The Science of Climate Modeling revisted
Posted On: Wednesday - February 28th 2024 2:20PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Science Big-Biz Stupidity
(More on the source of this image below.)
Yes, It's been a long time since Peak Stupidity broached this particular stupidity, other than politically. It's been longer since we discussed the basics of math modeling of the complex climate of the World. In the beginning days of this blog, we stated very clearly that "There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!" in 5 short posts: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 and Part 5. We see no reason to change that stance 7 years later.
I don't have the time in the day to keep up with Anthony Watt's WattsUpWithThat blog. He gets into scientific details in the discussion of climate modeling and also refutes the Climate Calamity™ hype to the tune of 5-8 posts per day. Instapundit led me to a certain post, as the title goes along with what I've been writing, New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’.
I am not in the Climatology field. My point about this science from my technical background is simply that there are lots of physical processes that determine the climate, not all of them are known well enough to be modeled accurately as part of an overall model, and even were they, math models take a LONG TIME to get working right. I have no doubt that the "Greenhouse effect" is a factor, but it is not nearly the whole ball game. About the greenhouse gas water vapor, though, and models matching observation:
A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapor. This is a devastating finding, as water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas due to its alleged “feedback” capacity, accelerating warming well beyond what CO2 is said to be capable of alone.Hey, no harm, no foul. This is science. You or your peers work to figure out WHY your model doesn't nearly match reality, and, if the discrepancy is determined, then you try to fix the model. So long as none of Simpson et al are Climate Alarmists screaming that the sky is falling, I respect them for doing Climatology. It sounds like fun... that's all.
The authors do not understate the significance of this climate modeling failure.
“This represents a major gap in our understanding and in climate model fidelity that must be understood and fixed as soon as possible in order to provide reliable hydroclimate projections for arid/semi-arid regions in the coming decades.”
Per state-of-the-art climate models, specific humidity (SH) should increase as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show no increasing SH trend over arid/semi-arid regions.
Per state-of-the-art climate models, relative humidity (RH) should decline slightly as a consequence of CO2-induced global warming. But 40 years of observations (1980-) show not a slight declining trend, but a declining trend that is “about an order of magnitude more than the models on average.” In other words, the climate models are wrong by a factor of 10.
Unfortunately, rather than the advancement of Climate Science, the works-in-progress math models of the climate of the World have been used by Globalist fear-mongering control freaks to take over large parts of the world's economy. This post is just another "I told you so". There is NO working mathematical model of the World's Climate. If you pretend otherwise, you're a dupe or a liar.
PS: In some cases, I go to the link that's often attached to the "file photos" used here. This image came from ExxonMobile. 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report.
Advancing Climate Solutions Through Innovative Industrial Approaches. Read More. Read More On ExxonMobil's Ongoing Strategy In The 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions Report."Oh, spare us! Just go find new oil and gas, and cut the bullcrap. We know that's what it is, and little Greta will hate you just the same.
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FBI Humor
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Anti-Social Media
These guys are subtle.
Yes, shoplifting has been getting out of hand in many inner cities, most especially those with Soros-installed easy-going District Attorneys*. Still, somehow nobody has much of an idea what is the exact "mechanism", if I may, causing this increase.
Lots of times, the shoplifters come organized into large groups of vandals, but the FBI wanted to put the focus on the smaller parties that are often the culprits.
(I'll take the brunette, if I have a choice. Book her for me, Dano!)
Yes, the humor of the G-men is subtle and sublime, I tell you, because, well, of course, there's no way they could believe that picture represents the problem. From one of many thousands or millions of reply tweeters - too many - I can't be LIKING them all:
There's another possibility other than that the FBI taking a much-needed break from fighting the "bad" guys to do some comedy. That is that the picture was meant to show an innocent young lady pulling out her purse to get to her concealed-carry weapon as a large mass of Black! teens enters the store. Again, it's subtle ...
* Easy-going on all but the White people, that is. Anarcho-Tyranny is here.
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Excess Deaths in the UK
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2024 6:53AM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
Boy, that's got to bring back memories! Maybe they aren't the best memories, though. Readers that have been sticking with Peak Stupidity since/during the dark days of Kung Flu stupidity will probably remember that we got all analytic and spread-sheeting for a week* there in the summer of '21: Hey, what's the deal with excess deaths, anyway?**
Our motivation to get into these very simple calculations - they were nothing but arithmetic with Census data on age groups of the American population combined with CDC general mortality by age data - was the flat base curve*** used to calculate "excess deaths". There was no rise, yet the American median age is indeed rising quickly. The reader can follow the link above, but as a TL/DR version, simply using the year '19 for a baseline, rather than an average of '15 - '19 added 100,000 deaths to the base curve. This reduces those excess deaths by that amount, not covering it all, but still very significant.
Of all things to run into via The Gateway Pundit, a post titled How Convenient: UK Develops New Method to Count Excess Deaths Following Shocking Numbers Post COVID Vaccine was right in the Peak Stupidity wheelhouse. Most especially the quote from from the original source article from the UK Department of Statistics is:
As discussed in a previous ONS blog, fundamental to any method for estimating excess deaths is the question, how many deaths do we expect there to be in normal conditions; in other words, what would “normal” mortality levels look like? The current approach used by ONS and the devolved administrations provides a comparison between the number of deaths registered in the current year and the average number over a recent five-year period. For example, excess mortality in 2019 was estimated from data covering 2014 to 2018. 2020 was excluded from subsequent calculations to avoid distortion due to the extremely high number of death registrations, particularly during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2020 and 2021, the average was calculated over 2015 to 2019, and for 2022, it was calculated over 2016 to 2019 plus 2021.That's what we were saying 3 years ago. The difference is the excess death numbers were being maximized and touted on Regime Media (and by Steve Sailer, one has to agree) to show the terror of the Black Death 2.0. Now that the gene-therapy "vaccines" have been jabbed into populations for over 3 years not, the authorities - this instance is from the UK - are trying to minimize and pooh-pooh any such excess deaths from, the jab. However, I agree with the change in methodology here:
The weakness of this approach is that it doesn’t take into account the ageing and growing population of the UK (all else being equal, more people means more deaths, particularly if a greater share of the population are elderly); nor does it reflect recent trends in population mortality rates, which were generally falling until 2011 before levelling off until the onset of the pandemic.My bolding there, as that's TWF I've been saying, people!
However, how would this correct change in calculation methods of a baseline of death, causing a baseline increase from a more elderly population, lower excess death numbers of young people, which is the worry per text and a tweet in the GP post? From Vigilant News:
UK HAS A PROBLEM: Excess deaths are up a staggering 22% among 1 to 14-year-olds.Back to an explanation from the UK Office of Stat's Julie Stanborough:
Notably, this trend didn’t start until “the magic juice started to be issued to children later in 2021.”
Importantly, this approach moves away from averages drawn from raw numbers and instead uses age-specific mortality rates. This means when we ask that first question – how many deaths would we expect there to be? – we take into account how the population has grown and aged over time. The models also account for trends and seasonality in population mortality rates, and allow for estimates of excess deaths to be broken down by age group, sex, and constituent countries of the UK and English region.OK, but are there 22% more 1 - 14 y/o's in the UK? I don't think so. Are kids in this age group recently subject to a higher death rate from other "normal" causes than the jab to make a higher baseline, but then, how would that be a "baseline" anyway, if other causes are increasing?
