DaiFuku, don't Ass/u/me anything
Posted On: Monday - October 20th 2025 4:53PM MST
In Topics: Humor Poetic Stupidity
I saw a parked van with a DaiFuku logo on it. I don't want to assume anything, but are these Japanese corporate honchos trying to troll us, or what? I recall a story of an American car company naming a model with a word that meant "Impact" in Spanish. (Hard for me to figure out the story now backwards.) As we've noted before, though we concentrate largely on America, stupidity does not stop at the California coastline.
DaiFuku is a serious Big Business conglomerate of sorts, making various products (sorry, "providing solutions" in corp-speak) for airport baggage handling, clean rooms, car washes, other automation, and lots of other stuff. I don't laugh at Japanese manufacturing. However, though their corporate name should have customers salivating for that sweet, sweet red bean paste if they know Japanese, I do wonder how long they've been been doing business in America with a name that's basically "Die! Fuck you, America!"
I suppose someone ought to clue them in about this, but then, as with that hilarious T-shirt worn by a clueless Chinaman, perhaps we should let it ride a while longer.
PS: We've got plenty of more serious, interesting, and timely stuff to write about, but I may not be able to get to anything else till Wednesday evening.
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Silver Threads and Golden Needles
Posted On: Saturday - October 18th 2025 9:17PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
... cannot mend this economy of mine.
I'm sure this song has appeared on Peak Stupidity before, the Linda Ronstadt version that is. It was supposed to be at the bottom of the previous post.
Miss Ronstadt, back in her day, didn't need to worry her pretty little head about gold and silver, what with that hot bod and great voice of hers. It helped the music having the bands she had, that is, especially after the Eagles for a bit and the Stone Poneys. I really like the banging guitars by Waddy Wachtel. In this one, I think there'd be some of The Eagles, maybe J.D. Souther, but I can't tell one skinny long-haired '70s musician from another.
Silver Threads and Golden Needles, written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes, was first recorded by one Wanda Jackson in 1956. A whole bunch of artists played the song before Linda played her country-rock version in 1973 (off the album Don't Cry)*, and one of them was, you could have guessed it, The Grateful Dead. Whose songs HAVEN'T they covered?!
I thought at first this might have been a real rocker, with Jerry leads I can hear in my Dead head already. They could have done that, but now I remember that they played this song after Linda's, Wanda's, etc. country versions but BEFORE Miss Ronstadt's rocking version. It sounds like a very small venue, but it says on youtube this was recorded at the 2,700 seat Fillmore East** (Manhattan, NYC). I like it.
I feel a bit vindicated, as a commenter presenting the lyrics under this video also heard "... with a TV in every room." It's either "chill" or "tear", I dunno. My lyricosis has flared up again.
Thank you all for reading and especially for commenting here this blog-week. Have a happy Gold Festival or Centrum Silver weekend!
* She had released a more country version back in '69.
** Called the "Church of Rock & Roll", the place was only open as said church for 3 years, from March '68 to June '71. In that time, the Allman Brothers and the Dead, along with loads of other great bands, played there many a time and made many live recordings like this one.
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Gold, Bitchez!!
Posted On: Saturday - October 18th 2025 8:57AM MST
In Topics: Websites Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Inflation
There's been a lot of talk about the
It's a long-term thing. People will "trade" gold back and forth for the usual get-rich-quick reasons, the serious financial guys talk about diversification and asset allocation, and now, lately for some it's "Don't miss out!" I haven't been concerned with any of that. Gold may stay low vs the US $ because people don't see what's going on for long periods then rocket up once there's lots of news, but, in the long run gold knows inflation. Inflation can't run, and it can't hide, well, maybe from the BLS, but not from gold.
The "Gold, Bitchez!" phrase was a regular classic in the comments section of the old ZeroHedge of a dozen years back. I had extra time on my hands, and because the site had perhaps only 10 posts daily then and fewer comments, I'd read through it all each day, for a period of over a year. ZH was more solely a financial news/opinion site then, with a focus on the pretty obvious (to the Tyler Durdens and commenters) coming financial crash due to "what can't go on, won't go on."
The arguments back and forth about real money were entertaining. I remember all the derision laid upon FED Chairman Ben Bernanke's statement that gold is a barbaric relic. I learned a lot - I LOLed a lot. My wife thought this ZH fixation was all a complete waste of my time** - it did distract me lots, but then, she's come around lately, and on other issues too.
Let me go back a decade from then, to just past the turn of the century. This was the first time I had any serious amount of money on me to save in the wisest manner. It was probably a page linked off the Lew Rockwell site on which I read a bit about real money. (A few years later, I read a whole book on what makes something "money" - I've tried to find it since, and all I learned was it sure wasn't this one!) On those old web pages, there was nothing I could find wrong with the arguments given. I had some thoughts about it ... and didn't get any gold.
Look at the chart above, and you'll see that, yes, I should be kicking myself. I could have obtained a couple of hundred barbaric relics and still had plenty left in the bank. I could have bought low and sold high, but no, that's not the point, as I'll get to. As it stood, I left the US dollars in the bank. After making one big mistake with stocks, I'd realized that sort of thing was not for me. However, leaving money in the bank making 6% was old school thinking, the kind that really had not been appropriate for my whole life and those of most readers.
Moving forward again to my ZH days, yes, I bought some gold at various prices. I can't remember if my wife did do that deal of circling her finger around her ear, but I doubt she'll be doing that now.
"OK, so you're ahead on your investment. Good job." people would tell me. "Now, you might wanna sell some and buy it back later after it goes down." NO. If you have your mind right about gold you understand that it's not about investing. You can indeed get 4,000 of those green pieces of paper with General Washington on them today and then maybe give someone 2,000 of them later for one. Nope, I've got n troy oz of real money now, and I'll have n troy oz of real money tomorrow. That's the point.
I'd have much rather backed up the truck (another old ZH expression) to a coin shop 25 years ago, surely. That's in the past. I'm not up for "buying" low, "selling" high. (The quotes are there because it's really the opposite - selling pieces of paper or digits and buying more later.) I'm not waiting for the "head and shoulders curve", "death cross", or whatever other crystal-graph-reading mumbo-jumbo the (NON)"Technical traders" discuss in their newsletters.
I don't WANT to be a trader. I have a job that has nothing to do with that. For well nigh a century - some would say about 55 years since the closing of the gold(backing) window, some 90 years since the Commie FDR attempted confiscation and re-jiggered the non-market "price", and others 112 since the creation of the FED - one couldn't simply save his money, his savings of his life of labor very simply, without it getting stolen. (Slowly, then likely quickly) Not many people alive could remember a time when it was wise to just plain hold onto one's savings.
One has had to have investments in stocks, bonds, funds, real estate etc. One has had to think about long-term capital gains taxes, timing the housing market, getting into that IRA or 401(k). Can you imagine buying a house simply because you want to live there and that's that? Can you imagine putting your money steadily into a bank account with real interest paid and being able to use it to buy things 20 years later of the same value it could before? (... and much more, because the point of interest is not to account for inflation, it's to pay you back the price of the use of your money for years and years.)
That's been hard to imagine since we haven't had sound money in America and the World. Some people, more and more as of late for some reason, have thought about this and realized that gold still has the best properties for use as real money. They are thinking harder now and maybe will think some more on Monday.
We do get long-winded here, so let me excerpt a short comment from one of the best, most common-sense, down-to-earth writers that has appeared on The Unz Review. That would be one Audacious Epigone who wrote the following*** in this thread 6 1/2 years ago:
Inflation requires people who have no business being financial speculators trying their hands at financial speculation anyway because the alternative is to have their savings depreciate over time. It’s ludicrous.AGREED.
Back again to ZeroHedge, but in the modern day... as in yesterday:
Note the yellow rectangle saying that this post is for Premium ZH Members. Ha. I won't be joining up to read about gold being PUMMELED, PUMMELED, I tells ya', by 3%. Firstly, people tend to keep absolute numbers in their heads when relative numbers would fit better. Yes, in 2002 (OWW! Just kicked myself in the ass again.) a 200 dollar drop would be a big loss. Wait, no it wouldn't anyway, because had I 25 oz of gold at $350 and then 25 oz after it being really pummeled to $150, I'd still have... you got it... 25 oz of REAL MONEY.
Too bad I can't read THOSE comments...
... one more time for olde tyme's sake:
*... and silver, and other precious metals too, but let me stick with discussion gold in this post. The same applies generally to silver, etc.
** She was driving an older semi-beater and wanted something newer. I told her I'd get her a good vehicle if the country was till in one piece by '15. It was, but then a couple of years went by still...
*** Unfortunately for me, only 10% or so of his posts were on financial matters.
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It's Alive!: German/Mali version and family tensions
Posted On: Friday - October 17th 2025 11:54AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Movies Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
Do they even make solid Horror Movies anymore? There was a certain horror movie made a half century ago entitled It's Alive!, during which one certain scene scared the livin' out of me.
Believe it or not, there was a poignant scene near the end of the Dad and his unexpectedly violent little baby boy. Radiation exposure, chemicals, whatever it was that did it, this was still his baby boy. One can adopt instead. Then, you can avoid the above sorts of problems, but others may crop up when you raise who's not just not your flesh and blood, but often not even "your people" whatsoever.
Adoption is not nearly as big a thing as it was before abortion. I was still surprised to find that ('21 data) White children were still a majority of children adopted in America (~27,000 White vs. ~23,000 rest). Americans have been very tolerant and welcoming over the years, and that I saw many couples visiting China about 18 years back for the purpose of adopting unwanted Chinese babies is an example.
Google's AI
She is Frau Iris Stalzer, 57 y/o Mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany. This North Rhine-Westphalia town of 20-odd thousand people sits on the Ruhr River, south of Dortmund. Going back 5 years, so this may not be completely indicative, of the 11 1/2 thousand votes for City Council there, 500 of them went for the AfD. Just sayin'...
