SCROTUS non-decision and an understanding of standing
Posted On: Thursday - June 27th 2024 9:30AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media US Police State Media Stupidity US Feral Government Morning Constitutional
For nearly half a year now, one of Peak Stupidity's main go-to sites for news and blogging material has been The Gateway Pundit*. It is a pretty big deal that Jim Hoft, the founder/proprietor/editor of that site, was one of 7 plaintiffs in a case headed to the US Supreme Court. This is or maybe WAS, now, an important Amendment I case. Various officials of the US Feral Gov't have been influencing, indirect threats being involved, the inclusion or lack thereof, of news posts, tweets, what-have-you by BIG "TECH". This is direct Feral Gov't censorship, prohibited by Amendment I thusly:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;Perhaps the confusion is that no laws were made - the Feral Gov't just did the kind of thing the Founders were worried about? I guess they didn't foresee their brainchild as turning into the huge beast it is now. Now it's "Laws? Laws?! We don't need no steeeenking laws!" Anyway, obviously the officials and organizations involved are in, or at least using, power unConstitutionally. This case is obvious
Missouri v Dark Brandon (our post on this matter) was not the actual name of the case, but I'd read it was Missouri v Biden. For whatever reason**, it's now Murthy v Missouri. That SCOTUS blog*** page definitely shows the same case. Murthy is Vivek H. Murthy, apparently the Surgeon General right now, and he's listed as a Petitioner here with a ton of other US Executive branch muckety-mucks. Even the bug-eyed Jean-Pierre is listed.) These "Petitioners", I must assume, were petitioning for the dropping of the case and injunction rulings that have been made out of it.
Peak Stupidity may well have missed this, and at some point I thought it must have been heard by now - I have not seen a GP post on the matter though, even now. Well, bad news has come for Jim Hoft and his org, along with the other 6 plaintiffs, and along with America.. The case was not decided in the negative, but the SCROTUS has denied it a hearing based on lack of "standing". The phrase "Article III standing" was used. Article III is simply the description of the duties of the Judicial Branch. ctrl-f for "standing" gets no matches.
Just what the hell is "standing", some may ask. I get the general idea, so I'll give the definition in my head before excerpting a proper definition: Lack of standing means that the plaintiffs have not themselves been wronged by the alleged unConstitutionality specified in their petition. Therefore, it's not for them to bring up such a case. Well, now I'm having a hard time getting that proper definition, so let me just paste in an excerpt from this blog, which is specific to the world of the SCROTUS:
Standing is a legal term which determines whether the party bringing the lawsuit has the right to do so. Standing is not about the issues, it’s about who is bringing the lawsuit and whether they a legal right to sue.There are examples, but still, that doesn't really help so much. I suppose I should read the words of the 6 justices that voted to throw the case out. Says the SCOTUS=blog in its info from yesterday:
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 6-3, in an opinion by Justice Barrett on June 26, 2024. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined.Peak Stupidity is no kind of fan on Reason magazine (due to the general idiotic stance for open borders), but they know their Constitutional stuff. One Jonathan Adler on the Volokh Conspiracy page/column explains the deal pretty well. Basically, Justice Barrett says that the plaintiffs didn't connect the dots well enough, aka, didn't do their homework, and the SCROTUS ain't got time for this shit. (She didn't use that exact wording.) The dissent by Justice Alito compared this stricter view of "standing" to some other cases.
I don't know - the Peak Stupidity Legal Dept. won't help either - all they care about is our not getting sued and their standing in their suit against HR for more sick time.
So, this one was not an actual loss, but the ruling means that those being censored must prove more clearly that the Government is coercing (and often in cahoots with) Big "TECH" to censor Conservative opinion. We already know this. We also already know that political solutions will not get us out of this. The solution is going to take a lot of "standing", standing up in the face of evil rather than sitting in court.
* See also our Addendum to that website review.
** I believe the reason is that this case is actually the Gov't as plaintiff against the (favorable) decisions made by the lower (5th Circuit) court.
*** I like that site. The cases have listings of all "actions" - rulings, argument dates, etc - taken since they were brought up.
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Tucker Carlson interviews The Most Reasonable Guy in America
Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2024 5:24PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump Pundits Media Stupidity The Future The Neocons Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA Guns
Notes: We've got a lot of Topic Keys attached, as I'm trying to remember all the topics within the conversation.
It wasn't really a conversation, actually. Steve Sailer did most of the talking, by far. This is similar with Tucker Carlson's interview of Vlad Putin, and so I'd guess most of them. That's a very professional way to do it.
Yes, readers. Commenter and blogger E.H. Hail called it. He has stated in numerous places including right here, that Tucker would interview Mr. Sailer this Spring. OK, Mr. Hail, you are off by 5 days (on the "Spring"), but then I was flat wrong thinking it wasn't Mr. Carlson's kind of thing. I look forward to a nice long review of this interview by Mr. Hail.
This is pretty exciting for me, though I'm not a commenter under iSteve any longer. I've been savoring his book Noticing, with a real review* coming here when I get one of those round tuits. Between the books, the book tours, interviews on the book, the videos of his talks at The Castle, and now this interview with the esteemed Tucker Carlson, Mr. Sailer has achieved the Big Time, at least the Biggest Time a Conservative can get in this current Cancellation Culture (more on the decline of that, or not...).
I watched the whole 1 hour 58 minutes (and change) interview nearly as soon as I learned about this. Instead of making this post 6 pages long, I'll present the video, with a basic timeline from the original youtube poster** today. I have at least 5 different subjects to comment on. I think these shorter posts will come quickly, as I don't want to forget my thoughts during viewing.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:53 What Was the Impact of Black Lives Matter on Black Lives?
7:56 Car Crashes
20:26 The Mexican Cartel Targeting the Appalachian Whites
31:06 Why Democrats Hide Crime Statistics
35:17 The Term “Karen” and the Increase in Anti-white Racism
43:05 Emmitt Till
49:11 Are Race Relations Getting Better?
1:01:20 Demographic Change
1:11:05 Will Donald Trump Win the Election?
1:39:58 Schools Getting Rid of the SAT Requirement
1:38:33 Is the Country Becoming More Open and Receptive?
Here are just a few more basic thoughts to start out: Firstly, if you are a steady Steve Sailer reader, that first 35 to 45 minutes or so may be kind of boring. I've seen the graphs. Yes, good stuff, but this exposure is important for the (right now nearly 1/4 million views) others, not us.
Next, I'd say that Mr. Sailer had his agenda to get his very good Social Science findings across. In doing that, he took forever to get around to answering Tucker's few (and, of course, far between) questions early on, say in this 1/3 duration section. True, the answers require background, so, again, this is great for new Sailer adherents.
Well, much more is to come here, in smaller dosages. I WILL harp on points I don't agree with. However, I hope the reader will realize that Peak Stupidity is thankful that Steve Sailer's 98% good points of truth*** are getting NOTICED.
PS: The title here: Mr. Sailer tries to be humble, but he'll toot his own horn sometimes. Still, the appellation he suggested (near the end of the interview) is pretty, errr, reasonable.
* We did post an Overview after perusing the book 2 1/2 months ago.
** This timeline is not exactly what I would have made. It's got smaller details in some areas yet misses some other subjects. It's hard to do better, I'm sure, and I don't think I'll watch the whole thing again just to make one.
*** That's not to say I believe Steve Sailer is lying about ANYTHING. I have points of opinion, most small, but one big one, that I don't agree with him on.
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[UPDATED ~ an hour later] Ahaaa, yes Immigration Stupidity WAS a subject, as opposed to what I'd initially remembered. As a matter of fact, Mr. Sailer brought up something that I'd thought he'd not noticed. He has. We'll get to that - one of our handful or so of posts to come.
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Delivering the 6 million dollar flower pots
Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2024 4:05PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Student and other Snowflakes Curmudgeonry Economics ctrl-left
I'll get to a review of the Carlson/Sailer interview soon. These personal and local anecdotes probably aren't so awfully interesting, but,
1) I want to get this off my chest.
2) Unlike the last post, there's a big general point here in addition to just general annoyance.
Yeah, it's the same local D politician as in that previous post involved here. He won his D-primary handily and will surely win "his" State House seat again in November. Just to show his constituents how thankful they ought to be, he has a big billboard up:
Delivering $6 million for the [neighborhood] project!
