The BP Union sides with America over The Regime
Posted On: Tuesday - January 30th 2024 3:15PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music US Feral Government
Unlike Rock and Folk singer Neil Young (see below), I have never been proud to be a Union Man. I have seen the good and the bad, though, I'll say lately more good than bad. However, generally, public sector unions are really a corrupt idea. Union government employees can get promised collective benefits in return for their acting as voting blocs to enable the politicians who do the promising.
The story of this post, is of a public sector union, a union of US Federal Border Patrol personnel. Actually, they are a "Council" if that matters to you. I will admit right here that this is one instance where the benefits of a union are benefiting the American public as well.
For its employees, besides the usual collective bargaining for better wages and benefits* of all kinds, a union can provide solidarity** and support for those not quite down with the ideas of the big cheeses.. Membership can be seen as a pre-paid legal plan if nothing else.
VDare writers, most especially "Former Agent", naturally, have discussed the Border Patrol Union's dissatisfaction with its members not being allowed to do their jobs previously. I've found that, no matter what the work, competent employees like to be a part of getting the work done that matches with the stated purpose of an organization. That beats being mired in bureaucratic mud and working at cross purposes, no matter how well one is paid. (Again, I wrote "competent" people. I should add "those with integrity".)
It's not only that BP agents have been told not to do their jobs per the words "border patrol". Over the last few years - the Bai Dien surge - they have been made to be baby sitters, nurse maids, and travel agents for the millions of illegal aliens that have been coming across the borders (yes, the north too, to a lesser degree) from all over the world. Rank and file BP agents didn't sign up for this, and their union has been resisting the Bai Dien leadership, with words at least, so far.
It's very heartening to read more about the resistance of the Border Patrol, as this latest has to do with the Federalist pushback by the State of Texas against their sabotaging of Texas' efforts to keep invaders out at Eagle Pass. Via info mostly from VDare.com, Peak Stupidity has written a number of posts about the struggle down there with the concertina (razor) wire - the reader could start from this recent post and go back. Former Agent mentioned these encouraging words in a recent post The Invasion Is Continuing, Despite The Texas Crisis—But Biden And Mayorkas Are Afraid It Will Be Stopped. A tweet and post title, coming from this Red State article says:
Border Patrol Turns on Joe Biden, Proclaims Support for Texas National GuardThe full tweet from the National Border Control Council says:
Rank-and file BP agents are not going to start arresting TX NG members for following their LAWFUL orders. That's fake news.I don't know about flashy headlines, but weren't those Border Patrol agents in the video clips that were using wire cutters and bumping fists with invaders? How about we see the end of that?
TX NG and rank-and-file BP agents work together and respect each other's jobs. Period. If TX NG members have LAWFUL orders, then they have to carry out those orders.
TX NG members realize that rank-and-file BP agents have their orders as well. Lawful orders, no matter how unpopular or distasteful amongst rank-and-file agents, must be followed. Unlawful orders (as determined by competent legal counsel and not what some outhouse lawyer behind a keyboard says) will not be followed.
Rank-and-file BP agents appreciate and respect what TX has been doing to defend their state in the midst of this catastrophe that the Biden Admin has unleashed on America.
We want to be perfectly clear, there is no fight between rank-and-file BP agents and the TX NG, Gov. Abott, or TX DPS. It may make flashy headlines, but it simply isn't true.
Also, this is some squish language here: Lawful orders, no matter how unpopular or distasteful amongst rank-and-file agents, must be followed. No, "lawful" orders made by Totalitarians and internal enemies of America must NOT be followed. That's what it'll really take for Fed rank-and-file personnel to avoid being evil. Having a union in solidarity against the Regime, as in 1980s Poland**, is important to this end.
This hopefully continuing change of loyalties by the BP agents from The Potomac Regime to America instead is not only a great thing when it comes to this issue. The idea of this resistance and changing loyalties by rank-and-file Regime agents may carry over to other disputes and not just by the Border Patrol.
Neil Young's Union Man is a fun song, one that may be called a "novelty song" per the terminology of the era (1970s). I went to look up a little more about it, and I realize even more how much BS comes over the internet. A site called Old Time Music has a whole long serious description of Mr. Young's supposed political views in its long "Meaning behind the song" post. Holy crap, was this someone's term paper, maybe some AI that JUST! DOESN'T! GET! IT!? I would guess who- or what-ever wrote it never listened to the song.
The "AF of M" was/is the American Federation of Musicians. This song was written in fun, as Neil goes:
I pay my dues ahead of time. When the benefits come, I'm last in line, yeah....
Is there any new business?
Yeah. "Live Music is Better" bumper stickers should be issued.
What was that??
"Live Music is Better" bumper stickers should be issued!
That gentleman said "Live Music is Better" bumper stickers should be issued.
All in favor of what he said, signify by saying "Ayyyy"!
I for one, appreciate Neil's making some fun and having some fun, no matter what the "statement' there was.
BTW, the 2nd song from his obscure Hawks & Doves album is a real trippy song, The Old Homestead, saying something about Who are you, the rider says?
You dress in black but you talk like a Fed.
Kinda relates here...
* That term seems to mean only "healthcare plans" at this point, at least the way HR people use it. (The reader may want to check up the follow-up posts in that series Human Resources: scourge of the business world: Part 2 -- Exhibit A: Toby Flenderson and Part 3.)
** "Solidarity" was the name of an important union in Cold War history, in fact. That was the name of the Polish trade union of some sort that was a big part of the Polish struggle to dismantle its "membership" in the Warsaw Pact, or East Bloc, as led by one Lech Walesa. He and fellow Pole Pope John Paul II - he'd be JP2 nowadays - were 2 of the heroes of the Cold War.
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Reparations: You do the math!
Posted On: Monday - January 29th 2024 7:59PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Race/Genetics
... because these dumb Black! race grifters are surely not up to it.
The source of this screenshot of a big long set of grievances set into some proposed bill on Reparations* is the American Renaissance website. As one would expect from anyone White or any non-aggrieved individual of any sort, writer and site owner Jared Taylor is, let's say, taken aback, at the numbers, to the very dollar, politely requested by a group of retarded race hustlers. The article title, Let’s Spend $14 Trillion Into Existence refers to the generation of the money, a standard Peak Stupidity grievance of our own.
I don't think it's the idea of "spending $14 Trillion into existence" that's so out of the ordinary in this day and age. No, but the Black! grift here is over the top even for the biggest and badest grifters of that whole damn crowd, and, well, if you're gonna do this, you just gots ta get da maff right!
Look, that 222 million hours seems highly erroneous from first glance.
Well, that's ~60 million slave-years, errr. enslaved years? So, then, I guess I never realized just how lazy these slaves in America were. That's less than 3 hours of work output apiece per year. OK, that's only on average - Kunta over there may have put in a solid 20.
Perhaps these math-challenged Reparations Bill proponents meant that as 222 million years, not hours. That's close to 4 times my number, but it's possible, I guess.
The amount requested to cover this oversight, as calculated by the overseer, don'tcha' know, is $97 Trillion. If we assume that mistake in units, to be years instead of hours, then that works out to be a $436,000 yearly salary average for that jumpin' down, turnin' round, pickin' bails of cotton. That's cotton-pickin' expensive! (Let's see, for a mechanical harvester, with capital costs amortized, maintenance, and such... I think we coulda' come out ahead, way ahead...)
The $97 Trillion sum owned by us became only $14 Trillion (the math here is trivial and will be left to the White reader), so these folks are not too far off from the numbers proffered in the Peak Stupidity Reparations Plan. There's one very minor caveat, but I'm sure we can reach across the aisle, or rows of cotton, if I may, and obtain a mutually beneficial arrangement. Peak Stupidity will take care of the math.
