Posted On: Friday - March 15th 2024 5:20PM MST
In Topics: Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
I took this screenshot off of yahoo a few weeks back. 4 years after the start of the Kung Flu PanicFest, I'm not miffed by the advice given by yahoo, that after being sick with fever, we should return to our normal schedules. I'm miffed that someone at yahoo thinks there's anyone left on the internet who gives a rat's ass about CDC guidelines.
I looked at the Peak Stupidity posts that appear with the Kung Flu Stupidity topic key on or about the middle of March of '20.
Yesterday, 4 years ago, found Peak Stupidity somewhat miffed but also glad that that School's out For Ever! OK, too optimistic, but I saw the silver lining in this cloud of stupidity:
One really cool result of this Wuhan-Willies infotainment panic-fest may be what happens after the kids are at home for a month or more in a large number of school districts all around the country. The parents may get hip the to idea that these schools have served as not much more than social gathering places, welfare distribution facilities and expensive playgrounds. I think they would realize there's a better way.3 days from today (still 4 years back), Peak Stupidity officially borrowed the name Kung Flu, naming the topic key and giving this plenty of use over the next 2 1/2 years. (I later regretted not using "Flu Manchu", which I'd first seen in an Allan Wall - VDare writer - column, a couple of years later.) In that post, Beware the Kung Flu!, I was wrong though, not on the location of origin, but on the origin process:
Why are they mostly from Asia? We all know that people over there have more exotic tastes, eating animals that we wouldn't even have as pets here. Some we would. I guess these animals are closer in some biological sense to humans, as we never seem to get anything viral from our best friends here, the cats and dogs. Also, the fact that there is just no damn extra room in most livable parts of Asia so people have to live quite a bit more like bats has got to be a contributing factor, allowing for a quick initial spread of these new strains.Either way, by this date I was not worried about the disease itself, only the PanicFest. The question asked the next day was The Kung Flu - SHTF or Infotainment Panic-Fest? I affirmed it was the latter here:
Listen, I've been around. I remember quite a few of these viruses coming over from Asia over the last couple of decades. People died then too, mixed in with plenty of other people that were fairly old and/or susceptible to disease a lot more than your healthy < 60 y/o's down to babies**. I'm of the pretty solid opinion right now that this Kung Flu is truly an Infotainment Panic-Fest.However, what I was more worried about was the effect of this PanicFest, if it kept going long, on the economies of the world. Hence, at the end of the post, I changed my reply to "BOTH", explaining:
In answer to the question posed by this post's title: BOTH. The Kung Flu Infotainment Panic-Fest has triggered a financial crisis, bound to happen someday anyway, that may lead to a SHTF situation, if the media and governments keep pressing their luck and don't leave the people the hell alone for a while to get things done.The SHTF hasn't happened here yet, because, as the other Adam Smith said, "There's a lot of ruin in a nation.".*
That was 4 years ago. Yet that yahoo headline reads as if the average American is still falling for this garbage. I don't want to read about it, unless it's about admissions of wrongdoing, apologies or stories of mass hari-kari by government officials worldwide.
Now, to lighten things up, Peak Stupidity has posted many of the funny videos and (a few) memes that ridiculed the PanicFest. You may want to look for them. I did just find this one from 4 years ago. It may bring back some bad memories though...
* See also Part 2 and Part 3.
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IDs, please!
Posted On: Friday - March 15th 2024 1:07PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism
A couple of weeks back in this post I mentioned in the 2nd (**) footnote a must-post follow-up based on the video clip embedded therein. Below, I've got the same clip, but it should (initially) play only the portion that I want to write about. You'll see what my problem is, if you noted the the title here.
It's been a while since Peak Stupidity has gotten into the long-term stupidity of the US having lost its Libertarian principles, both as a people and in the Government. (I suppose the latter follows the former, mostly, but then there's that slow-boiling frog thing...) We broach the subject of the loss of our rights, but most of our writing on the specific subject here is from 6 years back - "Papiere bitte!" - "Your papers, please!" and memories of Mr. Vin Suprynowicz - - "Papiere bitte!" - "Your papers, please!" - Part 2 and "Papiere bitte!" - "Your papers, please!" - Stories from the real deal.
As I noted in the first post discussing this video, it was good to see decent sounding, reasonable black people refute the stupidity* of the lefty White Berzerkelyites of earlier in the video by stating that, no, it's not so hard - they can easily get an ID and all do. I note people mentioned driver's licenses most, but not all of the time, a small bugaboo that I'm sure commenter Adam Smith would have something to say about. He has regaled us of his stories of holding his Constitutional ground on the lack of a requirement for this in the comments before. (Some of us get in plenty of legal trouble trying to get down the road even WITH these things.)
I did not like seeing that brainwashed mindset in everyone who responded to interviewer** Ami Horowitz with "everyone knows you have to carry your ID with you" bit. It wasn't his point, but I guess the responses would have been mostly the same even if he'd broken out that question - carrying it vs. being able to obtain one in order to vote.
I shouldn't have expected anything different out of that crowd. Black folks are not known to be Libertarian. There's no African version of the Magna Carta - they're just doing good not going full Haiti. OTOH, how many White, especially young White, Americans would have made it clear to Mr. Horowitz that, other than for voting security, "I don't neeeeed no steeenking IDs!"? Other races/ethnicities? Nah. As we noted (also long ago), we're not importing the kind of people who will be pushing their kids to obtain their Citizenship in the Nation merit badges. The whole thing is #SAD.
I've had a wallet "on my person", as they like to say, for many years, well most of the time, for driving. However, I'd carry nothing but my keys and whatever cash I had for a number of years when I was already driving. During the dozen or so times I'd been pulled over already, the cop was satisfied with a DL # he could call in. Then, one day, after having done NOTHING wrong, I got the "papiere bitte!" treatment at a DUI traffic stop. That is, of course, a complete violation of Amendment IV that has had no Americans riled up about it for 3 decades***.
The fine of 80 bucks for not having my driver's license on my person was $250 in '24 BaiDienBucks, I'd reckon. Also, it was a lot more to me then due to my circumstances. I put a nasty note in the memo field of the check I sent in. It was sent back to me for that with a note about the bad language - I kid you not!
Here's the relevant part of that video:
* ... or maybe it was lying excuses, if that's what they were really up to. It's not always stupidity, I know.
** ... not really surveyor, as he may seem to be.
*** That was Part 1 of When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL? There's a Part 2.
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Dead Commie Pi Day
Posted On: Thursday - March 14th 2024 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Holiday from Stupidity
That's not a tasty dish served by the current "leader" of Haiti. It's two separate things we can celebrate today and each March 14th.
From Instapundit, I learned something from this meme:
Good riddance to the instigator of what became a most violent and destructive ideology. That was 141 years ago today.
