Fighting the Lies on Unz.com
Posted On: Tuesday - May 11th 2021 8:59PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites Pundits China
It's not like there aren't about 10 posts on deck with images all saved and ideas ready to expound on. Why I have been spending too big a portion of many days on the Unz Review is that it's easy to make comments on, the articles are indeed controversial as Ron Unz touts, and there's the usual: I've GOT to get busy. Someone is wrong on the internet.*
Though I spent a good while trying in this effort, writing in under Ron Unz latest American Pravda series column, this one called "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19 (Hint: the title is bullshit.) It's more on Mr. Unz's "The American Deep State did COVID-one-niner" origins theory. Hey, the guy has done some great dives into history before, coming up with some very believable theories, especially regarding Euro and American politics of the beginnings of Communism in Russia and the World Wars. That's all important stuff. However, his circumstantial-evidence-based hokey theory on the origins of the Kung Flu has been a sorry job, IMO, showing the lower range of his supposed 214 IQ, along with displaying his Kung Flu hysteria. I just realized that Peak Stupidity covered all this nicely in Where have you gone, Ronald Unzio, ... 3 months back, so I'll stop here.
I will now segue into explaining my spending another 20 minutes writing back to the former curmudgeonly gonzo-style journalist, now less-than-worthless** Fred Reed. He has another column up touting all things China. No doubt, the amount of engineering and technological progress going on there is amazing, especially in the transportation industry. However, what I get from this column, a few previous ones' from Mr. Reed and Ron Unz's column mentioned above is that there is just plain anti-Americanism that is starting to piss me off.
You got problems with "our" Feral Government, the education system, racial stupidity? Hey, I'm with you. There are thousand of things to criticize. These two guys are all about "Americans just suck", period. Regarding Fred Reed, I'm guessing it makes him feel a lot better about having bailed out to say that his old country sucks in every respect. As for Mr. Unz, it's not so pervasive, but his Sinophilia, with no background of actually seeing China and no Chinese sources, is more a way of showing his anti-Americanism than anything. Mr. Reed, however, went for a 2 week vacation, so he knows everything.
I wrote a long comment to Fred Reed that one can see there. I spent the time in order to correct the record. Why bother, besides the reasons of more traffic to PS, as explained**? That gets to the title of this post.
All that has gone down in the ruination of America is not known all around the world. Even a majority of Americans don't know very much of the story. We are dealing with people, in China for example, that see the US as it is today only. They have never read any history, and besides the much fewer Chinamen that have spent time here in the old days, let's say pre-1995, they have no experience with the old freer, whiter, can-do America. I just bring up China because I read asinine comments from overseas Chinese commenters that, well, aren't really so asinine if you know only today's America, and as learned about from the NY Times, CNN, and sometimes people like Ron Unz and Fred Reed.
It's sad knowing that all the good in American society through our history and even in many of the people in current America may never be known about in the future. History is written by the victors, they say. I can go on for hours a day correcting the record on unz comments, with even Mr. Unz not knowing his country worth a damn - the guy just doesn't get out much, obviously - but is there a point to it?
I now know how regular Russian citizens in the USSR, your average German under Hitler, or many of the more intelligent Chinese people during their Cultural Revolution felt. Much of the world hates your country because of what the people in power have been doing.*** You have not been able to stop them. You know there are lots of good people who want no part of the stupid shit that's going on, but they don't know about you. The world thinks you are all stupid or evil. They want your country destroyed. If that happens, they will never care afterwards that you were there fighting all the stupidity and evil your whole life.
It really doesn't help to have assholes like Fred Reed lie about the history that has gotten America to this point.
* There is a good cartoon with this joke, which I'll find easily and use for another appropriate post.
** Why do I bother reading and commenting?, you may well ask. I have seen more hits from links I've put under his posts than any others. He must get read a whole lot, is all I can figure. I want to get traffic on here, and this is one way. That's all - I'm pretty sick of the guy.
*** In our case, I'd say only for the last 3 decades, in the extreme sense, with the beginning of the ruination going back just over a century.
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Hey, Flight Attendants, leave them kids alone!
Posted On: Monday - May 10th 2021 7:57PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Big-Biz Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
What, I guess it's May Mask Madness now.
I was doing a little traveling on the airlines again. They are just going through the motions at this point, as the by-now new normal announcement about maintaining 6 ft distance while disembarking (WTF?) and proper face-diaper procedures are being ignored as much as the rest of the lecture. (It's a shame, because some of the safety stuff ought to be listened to just a bit once in a while...)
As I mentioned in that "March Mask Madness" post linked-to above, I believe the airline companies themselves are happy to have big Feral Gov't* behind them on this stupidity. I don't think it does the cabin crew members any good, as it just makes another thing that they can get dinged on, were a Fed of some sort on board or, nowadays, just anyone taking a picture or snippet of video to show "hey, she let that old guy breath right out of the air and shit, right in front of me! I'm telling!"
That's the problem. You may think that the stewardess is being a bitch or a Commie, but often, I'm pretty sure she's worried about her job rather than: a) having any real worry about getting sick and b) just plain WANTING to be a bitch/Commie.
I was so tired that I was about asleep, but I was awake after hearing one of the flight attendants over and over again, trying to get this little girl to put on her mask. No, she didn't yell (or the Dad or Mom might just have had it out with her), but she talked nicely in the way that you would to a little one. It was loud and repetitive and annoying though. The little girl was crying even later, after she was being left alone, with her face mask now on.
This is just horseshit. When the kids who are too young to explain anything cry on the flight, it is often that their ears can't clear from the pressure change and hurt badly. I've seen a grown man about to cry because of this - that was on a long flight, and it often takes a long time to get better. I've hurt like this myself, and no, that guy wasn't me. I've told the parents what might be wrong before, and that they need to give the little one something to drink. This was a short flight, I was not next to them, and there were no drinks around.
Then there was the mask. First, her ears were probably hurting, and then she is made to put the mask over, making crying that much harder and life just miserable for the little girl.
When we got into the terminal I asked the parents of 3 how old this little one was, who was now feeling a lot better and smiling. "2 years old.". I'd thought that was the lower limit on the mandatory donning of face diapers, but what do I know? I do know that the whole thing is stupid and sick.
I will end on a brighter note. At the smaller airport terminal, about 1/3 of the people waiting around for the flight were just not doing the mask thing. This is after all that talk about FEDERAL! and $10,000 fines! I wasn't wearing mine until I got on the plane. I noted one younger guy not even pretending to be drinking something, and I shook his hand out of the blue. "Hey, good on you doing without the stupid mask. Listen, if they try to fine you, we'll crowd-fund you!"
We don't need no inoculation.
We don't need no CDC control.
No stark stupidity in the airplane.
Stewardess, leave them kids alone.
Hey, stewardess, leave them kids alone!
"Awww, awww, your chicken! How can you have any pudding if you don't have your Diamond status?!!" (Not to be confused with "How can you watch people pooing if you don't eat your meat?!" from this old post.)
(Yes, "your" instead of "you're" on purpose.)
* BTW, from what I've read, this authority over this is the TSA, one more reason to hate Motherland Security. I'd have thought the CDC would go from "the CDC recommends" all over the airport speakers to "the CDC requires!" and make a new name for themselves as an organization of Authoritah!
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You gotta love this guy!
Posted On: Saturday - May 8th 2021 4:51PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump China
While looking for pictures for the previous post, I came across the one below. I didn't check where the picture was taken and when.
You just gotta appreciate that, rather than kissing the rest of the world's ass to signal one's virtue and worldliness over giving a damn about Americans, we actually had a guy who loved regular Americans and didn't kiss ass all around for 4 years. Sure, President Trump said his usual "great people, just marvelous, marvelous ..." bit, but we all knew that was just, well bullshit.
In the picture above, can't you just imagine Trump's thoughts, kind of like any regular American, as he watches some foreign ceremony, going "awww, man, what the fuck are they doin' now?" in that NY City accent of his? I love this picture. It's wonderful, marvelous... you've never seen such a wonderful picture! "Miss me, yet?" Yeah, yeah, we do.
