More distraction and a variant of the old Overton Briar Patch trick
Posted On: Tuesday - October 17th 2023 11:23AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Media Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
Don't fall for it this, or any other, month!
A year and a half ago Peak Stupidity proclaimed the Russian/Ukraine War another piece of Infotainment for Americans, though we admitted later we we were wrong about it being nothing but that. Still, it was a distraction and a big pivot away from the actual Big Story of the time. See, we can barely recall it. That was the world's people, but most acutely, the Canadians', revolt agains the tyranny of mandatory gene therapy/vaccines.
Let's move on to right now. I won't chalk Hamas' timing of its attack up to a purposeful part of any such plan by the Lyin' Press, but this latest conflagration in the Middle East is sufficing as a great distraction from another, more-continuous Big Story for Americans, the Bai Dien Border treachery. It's more than Zhou Bai Dien, of course, his pupptetmasters and underlings, such as Motherland Security's Alejandro (that'd be Alex, in English) Mayorkas. Yes, all eyes are on Gaza, Israel, and the ME in general while the invasion of the US from the south is in full swing now.
Besides the suddenly-noticed blatant convergence of stupidities that is just one of many actually-long-term ill effects of open borders, the Bai Dien administration also
Then, while searching for information and images on this little piece of wall, I came across a number of sob story articles. I would like to tell those open borders useful idiots to stop all of your sobbing, because this is not a part of any serious steps necessary to save the nation. What this media BS is, is a variation on what Peak Stupidity has dubbed the Overton Briar Patch*. From the explanation post:
Some of the ctrl-left with what we may think of as having, or have thought of as having Trump/Bush/Bush/Reagan Derangement Syndrome may really be outraged, but these are the most deluded psychotic sickos. I believe most of them just act like they think said office holders (I include notable Senators and Congressmen too) are actually Conservative. Why come up with these huge exaggerations of the supposed Conservatism of these politicians? It's a tactic of theirs that works very well .As an example, we gave the reader George W. Bush - this is the conclusion:
The effect of this tactic is to get Conservatives to actually believe "their" high-office holder is working hard, doing the right thing for them. "If they hate him so much, he MUST be doing a great job!" Well, that can be true, but not if that hate is based on exaggeration, lies, or plain insanity.
“Drown me just as deep as you please, Br'er Fox,” said Br'er Rabbit, “but for Lord’s sake, don’t fling me in that briar patch.” American Conservatives get fooled by: "Please, Conservative voters, close the southern border as tight as you please, but for Lord's sake, don't elect the far-right-winger George Bush!"We've got a variation here with the ctrl-left in charge. "Ruin this nation as much as you please. For Lord's sake, Zhou Bai Dien, please dont' harm the poor
We are to believe that this is a step in the right direction because the ctrl-left are hurt and angry, telling sob stories over the Lyin' Press. Don't fall for this crap, patriots. I explained what this was about in that previous post. Secondly, though it was the first part of this post, please keep you eyes on the ball - we're talking in baseball metaphors now - that Middle East turmoil is not nothing, but unless the nukes get across the pond, it's not the existential issue of this nation that the immigration invasion is.
* Note that "Overton" is just there for the continuity, as "-gate" is still a half-century later for political scandals. Robert Overton was a great guy though, from what I've read - see the post linked to.
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Too good for hand-me-downs
Posted On: Monday - October 16th 2023 6:46AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Economics Americans
We've got a whole lot of kids clothes, toys, and games to get rid of. After sorting out the worn, broken, missing-pieces stuff to get rid of, we organized the rest of it. Let's have a yard sale, I figured, There's a deal now in which yard-sale brokers, if I may use that term, read the Craigslist ads and come around scarfing up stuff and re-selling it themselves on eBay, like the NYCity bankers looting of Russia in the 1990s.. like a really, really low-budget version of that.
Well, enterprising business is A-OK, and we still may have a yard sale, but I want to do this on a personal basis, getting these items to kids who would like them. We don't at all mind giving them away. The problem I'm running into is that the my wife tells me the Church people don't want used stuff, and I can't figure out who does, that is, besides Goodwill. That's not very personal, dealing with a big organization whose AA employees likely don't care what happens to this stuff. Also, see below.
It's nearly Christmas time, and I'm thinking of the long-ongoing US Marines' "Toys for Tots" program. They want new stuff. I may sound like a curmudgeon here - that's the idea, in fact - but with the time/money the Marines organization puts into this, along with the individual well-meaning volunteers, wouldn't they pretty much break even just having a new toys budget and getting discounts on masses of toys for the kids? That wouldn't be a community thing, I understand. However, then what's wrong with some used but working toys with all the parts? No, not good enough for today's tots whose parents can't afford toys?
My point here is of my surprise that most Middle-Class, Working Class, about any class, Americans seem to think themselves too good to acquire used clothing, toys, or games. It's embarrassing to them, I gather. That wasn't the case when I was young, and we weren't poor either.
Here's the modern worry about Goodwill. It's "Fast Fashion" that's a big problem. Fashion, hell! How about just being glad to get something to keep your kid warm and entertained?
Will the fact that the American economy is a ponzi scheme that's been strung out on FED-induced low interest rates and a Reserve currency - the former about done with, and the latter ?? - ever get Americans to understand that the 70-year long prosperous Middle-Class lifestyle can't be held onto forever via debt?
Too bad there aren't many Great Depression Era people around with the strength to knock some sense into spoiled Americans. They are going to need it.
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Heaven's Just a Sin Away
Posted On: Saturday - October 14th 2023 9:25PM MST
In Topics: Music
I couldn't name the years, other than at least by the mid-1970s, but there was an era when Country music songs had clever or pun-ny titles. I remember one about I Cheated Me Right out of You, and I'm sure there were plenty others.
This one has such a title, which does go along with the lyrics of the song. The Kendalls were a father and daughter duo - Royce and Jeannie Kendall. They are from Missouri with family roots in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains. I don't know anything from them but this one song.
Heaven's Just a Sin Away was recorded and released in 1977, and went to #1 on the Billboard Magazine Country Music chart. It's a pretty good tune.
I will get back to the comments discussion in the morning. Thanks to all Peakers for reading and especially writing in. Next week we may get back to China reports before too much of the trip is forgotten. A curmudgeonry post or two may appear, along with more on the invasion (not not in the Middle East but HERE). Then, there's the book review ... Have a happy Sunday of rest hopefully.
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Nobel Kung Flu Politics Prize
Posted On: Saturday - October 14th 2023 5:26PM MST
In Topics: Science Kung Flu Stupidity
Peak Stupidity no longer has a biochemistry department, if we ever had one. Our staff are not here to debunk or discuss the science that includes nucleoside base modifications. I am sure Drew Weissman and Katalin Koriko are intelligent, knowledgeable scientists.
However, there is so much research going on all over the world's universities, with plenty of bright research ideas with prize-worth results. How does the committee decide? Politics.
So, these two scientists have worked on the replacement of the nitrogenous bases in RNA, which are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil. I do remember a little of this stuff, which includes that DNA strands have the 4 amino acids in patterns that make up genes. There's the A,G, C, and T, but in the RNA, the uracil replaces thymine (the T) that's in DNA. Who said this wasn't gene therapy? I cannot say that that means this research can't have important good applications.
This Nobel Prize announcement is centered on the particular application of the use of this research to "enable the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19". In the eyes of the Nobel Committee, that makes Drs. Weissman and Koriko HEROES and deserving of this yearly prize. There's your politics. Really, after all that has gone down and all the bad effects seen from this gene therapy vaccine, I am surprised that that the Noble Committee* is still keeping this Heroes and world-saving vaccine narrative alive. Perhaps I should not be.
Finally, for the record and as to complete due diligence here, I did duckduckgo "Katalin Koriko bikini pictures", and again with the little tick mark: "NO RESULTS". Dang. However, I came upon a Glamour magazine article dubbing her The Scientist Who Saved the World. There's a picture of her in a clearing in the woods with a long black dress, but honestly, women of Glamour, I would rather have just seen bikini pictures.
* That's in Sweden, no less, one of the more sane and non-panicked countries we've read about (as discussed thoroughly by our commenter E.H. Hail in parts VII - - X - - XI - - XV - - and XIX of his real-time reporting on the PanicFest in '20, among some others, I'm sure).
