Marjorie Taylor Greene summarizes the Feral Gov't national security threat
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 1:34PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity has written much praise about this Congresswoman from northwest Georgia, all of it in the one post MTG v AOC.* (The regular reader will likely know where we stand regarding the latter contender.)
The recent Gateway Pundit** post titled Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Offer Grim Assessment of National Security After Chairman Turner’s Suspicious Warning describes an excellent use by MTG of ctrl-left/NeoCon talk about "national security challenges" to summarize the ACTUAL "challenges"*** that face this country. One might call this a troll job, as MTG answers this new (Ukraine support-requiring) NeoCon concern with her agreement, but then describes the ACTUAL concerns. I'll excerpt it all. First, she's concerned along with everybody:
Are we facing a national security threat?Let her summarize this national security threat, to avoid any misunderstanding:
It’s my duty to be honest with you. Yes. It’s real.
I went to the briefing today in the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility].
Our President is a dementia patient in charge of our country and the nuclear football, who ripped our border wide open to over 10 million people and counting from over 160 countries around the world and 2 million of them we never caught, however an unknown number of those are in fact terrorists who want to kill you.Wheeewwww, sounds bad! Anything else?
Not only that, the administration has empowered the criminal cartels and they not only control most of our southern border, but are also making tens of billions from human and drug trafficking and have expanded their international operations to have a strong foothold inside the United States.
Along with that, the government you trusted with your hard earned tax dollars has enslaved us all in over $34 TRILLION in debt. Communists China owns most of our debt and China makes most of our critical chain supplies, you know like medications that keep many of you alive.
Now the interest rate on that debt is climbing so fast that the annual interest alone is soon to be bigger than our entire defense budget.
Turns out the “smart people” running the federal government have made so many bad decisions with foreign policy, sanctions, and trade that our dollar is under dire threat and soon could no longer be the world’s currency.
This means that your 401K’s, retirement accounts, stock portfolios, and savings could soon be worthless and your government mandated social security account that most of you depend on in retirement could soon be wiped out.
These are just a few of the terrifying top national security threats we face.Yep. The rest of the threats are regularly described here on the Peak Stupidity blog.
Miss (now?) Greene wraps up the troll job:
However, perhaps the greatest threat is the federal government has become so powerful over the people that it leaks “intelligence” to the press in order to pressure Congress to make certain votes, protect its own power to spy on its own citizens, maintain power and protect its own job security, and most terrifying of all has become weaponized to crush its political enemies.Absolutely right!
All of this you I’m telling you didn’t come from the SCIF, you already know, and I’m depending on you to help me stop our greatest national security threat, the one from within.
That's no slur there. As seen in Patton - we have a clip in this old post.
* Our follow-up to that post, MTG v AOC, Afterword: Women in politics discusses a subject that we'll broach again in a post to come soon.
** Yeah, I know. I've been getting 1/2 the posts off of there. A review is coming.
*** "Challenges" has been a Big Biz euphemism/buzz-word for "big freaking problems" for a few decades now.
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Chinese low-budget translation services
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2024 7:09AM MST
In Topics: Humor China
I don't remember where the following sign was, exactly.
"Straddling"? Is that what they meant? Even that's neither the best translation of the Chinese text* nor a good match with the symbology. The Chinese says "No climbing". 10 letters, that'd be, same as "No striding". How hard would it be to get this right?
This was in the impressive cable car that brought us up to, and later down from, the Great Wall. (I think our general tickets covered it, and we did - some of our party - get our exercise on the wall.)
Well, yeah, that too. Don't get the small window ledge dirty and spread those Kung Flu germs by stepping on it. More importantly, no, indeed, don't go trampling people inside the cable car. How that would be accomplished, I have no idea.
Same place, but I think this was at the other end.
You shouldn't step here either, and heaven forbid you cause a stampede of tourists out the doors onto the hillside. Bad grammar aside, I wonder if this was actually about noise. The Chinese authorities want to make sure nobody cranks up The Doobie Brothers. That makes the best sense, when you ...
Alas, my source says the Chinese text translates to "no stepping here", as does the one above - look closely and you can see that those circles, squiggles, and arrows match - great problem for a kid's puzzle book.
We appreciate the humor, but I ask you, Mr. Xi, how much does it cost to hire a GOOD Chinese-to-English translator? What I'd recommend is the hiring of an expert who's been to America, maybe even one who's been a visiting scholar specializing in Engrish.
* Can you call the characters "text"?
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The strange death of CCP U-boat Commander Angela Chao
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 5:34PM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists Cars China Deep State
OK, I really would like to find out what type of Globalist, Deep State, Chinese Communist Party, whatever strange stuff was behind the "motor vehicular accident" that killed Senator Mitch McConnell's (Traitor-KY-jellied) sister-in-law. Let me rephrase that: "... that happened to Angela Chao on the day she was killed."
However, as I started reading about said accidental death in this Gateway Pundit article, I soon came across some strange detail: Kyle Bass, the CIO of Hayman Capital Management, reported, “Chao entered her Tesla and backed into a pond on the ranch and passed away.” OK, I'm sorry, but that's funny cause it was really unexpected. That's not... really... a car accident, per se...
Without the ability to make comments myself, I just had to scroll down to see if any commenters had run with the ball here. Bingo:
The Crucible 100+ Upvotes 4 hours ago:
Asian drivers.....After you stop laughing, you really need to take this short on-line sensitivity course from the Michael Scott School of D.I.E. I mean, who here hasn't been "Koi Ponded"?:
Whatta ya gonna do.....
Now she'll be voting democrat for the next 100 years.
Anyway, we don't know it was the CCP that done it, or the Deep State, the Jab, or just some some bad Asian Chao. It's possible that the poor lady was not up to anything untoward or threatened to the point of suicide. She is Chinese AND a woman, prone to following rules to the letter. When the GPS says turn right, dammit, you turn right, and when it says back up, you back up.
I wonder what happens when you short out a 100 kWhr battery pack. I think I'd rather be in an IC-powered car, maybe even one with manual windows.*
Oh, yeah, about the title - it's from Risky Business, one of my favorite movie lines ever, at the very end of this clip:
I don't know what's so enormously funny about seeing water pour out of cars that ended up in lakes, but there just is.
* Peak Stupidity speculated on this type of situation in Chappaquiddick, the movie, the man, and the manslaughter(?).
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Impeachment of foreign traitor Mayorkas and the use of appropriate terminology
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2024 7:01AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government ctrl-left
We'd have been better off getting another 100,000 criminals out of Cuba than this guy.
Well, he's been impeached on the 2nd vote, but, no, that doesn't mean much. Conviction in a trial by Senator-jurors requires 2/3 of them to vote yea, which will never happen, of course.
I suppose this is just a show, but VDare writers do like to see this, as it brings the immigration invasion issue that much further into the light. (I think it's in the light pretty well now, what with 10 million or so new aliens in the nation* since Bai Dien and Majorkas opened the floodgates.)
Let's get something straight though. Even from the best of sources, I keep reading terms like "foment", "derelict", and "botch". NO! As head of Motherland Security under which fall the agencies like ICE, BP, etc. Mayorkas did not foment trouble down there on the Rio Grande. Mayorkas was not derelict in his duty to control the border. Mayorkas did not botch the job.