Also, one of the most important ratios in geometry, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius, đ, is an irrational number that today's date comes closest to. It's 3/14, the first 3 digits of 3.14159.... It's not just about circles, but all sorts of engineering equations end up with that đ in them.
There are contests in which people try to recite the highest number of digits from memory. People get well over 100. I think 3.14, with 3 significant digits, is good enough for most calculations. Hopefully, I can keep the 3.14159 precision in my head for as long again as it's been there already.
So, friends, happy Pi and Karl Marx Death Day!
PS: Hmmmm, there's that number 141 again, hidden as the first 3 digits right of the decimal. Does it mean that Communism has come full circle today? I could believe that. If you believe in Numerology, well, become a number theorist, and you'll be able to find a reason for everything.
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Pizza Pizza
Posted On: Thursday - March 14th 2024 4:29PM MST
In Topics: Environmental Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Yes, it's been an extremely slow blog-week so far, Peakers. It's not that there not lots of stupidity to point out, though. This is one of the minor instances that make for short, easy-to-write posts.
We have plenty more to say about the Climate Calamity⢠scam, in which I've been sorely disappointed. I really thought that it'd been left behind sometime in the midst of the Kung Flu PanicFest. Alas, and probably BECAUSE the PanicFest did not "reset" humanity, the pedal has been put to the metal on this one. This post, however, is NOT on that aspect of what used to be called Environmentalism, though. We're talking actual particulate pollutants this time, that come out of the smoke stacks of New York City pizza jernts.*
Some garlic powder, oregano, and maybe hot pepper would make it a perfect meal!
It's a big environmental problem, youse guys, says the apparently otherwise unburdened government of New York City, per (yet again) The Gateway Pundit, reporting thusly: NYCâs Green Rule Could Shutdown Upwards of 100 Pizza Joints [sic] in the City â March 20th Protest Announced. Green rules? Perhaps the use of more Bell Pepper toppings would increase compliance with the green rules, but then, my rule is YOU! DON'T! PUT! VEGETABLES! ON! PIZZA!
That's the rule, at least for my pizza, or I send it back:
This is more of that diminishing returns stupidity that the government of California is the most famous for. Is New York City a big hazy ball of particulate smog, full of smoke stack industries at this point? It may have been long ago, but Big Finance has been holding the city up pretty well (till the recent immigration unpleasantness). Cars don't pollute particulates, or even much of anything, like they used to. Is a small amount of pizza oven exhaust really something to worry about? It smells great - I'll take my chances. Of all the things that city is known for, a wide variety of eateries, I mean, as The Foodies would surely tell you, is one right on top there.
NY Pizza is known and loved by all. OK, not all - that statement may cause a lot of friction here at Peak Stupidity, Thick Chicago style vs. thin NY style - well there's no contest. I am happy to have a place nearby, far from New York, that does make this style, so I don't need to go to NYC to get some. Then too, last time I took a pundit to lunch there (you all would know him), he didn't really know the area and we ended up at freaking Unos.
That brings up the serious part of this story:
The NYC âruleâ will essentially require pizzerias with pre-2016 ovens to invest in a filtration system that will reportedly cost upwards of $20,000, according to the New York Post back in June.As GP writer Brian Lupo noted, this tyranny that's screwing over the pizza jernts with highly burdensome regulation and fines is just great for those bland Big Biz chain pizza places, isn't it? Other than having had that old ad (our title), Little Caesars sucks. With these little guys out of business, Pizza Slut can
Next time I'm at Unos in NYC, I'll check behind the toilet tank in the men's room, hell, maybe the women's room too - they have to let me in. If I see a gun duct-taped back there, I'll figure all is still right with the world.
* Think Archie Bunker here, who lived in TV NYC, and you'll know this word.
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History Lesson: Bring your own women
Posted On: Tuesday - March 12th 2024 11:39AM MST
In Topics: History Geography Race/Genetics
As a likely welcome change from the recent Peak Stupidity discussion of all things immigration invasion (we WILL get back to it), the fixation on the stupidity of Zhou Bai Dien, Dark Brandon*, if you will, on The Gateway Pundit and all this not-so-secret admiring of Georgia Rep MTG, we'll try to branch out this week. This particular race/genetics tagged post is not on the usual suspects for a change, though they may be mentioned in passing.
The map above is in a hotel room in the Florida Keys. I like maps and all Geography, so I enjoy perusing these old maps where they appear, normally in touristy areas. Who was around when the explorers/adventurers were drawing these maps centuries ago? Well, if you've been to The Keys, you'll know they are pretty White. Without any stats, I could tell that from the way the hotel was run, far from the level of incompetence of a Hotel Haiti. (See also: - on Competence - - - on Caring and Conclusion.)
One can look up said stats quickly anyway, as I just did. Monroe County, Florida includes the Keys long chain of islands, though they are only 13% of the area of the county. However, the rest is all Everglade swamp, with, per wiki, 17 - yep, you read that right, seventeen - residents. (That's not counting alligators, of course.) So, Monroe County IS The Keys. (The county seat is Key West, naturally.)
66% White does not sound so high for comfort, but then the black proportion of residents is 5 1/2%. The rest are largely Hispanic - 24%. Yeah, the residents down there, maybe more than many, deem the service work unworthy of them and depend on that cheap labor. One of the Key's mayors extolled this crowd. "Industry" down there, besides the naval base, is Tourism. The White residents can live the relaxed life of the Conch Republic and depend on retirement income, real estate booms, and entertainment for income, hoping the tourists will leave them along for half the year.
That territory in the above map was Spanish with the rest of Florida, per their claims and deals. However, there were really not many people down there besides Cuban and Bahamian fishermen and pirates. Well, this Key West and Conch Republic story is too long for this post, but I'll get to the subject, which is what the above map brought up in my head.
The Spanish, with their better deal over the Portuguese, ended up settling most of South America, all of Central America, the Mexico, and for a while, that now-important land of Florida, while the other Europeans (mostly English and some French) got that still huge, but smaller, land which we call America and Canada. What is wrong with the Spanish that explains why their settled lands, civilized to an extent, became nothing like the organized, law-abiding, prosperous lands that the English settled? (Of course, that's with the later help of Germans, Scandinavians, etc, but still northern Europeans.)
I think of the Spanish people, in Spain, that is, as Europeans. That goes along the lines of the Italians and Greeks in southern Europe. Sure, things never were as organized as they were in northwestern Europe, most especially Great Britain and Germany (just as the biggest examples). Still, the Italians and Greeks in America (eventually) worked out pretty well... just don't let them run governments or anything.** The Spanish are tanned Europeans, like the others in the south of Europe. How about the influence of all the centuries of the occupation by the Moors? I'm not an HBD guy by the numbers - I'll leave that to Steve Sailer.
