Naperville, Illinois Councilman's expert "migrant" welcoming troll job
Posted On: Friday - February 2nd 2024 12:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor
Though I found this short story elsewhere, since VDare is THE site to go to for immigration invasion news - Peak Stupidity is a close 2nd recently - I will link here to a post by Former (Border Patrol) Agent in which he presents and discusses a video clip containing a nice troll job by one Josh McBroom. See Make Immigration Enthusiasts Live Up To Their Own Words—Quarter Illegals In Their Houses.
Josh McBroom is a Councilman for the City of Naperville, a tony suburb of Chicago. Naperville* is 28 miles southwest of the city of Chicago (usually goes from city center), straddling DuPage county on the north and Will country on the south. "Tony" is not a term I've used before. It doesn't mean an Italian area. Instead it means an affluent one (as per Mr. McBroom below) and going along with that, Naperville, though only 62% White, has black and hispanic proportions of 5% and 7% respectively. (Well, on that latter, SO FAR) There is a small proportion of "mixed race", but over 22% Asian**.
In a meeting discussing the issue of the recent migration of
Now, look, I'm not the least naive guy in the world, but I could tell, and would have bet you a grand if you'd wanted, that this guy was trolling the first time I watched this. Former Agent, in this post, leaned the other way, but I believe he figured it out as per a different post of his.
Here's the thing: Josh McBroom had to talk a fine line there. If he were in the least way obvious about his trolling, with different wording and/or a smirk on his face, then the whole council and later all the yard-sign placers of Naperville would call him names and shut him down. No, he had to provide plausible deniability that he was trolling. He kept a straight face and gave no obvious clues that this sign-up sheet idea was a slap in the face of the virtuous hypocrites of Naperville. Nice job, Josh McBroom! Peak Stupidity salutes you.
Really, the much bigger and more basic troll job behind all this has been the actions of the Governors of Florida and Texas by which these foreign burdens on society were shipped up to northern cities to begin with. It's Illegal Alien Hot Potato. Governors DeSantis and Abbott say "thanks for playing".
* The History section of that Wiki page starts with the usual talk about the Indian tribes, the Potawatomi having taken the land from Iliniwek (the future State mascots, if you will) by force. Of course, they were all indigenous, mind you. The White man will never be. All he did was take over and build farms roads, houses, and villages... like Naperville... oh, and lawn signs, yeah...
** Yeah, I know. It's a BIG continent, the BIGGEST, in fact. Why not break out Oriental and Indian (neither the Iliniwek* nor the Potawatomi ones though) at least?
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[UPDATED 02/06:] Youtube no longer has the long version, which is necessary for the viewer to really see the troll job here. I found it on rumble though. Thanks, Rumble!
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No more Dual Loyalties - The latest from Omar Tyler Moor
Posted On: Thursday - February 1st 2024 9:47AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government World Political Stupidity President DeSantis
Who can take a nothing day, marry her gay brother for the Green Card file?
Well it's you, girl, and you should know it.
With each rant and every bit of treason you show it."
In the US Congress, I've seen corrupt sumbitches, I've seen greedy ones who care nothing about this nation, I've seen nation wreckers aiding and abetting the Population Replacement Program. However, I've never actually quite seen a foreign agent there, working openly for his own country, having infiltrated via the welcoming immigration system. (Perhaps I haven't been paying enough attention.) This piece of work called Ilhan Omar, up in Minneapolis, Minnesota is just that though, a foreign agent established in the US Congress.
Ilhan Omar "represents", in some way, the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota, which covers pretty much the city of Minneapolis. The 5th district hasn't voted Republican in 64 years, and has been overwhelmingly in support of the DFL (Democrat-Farmer-Labor) Party in the Congressional races and Democrat for President for 25 years, at least. Well, since the nice Church ladies have been welcoming in masses of Somalians to their nice White city this whole century, maybe longer, they ended up with a voting bloc there. Who would one expect this bloc to support?
So you end up with a hard-left anti-American Somalian lady representing the good, nice people of Minnesota, don'tcha' know.
There's a bit more to the story of Ilhan Omar than just her being another "refugee" from bad economics and tragic dirt. No, Omar's family were big cheeses back in the old country till, per the illustrious Steve Sailer's reading of the NY Times to us - Was Rep. Ilhan Omar's Putative Grandpa Really a Devout Believer in Democracy? - her family had to get out. Her GrandDad was a Colonel under President Siad Barre, but he was ousted in the early 1990s and Omar and clan had to high-tail it out of there. But, of course, once you get to America, you forget all of that nonsense and assimilate, right? Ilhan was 9 years old, as I recall (also from Steve Sailer's blog posts).
