Juneteenth and the modern legacy of Black!
Posted On: Thursday - June 26th 2025 10:45AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government Race/Genetics Holiday from Stupidity
I'm late by a week. I don't even know if Popeye's Cajun Fried Chicken has deals anymore or if the nearby Zippy Mart does either on malt liquor. (What exactly IS malt liquor anyway? It's just beer in larger cans, right?) I'm talking Juneteenth, which has slipped by under the radar here at Peak Stupidity.
We didn't celebrate anyway, but there was one remark made. The YMCA league canceled a practice session for the kids. I'd thought it was the usual pussy-world thing of "It's too hot! The children will die!!" No, it was due to Juneteenth, and I put a word in in a text back that this was a "garbage holiday". (I was in a hurry - coulda' thought of something better to say.) There was no reply, which is a good sign, but then it might have been one of those accounts for which replies go straight into the ether (not -net).
Someone else chimed in about this High Black! Holy-Day. She's our favorite illegal immigrant* CongressRagHead outta Minneagadishu.
Omar Ilhan, or Ilhan Omar - I can never keep this straight - not worth trying - has a whole lot of things that she hates about the U.S. of A. I'm surprised she hasn't gone back home, what with all the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, colonialist shit going on 'round here. It's just GOT TO BE better in the ole Somalia. I mean, geeeze,
Anyway, shit was bad, see, so Rep Omar (D-SO) wrote a nice tweet.
She deleted it after a while. It turns out that in Rep Ilhan's old country, enslavement is still going on. Worse, yet, it's enslavement of Black! people. I'm pretty sure, otherwise I would sure hope some Black! helicopters, maybe camo, would be on the way. It's Black!folk Down over there in Somalia right now.
I am not surprised, as the Moslem world was the worst over the centuries when it came to forcing people into slavery. They took millions of black Africans, castrating the men, and then not as many, but still millions of White Europeans. The Crusaders didn't kick enough ass, IMHO. I don't think your average Afro-American Juneteenth celebratory BBQers, malt liquor drinkers and shots-ringing-out folks have any idea of the slavery ongoing TO THIS DAY in Somalia.
One wonders what Rep Omar's countrymen and country-pup-tenter enslavers need enslaved people for in this modern age of C-17 and C-5 (former) Military Airlift Command capabilities of delivering cargo-cult stuff on
Here's the situation on the
Ilhan Omar really ought to STFU and GTFO. There's work to be done over there. She ought to bring her brosband too, as, after all, the goats aren't going to fuck themselves.
PS: Maybe that last sentence was uncalled for, but I read that from a ZH commenter and just HAD to use it. Thank you, whomever!
* Based on fraudulent application for citizenship. To be fair though, who knew you couldn't marry your brother?
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Bomb, bomb Iran: Trump, MAGA, and the ctrl-left.
Posted On: Wednesday - June 25th 2025 8:01PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left
We really don't think it's going to come to this, BECAUSE of MAGA, but that graphic is pretty good nonetheless.
My hopes that Trump's bombing of Iran's nuke facilities is a one-off have been boosted by seeing the story of his non-stately "statement" that "They [Iranians and Israelis] don't know what the fuck they're doing!" Firstly, to address that, the ego of that guy is really amazing. Nobody else, over 45 years since the Shah, has made "such a deal" with the Moslem Mullahs and Israel, but Trump is just such a deal-maker. (I mean, he wrote a book!) But, they've ruined it! I say to President Trump regarding (in particular) this matter that "You don't know what the fuck you're doing!"
Perhaps guys like Ron/Rand Paul, the Paleo crowd, the bum Thomas Massie, and so on, DO know what they're doing when they say we ought to stay the hell out of all this. It'd be great if this was the only learning experience of this type needed by Donald Trump. I doubt it.
I've said before that Trump is the 1st woman President. He tends to have hissy fits and get excessively vindictive. His words against the principled stalwart Kentucky Congressman Massie are an example. He's on your side, man.* He's just against non-defensive wars, which are most definitely not "America First!"
Let me bring up some fallacies now that have been brought up to show how this bombing is bringing down MAGA, or something.
1) Just that, this is the END, my friend, of MAGA. Indeed, many of us MAGA people are pissed. More wars for Israel, as sold to us as saving the world, are not making America great. They are making us broke that much faster. If there is any goodwill left after 35 years of blowing the huge amount America had accumulated during the Cold War, this will see it's blown too.
However, if you ask Peak Stupidity, the stopping and REVERSING of the PRP (in its form, the immigration invasion, both legal and illegal) is Job 1 for MAGA and in MAGA as a phrase. Lots of us don't like this act, though polls say not so many don't, but we care more about what he's been accomplishing on Job 1.
If this becomes Afghanistan II or Iraq III, I imagine MAGA will need to find someone who doesn't TACO to The NeoCons. It doesn't look like it will.
I know people who are as Conservative as can be who just can't get that Buchanan phrase "A Republic, not an Empire". (One in question likes Pat Buchanan's pro-White stance, but just can't ...) We must control the high seas, or the CCP will... all that... However, as much as I want it ended, "Invade the World" does not HAVE TO go along with "Invite the World". The Cause & Effect regarding the 2 parts of this nice Steve Sailerism have been discussed on this blog before.***
2) Some evil people of the ctrl-left (I can't remember, but types like that Jasper P.O.S. from Texas or Commies from New York) AGREE with you MAGA people against the bombing. That there comes straight under reducto ad Hitlerum, as in "You won't eat your butterbeans, and you like steak. Hitler was a vegetarian, so you're a Nazi" (I don't know if that would have worked with my Mom, so we made every effort to flush them down the toilet instead. I hate 'em to this day!)
Even if it weren't just the fact that these ctrl-left people
3) Trump, as we've already written, is prone to disparaging people on his side if they don't play ball on everything. Sometimes that can be a good thing in a leader.
However, Trump has not been doing everything right. His downright stupid statements and even policy dictates that backtrack on Job 1 are a big example. I hope his underlings ignore his stupidity in this matter and plug along, as if their hearing aids had failed. "Something about farmers and hotels??? I dunno. His lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out."
So, how about MAGA being allowed a little leeway to disagree with the Big Man? After all, millions of people spent millions of dollars and hours to help him get where he is, for not his sake, but OUR sakes. I think we'll be OK if Thomas Massie can criticize the Big Bulbous Bill, for all our good. It's being torn into pieces, as we speak, anyway so criticism of the right things would be helpful right now. We'll be OK if the few principled MAGA politicians speak out against the possible starting of yet another forever war.
Is Trump too old to take any advice? Does he already know it all? Trump-45 proved that widely off the mark. Trump-47 is much better, but he still could learn something from, say, Marjorie Taylor Green:
(This one's a file photo from when she was pushing to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.)
I'll get back to MTG. Matt Gaetz, a guy I wish were the Attorney General right now, had some text "conversation" with his own mother spied upon on an airplane flight and revealed on Tic-Tok. (What a world!) I feel icky - OK, it's not right - reading it, but not being able to stop reading, I noted that Mr. Gaetz explained well to his Trump-worshipping Mom that Trump might need some guidance. Yes, Trump could use a lot of guidance, guidance up the wazoo, in fact.
I'll end this with MTG's statement, which shows that MAGA is not ditching Trump and splitting up, but there is simply a disagreement here, between principled people... and un-principled people who think deal-making is the be-all-to-end-all.
(I hope you all can read that. It should blow up with some decent amount of resolution.)
"Enough is Enough" - yes, I hope. MTG's bit about bombing drug cartels is ... a real stretch... but I agree with the gist of her statement. Note that she's not abandoning MAGA or Trump, or going out to vote for A.O.C. in 3 years.
PS: I added on "MAGA" to the alt-right topic key. Adding new topic keys at this point will result in lots of tedious work that won't ever get done.
* That's the same as it was with Jeff Sessions** 8 years ago.
** Thankfully, ex-sportsball coach Tommy Tuberville turned out to be great on the immigration invasion too. That was just dumb luck though.
*** Ahaaa, there's that very John McCain caricature image from National Review that Commenter Hail mentioned under the last post.
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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran: Recent history
Posted On: Tuesday - June 24th 2025 6:34PM MST
In Topics: History Trump The Neocons
I will admit that I got sucked into the NeoCon narrative of Trump's attack on Iran to some degree. Being generous here, I think it's possible President Trump did too. No, it's not another war, they want us to understand. It's just this one time, or, well, if the nukes are still there, a few more. We've got to save the world from rogue nations with nukes, no matter what it takes. These guys might just start Armageddon. That's the way I've been hearing it and reading it from people who are otherwise MAGA/America First types.
That all seems familiar to me. Oh yes, if we have any kind of memory and go back 22 years, we can recall months to years of talk about Iraq and THEIR dubya emm dee (WMD), those Weapons of Mass Destruction. I never did get the story on what exactly they were and how they were a threat to America. Being quite a bit younger then, I mistakenly assumed that Bush and his guys knew a lot more than I did about it. Additionally, how this was at all connected to 9/11 was a mystery I've never seen solved.
No, but we're just taking out the nukes this time with no big war planned. (That's a good idea, if it were really the plan, because Iran is a country of 90 million people, not all who are 3rd-World incompetents and the US military, well, that's a post to come shortly.) It's DIFFERENT this time. It doesn't feel different at all though. "Boots on the ground" or not, has Trump started another wasteful, destructive forever war? Another parallel is that people against this warmongering are being mocked. Another one is that there are already "alerts" out about new terrorism, likely with new "security" programs being planned to take away what's left of our freedoms. I don't like ANY of this, and no, it's not what I voted for
The BIG parallel though, being talked about more than it was 22 years ago, is that America has waged unprovoked war on behalf of Israel. This is not America First. What threat is Iran to America? Oh, right, they've been chanting "Death to America" on the streets for 45 years... so let me go back 2 more decades.
I'm going back to 1979 now. After the Shah of Iran had been deposed by the notorious Ayatollah (assholla) Khomeney*, 52 Americans were taken hostage and held at the (former by that time) US Embassy in Tehran for 444 days starting in November 1979. It might be beyond the memories of most Americans, but it was A BIG DEAL for those 444 days.
American tempers flared and anger was at a high level. It didn't help that most Americans, I along with them as a young kid, had not followed the history of the situation with the old Shah. (He had come to America to get treated for his cancer at some point before the Moslem fundamentalist coup.) We were pissed, and maybe we didn't want to know what brought this all on. The title of this post comes from the use of a then-not-so-old (14 y/o then vs. 60 now) Beach Boys'** song called Barbara Ann to rally anger against the country that had been holding 52 Americans. (I don't want to embed this happy and very catchy song here in this post.)
There was the Jimmy Carter-led military's failed rescue attempt in April of '80 that made America look even weaker. Most of another year went by, and this long-running event was very possibly the biggest factor in Ronald Reagan's election win at the end of the year (with perhaps,
Well, do you hold a grudge with people who are old and/or dead by now for those events of 1979-80 and that some people chant in the streets? Now there's another parallel with the warmongering in Iraq 22 years ago (and one could go back another 13 years from there too). The Bushes were at odds with Saddam Hussein. Not our problem. That was no reason to start a war that was in no way for the defense of America.