Amidst the time spent making Unz Review comments today, Peak Stupidity has been working on a non-polemic post about the US Feral budgets of the last decade. This one has a bunch of numbers I'm getting off of old moldy IRS 1040 instruction .pdf's, but my problem is I just don't know of a good spreadsheet program for the iPad, so I can work on it today. Believe me (Adam), I checked around. I don't want one that stores the stuff on the web, and I want to be able to save as an html table. I'm probably going to have to just punch numbers into an html table. There's nothing like a real computer, even if it IS still running Windows 7! All these freakin' apps, and I can't do with this device what long-haired geeks could do on an IBM clone in 1981!
Anyway, have a good Sunday, Peakers. We'll have more financial stupidity, Kung Flu stupidity, and all the rest, including at least one book review, next week. Thank you for reading!
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Mandate straight outta Hell
Posted On: Friday - May 7th 2021 9:15PM MST
In Topics: History AntiChrist China Orwellian Stupidity
We left the AntiChrist candidates behind quite a couple of years ago after some speculation about Øb☭ma and The Hildabeast. Perhaps it's time for Peak Stupidity to do some more musing about Hu it could be: Hu? no, and not Yu... Could it be, I don't know ... XI?
The blogger is an old China hand, as the diplomat types like to say - that sounds cool anyway. From 15 years back until about 3 years back, I'd had high hopes for the place - see also Part 2. That's no longer the case. Talks with my personal contacts, the reading of Kai Strittmatter's book We Have Been Harmonized*, and now a book I'm almost finished with (review coming shortly), have got me thinking China IS America's biggest external problem after all.
No, Peak Stupidity has not turned Neocon. I don't think the US has any business controlling the South China Sea and defending Taiwan for that matter, not to mention that we're beyond broke, so we may want to delegate all that to the Japs or something. China historians note that the Middle Kingdom hasn't had a history of colonizing the world. There were the interesting 7 "treasure voyages" of Chong Ho, aka, Zheng He, during the first 1/3 of the 1400s AD, some of them comprised of over 20,000 men on hundreds of ships, as related here. The seafaring exploration to as far away as eastern Africa just stopped after Mr. Ho's time, due to the Confucians' negative attitude about it all. The Chinese are building up a big military now, but it's not the physical/military expansionism that's the worry. To me, it's the cultural expansionism being pushed by the Chinese Communist Party.
What's changed over the last 3 years is that the Chinese President, and therefore CCP Chairman, Xi Jinping, has made himself President for life. From what he's been up to, it seems this guy aspires to be the new and improved Chairman Mao, but with all-you-can-eat buffets instead of the "iron rice bowl", stylish haircuts instead of the "rice bowl cut", shiny high-speed trains instead of the bicycle, and the Digital Yuan instead of, well, jack squat.
A few years after Mao Zedong died, the new Chairman Deng Xiaoping took over and improved the lot of Chinamen over a decade of so, after realizing that the economics of Communism were a complete shit show. That lesson seems to have stayed learned, through the present, at least. The hardworking Chinese people have created one hell of an economy, with no small credit due those Americans who gave them much manufacturing capital and provided them with the ability to steal loads of intellectual property for nothing in return.
My reading of the book I'll soon review, with it's descriptions of high-level meetings/dealings between Chinese officials and Trump administration officials, taught me about the arrogance of the Chinese at this point in history. The thing is, the country has a long, long (~3,500 year) history of arrogance. Just the term they dub their nation, The Middle Kingdom, the center of the world, took arrogance to keep using. In my lifetime, when China was still a real honest-to-Trump shithole, with a billion and a half poor bastards getting roped into one stupid Commie program after another, it was hard for me to believe they could be like this. Maybe this arrogance was hidden within the Chinese people too at that time. Not a lot of Americans or other Westerners were there to see it all.
Well, the arrogance has come out in spades with the rise of the New China. Xi Jinping, President and CCP Chairman for life, has got his share. Rather than just flex military muscles at this time, the CCP has been spreading Chinese culture around the world via the millions of Chinese people overseas. Not all of these ex-pats are Commie bastards (as I'll note in a post to come). It's hard for us as Americans to pick out the CCP-supported and CCP supporters from the other Chinamen though.
The Chinese have always believed that their emperors had some kind of "Mandate from Heaven" to rule the whole lot of Chinese people and do whatever the hell they wanted. CCP Chairmen are basically the new emperors. It sure seems like Chairman Xi is following in the footsteps of old butcher Chairman Mao in his Totalitarianism, but with Orwellian electronics that Mao couldn't imagine in his wet dreams. It's #1984WithChineseCharacteristics @XiJingping
I'm telling you all, this Xi bastard has a mandate straight outta hell. He's AntiChrist material if I've ever seen it.
* See also Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
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Roll with the Changes
Posted On: Thursday - May 6th 2021 9:40PM MST
In Topics: Internets Music Websites Inflation
Regular Peak Stupidity readers may very well have noticed that the site was first slow, then unreachable for a good bit of this past Tuesday. (Commenter Dieter Kief noticed this first, from Germany.) I was positive that the problem was my site's being behind a security firewall of some kind, as part of the package deal to get 2 years SSL, setting things right from our April Fool's Day non-joke.
Well, all it took was another $135 to make this right. I'm not too happy with the way it's been going. Now, I like the GoDaddy people I talk to, almost every time. We didn't get down to the root of the problems happening other fellow explaining that, yes, if I got back in front of this firewall, things would probably work fine. I'd thought the security deal was an extra feature I'd gotten in early April as part of the SSL deal, but it was the opposite. It had saved me money, so 2 days back I had to back up and pay the full SSL price.
You just gotta wonder if the price means anything at all with respect to any costs at the host, beside initial development, I suppose. Memory is cheap, and signal use (the site calls it bandwidth, which is plainly a wrong term) is cheap. I've got the money, so no problem. It's just that, as I've written before, I have a good memory for prices. Though Peak Stupidity has been up as a site for 4 1/2 years, I'd paid for hosting and the domain name for at least 2 years before that, maybe 3, before I got my shit together and got going. I remember how cheap it was then, and I'd say even without the extra SSL and that, things are 3 or 4 times more expensive than 7 years ago. There's that inflation again, on a service which, in a country with solid money, should be getting cheaper if anything.
I've got to face it. The marketing people at GoDaddy do the same as the cable-internet company. Someone has determined what a steady customer acts like, and when you're on the hook, you get no more deals.
Again, the smart White guys at tech-support/billing are great people. However, the next time hosting payments are due, I should have another company or even my own server ready for the job. Besides the monetary savings, it might be nice to have more control for possible cancellation threats or action. Peak Stupidity has not reached our goal of being noticed by the big hate players, such as the $PLC, who could perform a cancellation. (But we hope for the best.) We'd only know how much GoDaddy will stand up against the woke stuff, were we known and hated like the best of 'em.
We've got to roll with the changes here. One of the problems that was happening, as I conversed with commenter Smith about, was my not being able to easily write youtube embedded videos to the database easily. That should be back to normal again now (crossing my fingers), and this will be a good time to try it.
It's REO Speedwagon for tonight. We've not featured this 1970s-80s band before. Once could think of them as a "hair band" as they do have that big hair thing going, but that term wasn't used in the '70s yet. This band formed in Champaign, Illinois, at the Univ. of Illinois, in the late 1960s. After many personnel changes, their 7th album You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish* released in '78, had the first song I'd even heard from them (albeit a few years later), Roll with the Changes.
The lead singer, Kevin Cronin, has a unique voice, that likely determines whether the listener will like the band. I do, to some degree. There are about 3 more songs by the band that Peak Stupidity ought to feature later.
With what's coming in our future, we all better be ready to roll with the changes, yeah, yeah, you know you got to keep on rolling, keep on rolling ...
REO Speedwagon:
Kevin Cronin – Lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
Gary Richrath – Lead and rhythm guitars
Neal Doughty – Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer
Bruce Hall – Bass guitar
Alan Gratzer – Drums
* I like this title a lot, but apparently, per wiki, the critics think it was the worst.