I don't know. I agree with the change, but I still don't trust these people...
Remember though, readers: Excess deaths due to the Kung Flu mean everything. Excess deaths due to the jab mean nothing.
* Not the good stuff, but Open Office "Calc". Lotus 123 was the good stuff. Calc sufficed well for me though.
** Our follow-up post were Mortality Addendum , Back to the excess death count - Could it be infants and illegal aliens?, and Excess Deaths revisited (with a video interview on the topic).
*** It had a seasonal variation - more deaths in wintertime - simple as that - but no general basic increase.
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Midterm IRS Pie Charts
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Taxes
The new pie charts are out! The new pie charts are out!!"
Your Peak Stupidity lead blogger here is not excited at all about actually working out the Feral Government income tax forms. However, it was mid-January, and I thought about my favorite part of the whole thing, which is the national budget income/outlay in the form of pie charts that's near the back of the 1040 instruction book.
This is "midterms" because it happened by chance that we've been looking at these every other year - the odd ones. See here - - here - - here and here.
Now, per long-term Peak Stupidity predictions and recent interest rate levels we've seen evidence of the financial SHTF already. I expected to see a fairly large piece of pie representing net interest paid on the (presently) $34,000,000,000,000 national debt. Wait, it's only 7% though. What gives? Ahaaa, I'd forgotten that these booklets show year-old data. Yes, those are '22 numbers. Those from '23 are gonna be lit! I'm (not exactly) looking forward to next January.
PS: That 7% of the $6.273 Trillion in outlays is $439 Billion. As paid on the $30.8 Trillion '22 end-of-year debt seen here, that works out to an interest rate of only 1.4%. Yeah, it's gonna be lit when the rates catch up with the Treasury Dept. and the FED.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Climactic Scene featuring character actor Trump
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2024 6:51PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump The Neocons
... they're always telling him, "you're quite a character."
Peak Stupidity started this thing, so we've gotta finish it. We posted short political biographies of Nikki as Scene 1 and Henry as Scene 2. In the final scene of this political chick flick, Donald Trump appears, as he did in Home Alone 2. In this one he gets more than a cameo appearance, however.
Donald Trump picked SC Gov. Haley to be US Ambassador to the UN in November of '16, when the former was still President-elect. Upon taking the office on Jan 20th of '17, President Trump nominated Haley, and she was confirmed by the Senate 2 days later 96-4 (hmmmm... what might that tell you?) She resigned the SC Governorship, and Lt. Governor Henry McMaster took the Governorship.
Why'd Trump pick this Neocon, if he was truly against the American Warfare State? We've discussed this before, in posts and comments. As the Governor of S. Carolina, Nikki Haley's NeoConinnity, if I may, had not much of a reason to come to the surface. I believe her Invade-the-World attitude had lots to do with her husband's military "service" and the crowd they'd have been hanging out with, and it came out in spades as she "represented" the US in the UN.
I'll give Ambassador Haley credit for supporting President Trump in nixing the bogus Paris Climate Calamity™ accords and withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. The rest of her words and actions were pure Neocon. She didn't even support the Trump Moslem ban, started (conveniently, I gotta say) during the early part of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
That brings us to Haley's Invite-the-World tendencies. Even though she's a daughter of very-foreign immigrants, she was born in small town South Carolina and is assimilated ... up to a degree that is, right before the point of caring about keeping the (VDare term) Historic American Nation intact. Haley could care less about that. She's never been against the Population Replacement Program - it's just that you've got to do it all LEGALLY.
Nikki Haley was a late-comer to the MAGA world, as she had initially supported, uggh, Marco Rubio back in '16, and she was only half-assed at it. Somehow, that got her a plumb position high-up in foreign affairs. Well, maybe there IS more to it. I wrote the post Free Advice for a future President Trump mostly in jest. The suggestion was the hiring of certain lower-level politicians to these plumb positions in order to allow more Conservative politicians to take these lower-level, but still important, positions vacated.
You've got to FOLLOW THROUGH though*, meaning, FIRE THEM! OK, maybe not right on the day their replacements get sworn in - don't want to be TOO obvious. UN Ambassador Haley resigned on her own**, per Wiki (yeah, I know) either due to a looming scandal or friction with other Trump foreign policy makers, all of them NeoCons as well!
Would long-time old South Conservative Henry McMaster have gone NeoCon, if he had been picked for UN Ambassador or Secretary of State***? I don't know. I don't think he'd be gung-ho on the "Invite-the-World" program anyway.
Yes, this series has been repetitive, but I only started it due to my being very surprised at one small thing Trump said in a speech in Conway, SC two weeks back. Go to 02:20 in the video in this Gateway Pundit post.
About SC Gov. McMaster: "I don't want to say it too loud, but the fact is, it was more important to get Henry McMaster to be Governor than it was to have her [you know who] at the United Nations, I have to be honest."
Honest? I don't know, but as after-the-fact bullshit, it comes across pretty well. Or, has Trump really been playing that 5-D chess after all? I can't tell with this guy. My left brain can't keep up with the 5-D chess-playing, egotistical bullshitting right brain of Donald Trump. Where is the ego, BTW? Anyone? Anyone ... Dieter? As with The Sixth Sense, this one ended with me wondering if I need to see the whole thing again to get it.
PS: As I recall, early on Candidate/President Trump didn't think too highly of the UN. It was not quite at John Birch Society level, but maybe if you planned on getting the US out of that organization, sticking Haley up there was a good move ...
* Trump's incapability to do that being one of the traits that one of his former underlings, Ken Cuccinelli, noted with disappointment.
** We should assume that, as there was no years-long tweet-fest first.
*** As it's rumored Trump first wanted Nikki Haley for. (Stupid, stupid, stupid!!)
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Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 5:57PM MST
In Topics: Music
Once I looked up musician Todd Rundgen on wiki, I realized that this song, one I've meant to feature for a month now, is possibly NOT my favorite of his songs. That might be Hello, It's Me.
Todd Rundgren, a musician of the 1970s, is from Philadelphia, PA, born in 1948. He played as a single artist, but also with a handful of bands, one of them being Utopia. I remember that band, but this song was from a 1978 solo album of his named Hermit of Mink Hollow. Mr. Rundgren recorded the album in his house on Mink Hollow road in Lake Hill, New York, about 100 miles north of NYC.
Oh, and it's Trump over Randhawa 61% - 39% in South Carolina. How many of Randhawa's votes were from blue-squad voters is anybody's guess. I sure hope this song does NOT apply to these two.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers! Thanks for all the comments, especially regarding that big break, IMO, for VDare and the immigration patriot cause. Like it or no, we gotta finish that Nikki and Henry deal, because there's something that surprised me about Trump involved. (Shoulda' been one quick post.) Then, we'll get to the video commenter Dieter Kief suggested in a post that will involve Trump v DeSantis again, some Climate Calamity™ stupidity (the narrative is being beat up, but that alone won't stop them), and much, much more!