I don't know, perhaps Iran would/should (in some ways) think of 2025 America as "The Great Satan" due to our massive corrosive cultural influence anyway, but without our backing Israel so completely, I doubt we'd be so much their enemy. Israel has much more to worry about, as Big Islam does want them dead. Sorry, but still, starting wars and enacting "regime change" on behalf of Israel is simply not America First.*** That regime change thing goes back to the Shah and the 1950s, as this whole thing comes around full circle. (The rhyming of history for these particular political events is not quite on a century cycle.)
I'm not falling for that America-saving-the-world-from-destruction excuse this time, being older and wiser.
As is often the case, there is too much to write about on this subject for one post. The next one will be about Trump's bombing's effect on American politics.
* I realize it's not spelled this way, but since spell-check won't help me, I'll play along with Steve Sailer's deal on Moo-i-mar Cadaffey, and figure it has thousand of spellings. (I'm just covering for laziness here, honestly.)
As an aside, I was young then, but I have a hazy memory of seeing some interview on the B&W TV of that very Ayatollah, as he was living in France, before this crisis and before any regular American had heard of him. I thought later that I should have paid attention more to what some raghead had to say.
** They didn't write it. It had been written by one Fred Fassert and recorded by The Regents in '61.
*** Commenter "The Alarmist", AWOL for a while here but busy with his own blog, noted in the comments that perhaps this is part of some brilliant deal among Israel, AIPAC, and Trump - this deserves its own post.
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The Most Environmentalist Woman in the World
Posted On: Friday - June 20th 2025 12:49PM MST
In Topics: Humor Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity
This one's for you, Greta.
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The Ire of the Irish
Posted On: Thursday - June 19th 2025 6:52PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity People's Revolt
Really, Ulstermen, I suppose.
I don't have any of it in me genetically, but somehow I've got some of that Irish quick-temperedness and love or raising hell deep within me. I REALLY got into the hour and a half video (since restricted by age) of British rioters against Population Replacement in Rotherham, Yorkshire, last August*. From our post Rotherham Riot Movie: Rising of the Yorkshiremen:
For me, watching the video below was the equivalent of going to an action film in the 1980s. We don't go out now, the screen is about 0.01% the size, but the action is here and I inside I strongly feel myself being part of the action. One difference here is that this one is real and happening very nearly NOW. I would rate "Yorkshire!, Yorkshire!" as my favorite film of the century so far.There might be something wrong with me, I dunno... You just get the feeling that raising hell is the only way to change things. That is the conclusion the Irish seem to have come to, after the tremendous change of their nation over only 3 decades from a Conservative Catholic low-tier-1st-World but IRISH country to a DIEverse Globalist playground. In this case it is Northern Ireland, a separate country, but with the same hot-tempered folks I guess. It was not Nigerians or Somalians but Gypsies, aka, "Roma" this time who did violence against their unwitting hosts.
I wrote that I was heartened to see the rioting in Southport and London. Here I was 10 times heartened.
[SNIP]
This hour and a half of action was, again, the best thing I've seen in a long time! I was right there with these blokes. When they yelled at the cops asking whose freaking side are they on, I wanted to be yelling, when they threw rocks, I wanted to be throwing rocks, when they started throwing furniture at them, I wanted to be throwing the furniture.
What are ya' gonna do, bring a petition to Belfast and present it to whatever diverse character is supposed to be leading the Northern Irish right now?** No nation in the West is having any luck with that type of effort. (Perhaps the Danish are an exception - I still have my LEGO post to come.)
The picture above is a screen-shot from a video with some guy in a protest being interviewed by a woman as they walk. She's asking the same old questions about "what happened to cause this anger". What happened was yet another couple of young girls raped by foreign "migrants", and, well, people had had enough. Tempers flared, to put it mildly. I doubt they would have come to what ensued, had there still been a non-Anarcho-Tyrannical state apparatus for redressing grievances.
This violence got more personal than that we discussed from England last summer. Rather than the smashing of windows, throwing of things, and setting of small fires (with minor violence against the Bobbies trying to shut them down, with nobody staying at the Holiday Inn Express hurt (though maybe a little wiser in the morning), this time individual houses of immigrants were set alight. ZeroHedge has the story a week ago: Sex Crimes Spark Three Nights Of Anti-Immigration Riots In N. Ireland
In the wake of yet another alleged sex crime perpetrated by non-natives, a city in Northern Ireland has been rocked by three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots. In this case, two 14-year-olds arrested on Sunday stand accused of attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on the previous night. The ensuing wave of arson, vandalism and anti-police violence -- which has left more than 32 officers injured -- has spread from Ballymena to other towns, prompting authorities to deploy reinforcements from the area and to request 80 officers be dispatched from across the Irish Sea. [Bolding in original.]This is not the first time:
"She was taken into a house and brutally sexually assaulted on Saturday evening," a woman identified as a relative of the latest alleged victim told a social-media interviewer. "There was a mattress in the garage." According to their conversation, this was the third incident in a fortnight, with at least one of the other incidents also involving a teenage girl.What started out as a literally (gotta insert that nowadays) peaceful protest changed to a riot. I know the feeling. Something inside you says "OK, that's enough!" This feeling is extremely contagioius.
Following this latest sexual attack, what started as a peaceful Sunday vigil in protest of the sex crime and support of the victim rapidly turned violent, as angry residents broke away from the main event and set out for an immigrant-heavy part of the town of 31,000 residents, where they set homes ablaze, built barricades and hurled blocks and other objects at police. A pregnant woman had to be evacuated when her house was set ablaze. Authorities have condemned what they call "hate-fueled acts and mob rule."Authorities should have remembered an important thought of President John F. Kennedy's***:
In a calmer moment, I don't think your average Irishman wants to burn a pregnant woman out of her house or anyone else either. OTOH, an astute commenter - there are quite a few on ZH, if you look carefully - noted that there were threats of arson against people who might take government money to house these foreigners. A very popular comment by one RedNemesis reads:
Now go burn down the houses of the government officials who imported these animals.That's some calm cool-headed thinking. That's the problem though - this violence comes out of hot-temperedness, so the officials won't feel it, unless one lives in the wrong neighborhood... one with all those foreigners and violent N. Irish blokes..
Another thing discussed (this was originally from the NY Times, I just realized) was that people in some of these infested N. Irish towns are putting labels like the above on their houses to proclaim their lack of Gypsicanity or Moslemness.
“No one, now or ever, should feel the need to place a sticker on their door to identify their ethnicity just to avoid being targeted,” lamented Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill in a Wednesday statement.I shouldn't have to either, but still, perhaps I should put a "Black! residence!" sticker over my front door to avoid my being targeted by government officials with anti-White D.I.E. policies, heavy income tax burdens, emergency room bills for illegal aliens, etc ... The sticker companies are hurting, what with the end of the Kung Flu PanicFest and the millions of floor stickers. Why not a sticker that says "Not a Government Official" or "Not a Globalist Nation-Destroyer"? They oughta sell by the millions.
If not the people of other nations learning something from these Ulstermen, maybe even the Globalist rulers could learn something... maybe mull over that JFK warning for a while...
* More:
The Riots in Britain: Lyin' Press version
England Burning: Enough is Enough!
We wrote those 2 before the one excerpted above. Then, we really got into details of the rioting in the next week or two:
Rotherham Riots: Two-Tier Policing
Rotherham Riots - The Cops
Rotherham Riots: Scenes of the hotel "guests"
White Riot - UK reporter Wesley Winter cucks out, with, of course and appropriately, The Clash.
I had images saved for a couple more even. Peaks Stupidity is assuredly your go-to site for riotanalysis.
** Yeah, let me get this straight. They are a part of The United Kingdom, while (southern) Ireland is not. They are not a part of Great Britain, which encompasses only the one island to the east of them. I really never knew nor cared before. They're all a bunch of limeys, no? No. OK, they all talk funny, but they talk funny differently.
*** We are hoping that if Peak Stupidity posts it enough times, the quote-check sites will be obligated to explain that Peak Stupidity is not the originator of this one.
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A Complete Unknown
Posted On: Tuesday - June 17th 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Music Movies ctrl-left
It's been a while since Peak Stupidity has posted a movie review. A Complete Unknown is the name of this movie about Bob Dylan, which was released last year. If you know anything about the musician, the music, or the times, then you'll of course be familiar with the song that the title refers to.
I saw the movie recently, but I hadn't seen the preview (now called a "trailer" - lets just call it a preview):
Since I just now watched that, let me just say that the preview sure has the story jumbled around as far as the timeline. The movie stayed on a linear timeline, which is generally a good thing.
As long-term Peak Stupidity readers would have read time and again here, I will not have my time wasted by movies with agendas (ones I don't like, that is). This was movie number 3, and I already barely remember the other 2 I'd started off watching, for ~ 25 min. on one and only 5 or so on the other. The review would not be here if I hadn't made it through this movie, so let me say that there doesn't seem to be much of a woke agenda in A Complete Unknown.
Obviously a historical movie about the mid-1960s is going to show things I don't like - a quick scene of some Black! (Martin Luther Kang's crowd, I think?) guys in suits that get Bob Dylan writing a song, and then, well, the whole scene, man! However, this movie was pretty clean, as far as Wokeness goes, and we're talking 2024 here! Shocking!
The actors in movies don't matter a lot to me. If I can believe they are those people, then that's good enough. The guy playing Bob Dylan sure had me thinking he was, as did the pretty woman playing Joan Baez. Since there were obligatory* underwear scenes including the latter, I looked pretty closely, and I will say that they even reproduced my memory - from record album covers, I guess, that she's a little hippy. Ooops, I can see that might be confusing to the reader. Joan Baez was a normal-sized hippie, but in the movie, the actress is just a tad wide at the hips. Do they actually cast people to have the same figures? The guy playing Bob Dylan was skinny, as I'd expect of Bob Dylan. Oh, Johnny Cash, played by some guy, has a decent part in the movie. I had no idea that he'd been a big influence on Bob Dylan.
This movie is no comprehensive biography of Dylan. The story starts as he arrives in NYC, and it ends only a couple of years later. It's about the huge folk music, turning to protest music, scene in those mid-'60s years, and Bob Dylan sure was in the right place at the right time. One might also say he played a big part in creating that scene.
I don't know how closely this movie adhered to the details of this portion of the life of Bob Dylan, originally Bob Zimmerman from Minnesota, but early in the movie, he meets Woody Guthrie, folk music legend, slowly dying in a hospital, as middle-aged Pete Seeger spends lots of time keeping him company. This is where the music starts. He played a song or two for Mr. Guthrie, and both Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger saw what a talented songwriter this young Bob Dylan was. If any viewer might have aspirations of being a music star, the movie might make him a little optimistic. It shows Dylan playing in a few bars and then rising to the top, chased down by adoring fans, in no time... seemed like 6 months flat. Must be nice. Did he write any songs complaining about all that within his repertoire. Yes, I think. Commenters might want to name a few.
About the music, finally, A Complete Unknown did a nice job with that. The appropriate great Bob Dylan songs can be heard during certain scenes, and there is plenty of re-enacted concert footage. Not all songs were played through in the concert scenes, which is to be expected, but more importantly, they weren't played through as other scenes, as in a musical. That's what I couldn't stand in Rocketman, what could have been a much better movie about Elton John. I don't like musicals, and this wasn't one.