This was all purposeful action to let in millions of unknown foreigners to destroy the American Nation. The more let in via various schemes the more encouragement there's been for others to make their way from all over the world. This has been a 3-year act of deliberate destruction.
I can think of other terms for punishment of traitors like Alejandro Majorkas other than "impeachment."
* Alien Nation is the name of the book VDare founder Peter Brimelow wrote 30 years ago. If this nation had heeded that book 3 decades ago, we'd be in lots better shape.
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The Forbidden City
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2024 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Humor China
This wasn't THE Forbidden City, per se, as we didn't get the necessary tickets, and God forbid we should take a look at the Forbidden City without tickets. However, in this place in Old Peking lots of shit is forbidden, so it may as well be.
This reminds me of the part in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 in which the one Major is told that scheduling parades would not fly, but he would be welcome to at least cancel parades. All the no-no's here hint at what one could do here.
From top left, right-to-left then top-to-bottom:
- Is that a tree? I can't tell what it is. Maybe it means don't go making up your own Chinese characters here.
- No fires. What about firecrackers, though? You can't tell Chinese people no firecrackers. I don't care if it WERE the Forbidden City.
- No smoking. That may not fly either in China.
- You mean we could have gone fishing?
- I think that's littering. Good luck with that one.
- No crossing one's legs? What about girls in silk dresses running like watercolors in the rain?
- No picking random plant leaves, figuring anything green is a good enough vegetable.
- Shouldn't be a problem, if you obey the previous rule.
- Old-fashioned dual tandem rollerskating is prohibited. As specific as these rules are, I would take that as NOT forbidding quad inline skates, aka, rollerblades. Excellent! They are much faster and more fun.
- They've got a place to ice skate? What a shame then.
- Not being allowed to swim is not a big burden. Swimming is just not so popular in China.
- You can't go bringing ladders in here and start climbing them... O... K?
- Bugle calls are forbidden.
- No 1960s automobiles allowed - this ain't Cuba, you know, and most importantly...
- We are watching you to make sure no fun is had by all!
Note: We'll stop with the Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom title, though these handful of posts to come showing Chinese signage are from our Summer '23 trip. As opposed to this sign with the "icons", the rest will be the signs in poorly translated English that get pretty funny.
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Texas Megachurch shootout - Will a tranifesto be forthcoming?
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2024 8:11AM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Bible/Religion
Quick guess: I doubt this perp can write very well, in any language. The Gateway Pundit is where I came upon this story, Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Transgender Immigrant from El Salvador. He, or she, has got it all, all the bonafides to be resentful of normal people's privilege.
I mean, we've got an alien AND a tranny here, maybe from Transexual Transylvania. Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab ... no, wait, it's just another violent import from the worst of Latin America, this time El Salvador.
You think this dude(?)'s confused? He's not the only one. I'm still really confused myself. What I read from Mr. Hoft* is that this Genesse Ivonne Moreno, named pretty sexily, if I may say so, USED TO be one Jeff Escalante. Here are all the facts, Jack, straight off of SCMODS (State Country Municipal Offendor Database):
Wait, whaaaa?? The only thing SCMODS got right for sure is hair and eye color.
Female? I'd need a different camera angle.
Non-Hispanic? Excuse me? Is the dbase familiar with El Salvador. Plus, look at him, errr, her?
White? Not really, but that may depend on one's Photoshop settings.
190 lb at 5'5"? Again, a different camera angle is necessary.
So, I guess this shooting was perpetrated by yet another angry White guy... as per SCMODS. Let's leave the photos and dBase printout off the news
This is why I am confused as to the direction of this transition (from the same article - guess I should read elsewhere):
It sounds like it was girl-to-boy. She looked OK back in the day. I hope I can say that without having been gay, but that remains to be seen.
Oh, and, "The church was transitioning between services ..." I'll say! It was written like this multiple times. ".. and gearing up for a Spanish language service." Well Joel Osteen, Megachurch Pastor and big-time youtubevangelist, that was very welcoming of you. More butts in pews... and more brass in the aisles.
PS: You all may very well see this story on the iSteve (Sailer) blog. He's very interested in this sort of thing, and maybe he can clear up the direction in which this transexual transitioned.
PPS: The 2 LEOs (who are not the astrological sign I get along with so well, per the newspaper columns) that fired and killed this alien tranny both had under 5 years experience, per the article. Besides this effort, they also shot a churchgoer in the leg and also critically wounded (last I read) the 4-5 y/o kid brought along to the shooting by this nutcase. Man, most "civilian", that is non-cop American gun-owners would do better than this. Did they not think of what's in the background and just start firing away?
* This one was written by the site owner/operator Jim Hoft.
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Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, Globalist Pro-Invasion Pastor
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2024 2:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Bible/Religion
The serious Peak Stupidity readers read the comments. There's good stuff in there, sometimes even from your Moderator. Back under our Christmas Day '23 post, I'd noted that I had listened to a certain Globalist Christian preacher, and there was a little bit of discussion on that.
Sure enough, now it's been a month and a half, so I don't have all the guy's exact words in my head. I need to stop doing this, but too much other stupidity keeps coming up!
Anyway, the man's name is Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, currently living, teaching, preaching, and writing in Greater Chicago, or "Chicagoland", as they call it. I had the pleasure of walking out on his guy in a crowd of 1,200 people. That was the 2nd day of his talks - I am nothing if not patient.
Kevin Vanhoozer is a thinking man's pastor, I'd say. He's written a lot, included a book, Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge, the on-line version of which commenter Adam Smith kindly included in said comments a couple of days after Christmas.
I wrote that comment in disgust of this guy's politics, not his religious views. That was only after his 1st talk, the one I DIDN'T walk out from. That didn't mean I liked it though. Dr. Vanhoozer had 2 things to say that day that pissed me off.
Firstly, his attitude of the Nation of Christianity being more important than any ethnic/political nation is understandable, but the man came out against Nationalism period. (Again, I wish I remembered the wording.) I don't think that really jives so well with the Bible. I don't like the "give unto Caesar" bit in Romans any more than the next patriot, especially when Caesar is the US Feral Government. Still, what I got out of Kevin Vanhoozer in his 1 1/2 hour talk was that he is gung ho for filling seats in Church above anything else. That's an attitude that the folks at VDare have seen and detested for a long time. Yeah, we'll bring in Hispanics by the hundreds of millions to keep the pews and coffers full. They are all Christians right, even the violent Venezuelans and the MS-13 from Salvador.
Next, as to the point Mr. Hail replied to, Dr. Vanhoozer specifically said remarks as to Christianity not being a particularly European thing. That is balderdash. Would the Chinese people - many in attendance there - have even heard about Jesus Christ, had missionaries not poured into the place for a hundred years? After the fall of Rome, it was only the Western churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern version (OK, slightly into Asia, to be fair) who kept the religion going for a full millennium, between the fall of Rome and the Enlightenment*! Not only that, but were it not for the resistance of the Europeans, in some places for most of that time, Islam may have taken over half the World! Who is this guy?!
Yeah, well, as I was a glutton for punishment... and also, the wife convinced me, I went to the 2nd talk. This was too much, also with 2 main points that got to me.
