That's a man, baby!
Posted On: Tuesday - June 21st 2022 7:45PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Lefty MegaStupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness Pundits
Blogger Steve Sailer has some very good posts,* especially when the subject is one of his bigger interests. He has discussed the ex-men (his own clever terminology) quite a few times, that is male-to-female tran-sexuals*. I need to start writing "trannies", as the word"tran-sexual" always puts a very good rock song from a weird-ass movie into my head for at least 1/2 an hour afterwards.
I wish I could say "only in LA" with regard to this one, as the story is about an LA "family guy", now "family girl", I guess. However, this stupidity has long since spread. The background of the Tur nuclear family is very interesting, before all this genderbender stuff - Mr. Sailer's title is Happy Father's Day to Chopper Pilot Zoey Tur.
You can read the story there, but I found 2 videos, one serious, and one humorous, that I wanted to post. I can't find the whole 15 minute video from some Headline News Network(?) talk show that is in the comments there, but the reader may well have gotten too disgusted to get through it. That's not only due to the featured stupidity, but also in seeing how rigid, authoritarian and intolerant of other opinions the whole panel of
I didn't start this short clip at 01:50 (for some context), but that's where you can see the ex-man Zoey Tur threaten Ben Shapiro on TV, with no recognition of it by the rest of the pundits. After you see this, think about the roles having been reversed. Imagine that some White guy about 50% heavier in muscle than a person-of-privilege (i.e., anyone but a White man) did the same thing. It'd be the worst thing since the death of the worthless black reprobate George Floyd.
What this incident really shows us is that "Zoey", actually Bob Tur has the strength and personality of a man, no matter what pattern dresses and color lipstick he wears. Can you imagine an ACTUAL women ever behaving in this way? Even the fat black ghetto trash women with their hair-pulling butt-kicking brawls don't act like this. Face it, in the words of Austin Powers, that's a man, baby!"
The Family Guy clip below starts off very funny, as that show can be. (I haven't watched but 20 episodes maybe, randomly, and not this one.) However, no matter how funny the kid Stewie is, I could see by the end of this 4 minutes what the opinion of the writers of this episode is. It seems pro-ex-men to me, but see what you think.
As a staunch Libertarian, let me put it this way: There ought not to be a law banning any of this crazy stuff, by adults anyway. Well, there never has been, as far as I know. However, before this country entered the "Crazy Years" and approached Peak Stupidity, society has wanted nothing to do with people like this. There ought to be no law against that either. That's the problem we are running into, being told that we must agree with this bullshit.
Yes, there are the occasional weirdos.** I would think they'd just accept that they are weirdos, as they did in the past, I'd be nice if people on TV shows, and now kids' teachers in government schools, could still admit that these people are weirdos, or, failing that, at least not teach our kids that they must agree they aren't weirdos.
Finally, if the way that dude threatened Ben Shapiro doesn't demonstrate to you what real sex differences are, you are lost in this world. I'd carry concealed next time I were on a show like that, were I Mr. Shapiro, like hero of mine Senator Joe McCarthy on Meet the Press 72 years back.***
* Some are linked to in our previous few posts on these ex-men, mostly specifically about their competing in women's sports, something I think is hilarious and entertaining more than anything. See Steve Sailer on the X-men, with Peak Stupidity's take and Another power of the Ex-Men
** I knew 2 men, one 20 years ago and one over 30 years back, who "became women". (One was still at the job - just a guy (oops!) who worked there that I talked to a couple of times. As for the other, I only heard about his doing this a few years later - you'd have NEVER thought it'd be that guy either!)
*** Actually, it wasn't concealed. He kept a pistol on his lap during his 5th time on the show. As I wrote in that post, "what a country!"
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Update: Apple mystery solved. Still a bug, but there's a workaround
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 5:23PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Totalitarianism
Ahhhaaaa! A picture of Gretchen Whitmer was in the storage of the Photos program on said device. I must have saved it for use in a post (shouldn't have to begin with, bug notwithstanding). There is another picture, near the beginning of the set of them, that also appears at the top. I should have checked this first.
I don't know why it's any of Apple's business to put small images from the Photos program on the main screen, but that's smart software for ya'. This is the easy workaround: Do not save pictures of nasty Totalitarians ANYWHERE on your own computers. They will appear again somewhere else, maybe in real life too.
UPDATE: OK, in the comments of the previous post, I found out that readers here can do better searches than the site owner, who WRITES THIS STUFF. Thank you, Mr. Hail, for finding the 2 posts here, the first of which has that picture of Gretchen Whitmer that kept bugging me: Governor Gretchen Whitmer - I wonder what her childhood was like. and Perspective vs. Hysteria
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Apple users: Beware of the Whitmer bug
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 4:55PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity Totalitarianism
This post was originally to be titled: Who is this broad, and why can't I keep her off of my screen?!. You'll see why shortly.
There is a nice Apple iPad that I was given to use for work. I try to keep it "clean" and not do anything other than work-related tasks on it. Seeing as I'm still much more used to a pre-Windows-10* "desktop", without strange pictures and videos flying about, I don't know how to deal with the home screen stuff on these devices, other than to not put/have anything on there but the icons.
Usually, I just go straight to the 4 or 5 icons of the "apps" - programs, that is, that I use regularly. However, beside a weather report from Cupertino, California, pretty far from home** there are a few other blurbs, as I am wont to calling them, on the screen. One that keeps being on there is a picture of this older lady in a blue dress wagging her finger as if she's lecturing me. I didn't know who it was until I took my first guess about 10 minutes ago. That horrid scene, reproduced even larger above, is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
I'd first thought that this evil Totalitarian broad was continually appearing up there because Peak Stupidity had that picture up at one point, and, you know, the software is so damned smart that it just KNOWS I want to see her on my screen often. However, there are 2 arguments against this:
1) I use the browser on that device, as with almost other program on it, for work stuff only. Peak Stupidity hasn't been pulled up but a handful of times.
2) I looked for posts here that involve Governor Whitmer, and I only found these 2 so far: Michigan v Sweden in Corona Challenge and Michigan Totalitarian bitch exercises her Social Distancing Waiver
Hey, I don't have a TV so that I won't have to put up with being lectured by, or ever have to see, bitches like Gretchen Whitmer. I'm not in the Michigan State Legislature for that reason too, along with many others.
What is Gretchen Whitmer doing on the screen of my work tablet? I have swiped her off of it about 10 times, but SHE KEEPS COMING BACK! Is she everywhere? Is she in The Cloud now? That could be a good sign, meaning she's no longer on earth. Anyone else seen her? If I knew how, I'd report it to Apple. They must know, as is obvious to me, that this is a BUG, not a FEATURE.
* What goes on on that Windows 10 screen is unfathomable. I got it before then. Honestly, I'm partial to a ">" prompt with a blinking cursor, so, don't mind me ...
** Yeah, I know. It's the home of Apple, Inc.
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It's long over, for the unknown soldier
Posted On: Monday - June 20th 2022 1:32PM MST
In Topics: Americans US Feral Government World Political Stupidity
I've seen this a number of times lately. A bunch of army soldiers were mustered (?) in the airport, ready to either go to more training, or, very likely, to head overseas to "defend America". I don't have a word to say to them. A few times in the past I've sat near a group of them on the airliner and asked where they are headed. It usually is overseas.
No matter where it is they are headed, I have no reason to appreciate their being in the American Army. As I've written here before, not in the same words, that "thank you for your service" crap makes me sick to my stomach. These soldiers are not serving the American people in any way. Who they serve is the Deep State, the Neocons, and the Globalists?
I know, most of these young people join up now for the employment, as this American economy has sucked for quite a while. There are great benefits, if you put up with a little hardship - that's really not so much right now, when the American military fights only when it has overwhelming odds. (For more on this topic, see the Peak Stupidity posts Death from Above, Assasinations, and Declaration of War, Arrogance from the American Military, and Outside it's America.) That may change, and I'll feel more sorry for them
There is the diversity and gender stupidity that has me looking on some of these people with disdain. I see some of them and wonder "wait, these people are supposed to become lean, mean, fighting machines, and defend me?" (It's that much more disdainful when they've all got face masks on, even the freaking Drill Sergeants!) For the White men, I am sure they are in for a Dieversity shitshow. They will have to put up with the organized discrimination against them and the insults, indignities and stupidity, even though they are the very group that has the biggest percentage of people who will actually do the hard fighting, and the biggest percentage that is there to actually "defend my country."
No, of course I don't want to spit on them, as if this was 1960s'/'70s during Vietnam. They are not the instigators of the war-mongering of America. Upon the Vietnam War, it's easy to look with hindsight, but there were worries about the Communists taking over much of the world. The Korean War had been fought only a decade before with nearly as many American soldiers killed* as in Vietnam. OTOH, maybe we should have LEARNED from Korea.
Then, when was the last time soldiers WERE seen as defending their country by Americans? I respect those who did the "containment" of the Communists during the Cold War. Whether this country should have been involved in WWII OR WWI is questionable, but the soldiers were greatly respected. The last time American soldiers were truly defending their countries was during the War Between the States. I wrote "countries" (plural) as the Army of Virginia, for example, was defending what was basically their country back in the day of real Federalism, Virginia, from an invasion.
That was 157 years ago, though. Now, I don't see any defense of my home and land, my family, and myself coming from anything the US Army does. I have nothing to say to the modern American soldier.
* For a good book on that war, try This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness by T.R. Fehrenbach.
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Ann Coulter on 2,000 Mules and 10,000 Maniacs
Posted On: Saturday - June 18th 2022 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Music Trump Pundits
To be clear, Miss Coulter did not mention the 10,000 Maniacs, but that's just the latter part of our post here.
I do get behind on these "current events" (what we used to call the news when I was a kid). Commenter Dieter Kief pointed out the Dinesh D’Souza movie 2,000 Mules that is coming out, as an investigation of the '20 Presidential election fraud, and I didn't even know what "2,000 Mules" was until his explanation.
Ann Coulter's latest column has what one might call a quick review, which also contains a quick review of the failures of the Donald Trump Presidency. You may be able to tell whether her thumbs are up or down for this movie by the title - see , On 2000 Mules: Dinesh D’Souza’s Stupid Movie. I haven't watched this movie yet, but I disagree vehemently with Miss Coulter* on her contention that the election wasn't stolen based on what I have already seen. There was so much suspicious activity, there were so many opportunities CREATED for irregularities, and there was too much "coincidence" in the reversal of the vote in those last few States** that I don't see how it couldn't have been.
That doesn't mean I disagree with Miss Coulter on her discussion of how stupidly President Trump acted to lose votes. You can read how he screwed his voters in the column, including even something about alleged swindling of donor funds. . She then gave 3 errors she saw in the movie. Finally, she tells us why she is really pissed at Trump, as if we didn't know. She calls out many instances of Trump's contradictions (he's a bullshitter some of the time, face it) as President vs. Candidate, but I'll just paste in this last part:
Most stunningly, Trump blew off the signature promise of his campaign: the wall. While he was busy sucking up to Wall Street, Kim Kardashian, RINOs, Silicon Valley, the gun-grabbers and illegal aliens, not one mile of wall got built.I really, really, liked the comparison to President Reagan.***
He finally got around to the wall his last year in office. Total new wall across a 2,000 mile border completed during the entire Trump presidency: 47 miles.