* ... from innocent citizens and great-great-great-grandchildren of mostly innocent 17th through mid-19th century American citizens to great-great-great-grandchildren of some of the best-treated slaves in post-Biblical history.
** That's what that site does, fetch data from around the web for ya'.
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Take Our Border Back - Trucker Convoy rolling today
Posted On: Monday - January 29th 2024 3:52PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity People's Revolt
The destinations are the critical entry point of Eagle Pass, Texas, Tucson, Arizona, and San Ysidro (Sand Diego), California. Details are here on their website. In the image above I cut off "Peaceful Assembly" at the bottom. As with thg Jan. 6th '21 rallies, then riots, in Washington, FS, Americans want to keep it peaceful. It'll only stay as peaceful as the Regime forces let it, or, for that matter, as with J6, how much they avoid instigating violence.
This is pretty heartening news. The Canadian trucker rally that arrived in Ottawa and rallied the city, the nation, N. America, and the World in resistance of Kung Flu jab mandates back in early '22 is an example of the good that could come out of this. It's really hard to ignore a convoy of trucks. If, for reasons, this were to be extended well past February 3rd, one wonders how much power there is in stopping the regular shipment of goods. Strikes can be effective - it helps a lot of the strikers have support from most of the nation.
A number I read was 700,000 trucks, but I find that difficult to believe. Wiki says there are ~ half that number in total of independent truckers. I'm pretty sure the HR Departments of XPO, YRC*, J.B. Hunt**, Schneider, and Old Dominion would frown upon their drivers going off schedule and ignoring DOT limits to bring their rigs down to the southern border for a week.*** Perhaps the 700,000 included expected vehicles of all sorts that could join the convoys. I wish this were happening end of last year, as I had the time...
This is more important even than resistance to the Kung Flu Totalitarianism. Granted, the latter set very bad precedents that we must keep from being implemented again. However, if this invasion were to continue for much longer, I don't have any inclination to care about what happens to what won't be my country anymore.
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PS: I changed the topic key from "People's Revolt of '22" to People's Revolt, period. It didn't really take in '22, with the exception of the resistance of the jab mandates.
* Because I know a guy who drove for them for many years, I remember that YRC is Yellow/Roadway Corporation. The 2 outfits merged a couple of decades back.
** In a long-ago survey via 3 1/2 days listening to CB radio, Peak Stupidity determined that J.B. Hunt drivers are the butt of the most jokes. YMMV.
*** The 2 biggest trucking companies are FedEx and UPS. No, I don't think they will all head south this week. That'd be something. The last UPS strike I recall was in 1997 - I was tangentially involved.
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In this Compound, we believe...
Posted On: Saturday - January 27th 2024 11:40AM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Guns
Regarding the title, I've written before that if you're a powerful Conservative with some money, your place is a Compound. The ctrl-left, Globalist, Communist rich and powerful live on haciendas or simply in houses, but never mansions.
I have a few more posts on the immigration invasion to go, but they'll have to wait for next week. There's plenty of other stupidity ready for commentary, so we'll intersperse the various flavors. Thanks to all of our readers and commenters. Have a good weekend.
PS: I cannot at this point remember where I got this graphic from. If it was from one of our great commenters, thank you, and feel free to speak up and give us more of these too.
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Texas v Potomac Regime: Governor Abbott works around SCROTUS order
Posted On: Friday - January 26th 2024 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Zhou Bai Dien
Peak Stupidity did not use this title format of ours* for the first handful of posts about the growing resistance by Texas against the Regime regarding the latter's instigation of this border invasion surge. It fits, but to refer the reader to the start of our coverage, let me link to Is this how it starts? and Is the biggest American story of the 21st Century developing?, both from last July, Texas v Feds - still the BIGGEST story? from September, and Female Conservative SCROTUS splits, border wire hernia continues from this Monday.
I go to VDare to get the reporting and explanations of all things immigration-related. That includes this invasion surge, but I am very glad to see that this story has gotten bigger, as both sides have pushed harder. Texas has made an effort in at least one critical place (Eagle Pass) to guard their (and our) southern border, and the Regime has made an effort to to destroy these defenses, even getting supported by 5 traitors of the SCROTUS.
To follow up on Monday's post, let me again link the reader to a few of the excellent VDare writers' reports on the politics and actions going on in or around Eagle Pass, Texas, along with the State House and the Regime (White) House. Washington Watcher II's post from yesterday says, and asks: Texas Does What’s Necessary On The Border. Will Biden Blink?.
It's a good summary of the events up to now. Mr. "Watcher II" does have a few words about Judge Barrett too. Here's one point he made about that vacating (vacation?) decision from a few days back:
But SCOTUS left a loophole. Its ruling doesn’t order Texas to remove the razor wire—but instead just says the Feds can remove it.I wouldn't call it a loophole, exactly. SCROTUS simply ruled that a lower court (5th Circuit) injunction AGAINST the Feds' sabotaging of Texans' defense efforts was void. I'll mention this again in the context of another VDare writer's article.
That'd be Biden Finally Admits Border Not Secure, SCOTUS Endorses Open Borders, Texas Should Continue To Fight by writer Federale. That first point in his title is another post for us. How has this statement of Bai Dien's not been noticed much? It basically admits that he's been lying his ass off for 3 years. Anyway, as to Federale's writing about Texas v Potomac Regime, he also gets to the same point about the SCROTUS ruling, here:
Representative Chip Roy advised Governor Greg Abbott to ignore the decision, which is good advice, but technically there is nothing for the State of Texas to ignore. The decision is in favor of the USBP destroying fencing. The decision did not prohibit Texas from continuing to build border barriers and fencing...That's a good point by both of them, and it's the reason our title reads this way. Otherwise, it would have read "resists". Additionally, Federale offers some physical suggestions regarding the shipping containers and the wire. I especially like this part:
Texas State Troopers, Guardsmen, and militia could also follow around Border Patrol Agents (BPA) with concertina wire bundles and immediately deploy that wire as the USBP are cutting other wire. Texas could even box in with concertina wire those BPAs doing the wire cutting, forcing them to cut wire to get out. Such actions would likely result in BPAs just giving up in frustration. Or just a riot line of Guardsmen and Troopers with shields blocking the road or path the USBP is using to get to points where they have or will cut the concertina wire? The possibilities of petty harassment and interference are boundless. Just a little imagination and initiative are required.Yes, petty harassment, or not-so-petty, it's all good. This goes back to my thinking of the next steps, when Fed Border Patrol saboteurs start getting arrested on various charges. More Feds will come to Texas or to the site out of Austin. That's when you take other harassment steps that include tire-slashing, roadblocks, and so forth. Another big weapon is bureaucracy. (One can learn from the Chinese on that.)
More suggestions by Federale are in another article of his, Border Fight Between Texas And The Biden Regime Goes To The Next Level.
However, Texas is making a mistake by not arresting and charging illegal aliens who bring minors with them. Instead of releasing them to the USBP, they should be charged with child endangerment or abuse, as well as the illegal entry statute.See these people know the ins and outs of the immigration system, for what it's worth. They know how it's being abused, meaning they know how to stop that.
The Texas statute also has a strange provision exempting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from prosecution, but at the same time does not exempt the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and other executive action programs. Both DACA and DAPA have been declared illegal and unconstitutional, so there is no reason to exempt those illegal aliens.
That brings us to a favorite writer, Former Agent. From his handle, we know he's got some experience. His latest post on this story is A Former Border Patrol Agent On The Mexican Standoff At The Border. He's got a more general suggestion at the end of his post:
Years ago, one of my colleagues proposed a plan he called “Mexico One.” His idea was that illegal aliens from all over the world (Africa, China, Brazil) enter the United States from Mexico. Afterwards, we send the deportees back by air to their individual home countries. Why do we do that? If it comes out of Mexico, it should go back into Mexico. Hence, Mexico One, the primary destination of anyone coming out of our great ally’s country.Yep, per deportee, operating buses is much cheaper than operating airplanes.