This one started off interesting enough, as Dr. Vanhoozer discussed the decline of things like trust. Like a Steve Sailer or someone, the guy even had some stats from polls. Yeah, trust is down to x% among this Institution, y% among this other, and even this low z% among neighbors. Hmmmm, I wonder why that might be. Now, Steve Sailer, see, he'd notice why. This guy not only doesn't notice the real reason, such as, we don't have much in common because we are widely different ethnicities and races pushed together, but he is actively on the side of creating even lower levels of trust among neighbors.
Here's what he said soon afterward, to paraphrase a bit: "Instead of loving emotions, Americans show fear. Just recently when those 600 migrants came up here to the Chicago area**, instead of welcoming them, Americans have been fearful."
That's when I walked out. You can't fix this level of stupid. I guess because America hasn't been invaded since 1812***, people just don't understand what an invasion is about. Can you imagine a guy like Vanhoozer urging the French to try a different emotion when the Germans rolled in with their Blitzkrieg?
PS: At the same conference I listened to a particular Chinese pastor talking to an almost completely Chinese audience. (Therefore I had to use an earpiece to listen to a real-time translator.) This guy went on about the importance of Chinese Christians in America reaching out to people on the Chinese mainland, even with the severe restrictions, along with everywhere else Chinese people are.
From Fred the Gator in the comments here:
One of the younger people in this church talked about how she went to an Inter-Varsity missions conference. During this conference someone had the idea of getting Taiwanese and mainland Chinese in the same room to pray together. She, being Taiwanese, said this was one of the most difficult moments of her experience as a Christian! (She said this in some surprise and in a spirit of regret.)So much for the end of Nationalism, and THEY ARE ALL CHINESE!
What I didn't like is that during this whole talk, this Chinese preacher never acknowledged that he and his Chinese audience were in America due to the tolerance of the actual American people. Even worse was that there was no mention, no thanks, for the American White people who developed a country in which Christians could thrive without repression from Government. There was ZERO gratitude exuded by this man.
PPS: I related the problem with taking a stand at events attended with associated women, like, say, wives, in the long-ago post "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo...". In this current case, my wife didn't leave, but she completely understood why I did. I didn't make a scene though - just a little bit of mumbling about "this is bullshit" was all...
* Got a post coming about the need for a new Enlightenment someday, as we may be entering what some would call Dark Ages 1.0.
** Nice job, Govs. DeSantis and Abbott!
*** Some might count General Robert E. Lee's drive into Pennsylvania, but that was just an attempted maneuver to get around to the capital.
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[UPDATED later 02/12:] Added postscript about Chinese preacher and post-postscript about the wife's opinion.
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When the President sees dead people... isn't it time to XXV him?
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2024 9:48AM MST
In Topics: Movies US Feral Government Deep State Dead/Ex- Presidents Morning Constitutional Zhou Bai Dien
Is it like this for Bai Dien, as the kid saw them in The Sixth Sense*?
To be honest here, were President Bai Dien, or any President, for that matter, actually in charge with no Deep State running the show, I would not mind if the President saw dead people. Some underlings can administer the Executive Branch of the Federal Gov't, as per the job description in the US Constitution. Of course, I see Zhou Bie Dien as NOTHING like my favorite President "Silent" Cal(vin) Coolidge. We could use a guy, no, not at all like Herbert Hoover again... but a guy who could out-Coolidge Coolidge himself.
Also, it's not like that anymore in the Feral Gov't a century later. The Beast has tentacles throughout American society and power unforeseen by even the best of them, "them" being the Founders of this Republic. Nowadays, it's not just about that nuclear war "red button"**, but the President has so much power that the Deep State needs him to appear capable of that power at least.
Lately, we've all had our doubts about that. Even the ctrl-left does. In their case, I think they are not so much worried about Bai Dien's senility itself but his ability to appear a credulous candidate for '24. They may need to get him out of there by the summer.*** Amendment XXV of the US Constitution provides for this.
Note that this nice image of a scroll only includes the beginning of Section 4. Peak Stupidity, as one of our Morning Constitutional posts, gave some history and discussion of Amendment XXV in 2 parts: Part 1 - - Part 2. Within the 1965-ratified twenty-fifth Amendment Sections 1, 2, and 3 are very simple details in case of vacancy of the VP or Presidential office, such as if the President (Section 3) declares that he's unfit for office.
Well, it doesn't look as if Zhou Bai Dien would ever think of invoking Section 3, so there's Section 4. It continues from the scroll above like this:
and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.Normally, that'd be OK. However, as those on pretty much any portion of the political spectrum would tell you, Houston, we got a problem:
(OK, besides her own mother.) This just ... won't work ... for anybody. Even the ctrl-left is subject to embarrassment. Whaddya' do? It's getting late to pull a Spiro Agnew 1973 witch hunt to get a "better" VP in office, ready to move on up. That wouldn't look so good either, what with that (1/2) Black! Womyn!! glass floor breaker (happened one day in an incident with Willy Brown.) Back a half-century ago, they were able to get rid of Agnew, the typical White Man, and, BTW, one racially based son-of-a-gun.
As for the office of President, there are quite a few due-process details in that Section 4 (see my links). It basically goes like this: If the President, well, his lucid and Luciferian Deep State handlers, that'd be, don't agree with certain high "officers'" - incl. the VP's - opinions that he is incapacitated, you know, just because he meets dead high officials of foreign lands, the issue becomes one for the US Congress. Both Houses much vote by a 2/3 majority that, yes, seeing dead people IS an indication of incapacitation for this highest of offices. (IMHO, it is indeed very difficult to conduct foreign policy with dead leaders. It's a terrible deal.)
There are lots of more possibilities to discuss other than the 25thing of Bai Dien though. Newsome or Big Mike can be selected during a summer Blue-Squad convention. Still, Bai Dien would have to hold on, or be kept in a nice cool basement in Delaware not just through summer but through Jan of '25 even.
Now, Peak Stupidity could be considered mean for ragging on this poor old guy. Senility can happen to the best people, and it's not a nice thing to think about. You know what I'm thinking about when I write these things though?
Joe Biden has been a Public Servant, "serving" the American people for half a century + one year. We've been supporting this guy, as he has berated good Americans for doing what they could to save this nation. If he were just a doddering old Calvin or Ike or Jimmah or Ronnie, somehow still in there for too long, well, Amendment XXV might still be necessary (likely Section 3 though, not 4), but Peak Stupidity wouldn't be on his case as much. No, but here's what I see when I think of this guy:
The people are right: LET'S GO BRANDON!
* I thought that was a pretty good movie. It's been too long since I watched it to write a review, but I'll just say that ending surprised me and was a great marketing ploy, to be greatly cynical here, to get me to pay to see the movie again. "Wait, what?? I thought I knew what's been going on till now. Dang, now I've got to watch it again. These people are dead? Now you tell me!"
** No, not this one... hopefully:
*** If nothing else, you gotta get those extra mail-in ballots to the printers by the deadline.
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Music from the band Dishonorable Discharge
Posted On: Saturday - February 10th 2024 2:55PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor
Dishonable Discharge, remember them? Hold that name in your head for a second. It sounds kind of punk. Wait, you'd never heard of them you say, the band later to be called The Pretenders?
Per Wiki, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde's own "provocative band project, centered around her own songwriting, was initially called...."
Wait for it...
(Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge*
I know, it's pretty crude, lewd, and all the rest, but that name was BRILLIANT! (And that's not in the modern British sense in which it, like the American "awesome" for a while, just means "good".)