Just as a sample of the news, per UPI, Recovering German mayor-elect says her daughter was knife attacker. "Recovering, hell." Regaining her consciousness, enough to tell the cops what happened is not exactly recovering. Her 17 y/o adopted daughter stabbed her with a knife in each hand (gun control, and all... you know...) in the back and stomach 13 times ... oh, and tortured her first.
Even in It's Alive, the poor parents wanted to cover for their "little one". I can't imagine this Mom would be lying to incriminate her daughter. (Plus, evidence.) The small town of Herdecke is said to be "in shock" , but I'd not be so shocked myself had I already known that this adopted kid had been in trouble a dozen times or so before for violent acts. Oh, I forgot to mention - this adopted daughter is from Mali. Her younger brother (15 y/o) is from Haiti. Speaking of shock:
On Tuesday, the German SPD stated its party members were in a state of deep shock about the election. A rise in right-wing and anti-Semitic crimes in Germany in recent years included several deaths, including conservative politician Walter Lubcke.It's shocking that this heinous act wasn't "more" of that political far-right wing violence committed by people who HATE foreigners, such as cute young babies from... Haiti, Mali.... wait ...
Helluva world when a Haitian boy in Germany is a veritable Alter Boy compared to his Malian sister.
Let me get back to the adoption of these strange foreigners by a German woman to begin with. There's not very much on Mrs. Stalzer's wiki page, where I wanted to get a little bio. info. She' married, but I don't know for how long. If not so long (not much longer than the age of her adopted children), was this a case of "I never found just the right man" and then her being too old to have her own? She'd have been coming up on 40. If she had been married longer, perhaps her having to adopt was due to fertility problems for the couple.
Could the Stalzer's not have adopted any White kids, Orientals, ANYTHING but Haitians and Malians? There are two factors one would expect from a Globalist/lefty though. The first would be that virtual signaling. We all have seen and discussed that. However, secondly, people with strong beliefs like this may want to actually prove it. "I CAN raise any kid from anywhere in the world - I'll pick the worst to prove my point - into a great human being. Hell, I'll try 2 of 'em!" She's now recovering...
I would not wish anything but a solid recovery from the severe trauma Mrs. Stalzer has been subject to, or subjected herself to, no matter what her political views. Let's hope, though, that those views may change somewhat during her time in the hospital and home getting her body back to a semblance of normality. People like her cause problems not just for themselves but for all of Germany and the West.
Will the AfD get more than 500 votes in the next City Council vote in Herdecke?
The German Chancellor, Mr. Merz, gave his thoughts on this case of "domestic tension":
My thoughts are with her family and loved ones.No, see, her "loved ones" are the problem! You people encourage more and more millions of these domestic tensioners to live in Germany. Your thoughts should go in that direction.
The violent 17 y/o girl from Mali will go free cause... her Mom didn't die?** Just a little case of Domestic Tension... reminding me of a Kinks song. I really like this live album One for the Road that my friend gave me on CD years back. It was a great introduction to The Kinks above and beyond the tired few radio cuts. The song is called National Health:
Nervous tension, man's invention.
It's the biggest killer that's around today.
Let the tension out, or it will build and build inside
and strike you down some day.
* I didn't have luck with the regular search results either yet.
** We got into a good discussion about attempted murder in regard to that of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently. Interesting stuff, but, you gotta put this nutcase away!
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Aye, Caramba! Esta ¡¡La Nina!!
Posted On: Wednesday - October 15th 2025 6:43PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Global Climate Stupidity
No, this is not a Foodie post. You're thinking El Pollo Loco... hey, what happened to that fast-food chain? I liked that Crazy Chicken. This is not a movie review of one of those 1970's horror movies, here on Peak Stupidity - Hispanic either. Neither is this another post about Trump and sombreros, nor about Epstein's Fantasy Island*, nor even another Telenovela feature.
La Nina is a climate phenomenon, the opposing situation of the perhaps-more-familiar, El Nino!!
Somehow I had a picture in my head of that term being said by David Letterman, with at least 2 exclamation points, maybe even some upside down ones. Ha, I came up with the following - from the looks of him and the banter, this must have been near the end... no, not of The Planet, but of the Dave Letterman Late Show.** The youtube United Nations (WTH?) description is the funniest thing due to its abject seriousness, Paul Shaffer is pretty good, and at least stick around till 02:30, as the 4th question to Mr. El Nino, aka Gerald Mulligan, cracked me up.
Where the heck were we? OK, as much as Peak Stupidity agrees with Bad Orange Climate Man that the Climate Calamity™ is indeed the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, we understand that some medium-term Farmers' Almanac scale climate phenomena can at least be somewhat understood and used for vague predictions. That's the case with El Nino and La Nina. They are not weather phenomena, as in a cold front passing through tomorrow sure to cause a big wind shift, thunderstorms, and, well, yeah, colder temperatures - and they are not global climate predictions, you know, the stuff that has never accurately predicted El Jack Squat - they are multi-month phenomena.
La Nina refers to the temperature in the central and eastern Equitorial Pacific Ocean (a YUGE area) being on the low side. This is said to cause colder than average temperatures and more precip - snow, we mean, cause, Winter - in the northwestern and northern US and warmer than average temperatures, dryer air, and less precip elsewhere. El Nino is the opposite, but per The Epoch Times as related by ZeroHedge, we'll get the former this Winter, but still with only a 25% chance of this phenomena being very significant: La Nina Is Here - Here's What It Could Mean For Winter In US.***
Somewhere buried in a number of our posts with the Global Climate Stupidity topic key, we've noted that Climate Alarmists have never replied to me on the question of "Are El Nino and La Nino being INPUT to the climate models or are they the OUTPUT of these purported models?" I mean, if you don't see it coming until you already have those Pacific Ocean temperature measurements, you can't exactly have it as an input. If it's an output of the models, why can't you tell us this long before the Climate Prediction Center does, like, this very Fall beforehand?
This kind of Climatology is real and sane. I enjoy learning about it. These Climate guys don't claim knowledge they don't have, but they predict as much as they respectably can, so I respect this type of work.
Yet, still, It's usually fun to check out the ZeroHedge comments. I haven't read them all****, but here are some good ones:
User262626:
Where I live, the leaves are experiencing such intense anxiety that they are turning yellow, red, and brown and then falling off of the trees. Does no one care? Shouldn't we give the trees a safe space where they don't have to experience such shifts in their mental health?
Enlightened1:As a retort:
That idiot Noah built an ark when he could have simply paid more taxes to avoid climate change.
Oxygen Likes Carbon:
It was a ****ty cruise, rained a lot, but they had a great buffet. I had two of everything.
Same guy:
La Niña is the trans version of El Niño (after the surgery, which was done in Mexico)
Pure Blooded:
Fake news, Al Gore told me snow is a thing of the past in this warming world. Looking out my window at the snow in the mountains here is Utah is nothing more than a glitch in the matrix.
Climate Denier:OK, not as funny as Paul Shaffer...
Weather forecast this is the only profession where they are wrong 90% of the time and considered still a expert
* O/T of this post, but I noticed I missed, OK, had forgotten about, a big post from late '21 about the whole Epstein thing, the one linked-to above, when I wrote the more recent one, Jeff Epstein's Fantasy Island: clients, personnel, and the point last Summer.
** Just found it, '07, but, yes, there's a Donald Trump joke..
*** Yes, I even took off ZH's accent marks. Sorry, this is America. That's how we roll, and we don't roll our "rrrrr"s.
*** That's just another great thing about The Unz Review comments - you know how many are there. These types, with the uncertainly-ending [MORE] links, don't. I could be on one of these threads all night, so I have to call it, randomly.
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Not done avoiding uncomfortable truths in the UK
Posted On: Tuesday - October 14th 2025 9:03PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
I ran into the video below on Instapundit today. After checking it out for a few minutes, with the intro by Megyn Kelly (who's got her own off-
"Irrevocable" is the word pundit Kelly used to describe how far Islam has spread in the UK. Mr. Kingston made a statement I've heard elsewhere (plenty of times on The Unz Review, by commenter AnotherDad and others) that this Islamic invasion (or any of masses of foreigners, IMO) is worse than mere bad economic problems. The latter can be fixed in some way, but the former may be indeed, I'd say irreversible, instead.
Mr. Kingston was likely on the show because he made big news with a rant of his about the murder and maiming of some Jews in an incident in the UK that I'd heard about briefly. Megyn Kelly showed a clips of that - I don't disagree with him, though I do see the idea of making bigger news due to it being Jewish people killed rather than plain old British blokes. To me, the idea is that then you'll get people that influence policy in the Western World to perhaps back off on this "Diversity is our Strength". "Ya' see?!" It helps too that they are the eternal enemy of Islam, it seems.
His rant was themed, if I may, "I'm done...":
I'm done with the euphemisms. I'm done with the crocodile tears. I'm done with the calls for unity. I'm done being told not to hate. I'm done skirting around uncomfortable truths.Then he described the problems that stem from multiculturalism, and not from Yorkshire men or Irishmen either. He's right that Islam does not belong in the Western World. He even brought up the stupidity of the Foodies. That was a good point that you don't hear enough.
