Venezuelan Visa-overstayer brings beheading vibrancy to California
Posted On: Tuesday - September 13th 2022 5:20PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
Isn't the Great Replacement great?!
(Image shamelessly lifted off of VDare.com, as usual.)
It'd actually be pretty hard for a Venezuelan to pronounce our post title correctly, as Spanish speakers can't distinguish "v"s from "b"s very well. So, the title is very alliterative in Spanish if that makes it all better, but this is a horrible story, not a happy one.
Of all the stupidity in this country, the immigration invasion is Peak Stupidity's number one concern. We have discussed the fact that not all illegal immigrants come into the country via the southern borders of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Many of the Chinese illegal aliens are part of a much more organized set-up, as we related in The China to King Buffet pipeline. Then, as with many of the Chinese too, there is the all-too-easy method of overstaying non-immigrant visas*.
Last week, a "San Carlos**, California" man used a sword to Jose Solano Landaeta a 27 y/o mother of 2 in the middle of the day in the middle of the street. He was actually not anything like a San Carlos, CA man. VDare's new and prolific writer A.W. Morgan has more information on just one detail the Lyin' Press seems to have
Not only is this insane murderer an illegal alien, but he is an example of an illegal visa overstayer. He had been in America for 10 years on a tourist visa. They are usually good for a month or so***. Who's checking on them, though? Because it is no longer a serious country, we don't have exit controls as China does. Peak Stupidity discussed this 4 years ago in the post The America motel - they can check in, but .... From that post:
REAL COUNTRIES don't let invasions happen. With the by-far biggest military in the world, and out isolation via the oceans from the big powers over 2 centuries, we've got this part down. Invasions don't always involve marine landing craft, paratroopers, and blitzkriegs, however. Let's not fight the last war, as they say. Having no checks on what visitors to your country do, after they get through the airports, is allowing an invasion, right now. Just read the numbers again - 2016 and '17 were not some fluke, crazy years. This craziness has been going on for decades.In a non-serious country, a young lady can get beheaded on the street by a crazy man who was not supposed to BE HERE. It's non-serious, but at least America's immigration policy is compassionate, keep in mind. Sometimes, having so much compassion results in mothers getting their heads cut off by swords in the street, is all ...
In China, one gets checked upon exiting the country. It's really simple: People-In - People-Out = Accumulation-of-Foreigners. If you have not left within the visa stay period, it's easy enough for a computer to crunch through the numbers in seconds for every visitor, and some Chinese cops WILL come looking for you. It's not like they have to come looking for EVERYONE who's overstayed, for 2 reasons:
1) They don't allow nearly as many immigrants, legally or illegally, so a foreigner STANDS OUT, contrary to in America.
2) Because the Chinese government takes this stuff seriously, being a REAL COUNTRY and all, visitors know this and respect the law out of fear.
* Tourist visas, business visas, etc.
** San Carlos is on the peninsula south of San Francisco, in San Mateo county.
*** This "month or so" is not to be confused with the 6-month, 2-year, and 10-year terminology used in describing visas. Those are the time periods during which one does not have to obtain a new visa for another trip. They don't refer to the duration one may be in the other country on one stay. You have to leave after a much shorter time.
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Before you learn to fly, ...
Posted On: Saturday - September 10th 2022 8:52PM MST
In Topics: Music
... learn how to fall.
Because music aficionado and commenter Ganderson didn't know this song, I figure I'd better put it up here. I was not aware enough to have known the duet Simon & Garfunkle during their time. Their 2nd half of the 1960s music was some of the best soft music of the time. The duet split up in 1970, the same year as a famous quartet you may have heard of did.
I had Paul Simon's Greatest Hits album on record format before I knew anything else of his solo songs, but then came upon There Goes Rhymin' Simon on a cassette tape some years later. It's a hell of an album, with arguably only 2 weak songs (Tenderness and Something so Right) and the other 8 very good ones. I highly recommend it.
That album was released in early May of 1973, so Paul Simon was likely writing some of those songs right at 50 years ago.
You got to learn how to fall
before you learn to fly.
And Mama, Mama, it ain′t no lie.
Before you learn to fly,
learn how to fall.
You got to drift in the breeze, oh,
before you set your sails.
Oh, it's an occupation where the wind prevails.
Before you set your sails,
drift in the breeze.
Oh, and it′s the same old story
ever since the world began.
Everybody's gotta run for glory.
Nobody stop and scrutinize the plan.
Nobody stop and scrutinize the plan.
Nobody stop and scrutinize the plan.
You got to learn how to fall
before you learn to fly.
The tank towns, they tell no lie.
Before you learn to fly,
learn how to fall.
Thanks for reading and commenting, Peakers. We're gonna hit on that inflation topic again next week, especially with regard to prepping. The Kung Flu stupidity is still not over, and then a comparison of Donald Trump and Rick DeSantis is in order. Have a happy Sunday.
PS: I got some of the lyrics wrong in my comment a few days back.
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The Semi Fascists O' Canada
Posted On: Saturday - September 10th 2022 4:52PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Kung Flu Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien People's Revolt Totalitarianism
In an Unz Review comment thread a few days back, Adam Smith reminded me with a tweet screen-shot of the truckers' revolt of early this year. I have not been able to find anything more recent than 3 to 6 months old on the aftermath - that being the modern internet along with search-engine censor-foo. I had really though that the People's Revolt of '22 would become an important part of history*.
Alas, it seems that 2 things, the people of the West being purposefully distracted by the Ukraine/Russia war in the Spring and the slow walk-back of Kung Flu vaccine mandates and restrictions, have dampened any such serious revolt against the Globalists, for now.
Since then, the Trudeau-led Canadian Government and its national police arm, the RCMP, have tried to persecute those truckers for their (actually) peaceful protest in Ottawa last winter. The Totalitarian above is just doing what Globalist Totalitarians are trained to do - he even took classes on this in Europe.
Back down in the States, Zhou Bai Dien, too old to have attended those classes, recently called those of us not in line with the UniParty "Semi-Fascists". (That was not in his rant/speech of a couple of weeks back, It was from some talk of his to the Democrat National Committee.) As a Totalitarian, you really need a 48 foot trailer full of gall to tell a lie like that, that we freedom-loving people are the fascists or, what, half-way Fascists?
I'll tell you who's a Semi Fascist. That'd be Justin Trudeau, persecutor of the semi tractor-trailer driving good patriots of Canada.
Do you recognize that one? Yeah, Peak Stupidity already featured two really good truck driver songs long ago - Lynyrd Skynyrd's Truck Drivin' Man and the Marshall Tucker Band's Twenty-Four Hours at a Time, both with the Southern Rock topic key too.
So, here's Jerry Reed, with the handle "the Snowman" from the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit with West Bound and Down, on the way from Atlanta to Texarkana. Westbound and down, 18 wheels-a-rollin'...
45 years later, Canada's Justin Trudeau joins Arkansas' Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the ranks of the Semi Fascists.
* We even put in the topic key for it. That turned out to be premature to say the least.
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Passengers in TSA lines discussing ammo.
Posted On: Friday - September 9th 2022 4:54PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Guns
The Babylon Bee site sure writes great headlines, so my title is a takeoff on the HBO TV show (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee- only seen one episode) as was their Apple TV+ Announces New Show 'Clintons In Cars Killing Witnesses'. Heh!
Well, this is a post going in a happier direction than all the curmudgeonly ones of late.
First, let it be said (yet again here) that the TSA - Fed "security" at airports) is an unConstitutional piece of Security Theater. The same could be said for their umbrella department or ANY government department with a name like Motherland Security.* Peak Stupidity has a number of posts deriding the idea of the TSA appropriately with the US Police State topic key. There have been 20 years of this clear violation of US Constitution Bill of Rights Amendment IV. I'd say that this Totalitarianism is more clearly spelled out than anything the Feds have done in the PanicFest even - not that I agree with any of that either.
OK, people don't care anymore, and some never did, I know. I have tried harder not to take out my disappointment and disgust with the process of airport security on individuals, with occasional relapses. This medium-sized airport through which I go often is one in which I recognize many of the TSA people. One, who is a manager of the show, knows me by name, and likewise. We get along very well.
