Trump, the Census, and Apportionment of Representation
Posted On: Saturday - August 16th 2025 9:40AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump US Feral Government Morning Constitutional
That title sounds all high & mighty, but we're just here to give Trump some praise today after all that bashing of him most of the week. Here's what he's good at:
Only a small portion of Americans are really into the politics, by which we know lots of what goes on as a given, as we assume that everyone else does too. (Speaking of "assume", I shouldn't assume you all assume that either.) President (or not) Trump, in his Reality-TV star mode, brings to light in front of the whole American public things that haven't been before.
We think everyone knows the anti-White destruction that's been going on in South Africa since the place was given over to Black! rule 3 decades ago. Nah. Lots of people had no idea. They don't care. Maybe they do a little more now, after Trump made a big deal about the anti-White hate, violence, murder in that now collapsed society. No other President would have invited that Presidential thug here and show him video in front of the World. Kudos!
I've written this week, with 2 examples, that Trump often won't care until it gets personal. (One wonders if he, the President, would have even known about current S. Africa without recent input from, say, Elon Musk.)
The Presidential elections have been pretty darn personal indeed for Donald Trump, since 10 years ago this summer. Has he ever thought about the other aspect of illegal immigration's effect on elections, not just that they often CAN, and are encouraged to vote, but that, the more that are counted in the Constitutionally proscribe decadal Censuses, the more electoral representation certain States have? (California is by far the biggest example.) I've gotta admit that this had never clicked with me either until the time I wrote Illegal Aliens' effect on Election '16 2 months after that '16 election.
The 1st aspect, their voting, is illegal, but then so is entry to the country without permission. The 2nd, however, is unfortunately NOT proscribed, to cite chapter and verse, in Article 1, Section 2 thusly:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."Free persons", it says, and 3/5 of slaves. Where do illegal aliens fit in? What about this "in such manner as they shall by law direct"? Who's "they" there? "They" sounds like the members of Congress, but I"m not sure.
I don't know. Firstly, I'm glad that President Trump has brought this up to give lots more American a clue on how we are getting screwed in one more way. Secondly, he may very well have the power to specify the counting method, though surely, per the Constitution, the next census will be in 5 years. Stripping out suspect numbers from databases, now, well, that's not a bad idea. Were Deportation Nation to ramp up to a serious level numerically, just the idea that illegal "status" must be obtained might actually have them staying in the shadows for real, better yet, in the shadows of big shade trees and their sombreros, back home.
I know, he only cares because it's personal to him, but yeah...
Good work, President Trump. Keep the Blompfkrieg rolling.
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Peak Stupidity in the South Carolina Low Country
Posted On: Friday - August 15th 2025 4:01PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Political Correctness
It started with an unfathomably stupid move, the arranging for "cheap" labor for the harvesting of rice and cotton. The results of that stupidity will probably be with us through the life of this nation. We're into more recent news in this post.
(Note: Dashcam imagery. All rights reserved - not part of Mr. McLeod's official campaign portfolio.)
The South Carolina Low Country is not sending their best... to the Governors mansion up the Interstate in Columbia. Though he came from Florida, Mark Sanford held a seat in the same 1st Congressional District (Go South Carolina!) - represntin' Charleston and down the coast through Beaufort and Hilton Head, up toward Georgetown, and inland through Moncks Corner, both before and after he was Governor of the State.
Gov. Sanford, in that executive position from '03 through '11, was a decent enough Conservative as most have been in the Deep South*. Unfortunately, he got himself embroiled in a People magazine style scandal by having an extra marital** affair with a woman named Maria Belen Chapur. She sounds sexy going by the name alone, and I even removed the accent mark! She was no illegal alien, this Miss Chapur, but she did live down in Argentina, where the Governor of the SC went surreptitiously while his family and good folks in the State were to believe he was out hiking on the Appalachian Trail. I remember reading "We were without a Governor for a week and didn't know it!" I've got no problem with that. That's the sign of a Conservative State. The State got over it, and Mark Sanford continued on as Governor, and then represented that District 1 again.
A couple of years later there was elected a real piece of work, one Nancy Mace, discussed, with a short bio., here 2 1/2 months back in the post Nancy Mace enters photo of her privates into Congressional record to protect women's privacy. Uh, yeah, now she's running for Governor, for the GOP.
Now another Low Country gentleman, one Mullins McLeod, running for the Democrat nomination for the Governorship, has been in the news lately. The GateWay Pundit, always good for some gossipy style stories, reports “I’m Superman, Godd**n It…I’m Gonna Kick Your F**king Teeth In!” – South Carolina Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Goes on WILD Tirade As He’s Arrested in His Underwear (VIDEO). Yes, there is video - it's an hour long. I'm sorry that I don't have the time to put into watching that. Now, were it Nancy Mace in this story, I could find it in me to squeeze a viewing into my busy blogging schedule.
I don't know where they're getting these people. The thing is, South Carolina and most of the Deep South States don't have the madness that one sees in your Californias, New Yorks, and now Colorados and such. The people, Black! or White, at least, are generally more socially Conservative and don't go for the complete madness. However, some individuals do get a bit wild and wacky - I have not even gotten to a prospective Senator Grahamnesty primary opponent, an interesting character named Andre Bauer. Another time...
The only reason I started this post to begin with, however, is just this one quote from a SC D-squad member who, as the rest of the party feels obligated to admit, wants to be rid of Mr. Ranty McUnderwear (and socks too...) The quote from one Christale Spain in the GP article:
“After reviewing the transcript of the dash cam footage from his recent arrest, it is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being instead of a campaign for governor."Now that's a new one! I mean, "has gone off the deep end" is a nice idiom we all know and love. There are many others. What's this...? "navigating"? "Profound Challenges"? Nah, he's just nuts. So is that Mace lady. Is "navigating profound challenges" the new "one fry short of a happy meal"?
PS: Peak Stupidity wrote a bit about the current SC Governor Henry McMaster in Part 2 of our series When Henry replaced Nikki. He spent a year as Governor after being appointed when Nikki was appointed UN Ambassador. (we speculated here, in the 3rd post, that Trump may have been pretty wily with that move.)
McMaster then won the elections in '18 and '22, so he cannot run again per term limits.
* Yes, Nikki Haley was generally a Conservative, having grown up most of her life in the State, but her NeoCon ways and lust for power detracted from that.
** It wasn't the first marital affair that was the problem but that extra one was.
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The Trump beatings will continue until morale improves
Posted On: Thursday - August 14th 2025 9:59AM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
This week's blogging has inadvertently turned into Trump Fest here at Peak Stupidity. I see a couple of more posts coming too, so HEADS UP!
Any readers who are not appreciative of the Trump bashing here, skip to near the bottom, and it'll get better.
In another bout of Banana Republicanism, President Trump is angry at FED Chairman Jerome Powell due to the latter's not lowering interest rates. The basic "Federal Funds Rate" is targeted at 4 1/4 - 4 1/2% right now. (Imagine what natural, free market price-of-money interest rates would be without a FED.) The rates have been raised over the last few years to try to fight inflation. More on that...
Just as with the BLS numbers, no, I don't put it past any branch of the US Gov't now to work against this guy who is not part of the Deep State and has been screwing with the well-established Administrative State. Powell IS probably against Trump.
However, well, come on! Inflation will roll on as long as the FED keep creating currency out of thin air to support trillion dollar deficits.
The GateWay pundit doesn't do too much real thinking. It's a MAGA-leaning site, at least, so the opinions ring true, but, they go along with Trump in President Trump Threatens a “Major Lawsuit” Against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Unleashes Fire On Him After Seeing Latest Inflation Data.
AS TGP readers know, Powell has stubbornly held interest rates steady for months despite plummeting inflation numbers, claiming the tariffs will possibly reverse the trend. As a result, Americans are having great difficulty affording homes.OK, but, I thought we didn't trust those BLS numbers. Peak Stupidity sure doesn't!
On Tuesday, the latest inflation numbers came in. Once again, Powell was proven a fool as inflation held steady at 2.7% in July, shy of the 2.8% Wall Street expected.
Oh, about the lawsuit. You can't sue a guy for interest rate manipulation, can you? Shouldn't we have been suing the pants off them since 1913, in that case? No, the lawsuit is nothing but a tantrum. See, the new FED building will end up costing something like $2.5 Billion as opposed to the planned $1.9 Billion. Yes, Trump is a real estate man, so he doesn't like those cost overruns. In the meantime:
Yeah, the DOGE clock actually looks significant, but that assumes all cuts were in the Big Bulbous Bill. They weren't. Our financial problems are not about the FED building, with a waste - if you include the whole thing, which you should - of, oh, back-'o-the-envelope about 0.12% of just the DEFICIT, the overspending for this year annualized.
As for the main point, no, Jerome Powell is between the same rock and hard place as the rest of the FEDs over the last decade at least. Raise the rates to fight inflation, and the interest on the debt becomes nearly 1/2 of all incoming tax revenue. Lower it, and inflation goes up... but, no, Trump says he's got it all under control, with help from a new BLS lady perhaps.
President Trump rages:
“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell must NOW lower the rate,” Trump stated. “Steve Manouychin really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser.”Yes, I'd forgotten that. Trump hired the guy! Sorry to bust your Reality-TV bubble, Trump, but inflation will continue due to spending such as your BBB and the numbers that you could see above. Even if rates were back to 2%, interest paid on that $37.2 Trillion would be 3/4 of a $Trillion, which is 3/8 of that deficit. Now, even if you would end MIGA and cut half the military expenditures, interest payment would take more than that savings.
“The damage he has done by always being Too Late is incalculable, the president added. “Fortunately, the economy is sooo good that we’ve blown through Powell and the complacent Board.”
Hey, he's not a numbers guy. I knew that going in, well, starting this post. He should shut his pie hole about the FED and Jerome Powell because that's all water long ago under the bridge.
That's our Trump rant for today, but there's also the general MAGA movement - that he still leads - to think about, which, besides the MIGA end of it, is doing a lot of #Winning! (Well, I'd like to see real people in real jail too.) Let me paste in a great comment in its entirety by Unz Review commenter Dmon that includes the optimism that Peak Stupidity still has. This includes writing about points we've made here before. (I have put in 2 paragraph breaks and reinstated the cuss words):
As Trump (or maybe just the meme) said, “They’re not after me. They’re after you. I’m just in the way”. So when Trump was elected the first time, they immediately ginned up a coup, staged an armed revolt, suppressed the 1st Amendment and rigged an election. Then they tried to jail Trump and anybody who defended him, established a literal Ministry of Truth, imported foreign invaders and tried to force everyone in America to become a subject of a medical experiment. They essentially told every Trump voter that you are nothing – we can do whatever we want to you. We can tell you boys are girls, we will cut your child’s dick off, we will make you kneel to a drug-addicted gorilla, just because we can.Look, I HATE
It doesn’t matter what you think of Trump. If you’re going to let them do that to you and get away with it, then you might as well just curl up and die. So what do we have now? For the first time in God knows how many years, it’s OK to express pro-White opinions. Shiloh Hendrix and the woman who got stomped in Ohio can receive donations without the state stealing them. Opposing DEI is a legitimate viewpoint, and victims of it are suing and winning. Invaders are actually being deported. And the deep state lying sacks of shit and the woke AWFLs who support them are actually getting a (small so far) taste of their own medicine, and at least having the insufferable smug smirks wiped off their faces. For probably the first time in decades, White people again feel like part of a living, great civilization, the one that made the modern world.
