Ann Coulter keeping it real - Part 2
Posted On: Saturday - November 6th 2021 4:50PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Race/Genetics
I hadn't named the month-ago post that noted the same thing "Part 1", but the latest column by Ann Coulter has another does of race realism from our favorite literary pundit*. (Matter of fact, I'd temporarily forgotten that post already, so I'm glad I just came upon it.)
This latest column is Dems’ Post-Election Plan: Send More Immigrants To Virginia!. She does not disappoint those of us who would like the truth on race to be told. The column was about that recent election in general, so this is the last 1/3 or so of the column:
Let’s get back to the GOP victory in Virginia. Fox News sure called that one! Fox commentators assured us that black parents were powering Youngkin’s campaign because of their love for … school choice!Again, Miss Coulter does not mince words. I am really glad she brought up that "Platinum Plan" BS that came out of Trump within a few months of the election. If he had not turned off many white voters with that crap, he may have won the election even WITH the cheating.
Oh, give it up, conservatives.
CNN exit poll:
Black voters: 87% for McAuliffe to 13% for Youngkin
Hispanic voters: 68% for McAuliffe to 31% for Youngkin
Asian voters: 66% for McAuliffe to 34% for Youngkin
Good grief! How did Youngkin win? There must be some mistake!
Oh, I see. Youngkin won the same way Republicans always win, by driving up the white vote. White voters went 61% to 38% for Youngkin. According to NBC News’ exit poll, white women voted 57% for Youngkin.
Which reminds me: What is the one demographic Trump lost in 2020, compared to 2016? Correct: white men. Trump 2020: the Platinum Plan! the American Dream Plan! [Jared in the background: Forget white voters, Dad. They have no place else to go.]
Relax, GOP donors, you may now go back to obsessing over the minority vote and pissing away the only swing voters in the country. At this very moment, money men in the Republican Party are looking at Virginia and saying, “You see? We’ve got to pass amnesty to win over Latinos! School choice to win black voters! Then, of course, we’ll need a big tax cut.”
Yet, for some stupid reason, Miss Coulter has never reversed her position in support of Affirmative Action**. Nobody in the pundit world bats 1000, I suppose.
* Probably I should qualify this by "of renown".
** In that column discussed in that "Part 1" post, from inference one can't help but conclude she's still in favor of AA.
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Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance
Posted On: Friday - November 5th 2021 9:51PM MST
In Topics: Commies US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny Legal Stupidity Guns
(The title here does not say "the resistance", as any such actual movements are/would be wise to not even be known by this point.)
I'd been meaning to write this post all week, and Steve Sailer's post of one of his readers' takes on 2 of the 3 important trials going on prompted me again. Besides the important criminal trials on charges against the 3 Georgia men who shot a jogger dead while defending their Glynne County neighborhood in early '20 and those against Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting three Communist thugs (2 dead) who were chasing him down to assault and maybe kill him in Kenosha, Wisconsin late summer of '20, I am adding for this point the civil case going on in Charlottesville, Virginia against Jason Kessler and others 4 years later for "conspiracy".
We've got a Legal Stupidity topic key here at Peak Stupidity, but this site is plain just not about the intricate legal aspects of any of this - there's not enough time in the day. We are in no way interested in Court TV, especially hard to follow without a TV to begin with, and, even with one, I remember not giving much of a damn about the OJ Simpson trial other than to see how far the slide toward 3rd-Worldliness we'd gotten even 3 decades back.
Therefore, I'll give a couple of links, but this post is purely a polemic to advance the theory (if it even should need advancing) that there is a common thread among these 3 trials*. That thread goes along with the Peak Stupidity theme of the week, not really planned out by anyone, that "they really hate us, and they want us dead."
Communist Resentidos, such as the modern ctrl-left with its antifa wing, have felt the same way many different times and in many different places throughout history. They've been running up against bigger snags in dealing with Americans over the last century though. First, there was that whole prosperous and conservative society thing. It took at least half a century for the Long March through the Institutions to be 95% complete.
That Bill of Rights crap is still being bandied about here and there, say on fringe sites like Peak Stupidity with their silly Morning Constitutional shlock, your Lew Rockwells, Vin Suprynowicz's, etc. We (the ctrl-left) made great use of it during the 1960s, when that Free Speech stuff helped us raise more hell, then the court technicalities and all. Great ... but that's old news, and we can't have that crap around if we're going to get on with the bidness at hand. We've been chipping away at the whole Bill of Rights nicely, with most younger Americans not having a clue about it all. Thank you, ADL! Thank you, ACLU! Thank you, new Civil Rights!
Now, the gun confiscation business started off well back in '68, with great gains through the '70s, but someCommie somewhere dropped the ball, and things have even reverted. That measly little 1/10th of the Bill of Rights is really being a thorn in the side right now. Americans are still under the impression that they can fight back against oppression. I don't mean that just in the courts, as they try to to use that ole Bill of Rights against us back (haha!), but they still think they can PHYSICALLY fight back against oppression. The sheer gall of these Americans.
It's time to put the kibosh on this resistance bullshit via the courts.
First on the docket: The right to Free Speech and Assembly. Yeah, that's the 1st Amendment** being used against us (ctrl-left Commies). We're moving right along in the erasure of history portion of this Revolución!, and we sure as hell don't need that Amendment I crap to slow things down. These Unite the Right guys in Charlottesville thought they can just up and stand in front of that Robert E. Lee statue*** and give speeches. Even if they are going to do that, our antifa thugs ought to be able to be left to beat hell out of them. I mean, the City of Charlottesville was down with that.
These anti-revolutionary heritage defenders brought their own weapons, for self defense. How can the antifa beat their asses, then, I ask you? Well, we took care of this in the courts. Not a one of the antifa spent a night in jail after conducting street fighting, even involving homemade flame throwers. Yet, we got that James Fields put away for 400 years for backing over that fat broad. Now, the deal is to harass these people in the courts **** over a long period to dissuade anyone else from doing something so rash as to defend his heritage with an assembly with speeches. Let's bring up a KKK law from 1872. I know, it sounds stupid, but this stuff works. The courts work for us. If they say WE were the violent ones there, well, we were only defending ourselves from violent speech. See? That was easy! (Hey, where's that red Staples button when we need it?)
What's next for today? (Keep this stuff moving, Bailiff, the prosecutor, public defender, and I are jonesing for some of that vinegar-based barbecue for lunch). Next is the trial of 3 Glynne County, Georgia men for defending their neighborhood against black joggers.
OK, this is different. These black thugs menacing the nice White neighborhoods of Brunswick don't work for us, man. We may have encouraged them a tad over the last few years, oh, and gotten the courts to be more lax, and forced them to integrate and all, but hey, in the words of Bart Simpson, "we didn't do it!"
The problem for the ctrl-left is, these 3 White Georgia men took matters into their own hands. If they had just called 911 like they've all been told, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery could have been handled through the court system. He'd be out, errr, jogging again, the same afternoon. Maybe we on the left don't have our Soros D/A's everywhere, and there are conservative remnants in small town America, but still, we've got the press, we've got the Feds, and we've got that big old race card. We can't have people protecting their property on their own, or who knows what might happen?
It's time to make an example out of these 3. The local cops wouldn't arrest them the first time around. Self defense or something. No good. We just pull out that race card, get
Whewww! After that big lunch, I could use a few zzzz's, but let's hear about this Krazy Killer Kid Kyle. Imagine gunning down 3 of our very own useful idiots on the streets. They were in the middle of just another peaceful
Well, this post became way, way longer than I'd intended, and also that ctrl-left perspective here was not the style of what I'd originally intended. To get back to my own actual thinking, I'll say this: I contend that not one of these three big cases would have ever been brought to trial in the old conservative US of A.
Thinking of Charlottesville in '17 here, I believe I remember the ACLU defending the right of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois. Southern statues stood and Rebel flags could fly freely, and the "n-word", "nigger" for short, had not been a nice word for a long time, but it was not the verboten term that it is now. These Unite the Right guys would have been left alone 20 years back, but the ctrl-left has gotten very bold as of late. Seeing as they didn't want to unilaterally get their asses kicked, the Unite the Right guys were ready to defend themselves. That wasn't a crime in the old America.
The 3 Georgia men defending their neighborhood against a suspected serial burglar were not charged by the local police, when the guy freaked out and attacked them. It's often the case that no charges get filed for actions of self-defense. It took a big media push and the fact that the guy shot was black to put enough pressure on the locals to get the men charged. That seems to work every time now. It used to stay local, and the local law would handle it the way they were going to originally.
Lastly, if the cops in Kenosha had been allowed to do their jobs, Kyle Rittenhouse would not have been in the situation he was in. After a whole summer of being permitted to do their destruction at will the black thugs and antifa Commies had become complacent. They figured they could run after and beat up (or worse) this brazen young man who dared to help defend property and lives. They didn't expect the kid to have such good control. That was some nice shooting!
Here's the stake that the ctrl-left has in these 3 trials. They are used to Americans turning to the system for justice and defense of traditional America. However, that system has been coopted by the left. The left wins when Americans try to rely on the Establishment system. However, the left cannot get its way in the manner it's used to if Americans start taking on their own defense. That is, defense of their culture, defense of their property, and defense of their very lives.
The Unite the Right crowd in Charlottesville was there to defend their culture. Those 3 men in Brunswick, Georgia had decided to handle a problem that had been threatening their people's property by themselves. (Yes, they were going to call the law next, but they'd at least caught the jogger.) Kyle Rittenhouse ended up in a position in which he had to defend his life, with no help from the law.
The ctrl-left needs to put an end to Americans' ability to defend their culture, property, and lives themselves, if it is to move along with the destruction of society. They've generally had the courts on their side for a long time, so they are trying to do this via the courts in these 3 prominent trials.