Though the answer to come is obvious, I did think a little about the fact that the northern Europeans got the more temperate lands, for the most part. The part of Latin America that does have a temperate climate is the "cone" of the ice cream cone-shaped S. America, the countries of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. They DO run better and just seem a tad bit more organized and industrious than the rest of the Spanish-conquered New World. Is it all about the climate, you know, before it changed and all? Well, see, that southern cones of S. America is better because more Europeans immigrated, whether Spanish, Italian, German, or even English.***
Of course, it's obvious that the answer to why Latin America has sucked since the time of the conquerors compared to America and Canada is the large intermixture of the Spanish "newcomers" with the natives. Even though the native inhabitants down there had some big civilizations compared to those in our land, they were still civilizations based on worshipping Sun gods and tearing out live human hears vs ones based on a saner religion and things like science and technology. It didn't take very many Spaniards with Euro developed gunpowder-powered projectile weapons to overcome the mass of natives.
Things went differently down there. Up north, the English came to live brand new lives in a land of unlimited resources, unfettered by the rules back home that they'd had a problem with. They came to build a new and better civilization. You need women, and they brought them.
The history of the Spanish Conquistadors reads as an effort to claim land for Spain and officially convert the natives to Christianity, resulting in accolades back home from Government and The Church. Then, there was the gold and silver. You didn't need accolades, as becoming filthy rich was a worthy goal too. Up north, timber and furs were the exports, but that wasn't the be-all-to-end-all for the settlers, just a way to initially support the colonies.
As for the Spanish, still, horney is as horney does, so what'ya gonna do? Now, as big a Neil Young fan as your blogger is, I don't at all trust his lyrics on the beauty of the "Cinnamon Girl"**** natives. Most look more like previously deported literal heartbreakers than Las heartbreaking Usurpadoras.
Still, in the New World without other options, the Spanish had to make do. This mixture of the native genetics in Latin America is much much higher than that in the north, where women and even intact families were imported. One might surmise that had Ponce de Leon***** actually found that Fountain of Youth, the Spaniards might have imported their wives from back home. After a few pitchers, I'd imagine they'd look pretty good. (Same goes for beer.)
That component in the resulting genetics in Latin America had not just the codes to looks and skin color, but to that savage inner nature of the Aztecs, Incas, and such. (This is reminding me to write that post on Venezuela and Venezuelan "newcomers".) A few centuries later, that's what we're dealing with.
The thing is, you don't have to continually import women to your far-away settlement. After a few generations, your own people's genes can proliferate on their own. It's a shame that the Spanish did things differently.
The city of Seattle has a piece of history involving the importation of women not from over overseas, but from across this land. Seattle and the Puget Sound region was a fairly newly developed region, as American history goes, there being almost no White presence until the middle of the 1800s. One Asa Mercer imported these "Mercer Girls" or "Mercer Maids" ("maid" not being strictly about doing laundry) from long settled and established Boston and nearby Lowell, Massachusetts. Sailing still beat overland travel, so these girls came around the ENTIRE new world, around Cape Horn and back up. They did not settle in Latin America, or settle for Latin Americans. Per wiki, regarding Mercer's 2nd, larger effort that didn't go smoothly, the initial number of women being 500, but ending up at only about 100, @ $300 apiece. Three hundred dollars!:
When Mercer returned to Seattle, he had to answer a number of questions about his performance. At a meeting on May 23, public dismay softened, probably because the women were with him.At the top of Queen Anne Hill*, on the east side of the main street, there are Boston, Newton, and Lynn Streets. At the foot of this neighborhood, just north of the "Seattle Center" Space Needle tourist complex, there is Mercer Avenue. All of them are situated east-west. I mean, 300 bucks, come on!
Mercer ended up marrying one of the women, Annie Stephens, a week later, and most of the others found husbands as well.
Bring your own women. Immigrant settlers or invaders, whatever the case, know this too. Idiotic Feral Gov't chain migration allows people to bring in wive, older relatives to babysit and collect SS, and even slaves to this new world of theirs. There's a lesson to be learned here. What other land is there to settle for us though? We could take this lesson to space even.
Then again...
* I REALLY like this one!
** OK, big exceptions should be made for Rudy Giuliani and Ron DeSantis.
*** Unfortunately, the Argentine government decreased Euro immigration a century ago to their detriment. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
**** Peak Stupidity has a post, but it was not about that song, but on Cortez the Killer. "The women all were beautiful..." I've been on the Res, and I beg to differ. Still, great guitar solos, man!!
***** ... and it's Lee-own' country for you folks in Tallahassee, if you want to get historic, not Lee'-on, as in Leon Spinks.
****** This is a leafy tony neighborhood ( with probably a few Tony's but not any To'niqua's). It sits just north of downtown and is 400-500 feet up above sea level with stupendous views on all sides.
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The cashless agenda: Good new and bad news
Posted On: Monday - March 11th 2024 7:01AM MST
In Topics: Globalists Economics Orwellian Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Most people want the bad news first. The cashless society concept being pushed by Globalists, Big Biz, etc. has been a recurring subject* here at Peak Stupidity. We simply realize that Revelation Chapter 13, verse 17 is not supposed to be part of some business best practices guidelines.
The bad news is that while traveling recently, in the big hub airport terminal I spent 20 minutes trying to pay cash for food. The place that would take cash looked open, but closed till an undetermined time, per an employee. This was more of the new lower competence level U.S. of A.
I hadn't eaten all day, and it was about 5P. I went to get a slice of pizza. "Cards only", the sign said. OK, never mind, but then I saw that the slice was 8 bucks! It was a good thing they didn't need my money - I don't need pizza that BAD! Next, there was a shop that had packaged sandwiches. I knew it would be pricey, but I remember these ones are good and more healthful than a slice of pizza. There was no sign. She wouldn't take cash. Telling the cashier lady that it was the law got me absolutely nowhere - I left the sandwich there on the counter.
I think I was just on the wrong concourse, as I know that airport terminal is not totally cashless. I won't patronize places that won't take cash now, hungry or not.
The good news is from Norway:
HUGE!?? Well, I wouldn't call this "huge". That's a Gateway Pundit thing.
The Norwegian government is proposing a new law that will FORCE shops to accept real cash as payment. In other words, they will not be allowed to be âcashlessâ.Wait a minute! What is this guy saying? The government of the country is on the side of the people, not the Globalists? Unpossible!
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security want to change the law of the land to make sure that real cash can always be used as a form of payment.
You go, Norway! (... and Sweden. The article mentions the same policy in Sweden too.)