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Bill Gates and the Blue Screen of Divorce
Posted On: Thursday - May 6th 2021 9:59AM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists Artificial Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Wasn't Bill Gates the richest man in the world at one point? The more recent richest man, Jeff Bezos, got divorced recently, so shouldn't his losing 1/2 his money bring Bill Gates back up in the standings? They should have an asterisk by their names on the list as getting screwed in a divorce shouldn't screw you over on the richest man list too - that's NOT FAIR! Mr. Gates is getting divorced now too, so it's back to a fair match between these two "TECH" moguls.
Peak Stupidity has not written nearly enough about the family court stupidity that has made marriage in America an even larger roll of the dice for men than it's ever been. We will more at some point. However, let's just say we're not all bent out of shape about the Billinda divorce news. Yeah, see we don't read the National Enquirer and are only posting this news for the jokes, but Peak Stupidity has at least heard of the new combo naming convention for power/celebrity couples. There was Brangelina, then there's the Mexican AMLO and American JLo. (OK, the latter 2 are not power couples, actually, unless the've taken someone like the good Gov'ner Ron DeSantis' advice to go fuck themselves. They would then be virtual power couples(?))
As we'll speculate about in an upcoming post, Bill Gates could easily be one of the most evil of men in this world. It's probably a good thing that he'll lose a few dozen billion dollars. The carnage would have been not as bad if he had on hand a pre-nuptial agreement his lawyers could bring to court. Thing is, it's not like he didn't type one up too, years ago. Mr. Gates had a bullet-proof pre-nuptial agreement, but the file got corrupted during a crash of Windows 8.
On the other hand, Melinda Gates is said to be a more anti-White philanthropist than her husband. I can distinctly remember a couple of decades ago being truly surprised when reading that their scholarship program would not apply to White people. Oh, I understand you read that stuff all the time now, but it was a long time ago that they started that. Sure, it's a private corporation, working hand-in-hand with government to ensure our crap-OS needs are met, but wasn't that a pretty evil move right there? His geeks from the day when he appropriated his buddy's DOS to sell to IBM, and throughout all last century during his rise to richest man in the world were highly predominantly White Men. (The same could be said for Jeff Bezos.) Yet, Mr. Gates decided that they didn't deserve ANY of his philanthropy. Instead, he would save the Africans instead, creating the (Steve Sailer's) "world's most important graph"*.
This is the National Enquirer's and People magazine's purview rather than Peak Stupidity's but we can still speculate on the causes of the rift within this OS power couple. We wonder if Clippy the pop-up paperclip guy wasn't involved in some way. The guy was always just a little too helpful, often appearing unexpectedly out of nowhere. They say Clippy has been seen inserting himself into Melinda's desktop reset hole.
Mr. Gates is said to have been spending time with an Oriental former flight attendant, one Miss Wang. This Wang, dang, sweet Puntang business is OK in and of herself, but could this not be a national security risk? Bill Gates is leader in "TECH", after all. Could Miss Wang have been controlled by the CCP, using her own feminine re-boot hole to better support and enlarge Microsoft's tools in order to further ruin the US economy?
This is one odd divorce case in which I hope the lawyers DO get a whole lot of the money. America would be better off without either one of these two, together or not. This is what we have gotten from 4 decades of the Gates:
And, now for something completely different, from commenter Rex Little.
I love it! Thanks, Rex.
* In case you are not familiar, it's a graph of the different world continent's recent and predicted population change, with Africa having the only real positive slope, a HUGE one going up to 4 Billion Africans by end-o-bidness-century.
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Keep those face diapers on, Free Birds
Posted On: Tuesday - May 4th 2021 7:40PM MST
In Topics: Music Southern rock Kung Flu Stupidity
This post is about a slight coincidence that drove an important point home to me. On the "mainline" bigger sized airliner, they have the entertainment systems now. I normally don't partake, except to play video games on pleasure trips with my boy sitting next to me. I usually turn the monitor off first chance I get.
This was a fairly long flight, so I checked out the music. Skynyrd's greatest hits (not the Gold & Platinum, actually light blue, 2-record set that I have), was in there. Of course, Free Bird has to be on there, and I was listening to it. Now, as you may have seen, due to safety reasons, etc, the pilot and flight attendant P/A announcements override the entertainment system audio*.
This happened. The music stopped. "We want to remind all passengers to keep your face mask over your nose and mouth." / "I'm as free as a bird, now...." No kidding, it was right then.
Nope, this is not the mid-1970s South, or most any other part of the old Country. We are not as free as a bird now.
Note the demographics of the crowd there in Oakland, California in 1977:
(It may seem surprising that Peak Stupidity has not embedded the classic Southern Rock anthem Free Bird already, but I really like to include the good stuff that hasn't been played so much.)
* However, the movies and music will start back where they left off, a good idea especially for the movie viewers.
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The Legend of SchoolDigger
Posted On: Tuesday - May 4th 2021 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Race/Genetics Educational Stupidity
Long ago, in the misty mountains of Mordor, there stood a girl so fair, rambling on... for hours and hours in front of a small piece of glass ... searching for ... good schools. No, see, you got us all wrong here. Peak Stupidity doesn't do horror literature, except when it's unintentional. (See our, well, pretty much ALL of our Topic Keys, for that.) We just go for some good titles.
This post is not about Sleepy Hollow, Dark Hollow, and any headless horsemen or grave diggers or excitable boys. We refer to the legend of the bar graph below from the School Digger website which contains information on government schools throughout the nation. Peak Stupidity has displayed some graphics from this site before in the post Good Schools, Race, and "Worrisome Signs", in which we also referenced the similar, competing site called Great Schools.
(Note: This is from a school just picked out of the blue - not near me. It happens to be in Indian country.)
Note the colors. It's obvious without even seeing the legend yet, that the makers of the graphs wouldn't be caught dead using colors that might better represent the races/ethnicities graphed. I don't mean White people must be flesh colored as with the old Crayola 64-pack crayon. Just use your basic 32 color set from the old Windows, if you don't want to appear too realistic.
I haven't been on his blog much at all in months, but one thing I like about the level-headed "Audacious Epigone" is his use of appropriate colors for his graphs (usually bar graphs, but the same would apply to line graphs or pie charts). I've praised him for it a couple of times in the comments section. Black for black, white for white, brown for Hispanic, red for American Indian, yellow for Oriental, etc. (OK, he doesn't use the "Oriental" term, so his yellow isn't the best, but it's due mostly to his not being able to get the data for just Oriental vs. the vague term "Asian"). Nobody's trying to make fun of anyone with the colors. We just don't want to have to keep going back and forth to the legend, like ...
Here's the legend from schooldigger:
(Note: I had to put it on 2 levels with the image program to fit here. Same info.)
You couldn't do a better job disguising the groups' skin colors or stereotypes thereof! The colors mean nothing. It makes use of the graph more difficult, at least for a good while. However, the choice of a school, or more like, neighborhood to live in FOR the school is a big deal for most parents. The types that go through schooldigger and/or greatschools may not want to admit this to anyone, but they know in their hearts that it's who the kids are that makes the school a good one or not. This means race/ethnicity. Under the "Students" tab one can see graphs like the one above. (That's from schooldigger, and I recall that that greatschools may have pie charts, or what-have-you.)
Therefore, after spending many hours, maybe over weeks or months, on this type of site, perhaps concurrently with zillow for house prices, the parents will get the colors down pat. Dark blue will mean "White kids" - I don't think light blue is much of a factor around most of the country - a decent amount of bright red is perfectly fine, and a smidgen of greenish-yellow is no worry. That darker green means trouble. "Keep the dark green bar small" will be the unconscious thought in the parent's mind after a while. Well, lighter green ain't no picnic either, so just remember "opposite of airspeed gauges". Green is no longer good. Green is bad. A red line is no problem.
After a while, I can see the diligent Mom getting these colors so ingrained in her head that she may incorporate it unintentionally into her speech. "Honey, I had a couple of green teens bother me for money downtown today, oops, I mean
You know, I miss the times when people were more honest about race. Even though we still didn't get along so well, the honesty helped us get along better, or at least remind us that we may want to do lots of things separately. Bill Cosby was a funny guy back in the '70s and '80s. I remember a kid long ago playing a record album of a Cosby show. One of the funny jokes in there was something I have to paraphrase*, so hopefully I'm not too far off:
[Bill Cosby was talking about black people having to ride in the back of the bus** back in the old days, but not anymore. There's still friction though, he noted.]