Commenter Alec Leamas (hard at work)***** said what I want to say very well in this comment under that quick iSteve post:
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But Rittenhouse represents something that weighs on their minds in their constant insurgency against Americans. Rittenhouse is proof of concept – there are literally tens of millions of rifles and hundreds of millions of cartridges in the hands of their adversaries, many of whom are combat veterans of the elites’ meat-grinder foreign wars of adventure. One literal cherub-faced boy with a rifle turned back a pack of their street paramilitaries who were in the process of lynching him. Imagine what ten trained and experienced men with rifles could have done. They want to lynch Rittenhouse now by corrupting the law because they’re pissed that he blew up their intimidation display in under a minute. They have to get him pour encourager les autres.
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(My only correction to Alec's excellent paragraph there is that there have got to be 10's of Billions of rounds (cartridges) in private hands.******)
* One could very well substitute the kangaroo-court trial on the charges that put James Fields in jail for 400-odd years(!) after the Charlottesville street fight, but that one is already done with. These 3 are going on simultaneously right now.
** BTW, our Morning Constitutional series concentrated on the Amendments made after the Bill of Rights. On the whole, Peak Stupidity concluded that they were a slow-moving train wreck.
*** Jeeze, Louise! We finally got rid of it only 4 months ago. There's a 5 year plan almost shot all to hell!
**** Another (of many) VDare article CHARLOTTESVILLE UNTOLD: Why Terry McAuliffe, Not Jason Kessler, Should Be On Trial, this by the frequent contributor on the topic, Charlottesville Survivor, with a defense of Jason Kessler.
***** He's got another handle for commenting from home.
****** For 100-200 million gun owners, it's maybe only a few boxes, 20 to 50 rounds or shells. For a dozen million though, the ones that understand Amendment II the most, they likely have between 500 to 5,000 rounds apiece.
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Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - They want us dead.
Posted On: Wednesday - November 3rd 2021 5:41PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Zhou Bai Dien
(Continued from Part 1, An Odious Proposal and Part 2, Replacement AND Bankruptcy!)
You've heard that before - "They hate us, and they want us dead." It's becoming easier and easier to believe that. Even if you don't, would you believe "they hate this country, and they want it dead"? Well, we make up this country, so it's not much different. I'm sorry if the reader doesn't agree that this example of this Brazen Biden Border Bullshit is the most egregious example ever. That is of course arguable.
Just think of it in more personal terms via an analogy. The ctrl-left is your bitchy harlot of a wife, who is using your kids as ransom to get you to stay in the marriage. (The "kids" would be your career and your 401k or something.) She is spending your hard-earned money on clothing, a car, and all kinds of crap on amazon not only for fun, but for spite. Like the legal and illegal immigrants and use of outsourced cheap labor, this wife can use another husband, the US Feral Gov't, for support. She wants to replace you, but first she will have a lot of fun looting your life of labor in savings because she hates you.
What does one do? For the analogy, haven't we mentioned precious metals, trustworthy friends, and unfortunate boating accidents here already? Here's a little bit of that from way back under a post about rich financiers and fine art - see The case of the purloined Picasso.
At some point, if there is no other easier way out, you may have to ditch that career, at least for the time being, and drop out, underground, off-the books, off-grid, whatever. That may be easier for us to do than we think at the national level, compared to having to give up on our kids in the analogy. In the former case we may still keep our communities and they'll probably be much stronger.
Here are a bunch of more comments from that same iSteve thread. They are not in the numerical/chronological order as on the unz site, but by what these commenters and I would say about a response to this huge slap in the face.
First, the slap in the face itself:
The Germ Theory of Disease says:
@Coemgen
It is of course a victory dance… but it’s not Biden’s, it is for Biden’s (((controllers and handlers))), who have achieved full-spectrum dominance, and intend to use it to the hilt. This is just an amuse-bouche.
Biden himself can barely dance the hokey-pokey.
Harry Baldwin says:
@Coemgen
This is Biden’s version of an end-zone-dance … isn’t it?
It’s more like one of those burglars who takes a dump on your kitchen table after stealing everything of value from your home.
The Wild Geese Howard says:
This just might be the most infuriating story I have ever read. More and more it feels like our government is an occupying army.
Looking around the Western world, it is almost as if governments have declared and are waging war on their native peoples.
Currahee says:What to do?
@The Wild Geese Howard
The disparity has become so profound that neither compromise nor understanding is possible. This is part of the process of separation and ultimately civil war.
John Gruskos* says:
@Wilkey
I agree this is infuriating, but what do you actually plan to do to fight back?
I suggest doing at least the bare minimum – never voluntarily give you money to open enemies who passionately hate you.
For instance, don’t give your money to Hollywood.
Don’t buy a ticket to see Dune, and then write a glowing review encouraging everyone else to also buy a ticket. Doing so will finance those who hate you.
Goddard says:You gotta know by now that Peak Stupidity is on-board with that stuff.
@Dumbo
At this point, I think white people should just stop paying taxes en masse, and stop feeding the Beast.
How ’bout we start with turning our backs on Sportsball, throwing a brick through the TV, slimming down, trimming personal debt, and acquiring spiritual and financial independence?
Sick 'n Tired says:This one really got me thinking about getting right on the phone the next morning and then emailing HR a new withholding form (W-4), lowering my withholding, and just not paying anything this April. (I've got friends who have gone years like this.)
This story is why every productive worker, employer, and business owner needs to stop paying taxes. Stop funding this insanity. It’s the only way the government will wake up and listen. They can’t throw us all in prison, and if they do, we’ll be among like minded people, and there will be nobody to pay for it.
It's not really my style though, but additional comments that reminded me that they don't need the tax money, as they can just keep printing, made me realize that, yeah, this won't starve the beast. It'd be better to become more of a prepper and just keep with the family's policy of being minimalists (for the most part.)
This kind of action or even just proposal has got to be making a lot of Americans really angry.
TWS says:Yeah, this is just a few people on the internet, but this story has been reported on by Tucker. People do know about it. I would think that many would have the same reaction as I did. Does this current Feral Government want to provoke a REAL insurrection before long? It may be too early for any of these plans, as they have not gotten the guns and ammo yet. Do they thing a real insurrection will involve a hundred guys or so, just out there having a good time? Is it part of a smarter plan than I've imagined?
@Wilkey
You know, I used to laugh at the guys who said, ‘rope, light pole, some assembly required’. Now I am thinking, ‘do you want Madame Guillotine? Because this is how you get Madame Guillotine’.
Just another serf says:I don't know. There are evil ones behind the scenes, but many of these people are just too stupid to execute really evil plans, as much as they want them to be.
I’m thinking that this illegal alien millionaire lottery, along with events like the appointment of Rachel Levine to Admiral, are deliberate humiliations designed to provoke violence. After which, various forms of totalitarianism will be deemed justified and imposed on the population.
It's not like the Red Squad of The Party is going to come to our rescue on any of this. Last comment here:
Bragadocious says:Nope, we're on our own here.
@Kylie
Someone on Twitter said, paraphrasing:
I can’t wait to see the GOP counter-proposal of giving them only $250,000.
And that’s the rub. There’s no opposition to these maniacs, no pushback, just degrees of psychopathy.
Interestingly, when this story broke a lot of leftists called it fake news and a right-wing fantasy, showing that even they initially regarded it as insane. Then when it turned out to be true, they instantly pivoted to, you’re damn right these kids deserve that money.
* You may have heard from this guy on Peak Stupidity before here and (CRS alert**) here.
** CRS is Can't Remember Shit syndrome. It's the same comment from Mr. Gruskos, but with different commentary from Peak Stupidity.
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Still chaining down the pens
Posted On: Tuesday - November 2nd 2021 7:42PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
I guess I could have noticed or thought about this anytime over the last 10 years or so (since smart phones came out). They are still chaining down the pens at the bank. Well, this place has them attached to the base with a plastic coated piece of 1/16" aircraft cable - this ain't the fancy Bank of America, you know.
I find it odd, because who even writes much down anymore, with a pencil or pen? Do people still feel the need to steal these pens? I still will use a pen to write down information given to me by people, but anyone under a certain age goes for his phone first.
"What's your number, I'll type it in and text/call you." That makes sense. "The place is at 123 Elm Street." "OK, text me that." "Uhhh, I just told you - 123 Elm Street." It doesn't make quite as much sense, but then, who uses his memory up for this sort of thing anymore? We need the space to keep track of all the Kardashians. "Where do you live?" "Let me pull it up." "Oh, I can do that. What's your address?" "Let me pull that up..."
Then there's "see, on my mailbox it says 1451 - this is south Taylor Street." "OK, let me go over to the mailbox and take a picture of it."
OK, that over with, let me relate a quick funny (to me, anyway) anecdote from that visit to the bank. The black teller was a pleasant and fairly intelligent guy. He was articulate enough so that I could make out almost everything even with his thick black mask on*. That was until the one moment at which I asked him for some of the cash in hundreds. "Yeah, 3 hundreds, if you can get them easily." He said something that took me a while to catch. Finally, "Oh, you said 'C-notes". I haven't heard that in a while." (It's kind of cool sounding.) Then I said "Got it. You mean what you all call 'the Benjamins'. Yeah, give me 3 of the Benjamins."
Haha, I thought it was funny, but did the guy get offended a tad? Did he like that "you all" part? Well, I don't rightly know, because he had a mask covering over half his face. It's hard to make out people's expressions.
He was too nice to have said anything, I guess, and if he had, I still wouldn't have been able to get him back by stealing a pen.
* I wore no mask and got no grief about it for a change for the bank. What is the deal with this stuff? This masking business seems to come in waves. I'll have to take note if it's on a 28 day cycle.
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Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - Replacement AND Bankruptcy!
Posted On: Tuesday - November 2nd 2021 6:58PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
(Continued from Part 1, An Odious Proposal.)