As I was chatting with this gentleman at his desk/counter, I heard behind me one of the "agents" say "this lady had a bullet in her stuff". "Cartridge, dammit!... " is what I wanted to say, but I didn't know the difference either many years back. What was heartening was that no big fuss was made. I didn't see anyone get tackled, the airport cop get called, or even anyone given a hard time.
Just take the thing out, cause, you know, terra. The nice shiny steel cartridge was on the counter, and I remarked "is it a .380, no 9, no wait, it's longer right, a .32?", thinking out-loud basically. The TSA manager agreed it was a thirty-two caliber round, and then we talked handguns for about 5 minutes. He's got a .25 as his only semi-auto but a number of revolvers such as a .32. I told him about a couple of mine, and well, nobody gave a rat's ass about that cartridge sitting there as I left to go to the gate.
That was nice. That was more American than anything I'd have seen at that London Heathrow pit of misery (see "relapse" link above). I wish the whole operation were not there, and this very nice manager could be manager of something else, but this made my day.
PS: It's not like loads of these things, guns along with ammo, don't get found in luggage daily**, and I'm sure quite a few go on through. I saw an internal TSA memo about 10 years back that had a 2-page, probably 40 item list of guns found in bags at US airports in one week. Per the spread-sheet style print-out, about half were loaded, and a couple had bullets in the chambers. Do we have THAT many un-profiled American terrorists in our land? No, these are the good Americans, and the good guys having weapons is a good thing!
* Well, it's like that, right?
** A friend of mine had his Glock in his his hand luggage headed on a ski trip. He had to go talk with the cops, but he made his flight. The part that burns me up is that he never got that gun back. (Fines are one thing, but you can't just take STUFF.) Later, I met a TSA higher-up (office guy) on a flight and told him this story. After the story I told him "Don't worry. He's got plenty more of them."
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Are Senior Citizens DRIVING ambulances now?
Posted On: Thursday - September 8th 2022 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
No, first of all, the Peak Stupidity CurmudgeonryFest we started last week is most certainly NOT over yet, since you asked. In addition, we are not even done complaining about slow-assed ambulance drivers! If this is getting old for you, I understand, but my therapist is always telling me "blog it out, bitch!" So here you go, and if you do want to read more, you may go back to Three Stupidity Anecdotes again (the 1st one), or further back, to 1st
It was different this time. I saw the ambulance in the rear view mirrors, so what do they tell you? Get to the right! (That should be a mantra for driving in general, unless you drive in strange foreign lands.) So I did. This was a fairly fast-moving 4-lane road, but at the intersection I was approaching there was a separate right-turn lane. I got in it and stopped.
Well, that cleared the regular right (out of 2) lane, and with nobody coming for 1/2 mile back, I'd cleared a way for this ambulance. They were having none of that. Maybe it's their rule, but they came around traffic into the other lane to pass everyone on the left, and then did (as I've described before) their 10-second scan of the intersection that a driver on ludes* would do in 5.
OK, look I had to get home at some point, and if I stayed too long stopped in this right turn lane, the light would turn red AND I'd be stuck in this lane with people pissed at me for wanting to cut them off. Back onto the road I went, through the intersection, and ahead at normal speed, 5 to 10 mph over the 40 mph limit. (It is a pretty safe stretch there.)
Where was the ambulance now? Way back there, as I was PULLING AWAY for cryin' out loud! "Who are these guys!?** I was a quarter mile ahead of them for a time, and then they caught up at a light 2 miles later, at which I'd pulled hard over into a place of business to get out of their way a second time. I thought about flagging them down and asking if they needed me to bring the patient in - they could meet us 10 minutes later in the ER with his medications. I'm not sure if their patient would have fit under the hatchback though ...
I get (from a comment or two) that these ambulances have to be steady for work to be done, etc. They are mobile field hospitals to some degree. Then they should just leave the sirens and lights off, if they won't drive like they mean it.
Rather than your 1970s Emergency!*** TV show "heroes" picking up old people with heart attacks and rushing them to the hospital, I wonder now if Granny is DRIVING the ambulance these days.
Hopefully, this will be the end of the ranting about this, but since, it's a post about traffic, I will mention a weird thing, yellow turn arrows on traffic signal devices. They seem to confuse some people, and I could see why. This one flashes a yellow left arrow for 30 seconds after something closer to 15-20 seconds of it being a green left arrow. Twice now, drivers had just sat there, not turning and letting the signal turn into a standard red light (or maybe red arrow).
It's a tough call, if you haven't see that specific intersection before or you're a typical smart-phone-fixated driver. Is it like a standard yellow light, meaning the red will be here in a few seconds, so stop if you still can? You could be forgiven for thinking so, but this one is not. It's just telling us to yield for straight-ahead traffic from the other side of the intersection. I could see that the traffic on both sides of the 4-lane crossing road was stopped, so I figured it out. That didn't help, since the first driver didn't bother to figure it out.
I'm kinda wistful sometimes about the middle of the PanicFest, when everyone else just stayed off the roads completely!
* Although, as Jeff Spicolli noted, people on ludes shouldn't drive.
** Said to myself with quite the opposite meaning as when Butch Cassidy asked the question to the Sundance Kid (possibly vice versa).
*** The first season aired 50 years ago.
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Dr. Barton Cockey on the Plandemic - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - September 7th 2022 7:43PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
(Continued from Part 1, though this post could be entitled The lies of Anthony Fauci.)
I'll keep it pretty quick here in going over more of the excellent summary of the Kung Flu PanicFest for laymen by medical doctor Barton Cockey, as published on VDare -
Hey Biden! The Real “Fascists” Are The DIE–Big Pharma Alliance Behind The COVID Coup—Not Bumbling GOP. Dr. Cockey has a lot to say about top Covid advisor (that's all his position was - nobody HAD to listen to the asshole) Anthony Fauci. None of it is in admiration of the guy.
The public face of Official Science during the COVID crisis was Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID] for 42 years, with an instinct for self-aggrandizement. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has summarized the dodgy doctor in his book* The Real Anthony Fauci, which I strongly recommend for its analysis of the deep institutional corruption of the medical-military-industrial complex. The final chapter even lifts the lid on the link between “vaccine development” and the bioweapons industry, with a summary of two decades of globalist “biosecurity” exercises that served as the template for the program of medical Totalitarianism under which we now live.The latter bit, BTW, would interest that Unz Review proprietor that we mention occasionally on Peak Stupidity. Yes, the stuff was made in a lab, it sure seems, but, contrary to Ron Unz's opinion, my common sense tells me that it wasn't Americans who initially released the thing. See the latest we wrote on that in I Stand with North Korea.
Anyway, Dr. Cockey continues by mentioning that Fauci has been facing some questions in the US Senate, with more to come. (Dr. Cockey thinks Fauci is right to say he is not fazed by this, as the GOP will be worthless.) Responding to Senator Josh Hawley in some of these proceedings, a Molecular Biologist named Richard Elbright noted that Fauci told America quite a few lies. Per Barton Cockey:
What are those lies?Regarding VAERS, I DO think the system is meaningless, but not in the way Fauci might see it. I know that it's not so easy to get a case into that system on one's own, without doctor cooperation. That Kung Flu Kash would provide a lot of disincentive, on both the doctor and family end of things. I'd guess the VAERS numbers are MUCH lower than reality.
* Covid-19 is so deadly that we must shut down the country.
* Masks and social distancing stop the spread.
* Remdesivir is safe and effective.
* mRNA shots are vaccines.
* mRNA “vaccines” are safe and effective.
* The “vaccines” prevent infection and transmission.
* Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data showing tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of serious injuries are meaningless.
* Everyone, including children, must be jabbed.
* Pfizer’s new antiviral pill is effective, but the “vaccines” are still necessary.
* Hydroxychloroquine is ineffective and cardiotoxic at therapeutic dosages.
* Ivermectin is “horse medicine.”
And so on.
Well, that's a lot of lies on important healthcare issues. Americans should have ignored the guy after the 1st lie came to light. Nope, but the TV guy said ...
* Just today, at the public library, we saw a kids' book (say, for 10 y/o's) about Anthony Fauci in a series of books about "heroes". Unbelievable!