"We need to learn to get along. Let's not worry about the color of our skin, people! Black or white - it doesn't matter. When you all get on the bus, let's just pretend we're all green, OK?"
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"Now, light green in the front, dark green in the back."
I hope I did this joke some justice. Thank you, Bill Cosby. No thank you, schooldigger, for the massive confusion in initial bar-graph interpretation. We'll get the hang of it, though. "Dark green in the bus. Dark blue, you'd better drive to school if you know what's good for you."
* Unbelievably, not only could I not find the clip I wanted of Bill Cosby's routine on youtube, but even a 10 minute duckduckgo search gave me nada. The results were mostly "the dark side of Bill Cosby ..." and even, instead of Bill Cosby jokes, jokes ABOUT Bill Cosby. Geeeze! When you get canceled, you really get canceled, these days. Isn't the great humor worth anything? Apparently not.
** Hell, White people would LUV to ride in the back of the bus these days, if they could be assured they'd be safe from those in the front.
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Lost Comms - Immigrant Version
Posted On: Monday - May 3rd 2021 2:32PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Peak Stupidity discussed this problem with the ubiquitous wearing of face diapers, and even doubling-up of them, in the post Lost Comms from a couple of weeks back. My experiences with this induced problem have been more than just the one-off described in that post. In that case, it was a nice black woman with doubled-up masking, who was just making conversation that was going nowhere, like an old T-Mobile phone commercial or a VHF* radio conversation with Amelia Earhart over the western Pacific ocean.
In this case, I will describe the situation with the Kung Flu stupidity intermixed with the longer-term immigration stupidity. (Two of our favorite Topic Keys, yeah!). The situation in this anecdote occurred in a fairly inexpensive Patel-Motel that I had gotten a room in on my own dime. It's not a bad place when there aren't loud people in the next room, and if your credit card number isn't hustled off to India (as I suspected one time when a bogus charge from Venmo was put on my card, within a day after my departure). The people in the lobby are usually pretty good on the phone and the place runs well enough.
Considering the state of America Peak Stupidity described in our series of posts entitled "Hotel Haiti" ( see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.), things worked well in the place. The housekeeping staff was non-White, the case 98% of the time for me in the areas I have travelled recently. Since this was a Indian owned place, the entire staff but 3 or 4 black women (who working in front some times and/or drive the van) were Indian. Perhaps they are family members or maybe just the best-in-caste low-wage labor the owners could dig up and import from the Old Country.
The one guy who I saw with a the cleaning cart seemed nice enough. I said hello when I saw him on the elevator. What he said back was not exactly clear, what with his mask on and all. In the morning when I heard a knock and "housekeeping", I said twice "I'm staying till 11" loudly enough. I got no response. That's the case often, which shows a real lack of communication skills, Kung Flu or no Kung Flu. All you have to do is acknowledge with "OK". It's not that hard.
I didn't want the guy trying to bust in** a few minutes later, as some even more worthless communicators will - they'll just say "housekeeping" once and then bust in, answer or not. I therefore went into the hall to tell him nicely that "I'm staying till 11". It didn't go that nicely, because as soon as I realized that the guy's English was nil***, I got perturbed. "Not till 11. Do you know any English?" "I knock on other door." Ahaaa, he had been knocking across the hall. OK, maybe my hearing is still too good (need to go to more KIZZ shows?), but then, again, with no response, how do I know?
"OK, if you can't speak English and wear that mask ..." Now he put the face mask from on his chin back onto his face. So he only got one word - "mask". "No, no, I don't care about these stupid face masks. Can you just say something back to me? You gotta be able to communicate!" I really wouldn't have lectured the guy, as he was just some hardworking poor slave-laborer of the owners, but then this double-whammy of terrible English and the face-masking is truly making it hard to deal with people. In this case, yeah, it was just the poor English, and downstairs the young Indian guy spoke well enough, once I got him to take off his face mask to give me the total charges.
Now, guys like Ron Unz will tell you that they are ALL assimilating. See, the kids can talk to you pretty well. Yeah, well besides all the other factors like losing your country and stuff, all of these relatives, illegal imported slave-laborers, etc, are a pain in the ass to deal with, no matter how nice they may actually be. There's no way to tell. There are major sectors of the American service economy now in which you can't expect to communicate easily. The face masks have been making it worse. It's another confluence of stupidities.
* Or, was it HF? (Gotta look this up.)
** "Trying", because I did put the mechanical latch in place. The housekeepers all have master key cards, which makes sense. The deadbolt won't keep them from busting in.
*** What the heck part of India do they get these people from, anyway? They said you was high caste, well that was just a lie ...
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Flee From the Floor Sticker Sector!
Posted On: Saturday - May 1st 2021 5:31PM MST
In Topics: Humor
Dump it! Drop everything! Don't even continue reading this ... WAIT! NOT YET! ... blog post, until after you call your broker! Peak Stupidity has given financial advice before, almost always retroactively, which we find easier, so heed us now, before the whole sector crashes to the ground, like a COVID-infested infested airliner flown by a 90 year-old Chinese diabetic named Wie Tu Luo! OK, now!
I'm talking about the Floor Sticker Sector, people. Back in January of '20 we told you (before our •Indian tech support associate accidentally deleted the post 20 ms after its publication) to go long floor stickers. We favored the anti-slip market in general, but anything with warnings on it, most especially about germs, that could be stuck to the floor or pavement was labeled an SB* or even a HIGOYAABTSN** by our anal-ists.
Well, this market has been saturated ... with grime, COVID-one-niner materiel, and occasionally dog poo The stickers are all getting dirty. Nobody is replacing them, because nobody is even paying attention to them anymore.
Though Peak Stupidity does not endorse technical trading, as, from that very post, the reader can see we think it's a complete load of crap, we did see some early signs of a peak in the floor sticker sector back in November. We would have called this out to our readers, but, again •Indian IT, or at least, uhh, we really couldn't see the death cross of the 30-day moving average and the 120 day moving average until about 4 months later, which is now. Plus our spreadsheet is locked up due to Zerohedge having crashed our computer. Still, in December we noticed a head-and-shoulders shampoo pattern in the 2nd-derivative curve of the YoY numbers, and we saw a complete discontinuity during the weekends, causing Calculus to quit working, at which point our leading analysts reverted to a double-diceal prediction methodology using our kids' Trouble™ set. The technicals all say "don't stick with the sticker sector". Step off now, Bitchez!
Short story long, we hope this financial advice will help our readers return to solvency as we come out of this totally unexpected national economic malaise from the LOCKDOWNS, hopefully by the end of the weekend.
[Disclaimer from PS Legal Department: There is absolutely no point in suing the Peak Stupidity corporation on the grounds of bad financial advice, as WE OWN NOTHING! All assets are in our wives' and girlfriend's names. The only thing you will see upon service of any subpoenas is semi-automatic weapons, which we also don't own, as they are on loan from the pawn shop.]
* Strong Buy
** Hey Idiot, Get Off Your Ass And Buy This Shit Now!
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Dr. Barton Cockey on the Kung Flu and the ctrl-left
Posted On: Saturday - May 1st 2021 4:35PM MST
In Topics: ctrl-left Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
I had a more humorous post in mind for the final post for our blogweek. That may or may not appear later, but this thing I just read was too cool for school! VDare usually has the calm and collected writers, and that works for them. However, they just posted an article by one Dr. Barton Cockey*, and this guy is on fire, man. He asks So We Need Masks AND Illegal Immigrants? Time To End This Virtue-Signaling Scam!