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A confluence of stupidities at San Ysidro
Posted On: Friday - October 13th 2023 5:27PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Race/Genetics
I'm telling you, it's like a conjunction of Mercury - the Gay Planet - and Uranus, something the math would predict but very hard to actually observe, without mirrors (I mean, with a reflector telescope), and with the Sun's glare and all. The immigration stupidity has been ramping up steeply since Zhou Bai Dien and his string-pullers were put in charge of things. Much more recently, the violence in the Middle East between Moslems and Israelis has flared up. Now, these 2 bodies of stupidity have gone into conjunction at the US Border, in San Ysidro, part of San Diego, California.
The VDare All-Things-Immigration site has as writer who used to work for the Border Patrol. Former Agent spent most of his career that at the northern border with Canada, but knows how things work and keeps up with the current antics of the organization. He wrote a post the other day based on on-the-scene video reports by one Ben Bergquam about this incredible scene down there: As Israel Is Under Attack, Jewish Family Services Buses Are Picking Up Arab Illegals At The Border.
As Peak Stupidity has explained over and over, there are people coming from all over the world. I think these "aid" groups, if they do know that, would be perfectly happy this leads to peace and perfect harmony, at least if the writers of a 50 y/o Coca~Cola commercial can be considered experts on these matters.
The thing is that they are helping Syrians, Yemenese, and Chechens into the country among others. They’re not all Mexicans and Central Americans. The Border Patrol has caught people from 160 different nations. Iceland is about the only country they haven’t caught people from.Not fair! More Ice People! ("They came from the land of the ice and snow where the hot springs rise while the hot girls blow..."*)
Many of these imported future Coca~Cola drinkers are not too fond of Jews... just sayin'...
At a time when Israel is under attack, what in the world is Jewish Family Services thinking?Here's what the people of Jewish Family Services are thinking:
"We are virtuous people. That's the important thing, and that's what we need the public to know. There may be a few bad apples, but the host families will help them assimilate, or worst case, it's the Government's job. I'd hate to think they'll start killing our people, but, let's not think about that. We can't be profiling the people of this immigration invasion. That's not virtuous at all, as we ourselves made sure everyone knows, right after 9/11."To be fair, plenty of other "virtuous" religious groups, of your standard White ethnicities, think the same way. One difference is that their stupidity does not have the possible immediate results, as we can foresee here for the Jewish members of Jewish Family Services. The long-term stupidity for everyone is that we are more and more living in foreign lands within our own country, even if it's not among people who are plain bent on killing us.** More from the Former Agent:
Bensman wrote a book, America’s Covert Border War, but he claims the programs that were once in place to stop terrorists have been corrupted and are no longer viable. He claims the Middle Easterners are being let into the United States unvetted. There’s a Muslim only migrant center now in Tijuana.Back to the Jewish stupidity of having, on average, supported this stupidity for a half a century, now they my pay the price in blood right here in America. Just after 9/11, the Neocons promoted war in the Middle East for the reason of "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over there."
The Biden administration has only deported 1% of those who have come across since the start of the administration. It has always been a calculation of the Left that once illegal aliens are in the interior of the country, then it becomes extremely hard to deport them. Among other things, it’s thanks to our intentionally dysfunctional immigration courts.
That expression was uttered time and again in those years. It sounded good, but the logic is unsound. Why would these people be over here to fight us to begin with? Are we fighting them over there to keep them out of here? Whaaa? You just control your borders and immigration entry points and keep the bad ones from coming in a legal manner too in the first place. Then too, if we keep fighting them over there, what will be the general attitude of the ones we invite over here?
I guess they wanted to test this idea by letting them in. More Saudi Arabians were let in yearly on visas after 9/11 than before (assuming they were the 9/11 culprits here). President Trump implemented a Moslem ban, and he and the plan were derided by the ctrl-left. That'd most assuredly include "Jewish Family Services".
On that score, I was about to wrap up this post, but ran into a new A. W. Morgan post, Terror Attack Coming? Border Agents And Families Threatened, Biden Imported 63K From Countries Trump Banned. The inner excerpt here is from John Binder of Breitbart***.
Third, and perhaps most significantly, the Biden Regime ended POTUS 45 Donald Trump’s misnomered “Muslim ban” and immediately began importing formerly banned Great Replacers:Thinking back on Peak Stupidity's previous couple of posts asking why the Middle East has to be America's business, now the massive importation of the people involved has made it our business, right here, right now.Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data for Fiscal Year 2022 gives insight into the volume of legal immigration to the U.S. from countries that former President Donald Trump had placed on a travel ban list because they either did not share critical national security data or were found to harbor and sponsor terrorists.
Biden, in January 2021, ended the travel ban.
Those travel countries, by 2020, were Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, North Korea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, and Kyrgyzstan.
From October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022, Biden brought nearly 63,000 legal immigrants from the travel ban countries to the U.S. on green cards — about 7,300 of which arrived as chain migrants, while more than 4,300 arrived through the Diversity Visa Lottery.
PS: Steve Sailer has surprisingly come out with a very good post on The Unz Review trying to come to grips with this self-defeating stupidity by the very influential Jewish left (and, yes, there are those on the right). He didn't cover the current madness, but it's an overall criticism of this stupidity in general - see The World-Historical Question.
* Disclaimer: I did not look up actual Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song lyrics out of laziness - heard the song many times, got the 8-track tape - this is the way I've always heard it...
** That's not to mention the dozens of other major problems due to the invasion. Peak Stupidity and VDare have been all over these problems over the years, the latter site more comprehensively.
*** Ahhh, jeeze, come on! Spell check acts like it doesn't know Breitbart. Sure they don't.
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Happy Columbus Day
Posted On: Thursday - October 12th 2023 8:00PM MST
In Topics: Holiday from Stupidity
531 years ago, in 1492, Columbus and crew sailed the ocean blue .. in 3 small boats, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria... to a new world.
It's about too late for Peak Stupidity readers who've forgotten this holiday today, but at least we'll keep reminding you, if so. I did wish quite a few people a "Happy Columbus Day". If they didn't like it, they can suck on something.
Tomorrow we'll get back to what's turning into immigration invasion week.
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Israelis v Palestinians
Posted On: Thursday - October 12th 2023 8:43AM MST
In Topics: Music World Political Stupidity
This is how it was set up in the beginning:
Israel consists of more than that orange land right now, but it's all a very small area.
The dividing up of territory by "the experts" to dole out to nations of people, such as was done by Woodrow Wilson in 1919, the 3 big powers at the end of the "Big One", WWII, and many times throughout history, does not always sit well with the people being assigned said doled-out territory. In fairly recent history, the conglomerate called Yugoslavia broke up not so peacefully, while Czechoslovakia did is peacefully. (Then, we had Germany going the other way and re-unifying after the fall of Communist Europe.)
It's hard to do this sort of thing without a bunch of people somewhere getting screwed. People very much resent being pushed off their land, some of whom may have had family there for centuries. In the case of the creation of Israel, well, yeah, there were people living there already. By the mid 20th Century, you weren't going to find many habitable places that weren't inhabited. The huge island* of Madagascar, off the coast of southeast Africa, and over 25 times the size of Israel, was one considered by those pushing for a Jewish homeland. That might have worked out better, but then there was the question of the Holy Land.
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jericho, Bethel, Hebron, you name them, these cities from the Bible, especially from the New Testament, all have towns and cities in America named after them even. The Biblical history that went on in the location in question is important to Jews and Christians. It is, to note here, not all that important to the Moslems that were living there - they've got Mecca, Medina, and so on. Then again, they were LIVING THERE in 1947.
This is water under the bridge. I firmly believe that the US should not be militarily involved in anything happening in the Middle East. Nothing going on there requires DEFENSIVE American forces. Oh, then there's the "fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here" bit. That's kind of asinine to begin with, as nobody says we have to LET them over here. (More on that in the next post.)
However, when it comes to personal opinion on Israelis v Palestinians, I am on the side of the former. It's one thing to carry a major grudge over being forcibly removed from one's home. It's been 3/4 of a century now, though! You have to get over it, and live a life. Of course, the Lyin' Press over my lifetime has shown mostly the bad side of these people, but I don't know of any gleaming Palestinian cities and modern industry. If they want to live the quiet pastoral Biblical Middle-Eastern life, fine, but should they not have gotten over this 75-year struggle**?
