) These government-supported NGO's (yeah, that's right) are treasonous. They are supplying the invaders with shelter on the Mexican side and advice on the entry ways. Humanitarian assistance, my ass! Sorry, go ahead, Francis:
Pope Francis (In Spanish/English translation): That is madness. Sheer madness. To close the border and leave them there, that is madness. The migrant has to be received. Thereafter you see how you are going to deal with him. Maybe you have to send him back, I don't know, but each case ought to be considered humanely. Right?Haha, yeah, their cases will be considered in 9 years when they comply with that Notice to Appear, as the immigration "asylum" cases are backed up. They'll be there, surely. "Si, Senor, y no me llames Shirley." Yeah, otherwise we'll round them up, what with plenty of promising leads and all. ICE'll have 4 agents on the case - they'll have 'em working in shifts!
This guy has no freaking clue on the scale of this thing. No, Francis, you complete dumbass, it's an invasion! 3 or 4 million people a year (for 3 years now) is an invasion. (More accurately, it's a big surge in a steady half-century long invasion.)
Pope Francis (In Spanish/English translation): Do you want me to state it plainly? People wash their hands! There are so many Pontius Pilates on the loose out there… who see what is happening, the wars, the injustice, the crimes… "That's OK, that's OK" and wash their hands. It's indifference. That is what happens when the heart hardens… and becomes indifferent. Please, we have to get our hearts to feel again. We cannot remain indifferent in the face of such human dramas. The globalization of indifference is a very ugly disease. Very ugly.Or... maybe people's hearts are not hardened, but they aren't as stupid as you and can think ahead and see the future of America filled with the criminal and culturally-foreign, by the dozens of millions, legal or not. Maybe their hearts are quite strong but heavy, as they care about the future of their people, and it looks pretty bleak. Are Peter Brimelow and his wife Lydia "washing their hands" like Pontius Pilate?** They've spent a quarter of a century on this issue. trying to save this country for their progeny.
I don't know. Maybe this guy ain't dumb. He might be simply evil but playing dumb. It's a tough call. I think Francis Bergoglio, Liberation Theology Commie, ought to start an NGO of his own, Retardeux sans Frontieres.
* I did have my big anti-Pope sign with "Lighten up, Francis!" and "Is the Pope Catholic? ... No, seriously." on the B-side at a Trump rally one time. That was just before this blog started up.
** Truth be told, in the Gospels, Mr. Pilate made an effort to stop the stupidity then and there too. He relented so as not to cause a riot or another revolt.
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On a Nathan Bedford Forrest acolyte Noticing my book
Posted On: Monday - May 20th 2024 2:32PM MST
In Topics: History Race/Genetics Books
It's not MINE but Steve Sailer's book Noticing I refer to here, but it was one of my copies.
I'm a fan of voluntary social distancing. Though the Social Distancing campaign during the Kung Flu PanicFest was one of the most stupid, annoying, and costly programs - well, there were many - I am glad to keep my social distance from people at, say, the big airport terminal. I'm not worried about getting sick, but I don't like people THAT much. I couldn't do it this day, though glad to see so many people flying. Therefore I sat next to one fairly young White guy and, instead of pulling out my phone and wasting time on Gateway- or Insta- pundit, I pulled out Mr. Sailer's book again.
I don't think I even read one page. It took a while to find my place, as, having multiple copies, I have one in a different place at home where I read it. By that time the guy next to me had noticed this book.* "What's that you've got?" "It's the Steve Sailer book." [as if he's supposed to know, of course!] "Pretty good."
Here's the weird part: "That's not my kind of thing", the guy said. Hmmmm, had this guy heard of Mr. Sailer? As much as Steve Sailer has gotten his 15 minutes of minor fame in lately in the alt-right and some general Conservative circles**, I would not expect 1 in 50 guys like this to have heard of him. Am I wrong in this? Or, is it that this guy just decided somehow a book called Noticing by a guy named Steve Sailer is not his thing somehow?
Well, we got to talking about where he and I were going. I wish I could remember his destination - if going home it must have been Memphis, Tennessee or Jackson, Mississippi. I write that because this Southern gentleman volunteered that, at home, his brother is a big acolyte of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. He told me something about a monument, but I see from Wiki that there are many. This amazing soldier fought campaigns from Memphis to northern Mississippi, north and central Alabama, all over middle Tennessee, and into northwestern Georgia.