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Tucker Carlson "wonders" about American subway stations
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2024 10:05AM MST
In Topics: The Russians Pundits Race/Genetics
In the comments under this post of a week back, J1234 pasted in and commented about a video of the beautiful Stalin-era-built Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia. Tucker Carlson reported on the place for 3 minutes, while he was checking out Moscow after his interview with the big man Vlad Putin. As he took in the subway station Tucker was shocked, shocked, I tells ya'*, at what he observed.
I myself am neither shocked nor surprised in any way. A country doesn't have to be rich and a recent World Sole Superpower to have decent infrastructure. In fact, the 2 things may not go together at all. One can go to China too and see clean, well-used, efficient subway stations, and a LOT more of them, albeit none with the beauty that we can see there at the Kiyevskaya station. I was in one of the more well-off South American countries 6 years ago. We used the subway there on the last day - I can remember it didn't seem dangerous, but I cannot recall that it was particularly sparkling clean.
Tucker makes the following remark:
Vladimir Putin, you may not like him either, but it doesn't change the reality of what we saw or more precisely didn't see. There's no graffiti, there's no filth there, no foul smells, There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you. No, it's perfectly clean and orderly.After that, he asks the same question twice in a row here, slightly differently:
How do you explain that? We're not even going to guess that's not our job we're only going to ask ask the question, and if your response is to shout at us slogans dumber than the slogans we used to call Soviet and mock, that's not really an answer.
Russia a country we're told is a gas station with nuclear weapons, have [sic] a subway station that normal people use to get to work and home every single day that's nicer than anything in our country. We're not going to get we're not going to speculate. We're just going to raise the question and wait for someone in charge to give us an answer...Uhhhh, yeaahhh, Tucker, I don't thing anybody "in charge" is ready to give the answer, and even you aren't. You're a brave man, but not that brave. (Or, you really don't know? Ha, no.)
You explain the cleanliness, orderliness, efficiency, beauty, and safety of the Kiyevskaya subway station in Moscow by noting the lack of large numbers of Black! people.
Well, as you have to say to the kids sometimes, "This is why we can't have nice things."**
* No, that's not the exact line out of Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca, but they did tend to talk like that, "let me tells ya...", in the old B&W movies.
** H/T, Paul Kersey.
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Review: Tucker's interview of VDare's Lydia Brimelow
Posted On: Friday - February 23rd 2024 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Anarcho-tyranny
In Tuesday evening's post about this interview, Peak Stupidity was very excited. I had no idea that VDare would make it to the big-time like this, having their words reach a big national audience. Viewership of some of Tucker's interviews are on the level of the moon landing coverage, albeit with an audience that's no longer a unified country, as in 1969.
A few notes here before I go over what I saw/heard in the full 37 minute interview:
1) I made use of my wife's Team Tucker membership. I was so excited that this was on that I didn't feel like going through the process just then*. I don't know how likely it is that certain Peak Stupidity commenters could find this video elsewhere off Mr. Carlson's site, although he got the Putin interview. I respect Mr. Carlson's right to his IP.
2) I could, however, paste in the whole transcript somewhere. Due to that last part of (1), I''m not sure if I should. Of the excerpts I did inculde from that transcript, I did not fix the grammar of the transcriptionist, software, I assume.
3) This will not be a play-by-play. Besides Tucker's intro, which you've probably already viewed, there were only a couple of main subjects discussed.
You all could have watched the first 8 3/4 minutes in that previous post. I'll start there.
In the 1st half of Mr. Carlson's 3 minute introduction, he went over the recent terrible immigration invasion surge. Of course he had no time to go over the whole history of the invasion, yes, both legal and illegal, and he does not know the whole story anyway. (VDare, as an organization, and many of the long-term individuals under that umbrella, most assuredly DO.)
There was one small surprise here. Tucker had badmouthed Governor Abbott of Texas, last summer, I believe, AT the border, as he figured the Gov. was playing to a crowd and not serious about really stopping the invasion. Things look different now, and Tucker sounded pretty supportive of and pleased by Greg Abbott in an interview later. (OTOH, as I wrote about the Putin interview, Tucker doesn't interview via argument. He's ... different... in that sense, very polite and old fashioned.) Yet, Tucker's introduction here is not favorable to the Governor.
After that, Tucker nicely introduced his audience to who Peter Brimelow is and what VDare is. I'll just excerpt that:
Peter Brimelow has been a journalist for 50 years. Worked at a whole bunch of what are now called mainstream publications. Was an editor - Barron's, Forbes, National Review, Dow Jones, a legitimate old school journalist. And in the late 90s, he began to ask questions about our immigration scheme. Is this really good idea, is it helping America? And of course, no one could answer those questions because the answer is obvious. No, it's destroying America as it destroyed California, so it will destroy your state. That's certain. But for asking that question, he was fired from his jobs and shunted off into what we call the fringes. But he didn't stop. He started a website called VDARE.He then introduced Lydia Brimelow, but didn't explain why he didn't interview Peter. (We have speculated plenty on the explanation in the comments under Tuesday's post.)
Mr. Carlson mentioned that he "has known", rather than actually only "known of', Peter Brimelow, something that commenter Hail has wondered more about. I don't know if he meant in person. That would not be out of the question were Tucker a few years older, IMO. Mr. Brimelow was on TV and in the Washington, FS political/social scene. Though always a Conservative, he was one of the in crowd (not that that made him a bad guy - the issue that's since been his life-long battle was not something he was into yet). Perhaps Mr. Carlson just meant "knew" Peter Brimelow as in, he had read his material and/or seen him in video. "Known of" implies that one has only heard the name before.
Tucker then went into the fact that Peter Brimelow has become a "controversial" figure once he took the Conservative side on this existential immigration issue, along with being disparaged by the mainstream. (We can argue later whether being called a white nationalist or a white supremacist is actually disparagement.) Tucker then let Lydia Brimelow speak, and that was for a large percentage of the rest of the time, as he did with Vladimir Putin.** Tucker only interrupted when Mrs. Brimelow's story seemed incredulous to him, to ask her a few questions related to her story, or to prompt her - at 20 minutes in - to go to a new subject.
Lydia's first story was the background of VDare and how grassroots and small-time it is (compared to the huge ctrl-left organizations that get taxpayer money by the $Billions). The parenthetical expression is my wording, but I will say that Mrs. Brimelow brought to light the Sam Francis-coined term "Anarcho-Tyranny" at one point. She explained how VDare has long been long used to the cancel-culture. They have been de-platformed from things that I didn't even know WERE platforms. This is not new, having started well before the '20 Wokeness pandemic.
Part of this segment is the story of the purchase of the castle in Berkeley Springs, W. Virginia. I knew most of this, but not about all the numbers. "Depending on how you count it", there have been 8 to 12 canceled supposed-to-be-in-person conferences. Lydia has been very smart in making contracts with the venues that cost lots to break. I had no idea that in one case it was $80,000 that the NY City hotel lost! Now that's a nice way to make a living. Plan conferences that just HAVE TO be cancelled, cause, Nazis, collect, rinse and repeat. I kid, because, as Nazis are actually Feds, and Feds live paycheck-to-paycheck off the taxpayer, they wouldn't have the front money.