Yeah, it's a total baffler how a president who spent four years ignoring his base could have lost.
Imagine if Ronald Reagan, after running in 1980 on winning the Cold War and slashing taxes, had gotten into office and started bleating about our "inordinate fear of communism," instead of opposing the Soviets at every turn and driving the New York Times to fits of apoplexy? What if he'd left the top tax rate at 70% and suddenly started releasing criminals recommended by Kim Kardashian? And, for the cherry on top, suppose he'd turned his presidency over to his bimbo daughter and nimrod son-in-law?
Well, I don't know about the 2,000 mules, but I do know about the 10,000 Maniacs. They were what was called an Alternative Rock band 30 years ago, and no, you didn't say "alt rock". Peak Stupidity has featured the music of this great band from Jamestown, New York, fronted by the great Natalie Merchant, a few times. 10,003 Maniacs features Hey Jack Kerouac, God's acre is a fenced-in hallowed ground features Lilydale, and Music for the depressed features Like the Weather.
I like the whole Our Time in Eden album. Though it was the song most played on the radio, it's been a long time, so I don't mind hearing These are Days again. This goes 30 years back!
This is a really upbeat song too with the lyrics of the chorus going:
You'll know it's trueYeah, likely I am. It's hard to feel this upbeat, though, at 30 years older, but more than that, in a country that's 30 years older and now contains 10,0002 maniacs!
that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something
that will grow and bloom in you.
OK, that wraps up Immigration Invasion Fest week, a "concept week" of blogging, with only 1 post out of 7 that didn't discuss this topic. We'll get back to our normal mode of interspersing various flavors of stupidity in with each other next week. There are plenty of posts built up at this point. Thanks to all of you for reading and writing! Happy Sunday.
* She also had another recent column, The Great Replacement Switcheroo—Replacing Blacks With Immigrants, with which I don't disagree with her basic point, but sure do with her pandering style. (Yes, that's normally unheard of out of Ann Coulter, but that's what I'd call it.)
** See Is it all gonna come down to Philly or Carson City?? Send lawyers, guns, and money ....
*** Peak Stupidity has a 5-part series from Nov-Dec '18 on Ronnie vs. Donnie after Mr. Trump bragged "I blow Ronald Reagan away." Yeah, right - here: Intro. -- The Personalities -- Foreign Policy -- Domestic Policy -- and Conclusion .
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The ICE men and the who-ers of the skies
Posted On: Saturday - June 18th 2022 6:58AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government Zhou Bai Dien
This picture above is from the Lyin' Press narrative of earlier on in this Bie Dien Administration hard-core open borders push as part of his work in on behalf of the Great Replacement Policy. If you don't recall the story, Steve Sailer will refresh your memory here on VDare and here on The Unz Review with comments.
VDare has writers who have been deeply involved in immigration control or lack thereof in US Feral Gov't positions, and some who may still be. These guys are invaluable in getting us the details and proof of the traitorous policies. Peak Stupidity doesn't have people like that, but I do get around more than many. That's when I end up talking to people involved at the small level in big things. An example from a few years ago was my running into a load of ICE agents returning from Iowa. I didn't get to talk with them much, but I realized a day or so later that they had been returning from raids on the Meat Packing plants in Postville that were packed by Hasidic Jews with illegal Hispanics. I had just read about it on VDare. In fact there were a couple of black-hat outfit Jewish guys traveling too!*
I might be more calm just staying at home, if I could stay off the internet, a big "IF" to ask, but these interactions are very helpful. Here goes then, as promised on Thursday.**
In this case I talked to 2 men from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and then, on the same day, a Captain who flies for Swift Airlines, now iAero Group (but that latter name sucks, so I'll use the former). I'll start first with the 2 ICE guys.
Though I put the picture above up, I know that ICE is not the Border Patrol. There have been a few re-orgs and name changes just since I've been following this issue on VDare for 20 years. Anyway I men two guys, not in any uniforms. There was a black guy and a white guy, like in a Hollywood movie, not necessarily "partners" per se (in ANY sense), traveling together to Alexandria, Louisiana. If a mention here of the big criminal illegal (redundant here, right?) alien detention center there on the airport property rings a bell, it because I discussed it when discussing Swift Air (the good and the bad) in that 1st Bai Dien Human Trafficking, but see also CPAC, gutsy Michelle Malkin, and Swift Airlines from 3 years back.
There was no one else around, so I walked up to these guys to get their take. Because I had just read and posted about the latest outrage with the trafficking in Omni Air 767's into Newburgh, NY, I asked the two guys about this latest. "Yeah, that shit is real, man!" the black guy told me, as the other guy agreed. They know about both the Swift air flights and the Omni flights. They sounded pretty pissed off too. Well, I knew this was real, but it was good to hear to those tasked by the taxpayers with securing the borders did not like seeing their agency being used for the opposite. I left them with "I hope someone will let you do your jobs sometime."
Later in the day, I met a guy who flies for Swift Air itself. This time there were a bunch of people around to hear. I didn't care. I asked this guy directly whether he had been involved in the flying of illegal aliens from the Texas Mexican border into White Plains and other locations. His answer was weird because at first I thought it was "yes". "How can you do that flying? It human trafficking, is all it is!" I mentioned the treason those operation entailed and "I think Biden should be hanged for this!" Yeah, other people were listening. That was good.
Well, the pilot sounded like he was on my side, and I don't he was humoring me. He spent 10 minutes talking to me about this and would have stayed longer if I hadn't had to go. As I wrote in that 3 y/o post, Swift Air is mostly a force for good. Well, of course, it's simply a Charter Airline trying to make some money, not really some "force" at all, per se. However, I am glad to see something good going on. The people they fly, formerly using the call sign "Repatriate FLT#" on the radio, are the worst of the criminal scum. Swift Air takes them from that Alexandria, LA detention center (OK, prison) via Miami, to points south.
I asked this pilot about some of the same things regarding the flights that I already noted in that 3 y/o post linked-to above. Yeah, the guy told me, a 737-800 filled with 150 or so prisoners with 15-17
I put that picture up top due to the black guy running from the Border Patrol horseman. People really ought to know that there are people from all over crossing easily into this country. Many are Haitians. In our conversation, the pilot got pretty excited telling me how vile and nasty the Haitian prisoners were especially. Many of the aircraft seats were torn up when his plane landed in that country. Though handcuffed, they still manage to throw rocks at the airplane and into the engine inlets when they got on the ramp. There was something about some woman who got naked ... (yeah, I didn't see how this fit in either, and the guy wasn't impressed by the woman part - yes, I asked "was she hot?") It is not all Haitians. Of the great many Hispanics, some are Salvadoran. He talked about those violent MS-13 guys too.
The words "vile" and "evil" were used a number of times by this guy, and I asked him if he got some kind of hazard pay. (They sure as hell don't want to break down in these places, so they bring a mechanic and tools, and, I assume, some parts.) The Globalist elites of America are increasingly importing these people for their Great Replacement Program. We will become a country full of these vile people if this doesn't stop and get reversed.
The question I still have is whether this pilot DID do some of the flying of the illegal aliens going the other way. He was a great guy to talk to, and maybe he feels bad about doing it. That's really not enough though. American cannot go along with this. Pilots are in VERY HIGH DEMAND right now. It's probably a better deal than anytime since commercial flying started - I kid you not! So it's not like pilots refusing to fly these flights, or just calling in sick to make it less blatant, would be hampered in their careers.
Let me put it this way: Charter pilots, put your country and your people before your minimum-day guarantee with double pay. Don't be the whores of the skies!
PS: Our post title is a reference to a really nice movie from 1988 called Full Moon in Blue Water that starred Gene Hackman and Terri Garr (whewww, I always had a crush on her!). Gene Hackman's character is not his usual tough-ass. I can't recall if his supposed southeast Texas accent was that good, but he amusingly pronounced "whore" as "who-er". (I recall that Terri Garr made fun of this in the movie.)
* I think this was before I started my blog, but I will do a search today for something. I can't remember for sure whether I perhaps DID blog about this... Hey, we got 2,300 posts, so it's not all just CRS syndrome. Update: Nah, I guess not.
** Yeah, yesterday was really busy - up 20 hours - so my apologies. I did get 2 comments in on unz. (The guy can't help it...)
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This Human Trafficking is HUGE. We're gonna need a bigger
Posted On: Thursday - June 16th 2022 6:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny Zhou Bai Dien
Peak Stupidity reported on the Bai Dien Administration's Human Trafficking program 4 months back, with quite a few details. Besides hero of mine Tucker Carlson's bringing up this new program that is part of the Great Replacement Policy that we have been discussing this week*, the New York Post has been out front with this story. I won't go into a long introduction on that, as it's in that previous report, but I do want to nominate the New York Post as the new "Paper of Record" for doing what people use to call "unbiased plain old news reporting". What a concept!
The last human trafficking post was about this very deliberate mission of the flying of illegal aliens from the Texas border towns - El Paso, Del Rio, Brownsville, Harlingen - those are just the places I was told about recently - to points in the interior of the US. In particular, that post noted the comings and goings in the middle of the night of iAero Group, formerly Swift Air 737-800s into Westchester County, NY's White Plains (KHPN) airport. That place has a fairly short, and fairly sloped runway that is tight enough for those 737s**.
These people are put on buses and sent to wherever. This is why that 11 million illegal alien number is such bullshit and why 30 to 40 million is closer to the truth. Not this exact human trafficking scheme, but plenty of other deals have been going on for decades!
Now, via VDare, and before that the New York Post (thank you both!), I got the info. on new operations to bring even bigger loads of illegal aliens into the country. It was kind of indirect from VDare, as the post that clued me in was titled Hide The Girls. 20-Year-Old “Migrant” Man Registered In N.Y. High School by their as of this year, HIGHLY PROLIFIC writer A. W. Morgan (more on him in a post shortly) This post of his has the image at the top, from which I saw the log of Omni Airlines a charter outfit. There was also the link to the New York Post article Biden admin sending ‘adult men’ on migrant kid flights, GOP’s Rob Astorino claims
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Before I move on to the air human trafficking, let me paste in part of the new Newspaper of Record article:
The White House is transporting “single adult men” on flights to suburban New York meant to resettle migrant children under the cover of night, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino claimed on Wednesday.More:
Astorino — who is looking to unseat Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul this fall — told reporters outside Stewart International Airport that one 20-year-old male migrant was placed into Westlake High School in Westchester County as a junior and is now 21 years old.
“I can tell you — and we have video — that it is not just the little kids with backpacks being reunited, reunified with their families … it is an expansion of this program,” the former Westchester County executive added. “And what’s happening is we’re having on video, clearly seeing many teenage boys, late teen, early 20s, who are single adult men, who are getting off these flights.”Actually, no, the big bill is not by any means being paid yet. I'm not talking due to borrowing money for the charter flights, but this is about the Great Replacement. This bill will be paid by our children and grandchildren. But lets talk airplanes and airports.