His name has been changed to protect the scum, the amount has been altered by a tad, the name of the neighborhood was redacted, and I added an exclamation point, because, why not?
The project, having been going on for 3 months already with no end in sight*, has required the narrowing down of the street to 2 lanes for a few blocks, slowing done traffic and adversely affecting the businesses there. The project is basically a long flower bed. Apparently, the old median, with small hardwood trees and rubbery fake bark, was NOT OK, and the holes in the roads all over, and, well, crime and shit, will just have to wait. This is important.
Not only that, but the point is that this 6 million dollars has been "delivered"! It's been delivered to our neighborhood in the form of 20 to 40 guys working with machinery (there's infrastructure down there, which the city screwed with for years not so long ago), almost all of them foreign Hispanic guys**, working for half a year. Them's some wages! So, that's free money being delivered ... or something.
This guy is not stupid enough to believe the "Broken Windows" fallacy, is he? He's a college graduate, a lawyer (of course!), with a nuclear family, etc. I guess he figures the local neighborhood voters are the dupes. That's 6 MILLION DOLLARS that we are just getting, because State Rep. Jones has delivered it, sure, we should be so glad. What about the people in another city who may want their own flower bed project, delivered by their own helpful, kindly Representative using that same... errrr... free money from ...? Forget it.
I don't know. 10 years ago even, I'd have chewed this guy out, trying to explain the stupidity of his Flower Bed fallacy to him, on his mobile phone, the number being the one I got off the junk mail. I have mellowed out, though. I can't fix all this stupidity with one phone call. I'm sure I'll enjoy the flowers next Spring. I mean, it's not like that 6 million bucks was just gonna spend itself, anyway ...
PS: Oh, this is all the story, except that the hard-working guys earning our neighborhood $6 million were not out there during business hours today, oddly reminding me about this post. It's that heat wave, see? We can't be working out there in the heat. They canceled the kids' sports practice too, for 7 freaking thirty PM! We'd have been playing outside all day back in my childhood, without parents asking "where's your water bottle?"
So, I guess even the hardworking Amigos are snowflakes now (per diktat, anyway).
* I do not kid when I say that this project would take a week or less in China.
** The foremen speak English. One told me nicely what was going on, as I was stuck in the single lane on my side.
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Western Greta by AI from Adam Smith
Posted On: Tuesday - June 25th 2024 6:24PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Global Climate Stupidity Artificial Stupidity The Future
I wrote in the comments under last Saturday's musical climatic humor post, You've stolen my dreams (and lyrics), that I don't hate Greta Thunberg. I don't see her as evil. Even her extreme emotional stupidity is something I simply chalk up to her having been a teenage girl who had no reason to know any better. (In this day and age, I don't think going to school instead of going out on the
I should have done this myself for that previous post, but between my lazy streak and commenter Adam Smith's great helpfulness, I'll present AI Western Greta here and now. Adam had nearly a dozen for us, but these are my 3 favorites.
The AI sure knows its way around a woman's body... I'm just sayin'. I will stipulate that gunfighter Greta here was 18 y/o or older, or whatever you had to be in mid-1800s America. Really, as I wrote in the comments, this AI is scary - the porno possibilities of AI are endless. Did it learn its way around the female body by analysis of curves in millions of pictures?
I'm impressed. I cannot find where on this site I compared Greta to Marcia Brady, but I now stand vindicated on that one. We presented a more unfavorable comparison in Straight outta' Sweden: Greta v Agnetha, and the reader may want to check out our other posts, Greta is Gettin' Upset! - - Greta is Betta! - - Ring, Ring, Greta please give me a call ...♬ ♬ - - Death Metal Greta - - Introducing Black Greta and The evil side of Greta at the Trekkie Convo.
That's Calamity Greta with a big wheel gun. I guess it doesn't help to determine the caliber with AI having done whatever it "imagines". Greta ought to do more sit-ups to flatten that belly, but I'm not gonna be the one to tell her.* It's probably just the camera angle.
That'd have been much better for "High Plains Grifter".
Just to make it clear here - These are not real pictures of Greta Thunberg. I think plinking or marksmanship might be nice hobby for Greta and a way for her to release her pent-up frustrations about nobody caring enough about the coming demise of The Planet.
Commenter Hail has told us that that cute little "How dare you?" girl has turned 21. The following 2 Eagles songs are probably better suited for a young man, being Twenty-one and "knowing what freedom means to me", I can't give a reason why, I should ever want to die." and then getting a little "Out of Control".
On this "concept album" Desperado, Twenty-one is followed with no dead space by Out of Control which has some out of control guitars at the end. Great stuff.
Back to Greta for a second, Tom Petty has asked the same question I have:
* We're just getting back to pistol shooting after years for me. My son and I will shoot some cheap - well, they WERE then - .380 rounds tomorrow.)
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[UPDATED 06/26:] Oops, the compounds that make up smokeless powder do contain Carbon atoms. I'd looked only at the molecular diagram and forgotten that the Carbon "backbones" are assumed. (The chemical formula was there, but I didn't look till now.) A PS Chem review is in order. Thanks, commenter M!
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Climate Alarmist Yahoos
Posted On: Monday - June 24th 2024 8:39PM MST
In Topics: Websites Global Climate Stupidity Media Stupidity
(You have to be really careful - these people will purposely conflate heat index with temperature.)
I've written a number of times that it's not as if I go to the yahoo website - one of the old classics, BTW - for my news. One can get to the mail login directly and avoid the home page*, but it's there for a moment when I log out. In addition to seeing "the news" then, I'll use yahoo's search feature regularly to get to Peak Stupidity to keep our search results blurb "tops in class".
What I've seen this summer is that yahoo's big news is usually about the weather. You know what they say about the weather, everybody blogs about it, but ... nobody does anything... besides Greta? I grabbed a screenshot of that image above about 5 weeks ago, I can see, as it says "one month before the official start of summer". Let me tell you, "official start of summer", i.e., the Summer Solstice, doesn't always mean squat, such as down there in south Florida.
Some of these articles get me going down the rabbit hole. They'll have me checking out hurricanes over the years (should be a post as much time as I spent on that), actual daily highs vs heat indices, etc.. Come for the bikini pictures, stay for the National Hurricane Center historical data.
This home page is supposed to be the news home page, but yesterday, 3 out of the 5 headlines were about the weather. There IS a heat wave going on now, but heat waves do happen in the summer time, official or not. It's very hot here, it's flooding over there, no, sorry, but these are local stories. 3 out of 5 headlines is not a coincidence - it's an agenda.
Peak Stupidity doesn't normally chalk up the steady flow of stupidity in one are to a planned action at high levels. I wonder on this yahoo push. Has yahoo been picked or, more likely, given financial incentives to harp (no pun intended) on extreme weather events to keep the scare up for the cause of the Climate Calamity™?
PS: And for the ladies in the bikinis: quit with the tattoos, yahoos!
* Old web guy here - it's the "main page" now, I believe, even when the file is named the same thing, "index" or what have you.
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You've stolen my dreams (and lyrics)
Posted On: Saturday - June 22nd 2024 9:55PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Global Climate Stupidity
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger.
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home.
And climate, oh climate, well, that's just some people talkin'.
Your crisis is walking through this world all alone.
Don't your feet get hot in the winter time?
The sun won't snow and the sky won't shine.
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.
We're reachin' all new highs and lows,
but it's funny how the feeling goes away.
Go down, young Greta, don't you wonder why.
Sooner or later planets have to die.
Two voices call to you from where they stood
Lay down your models now - they're no damn good!
The queen of carbon let you down,
She was just an empty fable.
The queen of hearts you say you never met.
Your twisted fate has found you out,
and it's finally turned the tables,
stole your dreams and paid you with regret.
Better keep on movin', Greta Thunberg,
'till your shadow sets you free.
If you're fast, and if you're lucky,
you will never see that hangin' tree.
That was the reprise of Doolin' Dalton and then of Desperado, from the 2nd side of the vinyl record version of the Desperado album.
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Free Hunter!