* If you haven't read the posts, see Chipotle - no credit, no debit, and hold the E. Coli - - Cash is King - (Part 2) - - Cash is King - (Part 3) - - Tubmania and a cashless economy - - Cashless Covfefe - - Keep Kash King! - - Keep Cash King II - the Tower of London. - - Keep Cash King II(a) - Follow-up on the muffin place and Cash is King, continued: Tipping in cash -, for starters. One might even say this is a fixation here.
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Time the Avenger
Posted On: Saturday - March 9th 2024 9:57PM MST
In Topics: Music Female Stupidity Poetic Stupidity
This is the 3rd song* on The Pretenders' album Learning to Crawl. The theme of the album is obvious from the lyrics here. This one can't be strictly biographic, as it doesn't sound like it's about any musician such as her Ray Davies at all. The songs on this album, at least half of them, are about a family splitting up, with the woman (singer) being bitter about it.
Nobody's perfect, not even a perfect stranger.
Oh, but what a gal. She was such a perfect stranger.
And you're the best in your field, in your office,
with your girls and desk and leather chair.
So the guy was fooling around on her, but the women's biggest weapon is described. Let me skip a couple of lines:
Nobody is permanent. Everything is on loan here.
Even your wife and kids could be gone next year.
And with what you have left, you'll be forever, under pressure to support her.
Yep. However, the mistake the woman makes here is thinking Time, the Avenger is after the man more than the woman. Time is harder on women - it's just the way life works. Yet she sings:
Thought that time was on your side,
Now it's time the avenger.
then, later:
Time, time hear the bells chime
over the harbor in the city.
Time, one more vodka and lime,
To help paralyze that little
Tick, tick tick tick ...
Sorry, Chrissie, but you've probably learned by now that you had it backwards, and the man should be singing this.
It doesn't matter. Music is not so much about the lyrics. I really like this fast beat, the bass line, those chords (are they 6th chords?), and especially the long ending that sounds like it's a fade ending but stops abruptly. I could use 5 more minutes of that jamming.
Thank you for reading, maybe listening, and writing in this week, Peakers! I'll get to that genetics post - it's not developing very well anyway - a couple of more Climate Calamity⢠posts, some odds and ends, and who really knows?
* The first 2 are Middle of the Road and Back on the Chain Gang. Peak Stupidity may not embed them all, but we'll probably feature most of the songs.
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Bai Dien on "Lincoln" Riley and Illegal vs LEGAL murder
Posted On: Saturday - March 9th 2024 12:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
First off, that in his SOTU speech, Zhou Bai Dien called the young lady murdered by an illegal alien in Athens last week the wrong first name is not much of a gaffe. These non-normal, often last-name first names that have been around more than a decade are difficult for me too... and I'm neither an android nor demented. Bigger gaffes were expected, but ... drugs, good drugs in a well-engineered combination.
Then again, this might mean, even in a heightened drug-induced state, Dark Brandon* had not considered this story as related to any cough big issues, cough, cough, America might have right now. That doesn't say much for him, but then Peak Stupidity's favorite member of Congress, MTG, made the effort to set him straight.
Did I tell you I'm in LUV with this woman? TMI there, or a later post, one ... I like that she got him to mention this, (without either of them close to tears either). Heckling? Yeah, that was heckling. Heckling is the least of the options that Americans will have to resort to soon enough.
Well, you've probably seen this scene.** My point in this post is about Dark Brandon's answer here. VDare's Former Agent brings up the first part of Bai Dien's answer: How Many Of The Thousands Of People Are Being Killed By Legals? Some may rightly call that a gaffe, as even the best of politicians do that sort of thing, telling the truth by accident. So, what if the violent Venezuelan Jose Antonio Ibarra was a bona-fide paper-signed LEGAL immigrant, something pretty easy to be right now?***
Any immigration patriot would tell you that it's the same problem. Even for the immigrants that are REALLY on the up-and-up, and not just by Peak Stupidity's sarcastic commentary, if America has more violent people coming, there will be more murder.
However, I would go farther than that. If America has more people, period, other factors equal, there will be more murder. Depending on who's been coming legally, that might mean a higher or lower per-capita rate. However, think about it - we're already here - they're not... yet. Do we want more murder? There's also a thing called Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome.
That's one thing. It's the additional answer to MTG's point by Brandon that brings up some stupidity I haven't seen comment on yet. I can't find it written out****, but let me write here the gist of this (my wording):
People are paying 8 thousand dollars to smugglers to get taken into the US. When they get here they get notices that say they have to appear at a hearing in a year or two. That's no good. [Interruption by me: Hell yeah, that's no good, but then ...] We need to make it 6 months, no, 6 weeks, so the whole "dynamic" (Bai Dien wording) will be changed.
I don't know what retarded puppetmaster put this line
Look, we need more BP and ICE agents to process the Newcomers at the border. That was all in the Senate border bill, that, errr, also allowed an illegal quota of 1.8 million entries yearly, but never mind that. You people were against that bill. More agents could have gotten these hearings scheduled more quickly. The aliens would then know that they'd have a hearing real soon, so they wouldn't even think about coming to begin with! Different dynamic! I mean, it's not like they can skip the hearings. They have to attend! It's all required... by law, dammit!Who is supposed to believe this garbage? Yet, that was Dark Brandon's reply to MTG's, Senator Britt's, and most Americans' concern. Change the hearing schedule. That's his answer... to keep young women from getting brutally murdered on the running trails.
Oh, and fix those trails, why don'tcha'?
* I really like this one, but I won't lose "Zhou Bai Dien" completely.
** ... especially if you are a Gateway Pundit reader - their on every little word.
*** I mean, they are giving these people "Parolee" "paperwork" with apps now, when they aren't even here yet! The "t"s are crossed, and the "i"s are dotted, strickly on the up and up!
**** I'm in a location where I can't get loud, so let me find this later on today.
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GOP Estrogen Overdose v Dark Brandon
Posted On: Friday - March 8th 2024 3:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Media Stupidity Female Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
In his post today, Katie Brittâs SOTU Response Attacks Biden On Border, Fentanyl, Sex Trafficking And Laken RileyâBut Doesnâtâ Use The Word Immigrant, VDare's long-term editor and writer James Fulford described the GOPe rebuttal to the SOTU speech of last night, with a big assist by Ann Coulter.
Even though I was around during Ronald Reagan's 8 years as President, I may have watched one or two of these State of the Union thingies at most. Surely you don't think this Peak Stupidity blogger would be able to sit still for an hour and 10 minutes* of Dark Brandon without hashing out a post. Of course not, and quit calling me
That surely can't be the whole post here, so let me get to the junior Senator from Alabama, one Katie Britt, who was this year's re-butt-er. In a substack*** post "Katie" Britt's Estrogen-Laden Response to the SOTU, Ann Coulter warned her readers not to watch this thing. James Fulford took Miss Coulter's advice and read the transcript instead.