Single adult males are the demographic most often turned away by border authorities, as they are more likely to be deemed economic migrants rather than legitimate asylum claimants.
The resettlement flights have been landing at Westchester airports since at least October of last year, when their existence was exclusively reported by The Post. They were briefly suspended following the exposé, but have since started up again.
During Wednesday’s press conference, Astorino detailed two recent flights for which he claimed taxpayers are “paying the bill.”
The first one, Flight 9446, arrived at Stewart Airport at 10:59 p.m. May 19 while the second, Fight 9462, landed at 12:13 a.m. May 22. Both flights came in from Jacksonville after originating in El Paso, Texas.
I suppose chartering 737s with 150 illegal aliens each flight is just not speedy enough population replacement for the Bai Dien Administration nation-destroyers. "We're gonna need a bigger
This new flying, based on the picture I see above Mr. Morgan's article is being done by Omni Air International***. That charter outfit has been around for just under 30 years, flying soldiers around the world. Right now they have 11 Boeing 767s (-200s, and -300s), such as the one shown nose-only in the picture, and 3 B-777s. 14 planes doesn't sound like a lot, but airplanes get around! They don't make money sitting on the ground, so other than for maintenance, they fly as best as the schedules will let them. (Pilots of this type of company fly long schedules - 2 weeks, or 16-17 days for these guys, and they are flown around to meet the planes, even overseas on a regular airline, if need be.)
These planes are too big to land on that short runway at White Plains. (They would be coming home empty, having discharged their cargo of wretched refuse, so they possibly could take off, length-wise. However, the width might not be safe, and the pavement my not be made for those heavies.) Therefore, and probably for a few other reasons, the Omni 767s are flying I'd guess as many as 275, since there's no 1st class, illegal aliens from the Texas southern border towns into Stewart Field (code SWF) in Newburgh, NY. This airport, twice as far up the Hudson River from NY City as White Plains is - on the west side of the river, BTW, as opposed to White Plains, has an 11,800 ft runway**** You can land and take off just about ANYTHING in that length.
Let me give those other reasons. I have been to both of these airport terminals. Though Westchester County/White Plains has lots of commercial service, the terminal was meant to be an FBO with a few offices, I think. It's tiny for a place the purports to have 10-12 gates, OK "gates" per say, but just parking spots, last time I've sen the place. Still, it gets packed with people, and it works. In the meantime, though Newburgh's Stewart Field is HUGE, acreage-wise, the terminal may be not much bigger than the one at White Plains, but with only one handful of gates, max, as I recall. They just don't have much service, the place being twice as far from New York City (just my estimate, your milage, haha, may vary.) In fact, the airport commission or whomever, has changed the official name of the place to "New York Stewart" in order to fool some of the New Yorkers, or the visiting rubes, some of the time.*****
That's what a commenter on unz.com had noted - Newburgh's airport is less known to people. That's a reason to do human trafficking in there. Then, there's the NY Air National Guard's 105th Airlift wing, that has C-17s based there. Could the US government, through their middleman (don't know if it's still that shady MVM operation discussed in that previous post), be using the military ramp and personnel to help them in their criminal activity?
There are too many Americans who will ask no questions, even if they are roped into something as obviously nefarious and anti-America as these operations are. Sure, the military would help. (Maybe down in Florida or Texas, it's be a different story?) Then those pilots will fly those heavies in there, because "just doin' my job." "It's what they pay us to do" is one I've heard more and more lately.
I will relate the personal conversations I had with both a Swift Air (iAero) Captain and 2 ICE guys that are involved in something related in a post tomorrow I hope. This one has gotten too long already.
PS: Just because these newer operations are going on with larger aircraft and a different drop location doesn't mean the other ones described previously aren't still going on.
* This week is kind of odd in having a theme - the same topic for all but one post so far. Most times, Peak Stupidity is all over the map. That is mostly just to my writing posts on whims and when the thoughts are somewhat together, but I also think that readers might like lots of variety. Immigration Stupidity-Fest week is probably a one-off.
** The place was built to be a General Aviation airport, but I've seen times it was busier in the morning than an airport like say, Knoxville, Tennessee. It's right under NY City combo-JFK, EWR, and LGA Class B airspace, making operations complicated, unless you do come in the middle of the night. As a bonus, late at night, one could get in without talking to ANYONE on the radio - no shit, that's true.
*** Now owned by Air Transport Services Group (ATSG).
**** Some of it is unused "threshold" for landing, but one can still roll out on it, if need be.
***** This reminds me very much of someone in Rockford, Illinois naming the airport "Chicago/Rockford" a decade or so back. It's about 90 miles west of downtown Chicago. Haha, yeah, I can see the phone call now:
"Hey, we made it. Can you come pick us up?"
"Where are you all, O'Hare or Midway?"
"No, the other one, the airport in Rockford. It was cheaper."
[30 seconds of silence from mute button]
"See if you can find the bus station. You're not in Chicago!"
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Millennial Woes
Posted On: Wednesday - June 15th 2022 8:11PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Muh Generation
Woe is me, sometimes when talking to these people. If we have any people of this generation in question reading Peak Stupidity, well, first of all, NO, I don't care how it looks on your damned phone! Just stop reading now, because this isn't going to get any better for you.
It's probably the way the government schools teach them, and then those parents of whatever-the-hell screwed up generation THEY are in... Nah, OK, we need SOME readers left, so that's why I put it, mostly rightfully on the schools. I've taught young adults 10 years ago who told me they needed a rubric to do study for the test, when all I know about is Rubic's cube. Rubric? No, just no. Think for yourself.
I don't really mean all of this generation, I guess, but when I do have problems it often boils down to this same thing. They don't want to think for themselves or use common sense. I guess they feel they aren't supposed to - it's so much of a far cry from the "Question Authority" attitude of the 1960s and '70s.
You don't have to go that far though. Look, I was just trying to get a tasty sandwich at the sub shop. For a tuna fish sub, which I had a hankering for, it seems like you don't want all the usual stuff on it. "OK, just some pickles, some olives, and some tomatoes." She put only 4 measly scrawny tomato slices on the foot-long* sub. "How about a few more tomatoes?" Two more measly scrawny pieces went on. Then when I brought up that they were kinda scrawny there, she told me she's got to charge extra, you know, for the 2 more scrawny pieces. "OK, take 'em back off then. Never mind."
See now, I'd passed up a bunch of veggies and condiments that cost money too. So, for 2 measly slices of tomato, couldn't you call it even? Nah, I guess that's not proper procedure. Common sense is not company policy.
* Hey, maybe I should bring a ruler next time. I wonder if they are still 1 ft. long.
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What Were Once Policies Are Now Myths...
Posted On: Wednesday - June 15th 2022 5:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Trump
This is a continuation of our post The Great Replacement from Monday and is also related to what VDare's Washington Watcher II wrote about as linked-to in yesterday's post.
Now, Steve Sailer has done a bang up job on this topic, but he writes so much that it's usually hard to find the exact few best posts to link to. Many readers have likely heard his great snark and explanations of the hypocrisy that I'll show you here. This Great Replacement of White Middle Class America via immigration, whether neatly planned, sort-of agreed-upon, or just allowed to happen and enjoyed by people with similar mindsets, has been going on for almost 6 decades.
At first, not many people cared. It took a while to get going and to even be noticed (unless you were Steve Sailer, but even that guy ...) There's a lot of ruin in a nation*. Then, by the mid-1990s, there were pundits and politicians that were getting worried about the then 30 y/o immigration invasion. (That'd be only about 15-20 years on the illegal side, and 30 years on the legal side by that point.) Wise and worried people tried to get through to Americans (and it's not like a decent minority of Americans didn't already worry) for 20 more years, and we got to President Trump ... who let us down because he is more of a bullshitter with an ego than a competent leader. (Yes, a bullshitter with an ego on the side of patriotic Americans, but that's not enough.)
It's been 57 years of this now. Since the candidacy of Donald Trump in '15 this issue has at least been discussed in public. Therefore, the elites of America have first told us for a few years of this time that we who worry about this existential problem are conspiracy theorists. The more the Great Replacement advances and we even use that wording, we are told that it's a myth. Oh, also, to talk about it is being a White Supremacist. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Myth, hell, it's been policy for half a century! Yet, there's old Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representin', out in the street telling us that this half-century-long policy is nothing but a myth. I can't believe that such a lie would come out of the mouth of the Speaker of the House of Representin'!
Why do they, and why does she, do this? It’s hard to condemn a myth with a straight face when it’s happening right now and people have cameras. Still, Nancy Pelosi manages to do this. Blatant lying is BIG now.
Yes, of course, the standard hypocrisy of the ctrl-left, living in the leafy neighborhoods while supporting Section 8 and BLM, sending the kids to the private schools while pushing for integration, voting for higher taxes while working for the government (no, wait...) is still practiced. However, all that stuff is no longer avant-garde. Now, you just tell the people complete blatantly obvious bullshit to their faces. They don't have to believe your lies, but they have to accept the lies. It's not for their education, but for their humiliation. C'mon guys, whaddya' need a refresher Frankfurt School?! it's ALL COMMUNISM nowadays!
Does the title of this post ring a bell for anyone? This goes back a long way, to a time when I didn't have money to buy record albums, or those nice big 8-track tapes. I loved the song Black Water from the 1974-released album though. About a decade later, I got the Doobie Brothers' What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, and I've liked every bit of it.*
Peak Stupidity has featured The Doobie Brother 5 times so far, with Neil's Fandando, from Stampede, Black Water, the big hit off of this album, Listen to the Music, also from this album, and Takin' it to the Streets, title song of that album.
The album's cover picture is from a concert of theirs in Bowling Green, KY in December of 1973.
The Doobie Brothers were:
Tom Johnston – acoustic and electric guitars, lead and backing vocals.
Patrick Simmons – acoustic and electric guitars, lead and backing vocals.
Tiran Porter – bass, backing vocals.
John Hartman – drums, percussion.
Michael Hossack – drums.
A guy named Mitt Holland was played the vibraphone.
* Hey, we've used that Adam Smith, the Scottish Economist, not the American Peak Stupidity commenter, Libertarianism expert, and all-around handy-man, line before, but regarding economics. See There's a lot of ruin in a nation. - Part 1, -- Part 2, and Part 3.
** After that they came out with 2 even better ones, Stampede and The Captain and Me
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Washington Watcher II on the Great Replacement Policy
Posted On: Tuesday - June 14th 2022 5:08PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity
I don't know how I missed this 2-day old article from VDare. I had not seen it at the time of writing yesterday's post on The Great Replacement. (I think that it possibly was not published on VDare until today or late last night, as it's up 2nd in order of recency*.)
This will turn out to be Immigration Stupidity week here at Peak Stupidity, the way it's going, as I want to just point out this great post by Mr. "Watcher" today, being too tired to write much, and then continue about the ctrl-left's new thing of calling this existential issue a "myth". After that, I've got a more detailed post about the hard-core criminal illegal aliens and the Bai Dien still-ongoing human trafficking operation, with even bigger airplanes. The latter post will come from info I got direct from sources involved, the ICE guys and a pilot who has flown these people.