Images of bitching and protesting and otherwise raising hell against the Israelis is the impression I have of the Palestinians. That can't be all there is to it. Still, how have they not build up their remaining land into something worth living on? Geographically and climatically, how is it different from the land of Israel? Why have the Palestinians not been nationalized by nearby Arab countries, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They are still living as refugees after 3/4 of a century, and as Top Petty explains below, you don't have to do that!
In the meantime, here is modern-day Tel Aviv:
It's no China, but it's a modern 1st-World-adjacent (surely not physically!) country with a very capable population. Israeli domestic politics is much more lefty than I'd like, but that can be explained by ...
Money from the West, primarily the US, has helped enable the modernization of this desert land. The best numbers I can get are (nominal - '22 dollars) $2 to $2.5 Billion average annual aid over these 75 years, with 2/3 of it having been military aid.
Would the Palestinians have built modern cities, de-salinization plants, engineering schools, and the like, had they gotten that kind of money? I'm pretty sure the answer is no. It's the people, stupid, errr, it's the stupid people.
Let me sum this up: The Palestinian people got screwed out of their land 75 years ago. The Jewish inhabitants of Israel, with moral and monetary support from America, built their land into a modern place with a decent economy. The Palestinians couldn't have done that, and they aren't doing anything but remaining refugees in that forsaken land of Gaza and environs around Israel. They haven't seem to have been welcomed into the Arab countries of the area.
The Israelis are under the impression, probably correct, that the Moslems of the region are all out to destroy their land. They aren't making it better by the aggressive actions, some of it for the purpose of gaining more land, which just gives more reason for the Palestinians to hold onto their grudge.
Would it all have been different if America had just stayed out of this business? If Israel had to come up with on its own all the money it takes them to defend their land***, could they still have the economy they have? Let's just try that for a spell. The US would stop gaining ill will around the region, at least. Barring Armageddon, the blowback from that 1948 deal will probably continue. However, for the Palestinians, the best revenge at this point would be living well.
* 4th largest island in the World.
** It reminds me somewhat of those Communist Long Marches, never-ending marches, and Revolutions.
*** One could consider all the suberfuge in the US Gov't/Lyin' Press by the Israelis part of that effort, I suppose ...
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New Israel, New York
Posted On: Wednesday - October 11th 2023 1:22PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Geography Bible/Religion World Political Stupidity
"Start spreadin' the news ..." There was the newspaper rack at a New York City location, clamoring:
If I hadn't have known any better, having noticed an article title or post on-line here and there, I hope I would be forgiven for not having noticed this current event. I would not have known enough to care. I do know about this story, to the smallest extent, but I still don't care... not much that is. How many people have been maimed and killed in the Ukraine over the last year and a half, due to encouragement and support of one side by, well, the same people writing these
This stuff has been going on for 75 years, since the State of Israel was carved out of the religiously important but otherwise fairly worthless desert of the "Levant"*. The Palestinian inhabitants who were displaced were understandably upset about their being displaced from their homes, and their anger, with the help of lots of the Arab-Moslem world has not subsided. It did not help that 2 serious wars (1967 and '73) and tit-for-tat suicide, bomb, and rocket attacks have been going on since about Day 1. I don't know if it has been the case since Day 1 that the Arab world has wanted Israel destroyed, but the Israelis have always thought so. Let's face it - the end to the animosity would involve a whole lot of destruction and/or The End Times.
I can remember since I was aware of the news, pretty early on in my life, that violence in the Middle East, with Israel being in the thick of it. As with the weather forecasting joke that one can't go wrong with "partly cloudy, chance of rain", any news report can't be too far off the mark if the lazy "intern" hands the reporter a story about "Today, more violence in the Middle East."
During those Cold War years, having a 1st-World, Free-World ally in that strategic region was helpful. However, alliances with these countries shifted then too - Egypt, a British colony until 1922, shifted to the Communist side of the ledger by the mid '50's, about a decade into the Cold War.** Egyptian President Nasser kept alliances with the Soviets. He died in '70 and Anwar Sadat replaced him, and slowly the country was shifted over. It wasn't until the efforts of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the mid-1970s that Egypt could be considered an ally. Mr. Sadat, you may possibly recall, was given a Nobel Peace prize***, and peace broke out...? Nah, not really.
Israel was of course on the side of the West during the Cold War, because it needed America's support - money, armaments, and media support. Since the Cold War is over - it's been 3 1/2 decades - what's in this alliance for America now? It seems very one sided, unless you are Jewish or a certain brand of Evangelical, concerned not about America, but more about your own people or The End Times going as planned, respectively.
I'm surprised I didn't get into this back in the Peak Stupidity early-on post Toward Peak Neocon? - Part 2 (of an Intro. to "The Neocons"), but it's pretty clear to me now at least that the US military has been over in the Mediterranean/Middle East since the Cold War for the sake of Israel. To ensure that this layer of protection stays in place, those who run and write for the flagships of the Potomac Regime's Lyin' Press make sure the people are well-informed on Israel's travails. If you notice those NYC newspapers and their huge headlines, you should keep in mind also (you probably do) that NY City is ~15% Jewish.****
While an average (best I could gather) of 3 or 4 thousand Russians and Ukrainian military men, along with civilians, have been killed WEEKLY, we have these much more urgent sounding in the NYC newspapers about the most recent violence of this 75 year-long trouble. Yet America has encouraged the former war and we are to get riled up to no end about this latter development.
No. Enough! This is not the business of America. Not our circus, not our monkeys! I'm not riled up, and I don't plan to get riled up. The real story of this post is who runs the media in this country. I don't have any doubt. Tomorrow, Peak Stupidity will have more - Israelis v Palestinians.
* The "Levant" included a whole lot more land per older definition, but from the 20th Century onward has meant the land on, and pretty close to, the eastern shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea. That means the modern-day countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The island of Cyprus is also included, as is the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, a triangular piece of Egypt that's east of the Suez Canal up to what's now Israel's western border. The Sinai is a land bridge between Africa and Asia.
** That is depending on how you define the beginning of the Cold War. Well before the end of WWII in Europe, everyone knew the USSR would not become any friend of The West. Some may date this later, from Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech about a year later - March '46.
*** ... more on these Nobel prizes in a coming post.
**** Wiki has different writers, the whole point of the deal, but, man, they are not so good at arithmetic. I'm just taking the average of 1.1 - 1.6 million from here divided by the 8.7 million in the 5 boroughs that are the city itself.
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Building the danged fence!
Posted On: Tuesday - October 10th 2023 5:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity AntiChrist Zhou Bai Dien
Why the AntiChrist topic key here? It's just that it's been underutilized and, well, this freaking guy:
The image above is from our old post Speaking Dead of the Ill - re Juan McAmnesty. A commenter going by the name of Harry Baldwin wrote this comment that reminded me of the similarity between the Bai Dien Border Wall Bullshit going on now and the story of John McCain, aka, Juan McAmnesty and his own Border Bullshit from 13-16 years ago.
It reminds me of the odious John McCain, who, while campaigning, said, “Build the dang wall!” in a commercial, then went back to supporting open-borders after his reelection.Yep, Peak Stupidity remembers, and "odious" is the perfect adjective too.
The reader may want to check out this March '10 ABC News article, but video may help jog your memory too.
Juan McAmnesty on completing that danged fence!:
Then, an attempt at an explanation from McAmnesty on why no danged fence was completed:
"They just decided not to do that." "You're right - that's why people are cynical - you're exactly right."
This more evil than stupid Senator and continual Presidential candidate (he was the GOP nominee in '08), said this while he was gunning hard for President in a Vanity Fair interview in '07: "I think the fence is least effective. But I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it.". No, he was not too thrilled about his Arizona or future nationwide constituents demanding stuff that was in conflict with the wishes of his donors! He was flat-out lying there.
That's what you gotta do when elections are coming up... real pain in the ass, too.
Lucy and Charlie Brown have gotten almost 2 decades older since then, but Charlie Brown has still now wised up. It's getting to be too late.
Thanks, Harry Baldwin for the (bad) memories.