It is beyond Trump – when Trump pisses off his constituency, they let him know, rather than making excuses for him. But it is because of Trump. I don’t care if Trump goes after these fuckers because of principles or just for simple revenge – his revenge is my revenge. And there is no rebuilding without revenge – that’s like painting over termite damage. The vermin must be removed.
Along those more optimistic lines, we'll have some #TrumpWinning regarding voting and also the southern border later this week. Morale will then improve.
PS: Why the "Feral Government" topic key on this post? The FED is not Federal (neither does it have any reserves), but anyway, we are pretty much beyond adding topic keys, so that had to do.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit B: That BLS Lady
Posted On: Tuesday - August 12th 2025 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
Our point is that Trump often will not take a problem seriously unless/until it involves him personally. Yesterday we presented Exhibit A for our case.
Exhibit B is Trump's very recent firing of the woman above from the Feral Gov't's Bureau of Labor Statistics. You'll find quite a bit of mention of this small government bureau in the many Peak Stupidity posts on Inflation. These "green eyeshade boys", well, after D.I.E. not so much (see image) are responsible for disseminating loads of economic stats, but it's inflation and unemployment figures that are their bread and butter. Those 2 measures are probably the most important for the average American, so it'd be really nice if we could get accurate numbers.
Peak Stupidity has mostly discussed the highly-suspect well-lower-than-we-see inflation figures over the many years. There are reasons the unemployment numbers have not reflected reality since a change back in the 1990s. Anyone "looking for work" for more than 6 months is not counted now - personally, I think that started so the BLS could use numbers obtained from unemployment offices - which still don't count everyone*** so, not a nefarious move. Still, the inaccuracy, on the low side, remains.
Indeed, though, as Ron Paul just wrote in his latest column, Governments Lie. (That's another nice truthful comment from this nearly 90 y/o Constitutionalists' Constitutionalist. - Reminder to self!)
To Trump and his "strictly personal" policy finally, this BLS is supposedly a nonpartisan organization, say, like the NOAA or the NTSB. We're not so sure. Dark Brandon appointed Erika McEntarfer, to head the BLS in early '24. I'm sure people in positions like this come and go, with not too much thought being given to political concerns. She was just a manager of a bunch of accountants, right? Nah, not anymore. See, the ctrl-left does nothing in a fair and impartial manner unless forced to.
I'm going to link to ZeroHedge on this one, as this kind of thing has been their "core competency" since I first read there over a dozen years back. "No One Can Be That Wrong" - Trump Fires Labor Statistics Boss After "RIGGED" Jobs Data. I gotta say, for me and I'm sure a lot of people, statements and actions like this seem like pure Banana Republicanism Don't like the economic reports from those government peons - fire 'em and get people who will give you better numbers, dammit!
However (and Ron Paul agreed, I'm glad to see), Trump is right about this. I don't have a link****, but I can remember that ZeroHedge reported at the time the story of that ridiculous revision of an unemployment "print"***** that brought it from an 800,000 gain in jobs - going by recall here - down to a couple of 10,000s. Not only that, but Americans, that is non-aliens at least, LOST jobs. I can definitely believe that the BLS performed shenanigans on behalf of Dark Brandon, Jill, the DS, the Autopen, Kameltoe, and the gang. There are details in the ZH post. (My memory is not bad at-all.)
HOWEVER, if this was somewhere in Trump's Reality-TV star head, why did he not fire Erika McEntarfer when he took office? The election was over. I suppose that big revision from a big GREEN very good unemployment print before the election to a small RED one afterwards didn't matter. No, it doesn't matter until it does again.
Over the whole time Trump has been involved in national politics, has he cared a whit about the BLS itself, much less any of the numbers they'd come out with? Now, when the numbers are not so good - and another one, the monthly deficit (not sure that's from the BLS), does not look good either - Trump decides to fire the messenger (and, yes, the "fixer") I mean, the Golden Ages is suppose to be upon us any day now. NOW Trump is taking this personally.
PS I just remembered an Exhibit pre-A, if you will. That was Trump's long postponement of doing a thing about major internet/antiSocial Media censorship of Conservatives. There was action he could have taken during those 4 years of -45 via Part 230 of the Communications Act. He didn't bring it up until he finally realized all the censorship may just affect his '20 election chances**, way too late in the game. Here's our post from Halloween day of '20, 3 days before the election: Big-"Tech" censorship and Section 230.
In that post, we referenced a 2-week older post (part of a series), titled President Donald Trump: **the Bad**, the Good, and the Ugly. This will sound familiar now:
Yeah, "the hard way" is how Mr. Kirkpatrick puts it. President Trump didn't worry about all this too much when it was Alex Jones getting cancelled, or Laura Loomer, or the Proud Boys or whomever else. Now it's about that big NY Post story on the Biden scandal that is very important for Trump in this last stretch leading up to the re-election. (Haha, note that I'm still on his side.) Trump's people and I believe the NY Post's tweets were wiped out for whatever normal Orwellian reasons Twitter comes up with for this sort of thing*. Suddenly NOW this Section 230 of the Communications Act is important! The personality of this guy, man, amazing, just amazing, you wouldn't believe ... [/Trump]I wrote that nearly 5 years ago. I knew I'd mentioned this personality defect before.
I mean, it's been years of this Big Tech censorship crap and the Trump administration has done nothing but occasionally bluster about it. It's been empty threats. Now, down toward 2 weeks before the election, the President wants to at least threaten them with legal action by the FCC or someone. Really? Can't those 2 Big Tech titans wait it out a couple of weeks with whatever kind of obfuscation their $500/hr lawyers can come up with and see how the election turns out? This stuff should have been in progress and either changing the law or putting some serious fear into these people long before now!
But no, see, now it's PERSONAL! Come on, man!
** All other things equal, which they were not.
*** I've been unemployed for a number of periods and only went into one of these office ONCE. I didn't get any money, because the paperwork was going to be a mess, so I walked out, never to return.
**** Did I mention yet on this blog that internet search sucks now?
***** We Economists use that term- you wouldn't understand. Neither would I.
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Trump, nothing businesslike, it's strictly personal - Exhibit A: Washington, Federal Shithole
Posted On: Monday - August 11th 2025 6:26PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Race/Genetics
We've got so much more to write about, but stuff comes up in the news that makes me exclaim "See?!" This will probably just a series of 2 posts, but lots more examples could be presented based on this thought.
I don't say Trump takes everything personally. My contention is that many problems here in America have to PERSONALLY affect the guy before he does anything about them. These can be problems that affect the whole of us, but, until Donald Trump is personally harmed, often, he doesn't get it. It's not happening, or he never thought about it before... It takes a big ego to be like this.
Granted, it WAS personal when the ctrl-left waged lawfare against him for a couple of years. That he takes all that personally is quite understandable. Generally too, the people he'd like to take righteous revenge on are the types we'd all like to see thrown in dungeons. Win-Win, for the most part...
Peak Stupidity will present 2 examples of this.
For this example, we bring up the news story* involving the beating taken by one of Trump's former employees a week ago as the man valiantly protected his girlfriend from Black! "teens" that had attempted to car-jack the couple. Because I am not quite ready to live Idiocracy at this moment - maybe in a couple of years - rather than the commonly used moniker, let me state that this victim of racial violence was one Ed Coristine. This young man had been an instrumental player on that DOGE committee** we heard so much about for half a year.
It wasn't Trump himself who suffered this time, so his motivation is personal loyalty, not a bad thing. However, plenty of White men and women, hell, every other race, sex, creed, orientation, whatever, have had the crap beat out of them or even been murdered by violent black men in Washington, FS. Did Trump not know that this is "a thing" in this city? More broadly, does he think Washington FS is unique in having this problem of inner city violence?
I do understand that this city is unique in that, per the US Constitution before the "Home Rule" law signed by Richard Nixon 52 years ago, the US Congress rules the nation's capital. Since the attack on his former employee, Trump, the would-be King, is attempting to take control of that city himself. If the Congress won't lift a finger, I don't blame him on the particulars. Does he have enough energy, "bandwith" the software co. managers used to erroneously call it, to worry about this, with thousands of more important things to deal with?
"Is the prevention of black violence in the inner city of Washington not important?", one might ask. It's not, because this solution doesn't solve the general problem. Trump hasn't even mentioned the general problem, that our inner cities are all violent shitholes due to the "people who live there". Whatever solution to rule the FS is proposed, it won't work because those people still live there, and live in all other inner cities.
How can you not know about this half-century-running problem? Has Trump never hung out in the bad hoods in NYC? Has he been that pampered? I've thought of him as being street smart, more than your Nancy Pelosis and Hildabeasts, at least. Perhaps, due to this attack on his personal employee and maybe friend, Trump could get to thinking, "Hey, there's a lot of violence in some other cities too! Let me look at those graphs in these Steve Sailer tweets! Wow, you've never seen so much mugging. Much too much mugging. We gotta do something..." Yeah, "What's to be done?"
At least he cares. It's not just America's business. Now it's PERSONAL!
PS: Thankfully, Mr. Coristine had nothing worse than a concussion (may still have long-term effects) and a bloody nose.*
* Man, internet search is getting worse and worse. It was hard enough to find a photo of the young man all bloodied up - I'd seen it before - as the images from the search for "edward coristine beaten images" (or "carjacking") showed him in his normal state.
A search for "edward coristine medical condition" didn't help me get that info easily either. The articles were 5 days old, at least. Finally, one from the day of the happening gave his medical condition at the time.
**... their work likely having been for nothing other than to illustrate the evil of the ctrl-left. The Big Bulbous Bill turned those savings into peanut... shells on the floor.
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Jerry Garcia gratefully(?) Dead 30 years today
Posted On: Saturday - August 9th 2025 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
We lost this great musician 30 years ago today. I bet certain readers and one particular commenter thought Peak Stupidity had forgotten.
Nope. I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that The Dead's lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia died at age 53. I'm not trying to be too dramatic here, as if it a day we lost one or some of the many Kennedies* or something. 9/11 was another day like that. With Jerry's death, though, it was more that I was in the same place I often was, but that summer I had had thoughts of following the band around.
I've never owned a VW Microbus. I don't make bead necklaces, create decorative paraphernalia, or package up drugs, say, for trading for tickets. In the Summer of '95 though, I had a decent amount of money in the bank for that time and my lifestyle then. I worked on my own schedule. Why not drive my favorite and only American sports car around the country to a handful of shows? I could watch the girls twirling outside the shows while sitting in the hatchback, not doing drugs but miraculously enjoying the show anyway. I might have needed a miracle, as they say, to get tickets. Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore...