Here at
The Wall Street Journal article wants me to sign up to read it, so screw 'em, but this One Nation Blogger article Joe Biden Mulls $450K to Illegal Immigrants for Family Separation (and sorry for not providing the link last time) has some numbers. Depending on whether it's the Motherland Security or another branch of government, the ACLU, pissing and moaning about this separation of criminal families, there are either 2,800 or 5,500 children respectively, whose lucky lottery-winning parents should get nearly 1/2 a million bucks for each kid. In the grand scheme of Feral Gov't spending that's still peanuts, either $1.26 Billion or 2.48 Billion. Yeah, I mean it's only about 10% to 25% of what it would take to build a complete border barrier, which is still, like, peanuts. (Notice this free-spending administration** isn't even thinking about that.)
This proposed blowing of taxpayers money and rubbing it in the face of us taxpayers is setting a precedent though. Just as with the Feral Gov't's (Dept. of Justice) paying $80,000,000 to families with members shot by Dylann Roof in that Church in Charleston, SC, there's something different now. These monetary amounts are not being decided on in courts of law in civil trials. This is simply the Bai Dien administration flat out doling our money out on whims while Americans are struggling economically. Oh, sure, they have the excuse of a "faulty background check" for the latter and "Trump did this" for the former as reasons to just dole out settlements. This is complete bullshit, as anyone can see that this logic can be used to pay off anybody anytime, anywhere!
Secondly, more specifically, this latest illegal alien payout sets a precedent. Per Mr. Sailer's post's title, the incentive for more illegal families to get broken up like this and enter the country as millionaires - "we don't need to do no steeenking roofing, Senor!" - will guarantee that there will be more of this. There are hundreds of thousands of illegal entries per month now. The numbers could get up toward Trillion Dollar territory if the US Government regime deems it necessary. See, that's my question here. Are they purposefully trying to bankrupt the country?
I had thought the big idea was the replacement of the traditional American population. Don't get me wrong - that's been working swimmingly***. It looks like the US Gov't is making a concerted effort to go bankrupt at the same time.
You don't just go creating money in these huge amounts without prices of assets, goods and services going Sky High****. Since I missed out on that thread under the Steve Sailer post, I'll paste in a few comments from it here again. These ones relate specifically to the economic ruin that this Brazen Biden Border Bullshit will only exacerbate. One of my favorite commenters comes first:
Old Prude says:
This seems to a trend: Dump taxpayer dollars on the liberal pets: Illegals in NY State, the families of the victims of the Charleston church shooting, now criminal trespassers on the southern border. The one that really sets the teeth grinding is the cash being given to the family of the Afghan goat-herd zapped by Biden’s boys with the drone, so he could look like a hard-ass. “They will pay”.
Well guess what. A gaggle of incompetents in the intelligence community (but I repeat myself) targeted the wrong rag-head. So now who is paying? You and me, the middle class tax payer. And not only are we giving these wogs money, the government is going to bring them to our neighborhoods to crap up our communities. The jackasses who targeted the wrong family should be paying, but no: It’s you and me who had nothing whatsoever to do with this goat-rope. I hate this government.
Adept says:One of our Peak Stupidity commenters (also), PeterIke replies:
@Wilkey
You have to laugh, I guess. This sort of payout would be a huge “fuck you” to middle America, and an accelerationist’s wet dream. It’s the sort of thing that won’t easily be forgiven or forgotten.
Regarding the expansion of this precedent-setting proposal:
Magic Dirt Resident says:
Why stop at families who were separated under Trump? Why not extend it farther back to include those who were deported under Eisenhower (and their descendants, of course)?
This is yet one more example of an egregious- quite frankly laughable- proposal by the dems against which I’m doubtful the republicans will be able to give a proper denouncement. At least no one can say the collapse of the American Empire hasn’t been entertaining. Show biz is what America does best, after all.
Dani says:Not quite about the bankruptcy aspect, but good points:
@Wilkey
I feel exactly the same way and not ashamed to say so. I watch my 80 year old parents, who both worked full time their entire adult lives, having to fork over close to $700 a month for supplemental insurance coverage, and between Medicare and supplemental, vision and dental are not covered. I am sure millions have similar stories, and don’t even get me started on the homeless vets living in tents, the ones who haven’t blown their brains out yet.
(I left out the 2nd paragraph.)
Wilkey says:Finally, the commenter "Known Fact" is hopeful about a silver lining:
@Almost MissouriWhat’s really going on, of course, is that the current administration wants to make all actions of the previous administration appear to be illegitimate, as if they were crimes in need of remedy.Who are the law firms representing these poor victims? I saw the ACLU mentioned in at least one of the articles. How much of a cut will the law firms get? The usual 33%? So Biden could be handing over hundreds of millions to law firms politically allied with the administration, including the ACLU?
And how much of this money will ultimately end up in the hands of the human traffickers, as the recipients inevitably pay them to smuggle more of their relatives into the US? Ultimately tens or hundreds of millions of dollars will wind up in the hands of the very cartels that make Mexico so dangerous to begin with.
Known Fact says:When I mentioned Mexicans (or who knows, Haitians, Guatemalans, Hmong, I dunno?) coming in as millionaires, I did also want to point out that this may not mean that much, the way things are going. The Kung Flu PanicFest spending was no picnic, but this Biden and hard-left Congress seems to be purposefully killing the US dollar. That's going to hurt even the newcomers that they seem to love. Will it hurt the Globalist elite, themselves? Not if they put their currency into hard assets, here and around the world. If they are smart enough to be doing that, I guess they don't have a reason to care about the Dollar. I mean, that is, except for the being a Human Being thing and all...
I’m hoping this $450,000 thing is actually a clever sting operation — like when the feds advertise they’re giving away free stuff and idiots with outstanding warrants show up for some loot
As I went through these comments again, I see that I could pick out at least 10 excellent ones to describe how I feel about the Feral Gov't at this point and what we Americans ought to do, at least regarding the economic fall-out of free-spending-to-humiliate policies like this. That'll be in the 3rd part of this series.
The race is on. It's between a sooner than expected economic SHTF and population replacement to the point that most of the people are used to economic SHTF times from the shitholes they bolted from. Will there be many who still remember? I saw the lights go down on Broadway. I saw the ruins at my feet. You know I almost didn't notice it. We see it all the time, on 42nd street..."*****
* For movie reference, see the bottom of our old post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?
** I know, I know, it's Congress that spends the money. That'd be in a Constitutional Republic, I mean ...
*** Or should I say "wadeingly" as in, across the Rio Grande. Not in the mood for humor? I understand completely.
**** For pop/Southern Rock aficionados, that post has the Jigsaw upbeat song, while this earlier post has the harder rockin' Atlanta Rhythm Section song from a live album. Both are pretty damn good.
***** That's from a Billy Joel Sci-Fi song expired last year. - nope, now 4 years back - Miami 2017, the hard-rockin' live version from Songs in the Attic.
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Florida Man deterred by armed citizen
Posted On: Monday - November 1st 2021 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Humor Guns
I get the America's First Freedom magazine monthly, as I have for over 2 decades. Sometimes, with all the web stuff, I accumulate these magazines, until I find a place to leave them, say, at airport terminals, in blue territory. Even if I read nothing more due to lack of time, I make a point to read the Armed Citizen column*, a 1 or 2 page collection of half a dozen or more stories of Americans successfully defending themselves, their property, and/or their families with guns.
Where does the "Florida man" come in? It was Melbourne (Brevard County) at the New York Hair Barbershop. This is straight out of the Armed Citizen column:
This was not the typical robbery for cash, anti-White hate attack, or attempted rape or burglary. Note the motive of this suspect. It was pretty humorous to me, anyway. Perhaps, not only did he get a Mohawk when he requested a Mullet (easily confused, I suppose), but he might have gotten scalped in the transaction too.
Is there something to this "Florida man" thing, in which they seem to be in the over-the-top stories of really loony actions? These are usually white rednecks**, who are a little more prone to non-lethal off-the-wall activities, especially when alcohol is involved. Peak Stupidity featured one other story, related to the Donald Trump campaign of '20 - Florida Man
* The column now says "Official Journal", with "Armed Citizen" in small letters underneath. I have no idea why this change was made, as the new name is meaningless.
** Not this time, though. Per our commenters the assailant, Mr. Marlon Mascoe is black and had a rap sheet already before this smooth move.
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Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - An Odious Proposal
Posted On: Monday - November 1st 2021 6:32PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Zhou Bai Dien
The Wall Street Journal had the story, as screenshotted above, Tucker Carlson has already been outraged about it, and VDare (hence, The Unz Review, with comments) has both a short Paul Kersey post - We Call This Treason: Biden Administration Plans to Pay Illegal Aliens Half a Million Dollars for Being Denied the Right to Infiltrate Our Nation During the Trump Administration*, and a one liner with an excerpt of the gist of it by Steve Sailer called Incentives, Anyone?. Of course, this giving away of $450,000 per person to illegal aliens "harmed'" by a US Border Patrol policy that separated them from their families is based on a simple ludicrous premise to begin with.
That ludicrous premise is this, by contrary example: I don't think the Law would worry about the separation of my family from me if I were to get sent away to the drunk tank for a night, or, the way things are going, locked up for a year in a Gulag in North Dakota for blogging without a license. It's not at all part of any law I've heard about where the separation of the perpetrator from his family is considered in the arrest and punishment process. We are not talking about a guy getting sent to the drunk tank but mothers and fathers smuggling themselves and their children into our country, as part of a long-term massive invasion.
I'm sure the pure stupidity and evil of this idea of the Biden Administration is something you all can read the criticisms elsewhere. This is blood-boiling material here. Yes, as Mr. Sailer's headline says, this proposal is indeed a big incentive for illegal entry into our country, taking away another big downside and adding a big possible payoff**. There's also the monetary aspect, just blowing it willy-nilly while Americans struggle. After reading through both the Kersey and Sailer comment threads, I don't feel any less pissed off, that's for sure.