We would save millions of dollars in deportation flights, and we would make Mexico feel the pain of immigration. I bet Mexico would crack down very rapidly on sending us the world’s huddled masses yearning for free stuff.
Finally, away from VDare for a change, I read/viewed a Gateway Pundit post Governor Greg Abbott to Tucker: We are ‘Prepared’ for Conflict with Biden Regime Over Border – 10 States have Sent their National Guards to Defend Texas Against Invasion that features a short Tucker Carlson phone interview of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. As usual, I will ask for help from illustrious Peak Stupidity commenter Adam Smith, as I can't get the video directly from YT, Rumble, or BC. Thank you yet again, Adam! Mr. Smith has also provided an extended video here. The extended part has more of Tucker's opinion on why this is all happening along with some info. on the Take Our Border Back trucker convoys, headed (last I read) to 3 places on/near the border.
If you recall, while down at the border some months ago, Tucker Carlson ripped Governor Abbott a new one on part of this border issue - I can't remember the details, but I agreed with Tucker. Here, Mr. Carlson is polite and respectful and Gov. Abbott sounds pretty steadfast. When Tucker gets to the big question of what happens next if the Feds don't stand down, the Governor demurs. I don't think he wants to get into that just yet ...
It's great to see that Governors of a half the other States in America are supporting Governor Abbott, Texas, and American sovereignty! 10 of them so far are reported to be sending guardsmen to Texas. This is getting to be a big story, as I've said. FEDERALISM, bitchez!!
PS: All that said about Texas and the Governor there, I will go back to VDare yet again to note that John Derbyshire throws a little cold water on anyone all hot and bothered by Greg Abbott. He is showing some backbone when it comes to a massive invasion of his State and the nation. However, he doesn't seem to be against Population Replacement, you know, when done "correctly": Abbott Opposes ILLEGALS At Texas Border —But Recruits LEGAL Immigrants In India. That's not a whole lot better in the long run...
* Taken long ago from the kids' entertainment of in our post Nat-Geo and the once great Royal Scientific Societies - Part 2. Oh, and that one's got another Al Stewart song, for the die-hard fans.
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[UPDATED. 01/27:]. As usual, Adam Smith put the Carlson/Abbott video on his channel. Inserted here, along with a link to a longer clip.
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Libertarian Argentine calls out the WEF
Posted On: Wednesday - January 24th 2024 10:27PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Socialism/Communism
This guy, Javier Milei, has been President of Argentina for some months now, and Peak Stupidity hasn't even noted it. What a change this is from the usual back-and-forth Allendes and Perones. That back-and-forth Commie-hard-line-dictator-Commie bit is a Latin American thing that Peak Stupidity commented on in a long ago post - Mormons, Commies, Shitholes, and Crown Jewels. From that post:
Let me tell you about South America, though very generally, and about Venezuela. Back in the 1980's that country was the "crown jewel" of the continent. For various reasons, probably good stuff for another post, all the countries in Latin America has have been run badly for most of their histories. Simon Bolivar was the guy who liberated more than 1/2 the countries in South America from the Spaniards, who were no Magna Carta-drafters or Constitutional scholars themselves. Subsequent to these liberations, the mixed native-Spanish people have been running these semi-shitholes into the ground, pulling them out of the ground and back, in 10 - 50 year cycles. Some have been in the shithole phase for their entire histories so far - bad timing, that, huh? In general, down there, military juntas come and go, Commies take over for long periods, death squads try to get rid of the Commies, along with other people they never did like and so forth.It's odd to see a hard-core Libertarian, very likely a Reason magazine reader, try to run one of these places. It's been fun to watch so far, if nothing else ... and I don't know if there'll be anything else. Can you actually go in a Libertarian direction with the current population demographics of Argentina?
The following video is a bit different from our usual stuff. I am not too much a fan of AI. This video has an AI translation of Mr. Milei's speech in Spanish to English, in his own accent*, and that's pretty helpful.
Yeah, even as a solid Libertarian, I am not thrilled with this talk. Yes, Communism is economically, along with socially, destructive. Yes, Socialism often is nothing but a precursor to Communism. Free markets have been much better for the world. However, all the stats about "GDP increasing ... blah, blah..." was too long and too much. It was like an AI summary of 10 years of Reason magazine He was missing something, as is Reason magazine.
Starting at 07:52 we hear that:
"Thanks to Capitalism, the world is currently in its best moment. There's never been a moment in history with greater prosperity than the one we live in today. Today's world is freer, richer, more peaceful, and more prosperous than ever before."What's this guy smoking!? Whatever it is, it's his business, of course.
Starting at 09:47 we hear that:
"This is the model that we are proposing for the future of Argentina, a model based on the fundamental principles of Libertarianism, the defense of life, freedom, and property."... in Argentina, by Argentinians in their current demographic state? Mr. Milei noted that it's been a century since Argentina went away from free market Capitalism and got poorer and less free. Why exactly DID Argentina go in this direction a century ago? Neither Vladimir Lenin nor Leon Trotsky set up shop there. Perhaps there is a root cause that lies within the demographics of the population.
A century ago is when immigration of Spaniards and Italians into Argentina slowed down. Post-Columbus, starting with a mixture of the small number of Spaniards and the natives, the country of Argentina became Whiter until a century back. Now, most immigration is from neighboring countries which are less White, and I don't know how much of the population is up for reading an AI-translated Reason magazine.
The reader may well argue that White countries have been the first and mostly the biggest to fall to Communism. True, I don't see Latin America countries with standard Latin American demographics having been bastions of free market Capitalism and property rights.
Now, there's this guy. I like him and wish him all the luck. I especially like his dressing down of the Commies of the World Economic Forum. Will he be invited back to Davos next year?
* It also looks like the speaker's lips are moving perfectly for this English version of his speech. I don't know if that's the AI too or my imagination.
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Dispatches from The Middle Kingdom: Year of the Pet
Posted On: Tuesday - January 23rd 2024 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor China Peak Stupidity Roadshow
The Year of the Dragon is coming around again, this New Years time (Spring Festival) in China. Of the 12 animals celebrated or having superstitious fortunes based on, only 2 could be considered standard pets*, the Rabbit, which is the year just ending, and the Dog, a half cycle away. No, great Al Stewart songs notwithstanding, there is no Year of the Cat over in China.
Speaking of cats, in our early-Kung-Flu-days post Cats, bats, and spoiled brats, Peak Stupidity went off topic right away to discuss the treatment of pets in China. I can't vouch for the rest, but people say that's the Orient in general, hell, most places outside of the English speaking world and European countries. From that old post:
From my experience, the animals we love as pets, specifically your cats and dogs, aren't treated nearly as well in China. Now, that is changing as the Chinese people do get more well off, but I don't know if they'll ever have the love of animals that Americans have.Well, since our Summer '23 China visit, I've been able to corroborate from anecdotes and discussions that a love of traditional pets is growing in China. The ones I saw there were being treated better.
I chalk this partly up to more space. Where I've been in China, the cat had to be chained to the stove most of the time. Had he gotten outside, that would have been the end of him, at least for this home. I'm not saying he'd been eaten as the next meal. It's more like he'd be run over within a day or less due to the extreme congestion everywhere, or lost and hopefully adopted by another family, and tied down there. It was something I didn't even want to see, his being tied down like that.
We sure have different cultures on animals. There are Americans with all kinds of exotic ones too: llamas, emus (not so cuddly, those emus), and even tigers and other big cats. You won't see the latter, as per the owners' lawyers they are usually behind very tall solid fencing! Think of some of these exotic animals in China, and you know some kind of erection potion, or lucky health food is the normal fate of such beasts.