I was on the front porch when I heard something on the radio. That was the end of that proposed plan and that all-American, one-of-a-kind musical band.** I just sat there and I had to blast out some Dead for an hour. The neighbors were more understanding then.
I did go to 4 shows, 3 in the '80s and 1 in the '90s, one at which I didn't actually SEE the band, but I got to hear the music very well from the hillside above. It was... an experience, man ... The Dead started playing with that name 60 years ago, they played for 30 years, and the end for Jerry was 30 years ago, August 9th of 1995. The music lives on, more than for any other band. I read that there are existing recordings of ~95% of the 2,300-odd shows. They were a hard-working band. Without subtracting out a couple of dead (pun serendipitous) periods, that number of shows means they played music on over 1/5 of all those 10,957 days.
Here are two of the goodbye songs that Jerry and Robert Hunter wrote:
Ripple:
There is a road, no simple highway
between the dawn and the dark of night,
and if you go no one may follow.
That path is for your steps alone.
You who choose to lead must follow,
but if you fall you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.
Brokedown Palace:
River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy.
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago.
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home.
Goin' home, goin' home,
by the waterside I will rest my bones.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul.
One can find hundreds or even thousands of versions of these songs and pick better ones, but I put these two in for the clearest sound. Both those double albums, Live Dead, the one with the beautiful cover paintings of New York and San Francisco, and Reckoning, with its acoustic recordings, would be great introductions to the band. It's never too late.
PS: Since I found this on the way, here's Dave Letterman with Jerry and Bob from back 43 years ago, when they'd already been playing together 17 years. They play a nice Deep Elem Blues and Monkey and the Engineer for the Late Night audience.
* I remember exactly where I WASN't when that one Kennedy got killed - on the ski slopes.
** I can't just say rock and roll, because they played so many styles, sometimes together.
Also, I'm sure Dead and Company and the other spin-off bands were fun, but ...
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British Rising ... against the symptoms, but not for the cause.
Posted On: Saturday - August 9th 2025 9:37AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Internets Websites Political Correctness Globalists Media Stupidity People's Revolt
Peak Stupidity had gotten all excited at the time of our writing of this post at the beginning of this week. Is the REAL fight against the Globalist PRP really on? Will the Brits rise up?* I'm optimistic always, but some of the words from the Brits involved make me slightly less so.
First, as a correction to that last post, I have read that these marches were arranged online to a good extent, Kier Starmer's TruthBritain org be damned. However, they've been using Facebook. Seriously, Facebook?!. It's Twenty Twenty Five, you know... Good on 'em - whatever works. Secondly, though I'd read it, I didn't mention that the immediate causes for the protests are the housing of
These hotels were the focus of at least the one Southport riot that Peak Stupidity sharply focussed on a year ago. (Again, look under the Immigration Stupidity Topic Key for posts from last summer.)
I suppose there IS a use for X-Twitter, as it's been hard for me to find a place on the web to follow this the way I'd like to. That'd be a barrage of video clips - say a couple of minutes to half an hour each - of the marchers, showing the camaraderie, the songs, slogans, people pushing the cops back, maybe shoving some black-shirt Globalist-sent opposition members onto their asses, etc...
Youtube is nearly useless for unbiased or patriot-centered video, at least if one goes through the search functions. A commenter on ZeroHedge linked to the following 8 minute report in a thread under a post about happenings in Spain.** This is not one of the videos I really want to watch as described just above. However the guy is, no, COMES ACROSS AS, an unbiased reporter on the facts of these happenings in various cites in England. (In general, the protests are at or about hotels housing these foreigners.)
You'll see that the narrator, Mr. "British Stand, or that's the name of the channel, I dunno, sounds fair enough. When you let the wording he uses sink in though, "men often with no confirmed documentation, "concerned residents", "migrant accommodation sites", "legitimate safety concerns", "two sides of Britain", "a particular challenge to lore enforcement", and let's not forget "the far right", you realize it's not an unbiased report. The Overton Window is still wide open to the left/Globalist view, with no good angle on the cause of immigration patriotism.
The title with its "fairness": Nationwide SHOWDOWN: Brits Take to the Streets Over Migrant Crisis!. "Migrant Crisis", that's another one. We didn't know - importing millions of foreigners has caused a crisis somehow!
Yeah, and "the far right" basically means Nazi. I beg to differ that the German Nazis were far right - I don't recall any calls for limited government, hard-core gun rights and that ... Who's really been far right? Barry Goldwater, Jesse Helms, I don't know... but nobody wants to be "far right" now. So the protesters deny that term over and over. I think it was this video even that had an advert, as they say there, for a T-Shirt with "Not Far Right, Right so Far". That's clever, but someday I hope people will just retort with "So what? We're proud to be on the far right".
It's not just this video but the words from Brits being interviewed during the protests that's got me less optimistic. They talk about the "security concerns". Sure, that's a reason to be mad. They talk about how these foreigners are "unvetted". Sure, that's no good. They talk about the money supporting these worthless "migrants" that should be going to down-and-out Brits instead. Sure, if you do Socialism, it doesn't work well when you import additional layabouts.
Perhaps they've warned each other on Facebook or in person. It may be common sense fear of being taken away and banned from further marches, but these people just WILL NOT talk about the fundamental problem here - they are being REPLACED as a people! You might hear that in private, but I have hardly seen one or two instances of anyone telling these reporter types that the whole Programme is wrong because Brits have a right to their own country.
Let me put it this way. If these protests get really big, enough to disrupt British life, politics, and the economic goals of the Globalists, perhaps the Government can
"To address your concerns, people of Great Britain, here are our new policies:"
1) Security Concerns: "From now on, sentencing for those Moslems who feel up your 10 y/o's at the swimming pool, gang rape your daughters, set your cars on fire, and stab you all with scimitars for disrespect of Islam will be DOUBLED, nay TREBLED!"
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
2) Vetting: "We will be vetting all newcomers. Background checks will be performed on every person on every boat that crosses the Mediterranean. We will peruse absence and tardiness records from Afghani school systems. We will press government officials for complete information from all Senegalese DMV offices for driving infractions and suspensions. Ethiopian records will be scrutinized, scrute - in - eyezd, I tell you, for delinquent mortgage loans, judgments, and leans against huts."
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
3) Public Support: "The Government will no longer use British taxpayers' money to support newcomers' hotel stays, meals, phones, and toiletries. This will be left to charity. We are already in talks with 10 Soros-supported GS-NGOs who will gladly put up the money for
[British Public:] "Brilliant!"
The British seem to be arguing against the many symptoms but not the cause. Hopefully we'll see something different as this goes on. Hopefully it WILL go on.
* I still want to write a post about the situation in the Euro countries vs in America, when it comes to resistance. This is not that post. I've gotta get more thoughts together on this.
** This is basically a note to self. I'll post about this, including a great concise comment from one of the long-term ZH guys next week.
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Wingnuts and going Postal
Posted On: Friday - August 8th 2025 7:36AM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation
(Not to scale. Larger than actual size... unless your phone is tiny.)
Yep, it's another real-world inflation post here. I present just a couple more inflation data points, but they aren't very precise ones this time. We're lacking accurate numbers from memory and/or accurate time scales.
That could be it above - no way to tell without a scale there - a 10mm / 1.5 mm pitch* wing nut. I was just glad to have found one, first of all, at Ace Hardware. I'd have liked one with even bigger wings for my purpose. I bought the single wing nut to hold the spare tire tight against the vehicle, with a fender washer and the threaded hook from the vehicle. It works. It cost me $2.89. Yes, $2.89 for a wing nut!? Yes, I sound like one, because, I swear you'd only have to go back 10 or 15 years to see them in a bin for, I dunno (that's the problem) maybe 35¢, maybe 55¢, I swear no more than a dollar.
While talking about the onesies or fivesies quantities at the hardware store, my friend and I agreed that inflation in these items can be easily ignored by the consumer of such. It's one thing if you're working on a project, specifying 200 carriage bolts, this many of these nuts, washer, etc. Then, a price change like this really matters.
To check this, I just looked them up on McMaster-Carr, and I see that in quantities of 10, these same (zinc-plated stainless) cost ~ 80¢ apiece, while in quantities of 25, they're ~60¢. I wish I had old numbers, but that's not out of hand. OTOH, for singles, Lowes shows English ones (per my very quick search), so I picked 3/8" and see them at just under 2 bucks.
So, these marketing folks who set prices have rightly figured that we don't notice or don't care, about these small items being 3, maybe 8 or 10 even, times as much in price as 10, 15, or longest 20 years ago. I agree. I just bought one wing nut and spent in the neighborhood of 2 bucks more for it, which, compared to inflation at the grocery, is peanuts (a very small can now). Still, though it's a small piece, that wing nut is in that BLS Basket 'o Goods... unless it's a cheap China-made basket, and it falls out a hole.
Anyway, I have neither an accurate time scale nor exact start number for wing nut (generally all small hardware) inflation, but it's like, A LOT.
Unfortunately, this is not the right chart. I found a USPS .pdf, but I cannot find the exact service we use. We aren't in a big hurry, but we do need a tracking number.
For this one I do have an accurate start price, but not a time scale**. My kid was in four of these coin clubs. Older readers may remember these same type clubs, particularly one called Columbia House, set up for music lovers. One would get vinyl records, cassette tapes, or yes, (sorry, I'm sure they were great, yeahhh...) 8-track tapes, in the mail. (Actually, one could get reel-to-reel tapes too.). The deal was, with no input from you, they'd send you one every month, and it was up to you to keep it and pay a fairly good price or send it back. The latter required paying the postage. If you were late, sorry, you owned the record and owed the money. This was not a good deal for lazy people,
These coin clubs, in fact, require postage to be spent every month, because it's not one record but a bunch of coins you receive montly, not all of which you are likely to need. Sending in $5.65 each month for each, even if we are prompt, for 4 of them was no good. Therefore, I got my kid to drop 3 out of the 4. Hey, it's better than his buying comics or bubble gum.
Unexpectedly (heh!) it took $7.30 this time for the same, 5 biz-days ground service with tracking. Since my kid has kept old receipts for those tracking numbers, he was able to tell me the old rate - $5.65. The increase is just under 30%. See footnote** - I don't have a time scale yet, but I may get into this more to get a reasonably good short-term (handful of years) inflation rate with compounding for this particular postal service. This also is a very small portion of the BLS Basket o' Goods AND Services, but they've gotta know about it. It's the government, after all.
Yeah, I know, perspective. These changes involve small portions of the basket as compared to our, and all Americans' spending on groceries. i've been shocked lately when my wife, also in shock about it, shows me some receipts. I used to do the grocery shopping for us going back 10 years or so. I see numbers that are double for the same general stuff.
In closing, yes this post title was misleading. I can see where the reader may have thought it was to be about something else entirely, about some other type of club with some different hardware. No, but if inflation keeps going like this, some wingnut just might go Postal. NOT FUNNY, haha.