Let's go on to The Great Replacement Now Drives American Political Discourse from Washington Watcher II. He first notes that the Blue-squad congressfreaks have passed a resolution that denounces "those who notice what is going on". (All of the Red-squad voted against it. Fine, but how about something REAL next time you get a chance? November '22?) I'll start excerpting now:
But the condemnation can’t suppress the truth. It’s just more evidence that the Great Replacement now drives the political discourse in America–and Democrats can only look on in shock.That bolding is mine, as that is something I'm very glad to read, even with it being 4 +/- decades (too?) late. Mr. Watcher then goes on to cite a bunch of polls that are pretty encouraging. The Peak Stupidity reader may know how we feel about polls here, since we were polled in late '20. However, you may want to read these four paragraphs (I won't insert the whole article) for encouragement. They are encouraging, indeed, though.
Rep. Bowman is one of those in shock. He admits Great Replacement, which he calls “Nazi thinking,” is now mainstream. “These are no longer fringe elements of our society,” the black congressman said. “'Great Replacement Theory has gone mainstream thanks to rightwing Republicans like Tucker Carlson who have mentioned this theory more than 400 times** on the most-watched news network in the country.” [Democratic Rep Jamaal Bowman calls Great Replacement Theory 'Nazi thinking veiled as political banter', by Morgan Phillips, Daily Mail, June 8, 2022].
He’s right, of course. VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow charted the Great Replacement (“The Pincers” —see our featured image) in his book Alien Nation back in 1995, but Tucker Carlson is certainly responsible for waking up millions of Americans to this civilizational problem.
And concern over the Great Replacement is now shared by a majority of Republicans.
It’s clear the Republican base is gravely concerned about being replaced. They know it threatens their way of life and their values. They know it will lead to more conflict among the races and weaken America. This is no longer a “fringe” idea.Speaking out takes courage. This post segues into the story of Blake Masters, Arizona Candidate for US Senate, simply said:
As I highlighted last month, more and more Republican leaders are also Noticing the Great Replacement. From Elise Stefanik to Blake Masters, serious GOP lawmakers or candidates are speaking out about how Democrats want to replace Americans with foreigners. And some of these candidates are starting to notice other racial problems.
“We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence,” he said during an April podcast appearance. “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.”Yeah, well, like no duh. However, he simply said this when others wouldn't. He didn't wimp out and apologize either. Most Americans don't know the actual horrific numbers that describe the ratio of black violence to that in the rest of society, but they still understand the basics from seeing it around them.
Anyway, where this gets back to the US Feral Gov't and the Great Replacement is the policy now of bring up White supremacy as the biggest problem, terrorist threat, etc. that we are supposedly facing. They make the simple truth that the alt-right has been telling and other Conservatives have started telling into some sort of threats, which they will try to prosecute us on. These people are playing hardball. We need to do the same.
I hope you will read Washington Watcher II's full article. This should have been mentioned in yesterday's post, as it goes along with my post. Tomorrow Peak Stupidity will have another post that relates to this article, and then the human trafficking/criminal alien story. Stay tuned during this whole Immigration-Invasion-Fest week. ("Hey, what about the freaking rest of the Georgia Guides from those stones?", you ask worriedly, right? Yes, that threat was very very real. They'll come when time permits.)
* BTW, if you think this site is hard to search, sometimes finding articles on VDare is really tough. It's better often on the search engines. Otherwise, I can't seem to find what I want with either "More Articles" at the bottom or "More" under the post/article small icons/blurbs at the right. If I can remember the author's name, I'm good, as I can click on "Writers" on the bar at top and go from there.
** My asterisks, of course, or you wouldn't see this here, I guess. I can't find it now (must be in one of the many links VDare always provides), but the author does note somewhere that those producing this "400" number must have been counting every time Mr. Carlson mentioned immigration. It can't be 400 times that he's said "Great Replacement" - this relates to Mr. Hail's informative comments under the last post.
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The Great Replacement Policy
Posted On: Monday - June 13th 2022 7:19PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists
Errr, wait, they say it's only a myth, though. I'm not so sure about that. (That's another post to come shortly.)
It is perhaps the biggest and most damaging policy ever taken against our own country by the Globalists. Though it's about 4 +/- decades too late, at least people are talking about the Great Replacement Policy that has been going on since 1965. It didn't start with Tucker Carlson, but he sure has been a stand-up guy for, well standing up and pointing out what others have been trying to tell the apathetic American people for a long time.
VDare has quoted German poet Bertolt Brecht* many a time with his "electing a new people line" in a poem of his. Here's Peter Brimelow (with Ed Rubenstein) from 22 years and 2 weeks ago - Electing a New People. The poem, Die Lösung (The Solution):
After the uprising of the 17th of JuneYeah, probably a lot easier and safer too, than trying to lay down Communism on the original highly armed Americans.
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By increased work quotas.
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Tucker et. al have brought up the Blue-squad plans to import people for votes, so that they can get the election results they want going forward (assisted often by Red-squad members, as the ARE, after all, all members of The Party). That's all true - electing a new people to be the right kind of voters is part of the motivation.
However, I keep pointing out that it’s not just about the votes. If it were just about the D-votes, then “Conservatives” could feel consoled by those Hispanic Trump voters in south Texas and try harder in “reaching out” to the “naturally conservative” minorities.
That’s another fallacy that seems to be going along with the Great Replacement Theory
White America, from the ancestry of the British Isles, had a long, long history of belief in Liberty, due process, and limited government, going back to the Magna Carta. Over a century, many of the other White immigrants finally assimilated to these ideas (to a degree, at least). Now, the idea has been since 1965 to import people who have no such history and background. The Globalist elites are all jealous of the elites of Latin America, China, etc, with populations that have no such ideas such as a John Birch Society, a Reform Party (going back nearly 30 years here), the Tea Party, MAGA, etc.
Compliant, 3rd-Worldy peons, even the bright H-1B visa holders, THAT’S what they want. It’s not just the votes, but it’s the mentality they are after.
Now, Peak Stupidity doesn't take everything for a conspiracy. I am not of the opinion that all these Globalists elites meet in secret to make plans up. On the other hand, as was pointed out to me, there are policies put in place, right out in front of us. That constitutes a conspiracy, I suppose, just not a secret one.
There are indeed concrete plans and policies, such as open borders for the sake of the big farmers, the whole F.I.R.E. “industry” that benefits from more people of any kind, the H-1B influx to help the software industry get cheaper labor, the turning of Virginia into a “blue State”, etc. between Big Biz, the ctrl-left, and the hundreds or thousands of traitors in the high places in the US Feral Gov’t. As for the wiping out of the Middle Class (especially White people), it’s more just what all these elites naturally feel and want. It feels good to them when they don’t hear any more of that organized political dissent from the (actual) grass roots or small businesses thriving. (The COVID PanicFest was great in it’s destruction of small businesses of the service industry.)
They’re all pretty on board with the idea of “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, with an exception for themselves, as the anointed ones.
* This guy actually moved from America to the "German Democratic Republic", aka, East Germany in 1947. Ha, great move, man! Well, he was an artist so, what can one say? Come to think of it, had he lived another 60 years, he might just be feeling pretty smug about his decision right now.
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Don't look now, but here come the '80s!
Posted On: Saturday - June 11th 2022 7:51PM MST
In Topics: Music
Make that the anything-but-roaring '20s instead. That's 40 years of Borrowed Time that has passed since Dennis DeYoung warned us about the 1980s at the beginning of this Styx song. Well, the band was one of many who liked long introductions back then, so there is 50 seconds of mellow keyboards, then another 30 seconds of hard-rock intro first...
From Wiki:
According to DeYoung, the theme of the song is "America in trouble." News Record writer Rex Rutkoski said that the song "examines an America living on "Borrowed Time", wearing blinders to the possibility of its own decline.Yeah, OK, like Paul Simon, Neil Young, and Merle Haggard, with 3 great old songs, sometimes you're just 40 or 50 years early with your prescience. As Yogi Berra said ...
I guess we have used that borrowed time up. Now we owe principal, interest, and penalties.
Borrowed Time was from this keyboard-oriented rock band's 1979 album Cornerstone*, but the song was on the record charts in April of '80. It's not really one of their better songs, but Peak Stupidity has others we'll put up and a couple here already (will link to 'em later).
Styx:
Dennis DeYoung - lead vocals, keyboards.
Tommy Shaw - lead guitar, backing vocals.
James Young - rhythm guitar, backing vocals.
Chuck Panozzo - bass guitar.
John Panozzo - drums, percussion.
We'll get that Georgia Guidestones post in (speaking of those*), and now posts are building up left and right for next week. They'll be more on the acceleration of immigration stupidity, the real reasons behind it, IMO, probably more Kung Flu stupidity, and more. Have a happy Sunday, Peakers! Thank you all for reading and writing.
* Not related to the Georgia Guidestones, I reckon. These guys were from Chicago. What would they know about them?
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My ZeroHedge Education
Posted On: Saturday - June 11th 2022 10:27AM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Global Financial Stupidity Preppers and Prepping Economics Bible/Religion
And I didn't even have to take out any loans* to get it. Tyler Durden would not have approved!
BTW, as much as I read the site and saw the Tyler Durden(s) logo, the movie still sucks! (even the 2nd time around0.
Seeing as it's the first, and 1 of only 4 websites feature on the Peak Stupidity blogroll, you'd think we'd reference the website ZeroHedge more. The reader can go to our review to learn more, but he must keep in mind that it was written ~ 6 years back. At that point, I already mentioned some reasons I've been mostly done with the site, or more like, I don't keep up enough to tout it. I will point out a few things that are in the review too, and then do some reminiscing about my decade-ago education on finance from that one formerly-great** website.
Zerohedge was purely a financial advice, financial criticism, and Global Financial Stupidity (per our topic key parlance) website 10 years ago. I could see it morphing into a site discussing all kinds of American and world politics a few years later. Some of that anti-all-things-American was bothering me after a while. There are many people who will never learn that the American Feral Government Beast != Americans, just as in 1985, the USSR != the Russians. (Oh, you don't speak C, you say? Fine, for you REAL language speakers that'd be AMBEAST .NE. MURICANS .AND. USSR .NE. RUSSKIES. FORTRAN .ROCKS. Just keep them down to 8 CHRACTRS, PUHLEEZE!)
Then, the format got sucky too. I know, it's laziness. I have not updated browsers to avoid the crazy-assed pop-up, earthquake/Mexican Jumping Bean nature of the site, that I hated to even link to for fear of crashing your browser. That's also due to my not needing any more sites to suck up my internet time-wasting. It's more than enough already. But, now I'll go back to 2010, when ZeroHedge was the place for me, web surfing was the life for me ...♫, ♬
It was the 2nd half of '10, ALL of '11, and a large share of '12 when I read ZeroHedge voraciously. I mean, I'd read all posts, maybe only 6-10 a day then, and all comments under those, quite a few of the latter. I myself did not comment. One had to register, probably just with a fake email address, but I didn't try because, well, even then I knew how much of a time suck that could be***. To me, this site was pure financial Gold, Jerry! OK, not pure, but 0.9999, and same for silver. That was the first piece of my education, in fact: Gold, bitchez! was the final word to wrap up any nice comment thread.