He didn't mince words in that rant. Great. After the clip of Mr. Kingston's viral rant, the two conversed again, and Megyn said "This [Islam] is a 3rd rail, one you're not allowed to touch... ". Fine. Then I got to 5 1/2 minutes in. As Mr. Kingston discussed the left's methods to shut down criticism of islam, he went off the rails himself. You may want to watch it first, as I'll not transcribe all of this disappointing nonsense. He then tried to distinguish between Islamic culture and that nasty word "race" that the left has been calling those critics of Islam like himself. "Race should be something that should be off limits in terms of criticism. We know that. This isn't controversial stuff." [CLICK]
The remote control doesn't work on youtube on my computer, but that was my reaction. What a cuck! Talk about race most certainly IS controversial stuff, and that's where the big "uncomfortable truths" lie. Will Kingston is not comfortable with the truth about race. Islam is NOT just a culture. With exceptions the people who practice it are of races we'd rather not deal with in the West. In the UK, they are definitely not exceptions, these Pakistanis. (They are a majority of who Brits call "Asians", and they are the Moslem base.)
Even in the big protest marches, such as reported on Peak Stupidity in Summer '24 - England Burning: Enough is Enough!*, you'd see most of the protesters being like this:
Everyone is angry, and rightly so. However, even in that anger there are a number of cucks seen - or just so beaten down from years of PC that they can't get themselves to say more. "No, it's not about race or color."You want the truth? Sorry, Will Kingson, but You can't handle the truth! You're not yet done.
I don't know how they expect to fix their problems if they can't get down to the truth of the matter. We seem to be doing better here lately...
Feel free to watch the rest of the video above, of course, but I stopped it at 6 minutes, because I'm done with this guy.
* Many such posts, with a series of close-up looks at one particular riotous event at a Holiday Inn Express. (I hoped some certain people woke up smarter.) Check out the Immigration Stupidity topic key for posts from that summer.
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Meet the new Pope... same as the old Pope..
Posted On: Saturday - October 11th 2025 10:52AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
... and the Bulls are getting deeper overnight.
Peak Stupidity was just guessing back in May, but it seems that we were right about this American-born Pope Leo XIV they got up there in the Vatican City. He was born in Chicago, but he spent half his life down in Peru on what I suppose was a Liberation Theology Apprenticeship.
It's not my
No matter what else you think of him, Trump is no Globalist. The Globalists/Commies are very upset that their plans for the PRP and other evil are being greatly impeded by this guy and his MAGA crowd. Pope Leo is getting upset:
Speaking in front of thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo warned that migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.”So, am I to take it that calling in an ICE raid at the Church picnic is out of the question?
Without singling out any country in particular, Leo said that Catholics should “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.”
Anyway, America is not a Catholic country. and neither is the UK, with their risings going on, Germany, with its AfD, and Trump is not either, so lighten up,
Here's where he's just making it up as he goes along:
Leo explained that the church was living through a “new missionary age” that tasked its members with providing “hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity” to migrants coming to the West.I've been reading through Acts. That was one hell of a road trip by Paul and his various riders, Sylas, Barnabas, and other of the first Christian missionaries. They went everywhere, man, getting around more and getting in more trouble than a 1960s motorcycle gang. That's what missionaries do.
What missionaries DON'T do is invite strange non-believers into their own countries to preach to. Where is that written, anywhere in The Bible, Pope Leo?
I figured I'd go to the real expert on these matters, so I took a look at Ann Barnhardt's site for the first time in a while. As I figured, she's not all too fired up about this guy either, same as with the old so-called Pope. "slackjawed, mouth-breathing, demon-worshipping Antipope" is how she deftly puts it. In this same post, she wrote something nearly the same as she did some years ago, but I again enjoyed Miss Barnhardt's take on "Blessed are the poor in spirit."**
It's not just the immigration stupidity that Pope Leo has a problem with, but he seems to always get back to The Programme:
“Someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” he explained.I guess that nixes pretty much the whole of the Old Testament there. I don't think the New Testament particularly agrees either.
”So someone who says, I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”I don't know either, Leo. That means it's not pro-life to take someone to prison for say, breaking-and-entering/home invasion either I guess. It's so inhumane... same as sending people back to their home countries on airplanes... I guess... but I don't know... Perhaps if you don't know these things, you should stifle yourself about Trump's great efforts to make America back into a, dare I say, more humane place again.
You think you got a guy from the Chicago School, may know a little bit about things, but it turns out Pope Leo was from the Chiclayo School. It's different down there. Rather than Milton Freeman and free-market principles, the dope of a Pope studied Liberation Theology. That's the religion of Communists.
* If you didn't get the Who musical reference, I don't expect anything out of you on this one either, haha. (Dire Straits, in Solid Rock, from Making Movies.)
** I don't see comments on her site, so I'll put my disagreement on this one point right here:
I’m a huge fan of punctuation. Especially properly-utilized apostrophes. But I’m also a fan of ellipses and the humble comma.I like dashes myself, Should it not be "Blessed are the poor-in-spirit"?
“Let’s eat Grandma!” or, “Let’s eat, Grandma!”
PUNCTUATION. SAVES. LIVES.
I think that we can understand the First Beatitude with far more ease if we slip a set of “here comes the kicker pregnant pause” ellipses in between the subject, “the poor”, and the prepositional phrase, “in spirit.” Thus:
Blessed are the poor . . . in spirit.
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The biggest possible University Bubble pin prick
Posted On: Friday - October 10th 2025 9:07PM MST
In Topics: University Trump Economics US Feral Government
A pin prick usually refers to something causing very minor harm, but that's not the case when that pin pricks and pops a big bubble. It seemed as if I were missing something as I wrote the post the past May University Bubble Housing. How would this bubble of fancy-living college students more and more yearly, livin' large on American taxpayer-backed loans be popped?
We thought about (with much more on each in that old post):
1) College student age population - steadily decreasing, but not at any. high rate.
2) The financial burden of student loans - how long would students and parents want to keep getting into near-mortgage-sized debt, most with not much advantage in life to show for it?
3) The point of going to college - this goes along with (2), but even with the big student loan money burden notwithstanding.
As is the case on Peak Stupidity, we've had some good thoughtful comments under Wednesday's (our most recent) post, with the first of 4 (updated) updates, on this U-Bubble, resulting in discussion. This led me to remember that I left something out in that post from May. Here's possible pin prick #4, and I think this one could pop the living daylights out of the U-Bubble.
4) Trump. - OK, that's the abbreviated heading for this. What if the Feral Gov't dropped the loan guarantees and direct loans to university students? As with all kinds of welfare (and anything non-free-market like this is a form of welfare), a big feature for those involved, and a bug for the rest of us, is its inability to be reversed without PAIN, lots of financial pain. Oh, and there will be turmoil too.
Could a President just do this, first of all? Can he? This student loan business just so happens to have had.a SCROTUS case recently decided in regards. Can a President legally forgive a portion of these loans on his own... you know, to help string students along for votes, if nothing else... you don't really have to do it? SCROTUS said 6-3 In June of '24 in Brandon v Nebraska:
... that the Secretary of Education did not have the power to waive student loans under the HEROES* Act.Well, Brandon tried to forgive the loans anyway... wait, actually, does the SCROTUS have jurisdiction over automatic pens? See, there's another case for ya', guys and gals of the highest court... Peak Stupidity may even turn in an Amicus Brief on behalf of the pens. The Constitution doesn't say anything about pens, but hell, it was written in pen.
Well, Trump is our new King. It's more likely he and his DOGE committee or the like would make an effort to cancel this whole moral hazard of a shebang than anyone else I can think of.
I go back to my college days and remember that maybe 1 in 3 or 5 students I'd talk to had ANY loan taken out (with med students being a big exception- most had to borrow in the 10's of thousands). Those that did have loans had perhaps half of tuition and dorm room rent borrowed - the frugal ones lived at home. That tuition was so much lower though, 1/5 to 1/10 of the current amount.
As we discussed in the comments mentioned, the students live large today. Looking back, it was not like this. Our State government ponied up what the students' very reasonable tuition payments didn't cover.** Imagine this, the State working to better the population of (mostly) State residents. That was the idea, it occurred to me, or likely somebody explained. It was good for our State to have more educated people (when it meant something), more engineers for local manufacturing industry, more doctors to serve the people, and so on.
Just to confirm I'm not just making this stuff up, I found this paper that describes decreases in State funding. (It was someone at the Univ. of S. Carolina's senior thesis - Good on her.)
State funding has decreased on average by 40.2% between 1980 and 2011.*** While two states (Wyoming and North Dakota) have increased or maintained their portion of funding, the remaining forty-eight states have cut their funding by 14.8 to 69.4%.Besides that our State government funding is peanuts compared to Big Fed, I can see why the legislature doesn't want so much to do with higher ed now. Why spend our State's money to educate mostly foreigners in the grad schools and loads of undergrads too? How exactly does that benefit our State?
The Federal funding is indirect. It's the complete availability of big student loans that allows the U's to increase tuition ("We'll make sure your daughter ..." - 60% chance it's a daughter - ".. can borrow enough to pay for everything." - Student Financial Aid office) to the sky to allow for the fancy campus living. (Let's not forget the D.I.E. offices and all that "necessary" overhead.)
If this loan money were cut off, say, with no backing of private loans either such that risks of payback were taken into account as back in the day, there would be a CRASH like we've never seen. If you couldn't afford it, your kid couldn't attend college - what a concept. There'd be tremendous pressure to lower tuition, so that more could attend. This would mean the cutting of the huge administrative overhead along with all the fancy dorms, gyms, pools, the works. It'd be very hard for the U's to go back to frugality and serving good students and their own States - to paraphrase a certain political candidate from yesteryear, we'd hear a giant popping sound.
In the long run, the popping of this bubble would be for the best. Even in the short run, these examples of the Long March of Communism through the American Institutions deserve to suffer. For those housing developers who started Peak Stupidity writing about the this subject lately, sorry, but we coulda' told you. Maybe go with Section 8.
* HEROES, OMG!
** I can remember a number of times there being some minor protests or campaigns to get the legislature to come up with more of State taxpayers' dough or at least not make a planned cut.