He said something about Tupelo, where General Forrest fought an engagement in mid July 160 years back. Having been everywhere in this here land, including Tupelo, I told my story about my running on fumes into Jackson on the beautiful Natchez Trace Parkway long ago. We discussed that road for a bit, and then I had to go.
I usually assume that Peak Stupidity readers know more than I do on many subjects. History being one of them, I probably don't need to state here that Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the more "White-oriented" Generals on the Southern side.*** I don't see Steve Sailer as ANY kind of Nathan Bedford Forrest fan, but still, to give him a plug, when I walked away, I told the guy, "You may like this book. He writes a lot about race and stuff."
The subject of race is not by any means the sole or even main subject of Noticing, but I'm just tryina' help... with both sales and noticing. A review will be forthcoming, but first people gotta stop interrupting me. ;-}
* I think it's been only 3 times that I've read the book right near people, so 1 out of 3 is pretty good. I have not been extra obvious, as in "look at this!"
** That's not to say that he isn't much more widely known but by people who still won't admit it.
*** Except for some new stupidity, using "enslaver" the usual speculation about this General having had children by an "enslaved" woman, and a slant in perspective, the Wiki page is not bad. At least the writing about his military career is factual and includes much about his bravery and gallantry.
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College Commencement Craziness
Posted On: Saturday - May 18th 2024 4:58PM MST
In Topics: University Humor
Harvard Business School* graduate Chris Pan gave an ... interesting and different commencement speech for the '24 graduating class of Ohio State University. Conservatives, such as The Gateway Pundit (actually taken from The Western Journal), Townhall, etc. thought along the lines of Ohio State Graduates Suffer Through ‘The Worst Commencement Address in the History of Commencement Addresses’. I don't know about that.
Indeed, this Chris Pan is ... yeah, a little different. Per his "About" page on his website, Mr. Pan was a Facebook employee at one point, even having taught Zuckerberg some Mandarin (helped Zuckerberg in understanding his wife and the Poontang Dynasty, etc.), he always wanted (to pretend?) to be a motivational speaker, he's helped millions of people "live with intention", and he's launching another "platform" to help people with their finances. Granted, finances are easy when you luck into a Deep State supported "platform", run by a soon-to-be mutil-dozen-Billionaire.
If you've got 20 minutes and haven't already watched this whole thing, see what you think. I found that Mr. Pan has a transcript of his talk on his site too. Possibly, he wrote the transcript beforehand or afterwards, at a time when he was not already or still allegedly high on a psychedelic drug called Ayahuasca. (I've never heard of it, much less taken it - sounds sort of Indian, so safe for work, I suppose... for the casino, not the call center. Things are bad enough in there without these kinds of "enhancements".)
I disagree strongly with the Conservatives who've ragged on this talk. First of all, Mike Landry (Western Journal) and Kevin McMahon (Townhall), I'm pretty sure this is nowhere NEAR the worst commencement speech in history! There was a time called "The 1960s". During that time, many people graduated college and many people spoke in front of said people's graduations. Peak Stupidity does not have enough space in our host company's database to list all the lying Commies, Black! racist agitators, and other Kings and Queens of Stupidity who gave speeches worse than Chris Pan's this year in Columbus, OH.
Secondly, though different from the normal fare, what else truthful would one have to say to the graduates nowadays? Do you tell the $80,000 in-debt Comparative Literature graduates that "The World is your oyster"? (I don't even like oysters, or else I don't know WHAT that means.) Do you tell the graduates they'll be the next Captains of Industry, running their very own Starbucks someday, the one they're returning to work at next week? Maybe they can come up with wonderful new ideas to help the world, say, novel, oyster-based Frappuccinos or something.
You could get away with all that when I graduated. The university in question had a very well-known guy speak at my commencement ceremony, which was their thing for many years. I'm not so enamored with the guy now ...
I don't like standing up and singing, but other than that, I thought this motivational talk by Chris Pan was not bad. Maybe Harvard has something going for it after all... it's called Ayahuasca. "Party on, dudes!"
Yes, this has been (unplanned, of course) video week here at Peak Stupidity. There's one more - a LONG one - that I want to feature next week.
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* ... the very place where you run into people like this
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