Yeah, right. It's not that I wouldn't have expected Ilhan Omar to have a bias and be ctrl-left, simply because she has no reason to be loyal to traditional America. Also, there's the usual MOAR FREE STUFF for MY people! What I wouldn't have expected is that this ragheaded infiltrator would say the
Let me get to the current event here, which is Rep Omar's speech in front of a "Somalian American" crowd. (See, there's that dual loyalty thing - more on that.) From the site Red State: Ilhan Omar Rips the Mask Off and Pledges Her Allegience to Somalia in Disturbing Video. First part:
Rep. Ilhan Omar, an evidenced antisemite, has often suggested in various ways that anyone who supports Israel has "dual loyalty" and is somehow being paid off by Jews. Ironically, she's the one who has a real dual loyalty problem, or worse, a singular loyalty to a foreign nation.Now, I don't take the pro-Israel side with the bias of Red State here. Anyone who supports the involvement of the US military in Israel's business has de facto dual Loyalties. Any American citizen or "national" who has a passport from another country has de jure dual loyalties. When a real country gives citizenship or a passport, it shreds the old stuff.
Here's the video:
From the Red State article, here's the translation of the truly illuminating parts of "American" Congresswoman Omar's speech:
There are areas of friction and that led us to kill each other, but in reality, we are an organized society, brothers and sisters, people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second, who protect one another, come to each other's aid and to the aid of other Muslims too.Then, the Minnesota 5th District Rep gives some details:
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The U.S. would not dare support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system. The woman you sent to Congress is working day and night to protect your interests. She knows your plight and that of Somalia. I am as concerned about Somalia as you guys are. Together, we will protect the interests of Somalia.
OMAR: Somalia is for Somalis only as over 45 percent of Somalia's population are not even ethnic Somalis. Somalia is one nation. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land can not be divided. Ethiopia and Kenya have stolen and continue to occupy the Somali region state, which belongs to Somalia. We will liberate the occupied territories stolen from Somalia...Who knew there was a Somalia and a Somaliland?
Peak Stupidity: I don't give a rat's ass what you ragheads are up to in the horn of Africa. It's not Americans' business, so go there and take care of it yourself!
I really don't think that, at 9 years old, little Ilhan had a whole plan figured out, but when did she decide that her job as an American politician is to work for the good of Somalia? Wait, that's not Somaliland but Somalia, in its efforts to take back Somaliland, or something ... It's bad enough being a private citizen and having loyalties to foreign lands over America. It's worse yet being in Congress and ranting about your old loyalties. Worst, and what I see here, is being in Congress and working to get America involved on YOUR side in the feud in your old lands.
So, as per the good comment way above by the Red State writer, no, this is not a matter of dual loyalties. This is an example of SINGLE loyalty, to the old land that you fled, over the interests of your supposed new nation and countrymen. We'd be lucky to get dual loyalties out of these people.
Conservatives in Congress want to get this Somalian instigator expelled from that esteemed body. Ron DeSantis says deport her too. Were this a serious country, that would happen, and Ilhan Omar could still consider herself lucky. Traitors used to be hanged. (They didn't make it so easy back then, by openly giving traitorous speeches in public.)
BTW, when searching for images, I got one that linked to a video titled Omar makes impassioned speech about George Floyd. Interestingly, nobody's all impassioned and shit about the millions of slaves taken by the Moslems over the Millenia, such as Ilhan Omar's own ancestors. I guess they don't count because they didn't OD on Fentanyl and could breath.
You can have the town, why don't you take it?
You're gonna make it after all.
You're gonna make it after all.
PS: If you've got a few days (not hours) and really want to learn about the background and mindset of this foreign operative Omar, Steve Sailer has lots of great writing and there are over 3,000 comments in total of discussion by very good commenters - start here.
Here's a favorite title, and NOT iSteve-generated either. It starts with another immigrant but moves on to Omar: Washington Post: "I am an Uppity Immigrant. Don’t Expect Me to be ‘grateful.’" Again, I hope you've got lots of time.
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City of Denver has 2nd thoughts about Sanctuary City Status
Posted On: Wednesday - January 31st 2024 6:11PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity ctrl-left
It's been 3 decades or so since the nuts in California brought this problem to their State, with all the unfortunate residents having to suffer. Now, it's all over the Sanctuary cities, and the good virtuous folks in Denver, Colorado may be having 2nd thoughts about their virtuousness, compassion, and welcoming yard signs.