We've all heard lots of Bob Dylan songs here and there. I can't say I've ever owned an album, as I was never that much of a fan at all. I've enjoyed the songs he's written as sung by other artists, such as The Byrds. There's the well-known Puff the Magic Dragon "by" Peter, Paul, and Mary, one that I can honestly say I've never heard the songwriter's version of.
Because it's about folk music and shows what a big influence Bob Dylan had, this movie has me appreciating him more. (I also hadn't known how big his repertoire was.I've heard about all the songs the movie had playing - he wrote a LOT of great songs.) This isn't spoiling the movie, as it's all known by older music fans, but a big part of the latter half of the movie involves Dylan's interest in other musical styles. I thought his going electric was MUCH later, maybe the 1970s sometime, but it was during the end of those few (couple?) of years of the protest-folk music heyday. This is per the movie timeline, and at that '65 Newport Folk Festival, again per the movie, the fans were pretty pissed off at Dylan's having left them without their protest-folk hero. Perhaps these scenes were in the movie to get just a little bit of action in. (There was one minor fist fight otherwise - this is not quite in the Action Movie genre.)
A song featured at the beginning was So Long (It's been good to know ya') by Woody Guthrie**. The song is ancient sounding that it seems like from a century ago. Well, no, it's only been 90 years.***
So Long is played again in the ending scene, as Bob Dylan leaves the disappointed fans and his most loyal and pretty girlfriend and rides his motorcycle back to New York. Woody Guthrie had died too. The was a poignant and appropriate ending for this story of the American folk and protest music heyday.
Peak Stupidity is somewhat SHOCKED, SHOCKED, to have liked a movie from not only this century and this decade, but last year! If you don't like the music at all it would suck, I imagine.
Well, we've got to embed ONE Dylan song, at least! Though he sang songs I favor more, this is the one the title comes from.
PS: You (might) know how, before the internet, you'd have to be lucky to be able to get complete song lyrics, as only sometimes they might have come printed on the album cover or liner notes****? Well, folk music is one genre in which the lyrics do matter a good bit. Bob Dylan's words are not hard to understand. Somehow, I missed this one line in The Times, They Are a-Changin' maybe THE biggest protest song from this era, at least as far as the acoustic folk songs:
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land,The mothers and fathers were probably right most of the time. The times, though, they WERE a-changin', not least due to subversion instigated by lyric writers and some Communists behind the scenes. (Not shown in the movie.) Wait, is Peak Stupidity calling Bob Dylan a Communist? No, real Communists tend to have crappier music, written by people in dull, olive-drabbed clothing. OK, then don't ask me about John Lennon.
and don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
Your old road is rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand,
For the times, they are a-changin'.
* Or maybe "obligatory" only applies to (a younger) Signorney Weaver in Aliens movies.
** I saw his son Arlo play in concert years ago.
*** Woody Guthrie wrote this one about the Dust Bowl years, in 1935. It was released again in 1951 with some different lyrics, and was covered by The Weavers.
**** Thanks, SafeNow, for the correction on that.
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A big softball in the fight against stupidity
Posted On: Monday - June 16th 2025 4:50PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders General Stupidity Bread and Circuses Legal Stupidity
I'm pretty sure I first read about this on ZeroHedge, but they use many stories from other sites - I'll get to the original.
Yea, Champlin Park Rebels! (In Minnesota) You go, Marissa Rothenberger! She's also received "All-Tournament Team" honors, don'tcha' know? We at Peak Stupidity don't really give a rat's hooootie - tryin' to sound Minnesoootan, don'tcha' know - abooot girls' sports, and we don't operate out of Minnesooota. Still, you go grrllll... wait, there's a tweet over there with this breaking girls' softball news:
The Daily Wire elucidates the slight sex discrepancy here: Boy Pitches Complete-Game Shutout To Win Girls’ Softball Championship. Complete game shutout - that's pretty good, but, wait, he's a boy and boys are stronger and pitch faster and ... oh, I gotta be careful here... I might piss off some Feminists, but then maybe not. I'm surprised at their ability to hold the "girls rule!" and "get off the field, boys!" thoughts in their not-so-pretty little heads at one time. Get back in the dugout, Feminists.
Anyway, that's not at all my point today, as it's all been said before. From the tweet, we read:
Every single Democrat in Minnesota voted to make this insanity possible.Yes, they're either completely mad, in the British sense, or deliberate destroyers of society and are out for humiliation.
So what? That doesn't matter this time. Can Americans ever realize that not every single facet of life must be decided by government? It's bad enough so many things are. Unlike vaccines (at times), girls softball is not mandatory. You don't have to let, or even make, your girls play in this league and put up with this genderbender stupidity. These girls in the Minnesota High School league aren't making a living at it.
Sickening.Well, yeah it is, but what's really sickening is that you people feel so helpless about this and won't DO ANYTHING. Don't complain about the judges and legislators. Don't go asking for Trump for help. (He has helped, though it's not really his business, and he'll probably TACO out of this one too.)
This is really easy, like hitting a slow-pitch softball sailing right over the plate. Quit en masse. Play your games at another ballpark in town. Take your balls and go home. (Pun not intended and hopefully not applicable!)
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PS and MAGA to Donald Trump: Drop Dead!
Posted On: Saturday - June 14th 2025 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
I wanted to write about Ireland tonight. However, a Gateway Pundit article, really mostly the comments below it, are trying to convince me that I shouldn't be so hopeful that Trump was bullshitting the other day.
Trump is cowardly or stupid, or both. Is he backing down on any serious illegal alien deportation plan due to the riots? How does he not know that that farming and the hospitality industry employ a significant proportion, many millions, of illegal aliens? They cannot NOT be part of any consistent deportation program. If this is what he really thinks, Peak Stupidity and MAGA are done with him:
It's not just an impulsive tweet. Trump Directs ICE to Stop Raids in Agriculture, Hotel and Restaurant Industries — Focus Only on ‘Criminal’ Aliens
I'm encouraged, at least by the multiple hundreds of comments I've read, and that there are over 2,000 of them, under the article. This GP crowd is not the hard-core ZH or iSteve set. They are normies, let's call 'em. Yet 90% of the are PISSED.
Here at Peak Stupidity, we've been very hopeful about this existential issue, the ONLY reason besides just 2 Commie hags and a senile dirtbag to vote against, that we've cared so much about Trump becoming President. If he's really decided to drop the whole thing, than, yeah, he can drop dead. MAGA needs a replacement. It's time for our HR department to get busy.
I wish I was in a better mood for this last post of the week. At least I can read and commiserated with GP commenters and a few real-life friends.
That's it. Good night, Peakers. Have a relaxing Sunday.
PS: I wish Ann Coulter was visiting the White House at this moment.... armed. I just checked and she wrote her most recent column before this idiocy out of Trump.
PPS: I finally looked up what TACO stands wrt Donald Trump: Trump Always Chickens Out. That sounds about right at this point.
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Et Tu, China?
Posted On: Saturday - June 14th 2025 1:47PM MST
In Topics: Commies China ctrl-left Deep State Anarcho-tyranny
This past Monday, Peak Stupidity posted Riot Season '25: Again, brought to you by the ctrl-left. We wanted to say something about these events, but perhaps we shouldn't as we predicted these anti-Rule-of-Law, pro-Invasion riots wouldn't get too far, with 3 points made. Well, that was wrong, it seems. Is Trump actually backing down, or is that just his usual BSing done to ... throw people off guard... or something?
I did mention that, as with the BLM/antifa violence of 5 years back, this is not just some organic display, this time from upset Mexicans. There are people behind it, hiring protestors - pretty good pay too - I thought about it for a second there - supplying protest "materials", organizing, what-have-you. As a ZeroHedge commenter or two wrote, is this a "color revolution", not-so-instant Karma for what the US Deep State has done in the Middle East? Do we deserve it? That depends on who you mean by "we" - surely we MAGA types don't, but then maelstroms aren't generally fair.
Now, I read from ZeroHedge, that besides the usual Globalists, American Commies, and Communistas Migrantes, the Chinese CCP may have been putting in their 2
Well, see, the immigration invasion involves various and sundry ills, some that may feed on each other. The importation of so many millions of Chinese people means that among the majority well-meaning, hard-working, though-still-not-so American people, you're bound to have some, a few thousand, maybe more, coming in purely up to no good. Peak Stupidity witnessed the stupidity in Canada in which people are exposing Chinese police stations (What??!) established in Toronto. How do you even get such a thing? Why would you import evil that neither existed nor had any point in existing, in your nation only a few decades back. We have the same stupidity here. From ZH:
U.S. Congressional Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), launched a formal investigation on Friday into the dark money networks and political affiliations of billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. national reportedly residing in Communist China.
Singham is suspected of funding far-left color revolutions in the U.S. with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The inquiry focuses on Singham's possible role as a proxy in CCP propaganda operations and his potential legal exposure under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Oversight Chairman Comer and Declassification Taskforce.
Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) threatened to subpoena the far-left billionaire if he refuses to cooperate with the investigation into potential ties in sparking social unrest through a network of revolutionary leftist non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The lawmakers allege Singham could be linked to the ongoing unrest and chaos in Los Angeles.
In a letter to the billionaire, House Republicans requested documents and information about his dark money network supporting leftist NGOs such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which reportedly played a part in the Los Angeles chaos.
Who knows? It's bad enough these people waste people's time with SinoProp in The Unz Review comments, and that the proprietor there is a sap in this respect. More serioiusly, any group who's got a beef with America or Americans is bound to have people already on the inside who can help useful idiots wreak destruction here.
Fighting against the violent Chicanos there with their Mexican flags (not great optics, IMO, CCP!) might be what we'd like to do, but we need to take aim against those fomenting these color revolution attempts behind the scenes. We have a lot of enemies, most of them already within the gates. That's why we need to deport them en masse, violent criminals, your standard Home Depot Guatemalans, Somalian parasites, Indian, Chinese, and all sorts of foreign university students, and so forth.
The protests are supposedly about stopping deportations. Yet they are also about destruction of society via violent movements. Those instigating the movements should have been deported themselves. The more anti-American groups we deport in large numbers, the smaller the efforts will be to fight deportations and to generally cause mayhem. This is an important battle.
I had more to write about the Anarcho-Tyranny of it all and also some news about actual efforts that the Trump Administration has been up to. However, I'll skip back to overseas in a post to come later today. Then, too, there IS plenty of other stupidity to write about... it will have to wait until next week.
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Deportation Nation: Some bullshit out of President Trump... We sure hope!
Posted On: Friday - June 13th 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Big-Biz Stupidity
Just after Peak Stupidity posted the last discussion of Deportation plans and numbers, I saw the following tweet out of the President:
First of all, Trump is plain wrong in his statement. Americans WOULD DO and HAVE DONE this work before, but it just has to pay decent. Price out produce sometime, get a '25 price on a cucumber and a tomato, subtract out a big mark-up, do a little estimating on how many can be picked in an hour, and tell me that the labor is a BIG part of these "great" farmers' production costs. Then there is modern machinery with amazing electronics and machine vision, and remember the adage about "necessity being the mother of invention.