Posted On: Saturday - June 22nd 2024 11:42AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Morning Constitutional Zhou Bai Dien Guns
There's a "youtuber" named Grant Stinchfield whom Gateway Pundit proprietor Jim Hoft has some kind of deal with to host the former's videos. Mr. Stinchfield is a Conservative, and he does a pretty good job from the couple I've seen.* The latest headline (I haven't watched the video) says: Hunter Biden’s Appeal Will Anger Every Anti-Gunner and I Love it!
Well, if you keep up with Peak Stupidity, you already know that we agree with this, as in our discussion a couple of weeks back in President pushes for more gun control as son convicted of felony gun charges. Regarding the ATF background check form 4473 (shown above), we wrote:
It's just too easy for the information to be kept, forever, by someone ... It's unConstitutional, and even were it not, the questions about drug use are. These convictions are bogus.Hunter Bai Dien's been ensnared by this ATF Totalitarian BS. I agree with Grant Stinchfield. I love it!.
Will Hunter's privileged Dad be duplicitous enough to still support the ATF and be as anti-Amendment II as ever, while doing something underhanded or even blatant to get his son off the charges or out of jail? I hope Hunter takes this one to the Supreme Court. It'd be great to see Hunter Biden winning a case for our side. Then, Hunter would have more time for cocaine-fueled Chinese Poontang Dynasty tourism, Ukraine business trips, and to make those court dates for the real charges to come, being a traitor to his country and all that ...
* The problem is, even if I completely agree with the guy and enjoy watching, there's just too much else on the internet ...
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Attempted vandalism of Stonehenge
Posted On: Friday - June 21st 2024 5:05PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Globalists Environmental Stupidity Science
A couple of climate protesters were arrested over spraying orange paint on Stonehenge monument in England. At least these crazy people didn't blow it up, as some assholes did the Georgia Guidestones 2 years ago.*
Peak Stupidity has a number of posts written about the Georgia Guidestones, their having been an interest of ours and a road trip destination. (A 2nd road trip had been planned for just a couple of days after the bombing, alas.) The Georgia Guidestones WERE a modern, more precisely built, American Stonehenge, with writing. The folks in Elberton, Georgia, "Granite Capital of the World", did a nice job with it. We don't have enough topic keys to cover our subjects, so the Guidestones posts appear with the Globalists topic key, for reasons.
This story is: Climate protesters arrested over spraying orange paint on Stonehenge monument. These "Just Stop Oil" people are quite different in their views from the people who blew up the Guidestones. The latter THOUGHT that this monument in east Georgia was a big signal to Bill Gates, George Soros, and other evil Globalists. I say that was nonsense.
However, these Just Stop Oil people live on a higher plane of stupidity. The stars must be aligned just right, simultaneously during a conjunction of the Pluto Planet with Uranus, in order for one to reach this high plane of stupidity. It's ethereal, and if you ever get the same kinds of thoughts these retards get about the Climate Crisis™, sit down cross-legged, turn the lights off, burn some incense, listen to Enya, and just don't listen to those voices in your head telling you to buy superglue or orange spray paint. They are actually just Celtic lyrics out of Enya, but your mind tries to turn it into English.
These stones are priceless artifacts of a long-ago time of superstition, with the beginnings of Science growing in the minds of these ancient people, as they may have worshipped heavenly bodies but also attempted to figure out the movements in the heavens. Quite to the contrary, these Just Stop Oil people of the modern age are developing superstitions out of the modern world of Science and technology, worshipping "Science" idols who whip them up to a spray painting frenzy.
At least they didn't use oil-based paint, being true to themselves in this instance. Oil-based paints may have been a bitch to get off the Stonehenge rocks without changing the surfaces. These folks have used corn-starch-based paint, so it washes right off. How green and great for the planet!
Still, were I a son of a son of a Druid, I'd pick up a hooded wool outfit** and try to catch these people in the middle of the night one time, under the stars, and beat the livin' out of 'em. Then I'd go home, burn some incense, and yes, listen to Enya.
* See also Part 2 and Part 3.
** That ought to be easy enough in Moslem invaded England right now. Just go to a Burka Shoppe - careful, as those extra letters mean pricey products - and have them tailor you one.
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Donald Trump comes out
Posted On: Friday - June 21st 2024 9:29AM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics Liberty/Libertarianism Taxes
... not as gay, no, far from it.. That'd be a nothingburger these days. Donald Trump has come out as a, GASP!, Libertarian! OMG!* He talked about, and talk is likely all it'll be about, the IRS and taxes on tips, the other day. In the big scheme of things, that's small potatoes. (That said, as I noted, it's probably a good election strategy, and more honest, lawful, and less morally hazardous than Bai Dien school loan forgiveness campaign tactic.)
Now, per The Gateway Pundit, Trump Drops Bombshell Proposal: Allegedly Suggests Eliminating Income Tax in Favor of High Import Tariffs During DC Republicans Meeting. It's only "alleged" because this was a closed door meeting, and nobody would be able to, like, record anything, right?
The news outlet cited anonymous sources and reported that President Trump proposed abolishing income taxes and adopting an “all-tariff policy.”Yes, now there's one of those substantive policy statements that we get from Trump. I followed Hail to You blogger and PS commenter E.H. Hail's Steve Sailer comment listing on The Unz Review, coming yesterday upon a point about Trump I've seen before. Mr. Hail, from this comment about a particularly really, really stupid thing Trump just said regarding the immigration invasion**:
Neuropathy is not from Low vitamin B. Meet the Real Enemy of Neuropathy (Stop Doing This) [OK, YOU stop doing this. You know that was an ad, so ... quit. - Ed] In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “Great meeting with Republican Representatives. Lots discussed, all positive, great poll numbers!”
The only defense of Blompf here, from principled hardline immigration-moratorium supporters is not a very good-looking one: It’s the ‘defense’ that Trump is a blowhard with demagogic tell-anyone-what-he-wants-to-hear man, so he didn’t really mean this latest outrage. Then there is the old line, often quoted by Steve Sailer, that Trump at any given moment is the average of the last five-to-ten people who have spoken to him. In other words, we are led to regretfully conclude that Trump is, at best, a buffoon.The part that I bolded is the point I've read about. Peter Brimelow of VDare says that it's just the last person that Trump talked to before he makes a decision. The guys Steve Sailer quoted are being a tiny bit more generous to Trump, just a tiny bit. Trump CAN think for himself, but anything with a few details is something he won't spend the mental energy on.
Back to the point of this post, Trump's statement (OK, alleged statement) is music to our ears here. Peak Stupidity has a strong Libertarian bent. Who were the people Trump last listened to on this? Maybe Mr. Brimelow is right, and it's just the last guy he read from. Perhaps Trump is a Peak Stupidity reader who came upon our post of May 28th this year Ron Paul is wrong about something.. I praised Mr. Trump there for his tariff policy on China, and noted: 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. OK, Customs Duties are handled differently, but tomayto, tomahto.
We will not get ourselves too excited based on this latest out of Donald Trump for 2 MAJOR reasons. The first is that this is not 1800's America. Tariffs on all Chinese goods can't replace the income tax, as much as I'd still like to try. Let's keep this really simple, in case Trump really is reading, in which case: Welcome, Mr. Trump! Feel free to write comments, and forget half the stuff I ever wrote about you. You're good people. In case you're reading, you don't even need tables, spreadsheets, graphs, or heaven forbid, THE CALCULUS. You just need a couple of arithmetical operations. I'll start with a number good only to 25% or worse, as it doesn't matter. From this post of ours, I'm pulling out a number from '18 the trade deficit of goods (services being only 10% of the trade then) China - America. It's around $400 Billion. Here are 2 more numbers: 42% of the IRS revenue comes from personal income taxes, from this IRS pie chart post. Then, from the IRS '23 IRS 1040 Instructions .pdf, page 109, where the pie charts came from, we see that that '22 total revenue was $4.90 Trillion. That's, call it, an even $2 Trillion of personal income tax collected (in '22).
If 50% tariffs were laid on all Chinese goods, of course, we wouldn't get 50% of that $400 Billion, as the Chinese would do more business elsewhere to avoid them. I have no problem with that - it's pretty much the REAL point of tariffs, but this post, and Trump's alleged statement, are about the money. Even if you got all of it, that means you've covered 10% ($200 Billion / $2 Trillion) of the personal income tax money. Well, that's a start! Put it on the working class level, and it'd be a great start.