After noting the stupidity (OK, evil to some extent) of the Democrats pushing back against the travel restrictions and even strongly encouraging** big crowds just before the PanicFest, Barton Cockney notes the political divide:
Among individuals, the response was mixed; but my own observation was that many (but not all) on the Dissident Right suspected instinctively that the infection posed a far smaller threat than whatever Bill Gates and the globalists had in mind for us.Welllll... not ALL of the Dissident Right - I can think of one particular guy, who I still know, like, read, and support ... I will note that Mr. E.H. Hail of the HailToYou blog, with lots of coverage and numerical analysis of the Kung Flu, would not agree. At least last I've read from him, he thinks the PanicFest divide wasn't along clear normal political lines. Anyway, here's the good stuff from the good Doctor:
For Lefties, though, the alleged pandemic was a bonanza.He even uses the face diaper terminology! There's much more goodness in the article that I'll beg the PS reader to read himself. Regarding the face diapers in particular, as a doctor, Barton Cockey links to 5 medical articles on their efficacy (as in, "do they work?")
Dictatorial powers for governors! Recruitment of private businesses as enforcers of arbitrary mask mandates! Contact tracers and informers! Destruction of small, independent stores and restaurants! A beta version of the Universal Basic Income! Closure of meat packing plants! Restriction of travel! Maybe even a vaccine passport!
But best of all, the phantom plague offered a whole new opportunity for Virtue Signaling. The summer of 2020 brought out a blooming crop of conspicuous good-thinkers, standing in public squares with Black-Lives-Matter signs and hand-made face masks of colorful cloth.
And the beauty of the masks was that even if you weren’t waving a sign, you could show the world how really, really good and smart you were, just by flaunting your face diaper.
At first, I couldn't remember this writer being on VDare before, but it's because he has only written 8 articles before on the site. I could remember reading at least half of them after perusing the titles. I hope to read a lot more by Doctor Cockey.
PS: In the title of his column, Dr. Cockey relates the immigration stupidity to the Kung Flu stupidity, which is something I already had in mind for another post, coming soon.
* retired Diagnostic Radiologist, with a disclaimer at the bottom that he is no expert on virology or epidemiology, just a better spotter of hoaxes than the average guy. Well, you can call me "Doc" too then.
** That post's title is one of my favorites: "Be Strong, Wuhan!" Yeah, and there's even a KIZZ song in the post. Guess first.
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Even Pat Buchanan starting to feel the impending financial doom
Posted On: Saturday - May 1st 2021 1:25PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Preppers and Prepping Economics US Feral Government Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
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I have a lot of respect for Pat Buchanan as a former Americans-first politician, a statesman, a counter-stupidity talking head, and a good writer. As a pundit that still works with a mid-20th century mindset (OK, sometimes late-20th century), he has me not reading his columns regularly anymore. Peak Stupidity wished him well on his 80th birthday 2 1/2 years back, but we also pointed out (earlier post) that his optimism and continued belief in political civility in America show an ancient mindset, that is unfortunately not "viable". From the 2nd link above:
He writes about political strategy as in how many votes "we" get if this happens, and what the Senate rules are with the "nuclear option" having been set up by the D's, and it's gonna work against them .. blah blah. OK, you DO know how all this works better than a lowly Peak Stupidity blogger, Pat, but listen, things are not as civil politically as you are used to, and they are quickly getting even less civil. The rules don't matter to the cntrl-left, and most of the people we think are on our side are not on our side. I have not seen ANY political legislation/ruling/whatever go in the RIGHT direction since the EARLY 1990's, Pat! The elite have been getting what they want, one way or another.His latest column, at least as I pre-judged from the title, may have me reading again. In Biden Bets the Farm—To "Change the World", Mr. Buchanan seems to see the financial doom that the Bai Dien Administration is trying to accelerate (not necessarily purposefully, as he's just a senile puppet) with another FDR/LBJ style projectile vomit of Socialist spending.
After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in March without a single Republican vote in Congress, Biden proposed a jobs and infrastructure program of $2.2 trillion. He has now added an "American Families Plan" of another $1.8 trillion.Holy cow, that's $5.9 Trillion. They - after all, it's Congress who passes it - are spending Trillions in the way that only a few decades ago 10's of Billions were spent. (That the total New Deal spending of 9 decades back was $50 Billion or so tells us how far the US $ has fallen.) Mr. Buchanan compares Biden to the 2 biggest Socialist Presidents of last century:
While Biden's $6 trillion in total spending is spread over several years, it represents a claim on the nation's wealth equal to 30% of GDP—a figure comparable to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society.Oh, it's not just over one year, though, so ... Sure, but this is additional spending, above the always about 1/4 extra-outlays-to-income budget will run. (We just showed the '19 budget pies this past Tuesday.) This adding of another 6 Trillion bucks on top is getting even the usually staid Pat Buchanan worried. If Buchanan sees doom for the country, I should already have gotten into my vehicle with the bug-out bag!
One hundred days into his term, our oldest president is seeking to become a transformative progressive president in the FDR mold, and he is betting his presidency he can bring it off.Later in the column, Mr. Buchanan reverts to his usual self and relates the prospect of this damaging the midterm elections for the Blue-squad, as per LBJ* in 1966, then many more Red-squad Presidents were elected, etc., etc.,.. No man, this is not 1966, 1986, or 2006. Things don't work like this anymore. The GOP doesn't fight, they are too scared of being called names to get elected on principles, and they will be cheated against anyway. This political stuff is about over, Pat.
I put a comment in under a Steve Sailer post today to ask Ron Unz to think about including a prepper columnist on his well-working site. The chance of Mr. Unz reading (especially my stuff!) is only 10%, I'd guess. I'd really like to see some of that on his site due to my liking the commenting system so much. If Ron Unz can host the total Mao-sack-hanging Commie Godfree Roberts, I don't think the hosting of a prepper or two is too much to ask.
Pat Buchanan doesn't cut it as a prepper, but he sure comes off a bit worried in this column:
During the runoff races for the two Senate seats in Georgia last year, Sen. Chuck Schumer blurted, "Now we take Georgia, then we change the world."What will this change consist of? There'll be much higher taxes (skipping up a paragraph in the column):
That is an apt description of what is going on. Biden, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi mean to use the window of opportunity their slimmest of margins on Capitol Hill have provided them—to "change the world."
Biden proposes to raise the U.S. corporate tax by one-third to 28%, raise the personal income tax rate to 40%, double the tax on capital gains to 40%, and raise death and inheritance taxes to effect a greater equality of wealth in America.I know, I know, it'll hit the big guys that need to be hit. It's not really just who gets hit. The money has to still come from somewhere. Inflation is about to get much more serious. It's numbers like $6,000,000,000,000 EXTRA that get me into a financial planning panic.
Really, I've done well more than I believe 95% of middle-class Americans have done to be prepared, but, I don't know - it's time to up our game here.
Yeah, it'd make me feel a lot better to read a regular prepper columnist and good commenters along with it. Do you read here, Ron Unz? Forget everything I said about you. All is forgiven.
* This was, in fact, very much like one Steve Sailer post (can't find them easily) of a few weeks back, making me wonder if Pat reads Steve. Mr. Sailer had the same attitude of which I tried to disabuse him of, that it's all just the continuing politics of the nation ... goes back and forth ... all is well!
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Sweden v Somalia
Posted On: Friday - April 30th 2021 1:07PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Socialism/Communism
Recognize any of these people? Maybe this will help.
We at Peak Stupidity are getting just a little tired of having commenters on unz.com, etc. arguing against any criticism of Socialism or promotion of Libertarianism with "Sweden! Sweden!" and "Somalia! Somalia!", respectively. These arguers' point is that, for general quality of life in a country, the political/ideological system is not as important as what the race/ethnicity of the majority of the people are. We do not dismiss this point of theirs. However, both factors are important, but additionally, the latter of these 2 alleged examples of nature over ideology is specious, and I have a pretty big collection of opposing examples to Sweden.
Somalia? Really? That is alleged to be the bastion of Libertarianism that nobody would go out of his way to live "under". See there really is no "under", though, as Somalia has Anarchy, which is nothing near what Libertarians see as a good system of government. There is not much of the rule of law, property rights, private voluntary associations, and the non-aggression principle that is part of the Libertarians' dream society. Yes, of course, that IS due to the fact that Somalians live there, not John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and that crowd. The arguers against Libertarianism are right that race matters, but then it just explains why there will be no such Libertarian society in Somalia.