Then too.. NO! Just, NO! They are all criminals by definition, you dumbass! (This is directed at Trump.) If we deport every one of those gang members and violent criminals, we are now left with 10-12 million MORE illegal aliens than there were at the end of the Trump-45 term.
That's the reason that I don't like listening to the words out of this guy's mouth or the stupidity flying off his fingers. I read about what IS being accomplished, and I'm more than mildly encouraged. Then he has to say this. Is Trump just being his usual want-to-be-liked bullshitter, placating the Big Biz interests that don't want any serious number of deportations? I sure hope so. He just sounds like such a traitor to MAGA when he does this crap.
Then I remember his talk about a Big Beautiful Door in that Big Beautiful Wall that never got finished, from 8-9 years ago. "You can go out on your own, and just apply to come in LEEGULLLEE", Trump is NOT, unfortunately, the only one saying even nowadays. I sure hope that's a ploy too. "Ooops the entry app is down. It may be a few years.... or never."
Then, as the Administration has made war on universities and foreign students therenrolled, I was very happy about this other, albeit maybe small potatoes, avenue leading toward the reversal of the Population Replacement Programme. But ...
1/2 a million is a LOT! Peak Stupidity has our own views on China, which include seeing the place as only an economic enemy. Trump is more adversarial with the Chinese. Does he not see that if only one in a thousand of these people is a military spy, then that's 500 of them? (No, I forgot, he can't do numbers like that - Trump, it's 'A LOT".) Spread around the universities and national labs, they can really do some damage. Plus, how does this comport with what he's been saying?
Same thing - I really hope that Trump just said that as some mindless BS at a press conference because he didn't have anything in mind to say about the subject. That normally does not stop him from talking.
That's a lot of hope on our part. I see a lot of good going on, but it's very frustrating to hear and read anything out of this guy. You'll never know what kind of stupidity he'll slip in there. It's got to be frustrating for his own people too. Steven Miller and Tom Homan must be used to this, and they probably ignore this stupidity too. Trump may not be a man of action, but his people are this time around. I'd rather just find out what they've been doing and not hear the BS out of the boss.
Next time, we will post about some action being taken in Deportation Nation.
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Deportation Nation: Goals and Activities Update
Posted On: Thursday - June 12th 2025 7:54PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
This is VDare's job, dangit! The reader must know by now how pissed your PS blogger is over the lack of that informative website that had been there for us for 2 decades. We'd have saved ourselves lots of effort getting the straight scoop, with lots of numbers and inside information, had the fatassed* tyrant Letitia James not waged lawfare against them. The last 6 months, or maybe right back to Trump's election win last November, would have been the best time in VDare's history!
We'll keep updating the reader with personally gathered info (at times) and from our various few favored websites on this most existential of issues. Here's Trump's Staff General**, one might call him, in the immigration war:
I had a short Steven Miller interview to show. Not only was I not able to find it on the video-hosting sites, I lost the tab here, search sucks in general now, and it sucks even WITHIN the Gateway Pundit site. That rant over, I can first say it's not the one about Steven MIller leaving the reporter "literally shaking', as is their style of juvenile feminine hype. (The only people I have EVER noticed literally shaking are in California, you know, in those videos taken during Richter 7.5 or higher earthquakes.)
OK, but I can go by memory. To a reporter whose name doesn't at all matter to me, Steven Miller talked about a goal of 3,000 illegal alien deportations daily to be reached, sometime soon. That's about a million a year, meaning, if Donald Trump can live 40 more years, and with the Constitution being, errrr, tweaked a bit, we can get rid of the likely 40 million of them. That's no good. Mr. Miller DOES understand the numbers though. He indicated in the interview that the number would have to go up from there.
I've heard a number of 1/2 a million of the Brandon/Mayorkas-invited 10-12 million being those hard-core criminals. It makes sense that the expulsion of those violent types is first priority, but it absolutely cannot be the end of this. Even, as per Mr. Miller and Trump's words at times, the 10-12 million recent "newcomers" cannot be the end of this. That would put us back to the US of '20, as far as the number of illegals, and the number of LEGAL entrants is not falling drastically (as it should), if at all, last I read. I really don't like hearing that continual talk that we will reverse the damage from Dark Brandon. It sets up the expectation that this is a fine goal.
Tom Homan, the Field General**, as we dub him, talks "collateral". He uses this wartime term to warn hopefully the illegals themselves - though they are not likely to know the word "collateral" or any other English words - that if you are around during an arrest of a hard-core criminal, well, as a criminal yourself, you're fair game. That's fine, but I think that too sets up a bad expectation: We are not out to get you purely because you are here illegally. We should be!
Those are just the words though, perhaps said to put the press at ease slightly. No, they're never at ease when you threaten the Population Replacement Programme, but it's a strategy, I think. I hope it's that. Don't yet let on to everyone the real intention of ramping this up into a full Operation Wetback 2.0.***
Yet, general deportations ARE happening. Gateway Pundit, as much as it takes to put up with their juvenile hype, is very good on this immigration issue, so more from that site a week and a half back was ICE Conclude Largest Immigration Enforcement to Date-Almost 1,500 Arrested in MA, Over Half With Criminal Convictions. That half of them had criminal convictions is important, but I wouldn't care if 2% of them had. That should be the point. You're a criminal by definition. That's just one story on just one day. Were it a story of a raid like this in EVERY STATE on the average weekly, now that would be at the rate that actually works! That's about 10,000 per day.
We've written before that we'd like to see numbers of 10,000 daily deportations. That's yet still only 3 million yearly deportations, meaning a reversal of ONLY the Brandon crowd (as a tally - not necessarily from the Brandon surge - it doesn't matter too much****) during Trump's term, and dozen year steady program, were that allowed to happen. However, that does not take into account self-deportations, something discussed before. Based on President Eisenhower's 1954 Operation Wetback results, 85% - 90% of the people who left self-deported. That only works if our deportation program is continued with steady numbers and with lots of publicity (I don't see THAT as a problem) unrelentingly.
Think of what 10,000 people a day actually feels like. I've lived in a "small town". If you recall old rock singer Johnny Cougar's Small Town from his song - somewhere near his melon camp, IIRC - of Seymour Indiana, I can tell you from driving through long ago that it wasn't exactly what I call a small town. (I was enough of a fan to divert a couple of hundred miles on one of my long road trips to... end up buying a hamburger and being told at the root beer stand that he lives in S. Carolina. ) I think of 500 to a couple of thousand as a small town. My memory is pretty good, as wiki says***** the town had 15-odd thousand residents then (and over 21,000 now).
One can see how big the numbers must be. A number of people that would fill a whole medium sized town - and unfortunately DO - must be sent home every day or two... for YEARS... or just GO home. They came in over half a century, most of them in the last quarter century. This will take a big effort. It sound daunting.
What can make it less daunting is taking away all the incentives for these illegals to stay here, again promoting self-deportation. Trump and his people have been working on that too. The States that are not pro-PRP must do their parts too. Can we stop the free education, "free" healthcare at taxpayers' and insured people's expense, and all that? It helps if the US Feral gov't will not threaten you if you take away the freebies. The current Fed-Gov may be a breath of fresh air in this respect.
I'm have hope that the talk by Steven Miller, Tom Homan, and even Trump(ha!) is well thought out. Per a strategy, they may want to state their goals as just exporting hard-core criminals, then move on to "we're reversing the damage done by Brandon", and then just keep on trucking...
The ctrl-left is taking a stand early on with these riots. They are trying to go all Barney Fife here, wanting to nip this PRP-resistance in the bud. Nip it, Gavin, nip it!
This new Summer of rioting plan has already become bigger than I'd figured just a couple of days back. Let's hope the President and the American people can push through this, keeping the deportation program not only continuing but expanding to what it must become. We'll have more to come with various heartwarming stories of Deportation Nation.
* Again, we're not trying to be mean here, but "fatassed", or "fat-ass", if you wish, as applied to this particular government official, is de rigueur per the AP style guide - who are WE to argue?
** See The Trump-47 Administration and the Existential Issue from a few weeks after the election of '24.
*** I think the name doesn't work anymore. I don't say that out of Political Correctness, but the illegal invaders are from ALL OVER the world now. They don't all swim the Rio Grande either. (Those were the days, my friend!)
**** ... though, granted, the later arrivals are probably the most extremely foreign. People were flying into Ecuador from all points of the compass and making a trek from there.
***** It also starts of the history of Seymour with the Lenapi Indians! Well, I guess... did these Lenapi's know they were living in Indiana? What a coincidence!
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Sweden: We told you so
Posted On: Tuesday - June 10th 2025 7:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Feminism Female Stupidity World Political Stupidity
Note: It's the American immigration stupidity that Peak Stupidity cares about above all - above all other nations' stupidity of this sort and above all other stupidity here too. This post was on-deck though, so if I don't write it tonight, I'll never get to it. It could be a lesson to us too.
Katie Hopkins is worried. She's a writer* for the UK Daily Mail. She's a woman too. (Well, I mean, you can't just assume...) As is often the case, women worry about women things, often with no regard to any other aspects of these problems. She's worried about the lives of women in Sweden.
If you are thinking that this is about the fate of the girls of ABBA in this later stage of their lives, you just may be thinking of 1970s or '80s Sweden, in which that might just be the most important news. That was a different country. Compassionate people of all sorts, lots of women and their boyfriends who are in it to get laid mostly, have changed the country since the time of ABBA. (Agnetha, Benni, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid, though one could change the order somewhat - 4 permutations is all. Combinations, maybe(?))
No, there's some serious stuff that Katie Hopkins is worried about. You gotta figure from the long headline - Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth. Well that sucks. Life can be sad there and not in the way described by the forlorn lover in the ABBA song below.
I didn't come to Sweden for the riots. Or because of Trump. In fact, I was supposed to be here in December — before airline strikes stood in my way.Why would Trump have anything to do with Katie Hopkins going to Sweden? Whatever... there's a whole lot of misery of Swedish women described here (nothing about the men), and I can't paste it all in. A 12 y/o was raped by a 45 y/o, both immigrants, so I guess that's a double negative or something, women have to run home from work for their safety, this single lady's apartment got broken into, her laptop stolen and her car keys, then the car (makes sense), and grenades, yeah, you find them set in trash cans for some purpose or other.
I came because I was asked. Repeatedly.
Swedish women reaching out by email, by letter, to quietly show me what has become of their country.
This is in one of the "go" suburbs, so imagine what the "no-go suburbs" are like!
She doesn't want her picture to be seen now. Not in case the migrants attack again, but because the feminists will come after her and hound her as a racist for speaking out. The migrant men scare her. But it is Swedish women who have silenced her.Hey, Katie Hopkins, guess what? YOU'RE! A! FEMINIST! You're very much a part of this attitude.
The (almost all Feminist) women of Sweden over the last quarter century have been so compassionate, pushing those non-compassionate men and the few mean stodgy traditional Conservatives to chillax and let these poor refugees come in from all over the 3rd World. They really couldn't have picked worse places than the Moslem world, Africa, and, yeah Moslem Africa to invite them from either. That's being REALLY REALLY compassionate. Moreso, they didn't really need to
The problem with this feminine compassion is that, without perspective, imagination, and foresight, you don't understand that maybe, just maybe, those old stodgy Conservatives who didn't want these poor refugees coming in by the hundreds of thousands have compassion too. They might have even more of it, likely some compassion for the future generations of Swedes, who might really have enjoyed growing up in the safe, quiet, peaceful White environment as they did.