I have the Learning to Crawl album from this band on vinyl. (The video here is a vinyl "rip", so I hope we can hear some crackling and all for auld lang syne.) I will have to say that the internet has sorely disappointed me when it comes to a good review or discussion of this album. Years ago, I'd read reviews that made perfect sense about the concept, and I see this as a concept album. I'll write about that in another post, seeing as I want to feature at least 70% of the album on Peak Stupidity. It's THAT good.
It's also very negligent of us to not have featured Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders more than once before on the site. That was a post with Stop your Sobbing - a Kinks tune - as a long distance dedication to some Berzerkely Professor sobbing about not getting enough Reparations.
Middle of the Road is the first song on Learning to Crawl. We'll keep going with this one...
The Pretenders as the band stood for this album. (2 of the members had just died. Yes, drugs.):
Chrissie Hynde – lead vocals, rhythm guitars, harmonica, backing vocals.
Robbie McIntosh – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals.
Malcolm Foster – bass guitar, backing vocals.
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals, percussion.
On other songs there were a few different musicians. I'll note them.
Man, the blog posts are building up out the yin-yang. I believe this is because I am perusing different sites and trying to keep up with news in closer to real time. I don't know if this is the best way to go. More next week - stupidity in 32 flavors.
* If this takes a while to sink in, I don't blame you, but you do need to watch more old Simpson's episodes, and anyone who grew up with a land-line phone before caller-ID must have done a little of this at some point...
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Zhou Bai Dien sees dead Presidents...
Posted On: Saturday - February 10th 2024 11:49AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Humor Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
... and plagiarizes their campaign quotes:
Legal Disclaimer: Joe Bai Dien did not utter this, nor would he remember if he had. Also, Peak Stupidity did not plagiarize this meme. Memes are easy!
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Peak Stupidity's review of Tucker's interview with Vlad
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2024 6:57PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Pundits The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Yes, I watched the whole thing. Tucker Carlson "warned" us in this 4-min preview, in Mr. Tucker's inteview, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave some long answers to his questions, with the longest being a treatise on Russian history going back to the Rus in the 9th century. That link goes to tuckercarlson.com*, but I am glad to have found the whole interview on Rumble, so I could embed it here.**
Much of Mr. Putin's soliloquy on the history of Russia and the Ukraine is over with by 48 minutes in, where I stopped last night. The timeline here, straight off of Mr. Carlson's site, kind of smears over a lot of the first 1 1/2 hour, and sorry that I don't have the times as links. My review follows the video below, since I watched the rest today.
TIMESTAMP HEADLINE:
00:00:00 - - Introduction
00:02:00 - - Putin gives a history of Russia & Ukraine
00:25:04 - - NATO Expansion
00:30:40 - - NATO & Bill Clinton
00:41:10 - - Ukraine
00:48:30 - - What triggered this conflict?
01:02:37 - - A peaceful solution?
01:11:33 - - Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?
01:24:13 - - Re-establishing communication with the US
01:36:33 - - How powerful is Zelensky?
01:48:36 - - Elon Musk & AI
01:51:07 - - Imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich
Firstly, to me it's a shame that the bulk of the interview was a discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war. No doubt, I'd feel different were I Russian or Ukrainian. However, Peak Stupidity's position is that America has NO BUSINESS being involved (as President Putin would agree), so the whole thing should not be a concern, as in, what else do we want to learn about or from the President of Russia?
Mr. Carson was very respectful, so even if he hadn't wanted to keep talking about this, and the possible world-wide escalation of it, he wouldn't have wanted to interrupt, it seemed, to get to any other subjects. That brings up the fact that Tucker Carlson acted like an ACTUAL JOURNALIST here. At the many points I would have been so tempted to answer "Hey, not me, man! That's the Potomac Regime, not the average American you're talking about.", Mr. Carlson stayed mum. I doubt he talked even 1% of the time in this interview. He gave none of his own opinions, and just asked the short questions. You NEVER see that from the ctrl-left talking heads on TV, and even lots of those on the right. "Journalists" want to argue, not interview, these days.
Going along with these thoughts, I was also surprised that Mr. Carlson asked the type of questions that could easily have come from a Neocon "journalist", except, again, without the opinionating. Though asked very respectfully, when it came to the war, the questions were on the hostile side. I was surprised by that. I wonder whether Mr. Carlson is more worried about this war than I thought or that he wants to appear unbiased to show up those in America who have given him grief for, GASP!, interviewing a foreign leader whom the Regime doesn't get along with. (One of the big newspapermen interviewed Adolph Hitler in the mid-1930's. You do want information, don't you? Or is that not the idea?)
As for the war, I agree with President Putin that the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War has been a provocation. You don't box animals into corners, especially not bears! NATO should have been disbanded in 1990. It's been obsolete (President Trump agreed, meaning exactly squat), but mission creep started. The events of '14 are not what I've followed, but President Putin described it all, and the reader can argue - I can't.
With all that talk about the causes of the war by President Putin, I did detect a bit of trolling with his talk about the "Nazification". Yeah, there are Ukrainians that are Nazis of sorts. That is not at all the reason the Russians invaded the place. I think Putin said this in order to trap the NeoCons. They wouldn't like to be thought of as supporting Nazis. Was this a way of shutting them up a bit? I think so.
That trolling and a couple of other statements made me not trust Vladimir Putin so awfully much. Those 2:
1) President Putin's contention that the Soviet leaders supported the indigenity*** of the other ethnic groups in the USSR. When you go Communist, everyone's a Commie. That's all the ethnicity you need to think about. For more, not for sure supporting my doubt of President Putin, see this paper.
2) "Diversity is our strength!" - Putin didn't say this in these exact words, but that's what he meant in a couple of sentences about the various other religions in modern Russia. Hmmm, what about those Chechens?
I guess every one of these leaders, as with the Chinese gov't and their pretense at greenness, want to appear a little bit woke in the national spotlight. Yet, we actual Americans like to see the opposite, President Putin's derision of the Regime flag, the genderbending, and all of it. I was hoping for more that in this interview. I think Tucker would not have been able to help breaking into a smile, if Putin had gone there. Why didn't he ask questions about Putin's views on this side of America? I, for one, would have enjoyed a lot more of that.
President Putin talked world economics for a spell. His view that the Potomac Regime has screwed the US Dollar over (IMO, it was going to go down anyway, maybe more slowly) with the sanctions, hence the American economy, is one I also agree with. His talk about the BRICS and Russian great relations with China (yeah, no mention of the 1950 and '60s) also had a big dose of BS though. I got the feeling he's not a big Economics guy, one I would want to take advice from in this realm.
I am disappointed that, as important as it is to Vladimir Putin, the interview was heavily focused on the Ukraine war. There was a re-hash near the end, and I dozed off 3 or 4 times, just trying to get to that 2:07. The stupidity of the Climate Calamity™ and other Western or particularly American flavors of stupidity are subjects I wish Tucker had asked him about.
Finally, just a few small details, not in order. If you don't have the 2 hours, if nothing else, go to the 01:11:33 mark to see the humorous exchange between these two regarding the destruction of (most of) the Nord Stream pipelines.