OK, seriously now, as Mrs. Brimelow noted, it has been very important for the ctrl-left to keep like minded people from getting together in real life - that's "meat space" for you geeks. There's something better and more real about meating in person, hence, VDare's purchase of the castle in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia where conferences could not be canceled ( as they'd been pretty much every single time, too).
During this period in the interview, Mrs. Brimelow touched the story of the persecution by the black A/G Commie mercenary Leticia James a few times already. This persecution via "lawfare" started with the finances of the castle and the VDare Foundation. Unlike with Trump and the bogus charges against him, VDare didn't have ANY charges leveled against them. There was nothing anyone said VDare did wrong financially or otherwise. Leticia James has kept asking for reams of information that required much clerical and legal work to produce. VDare has had to redact info that could lead to the doxing of writers that wisely want to remain anonymous. Even that anonymity has been threatened. All this is lawfare, and I was pleased that Lydia repeated the point that "the process is the punishment."
For 10 solid minutes other than 30 seconds of interruption for clarification or remarks of incredulity ("... this is all so North Korean...") by Tucker, Lydia told the story of the lawfare by Leticia James against VDare. It was long and boring... but that's only because I have been keeping up with this the whole time. Although lately, writer Pat Cleburne" - not the actual ghost of the Confederate General - has done a bang-up job covering the story (nicely adopting the appropriate term Communist), Peter Brimelow has told both the long and the TL/DR version of the financial story before. It was great that Tucker Carlson got to hear these details in, well, detail.
"Why in the heck is VDare based in New York?", the reader may well ask. Let Lydia explain what has already been explained by Mr. Brimelow, with a little color commentary too:
This is an interesting thing. 25 years ago, our pro-bono lawyer who worked for Covington and Burling and was later banned from being able to do pro bono work for VDARE, even though he was allowed to do pro bono work for the defendants in Guantanamo Bay, set up our nonprofit in the state of New York, and our papers were signed by no other than Lois Lerner. Who you may know, went on to target the Tea Party. But, back then it was a different era politically.Back last Spring or Summer, I got into a discussion with the commenter "Buzz Mohawk" on the Steve Sailer blog about all this, trying to drive home to point that, well, read the freaking website. I myself, being neither a financial nor legal type, get lost in a few of the details, but I told Buzz that no, it was NOT easy for VDare to extricate itself from the hell-hole of a business climate that is current New York (the whole State, at this point).
Lydia Brimelow gave details that I had not understood till now. It's not that getting out of New York would entail lots of work selling assets to another company set up to do the same work in another State (or, however that works). It's worse than that.
But helpful people at this point usually say, why don't you just exit New York and you can't. It's like Hotel California. You cannot, if you're a charity that's incorporated in the state of New York, and everyone should take this as a warning, you cannot reincorporate into another state without the permission of the Attorney General's office. You cannot sell or transfer all or significantly all of your assets without permission from the Attorney General's office, and you cannot close up shop without permission from the Attorney General's office.On a dark New York tollway, long weave in her hair, warm stank of the skunkweed, rising up through the air ...
So once you are under the, jurisdiction of Letitia James, there is no getting out until she decides you're dead enough."Relax", said the court clerk, we are ready to receive. You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave ... (Take it, Don Felder.)
The best thing for VDare, I'm sure other Conservative entities, Donald Trump, and even the people of New York State, would be for Leticia James to go away or be put away. One very fortuitous thing for VDare at this point, as I see it, is that they have the most well-known and important American politician and 100 million Americans behind him against this Communist Leticia James now. That surely can't hurt!
The last full 15 minutes of this interview was the response by Mrs. Brimelow to Mr. Carlson's 2nd query:
You've also been hounded and slandered by the media, and you have furthermore, and you just alluded to this, been stalked and your children have been harassed by the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is, a hate group posing as an anti-hate group. Tell us what your interactions with them have been like.I counted from timestamps, and Tucker only talked for 50 seconds total during all this. Lydia Brimelow's response was mostly personal, including plenty of descriptions of the people in small-town Berkeley Springs and the attempted antifa-style infiltrators ("hostiles", they are often called) and other effects of $PHate Center induced hounding of the business and her family. I like that she made a few tie-ins between the good things about knowing everyone in a small town and then the effect of alien nation, pun very much intended.
Again, I've read of much of this before. Most people, such as Tucker, haven't, and it's pretty enlightening of the state of free speech freedoms in this country.
Finally, with a couple of minutes to go, Tucker asked for details on how one could anonymously donate to VDare, and Lydia gave, again, lots of details that are on the site too. That is, except just send cash money in the mail, hide it well from the USPS, and quit worrying about tax deductions.***
Let me summarize the whole thing for the Peak Stupidity readers and state my moderate degree of disappointment. The video title on Tucker Carslon.com is Uncensored: Lydia Brimelow. I was hoping for a nice long discussion of the myriad types of destruction of America from the immigration invasion. I was hoping Tucker would get to hear how much work has gone on at VDare over the last 25 years documenting it all and pushing for action (such as words that'd go up the chain, VDare---> Ann Coulter ---> President Trump). Lydia Brimelow did a good job of inserting some immigration invasion points in the midst of her long answers to Tucker's few inquiries. Tucker didn't ask any immigration questions though!
I believe that's because Mr. Carlson's goal was to find out more about personal destruction by New York Commie A/G Leticia James, other than from the Donald Trump angle, the big story, of course, that it is. I think VDare's post title is more accurate: Tucker Carlson's Interview With Lydia Brimelow On New York Attorney General Letitia James's Attack On VDARE.com". Yes, the interview was pretty specific, with questions about the recent lawfare by Leticia James and about the $PLC's long term attacks on everyone Conservative.
It would have been great if they'd covered the immigration destruction, but then that'd have been more of a talking-heads style panel discussion. Above anything else, the fact that VDare got exposure on Tucker Carlson's show is a very good thing! It says a lot about the courage of Tucker that he invited VDare on.
PS: As of 5P MST today, 02/23/24:
(The date/time shown are of the tweet's posting, I guess.)
* It's not so much that I'm a cheap-ass. I CAN be, but then I think giving $72 yearly to Tucker (I DO NOT like autopay!) is a way of helping him show big-numbers support, same as with my long-term NRA membership. "5 million members" sounds intimidating to many would-be Commie confiscator Congressmen.
** "I KNEW Vladimir Putin, and YOU, Mrs. Brimelow, are no Vladimir Putin!!" Sorry, that came out of the blue...
*** Maybe I'm missing something, here, but unless they have a business or some other source of many deductions, a married couple has to have over $25,000 in deductions before itemizing is a better deal than the standard deduction. For a single guy, it'd be half that.
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Ann Coulter on the Haley family NeoConinity
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Pundits The Neocons
Man, with posts backed up out the yin-yang, Peak Stupidity ran across another great Ann Coulter column. That's nothing new in and of itself, but this one has something to say about Nikki and Michael Haley, discussed here yesterday. I'll excerpt this entire last section of the column, "We'll Get To Your Country Later"—The Scam Border Bill.
Haley keeps falsely telling voters that her husband has gone to ”war,” is ”protecting our family and our freedom,” and has ”the courage to fight for our country.” In fact, her husband has never gone to war, he’s not protecting our freedom, and he hasn’t had to fight for our country.That's going a lot farther than most people do in describing the NeoCon attitude, the current American military, and the difference between a "Common Defense" and an arrogant out-of-control flailing Offense, causing this nation to be hated around the world.