*** I gotta assume this is in nominal dollars, so after taking inflation over those 31 years into account, the drop is far more than 40%.
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Stupidity Updates (4)
Posted On: Wednesday - October 8th 2025 6:04PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media University Cars Economics Artificial Stupidity
None of these items is worth writing a post about. However, I like to add any new information to whatever story I started, but any updates of old post would be a waste of time I think.
1) MOAR student housing!:
In University Bubble Housing we discussed a huge new housing complex, with (I just looked it up for more recent info) over 900 bedrooms. (The apartments average to 3 bedrooms.) Will the University Bubble pop, for various reasons? Will it be like a Bazooka Joe gum bubble popping or more like a big balloon?
I don't know, but some stupid (with a flare gun?)* has quickly been putting up another complex nearby. It's going to be roughly 1/3 of the size of the one described before, due to land area - I guess there's a limit of 5-6 stories - lots of these types of buildings are that high, and they look exactly the same. This one has a more aggressive timetable, and from what I've seen, they are sticking to it. Better sell out these apartments before POP!!
The mentality of the developer must be the same as that of the general housing bubble promoters of 20 years back. "The students keep coming." is the new "It always goes up."
2) Artificial auto stupidity:
While musing upon this housing "development", no double meaning originally intended, I was trying to get off the line at the stoplight. (No, not on a scooter
I refrained from using the horn - this is not Boston, and we are not ALL Massholes here. When I ended up next to the driver at the next stop light, I had my windows down and
We had our own potentially dangerous problem with our Korea-mobile, fixed via nice but of diagnosis by a good mechanic and a new crank position sensor. For this guy's sake, hopefully he can pull out just that one electronic module responsible and throw it in the fireplace. Yeah, I know... heavy metal fumes... yeah, but well worth it for the satisfaction gained.
3) The Idiot Plate wins:
We've told the story of trying to avoid the TV (called the "Idiot Plate" around these parts, with "tubes" no longer in use) in the auto parts store, in the doc's waiting room, at the gyms ... many such cases...
They are getting more wily, or I'm just getting more stupid, the people that set up the hotel gyms, that is. I've looked for the remote all over the place, but I can normally resort to the power plug. Of course, if there's someone else in there, I'll ask first if he's watching. Usually, nobody is, and usually nobody's in there.
The latter was the case. This thing was high up and tight against the wall, not too loud thankfully, but I wanted no part of it. I did find the remote control, but though an LED lit up to show it was allegedly sending signals, the TV would not turn off that way. I reached up, tried to get a hand in to get to the plug but, all that training at the gyms was to no avail. I was defeated by the idiot plate for the first time. Well played, TV installers, well played.
4) Ambulance Chasing:
No lawyering here... it was the ambulance chasing ME!
Peak Stupidity has ranted before on this subject, basically wondering out loud Are Senior Citizens DRIVING ambulances now?. That wasn't the first post either - see here and here.
I had this post update in my head as soon as I (FINALLY) saw the ambulance in my rear view mirror. Here I was following my friend who was riding a Vespa scooter**. I heard a siren. I assume others did, but nobody much seemed to care. I can't blame 'em now.
The ambulance was loud even at a quarter mile back or so. I was in the right lane of a 4-lane anyway, but I started to pull over. Nope, that wouldn't do. The 1st Responder wasn't close enough, and I'd be there forever near the side of the road blocking other traffic. I'd wait until he got closer. He didn't really. I had slowed down to below the (assumed) 40 mph speed limit on this wide-open city road, but well, I figured I'd switch it up, so I gunned it and drove 50 mph. At that speed, I left the ambulance in the dust and my scooter driving friend had nearly lost me!
I know they have rules, but they didn't used to drive like grannies. I hope the patient made it to the hospital alive. For me, knock on wood, I'd be OK with paying the 50 Large for a 5 minute ride on the Jet Ranger.
* These really old musical references are gonna be the death of this blog...
** No, weirdly that is not indicative of his being a drunk driver. This guy has a need to have every motorized thing there ever was on wheels, and yes, this includes ice cream trucks. (Work in progress.)
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It's a family tradition
Posted On: Tuesday - October 7th 2025 2:50PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Humor Bible/Religion
Don't ask me, "Mod, why do you drink?"
"Why do you roll smoke?"
"Why must you live out the posts that you wrote?"
This post describes the 2nd phrase of the proposed bumper sticker "Think Nationally, Act Locally". It went like this:
At church on a recent Sunday, one of the "elders" - not actually very old - made a reminder announcement about a coming activity at a local park. Keep in mind first that, as compared to the many people of that church who aren't, this guy is a decent Conservative. We've talked to him about this and that... He is a blue-collar type - he used to drive a wrecker. I'm positive he likes Trump... vs. the recent alternatives, that is.
It so happened that this picnic would be a time for church members to attempt to spread the Gospel to some new members of the community... uhhh, you're not gonna believe this, Chief, but to Afghan refugees. Thankfully, we don't have many of them in our area - these are the first I'd specifically heard about. They are Moslems, you understand. Did the Church committee who arranged this understand this?
Yes, they did. The idea was for this to be a great challenge. "They separate men from women, so we'll have to have some men talk with the men, and... " "They are on Afghan time... ", said this guy pretty honestly, "... so, they might come at 5, maybe 6... stick around."
It's just barely possible that a couple of the young people who might know more English may at least read a tract rather than throw it out, being there for the free food from "these suckers" (See, you're not gonna catch that unless you speak speak Afghan(?)) I mean, except no pork, and this is a pork-loving crowd too.
No, we wouldn't be attending. However, as I've written before, I wouldn't speak up, especially in church against any such... stupidity, I gotta say, to begin with, but my wife would get embarrassed had I even spoke up at the zoo that time. It wasn't the time and place for an argument.
This is the good part: On the way home, my wife told me that she was going to call ICE to raid this picnic! Haha, so she does get it. Things rub off after some years, though I hesitate to say "I told you so" because that plain doesn't work on women. Well, that was a great thought of hers, but I informed her, as much as this refugee business is a complete racket, and, yeah, more Afghans will decrease Christianity here and increase Islam, they are officially here legally.
I say "officially" because over the last few years Dark Brandon and his minions made millions of potentially illegal entrants officially legal by letting them sign up for "asylum" on an app from the outside. They then could use a piece of paper, with a strong reminder to come to a hearing in a year or two, to travel and settle within America. Sure, they would. I saw some of this myself and caused a bit of trouble about it.
As much as I was very pleased at my wife's attitude, I didn't see anything coming of this. A couple of days before the picnic, though, she told me that she had gone onto an anonymous online ICE form* and filed a request to have the picnic raided. After all, we knew the date and time - it was all in the church bulletin. She just got a standard email back saying that they try to get to what they can but are kind of swamped right now.
I've looked around the web for some blurb about an ICE raid at a certain park, but no, I guess this wasn't the best use of ICE resources. Still, it was an unexpected very nice thought from my wife, who does get it.
This church and almost ALL churches don't. Yeah, keep on being nice and trying to win others over, it's what we are instructed to do, but at the expense of giving away your nation? How exactly will anybody worship if Islam grows big and Sharia Law comes?
Oh, and about the pork. That was pure cuckery there, telling people not to bring pork dishes. I would think the smell of good BBQ might actually win over a convert or two...
Stop and think it over.
Put yourself in our position.
If we call ICE and blog all night long,
it's a family tradition.
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Hank Williams, Jr. - more redneck than his Dad. This is not one of my favorites by him.
* You can't really get officials on the phone so much anymore.
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"Think Nationally, Act Locally" bumper stickers should be issued...
Posted On: Monday - October 6th 2025 11:40AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Globalists Race/Genetics ctrl-left
The blogger said, "Think Nationally, Act Locally" bumper stickers should be issued. All in favor of what he said, signify by saying 'aye'.... if, however, you are opposed... Don't mind me, this goes way, way back.
You also have to go a ways back to remember the Think Globally, Act Locally bumper stickers that used to adorn... I don't know, mostly Volvo station wagons. Those people driving around with the stickers weren't Globalists in the Peak Stupidity and generally current sense of the term. They just wanted to save the environment for the World, have
However, those behind the whole ideological campaign, including the issuance of the bumper stickers, were the types we're dealing with now. The only World Peace we'll get will be under the thumb of the "Eat Zee Bugs" and "Own Nothing" crowd, led by the Kier Starmers and George Soroses. They are the Globalists. Most of us don't think like them.
This guy sure doesn't. He's most assuredly not a Globalist:
If this happens, it's above and beyond what ANY of us immigration patriot MAGA types expected. Now, OK, we harped last time around on "You've got to codify it into law, ya' big dummy! Otherwise, the next guy will flip it right back around." We were right, and the next guy DID. It was ghastly and disastrous, and most of what President Trump has been bragging about is just trying to reverse the damage from those 4 years. However, as another post will have to get into, what has the Legislative Branch ever done for us?! Those guys don't seem to matter much right now. Trump is getting things done the only way that is working out.
He's the Administrator of the Federal Government. Yeah, the H1B Visa program is specified by law. However, the Administrator has every right to ... tweak the numbers a bit... just tweaking that nominal Indentured Servitude fee a bit higher to help administer the program. The same goes for this latest change to refugee acceptance numbers. Just tweak 'em a bit, turn the knob down... administrative housekeeping, that's all... from 125,000 to 7,500... if you're not a math guy, as Trump isn't, you don't calculate this trivia... that the rate of bringing in highly foreign bogus refugees is ... shhhhh ..., oh, 6% of the previous rate. Housekeeping... the bean counters gave me a number - I just run the place.