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Targeted for hysteria - Aftermath
Posted On: Tuesday - September 6th 2022 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
Over 2 years back, at the height of the Kung Flu PanicFest, Peak Stupidity put down some notes about our experience at Target. Since I do go there a lot (beats Wal-Mart for me), I could compare to normal times. Needless to say, it was a real shitshow during that time, per the original post, an addendum, and then an amended addendum.
Things have been much closer to normal at that store, but not completely*. Today, the cashier I came upon was a friendly black lady. She had been BSing with the older guy in front of me. It was just annoying in that the guy had a tightly-fitted N-95 style mask (though a bit fancier), and the lady had a cloth one with a pattern. It was like trying to make out the sound in a movie about Charlie Brown's Mom. I truly could have used sub-titles - could they start displaying them on the big screen at the register?
I didn't want to be rude, and I appreciated this lady's attitude. Besides cheering up customers, she was making her workday more fun for herself. Yeah, but, really, that mask was just a bad fit. I guess the thin medical ones are better for sound passage, at least when they are tight fitting. This one was echoing. I really liked talking to the lady, but I had to tell her "that mask is echoing." She lowered it to say a few things.
Even though I'd seen plenty of other Target employees not wearing face masks, it seemed nicer to get to the bottom of this with "Are they still making y'all wear these?" She lowered her mask again to speak clearly "I don't think so anymore." As I wondered in the 2nd item in this post, what is going on here? I didn't want to even ask.
This is not a complaint really, There's no law against wearing these (though the banks have got some rules), and there shouldn't be. This is just a mystery.
We'll have some discussion on the more serious and important Kung Flu Stupidity later on in the week, as we get back on track.
* I read through those old posts, and, Holy Cow, I brought up the store remodeling, which is STILL going on! That also makes it not normal, as stuff's not where it supposed to be, dammit. (Also, quite a few things are often not there at all, or sold at unrecognizable prices.)
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Too sad to say I told you so.
Posted On: Tuesday - September 6th 2022 6:26PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Race/Genetics
We could have told the Western Europeans things 30 years ago, but the decent Dutch, German, English friends I knew were mostly the type who would have told me that my country is racist, if I had tried to explain...
Starting the week on a sad note here, here are 2 pictures of the recently raped and murdered young Austrian teen whose horrible story commenter Adam Smith pointed out in this "Paul Kersey"* comment thread. The rapist/murderers were young Afghan "refugees" to Austria.
A little bit about Paul Kersey's blog first: His posts, besides the craziness of the really long-assed headlines (I think he's gotten better on this as of late) often get repetitive. It's the same style story of a few types of dysfunctional and violent black behavior - poorly-run cities, the asking for free stuff from White people to (never actually) solve their problems, the marches against violence in which shootings occur, the nostalgia for the highly-functioning White American society of yesteryear, blackety-black blanketing coverage in advertisements and entertainment**, and few more themes, over and over. There IS a point to that though. Mr. Kersey shows us how pervasive this all is, and that it's not going to end well, unless we do something much different than we've been.
I've read Mr. Kersey mention this a couple of times before, but in this post too, he started off with the 10 y/o reason for his starting his blog - Stuff Black People Don't Like***, which was the murder of his friend, a young woman, by some black thug in Atlanta.
The Kersey post is about yet another (fairly) young lady who pretty obviously didn't understand or ignored the danger, in this case, of acting like one can jog around in places like Memphis, Tennessee at 4:30 AM, as if it were, perhaps Memphis, in 1955. However, as with Mr. Kersey's posts that almost always deal with these problems in America, our racial problem since at least the beginning of forced integration is politically complicated. (Some would argue it has been since the early 1800s.)
Mr. Smith's linked-to article, however, is about Austria. Austria never had black slavery. They didn't have black people or any big minority of non-White foreigners, as a rule, as why WOULD a European country have any non-negligible amount of either? What would the point be?
Well, the Globalist nation-destroyers may very well have a good point of their own on this. It looks like the people of Austria, as with all of Western Europe, were just too stupid and/or shit-holier-than-thou, though, to resist this immigration stupidity that's been accelerating over the last couple of decades. As Peak Stupidity wrote long ago, I guess Europeans visiting here might now understand a little better what America has been going through and forego the name-calling. This is not the sort of thing you should learn the hard way. I could say "It told you so!", but the stories are too sad to warrant that.
Here's a part of the article Mr. Smith linked to from the UK Daily Mail****:
A suspect, who allegedy boasted with pals about gang-raping a 13-year-old Austrian schoolgirl who died in the attack, has been arrested.What would you do as one of the parents? The tweet that Mr. Smith embedded under the Paul Kersey post said to share this, so this is Peak Stupidity's old-fashioned way, a rant. Why would you invite this sort of thing to your country, as in, your home? This didn't need to happen - that's not the heinous crime I mean, but that Austrians are prone to experiencing this now did NOT need to happen!
The teenager's lifeless body was dumped beside a road next to a tree after allegedly being raped by the four men.
Austrian police say all four were immigrants from Afghanistan and arrested three, with an international manhunt carried out searching for the fourth. The suspect has now been arrested in London.
Schoolgirl Leonie, 13, from the city of Wiener Neustadt near Austria's capital Vienna, was reported missing by her parents Melanie P, 40, and Hannes W, 39.
Three days later, on June 26 in the morning, she was found dead on a road verge with her body leaned up against a tree.
Austrian Police arrested two Afghan immigrants in June and a third one at the beginning of July, after they allegedly boasted about having wild sex with the child.
They have now captured a fourth one in the city of London on Thursday.
An 18-year-old was the first one to be caught by the police and was arrested while he was eating pizza in a local Italian restaurant on June 28.
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[UPDATED 08/07: ] Struck out the 4th footnote. The story confused me, as I tried to follow the text as it all jumped around. This was about the one girl, Leonie.
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* Paul Kersey is the pen name of this former and maybe current, Atlanta, Georgia resident who writes the most honestly and courageously of anyone I've read on race. "Paul Kersey" is the movie name of the main character - played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish series of movies. (That link goes to the first movie - there are either 4 or 5.)
** His posts about the black people in comic-book movie roles are the only ones I could completely do without. Who needs that stuff, White or black?
*** That was a play on the title of a less-serious site called Stuff White People Like. It's still up here, but the guy hasn't written a post in 12 years. I thought I was bad this long weekend!
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Dwight Schute's speech - Salesman of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Unite!!
Posted On: Friday - September 2nd 2022 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Humor Salesmen
That last one was a very serious post. People on the far left like Joe Biden, or at least his puppet handlers, act as Fascists* as they lie about their opposition being fascists. The poses and background in the pictures of the speech I saw on the iSteve blog post about it look appropriate for a Fascist speech.
Therefor, I will end the blogging week with this The Office clip with my favorite character, Dwight Schrute. In the episode this 3 minute clip comes from, Dwight didn't know how to give, and was nervous about giving, a speech at the salesmen's convention. I think it was Jim Halpert who helped him by giving him an old speech by Italian Fascist Benito Mussolini, you know, as a template.
I will be busy for the next 3 days with no chance for blogging. Therefore, the continuation about the great Barton Cockey take-down of the PanicFest medical apparatus, some more Kung Flu stupidity regarding the vaccines, an extension of what was to be Curmudgeonry week, an inflation example post, and I'm sure some pop-up stupidity, will come on line when we resume operations on Tuesday.
Have a great weekend, all! Thanks for your support.
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Zhou Bai Dien's speech: In defense of the UniParty
Posted On: Friday - September 2nd 2022 3:53PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump The Future Zhou Bai Dien
All and all, you're just another brick in the wall...
I happened upon (I usually do) the Steve Sailer post from late last night on alleged-President Joe Biden's speech. This is important stuff, and as I looked at the posts from this week, none of it seems anything but just minor stupidity. However, that's this blog. I can't do news. I simply can't keep up with it all. I didn't know Bai Dien* had even give a speech, and if I didn't go on The Unz Review site ultra-regularly, I might never have known. I'd probably be happier in that case.
However, I do have something to say about this, now that I've read the transcript - right here at whitehouse.gov. I can't go fisking (old blog term for rebutting one step at a time) the whole speech, as it's just filled with too many lies for one blogger with a simple GoDaddy account with storage measured only in Gigabytes.