A decade after we invaded Afghanistan and vaporized the Taliban, Michael Haley was sent there to teach Afghans to grow crops other than opium—which failed, as any half-wit knew it would. Currently, he’s in Djibouti, holding bazaars and Ramadan dinners for the locals.
I wouldn’t mention it—it’s not his fault that the Department of Defense decided to take the best fighting force in the world and turn it into a bunch of social workers—except that Haley keeps acting like she’s Martha Washington bringing food and medicine to the troops.
Law-abiding citizens in Chicago face more risk of death on a daily basis than Michael Haley. But they’re just Americans, so who cares?
Thank you, Ann Coulter!
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 2: Ole Southerner Henry McMaster
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump
Henry McMaster has been a long-time GOP and State elected official in South Carolina. He was the first US Attorney appointment by President Ronald Reagan, of all people, so he's not a young guy (76 y/o)*. In 1988, he was nominated by the State GOP to run for US Senate against the venerable old-school Democrat Ernest Hollings but lost bigly.
After/during some other political positions (later on State Attorney General), Mr. McMaster ran for Lieutenant Governor back in 1990 but lost that one pretty handily too, to the Democrat. At that time the Governor, one Carroll Campbell, was a Republican though. The deal until very recently, 2018, in S. Carolina was that these positions were voted on separately.
After many other elections of various sorts, Henry McMaster did win the election for Lieutenant Governor of the State in '14, on a separate ticket from Nikky Haley. Therefore, on January 24th of '17, the day after Nikki Haley was confirmed by the Senate as US Ambassador to the UN, she resigned and Lieutenant Governor McMaster became Governor. He was re-elected in '22.
Henry McMaster is a true Southerner from the capital Columbia - born there and having gone to undergraduate school and Law School at USC (THE USC, that'd be, the Univ. of S. Carolina). In a video I watched recently, as he spent 5 minutes or so introducing Donald Trump, he not only sounded Southern but I'd say overly so.
One can peruse McMaster's Wiki page to see that he's been traditionally Conservative, but with an addition of being Conservative in this modern world of Woke madness too, a bit unlike predecessor Nikki. After simply giving the wiki links in this and the Nikki post, I will finally note our disclaimer that, though pretty good on basic biographical facts (when people were born, their attendance at college, etc.), opinions get in there based on the politics of the leftist editors, be they independent volunteers or wiki censors, I'm not sure.** We ran into, and explained this same thing, back a year ago, in How to use Wikipedia. That's a post that I'd almost forgotten about which was also written to praise Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Back to Governor McMaster here, rather than 1, as I'd written, let me give you 3 nice wiki quotes that are more attempted disparagement of the SC Governor - there's much more - that have back-fired, at least during my reading.
McMaster successfully led the fight to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina. He also said that South Carolina should "secede" over Don't Ask, Don't Tell.Hey-oh! That's not so awfully PC, in more ways than one!
Regarding the Kung Flu, the SC Governor was somewhat wishy-washy, but in general pretty non-Totalitarian and against those who attempted to be. I like this one:
In 2021, McMaster said he would block the federal government from sending people door-to-door to promote vaccinations. In September 2021, he criticized federal vaccine requirements, saying, "Biden and the radical Democrats [have] thumbed their noses at the Constitution." McMaster pledged to fight Biden "to the gates of hell" over the vaccine requirement.I don't think you'd have ever heard that stuff out of Nikki. She doesn't have that kind of fight in her. Here's one more back-firing attempt at disparagement:
In May 2023, McMaster angered Democrats after saying at a convention at River Bluff High School [Lexington County, SC]: "I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs." Democrats demanded an apology and compared the comments to slave catchers who would use dogs to hunt escaped slaves. A spokesperson for McMaster said that he "has been making this joke at GOP conventions for years, and everyday South Carolinians understand that it's a joke."Don't they mean "escaped enslaved people"? I sure hope so. Anyway, yeah I imagine they can all take a joke, all but those demanding leftists with bugs up their asses.
Did Henry McMaster somehow not get himself into the GOPe ("e" for Establishment) environment as Nikki Haley did? He may be old enough to know better or old enough to not care anymore that the Establishment doesn't like REAL Conservatives. I wonder if Henry McMaster would have vetoed the "remove the Rebel flag" bill anyway, even with that 90-20 veto-proof majority in the SC State House.
I trust the Conservatism of Henry over Nikki's, even disregarding what she's been up to since January '17. President Trump did South Carolina a favor getting Nikki out of there. That'll be the last post - was that really a smarter than I've been thinking?
* He is old enough to have worked as a lawyer for Strom Thurmond back in the day.
** Commenter Adam Smith did some experimenting with this long ago and regaled us with his stories and short glimpses of his handiwork. (I'll try to find it.)
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Tucker interviews Lydia Brimelow!
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 8:43PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits
Tucker is as big-time as the non-Regime press goes, if not bigger than them all. Is this VDare's biggest break yet?!
The interview is 37 minutes long. One can watch the first 8 3/4 minutes - the first 3 minutes of that being an intro. by Tucker - in an embedded tweet here on VDare.com. If you are a member of Team Tucker (haha), you can watch the full interview here on his site also. (My wife is, so it turns out I'm privileged after all.)
Adam Smith has worked his magic and very helpfully put up the 8 3/4 minute video on the Adam Smith YT (youtube or WhiteT) channel - 53 subscribers already! Here is is.
Thanks very much, Adam!
Lydia Brimelow is the wife of VDare founder Peter Brimelow. She does a whole lot of work for the organization, the fundraising, logistics, planning of conferences, business stuff, and all manner of things. However, Peter is the heart and soul behind this 25 year old organization with a mission. I wondered why Tucker didn't interview Peter, but ... then... I think it might be that Mr. Brimelow's Scottish(?) accent is not always so easy to follow... if you miss one freaking word of a sentence..., it's like, wait, what was the middle part again?*
I write that in all fun with, and admiration of, a great American. Congrats on the huge publicity boost, VDare. Let's all relish the fall of New York Commie Cadre thug Leticia James. It'll happen. She's got a very long distance to fall too ...
* H/T, Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda.
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UPDATED ~ `1/2 hr. later:] Made corrections of video duration, including remark about 8 3/4 minute preview.
UPDATED - 04/17/25:] Adam Smith's video was pulled. Got that same 8 3/4 minutes from Bitchute. You have to go to Tucker's site to watch the whole 37 minutes.
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When Henry replaced Nikki - Scene 1: "Little One", Nikki
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2024 5:11PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Trump The Neocons Race/Genetics
... directed by the Donald. (When Harry Met Sally is an old chick flick* that I got this post title from.)
Peak Stupidity is certainly no fan of candidate Nimarata Randhawa, aka, Nikki Haley. We are sure she will lose the coming South Carolina GOP primary BIGLY to The Donald, with most of her votes to come from Democrats.**
The only reason the whole nation knows her name, at this point, is that Donald Trump appointed Haley his United Nations Ambassador on November 23rd of '16, when he was still President-elect.