I missed Mr. Sailer's thread first time around, and it is now 3 days old, but I sure would like to feature 10 or 20 comments. It's not so much the comments about the stupidity inherent in this proposal that are in line with my thinking but the question of just why the US Feral Government is going all out right now rubbing Americans noses in the freaking dirt. That's what this is. Here are a few comments to that effect.
WJ says:
I think this is a troll by the Biden administration. I really don’t think they are this insane. On the other hand, they could be so confident in the next election that they don’t feel like they have to hide it anymore. I wonder how black people feel about these reparations?
Wilkey says:
This just might be the most infuriating story I have ever read. More and more it feels like our government is an occupying army.
The median net worth* in the United States is only ~$121,000. Our government is about to hand over almost four times that to people because they were breaking the law.
(I left off the last paragraph.)
Arclight says:
Only too perfect that our rulers put a dollar figure on how much more they value their imported illegal immigrant underclass over actual citizens.
Kylie says:
If you don’t think this was devised, at least in part, as a big FU to non-leftists, think again.
This is the left telling Trump supporters and all others not on board with the leftist agenda to bend over and don’t bother looking around for any lubricant, there isn’t any.
Mr. Blank says:These comments (and plenty more) were about the general "clown world" or Peak Stupidity, if you will, aspect of a proposal this odious to regular Americans. I realized a while back that this story should be discussed in 3 posts. The 2nd will be about the economic ruin that is being accelerated by this and other big-payoff programs*** vs. the demographic replacement acceleration. The last part will excerpt some ideas for Americans to fight this odious system financially and include speculation on why the ctrl-left is pushing us this far this soon.
The optics on this are so colossally bad I have difficulty believing it will ever happen. I’m wondering if a concerned lefty actually leaked this to stop the Biden administration from making such a stupid mistake.
* He's a courageous man for writing about what he writes about, but one very minor annoyance is that Mr. Kersey's post titles are just long as all get-out.
** Hell, you win this "Separation Lottery" and you don't even need to work as a roofer or drywaller. You break into a country, get lucky with the logistics, and you move in as a millionaire! As they say, "what a country!"
*** I'm not claiming that this alone will be a significant part of the national budget. However, these reparations style pay-outs, like the Charleston, SC Church shooting $80 million, are precedent-setting. The applications can be widely expanded.
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I ain't raisin' no snowflake
Posted On: Saturday - October 30th 2021 4:26PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes University Kung Flu Stupidity
The topic key used to just be "Student Snowflakes", but I had to insert "... and other ..." at the time I ran into some guy who you really wouldn't have thought could be called a "snowflake" if you hadn't have read the Peak Stupidity post. Snowflakes come in infinite shapes and sizes is about a big working-class guy who still clammed up like a, well, clam, when I brought up just a little bit of race realism. It WAS in the great formerly-white* north too, the scene of the post Snow Town is now Bro Town.
The original Snowflakes that fall all year long are at the universities. I'd guess the universities are still the biggest snowflake making machines next to eastern ski resorts, though, as I will note in an upcoming post, Big Biz produces its share too. In a lobby of the university building my 10 y/o son and I were entering was a vertical plexiglas board, not, this time, made to be a barrier to stop the advances of the Kung Flu, but for a place to put one's thoughts. There were 2 markers and 3 colors of lined paper post-its, there for people to write comments and stick them up.
My son showed me his three notes from another day, when he came with his Mom. "No Masks" (with a drawing), "No vaccine", and "Shut down the CDC" were his thoughts. These did not match at all the thoughts written by students twice his age. Most of the notes were downright sickening in the naivety and juvenility. The brainwashing must have gone very very deep with the students who wrote the 100 or so notes up there. "Less judgement!" said one. I mean, it USED TO say that. Now, it has "More judgement, and that comment sucked." written below that.** That was me, not my son.
I had to put up my pending-trademarked "Bend over. Take my prick. - Dr. A. Fauci, Amateur Proctologist." too, and a few more I can't remember. As of yesterday, my son says they are still up. That's amazing.
We are seeing what happens when these snowflakes collide with the real world at ground level. America could take some of that back when we were the world's most powerful economy that could easily absorb a little of it. We are in for hard times, and when the SHTF most of these snowflakes will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. I don't want that for this boy. You've got to teach them young. I'm very proud of him for this.
As a self-rebuttal, I will say there may be a majority of other students who aren't down with all the stupidity I saw on that board. However, they would most definitely be a silent majority and ignore the notes, say nothing, and not want to be seen on cameras defacing the Notes of the Snowflakes. The fact that they won't makes them, well, a little flakey themselves ...
PS: Also, even 6 months earlier, I'm guessing my wife would have had none of that behavior from him. Now, he says she stuck them way high up on the board to make it harder for someone to pull them off! She's really coming around. "I told you so" doesn't apply to women though, apparently...
* ... and I'm not talking Global Climate Disruption™ here either!
** I was about to write "and better spelling" too, as I am used to "judgment" - no "e" after the "g". You see it written both ways, though I just read that "judgement" is more the British style and "judgment" the American spelling. I guess "fewer Limeys" would have worked.
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Kyle Rittenhouse pretrial hearing - assailants are not "victims"
Posted On: Saturday - October 30th 2021 12:30PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity alt-right/MAGA Legal Stupidity Guns
As the regular reader has probably been told too many times, Peak Stupidity is NOT a news site. There's no way we can keep up with it all, so we'll stick with the stupidity we know. It's a "known known", in the categorization of some Persian Gulf war-mongering general. We stick with the stupidity that we know you know is stupid.
However, the 3 different trials that are going on concurrently involving alt-right defenders of traditional America against antifa Commie thugs and black thugs, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Brunswick, Georgia, and Charlottesville, Virginia* will be discussed here in a post next week. These are related, as they are all three examples of the current regime's and Establishment's work in progress in squashing any defense of what's coming. I will not get into details, but it'll be the usual polemic opinion with a little guidance.
Just now however, I remembered a certain yahoo headline that popped as I was exiting an email account. I usually try to just ignore this Lyin' Press page, as I close the tab, or type in a new address. This one caught my eye, and I saved the link and the screenshot above. I hate to link to yahoo, and you can get to this quick story elsewhere, but here - Rittenhouse judge in spotlight after disallowing word 'victims' in courtroom.
Peak Stupidity wrote a little about American hero Kyle Rittenhouse just after he defended himself nicely from 3 anfita/BLM thugs on the streets of Kenosha in summer of '20 in KYLE'S LIFE MATTERS! We don't use the term "hero" willy-nilly either, as seems to be the modern trend. Nowadays the term is used for those "First Responders", the surly lady braving the Kung Flu at the drug store counter, or anyone who finishes a 5K. This guy was not just defending himself, but he had been put in that position by his efforts in guarding businesses against looting and arson in the streets of Kenosha.
Back to the article, I was very surprised to see that Judge Bruce Schroeder, who will be presiding over Mr. Rittenhouse's trial, is not one of the ctrl-left. I am not legal-minded, so I myself was surprised that terms of behavior in the courtroom for the trial include the specification of non-allowed terminology. Of course, the yahoo writer, Erik Ortiz has his own "eyebrows raised"**, by the disallowance of the term "victim" for the 3 guys who Kyle Rittenhouse shot in self defense. However, I've learned that it is a regular practice in for Judge Schroeder to disallow "victim", just based on the presumption of innocence that is supposed to be a part of our justice system.
I guess this yahoo Ortiz did a good job in snowing even me with the slant of this headline, implying that Kyle Rittenhouse was getting special treatment by the court. That was only for a bit, as I read the rest and he at least included the history of this practice.
Judge Schroeder says "looters", "rioters", and "arsonists" will be OK. I hope "assailants" will be allowed too.
* The latter is some type of civil suit to further harass the alt-right/Conservative defenders (attempted) of the Robert E. Lee statue in that city four years back.
** I mean, before this "reporter" wrote the headline, did he actually get out from in front his computer and see anybody else with his eyebrows raised?
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Robotic Feline Spyware - you can't be too paranoid.
Posted On: Thursday - October 28th 2021 10:22PM MST
In Topics: Humor iEspionage
Your Peak Stupidity blogger is now dealing with his own quandary about Big Biz and the mandatory vaccine by Executive Edict. No, I'm not getting it, mostly out of principle at this point, but it's a matter of how to handle this.
Anyway, this has got me somewhat distracted from the blog posts. I decided to post this light-hearted post tonight, one I thought about 1/2 a year ago. It was inspired by my then-9 y/o boy, but was prompted by Alarmist's comment about iButtPlugs. No, this post is NOT about butt plugs, something that we all probably wish we'd never heard of.
As a big animal lover and voracious reader of the Warriors series of books about all manner of cats in clans (with maps and glossaries to boot), this kid loves the cats most. At his age, he can absorb and keep all kinds of knowledge in his head for a long time. He has taught me that cats can hear better than dogs even*, but dogs can smell better than cats. (Yeah, they normally smell worse, but he meant in the sense of senses.)
At the time he'd been reading some story about robotic cats of some sort. Maybe they were aliens too, robotic cat aliens. He got his imagination going, relating this to the skinny weirdo cat we have, or, I should say, who has us. I introduced a little paranoia aspect with the suggestion that these robotic cats were not sent from other planets but from the US Government. Those of us who still couldn't be spied on 24/7 using our iEspionage "smart" phones, would have a robotic cat coincidentally adopt us.
The crazy kitten behavior could be explained well by bad software, as released by the •Indian job shoppers. It took about 2 years for the first decent software upgrades to show up, as that's when this cat stopped doing the really zany stuff. He's still not bug-free, as he can't get over the idea that he has to jump on a certain table to be let outside, he will still occasionally do the "sideways camel" when chased around the yard, and he still eats broccoli. They can fix this stuff in the next release to be downloaded.