Not just today (where there's no place like home), but, going back through history, I can't think of any example of any government run by anyone but White people that has/had greatly limited government. What I can think of is a huge chunk of the world that had huge majorities of White people under hard-core Totalitarian misery for 1/2 to 3/4 of the last century. It is so big a part of the world, that one might have called it the "2nd World", but we had a another term for it, the Communist "East Bloc". To me, Communism is just the hard-core version of Socialism, as we explained here. I like that post, so I'll excerpt this one paragraph:
Now, socialism is often thought of as just Communism-light, a friendly, nice, compassion version. No, no cultural revolutions planned, no mass graves (planned). it’s gonna be neighborly, dontcha know, like in the nice little towns in Vermont or Sweden (before the invasion). We’re gonna all discuss things, over lattes; we’re going to keep it calm and soothing, like National Public Radio, but sure, yeah, at some point we’ve gotta to redistribute some of your stuff. No, no, no, nothing like that, just some taxes that you pay ... well, yeah you’ve gotta pay ‘em... sure.... the tax people are our people... very friendly... what do you mean, “what if I don’t?”... I mean sure, eventually they’ll call guys with guns... but we don’t expect that ... we don’t even LIKE guns!.. Ewwww.Moving on, then there are the Oriental lands, in which there has been the 3,500 years running society of the Chinese, with, from what I know of their history, the idea of small government never even ringing a bell in anyone's head. The place has recently come out of a hell of a lot of bad times, with high hopes for a possible future of, if not small government, a reasonably free society. That hope has been dashed by the latest would-be Emperor Xi. #VellyDissapointing! (Got a post him that coming.)
Let's just say that having a majority of White people as a nation is a necessary condition for a Libertarian society, but not a sufficient condition. My detractors may not argue that point but just, again, point out "Sweden! Sweden!" as an example of a good place to live that does have Socialism, but under White people.
Before I get too far on that, let me say that I and the detractors would agree on the one point, that we've got to consider the Sweden of the period BEFORE they invited enough Moslems and Africans into their lands to seriously damage the place. (See Importing a civil war, in Sweden.) Yeah, let's talk pre-2000 Sweden. Our commenter Mr. Ganderson has a Swedish background (I assume) and has spent time there even last year. For me, it has been over 3 decades, but that means I can relate my opinion on the White Socialist Sweden.
Of course, it was not a bad place. Of course, since we don't really have ANY country with anything approaching a Libertarian society today, and the immigration invasion has stricken all of the White countries, I would pick 1985 Sweden over today's America as a place to live, were that possible. Other than the gun rights thing, it'd be no contest whatsoever.
I hung out with a number of local people in just the quick 2-day period I was there. I was at first impressed with "yeah, Wednesday's off too, huh? A 4-day workweek, you say? It's great having that subsidized apartment ..." It didn't take long, though, for me to wonder how an entrepreneurial type would fare there as opposed to in same-time-period America. If you're gonna have the freebies for the folks taking it more easy, than the hard-strivers would have to pay for this. Taxes were much higher there and levied in many more ways, same as with much of Western Europe.
I also had friends from Western Europe, more in the 90s than the '80s. I learned from the ones I worked with that, though they missed some aspects of their homes, the opportunities to get somewhere in life (my field was one) were just so much better in America. Socialism puts a real damper on the economy.
Finally, in what should be a later post by itself, the dysgenic factor of Socialism is one that I've brought up, causing the arguments of "But, Sweden!" In America, my contention is that 55 years of Socialism (since, basically, this scumbag), have enabled the irresponsible Americans, many of the particular black persuasion, but others too, to have and raise children on the money involuntarily contributed by the responsible among us. True, in the all-White country of pre-2000 Sweden, there weren't so many irresponsible people. Yet, there will always be some, and will they not end up breeding more rapidly than those tasked with doing productive work, who often feel too responsible to have very many kids due to budget contrasts, due to being taxed out the ying-yang to pay for the others' fertility? I answer in the affirmative, but I do agree it would not result in as quick an effect as it has in America.
So, instead of the ideological battle of Sweden v Somalia perhaps the battle of 1980s Sweden v Today's Sweden should be held. We can't reverse the damage though, to see the long-term results of Socialism in a White population. We do have the 20th century Sweden v 20th century East Bloc contest. We could change the math above to: having a majority of White people is a necessary condition for a good and decent society, but it is not a sufficient condition.
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Cashless Covfefe
Posted On: Thursday - April 29th 2021 5:20PM MST
In Topics: Economics Orwellian Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
I was traveling through the big hub airport a few weeks back and decided to eat a little teensiest-bit more healthful, so I dropped by the sandwich shop. This one had just pre-packaged stuff, which is no longer the only thing one can get. It is quicker though, as some of these places don't understand the difference between operating in an airport terminal vs. in the strip mall.
Now, in general, people have been taking cash. I was really worried last summer that the Kung Flu was being used as an excuse (try to) to force Americans to go cashless more quickly. Time has passed though, and hysteria can only be maintained for so long. Plus that whole COVID surface-contagion bit has been un-bunked since last Spring (see our post COVID vs. VD.) I doubt even Dr. Fauci washes his hands after taking a pee anymore. Does anybody?
It turned out, once I had brought this nicely-packaged turkey and cheese sandwich to the fancy plexiglass-shielded register, that, no, this place will NOT take cash. Well, this time the guy had already rang it up. OTOH, this was a packaged sandwich that anyone else could buy. "Sorry, no cash, no sale", I told the guy. I even brought up that it was the law (as far as I know), and maybe that worried him.
"OK, I'll just ring it up on my card", the guy said. I was beyond surprised. I don't think he was anything near the level of owner of the business, so why would he do this? "Well, you sure you can't just take some bills that will get me close? I don't need the change." I started to feel bad for the guy, but I wasn't sure this wasn't a company card or something. I think that the fact that I couldn't just stick the damn thing back on the shelf was some left-over Kung Flu PanicFest hysteria.
Well, I WAS in the right. Cash is King, as Peak Stupidity regularly harps on, but I really couldn't see making this guy "eat it", so to speak. I walked off about 100 ft, and then had this dim light-bulb appear in my head. "Duh!" it said. I think I should be giving him the cash. Now, he never explicitly said that, so that's why it took me so long to think of this.
I went back over. "Hey, here's the cash", I said and explained that I hadn't thought of this. I was kind of embarrassed. On the chance that this guy had used the company card, well, I guess, this worked out very well for him. I wanted to square it up though.
I'm not putting up with this card-only BS. Neither should anyone. We don't want to go the way of the new new Red China.
PS: Re the "Covfefe" terminology, that was from a late night fat-fingered tweet by President Trump way back in May of '17. Where did the "Cov" come from?
That should set up alarm bells in the head of any conspiracy junkie. Is it a code? "Paging Ron Unz. Ron Unz, pick up the white courtesy telephone, with your CovFefe gloves, wipes, and face diaper, please."
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Coca~Cola Cowboy - Mel Tillis
Posted On: Wednesday - April 28th 2021 6:59PM MST
In Topics: Music
I couldn't get this song completely out of my head after yesterday's post about Coca~Cola. Mel Tillis arguably sang in the era of real Country Music. Coca~Cola Cowboy, written by Steve Dorff, Sandy Pinkard, Sam Atchley and Bud Dain, was on Mr. Tillis' Mr. Entertainer album of 1979. This song reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Music charts that year.
It was also featured in the Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way but Loose.
If you want to hear another song from this same era, see this Peak Stupidity economics post with John Conlee's Rose Colored Glasses.
She said....
You're just a Coca~Cola cowboy.
You got an Eastwood smile, and Robert Redford hair.
But you walked across my heart like it was Texas,
and you taught me how to say I just don't care.
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alt-right's Nick Fuentes put on the No-Fly list ...
Posted On: Wednesday - April 28th 2021 6:39PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism alt-right/MAGA Kung Flu Stupidity
... yet what does the alt-aight care about "muh Constitution? From everything I've read of Nick Fuentes and his leadership of part of the alt-right movement, he seems like a good guy. What I'll ask later on in this post is, have these young non-principled Conservatives not helped bring this type of thing upon themselves?