The people of South Carolina, same as those in other Southern States that haven't been so immigrant-inundated yet (the counter-example being Virginia), are able to elect fairly Conservative State Reps/Senators and Governors. I'd say it's due to that "harmless bit of housekeeping, Amendment XVII of the US Constitution, that the same thing doesn't happen with US Senators... cough, Graham ... spit ...
What happens with the US Congressmen is that the gerrymandering is done with approval by most to fence in a few hard-core Black! districts, so there's that one fairly outspoken, often powerful, guy in the Black! caucus with his grift, reparations-boosterism, and other general Pissing & Moaning, while the rest of the districts get some decent Conservatives (those that haven't been tainted or succumbed to the Cocktail Party Theory of Political Stupidity). That one guy in S. Carolina, BTW is well-known and long=detested James Clyburn.
Going back to this short Peak Stupidity take on her, Nikki ("Little One") Haley (married name) was, as we all know, the daughter of immigrants (illegal or not***). She was born in 1972 in Bamberg, SC. Bamberg County and Orangeburg County, where she attended school, were heavily black, and still are. Other than wetbacks out on some of the farms, there were very very few immigrants in States like South Carolina, and the •Indian population would have been miniscule. Therefore little Nikki (that's redundant, it turns out) would have assimilated to society, and that society was White v Black, plain and simple. Her very birth year was the time that school integration was being completed, and guess where she went to school? Nikki was sent to one of the new private schools, specifically built to let White kids keep away from the violence and disruption of the black kids. None were allowed in her Orangeburg school until decades later.
The Randhawa parents, who are in fact Sikhs, came to the American South via Canada after leaving the northern Indian state of Punjab. Let me tell you, after obtaining his PhD in the 1969 Great White North of Vancouver, British Columbia, Ajit - that's the Dad**** - would have had his eyes OPENED WIDE within one week of starting his 30-year career teaching at "historically", aka, always-done-been-Black! Voorhees College in the small town of Denmark, SC. 30 years! I'm pretty sure little Nikki and/or brothers and sisters would have been sent back to the Old Country to live with Turbine-headed Granny first thing, had there been a hint of their assimilating to the other part of society. Having been assimilated to the White South, she was bound to turn out Conservative.
Once she obtained State legislative office, Mrs. Haley, now married to a man she met in her college years, indeed was a fairly typical strong Conservative, socially, fiscally, and all. You can read the whole Wiki page, but let me excerpt just one line - same as I'll do in the post on her Gubernatorial successor:
Haley was named a "Taxpayer Hero" by Governor Mark Sanford in 2005 and a "Friend of the Taxpayer" by the South Carolina Association of Taxpayers in 2009.Governor Sanford was the guy who had a fling with a lady down in S. America while he was, to the wife's knowledge, hiking the Appalachian trail.
Anyway, as for Governor Haley, there's not so much I'd criticize up through a certain point. The fact that her husband, Michael Haley*****, was a long-term member of the SC National Guard and has been deployed to "the Sandbox" has likely only slightly additionally solidified her "standard" Conservatism. In the Southern style, in an area with more military families than the nation on average, that means, yes, America, fuck yeah!!. That was not so bad a sentiment in years long past, but it's not truly Conservative at all anymore. Given the new huge Woke push in the military, making the Institution Offensive in yet a new way, some Southern Conservatives have finally seen the light.
South Carolina elected Nikki Haley Governor as another in the line of establishment Conservatives. The problems I have with her started only after she made the big-time. Big money is involved, such as with the deal to bring Boeing to Charleston for the 2nd 787 assembly plant. There's lots of MIC money for those at high levels. Now, the Haley's have a beautiful house on lovely Kiawah Island, away from the Capital city of Columbia, much less back in her hometown in Bamberg Country.
Additionally, with her husband's years of "service", and her family background, what would you expect from a GOPe "Little One" who makes the big-time at the Fed level other than the Invade the World/Invite the World mantra?
Why I've been calling her (T-SC), as in, Traitor, is due to something else entirely. Even after the State gave in to the Wokeness and took the Rebel Flag off the top of the State House - it'd flown 3rd, below the Palmetto (State) flag and the Stars & Stripes - it has been placed in a small area on the grounds with historical information. After one deranged young guy shot up a black Church in Charleston, the Governor signed a bill that stipulated removal of the flag entirely from the grounds.
That was in July of '15. Now that I read a little more, I realize the vote of 90-something to 20 in favor of removal is one that Governor Haley could not have successfully vetoed.
I'll admit I was wrong her in calling Nikki Haley a traitor for that. Now that I've seen video clips and excerpts from her campaign, I've got other things to call her a traitor for, in addition to another choice word favored by a certain someone ...
NOTE: This post was to be a one-part post to make just one point. I will make that point, but this background on Nikki and then Henry (McMaster) was pretty interesting, with its own points I wanted to make here. I hope the reader is somewhat interested also. Next, we'll discuss replacement SC Governor Henry McMaster much more briefly, and then get to the point... Anyone seen the point? Where's that confounded point??
* It was kind of boring, as chick flicks can often be, but back in that day, when a big movie came out, we felt obligated to go see it.
** It's a stupid way to run a party primary, is it not?
*** The requirements for the Office of US President require a clarification on this, not like anyone cares about the Constitution anymore, but hopefully the same goes for Mrs. Haley too.
**** I can't help but include the following clip, surely a repeat for us, just for the bit about the names:
Hey, they are from the Rhandawa family too, it sounds like.
***** He was also a graduate of a White private High School, albeit in a ritzier area, Hilton Head Prep. What else are ya' supposed ta do??
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The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
Posted On: Saturday - February 17th 2024 3:15PM MST
In Topics: Music
Peak Stupidity is on a Pretenders kick, but really we are just focused on Chrissie Hynde's band's album from 4 decades back, Learning to Crawl. Last Saturday we featured the 1st song on the album, Middle of the Road
The next track, Back on the Chain Gang, is not as good a song, IMO, as the first one, but it was a bigger hit. It reached #5 at its peak on the famous Billboard magazine top 100 chart, while Middle of the Road got up to #28. The flip side of this single record was My City was Gone, also a better song, IMO. Still, this was good music.
The lyrics have to do with Chrissie's relationship - what rock songs didn't? - in this case with The Kinks's Ray Davies, and to me part of the album concept of ending of relationships. (I'll get into this album's story later, because the internet let me down...)
The Pretenders (after 2 band members had just died from drugs):
Chrissie Hynde – lead and backing vocals, guitar
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals
Billy Bremner – lead guitar
Robbie McIntosh – rhythm guitar
Tony Butler – bass, backing vocals
I'm not sure I'll have the time to write two posts each weekday next blog-week, due to time limitations. However, the material is there. Stupidity waits for no man. Thank you all for reading and commenting. Speaking of the comments, that's also two more posts, one about Dieter's suggested video, and one about the Tucker Carson short clip from a Moscow subway station provided by J1234. Happy Sunday!
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MTG v IOU
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2024 8:51PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government World Political Stupidity
This 3-initial thing is big now. Pretty soon anyone famous will need a 3-letter ID, "MTG" is Marjorie Taylor Greene, and "IOU" is Ilhan Omar, Undocumented. (That was the best we could come up with.)