How does he get those upgrades and download the data on us to the NSA data center in Utah? Notice those big ears. Cats don't need them that big for sound. They are 50 GHz-band receiver/transmitter antennae, Those ears will rotate around like a 1970s roof-mounted TV antenna. Sometimes you can't find this "cat", and if you call, he doesn't seem to care about being found, as he just sits on his most recent perch, high up on the dresser, always gathering ... gathering more data on us.
Oh, it's hard to believe these cute furry things are unfeeling robots when they curl up with you in the winter and start purring. Purring? Yeah, right. That's just the sound of a bad bearing on a hard drive.
Call us paranoid, but next time we have something to say about The Government, we'll just throw a piece of cheese into another room first or throw a stick way over there into the dry leaves while he isn't looking.
Is this why humans inherently don't trust cats, or is just that they WILL jump right back on the table to lick your pudding as soon as you leave the room? Nothing is too far-fetched these days, even the occasional mouse he leaves us on the door mat. Keep an eye on these iCats, I'm tellin' ya!
* On this, I'm not really sure if he means just a higher range of pitch (up to 80 kHz, he's told me), or that and also the ability to hear fainter sounds than dogs can.
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Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize! - II
Posted On: Tuesday - October 26th 2021 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
That's what I read, many years ago, back when Cosmo magazine used to come by accident to my apartment years ago. Women should not just plan on dressing up in a skirt, blouse, some shoes, and whatever may or may not go under all those items. No, you must accessorize with the right belt, scarf, hair scrunchies, pocket protector (no wait, that was me), handbag, etc. That etc. includes the right face mask, I guess, now. They really ARE trying to make this the new normal.
This sign was on the window:
OK, then. Are we supposed to wash them first, or do we just flip them over after we have filled up the first side with COVID-19 virus particles? If we do that, are we not blowing said material right out at everyone else? Is that OK in the name of fashion? If we wash them, do we put them in with the colors or perhaps with the whites and some bleach? I know for 8 big ones, I'm not about to throw mine in one of those beautiful yellow steel BIO-HAZARD trash cans every month. I need that money for more important things, like belts, scarves, hair scrunchies, and pocket protectors. Oh, and some of those handbags and gladrags that my poor old GrandDad had to sweat to buy me ...
At least sometimes now, we're given more options:
What, either take the jab or wear a mask all around the hotel? Nah, there's always a way out, if you think like a lawyer. Nowhere on the sign does it give the definition of "fully unvaccinated" as in WHICH vaccination(s) it is that you must have gotten to be freed from the face diapering. It can't be all vaccines in the world, so ...
"Hey, have you been vaccinated?"
"Yep."
"OK, good, then ... heyyyy, wait a minute. Maybe you're one of those smart asses. Vaccinated for what?"
"I've been vaccinated for Hysteria. How about you?"
Really, nobody in these hotels seems to really give a dang about it anyway. (I've not been in the most Panicky of States though - neither a state of mind nor a State of the Union, that is.)
There are posters about the masking policy in the university buildings near us. The ones on the front door say that they are mandatory inside. However, inside there are ones that say (didn't remember to snap a picture):
OK, then! I don't wear face masks in there. It's pretty obvious from the sign that I have a choice. I appreciate their concern for my health, but I CHOOSE not to wear one.
I'd left this comment elsewhere, but let me state this here:
No matter what the arguments to-and-fro about the vaccine are, can we all just agree that the face diapers have been a stupid, worthless idea since Day 1? I mean, no matter who is out there virtue-signaling, being a typical compliant sheep like most Americans, or pushing the masks on people as a show of power, NOBODY, but NOBODY really believes these things are good for anything.
PS: Some of the next Kung Flu posts will be about the vaccine. I realize the attempt to make a vaccine mandatory is a bigger increase in Totalitarianism than this face mask business. However, the masking bit is a real indignity and a program built on pure stupidity.
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Exercise room anecdotal tidbits
Posted On: Monday - October 25th 2021 6:41PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
I'll admit it. These many posts about exercise machines* are like the blogger Steve Sailer's fixation with golf course architecture. Of course the Peak Stupidity reader may do well to skip these, but this one does tie into the Kung Flu stupidity just a tad.
I ended up in the same hotel fitness center in which the story in out post Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 11 too place. (There were 13 of these posts, written during Season 2 of the Kung Flu PanicFest.) The gyms are pretty dead now as compared to before Kung Flu times. I guess that is mostly due to the still low occupancy rates of many hotels - see Collapse of the Service Economy - Part 4, but also some people may STILL be scared to catch those unhealthy germs while strengthening their muscles, running up the old ticker and that sort of healthy thing.
In that summer '20 post about the hysterical masker telling me to put on a mask while exercising, I wrote that she was 12' away from me, facing the same direction. Since nobody else was in there to interfere with this time, I paced it off. The machines** are just where they've always been, and the center-to-center distance is 14 ft. Now that's twice the AFE (Anthony Fauci Edict) specified SSD (Standard Social Distance), so what the heck was her problem again?
Next, this bike machine has one of the quality Precor consoles. The numbers make sense, and the display is great. I did long ago have to learn how to turn off the TV that appears in the background even when you want to look at nothing but numbers. I got that.
With that done, as the workout progressed, my heart rate was jumping around +/- 5 or 10 beats/min within seconds. Now, that COULD be real, because the numbers hung around in the right range for my workout. Hmmmm... well, I even took my hands off for 10 seconds. It normally quits displaying a number after 2 seconds, but it didn't. Then, upon winding down, the heart rate stayed way up. OK, that's not me, it's you, and a good thing at that!
These guys might want to put in an algorithm for that. It's probably difficult. I'm amazed at those sensors to begin with. You want to give a smoothed-out value of heart rate, but not over too much time. Then again, you don't want the thing to be spotty. Then, it's also important to not scare the living out of any exercisers, many who already have so much to worry about, what, with the girl on the treadmill 14 feet away with no mask on ... but with a cute enough butt, that can be forgiven.
Lastly, and with the other tie-in to the Kung Flu stupidity, I see that one tiny silver lining has come out of it at the gym.. Being not one who is paranoid about germs, I have never bothered to clean any of the machines BEFORE using them. What I would do is grab a towel and wipe off the sweat, if any left, on the equipment AFTER I'd used it. That's what other people want, and I saw no reason to annoy them in this respect.
Well, the towels went away during the PanicFest, if one could even get in the gym to begin with, to be replaced by these alcohol-soaked wipes. (Dammit, I sold all of my holdings in the wipes sector around January of '20! Why do I keep listening to E.F. Hutton? Was it the commercials?) Therefore, I've been used to pulling two or three of these things from the dispenser/trash bin combination, if they even have them.
This place has them, and they were in good shape too, neither too soaked nor, worse, all dried out. (There's probably an optimum schedule for this, based on how many people use the gym on average. You unseal too many, and you waste them when the bottom ones dry out, you waste them by replacing them too often, or the gym just plain runs out.)
I like these things. If you're going to really clean the machines, these beat towels by a long shot. Those dry towels might wipe off visible sweat, but they don't clean anything. Not only that, but, though I am no sucker for the Global Climate Stupidity, I really don't like waste. I go through the 30 second effort, max.***, and there goes a towel into the hamper and the laundry. (Fold 'em up nicely and put 'em back, and you might really hear about that!) This extra barely-used laundry is not good for the hotels, now that green is the new cheap-ass.
I'm guessing the gyms will keep these wipes around over the towels, for cost savings alone. Then too, they can advertise it as an anti-Kung Flu, green win/win policy.
What next? Will Peak Stupidity fall in love with the wearing of face masks, the standing on stickers, and the jab? Not bloody likely!
* Most most of them are here with the Artificial Stupidity topic key due to the discussion about the electronics/software).
** They are quality machines in good shape, I should add. This hotel is run by White People, and any problems with the machines DO get taken care of. The bike machine had quit putting any resistance torque on the crank, and then someone had a problem with one of the treadmills too. They were both fixed within a day!
*** I suppose other gym users use the towels to wipe the sweat off themselves too, but a shower is in order anyway.
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From TomTom to the NWA
Posted On: Saturday - October 23rd 2021 5:04PM MST
In Topics: Cars Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity Geography Female Stupidity
The recent Steve Sailer post Taliban Fail to Think Globally, had Mr. Sailer's quick thoughts and lots more of the commenters', on men's vs. women's ability to navigate using a map. Most of what the discussion was about* was summed up by iSteve thusly:
I recall a mid-1990s meeting at work to create our firm’s first home page on the World Wide Web:True dat, too - he "got" the web early on.
Woman: “To help visitors get to our office, let’s have street instructions like ‘Turn right on Lake Street then left on Clinton.'”
Man: “Let’s have a map instead.”
Woman: “Does anybody really look at maps?”
[General tumult]
Me: “You know, on the WWW, we have room for both.”
Yes, men and women have different style brains. That works for us, if we let it. That means, as usual, by ignoring the feminist BS. Yes, men are much better in general with spatial thinking. Woman aren't, and I will give the reader a couple of anecdotes shortly. It's OK, too - we can laugh at each other, but how about women just appreciate this ability in the realm of navigation, and let us do what we ARE good at.
After 25 years of GPS being affordable to all, initially in aviation, but quickly for the automobile, some would say that the skill of map reading is like the skill of blacksmithing over a century ago - no longer necessary. I don't agree.
In the aviation world, indeed GPS position information has made flying safer and enabled more efficient routes and approaches. Situation awareness has been made easy, especially after the evolution from simple position/speed information to CRT graphics to full color moving maps. The skill of pilotage, a combination of map reading and pattern recognition may be lost to most pilots, but it can always be handy for certain situations.
Navigation on the roads has changed immensely too, but in a different way. Those who had a hard time using a map have it much easier, and the map reading skills of those who WERE good at it may be atrophying. It's the same story - if you navigate the old way when you don't need that GPS crutch, you keep up the skills.