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Bai Dien Border Wall Bullshit
Posted On: Monday - October 9th 2023 4:51PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
Just to get a "file photo" of part of the wall that did get built during the Trump Administration (by hook and by crook only), I ended up on a web site from an early March '21 story titled: Biden’s decision to halt the wall construction on the Mexican border left the area open for cartels, Arizona sheriff claims. That was a months and a half after Bai Dein's puppetmasters took office.
It's not as if these people just neglected the work - they have actively wanted this nation to be invaded. Their surge over the last 1/2 a year or so, an overwhelming rush via all means, may be seen as a Patton march to Berlin, with victory near at hand for them. They have figured that there's no stopping this now, and they may be right.
However, the immigration invasion has gotten a lot of extra visibility lately. Some nice work by Governors Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida in shipping many thousands to the Regime's financial an political capitals was a big help in this too. These nation destroyers, Communists, if you will (and I will) don't want some wayward happenings like an election of a non-UniParty member to the Presidency. That would slow things down, like the Battle of the Bulge.
So, OK, Bai Dien says he's going to push through a 30 mile or so stretch of border wall to be built, over in Starr County, Texas. First of all, this is less than 2% of the border. Secondly, as the invasion is happening at the hot spots of Eagle Pass right now, notice this map:
Piedras Negras is near Eagle Pass, and Rio Grande City is in Starr County.
Right. This is not just a useless futile gesture though. It's abject lying about some sort of change of mind or change of heart. They destroyed the half-way decent deals, bureaucratic moves and other plans that Donald Trump did implement to control the border, starting on Day 1. They've created the surge of the last 6 months via ignoring law, coming up with new Asylum methods, and having the Border Patrol not only stand down but become accessories, including by physically destroying razor wire put in place by the State of Texas.
This new talk about more wall is not useless because the point is to get American suckers to believe that there is this change of mind - "Oh, about time they saw what's going on. He's realized what stupid mistakes he's made." and/or change of heart - "He DOES care about America. About time!"
I can't believe that even the very smart John Derbyshire has a column headline that reads: Democrats Wavering On Illegal Immigration?!!—But LEGAL IMMIGRATION Still Quietly Destructive. I've got no problem with the last part, BTW, but that wavering? Nobody's freaking wavering!
It’s just that they don’t want any temporary suspension of their program due to some unorthodox President who pushes for a slow down of the destruction. They are throwing this little bone out, a piece of 1-2% of the border closed far from the actions, something completely meaningless, so the rubes can think that somebody is wavering, seeing the light, finally getting a clue. They may just get away with it with the entire Lyin' Press arm of The Regime on their side, an Institution that many of these rubes (yeah, I'll use that today) still pay attention to.
We have just too many Charlie Browns in this country.
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The Perfect Country Song
Posted On: Saturday - October 7th 2023 8:30PM MST
In Topics: Music
I've heard this one in bars more than anywhere else, with rowdy patrons singing backing vocals. As David Allan Coe says during the song, this one was written by the late great songwriter Steve Goodman*. Two others of his songs that Peak Stupidity has featured are Jimmy Buffett's Banana Republics and Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans.
This one needed a re-write, per Mr. Coe, to be the perfect country song, so Mr. Goodman wrote him one more verse to make it so:
Well, I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison,Back to the chorus:
and I went to pick her up in the rain,
but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck,
she got runned over by a damned old train.
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me (let me, let me! - drunk patrons at the bar),David Allan Coe spent a decent share of his life in prison, maybe making him a role model for the "Outlaw Country" crowd. Mainly they didn't like the Nashville Country music business. Mr. Coe had had to spend his time there though, part of it living in a hearse. Gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing ... Country & Western?
and I never minded standing' in the rain.
No, and you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even call me.
Well I wonder why you don't call me.
Why don't you ever call me by my name?
Steve Goodman wrote this song back in 1970, but this recording by David Allan Coe was done 5 years later.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers. Posts having been building up like mad. See you next week!
* John Prine is credited with co-writing this one.
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Portugal is the new Uruguay
Posted On: Friday - October 6th 2023 6:43PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Preppers and Prepping The Future
Wait, what?? Uruguay's in the New World and Portugal the old. One's full of mostly White people speaking Spanish, and the other's full of mostly White people speaking, what, oh, Portuguese. Oh, ahhhaa, we're talking bug-out locations here. (Hence, the Preppers and Prepping topic key attached).
In our long introduction - a big thing here at Peak Stupidity, like ... now - in our movie review of Night Train to Lisbon back in June, we discussed a very short bit of history of Portugal and its being a bigger tourist destination now than what I remember it being. I remember it being a hard to get to place off the tourist beat. Back when the rest of Europe was still European, there wouldn't have been so much reason to see the place.
The reason now is that, being so far away from everything - gotta go through all of Europe though Spain or up through the Straits of Gibraltar and still part of Spain if by land - the demographics have not been so, errr, spoiled, let's say. Don't worry, they're working on it hard though.
Wiki starts out with:
Portugal is a fairly linguistically and religiously homogeneous country. Ethnically, the Portuguese people form a big majority of the total population in Portugal.3 decades ago, Portugal had just under 10 million people, only 1.3% of whom were foreigners. Now, the number is 7.5%.* That's not really so much better than Sweden or France, but we are not talking all Moslems or Africans in that 7.5%. Wiki says these Euro countries don't like to keep track of ethnicity of their populations. (No, why would you care, right? I mean, who... what are you?!) However, there is a table of immigrant origins. African ethnicity is now 3.6%, Caribbean/C-S American is 1.7%, and Asian is very small number. Almost 3% are European peoples, and, hey, there are 14,000 (0.14%) North Americans.
One of that last group immigrating soon to Portugal will be Peak Stupidity's favorite novel writer, and the only one we keep up with, Lionel Shriver. We have been so enamored with her writing*** that we have reviews (one in 6 parts!) of 3 of her books under our Books topic key. Commenter Hail informed us in the comments under our last post that this semi-famous author has written in one of her UK-Spectator columns that she and her husband are moving from the UK*** to Portugal. She is most sick of the Totalitarian effects and after-effects of the Kung Flu PanicFest, worse in England, from what I gather, than in almost all place in the US. (See our posts Most Frightened Nation Status and Ya gotta like Lionel Shriver!.) That's not the only thing - Mrs. Shriver also rails on idiotic environmental policy, seeing, as she did in her The Mandibles novel, a financial bad moon rising. I agree.
Lionel Shriver feels guilty**** about leaving Great Britain, but I don't see why. How did she go about picking Portugal is what I want to know. She's got friends there - that's a start. In the column she does mention the scenery, the affordability (till everybody does this), the yuppie accoutrements ...
Beautiful beaches extend a 15-minute stroll from our new house, roomier than anything we could afford in Britain; from our awaiting back balconies, the sea glistens on the horizon. The fish is fab. The wine is fab too, and cheap.Also:
The Portuguese themselves are bafflingly nice. This is what New York Times columnist David Brooks would characterise as a ‘high-trust society’. Crime is low. People honour their commitments. On average, they don’t cheat one another.The grass is always greener, BUT, yeah, well, yes,
The population is only 11 million, and most of them are Portuguese. In the London neighbourhood we’re leaving behind, we have not been living among the English.Nope, there was no mincing of words there. Lionel Shriver does actually understand what she likes better about Portugal than England, and, from the evidence, other places in Europe.
This is just one lady, one who's opinions I agree with for the most part.***** For me though, even though the plan is to stick it out here, come hell or high water (not being an adherent of the Climate Calamity™, I'm figuring it's the former). However, that's Plan A. Plan B involves first checking out these bug-out places and possibly going from there. I'd like to see both Portugal and Uruguay, if I can make that happen. That's worth a post or
* With the low natural fertility, 1.4 births/woman, and the immigration they are undergoing, the White** proportion of the population will be decreasing rapidly, as it is here.
** Yeah, White is a good approximation. They aren't your northern or eastern Europeans, but compared to most of the world now, yeah, sure. Because of the common languages, I used to tend to think of Portuguese and Spanish people as the same as average Latin Americans. There's that big mix with the old Indians of the New World though. That changes a lot!