The Tylers (I was never really sure if it was one guy or a few, but it's probably the latter by now) and the commenters were pretty down on the whole Finance "sector" of the economy, seeing as this was after lots of them had very recently lost money and/or faith during the housing and general economic bust/turmoil/bailouts of '07-'08. (In fact, housing prices were still dropping in '10.) They had lots of criticism of the F.I.R.E. economy period. No doubt, some of this is a necessary part of a free market economy. However, having one's whole economy based on this stuff was explained very well to be a load of crap.
This was kind of rich coming from a crowd of stock-trader types, the commenters, that is, as I noted in the review too. The commenting was great, but there was the hypocrisy that had 2 parts to it:
1) OK, building an economy on finance, borrowing, lending trading, rearranging, and generally screwing around with money IS a farce, but then why do you people keep discussing how you're getting screwed by it. Get out, and get that real job. These seemed like very astute and common-sensical people, as smart financial types could very well be.
2) Along with that, as they discussed how much of a farce the market was, these same people still discussed ways of making money in it. "It's hard now! It's all rigged!" Exactly, again, get out, and get a real job! (They were probably OK on haircuts.)
Still, it was great! The Tylers discussed the why's and hows of the FED creating money out of thin air****, the stupidity of the F.I.R.E. "industry", what money actually is, the stock market and real valuation vs. speculation, and all kinds of things like that. On the true financial matters, I learned about pension funds, and their expected returns, municipal bonds, T-Bills vs. Treasury Bonds, who owns these things, and so on.
They introduced me to guys like Gerald Celente (that "when people have nothing to lose, they lose it" guy.), Peter Schiff and his Dad Irwin, still alive then, and lots of economic discussion by Ron Paul and the Lew Rockwell types too. They disparaged the FED Chairmen and women (though they had their jokes about the latter being one at all) and the US Feral Gov't and Euro Gov't free-spending economic dipshits. The main point of all of it was something that gets to our commenter Dieter Kief's comment about the one big assumption. It's all going down, because "What can't go on, won't go on. Now Instapundit (hit up 3 or the 4 blogroll sites here!) Glenn Reynolds WRITES that a lot, but these ZeroHedge people EXPLAINED it to me over those more than 2 years of free***** education.
To top it off, the comment section was a haven for preppers. Prepping for the SHTF, thought to be coming any year now (again, this was '10 - '12) was not the subject of that many threads, but the talk came down to that, and there was nothing but encouragement from a large majority of the commenters. I learned very much then and there, probably more than from any of the prepper sites I used to also peruse during the time period (induced by, yeah, that reading of Zerohedge, haha!) There were the common jokes about those "very unfortunate boating accidents" in which one's precious was "lost", so next Roosevelt style confiscation attempt, sorry, Charlie. Yeah, yeah, I know that even the most Affirmative Actioned fat broad at the IRS might sometime .. OK, one of the legacy White guys ... not buy all of that. However, just the ideas put forth on how to hold onto assets of all sorts was a great learning experience for me.
The commenters were a very funny and helpful bunch of guys with lots of common sense. There were the few trolls, but that's often for fun. I do remember the one guy, name of Johnny Bravo - why I remember that is just weird - who wasn't down with the whole real money thing. Johnny Bravo told the rest that if gold really went up to $1,200/oz, he would leave them alone and quit commenting. It did, and he did. (It went well below that level for a while, but I guess the guy was done with the site, flunked out, as I was after a while too, Summa cum Laude instead.)
Part of the reason I learned so much a decade ago from ZeroHedge was that I hadn't known very much of financial matters before then. That has to do with my family being very conservative with money. My Dad did have money in some stable stocks and some bonds, but it wasn't a hobby - he just had a guy that did conservative things with his money. That was much easier to do before the FED held rates in the basement, like a Biden Administration human trafficker (more on this coming, BTW) for 14 years. I would like to be able to live conservatively myself - money in a CD at 6% or even better and fairer, 6% above inflation, no debt - which is the case, etc.
I'd thought this was from Benjamin Franklin, but he was quoting William Shakespeare's first line of this stanza from Hamlet:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Yeah, well, Bard, but it's hard to be true and a conservative financially, when the damn Feral Gov't keeps screwing with the economy by holding interest rates way below natural levels, creating moral hazards that discourage the responsible people, and generally destroying the economy for fun - fun whether greedy, stupid, or evil.
The Bible teaches something about how to handle our finances, but I can look at that old ZH stuff as and add-on Book of Durden. From Chapter 1:1-4:
1Gold, bitchez! 2Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and for the rest, thy must proclaim "It was a really really stupid and unfortunate boating accident, I swear to you!" 3During these tribulations, the Feral Beast will be fed by thy labor, 4 aaannnd, it's GONE!
Thank you decade-ago ZeroHedge, you Tyler Durdens and you commenters, for that superb financial education! It's paying off for me right here, right now.
* I will insert this here and later in our very recent post, titled Introducing Moar Moral Hazards - Case #2293, on the student loan forgiveness being implemented right now, but 2 1/2 years back we had a 3 part series on student loan forgiveness. I clean forgot when I wrote the recent post. Here they are:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Then, there was our post just this past April, AOC on student loan forgiveness.
** OK, the deal is that I just don't know about it now due to reasons I bring up here. Therefore, ZH may or may not still be a great place to learn. Please assume this same thing when I further mention "was" this or that, using past tense about the site.
*** 5 years later, I came upon The Unz Review, also on our blogroll, and then time suckage went up to a new high! Back on ZH, there were times that I had such a great smart-assed remark in mind, that I came THAT CLOSE to registering but never did. It does hurt inside to miss out on a remark for which they'll never be another shot. Hence, unz.com...
**** There is really a whole lot more to it than when I ever wanted to learn, as much as the Tylers and commenters discussed this. Between the FED and the Treasury Dept of the official gov't, paper went back and forth... lots of shenanigans, so little time to give a damn other than just noting that it ends up in currency created out of thin air.
***** Yeah, I know, there's no free lunch. I wasted valuable work time, and this was all supported by the government, you know, with Al Gore having invented the whole internet and all...
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Life during the final rise toward Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Friday - June 10th 2022 8:43PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
I'd seen this lady 6 or 8 times before, she being one of about 3 people that work at the counter of this particular gas station/convenience store/fast food joint. I never did like her, as this middle aged White woman talked like a whigger. I guess it's who you grow up with, but it was disgusting to listen to.
Even so, I was nice, as I just walked in the place to ask her if the price on the sign outside that said "Cash" was the same for the use of debit cards. That's usually the case, but I am never sure, and the prices on the pump itself (for each fuel grade) were not displayed.* I would have paid cash if that weren't the case, and this time, since I didn't plan to fill up, this would have been the only walk inside, so it would be simple either way.
It went like so:
"If I pay for my gas with a debit card, is it the same price as on the sign?"
"I don't know."
"You work here, though." (The niceness had worn off quickly!)
"When I pay, it gives me the same price as on the sign."
"OK, so you DO know! Thanks."
What did I do that day to deserve to be in such a stupid conversation?
PS: The reason I didn't want to fill up this vehicle this time was because for 2 weeks now I've been in the mode of waiting for gas prices to go down. That didn't work out. It has been going up about 10 cents every couple of days.
PPS: The cash vs. credit deal at the gas stations was discussed on this blog a year and a half ago, during the middle of the Kung Flu PanicFest, in Hurrah for Credit Card charges!.
* Yes, that's the case even after paying/selecting the type. It was just the usual shoddiness that one may expect now - nobody anywhere knows how to fix this I guess, or nobody thought that was worth doing.
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Peter Schiff explains it all - tell me somethin' I DON'T know!
Posted On: Wednesday - June 8th 2022 5:09PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics Inflation
OK, I'm gonna be bragging here for a whole paragraph, maybe even two of them! If you find this disgusting, please don't vomit in the comments sections. Our dBase administrator is tired of cleaning up after you guys, he says. ;-}
It's not like I've kept up my whole life, but I did learn some of the real economics, past the Econ II that was a crock in college* way back. I'd say that I did most of my thinking about the subject over the last 12-15 years, starting with the housing bubble time (mentioned in the last post). This was not out of a big love of learning so much as out of "WTF are we gonna do when this country has its SHTF?!"
Let me just say that this Peter Schiff video is a great find, but almost every subject he went on about was something that I could have explained just as well. This is NOT from watching Peter Schiff videos over the years. I will credit the site ZeroHedge, however. I was obsessive in reading all posts and comments on that site for a time there, 10-11 years back.** The Tyler Durden guys and the commenters there pointed out Peter Schiff commentary plenty of times, but I came upon my views that match well with his independently. (Sure, Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell helped me too.***)
Monetary policy of the FED, the real definition of inflation as opposed to meaning "price increases", interest rates, the FED being stuck between a rock and hard place on said rates, Paul Volcker and the inflation/interest rates in 1980, moral hazards, you name it, I've said it, and it is here in this video. Do you read this site, Mr. Schiff?
A little bit more here about the video: The interviewer is comedian Jimmy Dore****. I would estimate that he talked in this video only 3% of the time! That's admirable, for an interviewer, but I think it's partly because he seems to know almost nothing about economics. That's not his job though, just to interview, but then, he came across at the beginning sounding like he was just in awe of Mr. Schiff's prescience on the '08 housing bust and today's inflation just due to Schiff's having supernatural powers or something. Mr. Schiff should have spent a minute to disabuse him of this view with "I just understand how this works, that's all. If you understand economics like an Austrian, how could you NOT see it coming?" He never did explain that to Mr. Dore.
Mr. Schiff will talk one's ears off with his knowledge and examples. It was funny when he started answering Mr. Dore's (silly, IMO) comment that wage and price controls worked (whaaaa?) for Richard Nixon with some more context and forgot what the original question was. Ha, I was about to go back and listen for said question, but then I thought "wait, if Peter Schiff and Jimmy Dore never do remember it, then what's the point?"
The Kung Flu PanicFest was (luckily!) not a part of this interview, except for the mention of the tremendous amount of money spent (yep, Trump, Biden, and Congress, Mr. Schiff notes), till the very end. At that point, I gotta say that there were no words at all said about the stupidity of the PanicFest itself. I'll be charitable and chalk that up to their running out of time.
Finally, about Peter Schiff and his Dad, Irwin Schiff. These guys are Jewish, and they are true men of principle. They are not the guys, which are lots of them, who use their knowledge only to accumulate riches, and the hell with the other guys. They know/knew a whole lot about economics and they put their money where their mouths are/were for their country.