There's more to it than that, though, for driving, from what I've noticed. In the aviation world it is still important to know where you are in general. For driving, with the moving map calculating the route, showing turns to be made, and now, telling you each step, you may not need to know where in the world you really are. I mean, I've seen people who have lived somewhere for years still use these things to get home. I'm sure they can remember the turns after a while, but that's not my point. Without having looked at the big picture on maps, these people really don't know where they live, in the context of the world around them.
I.e., if you've been using a map, you know "this road takes you on the north side of the lake, so you come right at this road where the first bridge is." or "This highway goes around the northwest side of town, to hook up with road southeast toward Cedar Rapids." When relying on GPS with voice instructions, you do not ever get this picture. You just blindly follow.
I know a certain boy who could be taught to read a map at 6 y/o. I missed a turn on a 200 mile road trip. I missed the one turn after we stopped for gas right at that intersection by just pulling out of the gas station oriented 90 degrees off. 20 miles down the road, after we arrived at the next town, it was obvious we were headed the wrong way. Rather than retrace, I pulled out the old road atlas, and figured out the best way toward the original route. My boy saw those roads and acted like the GPS voice, though much more pleasant, to steer me through 3 turns on the right way, from the back seat.
Meanwhile, around the same era, the boy’s Mom, having gone the simple way – with only 6 turns – to the judo place already 4 or 5 times, had run out of the monthly data plan on her phone (due to the same boy having used it for something or other, haha) and went ahead and paid $4.95 to get her app back in business to guide her to Judo. There were only 6 turns, and 3 of them are ones we take all the time.
“C'mon, Mama, it’s so simple! Whaddya’ need, a refresher data? It’s all maps nowadays!”.
My wife will turn them on a few times when I have gotten lazy or it is worth using (on a long road trip at night, diverting to a certain store well off the route to get a birthday cake, for example). I am very glad we had the device. Alternatively, I would have had to print out a large scale map ahead of time, studied it good, and got my wife, no wait, my kid, to use it to guide me - it's not safe for me to try to read a map and drive at night.
However, she's a bit insistent on using the GPS as a crutch, not trusting that the skill of navigation is not lost to me. I'll get her to at least turn off the sound, if she is insistent on keeping this app going on her phone.
Now, FINALLY to the point and an explanation of the post title: Have you heard the sound from these things lately? I really believe the software developers were told by marketing to turn these apps into NWAs - that would be Nagging Wife Apps. I'm guessing only some of you Peak Stupidity readers have experienced the newest versions of these things. They will nag you and hound you. I mean, you get told 3 times coming up to a turn about making sure to keep right, it’s coming soon, etc. Both me and my boy kept going “OK, we got it!”
Maybe the audio prompts (invariably a women's voice) could throw in some additional admonishments like "You never listen to me, do you?", "You're as stubborn as your father is.", or "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Heh! (Thanks, Mr. Anon.)
How'd these new app people do their research, family ride-alongs? From TomTom** to NWA was, IM(not so)HO, a big step in the wrong direction.
Well, finally, to wrap things up here, Peak Stupidity would be remiss in not including this great scene from our favorite old TV show The Office. As I wrote, you just blindly follow:
* The title refers to a tweet noting that some head Taliban guy doesn't know where Afghanistan is on a globe.
** A Netherlands based company that was one of the first - mid-'00s - to market these GPS based nav systems for cars.
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[UPDATED 10/27:] Added Mr. Anon's humorous take, regarding the female instructions for the newest NWAs.
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I've looked at the Service Economy from both sides now.
Posted On: Friday - October 22nd 2021 4:05PM MST
In Topics: Economics Big-Biz Stupidity Inflation
The Kung Flu PanicFest and the economic stranglehold that the Panickers have (purposefully or not) put on the US economy has not been the only reason for the continuing economic downfall, by any means. However, these LOCKDOWNs and other various and sundry arbitrary rules against business have accelerated the mess over the last year and a half. Contrary to what the out-of-touch elite politicians think, well, those of them who aren't up to this for purposeful destruction, it can't be flipped by to normal with the flip of a
Peak Stupidity has documented some of this damage to the service economy, which is most of the American economy, with anecdotes, such as, in the recent posts To the 3rd World - Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu! and The new normal of fewer personal interactions. In this post we will start with another anecdote but also add our take on the big picture and some sympathy and understanding of those young people in this service economy of ours.
First of all, as I've written before, I don't believe a big country like the United States can survive with an economy that is comprised of business such as a bunch of Americans serving each other gourmet hamburgers and craft beer. Real, serious amounts of WEALTH aren't being created this way. I am no latecomer to this concept. The reader may want to take himself back to nearly 30 years ago to the time of D-squad presidential candidate Paul Tsongas in our post Collapse of the Service Economy - Part 3*. (Yes, cool story, bro! Check out the footnote - that was fun.)
The anecdote comes first. At the airport terminal a month back, I went into one of these chain sandwich shops for something a little healthier than Wendy's, Chick-fil-a, or Five Guys (those "gourmet hamburgers" again?). The place had no gate down, as many do even in the busiest times due to employee problems. It looked open, but "well, we're open, but we don't have too much stuff". "OK, can I get a turkey and cheddar sandwich?" "We don't have mayo or lettuce or ..." "That's fine. How about turkey with cheddar?"
The young black lady started making the sandwich, and just the terrible attitude for anyone in customer service (to me, it was "I don't care if we work or sell stuff or not.") had me going "hey, if you're missing half the stuff, I ought to get a discount". "We don't have any change though." "How about 5 dollars?" She took the $5 which was at least 1/2 off. I don't think they really had the register even set up, nobody was getting sales tax or a record of this, and the girl likely pocketed the money. The sandwich was fine plain. However, more thoughts about our heading toward 3rd-Worldliness came to me, and this was in a hub airport terminal.
That year half year or year off on the unemployment cash has got lots of the service business labor not really up for going back to work or working hard. Whatever organizational skills there used to be seem to have dissipated.
Now, let's look at this all from the other side of the counter. At Starbucks there is a sign touting employment at this icon of the service industry. $12, that's TWELVE BUCKS an hour, but wait, you get the health plan, and you get to participate in some stock plan. The latter two things are not any big benefit worth rushing to get on wifi to fill out an app app. for. Young people don't get much out of health plans - as I wrote in this recent post, I didn't have health insurance as a young man for a good while (about 15 years, as I recall). A stock plan or options? Hey, this isn't 1982 Microsoft, it's an established Big Biz operation. Then too, the market WILL crash - it's a matter of when.
Going back to that US Gov't cash that was benevolently doled out, all that "free" money that was printed up entered the economy, and the same hourly wage from just before the Kung Flu PanicFest has already been made worth significantly less.
Now, as to that $12 hourly, "oh, that's almost 4 times late 1970s minimum wages", you'll be told. "Per the government (BLS), inflation has been less, than that over that time, so it's just as good a wage as I made in 1980." I'll just beg to differ on that. Even if we do ignore those last couple of years of the Nixon/Carter era high inflation (through '82,'83?), seeing as the minimum wage was still $3.35 from '81 through the rest of the decade**, at 3 1/4 % average inflation with compounding, that $12/hr at Starbucks is equivalent to 1981 minimum wage.
Regarding the numbers, Peak Stupidity has discussed regarding various and sundry goods and services, some very specific, and some that are a big part of our budgets, with our Inflation topic key. We keep coming up with numbers more like 4 to 5 % yearly, and that was before the latest big splurge by the money printers. We have learned about the substitution, hedonics, and other tricks (or solutions, if you will) that not necessarily designed to cover up for high numbers, but will often have that effect.
That aside, here's the big point: The minimum wage was made for teenage workers and others at the very low end. There were jobs back then with real wages that could support a middle class lifestyle. That was due to the fact that America was still the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, and the fact that massive immigration, legal and illegal, had not yet brought in the numbers that could greatly increase labor supply for the same demand, at the whim of Big Biz.
I have a memory from the late 1970s of hearing about the "ridiculous" union-bargained $17/hr. wage that auto workers were getting in Detroit. That was A LOT of dough, equivalent to $80 or $90 per hour in 2021 dollars by my estimate. Were these auto workers, seen by others as possibly not the best you could come up with, worth that money? Maybe not, but they got that wage!
One of those auto workers could have started at minimum wage in high school or just out of school, until he had a record of stable employment (or knew someone who would hand in a resume). Now, after 4 years barista-ing, you're not going to any job like that. The much fewer blue collar manufacturing jobs that are around pay, what, $15 or $20 hourly to start, a pittance compared to 40 years ago. The fact that Big Biz can get cheap illegal labor holds wages down.
Even if the young hard-working barista borrows $50 large for college, white collar job prospects will be much dimmer today, than they would have been 40 years ago. Oh, and he's got a near-mortgage-sized debt to boot.
"Oh, come on! You work during the summers for your college money, and you bootstrap your way to a good middle class income. That's what I did.", say those that were in said coffee barista's position 40 years back. Nah, I don't think so.
I don't go much for that generational divisiveness, as political opinions and attitudes mostly split with no huge majority for all generations. Maybe one could say that the Boomers just don't understand the Millennials predicament. OTOH, if I want to generalize, I should say "Hey, Millennials, why in the Sam Hill don't you people fight hard against the massive immigration invasion?! Why didn't you people support President Trump on one of his more serious moves, fighting for tariffs to stave off the flood of cheap Chinese imports, to help bolster American manufacturing?!"
Well, see, some of them probably do. The others, well, they are stupid. Stupidity does not skip generations.
PS: You may be expecting a Joni Mitchell song out of this post's title. We embedded a nice live version of Both Sides Now early on in this blog.
* Come to think of it, you may want to read the other 2 parts of that series on the idea of a service economy - Part 1 and Part 2.
** There's a table on this page written by one Jacques Sprenger, from 12 years back on the The Digerati Life site. It looks like they quit publishing anything in 2013.