PS: There was an old joke a musician made between songs during his show at the local bar. Here I though it was original - I don't think so: "Hey, I am in a great mood tonight, ya'll. I just signed a contract with Columbia Records!" We all felt good for him and applauded. "Yeah, I just have to buy one record a month, and after the end of a year, I get a free...." You had to be there. You had to be THEN.
* A fundamental difference in thread specification for SI vs English units is that SI (Does System Internationale sounds awfully Communist, or is it just me?) uses pitch - thread-to-thread distance rather than the inverse, threads per distance. I'm used to the English way, but the SI way makes perfect sense too. This is the same as specifying wavelength instead of frequency.
** I may look up more once I ascertain exactly what mail service this is, so I can see the previous rate rise and use that for my one-off run (vs, the rise).
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3 out of 5 patients agree - Don't Trust your Doctor
Posted On: Thursday - August 7th 2025 10:28AM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Not our pediatrician. One of the iSteve commenters brilliantly called this woman "HR Generic D.E.I. file photo woman" or something close to that. Steve really liked that.
Peak Stupidity doesn't think much of the 4 out of 5 doctors, mini-meta-study idea, as we always wonder what it is that the 5th doctor has a problem with? He might just be smarter than the other 4. In addition we are not big fans of social/cultural polling data either. I've been polled, and I didn't think too much of the experience, as in how my responses would translate to any interpretable opinion.
This post, then, is yet another anecdote. I can't give too many details about our encounter with our formerly very friendly and favorite pediatrician. A recent visit started out the night before, as my wife got through the patient portal. Hey, I did my part a year ago, which, of course, resulted in a post: It's portals all the way down!*. I try to lay low when it comes to politics with an occasional exception. One instance of an exception was in regard to gun ownership questions, as I explained in Now where DID I put that H&K anyway?.
Now, my wife, having long ago recovered from the Kung Flu Panic, by ~ Fall of '20, decided to put in a word about vaccinations sometime during her portal data entry effort. I felt the heat in the morning, as the Doc went on about vaccinations.
I'm in between here, because I do get the point of not wanting Tetanus or Meningitis. While we talked Kung Flu vaccines too, I found out that this Doc must have been one of the Panickers. We must have missed seeing her since that long ago, a great thing health-wise as far as this kid is concerned, and now a good thing going forward. She wears a mask now, and she told me "millions and millions!" of people died, in that old Carl Sagan fashion.
She explained the cost vs benefits of vaccines, as if I'd just never thought about that. When it came to the Kung Flu vaccine 4 years back, I knew I wasn't susceptible, so were even the very least of side effects - not at ALL the case - seen, my analysis would say no-go. The kids were not affected, so same for him. The reason my wife is adamantly against ANY more vaccines is partially that she's read about mercury in them, the big increase in autism (possibly a factor, but that 1 in 30 number is definitely cooked.) Additionally, now she's worried, with possible good reason, that these vaccines have the mRNA. That's a no-go for us too. Now, any vaccines are suspect, by people like my wife.
What it comes down to now is a lack of trust. We've seen the headlines about this. It's no longer just about the lying out of Fauci, Birx, and that gang. Like him or not, believe he knows a lick about science or not, we've got this RFK, Jr. as health secretary**, and he's not down with the standard narrative. The healthcare establishment does not like anyone rocking their boat.
Additionally, some testing of lipids says the kid's cholesterol numbers are bad. There were no tests for that when I was that age - even as a young adult, it was just the one number I got. Who tests the kids? Is this due to the no-longer infinitesimal chance of a kid having blood clots nowadays? We will go elsewhere for another lab test, as these ones do indeed seem bogus. (I won't get into details on why we think this.) No, Doc, we will NOT put a kid on Statin drugs!
I've known for a long time that the medical establishment is all about drugs, drugs, drugs, while I've got my own solid proof that diet matters.
We've now had to lie on both the portal (just to avoid possible stupid additional questions regarding personality) and in person to this Doc. That doesn't matter at this point, as we can't go back to this office anyway, because we are banned for not accepting new vaccinations. So, we won't get that Statin prescription. Things tend to work out...
Coincidentally, about an hour before I started writing this post, I came upon a ZeroHedge article, Most Americans Reject Fall COVID Shot, Don't Trust CDC Or FDA On Vaccine Safety. I can't even believe that governments are offering Covid shots still. It's good to
No, it's not just about the vaccine safety. The Kung Flu PanicFest set governments against doctors, doctors against patients, and patients against governments. It's had a big effect in bringing those numbers down to 3 out of 5. Don't trust that? You shouldn't - I pulled that out of my rear end.
Between not trusting polls and not trusting doctors, I don't know what to tell you. Trust in yourself, at least.
* Follow up post here.
** Whatever the org is, I don't agree there should be such a position and org to begin with!
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The 47th President's most important graph
Posted On: Wednesday - August 6th 2025 6:33PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Zhou Bai Dien
(Title borrowed from Steve Sailer's "World's most important graph" (most scary, too) which was shows leveling and falling populations in the world except a big rise toward 4 Billion in Sub-Saharan Africa.)
I'm gonna keep it fairly short this time. The graph doesn't quite "say it all", as they say, but it's actually way on the conservative side, numbers-wise. I got this off a ZeroHedge article yesterday, Border Encounters, Apprehensions Hit Record Low In July: Homeland Security. We've been apprehensive for 20-30 years about the PRP/Immigration Invasion, but that's not what they mean by that. VDare writers could have explained it better, but an "apprehension" has something to do with being detained, captured, or arrested, while an "encounter" sounds to be more like a sighting or an unplanned meeting.
How many of the "encountees" end up in the US? Why are apprehensions so much lower? Again, I wish VDare was in business, as I'd refer the reader to the experts.
Due to the differences between these numbers and the graph saying "encounters" while it looks like apprehension numbers, I'll paste in text from the ZH article:
There were 24,630 nationwide encounters with illegal immigrants in July, the lowest on record, down 2.4 percent from June and nearly 90 percent lower than the monthly average under the previous administration, the agency said on Aug. 1.
Border Patrol apprehensions hit 6,177 individuals in July, breaking June’s all-time low.
Enjoy:
Just as with numbers for arrests of criminals generally, we don't know how many people get away with it. In the case of this crimes of Illegal Entry Into a Nation, encounters and apprehensions are going to be lower than the total entries. The idea, though, is that they may be proportional, so these numbers are indicative of how many are TRYING.
During the arranged invasion for the 4 years of the Bai Dien Administration, because the Border Patrol was ordered to perform babysitting duties rather than border control, these numbers were much less a proportion of total entries. Not only that, but with the asylum apps that foreigners from all over the world could use to come in on "parole" (seen this paperwork in person and seen the guys using it), millions would not be part of either the apprehension of encounter numbers - they were legal to come in, get a plane ticket - through the TSA with that piece of paper, and get their free shit.
So, Trump has done a MUCH better job than even this graph indicates. Numbers aside, his making the effort to actually control the border makes the President the best one Americans have seen on this issue* since Eisenhower. It's BEEN a while!
Peak Stupidity will take the time to call out the stupidity of President Trump as we see it. However, when it comes to Job One, at least* this portion of the effort, we praise him highly. Here's something the guy SHOULD actually brag about - I'm sure he does!
* That is, the illegal side of things, and only the borders, meaning not counting the large numbers of visa overstayer illegal aliens. Then, there is the LEGAL side - Trump has been clueless and stupid on the subject, but I think he's been learning a bit.
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Good Genes v Bad Genes: The media brewhaha and a Meme
Posted On: Tuesday - August 5th 2025 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Female Stupidity
Continued from Sweeney's Bod and Sweeney's Bod - further comments. You may not see the end of Miss Sweeney, I mean she's still got her Jeans On, but here on Peak Stupidity this series on this now most famous of glamour models (not sure about Cosmo) will go err, tits up.
The big brewhaha regarding the politically titillating ad campaign is not just about a blow against the wokeness of ugly glamour models but also about genes and how they express themselves. First, here's our Jean/Gene memeL
We occasionally get Ducks Unlimited delivered to our mailbox. [What in the hel...? - Ed] Don't worry, Editor,= we'll weave back to the subject. Yes, I've been in a deer stand before, never shot one, but we've got nothing against hunting here at Peak Stupidity. However, the magazine is meant for a guy who lived in this place 2 decades ago. Well, it comes only a few times a year and the company sends billing envelopes too, so they're not completely stupid, as Big Biz seems to be getting... but I'm not forwarding anything either! The guy still owes me money.
Back in the day, it was Cosmo magazine that came every month when I was a lot younger. (No, I have no idea ... can't remember who it was addressed to...) Those hotties on the covers and in their ads for glamorous underclothing made for some intense, errr, reading. It's come back now, to another address of ours. In fact, I'd ripped off one cover before trashing an issue to scan for a post, but this'll cover it. The Black! lady on the cover was not fat, but she was wearing some kind of fool outfit, and it was all too dark to make out her shape even. At this stage in its and my life, Cosmo is not even worth opening to scratch and sniff anything. (Perfume ads, OK??)
This Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad campaign is not JUST about feeling it's OK to feature a blonde blue-eyed White woman in great shape. That's new again, but that's not all it is. The double meaning based on the un-captioned homophones "Jeans" or "Genes" is much more of a threat to the ctrl-left Woke enforcers. What are you trying to imply, racists, that hot Sidney looks good not just because of those jeans but because of her genes? That's where the Nazi talk comes from.
Let me say that Steve Sailer really ought to write more about this in vindication of his many years of writing about HBD. Though there was a "thaw" in the environment of genetic discussions in the late 1990s or so (per VDare), the winter of their discontent came on hard. It started with the enforced denial that human genes could possibly influence intelligence. (In dogs and cats, sure, but NOT PEOPLE!) Because one can simply reason from other human traits where genes are involved much more than nurture, it's been basically unacceptable to admit that genes express themselves, in genetics parlance, very much at all in humans. ("Yeah, that basketball star can jump high 'cause he's black, but that ain't got nuthin' to do with his genes.")
So, yeah, the Woke ctrl-left want to put the kibosh on this "genes" talk. They know what the commercials are getting at. The alt-right does too, and they are LUVIN' IT. However, I've been noticing that in this viral parody video of the anger of the left and in other discussion, the right has pretended that they know nothing. "Look at them get so upset about the hot busty blonde! It's about blue jeans, come on!"
I know that these people of the alt-right know it's about more than that, so why pretend? Is it a kind of trolling, trying to get the ctrl-left to say what the bigger problem is than just the cute White chick? I think we should take this opportunity to go all out and tell them "Yes, genes express themselves in humans too, and the expression is good in this one."
"Hey, look up. We're not talkin' to you."
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The British are Rising!