It's still too crowded in the villages and cities for cats to be able to roam safely, and the bustle and noise is probably a big stressor for the doggie above. At least he's not inside tied to the stove. Besides being generally more prosperous - even significantly since '17 (the last time I was there) - there's the fact that Chinese people under 40 or so are mostly only children. The companionship of pets is probably more important. The people aren't having very many children of their own either, on average**. Will China become a nation of cat ladies before what's left of America does?
Well, we too like are pets, cats especially. That long-haired dude is The Great Wall Cat of Badaling. He lives on the north side of that section, which is 40 miles CheBeiFang (NorthWest) of Peking. I guess he would have been out of The Middle Kingdom back when they built that section, but right now both sides are part of the city-province of Peking***. I was pretty impressed that this guy could jump slightly up from a small tree to one of the drain openings to get up on the wall. It likely pays off well!
She was a nice and friendly lady, though she was not exactly coming out of the sun in a silk dress running, like a watercolor in the rain... don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you in Chinese... in the meantime that fat feline was strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime... glad to stay on and no longer worried about being... in the Hot Pot of the Cat.
Hat tip goes to commenter Rex Little from our post linked-to up top. However, that's just down in Canton in the south of China, far from our Great Wall friend.
I was glad to see this trend regarding the pets in China. Maybe, if they could shake this Totalitarian bastard Xi, the Chinese could see to it to reform their silly zodiac dealy by adding a 13th, the Year of the Cat. (I can't BELIEVE I haven't already embedded this song... waiting for the right year, I guess...)
What a beautiful song! Just because of the inclusion of "patchouli" in the song, for so many years I'd thought The Year of the Cat took place in the Middle East somewhere. Now, I realize I was think tabbouli, not patchouli. Unless the song was a about tripping at a Dead show, this was surely in China. I guess that's a "no duh!" there. Interestingly, that's two 1970s British pop musicians surnamed Stewart that had a thing about the Chinese women. Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?
* You've got your Year of the Monkey, but this is not a Friends episode or Indiana Jones movie. You've also got your Year of the Snake, but reptiles are NOT real pets ... unless you're a reptile yourself. George Soros, yeah, he might find a Gila Monster to be a comfort animal. That reminds me of that funny movie with the club that eats endangered species - something about a Komodo Dragon... gonna have to find that and watch it again.
** We gotta get back to that series on the Depopulocalypse.
*** A few of the biggest of Chinese cities are their own provinces - Shanghai, Peking, Chongking, and maybe some others.
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Female Conservative SCROTUS splits, border wire hernia continues
Posted On: Monday - January 22nd 2024 4:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government Female Stupidity Morning Constitutional
We already know about SCROTUS judge John Roberts. He's been on the wrong side of a lot of decisions made in the cause of the ruination of this country. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, OTOH, is a Trump pick (one of 3), thought to have been an actual Conservative.
The Gateway Pundit had a post today - Supreme Court Sides with Biden Regime, Allows Border Patrol Agents to Remove Razor Wire at Border – Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett Vote with Liberal Justices - that gives us the bad news that Judge Barrett sided with Roberts and the anti-American side on the border invasion, in a 5-4 decision. Note that this wasn't a SCROTUS decision per say. Per The Texas Tribune here this was the "vacating [overruling] of an injunction against the Feds by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented Border Patrol agents from cutting the concertina wire.
The ctrl-left has courts make these injunctions all the time to help stop Conservatives from getting voted-on policy implemented. Because this is just a "vacation", not a decision, I can't find any written-out explanations by the 9 SCROTUS members. Perhaps they will explain themselves when there's a real decision, but in the meantime, the invasion continues apace. I realize the other 3 ctrl-lefty members of the court are glad to destroy this nation, but what about Roberts and especially Barrett? Are they just "playing by the rules" (while the other side never does), or is it about their feeeeelings! I note all 3 female members voted to stop the Texans from fighting this invasion. I no longer trust this Amy Barrett ... if I ever did.
That short Texas Tribune article notes first:
The high court’s order effectively maintains long-running precedent that the federal government — not individual states — has authority to enforce border security.Oh, so it's a solid Constitutional decision then? Well, what if the Feral Gov't does nothing of the sort, enforcement, that is, with their Authoritah, and encourages the invasion? Texas is to sit back and get invaded ... per the ... what Constitution would EVER say that?
Last summer, when the Texans took some action Peak Stupidity asked Is this how it starts?* Will this Feds vs. Texans fight get larger and put the question of Federalism in the public eye for more Americans to understand? It is Governor Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who are leading this fight for Texas and America against the traitors of the regime.
In case you think "traitorous" is too harsh a term, watch some of the video. There's some in that post of ours from last summer, and here's 2 short clips. Imagine these were the Russians, you know, trying to take over the world and all, invading across our borders. I wonder what the Neocons of the Regime would have to say about this behavior in that case.
* Two follow-up posts were Is the biggest American story of the 21st Century developing? and Texas v Feds - still the BIGGEST story.
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[UPDATED 01/23:] Added another short video clip. Thanks, Adam Smith.
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Trump v DeSantis: DeSantis taps out
Posted On: Monday - January 22nd 2024 8:04AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump President DeSantis
See previous posts from 10 rounds: Round 1 - Personalities - - Round 2 - Immunity to Kung Flu Panic - - Round 3 - Immigration Invasion - - Round 4 - Tag Team? - - Addendum - David Cole article - - Round 5 - The Ukraine/Russia War(mongering) - - Round 6 - Quantity of Hatred Generated - - Round 7 - Richard Hanania Substack post -- Round 8 - Birthright Citizenship - - Round 9 - Ken Cuccinelli interview and Round 10 - Vetoing the Hecklers.
Well, our President DeSantis topic key is not the best of labels at this point. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has also dropped out as a GOP Presidential candidate for '24. He doesn't seem to be a great campaigner. That's too bad, as that sort of effort, the showmanship, quick comeback remarks, etc. does not show one's ability to lead and get things done. Ron DeSantis is a very capable Conservative, as he has shown in Florida, yet Trump, well, we have no idea how much he's learned from his failings.
R-squad candidates seem pretty quick to give up these days, though. There hasn't been any worthwhile poll but that Iowa caucus so far - normally, you give it a shot through some of the Spring (late Winter now) primaries at least. Let me consider a comment that E.H. Hail wrote in this blog here , with a reply by Alarmist. Are the behind-the-scenes Deep State types who want this arrangement, with the (now) hard-left D-squad, Trump, and Traitor Nikki the only ones left, or just Bai Dien vs Trump again? What are they planning for Trump and his supporters in regards to cheating or contingencies upon he and his supporters** getting past that?
I tend to think things are organic, thought I've been wrong before*. It's the push to use lawfare and banana republic style actions against Trump that has gotten him continuous publicity - and he LIVES off of that - and the Conservative right even more galvanized behind him. That's hurt Ron DeSantis especially, IMO.
Namarada Randhawa, errr, Nikki Haley, that would be, has come out pretty well, what with her newfound money and all. That a large share of her supporters say they would vote for Bai Dien over Trump says a lot about Haley herself.*** I hope South Carolina GOP primary voters will humiliate their "native" daughter.
One can only hope that Trump doesn't do something so stupid as to pick Namarada as VP candidate. He'd be wise to pick Ron DeSantis for numerous reasons. I believe his ego won't let him, but I am forever hopeful.
* The J6 '21 happenings, with the new news about the pipe bombs, is an example.