Just before that, at about 01:10:50, President Putin had a very nice rant. "Don't you have anything better to do?" bringing up the US border invasion and other major problems. (Because of English's lack of a difference in plurality for that 2nd-person pronoun "you" - the translator didn't know "y'all", I would just have to tell him that it wasn't ME!) His point was we have better things to do than spend in the 100 Billions of dollars supporting the Ukraine.
Interestingly, Putin knew some detail about Tucker having applied, I gather, to work at the CIA at some point. (For a friend of mine, it was just so he could carry a gun more easily.) That's some KGB-like behavior, showing he had someone dig up something on Tucker. You can take the man out of the Intelligence Community, because it's gone when the country falls, but you can't take the ... whatever...
The last detail I'll bring up was just weird and unexpected for me. Note the last timestamp (not actually the last subject) about Evan Gershkovich. This guy is apparently a prisoner in Russia. Tucker started off by telling President Putin that we all know of this guy, or something to that effect. Whaaaa?? I've never heard of the guy. I hate to see an honest journalist, if Mr. Gershkovich is one, get imprisoned, but, what was bringing this up all about? I really think that Mr. Carlson was put on some sort of mission to help out the guy. He pushed the subject hard and basically pleaded for the Russian government to see this WSJ guy as innocent. I don't know. We have over a thousand Political Prisoners in the Washington, FS dungeons. That's what I care about much more. Tucker does too, so ... whatever - that part was just weird.
To summarize quickly, this was not a waste of 2 hours, but my excitement about watching this important interview had been unwarranted.
* I watched on his site, if nothing else, so support Mr. Carlson via a view. My wife went and donated $72 for a year of Tucker video access. I told her he doesn't need the money, but that I may do the same in order to show support as a "subscriber" or what-have-you. However, I also see that to watch a video by Mr. Carlson with some after-thoughts, one needs to pay up. That's more incentive... or my wife and I will watch it together, and I'll be the cheap-ass.
** You can watch it on Tucker's site here. Commenter Hail has left us the link to "Tucker Carlson: After the Vladimir Putin interview", here. I haven't watched it yet.
*** Spell-check doesn't like it, but that's the term the translator used, and I can't think of a better one.
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Senile Joe relives the 1970s
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2024 9:32AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Economics Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
... trashes opponent Strom Thurmond.... (I kid, but ...)
This guy's pretty far gone, but that's another post. I noted some of old Joe's stupidity, maybe lies, maybe both, as described by Gateway Pundit Cullen Linebarger: Shameless Joe Biden Blasts Grocery Stores for “Ripping People Off and Vows to Pressure Them on Pricing During Speech in South Carolina - ....
This is a Peak Stupidity "I told you so" moment. That is, we told you so, 2 months back, that the 1970s erroneous excuses/explanations for inflation would be brought back across the half century, in our post That old Wage-Price Spiral phenomenon. Yep, President Biden remembers the 1970s, better than he remembers last Tuesday. He was already in the US Senate right BEFORE inflation got big, starting January of 1973.
I think those memories of the BS spouted in the 1970s is coming back to the President, fresh in his mind, like it were yesterday.:
But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation.Yes, keep on those guys, Joe! Keep fighting for us - bring Big Mac meals back down to $3.89!
Well, it’s going to stop. Americans, we’re tired of being played for suckers. And that’s why we’re going to keep these guys — keep on them and get the prices down.
Now, Peak Stupidity does rag on shrinkflation - we call it "inflation by deflation"*. However, we just don't like the sleazy way the Big Biz marketing people avoid directly raising the package prices. The underlying problem is not mean greedy people in these companies, but it's the creation of currency out of thin air by the FED. No, Joe, it's not going to stop. Prices in general will not go down - they can only go up, which is in accordance basic laws of Economics.
Yes, though. We ARE being played for suckers. He got that right.
* You'll see a number of posts with our thoughts on this using the Inflation topic key.
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California customer care call
Posted On: Thursday - February 8th 2024 4:40PM MST
In Topics: California Big-Biz Stupidity Customer Care
(I didn't get to talk to the cutie in front. I figure it was the guy next to her.)
Peak Stupidity normally attaches the tag to these anecdotes about the world of dealing with customer service, errrr "customer care", it is now. However, this call wasn't half bad and ended on a fun note.
After having paid ahead on the cable bills to avoid extra check/postage/time expenditures, I was left with 92¢ on the bill. I had rounded up when I paid for 4 months, but these people must have had some new very small charge added. I'd normally have waited till next month to pay, but my experience recently with other Big Biz billing told me that these people may just pop on a $10 late charge on those 92 cents - you just don't know what they'll pull when they think you have no options.
I was ready to send in 4 months worth + $10, but there was no slip with the return address to show through the envelope window. I looked for 5 minutes, but there was no address to be found. Ahhhh! Gotta make a phone call - I dread this stuff. Well, OK, you mash "0" enough times, and the software cries "uncle" and hooks you up with a human, this time named Ron.
Ron spoke clear English, after I told him this one should be easy. All I wanted was the address to send MONEY in - they want money, right? He needed my PIN. Why? Holy crap, I had no memory of having one of those, but then "look, this isn't any kind of security worry, man. I just want to send in some money". Ron actually told me flat out that he kinda had to stick with the script*, so we needed that code.
He gave me some clues on that PIN. I tried one. "OK, we're talking 4 digits." Hmmmm.... I tried another. We got lucky. It was fun, like some sort of parlor game. He could give me the address to send in money now. As I told him, this would be an easy one.
Finally, I just had to ask where his call center was. He was in California, of all places. "Good to hear! I'm glad they're keeping some of this work in America ... well, I mean sort of ... at this point ...." Ron was greatly amused by that.
PS: OK, back to the Tucker/Vladimir interview. I'm learning some ancient history of the Rus people. Thank you, Vlad.
* He used another term, and dang if I can remember it now.
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Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom: Exit Tracking
Posted On: Thursday - February 8th 2024 11:13AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity China
We are trying to get all these China posts out of our system before the New Years resolution imposed deadline of ours. This post works as a contrast to all the posts on American Immigration Stupidity (yeah, or Evil) we've written lately. No matter what you think of the Orwellian and Totalitarian behavior of the Xi Regime or just the ways of the Chinese in general, at least the Chinese government is not running a Population Replacement Program. The situation is far from it.
Upon leaving China for America out of Shanghai Pudong airport, we went through the Chinese version of what’s is called Exit Tracking. I didn’t see it coming, as we’d already had our passports looked at by security (then, later on, BTW, 3, yes, THREE times by the departure gate).
The idea is to keep track of people leaving your country, China, in this case, by scanning passports, taking facial photos and even looking at the visas we had for entry. The point is, if it’s known who enters and who leaves, then the small amount of accumulation of non-immigrant entrants* can be determined. Your country can be considered a control volume, in the engineering sense, so ΔP = Pin - Pout + Pgeneration (births - deaths). In the case of people, they aren’t just numbers but specific individuals who can be found and deported for illegally overstaying their visas, with the likely threat of being banned from further entry in the future.
It took me a second, but when it came to me what this checkpoint of sorts was about, I remarked to people next to me in the short line, ”This is exit control*. This is what you do in a serious country.”