Posted On: Monday - August 4th 2025 4:44PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists World Political Stupidity People's Revolt Anti-Social Media
I got in a long waste-of-time of an argument on-line with some UR commenter for over a week about the Moslem invasion of Europe. I was told by this fellow that the White Europeans just haven't tried to reason with the Moslems about their fitting in and all... and raping and killing people... and their bringing their highly-foreign un-Western culture and religion with them to not-so-graciously establish in their new home. Regarding the latter, the White European people are supposed to reason nicely with their Globalist Governments on the matter too.
Otherwise, they've been creating a "Climate of Hostility" for these millions of new arrivals, he told me. I had to differ a bit:
Geeze, Western peoples, most especially Americans, are THE most tolerant people of foreigners there could ever be! Can you imagine numbers as proportionately large of strange foreigners being allowed to stay in China or Japan, Egypt or Ghana, Peru or Columbia, pick any continent except ones (used to be) full of White people? In small numbers, Americans have been so very welcoming to foreigners for many years.Let me paste in my last paragraph separately, and you'll gravitate towred the part in bold:
Enough is enough though. That doesn’t mean you just take it out on the nearest towel-head, but when these, mostly-ungrateful too, I might add, foreigners cause great harm to local people, at some point, the mood gets ugly, as it well should. It’d be great if the crowd could bash the windows of Kier Starmer’s and other Globalists dwellings once everyone is riled up, but, unfortunately, those people don’t, excuse the expression, “eat where they shit.”
So, the anger gets directed sometime toward people who are innocent, but the fact is, they shouldn’t be there! (Most especially when they broke in these lands.) I’ll tell you who is starting to get scared, the real “target population”. That is those Globalist nation-wreckers, especially those in the U.K. They would not be adding thousands of Thought Police to the rolls of Law Enforcement if they weren’t worried…. that some time in the near future, the anger will be taken out nationwide. Arresting and prosecuting a few tweeters at that point won’t work anymore.That was a week ago. The Peak Stupidity reader may now naturally assume I'm some kind of witch or maybe just the next Nostradumbass, as a real rising of the British people IS happening. It started 2 days ago - depending a bit on your time zone* - best I can make out from some of the tweets.
From the Gateway Pundit:BRITAIN HAS AWAKENED: Manchester MASSIVE Anti-Immigration Protest Shows Citizen Pushback Against Starmer’s Suicidal Policies Has Gained Unstoppable Momentum I have watched the few short Tik-Tok and X-twitter video clips on that site. What we see is large crowds marching, too big for the cops to be able to stop if they wanted to. If they tried it, the cops would get trampled. (I'd like to see that... I mean, if they tried it.)
Over a year ago, your Peak Stupidity blogger felt one with the rioters of Rotherham and Southport. I'd made a number of posts (rather than list them, I request you look at posts from last summer with the Immigration Stupidity Topic Key - our largest) in great detail on the happenings, focused a lot on one riot outside a Holiday Inn Express hotel housing PRP "newcomers". I'm telling you again, I know I'd been doing the same as these guys - it's best probably, as with January 6th of '21, that I didn't make it there.
The crowds in Manchester** - the biggest from what I've read, SO FAR - are peaceful. This is a big statement they are making, as are others around Great Britain. They can shut down the whole show. These Globalists such as Britain's chief Population Replacer Kier Starmer***, might be OK with a little battle here and there. Throw the White instigators in jail (gaol, is it, over there?), make a nice apology to the Moslems - or else! - for this Climate of Hostility, have BritMinTru put a few hundred people on the noTweet list, and call it a day. Nah, this bad, it's nationwide. Imagine a general strike. Globalist do not like economies shutting down. They live off the peons.
That's what can happen when people don't have so much to lose anymore. Let's imagine how this nationwide rising got started. I haven't read of any specific incident of horrific Moslem violence this time. Maybe there was, and it's been censored highly, you know, to prevent tragic backlash. However, a violent incident should not be necessary - the British people have had enough of the PRP long ago.
With the censorship of ant-Social media, it might not have been so easy to organize all this on Instagram or X-twitter. I can imagine a few people planning to come out and being seen and joined by other patriotic Brits. Word of any such rising in one city could get around whatever censorship, and then it comes down to the feeling one may have seeing his patriotic countrymen marching in the street for this existential cause.
Life is not so great for the White workingman in England to give pause - the feeling of joining one's countrymen must be fantastic. The larger it gets, the less there is to lose anyway, the more the camaraderie and the pride in being part of some possibly great movement finally that could change the whole direction of the country, Europe, the West, who knows?! Yeah, I'd like to be there.
How about in America? Why haven't we seen a big rising like this? That'd be a good subject for a follow-up post. In the meantime:
PS: Some of the crowd were singing Rule Britannia. I would get a lump in my throat, but I always heard it with a different melody in my head. Also, with their accents, they may as well be Michael Stipe singing Radio Free Europe.
* We may have people reading from all over the world. I haven't checked any IPs in a long time.
** In a half century (1971 - 2021) Manchester has gone from 96% White British to 49%. Right now, 21% of its population are "Asian", which in that neck of the wood generally means Pakistani, Bangladeshian, and Indian . It's the former two that comprise the Moslem hordes. There were ~210,000 Pakastanians in greater Manchester in '21. Who knows about now? Here's some Census info. from that year.
*** To me, if they have power and are not DOING SOMETHING to stop it right now, they are one with the programme.
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They say that backing up... is... hard to do...
Posted On: Saturday - August 2nd 2025 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Cars China
Doo, doobie, down doobie doo down down
come-a-crashah down doobie doo down down.
... Now, I know, I know that it's true...
I was actually looking for Oriental women driver videos for this post, you know, purely to randomize any kind of offensiveness that might have occurred. [NOTE: Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender™ - PS Legal Team] This guy backed up his bus on the highway somewhere in China... for a while anyway. This was so long ago - I hope everyone has recovered... and that no broken hearts resulted. (Not to be insensitive either there - the news lady said even that driver came out OK, amazingly!)
It's an old Neil Sedaka song. This is very "oldie" sounding to me, very unlike another of his that is still ALMOST as old at this point - that would be his 1975 hit Bad Blood with Elton John singing great backing vocals.
OK, Peakers, that wraps up this week of stupidity. We'll get to those 2 posts on the economics of hiring illegals, one more thing to say about that Sweeney chick, and plenty more already planned that will come to me at the time. Thanks for reading and writing in!
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How many times must a man be deported?
Posted On: Friday - August 1st 2025 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
... before he's forever banned?
The answer my friend, is blowin' out Trump's rear...
... wait, no, Peak Stupidity does, and other patriotic Americans OUGHT TO, give Trump a whole lot of credit for having basically closed the southern border. It's under control for the first time since, who, Eisenhower? Using the military is not a permanent solution though, so let's build that wall - 10 years after first chanting "Build the Wall!", can we simply build the dang wall? [/Juan McAmnesty lying mode]
We've meant to point out lots of stories to show that, though it's not a steady 10,000/day, maybe not even Steven Miller's initial goal of 3,000/day, deportations of various types ARE happening. I believe Trump thinks "If the
Note that this is 200 deporations in 6 months, BUT, that's for Houston, but then, that's just the sex offenders in Houston.
There's a lot to getting US out of this mess, the legal side of it, then wiping out incentives that keep illegal aliens coming in, or coming back. It's that coming back part that this post is about.
In the Gateway Pundit post that motivated PS to do this story, ICE Arrests Over 200 Illegal Aliens Convicted for Sex Offenses Involving Minors in Houston Area, I noticed something that confirmed a point I've been writing about for a while. That is, simply, without a serious border, people who get deported don't STAY deported..
My noticing here goes back to at least the time of the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco 10 years ago. Her innocent* murderer, one Ines Garcia Zarate, had been deported from the United States FIVE TIMES. What was the point of all that? The guy was in San Francisco, which is Back in the USA last I heard still, in July of '15, at the Embarcadero, and he just shot this 32 y/o White American dead.
In the VDare stories well before Trump came down the escalator about that same time, whenever I'd read about illegal alien criminals, most of the time, it'd seem, they'd been deported at least once. Often it was multiple times. So, let me drop in some text from the GP article about a few of these 200 sex offender illegals. I don't think it was at all the point of GP to make a point about the number of deportations, BTW. I think this is just par for the course:
Jesus Gutierrez Mireles, a 67-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico, who was arrested March 28 and has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and driving while intoxicated. ICE removed Gutierrez Mireles to Mexico April 4.I'd need the whole set of 200 rap sheets to get a good average, but see how it nearly always seems to go?
Jorge Zebra, a 48-year-old criminal alien from Mexico, who was arrested March 21 and has been convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor and sexual indecency with a minor. ICE removed Zebra to Mexico March 24.
Manuel Antonio Castro-Juarez, a 37-year-old, twice-deported criminal alien from El Salvador who was arrested July 18 and has been convicted of sexual assault of a minor and twice for illegal reentry. Castro-Juarez remains in ICE custody pending his third removal to El Salvador.
Jose Guadalupe Meza, a 40-year-old, four-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested June 24 and has been convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Guadalupe Meza to Mexico June 25.
Sergio Rolando Galvan Guerrero, a 45-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested July 12 and has been convicted of DWI and aggravated sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Galvan Guerrero to Mexico July 14.
They are either in ICE custody now, or they've been removed. Hey, wait, I know that one hombre, 3rd one down. That's Antonio, MAC-J, we call him. Hey, essay! Whaddya' know? Dude's my 2nd cousin twice removed.
Build it, finish it, guard it! Then, these violent cholos being removed will STAY removed!
PS: Still got the Bob Dylan song, Peter, Paul, & Mary version stuck in your head? I'm so sorry...
* ... or so the jury said, 2 years later in '17. He' s been out and about since...
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Sweeney's Bod - further comments
Posted On: Thursday - July 31st 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Media Stupidity Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Female Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Bread and Circuses
The video clip is only here because I'm too tired to save and upload an image. As it turns out, besides the very clever and pointed jeans/genes lines, not in this one, the rest, shown here, is pretty stupid. It's not much more intelligent than the old Brook Shields ads. Then to make things worse, the "Ad Reviews" commentator here with his sarcastic attempt to bash the ad sounds like a fag, and his shit's all retarded ... Then again, she's got big tatas, so all's forgiven...
Peak Stupidity will lay down a few more thoughts on the matter of this Sidney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad campaign. Firstly, the previous post might have gotten somewhat confusing. That was due to our having mixed in our opinions about the stupidity and worthlessness of Big-Biz ad campaigns in general with our take on this series of very non-Woke ads.
I didn't realize how old this chick was. She's about to turn 28! She doesn't look it, but Brooke Shields didn't look a day under 18 in her ads, I swear it! Miss Sweeny is worth about $40 million and has a long-term movie business boyfriend that she might be engaged to ("What his name? I can't tell ya'. Ohhhh.") [/People mode]. She's been in a host of movies I've never heard of on streaming services I've never heard of, but, hey, $40 million, so...