*** Mrs. Shriver - yes, "Mrs", no tranny, no operation, no special pronouns, she was just a little different and changed her name from Margaret to Lionel in her high school years - is originally from North Carolina, then spent a lot of time in New York City, then in London for many years. I'll count her as one of the Norte Americanos.
**** Thanks go again to Adam Smith for, as usual, coming through with a non-paywalled link for us.
***** I just read more columns after the help from Adam Smith. I found out that I'm not so enamored with her takes on a number of other issues. This is somehow still surprising to me. I figure, if you get these bunch of important things, you'd get the rest too.
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Why is it always "Fentanyl, Fentanyl, Fentanyl!!"?
Posted On: Thursday - October 5th 2023 1:05PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Pundits Media Stupidity President DeSantis
The great Ann Coulter has scooped Peak Stupidity yet again. Since I watched VDare's immigration-invasion highlights of the recent Red-Squad candidate debate, I have meant to write a post that Ann Coulter just covered very well + she's got lots more than just this point.
It seems that it's still NOT OK to mention the reasons we don't want America to be swamped by multiple millions of non-White, strange, sometimes disease-ridden and violent foreigners YEARLY. The GOP candidates - other than 2016 Donald Trump - apparently feel this way. If they were not going to put forth our minor qualms about population replacement (death to the White Middle Class) due to being-called-names, could they have at least mentioned the dozens of other problems, without even taking race into account? How about discusssing the simple economic problems such as the burden on the Welfare State and healthcare "system" or the biggest economic result, the depression of wages?
Coincidently, as I took a break to read Unz Review - iSteve comments, I came across this comment from an anonymous guy in reply to "AnotherDad" (The latter's ideas about this are the inner quote)::
That latter stuff, notice, is also off the main point. I do get that "whatever works", I guess, but being totally honest in stating that you don't want the American people replaced ought to work too shouldn't it? Oh, except for the name-calling - can't have that ...Tie it [to] jobs. Tie it to inflation. Tie it to unaffordable housing. Tie it to “affordable family formation” and collapsing marriage.Tie it to environmental destruction, to carbon emissions, to global warming. Tie it to harm to our water supply, our fisheries, our open spaces. Tie it to displacement of Americans from the best paying and higher status jobs. Tie it to getting dragged into other people’s blood feuds and territorial ambitions, tie it to foreign wars.
Hey, these are not your Grandfather's malted milk balls!
No, no, gotta come up with something that doesn't make us one of those bad names. Let's see, let's make this whole border invasion a question of Fentanyl. That seems to be the ticket they've chosen, from my viewing of the VDare generated Immigration Invasion highlight reel of that debate. I don't like this. Well, all we hear all day long at debate class is how bad Fentanyl is at this or how nasty Fentanyl did that. Fentanyl, Fentanyl, Fentanyl!!*
Seriously, Fentanyl is some bad stuff. I'm glad I don't know any more than that. However, the increased drug smuggling across the southern border is just a bonus for those with the goal of destroying America. It's not the idea at all. Secondly, all those other terrible effects of the invasion listed incompletely above deserve to be heard about, not just freaking Fentanyl!
As usual, Ann Coulter really kicks ass with her opinion columns. I came across this yesterday - It’s Not About Fentanyl, GOP! It’s The Immigration, Stupid, and I was all, "there goes my post." This will be a combo post then, from 2 great minds. (Haha!)
Miss Coulter comes out strong (not the beginning, but I can't paste in the whole thing) with a jab at the moderator, who, now that I recall too, was from ¡Coalooombiah! Can't they find a native English speaker out of the remaining 200 million of us for this job? She's obviously pro-immigration, so not so unbiased on this most existential of issues. Ann had a lot to say about this narrator's handling of this issue: She brought up a really good point - as a good lawyer (the famous "one percenters") would - showing how the Asylum claims are bogus. Check that out, but I like the way she closed this part:
Luckily for the inadvertent whistleblower, only 15% of Americans could understand what she was saying on account of her accent. But thank you, Miss Calderon, for giving up the game on phony “asylum-seekers.”Hah!
Rather than go over the factors that bring major Sociological and Economic damage that massive immigration brings, Miss Coulter went a different route and linked 3 other bad factors to the Q&A of the debate. While she excerpts parts of the Q&A transcripts, she provides her own answers:
FIRST, as soon as they get here, immigrants start demanding that we admit an endless supply of their fellow countrymen. This raises the question: If they wanted to be around a lot of Latin Americans, why’d they leave?Calderon states the these immigrants vote for gun control due to American gun violence. Yet, these people are all coming from places with higher levels of gun and all other kinds of violence. Again, why not stay TF home?
SECOND, Immigrants bring their Third World voting habits with them. This is where Miss Coulter finds the contradiction from Senora Calderon.
THIRD, immigrants really get off on insulting Americans—as is evident from Calderon’s exposing the “asylum” scam, just so she could call our country violent.Oh, and regarding this third problem with immigration, here you go:
Naturally, she lectured Americans about slavery—because Latin America’s record on that front is unblemished! (Only 6% of trans-Atlantic slaves went to North America; the rest went to Latin America and the Caribbean.) Plus, we haven’t heard a thing about slavery recently, so I’m glad she brought it up.[That was OUR link.] Again, while trying not to feature Ann Coulter's whole column here, I'll add only this final bit on the smuggling of the Fentanyl across the border. The Coalooombia native-narrator makes a point to say that 57% - then how exactly would you know?! - of the smugglers are US Citizens. Miss Coulter helps clear this up for us by providing a complete list of names from a DEA report. Here are the names of those arrested in the last few weeks:
Felix Herrera GarciaAnn Coulter notes: “U.S. citizens” all!"
Grei Mendez
Carliston Acevedo Brito
Renny Parra Paredes, aka “El Gallo”
Jose Cruz Ivan Aispuro
Adrian Montalvo
Jose Lora
Ray Urena
Ruben Davila Cardenas
OK, then, one little erroneous paragraph of opinion in another otherwise good column 2 weeks back can be forgiven. Ann Coulter still rocks, and we both agree here - stop the babbling about the freaking Fentanyl, guys.** People don't have to take it. They will have to deal with all the rest of this though.
PS: Oh, yeah, about the winner of this immigration invasion portion of the debate: Ron DeSantis, of course. It's all just talk right there, but then I've seen action from that man, but not from the others.
* I tried to remain true to the original Marcia Brady meme this time as much as possible.
** I don't even listen to Nikki (Traitor-SC), so, yeah, "guys".
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Apples in Tinfoil - avoid FEMA's Blaring Alert
Posted On: Wednesday - October 4th 2023 10:13AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Preppers and Prepping Orwellian Stupidity iEspionage
Is it tinfoil hat time yet? It's long been tinfoil hat time, really, ever since the roll out of the ubiquitous pieces of iEspionage knows a Apple iPhones. At least one can think of plenty of reasons to put these things in tinfoil, or, to be less an in-your-face SHTF Prepper and more fashionable to boot, those Faraday cages are nice.
To be comprehensive about blocking the iEspionage, additional devices for blocking video, audio, GPS, and - this is going FAR OUT, MAN! - maybe a rock tumbler to mess with the attitude gyros*. Oh, and you'd want a magnet to screw with the compass... and possibly all your memory, hence your pictures of your trip to China ...
So, yeah, unless you learn a lot, buy some hardware, and are ready to put up with a lot of inconvenience (relative to not having these things, that is), whatever the Government wants off of your iCrap, it can get at any time, so, why worry about this shit today?:
Long answer short? Bottom line you? For fun. Let's just fuck a little bit with FEMA, formerly the people whose commandeered basement shelters we were to get into were the Soviets to let the missiles fly. (Spoiler alert. I and 3 other Boy Scouts ate a lot of the Saltine crackers one day. Glad the nukes didn't fly!)
My wife forwarded me a warning from the My Patriot Supply site to ALERT! us: "US Government Test Will Break into Your Phone Oct 4." Why today at 11:20 MST?** They can break into my phone at any time, if I don't take highly inconvenient precautions using perhaps a few of the items that might even be sold on your site.***
“FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.Wait a minute, 14:20 Eastern Daylight or 14:20 Eastern Standard? Surprise us! It won't matter. Phones will be off and wrapped ("Off" means exactly Jack F. Squat when it comes to electronics.), the router will be unplugged, but what about our TV? It's not connected to any outside signal, and this 14 y/o thing can't be THAT SMART if it still plays The Rockford Files. I may leave it plugged into the wall just to see if there's any way the US Feral Gov't can get to it. (I don't see how.)