Dad Irwin Schiff was a Libertarian/Constitutionalist who put not just his money where his mouth is, but his life, in a way. He resisted the income tax, putting his money elsewhere and simply not paying. He ended up dying while shackled to a hospital bed during a 13 1/2 year sentence for tax evasion in a Texas Federal prison in October of '15. (With blindness and cancer even, they would not let him get out to be with his family. In fact, the web sites say he was moved from New York to Texas in order to keep him from his family as additional punishment.)
These are the good guys. I'd be glad to listen to Peter Schiff, but, bragging again here, he's got nothing to say that I haven't already though of. OK, I enjoyed watching anyway.
I wish every American would watch this hour-long Austrian-style explanation of economics by Peter Schiff, or better yet, come to Peak Stupidity. What's green and stupid and read all over?
* Econ I was pretty solid - just the basics: Supply & Demand, Elasticity, etc. The professor had us graph y versus x first though, to make sure we knew our math. That gave me an idea of what people in other majors really were like....
** Wow, that was a long time ago. If I had known at least ABOUT how long it'd be until the financial situation started really accelerating toward ruin, I'd have stayed in the normal markets and acted like a normal person for the first 8 years of that and just set an alarm on my phone!
*** In fact, from reading some Lew Rockwell article, I came close to buying, OK, close to thinking about actually buying, a bunch of gold in '03-'06, sometime in there, at what was then 300-odd bucks plus a couple dozen bucks premium (it'd been flat-lined there for years). Alas, my mind was still not right.
**** I gotta say that I know almost nothing about Jimmy Dore, having seen him only for a few minutes on other interview video clips.
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Three Stupidity Anecdotes again
Posted On: Wednesday - June 8th 2022 10:56AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow Muh Generation
Really, I think there were 4 or 5 anecdotes that were too short to be stand-alone posts, but only 3 or in my head right now, so let's do this again. (We usually do this in threes in general.)
You can just read our 2 1/2 y/o post 1st
The idea of an ambulance, driven by "First Responders", is to go pick up someone who is seriously sick or injured, QUICKLY, and then bring them to the hospital, QUICKLY. I get the idea that you don't want to wreck on the way there or back, causing a big delay and maybe even more people that must get to the hospital, QUICKLY. So, though these guys can disregard the traffic laws that would slow the process down, they must be careful about the driving nonetheless.
This was ridiculous (again), though! This one is a long red-light for those turning left. Right when it was about to turn to green arrows, this ambulance was ready to go through, in one of the the straight lanes in the opposite direction from the way I was facing. Everybody was stopped nicely. OK, so, as the ambulance driver, you slow way down or even stop for 1 second, scan the whole intersection, and make sure nobody has ignored the siren and lights. That may take 2 seconds even, but not any more, unless you have a seriously slow brain. I guess the guy did, as it was close to 10 seconds. I was flashing my headlights and waving the guy through. I didn't want to miss this light first off, but also, doesn't this guy want to get this guy before he dies, for cryin' out loud?!*
I am starting to think that the Millennials or whoever they are, have been staring at small screens at 1 ft. away for so long that they could take 5 seconds to focus in the distance ... or something. If you're that slow, you shouldn't be doing this job.
OK, well the next bit of curmudgeonry is about something completely different, a website called Seattle Bubble - I won't bother to link to it now (you'll see why) - that I used to view back during the couple of years BEFORE the housing crash of '07-'08. before my Zerohedge**-reading days. The blogger named "The Tim" used to post a lot back then, and his market was a great example of the bubble market - he called it pretty well as I recall.
What I liked the most about that site was the graphing software ("Tableau" I believe) that he used, especially when he used it for the monthly Case-Schiller housing price index*** of 20 of the biggest or most representative US metropolitan areas. It was interactive in that one could take off cities or add other ones to keep it uncluttered. Peak Stupidity has displayed screenshots of my arrangement of cities by region in our handful of posts on Housing Bubble 2.0**** - these can be found with our Economics topic key.
I used to really look forward to the SeattleBubble Case-Schiller graphs each month. Well, the guy has posted less and less frequently. I don't blame him for that, but then he doesn't keep up with those nice C-S graphs anymore. Maybe he was down to once or twice a year. That's not my problem today. My problem today is that The Tim has become a Communist. There didn't used to be much ideology on that website more than some suggestions at what local governments could regulate and some criticism of how the real estate market and realtors worked.
There were always some lefty commenters - whaddya' expect out of Seattle? However, I saw a post a while back by The Tim that was so ridiculously Communist-sounding that it gave me an easy excuse to never click on that site again. Bye bye, SeattleBubble! You were nearly my favorite 15 years ago.
This last item has to do with the Peak Stupidity post of about 2 weeks back on the 11 Million illegal alien number (yeah, right!) and our follow-up ost Estimating the illegal alien count.
Now, this one is on VDare writer James Kirkpatrick, one of the 2 writers***** that I long ago - before there were so, so many - dubbed the meat & potatoes of VDare, writing the less specialized and very substantial posts that made the site informative with always new stuff to read. I hate to even write this, as this is a very minor quibble compared to the excellent speech that he gave at the VDare castle a month and a half back. Mr. Kirkpatrick's speech was not all that American patriots may have wanted to hear, but it's honest, without false hope. The video was not up on VDare at first, when I first heard it, but you may want to watch him make this 45 minute talk rather than listen to the audio only. Additionally, he gave much more detail in the longer written version - it was not completely clear at first, but I assumed****** that Mr. Kirkpatrick pared down things from his written version for the talk, i.e., the written version has the whole talk plus a lot more. I read that too. It's all right here now - ADJUSTING TO THE POST-AMERICAN AGE—James Kirkpatrick’s Address To The First VDARE Conference.
At 3:40 on the video, Mr. Kirkpatrick told us "I believe it's from the statistics that we get from the Labor Department, so this is probably on the low end, but they said 11.5 million illegal immigrants ..." [My bold there.] OK, well he qualified this a bit, but "probably on the low end" is a MASSIVE understatement. I think Patriots who use these lefty rectally-extracted numbers are being snookered. Don't fall for this, such as "To put that in perspective, that's about double the population of everybody in the Baltic States." OK, first of all, almost NOBODY in America has BEEN to the Baltic States, so this means nothing. However, when you talk 30 million (and I'm open to 25 through 40 million), you can then get through to people better with: "To put that in perspective, this is the population of ALL of the entire Dallas/Ft. Worth metro area, the entire Denver metro area, the entire Seattle metro area, the entire Atlanta (HUGE) metro area, all of Chicagoland (as they like to call it) ALL PUT TOGETHER, oh and then, I guess the rest could replace everyone in every city in Iowa." Would that not get through to people? I'm using what I would bet good money on is a more accurate number.
Weirdly, the text on this longer piece by Mr. Kirkpatrick does not have this number, though it says later on "The Rule of Law died about 10 million illegal immigrants ago." Well, that one doesn't really pin anything down.
Anyway, I know this is not at all the best way to do it, but I wrote about this bit only because I had just mentioned terminating that 11 million number with extreme prejudice last week. I wrote this post not at all to badmouth James Kirkpatrick. I would have linked to his SUPERB talk at the VDare castle anyway. I ask you all to spend the 45 minutes if at all possible to watch the whole thing and think about his conclusion. (The written version is great too. Though longer, it may be a 20 minute read or so.)
It's not a happy talk, but this is really food for thought, with Mr. Kirkpatrick's best effort at a solution (of sorts). Personally, I am a little more optimistic that a political rebellion against the Potomac Regime (his term) could happen at any time, with the right spark. No, we won't get the America of 1955 or even 1995 back, but who knows what'll happen?
* This was in the direction away from the hospitals.
** Link on the right.
*** I assume these two economists, Case and Schiller, started their tracking of this market in the year 2000, as their indexes for metro areas all start at 1 that year. It's an index, remember, so one can't compare one from one city to another directly to see price differences, but it works great for comparing a trend in one city vs. another or to the national average index, or just to watch the trend with simpler lower values than actual median price.
**** With the $ going down the toilet quickly, I don't know what to call it now - housing floaters? They do like their houseboats out there in Seattle, BTW. In that movie Sleepless in Seattle (not about the housing bubble!), Tom Hanks lived on one of those hundreds of houseboats on Lake Union, basically a mile or two from downtown.
***** The 2nd is another James, James Fulford, who introduced Mr. Kirkpatrick before his speech.
****** Not quite correct, as I'll point out in the point of this item.
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Excuses ... when will they ever learn?
Posted On: Tuesday - June 7th 2022 4:51PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Music Race/Genetics
(It's probably OK in the daytime, but still, watch out.)
I almost didn't recall that above-linked-to Walking in Memphis post with the memorable Marc Cohn song. This post could be a continuation of that 1/2 year old one, though, or a continuation of a conversation that I only overheard the last time. This is about people that have the same excuses for black people's violence and dysfunction as a 1965 Civil Rites marcher. That was 57 years back, but as the Pete Seeger song from 67 years back said "When will they ever learn? When will they evvvverrr learn?"
Most of the guys I work with are of a Conservative bent, so this was a little bit different from the norm. This 27 y/o, best I could calculate from something he said, seemed to know it all, so I don't think he was ready to "ever learn" a thing. OTOH, he's a very decent guy, and the conversation didn't start out about the racial stuff, but just about his home and living arrangements. That home is Memphis, Tennessee.
Now, I didn't start this racial talk, but this guy noted how dangerous Memphis could be. He didn't use the word "sketchy" (as in the other post), but more like "bad"* and "dangerous". I agreed. He told me "We have to pay a good bit more to rent our place in order to be in a good area." [Uhhh, yeah...] Well, later on, while talking about geography a bit, he noted that he liked Chattanooga**, on the eastern side of the State. For those not at all familiar, Tennessee seems to get linearly Whiter from the west to the east, and it's a LONG LONG way west/east across it. (Nashville is north/central, so it's not so great.) Oh, and then the young guy said he liked Knoxville and also the Tri-Cities - that's Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, in the very northeast corner.
"Yeah, well western Tennessee, especially Memphis, has got a whole lot of black people." That was my most polite version of "no duh!" Well, now the excuses came out. "It's a lack of jobs there." "The schools are bad." (One wonders why...) I let some of this go, but then, yeah, he went there: "redlining", "not selling them houses in good neighborhoods", and there was more.
Though nobody was listening, I didn't want to really get myself in trouble, so I didn't mention natural causes. I brought up "half a century of the Welfare State, so the Moms have the State as their husbands, and do you know that 3/4 of these people don't have Dads at home? That doesn't work out well for the boys." He just plain blew that off as "that kind of talk is just discouraging to people..." or something like that. OK, "well did I mention that, no kidding, Detroit was called the 'Paris of the West' back in the 1950s and then when the White people got their businesses and houses trashed and burned, they had to get out to the 'burbs, so there was nobody left to supply the tax money?"
Well, "the banks wouldn't lend to them", "nobody would give them them good jobs", man, again with that stupidity.
It kind of tailed off there, which was good, because I like the guy. I was so miffed after this conversation that these half-century old excuses are still being brought up. Well, not everyone, not even CLOSE, unfortunately, to everyone, reads Steve Sailer or listens to Jared Taylor. Even more importantly, not everyone is honest to himself***, such as when he walks down Beale Street at night and won't think about what the root cause of what he sees may be.