... OK, the background that matters to our discussion here is that though "from Spokane" due to schooling there, Miss Sweeney grew up in a Conservative family to the east, in the Idaho panhandle. That's Ruby Ridge and ACTUAL bonafide White Nationalist territory. Talk to a Prepper about "community, community, community", and he'll probably mention northern Idaho. I don't like the cold, but I like the ideas... Bonner's Ferry is one of the bigger towns, but some of this area has been infiltrated from a long time already by fleeing normies out of California and such - that's Sandpoint, Coure d'Alene and place not quite so deep into the mountains.
You can't remain much of a Conservative, much less a White promoter (much lesser, Nationalist), once you've been in the TV/movie business, much more, a young girl, and most, a hot model. From what I've read, though not spouting Wokeness such as one would expect out of most of these people, Miss Sweeney was nothing special as far as her politics. That's fine - I'm not sure why anyone would want to hear political advice from a dumb blonde anyway. (Oops, can I still say that? You'd think that'd be woke actually.)
What was the real plan here of American Eagle genes, errr, jeans, and the marketing company or department? I don't tend to think of those people as too bright. Remember that Dylan Mulvaney dude? The marketing genius behind him has "moved on" to other "challenges". Yeah, well, a line in an old movie goes "They're ["he's", actually, because he was a shark] either really really smart or really, really dumb." After the controversy in the mid-1980s, I wondered if I'd been suckered by that New Coke fiasco, as in, maybe it was no fiasco at all, just a way to get me and other suckers to be so, so glad to have their old Coca~Cola back, dubbed Coke Classic until it was all forgotten (or Phase IV of the plan) that'd we hold onto it, as if it... was still made with co~caine.
Was the Bud-Lite that sort of slick plan to outsmart us rube consumers too? Nah, I mean, I don't see any Bud-Lite Gay and Bud-Light Straight on the shelves of the beer aisle. I think that one was truly a screw-up by management who figured, rightly for the times, really, that going full stupid in the real of genderbending sure couldn't hurt.
It's a different time now, but I wonder if Miss Sweeney and her crew didn't care so much about the heavy politics behind this ad campaign so much as that there WOULD be a controversy. Any publicity is good publicity, they say in a lot of these kinds of occupations, and there's a been a BIG dose of it - This controversy is THE BIG ONE, pitting the right and the left on a BIG issue, woke stupidity v sanity. The outcome remains to be seen, as they would say on TV Wrastling. If that was the plan, they done good! Sidney Sweeney is now known worldwide, even by the staff of Peak Stupidity, who buy jeans in bulk, often in no-sales tax States, always Levis, and in the same style and size for the last... many years.
OTOH, maybe there was some motivation besides fame and material gain. Could young Miss Sweeney still have some residual Conservatism and race awareness deep down? How about influence from her family, Church, and old Idaho friends? Though the outcome may inadvertently be the same, it'd make me feel great knowing that some people behind this ad campaign really wanted to kick some Woke ass. I'd like to know that people have purposely started a movement.
Further thoughts: Steve Sailer had a pay-walled post on his substack site, The First Post-Sydney Sweeney Ad, so you will only see a few short paragraphs. Note too, that interestingly for me, Mr. Sailer used that "fad" word in his subtitle, Another marketer jumps on the genetics fad., but it was for the opposite case - interest in genetic causes of human behavior that ole HBD* being a fad. This makes me figure he figures whatever way this goes, it's just a fad. I do not agree.
Unless he explained this differently for the paying customers, I have my usual problem with this:
Still, reports of the Death of Wokeness have been exaggerated, because lots of women with soft-major degrees then went nuts over a TV spot depicting a blondish woman as attractive, fulfilling, once again, Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism**, which I first spelled out in 2009:First, due to possible misinterpretation of the because clause, Mr. Sailer doesn't mean that the women going nuts is the reason the Death of Wokeness has been exaggerated. He means that he figures the Death of Wokeness has been exaggerated because he sees those women going nuts. That cleared up, this is the same concept out of Mr. Sailer that I've had a problem with for a long time.
Of course, these women with soft-major degrees going nuts over the ad were going to go nuts! Wokeness has NOT been a fad. As I explained in the last post, Communists, including our current Cultural Revolutionist ctrl-left WANT this stupidity. They want to humiliate. Additionally, the decades long now anti-White ranting and lawmaking are part of the cultural destruction they desire. This Sweeney jeans/genes ad campaign is a big and bold threat to their hold on the culture as controlled by the (THEIR) Institutions. They will not back down on this one.
Yes, Sailer's Law of Female Journalism applies, but there's much more than that behind the hatred directed at Sydney Sweeney. The ctrl-left simply can't have this shit snowballing. Yet, hopefully it will, which brings up my last though.
Is this the way Civil War 2.0 will be fought? First, there will be skirmishers, small-time youtubers, LIKEing, following, and down-voting each other. Then, as with the bombardment of Ft. Sumter, someone like Miss Sweeney says these certain things on TV. Big-time Influencers then prepare for war - they don't even Instagram while driving down the road anymore, this is so important. They get in front of bookshelves and mouth off a big volley of grapeshot. I wish I had more innate knowledge of Civil War 1.0, but the analogies will have to stop. (Yeah, I know, there weren't skirmishes till Ft. Sumter, unless you count "Bloody Kansas" or whatever.)
If it is the case that Civil War 2.0 will be fought with words on anti-Social media video clips, it may be a lot more difficult to wade through the stupidity as a 22nd Century historian, but it'll be so much less violent for us. Then, the young people are under the impression that words can be violence, so this may hurt a tad... for them.
Eventually, yeah, it'll turn to actual violence, because, logic would defeat them in a war of words, and the ctrl-left is determined to have its way.
PS: I was going to watch a number of videos discussing the ad controversy yesterday - they were most of the videos that came up from my search for sexy Sweeney. I'm just not that interested now. I know what they're all going to say. One Fox News clip had the talking heads referring to one Doja Cat*** as an important voice on this and other matters. Man, is she a piece of work. Somehow she has gotten her big mouth to come out with something barely resembling a hick accent (or trying to), and that comes off pretty damn hateful. That accent, I gather represents everyone who is bad, see? But, then Sidney Sweeney doesn't sound like that at all. I'm sorry, but give me back Lou Rukeyser, even if he WAS on public TV!
* Human BioDiversity, a term surprisingly not coined by Mr. Sailer.
** That one's one of my favorite Steve Sailerisms - it's in THE BOOK with 3 articles, but his examples here are past the paywall.
*** One really wonders, when America gets it's opinion from Cat Turd and Doja Cat, whether we are approaching that peak... and nothing against cats, mind you ...
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Sweeney's Bod
Posted On: Wednesday - July 30th 2025 8:17PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness Trump Media Stupidity Race/Genetics alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Female Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Bread and Circuses
You know, like Sweeney Todd. Yeah, that's my best effort for the title today, based on a famous play that I will never watch because it's a musical. You either play music or you tell a story, not both, kind of like how you either walk or you chew gum, no ... wait.
... wait, there's a post all up in here. I assume the now famous ad campaign with Miss Sidney Sweeney (from Spokane, Washington) involves quite a few commercials. I've just seen 2 of them so far. I thought it was the 15 second one in which she had her fly open for a while - well, I mean, I'm a NOTICER too! - that has caused a controversy, but it's the campaign in general. No, it's not about her zipping up of her fly - 40 years ago, THAT'd have been the controversy.
As a matter of fact, there WAS a slight controversy years ago when a young* Brooke Shields appeared in an ad campaign 45 years ago noting that "nothing comes between me and my ...". What the heck jeans were they? See, I could remember that young lady and the thing about nothing in between her .... but, where was I, oh, advertisements really don't work to sell me stuff. Ask me what that cute British lizard and that ostrich in the youtube ads are selling. OK, yeah car insurance, but none of it gets me on the phone. The Brooke Shields ads were pretty racy in 1980, lying in a sexy position and saying "Nothing comes between me and my ... " dammit, oh, "Dung-oh-rees." No, that's not... "Nothing comes between me and my Kit Kat bar"?
OK, some background is due here. Only the audio, not the imagery there, is from the show The Office, which is, from all I've seen, the funniest show that's ever been on TV. I've got a bunch of China-burned/ripped DVDs to prove it. When discussion peppy clever ads, Andy Barnard there had a Brandon moment, and Jim, the instigator got everyone else in the office to refrain from helping him out with the end of the jingle.
OK, not Fancy Feast or Kit Kat bar, but Calvin Klines, that's it! Blue jeans. OK, that's great, but I'll just keep getting Levis because their numbering system is simple and immutable. Here's one of the Brooke Shield's commercials:
That one really makes no sense. Why is she whistling Oh my Darling, Clementine again?
That was then. The controversy now is over these commercials featuring some hot White girl in blue jeans talking about the good genes that formed her hot body (and pretty face too). For the last few years, you DID NOT feature hot girls with nice rear ends in blue jeans commercials to begin with.
We've been through the beginnings of a Cultural Revolution here. Ask the Chinese people that are over 60 years old - Cultural Revolutions are not the good time the Chairmen make them out to be! Humiliating and confusing people by forcing them to act like 2 + 2 = 5, or say, as another example, making corporate America act as if fat-ass black chicks are who American ad viewers would like to see in blue jeans commercials, is an important part of a Cultural Revolution.
How have the Sweeney ad makers been able to get away with this? Has the whole Woke programme just been a fad? Peak Stupidity begs to differ. We maintain that the election of Donald Trump is the reason wokeness is being smashed (for now) and the Cultural Revolution halted. Here's a bit from that post:
Though he never used the word "fad", I got the feeling that Mr. Sailer, when he fairly recently wrote a few times that The Woke was fading out, thought of it that way. Sorry to bring up an oldey, but, well it's not like the Pet Rock or (even further back) the Hula Hoop. People got sick of these things on their own. The former was just silly with no visible benefit, but at least the silliness of either of these did not harm anyone else. Nobody needed for these fads to end - they just did. That's how fads work.Yes, Trump. Imagine not just the worst case of Kameltoe and the ctrl-left in power, but even with a BushDoleMcCainRomneyChristie in there, I don't think Wokeness would be on the retreat. Trump does have the guts to say no.
Now, I believe the reason why Mr. Sailer thinks of The Woke as something that's going away simply because it's SO stupid is two-fold:
1) He does not think there is any Deep State** or Globalist elite conspirators or just evil people that want this stuff to continue and even expand.
2) As we'll discuss, crediting Donald Trump for anything is not a Steve Sailer thing. We all know that Trump is an egotistical boor, maybe someone you might call "low brow", but I don't hold this against him as much as I believe Mr. Sailer does.
That all said, Mr. Sailer HAS credited Trump, I think...
Now, you say, what does a private company's ad campaign have to do with who runs the Feral Government? The answer is that Big Biz is in bed with Big Gov. Sure, money may not flow directly from some Bureau to this ad company. However, if you're the marketing manager, and you imagine a rogue pro-White ad campaign like this, just the general atmosphere emanating from the Government and Business elites will have you flushing that idea out of your head pronto. If there were to be some kind of mass media protests or even a legal battle - I don't know HOW, but they'll do it - your head will roll first. No, better go along with the Cultural Revolution.