That's all Mr. Fulford needed to do his job, which is compiling all things immigration:
I started by searching the transcript for âmigrâ which will catch all references to immigration, immigrant, and âmigrantâ. There werenât any. I wonder if thatâs the speechwriter wanting not to be âanti-immigrantâ or GOP strategists who hope to continue importing cheap labor.That's all true. Had this and other points about the evil out of Dark Brandon been said by Peter Brimelow - leaving just a few people in the dust with that accent, unfortunately ;-} - Matt Goetz, MTG, or an old George Wallace - ditto on the accent - this would have been great to get out there. (I'd have even watched it, had it been said by Peter or MTG... hell, George Wallace too - that'd be a trip.)
She does, however, talk about the things that immigrants bring over Bidenâs open borderâdrugs, rape, sex trafficking, and murder.
No, but see, lots of people like to watch rather than read. I'd say a large majority do. So, I wanted to see what Ann Coulter was talking about, after, that is, her excellent introduction, bringing up something I hadn't known, because I don't watch this stuff.:
In the last nine responses to a State of the Union address (one âAddress to Congressâ) Republicans have chosen a woman or minority. This year, it was a tearful Sen. Katie Britt, literally sitting at a kitchen table, presumably because a nursery school wasnât available.The following ALL CAPS are Miss Coulter's:
The last white male to give the response was Mitch Daniels in 2012. Coincidentally, it was the last decent one.
You sure know your voters, GOP!Yeah, or just the other wing of the UniParty.
This would be like Democrats refusing to give any jobs to women or minorities, as opposed to what they actually do, which is give all jobs to women and minorities.
WEâRE NOT THE PARTY OF IDENTITY POLITICS, YOU UTTER IMBECILES. [OK, I went ahead and made it bold too.]
I didn't have the restraint of, and a real job to do like, James Fulford. I checked in at about 4 minutes in. Mrs. Britt tells a horrible story. Others could have done that. It'd have been better if someone else had, as Ann Coulter was dead on. This is what an overdose of estrogen looks and sounds like. It was like a plane wreck, and I couldn't look away. (I like to figure out what went wrong. No joy this time ...) Katie Britt seemed on the verge of tears for her whole rebuttal on the outrages that have been occurring. Political solutions and threats would have been nice to hear about, but nope.
Seeing a woman in this emotional state is unnerving. One Senator's SOTU rebuttal can be turned off quickly or one can listen (dammit, shoulda!) to Ann Coulter. However, though it can take a long time in the course of one's life to figure this out, male Peak Stupidity readers may understand an important thing about the female emotional state as seen above. Many times, what the woman is talking about might very well have nothing to do with the real problem she's upset about.
Is it possible that Senator Britt is not actually that upset about inflation and the immigration invasion surge caused by Zhou Bai Dien? Her husband Wesley (mentioned at the end) may have found out a day afterwards that this is actually about his not having brought the car she scraped up to the body shop after 6 months! The neighbors' yards on both sides are much greener, as Wesley never weeded and seeded the yard as he SAID HE WOULD!
The video included a state change that occurred about 12 1/2 minutes in. Mrs. Britt's estrogen must have changed polarity, as her mood morphed within 30 seconds into a happy one, so happy that, yeah, she was on the verge of crying the whole REST of the time too.
Just thinking of my dream girl Marjorie Taylor Greene (who also was quite involved in this shindig) for a bit, I'm sure she's got estrogen coursing through her veins too. She seems to channel it much better and maybe has 1/10 of the amount. Women need to have SOME of this stuff or they won't be womanly. However, you can't have them going on TV like this and shit, I mean come on!
Ann Coulter is right on the bigger picture. Women, except for herself, should not be involved in politics. My wife just said this same thing right after I showed her this video for 20 seconds.
As for the contest, Senator (R-AL) Katie Britt v Evil scum Dark Brandon, I will say that I'd watch the latter before the former, albeit only after having had a few beers with my pundit buddies Alex and Tucker. This Katie, she'd require a whole nother 6-pack. Oh, and Katie ain't gonna win that Oscar she's gunning for either. They don't take White people, last I heard.
PS: I'm curious what Jordan Peterson would have to say about this.
* Geeze, the search sites suck badly! It took me about 2% of the time of that speech to find out the one number. Yandex came through! Thank you, Yandex, and, well, I guess that means I'm a Russian sympathizer, so, go, Putin!
** Hopefully, an android that uses the Android OS rather than Windows. You want an hour and 10 minutes of operating time without any black & blue screens o' death.
*** Unsafe is the name of her blog area on the site.
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[UPDATED 03/09:] Added a couple of paragraphs (just below the video) and fixed one typo - "SOTU".
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Klimate Karma's gonna get you ...
Posted On: Thursday - March 7th 2024 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Science
Two big, errr, storm centers coming your way. I guess a string bikini wouldn't have been appropriate here.
I'm so glad I didn't deserve any of this Instant Klimate Kalamity⢠Karma that was comin' down ... in dozens of feet, onto the Sierras and Intermountain West. Even the standared Lyin' Press sites had to admit it.
NBC News and Yahoo Finance, respectively, reported this weekend, Powerful blizzard dumps snow across Sierra Nevada with 145 mph wind gusts in biggest storm of the season and Western US to Be Whipped by Blizzards, Wildfires Through Weekend
Come to think of it, the people of the High Sierras and the Intermountain West aren't so much the types that deserve this pounding either. The general Karma is for those who keep claiming that they have a working mathematical model of the entire World's climate. Oooops! (Happens all the time.)
In the meantime, it probably wasn't so much Karma as basic bad luck involved in the story of a California Man Arrested for Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into the United States. It wasn't the CO2 in his lungs he'd exhaled after swimming the Rio Grande. It wasn't the water in his Mayorkas-supplied water bottle either.
It was the hydrofluorocarbons in his trunk. Dammit, who knew the Border Patrol was so scientifically knowledgeable?! They let the cocaine and fentanyl get by, cartel members and Moslem terrorists are not even hassled, and you can still tote a couple of kilos in a spare tire for auld lang syne. However, this shit is SERIOUS, man! It's a refrigerant.
âThis is the first time the Department of Justice is prosecuting someone for illegally importing greenhouse gases, and it will not be the last,â U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath said in a statement. âWe are using every means possible to protect our planet from the harm caused by toxic pollutants, including bringing criminal charges.âIt used to be the stuff killing the ozone layer with a hole you could drive a Mack truck through, but now it's a massive greenhouse gas. So, too bad about your old fridge and your Trans Am air conditioning, ebay customers. We're tryin' a stop Global Warming here, so you're just gonna have to sweat it out... and eat rotten avocados... No worries, the fentanyl brings out the flavor...