Yeah, and he is only 27 years old. At 27 years old, was I the same way? Not exactly, but I probably did bring up a few of those excuses occasionally, really believing them. On the other hand, the excuses were nowhere near 55 years old then, and we hadn't learned as much of the real problem. Maybe the Welfare State would solve all this. Nahhh, actually I never bought that crap. I guess that was just my growing up with a Dad who believe in honesty over fitting in.
We can't go on as a country if we won't freaking learn anything. It doesn't help when one can get in trouble for explaining the truth. It's an endless cycle of
Instead of that old Pete Seeger folk song or another great old Memphis song, how about some blues, as a great contribution by the black contingent of musicians long ago? This is what Beale Street celebrates - the Blues, with museums and live music, but first, Is it safe?!!**** It's safer with White people playing it, if you're gonna go live. Hey, lots of White musicians appropriated this stuff, and I like it. This is yet another blues song that got its history from the black blues guys that were up and down the Mississippi River. I guess they didn't get as far north as Bemidji, Minnesota, where the river's already big.
Jesus Done Left Chicago, at least the ZZ Top version that I really like, doesn't mention Memphis, except for "all points in between" Chicago and New Orleans, where The Son of Man was bound.
The thing is, Jesus Done Left Chicago must always follow Waitin' for the Bus (all Day) which I don't like that much. However, I'm not like one of those DJ's bound straight for DJ hell who split up Journey, Zeppelin, or Queen songs like that. So I got both of them but starting at the song I do like:
These 2 songs are from ZZ Top's 1973 album Tres Hombres.
ZZ Top:
Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals, and harmonica on "Waitin' for the Bus".
Dusty Hill – bass guitar, backing vocals.
Frank Beard – drums, percussion.
* My old boss long ago used to use the phrase "balance due area". It took me 2 months and asking someone to find out that stood for "black and dangerous".
** Yeah, I know, I read about the very recent shooting there, by black people, at least from my calculations using both Sailer's and Coulter's laws. (Not quite the same as using Newtons' and the 1st Law of Thermo, but at least there's a little logic one can use there.) The thing is, this country doesn't really divide up black/White by State. There's an urban/rural divide too. On a county level, the rural places up the Tennessee River NE from Chattanooga are extremely White.
*** This was not about his being honest or not to me based on a fear of getting in trouble, either. I brought up the western Tennessee has got a LOT of black people first.
**** Without knowing the movie Marathon Man, you won't get that one.
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Introducing Moar Moral Hazards - Case #2293
Posted On: Monday - June 6th 2022 5:43PM MST
In Topics: University Economics US Feral Government Scams Zhou Bai Dien
See also our 2 1/2 years-ago 3 part series on student loan forgiveness. I clean forgot about them when I wrote this recent post, so this is updated 5 days later . Here they are: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3. After that, there was our post just this past April, AOC on student loan forgiveness.
Through the interwebs, I have just
What, that's only $25 measly Billion bucks, only about 5X what a southern US border barrier would have cost, at US Feral Gov't prices. OK, but it's less than the latest installment of Save
This started off differently from how I would have thought. The President and his employees at the DOE can just pick schools and cancel the debt of students who went there. No suing of the schools is necessary, nor thinking twice next time a student sees something that seems worthless or too good to be true. It's a win/win, isn't it?
On Wednesday, the Department of Education announced it will discharge the outstanding federal student loans of former Corinthian Colleges students after the school faced multiple investigations and was accused of defrauding students out of millions in federally backed loans. In total, $5.8 billion in loans will be canceled for 560,000 borrowers, making it the largest single-loan discharged by the Education Department.Whoa, one of them could have been MY hairdresser! Well, that could explain a lot ...
This is the second group discharge of student loans by the Biden administration. The first was in April when loan discharges for former students of Marinello Schools of Beauty were approved.
Oh, and, an intermediate headline notes:
Biden faces pressure to help Black borrowers with heavy student debtI believe Biden's advisors screwed up on that one. These black borrowers would have voted for him anyway. It's just "whom they are."
The Unz Review commenter who pointed me to this article noted that this was likely just the beginning. Yep.
The White House has indicated that it is nearing a decision on broad student loan debt forgiveness, zeroing in on canceling $10,000 per borrower, but has not said that a decision is finalized. President Biden has already confirmed he “is not considering $50,000 debt reduction.”That's 11.8 million votes, at least if you wait until after coming November 1st! That keeps the suspense up, you know. Voters like that.
The Federal Reserve’s analysis found forgiving $10,000 per borrower would result in roughly 11.8 million borrowers – slightly more than 31% – having their entire balance eliminated. If the Biden administration were to move forward under this plan, an estimated $321 billion in federal student loans would be forgiven.
Then, we learn of the true Communism:
How much student loan forgiveness you receive could be dependent on how much you make. Sources tell The Washington Post that relief could be limited to those who make less than $125,000 or $150,000 per individual tax filers or $250,000 or $300,000 for couples who file together.Oh, there you go. Let me explain all these "moral hazards'. (It's a term that I learned from some of the Libertarian pundits.)
The problem with student loan forgiveness is not just about the money. After all, even the $321 Billion they are working toward, for now, is a month's worth of Feral Gov't spending in a normal (non-Wartime, non-PanicFest) year. We* can spare that to make all of these kids "whole" again, can't we, or at least get them out of the big holes they have dug for themselves? Definitely, another aspect of this loan forgiveness is that it's a ploy to get many votes out of the young recently college "educated" Americans. It's not a coincidence that the Bai Dien administration is
Here's the real destruction:
Moral Hazard:
1) The risk to an insurance company that the holder of a policy will destroy the insured property in order to collect the monetary reimbursement available under the policy. No, no, no, this isn't about insurance companies. Look at (2) and (3) though:
2) The risk that an individual or organization will behave recklessly or immorally when protected from the consequences.
3) The prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
There are really 3 pieces of moral hazard that have been pinched off and dropped onto American soil with this one, of different sizes. Let's just think first about how a young person who had scrimped a bit in college, worked as much as he could, and maybe not bought that large pick-up truck on payments and not partied as hardy during his 4 years at the U, to keep his loans under $10,000, might happen to feel upon reading this news.
How about a guy who did accumulate more of a loan than he could have but made up for it by finding one of the fewer decent jobs left, working hard after college, and shoving money into that loan to be rid of it for peace of mind? He was too upright of a person to blow the loans off. How about that guy who spent another couple of years in graduate school, listened to his Dad about the job market, got married to a hard-working yuppie gal, OK, hopefully a hot yuppie, and they have not only paid off half their loans in 3 years, but they are making a lot of money, at least per the IRS tax forms?
Besides all the taxpayers who really don't have the hours in a day to think of all the ways the Feral Gov't is screwing them over, all of these people are getting royally screwed over too. Their responsibility was not rewarded. Instead the Feral Gov't is now making them into suckers. The 1st guy, like many, was responsible and forward-thinking enough to not accumulate as much debt as the banks and the university would have been glad to lend him. The 2nd guy made a great effort to pay off the loan quickly, in order to get ahead in life. The 3rd guy got ahead in terms of earnings, so the Commie part got him. All of them are losing out to the irresponsible who have done none of this.
What are you supposed to think now? I know I'd decide soon enough that being responsible does not pay in this country. Next government project that comes along to "help" the American people? "I'll take advantage of all of it, and I'm not gonna sweat it." I know I'd be thinking like this. This sort of thing, being treated unfairly, really, really pisses people off.
Since the US Feral Government starting back-stopping these loans, the banks had nothing to lose, creating a moral hazard there. A a loan officer was no longer a reason to be responsible and keep risk of bad student loans down. For the universities, the moral hazard was that there was now nothing to lose by raising tuition. Students could all pay. The banks, as backed up by the taxpayers, would see to that.
Now, something I didn't see coming is that the DOE can just pick schools that they say are scams (they probably were), but there's no risk in creating a scam college anyway. The banks will loan the money to the students, and instead of getting sued by former students at any point, the US Gov't will just blow off those students' loans, so everyone's happy. (Yeah, you have to shut down, but you keep your money, so I'd call that a successful scam.)
Moar Moral Hazards all around! It's the way modern America operates. Does anyone still expect to have an upstanding and responsible population in a few more years? Why? How?
* I don't really mean "we", Kemosabe, as that's not me. I'm not gonna be the holding much money in US Dollars when the music's over.
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Why can't they do this at the golf tournaments?
Posted On: Saturday - June 4th 2022 6:05PM MST
In Topics: Humor Treehuggers Global Climate Stupidity Bread and Circuses
Yeah, that'd have been nice. I think her body is betta than Greta.
P J Media's Robert Spencer reports on this happening at the French Open tennis tournament. I gotta say that I haven't watched much or played much tennis since it was a really big thing from the mid-1970s to mid-'80s. The killing of the planet wasn't really as big a worry as it apparently is now, but one might have expected a girl tying herself to the tennis net to protest Disco music perhaps. She probably wouldn't have been naked even then, but those tennis skirts used to be pretty revealing ...
In his report, Mr. Spencer says that the young lady (20 y/o) stayed out there for 15 minutes while the two tennis players hung out in their locker rooms. He also says that It appears that “the science” is growing shriller and more apocalyptic.
Indeed. 1048 days goes by a lot quicker than in the days I was out there on the clay court. We are supposed to be using the Gregorian calendar, but my State Farm Life/Health/Auto calendar gave me the same deadline date anyway, March 27th, '25. Be ready for something. If you see the Peak Stupidity blog disappear from the internets that day, you can be assured that this young lady was not talking out of her ass or either we got tired of continual price increases from GoDaddy.
I want to know why these people can't protest on the golf course, laying naked in the sand traps on TV instead! It's the most boring sport imaginable to watch on TV, and, you know those people are killing the planet in some way ... all that sod can't be good for Carbon Dioxide levels ... wait, I'm not a biologist, so I'm not sure, but I do know a girl that might look very fetching when naked in a sand trap when I see one.
OK, this kind of stupidity is on the harmless side - a good way to end the blog-week. As a word of warning, Peak Stupidity will have another Georgia Guide next week, in order to fulfill our contract. Other than that, I don't have anything much in mind right now. That'll change by Monday or Tuesday. The stupidity must flow.
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Excess Deaths revisited
Posted On: Saturday - June 4th 2022 8:58AM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
There was some good discussion on the Kung Flu death numbers under our Collective Soul song post a week back, initiated by commenter Dieter Kief's linking to a video interview of French-Canadian Denis Rancourt. (As I wrote there, if the commenters here want to just cut/paste their comments into the comments for this post, that would be fine and indeed helpful.*)
Peak Stupidity will revisit today the issue of "Excess Deaths" due, supposedly, to the Covid-one-niner. Besides a re-iteration of our old posts on the aging factor and my distrust for the numbers due to that, I will bring up other factors, including the biggest, which is the influence of the PanicFest itself on healthcare, as discussed by Mr. Rancourt in his video interview.