It's difficult to even get started, as the premises that the big lies start with are themselves lies. It's what the ctrl-left/Communists and all Totalitarians have done before and always do. They turn truth into lies, accusing the traditionalists and patriots of the very things they are up to. It's not just the repetition of the big lies that's the problem, but the big lies are built on so many other lies that it would take writing long books that people don't have time to read to refute them all conscientiously. That's why it has paid off in the past to just take care of evil POS's like this in other ways. It's a matter of how many hours there are in the day, more than anything.
Peak Stupidity could have just listed out the few parts of the Bai Dien speech that were truthful, but there'd be nothing much to say then. I just excerpted about 25% here:
But I’m an American President — not the President of red America or blue America, but of all America.This was near the beginning of this rant, but I want to discuss it at the end of this post.
They refuse to accept the results of a free election.Bullshit. I WISH that were the case. If that were true it'd mean patriotic American citizens were not obeying any laws signed by this clown since the took office. Patriots - and there are many I've talked to personally - in ICE and the Border Patrol - would LOVE to ignore all the new bureaucratic edicts that have made the border into an even bigger welcome mat. Americans would be blocking Bai Dien's Human Trafficking flights** on the ramps at Del Rio and Laredo. We'd be ignoring all legal action taken by the Communist A/G Merrick Garland.
And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.Well, that one is pretty much true, if by "undermining democracy" you mean trying to get back to bring the country back to the Constitutional Republic it's supposed to be. See, Joe, OK, I mean Joe's handlers, States used to be able to determine who could vote in elections in their States. There was much Federal encroachment into that area due to some really stupid people passing really stupid Amendments (see the conclusion of our series of "Peak Constitutional Amendment" posts on all post Bill of Rights amendments. There still a few patriotic leaders that understand Federalism. They are doing what they can. There's nothing at all wrong with that, Creepy Joe's handlers!
They ["MAGA forces"**] promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.President Trump was anything BUT an authoritarian, you lying piece of shit! Here too, I wish he HAD been more of one, using some kind of strategy to get what the people wanted done to save the country. Then, as per the footnote, this is inflammatory rhetoric and another truth/lie reversal. It's the US Feral Gov't that has FORCES. The American patriots have not yet formed them, though this type of talk is an incentive. There were no "forces" in Washington, FS on January 6th of '21, just people having their say their outside, and a few individuals, obviously NOT members in good standing of any "force", getting slightly rambunctious. THEY are the soul of the country, not the clowns that currently inhabit the Towers of Babel that are the Establishment Institutions.
They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.As I recall, the only brutal incident was the close-range gun murder of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Cop Michael Leroy Byrd. That's "Law Enforcement" committing brutality, liars. Don't these people know that there was video taken?
But together — together, we can choose a different path. We can choose a better path. Forward, to the future. A future of possibility. A future to build and dream and hope.Well, I mean, if you're really going to eliminate the White man as your Potomac Regime is doing, I don't see a good way forward. That path of yours is going to lead to a much different place than you imagine. Led Zeppelin had something to say about this, I recall...
And we’re on that path, moving ahead.Yeah, sure, the possibilities are endless, but all of them suck. We don't want to go down your path. There's still time to change the road we're on...
So I want to say this plain and simple: There is no place for political violence in America. Period. None. Ever.No, of course not. The 1960s NEVER HAPPENED. Nobody ever burned and looted downtown Detroit and other cities. White people are imagining that whole thing. There were nothing but peaceful protests, mostly, in the Summer of 2020, contrary to what you saw with your own lying eyes.
I believed we could lift America from the depths of COVID, so we passed the largest economic recovery package since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Well, OK, that's true. Whatever nice name you want to call it, you guys did crank up that money printer, like the Socialist cocksucker Franklin Delano Roosevelt did.
And today, America’s economy is faster, stronger than any other advanced nation in the world.No, it's not. Pretty soon we'll be slower and weaker than plenty of non-advanced nations
Proving that from darkness — the darkness of Charlottesville, of COVID, of gun violence, of insurrection — we can see the light.It's a dark thing to try to protect one's heritage. Who knew, till you told us? Are you really putting the black violence on the White patriots? C'mon, man, we hardly EVER set foot in those neighborhoods, our being all racist and shit. As for the light, hopefully the next bright light you all will see will be red laser light.
The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail.Well, I suppose that's correct. The UniParty-run Potomac Regime must fail before we will have America back.
OK, that's just some of the Stage-5 Dementia - it's hard to rebut that stuff.They believe America — not like I believe about America.
Finally, let me put that first part in again. I think this is not a lie. Zhou Biden and handlers really mean this:
But I’m an American President — not the President of red America or blue America, but of all America.I guess autocorrect failed in correcting "America" by substituting "Potomac Regime", as it should. Yes, red America and blue America are all part of the UniParty. There are high single- or low double-digit percentages of the Red-Squad that are really Conservative America Patriots. They have had nowhere else to go. That was the case, at least until Trump came along.
Readers here will already know what I think of the guy - I'm not enamored with him, to be generous. However, he's still here, and he's YUGE. Potomac Regime leaders like Mr. Biden and his handlers aren't really afraid of Donald Trump's policies, even the ones that he managed to do a little bit of enacting of over those 4 years. They don't really believe anyone will have any way of "overturning" the '20 election. What their problem is, is that they DO NOT LIKE the fact that the still very popular Donald Trump is not part of their regime. He is still with America. They did not expect him to get to the office of President, and they don't want to see anything like happen that ever again!
If President Trump DID get back into office, that's not the biggest of the Regime UniParty's worries. Notice all that talk (there's a bunch more to the speech I didn't excerpt) about MAGA. It's the 75 million supporters and followers, and another few dozen million that could switch to the MAGA team. The MAGA team is not part of the UniParty. If it keeps up, it could morph into an actual 2nd, that is, opposition party. GASP!
All this inflammatory rhetoric in that speech was about squashing any opposition to the Potomac Regime UniParty. That's why we need more leaders of this new party, too many to persecute as they are doing to Donald Trump.
I don't believe we're going to Make America Great Again the way many people who follow Trump envision. It will take a lot of upheaval first. However, if the MAGA hats and terminology define one as the opposition to the Party of the Regime, then I'm all for going MAGA.
Fuck these POS tyrants! Lots of Americans can see enough not to believe their lies.
* Peak Stupidity dubs him that due to his pretty obvious blackmailability by the Chinese. No, they're not America's biggest enemy. People like this sham of a President are.
** See also This Human Trafficking is HUGE. We're gonna need a bigger
*** This is the real hard-core rhetoric. American patriots have NOT begun to join forces yet, unfortunately. "Forces"? WTF?
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Stupidity tidbits - 3 of them
Posted On: Friday - September 2nd 2022 4:17AM MST
In Topics: Pundits Customer Care Kung Flu Stupidity
1) At the end of the post Next: •Indian IT help v Shortwave Radio my "customer care" issue was unresolved. The •Indian IT department WAS somehow under the impression is was resolved, but it wasn't. Like many such things that induce me to procrastinate, when I finally got to it, it was nothing I should have dreaded. Was that because this 2nd help lady was in the Philippines and not India? (I asked.) That's not really about the ethnicity difference* but just that the communication was MUCH clearer this time.
It turns out I do have to start a new sequence on the PW, but the requirements are less demanding now. Got it - we're done till next time they change the requirements for the passwords.
2) This anecdote also involves poor communication. Those PanicFest face masks just aren't going away so easily. I had thought otherwise earlier this year. The lady at the fast food (I know!) joint had that standard medical style mask. She was black, so with that mask on, I didn't expect much useful communication to occur. I didn't need much though. I just didn't want onions or mayo.
Just to be friendly, though a little bit due to my amazement that this stuff is still going on, I asked "Hey, are they still requiring those?" "Muffle, muffle, what? muffle, muffle?" "Are they still making you wear those?" She understood ME, at least. "Muffle, family member, muffle, muffle, positive, muffle." "Aaah, OK, makes sense." No, not really, it doesn't, but I was trying to be nice and compassionate, yeah, and get my food intact.