Later I went back to walk the no-go suburbs, ending up back in the centre of the town. A week earlier this place was torched and looted as the world looked on.What a brave reporter is this Katie Hopkins. Unfortunately, she's had to notice some things. But "this place was torched", passive voice, as the world looked on. I'm not sure what Katie would have had "the world" do about it. I have some ideas of my own...
I wondered what was strange, besides the weird calm. And realised it was that I was the only woman in the place. Everyone else was young, African and male. Speaking Arabic. Hanging about, utterly without purpose.
Frustrated, I asked a few of them what they were doing, what was the point, what they would ever achieve by standing about. The mum in me was furious.Now, that's not nice at all! Yet, Miss Hopkins proceeds to tell us readers that this is not about Moslem, Christian, young or old. All the women, like young Swedish Lucy, are scared. All the scary people, where DO they all come from?
'F*ck off, you white woman whore, go suck your mum,' they replied, and proceeded to demonstrate what they did to their 'little white girlfriends'.
I left saddened. Saddened that in a country so proud of women's rights, that leads the way on maternity and female equality, pockets of life like this exist.Katie Hopkins is either really stupid, or, failing that, too much of a proud Feminist to connect the dots. Had women not been in Swedish politics and voting, none of this would have happened. Some men with ACTUAL compassion and wisdom would have stopped this invasion of foreigners after a few rapes and a few hand grenade explosions or even before.
Here, she just couldn't help herself:
When Trump turned the world's attention to Sweden by clumsily referring to the effects of mass-migration on what used to be seen as the most liberal country on earth, the country was ready and waiting to blow.Trump has been quite right about what's happened in Sweden. Still, speaking clumsily(?) is bad. Being told to go suck your Mom is apparently less clumsy.
I would love to tell Katie Hopkins "I told you so!" This doesn't work with women though. "What does that even mean?!"
I really like this next ABBA song and the whole Greatest Hits album, with only one song a bit too sappy to be played in front of people without embarrassment - Nina, Pretty Ballerina. This band put together a number of hits albums. This is the one with one couple kissing on the park bench, while the other 2 band members, on the back, don't seem to be getting along. Originally, the song was from the March 1973-released album Ring, Ring (Good title song too!) It was originally sung in German, but released later in English in English speaking countries like
Now, in this duet, the girl singer is pretty sad. It's like this:
Day is dawning and I must go.Bjorn and Bennie wrote the song. The male part of the duet is by Bjorn, and the female part is both of the girls. Yeah, the song's #SAD, but not as #SAD as the modern lyrics would have it, something about getting raped twice this week and nearly blown to smithereens by a hand grenade... uhhhh, so anyway, enjoy the old European world of a half century ago, even if only in your head....
You're asleep but still I'm sure, you'll know
why it had to end this way.
You and I had a groovy time,
but I told you somewhere down the line
you would have to find me gone
I just have to move along...
* No, never heard of her before.
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Riot Season '25: Again, brought to you by the ctrl-left
Posted On: Monday - June 9th 2025 8:20PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Trump Race/Genetics ctrl-left
... more of our usual
Peak Stupidity can't cover all the news or present a continually updating set of headlines like GateWay Pundit**. The anti-criminal-detention riots going on in Los Angeles is THE big story, I suppose, so we should discuss it a bit, especially since we've got a lot of immigration stories to present this week.
The ctrl-left is always up for causing mayhem for the purpose of plain destruction of society in general, but if they can put pressure on and distract President Trump and rile up their voters against him, that's an additional good reason. The combination BLM/antifa riots allegedly on behalf of some worthless Black! reprobate 5 years ago were a challenge to the Trump-45 Administration. He could have called out the Guard then and been called a tyrant, or not and let billions of destruction happen and distraction of any strategy Trump may have had then (not much)
It was a lose/lose for Trump, as America still had a high level of Black! worship in "us". That the chosen cause for the riots happened in Minneapolis, a city of formerly (we hope!) suicidally nice White people helped keep the excuse alive... all over the world even.
The whole '20 SOPP (Summer Of Peacful Protests) worked out pretty well for the Commie ctrl-left and Globalists behind the scenes in all respects. (Well, other than those 3 bastards getting expertly shot by young hero Kyle Rittenhouse, that is.) This time, I don't think this will be the case. Let me bring up 3 reasons, and there are probably more:
1) Los Angeles is not Minneapolis. In this case, diversity might really be a strength, as perverse and stupid that normally sounds. Southern Cal has got to be majority Hispanic, but there are dozens of big groups of other ethnicities. You name it - I can't, but say, Chinese, Black Africans*** Laotians, Armenians, I don't know, places you've never heard of probably have enough people in LA to have their own ethnic ski clubs! These people might even be composed of quite a few illegal immigrants, but they don't necessarily cotton to these cholos and their Mexican flags out there... and the destruction. (Think rooftop Koreans.)
Plenty of Hispanics there, even the many or most(?) who ARE illegal are not the ungrateful America-haters that you see out in the streets. Most want to have a peaceful family life and make money. This is not to say they they too shouldn't be sent home too.
Moreover, these people aren't suckers for sob stories about poor, poor would-be valedictorians, like White people are. The sob stories don't work with them, not unless it's their own tribe there in ICE detention, awaiting deportation.
2) Many stupid Americans fell for the poor Black! man with the breathing difficulties story. The video of what really happened - there's a whole movie out there, for cryin' out loud - but the useful idiots of the ctrl-left did not want to learn. They were happy to have a cause, never mind the truth. Poor, poor, Black! people...
This time, the ctrl-left tried running with an even more worthless and violent man - and yes, that IS possible - than George Floyd with the TdA gang member that they wanted to have brought back from a Salvadoran prison. I mean, yeah, George Floyd stuck a gun in a pregnant woman's belly one time and passed around fake bills, and may never have had a real job, but then you want us to all rally around a foreign alien rapist and murderer this time? That was asking a lot of the public. So, they've switched to rallying around foreigners detained and slated for deportation. They've got one more obvious reason to make this their cause, as we'll discuss in the immigration posts.
Unfortunately for the ctrl-left. Americans are strongly against being replaced by foreigners. It doesn't help when the riots involve the flying of foreign flags - it makes the people look like invaders or something... not a good look.
3) Trump-47 is not Trump-45. He's learned a lot from last time around, his mistakes in not putting down the Commie-instigated rioting being one of them. I think most Americans would like to see him crack some heads this time. Whatever the legalities are, we've played by the rules as the ctrl-left doesn't, holding thousands of Political Prisoners for years and trying to hound and ruin their opponents with lawfare and then trying to kill them.
Make no mistake - and hopefully I haven't here ;-}, there are evil nefarious people behind this rioting that don't really care about those specific illegal aliens in the ICE house. It's about societal destruction for them, working behind the scenes... very Commie-ish ... as it was 5 years ago and also 60. We'll get to that in another post.
* After so many threats to cut this measly amount of the Feral Budget, that given to NPR and ETV, will not even Trump-47 rid us of the turbulent propagandists?
** I actually find most of the material there of interest but just don't like the style of presentation.
*** Yes, there are lots of them straight outta Africa now - see our posts Coming to America - Part 1 and - Part 2. Steve Sailer mentioned this in his Tucker Carlson interview.
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Irony: Big Gov California politician will learn the difficulty of fighting Big Gov.
Posted On: Saturday - June 7th 2025 9:25PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders California Trump US Feral Government ctrl-left Socialism/Communism Taxes
Gateway Pundit had the headline shown above, so I couldn't resist their post. President Trump is attempting to withhold Federal funding for California Universities because they are still pushing the transgender business, in defiance of Presidential E.O.s.
Now there's a whole can of worms I gotta open. E.O.'s shouldn't be a thing because the President isn't a King. The Legislative Branch spends the money too, right? Then, these programs - funding of State universities - are unConstitutikonal to begin with. Welllll, but since the programs ARE in place, and the President administers them, if he decides the funding of BLT-G++ isn't part of Congress' intention, this administrating can go along the lines of "Cut that out, or the money stops!"
Yet California House Speaker Robert Rivas wants the American-taxpayer-funded California genderbender programs to continue, and he thinks California should withhold money from the Feds in retaliation for any cuts in university support by Trump. There's some logic to it... the kind one sees out of toddlers having temper tantrums. "I want it! I want that money! It's mine!"
If he is serious about this, Cal Speaker Rivas will run into what I see at the #1 evil out of 5 listed of the US Income Tax. In an old post of ours of the Morning Constitutional series - Part 3 on Amendment XVI, we discussed 5 evils of the income tax, though some bright commenter might have some others we've forgotten.
That #1 evil is described as "The FLOW of the money". Here's our explanation of the problem, and you can just substitute California for our randomly-picked Arkansas:
With the income tax, if you picture a scenario in which the people or State government want to fight the Feds, how will that work? The money already flows directly from paychecks or checks for money still "owed" of individuals, to the Feds. It is doled back out to the States and people in massive amounts in various ways.I am pretty sure that this piece-o'-work Rivas is a strong supporter of soaking the rich... well, OK, Middle Class using the Feral Income Tax system. California itself has a pretty impressive version of its own. From the GP post:
Got a disagreement with the Feds, Arkansas? Tough shit. Do you want that highway money, that welfare money, those business incentives? Better get your mind right, son. "Yeah, well, we'll withhold OUR money. Uhh, we'll get everyone in Arkansas to get his employer to stop the withholding and then assure them that we will fight for them in IRS Federal tax court, and then ... OK, OK, how high, Sir?!!"
Upon reading this [A statement from the Whitehouse about "not funding the demise of our country"], the speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert Rivas, erupted in anger and threatened various responses, including withholding federal taxes from the federal government.Did you ever think about how that could even happen, Senor Rivas? You Big Government types set this system up over the last century and a decade. The implementation of periodic withholding, back during WWII, took away the last good options. Seriously, whaddya' gonna do?
“This is unconstitutional and vindictive,” Rivas wrote on BlueSky. “We’re the nation’s economic engine and the largest donor state, and deserve our fair share.”
“I’ll use every legal and constitutional tool available to defend CA — we must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.”
Irony, hypocrisy, I'm too tired to figure out what this really is, but I had another example that was supposed to be in this post. That'll come Monday, and it'll fit in great with another immigration-invasion week, which will have lots of good, yes, GOOD news. Stayed tuned, Peakers. Have a happy Sunday!
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Roots ZeroHedge on Gold Confiscation 2.0
Posted On: Friday - June 6th 2025 1:01PM MST
In Topics: Commies Websites US Police State Preppers and Prepping Economics US Feral Government The Future
I've written before that ZeroHedge was my favorite web site back in '10 -'12. Then, I just realized, I'd used the phrasing "Roots ZeroHedge" before too, this year even in the post Roots ZeroHedge post explains the Rock & Hard Place thing. (I guess that's why it came to mind.)
I especially enjoy the words of the comments on ZeroHedge. There are still a handful whose names/avatars I remember from back when, but most of these people may be the next generation, having been toddlers when their Dads were pecking away, explaining to Mom, "I'll be at the table in a minute - there's someone whose wrong on the internet!"