Due to my laziness and my trust for the accuracy of Ron Unz's facts here**, as highly opposed to his opinions, let me just paste in his quick sequence of yearly American death counts, the starting point of any discussion:
2014: 2,626,418Well, stable, OK. There are going to be increases as the population both increases AND ages pretty quickly. I wouldn't expect a straight 20,000 more yearly, as there are bad years and good years. Barring wars, those bad years for deaths are the times when there are bad strains of viruses around, like this one.
2015: 2,712,630
2016: 2,744,248
2017: 2,813,503
2018: 2,839,205
2019: 2,854,838
2020: 3,384,426
2021: 3,470,219
Notice that the numbers were relatively stable until the Covid outbreak, when they suddenly jumped by over 500,000 in 2020 and 600,000 in 2021.
Sure, though, the numbers look bad. The idea of looking at "excess deaths" is very simple. No matter what people normally die of on average, if 1/2 a million more people died in '20, it had to be from something. One may bring up that, hey, how come there were only a couple of hundred flu deaths this year when normally over a hundred thousand, so, BS on the Covid count. Yeah, but if over a hundred thousand deaths were actually the regular old flu, there are still 1/2 million more deaths anyway, which we'll just attribute to the Covid-19, because, well what else was it?
There IS more to it, though. A lot more was going on the last 2 years than just this virus, the biggest being the PanicFest DUE (purposefully, I'm sure) to this virus and the changes to healthcare practices from this PanicFest. We'll get to this, in due time...
Before discussing that, what had bothered me about these numbers, as seen on the graph above, for example, is that the accelerating average age of the American population did not seem to be taken into account. This - the alleged flat-lined (other than seasonality) "normal" death rate - bothered me enough to get me to download .xls files and do spreadsheet calculations. Believe you me, I have to be pretty damned bothered to do something extreme like this!***
The problem I saw was that the CDC wanted to use a 5 year average for this normal death rate. I wanted to see how it'd be if you take this aging into account better. Right about a year ago, in Hey, what's the deal with excess deaths, anyway?, I looked at the very simple idea, arithmetically, that if you take the numbers of Americans in different age brackets, and multiply them by the also-"normal" death rates at these ages, you should get this normal-year rate. It increases yearly, so long as there's not a big virus that year, haha. I came up with just over 100,000 "normal deaths" higher than what the '15-'19 average would have given for the year '19. In '20, people were that much older on average again, and health problems do not go up linearly with age, when you get on up there.
Now, after the writing of that first post, our Mortality Addendum has some important numbers that I'd missed. After all that calculation work, I realized that buried in notes under their graphs, the CDC had the yearly death numbers (such as Ron Unz's). There's were higher, but again, it was the trend that was not correctly accounting for aging.
There was discussion of the cause of the discrepancies in absolute yearly numbers in Back to the excess death count - Could it be infants and illegal aliens?. Those 2 factors are almost surely the culprit as:
a) I had interpreted the "1-5" year-old category as meaning from birth on. No, it doesn't work that way, as infant mortality is kept track of differently. This accounted for 20% of the discrepancy.
b) Illegal aliens easily explain the rest. They die. Their deaths go in the stats. Their existence in this country, as we just got done discussing this week, does not. Many will not be counted in the census due to worries about being noticed in the system (haha, not bloody likely though) or due to their lack of participation most of our society in general.
OK, well that was a longer summary by far than I had intended, on this first factor, the errors in the "normal" rate of death. Let's move on.
How about this vaccine? Well, first of all, none for me, thank you very much. As much as the risk vs. benefit from this vaccines sounds like the worst for any I've ever heard of (and it doesn't prevent you from getting the sickness!), I don't think deaths due to the vaccine itself are a large portion of these excess deaths. There is the initial 2-weeks-after-vax scam, a plain accounting/statistics scam, that Peak Stupidity learned of from blogger El Gato Malo ("The Bad Cat") and discussed here. Any problems, up to and including death, seen in a person vaccinated within 2 weeks, were chalked up to the disease, not the vaccine. Well, that's pretty bogus. El Gato Malo gave examples but did not have a good number for us to use here. All in all, I'd say vaccine deaths are not a big factor, so far, but not insignificant either.
Then, there are the factors that are only semi-related to the PanicFest that Mr. Steve Sailer has written dozens and more dozens of posts about ****- that would be the additional murders of (mostly) black people due to the retreat of the cops from their ghettos and then the increased traffic death rate as of late.
Regarding the 1st one, I don't know the answer to the question, was it really about the LOCKDOWNs and guys penned up inside playing video games who got free and wanted to play in real life, or was it just coincidental with the timing the George Floyd stupidity and ginned up riots and looting due to that? I will say that I disagree with Mr. Sailer's stated premise (as in the article linked-to below) that officials were just wrong about curtailing the policing. No, they were not wrong, but they were cowardly. They saw the black political scene and the worship of that worthless reprobate George Floyd, and they didn't have the guts to fight against the policies that they knew would result in more crime.
The 2nd factor is the driving deaths that have had a pretty big uptick over the last year and a half. I'll admit it right here - I enjoyed being able to drive on wide-open roads during that PanicFest era. I appreciated not having cars parking in the show-off lanes. However, not all can handle it so well, and when the (bad?) cats are away, the mice will play. This is definitely a factor of the increasing sloppiness of society, which started with the economic devastation arranged for America as part of the Covid panic.
I didn't find the quick numbers on iSteve posts just now, but I recall that each of them, the murders and the driving deaths, would amount at this point to a low 5 digit number. Let's say the total, even after more of this, amounts to 25,000 deaths. No matter what the cause, these are excess deaths compared to other years, are then not?
How about additional suicides and drug overdose deaths that were really deaths from despair? (That's a Steve Sailer-coined term, I think.) Maybe that's another 10 or 20 thousand? Maybe more?
(I didn't get the name of the Aussie guy doing the interview - at least he's not doing this while driving down the highway.)
Now, lets finally get to the points raised in the videos and other sources that Mr. Kief and Mr. Hail (more so on his blog) have raised. I believe this last part is the most important, as the numbers, though hard to arrive at accurately, must be the largest. Put it this way, many people have died in the last 2 years due to the PanicFest itself, not the Covid-19!
A majority of Americans do not live healthy lifestyles. Their diet (OK, OUR diet, it used to be) is probably the biggest factor in this.***** The healthcare industry has greatly expanded over the last few decades both due to the aging of Americans (as an average) and the unhealthiness. I may criticize the business end of American healthcare, as it IS a complete shitshow due to long-term government involvement in all aspects, but the technology that has been developed is still impressive. During this PanicFest we are barely over with now, 2 1/4 years later, lots of both the preventative care and the acute care were put on hold.
Thanks to the wisdom of our Founders, Federalism has meant that some locations panicked at lower levels than others. In the worst of places, say New York City, the Communist/Totalitarian impulses of government officials, along with Tower of Babel population there****** got lots of people killed. In others, say Florida, with a decent Constitution-understanding Governor, a more normal life of healthcare could occur. (That is especially important in Florida, where there are lots of old people for whom going to the doc is the entertainment for the day, at least until the Early Bird Special starts ...)
I would hazard a guess that in the best of areas, the PanicFest resulted in a 3 month curtailment of the entering of healthcare facilities for important procedures, while in the worst of areas it was well over a year. What happened during that time? Well, what didn't happen? I'm talking standard EKGs and heart stress tests for electrical and vascular heart problems, colonoscopies looking for emerging polyps, standard "board" blood draws to find out-of-the-ordinary ionic or molecular numbers that indicate possible organ problems, as far as preventative medicine that didn't happen. Then, as far as actual procedures that fix problems, stents didn't get put in, drugs (yeah, I know) were not prescribed, polyps were not cut out, or whatever else ya' gotta do... I don't want to even have to think about this stuff, but that's why those guys are doctors and I'm not.*******
How many Americans died earlier, with a much longer period of life lost than those FROM the Covid-19, due to the lack of both preventative care and the long wait, maybe too long, to get procedures done? People were used to a 1st-World medical system, but that quit for a while. There were plenty of political and monetary incentives - see Are Kung Flu death counts being goosed for insurance reasons? (After-the-fact spoiler alert: Of course. There was every incentive to do so.) - to log deaths as being FROM the Kung Flu. All you needed was some kind of symptoms and maybe a positive test by some point. They would all be "excess deaths", but more of them may have been from the PanicFest than the virus itself.
We don't know this ratio. All we know is the number of "excess deaths" that occurred in '20 and '21. Will someone be able to back out afterwards the deaths that were due to the suspension of 1st-World medical care for months to over a year? Do the people in authority WANT to know?
Let me paste in something from one of Mr. Hail's comments:
Early on, many people including me were trying to find signals of first-order Panic-induced deaths---those deaths caused by the Corona-Panic phenomenon, the most obvious example being non-treated heart-attacks by people terrified by Panic-pushing media to seek treatment. There was indication already there were more of those than genuine "Covid"-caused deaths, and it being just no-contest in quality-life-years-lost terms.All, I know is, the error in the baseline "normal death rate" - about 20% of the excess deaths, various changes to society over the last 2 years, meaning more murders and fatal car accidents - another 5%, deaths of despair - another 5% perhaps and some tens of thousands of vaccine deaths - another couple of percent, well that adds up. Then, the biggest factor, the early deaths due to lack of medical care, could have been much of the rest.
Panic-induced lost-life-years clearly exceed Wuhan-Coronavirus-induced lost life-years in the US population. The grim battles (or non-battles) over body-counting and death-coding often ignore(d) this bigger and far-less-sexy problem, the depressing grimness of deaths-of-despair or homicides and so on leading back to the victory by the Panic people in spring 2020 and their refusal to admit their mega-error. The full accounting requires a finesse that the politicized question will not allow.
Suffice it to say that Excess Death numbers don't necessarily mean what people seem to think it's obvious they mean - deaths FROM the Kung Flu.
Whewww! That was a long one. Time to get outside. Vitamin D, Bitchez!
* I can do it, of course, but I don't want to get involved in anything resembling spoofing - I will keep deleting the obvious duplicates that I see under the same post, of course.
** This comment is under his own article on The Unz Review touting his usual "The-Americans-Done-It!!" theory, which is, in the scheme of things, just not very important compared to how the virus was USED.
*** Actually, I used to be a numbers guy, but not in this way. I enjoyed doing this stuff however.
**** I think a good summary of one of the two factors, the increased number of murders, is in his 2nd-to-most-recent Taki Magazine article, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
***** I could say the same about a lot of the world, even China. However, this blog is mostly about American stupidity, because we live here!
****** It didn't help early on that, due to PC/wokeness, crowds were encouraged to gather together to fight the xenophobic policies of not letting contagious sick people into the country. It was pretty hilarious - see Be Strong, Wuhan! - but then, I don't have to live there ...
******* It depresses me how the body can let us down in so many ways (yet it usually doesn't!) It wasn't the blood, guts, and cadavers that would have stopped me from going to Med School. In fact, my friend showed me his young lady cadaver (she was killed by lightning), and he was pretty enthralled with her ...
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