Well, listen, if the red-squad of the UniParty-run Congress won't get off its collective ass on these matters ... BTW, Trump-45 made some good efforts on this same iimmigration-invasion policy too, as related here in President Donald Trump: the Bad, **the Good**, and the Ugly. That post is from 5 years ago next week.
If it does come to 7,500 White (South)Afrikaner actual refugees from Black! persecution being let in, that's not any significant number* - probably still under a percent of people permanently entering the US annually via various means, but it's VERY symbolic. The reduction in the refugee racket by 94% is MORE THAN symbolic - that's a significant number, and it's important.
Instead of our usual disclaimer about the man (well just a bit), though we often can't stand the Reality-TV BSing and annoyances, and we wish often a Ron DeSantis or Ron Paul were up in there, I really don't believe either of them would go this far. That is, not so much with the numbers, but with putting this anti-foreigner, pro-White move right in the faces of the ctrl-left. What can the ctrl-left do with their bitching? It just won't work well.
Are there so many American that would agree with the ctrl-left that "Yeah, we need MOAR strange foreigners! We can't do without lots of refugees." That's what they're having to argue now (with their PRP goals left unsaid). It's Trump himself who made the effort to point out the persecution of White people in S. Africa, and right in front of the President of the place to boot! Who else would have done that? After seeing that, I think most White Americans now have more knowledge about the goings on in S. Africa. Yet Trump has put the ctrl-left into the very clear position of having to argue simply "No White people allowed!"
It's time to give this guy some credit. Those who claim "controlled opposition" or even the slightly less crazy idea that Trump really is part of the Establishment and doesn't care about us really aren't thinking this through. Were he going through the motions, he could have long ago stopped with "Well, Judge ABC in the nth circuit has blocked this, so we'll try something else" and "I've brought illegal immigration down by 25%, so... please clap..."
Trump is a Nationalist, and one might say a pro-(White) Nationalist (gasp!). It's true that he's not enough of a calm, detail-oriented guy to make efforts without having
What about the "Act Locally" part? Oh, that's a great story! It'll have to wait for the next post - this was getting too long.
PS: I got the tweet screenshotted above off The GateWay Pundit so thanks, GP's Ben Kew, for REPORT: Trump Planning to Slash Refugee Admissions to 7,500 Annually — Most Spaces Reserved For Persecuted White South Africans.
*. Also, it's a only 0.15% of the number of White people still in South Africa. I doubt all want to leave anyway. What a complete disaster, completely of the West's doing, it was to turn the place over to black rule and possibly soon abandon the whole civilizational project after 4 centuries. Africa Wins, they'll tell you.
Per the GP article linked to in the post-script, are only 197 Afrikaner refugees who have actually arrived here so far.
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Taking traffic signaling devices too literally
Posted On: Saturday - October 4th 2025 8:01PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music Humor China Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Oddity Central reported in late September Man Gets Head Stuck in Traffic Light After Crashing into It. In the excerpt below, I stripped out location information to protect this individual from embarrassment, but I'll include it later.
... a young man driving an electric scooter crashed into a temporary traffic light.... Following the impact, the man’s head somehow became stuck inside the traffic light, and firefighters were called to free him from the unusual cage. That was easier said than done, however, as even the first responders spent around 40 minutes cutting away at the metal casing to safely release the man’s head. The man was then taken to a local hospital and made a full recovery,That yellow-painted pole had to have been vertical with the light on top, but then how would the guy's scooter not have knocked it over first? How did his head get in there? Maybe he hit something on the road first and flew off his scooter head first into the signaling device.
I'm overthinking this one. No matter, these things should be placed out of the way, so I'd be seeing red too right now if I had my head stuck in one for 40 minutes. Who green-lighted the project to begin with? Cops were not mentioned in this story, and after what this guy had been through it'd have been heartless to ticket him. Still, as a cop would tell you, he did blow right through that red light - 4 points!
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. This incident happened in Chengdu, China. The man was Chinese. So, listen, after reading this, I don't want to hear a thing from ANY Chinese person EVER again about stupidity in America!
A song came to mind.
Friday night, I'm going nowhere.
All the lights are changing, green to red.
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Saturday, I'm running wild,
and all the lights are changing, red to green.
That's Babylon by British musician David Grey from 1999. It's the only song I know by him. For some reason I liked it much better back in that day. Maybe that's because this is the first time I'd seen the video, which is not so good. It took out what the song was about from my imagination. It's got a good melody though.
That's it. More stupidity is coming Monday.
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Stupidity v Evil: Some men ya' just cain't reach...
Posted On: Friday - October 3rd 2025 9:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Deep State Dead/Ex- Presidents Zhou Bai Dien
It's been nearly a month since I felt a need to write this post. Why bother bashing one of our favorite writer/pundits, Steve Sailer, that would be? It's probably because I do think he's a smart guy and great writer and that I've learned a lot from him over the last decade of reading his stuff. (Now here, formerly here, though he'd had 2 more online venues prior.) I can't get over that I've run into something major on which I strongly disagree with him.
On Mr. Sailer's substack site back in early September, I saw Why Did the Anglosphere Go Hog Wild Over Immigration? Here's the subtitle in case you can't read it in the screenshot: After Covid, English-speaking nations tended to go nuts over immigrants. How come?
How come?! How do you not notice(©) that people are evil and are bent on destruction?
Perhaps there were economic theories about how to deal with post Covid adjustments behind the splurge?You've GOT to be kidding me, Steve Sailer! After all this time and the actions – the immigrant invasion (“Asylum”) apps, the flying in of foreigners in the middle of the night on US-based airlines (I witnessed some of this – actually, in broad daylight), and all that, you think still that this was incompetence and stupidity?
But keep in mind that the After Covid years were also the After Trump and After George Floyd years. Anti-Racism became the highest priority, and what is more racist than white people trying to keep their country white? Trump’s defeat in 2020 just showed that Goodness was prevailing.
Beyond that gut feeling, the Biden Administration didn't seem to have a well-worked out rationalization for letting in so many immigrants. Instead, they just seemed to feel that it was racist and Trump-like to try hard to keep immigrants out. And then they got surprised when they eased off border enforcement at how many migrants swarmed in, including from places that had sent very few migrants before.
So, in America, the best answer is the Biden Administration wasn’t thinking.
As the guy with (no, no, none of that!) the Deep State behind him said when he was lucid, “C’mon, man!”
Steve Sailer’s assumption is that nobody is evil, just stupid. As the guy who runs this website, I should agree, but I don’t. There is no paywall on this one, so I figured the comments ought to be lit. However, most commenters there are "yes men" if you will, as compared to the ones that wrote and still write under his Unz Review posts. OTOH, I usually agree too. Not this time.
Right, a lot of special interests were involved in the insane immigration explosion of the early 2020s.Special interests have always been involved. In ’20, the Extra-Special Interests, the Deep State Globalists, figured they had this PRP thing done now that they had gotten rid of Trump. Their overall plan, above cheap labor, above MOAR Commie votes, was to make sure there will never be a big active White Middle Class again, anywhere, ever! That’s evil. That’s what they want.
But why didn’t anybody notice?
Oh, and we DID notice that. How could a VDare WRITER, not just reader, not notice(©) this?
There are comments on TUR starting here, including a nice long one from "Jenner Ickam Errican" (Generic American). Back under his own post, one of Mr. Sailer's own comments in the thread went:
Right. A few decades ago, Biden would have eventually cracked down on his staff over immigration and altered course earlier. Same with crime too.Too senile, huh? It was just that rogue Mayorkas… should have been cracked down on? Bull. There were and are people behind all this who Steve Sailer doesn't want to admit exist, because we don't know their names. As far as Bai Dien himself, this is from 10 years back. (H/t Generic American)
But he was too senile to feel the winds of change.
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Man, does Mayorkas look suspense-movie-villain-level EVIL in that clip!
Peak Stupidity has discussed this Stupidity v Evil question before. No, they are not ALL stupid. As for the PRP specifically, this (SS substack) commenter Longstreet is on the right track in that thread, per Peak Stupidity's view:
I think the elites hate us. They look at a place like Mexico where there is an even greater wealth gap than there is in the US, and they say, “Hey, this is a better model for me. I can more easily manipulate these people and I can use them to undermine white people who are blue collar.Yup. Now here's a more minor subject but with that same error of interpretation.
The post was Lone Gunmen vs. Mob Violence, from just after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
The subtitle is: Lots of people blamed JFK's assassination on the "climate of hate" among conservative Texans. So, don't jump to conclusions.
I was generally in agreement with the post, but not the one thing in (my) bold:
In contrast, horrifying as lone gunmen are, quick attempts to draw broader lessons from them often go awry, as happened during the 1960s. For instance, JFK’s assassination was initially blamed on a “Climate of Hate” in conservative Dallas by NBC news anchors Huntley & Brinkley. Much of the rise of leftism in America in the 1960s was influenced by misperceptions like that.He’s right – don’t jump to conclusions, and about the way the JFK assassination was spun (not really a lesson gone awry, IMO, just the leftist Regime Media of the time). However, no, the rise of leftism was due to the rise in the number of leftists. Remember Occam’s Razor? The Communists in America have not “misperceived” ANYTHING. Again, they are not stupid – they are evil. OK, enough. Steve Sailer is an honest man, so I think he is just too nice to imagine this idea of actually evil people. Some people ya' just cain't reach...
... yet, I sure enjoy reading the guy. The subtitle of his now-2nd-to-latest (very short) post, Are Feminists as Delicate Flowers as the MSM Suggests? - also without a paywall - goes: How dare a brute of a man like Pete Hegseth imply that women aren't tough enough for combat? Doesn't he know how much that hurts their feelings? LOL! cause it's TRUE!