ZeroHedge has plenty of dud posts these days, since they've branched out, but The Next Gold Confiscation: What It Could Look Like... And How To Avoid It reminded me of the olde days. I learned a lot back then, and the way things are looking, all that great discussion in the comments* may pay off later than I'd thought then, but sooner than I'd like it to now. (I got to get me a side-scanner sonar first... or something.)
Yeah, that Socialist, Commie-loving bastard, or was it Communist, Socialist-loving bastard, made that move to ATTEMPT to confiscate gold from Americans 92 years ago in order to enable the Feral Gov't to create and spend more money. I say attempt, because, per ZH comments and my own thoughts written here before, I doubt they got most of it.
I've written about the many news stories I'd read about in the 1980's and earlier about "100 ounces of gold found in walls of old farmhouse", or the floorboards, or out in the yard, whatever. The government couldn't easily find the stuff, where you bought it, who you bought it from, etc. 1933, '34, it was a different time, you understand ... [/Old black man reminiscence] Additionally, were I the nephew that inherited that old rusted-tin-roofed farmhouse on the 20 acres, and I was the one who pulled apart the rotting floorboards, well it wouldn't have been no news story, I can tell you.** There was probably a lot of that.
Well, this post by one Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, in this decade-and-a-half later ZH article since the time this was common there, engendered lots of discussion in the comments that brought me that far back. I seem to remember that the posts were mostly by "Tyler Durden" himself (or their selves) back in the day, but I recall they made more sense. Normally comments are better than the articles/posts themselves on most (MOST, not ALL!) websites, and here in the year '25, well, yeah, they rip Mr. Giambruno a new one from the get-go. See, his solution for those worried about the Feral Gov't looking for, finding, and taking one's precious metals, aka, real money is:
How to Protect YourselfYeah, own some paper that says you own gold, paper that the Government can nullify a lot easier than it can send enough Feral agents over to your
The good news? There are practical steps you can take to avoid this kind of expropriation.
Sure, you could renounce your US citizenship. But let’s be honest—that’s a drastic move and not realistic for most people.
Thankfully, there’s a far more practical solution. You can do it right from your living room.
Own gold in a Roth IRA.
Because the government will not tax the Roth IRA. 🤣 Anyway, America is broke, most people do not own gold, and those that do, have tragically lost it in boating accidents.
The tragic boating accident theme is classic olde timey ZeroHedge.
Well, I could read the comments for hours, so let me just insert a pair of comments that bring me back to the fun of ZeroHedge of yesteryear.
Besnook:
I have dementia. I don't know if I own gold and have no idea where I put it if I did.Jaycurve:
What are you talkin about officer…those police came and took it yesterday….well tarnation you tellin me those fellas weren’t police officers…you better get after em real fast…yeah they looked just like you two fellas.There's plenty of great prepper-style discussion and other "news you can use".
There's so much lower-hanging fruit that the Feral Gov't can steal that I'm not sure they wouldn't have awakened too many people by the time they went for the physical PMs. It was ZeroHedge back then where I read - in comments, I'm sure - about a possibility that they first may not quite steal anything but may make more rules about "Yeah, it's a minor accounting thing, but this obscure law just requires one to keep half his 401(k) in T-bonds. No big deal. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it." Then, in general it's a whole lot easier for them to steal the
At the end of the day, the great ZeroHedge commenters will have one last rallying cry, "Gold, bitchez!!" Yes, that classic comment can be found under this post, but it sure took 'em a while.
* I have never been signed up to comment, then or now. I can IMAGINE how much time I'd have spent. I don't think I'd have been employed today, honestly!
** Remember the story of the California couple that found, not just 100's of gold coins, but some of great numismatic value, on their property? What... just why... how could you even IMAGINE it'd be a good idea to inform the Communist Government of California about this? If you're that naive, you don't DESERVE that money. Did you take yourself for the next Ronald Reagan, trusting the Congress on the enforcement side of the Amnesty bill?
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Blundering toward Defcon 5?
Posted On: Thursday - June 5th 2025 10:10PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Trump The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Peak Stupidity has reported on almost nothing and personally not kept up with the Ukraine/Russia war since early on. Our opinion is that the America Government Neocons should not have instigated it 11 years ago, we should not have been involved, and that all having happened, President Trump should keep a promise and get us uninvolved.
Donald Trump's ego has had him wanting to be the peacemaker that put the whole world at peace. Take the Middle East, please! Come on! American Presidents have been trying to "solve" the problems there since, in my own memory, Jimmy Carter. He thought he had it licked. That was almost a half century ago.
Then, Jimmy Carter and the rest of them with the hubris to think they could settle things did not write The Art of the Deal. Trump has fancied himself a great dealmaker in his businesses - perhaps he was - and figured he could do some great deals as President. Really, as far as the Bully Pulpit and international diplomacy goes, that's what you want, a good dealmaker. I was pretty impressed myself seeing Trump in action, almost as if in a reality TV show, during that Zelensky press conference 3 months back.
The American President still has some pull, especially regarding wars that America pours money into. However, obviously Trump's dealmaking on the Ukraine/Russia, with all that pull he has, has gone off the rails. Peak Stupidity has gotten interested at this point because the drone attack on those Russian nuclear bombers* has even us pretty worried about ensuing escalation.
A friend sent me a short video with some discussion of this attack on the latest (can't find it on yt right now) podcast by Irishman George Galloway, who advertises his videos as MOATS, Mother Of All Talkshows. One major point his discussion hinges on is that the Ukraine could not have carried out these attacks without help from American satellites for guidance. I don't know enough to dispute this. Assuming this, Mr. Galloway summed things up pretty simply:
If President Trump actually knew about this attack beforehand, he is pretty heavily on the side of The Ukraine at this point. One couldn't expect any more diplomacy out of Vladimir Putin and Russia. Also, it'd make Trump a liar (and no longer just a bragging bullshitter). If President Trump didn't know, then he is not really in charge as Commander-in-Chief, seeing as NeoCon Senators Graham and Blumenthal and others must have helped make this attack successful behind the President's back. Whatever diplomatic efforts he's made will be meaningless if Trump's not in a position to guarantee what promises come out of his mouth.
What would one expect the Russians to do at this point? Do these NeoCons really believe we're (via the Ukraine) going to destroy this major power without any pain? By pain, I mean some real destruction. How reckless are these NeoCons? Who do they really work for?
We will see what kind of retaliation will ensue. With a significant part (40%?) of their nuclear bomber fleet destroyed, perhaps the Russians will figure they might as well use the rest of them.
With the benefit of hindsight, historians have often wondered how Europe could have blundered into the huge waste of men's lives that was World War I. Couldn't have it been prevented easily enough?
Regarding the Cold War, even in hindsight, it's not easy to figure how that 40 year stand-off in Europe and in proxy locations on other continents could have been avoided. Communists of the 2nd World** were not going to stop trying to corrupt and convert one country after another, and the non-Communist Free (1st) World worked to contain it. That there were thousand of ballistic missiles, sub-based missiles and on-alert bombers that could be used in anger very quickly made this period a time of general worry. Something really bad could happen at any time, if someone slipped up.
Thanks to President Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, the old Pope Paul II from Poland, and millions of American military men, engineers, and technicians, the Cold War was put to an end just over 35 years ago. The Soviet Union Russkies became simply Russians again. The threat of nuclear war was drastically reduced.
What has been done since then? Instead of enjoying the "peace dividend" and our fleeting Sole Superpower status, America has slowly boxed non-Communist Russia into a corner with NATO, an organization that was obsolete as soon as the Cold War ended. Now, we've got crazy NeoCons recklessly bent on destruction of Russia, seemingly not caring that Russia is still a heavily nuclear-armed nation.
You thought that Doomsday Clock and Defcon stuff is only something from old movies and the memories of older Americans? It can come back. To think that these blundering moves toward another Defcon 5, happening in front of our eyes, can be seen as stupidity even in foresight!
During these Cold War high Defcon level times, at least you figured smart people would de-escalate things. Now, where are all the smart people? I don't see ANY smart people involved.
Peak Stupidity may be the least of our worries.
Good night. Sleep tight.
* They've been exposed due to a treaty with the US to, yeah, prevent nuclear war with more visibility.
** That term wasn't used much, but it was implied that the Communist Bloc - and China - were the 2nd World, to explain why the 3rd World was called that.
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Roger Devlin on the White Fertility Destruction wrought by Feminism
Posted On: Tuesday - June 3rd 2025 7:19PM MST
In Topics: Feminism The Future
I came across the fantastic 36 minute F. Roger Devlin talk below somewhat serendipitously. I'd read Jared Taylor's enthusiastic report from the 4th Awakening conference, this one held this past late May in Helsinki, Finland. This pro-White, anti-Population Replacement Programme conference had the theme, this time, of "The rising tide of color".
There are 5 videos of the speakers embedded* in Mr. Taylor's post, out of the 7 he discussed. I want to later watch 3 more, including the talk by Mr. Taylor himself.
Mr. Devlin had not known of the theme, but anything related to both the PPR and reduced White fertility fits right in. The only thing is, Mr. Devlin used Finland as an example - it both being a place where the PPR is not yet fully in progress AND, well, that's where the conference was - to give a talk on his explanation for low fertility without the factor of high immigration. He DID discuss the immigration issue very briefly, but I ask the potential viewer to remember that this first 3 minutes (including his intro.) is not why I called the talk fantastic. It was the discussion of the evil of Feminism.
Before, I go on, it's only been a year since our last post, but if I ever get back to the series on "The Depopulocalypse", remember, I'm not against it. There's just the one big caveat I've got. The other posts were Part 1 - - Part 2, and an Anecdotal Interlude. Those posts were put up Sept. 8th, Oct. 3rd, and Nov 16th of '23, respectively. Yikes! I think I've lost a few readers there.
However, caveat NOT aside, as Mr. Devlin notes in his intro., he explains in the rest of the talk that the culprit responsible for low White fertility is Feminism. He's quite clear about this. I see nothing to argue with him on it either. Without much ado, only a few remarks, I'll let the reader see if he agrees that F. Roger Devlin is right on the money.
His explanation hinges on the mismatch between men and women, as Feminism has obscured their traditional roles, the ones that made the big Father-supported decent-sized nuclear family doable and a source of satisfaction all around. You've read of this from Steve Sailer and others, I'm sure: Ironically, all those women making the big bucks now find it harder than ever to obtain traditional female happiness, as their nature** has them desirous of provider men, meaning those making more than they do. How in the heck is THAT supposed to work? This is extremely dysgenic, even if we were to have higher fertility. (Should we, under these conditions? It's all part of the same problem though...)
I had not ever heard of a "Family Wage", as that's how long it's been since the term's been used. As a Libertarian, I would not like to see anything mandated, as much as it might help reverse things. However, it didn't have to be, back in the time when people understood a "family wage" was something good, and laws weren't necessary. That didn't work after the ctrl-left pushed and pushed Feminism - there were multiple waves, see?
OK, I hope you enjoy this. I'll probably watch it again soon.
* All these videos, including Mr. Devlin's talk, are on the Odysee site. I got somewhat lucky figuring out how to embed this one, and from now on, any Odysee hosted videos, or I sure hope so.