Peak Stupidity has already featured one WOC (Woman Of Congress) - matchup, an MTG v AOC battle here (no not a mud-wresting match, unfortunately). MTG won that one handily. MTG (R- GA) has moved up to the next bracket, in which she battles here with Congresswoman (D- SM) IOU.
Yeah, we could discuss the differences, head-cover fashion, religion, rural vs urban district, accent, country of origin, country of representation, acts of treason, and all that. Instead we'll just show a video of each.
The video of IOU is a good follow-up to the story and Peak Stupidity post from 2 weeks back on this Congresswoman's strong loyalty to her State and people, apparently some newly acquired US territory in the horn of Africa.
The video of MTG is a good follow-up to yesterday's post on her. In it we described this Congresswoman's excellent trolling job in summarizing the actual threats to the American people rather than some new NeoCon bogeyman that requires money and weaponry to be sent overseas or more Patriot Act style Totalitarianism here. (Or both.)
First, we present the challenger for the title of Peak Stupidity favorite US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Un-documented ... ented ... ted, Allaluh Akbar!!:
Next, we present the champion for the title, Marjorie Taylor Greene, eeen!:
The winner: MTG by TKO. That's a Technical Knock-Out. Why "technical" only? That's due to MTG having only called for censure, rather than removal from Congress and prison time, followed by deportation, all appropriate punishment for treason ... or if she had actually just taken a swing and knocked her out.
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Small scale Accelerationism
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2024 10:01AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State
The term "accelerationism", or "accelerationist" for a proponent of the former, describes an idea I read often of on the web, including right here in Peak Stupidity comments. The problems that Majorie Taylor Greene elucidated well and a lot more than that even, which Peak Stupidity tries in vain to cover, are so overwhelming that many of us Conservatives reckon there's no fixing this. We've got to let it all burn down and then re-build. The sooner, the better, accelerationists figure. I can see that, as if the frog is boiled slowly, we will be the new USSR, Orwell's Oceania, or any number of terrible Totalitarian hell holes. At that point, fixing it or burning it down will be... problematic, if I may.
There's another version of this that's not so all encompassing of doom. That is the idea that we work to force the enemy, the ctrl-left, Commies, Globalists, what-have-you, to suffer the ills they have been burdening us with. Maybe they can be persuaded, not so much that the regular Americans are suffering - that's a plus to them - but that they are going to really regret what they are doing, sooner rather than later... maybe like NOW. When it comes to the existential and recently amped-up problem of the immigration invasion, this is the point of Florida's (Ron DeSantis) and Texas' (Greg Abbott) shipping of illegal aliens to northern big cities*.
As the reader can see from the image at the top, this post is actually about the specific story of those Venezuelan illegal aliens beating up a couple of cops on the street in New York City. (The story's been around, and it's been a week or more, so I won't link to it.) Is it wrong for me to say that I was happy this incident happened? So be it, but let me explain.
One might call this attitude of mine schadenfreude. Usually, though, that term implies some envy or some happiness over payback - a little instant Karma coming down.** It's not that though, for this case. I don't know anything about those particular cops.
As a Constitutionalist site, Peak Stupidity has been known not to have the best attitude about "our Men in Blue". There are exceptional County Sheriffs and decent beat cops I've met who may care more than the average about such things as actual rights, even over their pension plans. Most don't, and it takes no imagination for me to envision which side the cops are on when it comes to protests and other political action by Conservative White men. Ask the guys who were simply marching to defend a statue of the honorable Robert E. Lee from desecration in Charlottesville, Virginia 6 1/2 years back.
When it comes down to it, on the whim of their political bosses, you will see that bulked-out fat ass cop yelling "Sir!" at you and giving you orders with no respect for your rights soon enough. Were it a protest about illegal aliens trashing the neighborhood, stealing, bankrupting the local hospital, whatever, the cops will be on the side of the Regime.
Wait, though, don't they have to put up with all these ills too? To some degree, yes. However, cops have a lot more pull with their buddies and they are usually less likely to be messed with. They've got health care plans. They do pretty well, so though they may be putting up with the trashing of their neighborhoods, they've got to just finish those 20 years, and then they'll get the hell out and down to a nice area in Florida to work part time and enjoy that pension from the old taxpayers.
This latest thing isn't normally part of the deal though. Getting your asses kicked on the street? Oh, and seeing the "perps" get let go a few hours later, flipping off reporters and the system, and leaving town? How exactly does that feel? Would these 2 cops still "just follow the Chief's orders" next time Americans get out in the streets to attempt to get grievances redressed? If so, I think we need more violent Venezuelans in New York City, and cops need to get their asses kicked gooder and harder. What's it gonna take?
* And there was the most excellent stunt by Gov. DeSantis one could call the (non)welcoming in Martha's Vineyard. That was all over in a day or so, and involved only ~50 "migrants", but, in shining the light on the non-welcoming rich hypocrites, it was no small gesture.
** Yeah, I know, that's 2 different songs. (John Lennon and Willie Nelson)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene summarizes the Feral Gov't national security threat
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 1:34PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity has written much praise about this Congresswoman from northwest Georgia, all of it in the one post MTG v AOC.* (The regular reader will likely know where we stand regarding the latter contender.)
The recent Gateway Pundit** post titled Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Offer Grim Assessment of National Security After Chairman Turner’s Suspicious Warning describes an excellent use by MTG of ctrl-left/NeoCon talk about "national security challenges" to summarize the ACTUAL "challenges"*** that face this country. One might call this a troll job, as MTG answers this new (Ukraine support-requiring) NeoCon concern with her agreement, but then describes the ACTUAL concerns. I'll excerpt it all. First, she's concerned along with everybody:
Are we facing a national security threat?Let her summarize this national security threat, to avoid any misunderstanding:
It’s my duty to be honest with you. Yes. It’s real.
I went to the briefing today in the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility].
Our President is a dementia patient in charge of our country and the nuclear football, who ripped our border wide open to over 10 million people and counting from over 160 countries around the world and 2 million of them we never caught, however an unknown number of those are in fact terrorists who want to kill you.Wheeewwww, sounds bad! Anything else?
Not only that, the administration has empowered the criminal cartels and they not only control most of our southern border, but are also making tens of billions from human and drug trafficking and have expanded their international operations to have a strong foothold inside the United States.
Along with that, the government you trusted with your hard earned tax dollars has enslaved us all in over $34 TRILLION in debt. Communists China owns most of our debt and China makes most of our critical chain supplies, you know like medications that keep many of you alive.
Now the interest rate on that debt is climbing so fast that the annual interest alone is soon to be bigger than our entire defense budget.
Turns out the “smart people” running the federal government have made so many bad decisions with foreign policy, sanctions, and trade that our dollar is under dire threat and soon could no longer be the world’s currency.
This means that your 401K’s, retirement accounts, stock portfolios, and savings could soon be worthless and your government mandated social security account that most of you depend on in retirement could soon be wiped out.
These are just a few of the terrifying top national security threats we face.Yep. The rest of the threats are regularly described here on the Peak Stupidity blog.