PS: Regarding the assassination of JFK, there are so many reasons Deep State types would have wanted to kill him that one figures, details aside, it HAD TO BE a conspiracy. When it comes to the Big Bankers that did not like the idea of a return to sound money, perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald was a loan gunman. (Get it? If so, please clap…)
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It's the shutdown of the Feral Gov'ment, and I feel fine ...
Posted On: Thursday - October 2nd 2025 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Trump US Feral Government Bread and Circuses
Strangely, things don't feel any different today. Though Peak Stupidity mentioned this latest Feral Gov't shutdown in yesterday's post as the impetus for Trump's latest trolling of the ctrl-left, it's not like I thought about it until reading some news this afternoon. I mean, I didn't have to mail any letters, so, what's the problem. What, me worry?
Do they reckon I'm hanging on the edge of my phone? OMG! We NEED updates on... well, what will these updates show, government people STILL doing nothing? I might as well get on my PDW (Paint Dry Watch) app, part of the shared economy or something ...
I realized that I covered the stupidity of these frequent Feral Shutdown standoff circus acts before. There was our long rant in January of '18 - Wheww, Feral Gov't shutdown narrowly averted. In our point (3) of that post we noted that the piddly-in-the-scheme-of-things, but visible, small stuff is lamented in the sob stories:
All the real government functions, Constitutional and mostly not, aside, the big show in all of these shutdowns involves the small but fun stuff. There'll be big news about complaints that the National Parks are closed, one can't get into the National Air and Space museum, the Post Office* is out of stamps, blah blah. Hey, this stuff IS inconvenient, but most of the people, whether put-out or not, do not understand that all of this kind of stuff put together is a negligible < 1 % part of the $4,000,000,000,000 yearly budget of the Fed-gov.Then, at the very end of '18 we posted Feral Gov't Shutdown ... is that a threat, or a promise?
In that post, we were hopeful about that data center in Utah never getting another $. We also noted that most of the money flowing through the Government was transfer payments and that sending checks in the mail or electronic transfers don't really take the resources of, say, a warmongering $1Trillion military. Another point was that everyone would be better off even if we DID pay these people, but instead of leaving them working to screw us, we also support them with quarters to spend their days at the pool halls and arcades.
We need to develop a program to take these 800,000 people out of the offices and into the pool halls. Can you tell that I thought of this pretty long ago? OK, it could be Mario Cart now for you youngsters ... OK, OK, Minecraft, but just something to keep these people busy for 8 hours a day. Sure, we'd have to spend extra on rolls of quarters, or power cards for Dave & Buster's, but the tremendous savings from being able to live freer lives would pay off immediately, just in reductions in pharmaceutical needs alone!I guess it's pretty much all been said. I will add this time, nearly 7 years later, with a much bigger divide between us, that it is great seeing the ctrl-left Socialists squirm.
As we discussed yesterday, President Trump and Co. picked a very good hill from which to nuke the enemy, that healthcare for-aliens AND bogus refugees spending. "There's no end in sight.", they tell us. "OK, so what's the problem?", say us non-Government normal working people.
President Trump is using Alinsky tactics to never let a phony crisis (or a real one, for that matter) go to waste. He's trying to get the
Now, since we amazingly missed an opportunity in that 2nd shutdown post linked to, to make some use of the sarcastic title, let's bring out this acoustic Dead song about "a tragedy narrowly averted". From 1981 and Reckoning this is a song about The Monkey and the Engineer, another in their long list of tragedy songs, but, instead of being about tragedy impending, this one's about tragedy narrowly averted (featured before here). It goes like this:
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Next, as one might expect from the title of this post, one particular song is necessary here. We've featured it before, but here's that REM song from their 1987 album Document.
That's great, it starts with a shutdown, Trump and snakes and airplanes, Tammy Bruce is not afraid...
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Interestingly, here's what Michael Stipe was spewing back in 1987:
Left of west, was a coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.How'd he know about the Furries? Interesting...
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped.
It's the end of the Government as we know it, it's the
(Can I have some time alone?)
end of the Government as we know it, it's the
(Can I have some time along?)
end of the Government as we know it,
(Can I have some time alone?)
and I feel fine.
* Yes, they're still using that term. That's at least a century outdated, maybe more.
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Sombrero Shopping - Are Haberdasheries no long a thing?
Posted On: Wednesday - October 1st 2025 5:45PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump Media Stupidity Bread and Circuses
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President Trump has been on a roll! Maybe it's just that Peak Stupidity has been on a roll enjoying some of the hilarity out of this President. See, this is good hilarity, not bad hilarity. As much as I'd rather see a capable strategic unemotional thinker like Ron DeSantis or Ron Paul as President during these times, Donald Trump's Reality-TV star background really comes in handy at times. He truly knows how to use the Regime Media, any media, to his advantage.
It might be accidental, it might be smart calculated moves, or, most likely, it's pure instinct that Trump has elaborated the MAGA stance on the Feral Gov't shutdown based on drawing the line at taxpayer funding for healthcare for illegal aliens or BS refugees* in his own way.
The deep-fake AI video** of ctrl-left D-hack Charles Schumer and this Hakeem guy stating the pretty-close-to-actual real reason they want to support illegal aliens has obviously been widely viewed. (I mean, since even I saw it.)
What happened next? What happened next is what Trump wanted to happen next and PLANNED to have happen next, the ctrl-left went ape-shit about the political incorrectness of it all, especially the sombrero, on top of Hakeem Jeffries head. He's a black guy. He's therefore urban, but the Urban Sombrero hasn't been in fashion since forever... in reality.
ZeroHedge has an article - Democrats Get Frantic Over Trump's "Racist" Mexican Bandito Meme*** - with a sequence of videos that lay out this story of Trump's Reality-TV savviness.
Here's the original. I'm not too keen on the whole "we're getting all the diversity's votes" implication, but that's not the main point. It'a about the ctrl-left support for the PRP with Americans being made to PAY FOR IT! It's also about making fun. Ridiculing the enemy is important.
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There was a little backlash from one Congressenora Teresa Fernandez of New Mexico, excuse me, Teresa Isabel Leger Fernández to be exact (that long name would likely have been pretty sexy to hear out of her 50 years ago - not anymore). There was a glitch in her response, though. When she got to bitching about that sombrero, she said "sombrero" in such a thick, angry annoying, South-'o-the-Border accent that I didn't even know what she said at first. This is really a turn-off for me, and I doubt I'm the only American that would be the case for. Therefore, she made the whole thing worse. See?:
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That's great, if you're President Trump. Now, you get to make another response - hey TV is still more fun than, like, listening to, uggghhh, those advisors with all the plans and all the damn numbers... boooorning, and... it's who he is.
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What'd Juakeem say, "a bigger tree will get you nowhere?" To riff off of this UR comment by Mr. Hail****, a bigger tree will get you more nuts - that's where we are today.
Hey, isn't that Mariachi music that Frito Bandito theme? I really hope Leticia James doesn't bring up a copyright suit on behalf of Mr. Bandito. He's got enough on his plate... well, both of them.
The guy fights. I know, this is not as head of a battalion busting antifa heads in downtown Chicago. He's not launching a phone barrage with threats to every Congressman and Senator on the fence about passing a big deportation and Bug-out-Baby elimination bill. It's silly stuff on the internet. Yet, this DOES matter. There's a real issue behind it, he's gotten that issue in front of the whole country, and he is standing firm against the virtue-signaling backlash. The battle of words still matters, and Trump doesn't back down and pushes even harder. You gotta' LUV that sombrero and the Mariachi music! I'm grinning as I write.
Oh, and about those sombreros, I'm really thinking of getting one. Red MAGA hats are admittedly more wearable, and the high summer sun is gone. It's hard to wear a sombrero on an airliner. Still, like one of my favorite novelists, Lionel Shriver*****, I'm thinking of getting a sombrero for similar reasons. Could this be a great new trend? (Yahoo news - Trending: Sombreros) I guess I'll have to get one online, because the internet has pulled up no haberdasheries for my entire zip code. You think the internet is useful, then....
* I've got a great story to tell here from my own family, but I first want to make sure it doesn't become any kind of news story. I'm holding off for a week due to worries about doxibility.
** ... really, not that awfully deep, when the sombrero doesn't turn with that Hakeem dude's head. Do better next time.
*** Criminy! Now, they've got that Frito Bandito song in my head. It's REALLY politically incorrect, plus it's making me hungry! Aye, aye, aye,, aye...
**** Who got it off the old iSteve commenter Reg Caesar.
***** Check out the books topic key for a number of reviews of her novels.
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Financial Planning Assumptions in a SHTF-worthy World
Posted On: Tuesday - September 30th 2025 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Music Preppers and Prepping Economics The Future Big-Biz Stupidity Inflation
Peak Stupidity will veer towards something different today. We try to keep our readers on their toes.
There are 2 different attempts at financial planning, like for the future and all, that we'll use for illustration of the same point -
Now THAT'S some financial diversity!
The Big Biz company that employed me was growing fast, and there opportunities for employees to make boo-koo (is that how you spell it?) bucks from stock options. There were a whole lot of young people working there who really knew squat all about the stock market, interest, taxes, spelling, any of that. Well, they knew a lot about tattoos, hair coloring, and attaching pieces of metal and other materials to their bodies and faces, so who am I to criticize one weak spot...?
The company nicely hired some small group of financial experts to hold a "boot camp" - I believe that was the term in vogue then for a long training meeting - about how to get the most out of one's stocks and options, during work hours. Hell, why not? I sat through an hour and a half or so of "for the tax bracket you're in, you should hold x% for the longer term", "the optimum gain will result from exercising these options in the next fiscal... something." It made reasonable sense, but then, it depends.
It depended on one big thing, so I raised my hand. "Let me ask you something. This whole thing has to be based on some estimate of the change in the stock price, right? What do you all assume?" "10%... a 10% annual increase."