VDare's Washington Watcher II, one of my favorite writers on there, uses mostly a series of tweets to report America First Patriot Nick Fuentes Put On No-Fly List.
In case you don't know him at all, Nick Fuentes became known as leader of the "Groypers" (don't EVEN ask me what the name means), a college-age alt-right group. This group has greatly influenced the university so-called Conservatives, after a political battle with Charlie Kirk and his "Turning Point" college network. He's been on the good side of the immigration, culture, and anti-white issues vs. the wusses of Turning Point.
Because of his much-too-truthful views, Mr. Fuentes has been banned from all types of "platforms", media, electronic payments, AirBNB, what-have-you. Per Washington Watcher II:
Fuentes believes he was put on the no-fly list due to hysteria over the Capitol protests. He has suffered numerous bans since January 6.This first tweet shows what the Big-Gov/Big Biz coalition (often called Facism or Crony Capitalism) can do to an political enemy.. for now:
I believe Nick Fuentes here. After all this, I hope he's learned that if you get cancelled in this way by the Establishment, it's best to have very trustworthy friends. I also can't help here but think that these young people have put all of their eggs in the "TECH" basket over the last decade or so.* The Millennials I run into all seem to think that using cash is inconvenient and a practice from the Stone Age. Additionally, as Peak Stupidity has complained about numerous times, such as in Are the Millennials Retarded?, they do not seem to get the idea that I may not want to give out my life story to buy a voltage regulator!
I have something to say about that last item, Mr. Fuentes' being put on a (the?) "No Fly" list. This is the explanation from Mr. Fuentes of what happened back in December of last year, as he tried to travel on American Airlines:
Don't ask me to explain the order of things. Tweets often confuse me in this way.
OK, so now we get to the Kung Flu stupidity again here. What CAN'T the COVID-one-niner do, for anyone desiring a good old-fashioned Totalitarian society, at least? I've run into much of this business on the airliners myself. Because the Feds passed some ordinance, law, or whatever they call Executive Orders now, in February, as I recall, that mandates the wearing of face diapers on the airliners AND in the terminals, the airline management is relieved, while the gate agents and flight attendants have had to become even more Totalitarian to keep their jobs. The nearly 2-decades-running Motherland Security TSA stuff is one thing. As we noted early last summer, well before the mandate, airport terminals are reaching the COVID / TSA twin peaks of stupidity.
Mr. Fuentes ran into this before the Feral mandate, but the airlines were already well down with the PanicFest (season 2). From my experience, some airline employees have been taking their Totalitarian additional job functions more seriously than others (whether due to being true hysterics or being more worried about their jobs, I don't know). I don't think that NIck Fuentes was put on that "potential terrorist" No-Fly list that the horrid agency called the TSA maintains, just going by his tweet. I figure that it was a policy of American Airlines, as when a plane has to taxi back to the gate to kick someone off, that will kick off some management decision, one possibly predetermined as Kung Flu PanicFest policy. I give Mr. Fuentes kudos for raising hell though, but this part explains the next.
Much more recently, Nick Fuentes tried to travel from Chicago to a press conference down in Palm Beach, Florida on the airlines recently, as he really couldn't communicate worth a damn in any other way than in person, being banned from everything but pay toilets. Per a short video clip by Mr. Fuentes in this Occidental Dissent article, he tried to book both American Airlines and United Airlines flights and was told they couldn't, and the TSA hinted he was on this No-Fly list. Yes, this IS the kind of thing you would have expected in the old USSR, Red China (had they had enough airliners to matter), or Cuba (ditto) last century. History is rhyming, with a century as the timing, and we keep saying that, over and over...
Here's what Mr. Fuentes tweeted recently:
I give Glenn Greenwald a pass on what I'm about to say here. Though still somehow a deluded old-time lefty, he is a courageous stand-up guy, as evidenced by the Ed Snowden affair.
Maybe Nick Fuentes himself is even a Constitutionalist and not the typical Millennial in this respect. I don't know all he's said and written. I seriously doubt it though. In general the American young people have not been supporters of Constitutionalism and rule of law. They lean Socialist, as in "the government can do anything, but we just want it to do more for US, as Conservatives", or something. All I hear is the disparagement of "muh Constitution" and real limits on the Feral Government. Young people did support Ron Paul quite a bit in '12, but that's almost a decade ago. The government schools have been raising even more deluded Socialist Snowflakes, who are now maturing, or at least getting ripe.
Does Mr. Fuentes' Groypers group advocate for smaller government, the abolishment of the TSA and the NSA, DOE, IRS for that matter, the ending of the LOCKDOWN/face-diapering and other Totalitarian measures, and the termination of Dr. Fauci with extreme prejudice, in addition to their alt-right issues? You know, young people, that the Establishment doesn't have to defeat you in political debates for you to lose. They can just do what Totalitarian, and now Orwellian societies have always done, but often only dreamed of doing: banning you from financial transactions, banning you from traveling, banning you from communicating, and just plain un-personing you. You people never understood the reason for, and never supported, the basics of liberty, as laid out by the American Founders. Just what the hell did you expect was gonna happen?
* I'd say since smart phones, or maybe the original iPads, so maybe 15 years even..
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The new Children of Vision?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 27th 2021 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Music China Americans Big-Biz Stupidity
The 21st Century is supposed to be the "Asian Century", and by "Asian", they mean Chinese. I give lots of credit to those who said that back in the 1980s. I'd read it myself and thought WTF? Peak Stupidity was most optimistic about the nation of China about 15 years ago, from personal observation. We don't feel very optimistic now, after seeing something of a few years back, and reading more recently of, the Orwellian Police State well into the process of installation over there. (See our Dashed High Hopes for China - Part 1 and Part 2, but there's plenty more with the China Topic Key.)
Chinese it seems to be, though. We don't have to like it. We don't have to particularly respect the place and the culture either, as in the previous century, most nations around the world DID respect America. For one thing, we do know that the Chinese have stolen so many original technical ideas and business ideas from us. An article linked-to by Instapundit the other day reported on the theft, via the usual espionage done by those diverse HR hires, of technical information about the Coca~Cola beverage. I remember a number of $120 Million being bandied about, though for the life of me, I don't think the secret formula is worth that much! Hell, just put the cocaine back in it, Chinese Big-Biz thieves, and you'll get the sales.
OK, that article had had a paywall, but go to this Conservative Daily News article to read about it. It's not about the formula but about the engineering technological development of BPA-free cans. The manufacturing of the cans and the canning process are both amazing. Yet, diverse Miss Xiaorong You* stole it all, as part of China's "Thousand Talents" project.**
You know, this Coca~Cola talk had me thinking of an oldie by the excellent British band Supertramp, due to a lyric line in one of the album cuts. The last song on this band's best-selling album, Breakfast in America, from 1979, had not only a good tune, but this superb 4-minute-long hypnotic instrumental ending (over 1/2 the song), along with some really thoughtful lyrics. Child of Vision was an admonition to Americans about their commercialism and supposedly wasteful lifestyle. I always wondered how a British band would have any standing to criticize, but then, it was a different Great Britain back then. This album was released a couple of months before the election of Maggie Thatcher and only 1/2 way through the Jimmy Carter presidency. It's been a while!
Here's are the lyrics I remembered:
And you gave me Coca~cola.
You said it tasted good.
Then you watch the television,
cause they tell you that you should.
Are the Chinese getting so commercialized and so far from any moral grounding that Americans ought to have a song like this about them? Are the Chinese the new "Children of Vision"?
Supertramp:
Rick Davies – vocals, piano, keyboards, harpsichord, harmonica
Roger Hodgson – vocals, guitars, all kinds of keyboards...
John Helliwell – saxophone (on this track), backing vocals
Dougie Thomson – bass guitar
Bob Siebenberg – drums, percussion
(I didn't include all the different instruments these guys played. They were very versatile.)