If convicted on all counts, Hart faces up to 45 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.Hell yeah. Keep that R-134a south of the border. We'll have a big beautiful wall to keep it out, with a big
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Large Marge expanded version
Posted On: Thursday - March 7th 2024 10:28AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump Media Stupidity Americans
I am not sure why Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG, in the modern parlance, is called "Large Marge" sometimes. Is this because she's a body-builder (and extreme endurance sports) type? I don't know why else, because she's in good shape. Maybe it's just her height or is it her political stature. She's got a LARGE personality, which is a good thing, so let's chalk it up to that.
I was going to update our last post with its shorter video clip, but I can see enough additions, with one correction to my comments in reply to Dieter Kief, to warrant this one.
The clip from the New York Post - usually on our side, BTW - used the term "rage" erroneously and cut out a prior 45 seconds of the Q&A with MTG. That's important. As with a lot of viral videos, only the part people want to go viral go viral. The death of the violent black reprobate druggie George Floyd is the best example of this that I know of.
Here in this post is the whole thing, at least from when the British lady "reporter", one Emily Maitlis, starts questioning MTG:
One can see here lots more of the personality of MTG. My impression, as usual, is very favorable. She is ebullient from the "Super Tuesday" Trump "big smashhhh" (picture Trump speaking this), of course. I see her here speaking very logically and honestly about Trump's possible VP pick. She is modest for herself.*
Now, you can see that Mrs. Greene was glad to talk to Miss Maitlis for a spell, but she didn't appreciate being hounded on the Jewish space laser issue just to be made fun of.
Finally, about the Jewish space laser errrr, issue, I speculated about what the deal was in the comments under the last post based only on the writing of commenters under that previous clip on youtube. I read on this one that this silliness was about the wildfires in California. I don't care. It's not Peak Stupidity's job to track down 100% of all world stupidity, at least not in our current organizational structure. But, look:
1) Strange things ARE happening these days.
2) No, I don't think that particular conspiracy theory makes any sense.
3) Yes, MTG and any politician, even the few smart ones, can be made fun of for numerous gaffes.
4) MTG is NOT an evil destroyer of the American nation. She's very much the opposite.
I think (4) makes up for all the rest, don't you? So, yeah, Emily Maitlis, why don't you fuck off?
* I'd never even thought about this, but since Miss Maitlis put the idea into our heads, Marjorie Taylor Greene as the VP candidate would be BRILLIANT, and not just in the modern British meaning! Holy crap - you'd have the entire ctrl-left worried about President Trump's health for 4 years and more! Unfortunately, Donald Trump's ego would never let him choose such a smart, outspoken, fun, and hard-charging woman like MTG. It'd draw away the spotlight from Trump, a big no-no for him.
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America's deep divide
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2024 6:37PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Music Trump Media Stupidity Americans Geography Zhou Bai Dien
America's geographical divides are usually high, not deep, as they determine which way the water flows downwards. Each side is a different major watershed. There's the Pacific Crest in the Sierras and Cascades - water falling west of it flows to the Pacific Ocean eventually and that falling east of it evaporates in the great basin or makes it (as a trickle) to the Gulf of California*, the Continental Divide - water falling to the east of it makes it to the Gulf of Mexico, and a more vague divide in the older Appalachian Mountains - water falling east of it heads to the Atlantic Ocean.
America's political divides are thought of as troughs, not ridges. Those at the bottom, with no power, are in the shitshed, if I may. Shit flows downhill toward them from both sides.
Now, Zhou Bai Dien has been saying during his 3 years as President that he is a Uniter, not a Divider. His goal, I guess, is to have all Americans together in the same shitshed, with it flowing at us from all sides. Many of us are not enamored with the idea and are climbing out. Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (MTG) who Peak Stupidity has been highly enamored with as of late, represents the foothills of Georgia, a good place to start a climb.
(For the life of me, I can't find a version that doesn't bleep out the key part!)
This video is a heartening example of American patriots who've had enough, saying so. MTG had had enough of this lefty Brit twit, I guess not interested in the ruin in her own country, trying to embarrass and belittle her rather than doing, like, journalism. (Even like it would be a big step up.)
The title of the video includes, "rage", but that's a lie too (in the Gateway Pundit sense, I gotta admit.) Nobody was screaming - it was a simple remark to get someone to STFU. MTG had been patient and nice enough. She tried to move along nicely, as the lady hounded her. That wasn't working. You've got only so much time in the day, so you have to shut these people up somehow, right?
It's the comments below this video, though, that show this very great political divide between adherents to the Potomac Regime and actual Americans. When I read them, anything that I think MIGHT be written in sarcasm is something I agree with without sarcasm. Anything I'm sure is said in earnest I strongly disagree with.
@johnandrews3568:
MTG doing her Georgia constituents proud again. Man, I wish I WERE one. I'm proud enough of her from where I am.
@bybynewdeal:
Foreshadowing : Illustrates the manner a Republican win will treat journalists AND our allies world wide. One can only hope. This very manner is one thing I appreciate about Donald Trump.
@matthewjohnston3195:
Real classy lady, MTG. There were a number of comments about the class or lack thereof. It this because it's all a class struggle? I'm in MTG's class.
@bortroad5740:
What an embarrassment.
This is the best the US can do. Those embarrassed by MTG are more concerned with fitting into the Regime than the truth and America. Indeed MTG is one of the best I know of. 500 more of her, and that'd surely MAGA!
@quesadilla79:
Trump quality VP material right there. no composure, no dignity or self respect. Huh? I'd have lost my cool quite a bit earlier. I truly LUV MTG's smile, accent, and style.
@merked1980:
And you're expecting the rest of the world to treat you seriously?)))) Whatever that is could be in a very powerful position this time next year... I believe she once called the gestapo "gespacho". Dark times..
This isn;t about left or right. This is about someone who isn't mentally equipped to be a politician. Could this commenter have considered comparing MTG to, say, a Bai Dien or Kamala? Talk about your ill-equipped...
Oh, and I wouldn't care about the rest of the world treating us seriously. MTG, just as I do, considers all this "caring" about the rest of the world as part of the problem.
@radic888:
MTG is the epitome of every Orange Man supporter. Agreed! Thank you!
Yes, the divide is deep. The quick take on Geography above has put a song in my head from an old folk duet out of Georgia too, but from southeast of MTG's district, the town of Athens.
Yeah, The Indigo Girls - Emily Saliers and Amy Ray - made it known that they were lesbians after their first album. There was a little too much hype, yet 35 years ago we actually were united enough for it not to cause a deep divide - not for me - they wrote and played some good stuff.
Up on the watershed, standing on a fork in the road... you can stand there and agonize, till your agony is your heaviest load ...
Watershed is from the band's 1990 album Nomads, Indians, Saints.