Not anymore. Trump has put the kibosh on the whole thing. His big mouth is good for something! (He has taken the steps he can all over FedGov too.) Someone actually DID this. The beginning has a full (15 second) ad.
The campaign is Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. From the 1st commercial I saw, the "problem" for the ctrl-left is that, as stated above, Miss Sweeney is an in-shape pretty and hot White girl. That's not all though. The 2nd one I saw, shown above, has her stating words to the effect that she can fit nicely into those jeans with a body that comes from having good genes. That's clever, first of all, but it's VERY daring for these times. It's a solid kick in the ass of the Cult-Revolutionists with their dictate that beauty is relative, and any fat-ass non-White slob should be considered just as hot in those jeans, and you'd better agree. Come to think of it, as they say they will boycott these blue jeans, I don't know how that would matter - they wouldn't have been buying these anyway, as they couldn't fit into them!
This ad is in your face with the concept that genes matter. That's what REALLY has the ctrl-left in an uproar. You aren't supposed to be allowed to say that! You better believe that the ctrl-left is up in arms about this. This stuff is right in their face. They're used to it only being the other way around. It's gonna be lit, as the kids say.
I'd love to support our side here**, but I don't have a rear end like that (as I shouldn't!), and my wife doesn't generally wear jeans. Then too, commercials don't really work well in their purported purpose to sell things. Let's see what are they, not Calvin Clines, not Kit Kat jeans (though I kinda like that for a brand), oh, GOT IT! "I have good genes, and if you do too, you'll fit nicely in my Fancy Feast jeans." "Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that...
Though intended to throw a very solid blow to the heads of the ctrl-left, after all that about not remembering WTH they're selling, this move may very well result in lots of sales. Some may even be to alt-righters that couldn't fit in these things with a crowbar. I'd like to see big sales, as a counterpoint to Bud Lite Dylan. We've done our part with this post. Imagine if this becomes a serious turning point in the defeat of the Cultural Revolution - all based on blue jeans ads. That's kind of American though, after all.
OK, wait, we can't do this post without one musical oldie that fits with it just as well as those Kit Kat Bar™ jeans fit Brooke Shields and those Fancy Feast™ jeans fit Sidney Sweeney. Peak Stupidity has featured this one before, in our post Down with Yoga Pants! It's Englishman David Dundas with Jeans On from back in 1976 before the Wokeness and even before Brooke Shields, almost half a century ago. Great tune!
One question for our readers. How does the CC (Closed Captioning) handle this jeans versus genes? Of course, we humans understand the double meaning - that's the point of the ads and the point of the controversy. But how does the software that CC uses handle it? Imagine a sign-language-for-the-deaf interpreter doing this too. Sign language doesn't do homophones, as the "phone" part is what deaf people are missing. I guess the depends on whether the CC software was programmed by someone of the ctrl-left or the alt-right.
PS: Ahhhh, American Eagle, that's the brand, just for the record here, i.e. so we don't get sued. Don't sue us, Sydney Sweeney - WE! OWN! NOTHING! Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind that much if she "sued" the pants off me. Seriously though, I would NOT have remembered the brand if I hadn't been trying to find that one ad.
* ... VERY young, BTW, at 15 y/o, as young as the Epstein, errr, "staff".
** I could buy stock... but I don't buy stock, in ANYTHING. That's just my not-so-great genes talking.
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Graffiti and Tattoos
Posted On: Tuesday - July 29th 2025 7:40PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
It's been half a year, but Peak Stupidity WILL get around to putting online some posts about Uruguay. One thing I was not just not impressed with, but de-impressed with, was the amount of graffiti around in Montevideo. Those people make the urban dwellers of my town look like pikers! You don't see this in China, as we reported back in '23.
No, that ain't China! (The image itself has been tagged, with Alamy logos.)
I looked a few things up about the history of graffiti. Sure, that's what they call some carvings in the ancient world, but, nah, not the same as what we've got now in any area with Blacks! and Hispanics. That "graffiato", we archeologists call it, took a lot of work. It didn't take up whole walls and destroy the scenery. I was surprised to find out that modern graffiti started as recently as in the early 1970s in, you guessed it, the NYC and Philly subways. (Without cameras, it was much harder to catch anyone... I mean, if you wanted to also...)
I don't recognized what any of the graffiti is supposed to mean, so guess I'm not hip or hip-hop. They say you "tag" these objects with all that paint to make your mark, as a cat tags the corners of the house and the car bumpers. The cat piss washes off though.
I've made monsters on the concrete sides of house foundations as a kid. I've done a few carvings on trees with what you'd expect, "PSM + REDACTED" That's Peak Stupidity Moderator LUVS some [REDACTED] girl, which is I suppose a bit destructive in someone's yard, but not out in the woods. I also see a nice "Trump '16" carved in the sidewalk in the [REDACTED] neighborhood still holding up well ... I don't know how THAT got there...
That's a White people thing though. It has some meaning. It also doesn't destroy the scenery and mar otherwise beautiful freight trains. Just once I'd like to see a whole line of cars, the hopper cars full of grain or coal, the tanker cars full of chemicals, gondola cars with scrap steel, and the box cars, just painted with nice solid colors.* Some people appreciate neatness. Others like to destroy but still enjoy the nice, slightly fearful, virtue-signaling folks calling what they do urban artwork. Nah, it's as nasty as rap music.
I guess the railway companies just can't keep up. I've thought that as long as you could just keep these "artistes" out of the freight yards, they couldn't do all that spray painting that we see. I suppose it's done anywhere the freighters stop, and you can't fence in the whole railway... I wish J.P. Harriman and The Regulators were still around:
I HATE graffiti. I HATE tattoos too.
Why would you do that to a previously nice body like that?! I mean, unless those are watercolors that come off in the shower... you gotta scrub and reach into everywhere ...
Is there a connection between people who tag objects with graffiti and those who tag their very bodies with tattoos? How does the Venn diagram look? Most White people with lots of tattoos don't spray paint freight trains. Most Blacks! who spray paint freight trains don't have visible tattoos, because, well, they're black colored, and the latter must be a waste of ink. (The stuff costs lots more than spray paint, in the application at least.) Maybe they get them anyway, hence the median of $1,305.14 in savings.**
Then there are Hispanic people for whom tattoos show up pretty well who are also the type who hate nice clean freight cars and want to mark their territory, for what said territory is worth. (Why isn't it the ritzy areas that are marked up with symbols that say "It's ours - stay TFO!?"... in marble and tile?)
Union Pacific can occasionally re-paint the hopper cars, but these people with skin tagged with ink, they'd better mean what they say. It's a long, expensive, painful, and not necessarily fully successful process to undo all that.
Graffiti is about marking one's territory and saying "I've been here.". What's body tattooing about? I don't get it.
There is probably correlation for people that hate both Graffiti and Tattoos. I'm in there. Go ahead and Tattoo You - I don't have to like it. See, that early 1980s Rolling Stones album, mostly taken for older material they hadn't finished, is not my favorite. Their great melodies and sound had peaked out beforehand. Since this is the post, though, let me feature here a fairly decent song from the album. It's Waiting on a Friend. In this 4 1/2 decade old video I saw an old Datsun(?) with a big bullet hole in the left fender panel, but I don't recall ANY tattoos.
NYC didn't look so good in the early '80s. Regarding graffiti, the building of which Mick, and Kieth for a while, are standing in the doorway is the same one, 96-98 St. Mark's Place, that is shown on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti from a half decade earlier.
* One of my favorite children's books is Steam Train, Dream Train, by one Sherri Duskey Rinker. I have great memories of reading it to my kid. Animals are involved. The elephants load the tanker cars with paint using their trunks. There are even monkeys on the train - they goof off a lot, but at least they don't go tagging the damn train! This is why it's a children's book, alas.
** Yes, I made up that number. The real one might just be lower though.
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HailToYou posts again: The character of Donald Trump and how serious is he about Job One
Posted On: Monday - July 28th 2025 3:11AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
... and he's quite a character. He ought to be in a Reality TV show... wait he was, and he still is...
Peak Stupidity is glad to see that writer E.H. Hail has another post up on his blog Hail To You. I think he got motivated by my comment in reply to 2 of his comments under our previous post. I also know that he's related some of the thoughts in various place before, and he links back to some of his thoughts on the man he calls El Caudillo Yanqui. Without further adieu, here's the post: Evaluating Trump-II at its six-month mark: Do they really believe in, or want, immigration-restrictionism?
Mr. Hail's post gets into Trump's character and motivations as particularly related to the President's work on Job One, the Immigration Invasion. He started off with an explanation of how a man like Hunter Biden could, no, would, be naturally prone to say his stupid remarks about America desperately needing illegal alien labor. This attitude is based on his having lived in the political environment in Washington, F.S. (and other urban centers) that's flourished to our detriment over a long time.
From there, Mr. Hail delves into (no, I am NOT AI!) the question of whether Trump is really the outsider he seems, or does he agree with the heavily Jewish-influenced attitude on immigration:
The question I have is: Does Trump and the Trump people believe the same? I think signs point to “Yes.”I am not so sure. However, there's plenty of great reading there to convince you and to describe what Trump is really about.
Would Meatball Ron* have been doing a better job right now? He's more principled and he's more focused than Trump, but he doesn't have quite the energy that Trump-47 HAS been using to do a lot of small things that add up to benefit the war against the invasion and White America in general. I'm more favorable toward Trump, flaws and all. I find it better to read about action being taken (on which Trump unfortunately doesn't always follow up) than to see this blowhard speak. That's much better for the blood pressure - see our last post for an example, haha!
No question on this part for me (something Mr. Hail had first posted in comments here):
If Trump were faced with the prospect of either: (a.) no/bad results but with praise and credit; vs. (b.) great results but without any attributed credit or praise, Which would he choose? You and I know the answer. The answer is (a.); and he’d take the credit with aplomb, with pomp and ceremony, and attack the other guys.Yep. That's who he is. Please visit Mr. Hail's site and leave whatever comments would help make a good discussion there. I've got lots more to say about his post there.
Now, since commenter Adam Smith reminded me of this old post of ours comparing lies to "bullshit", using a funny scene from the old movie The Blues Brother, I'll have to include a tweet that Mr. Smith linked me to.
Oh, well, yeah, that tweet wasn't real. I didn't lie to you about it though. That was just bullshit.
PS: That old post of ours, titled Trump Fail, was written with extreme exasperation with Trump-45 5 years ago and a week and a half. It's interesting to compare -45 and -47.
* Trump LUVS those derogatory nicknames. Some work, some don't. As a Ron DeSantis supporter, I don't see this one as anything but affectionate.
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[UPDATED 07/24:] Extended the title and added more re Mr. Hail's (a) vs (b).
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Trump, you lie!
Posted On: Saturday - July 26th 2025 9:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government Scams
We had something more light-hearted to post today, but that'll have to come on Monday. As I read about Trump's admonishment to Europe to stop the invasion - a very good point on his part - I came a cross some of his bragging that was a straight-out lie. Either that or he just, like totally forgot that LEGAL immigration portion of the PRP.