I shouldn't have been, but I was shocked. This was not IBM or General Electric. The stock had gone up 400% that year, it did go down to by 90% or so a couple of years later, then way, way up long afterwards, so what the...? The whole talk was garbage due to it being based on an assumption that was very likely to NOT ever be the case. OK, well, no reason to make a fuss. I said "OK". I already knew that this type of planning was no good for the situation, but those other people in there... well, not my job....
"But, but, I was led to believe there would be no National ID number..."
Now, I'll discuss the same idea for the case of financial planning for something the large majority of Americans have been signed up for. That'd be the The Social Security Scam, errr, Scheme(?).* I've got people who are getting close to being on the receiving end for some of that sweet, sweet, cash... that I have never, ever, counted on for my future. (I think of it as just another part of the Fed Income Tax, a pretty significant 6 1/2% too.)
You can start getting checks at 62 y/o, I think, or you can wait until 65 or even later. Those checks will each be (nominally, a key point!) larger if you start collecting later. Ahhh, what fun for an accounting, statistical, or actuarial type! Let's determine what will get you the most money out of
I would like to raise my hand, but among friends and/or family, I don't have to. I could bring up that there are a couple of assumptions that are just taken as a give here:
1) Inflation is not a factor, whatever it does, because, remember, SS payments are INDEXED! Yea! (The COLA - Cost Of Living Adjustments - started in the mid 1970s for (damn good) reasons.) I'm sorry, but I don't believe they are CORRECTLY indexed.
The chart looks more reasonable than I'd expected. However, that whole last 20 years, even with the 6% in '09 and the 6% and 8.5% Brandon years, is not what I've experienced. Generally, in all many Inflation calculation posts, I end up with 4.5 - 5.5% while I'm seeing a 35 year average of 2.7%*** This is not peanuts - again, see **.
If we took the actual inflation rate from, say Shadow Stats as a potential SS recipient, you may want to change your plan a tad.
2) There is another big assumption that, big debt loads on every level, with no end in sight, and all, America will just go on smoothly, financially speaking. Peak Stupidity does not agree. To relate the situation to one of our favorite movies, we've long ago run out of burrito coverings. We can't cover all this in a post, but let's just imagine what the Fed Gov might do when the budget looks REALLY grim (say, 50% of yearly revenue goes straight to interest payments).
"Means testing", "austerity", "screw those rich bastards", you'll hear it all. This is why I don't count on getting all or even ANY of that sweet, sweet, SS cash myself. Maybe the earliest age for payout will go up. (Kind of an assumption (3) really.) There may be a formula - take a percentage of your assets and subtract it off your,... well, first go to form 1911-B and put this value on line 5... holey burrito coverings, the paperwork may be the worst of it!
These assumptions, not considered by those who either can't see ahead or have grown up in 1950s style America and just can't change, make any nicely calculated SS financial planning a load of garbage.
With our disclaimer first by the PS Legal Dept. that whatever happens based on our advice, you can't even find us, haha!... let me suggest our own optimum application date Social Security plan based on GOOD assumptions. First day they'll let you, go on, take the money and run!
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* See also Part 2.
** What about compounding? Remember, in my own calculations, I've always backed out yearly averages based on compounding.
*** I went to the hated AARP for numbers - the average I got from their table, for 1991 through 2025 is 2.7%. Without the Brandon years, so ending in '21, and starting in the mid-'90s (1995) to better match most of my point-to-point calculations done here, it comes out to 2.2%.
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Nice work, President Trump!
Posted On: Monday - September 29th 2025 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Global Climate Stupidity Trump
I feel like I should provide the following disclaimer every time I praise President-47 Donald Trump. I don't want people to think that I do think he's the bomb and that I don't understand the serious problems they've got with the guy.
So here goes. Trump is bombastic and egotistical. Some of his BS is pure lies that I see absolutely no purpose for. That'd be some of what I ranted about in Deportation Nation: Some bullshit out of President Trump... We sure hope! and PS and MAGA to Donald Trump: Drop Dead!. After realizing he doesn't mean these lies, I backed off in The Trump beatings will continue until morale improves. Perhaps this Reality TV star and wheeler-dealer does have a reason for all this, but I sure don't know it. Oh, and I don't like Wrastling - I've known it to be fake and gay since I was 12 y/o and my older brother argued at the time that it was indeed real. Having Wrastling at the White House is fake, gay, and Idiocratic.
That disclaimer behind us here, it's been a great week! Or two, or three! I have browser tabs open on my phone and tablet that I can't even keep up with that were all to be part of this post.
First there was that speech (haha, speech? I dunno.) of his at the UN. (I sure hope he didn't get 2nd billing after that silly Aflac
I avoided all the foreign policy business discussed in said summary, because Trump as peacemaker to the world is not working and was not in MAGA's plan for this guy. OK, but among the rest, these 3 quick highlights were very good - you'd not hear them from anyone else once could imagine up there (Ron DeSantis being one exception) There are not ZH wording, as one can see:
"You want to be nice. You want to be politically correct. And you're destroying your heritage," Trump says, going back to his criticisms on migration policies. -via Bloomberg White House & National Security Editor Michelle JamriskoA "tirade of truth", I'd call it - nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with any of this. Elsewhere, the ZH article quoted President Trump as saying
Trump's critique of the UN comes as his administration is attempting to cancel millions in funding to UN agencies and other international organizations, several of which depend heavily on US funding. -via Bloomberg Chief Geoeconomics Analyst Jennifer Welch
"The primary effect of green policies has been to redistribute manufacturing from developed countries to polluting countries that break the rules," Trump says, continuing his tirade on climate policies. He says he withdrew from the "fake Paris climate accord."-via Bloomberg White House & National Security Editor Michelle Jamrisko
Climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."YES!! Additionally, from a tweet on that ZH page:
President Trump just clowned the United Nations' environmentalists previously predicting "climate change would cause a global catastrophe."Hey, you don't have to be a Climatologist, have knowledge of computer math modeling, or even be any kind of numbers guy - he sure ISN'T - to know a scam when you see one. His memory is better than lots of Americans, it seems, when it comes to the climate. Peak Stupidity has called the Climate Calamity a "scam", and a "hoax" at various times, but I gotta say, a "con job" is right on the money! I've written already before, Trump doesn't have principles, he doesn't do details well, but when he sees America or Americans, especially when he's including himself, getting scammed or conned, he does not take kindly to it. If this is the greatest con job, then Trump will make great efforts to extricate us from this con. His pulling US out of the Paris Accords scam - there I go again - twice, has been great to see. Laying it out like this in front of the UN and World Legacy Media has been wonderful to behold.
"All of these predictions made by the United Nations were WRONG, made by stupid people that cost their countries fortunes!"
The taking control of the energy sectors, large portions of non-exempt... cough, China... cough, cough... no seriously, coal dust! ... nations's economies by Communists/Globalists using the excuse of being green is a very big deal. Still it's not as big as... well, here's Trump again from his friendly visit to the United Federation of Nations:
"You're destroying your countries. They're being destroyed."OK, I get it, though his heart is in the right place, these are just words. Donald Trump say a lot of words.
The "number one political issue of our time" is "the crisis of uncontrolled migration."
Here's another article I came across from a site called Just the News: 2 million illegals out of the U.S. since Trump took office, DHS confirms. That sounds really great. This rate means 3 million annually, 12 million over the Trump-47 term, just a very good start, though 2-3 times that would be what I'd call adequate. However, we'd better look at a few things.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed to Just the News that federal agencies had directly deported 400,000 illegal aliens since Trump returned to the White House. Additionally, 1.6 million illegal aliens self-deported in that same time frame.So, that's only a rate of 600,000 deportations yearly, not very good. Wait, isn't self-deportation a good thing, at a rate of of factor of 4 x actual deportations? ("I'm gonna walk before they make me run...") Indeed, and this article has a short paragraph in agreement. However, I don't know where they're getting that number. Secondly, I'd like to see that 600,000 annual rate go up by 5 x, to 3 million forced deportations yearly, a rate that could encourage 8-10x that many in self-deportations, getting the whole thing over with in a couple of years. I know, I'm dreaming... but a serious steady and significantly higher forced rate would greatly increase the self rate.
More worrisome, something I read elsewhere (can't find the tab) on this same story is that the 400,000 deportations were by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) AND ICE (Iimmigration and Customs Enforcement). What's the diff, one may rightly ask. ICE acts, as you may have read in 1 of 1 million news stories as of late, all over the country. CBP, with the 2nd part generally meaning the well-known Border Patrol, works down there (or up there). If a significant portion of this 400,000 are people being turned away at the border, then the number is not what it's advertised to be, actual illegal aliens RESIDING HERE being deported.
Those are big quibbles, but still quibbles. None of this, including this below, has been happening for half a century or so.
Stopping and reversing the PRP is JOB #1 for Trump. He's on it - you've gotta admit that.
Between the Trump Disclaimer at the top and the following standard lament, posts on immigration stupidity are a tad longer than necessary. Still, man, we sure wish VDare, and their many fine writers, were working together right now to enjoy this! They'd worked 2 decades keeping us up, and they'd be really enjoying doing the same right now. Get rid of fat-ass Letitica, now! Bring back VDare!
Hey, and as far as important action (and words) out of President Trump lately, there's been a WHOLE LOT MORE. We'll get to what we can.
PS: Update just a few minutes later - I just put this ZH article in a background tab as I did a long search for the UN Speech article. That 2 million number and its 2 constituent parts, were claimed by Kristy Noem. This article, about more than just this point, says the numbers might even be on the low side. It's from Pew Polling of the population... I don't know about that ...