A couple of weeks back The Gateway Pundit, who is all over the immigration invasion story, posted the article Denver Hospital In Financial Crisis: Surge of Illegals Contributes to $130M in “Uncompensated Care”. This is not news for most of us.
Yeah, you tell me about it, Denver residents. A decade ago I refused to pay 3/4 of an (uninsured at the time) emergency room bill for my wife being behind the counter for 1/2 an hour, telling the bill collector, "Yeah, I don't mind paying for our share - 300 bucks - but I can't be paying for the 5 illegal aliens in there too, man."* The best expression to describe this and other expected results of an open border under the Welfare State is: Privatize the profits - Socialize the losses.
“It’s a difficult dilemma of how we best meet their health care needs when health care has not been part of the equation,” Federico said.It's FREE, Senors and Senoras! "(let me tell ya') It's More Fun, Bein' An Illegal Alien."
The surge in new immigrant patients from South and Central America equates to roughly 8,000 people and 20,000 visits, Federico said.
FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform - been around a long time and doesn't like this stuff either - compiled this Top 10 List of Sanctuary Cities. Denver is #10, but this is not based on virtuousness, just population. Here's Denver's blurb:
The City and County of Denver – the capital city of Colorado with a population of 727,000 – became an illegal alien sanctuary on the basis of an April 2014 Sheriff Department memo stating that Denver no longer honors immigration detainers. This was codified into law by a City Council ordinance from August 2017.OK, first of all, I'm amazed at how many Siamese Twin attacks occur in this country!** That aside, I wonder how long the yard signs will stay in place there in Denver, especially on the lawns of homeowners with kids who fall out of trees and step on glass.
Also in 2017, the city stopped sending federal officials its daily booking sheets in order to limit immigration officials awareness of criminal alien activities.
On August 18, 2019, Mexican national Jose Armenta-Vazquez was attempting to burglarize a house in Denver, Colorado, but ran into the homeowner, who was identified as Magistrate Judge David Blackett, and nearly-fatally stabbed them. A month before, the illegal alien had been released by the Denver Sheriff’s Department for the third time despite active immigration detainers. He was arrested for the stabbing in October and, once again, released – despite yet another ICE detainer. He was eventually re-arrested in December and charged in January 2020.
Back to the Gateway Pundit article:
The overload on the medical infrastructure in the U.S. is exacerbated by the lack of testing by the Border Patrol for dangerous infectious diseases.Yes, let's socialize the losses a little farther away. We may also need another few hundred billion for a new war on Tuberculosis.
In November, the far-left mayors of several sanctuary cities, including Denver Mayor Mike Johnson, sent a letter begging for a staggering $5 billion in federal aid from the Biden regime.
Yes, readers, Peak Stupidity has been all about the immigration invasion this week, for half the posts, anyway. As we noted early on, if you don't like that stuff, Get off our lawn! Oh, and don't knock down our sign either.
I'm gonna have to come out with one massive "We told you so!" rant about Sanctuary Cities and end this for a while. Has anyone got a great song that goes with it? (There's a Madonna song, but ... nah....)
Finally, rather than make a separate "READ THIS" post, let me link to the latest by the great Immigration Patriot Ann Coulter: Which Kills More American Citizens—Islam Overseas, Or Immigration Here At Home?
* He sounded quite offended, but, you know, when your credit score reads "----- (N/A)", you just plain don't care.
** I mean, I'm just going by what I read: Mexican national Jose Armenta-Vazquez was attempting to burglarize a house in Denver, Colorado, but ran into the homeowner, who was identified as Magistrate Judge David Blackett, and nearly-fatally stabbed them. Hey, don't be a bigot. Magistrates can be Siamese Twins too. They just have to both be appointed simultaneously is all.
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[UPDATED 02/01:] Added link to another great Ann Coulter column.
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Car Batteries: Apples to apples
Posted On: Wednesday - January 31st 2024 8:26AM MST
In Topics: Cars Inflation
... acid to acid, lead to lead, dust to dust.
Speaking of the lead, I used to empty these out and keep them for lead, just in case, you know... A decade ago, they didn't WANT your old battery back. Now, they charge you a $15 core charge if you don't GIVE IT to them.
The battery in one of our vehicles was getting weak, even before the recent very cold weather. I looked at the circular cut-outs on the sticker-label. Yep, this 6 year battery had 6 years and 9 months on it. Back in the day, I know that my car batteries would last a decade easily, without special handling. That's not so now, but at least these Interstate Battery folks kept their promise, and they were much more accurate than the weathermen ... and weather ladies... except, in the latter case, who cares?