We can see that Trump doesn't bother with the numbers or he wouldn't have (allegedly) spouted that out. As I wrote, it's not 1800s America. The US Government is a Feral BEAST now. Did Trump consider that the CARES ACT that he touted would take about 20 years of 50% tariffs on Chinese goods, even if that held, to cover it? No, he doesn't care - let the accountants work all that out ...
The 2nd big problem is that a President Trump (#47) doesn't have any such power to fight the entrenched income tax "industry". Peak Stupidity has too many posts with our taxes topic key to list here, but the reader may want to see our list of the 5 evils - I'm starting to sound like a Chinese Chairman of some sort - yes, The Five Evils, of the Feral Income tax in our post Peak Constitutional Amendment - XVI, Part 3. Believe it or not, the Evil labeled simply The Money comes in only at #2. Every one of these 5 evils has entrenched "industries", aka, bloodsuckers or parasites, who want the income tax in place for their purposes.
Trump doesn't have a chance in hell on this. Ron Paul as President wouldn't have a chance. It would take a 300 cloned Ron Pauls, not agonna happen.
It's interesting that Trump came out
As with the removal of income tax on tips, this is no new, brilliant idea. It was the system of income for ~ the 1st half of the history of the US. Still, it's better to hear this than some statement on an idiotic, ruinous plan on immigration. Bloviate away, dude, but just CLOSE THE BORDER, START MASSIVE DEPORTATIONS, and RELEASE THE J6 POLITICAL PRISONERS!
* Not that OMG. I don't mean the O'Keefe Media Group, though a nice undercover interview could be set up on Tinder were Trump actually gay. We might learn something... probably not... BTW, I guess people don't even use the phrase "coming out" anymore.
** I'm so disgusted with Trump on this that I don't know if I'll even feel like writing about it... I may change my mind.
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Why is it always Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin?!
Posted On: Thursday - June 20th 2024 6:46AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Pundits Race/Genetics Bible/Religion Female Stupidity Bread and Circuses
Peak Stupidity tends to reach back quite a ways, so if you don't understand our title here, check out Why is it always "China, China, China"?!, Part 1 and Part 2. I believe these 2 haven't been the only posts with this theme either.
Yeah, more on this Caitlin story follows. Anyway, it's not the barrage of headlines around the web that sucks us into these posts, so far the 2: Caitlin Clark: You go, grrrll! and Caitlin Clarke: No go, grrrll! I can ignore that stuff longer than they can ... stay solvent? It's not like Peak Stupidity has crack investigative reporters on this story.
However, upon perusing Ann Barnhardt*'s site the other day, I noticed that even she had a post about Caitlin Clarke, the WNBA's great White Straight hope.
Miss Barnhardt begs to differ with Peak Stupidity's opinion (in that "No go" post) that it's racial hatred that has the WNBA women "flagrant fouling" the hell out of her and then keeping her off the Olympic team**.
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. Actually, she doesn't beg to do anything. Besides "cut the crap", she doesn't mince words, with:
Abject nonsense. There are other white girls in the WNBA and they aren’t being assaulted. The reason Caitlin Clark is being assaulted is because she isn’t a lesbian sodomite. She’s a normal girl, with a normal boyfriend, and she’s the best women’s basketball player of all time. And the dykes are ENRAGED.Now, Ann Barnhardt hates that particular sin more than any other, or possibly that it's doing the most damage to our society and/or The Church. I have not read too much of her on race issues, but then, Ann Barnhardt lives in the sticks of Colorado. I doubt it's a factor in her life.
However, Miss Barnhardt has backed up this opinion of hers that's it's the genderbending not race that's caused the animosity towards Miss Clarke. She brought up one WNBA star Candice Wiggins, "... who had to retire early from the WNBA because of intense bullying because she is straight. Wiggins credibly estimated that the WNBA was 98% lesbian sodomite fifteen years ago." Candice Wiggens is black. OK, fair point, but was she as big in popularity as Caitlin Clarke is? I'd never heard of this Candice Wiggins, as I watch the same amount of women's basketball as Ann Barnhardt, NONE. Miss Barnhardz must have looked into this for her argument.
To do our due diligence in this argument, we'd need to bring up a White lesbian player who's not been harassed. Well, there are some, so that doesn't help. The lack of another data point, an extremely well-known WNBA player of any sort, is the problem. What about the Olympics snub, which Miss Barnhardz didn't mention? I stated that this extremely-colored women's BB Olympic selection committee would have put a black women on. I hadn't thought as much about the lesbian thing. It is a thing, though.
Well, same as Ann Barnhardz, I'll looking into this to prove a point, but it was complicated, it seems. From The San Francisco Gate 17 years ago:
"This is a fabulous opportunity for Candice," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "I think this says she has a legitimate shot at making the Olympic team. I know they love her."From my 10 minutes of searching, I believe she never played in the Olympics, so who knows what a selection committee would have done or even did? Miss Barnhardt is right about the lesbian factor, something I read about just now in a 7 y/o UK Guardian article Candice Wiggins: I was bullied for being straight in '98% gay' WNBA. OK, so maybe Ann Barnhardz is right, and we were wrong. Maybe both the gaiety and race are factors.
Wiggins already has won two gold medals for USA Basketball in the past few months, serving as the captain for the world champion women's U-21 team and the team that won the Pan-American Games.
OK, finally, WHO CARES?! Well, Steve Sailer does. He cares about anything sports-related, at least if Human BioDiversity is involved... and lots of stats. His TakiMag columns are always very good, and his latest was The Caitlin Conundrum.
Mr. Sailer did have a huge digression into his proposed minor changes to the rules of baseball (to make the games shorter), but he inserted some of his very good points we've seen elsewhere. He brought up his point about Dads without boys often raising their White daughters to be sports players, something that doesn't usually work within the WNBA, cause, no Dads. At least, there are none they know well. So, you get a different crowd than say with the ladies PGA or the pole vaulters. (Personally, I'd thought "woman pole vaulter" was just a euphemism for "woman gymnast, on her days off... on dates") Anyway, it's a niche sport, but he says they are exceptionally beautiful.
They women gymnasts and bicyclists have got to have the best bodies, though. You won't see a flagrant foul amongst these types either. However, one of the Chinese gymnasts, known for serving her superb Peking Duck to mental patients, was said to have "committed a fragrant fowl".
Mr. Sailer's long discussion of men's basketball is all for background about his questions, wrapped up at the end:
Not surprisingly, other WNBA players tend to hate Clark and try to brutalize her.Uh, not that particularly. This is one score that Steve Sailer doesn't seem to want to know. The Gov't/Big-Biz anti-White agenda beats profit making. He should know this. At least Mr. Sailer wrapped up his column pretty well this time, fleshing it out with:
More surprisingly, NBA executives haven’t come to their meal ticket’s aid.
Granted, WNBA players tend to have more diversity Pokémon points, being women, black, and lesbian.
Still, sports lately have typically been getting gamed by brilliant MIT grads. So the sight of lowbrow players being allowed to wreck the WNBA’s big chance to finally cash in is particularly curious.
A 70-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA DESIGNED A BRA THAT'S SWEEPING FLORIDAWait, that last bit may have been an ad. Thanks for the confusion, Taki Takidopoulos.
PS: Peak Stupidity wouldn't be averse to sending in crack investigative reporters to study the women's gymnastics business. "He said 'crack', huh, huh, huh ..." [/Butthead] "Yeah, yeah, crack, he-he, he-he, hehehee!" [/Beavis]
* Peak Stupidity has a generally very favorable opinion of Miss Barnhardt. We like hard-core, and she's all that. Our review of her site is this one: Ann Barnhardt: A kinder, gentler Fanatic
** She may not know about the latter sleight. It's not mentioned there.
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Trump, tips, and taxes
Posted On: Wednesday - June 19th 2024 7:07PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Inflation Zhou Bai Dien Taxes
We gotta be careful with the commas here, so as not to get to an Eats, shoots, and leaves. level of confusion.
Trump can tip and probably does generously, but he can't tax ... people directly. Then, the proper powers of the branches of the US Feral Gov't are what this post is about anyway.
On the campaign trail recently Donald Trump has promised to eliminate taxes on tips - The Gateway Pundit reports:Trump Champions the Working Class — Proposes Elimination of All Taxes on Tips . Yes, that's a great and novel idea, one that has only been thought about hundreds of millions of times by Americans working service jobs over the last century.