The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests are scheduled to begin at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
The WEA portion of the test will be directed to all consumer cell phones. This will be the third nationwide test, but the second test to all cellular devices. The test message will display in either English or in Spanish, depending on the language settings of the wireless handset.
The EAS portion of the test will be sent to radios and televisions.”
As I wrote earlier in the post, this is just for fun. My wife asked me to do all this, so, sure, let's fuck with the Government today. I don't need some blaring signal messing with ME time. If it's really important, say, America has screwed with the Russians one too many times, well, they can call me in person. They've got the number. We'll be in the crawl space with the cat and the roaches.
* Hey don't laugh, OK, don't laugh so hard, because there are these things called Inertial Nav(igation) units that can keep position within a mile or two for 8 hours after a flight across the ocean. No external signals are involved. If The Powers That
** That's Peak Stupidity's time zone, and we're stickin' to it!
*** That's the silver lining to come out of this: I've found a new Prepper supply site.
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Motion to Vacate
Posted On: Wednesday - October 4th 2023 6:19AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government
Would that not be a great name of for a movie about legal eagles, battling it out in the courtroom to save... I don't know, the whales or something? Robert Gere should be cast as the lawyer protagonist with
No, instead, this motion is more about vacating the bowels of the UniParty, as performed by Florida Panhandle* Conservative
Now, you all can read, and have probably already read, more about this than I feel like discussing here. From my reading about the now-former Speaker over the last few years, he did not use the power of Red-Squad unity to get done what he could have gotten done. The actual Conservative members of the GOP in Congress, Matt Gaetz being one, have not appreciated this lack of will to fight, hence the take-it-to-the-limit 15 ballot voting battle to extract some promises out of McCarthy during his election to be Speaker this past January, start of the 118th Congress.
Matt Gaetz caught up with Kevin McCarthy and vacated his ass back to non-Speakerdom. Is it a worry what will happen next (as per that funny tweet featured by iSteve)? Hell, could it be worse having no leadership than the leadership of a UniParty cuck? I don't think so. We'd be better off if they ALL went home and did not interfere in Americans and the States' solving of our problems ourselves.
Anyway, Congressman Gaetz can appoint anyone, so even Donald Trump is eligible, as is your blogger here. Matt, remember me? I drove through Niceville one time, but I don't have to be nice. I can DO this.
Finally, whilst trying to decide what I want to write about this - not too much, really - I went through the wiki pages of these 2 men. Man, is it strange to try to get what I want off Wikipedia when it comes to a biography of a Conservative! Matt Gaetz's page is basically made up of one accusation paragraph after another. Most of them, such as:
In June 2021, Gaetz was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.... had me rooting for him all the more! You go, Matt! There are dozens of other factoids on that wiki page, designed to smear the guy, but not designed very well, apparently. To be fair to Rep. McCarthy, here's one from his page:
In July 2021, the delta variant of the coronavirus prompted the Attending Physician of the United States Congress to reimpose a mask requirement in the House chamber. McCarthy called this "a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state", prompting Pelosi to respond to reporters, "he's such a moron." On July 31, 2021, members of Tennessee's Republican congressional delegation gave McCarthy a large gavel with the words "Fire Pelosi" inscribed on it. McCarthy told them, "it will be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down."Yes, bang away, Kevin. They won't throw you into a Washington FS dungeon like the J6 guys, because you are still OF the UniParty (outer circle). Credit where it's due though...
PS: One thing I read about in detail about Kevin McCarthy was his hanging of immigration Patriot Steve King from Iowa out to dry during a brewhaha regarding one of Congressman King's statements to the NY Times ~5 years back. Peak Stupidity covered this in our review of his book Walking through the Fire:
That this one mis-step cost Steve King his Congressional career says a lot about the cowardice that prevails in the GOP. The minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, took the side of the Lyin' Press and backstabbed Congressman King even later on in the game, as King begged for his committee assignments back...
* This guy went to High School in Niceville, just north of Panama City. I've been right through there, and it didn't look big enough to HAVE a High School.
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Peak Stupidity is FOR the alleged Depopulocalypse - Part 2: READ the Substack essay
Posted On: Tuesday - October 3rd 2023 4:33PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Pundits The Future
Remember this Sci-Fi picture?
The title has more of a past-tense meaning with a missing subject, not an imperative to the reader. It's been nearly a month since the our post Peak Stupidity is FOR the alleged Depopulocalypse - Part 1: Substack essay, written to start off some essays arguing against the worries about decreasing population (in MOST of the world). In fact, my point in bringing up the essayist John Carter and his Postcards from Barsoom* site up was to argue against what he wrote.**
I wrote last time that I wanted to read these 3 long essays by this substack writer first before I continued on my discussion here. Well, that was just last week, and, not only that, but after reading it all, I agree with so much of his writing that I don't have so much of an argument! I'll first use this post to highly recommend the reading of these 5 (Roman Numerated) sections in the 3 posts of his series:
Depopulocalypse
Depopulocalypse II – Solutions That Don’t or Won’t Work
Depopulocalypse III – From SINK to FLOAT
Besides the very brief intro and conclusion (plus standard promotion of his substack world) his 5 sections are:
I. The Depopulocalypse: This is a definition and explanation of what's going on with world populations. Yes, he does note the extremely problematic exception of sub-Saharan Africa. He is not the least bit woke about it either:
On the current trajectory, by mid-century the only geographical region with a surplus of young humans will be Sub-Saharan Africa, and uh ... well if your plan is to try and maintain an advanced industrial civilization with Bantus, all I can say is good luck with that.You are welcome at Peak Stupidity any time, Mr. "Carter".
II. Factors Reducing Fertility: He breaks these many factors along the division of Biological factors, Economic factors, and Sociological factors. I can't say I agree with it all 100%, maybe even not agreeing with certain particular changes to people, economics, and society being factors at all for a few of these. However, it's VERY interesting reading.
III. What We’ve Already Tried: The writer's 2nd web page (of the 3) has the title Solutions That Don’t or Won’t Work, but it basically starts here. Since even the widespread discussion that there IS this fertility problem in the world is very new***, most of what is discussed here, actions by certain countries, is recent. Not nearly so much attention has been paid, and not nearly the amount of hot air, money, and attempts at control-freakery has been spewed, grubbed, and laid down upon us compared to the massive Climate Calamity™, and it being a complete farce at that. (That's why I'm much more prone to enjoying this guy's writing now.) One can argue about this fertility crisis - is it bad? - but it's plain to see in simple statistics.
IV. Dystopias Born of Desperation: This part gets pretty Science Fictioney. It also assumes that the medium-term problem of heavily-older populations being supported by so few young people is part of the big problem. It is a problem, of course, but it's not any part of the long-term issue here, and that's where I disagree with the writer, leading to a disagreement on whether the long-term issue is ANY kind of problem at all.
V. Solutions to the Fertility Crisis: Here are the factors from Mr. Carter's Section II, and per his note, in no particular order:
1) ObesityI could have listed these while summarizing Section II, but anyway, his particular solutions to each are discussed. Are they all necessary? No. Is solving any ONE factor alone going to fix things? I don't know. We do both agree that number (5) is self-correcting.
2) Hormone-disrupting chemicals
3) Urbanization
4) Difficulty finding a spouse
5) High expense of housing and children
6) Long duration of education
7) Incompatibility of family and professional lives
8) Child-rearing being seen as low-status
OK, so rather than I start writing lots about this Depopulocaplypse (Full attribution here - LUV his term!), I will ask the reader to check out these 3 essays on Postcards from Barsoom. It's an hour or two of very interesting and fun reading... except if you have to read the text over the brown background on a phone! I had no choice there at the time, but, see what I mean, it was worth it for the interesting reading.
We are living in the times described in 1970s Sci-Fi books, in a lot of ways, most of them not so good. As Instapundit bemoans, "where are my flying cars?!" Really, they aren't so out of the question, but flying cars for us fairly few enlightened souls with lots of disposable time and money in a non-Idiocracy was supposed to be the deal. That's not what I see.