Wait, she's worried that a family member that HAS the Kung Flu antibodies might spread it to her as she is off working at the fast-food place? No, she might pick up said germs without a face mask on and, ... give it to her family member who already has these germs? I was lost, so I didn't think anymore about it until this post and really still don't want to ... they say headaches are not one of the symptoms of Covid-19, but I'm not so sure...
3) Finally, this one is anything but stupid, as it involves our favorite literary pundit, Miss Ann Coulter. I just liked one particular quip of her many. Her latest column is about the genderbending nonsense - it's titled Teen Girl Enthusiasms—Twitching, Cutting and Trans.
A Nexis search reveals that the word “transgender” was practically nonexistent in the New York Times until fairly recently. In the past 18 months, the Times has mentioned transgenders 2,784 times. You have to wonder how the Salem witch trials got rolling without the Times’ active encouragement.Ha!
PS: Ahaa, maybe the fast-food joint required workers who have family members that tested positive to wear masks. Come to think of it, that's not any less stupid but ... I couldn't ask anyway, as with that poor communication, I was just lucky I didn't get onions and mayo.
* I do like almost every aspect of Filipinas much better than •Indian girls though, on a personal level.
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Dr. Barton Cockey on the Plandemic - Part 1
Posted On: Thursday - September 1st 2022 4:42PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
Note: This picture is from this year-old article, which is not discussed here - I got to the article for the image, and I'll read the article shortly. it may have to wait for Part 3.
Dr. Barton Cockey is a retired (8 years back) medical doctor who has been an infrequent commenter on the important website VDare.com. At least the site (to the right, on the blogroll) is very important to Peak Stupidity, as we at our most prolific with the Immigration Stupidity topic key. However, with all that's been going down the last 2 1/2 years, Kung Flu Stupidity has been pulling up into a close 2nd.
The thing about VDare is that it's a single-issue organization. Immigration is their specialty, and they cover ALL aspects of it, pretty thoroughly. Small-"c" coincidentally, I was commenting to someone under this Steve Sailer gun control post just yesterday that the NRA is a single-issue organization. They have to be careful not to pick up additional battles on race, for example, and not piss off those who may agree with, say, me, or their writers, on only the one issue, US Constitutional Amendment II.
I have seen that most of the VDare writers, if they must bring up Kung Flu Stupidity politics when that is a basic part of the story of their articles/posts, tread lightly for those 2 reasons. However, in general they have been AGAINST the Panic*, anti-Panickers, in Hail To You parlance.
Now, VDare has Dr. Barton Cockey writing much more frequently, and he is anti-Panic and not afraid to say so - I mean that his recent posts are specifically about this, with immigration being not even a part of his last 2 articles (surprising for VDare, but they have syndicated columnists too, such as Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin, who are not bound to stick to that subject).
This latest one, Hey Biden! The Real “Fascists” Are The DIE–Big Pharma Alliance Behind The COVID Coup—Not Bumbling GOP, really hits the spot for Peak Stupidity readers! It's got it all in there, especially criticism of the whole
In 2020, after a souped-up coronavirus apparently escaped a U.S.-subsidized lab in Wuhan, China, world governments, the Regime Media, and Leftist social media launched a campaign of fear and repression.Just that common sense that I bolded is such a relief after my reading about and arguing against the only peripherally important virus origin theory with the brick wall that is Ron Unz's head. Yes, it's possible, that this is not what happened, but I've never seen a more common-sense argument otherwise and never read of any real evidence that refutes this.
We can all easily know this stuff: Wuhan has a complex of virus gain-of-function labs that have been working in collaboration, or one might say "for" the labs at UNC in Chapel Hill, N. Carolina, well before Jan. of '20. They were working with these particular viruses. The scientists got samples from bats in caves in Yunnan. The lab worked at BSL (Biological Safety Level) 2, when it was supposed to be run to BSL-4 levels for dangerous viruses like this one.
Why'd this work get done in China? Why is all the Cheap China-made Crap made there? It was the cheap labor, but also, and I'm no fan of OSHA, so I understand most of it, things can GET DONE there, without all the hassle. However, the lack of hassle could explain very easily how this virus got out. Whether directly from the eating of or bites from weird-ass animals or straight out of the lab to infect humans, these things get out every decade or so. OK, well, these last 2 paragraphs should have been a separate post, but let me just say that Dr. Cockey started out this article right. Next, after a link to more of his own writing:
America’s medical Establishment simply surrendered to the merger of medical practice with the managerial state. Bad as that was, the crackdown on dissenters—doctors, nurses, and public figures who resisted the “emergency measures,” not least the unsafe, ineffective vaccines—was something I personally had never seen before, and which was even more menacing. That, and the promulgation of provable falsehoods about the anti-virus measures and vaccines, showed that Totalitarians have seized not only the machinery of government where medicine is concerned, but also the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, as I recently wrote, Totalitarians now control the medical profession, from hospitals and medical schools to professional associations. This alliance is something quite new in American history.Dr. Cockey then brings up a subject I have a post coming on (if I can get a little more info), Big-Biz (especially Health Care Big-Biz) threats to and firings of employees that have resisted the vaccine. He brings up a guy that I haven't read of as of yet but Peak Stupidity readers may have, Dr. Peter McCullough.
A rare model of such resolve is Dr. Peter McCullough, a prominent academic physician and board-certified internist and cardiologist. He developed and promoted a protocol for early treatment of COVID and raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of the so-called “vaccines.” As a result, the American Board of Internal Medicine is threatening his certification, and the Baylor hospital system brought a lawsuit against him [COVID-19 expert Dr. Peter McCullough sued by Texas-based health system, by Pierre Boralevi, Lifesite, August 4, 2021].There's a whole lot more red meat for any anti-Panicker to enjoy. This article is the best summary I've read of the whole Kung Flu Panicfest for layman. I would like to paste in the whole thing. What I'll do is write a Part 2 to discuss some more of this fine article tomorrow.
Let me just link you to Dr. Cockey's previous article on VDare here too - The Politicization Of Medicine And The Medicalization Of Politics.
* Steve Sailer, well, yeah, like that Middle-Aged (Middle Ages) guy turned into a newt, he got better. I clearly remember in early Spring of '20 that John Derbyshire wrote a paragraph to the effect that he wasn't really sure, but he leaned against making the Covid-19 into the big deal that it was being made into. (He also has that China connection, which might have given him more insight.) Then, I really enjoyed long-time writer (of the "Memo from Mexico" series, which became "Memo from Middle America" after he moved back, and the "Spoken in Spanish" series) Allan Wall calling the virus the Flu Manchu. It's been quite a while, so I know where he stands on it.
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Paul Joseph Watson Wangs Chung Tonight
Posted On: Wednesday - August 31st 2022 4:53PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Media Stupidity Muh Generation
This quick comment under an iSteve post by Rob McX had an embedded video that got me back on track for this post. I was going to write this over 3 months ago, but I was missing something.
See, it's one thing to do a search using some text, but I was in a quandary. In the post Immigrant non-Assimilation in Germany and 2 more items (you may very well remember Lauren Southern's "2 more items") I mentioned that I wanted to rant on 3 things that I don't like about the young pundits in otherwise very good video clips. I tried searching for 10 minutes here and another 10 minutes there, but without remembering the guy's name, I couldn't find out who was the one most representative to me of one of my pet peeves.
Ahaaa! The guy's name is Paul Joseph Watson. He's a 40 y/o from Sheffield, England who's obviously very big as a young (OK, that's relative, but he does have a scruffy face, so ...) Conservative youtuber. It's a career, I guess. The guy's good, don't get me wrong. I have not found any major thing so far I disagree with him about, except for the delivery. I may as well use* the one Rob McX embedded - it's good material otherwise:
What's the deal with the frequent splicing? There was some of that in the Lauren Southern video too, one time by which this splicing moved her breasts apart 2 inches in a split second .. weird, but mesmerizing...
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OK, are you back or not? I'm talking about PJ Watson's video now. It's an extreme example... I hope! This is a thing with a lot of the young pundits when they make/edit their videos. Is this done to save on video play-time? Is it because the pundits can't do a good "take" for too long? (They could splice differently though, then.) Is this supposed to be cool? Is it done - almost the same as my first question - to save US, the viewers, precious seconds of our days? Do they think if they pause for 2 seconds we will have already clicked elsewhere?