Miss (now?) Greene wraps up the troll job:
However, perhaps the greatest threat is the federal government has become so powerful over the people that it leaks “intelligence” to the press in order to pressure Congress to make certain votes, protect its own power to spy on its own citizens, maintain power and protect its own job security, and most terrifying of all has become weaponized to crush its political enemies.Absolutely right!
All of this you I’m telling you didn’t come from the SCIF, you already know, and I’m depending on you to help me stop our greatest national security threat, the one from within.
That's no slur there. As seen in Patton - we have a clip in this old post.
* Our follow-up to that post, MTG v AOC, Afterword: Women in politics discusses a subject that we'll broach again in a post to come soon.
** Yeah, I know. I've been getting 1/2 the posts off of there. A review is coming.
*** "Challenges" has been a Big Biz euphemism/buzz-word for "big freaking problems" for a few decades now.
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Chinese low-budget translation services
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 7:09AM MST
In Topics: Humor China
I don't remember where the following sign was, exactly.
"Straddling"? Is that what they meant? Even that's neither the best translation of the Chinese text* nor a good match with the symbology. The Chinese says "No climbing". 10 letters, that'd be, same as "No striding". How hard would it be to get this right?
This was in the impressive cable car that brought us up to, and later down from, the Great Wall. (I think our general tickets covered it, and we did - some of our party - get our exercise on the wall.)
Well, yeah, that too. Don't get the small window ledge dirty and spread those Kung Flu germs by stepping on it. More importantly, no, indeed, don't go trampling people inside the cable car. How that would be accomplished, I have no idea.
Same place, but I think this was at the other end.
You shouldn't step here either, and heaven forbid you cause a stampede of tourists out the doors onto the hillside. Bad grammar aside, I wonder if this was actually about noise. The Chinese authorities want to make sure nobody cranks up The Doobie Brothers. That makes the best sense, when you ...
Alas, my source says the Chinese text translates to "no stepping here", as does the one above - look closely and you can see that those circles, squiggles, and arrows match - great problem for a kid's puzzle book.
We appreciate the humor, but I ask you, Mr. Xi, how much does it cost to hire a GOOD Chinese-to-English translator? What I'd recommend is the hiring of an expert who's been to America, maybe even one who's been a visiting scholar specializing in Engrish.
* Can you call the characters "text"?
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The strange death of CCP U-boat Commander Angela Chao
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 5:34PM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists Cars China Deep State
OK, I really would like to find out what type of Globalist, Deep State, Chinese Communist Party, whatever strange stuff was behind the "motor vehicular accident" that killed Senator Mitch McConnell's (Traitor-KY-jellied) sister-in-law. Let me rephrase that: "... that happened to Angela Chao on the day she was killed."
However, as I started reading about said accidental death in this Gateway Pundit article, I soon came across some strange detail: Kyle Bass, the CIO of Hayman Capital Management, reported, “Chao entered her Tesla and backed into a pond on the ranch and passed away.” OK, I'm sorry, but that's funny cause it was really unexpected. That's not... really... a car accident, per se...
Without the ability to make comments myself, I just had to scroll down to see if any commenters had run with the ball here. Bingo:
The Crucible 100+ Upvotes 4 hours ago:
Asian drivers.....After you stop laughing, you really need to take this short on-line sensitivity course from the Michael Scott School of D.I.E. I mean, who here hasn't been "Koi Ponded"?:
Whatta ya gonna do.....
Now she'll be voting democrat for the next 100 years.
Anyway, we don't know it was the CCP that done it, or the Deep State, the Jab, or just some some bad Asian Chao. It's possible that the poor lady was not up to anything untoward or threatened to the point of suicide. She is Chinese AND a woman, prone to following rules to the letter. When the GPS says turn right, dammit, you turn right, and when it says back up, you back up.
I wonder what happens when you short out a 100 kWhr battery pack. I think I'd rather be in an IC-powered car, maybe even one with manual windows.*
Oh, yeah, about the title - it's from Risky Business, one of my favorite movie lines ever, at the very end of this clip:
I don't know what's so enormously funny about seeing water pour out of cars that ended up in lakes, but there just is.
* Peak Stupidity speculated on this type of situation in Chappaquiddick, the movie, the man, and the manslaughter(?).
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Impeachment of foreign traitor Mayorkas and the use of appropriate terminology
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 7:01AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government ctrl-left
We'd have been better off getting another 100,000 criminals out of Cuba than this guy.
Well, he's been impeached on the 2nd vote, but, no, that doesn't mean much. Conviction in a trial by Senator-jurors requires 2/3 of them to vote yea, which will never happen, of course.
I suppose this is just a show, but VDare writers do like to see this, as it brings the immigration invasion issue that much further into the light. (I think it's in the light pretty well now, what with 10 million or so new aliens in the nation* since Bai Dien and Majorkas opened the floodgates.)
Let's get something straight though. Even from the best of sources, I keep reading terms like "foment", "derelict", and "botch". NO! As head of Motherland Security under which fall the agencies like ICE, BP, etc. Mayorkas did not foment trouble down there on the Rio Grande. Mayorkas was not derelict in his duty to control the border. Mayorkas did not botch the job.
This was all purposeful action to let in millions of unknown foreigners to destroy the American Nation. The more let in via various schemes the more encouragement there's been for others to make their way from all over the world. This has been a 3-year act of deliberate destruction.
I can think of other terms for punishment of traitors like Alejandro Majorkas other than "impeachment."
* Alien Nation is the name of the book VDare founder Peter Brimelow wrote 30 years ago. If this nation had heeded that book 3 decades ago, we'd be in lots better shape.
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The Forbidden City
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2024 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Humor China
This wasn't THE Forbidden City, per se, as we didn't get the necessary tickets, and God forbid we should take a look at the Forbidden City without tickets. However, in this place in Old Peking lots of shit is forbidden, so it may as well be.
This reminds me of the part in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 in which the one Major is told that scheduling parades would not fly, but he would be welcome to at least cancel parades. All the no-no's here hint at what one could do here.
From top left, right-to-left then top-to-bottom:
- Is that a tree? I can't tell what it is. Maybe it means don't go making up your own Chinese characters here.
- No fires. What about firecrackers, though? You can't tell Chinese people no firecrackers. I don't care if it WERE the Forbidden City.
- No smoking. That may not fly either in China.
- You mean we could have gone fishing?
- I think that's littering. Good luck with that one.
- No crossing one's legs? What about girls in silk dresses running like watercolors in the rain?
- No picking random plant leaves, figuring anything green is a good enough vegetable.
- Shouldn't be a problem, if you obey the previous rule.
- Old-fashioned dual tandem rollerskating is prohibited. As specific as these rules are, I would take that as NOT forbidding quad inline skates, aka, rollerblades. Excellent! They are much faster and more fun.
- They've got a place to ice skate? What a shame then.
- Not being allowed to swim is not a big burden. Swimming is just not so popular in China.
- You can't go bringing ladders in here and start climbing them... O... K?
- Bugle calls are forbidden.
- No 1960s automobiles allowed - this ain't Cuba, you know, and most importantly...
- We are watching you to make sure no fun is had by all!
Note: We'll stop with the Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom title, though these handful of posts to come showing Chinese signage are from our Summer '23 trip. As opposed to this sign with the "icons", the rest will be the signs in poorly translated English that get pretty funny.
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