There will definitely be a post here soon arguing against the basic premise of Mr. Carter's that decreasing population numbers are inherently bad.
* Substack pundit "John Carter" is definitely a Sci-Fi fan, as "John Carter" is the main character in the Barsoom tales, that took place on Mars in a century-ago Edgar Rice Borroughs series of Science Fiction novels. The cool futuristic paintings, such as the one above, adorn his blog posts. It'd make sense for Mr. "Carter" to be writing about the future, as it is coming most quickly.
** More particularly, in that month-ago post, I noted that it was one Climate Calamity™ reference in the beginning of one of his posts that almost turned me off to reading him at all - sarcasm is not always easy to detect. As it turns out, this John Carter is against the Global Climate Stupidity, just another point in his favor. I'm so sorry to have even mentioned this!
*** In my mind, it's only a decade old, but then I'm no Sociologist or other type of bullshitter. Perhaps this was discussed 2 decades ago, but there's been a residual effect of the only half-century ago talk about the "Population Bomb" from the Club or Rome types that couldn't be overpowered in a couple of decades.
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We're full, apparently: Romeike - German Homeschooling family being deported by Bai Dein
Posted On: Tuesday - October 3rd 2023 9:32AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny Educational Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
It is one sick, sick freaking government we live under nowadays. Anarcho-Tyranny is what makes it all work for the Bai Dein Administration and the Potomac Regime Deep State.
This is a follow-up from Peak Stupidity's reporting* - Homeschooling - poking the Beast in the eye with a big stick - Part 3 and Freedom and homeschooling in Germany and America with Lame-O Trump on a different German homeschooling family, in America taking asylum from a German Government that doesn't allow homeschooling at all. Must learn from zie State! Jawohl,
While we'd reported on the Wunderlich family - with 4 homeschooled children, in passing we did reference this other German persecuted family, the Romeike's, White Evangelical Christians with (now) 7 children. They had bailed out of the repression in Germany to East Tennessee, an excellent choice, in my opinion! (They are/were(?) in Morristown, outside of Knoxville on the road to the Tri-Cities - Kingsport/Johnson City/Bristol.) It was the Øb☭ma administration that had tried to deport these people.
The plan of these persecuted Christians is called "seeking asylum". The American government allowed many Jews to escape the Nazis of that previous era and come here. Americans were fine with those under Communist repression and persecution coming to stay too, that is, if they could get out. Well, it's easy to get out now, and it's easy to come in. It's even easy to stay... if you are one of the many MILLIONS of Venezuelans, Haitians, Black! Africans, and other potential scum from trashed-out shitholes around the world. White Christians, though? We gotta lay down the law here, guys - can't just let anybody and his brother into the country willy-nilly, ya know.
I've read about the Bai Dien Administration's taking up the cause now to deport these scum of society, shown in the image above, a decade later on various websites. My go-to site, VDare, has an article by long-term regular writer Mr. James Fulford on this story: Biden Regime Suddenly Decides To Deport German Home-Schooling Romeike Family—WHY NOW?.
There's so much hypocrisy in this story that even VDare writers with 2 decades of immigration ins-and-outs under their belts can't point it all out. Then again, Anarcho-Tyranny is not quite the same as simple hypocrisy. (That'd be a good post to come.)
One thing that I see is that the deportation of this family of 9 means that there would be separation of the family if the Germans didn't let the 2 American-born kids in. How about those big sob stories about the dark foreign kids, brought in by Coyotes on a dangerous trek through the desert, were separated - separated I tell's ya! - from their parents. (As are American children whose Dads commit grand larceny, rape, or murder- freaking family separation!)
I will insert this little bit of the great discussion of this stupidity by James Fulford. (The first part is his excerpt of a wiki paragraph on homeschooling in Germany :
I have no idea what constitutes sex education in modern day Germany, and I’m not sure I want to, but I’m not reassured by stories like this: It’s not all anal sex’: the German schools exploring love, equality and LGBT issues, by Abby Young-Powell, Guardian, November 23, 2016.The illegality[In Germany] has to do with the prioritization of children’s rights over the rights of parents: children have the right to the company of other children and adults who are not their parents. For similar reasons, parents cannot opt their children out of sexual education classes because the state considers a child’s right to information to be more important than a parent’s desire to withhold it.
Germany started modern sex education in 1969, and made it mandatory in all schools in 2002.This is why the Romeike's wanted out. It's a decent case for political asylum. The millions of cases EACH YEAR of foreigners obtaining this status are not, so we know what this is about, don't we? It's pure anti-White and anti-Christian hatred by the Regime.
I read an an article for some more info on the life of the Romeike family in Tennessee. Evan Mealins of The Tennessean reports German family in Tennessee faces deportation. Everything we know about the case. It's a good unbiased article, but, man, are these people still clueless about the invasion!:
How many people are granted asylum?This is from 4 days ago. Read VDare, Evan. They are getting "asylumed" by the hundreds of thousands MONTHLY!
According to Syracuse University, nearly 2 million people applied for asylum in the U.S. from 2001 through 2022. Just over 600,000 were granted asylum in that time period, according to Homeland Security. From 2013 to 2022, about 15,000 people from Europe were granted asylum. None of those appear to be from Germany. Asia has had the most people granted asylum in the United States with nearly 120,000 people from 2013 through 2022.
Final question for the Bai Dien deportation squad: Would it have been OK if the Romieke family had used the App? Would they have been just given a date to come to a hearing - or not - in a half a year, no harm, no foul - had they broken into this country via Ecuador, the Darien Gap, and then a another gap, provided by the helpful US Border Patrol, in the razor wire, on the American side of the Rio Grande?
* From almost 6 and from 4 years back respectively. Regarding the title of the latter, just read that one, and you'll understand the insult "lame-o" when it comes to Donald Trump.
** From the 1st of our previous posts cited here, to get the German a little better, it was NEIN! ISS VERBOTEN! You must turn ofver der kindervolk to zie STADT!
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Good news from New Mexico
Posted On: Saturday - September 30th 2023 5:06PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Guns
This picture is from a CNN article. They wanted this picture to scare readers, but it made my day instead.
This is a short follow-up from our post New Mexico Commie Governor declares guns health emergency from a couple of weeks ago. Even when I wrote that, I was behind in reporting that this New Mexico attempt at a gun ban is a feel-good story. We could sure use one!
I've read a few more posts on the resistance to the unConstitutional, arbitrary, and capricious (yeah, OK, egregious!) action taken by the overly emotional New Mexican Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. (Women high-office politicians, yeah, I'm agin them.) I like the title of this one by Mr. Dan Zimmerman of The Truth About Guns. He says Gun Owners Owe New Mexico’s Inept, Authoritarian Governor a Debt of Gratitude.
Not only are the good New Mexicans of Bernalillo County, which encompasses the city of Albuquerque, scoffing at the ban, but even the local and other State politicians of this D-squad-dominated State not going along with it. The problem with the Governor's move, per Mr. Zimmerman:
It’s one thing to be a budding authoritarian who doesn’t care about violating state law and individuals’ civil rights. It’s another thing to be an inept, incompetent authoritarian. For that, we call all be thankful for New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.Good, but as Dan Zimmerman continued, explaining how a more logical, organized, unemotional politician would have done this "right", I kept thinking "Hey, hush up - don't give them any ideas"
Grisham isn’t just your run-of-the-mill anti-gun Democrat politician. She’s also a bumbling fool who — we can all be grateful — is terrible at her job and clueless as to how the laws and constitutions of New Mexico and and the United States work.
One lesson of this story is that well-organized large groups of patriots can do a good job of resisting the Potomac Regime and its minions. That would be gun owners / 2nd Amendment advocates. Say what you want about the NRA, but they have 5 million members. There is Gun Owners of America and others. The patriotic would-be resistance to the immigration invasion, arguably an equally important problem at this time, just don't seem to have quite the manpower ready to go outside and do that resisting.
Americans right now are depending mostly on the Texas National Guard, as we've posted about here and here and with new news and video from VDare's Eugene Gant just today: More Video Of Biden’s Border Treason: Border Patrol Cutting Razor Wire, Fist Bumping Great Replacement Illegals.