PS: The reader can check out our post MTG v AOC and others to see what we think of the Congresswoman AOC. I'll give her some credit today, in that, in another recent video clip, she can be seen having had enough of a hounding agent of the press and having the very same reaction as MTG.
* The Columbia River is an exception, I'd say, as that rainfall from the west side of the Rockies long ago busted through the Cascades in the gorges between Washington and Oregon on to the Pacific.
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The European Soros Plan and my dream of the Ruhr Valley
Posted On: Wednesday - March 6th 2024 9:14AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity World Political Stupidity
Normally, Peak Stupidity concentrates on American and local stupidity, with a minor in Chinese. We'll branch out today to a post on European immigration stupidity*.
Let me start with a link to a 3-week-ago Gateway Pundit post, EU Committee Passes Migration Pact Dubbed the âSoros Planâ â Will Result in Massive Wave of Migrants Storming the EU Borders. Personally, I think the immigration destruction in Europe is so far along that Soros could feel comfortable retiring early, to Epstein's (other) Island to screw 14 y/o's and drink Pina Coladas. That aside, in this GP post, there is a very emotionally powerful video titled "With Open Gates - the Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations", made 8 years ago.
It's 19 1/2 minutes long, but the reader's viewing of it now may help him understand the rest of my post.
I watched the whole video 3 weeks ago, as I perused my new go-to site (for news, not necessarily entertainment, as we explained). I can still remember the most vivid dream from a very vivid dream I had that night, even now.**
With that information and emotion still with me, in this dream, I was in the Ruhr Valley in modern Germany. For those readers not into Geography and History (my apologies to the many who are) and are not named Dieter Kief, the Ruhr Valley, along the Rhine-tributary Ruhr River, of course, is a long-important industrial section of Germany. You've likely heard of some of the cities and districts, from west to east, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, MĂźlheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, Hamm, Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, but probably not ALL of them. Dusseldorf is right nearby. This area is in the north-central western part of Germany, not far from France.
The Ruhr Valley was a big part of history right at one century ago. The story of The Great German Hyperinflation of one century ago didn't mention it specifically, but the occupation of this industrial center by French and Belgian troops was part of the effort to force Germany to "pay up!" for WWI. Along the same lines of how debtor's prison is a flawed concept - it's hard to earn money while in the can - this occupation resulted in work stoppage by the Germans, not helpful to the collection of those Versailles-directed Reparations payments. Hyperinflation peaked this past November/December... no, WE are not there yet... I forgot to add "last century".
That wastefully said to most of our erudite readers, let me move on. I've been around Germany on 2 occasions, once in the late 1980's and then over 10 years later. I've NEVER been to the Ruhr Valley. I knew I was there in that dream, not in a George Pattony way, but just that this was my location. Amazingly, when I pulled up images a couple of days back, the one above was not far from the picture still in my head.
There were smoke stacks and low steel-roofed buildings. There was the industrial haze on an otherwise nice day with the sun medium-low in the sky. I was on river-right, that is, the right side looking downriver. Oh, I see after looking at maps that this dream was not weird or uncanny, because I'd pictured the mouth of the river on the Baltic Sea to the north. That's completely wrong (it pours into the Rhine), so my dream was taken from my geographically-erroneous previous ideas in my head. I could see hills on the other side that looked to be about 5 miles away.
To my right off the river, I walked and looked around, and I was in the old-timey Germany favored by tourists with the Gingerbread-style houses. The row houses on narrow streets were up against the hillside. The image I grabbed above (sorry, Getty) is also VERY much like the dream, but, of course, because I pulled it specifically.
This is the emotional part that surely comes from my viewing of the video above. I was there looking at the beautiful houses and streets, thinking of the hundreds of years of just the "recent" history of the German people. I was thinking of the amazingly organized civilization that the German people had created. I thought of the many extremely foreign "newcomers" - that's the new term, per Bai Dien - and saw many of them in these same streets along the Gingerbread houses. I was about to cry, I tell you, right there my dream. "Whose stupid or evil idea is this, ruining everything that's been built over the centuries? Why would you give it all up? Will this civilization even be remembered centuries from now?"
That's it. I woke up knowing this dream came directly from the video. A post can't do justice to the video or my dream. This is evil.
PS: I'm branching out in video embedment sources. This one is from the Video Motion site. It works fine for me.
* We have before too, as in this post - - this post - - this post and this post.
** I've got another dream post coming too that is sort of a pundit's choice.
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The Gateway Pundit - Website Review Addendum
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2024 7:02PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Pundits
I reviewed the Gateway Pundit site in the last post. Here are just a couple of items to a) illustrate one point again, b) praise the commenters a bit, and c) give notice of something weird.
The image above, and the post linked-to therefrom is a PERFECT example of one of my (small) points in criticism of the site. So, Nikki got angry when called out, rightfully, as I saw, on her broken promise to support Trump once she's out of the GOP primary. I checked this short clip out.
Now, I don't like Nikki any more than the next guy, but this was a great example of some wasted time on that site. First of all, why should Haley's reaction be a story in itself? She doesn't keep her word - that's the story. But, I viewed the clip and saw that Nikki Haley didn't even get loud. I didn't exclaim "Yikes!" What for? This post was NOT from one of the lady writers - it was written by Jim Hoft himself. It's Hollywood National Inquirer style schlock. I wish he'd stick with actual stories, keeping maybe 2 dozen good ones on the front page longer.
The story of Angela Chao is one we at Peak Stupidity just made fun of in The strange death of CCP U-boat Commander Angela Chao, since we have no earthy idea WTH is actually going on with that Chinese Torguga crowd. (Tortoise or Turtle is acceptable). Writer John Mills is all over the place with no real idea either, in his GP post on it. However, a couple of the commenters brought up Jim Rockford!:
Chipper609This kind of thing can make one's day. Thanks. I see more other humor there than I'd mentioned before too.
Put Jim Rockford on the case.
Hillfarmer79 Chipper609
Jim came home to his trailer to find 25 "new arrivals" living there and he is now in jail for assaulting one of them.
Hillfarmer79
Jim's answering machine still works, but the message is in Spanish.
Finally, this is the weird thing. After all those nasty ads I'd meant to take more screenshots of, I don't seen the bad ones right now. I went to my other oft-used device, and they aren't there either. No yellow pustules. No fat chicks in bikinis. Only some swollen feet are displayed. I can live with that. Did this Jim Hoft read our post? Naaaahhhh.
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The Gateway Pundit - Website Review
Posted On: Tuesday - March 5th 2024 7:27AM MST
In Topics: Websites Pundits
Since our quitting The Unz Review cold turkey - well, very nearly - the Peak Stupidity reader will have noticed that many of our posts derive from material on The Gateway Pundit site. This is a review, with plenty to say after having spent 1/2 hour to 1 1/2 hr on that site daily for over a month.