PS: At least, for this latest theft of technology, we won't quite be selling out our manufacturing capability. I just don't see how the Chinese will penetrate the American market with their own Coca~Cola. There are just too many American consumers around that remember that old "pee-pee in your Coke" joke. (Well, I had to get that joke in here somewhere, dammit.)
* I'll give the Chinese this: They don't spend the time on preferred pronouns, as we discussed in Fun with Pronouns. Hey You, you say you want to change the world ... it's NOT alright ... .
** Peak Stupidity has personal knowledge of a similar deal regarding automobile airbags, as we related in Chinese grad students and airbag espionage.
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EXTRA, EXTRA, IRS tells all! (in .pdf 1040 Instructions)
Posted On: Tuesday - April 27th 2021 5:39PM MST
In Topics: Economics US Feral Government Taxes
The '20 tax booklet, put out at the beginning of '21, shows '19 budget numbers. Each one is a year behind, understandably.
You really wonder who's been dropping the ball on this each year, as the IRS tax instruction booklet continues to include the 2 pie charts on income and outlays for the US Feral budget. The reader may want to go back to 2 Peak Stupidity posts, also written around tax time (well, one about a 1 1/2 months later). A bit after the '17 tax season, we posted a Quick glance at the budget from US-Gov crack Green-eyeshade boys, and a day after The cruelest day of the cruelest month, of the, I dunno, 8th cruelest year? in '18, we posted a Comparison of '15/17 US Government Budgets. Shouldn't the Feral Government have tossed these pies already with extreme prejudice?
There's some financial reality baked into these pies. It's not that I think these simple charts are the be-all-to-end-all. I imagine plenty of black budget "defense" money is left out or put in the other categories. There's a whole lot to it than what you see here, but I get the numbers out of it that I care about. (Well, that is, besides the running Total Debt, which I can get in tabular form elsewhere.)
As pissed off as I was a week or two ago that I STILL owed money after having extra taken out over the year '20 (pissed off enough to put off sending anything in till a week after the deadline), seeing these pie charts near the end of the .pdf booklet made up for it a bit. Sure, the finances of America and the American Feral government are beyond redemption, but it was just nice to see an attempt to do some basic accounting by those green-eyeshade boys in some office or another.
After pulling some up, I see these pie charts appear in older on-line 1040 "booklets" as far back as I've looked (2011, but I'll check way back later). I've decided to put some of this info a nice table to show the gist of the pickle the FED has put the budget and whole economy in after years of setting basement-level interest rates. Let's just compare a little bit from this '19 budget to the '15 one, shown in the link above, in which '17 is compared to '15. (We just so happened to get to this at 2 year intervals.)
These numbers are only to the nearest percent, but taking them for what we see, the net interest on the Federal debt has gone up by 33%, from 6% to 8%. This interest is being paid on a larget pie too. We calculated in the first post, with only the '15 pie chart, that the (also) 6% of that '15 outlays of $3.89 Trillion = $220 Billion, being paid on ~ $17 Trillion, gave an average interest rate of a low, low 1.2 - 1.3% being paid by the feds. (Is that the average rate for Treasury Bonds being redeemed? I don't know enough to state this categorically.) OK, so that 8% of the '19 outlays of $4.49 Trillion = $360 Billion. On a '19 end-of-year deficit of ~ $22 Trillion gives an average interest rate of 1.6%. Interesting... no pun intended.
The absolute amount of interest paid in '19, that $360 Billion is 63% higher than that $220 Billion in '15, an additional $140 Billion. Just that amount of additional interest is more than the Total US Debt amount in 1943, in the middle of WWII! Oh, but a buck isn't worth nearly as much, so why compare? That's one point of this all, pointing out that the US dollar is being made worthless. The other is that the FED is in, or has put the Treasury Department in, a real pickle. If the interest rates were let to rise to natural levels, the price of money, the whole budget collapses. Imagine rates of 7%, likely only 3 points above the REAL inflation level. That's 4 3/8 times the interest, meaning that 8% of the pie goes to 35% of outlays!
We haven't even considered the financial shitshow of the Kung Flu PanicFest year of 2020. I am soooo looking forward to my '21 tax booklet when it comes out next January! Will they keep the pie charts that I love so much? I'm guessing these have gone un-noticed by the muckety-mucks and the AA hires underneath them. Oh, and it could be because nobody but me does taxes by hand and even glances at these .pdf's anymore.
That longer-term tabular comparison is coming, hopefully by end-o-bidness week, as Peak Stupidity has other, less important posts to write first. Mostly for my own benefit, I'm including right here a link to a really nice page on the national debt over US history, from The Street.
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Tips for Chinatown
Posted On: Monday - April 26th 2021 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Humor China
This was quite a while ago in one of the Chinatowns in New York City. They've got the real Chinese food if you like that sort of thing. My wife does. It's a tad healthier than the American style "Chinese Food" with the added salt and sugar, but then I'm still partial to Panda Express and Wok n Roll.
In these place full of non-assimilated Chinese people, one would not know he isn't in China but for the vehicles and lack of smog. You might think "when in Chinatown, do as the Chinese do". What the Chinese people DON'T do in China is tip for anything. It's just not common practice at all, or at least wasn't last time I was there (over 3 years ago).
Therefore, my wife figured "no, you don't need to give them a tip", on our $12 total breakfast. I was about to lay down 2 more bucks, not a lot, but at least cash, and "Cash is King"*, and was especially for Chinese people back then, before they were Harmonized**.
"I see they are Chinese, but this is New York City. It's still in America, and so they expect us to give a tip." "No, I'm pretty sure these Chinese people don't expect a tip. In China they don't, so ..." She was insistent about it. Rather than bet her money, which I've done before, I just gave up. "OK, fine."
We got about 20 yards out the door before one of the Chinese women caught up with us. "Wait, you have to tip!" Well, first of all, I don't HAVE to tip - that wasn't at all my point. I played along. "No, but you're Chinese right? Chinese people don't do tipping." "This is New York, not China! You have to tip, you know." "It sure looks like China, and it's too late now. I'm not giving you squat."
"That's too bad.", said my wife, as we walked off, "I wanted to eat later at that other place down the street, but these people know each other. They'll spit in the food."
"I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so."
* See also Part 2 and Part 3.
** This post is Part 1 of a 4-part book review - Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4
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Harrison Bergeron and the Virginia Department of Education
Posted On: Saturday - April 24th 2021 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Websites Political Correctness Movies Orwellian Stupidity Books Educational Stupidity
I started perusing Instapundit (#3 on the tiny blogroll of ours) occasionally again. Professor Reynolds has a handful, maybe 2 handfuls, of bloggers who mostly do the same thing, writing short blurbs with links by the multiple dozens a day. (Perhaps the Professor is still the only one allowed to say "Indeed" and "Heh!" as stand-along commentary.)
Instapundit links to PJ Media's Stephen Green*'s Insanity Wrap regularly, likely daily. That one seems worth 5 minutes a day or so - I like that title too. One of today's 5 or 6 items (all good) included the clip below, a video version of the Kurt Vonnegut Sci-Fi short story Harrison Bergeron. IW's/Green's/Vodka's point was to compare that to a story of the Virginia Department of Education's elimination of advanced classes until 11th grade to make everyone "equal". VDare's James Kirkpatrick did a good job with this story yesterday with The Real Hate Crime Against Asians—Eliminating Accelerated Learning Classes.**
I'd never read the short story till last week or so, amazingly (to myself), as I've heard of the title for years. I did not realize it also is a 1995 full length movie, right there on youtube ... for now.
This is the same thing I linked to above. Could this movie have been made 25 years later? Nah, it hits too close to home.
Thank you, all you Peakers, for reading this week. Next week, more anti-feminism, a glance at the odious Feral Gov't budget, and much more stupidity!
* Oh, this guy used to be "Vodkapundit" - it brings back memories of a smaller blogsphere.
** Insanity Wrap links to Fox News - I value VDare's take more, as usual, plus Fox News is likely to be a visually-ass-painful website to read from.
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[UPDATED 04/27:] Youtube coincidentally knocked off that ~ 6 minute cut that matched the short story. They have lots of other Harrison Bergeron clips, but not that one. I updated to the full movie, which I watched today.
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