There was a little bit more involved. Though there was some sign with a QR code about the health app, I reckoned "we don't need no steeenking health code, Guanyuan!" I inserted a paragraph in the postscript of this post (one of the first coming out of this trip) regarding the pure silliness and uselessness of the Chinese health app for entering China. The Kung Flu stupidity had abated by Summer '23, so we shouldn't have needed this going to the US.
Well, see the guy in the picture above? That was approximately 2 seconds before he yelled at me. What exactly he yelled is lost to history, what with the face mask... and the fact that I hardly know any Chinese. What I figured he yelled was something along the lines of "go back and use the Kung Flu app, and what are you doing taking my picture?!!"
We came back, and, for the sake of my readers, I was worried enough about this guy's asking me to delete this picture that I deleted it knowing I had a month to recover it from the Deleted area. Faux pax aside, I give the Chinese credit for preventing the massive visa overstaying that is another source of illegal aliens for America.
Not only are they serious about who resides in their land of over a billion Han people, the Chinese have it good when it comes to rooting out visa overstayers once they easily determine who they are. Because they don’t have masses and masses of unassimilated foreigners, finding some ”White ghost” who was supposed to have left is much easier than it would be for American authorities, even if they made an effort, to root out some illegal Chinese guy working at a restaurant along with a million others in one of the New York Chinatowns, or even in Anytown, USA. (The number of Chinese illegal aliens in America is big.)
You can learn a lot from a pissed off Chinaman.
* Exit control is, I suppose, a step beyond this. This was tracking of foreigners, though I'm sure China also looks for Chinese citizens who were up to no good leaving the country. They probably encourage this and get the airlines to give them upgrades.
** And China doesn’t allow very many immigrant entries, best I can see.
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Nikki Haley is second to none in Nevada
Posted On: Wednesday - February 7th 2024 6:36PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Music Humor Trump The Neocons
Though there will be a caucus tomorrow to pick Donald Trump anyway, the Nevada government required a primary. For some reason, Donald Trump was not on the ballot, but then this "None of these candidates" guy, who ought to be on all of them, was, and he won handily.
I have my problems with him, but Trump's ability to fight using his mouth is also second to none. This was highly amusing.
We hear you're leaving, that's OK... Perhaps, darling Nikki (no, don't get me thinking about the Prince song*, please) could find a nice high-paying cushy job "consulting" for Offense Contractors as, you know, just a private citizen making a buck. Perhaps she could "work" from home. I would if I had that 2 1/2 million '19-dollar house on Kiawah Island.
Hopefully, someone's already given her a business card or contact...
Nikki don't lose that number.
You don't wanna call nobody else.
Send it off in a letter to yourself.
Nikki don't lose that number.
It's the only one you own.
You might use it if you feel better
when you get home.
Wheewww! That's some great lead guitar by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter who later became a Doobie Brother. This hit song (the biggest commercial hit for this un-commercial style group) was from Steely Dan's 3rd album, Pretzel Logic. Whichever other studio musicians that had play with them, Steely Dan was Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
PS: Big hat tips to clever Gateway Pundit commenters TedSam and Mike Ghost somewhere here for our title and the music suggestion, respectively.
* Whatever you think about that particular song, that guy could sure play guitar too.
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Meanwhile, over in Europe ...
Posted On: Wednesday - February 7th 2024 10:17AM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Globalists World Political Stupidity People's Revolt
Peak Stupidity has a few known European readers and probably some number between 0 and a few thousand unknown European readers too. We do realize that stupidity happens in locations outside the US. Stupidity, and sometimes lack thereof, in China has been a particular focus. Let me at least mention what's been going on in Europe lately under the (now more general) topic key People's Revolt*.
The resistance by farmers in Europe to the tyrannical dictates out of Brussels (heart of the E.U. Regime) is not on most Americans'
Name notwithstanding, my John Birch Society magazine, The New American does a pretty good job reporting on the new onerous restrictions being laid down on the agriculture industry in Europe (they imagine, correctly, that the same will happen here). Another source is The Gateway Pundit, such as these posts on the situations in Germany, France, and Spain.
Highways and roads have been blocked, manure has been sprayed on buildings, and lots of fun mayhem has been enjoyed by the (regular) people of the earth. Very much as with protests by truckers, this stuff is hard for the Globalist elites trying to
Yesterday Gateway Pundit said EU FOLDS, FARMERS WIN: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Will Scrap Green ‘Sustainable Use Regulation’ Aiming To Halve Fertilizer Usage. That IS good news, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
These people don't just up and give up or even say they've been wrong. Here's this piece of work named Ursula:
"Our farmers deserve to be listened to", Von der Leyen told the European Parliament.More:
"I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come."
"The EU Commission finally acknowledges that its approach was not the right one, and so strengthens the credibility and importance of the current strategic dialogue", the lobby’s president Christiane Lambert said in a post on social media platform X.No, see, that's not the ... look, it's not that the farmers don't understand why you EU Overlords want new regulations in place. It's not your presentation. It's the WHOLE! DAMN! PROGRAM!
The EU folks try to revert in their lecturing to the old standbys of normal ACTUAL pollution or harm, degraded soil, pesticide run-off, etc. BULL. Those problems have been worked on, if not solved, for a century.
Belgian’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo welcomed the proposal in a post on X, saying it was "crucial we keep our farmers on board to a more sustainable future of farming, as part of our determination to get the Green Deal done."See? It's about using the completely bogus - unless you have a working mathematical model of the entire Earth's climate, it most certainly is! - Climate Calamity™ excuse to take over another huge part of the economies of the Western World, Agriculture. People are getting wise to this. Even if they DO believe that this theory about man-made Global Warming is a certainty, most people have kind of gotten the idea that it's still a lot of hype. After all, climate predictions made decades ago don't seem to have come to fruition. You don't ruin the economy over it. That's what the farmers in Europe know.
Most of the Globalists in EU headquarters in Brussels undoubtedly know this too, but just in case the reader doesn't get it, they WANT to ruin the economy. They've got their own 15-minute city and eat-zee-bugs plans to implement to replace it.
Bravo, European farmers! Just remember, what might seem like a backing down by the elites is just their way of humoring you for a spell. As the Instapundit says regularly, "don't get cocky, kid."
* This is the topic key formerly known as People's Revolt of '22, named when I thought the Canadian trucker's protest and other resistance against vaccine mandates might turn into something a lot bigger. Hopefully, just our time-line was off - this post is hopeful, at least.
** WARNING: That link goes to X-twitter. I cannot find the guy's actual blog other than one back from '05.
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Invade the World/Invite the World: Cause & Effect
Posted On: Tuesday - February 6th 2024 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits US Feral Government The Neocons World Political Stupidity
(Thanks, E.H. Hail for the image and also for the interesting background commentary below.)
I don't think the name Steve Sailer is unfamiliar to Peak Stupidity readers, at least, we are sure, to those who comment here.* It's not even just from the direct reading of his words, but the Invade the World/Invite the World idea of his clever thinking has gotten "noticed" elsewhere too. We are glad of that, because it's an expression that may wake people up who sorely need to be woken up.
In all of Mr. Sailer's writing that could be considered expounding on that theme, I don't recall ever having read his explaining the relationship between the two parts, but just that both parts of this dastardly policy are big with American politicians, the Deep State, and the Regime in general. Has he explained more, and I missed it? Is the "Invite the World" policy an effect of the "Invade the World" policy, does the arrow of causation go the other way, or is it just that the same people push for both policies?