I don't know, but what I DO KNOW is that this is very annoying. It's not just the foolish look of the whole thing, but brief pauses, for1 second, 2 seconds, even 4 or 5, are helpful for the viewers. One needs time to absorb the thought of the sentence(s) before listening to the next ones. Is this the way the Millennial Generation people think too? Can they let things sink in without a voice or text pushing it on them?
This quick jumping around will make me exit out from some of these otherwise good video... unless it's T&A that's doing the jumping around. Otherwise, no. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit, I tell you.
Oh yeah, what are the other 2 annoying things, you ask? One is the concept of the mobile pundit, discussed in our post I can link to spotted toad, I can podcast on the road, goin' mobile ... We covered that pretty well there. Sit still, calm down, and stop talking for a second here and there, for cryin' out loud! What was the 3rd thing? I can't remember, but I'll take any inputs the reader may have in the comments here.
Peak Stupidity featured this Wang Chung song at least once before, maybe twice even. This has to be here, though. It's an extreme example of rapid video splicing, but I give these old MTV-era people credit - it's just a song.
[Caution: Not recommended for our epileptic readers. - PS Legal Dept.]
Paul Joseph Roberts, I'm down with your opinion, but I want to know if you have Wang Chunged tonight?
* Whoa! Youtube is really freaking biased. The first bunch of videos I found, even when using the exact wording from the frame of the iSteve-embedded one, "Guess what this country did?", it put anti-PJ Watson videos as the first 5 or more. I don't know how straight-up that is. The guy's got to have more fans doing searches (especially with this exact wording) than detractors. Bunch of assholes there at youtube, I guess...
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Truman v McCarthy, McCarran, and Ike
Posted On: Tuesday - August 30th 2022 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music History Books Dead/Ex- Presidents
Though the focus is on the details of all aspects of immigration, VDare has quite a few other interesting articles about semi-related subjects or immigration politics in history. Yesterday I came upon James Fulford's article titled Democratic Smears Go Way Back: Truman Accused Eisenhower Accepting "Nazi Racial Views" Over 1952 McCarran Immigration Act. This one is about 70 y/o history.
I look back on these times as a time of much more civil politics in America. At the local level it surely was. The pure nutcases that one sees at high levels of politics today were nowhere to be found. Though the Korean War had been going on for a couple of years already at the time in question (Mr. Fulford's article), I think of the post-WWII years as peaceful boom times.
Also, I had always thought of Harry Truman, President from the time of Franklin Roosevelt's death in just before the end of WWII in April of '45 until Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration in January of '53 was a proto-Jimmy Carter. I guess I've never read of too much controversy of his presidency, and he was known as the humble fellow who had run a hat store before office, and went home to Missouri with not any more pots to pee in than he'd had beforehand.
Nope, Harry does not sound anymore to me like the honest guy that I still think of Jimmy Carter as. (Who knows about the latter?) Two things have changed my mind. Going backwards, this James Fulford article notes:
As Kevin Michael Grace pointed out on Twitter, Harry Truman accused President Eisenhower of ”accepting Nazi racial views” for supporting the GOP backers of the McCarran Act of 1952, which was an attempt to update the Immigration Act of 1924 without creating the floodgate bursting disaster that was to be precipitated by the 1965 Immigration Act:The article includes a nicely-transcribed (by Mr. Fulford) Washington Star article from a couple of months less than 70 years ago about Harry Truman's attack on Ike, the GOP, and his party member Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada*. The quotes of Truman sound as woke as and Globalist as if it were Zhou Bai Dien making public statements.
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The reason I bothered to write this post is that, before I'd read this VDare article, I had still been reading the Stanton Evans book, Blacklisted by History, about Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and the battle over** the Communists in the US Government .*** As I read though Mr. Fulford's writing and his transcription from the "Star", I kept going "hey, I know this guy!", a number of times. Many of the characters in the US political scene of 1952 are familiar to me from the book. The ones that were avoiding and obstructing the efforts of Senator McCarthy were just as devious and duplicitous as people in the modern presidential administrations.
Harry Truman is one of them. I would not think that he had any Communist tendencies, but Mr. Evans included a whole chapter called The Trouble with Harry. This President did everything he could to cover up for the known Communists at the State Department and other Feral Gov't agencies, stonewalling on sharing files, badmouthing McCarthy to deflect from the problem, and so on. Why?
Maybe it was this old song that had given me too good an impression of Harry Truman for many years:
We haven't featured The Chicago Transit Authority (oops, someone's gonna get sued!) the band Chicago enough on the site. One of the real rockers, my favorite song by this band, with still plenty of brass in it, is Feelin' Stronger Every Day. We featured it on the eve of President Trump's inauguration in '17.
Harry Truman was sung by Robert Lamm (the guy in the video), while the rocker Feelin' Stronger Every Day was sung by Peter Cetera. He played bass guitar while singing, which I think is a good combination - see Paul McCartney and Sting.
* The big Las Vegas airport was named after him, but I hear another name being used now. Bullshit. I like this guy. Just as New York's JFK will always be Idlewild to me, the airport where I won $1 off a quarter and quit while ahead, in the city of Lost Wages, will always be McCarran to me. OK, I kid about Idlewild Field.
** I first wrote "the hunt for", but no, there's no doubt they were there. It was a battle over whether they'd just be ignored and let to keep working in the State Department (the home of most of them, from what I gather from the book).
*** Peak Stupidity already wrote 2 posts about the book, Young Commies in LUV and Did American Commies cause the attack on Pearl Harbor?
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Next: •Indian IT help v Shortwave Radio
Posted On: Monday - August 29th 2022 6:33PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity Customer Care
It's been over 2 weeks since I've had a password to a particular business intranet site that I normally look at nearly daily. Now, Peak Stupidity has ranted about our issues with passwords, and the forced composition and changes thereof, before*. This post is slightly different.
It started with the usual type of headaches, being forced to change the PW every few months - normally that's no big deal, as I have my pattern, but this time it didn't take. A colleague figured I'd not been paying attention typing my new one in twice, but nope, haha, it happened to him and someone else too. He got things straight with a 10 minute call to India. This didn't work nearly so "smoothly" for me.
It's the communications, stupid! (Not you, the reader, of course. It's the communications that are stupid!) First of all, though the •Indian girl SOUNDED like she knew English well from her speech, that usually does not correspond to much understanding of it - unless you stay EXACTLY on the script. I had to throw away the script because she kept giving me passwords to use that I entered into the web site, which promptly told me to enter twice my NEW PW. "Which one did you give me, the 'old' one, or the new one?" "Enter the one I gave you." But, nah, I could not explain the problem to a foreigner on a script.
What made it so much worse was the terrible, terrible quality of the voice-over-IP or whatever voice communication system the company was using to save EVEN MOAR MONEY! There was something close to a 3 second delay between my finishing a sentence and the beginning of anything coming back. It was like Simplex in ham radio communication. Additionally, the sound was in and out - I'd miss every 4th or 5th syllable.
I got so frustrated with this call that more than once I talked to this •Indian lady about my long-passed uncle. Why would she want to know about this particular uncle, you ask? (And she would the same,) After her trying to get simple 8 digit passwords and my trying to ask simple questions, across the sham of an internet we were on - or was it a deep-sea-creature-bitten 160 year-old undersea cable - I exclaimed "man, my uncle used to have better communications with India with a 50 foot high antenna he had in his back hard! This was in the 1960s, dammit!"
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Seriously, this uncle, when I knew him in the 1970's had that tall antenna in the back yard. He loved ham radio, and this hobby had him talking to people all over the world. (He probably got into this due to his having been a radio operator in the Korean War.) Before the internet, when even long-distance calls across the country were 5 bucks a minute in today's money, this was pretty cool.
"You'll have to repeat the first part again. They had better reception in Korea, ma'am, in the middle of a freaking war, in the nineteen-freaking-fifties!" I don't think this woman knows what ham radio is, and how was she to understand me, at that?
I don't exaggerate as I write here that it took over a minute for her to get me a 10 digit "help-ticket" code, because I could not stand to stay on that phone call any longer. I had her read back the ticket code numbers and then letters phonetically, a few times over.