** By that, I mean, we supporters need to work to fight efforts of the ctrl-left to again corrupt the election.
*** Yes, remember my occasional odd remarks here and there about Trump being a dumbass? He appointed this Neocon traitor to UN ambassador, giving her the prominence she's got.**** Or was it, as we
**** It goes along with what Mr. Hail has remarked regarding candidates who seemed to be groomed to "go places", such as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a shadow of the Mayors we once knew ... along with remarks on the ways of the •Indian political strivers in America.
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Most widely known hymns - II
Posted On: Saturday - January 20th 2024 10:59PM MST
In Topics: Music Bible/Religion
As continued from last weekend's post...
What a Friend We Have in Jesus:
Holy, Holy, Holy:
Thanks for reading and writing in, Peakers.
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Dispatches from The Middle Kingdom: Half-assed Treehuggers
Posted On: Friday - January 19th 2024 12:32PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity China Environmental Stupidity
Early on in this blog's sputtering series of posts from our trip to China, I mentioned the Peking Zoo is a different context, a social commentary on taking one's turn... or not. I found something else that suggested a blog post later on in that visit to the huge zoo.
We've discussed a little about the attempts at WoKeiProp, that being on Chinese (CCTV) TV, as seen in the breakfast room in a hotel, with some help from my Chinese source. I still wonder why the CCP cares so much about making a pretense at being woke, green, etc. They seem to do what they want within China - not America's concern, IMO - such as built another 50 or 100 coal-fired power plants while the world concerns itself with the Western economies only as they (pretend?) freak-out about the Climate Calamity™. Nobody has the moxie to argue with China on anything anymore, besides good old Donald Trump (and more power to him re: the tariffs).
Do they do this stuff to make a good, aka, virtuous, impression on their own people? Does the sign in English* match the sign in Chinese when it comes to that "climate change" business? I wish I had found that out, because that'd be interesting. Dang! I have no picture of the Chinese portion.
Well, as a country, they may make great progress in re-growing the forests that were nearly destroyed by poverty and Communism, but I really doubt the people are natural treehuggers. They will never be hippy-dippy VW-van-driving tanned pot-smoking California girls sitting in tree stands. "The
The Chinese like to have some fun too, and they are freer from the Matriarchal State, with it's "Be safe" greetings and such. Just a few hundred yards from the big mammal area where that sign resides, within this big zoo there is a fairly narrow canal on which there are boat tours. Rather than a slow staid quiet tourist-filled catamaran, they've got these speed boats with big outboard motors.*** They don't seem to slow down for any wake or noise reasons. They were coming very regularly with no thought given to noise abatement for the animals, or god forbid, the zoo-goers. It looked like a lot of fun.
This was quite the juxtaposition with that sign by the mammal. That's the situation in China, it seems. They are finally reasonably prosperous on a large scale, yet Environmentalism is big politics now. It's not fair that Americans spent years "Easing down the highway in their new Cadillacs,
they had fine foxes in front, and three more in the back.
They'd be sporting short dresses, wearing spike-heel shoes,
smoking Lucky Strikes, and wearing nylons too...
It's not fair! Chinese guys ought to be able to have some fun too.
* I've got to have a fun post about English language signage in China, before I get to our Chinese New Year's deadline for getting off the subject of that trip.
** That's in stark difference to the American way. As written long ago here in The Philosophy of Confucius: "The nail that stands up gets hammered down", the Chinese say, while Americans say "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."
*** Chinese-branded, of course, not Evinrude or Mercury, as we're used to.
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Vivek v Vikram
Posted On: Thursday - January 18th 2024 10:33PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor
I mentioned in a comment yesterday that I should have been using the name Vikram for Vivek in posts about Mr. Ramaswamy. It was hard enough to get his 1st name down (not in hindsight), but Vikram has humor value for us die-hard The Office fans. Man, if Trump had used that name for fun as one of his derogatory nicknames, as much as it would piss the guy off, he'd have gathered a solid The Office voting bloc! Hw many we number is the question, though.
Both men of the subcontinental crowd have valuable advice for us.
Vikram, errrr, Vivek, has dropped out of the GOP primary election race. Why? I thought these guys would hold out longer. Usually, the case is that they want to gather enough support to enable themselves to push some of their ideas to the winner candidate, in return for support. I don't think that works with Trump anyway, as he doesn't follow through with ideas he does agree with.
Or, does Vivek just want a high-level Government job for now? Was that Vivek's plan, to sell his hard-core no-holds-barred anti-Woke attitude to Team Trump? It comes across very well. If nothing else, he's a good salesman.
His similarly-named counterpart from The Office* is also a salesman.
The first clip shows boss Michael Scott's wonderful introduction of Vikram to his Nana's assisted-living-facility-based investment club.
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The second shows the beginning and end of Vikram's stint at the Michael Scott Paper Company:
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Imagine that ending with Trump and Vivek. That's about how much Trump listens too.
* The actor, Ranjit Chowdhry died in April '20 back in Bombay. Wiki says he was stuck in India due to Kung Flu lockdowns. He didn't play a big part in the show, but he did a good job.
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The myth of an attempt at an American Christian Theocracy
Posted On: Thursday - January 18th 2024 9:03AM MST
In Topics: History Americans ctrl-left Bible/Religion
Peak Stupidity's commenter Dieter Kief brought up a point of medium-recent American history to my mind with a comment of his under this post on Church hymns. In response to Alarmist's posting of the youtube link to the 2-minute rant/song Moral Majority by The Dead Kennedys, Mr. Kief provided the lyrics, some background of the band members' names, and interesting fodder for this post. We've got to think back to a little over 4 decades back.
The Dead Kennedys recorded the album In God We Trust, Inc. in the summer of 1981, and it was released that December. Moral Majority, the title taken from a term used in pride by said "moral majority" of the day, was one of 8 tracks on the album. Mr. Kief provided the song's lyrics for us in his comment, but I'll only insert a couple of verses, their being too long, though they were amazingly sung in 2 minutes! (Speed punk or regular old punk, I'm no big connoisseur?)
Let me think back to those early '80s years for the background. I don't know how religious President Ronald Reagan really was, but he was less overtly Christian than his predecessor Jimmy Carter. However, as Conservative as he may seem now, Jimmy was politically with the ctrl-left of the time. The idea that America would get back to the Christian-leaning (at the least) Conservatism of prior decades - meaning early '60s or before - was something that Ronald Reagan's personality and speech exuded. The ctrl-left HATED the very idea. Strong religious beliefs are, and have always been, anathema to Communists around the world. They have Communism to believe in - there is no god but Marx, and
Though Feminism had been around in a serious iteration for nearly 2 decades, and it'd been about the same time since the immigration flood started, America was still a White-man-run Christian country 42 years ago. One could find plenty of small failings of this majority - it was not Heaven on Earth, and not everyone in this majority was so moral.
Remember that pair? They were real pieces of work, one might say. Widespread viewing of TV was only 2, and, as a stretch, 3 decades old when the power of TV to evangelize on Sunday mornings to millions had gotten that big. Big money corrupts, and these 2 (allegedly) had let it corrupt them greatly. People who I'd have to call suckers sent in money to these and other corrupt Christian(?) "leaders". I will make the important note here that this was these suckers' OWN MONEY. Too bad, so sad, but not my problem as a taxpayer.
That gets us toward the point of this post. That is, for some years, maybe starting before the Reagan years, but definitely during and then well into the '90s, the ctrl-left pushed a brand of fear-mongering about the right wanting to implement an American Christian Theocracy. Now, it IS possible these people were THAT stupid, but otherwise they were lying sacks of shit when it came to that charge. Not all American Christians at the time were Libertarians (I WISHED!), but these were patriots - for ill or good - who did believe in the founding principles of the country. The left didn't, BTW.* There was absolutely NOBODY on the right, at any kind of political political level I ever heard from, who pushed for US Gov't control of religion.