Peak Stupidity has expounded multiple times on the solution to IRS tip-grabbing at the client level. (I'm thinking client/server software here. The customer is the client, and the
I can well remember when cash was completely King, and almost all tips were therefore in cash. The IRS didn't have to know and didn't need to know. They wanted to know though, but instead, a few decades ago they started using some scheme of assuming a certain percentage tipping factor and taxed the poor bastards that way. I'm hoping that since things went more in the electronic direction, the IRS may have decided the electronic numbers are good enough and quit with that assumed tipping business. That would mean that cash helps even more now.
Anyway, Trump's thoughts are going in the right direction. He's gone Libertarian lately, but that's another post. This promise of his is mostly pure bullshittery again though, I'm afraid to say. He wants to eliminate... Uhhh, the President doesn't get to eliminate tax laws. It doesn't work like that, or it's not supposed to. The ctrl-left can get away with this sort of thing, as none of the Establishment will rule or even write anything against their misuses of power.*** A pro-American President - ha! He'd better have his ducks in a row in Congress, but that's the last thing Trump ever does.
I hope the reader doesn't get me wrong here. Though a good way (and competition to Bai Dien's loan forgiveness***) to accumulate younger voters, this deal is small potatoes. On DAY ONE, Trump must free the J6 Political Prisoners - at least one has already died***. On that day or the next, he must start an organized deportation program and send Federal troops or politically and logistically support the military of the 4 border States to take control of the border.
Still, as much as Trump does not likely have a way to change the Feral Tax Code to make this happen, people are excited. He's got a viral following, as per GP again: GOING VIRAL: Diners Across the Country Are Joining a New Trend — Writing ‘Vote Trump, No Taxes On Tips!’ on Server Checks
Going by that image (from GP), there seem to be a couple of problems. That these viral folks are tipping so generously - a 100% tip, $103.99 on a $103.99 tab, from Ann Althouse - she must be making a killing from the tip jar on her blog - and a nearly 400% tip on that $26 hamburger is one thing. It's that $26 hamburger itself though that shows one of the real problems in today's America. Well, OK, he got bacon on it. Never mind!
PS: BTW, could this proposal mend the hard feelings between Donald Trump and AOC? She could go back to bar tending, making good money when dressed in the right outfits, leaving the people outside her Brooklyn bar alone. That'd be a win/win/win! I'd tip AOC $103.99, but I'd expect something a little extra for the $103.
* That's Point Of Sale, mind you, but that other common interpretation of this initialism works too.
** This particular Political Prisoner was one Julio Baquero III. He'd been "Diagnosed With Stage 4 Gastric Cancer While in the Gulags," and "Has Passed Away". He did nothing violent on 1/6/21, but got put away for 18 months. This is the stuff of Latin American nightmares, going on right here, right now. True, he may have died anyway if not held as a Political Prisoner, but he'd have been with his family and very likely would have had better care.
*** I'm thinking of just one small example, Zhou Bai Dien's deciding who will be forgiven of his student loans, first before the SCROTUS ruled he did not have this power, and again, after they had. Doesn't matter.... the ctrl-left takes care of its own.
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Hotchul Minh: Taking the masks off
Posted On: Tuesday - June 18th 2024 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Orwellian Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
New York's Totalitarian Governor Hochul Minh was one of the worst during the Kung Flu PanicFest. Peak Stupidity featured a first look at this hysterical piece of work in High Priestess of the Branch Covidian Social Justice Climate Cult. Then, we commented on her push for the mandatory jab in Drinking the KOVID Kool-Aid. Suffice it to say, we've not thought very highly of the Governor of New York... come to think of it, probably since the time of Fiorello La Guardia.
The humiliation of mandated donning of useless face masks is something Peak Stupidity covered in many dozen posts tagged with that Kung Flu Stupidity topic key. Check out specifically our 5-part "March Mask Madness" series from '21.
Going back to before the PanicFest, before anyone would imagine the stupidity of '20, we came out against the banning of face mask wearing. Our point was about Liberty, not some ginned-up pandemic PanicFest. It's a matter of anonymity. Being anonymous is so much harder than it was over a century ago, before, say, the IRS, and compared to the days of our Founders, well, they couldn't have imagined...
Keeping our faces hidden while out in pubic is about all we have left, and even then, if one is worried about his identity being figured out after the fact (some happening), he'd better walk differently too. (Our gaits are very unique. I recognized a guy I knew when we were both unknowingly in the same place 500 miles from home one time by the way he was walking... at 5 in the afternoon, coming out of bar.)
Therefore, when Steve Sailer wrote that he was in favor of anti-mask laws (before he was in favor of anti-nonmasking laws for a bit) a year or so before the PanicFest, for reasons of law & order, I disagreed. I mentioned this in a footnote later under the post When the masks come off. Mr. Sailer doesn't really hold so strictly to principles of Liberty and all that, being a more practical man.* Peak Stupidity does.
Guy Fawkes and his crowd wore those masks that the antifa Commies have made famous again. Perhaps both are not very good examples of the point here, but then there were those guy that dressed as Indians and threw tea into Boston Harbor. They craved anonymity, as did the pamphleteers and such during the Revolution. Then, there are the millions of bloggers and commenters on the internet. Here's looking at me, kid. Who? Me, you know, the Moderator, whom you can't even email.
I'm repeating my point of the post 1984 - NOT an instruction manual, people! though, so I'll quit with this. That all said, since the face masking has thankfully subsided greatly, of course I've still got no political beef with those who don them. There may be some older people whose doctors have recommended them due to certain ailments and in public places or something. I don't know - I see at the airport terminals that it's probably only 1 in 100 or so (perhaps a survey would be in order), but just today I saw a not-so-old lady driving in her car, windows all up, with one of these one. It's her business, but on my end, dumb looks are still free.
Now, from the Associated Press, we read that NY governor's subway mask ban proposal sparks debate over right to anonymous protest. The problem they've got up there is indeed a real lack of law & order. That's not due to the laws themselves but the people themselves. It was bad enough with just the Black! thug contingent, but now, as New Yorkers have become Miamians now, dealing with the scum of Latin America and the RODW**, they're desperate for solutions. That is, they want solutions that comport with Totalitarianism, not, say, something that may very well work, an army of Bernie Goetzes.
However, Totalitarians don't care about the people and their problems on the subway. They care about their big benefactors though. Her big benefactors care about:
At at news conference in Albany, the governor said she was moved to act after “a group donning masks took over a subway car, scaring riders and chanting things about Hitler and wiping out Jews” on Monday night.Ahaaa! Hochul Minh had no problem with people masking up to smash storefronts, loot, and burn in those peaceful protests in '20. She had no problem with their NOT masking up either, as they had some sort of waiver, apparently...
It was not clear exactly what incident she was referring to, but it could have been a conflation of different episodes related to pro-Palestinian demonstrations that day in Union Square Park.
No, but this here is SERIOUS! It is surprising to see that the ACLU is on the right side of this, well, almost:
“The Governor’s concerns about masks disguising criminal activity won’t be quelled by banning anonymous peaceful protest. Mask bans were originally developed to squash political protests and, like other laws that criminalize people, they will be selectively enforced — used to arrest, doxx, surveil, and silence peopleFIFT and yup.of color and protestorsthe police disagree with,” Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
The Governor of New York is pretty much on the wrong side of everything. Much of the virtue signals and supplies come from Albany down the Holchul Minh Trail, down the east side of the Hudson, through Westchester Country, to NYC. We need to cut these supply lines. I'm thinking B-52's... the same ones as last time in fact, re-engined and with glass cockpits ... call it Operation Wine-Aunt-Cracker.
* Practical in the short run, that is. Being practical may well mean USSR style practicality coming in the long run.
** That's a foreign policy wonk acronym for Rest Of the Degnerate World.
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You think by now, I'd realize ...
Posted On: Monday - June 17th 2024 8:22PM MST
In Topics: University Media Stupidity Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
We've heard it said in a half-joking manner that it's hard to do parody anymore, as stupid as society is today. When you do parody now, you are competing with next week's actual news.
I got suckered by this one:
I think it was on Instapundit that I saw this screenshot, and that was without the tweet border or what-have-you. Yes, I can believe that this White House Press Secretary said that. Bai Dien has been known to spout BS about prices/inflation. Turns out... oh, it was the Babylon Bee.