As a slight digression toward some car talk, this 1980s* vehicle was a little weird about battery weakness. About two months back I noticed that the battery was obviously weak so I figured it wasn't long for the world, but I started cranking it up more frequently to charge it. Then, in the warmer weather even, there in the driveway, it just gave me nothing. I heard not even the slightest effort by the starter and not even the starter solenoid click. However, the annunciator lights were bright, and the headlights were bright enough to reflect off things even in the bright daylight.
This stick-shift drive vehicle has an interlock on the clutch pedal, as I guess most do, which has not worked so well a few times. (I just had to be right down to the floor on the clutch.) Was that the problem? It wasn't, luckily (probably not a very hard job though), as I was able to start with a jump. However, I wonder if there's some relay that limits any power to the starter based on battery voltage(?) It was just weird how there is this hard limit - nothing at all happens below it.
Car talk nearly aside, I was going to buy a battery even before knowing for sure that was my problem. After all, if I milked this one for 6 months or a year, a new one would be enough higher in price to negate any savings.
That's how you have to think now, bringing us to the topic at hand. This post will now be a simple inflation calculation. Peak Stupidity has done dozens of these, which can be perused under our Inflation topic key. We've even done car batteries already here. Why the duplicate post? Well, the early price number in my head last time was only good to 10% or so last post, and my duration of 15 years was approximate. This time it will be purely apples to apples with prices known to the dollar** and duration to the month. Also, I replaced my battery with the exact same model number this time. I had a 650 cold cranking amps rating, and that's what I wanted again.***
Here we go:
April '17 price - $137 ****
January '24 price - $218
Thanks again to Money Chimp, I get a compounded inflation rate of ... drum roll please ...
6.9% average over the last ~ 7 years!*****
Last time, a period roughly from the early/mid 00's to '19, I got 5-6% (a range to show my uncertainty).
Yes, inflation is and HAS BEEN a thing. Anything with a very long shelf life - if you've got the extra cash and the room, just buy it.
* That's as far as I'll go for anti-doxxing reasons, haha. Will they track me by our vehicle fleet "footprint", as computers are tracked by their software version/plug-ins footprints? It usually doesn't hurt to be overly paranoid. (One time it did - long story...)
** This was easy, as I went to the month in question from the cut-out circles (Year and Month) on the battery and went to my records there. Also, 7 years back I had bought a battery and nothing but a battery.
*** For another vehicle, I had to buy a battery almost 2 in. wider to get the same rating I'd had previously. It barely fits in the car - not gonna be fun taking it out.
**** In my world, expenses are rounded up to the nearest dollar and income is rounded down.
***** This time, instead of compounding yearly, which doesn't really mean much in these calculations, in the "Compound interest time(s) annually" box I put a large number, 100. It's not like the difference is much (a couple of percent - NOT percentage points - difference in the rate), if you put "1" there, over many-year durations. Inflation doesn't happen monthly as do interest payments by the bank - it's continual. Shorter calculation periods go asymptotically to one number.
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No! Just, Noooooo!!!
Posted On: Tuesday - January 30th 2024 6:49PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump Deep State Kung Flu Stupidity
Good news, my ass!
I'll have more to say about the format and content of the Gateway Pundit, Jim Holt's website later. Right now, let me say that this guy Jim is easily fooled. His commenters, BTW, don't seem to have been fooled at all. (Thanks, guys! This post about ended my days at the site.)
Now, we may have disagreements regarding former Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, but Robert Kennedy, Jr. for GOP VP??
I don't think The Gateway Pundit knows all. I sure hope not. Robert F. Kennedy has a lot of people excited because, with obviously good reason* he does seem to be against the Deep State Establishment UniParty. He was strongly against the experimental gene therapy "vaccines" during the Kung Flu PanicFest. I too, have been interested in hearing from this guy. However, when it comes to the Climate Calamity™, race relations, and lots more lefty and just general stupidity that serves the Establishment pretty well, BTW, Robert Kennedy, Jr. sucks.
The problem I have with the talk about Trump VP candidates and other possibly important issues is that Donald Trump may just listen to the last guy who gave him advice. That could be Jim Holt and his stupid "good news". Donald Trump has been known to make consequential boneheaded decisions at the drop of the hat. People need to make sure he doesn't get a chance to.
Let Michael Scott explain this talk about RFK, Jr.:
* Both his Dad and his uncle were assassinated under circumstances that nearly beg for Deep State conspiracy theories as explanations.
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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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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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Trump v DeSantis: DeSantis taps out
Posted On: Monday - January 22nd 2024 8:04AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 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 - '26 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.
** Except when they're not.
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[UPDATED 1/18:] Added another excerpt from the Fox Weather site article.
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