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Widespread Panic - Porch Song
Posted On: Wednesday - October 20th 2021 7:34PM MST
In Topics: Music
I was thinking about Athens, Georgia music today. That place had a good music scene, at least in the 1980s and '90s. You had REM, The B-52s, The Indigo Girls, and (help me out, people, with more) this band, called Widespread Panic.
Apropos of no stupidity whatsoever here is Porch Song from their 1st album, Space Wrangler, from 1988.
Today was a great day to be out on the porch, though.
Widespread Panic was:
John Bell – lead vocals, guitar.
Dave Schools – bass, vocals.
Domingo S. Ortiz – percussion.
John Hermann – keyboards, vocals.*
Todd Nance – drums, vocals.
Michael Houser – guitar, vocals.
* John Hermann wasn't yet with the band when this song was written.
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Semi Off Grid - Peak Stupidity Adherence
Posted On: Wednesday - October 20th 2021 1:57PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Preppers and Prepping Americans Liberty/Libertarianism
This post is a follow-up to our post of one week ago, but, as it turns out, it is a follow-up to a post of 3 months ago simultaneously. That is because, due to the 2nd absolutely egregious PS brain fart, we had forgotten last week that we had cut/pasted these nice prepper-like, screw-the-system, drop out ideas from Unz Review commenter John Grusko ALREADY. Actually, this is the 2nd time that we can REMEMBER, in fact. Yes, semi-chronic CRS* can be ugly, people.
I put a bolded statement to attest to this error in that previous post. At least, as I wrote in the update, my commentary was different last week than 3 months back. Last week's was Semi Off Grid, and the 3-month-back post was John Gruskos has a new version of "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out". Yeah, I had a different theme in that earlier post.
Anyway, all I want to do on this one is affirm my adherence with the many ideas from Mr. Grusko (whoever he is). That is not at all to say I am somebody special, and the readers haven't thought of most of this and/or more. This is to demonstrate my agreement with this drop-out or semi off grid way of living.
I left out both the very good introduction and the good conclusion by Mr. Grusko - they are in the other two posts. Here we go:
Wall Street:
Don’t give them interest. Instead of borrowing, save and buy with cash. - ✔
Don’t give them insurance premiums. Don’t carry any form of insurance, just live a careful and healthy lifestyle. - As a young man I did this with health insurance (a long time), car insurance (at least 10 years), 8 years with homeowners' insurance, and I've never seen a reason to have life insurance, being not even sure it's mostly a scam. My reasons were often different though, such as being tired of getting ripped off, mostly.
Don’t give them rent. Blackrock is on its way to becoming the only landlord. - After about 3 years - ✔
Don’t make your adult children pay rent to Blackrock. Let them live at home while they save to buy their own house with cash. - Well, I'd like to introduce independence early on, so I see some downside in addition to the very valid point. Living together in the same small community would be a compromise.
Hollywood:
Cancel your cable subscription, cancel your Netflix subscription, don’t go to the movie theaters, don’t rent from Redbox etc. - As of 22 years ago on the 1st, forever on the 2nd/4th, and 3 movies** over the last 10 years, ✔
Sell any and all Hollywood related merchandise currently in your possession. - No can do. As far as I know, I don't have any, so .. ✔
Federal government:
Eliminate (alcohol, tobacco) or minimize (gasoline, guns & ammo) your purchase of goods subject to Federal excise tax. - Now here's one I partially disagree with. Tobacco is not a factor for us, so I have no argument there. Alcohol is not much of an argument for us, but what I did stock up on was obtained at a very good price at the duty-free store. (There were tricks involved.) No duty, then no argument from me, but I can see where, barring having one's own still and/or doing a lot of home-brewing (great stuff!) others could rightly differ. ✔
Regarding gas, the serious preppers go diesel on lots of engines for a number or prepping-type reasons. There is that agricultural use thing too, so this is doable for some, but not for most of us. It's the guns and ammo one for which I say "no". If you reload, good on you, and guns can be obtained off the record. However, I say get your supply of both, and don't let the tax paid worry you. Hell, all of this stuff will be worth relatively much more once the dollar goes down the toilet, so that tax will have been peanuts in hindsight.
Never visit DC – don’t give the DC local economy a penny. - Missed it by THAT much! The last time had been a few decades back, but then my wife really wanted to go during a break we all had. OK, fine, you've seen one cherry blossom tree, you've seen 'em all, or plant your own! The museums had already gotten pretty woke by this time. However, for the future - ✔
State and local government (if you live in a blue state):
Eliminate or minimize purchases of goods subject to sales tax (junk food, fast food, “durable goods”) - How about get your durables from a red state, if you are not already there? ✔
Refrain from any home improvement which would increase your property tax. - That is very important in the very high property tax States of the northeast. Where we live, it's not but a few hundred bucks a year difference. I did manage to get the house appraised last at a really opportune time, seeing as the house was a disaster area at that point, hence that was the appointment time I made! I've never bothered with any building permits. so ✔
Don’t visit NYC or any other ultra-liberal area as a tourist. Never give the bastards a penny! - We may end up in NYC another time or two, but we are loath to shell out the big tourist bucks to begin with. Otherwise - ✔
Academia:
Tell your daughters to get married instead of going to college, and tell your sons to use higher education strictly as vocational training, with the explicit goal of paying as little as possible. - ✔ (though still in the future)
Emphasize that an Ivy League degree now carries negative prestige in your eyes. ✔
Mainstream media:
Cancel subscriptions, and don’t click on their websites (eliminate their click-count based advertising revenue). ✔
Big tech:
Use a $5/month “kid phone”, delete your facebook account, cancel your internet access, use the library for free internet access.. - Though I agree with the idea of getting away from the iEspionage as much as possible, what in the world will happen to Peak Stupidity though?!! That's a no-can-do for me for right now, but a goodidea for some of us.
Big Pharma:
Eat healthy, stay hydrated, exercise, get a good night sleep, and when you are very old and its time to die, just lie down and die gracefully. - I am really trying and successful on about half of this.
There is no need to ever give a penny to the so-called “Health Care” industry, staffed with murderers who perform abortions, perverts who perform sex change operations, and drug dealers who sell Oxycontin. - I'm in partial agreement. I did not refuse treatment after 2 different wrecks, but I was already insured via someone else the 1st time, and I paid my bill directly the 2nd. Buy catastrophic coverage, unless you really have a lot of money. Pay cash to any doctors and dentists who will (usually) be glad to take it. (That often gets you first in line to boot.)
No sex change. - None planned. ✔
Upon this reflection post, I am pretty down with Mr. John Grusko's suggestions.
Feel free to add give opinions on your reasons for adherence of non-adherence to these steps to minimize feeding the system that is not in any way working for our benefit at this point. Also, additions would be welcome.
* That's Can't Remember Shit syndrome.
** Two kids' movies and First Man. (That's our review.)
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Covid in the Colon - Pow! Well?
Posted On: Tuesday - October 19th 2021 7:13PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government The Neocons Kung Flu Stupidity
Peak Stupidity prides ourselves in our clever titles, thanks to the praise, hence motivation, from commenter MBlanc46 long ago. Does this one take the cake or what? Pretty stupid? Hey, that's the title, and we're sticking to it, and sticking it to this deceased Neocon with this post in reference to a quick VDare obituary post.
We have had no problem with speaking ill of the dead* or dead of the ill for that matter. However, our reasoning was only about those who were really harmful to the country with their politics and still in office. Because it took their dying to get them out of office, then, yes, I was glad they were dead.
For the recently deceased Colin Powell, that is not a valid reason. He may have been still politically active in terms of running his anti-Trump Neocon mouth, but he wasn't directly hurting the country with action as of late. Well, both our latest favorite VDare writer, Jack Dalton** and Donald Trump had some ill words to say about Colin Powell in the post Trump Calls Out Fake News Media Over Colin Powell Glorification.
Trump's words:
“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote. “Hope that happens to me someday.”Jack Dalton's words:
How many American lives were lost and ruined because of the lies Colin Powell told about “weapons of mass destruction"?That's most of the post, but Mr. Dalton noted (I haven't kept up) that Mr. Powell was 84 years old and supposedly died of COVID. Mr. Dalton made a typo and wrote "death at COVID" which could be a novel way to put it, but we wonder if it that death could be truly attributed to be FROM COVID vs. OF COVID. The man was getting pretty big too, from the pictures I saw on the results page of a bing search. Oh yeah, and Colin Powell had gotten vaccinated for the Kung Flu, twice. Ooops. Was it COVID, the vax, or other conditions? To log or not to log, that is the question.
How many children grew up without a father because of the policies Powell pushed as the first black Secretary of State?
Powell was nothing more an affirmative action member of the Global America Empire (GAE) elite, a black individual of modest ability promoted simply because he was sufficiently black.
This may seem a bit uncivil of Donald Trump and Jack Dalton, but I have no problem with their words. The ctrl-left has been uncivil for a few decades now. We are not going to win against them playing Mr. Nice Guy. Colin Powell may have been a decent man, although still an AA hire who lied (along with plenty others, such as the US President) us into another totally unnecessary war.
After all, probably over a Billion people were very glad to hear of the death of China's Chairman Mao, and would have spoke ill of that dead man in private in front of people they could trust. Adolph Hitler is almost always spoken of with ill words. Only the biggest of the dead Communists are spoken of with ill words, and by Conservatives only, as the left covers for their murder and destruction. We'd be better off getting comfortable with speaking ill of the dead of the ctrl-left going forward. "The only good Communist is a dead Communist", they said back during the Cold War. There's no reason for that axiom not to remain true in our near future.
Jack Dalton's final words of this newest great VDare post of his:
No one responsible for the state of our country or the world deserves praise or admiration. Only scorn.Peak Stupidity agrees wholeheartedly.
* Peak Stupidity has never had a reason to speak ill of THE Dead, however, and probably never will.
** Peak Stupidity mentioned this writer in two posts, None dare call them Commies and Peak Stupidity, Pundits, and Governors, OH MY!