It's not like the Presidential Press Secretaries of various administrations over the decades haven't lied to us. This Karine Jean-Pierre, though, is something else. It's those big round floating eyeballs - this lady has some sort of voodoo thing going on with those big lyin' eyes. Haitian girls just seem to find out early ... Yeah, it's all voodoo economics. 35 Trillion bucks due, due to that vodoo that you do so well.
Anyone get the song references... anyone, the something gulls, ... Cole somebody... anyone, Bueller?
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Happy Elder Abuse Day!
Posted On: Monday - June 17th 2024 11:37AM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump Zhou Bai Dien Holiday from Stupidity
Peak Stupidity missed Father's Day* yesterday, but time flies, and a new holiday has been proclaimed since then. To celebrate Elder Abuse Day today, we will graphically abuse the American President-reject.
This video shows "gaffes". OK, some readers may like physical humor more, so here's some of that (thanks, Adam Smith!):
Then, there's our own Ronald Reagan-based meme:
"Hey, why abuse this poor elderly man?", readers may (probably not) ask? I'll tell you why. Sure, Dark Brandon doesn't know what's going on half the time. We're sure the Deep State is running things, and this President is just there going along with it all - or likely be shot like JFK? (Really, they wouldn't need to go that far, as giving him another booster jab is all it would take.) The man has "served" his half-century in public "service", so he deserves this. "Quit abusing him!", you (probably won't) exclaim.
I get that. However, it's that same half century, but of his grifting off American taxpayers and corruption with no regard to what's good for America that I don't like one bit. This guy could be the doddering old puppet who means well. He's not. In his most lucid moments, Zhou Bai Dien denigrates American patriots. He threatens them, in fact, in person and en masse.
Abusing elderly Zhou Bai Dien is the very least we could do here. Some elderly men just need abusin'.
Oh, wait, the PS Editor has gotten my attention. Apparently, as per the Gateway Pundit, THE IRONY! Dementia-Ridden Joe Biden Just Proclaimed ‘World Elder Abuse Awareness Day’. Oh!! I missed one word. It's World Elder Abuse Awareness Day! (OK 2 words.**)
Well, I'm aware of one elderly guy who's been abused for the last 3 years, arguably 7. He's only 3 1/2 years younger than Dark Brandon too. That's be Donald Trump, abused by the Feral Gov't, the evil Commies of the State of New York, some fat-ass Black! politician in Georgia... and, oh, I almost forgot, the Lyin' Press too.
This elderly man has more energy than me, and he fights back. Donald Trump, no matter his many flaws, is someone I can really appreciate on this World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. I'm very aware that Trump is one elderly man who's very, very good at abuse. Witness, from this post of ours:
So, Happy Elder Abuse Day, Mr. Trump! As you have been abused, so shall you abuse. Abuse back better!
* That is, as far as posts go. I will say that I'm happy my son has enjoyed our new routine of going out to shoot our .22 rifles once or twice a week. Otherwise, he's at the age during which seems (only seems, I think) uninterested in stuff and answers me on calls from work thusly: "How are you doing?" "Good." "What's going on there?" "Nothing."
I'm still a better shot, but that's not saying too much, and I hope it won't last. This week he will learn to clean the guns. I LUV LUV LUV the smell of that Hoppes Number 9 in the afternoon... smells like ... victory.
** Can an American President declare a holiday for the whole world though? Nah.
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The Joshua Tree, a Red Hill Mining town, solar influx, and the lost art of treehugging.
Posted On: Saturday - June 15th 2024 7:41PM MST
In Topics: Music California Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity Geography Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Long ago in Los Angeles, California, I was asking this acquaintance who commuted on his big Honda bike where he lived. "Canyon Country." "Who is this dude?", I wondered. "What does he think, he's the High Plains Drifter or something?" "Canyon Country.", he sort of sneered and pulled up his bandana. (No, he didn't really sneer at all, and it was a helmet.) It sounded kind of bad-assed though. It turned out that Canyon Country is just a stretched out "neighborhood" that's part of the city of Santa Clarita, 2 mountain ranges and a long drive northeast of LA. It's still in Los Angeles County.
That was years ago. With southern California even more crowded now, people are finding newer and farther places to get their own "spread". How far do you go?
You go another 35 miles east on the California 14, the Antelope Valley Freeway, and then, around Palmdale and Lancaster, this road turns north for another 40 miles to the town of Mojave. From there, head 35 miles or so east on the California 58 to get to Boron. Why? Well, that's the town this post is about. This is desolate desert, with 2,000 people residing in in that town. I doubt anyone commutes this far to Los Angeles, unless it's by light plane.
The article I'll mention here is about Joshua trees. The big Joshua Tree National Park, with good rock climbing practice sites, BTW, is 130 - 150 road miles away, to the nearest entrance, say, near Twenty-Nine Palms or somewhere. Boron has some Joshua trees, but they're not the only ones around.
Did I mention desolation? I mean, it's a place like this, but closer to that Joshua Tree park, where I locked myself out of the car on a small desert road* one mid-day in mid-summer. Well, the thing is, I was just going to change the music out and had to get to the back seat to do so, leaving the keys in the ignition, cause, quick stop.. At that point, I noticed that there was actually something nearby to shoot at with my new rifle, bottles or whatever. This was contrary to the situation before, with nothing but rocks around. Therefore, I dutifully locked up the car and after getting done firing off 50 rounds or so at 2¢ apiece, hilarity ensued... till someone stopped finally and gave me a coat hangar.**
The local climate of Boron, CA is pretty hot - daily maxima - for the 3 summer months but dry. As they say, it's not the heat - it's the humidity. (Sometimes they say, it's not even the humidity - it's the stupidity.) To get total rainfall off the table (middle of that page), one can't even use the values rounded to inches, as there are a couple of 1's and the rest 0's, so the nearest-inch rounding makes for a big error. Using the millimeter numbers, it turns out they get 4.8 in. of rain there in Boron... YEARLY.
The solar energy influx is big in the desert where Boron sits. It really is a good place for a solar farm, but the locals are angry about one being built. One Melody Peterson, who looks pretty cute in her thumbnail picture on the Los Angeles Times website, wrote recently, Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert. I'm sorry to say, that I will not agree with the residents of Boron. This is just an excuse, as with the spotted owls and lynxes for the closing of timberlands to production. Not only that, but, after all, the town was built due to the mining industry, obviously.
BORON, Calif. — A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a sprawling solar project that will generate power for 180,000 homes in wealthier coastal neighborhoods.As for the century old Joshua trees, aside from the fact that these are not the last ones standing, they are spindly little things. They are not a treehuggers dream. Good luck sitting up in a Joshua tree in Boron to stop the solar farm. If you don't break the branches you're sitting on and fall on your ass, you'll die of heatstroke long before you get the chance to shout chants at the first dozer operator.
Here's the real problem: Government. As usual. Were the industry not subsidized and pushed on the country and especially Californians, perhaps sprawling project wouldn't be going on or, better yet, it'd be locals when they could realize an actual pay-off who sell power on their own to those richies on the coast. Big Biz and Government act hand-in-hand, leaving the little guy out of the fun and profits and distorting the markets. That's the real beef the locals of Boron should and probably do subconsciously have. After all, solar power is sure cleaner than mining boron.
All that talk about "save the trees" does not seem to interest the particular Californians that now claim to be saving the whole planet... except for some of the Joshua trees.
"Now, where else have I heard of these Joshua trees before?", the reader may ask. Was it 37 years ago, maybe? The Irish rock band U2 burst into the musical limelight in force in 1987 with their album The Joshua Tree. It was truly a great album. That's not even arguable, or I should say, don't argue about it until you have listened to it on real speakers with woofers with the volume turned up to 11.
The band had travelled around America before recording this. They, at least lead singer Bono, were impressed with the wide-open spaces in this country. The songs are evocative of Bono's thoughts, but, as usual, it's really the melody and sound that matters, much more than any lyrics.
The 1st 3 songs on The Joshua Tree, Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and With or Without You were big hits. All 3 were good songs, but after having heard them over and over, I prefer some of the others. Bullet the Blue Sky didn't really have a great tune, but it was a political statement by Bono, one we mentioned in our post Outside it's America 4 years back.