Peak Stupidity doesn't do tweets. We do use MS-Paint though, so this will have to do - but it doesn't seem to want to go viral like this:
Talking in soundbites precludes getting into qualifying details, so I guess we can first assume that Trump was referring to people entering the country to stay. Plenty of visitors and Americans too come and go everyday. I foresee the argument here that Trump was just talking about the US southern border. However, he was giving the Euros a warning, along with bragging about his job (can't argue with that job though!), but the warning is about getting invaded by foreigners. Sorry, but officially legal methods, like coming in for asylum, etc., are still very much part of the invasion of Europe and the invasion of America.
I feel pretty lucky* having gotten to the USCIS webpages that simply give Immigrant Visa** issuances for every month and separated by "post". This seems to be the foreign city with the visa office that initially worked with the applicant. The data is presented very simply, and to the single number. Since the table for any month - I picked May '25, as it's the most recent month with data - is long, I have pasted together a few sections for a quick discussion.
Tegucigalpa? That's in Honduras. I just replied to SafeNow in our comments today that I too am a big Geography buff. I remember this from 6th grade Western Hemisphere Geography. OK, there's just a couple of these types of visas issued, and, well, there's a couple of hundred of that other and... this is just one city issuing foreigners American Immigrant Visas of the all the visa offices around the world. The table is long - it's just for May '25! There are 12 months in a year, and the years go by, and yeah, it's great that we finally control the southern border, but that's not the end of it.
Vienna doesn't sound half bad. I just included that to link to a post with great Billy Joel music. Vienna may no longer be waiting for you, if you change your mind. What's that next one, Vientiane? It sounds like another nice European city, but, sorry to tell you, that's the capital of Laos, on the Mekong River. (I imagine the name comes from the time of French rule.) I also had to look up Yerevan, that's at the very end, by the total. OK, that's in Armenia.*** I mean, I THOUGHT I was a Geography buff!
My aim in including parts of that chart was to show the total. That's 46 and 3/4 thousand in one month. Unless May is some big visa month, we can extrapolate that make half a million annually.
I was glad to have found those numbers so easily, but a search for the H1B numbers, not the ONLY visa type that comprises the Indentured Servitude business, was subject to that scam Peak Stupidity reported on here. [Reported, hell! We been scammed by that 60,000 + 20,000 = 85,000 "cap" bullshit too, for years! I'm STILL pissed! - Ed.]
Without my asking, duckduckgo's Artificial Stupidity kicked in and, well, it's as stupid as one might expect. It's been scammed too, and it hasn't learned from our post on the matter.
To DDG AI: Peak Stupidity! DO! YOU! READ! IT?!
I did some searching without AI, and got to this site. You may remember from before that the sites that you can reach easily to get H1B numbers are those that are serving prospective H1B visa-ites. They want to encourage budding Indentured Servants, so they have all the numbers. That little line in our fake tweet below the Total 480K H1B Registrations Filed for 2025 is cut off, so here:
The total number of H1B registrations filed for 2025 was 479,953. Out of these, 470,342 were declared eligible for H1B registrations. Eligible registration means registrations without failed payments or duplicate ones.... and, he's almost sure to stay here. We discussed that "lottery" business that brings the numbers WAY past that bogus cap, by a factor of 5 or more. To be fair to Trump, per a Forbes article, we learn of a New Trump Immigration Policy: Ending The H-1B Visa Lottery. The title is very encouraging, but, no, as I read it, it doesn't sound like he's actually ending this at all. (Of course, Forbes is fine with that.)
Each year, employers submit H1B registration applications, which USCIS shortlists through the H1B visa lottery system. Those selected in the H1B lottery have the opportunity to file form I-140, a Petition for non-immigrant workers. Once the form I-140 is approved by USCIS, the candidate is allocated an H1B visa that lasts up to a maximum of six years.
So, that's that. It's been only 6 months that Trump's been in office, but this ~90,000/month (that's over a million annually) rate does not = "Last month, we had nobody enter our country"! I don't mind the guy talking shit, but, in the context of a warning about the PRP, this is a flat-out lie.
Well, it coulda' been a WHOLE LOT WORSE, right? Have a happy Sunday people. We here at PS will try to chillax.
PS: I don't intend the numbers to be comprehensive (hate that word now). There are other legal ways in, as refugees and what-have-you, so this total is bound to be low.
* I gotta say, I like these very simple year 2000 style sites that aren't clutter with distractions and simply give a bunch of links in order. This reminds me of the NTSB site with lists of wrecks by month. The US Gov't doesn't need ads, so I find using the sites very pleasant.
** I wrote above that you may notice many different number/letter combinations to signify these various and sundry visas, from Fiance to Leggy-Super Model. As opposed to these, there are the Non-Immigrant visas, also of various and sundry types. These can be abused as well.
*** Per Steve Sailer, they really like Los Angeles so should be moving there. OK, no prob, hopefully.
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[UPDATED 07/27:] I meant "post", not "station" re the USCIS table.
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Demokratie in Deutschland and Catch 21
Posted On: Friday - July 25th 2025 8:35PM MST
In Topics: Globalists Liberty/Libertarianism World Political Stupidity
I first read this or saw this meme at least 25 years ago. The wolves are the Totalitarians, and the sheep are the general population. The patriot Constitutionalist types on the internet would note this and add that our system must have the sheep dogs too. Those would be said patriots who still are guided by the Constitution of this Republic, bear arms, and would do our job to gather and protect the sheep to keep them safe from the wolves. Unfortunately at this point, we aren't too enamored with most of the sheep. We'd be glad for the wolves to eat some of our sheep, but then the wolves don't seem very discriminatory. The wolves here are so bold that think they will eat all the sheep and us sheep dogs too. We'll see...
OK, that's here, but this post is about Germany. How does that cartoon making fun of sacred Democracy work for that nation? We bring this up due to our continual reading of the screwage by the rest of the German government of the AfD (Alternative for Germany - It's nice that the initials hold up in translation.) The AfD is the only party that's serious about stopping the PRP (Population Replacement Progamme) and somehow working back towards a Germany for Germans.
I had an article in a tab somewhere that had gotten me started with this post, but I've lost it. It happens that Mr. Steve Sailer wrote something on this very subject a week ago, and he usually writes concisely with a very clear head and sums things up nicely. Alas, that post is paywalled. Since I'm pretty sure I got on this thought process due to a ZeroHedge article, I can refer the reader to this year-old post (from the web archive) Germany Moves Closer To AfD Ban, Green Claims Party Is "Security Risk For People & Democracy. The title alone describes the nonsense that a party may have to go through in this "Democratic" system. Why "may" they have to? They may if they go against the prevailing narrative and needs of the Government in general, one that is infested through and through by Globalist scum.
Most Western European countries have that same Parliamentary system, often cumbersome, but Germany's Constitution is more, as they say, problematic, due to 80 year ago history. Here's the official story:
Conditions for banning a political party:Some details follow. Somewhere, from what I've read, the Nazis, Commies, and Socialists are explicitly banned, though I'm not sure that's been followed at all regarding the latter.
A party may be banned only if it not only takes an anti-constitutional attitude but aims to act on that attitude in a militant and aggressive way. For a political party to be banned, it is therefore not sufficient that they challenge, refuse to recognise [sic[ or reject the supreme values of our constitution or try to replace them with other values. Instead, the political party concerned must be out to deliberately undermine the functioning of Germany’s free democratic basic order. This presupposes that there must be specific and valid evidence suggesting that there is at least a possibility of the party’s activities being successful.
Unlike the explicit limits on the Fed Gov power that were followed for most of America's history, who is ALLOWED to run for election in Germany is proscribed but open to interpretation. "Rejecting the supreme values of our Constitution... " Are these spelled out in there? Hey, I checked myself, and NO, they aren't. The damn thing is 138 pages long, and ctrl-f "human va.." or "values" gets no matches. I've skimmed just a bit, and I see how "rights" are specified but then limited afterwards in very vague language. Just an example:
Article 9 [Freedom of association]WTH is this "international understanding" baloney? There's too much of this weasel wording. Let's get to Article 20, on political parties.* (BTW, I did ctrl-f for "Nazi" and did not get to those explicit bans I've read about. I'll have to look into that more.)
(1) All Germans shall have the right to form societies and other associations.
(2) Associations whose aims or activities contravene the
criminal laws or that are directed against the constitutional order or the concept of international understanding shall be prohibited
Article 21 [Political parties](2) is the dooozy. (4) specifies who rules on whether some party, such as the AfD "seeks to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany".
(1) Political parties shall participate in the formation of the political will of the people. They may be freely established. Their internal organisation must conform to democratic principles. They must publicly account for their assets and for the sources and use of their funds.
(2) Parties that, by reason of their aims or the behaviour [sic] of their adherents, seek to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be unconstitutional.
(3) Parties that, by reason of their aims or the behaviour [sic] of their adherents, are oriented towards an undermining or abolition of the free democratic basic order or an endangerment of the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be excluded from state financing. If such exclusion is determined, any favourable [sic] fiscal treatment of these parties and of payments made to those parties shall cease.
(4) The Federal Constitutional Court shall rule on the question of unconstitutionality within the meaning of paragraph (2) of this Article and on exclusion from state financing within the meaning of paragraph (3).
(5) Details shall be regulated by federal laws.
Yeah, that's a neat trick. If the Government in place runs that Fed Constitutional Court, and it doesn't want any more Democracy than it's already got, it can rule, quite rightly, that this other party endangers the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany as it stands at the time. They've already got Democracy, see, and this new upstart party may change the whole country of Germany, hence endanger this Democracy.
Right now the German government is run by Globalists and for Globalists. They have no problem with the PRP. The AfD, with a quarter of Germans overtly supporting them, wants to stop the PRP and keep Germany for Germans. However, at this point, the Globalists in power in the other parties can gang up against the AfD and, if the AfD gets big enough to be a threat to them all as a bloc, they can get the Constitutional Court to rule on said threat under Article 21-(2). Quite clearly, the AfD is most definitely undermining their Globalist plans and endangering the existence of Germany as it stands now.
It's great! Everybody gets to start a political party, but if your party gets enough votes to endanger the other parties, it must be banned and you can no longer vote for them. Man, that's some catch, that Catch-21 ... section (2)!
Back to that saying and meme at the top, how would that go for Germany? The system is not personal direct democracy, so we see wolf packs rather than lone wolves. It's so very German, wulf packs! The wolf packs get to vote on exactly how to fleece the sheep and maybe eat them to avoid having to eat zee bugs. However, they also get to vote on which wolf packs are banned from the country, and sheepdogs, hell, they have no place in Germany. As an American, I say Focke Wulf packs!
* Our Founders didn't even like the IDEA of political parties, but they, even GW did, early on that they would come to pass. They didn't specify anything about them. The deal was that the people and the States could do whatever they wanted, minus the few exceptions for Federal power specified therein.
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