** I almost forgot since yesterday - Mr. Devlin is clear that the White Euro nature and sex-differing instincts are different from that of, say, Africans.
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New York Times Graphical Stupidity... or, yeaaaahh, evil
Posted On: Tuesday - June 3rd 2025 10:59AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Pundits Media Stupidity Science
Note: You must say that "yeaaaahh" in your head in Steve Sailer's interview voice. It works better that way.
Peak Stupidity and probably most readers here would have read or heard from Semi-Deplorable pundit Steve Sailer on his revelations of the George Floyd Martyrdumb having resulting in lots more Black! deaths than the averages before that fatal date with Fentanyl Dustiny.*
These deaths have been in the form of more black-on-black murders and more fatal car wrecks. We, based on the NOTICING by Steve Sailer, can determine that both were due to the same factor, the lack of police presence. The cops spent even MOAR time at the doughnut shops. Well, your Peak Stupidity lead blogger is no sycophant and big supporter of the "men in blue". (Note the lack of a blue & black stripes emblem up top.) Too large a share of the police are about the same level of crooked as George Floyd was, yet, black men seem to act worse without a strong police presence. That's yet another observation by Mr. Sailer that I can confirm.
Anyway, I've heard about this and seen the graphs enough times now. This post is about graphs themselves more than the data and revelations by Mr. Sailer. The NY Times has gotten into the Black! Death Increase story and pretty much butchered it due to erroneous/misleading graphs.**
See, Steve Sailer really hates it, and rightly so, when the Lyin' Press he reads come out with stories that he's already looked into in depth and butcher them. The question he and his commenters (and the old REAL Deplorables in his Unz Review iSteve Open Threads) have is do the NY Times writers incompetently "butcher" these graphs or is it malice. I'd put it as stupidity v evil, a contest of competing factors that we witness often.
Let me get to the graphs, because in iSteve's posts about it, I think there's something regarding the graphing technique that neither he nor any commenter has gotten straight. The first post (both hankfully not paywalled) was Happy 5th Anniversary of the Racial Reckoning. He pointed out stupidity/evil of this misleading graph:
His follow up post, written after he wrote a letter to the "Newspaper of Record" corrections dept. (the writer or editor, I guess), is about their attempt at a correction. That was to done I guess to both save being eviscerated even more on AntiSocial Media and placate iSteve. He's spent a lot of time on this and gotten it right. I'd be rightly pissed and doggedly get on these liars or incompetents. He wrote The NYT Corrected Its Ludicrous George Floyd Homicide Graph ..., but nobody is happy with the correction. They just took out the freaking vertical George Floyd Martyrdumb line to show that "We dunno. Shit's gotten bad." (Graphical displays of burrito coverings inventory are hopefully forthcoming.) I'm not even going to show this one. Just picture the above without the Floyd line and label.
Mr. Sailer assumes incompetence, but he's a nice guy. He writes out of (in, actually) a closet and has a nice dog. About the initial NYT graph, he wrote:
The usually competent graph designers at the NYT placed the dashed vertical line indicating Floyd’s death after the 29% increase in homicides in 2020, when the large majority of the explosion in murders followed the cultural revolution of May 25, 2020 as the cops retreated to the donut shop.(I'll forgive the lazy-assed spelling of doughnuts just this once.)
Mr. Sailer, from his 2nd post, after the "correction" (he also pasted in his nice, as usual, letter to the Editor):
Your graphic artist made the obvious mistake of creating a line graph that attributes all homicides of 2020 to January 1, 2020, so the vertical dashed line for Floyd's death follows rather than precedes the big surge.A " cosmetically improved version" of his much more revealing ~ weekly data with bi-monthly (every-8-weekly) tic marks - graph is this:
In contrast, here's my graph of weekly CDC mortality data of black homicide and motor vehicle deaths from the beginning of 2018 to mid-November 2024 (the CDC imposes a 6 month lag on reporting murders and car crashes to let coroners have time to do their work).
OK, look, I've written this before. It's 1/4 of a CENTURY into the 3rd Millennium now. Can we quit writing, and especially SAYING "twenty twenty x" yet?! His labels on his x-axis would be a little cleaner without extra characters. [/micro-rant]
Here's the problem in the first place. The data of deaths compiled by the NY Times are for deaths at end-of-year. I can see where you would want a cleaner graph, only yearly than Mr. Sailer's one. Here's where the 2nd stupidity v evil question comes in. (I'll get to the 1st last.) Did they deliberately go with yearly data to obscure the important point of Steve Sailer's? More importantly, did they make the graph with end-of-year tic marks WITHOUT labels purposefully to "fact check" any correlation that Mr. Sailer made? Was that stupidity (incompetence) or evil (lying)?
I read plenty of comments by people generally seeing the problem. The Floyd Martyrdumb happened on May 25th of '20, 40% of the way through that leap-year. (Yeah, to get more accurate.) That's where the vertical line is, so "What's the problem again?" - NY Times writers. Yeah, but the deaths for all of '20 are at the '20 tic mark, which most people would figure is the start of the year. This is the point that nobody seems to have made well... till now.*** It's not just about the resolution of the time-scale.
Obviously, Mr. Sailer's graph fixes the problem. If you want to be truthful, you just paste that in. However, and I'm being very generous to the NYT here, if you want that cleaner, simpler graphs, you can either do this:
Or this:
I cropped out both the main title**** and the source information from these 2. The latter would be the same, of course, but the big main title might have to change, which is a real problem...
I like the 2nd one better. With my 1st, I can see readers arguing (no, not you guys, NTY readers), "No, he died a year later. You got it wrong." No, that's the end of '19, see? May of '20 is after that, 40% of the way to the end of '20.
On the 2nd, there'd be no such argument. I suppose one might argue "The deaths for '20 are way higher!" No, but that the start of '20. See the '21 tic mark and data points? They reflect the data for the year '20, which is the start of '21, is it not?
Or, they don't care and are just evil liars. Let me get to that 1st point of asking the question, stupidity (incompetence) v evil (lying)?
From the very beginnning could the NYT writers not have made some effort to search for (or on X – I don’t partake, so would they very obviously have heard of iSteve?) the info that Mr. Sailer has written and spoken about HUNDREDS of times? Could the writers have possibly tried and missed getting his information? There’s censorship by the “fact check” sites, in which the true stuff is relegated to page 8 of search results, but really, could they not have easily found the weekly graphs?
If the NTY purposely ignored Steve Sailer and just made their own graphs anyway, I’d call that evil already from the get-go. After that, one could lie with graphs or else just let incompetence take the ball from there.
PS: As commenter Ralph L. noted on TUR, a bar graph would be best for this data, which is just yearly totals. However, then you can't make the point about the Floyd mark very easily. (Put a line between the '19 and '20 bars, I guess...)
* Does it come in dust form, I mean if you like it that way? I dunno... I'm tryin' to make a pun here so cut me some slack.
** In this case, they didn't get into the car wrecks, but displayed police shootings, as that was what their narrative was apparently about. (I don't read the NYT, with VERY rare exceptions. THIS is why.)
*** That's just my opinion - maybe I didn't get the gist of some of the commenters' writing. There will be more comments too, so ...
*** I like that method, having a Main title and then a sub-title that states something about the numbers being measured. In this way, you don't need a label for the vertical axis.
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[UPDATED 06/03 evening:] Fixed typo (40%, not 49% in one place, noted that the 2nd curve was police killings by adding (what is now) the 2nd footnote. Also, iSteve's data is weekly, but just the tic marks are every-8-weekly. Finally, I noted that a bar graph is best for data that is only good to the year, as one can't assume anything from the graph shape between years.
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The Kovid Kids
Posted On: Monday - June 2nd 2025 6:49PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
This post is sort of timely. I don't write that due to our many dozens of posts about all types of Kung Flu PanicFest madness having come out fast and furious 5 years ago. It happens that I wrote a comment under the very last post in reply to Adam Smith with an anecdote (of mine) about not taking a doctor's worries about my boy's slightly late speech development seriously. Then, I had a conversation with a lady who told me that her boy was one of the Kovid Kids. She was referring to speech development problems.
Our full disclosure policy says I should add that this kid has some other minor problem with his tongue (longer on one side than the other). I dunno. However, she brought up the problem of speech development in "the Kovid Kids". At 6 y/o now, he is considered a Kovid Kid.
What? I'd never before heard of the term. However, 5 years ago Peak Stupidity posted discussion about possible problems for children we might see in the future due to the ubiquitous face-masking.* Oops, it's the future now. My post was one of a 12-parter: Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 6.
If you recognize this and the next picture - they're in reverse order from the original post - you have a great memory. The Kung Flu's been bery bery good to you. Remember the times - parents, well, the Kung Flu Kompliant ones - would wear face masks while pushing their little ones in the baby carriage. I don't want to remember if they put any masks on the babies - toddlers had 'em. Here's what I wrote then, 4.8 years back:
Can you imagine what the little ones are thinking, though? If you are a 2 y/o toddler, you may have solid memories only going back 1/2 a year or so. You will think this is the way the world has always been. Adults don't show their noses and mouths in public, in the same way that they don't show their pee-pee's and ass-cracks... OK, well, some of them. If this goes on for, well what will it be, another year, two(?), what kind of impression of the world will this be?I didn't think about speech development. Look, if they pay me to do Developmental Psychology here, I'll do Developmental Psychology here, going forward. The thought that babies may learn how to talk by reading lips is an interesting one though.
The kid on the right below might have an obsession with not showing his face when he grows up. He may have the same dreams about leaving his face mask at home, you know, like those dreams where you go to the office and realize you forgot to put your pants and underwear on. (Usually it's just the pants, unless it's one of THOSE dreams... with Ivanka working in the same cube as me ... Jared is my reporting manager with his web cam... we've all probably had this one ...)
First, one must get over the idea that when children are too young to talk, it's because they wouldn't know what to say. I really thought that until some examples taught me otherwise. No, they might know perfectly well what words they want to say by some age, but they cannot get their lips, mouth, and throat to make said words.
Moving on from that, I'd figured that children just try all different things with their lips/mouths/throats until they get closer and closer to the sound they want to make. That's trial and error learning. This idea about their learning how to make sounds by reading the lips of others speaking to them is pretty cool. I don't know if it's right - they don't even pay me to go on the internet and ...
OK, fine. I've found lots of blurbs based on the search "children learning to speak by lip reading". One of them is Science! News, but not knowing the political aspirations of that publications, I went to Speech Buddy to read this interesting article. It refers to a study by one David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic U. (Nice spot!) Keep in mind here, English is all the children's family language - fancy that! - as they watch videos of women speaking to them in English and Spanish:
When the speaker used English, the four-month-olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The six-month-olds looked at the eyes and the mouth equally. Interestingly, the eight and 10-month-olds studied mostly the mouth while the 12-month-olds, started shifting their attention back towards the speaker’s eyes.How they learn to roll those "r"s is beyond me!
However, when the babies heard Spanish, researchers saw that the 12-month-olds studied the mouth longer- similar to the younger babies. These children struggled to interpret the information and needed the extra clues to make sense of the unfamiliar sounds.
OK, I looked at some more articles, but others also mention the same study from '12 or so, which made this learning-to-speak-by-lip-reading concept a new one only 13 years ago. Really? I'm amazed, because this sounds like the kind of theory that would be very fun and interesting to develop experiments for. Wait, someone did one in '20 too - I almost forgot. They called it the Kung Flu Infotainment PanicFest... well, some of us called it that.