The ctrl-left had been anti-Christian for a long time already, having started with the school prayer and Christmas pageants. I suppose the Moral Majority idea scared them, in that their continual struggle to push Christianity out of America might be headed off at the pass by Reagan and cohorts. So they came up with this idea that the Moral Majority was planning on implementing The Handmaid's Tale** in America. (I assume the handmaids would be the Brooke Shields, Cheryl Tiegs, Phoebe Cates, and Christy Brinklies, so it honestly didn't sound so awfully bad to me ...)
I have nothing against Punk Rock. However, at that time in American music, there was so much other great stuff that Punk Rock was not an interest. I did go see The Clash though - good show. I only know The Dead Kennedys from decades later, but what I gather is that they were suckers for the ctrl-left bullshit story on the attempt at an American Christian Theocracy.
The 5th verse of Moral Majority per Dieter Kief***:
Blow it out your ass, Jerry Falwell!Jerry Falwell was not one of those involved in the monetary corruption scandals of the early 1980s. If you didn't like him, he could be turned off. We could use 100 Jesse Helm's in the Senate. I really miss guys like that. (The closest in spirit we've got now, IMO, are the Matt Gaetzs and MTGs.) Ronnie (with lots of help) won the Cold War, keeping The Dead Kennedys safer from nuclear Armageddon, so ...
Blow it out your ass, Jesse Helms!
Blow it out your ass, Ronald Reagan!
What's wrong with a mind of my own?
You don't want abortions, you want battered children.
You want to ban the pill as if that solves the problem.
Now you wanna force us to pray in school.
God must be dead if you're such a fool.
The rest of the verse is also falsehoods. Nobody wanted to FORCE anyone into any religious practice. Abortion is another story.
Verse 4:
Stodgy ayatollahs in their dobble-knit tiesThey understood who would create an ACTUAL theorcracy:
burn lots of books so they can feed you their lies,
masturbating with a flag and a Bible.
God must be dead if you're alive.
DuckDuckGo "dead kennedys anti muslim songs":
Search results:
Not many results contain muslimWherever the Moslem Theocracy may reign, I don't think The Dead Kennedys will be able to book a venue. Just keeping their heads would be a good day!
Search only for death kennedys anti "muslim" songs?
* They cared greatly about specific Constitutional principles back in the '60s... because those principles kept them from serious jail time.
** There's more to that story though. Pollution had made most women infertile, I just read on the IMDB page. That was 1990 though - now it'd be the Climate Calamity™ that had made them infertile. I would choose Greta Thunburg as my handmaid, with a happy happy ending. "Oh, Greta, how dare you?!"
*** Any typos are due to 1) Dieter Kief, 2) the internet, and 3) The Dead Kennedys themselves, in reverse order of likeliness. (I always put in punctuation though.)
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Lael Brainard - Economic Advisor
Posted On: Wednesday - January 17th 2024 5:32PM MST
In Topics: Humor Economics
From Yahoo - taking an immediate screen shot was a no-brainard for me.
As the 8 1/2 by 11" little poster on the wall of the secretary's office long ago read:
* Fixing up your bad English: 50¢Upon looking up her bio I read the New York Times blurb:
* Clothing advice: $1
* Listening to your personal problems: $2
* Dumb looks are still free!
Lael Brainard is tapped for vice chair of the Federal Reserve.Tapped, haha! .. for the Fed, enough said.
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Americans freeze due to the Climate Calamity™
Posted On: Wednesday - January 17th 2024 4:32PM MST
In Topics: Music Global Climate Stupidity
I've been through all these except McAllen, Texas*.
We're obviously not putting enough Carbon Dioxide "emissions" into the air. I've had enough of this cold already, and the "forecasters" at Apple in Cupertino - high today, 61F, low tomorrow morning, 45F, bastards! - are telling me this will last for a week. (Perhaps they are wrong - that's usually the case.)
Here's what the Fox News weather site asked:
Why has the winter been mild, and what is changing that?So, in other words, you don't know.
El Niño is partly to blame for the mild winter so far in the U.S. During an El Niño winter, the temperatures in the northern U.S. are usually warmer** and drier than average, according to NOAA. The jet stream generally flows from west to east.
"So we were pretty lucky for a good chunk of the month of December and even into the very beginnings of January, but now it's been a kind of page turn, if you will, a complete flip of the script," FOX Weather Meteorologist Kendall Smith said. "Because now we're starting to see that cold air that has been locked in place over Canada and over the Arctic. That's going to be starting to change."
As we stated long ago in Part 5 of our series There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!, if you don't know when El Nino or La Nina is coming, then how can you claim to have a working model of the entire climate? This phenomenon has at least been studied and has some predictive value (except this time), one of the few season long trends that seems to be partially understood, its effect on North America at least. From that long ago post:
However, as my debating opponent admitted, the El Nino effect is NOT KNOWN ABOUT UNTIL IT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS. (Same with La Nina, the opposite effect). So, I asked the gentleman if El Nino/La Nina are INPUTS to, or OUTPUTS from, these climate models. The answer is neither.So then, if you can't predict El Nino, if it's an input to the model then it's garbage in, but if it's an output of your model than we can see your model sucks ... because we can't predict El Nino. Well, I mean 3 months after it starts each time, we can, so there's that ...
I don't like this Arctic Freeze business. I purposely live far from the Arctic Circle, and I shouldn't have to put up with. It's a calamity, what with the car batteries not up to the task, the pipes in danger of freezing, and the cat freaking out because we won't let him out to chase anything. (You give him a taste of the cold, he comes back in, and 5 minutes later he's forgotten the whole thing.) Let Fox Weather give you some more temperatures:
It's so cold [How cold IS it?! - Ed(itor) McMahon] that the National Weather Service has issued Wind Chill Advisories and Warnings from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. Temperatures are 25-35 degrees below average for mid-January, which is already one of the coldest months for most places.And the cats. Will somebody please think of the cats?!
Fortunately, the coldest air is already behind us as temperatures begin to moderate a bit in the next 48 hours, the FOX Forecast Center said. The intensity of the cold air will decrease as temperatures become only 10-20 degrees below average, but the long duration of this arctic blast could stress people and infrastructure.
Well, OK, per Fox Weather, the climate will get better. Per a well-known Climate Political Scientist, the Earth has had a fever. These are the chills you often get when you have a fever. It's letting up, so it'll only be 10 to 20 below average soon, and those are just Fahrenheit degrees, 5/9 the size of the Celsius ones.
With that word "calamity" a particular song from 14 years back always comes into my head. This is I think the 3rd time it's appeared here, but how many good songs do they make these days? It helps a lot to have help from REM, as the guitarist here did (from Peter Buck, that is). One good riff can make a great song.
The Calamity Song is by a band called The Decemberists. After hearing this I was very hopeful, but I didn't find another from them that I liked much.
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The lyrics are nonsense, very much in the REM style, but who cares? Turn it up!!
* That's one of the BIG invasion points. We're gonna have to start calling the "migrants" Icebacks, the way this is going.
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Well, I thought about the Army...
Posted On: Tuesday - January 16th 2024 9:10PM MST
In Topics: Music US Feral Government Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
... Dad said "Son, you're fucking high." Sorry about that language right from the get go, but that's the song lyric that fits this post to a T.
As anti-male, anti-white, and anti-normal as the Potomac Regime is, why would any normal white male want to have anything to do with it, barring planned subterfuge*? Additionally, seeing as how the Regime armed forces do nothing resembling* defending this nation but rather spend money and lives as the offenders around the world, one sure wouldn't be signing up for the military in order to defend his country.