There were 3 songs I thought would be appropriate for this post, all great ones. The name of the song I'm featuring makes me think that U2 came pretty close to Boron on their trip to the wide open spaces of the American west. There's the mining, obviously, but then Red Rock Mountain is 15 miles northeast also.
Yet, In God's Country is still playing in my head nonetheless.
U2:
Bono – lead vocals, harmonica, guitars
The Edge – guitars, backing vocals, piano
Adam Clayton – bass guitar
Larry Mullen Jr. – drums, percussion
Thank you all so much for reading this week! I am always glad to hear from you all in the comments too. Now, we'll try to write some discussion of the 4 points of comparison on Europe v America in fighting the Globalists (if, as not per MBlanc46, it's at all possible). I never did put up that 2 hour long economics discussion video, with commentary, but some time... Then, there is more to write on Trump, the Libertarians, and Trump's talking like some kind of damn Libertarian... and MOAR! Happy Sunday.
* No, I didn't smell any colitas rising up through the air, just gunpowder.
** For this old car, it was very easy to get in with that. I probably could have used a dry stick but didn't know that. I'd already slipped my belt through the window crack, but the roller went the other way. Breaking the window was only an option were it looking like I would need to spend the night otherwise.
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Contempt for Attorney General Merrick Garland determined by Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - June 15th 2024 7:16AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Totalitarianism
You may have seen some recent news tidbits about "Contempt of Congress", but Peak Stupidity has held Merrick Garland in contempt since we've read of this evil Commie's background. We dubbed him The Potomac Regime's Lavrentiy Beria in a post over a year ago.
The US Congress voted the other day to charge Garland with contempt for not honoring a subpoena for the submission of audio recordings he possessed of Zhou Bai Dien's being interviewed about his lack of care, shall we say, regarding classified documents.* With the exception of one bullshitter**, R-rep from Ohio Dave Joyce, all the GOP voted Aye, and all the D-squad voted Nay. So, yeah, that sounds like a real 2 party system we got here, doesn't it?
It sure sounds like that when nothing's going to happen either way. The Justice Department, ADMINISTERED by this very Merrick Garland charged with Contempt of Congress, has decided not to prosecute. Boy, that was a bolt from the blue. The evil Garland is still A/G, and the charges meant exactly squat in the scheme of things.
Now, as per The Gateway Pundit, Anna Paulina Luna to Push ‘Inherent Contempt’ Vote Forcing Sgt. of Arms to Immediately Arrest AG Merrick Garland. A majority of Aye votes on that one would require the Congress Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest Garland on the floor in Congress. Here's an update. I couldn't find any results of that one, but I'd willingly put down a lot of money on Nay if they'd let you bet on this sort of thing from the Gallery.***
Until the evil Totalitarian Commies like Merrick Garland are arrested on the House floor and and put in orange jump suits, I'm sorry, but I'll keep believing there's nothing but a UniParty up in there.
PS: I do like the name Anna Paulina Luna. It'd be a great name for a Telenovella star. Unfortunately, Telenovellas are hell, but then too, so is Congress.
* It's his senility, we were told, so no harm, no foul. Is that an excuse now? "He didn't mean to! He just didn't know where he was, what he was doing, and his ass from a hole in the ground."
** Yeah, read his words: "As a former prosecutor, I cannot in good conscience support a resolution that would further politicize our judicial system to score political points.” Haha. No, of course not.
*** Hey, what an idea! So long as they promise not to wear buffalo horns, sit in Nancy Pelosi's seat (or lap, for that matter), and Ray Epps is not involved, how about fill the gallery with American bettors? We could help out those American compulsive bettors who happen to also be compulsive policy wonks without even a 12-Step Program involved.
We may be able to scrap the income tax and still avoid tariffs! As with all the rest of the taxes, the House wins in the end ... and so does the Senate.
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Globalists in political peril: Europe v America - Intro.
Posted On: Friday - June 14th 2024 5:28PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Globalists The Future World Political Stupidity
It's been heartening reading about the big gains made by the "far right", aka, non-national-suicide-adjacent, politicians in Western Europe these past weeks. I can take heart even while holding that "We ain't voting our way out of this" opinion, but I take even more heart when I see the riots by Irishmen with the same feeling.
I subsequently saw this story about Euro "leaders" on the yahoo news page:
Huddling, right? In Puglia, Italy, it says. No, that's not huddling. I'd like to see the former Globalists of Europe huddling in tornado shelters asking "My God, what have we done?" to each other in hushed tones to avoid capture. Nationalist parties, i.e., those that support the continued existence of their respective nations of people and as sovereign entities, are gathering more votes over there, becoming part of new coalitions forming, and talking seriously about controlling immigrations, even with terms that resemble "deportation".
Over here in America, we got this fuckin' guy:
Who's got better chances of success putting Globalists in peril.
It happens a lot at Peak Stupidity that the posts address topics that are too big to be handled in one. I could see this coming again here, so I'll just explain what this is about and give an outline of subjects to be discussed.
First of all, I don't think the Globalists are really in political peril at this time, in Europe or in America. I'd like to compare the 2 bastions of Western Civilization when it comes to the power, ability, chances, whatever, to resist Globalism (most especially the Population Replacement Programme)*
(To come) Let's compare, in Europe v America:
The depth of the problem: Europe has more of a Moslem problem. We have a host of die-versities but our largest contingent is probably the most benign. Which is a worse situation?
The political systems: European politicians trying to fight the Globalists must still form coalitions with what resemble the UniParty here. The executives seem to have less power. American Presidents CAN get a lot done, but it takes a different kind of political savvy. (Trump sure didn't seem to have it for 4 years.)
The
The people: My feeling is that thoughtcrime enforcement is more serious in Europe. In America, one just puts job, career, admissions, etc, at stake... for now. However, Americans are still too soft and too prosperous (or think they are) to speak out or even care. OTOH, when it really comes down to it, Americans have more guns. The SCROTUS has been supportive of that point lately.
The power of the Globalists: Do they have more reach in Europe or in the US?
Stand by for some discussion of this comparison in a few posts. Hopefully, it won't drag on to forever as the Depopulocalypse posts have - last one seen was on April 1st of this year.
* I've been using the extra "me" here to make it sound more "straight outta Brussels".
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When Aiden Became a Brother - Book Review
Posted On: Thursday - June 13th 2024 8:14AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Books
I hadn't been to the public library in months. Those 3 videos that I still haven't gotten around to watching weren't going to return themselves, so ...
I keep thinking this is a conservative area of the country.* My son was with me to pick up 2 hold items, and we came upon a table with 20 or so books on display for Pride month. When Aiden Became a Brother was one of them. Authors Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita might have the kiddies fooled with the title - as in, Aiden's parents are having another baby boy - but it didn't fool me one bit:
When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing. After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of life that didn't fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life. Then Mom and Dad announce that they're going to have another baby, and Aidan wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning--from choosing the perfect name to creating a beautiful room to picking out the cutest onesie...(Is Aiden still a little girl at heart anyway? She shouldn't have thrown out those dolls, much less done that plastic surgery and plumbing...)
I don't know what to say... so how can I write a review? I'll delegate the work this time to a couple of amazon.com reviewers:
Due to there being more children's' books on the Pride table with "Stonewall" in their titles, I had to explain what that Stonewall deal was, something I'd only read about 5 years ago. They are pushing this stuff hard, people.
Oh, yeah, one more quick review, off the Goodreads site (the one I link to for books) from a lady named Mai:
Nope.And that wasn't me, either. Nice and succint. That could have been Peak Stupidity's review in a nutshell, but "we" tend to get long-winded.
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* Occasionally, I learn otherwise.
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[UPDATED later 06/13:] Added that excerpt and remark about the title.
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Caitlin Clarke: No go, grrrll!
Posted On: Thursday - June 13th 2024 6:44AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Race/Genetics Female Stupidity Bread and Circuses
As it's part of the American Empire's Bread & Circuses what Peak Stupidity calls "Sportsball"*, one would assume we would skip the story of the nonsense about women's basketball player Caitlin Clarke. Not only is the NBA-supported WNBA sportsball, but our hatred for Feminism causes even more disdain for this whole story. (I've got no problem with Women's gymnastics, ice skating, etc, but that Title IX crap has screwed over many a young man over the last few decades who'd have loved to play in some minor sport, for fun, not as part of the Bread & Circuses.)