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They hate him for his freedoms!
Posted On: Saturday - October 16th 2021 2:58PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Legal Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity President DeSantis
Do you remember this one, going back 20 years, right to the exact date 9/11/01? Yeah, right, that's the ticket, the Moslems were jealous of our freedoms. Even if that were the case, America is so far from a free country and was even BEFORE the Kung Flu PanicFest Totalitarianism, that those last words of the 1st verse of the Star Spangled Banner are officially a crock. OK, maybe that's why no buildings have had airliners flown into them since, due to lack of motivation? Sound plausible? I dunno ...(See 16 Years of Spreading Democracy - They still hate us for our freedoms(?).)
When you see the following pro- Ron DeSantis video that was somehow supposed to be an anti- Ron DeSantis video, you may understand why Peak Stupidity just dug out this old maxim. We'll get to the video, but I want to first point the reader to a new post by E.H. Hail of the Hail to You blog. His newest article, a treatise, you might say, is on The ancestry of Ron DeSantis: son of Florida, grandson of industrial Ohio, great-grandson of Italy. This is an interesting* long (~ 1/2 hour read) detailed article on the background of the liberty-respecting Governor of the Sunshine State - Florida.
In case you are not from Florida and you don't follow any of the Federal/State friction resulting from the Kung Flu Totalitarianism, Ron DeSantis was elected Governor there in '18 and has done a great job in keeping his State relatively Panic-Free. They may have the signs "Welcome to Florida... now go home" along the southbound I-95, I-75, US-1, and US 301, and the eastbound I-10, but I think more appropriate would be "Warning: Entering a Panic-Free Zone". Peak Stupidity has the closest thing to a man-crush a straight, curmudgeonly blogger can attain, and we are sold on any man who has personally told Joe Biden "go fuck yourself".
Through Mr. Hail's site (in the comments earlier, but also in his latest post itself), I came upon a certain video that was made by a pro-Panic Florida shyster lawyer as an advertisement against Governor DeSantis. (It's not even election time, so WTF is the point anyway - just "I hate you, and I'm spending money to tell everyone why"?) This is a must-see advertisement, appropriate for the most prized half-time slot during the Superbowl!
Look, I'm telling you, E.H. Hail told me in comments on that previous post that Daniel Uhlfelder, the lawyer who produced this ad, made it to disparage Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida! I know, you saw this with your own lyin' eyes! I! GET! THAT! Pro-Panic leader Daniel W. Uhlfelder of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida made this ad, and Ron DeSantis and Florida are bad and dangerous, see? That is, they are bad and dangerous if you are, well, not just pro-Panic... to see this ad being against the State and Governor you pretty much have to be the type that regards George Orwell's book 1984 as in an instruction manual. But, there ARE people like that, such as, maybe Daniel Uhlfelder.
Shyster lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder, per his 2-shyster law office website does it all, Real Estate Law, Family Law, Business Law, Criminal Defense, Estate Planning.... oh, Personal Injury. He's a "second-generation Florida native", so more native than Ron DeSantis, whose parents moved down in the 1970s from Youngstown, Ohio. About that 2nd generation - you have to go back, Dan!
Mr. Uhlfelder has been a Kung Flu Panicker in the most dramatic sense during the midst of it all. Per the Pensacola News Journal site, Florida 'Grim Reaper' attorney in hot water after three-judge panel asked Bar to consider sanctions. The Grim Reaper would be a costumed Daniel Uhlfelder, who roamed the beautiful Florida beaches from his Panhandle base to warn Floridians to stay off of them, along with suing Governor DeSantis for not DOING SOMETHING! This is Florida remember, with roughly an order of magnitude more milage of beautiful beaches*** than any other State in the Union. There are 49 other States and a couple of hundred other countries, Uhlfelder!
I really think this guy is not so stupid and tyrannical a person as to really believe what he put in that ad. I'm leaning toward: this guy wants the publicity. He got his name out there for a while as the beach Grim Reaper warning others of the Florida impending
However, are there other Americans who would see this ad as showing the State and Governor in a bad light? I shudder to think about that and them. Please spread this video ad around to any pro-Panic relatives who are still around ... not like they've died, I mean... hopefully just a large Social Distance away.. Don't tell them what you think, and see if this makes them hate the the State of Florida and its Governor Ron DeSantis.
Yes, regarding Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida, the Panickers and Totalitarians hate them for their freedoms!
* I don't personally get into family history very much, mine or others, but it was interesting to see this family tree that led to the current Florida Governor with speculation on how he came to be this stalwart defender of liberty and anti-Panic leader.
** That's east of Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, on the way to Panama City.
*** No, I most certainly DON'T count beaches for which the water temperature only goes up to 65 F max... in August!
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Big Biz eTreehuggers
Posted On: Saturday - October 16th 2021 11:12AM MST
In Topics: Treehuggers Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity
I hope the reader can make out the wording above, shrunk to fit our format, but also Paint™ed up to cover up any bleed-through ID'ing info. It tells me that I can win 500 dollars if I sign up to get eStatements (but probably not) instead of paper statements as I always have. I've seen the same thing, but without the chance of getting
For both this bank statement and the electric company, this type of written encouragement to be a good Treehugger and go electronic is written on a 2nd sheet of paper, and for both, this 2nd sheet has no other important information on it!** I remember that one of these things tells me to "go paperless". " Let's save the trees! Do you know that after a lifetime of getting 2nd pages of your statements with this important environmental advice on it, you will have saved a tenth of an entire Longleaf Pine tree by the time you get your last statement, sent to the nursing home, because your estate probably stiffed us?!"
Man, this stuff is stupid! It's a combination of Big-Biz Treehugging virtue signaling and Big-Biz bureaucracy, motivated by management for the real purpose of saving some bucks and attempting to sell you more services via ads on their site.
This brings me to the old bank that I dealt with for about 25 years, it having only been bought twice in that time, a pretty good record nowaday. I really liked the (pretty much) one teller that I seemed to be the only one in the bank with most times. I first thought the place was going tits up, but then realized after a while that most customers were doing things electronically and didn't deal in cash as much as our family tends to do. After the quick anecdote that I will relate happened, I ended up seeing this nice teller again after most of decade when I went into the place with a friend, and it was nice to see her.
The newest owner, a Big-Biz operation, told me on that paper statement (probably a separate page!). that if I didn't get electronic statements, I'd have to pay one buck a month for each account. We had three. I asked some manager type if he could turn this off, but he just humored me and, no dice. OK! I had an idea. I had gotten laser printer print-outs from the nice teller lady about 5 times already when I'd lost the statements. "Hey, OK, turn me off the paper statements. I'll just get REDACTED to print me out the stuff a month at a time or whatever." "Nope, they'll still charge you if you don't go electronic."
Okedokie, then! We cashed out the 3 accounts totaling about $13,000 and said "SEE YA!" without looking back. Did that Big-Biz outfit learn anything here? I seriously doubt it. Go ahead, Big Biz Bureaucrats, be those virtue signaling eTreehuggers with your eStatements! You're gonna save a piece of paper a month but give me about 13,000 other ones.
* Hey, it's an easy mistake to make. A million dollars in ten years may be worth what's now 5 Benjamins.
** That is, other than the same ID info on the back side, as on the first sheet.
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Turning America into Haiti - it's not a mistake.
Posted On: Friday - October 15th 2021 3:33PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists US Feral Government ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny
Peak Stupidity would like to link our readers to, and excerpt most of, a VDare article or two every day of the week. Immigration stupidity is still the most used topic key of the site, as the immigration invasion, legal and illegal, is an EXISTENTIAL one. However, you can just read VDare.
Something struck me in the latest James Kirkpatrick article on that site, because he understands something that Peak Stupidity has been saying for a long time. In Biden’s Immigration Disaster: None Dare Call It Treason. But What If THEY Call It War?, Mr. Kirkpatrick discusses the usual Anarcho-Tyranny and the newest Immigration Stupidity (OK, EVIL) of the newest caravans of Haitians, Guatemalans, and pretty much whoever wants to just enter our country. It starts with the revealing of one traitorous dual citizen* scumbag, going by the name Irineo Mujica, who is encouraging and even arranging these invasions.
Let Irineo Mujica, who is reportedly leading one of these caravans, speak for himself—migrants are coming “with or without papers” and that they are “ready for war”.I won't go through the whole of Mr. Kirkpatrick's article. You can read it there, but bring your blood pressure meds.
There's the part that stood out for me, in bold:
And it has set loose more than 100,000 illegals, regardless of Covid vaccination status, while simultaneously pushing massive pandemic restrictions on actual Americans. This isn’t simply a mistake. It’s a deliberate attempt to turn America into the Third World, so the Left can reign over one giant Haiti.That's the deal! I've written this before: The Globalist elites of the world don't want to have to deal with any hold-out countries, with lots of White Middle Class people. These people tend to start competing businesses with better ideas. They tend to form political associations of all sorts that interfere with Big-Gov/Big-Biz business as usual. They vote wrong, if you let them, or if you don't make a big effort to overwhelm them with fraud. (Hey, it's more work than you think!)
The Globalist elites want to have populations such as those that have been in Latin America, Africa, and most of Asia, for centuries. They can throw some bones to them, if they feel like acting like the good guys occasionally - it's a feel-good thing. Maybe some other times they want to put the hammer down by finding an excuse for some additional hard-core Totalitarianism, for the people's own good - most of the peons don't freakin' know any better, and the ones that do can't do squat-all about it.
They've got to get rid of that hard-working, intelligent White Middle Class though. That is TOP PRIORITY.
I'm glad to read someone else, especially on a great website like VDare, write this out. I will quibble with Mr. Kirkpatrick that's it's not only leftists who want this. Besides the Commies, there are others who would like to destroy traditional America.
* Which, IMNSHO, is a stupid concept to begin with. Pick a side.
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