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ICE Cube mistaken for ICE
Posted On: Saturday - September 27th 2025 8:16PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music Trump US Feral Government ctrl-left
I'd written in the comments that the video by Youth Advocate Violet Aflac, with fun comments, would be another post. We'll have to get to that later. Additionally, this was supposed to be Go Trump! week, as he really has been doing/saying some great things lately. (I know, "saying" means nothing, or does it? You'd never have heard any of it from about anyone else.) Then, there's the interesting story of the 275, maybe 300 FBI agents having been mixed in with the J-6 crowd.
All that's important, but keeping up with just the important and pertinent news is too much for Peak Stupidity. We'll get back to our roots here of making fun of extreme pure stupidity, with another to come next week.
The Gateway Pundit reported on a feel-good piece of stupidity today, out of where you'd expect it, Portland, Oregon. Portland Anarchists FIREBOMB Rapper Ice Cube’s Tour Bus After Reportedly Mistaking It for ICE Deportation Bus. OK, "reportedly mistaking". Did the bus have an Ice Cube logo on the side? I don't know how the guy's doing financially, but if not so well, the tour bus could just be for hire short term - not worth a paint job, but maybe a big magnet?
Perhaps the antifa Commies saw banners or the marquee at the show's venue. If true that they mistake these "musicians"' conveyance for an ICE vehicle, it's very funny.
The fire occurred early Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025, shortly after Ice Cube’s performance at the Moda Center on his “Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude Tour.”Now, Peak Stupidity doesn't want to see anyone physically burned, although for the one party here, the perpetrators, I can't say I "strongly agree" with my own statement. They may burn later - not my call. The driver, just an average Joe making a living could have gotten hurt. However, it's not like this was, well, I can't think of anyone current, so, say, Kiss's tour bus. I'd have been livid. Instead, it's some rapper they call Ice Cube.
Video footage showed the tour bus with its front passenger tire on fire and heavy smoke rising from the vehicle parked near Southwest Broadway and Oak Street, according to KPTV.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews responded quickly, extinguishing the flames and ventilating the smoke. The incident left the bus with a shattered driver’s side window and visible scorch damage along its exterior.
I won't pretend I'd never heard of him, or Vanilla Ice, or Ice T, but, first, come to think of it, WTH is that naming convention all about? I CAN safely say I've never heard
I suppose we shouldn't underestimate these young skinny clueless violent antifa folk. They are true believers, the useful idiots of the Soroses and such who have them believing that they really are fighting the tyranny of a Totalitarian President who is recruiting all these storm troopers to round up the people... well, except that "the people" are criminals by definition and they are being sent back home, is all. Will ICE get mission creep and be the enforcers of an Orwellian nightmare? I don't know, but first we've got to get rid of 50 million illegal aliens. That'll keep them busy enough for a decade.
Those behind the antifa are very clever to have tricked these antifa, who are the ACTUAL lawless violent ones, into believing all this is the right thing to do. Sometimes, mistakes are made. Who knew that Ice Cube is not Immigration and Customs Enforcement? These antifa punks wouldn't, as they are not grassroots men of the poor downtrodden races that do all that rapping stuff.
Back to President Trump, he went on, with less of his usual around-and-around style, about the violence of the left vs the lack of such in the right in today's America*:
“But the radical left is causing this. Radical-left Democrats are causing this problem, and it gets worse, it gets worse, and it’ll be a point where other people won’t take it anymore. That will not be good for the radical left. And we don’t want that.”Or do we? Something came to me from the recesses of my mind... not quite the same statement, implying both sides are equally to blame (not the case) but sang somewhat more eloquently than Trump speaks, and with a great sound out of the rest of the band. In case you're reading, Ice Cube, or ICE agents for that matter, even antifa punks, HERE's actual good music. Listen and learn.
"And the parting on the left
is now parting on the right,
and the beards have all grown longer overnight."
The way those rock bands of 4 youngsters were, The Who didn't necessarily know what they meant by their lyrics. To me now, 54 years after this song was sung (off of Who's Next?) I see it telling us to beware those agitators trying to overturn society with their "new" ideals. All the same was seen before, a century ago, as the Communists got their way in Russia and very nearly in Germany. It's been done elsewhere too. We can read. It's all on the internet. Let's hope and pray We Don't Get Fooled Again.
That's Roger Daltrey singing, Pete Townshend playing guitars and keyboards, John Entwistle playing bass guitar, and Keith Moon drumming.
* What a turn of internet events - rather than going though the lying-fact-checker blurbs on 4 or 5 pages from duckduckgo , I went first to this WhiteHouse.gov page. After that, I found that Yandex was much better, as it at least got me to the NY Post for the statement I remembered.
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ATTENTION ALL USERS: Plandemic Alert!
Posted On: Friday - September 26th 2025 4:58PM MST
In Topics: Music Globalists Female Stupidity Bread and Circuses World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Apparently the Covid-19 Flu Manchu plandemic is NOT over!
An important speaker at the UN, that’s The United (Federation of) Nations, has informed the World of this. Miss Violet Affleck, daughter of some important Hollywood people, stood up wearing a Home Depot N-95 face mask and pleaded with you people, you deniers of THE SCIENCE & HOLLYWOOD, to help make a world in which “we can recognize unfiltered air as a human right.”
“We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future,” Affleck said. “But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”"Ongoing"? Yeah, like the common cold is ongoing, sure... And, "the teen"? Another teenage girl. This Violet Affleck piece of work is attempting to become Greta 2.0.
The teen was panicked over people who no longer take precautions against the spread of the virus, lamenting “the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID.”
I didn't like 1.0, and she was kind of cute, and she could sail. What does Violet Affleck have going for her? First thing, I'd lose the glasses, the [some non-White guy] "Power" T-shirt, and the Home Depot mask, unless I were a surprise guest on the Home & Garden TV channel installing Owens-Corning batting under the house.
See, now Greta has ridden what I sorely hope was the peak of the Climate Calamity™ hoax*. (At that same conclave at the UN, BTW, President Donald Trump, among other things, demeaned the whole Global Boiling* programme as "the greatest con job in the world". You just gotta like that guy... most of the time, and he was right on the money there.) Greta was in the right place at the right time with the right line: "How dare you?!" In the future, she'll be known as "Hey, you're that 'How dare you?!' chick. Can I get a selfie with you?"
So far I haven't heard any really good lines out of this Violet chick. I mean both her parents are actors**, so this shouldn't be difficult. Upon reading further in the Daily Wire article linked-to above, I see she could use a different screenwriter:
“Here’s what we know about SARS-CoV-2,” she went on. “It is airborne, floating and lingering in the air, one infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body from the brain and heart to the nerves and blood vessels.”It's astounding!...
“Every subsequent infection increases the risk of long movement and places people who already have it in greater danger.”
Affleck also said she’s “terrified” for children who “will not know a world without debilitating pain and exhaustion, who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore, and imagine” after contracting the virus.
... Time is fleeting.
Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely,
not for very much longer.
I've got to keep control.
[Loud guitars!!]
I remember doing the Time Warp,
drinking those moments when
the blackness would hit me,
and the voice would be calling...
Let's do the time warp again!
I hope all readers of this blog understand at this point where our name comes from. If you can't figure it out from this post... well, the United Nations could really use a
Ha! The White guy and the black guy are equally clueless. The duck is the smart guy. This must be a really old commercial ... oh, I see. 2000.
PS: I got to this story from the Instapundit. Professor Glenn Reynolds called this Profiles of Insanity. Not quite - to match the JFK Sr. book, it should be Profiles in Insanity.
PPS: I seriously thought we wouldn't need to attach that Kung Flu Stupidity topic key to any more of our posts here at Peak Stupidity. I mean, it's been 5 1/2 years. Most of us have learned a thing or two...
PPPS: Insane Hollywood people out of the UN! US out of the UN! UN out of the US! Hollywood out of the US! Insane people out of the US! (Alex Jones can stay.) Join the John Birch Society!
* Hey, listen, I don't make this stuff up. The term Global Boiling has been used by the very Secretary General of the UN himself, one Antonio Guterres. Actually, he might only be Assistant TO the Secretary General, but still... See Global Boiling - turning up the Climate Calamity™ to HIGH.
** I've seen movies with Ben Affleck in them, but I looked up this Jennifer Garner - I've not seen a one of hers.
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Uber Stupidity follow-up
Posted On: Thursday - September 25th 2025 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Also, I think that was one of our best post titles.
That previous post was a long story, but the point of it was that young people in this age of Artificial Stupidity will believe computer software over the words of live people, speaking to them right there and right then.
This uber ride has got me thinking it's even worse than that. These road guidance programs are not entirely bad when used in moderation. One time on a 4 hour roadtrip, we had to find a particular grocery story in the exurbs of our destination, at night, in order to pick up a special birthday cake. Without my wife's phone app, no, we'd have probably not gotten the cake. Moderation is the key, though. If you already know the way, turn the thing off! (I especially don't like the NWAs, that is Nagging Wife Apps.)
This time, the uber driver told us it was his first ride. No, I have no idea if this guy really understands the economics of it (maybe it'll just be the crank position sensor at first), but he did say his brother has been doing this work.
It was generally very pleasant. It's just that I saw him still looking at his phone when we were already at the hotel, the parking lot at least. "It's like, right here, man." and "We're there." I hinted, as this guy kept on looking at the phone, rather than just go around the proper curbs to end up in front. I suppose the app knew the whole parking lot, but... I don't know... at some point you have to live in the world. You maneuver the vehicle in between the curbs such that it ends up by the front doors. It's not rocket surgery. (Is there an app for that?)
It's worse than I thought. People don't want to even try and get anywhere by looking out the window, even if the very building is in sight. Now, he had to look at the road when driving on the highway, but, signs? Nah. Mile markers? Wut?
Their phones are their worlds. I couldn't live like that, sorry.
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