We got sucked one time into this Caitlin story already, with the racial aspect being the most interesting - the lesbianism doesn't concern me much - from the looks of it, it's not what I'd imagined ... That post from a couple of months back was Caitlin Clark: You go, grrrll!.
Now, after skipping much of the saga, I was drawn in by The Gateway Pundit again with FACE IT, THEY HATE YOU! WNBA Tells Millions of Fans to KISS OFF! We Don’t Want You! — Top US B-Ball Officials Ban Mega-Star Caitlin Clark from the Olympics Then Have Audacity to LIE TO AMERICANS in Their Response! Yea!! Exclamation points!!
Per GP, these women are Seimone Augustus (upper left) , Dawn Staley (center), Jennifer Rizzotti (upper right), Delisha Milton-Jones (lower left), and Bethany Donaphin (lower right). There are 2 that I'd even think of doing, but only if I were on the rebound.
Jim Hoft, proprietor of The Gateway Pundit, wrote that post himself. He discusses the excuse used by said committee that Miss Clarke doesn't have "international experience". Well, it's not like you need to read foreign-language directions - it's a freaking basketball court - same size - with 2 goals of the same size. You just need to know not to bring drugs with you - lesson learned. It ain't rocket pharmacy. Anyway, Miss Clarke does have this international experience as demonstrated in the post, so that was a blatant lie of an excuse.
Mr. Hoft brings up the numbers, 3-pointers, assists, and points per game. Caitlin Clarke beats out other selectees for the Olympic team on that score. I don't care, really. I know what the deal is.
GP has brought up the jealousy factor before. Yeah, women aren't team players in the same fashion as men. They can be quite vindictive even if it results in a loss for the team, the sport and the league (i.e. $$$), and Olympic results. Again, I don't care, but I see that this does not explain the story of Caitlin Clarke.
Just imagine an outstanding Black! player - call her D'Katlinisqua Clark Jefferson. In no way would she be treated like this. The tribal feelings would come out, and the rest of the team would be very proud to have one of their own kick butt representing Black! America in the world's Olympic games.
Nope, this is pure racism on display. I note that Jim Hoft never "went there". I wonder about that. I think he wanted to leave this obvious truth to his commenters (plausible deniability and all that). The very 1st comment:
BOR1776 2,000+ CommentsYep.
These people HATE White People plain and simple-ESPECIALLY Straight ones.
Hopefully that'll be all on here about Caitlin Clarke. Good luck to her.
* It's the spectator side of it we often deride. If you play, more power to you.
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Lime scooters v donuts
Posted On: Wednesday - June 12th 2024 9:48AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders US Police State US Feral Government Bible/Religion Anarcho-tyranny Legal Stupidity
NOTE: Not a Foodie post. Sorry to disappoint anyone.
The Regime doesn't screw around when it comes to defacement of "Our" Flag. Pride is something to be proud of, especially during this month of June.* Defacing the Pride flag is serious business. I mean, you can't go around burning the Stars and ... never mind, but these kids in Spokane, Washington are out of control! They made skid marks on a Pride flag painted on the street with their rented Lime scooters, on purpose!
The Gateway Pundit reported this story a few days ago. They've updated it with Washington Teens Charged With ‘Felony Vandalism’ For Leaving Skid Marks on LGBT Pride Mural – Face Up to a Decade in Prison! Yes, the Anarcho-Tyranny is hitting the kids now.
You figure these kids deserve a good tongue-lashing, and maybe they should be required to scrub out the rubber and paint back better with a rainbow palette (+ brown) of spray cans. Or, were it up to me, they deserve paid airline tickets to Portland or Bangor, Maine, and a friendly, enjoyable meet and greet interview with Tucker Carlson. Ooops, gotta watch it this month, and I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let me go back, oh, 40 years ± a few. I could have sworn I'd inserted this story in some post or another, but you know, PS-search is
There were no Pride flags painted on the streets in that day and age. Were someone to have painted anything of the sort, symbolism-wise, it wouldn't have been just the road that suffered. No, this was just a garden park with some nice grass that was greener than ever after heavy rain. Whaddya' gonna do when, well, there's nothing TO DO, and your parent's response to learning that would have been to give you work to do. At the park, your friend gets the car going hard left, as you enjoy it from the passenger seat, making such a tight turn that he could now turn the wheel - in the days with that finger-tip-soft power steering - hard to the right, and have the front wheels still follow the left turn in the deepening grooves as the back ones pushed through the mud - well, it was now!
"Oh, yeah, we better wash this before we bring it home." Good idea. We left the park and went to the self-service car wash to take care of this. "Let me see how it looks", my friend remarked after that, so we went back to the park. Bad idea. There's something to this whole thing about returning to the scene of the crime. Don't do that, and you'll be fine. Well, I mean, if you do donuts in the days before cameras all over the place. I don't know about murder or whatever ...
The cop sitting in his unmarked Ford LTD at this point was not amused. ("What? We just washed the car and decided to visit the gardents. So?") My friend got a ticket and was told to appear in court soon. I was told to come to be a witness. Well, I sure wasn't going to tell my parents we had some dealings with the law. I was not a driver then, so a week later, my Mom answered the phone call from the courthouse, with some clerk or whoever wondering why I was late. I can't remember the rest, other than we had to do it a week later, and my friend didn't get any kind of serious fine, like $50 or something. Yeah, truly that would have been a lot of money to him (half a week's minimum wage work after taxes).
The crime my friend, alright, "we", had committed was not even made a misdemeanor - I think, as I'm pretty sure it was a no-points non-moving violation, this having happened in a park rather than public roads. Thing is, it was not done in anger. As with the couple of times I
The few kids on their rented scooters in Spokane probably made the skid marks in that location for a reason. I imagine their parents have well-schooled them on the sick genderbender program being forced on them at school, the library**, everywhere, and they probably have their own thoughts about it. (It's not just the social/cultural stupidity itself, but that it's being forced on them, as a process of humiliation.) Oh, plus, I'm sure it was fun.
There's too much Anarcho-Tyranny in this comparison of stories to fit in this post. Let me try to hit a few points.
Our fun at the park years ago was done purposefully in that spot too, but it wasn't on the road. That Pride paint was right there on the public road. If you don't want skid marks, maybe you should have made it off the public roads where, well, vehicles do skid on occasion.
The damage from our digging of 6" deep, tire-wide grooves into the nice grass in the park was much more than that to the stupid Pride paint on the street. The former probably took an hour or two of work to straighten up, plus a month for the grass to grow back right, while the former could take 10 minutes to fix. Yet, my friend went to court and, best I can recall, got told to "straighten up!" (ha, you couldn't say that now) or something. These kids are being told they've committed felonies and may get serious jail time!
Fully-grown adults busted thousands of plate glass windows and set buildings on fire for months during the Summer of '20. Most of them didn't even get arrested, much less get jail time. Yet, this "vandalism" by the scooter-riding kids could be tabulated at 100 bucks tops, rather than the $Billions done by Blacks! and Commies during the Summer of George.
Why the huge does of Anarcho-Tyranny here? Is it just that White kid underprivilege? It's more than that. The Potomac Regime HATES HATES HATES when people resist their programs of humiliation. They don't want those kids starting at this young at it. It could lead to more and greater resistance. Even having fun making some skid marks on the road is something the Regime can't let pass lightly.***
My redneck friend was a little too proud of his donuts back that day long ago in a different country. It got him in trouble. That was nothing though. Via the Book of Proverbs (16:18) Peak Stupidity has this warning for the Potomac Regime: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. I'm not sure this proverb meant it exactly this way... but it works.
PS: Those stand-up scooters might be fun, but it's a hell of a shame modern kids can't experience doing donuts. Can modern cars even do them, or would all the electronics, traction control, etc., preclude this fun?
* Peak Stupidity apologizes profusely right here for not writing more posts
** We'll have another this week, as I've been to the library first time in a long while. (No fines, now, so who cares?!)
*** Someone with more reading under his belt on the subject answer this: Even in the worst days of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik Red v White Russians early on, whenever) or in the middle of Mao's Cultural Revolution, would a kid have gotten this kind of treatment for some small act against the system? (Maybe his parents would have...)
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