Anyway, congrats to the good Patriots of Bernallilo County and New Mexico! Thank you, inept government "leaders" everywhere. Thank you for reading and writing in, Peakers. The list in my head of future posts is long, but available time is short. Happy Sunday to all.
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Dispatches from The Middle Kingdom: Planes, Trains, and **Automobiles-II**
Posted On: Friday - September 29th 2023 10:57AM MST
In Topics: Music Cars China iEspionage
(Continued from **Planes**, **Planes-II**, **Trains**, **Trains-II**, **Trains-III** and **Automobiles** of our Dispatches from The Middle Kingdom: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles series.)
"Yo, Taxi!!"
No, that's not how you do it in China, not even in Chinese. You walk up to one of them when it's in traffic, maybe see someone in the back and still have a conversation through the open window with the driver about whether we can work out a deal. The passenger in the back sits calmly, and the driver figures this out. I gotta say, it's very impressive to see this kind of cooperation. In America, the guy wouldn't stop, and if he'd talk to you, it be to give you shit for bothering him with a rider in the back. I really appreciate the calmness and respect, but then read on about a not so nice story.
I am pretty sure one can use cash too, though the Chinese people seem all fine with the money app on their phones.* This is what I saw mainly in the small(er!) Chinese village though.
What they've got in China, though, is an uber-Uber system, using the "Didi" app. There are others, but I imagine this most popular program will become another web monopoly. I also am pretty sure the Chinese Gov't is involved, if not directly, behind the scenes, whether the company is private or a State owned company. This thing is ubiquitous.
Here at home, I have gotten away without personally loading Lyft or Uber, but I've ridden many times. From what I saw, the Chinese app does even more. Go figure. The app there probably sends even more info on what's going on back to (eventually) the Government. Gotta keep track of people - the taxi driver's version of the software gets other info, but the main thing is that this forces those using taxis in this way to have that piece of iEspionage on-board.
Holy crap, though, for a smart population, these people are just as, or more, dependent on their phones than the average American. I mean, this taxi driver in the village has got to know the main streets at least. The general friendliness among the unified Han population means that you take a rider in the front seat (for economics too, as these are small cars) and can discuss the route. Yet that big screen is up there displaying the route and barking away in Mandarin.** Same as at home, "we got it! STFU!" (That's ME, at home, anyway, when my wife leaves it on.)
As it turned out one time, app or no app, the driver was taking us the long way to make more money. Oooh boy, did she get chewed out by the passenger in our party riding shotgun... the whole way back, haha. This was not a one-off thing. I asked what the lecture was about, after we'd gotten to our destination. "I told her you people have no morals ..." Also, how do you get away with this anyway, by putting a new way-point on the app somehow, or did she just ignore the moving map.
Now, about the economics of it all, it MUST be subsidized. The numbers just didn't work out for me. We'd go 10-15 minutes in traffic, say 3-8 miles, and pay the equivalent of a dollar, a dollar fifty tops. Here's the problem:
That's 8.85 gallons for $38*** = $4.29 per gallon. There's a big monopoly gas station chain called Sinopec, but the color scheme is green. This may have been another. This was not some high outlier though, or we wouldn't have been there. Prices were cheaper by 5-10 % in Peking.
I imagine those little engines may get, being generous, 35 mpg in traffic, but still, that's 75¢ to a buck in gas, while making a buck to a buck fifty. There's wear on the car, so for even these working class Chinamen and -women taxi drivers to make only $2 to $4 an hour stressing out in traffic and driving continuously before other expenses doesn't seem right. (I don't mean in the moral sense, just economically.) Keep in mind that tipping is not a thing in China. Oh, and Didi or whoever takes a cut too.****
I was told that the gas is subsidized for taxi drivers, but even if it were half, I don't see how these people can survive - must be more to it.
Interestingly, China is like New Jersey. "How, so?" the reader may ask. C'mon, ask it! The gas stations are not self-service. Boy, that's a throwback to long ago. Is it a jobs program, or are there some tricks that drivers would play otherwise?
The convenience of taxi transportation at near-nominal rates is just another part of the transportation world we don't have in America. OTOH, people have got to make decent money too.
As a driver making peanuts and no tips in stressful traffic conditions in China, I don't know... would I rather be in China or be a Harry Chapin in long-ago Frisco, taking tips... and getting stoned ... he was gonna learn to fly, you know.
* OTOH, I didn't get a chance to talk to someone about this - whether there are many people who are against this Orwellian system but don't want to stand out railing against it.
** I suppose... I wonder if it can be set to the local dialect. Did these apps come at a time (last 5 years) by which Mandarin is understood by almost everyone, if need be?
*** The exchange rate at the time was ~ 7.12 元 : $1
**** Do these Chinese folks do the same irresponsible thinking as many Uber and Lyft drivers in ignoring long-term big maintenance or vehicle replacement in the calculations? I've been meaning to write a post on that.
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Do we NEED the US Police State?
Posted On: Wednesday - September 27th 2023 11:55PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics Educational Stupidity
The courageous Paul Kersey* wrote some of his racial commentary a few days back about a Salt Lake City TV station article that asked "Will weapon detectors at Salt Lake high schools disproportionally affect students of color?" ("SOC"s, I presume?) The reader may well ask "Salt Lake City?! Isn't that a Whitetopia?" That depends on whether you mean the city or the whole metro area, something discussed by commenters under Mr. Kersey's post In 59% Non-White Salt Lake Public Schools, Weapon Detectors Are Required in High Schools and Elected Officials Worry It Will Disproportionately Affect... Non-Whites Carrying Weapons Mr. Kersey does go for those long titles, but you get his point quickly from them anyway.
Though Mr. Kersey's commenters discussed some of this too, I want to mention an ideological point about this story. When it comes to idealogy Peak Stupidity claims our Libertarianism as well as Conservatism. We have a topic key for the former - the Conservatism is a given, I suppose - along with US Police State.
For almost my whole life I've agreed with the Libertarian/Constitutionalist Ron Paul's, Lew Rockwell's, and Vin Suprynowicz's* on the encroaching, now almost fully extant, US Police State. I still do, but I can see much more clearly than I use to the problem with trying to resist it while there exists certain segments of the American population.
This is an area in which pundits like Paul Kersey have taught me a few things. Rather than immediately want to retort (and there's a place for comments too!) "What you write is simply unConstitutional!", I understand that the US Constitution wasn't written with a large black population in mind as citizens. It's not just the non-understanding of it by black people, most immigrants of the that have come in over the last half century, and plenty of White people too. It's not just the lack of support for this document as the Law of the Land by said modern Americans. It's that certain contingents - taken as a whole, of course - can't behave well enough to allow the freedom we used to enjoy. That's what Paul Kersey means by "This is why we can't have nice things." (It's not his only point by it, but part of it.)
Is it just due to the lack of the technology that there were no metal detectors in schools going back 50 years or so? No, that's not the case. It would have seemed abhorrent, an affront to Liberty, going back to the 1980s even. That they were in airport terminals before then for a very specific purpose (not that I agree) was already the case, but in one's kids' schools?! That'd have been considered very Police State-like then.
When a respecter of Freedom sees the picture above today, he will still see this as an abhorrent piece of the US Police State. The need for this sort of thing is not worth the humiliation and loss of Liberty. Then, one will see the picture - or scene in real life - below.
Oh.
In answer to the question in our title, no, WE don't need the US Police State for ourselves. However, we've got people in the country whom we often don't see any other way to handle. I don't see any way out of this conundrum without separation of those who CAN maintain and live under a free society and those who CAN'T.
PS: I do think of "Paul Kersey"***, he being very wise not to use his real name, as one courageous guy for writing the truth about racial matters daily. I'll also add that I like his variation in subject matter, something that was not so much the case in the past. It used to be kind of repetitive, truthful and important as it was, with most posts about crime in specific far-gone cities, shootings at funerals, and city/private efforts to "stop the violence" by black "leaders".
* See also Part 2 and Part 3 of that series.
** BTW, "weapons detector" must be the new term for metal detector. This is about guns and large knives, I guess. You can make a weapon out of other materials. The racial contingent in question is not so creative about it, really because it's their impulsivity and lack of foresight that has them bringing in and using guns.
*** ... taken from the Death Wish series of movies. Charles Bronson played the part of vigilante Paul Kersey.
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