Though I won't get to it until the end of it, it's that loyal (no kidding!) CongressMusselman outta Minnesota we were truly shocked by last week who instigated this post.
Let's consider the possibilities. The first is that the American "Invade the World" policy seen since the end of the Cold War has caused the "Invite the World" policy. Invading the World at will was enabled by America's now-quickly-fading sole superpower status. The Neocons of the Regime have had the hardware, the amazing air-powered supply chain, enough capable personnel, and the economic might to bomb and otherwise make war on any minor foe anywhere around the world with minimal losses.
War creates refugees. I've read from a number of different "parties" the explanation that, yes, it's these large masses of refugees that American has created via warfare that require us to "Invite the World". I can think of 3 different groups that use this explanation:
1) Those who are supportive of the Population Replacement Program - they like this excuse to bring in masses of foreigners. Additionally, since the end of the Cold War, many of the ctrl-left are not particularly opposed to the US warmongering anymore, as they don't need to protect the Commies anymore. (They are long gone... so we are to believe. Actually, they are HERE, and for the ctrl-left, "we have met them, and they are us.")
2) The often-nominally-Conservative Big Biz money donors who want continual importation of cheap labor and the D-squad rank and file who want more voters. They may not believe in "Invade the World", but that there are refugees around the world who can be invited to work for cheap and/or vote (or just be counted in the census), makes this cause & effect story a good excuse.
3) Deluded people who can't count or remember recent history. I've heard that the "Invade the World" policy causes us to have to "Invite the World" from people who should damn well know better.
What should they know better? Well, when was America's last war with Mexico (there will be a quiz later), OK, two-sided war, that is? Mexicans HAVE been the bulk of the illegal influx, though that has changed since last century. How about our recent wars with China or India? These countries have been the source of a large bulk of the LEGAL immigration this century**, but where was the war? Show me the war.
Perhaps this idea started with the aftermath of the Vietnam war. Yes, Americans did see good reasons to take in the boat people and other refugees from the Communists. Right at the end of the war there were about 150,000 who came, but from 1979 to '99, a half million more did. I would posit that only the first group were true refugees. Then, any numbers from the 1980s on, and especially those coming this century, are more like part of family reunification, mail-order bride programs.
No matter, as many countries as America HAS bombed or invaded since the Cold War, there are an overwhelming number of countries it has not from which come plenty of immigrants, legal and illegal. No,the invading of the world has not caused the inviting of the world.
Perhaps there is no cause & effect relationship. It is just that the same people that gravitate toward support of the first policy also gravitate to support of the second.
The Neocons are, by (my) definition***, in favor of America's invading the world. What about their views on the Population Replacement Program? There's some overlap, from the portion of the Neocons that evolved out of the ctrl-left. They may like destroying other countries, but destroying traditional America is Job 1. They are completely down with the PRP.
Some of the Neocons are nominally "conservative", acting as if it is still the era of the Cold War, with a big militarily presence required around the world to contain Communism.
The Potomac Regime itself is down with both parts of "Invade the World/Invite the World", whether they can come up with any BS correlation or not. "War is the health of the State", it's been said.**** What about the other part? That's pretty simple: If the Regime is to be allowed to stay healthy by liberal application of warfare, they cannot have a White Middle Class population who may form opposing organizations and may not be down with this program. Going 3rd World in the manner of 2% elites and 98% peons, in the sole superpower (as they envision it), is beneficial when you just don't need any damn feedback on foreign policy. Therefore the Population Replacement Program is also good for the health of the State. It's just more of a preventative medication than an acute one.
There could be no cause & effect relationship between "Invade the World" and "Invite the World", but it's just the same evil human beings who promote both.
Now, as to how loyal (to Somalia I mean... or is that Somaliland, WHO CARES?!) Representative Ilhan Omar instigated this post, I can see a new take on this. The large masses of groups of immigrants that have been "invited" result in a lack of assimilation. What this means is, rather than become American politically and thinking of American concerns, they do not leave the politics of their old countries behind.
Peak Stupidity noted the stupidity of Importing a civil war, in Sweden. Yeah, they imported roughly equal numbers of Iraqis and Iranians - gotta be fair, ya know. More recently, in our post The Falun Gong Gang does Toronto, we reported on the Chinese Communist Party having their own freaking police stations in Canada. Canada may easily have larger proportion of Chinese people than we do here, but the main point is that the large groups will hold onto their politics from the old world. That includes Communists vs non-Communists (Taiwanese people live here too), as if we don't have these battles among our own people already?!
Nothing is different in this regard with American immigration. The reader may see that I'm getting to the point about the differently-headgeared Omar. What her politics in the US House o' Representin' are about is using American military might to serve her aims over there in the horn of Africa, her ACTUAL country. There's a constituency behind her up there in Minneapolis that thinks it's important foreign policy for there to be an American-led war against Somaliland, or Ethiopia to free Somaliland, or some bullshit that real American could not imagine fighting, much less dying, for. Let me remind any readers who are not as astute as our average that America WAS already involved military in that shithole in the woods, just a few months over 30 years ago. It didn't end well.
Ilhan Omar was 11 years old at the time. She may have liked the way it ended for Americans. Per Wiki, the reason American relief aid was sent there was due to the actions of President Mohamed Siad Barre a few years earlier, the man Ilhan's Dad***** worked for. President Barre had split the Somali army into factions to retain power. African-style madness ensued, including a huge famine, resulting in the relief effort and military operation defending it.
Lucky for her, little Ilhan made it to America, where she made the big-time so she could push the "Invade the World" policy. That is purely a result of the "Invite the World" policy. Is that the new causal relationship?
A final thought is that the cause & effect relationship may go different ways at different times, each part of the "Invade the World/Invite the World" policy feeding on the other. Round and round she goes, where it all ends, I'm pretty sure I know ...
* I used to look at the stats from the hosting company to see which sites and pages had visits resulting in views here. Of course, unz.com is the site on which I put 99% of the links to here, but I could see that, say, one Fred Reed page resulted in n many views. I haven't looked in a long time, but my withdrawal from unz.com may have changed the stats. That's something I will wait for a few more months to see.
** This has also been changing, especially in regards to the Chinese. I have had experiences that tell my refu-dar that there are plenty of illegal alien •Indians .
*** See also Part 2
**** Quote is by American Randolph Bourne, it is said, from 1912.
***** This man, originally named Nur Said Elmi Mohamed, illegally immigrated to the US, making the Rep from Minnegadishu a true Bug-out Baby.
Mrs. Omar says her Dad died of the Kung Flu in '20. Even if he actually died FROM it, well, I can tall you that I have seen no sympathy cards being handed around for best wishes by any of the Peak Stupidity staff.
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Ron v Micky: Last Round
Posted On: Monday - February 5th 2024 4:29PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Big-Biz Stupidity President DeSantis
That there even was this last round is due to that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a fighter, not a bullshitter, cough, cough, as opposed to certain ... cough cough ... (A guy named Ken Cuccinelli explained here.)
The Red State site discussed this likely last round in the year or two long fight between the good Governor and the Woke World of Disney. As it's been a tourist State since the selling of swampland to suckers petered out, Florida long ago let the Disney Company basically run their own government on a huge piece of land called Reedy Creek - it's 47 mi2 in central Florida (around Orlando, of course) - in return for all the tourist spending that could be taxed. Disney has taxing powers above and beyond local and State taxation in the district.