The help ticket, I was told in an email (I can still get emails, unfortunately), was resolved the very same day. I guess it was ... if resolution means you got me off the phone... it does have the minor drawback of my still not having any working password!
Really, how does this save money, when you look at any kind of bigger picture than the one communications bill .. that you wouldn't have if you didn't outsource all this? Let's see, just the time on the phone is higher by a factor of 2 or 3. Then, there's the fact that your employees don't get IT problems fixed so fast, as they hate being on the phone to even very nice •Indian "IT" script follower, made worse by a signal so poor that my uncle would have gotten information more quickly on the short-wave radio.
If I don't get my ticket resolved this next time, at least it would be nice to get a QSL card in the mail.
* See also Password Proliferation and, way prior to these 2 posts, Password-related stupidity
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Keep Cash King II(a) - Follow-up on the muffin place
Posted On: Saturday - August 27th 2022 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Music Economics Orwellian Stupidity
Aha! I ended up right back in that same concourse at the big hub airport. I skipped the Chipotle place (that's forever) and noticed that very same small manned vending area that was the subject of the 2nd half of Keep Cash King II - the Tower of London.
I didn't really want a 600 calorie muffin or any other, so I just asked quickly "Do you take cash?" "No, sorry." There's my answer. This is only an anecdote, but it does answer my question. Actually, two conclusions can be made:
1) The first lady, from the other post, had definitely taken the 3 bucks cash to keep herself. Here's something I wrote in the first Keep Cash King post:
At first, this idea pissed me off, but only for a few seconds. It's not these employees' fault that this Big-Biz outfit was not set up for taking cash from me. Let them get screwed out of 5 bucks ...I have no problem with this now. I did notice the darker persuasion of all the employees at that taco place (first post). This current lady was White, leading to...
2) I would have expected more corruption from the black employees. This White lady was playing by the rules. In this case, I don't want any part of those rules anymore.
It's time for some related music. Somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd season of Kung Flu PanicFest (Dec.of '20), we featured Steve Miller's Your cash ain't nothing but trash. That's how the company that operates those airport vendors has been treating me.
This one will make me (at least) feel better, no matter the lyrics. It's the great sound of AC/DC again:
Thank you all for reading and/or commenting! We'll be back with lots more stupidity next week.
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Diggin' and then fillin' in the ditch, boss.
Posted On: Saturday - August 27th 2022 2:56PM MST
In Topics: Movies China Economics
This is a continuation, or spin-off, from the recent Peak Stupidity post Gross Defective Product, written considering input from all the commenters under it.
First off, per Alarmist, indeed, America has a lot of natural resources. (It helped immensely that our population had been small and under control until the last half century's stupidity on that score. This is as opposed to China, where much of the woods had been denuded over the many years with too many people.)
Farming, forestry, mining, and other extraction industries, most assuredly generate real products that can be easily valued, maybe the most easily, for those (most of them) considered commodities. However, as compared to heavy manufacturing, it seems that a country in which these industries and products are predominant ends up trading them for manufactured goods elsewhere. If a nation can handle this economy with tariffs, and keep a trade balance, I suppose it can work, but this exporting commodities is the makings of a "colony" Political control is the read defining factor, but economically, let's say, Australia is pretty much a colony of China. A serious large country needs manufacturing, IMO.
Commenter "Fundamental Transformation" noted that manufacturing capability is important for a country's self-sufficiency.
Next, to the actual subject of this post, Bill H. brought up the example of neighbors mowing each others' lawns for a price. They could each mow their own lawns, but those efforts, with the same amount of work expended obviously, wouldn't be part of the official* GDP, while the first situation would add to it. Value is added to the lawns either way, at least temporarily.
How do you account for actual work expended in the economy? Is that a measure that even means that much, considering that work can be done smarter rather than harder? All this reminds me of the old Paul Newman (no relation) movie, Cool Hand Luke from which the scene above was taken from. To break Luke's spirit**, in the prison yard, rather than give he and others productive work***, they had him digging a big hole, and then filling it back up again. Isn't that the same thing, were he working in the private sector for pay? There is a lot of that though, and it would show up in the GDP. The bogus "broken windows" theory "**** says that's the way it should go. The hurricane came through and broke 50,000 windows and tore up 5,000 roofs. Great! That's more service work required - a real boost for the economy. In the big picture, it's no boost. A country does not get rich this way.
I want to insert here that I didn't mean to denigrate service work in general. Mr. Smith brought up an example of the grading of a piece of property, along with his own auto work. The former, grading, would be called a service, but it results in something like a product. The piece of property may be accurately valued to be worth $15,000 more (whatever the work "should" have cost) due to that service. A working sunroof on one's car adds value, of course. Some service "industries" - I use the quotes for those in particular - add very difficult to measure value, nothing at all often, and sometimes subtract value.
As a whole, I'd say the value of products can be more easily assessed. Then, again, what about 30 story apartment buildings in China that nobody ever lived in, and that end up getting demolished? The buildings are, if not expensive, high-value, products that are considered wealth. There is the labor - a whole lot less, I'd say, in destroying them. Wealth is destroyed, but the labor was expended on both ends. I don't know - this is the part of economics that really screws with my head. I'm guessing the Economists won't admit that it does the same to theirs!
Then, you've got really misplaced labor such as the Big Gov central planning that resulted in only the most special of Soviet Russians getting those POS automobiles for those 7 decades, and poor Chinese farmers out trying to make steel on the farm, as 30-40 million Chinamen starved to death over that 2-3 year Great Leap Forward.
While writing that previous post, I'd been thinking of how the GDP could be changed to a better measurement or what other measurements should be used. That's something I've got to think about hard, which is not going to happen right now. However, if we don't need comparisons over time, but just a comparison between countries, Commenter Jack Russell made a good point. I've written here about the HUGE trade deficit the US has been running with China - it's on the order of $500,000,000,000, that's 5 hundred Billion or 1/2 a Trillion dollars in a year. That's a real serious problem for us.
There's your comparison of who's doing better economically. After years of Country A buying a whole lot more from Country B than it's been selling to it, the next thing that happens is, in return, Country B is in shape to BUY Country A, one piece at a time. In the case of American and China (Country C, I guess), Peak Stupidity wrote a whole series about our worries on this, called Will America be looted by China? - see Part 1: Intro. - - Part 2: Housing - - Part 3: Big Biz - -Part 4: The Fruited Plain - - Part 5: The Wilderness - - and Part 6: Conclusion - The Golden Rule .
Here's another conclusion I get from thinking all these economic thoughts. Who has the best way to value our labor and the services provided and products built? That's a trick question, as it's not a "who", but only a figurative body part. It's something called the "Invisible Hand", and it speaks in one language - PRICES.
Thank you, PS commenters, for your input on this headache-inducing subject!
* I noted to Bill that were a neighbor to fill out a 1099 on my ass for something like that, we simply could not be friends anymore!
** That was kind of the theme of the movie.
*** As when the paved the piece of road quickly, unexpected with prison labor, to get done early, as the guards were out of work for them. BTW, that's like the roofing scene in The Shawshank Redemption.
**** There are 2 Broken Windows theories - the other has to do with policing small crime.
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Alarm Clock v Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - August 26th 2022 3:16PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
"You win some, you lose some", they say. Usually in the battle with edgy hotel alarm clocks, I win. I've seen all kinds now.
There are alarm clocks with radios in them. Wow, big freaking deal! We had the same when I was a kid, albeit some still with mechanical digits (and even an analog clock that I can recall). The radio was only AM, but it could get in the really cool WLS from far-away Chicago at night. (I can still remember the station ID jingle. Hit play to hear the whole 1960's era jingle. This was quite a while later. the basic "WLS" part at 0:17 is what I remember.)
OK, but the Millennials or Zoomers who specified the new edgy stuff for the more modern hotel chains, as described here in Stupidity in everything, including the bathroom sink, need to do something DIFFERENT with the clock radios. They can't just be those same things from 1975 that you could get to give you the time, and wake you up with the radio. Therefore, the thing now is you don't have to set them! Yea!
GPS is incorporated in lots of electronic appliance now for the time signal, if nothing else. But what if the clock is off the right time? I really won't stand for the time being more than 2 minutes off either way.