What a quaint notion that is anymore ... yet,White men have been the ones doing a disproportionate amount of the fighting, killing, and dying since the American armed forces have been integrated, and before too, of course. However, since the end of the Vietnam War, in all the wars America has been involved with all over the world, we've greatly outgunned the enemy. The Cold War was scary for the general population along with the military, but it stayed mostly cold. For many decades, joining the military was a fairly risk-free way of getting lots of free training, education, and world travel (for some) on Uncle Sam. (Plus, one can get on airliners first, before often even 1st class passengers and be thanked for "your service".)
My point is that joining the military has been a pretty good deal for many decades.** Over the last couple though, and especially the last 5 to 10 years, the hatred, ridicule, and marginalization of normal White men coming from the "leadership" of the armed forces has gotten blatant. I've read so many comments telling young White men to stay out, even from those whose families have sent generation after generation of young men to war and/or military careers. I have agreed. I see now that this advice seems to have taken hold.
From Mike LaChance of The Gateway Pundit, I read REPORT: U.S. Army Sees Massive Decline in White Recruits. Here are a few numbers:
The total number of white recruits is down by nearly half in the past 5 years, from 44,042 white recruits in 2018 to 25,070 in 2023 under Joe Biden and his abusive woke policies and frightening foreign policy.Mr. LaChance mentioned the vaccine mandates too, but I figure that my have effected possible recruits of all races/ethnicities. In general, the military is having a hard time recruiting. It's not just White men. However:
In 2018, 56.4% of new recruits were categorized as white. In 2023, that number had fallen to 44%. During that same five-year period, Black recruits have gone from 20% to 24% of the pool, and Hispanic recruits have risen from 17% to 24%, with both groups seeing largely flat recruiting totals but increasing as a percentage of incoming soldiers as white recruiting has fallen.This quick article didn't have numbers broken out by sex. For a man who would join to really be a soldier, the women-in-combat thing in general ruins the whole concept.
Well, this is good news. People are learning. Let the Potomac Regime try to rule the world with their expensive social experiment. Some worry that the type of recruits joining up now bode ill in that they will not be the ones to rebel against being turned against Americans when it comes to that. Point taken, but then I don't see this diverse crowd as one who would win against Americans in arms either.
Peak Stupidity will repeat a song we embedded 7 years ago - Ben Folds - 3 semesters of college for only 15 grand. This is the song that starts with the lyrics up top. The Ben Folds Five was a 3-member band out of Chapel Hill, N. Carolina. Ben Folds was a great entertainer in the vein of the Piano Man Billy Joel. He wrote some great lyrics for many of his songs, and Army, from the album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, is no exception.
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* Such as, say, joining the Border Patrol and defying orders in order to patrol the border or something devious and crazy like that.
** Some posts from 4 years back along these lines are: Death from Above, Assasinations, and Declaration of War, Arrogance from the American Military, and Outside it's America.
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Trump v DeSantis: Round 10 - Vetoing the Hecklers
Posted On: Monday - January 15th 2024 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 University Humor Global Climate Stupidity Trump Deep State President DeSantis
It's been quite a while since we've posted an installment of Peak Stupidity's Trump v DeSantis series. It's perfect timing to have one of them on the day of the Iowa caucus populatirty match-up. Let me link here to the previous rounds: Round 1 - Personalities - - Round 2 - Immunity to Kung Flu Panic - - Round 3 - Immigration Invasion - - Round 4 - Tag Team? - - Addendum - David Cole article - - Round 5 - The Ukraine/Russia War(mongering) - - Round 6 - Quantity of Hatred Generated - - Round 7 - Richard Hanania Substack post -- Round 8 - Birthright Citizenship and Round 9 - Ken Cuccinelli interview.
This time, we have a real apples-to-apples comparison between these two Conservative (best we can seem to get) GOP Presidential candidates, with video to display here for comment.
The Gateway Pundit is a site I've been frequenting since my recent loss. Jim Holt, who writes much of the material is not my favorite by any means - I'll comment on the site another time - but he gets into these little stories of the moments, in a way like a gossip site, but without involving the Kardashians. (This is different garbage.)
I'm not sure if this was the timetable in real time, but the Gateway Pundit site had 2 stories within a day on each of these 2 candidates having dealt with "Climate Justice" activists disrupting their Iowa speeches. They may deal with this sort of thing more often than we see, and from protesters of various other issues. They may as well exercise some veto power here, skillfully, in order to rally the crowd. These were both by Climate Calamity™ activists and seemingly similar-scale venues. This makes for a great comparison of one personality trait or skill between the 2 men.
Since Ron DeSantis is the challenger, in a way, his video comes first:
Donald Trump, the champion (of something, bullshittery or better, shallow-Statedness, i.e. least connected to the Deep State) comes last:
What do these 2 veto reactions to the protester/hecklers say about these 2 men? Let me compare. I will say that Ron DeSantis come-back, once he got around to it, was fairly good. These kind of crap IS what American universities are coming out with as "product". It was a good point. What Donald Trump did, in his case, was to make a juvenile remark instead.
Here's the problem with Ron DeSantis' reaction, after that guy made that quick tackle, that is. It took WAY too long, way, way, way too long, from after the guy was "quieted down" at 0:12 to 0:27, that's 15 seconds! After 3 seconds, then 5 seconds, I figured, well, I got something, so what's the Governor gonna say. I haven't found much to disagree with him on, and I figure that'd hold when it came to the stupidity we write about often here with the Global Climate Stupidity topic key. The delay by Governor DeSantis was far too long for a good comeback to be the most effective.
I'd have done better. I don't say this in hindsight, as something I thought about the next morning while in the shower. No, as I waited maybe 3 seconds, I already had something in my head. The trick to "thinking on one's feet", which is what this is about, is to get an idea going, with a start that might allow for some follow-up thinking WHILE one has started talking. Here's me: "Nice tackle, but wait, ... " [I'd be thinking ahead here] "I gotta say, this guy may have a real point here. I mean ... I mean, it's 10 degrees outside and blowin'! I was right here in Iowa a few months back, and I was sweatin' my balls off! I mean, something's goin' on...." Sarcasm, and yes, some crudeness, and humor. It works ... for me at least... I'm LOLing as I write.
Perhaps one must have an inkling of how he'd start off in "vetoing" these hecklers ahead of time. I'm not sure. This is something that Donald Trump is very good at, though. He did have one advantage here - so, this is not QUITE apples-to-apples - in that his crowd was louder, so he had time during his mindlessly saying "That's alright", "thank you" or whatever, to get a thought going. However, I don't think he needed that. He's good at this.
What'd Trump finally come out with, with pretty good timing as the crowd settled down? "Go home to Mommy." Haha, I am LOLing writing this one too, in fact! Every! Single! Time! I think about it, I've LOLed. (Yeah, that'll wear off eventually.) It's humorous and silly. It's just so GOOD though!
Note that neither of the 2 candidates actually addressed the Climate Calamity™ issue with an argument. That's fine. It wasn't the time for that, and, as Peak Stupidity has discussed recently, with the ctrl-left nowadays, on the campaign trail, and maybe anywhere, it's NEVER the time.
I think Ron DeSantis is more intelligent than Trump, more of a tactical and strategic thinker, and more capable of GETTING! STUFF! DONE! He's just not as good a campaigner. This thinking on one's feet and coming up with a quick comeback is important, no matter how silly (haha, "Go home ot your Mommy!", LOL) it is.
In Round 10, it's Trump by a knock-out. Ron DeSantis, go home to your Mommy!
PS: My wife just showed me that Trump won the Iowa caucus handily. See?
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Most widely known hymns
Posted On: Saturday - January 13th 2024 8:02PM MST
In Topics: Music Bible/Religion
In our most recent Christmas post, with that classic Christmas music, Peak Stupidity mentioned a coming post about modern church music versus old-timey hymns. I realized that I'd written most of what I intended to say already, but in a post from nearly 5 years back, Modern Church music is not the Rock of Ages.