In Disney's own words:
In 1967, the Florida State Legislature established a special district in Orange and Osceola Counties known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District (recently renamed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District). Encompassing 25,000 acres, this special district provides and manages municipal services for the 47-square miles of the Walt Disney World Resort.Yeah, from that article it sounds great, but here's a less biased view from The Tallahassee Democrat.
For more than 55 years the special district fulfilled its legislative intent as outlined in its original charter – the advancement of economic progress and well-being of the people of Florida by facilitating the development of a world-class tourist destination and was a model of efficient and well-run local government.
The thing is, money's not everything, and Ron DeSantis' stance against the extreme Woke politics of Disney and Disney World, where the kids can experience it, encompasses this thought. Those politicians that have been against his fight either have more greed than Conservativism (the local ones), are envious of DeSantis' success, or they (on the left) simply want the Cultural Rev. 2.0 to continue.
Well, I'll keep the suspense down by keeping this short, simple, and sweet. this Red State article says:
Gov. Ron DeSantis earned a victory lap on Wednesday after Disney's last-gasp lawsuit against him failed in federal court.I'd say those critics on the right were the envious ones.
The judge in the case dismissed the much-ballyhooed move against the governor based on a lack of standing and the plaintiff's failure to state a claim. With that, total victory against "The Mouse" has been secured.
Gov. Ron DeSantis earned a victory lap on Wednesday after Disney's last-gasp lawsuit against him failed in federal court.
Every step of the way, DeSantis has bested Disney, though some of his critics on the right boasted that this particular lawsuit proved the governor had "lost to Mickey Mouse." That was always ludicrous, and there was always a good chance it would not prevail.
Winner by a knock out punch to the nose and ears: Ron DeSantis!
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Babylon Bee reporting clears things up for us
Posted On: Saturday - February 3rd 2024 6:43PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor
There's a lot of humor to be found by actually using the true meanings of words. I had 3 other different Babylon Bee headlines to put up, but these 2 fit together nicely.
Yeah, and while you're at it:
That's all I've got to say, besides the usual thanks, goodbye for the blog-week, and preview.
This has been a hellacious Immigration Stupidity week here. I've felt like covering every story, but I've touched on only a little. We'll have some necessary follow-ups next week, along with a financial stupidity update straight outta the IRS, 1 or 2 more China posts to meet our New Year's resolution, more music, and MUCH MUCH more stupidity!
Have a restful Sunday, Peakers!
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Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom: Leveration 13:17?
Posted On: Saturday - February 3rd 2024 10:16AM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist China Economics Orwellian Stupidity Bible/Religion
Long-term Peak Stupidity readers know that one hill I am continually fighting for personally is, to put it simply, cash. That is, I don't see any good coming out of the trend toward a cashless society. Our anecdotes and rants on the subject, often titled something about "cash is King", can be found usually with the Economics topic key.
Before our Peak Stupidity road trip this past summer to the Middle Kingdom, I mentioned that I did not really have to go on this trip. I've been there either 11 or 12 times (may have lost all evidence of one of them). However, after reading Kai Stittmatter's We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State* in late '20, and having not been there 3 years already by then, I really wanted to go back just to see with my own eyes how far the Orwellian practices described in that book have actually gone. Otherwise I would have stayed home.
Well, that mission was not a complete success. Even with trusted Chinese help, I was not deep enough into Chinese society to check on all the matters that Mr. Strittmatter described. A bit confusingly, my Part 3* of the review describes what's not officially, but basically, Section 2 of the 3 sections of the book - the reader may want to read that Review - Part 3 to get the BeJesus scared out of him. That is, even if he is not Chinese, if he's worried that this stuff spreads thanks to wonderful Globalist overlords.
I will concentrate only on the money then. Per, in non-Chinglish this time, Revelations 13:
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:Well, we missed the 1-D bar code era, predicted by a guy whom I though was nuts 4 decades ago. We likely won't need QR codes (2-D bar codes, basically) on our person due to nice, can't really say "non-invasive" here, micro-, maybe even nano-, electronic chips of various sorts.
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Functionally, any modern society can be there. "We HAVE the technology"?, as they say.** In China, 6 is nothing like 8, but it's a slightly lucky number is all. I don't know where verse 18 fits into the scene in China (maybe 666 is in every QR code), and if Chairman Xi is one of the AntiChrists, with a Mandate straight outta' Hell, (hash tag: 1984WithChineseCharacteristics), nobody's talking about it.
So, I just observed and took pictures for a week or so.
That scene was in a small store. Both parties were using their phones to do this transaction. I paid with cash however.
In this village, I took this scene especially to capture the look of the old China. This would have been nearly the same looking 15 years ago. That, however, is in contrast to the new areas, which comprise most of the place now. As for this subject, many people generally live as they always have, and I'm sure the lady paid cash for her veggies.
Cash aside for a second, the Orwellian ubiquitous camera placement - with AI behind it, per author Strittmatter - is even in this village. I don't know whether I can find the picture I took of a big pole with 10 or more obvious cameras. As small and hidden as they can be now, I wondered whether this pole full of them was a legacy from a few years back or more of a blatant warning...
Yes, I noted the face mask. I'd say that the
That was in one of the BIG railway stations, as we went through the line to pay for tickets.*** Indeed, you can still pay in a wad of Mao 100's**** - each is ~ 15 bucks. That doesn't mean most people do. #Convenience! I cannot say that facial recognition and eye scans were not part of the cash transactions though. That equipment is all over the place.
This thing looked like it MIGHT still take cash. As for a card reader, I didn't see much credit/debit card usage in China. (There must be some sort of "cash cards" though.) Much of the population has nearly missed that whole era of payment style, in the same way that most Chinese people missed the land-line phone era*****, their Chinese schoolteacher's lesson about land-line phones being invented by Chinaman Ai li xian de Gaim Baol having gone, whooooshhh, right over their heads.
Yet, one can use his phone to get a bottle of colored sugar water, as long as this thing is connected to the internet. That gets to the basic point here. The Chinese government, as about all of them, wants everyone connected. That allows control, as everywhere connections - phone or old-timey cable - are allowed, one must show his identity to be connected. You can still pay cash, but for places where it matters, ID is ascertained with cameras that are hooked into the big network to check if it's OK for you to buy or sell.
Without that, one can try to live off-the-grid in China too, but that's going to get harder and harder. The policy is to get everyone into the cities (this village realistically is one), living in those 30 story high-rises, and using apps for their very lives.
So, in conclusion, Orwellianism in China is not as bad as I'd envisioned from that book (well, either of them), but things are set up to where The Beast can clamp down at any time.
* Our long 4-part review of the book appears here: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 and Part 4.
** Any 1970s TV fans want to chime in...?
*** There were multiple lines to get through though, security, getting tickets confirmed (or something), then actually using them, then there was a line to board... "It's all so tiresome", as the man said.
**** As far as I could see, Mao is still on all the bills. (I'v got an old one, a small denomination with some women on it, but I was told it was of numismatic value at this point.) Will Mao be the last guy on the currency?
***** It's not like they would have never seen one, but, until just about the time cell phones came into wide use, most Chinese people were too poor, so they'd seem them only in government offices.
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