Well, most of them have some way to set them. I had to learn slowly - read the directions in fine print, hold the snooze button down 6 seconds, open up the back with that knurled knob, but sometimes a small Phillips screw, to read the freaking fine-printed directions back there, or finally find a button to start the sequence to set the damn clock.
That was not the case with this one. "It's got GPS, you know, so it knows the time." "But it's about half an hour off!" "It can't be because G P S!" "But it is, so how can I set it? "You ... well, nobody specified any hardware and software to set it, because it's ... got ... GPS?"
Clock Radio over Peak Stupidity, by a button, this round.
PS: I had an idea a few days later about this one. Lots of these let you set hours only, via a "Time Zone" setting switch. Was this one exactly 1/2 hr. off because it was on one of those odd time zones you see on the map?* It could have been, as Newfoundland in Canada is 1/2 hour ahead of Atlantic time and Venezuela used to be ('16 and prior) 1/2 hour ahead of Eastern time. Old homesick but forgetful Venezuelan housekeeper with no cell phone? Perhaps. Or, the thing is a piece of shit.
PPS: Why the curmudgeonly stuff when the country is going to hell, you ask? Remember, we are Peak Stupidity, so this is not mission creep, but well within our wheelhouse. I've got 2 more, but I'll intersperse them with more important stuff.
* There are even time zones that are hours + 0:45 / 0:15 off from GMT.
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Crazy Rebekah Jones - Candidate for US Congress
Posted On: Thursday - August 25th 2022 6:50PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Geography
(I wouldn't [sic] her on my best enemy.)
Mr. Hail covers Florida politics very well, and he just came out with a new post on the results of the Blue-Squad primary elections just held - The Covid-activist Daniel Uhlfelder loses to the BLM-Soros candidate Aramis Ayala: an appraisal of the Florida attorney general election race of 2022. Note the name of the big loser in this race. Yes, that's the same nutty Panicker-Lawyer of whom Mr. Hail has written much about - per his lead, Peak Stupidity posted Florida Panicker-in-Chief Daniel Uhlfelder, his Dad, and family traditions last November.*
We all know of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis by this point, but in general, there's lots more to like about Florida politics and policy. By the latter, I mean the lack of an income tax, but the place just seems more Libertarian than one would expect from the various groups that reside there. My family has nothing against the heat, so, other than the Little Cuba of Dade County, the escaped New Yorker hangout from there up the east coast 50, OK, make that 100 miles, Michigander exiles in the southwest, the whole GlobohomoDisney complex that takes up the lower center, we could see living there**. We are somewhat redneck in nature and have no problem with most Florida Men.
Florida Women are a different story. In his latest post, on the Florida Blue-Squad*** primary results Mr. Hail brought up one real piece of work. That'd be Rebekah [sic] Jones a woman who Ann Coulter showed to be a laughingstock and borderline nutcase (if she were a man, she'd have been locked up long ago, in her 1 1/4 y/o column Only in Florida—Crazed Woman Stalks Governor. As soon as I followed Mr. Hail's link, I remembered this column. You've just got to go read that one. It reads like a rejected screenplay for some proposed men's version of Lifetime TV or The Oxygen Channel... rejected, that is, for being too far-fetched.
Mr. Hail mentioned in this comment of his that Miss Jones has come back from her firing and disgrace to run in a D-primary. It does not say very much for the Blue-Squad voters that 63% of them voted for her to run as their standard-bearer for US Congress. She's a freaking nutcase! Please, please, read the Ann Coulter column for entertainment, if nothing else.
How does a Florida woman get away with this?**** She's hot. That's all. I've said that women voters vote based on feelings and looks too much. (The best known example is the Nixon/Kennedy debate polls - TV vs. radio listeners.) Maybe men voting for women candidates fall for this too.
As I wrote, a man would have been jailed for years after pulling the things that you can read about in that Ann Coulter column. But, Rebekah Jones is a crazy young hot chick that men may vote for in the hopes that she might somehow find out and screw their brains out in return. Don't underestimate us!
Well, The country has seen some doozies up there on Capitol Hill, your AOCs, your Omar Ilhan's, this goes back a ways. Some are just floozies, but some have real power. A nation can't handle but so many of the Marble-Supply Challenged.
Rebekah Jones should have been locked up for a while or put in a nuthouse long ago. Now, look what you've done, Floridians. You'd damn well better not listen to Lyin' Press BS on Matt Gaetz - vote him in, to make it stop!
Rather than in the halls of the US Congress, Rebeckah Jones would be a better fit for a Telenovela, and Telenovelas are Hell!
Haha. this time the lady's name translates to Maria of the Barrio:
(We haven't shown one of these in a long, long time. I'd almost forgotten about these hilarious video reviews. The other two are here and here.)
* The Hail to You blog has much more detailed information.
** Seriously, my favorite area is not Gainesville itself, but the area around there - Alachua, Dixie, Lafayette, Suwannee, Gilchrist, Levy, and Columbia Counties - Lake City, Live Oak, Mayo, Steinhatchee, etc.
*** The opponents in the Red Squad are already set - the Governor (Rick DeSantis, the Attorney General (Ashley Moody), and the particular US Congressman in question (Matt Gaetz). They are all very decent Conservatives, showing an actual REAL difference in parties there, and also making me want to live down there.
**** Joe Biden, come to think of it, came back from being known to be a flat-out plagiarist, back when the news was more balanced. See The Lyin' Press of 1988.
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Keep Cash King II - the Tower of London
Posted On: Thursday - August 25th 2022 2:30PM MST
In Topics: Economics Orwellian Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
I'd forgotten this one tidbit from our trip to Great Britain. An incident in this country reminded me of a quick story from London regarding the use of cash for purchases. We all may fight our own battles in this war against Wokeness, Totalitarianism, Orwellian stupidity, and, well, EVERYTHING. Peak Stupidity has picked this cashless society thing as one of ours - see Keep Cash King. I believe this effort has been pushed much harder recently by the use of the Kung Flu PanicFest*.
China had gone pretty far Orwellian before the PanicFest, as we noted in Dashed high-hopes for China - Part 2** (the 2nd half of that post). The phone payment system has been combined with the new "health scoring" to go even farther Orwellian that the man could possibly envision.
I've been hoping Americans would resist that stuff more. Most will value that convenience and not making waves until they've got the rat right up in their faces, it seems, though.
OK, intro. over with, back in Surly New England (no, still in greater London) we exited the river cruise boat at the Tower of London. It was time for a snack, as the stuff on the boat was pretty dear (as they say). At that stand, 2 single-scoop ice cream cones would set us back about 7 quid, but I was up for that. I was not up for "we don't take cash." What was I going to do with those quids (can you say "quids"?) in my pocket back home? Plus, Revelation 13. "OK, see ya."
A couple hundred metres away there was another ice cream stand, so I asked about their taking my cash. "Yes, we do. Cash is King", the young lady said. "That's what I say!" I tipped her a bit, and thought we could really use more people with this attitude. Plus, that coffee ice cream tasted like the real thing. That was heartening.
Back in the colonies, well, why in the hell did we bother? (With the Revolution, that is.) At the big airport terminal, I ran into this again. The Chipotle chain, with probably the biggest mass of food for your money, would not take my cash, even after a short talk with the manager. When I mentioned Revelation 13, a nice passenger in the line even tried to pay for my stuff. I wouldn't have that. I've GOT the money. I just won't do it.
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As I explained in what's now Part I, I have no problem with this behavior now. If the Big Biz outfit that runs most of the food places there wants to shun my money and be a part of Orwellianism, well, I'm not playing, and the low-paid cashier isn't playing.
Pick your battles, they'll tell you. OK, this is one of them. If I had my way, it'd be the people pushing this cashless business that would be at the Tower of London. I mean, IN the Tower of London. Better yet, take their heads up onto the bridge to put on pikes, as the Thames River tour guide told us about.
* If you recall, at first it was about contact with those Covid germs. They were freaking everywhere, apparently, until EXPERT Anthony Fauci changed his professional opinion about that. Then the economy was crashed, and "no change" and "the bank is closed" became excuses.
** I wrote that post in May of '20, but the phone payments bit was not new then.
*** That's a very obscure reference there to Credence Clearwater Revival's Ramble Tamble.
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