From that post:
It's just not church if you don't have the old familiar hymns, sung, or better yet, sung and accompanied by a loud pipe organ, that's all there is to it. The hymns are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. They've been time-tested, see, while the new songs played on guitar, keyboards, and bass have not.I couldn't have said it better myself, again - I was about to write nearly the same thing.
Because the tunes don't stay in the churchgoers heads, the lyrics don't either. It doesn't help when the tunes are complex and don't have a simple bunch of verses and same chorus. You can tell this music doesn't stick, because, well look at the picture above. That big screen up there is required, with a dot that goes from syllable to syllable, to show those who want to sing where they are in the song at all times. For a good solid song, you shouldn't need that.
I'll just add that I've paid more attention to the music and the lyrics lately to note what the problem is with the modern stuff. One lady even had a song of her own that could be included nicely with the famous hymns - it was that good. The other two of hers, however, would have been great for a Christian music album, but nobody else is gonna get them down pat.. You can't be singing in Church wondering "where's that confounded bridge?!" Keep it simple.
That last page had this good churchy version of Rock of Ages, so I'll embed it again. This hymn has got to be in top 5 most well known. If this were #2 behind Amazing Grace, then #3 would be How Great Thou Art, wouldn't it? Were you to walk around town 60 years go in America on a Sunday morning, you'd be bound to hear one of them.
Believer or not, this kind of music is moving, that's for sure. Happy Sunday, Peakers! Thanks for reading and especially for writing in. Next week, there's bound to be a China post or two, a few odds and ends, and we'll try to get back to various series that we've dropped.
PS: I sure hope some readers get the Zeppelin reference. Asterisks shouldn't be necessary.
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From VDare: An antifa Feel-Good story and a story of Strife Importation
Posted On: Saturday - January 13th 2024 2:07PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left
Of course, the regular reader will know that VDare.com is up top of a short list of Peak Stupidity's favorite sources of material. That's due to that the immigration flavor of stupidity is the most critical one when it comes to
Because the overall idea is to save the "historic American nation", VDare must cover the Cultural Revolution we are undergoing in addition to the pur flat-out Population Replacement Programme*. From Jason Kessler, VDare's man in Charlottesville, VA (and the long political and legal aftermath), has reported Four Antifa Goons Who Attacked Charlotteville Unite The Right Protesters Are Dead. What Gives?
I'll tell you what gives, Mr. Kessler. What gives is their vital bodily systems, and that's some very welcome news. The Commie scum Donald Blakney, William Lovell, Robert Mellado, and Caeden Famiglio are gone from this World, having left at fairly young ages. Why? Why ask why? Mr. Kessler suggests and speculates on 1) Murder, 2) COVID vaccine deaths, 3) Drug overdoses, and/or 4) Normal heart attacks. In his post, this veteran of the '17 Charlottesville skirmish Anarcho-Tyranny asks for readers' theories. How about, because God does mete out justice, and maybe life is fairer than we (can) realize?
Though he sounds mostly pleased, Jason Kessler does worry about these deaths and lost witness testimony. I'm no lawyer, but I guess I could see where the other side may help the cause of those caught in the Regime Anarcho-Tyranny, still 6 1/2 years later. However, 3 days after this good news post, he had some more good news about the legal battles: MORE CHARLOTTESVILLE NARRATIVE COLLAPSE: Prosecutors (As Well As Judges) Forced To Recuse In Unite The Right Tiki Torch Persecutions. (Yes, tiki torches are said to be dangerous weapons of fire. Anyone recall a homemade flame-thrower used there that day? I do - it was by one of the antifa Commies.)
Regarding the current North v South game of IAHP (Illegal Alien Hot Potato), VDare writer A.W. Morgan recently reported Great Replacement Update: “Migrant” Ethnic Gangs Form In Tent City, Two Illegals Fight About Woman, One Stabbed And Dies. This business is happening in New York City. One thing New Yorkers (the city) have been very proud of for years is that, instead of being hateful, xenophobic bigots like those Texans, they are very welcoming people with yard signs even, proclaiming this, and they have spotlighted New York City as a Sanctuary City!
All are welcomed. There are no such things as illegal human beings, A Sanctuary City is a place for all of us to get along in perfect harmony. New York City is an environment of safety, harmony, and tolerance, so all you violent new migrants can just get the fuck out and go back to Texas!**
That's what I'm getting out of this anyway ... but, wait, that was to be another post. (We're rolling, but we'll expand on this later.) The point here has to do with the importation of all manner of foreigners from the 4 corners of the Earth. Peak Stupidity mentioned the Swedish practice of important relatively equal numbers of Iraqis and Iranians in Importing a Civil War, in Sweden.
Ah but, in America large-scale immigration is just of those nice family-values- (and refried beans-) laden Mexicans, as it is still unfortunately envisioned by most Americans. Yeah, well, that does mean that significant areas of the country become parts of Mexico or Guatemala, but you can drive around them on a half tank of gas or even drive through with the windows down. Yes, there are the unfortunate violent gangs with that UK spy network-sounding name out of Salvador that we didn't expect, and, well, the cartels are supposed to stay down there ...
The latest 8-10 million man surge is another story, but even before this, it's not like we haven't been getting foreigners from places like Haiti, Guyana, Senegal, and other countries that even most undergrad Geographers wouldn't bet their student loan money they could find on a map. Are they all to get along swimmingly once they set foot on the Magic Dirt™ of multicultural-experimental America?
Americans are supposed to be tolerant and get along with all these varied peoples, pretty much by law. Why can't these other people all just get along with each other? A.W. Morgan excerpts the New York Post:
They said some of the migrants around them have split into “camps” based on their ethnicity and native countries, with Hispanics, Africans and Haitians occasionally at odds, while many are armed with knives and typically petty crimes can be rampant.The've kept their weapons, but they must have accidentally left their family values at the border. We're importing strife is what we're doing. Hopefully we can soon switch to exports ... for the balance of trade.
“Everyone has a knife,” migrant Mauricio Pinto said.
Moroccan migrant Nabil Jajhlaq added, “There is a lot of stealing.
“If you put your phone down or your charger for a moment, they take it immediately. Any of your stuff that you don’t have they will take.
“There is [sic] definitely camps,” he said.
* Since Peter Brimelow, founder and head of VDare, is from the UK, I made the spelling error on purpose to show solidarity.
** Shades of Michael Scott? Yes, he's been a big influence on my life.
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J6 Patriots: Hostages or Political Prisoners?
Posted On: Thursday - January 11th 2024 6:21PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Trump US Feral Government
Donald Trump has been calling the J6 Political Prisoners "hostages". So has (Upstate) NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, the lady on the right*, though I don't know if she got that from Mr. Trump.
Trump is very good about coming up with soundbites, derogatory terms, and such. You kind of need some of that stuff to get the patriotic public aware and rile them up. This is not 1984 with a left-wing but generally civil opposition around. After all, the Attorney General, a man some liken to the old USSR's Lavrentiy Beria, has put over a thousand decent Americans in Washington prisons for daring to hold a protest and get a little rowdy.
The use of "hostage" for these poor guys doesn't make so much literal sense to me. Who or what exactly are these people being held for? Maybe it's that Trump, with his YUGE ego, thinks that this is all about him. It may have started about him, but it's more than that now.
Peak Stupidity will stick with the use of "Political Prisoner" to describe the J6 guys languishing in FS dungeons. Along with "hostages", it also describes a situation one would expect in a Banana Republic. It seems more accurate though. I wish that term would get more traction.
Finally, if Donald Trump gets elected this November and then doesn't pardon these people on January 20th of '25, then he is just the tool I often think of him as.
* She was the one seen grilling a few of those Ivy League U. Presidents a few weeks back. I don't know much else about her as of now.
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