This review will read like a sandwich, one made from very tasty bread with some nice Italian meat and provolone cheese, but with a couple of layers of Vegemite spread by some Aussie pranksters or something.
The owner/operator, if you will, of The Gateway Pundit is one Jim Hoft. His name appears on (just guessing) a quarter to half the posts, with other writers that are surely getting paid (I'll explain) posting the rest. What first must be said is that Mr. Hoft and his site are definitely a force for good. A few arguments about his politics could be made - I will - but they are Conservative, timely, encouraging, and with details that will be found written in a biased manner, if written at all, for the Lyin' Press sites.
In general, GP concentrates on American political stories, with only occasional posts on general happenings and stories of worldwide Globalist and anti-Globalist events. Just to compare to The Unz Review, due to it having been my previous go-to site for (some) stories and the entertainment, GP is more down-to-earth and timely. Additionally, there is lots of follow-up to each of the many stories that the site covers.
Very specifically, at this point at least, The Gateway Pundit supports, from various angles, all things Trump and his '24 election win, with discussion of all the efforts to prevent the ctrl-left from cheating him out of it too. Whether you think an election of one guy can solve America's problems or not (spoiler: NOT), Trump is indeed THE BIG STORY. I'd proffer that the reason Trump IS the big story is that the Immigration Invasion is (FINALLY!) the big story. The Gateway Pundit covers the invasion very well. That alone is enough to support our statement that this site is a force for good.
GP is pretty straight with the occasional horrific Financial Stupidity news too. Then there are the posts on the Globalist actions to suppress the middle class all over the formerly 1st World. These posts read very much like The New American out of The John Birch Society, which is a good thing.
You might taste a little of that Vegemite here... on the Israel issue, GP is purely NeoCon. The site has but one opinion on that. I won't get into the issue other than, just as with the Ukraine, to say that the war should not be any business of the US - that includes financial support. However, Gateway Pundit is sane on the Ukraine. I'm not sure how or why it (he - Jim Hoft, really) diverges there, but the opinions on the Ukraine match Peak Stupidity's - the Potomac Regime via NATO has been pushing the Russian Bear into a corner since the end of the Cold War, its minions started this mess in '14, etc. We should STFO, even before one gets into the American taxpayer money blown and corruption that goes with it. I believe GP agrees.
Political views aside now, as a a comparison to The Unz Review, the articles on GP are fairly short and succinct. That'd be just fine were it not for - and here's a thick layer of that nasty black stuff - the site format. It's the ads. They are simply terrible. The front page may be "safe for work", but each story page has huge impossible to ignore pukeworthy ads. The ads take up the page width and are interspersed among chunks of the article.
Above and below are examples of ads next to story headlines, but on the story pages they are worse. I'd ask the reader to check for himself that these ads are not targeted, well to me, anyway. I'm not overweight - I get the same stuff on work computers that flush cookies and browser data. Perhaps the ads are targeted in that the average GP reader is known somehow to be older with many health problems. Still, how many diagrams of the human body, many with people sitting on the toilet or with sectioned abdomens and yellow pustules of body fat on display, are too much? This stuff is simply out of hand on The Gateway Pundit!
Jim Hoft should put a damper on this, as it's really a turn-off. That he doesn't is probably because he's making a ton of money on the ads. That's why I think he must be paying the fellow GP writers, which is admirable, of course. I'm always happy to see alternate media that can support itself.*
Let me move on to the writers and a combination of content and formatting. I've got a few more beefs about the site. Firstly, the display is somewhat sensationalist: BREAKING!:, JUST IN:, DEVELOPING:, EXCLUSIVE!:, SHOCKING!: OK, enough. That's old media stuff that sounds as if from the last century. That's a minor thing and maybe just a unique personal dislike.
Next, though, is the content of some of the stories. They are less than half, but many of the posts are not about an actual story. They are about someone's reaction** to a story or a reaction to what some politico said. Headline example: "The ladies on The View were shocked into silence after Mr. ABC said THIS. [VIDEO] I made the mistake of clicking a few of these. Sorry, yes, that the ladies of The View were silent for some measurable duration is probably unusual, but this is not a story. I think these "OMG, look at his face when the guy said this!" posts are more from the women writers of the site. (I'll make an effort to get numbers.) This emphasis on reactions includes Elon Musk, who GP sees as some kind of god. "Regarding the Illegal Aliens being flown into the US interior by the hundreds of thousands, Elon Musk tweets back 'Unsustainable!'" "In response to Trump speech, Elon Musk tweets 'Absolutely!'" Really, that's a story?
No, just give me actual events, policy changes, court decisions, action by American patriots, a few speeches by Trump, but not videos of drama that's not even fit for a a Telenovella. The former is still most of the material, and I've learned what to skip, so it's all good...
I knew this would get long, so let me finish with the comment section of The Gateway Pundit. It's not The Unz Review, alas. The comment section, based, I think, on the 3rd-party DISQUS software, is less usable, for the reader at least. The commenters don't get in deep discussions, as on TUR, with dozens of people involved. Occasionally, there are very good 200 word comments, but one won't see much but short statements in reply.
The content of the comments is Conservative. There's some good humor here and there. I'll say that on racial matters, these folks are as based as the next guy, and more so than the writing of the posts themselves is. From what I see, DISQUS must screen out cuss words, but it's not too bad in censoring meaning. The site owner could probably have a say in this, but, with multiple hundreds to thousands of comments often under the few dozen posts added daily, censorship by Jim Hoft, if he wanted to do this, would be an impossibility. (He's no
I won't post comments on GP, thankfully for my time's sake, for a few reasons:
1) I'm not signing up to DISQUS.
2) As I mentioned, hundreds and thousands of comments pile up within hours. That's not a way to get one's voice heard.
3) Compared to TUR, it's just not the same.
One can't read them all, which is for me, a great excuse not to read ANY. However, I'll go through to see if someone make a point that I think should be made. Usually, someone has.
Short summary: I get more real-time news, at least on the Immigration Invasion, Donald Trump, other US politics, etc, then I did on The Unz Review. For Peak Stupidity's sake Gateway Pundit is a much better go-to site. For my entertainment's sake, it's not nearly as good. Still, keep up the good work, Jim Hoft, and thank you.
* This is also in stark comparison to The Unz Review edited and (in small part) written by independently wealthy Ron Unz. There's nothing wrong with that either. Whatever I think of his political opinions, Ron Unz is also a force for good as a stand-up hard-core defender of free speech. Additionally, well, because he doesn't need the money, there are NO ads, NUNCA, on The Unz Review. Alas, don't it always seem to go... you don't know what you've got till it's gone ...
** There is some guy named Victor who is the subject of posts about his reaction to events. I don't KNOW Victor, and I don't care about Victor's reaction to anything, so I never click on these.
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