This masking deal was perhaps an inadvertent experiment on speech development, as the real experiment was on compliance with Totalitarianism. The experiment on the children's development is not one I'd think most parents would have voluntarily signed up for, were it advertised by the local university Psyche Dept. "Your kid will spend his first couple of years in a somewhat mother-alienated environment. There will be complimentary Chic-Fil-A gift cards!"
Yet parents all over the place decided they must be part of this experiment, that decision itself being part of an experiment ... very meta. Now there are Kovid Kids, whose speech development has been delayed.
I'm not just basing this post on the experiments mentioned and the one Mom's experience. From My Wellness Hub, well, that's what I came upon, COVID-19’s Silent Impact: Speech Delays in Children:
A Startling Rise in Speech DelaysHere are the factors to which the problems are attributed:
The pandemic has reshaped the landscape of childhood development in ways we’re only beginning to understand. For many little ones, their first words, an eagerly awaited milestone, have been delayed. The data speaks volumes about this emerging challenge. According to the Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center, a notable shift occurred during the pandemic. In pre-pandemic times, they reported a 20% failure rate in speech evaluations among children. However, in the heart of the pandemic, this rate alarmingly rose to 50%, with even higher rates in areas of greater economic challenges.
1) Reduced Social Interaction
2) The Digital Shift: Increased Screen Time
3) (absence of) Outdoor Activities
4) Mask-Wearing and Speech Development
From discussion of (4):
Lastly, the widespread use of masks, while crucial for health and safety, has had unintended consequences for speech development. Masks can muffle sounds and hide facial expressions, both essential cues in learning language and communication. For young children, seeing the movement of lips and facial expressions is a critical part of understanding speech and language.Yeah, understanding these factors... lots of us intuitively understood these factors 5 years ago, during the PanicFest! We were told to shut up and put a mask on.
Understanding these factors is essential in addressing the developmental needs of our children during these challenging times.
Strategies for Parents and CaregiversYou want a conversation? You can't handle a conversation! We tried to tell you that you were panicking and to calm the hell down. We asked you to have perspective and note that no commandeered Fed-Ex vans were driving around calling out on a P/A "Bring out yer dead!" We pointed out that no kids from the school were hospitalized or we'd have all heard about it and kept our kids home, attendance policy be damned. We listened to your worries and found you steeped in stupidity and overly compliant under Totalitarianism.
Embrace the Power of Conversation ...
We
PS: It sounds like the boy in question is a very bright kid and will do fine.
* We had a whole 5-part series called March Mask Madness, but the post in question here wasn't one of those.
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What were once Las Vegas card counters are now Autists
Posted On: Saturday - May 31st 2025 11:10PM MST
In Topics: Music TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness Movies Educational Stupidity Healthcare Stupidity
... and apparently, that's not legal even though it's perfectly within the rules of the game, because the House must come out ahead, and you must lose!
I guess we can keep going with this title style forev..[Just no! - Ed.] No, seriously as opposed to "ADHD victims" we can be sure there ARE actually Autistic men. (OK, women too, but the traditional diagnoses of this mental problem for real skew 4:1 male:femaie.*)
Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man - "Rain Man" is how the autistic Charlie Babbitt remembers his brother Raymond**, played by Tom Cruise - portrays an example of a serious case. It's just a movie, but this mental condition is real and can be bad enough such that the (dare I say) patient cannot live a normal life and it's a big burden on the parents. I highly recommend this 1988 movie just for entertainment and heart-string-pulling value.
I've told this anecdote before: There was a contest at a Halloween party in which one could get a jar or 2 of Candy Corn for coming closest to guessing the number of pieces in each of the 2 jars. (Candy Corn is great stuff! It's REAL corn you know ... well, High Fructose Corn Syrup, so yeah, right?.) I told my then 6 y/o son to pick round numbers (to the nearest 5), just to teach him the difference between precision and accuracy. He picked 125 and 140 - something like that - and got them BOTH RIGHT ON THE MONEY! That bit of luck, and it WAS, thankfully, because one would know if his child's got mental problems like REAL autism, called for some Rain Man toothpick and Las Vegas card-counting jokes, of course.
In the ex-iSteve threads on The Unz Review, there was some discussion on the changes in rates of Autism diagnoses. The increase has been phenomenal or ridiculous, depending on how you explain it. Let's look back.
If you go back too far, you'll get muddled definitions of Autism, often including other serious mental problems. However, by the mid 1960s what exactly IS autistic was being sorted out. Per this website***:
Leading up to the creation of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, in 1965 psychologist Victor Lotter developed a list of behavioral statements for identifying and diagnosing autism. Teachers of 76,388 children between the ages of 8 and 10 attending schools in the Middlesex area completed the test. Children identified by teachers were then further assessed to confirm their autism.A nice chart from the times when Psychiatrists would not mince words follows. Numbers of autists were estimated:
Lotter believed this was sufficient data to diagnose autism, which was considered a behavioral condition at the time. He noted the initial prevalence of autism within a population of 4.5 in 10,000.(That's 1 in ~2,200 for our readers in del Boca Vista. Also, the use of the term "behavioral condition" is interesting.). They hadn't separated out "childhood schizophrenia" from autism until 1980 per this interesting reading, but then this schizophrenia, thankfully, must have been low, as the numbers of autistic kids did not go down. Autism was a "Communication Disorder" in the '70s and became a "Pervasive Developmental Disorder" by the next decades. The numbers then like this:
The new understanding of autism and the neurodevelopmental aspects of the disorder expanded the diagnostic criteria. Now, ‘Impairments of reciprocal social interaction’ were reported to occur in 21.2 of every 10,000 children in the area studied, of whom 4.9 presented with a history of ‘typical autism.’I detect some mission creep already in those early 1980s. I'd almost forgotten about this one:
In 1981, she [Either one of Psychiatrists Lorna Wing or Judith Gould - the writer is far from an autist here - just careless.] coined the term ‘Asperger’s syndrome’ after reclaiming a 1944 article on autism by Hans Asperger.We'll get back to that. OK 1 in 2,000 or so children being autistic is believable. I was around in the 1980s and even prior. I didn't know anyone in the whole school who was autistic, but then, they may still have been at separate schools, and this would have meant only been a handful or two or three would live in the area by probabilities. DIMS? (Does It Make Sense?). Yes.
If you search for numbers for the modern day, you'll see blurbs that worry that the 1 in 35 autism occurrence ratio of 5 years ago has gone up even higher, to 1 in 30! This is very obviously garbage. Has autism increased by a factor of 60 over 45 years? DIMS? No.
To digress only slightly here, Peak Stupidity has been dead-set against the mandatory Kung Flu jab since the beginning of the PanicFest. It was my personal reason that I wasn't worried about the Kung Flu to start with that had me neither caring about nor wanting this "vaccine". Then it was the mandate part - not what you do in any kind of free country, then, the more personal, corporate mandate threats, and finally there was the politics. We (my immediate family and all other family members but one) took a rain man(?) check.
OK, that pun is there for a reason - it's funny. Also, before the whole Kung Flu Infotainment, there already WAS an anti-vax movement. Parents had their various reasons for not wanting vaccinations for their kids. Just the sheer number of them required (NOT! Don't let them tell you that.) might be a little worrisome to anyone. It's in the many dozens, heck, maybe toward 100! Generally, the biggest worry has been that the vaccines' "medium", if you will, the base material, may cause autism. I will not argue any of that here. It should be enough to say that these vaccines should not be mandatory.
We're talking autism here. If there has been a rise, maybe a big one, of this mental problem due to vaccines, it still did not bring the occurrence ratio of autism to 1 in 30. That's a ludicrous number. That'd be 10 people at the elementary school. No. Way. Now that doesn't meant that this school might not CLAIM that there are 10 kids with autism there... and more with Asperger's ... and more with ADHD... hell, the only normal kid is that one boy on the monkey bars, and he's still a little off, hanging upside down and screaming "I'm a bat! I'm a bat!" (Fond memories, indeed!)
Peak Stupidity discussed the reasons for the high number of "diagnoses" of ADHD and such last time. Teachers don't want to deal with boys with lots of energy. Parents might not like to hear that their kids are not normal, but then the perks for being a victim of "a diseases" are not bad, not bad at all.
In the case of diagnoses of autism, the 1st factor is not present, but the 2nd is. Additionally, I present another factor that applies for ALL of these supposed mental conditions that have someone greatly increased in the population of American kids. What was once personality is now a syndrome.
Seriously autistic people have this focus on detail, sometimes - "autistic savant" is the term - with amazing mental skills at the expense of social skills. Unfortunately, for serious cases, the latter means they really can't function in society. A kid said to have autism these days is a boy who is very focused, maybe, yes, at the expense of some social skills, but so freaking what? That's his personality! Not everyone is a "people person". What "people people" don't understand at all is that not everyone WANTS to be a people person.
So, there you have your kid, or just as likely, that kid in the class you teach, who knows more about glazes for clay than you ever cared about. Maybe he loves the math and you think this is kind of obsessive, as why would anyone like math? (I mean, you barely got through that damn college algebra getting that Masters in Ed, by the skin of your
We're not just talking children here. How about all the adults officially diagnosed as having one of these syndromes, when they are nothing but people with differing personalities? "Doesn't play well with others." Do people who do "play well with others" ever realize that there are people who DON'T WANT to play well or AT ALL with others? Most of them COULD play well with others (something that these others don't get), but they LIKE being by themselves ... a lot! This is not a mental problem. I would conjecture that it's those people who would go crazy spending a whole day by themselves that have mental problems! ... but I won't ... because it's just personality... and Peak Stupidity has an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity here.... [/Michael Scott]
Now, the mission creep of these syndromes involves classifying people as "on the spectrum". "He might seem just pretty rowdy, but you need to know where he falls on the ADHD spectrum" "You say he's just a bit shy, but that means he's somewhere - on the low end, mind you, so don't fret - on the autism spectrum." They've got spectra for everything now - I'm not sure how the BLT-G++ crowd likes the appropriation of their beloved rainbows for mental problems, a totally different thing... no, wait....
There you go: "Your child is just a little over the rainbow... somewhere... way up high..."
Peak Stupidity has discussed this spectrum business before. I would hope anyone who has referred to me as being "on the spectrum" is only talking about the supplements I may need for extra magnesium (can't get enough of that stuff!)
These kids, the ones who are a little different, because personalities do vary, you know, should properly be said to be "on the Flintstones":
Finally, perhaps it's the schoolteachers and the principals (NOT!) those who want all the kids to be equal cogs in the machine, who are OFF the visible spectrum, and that's the problem. Some lie way below the red in the microwave range, frying the brains of all around them. Others are on the other side, in the Ultraviolet, giving off an aura that causes disease but does at least enhance drug experimentation.
There's one part of the spectrum we all need to stay off, and that part goes from ~50 to 200 MHz - the TV band! Peak Stupidity recommends one treatment to help people get off that spectrum. It's called Federal 125 grain NYCLAD™ .38 Hollow-Point. Kill your TV!
OK, look, no, show tunes are not a thing here on Peak Stupidity. (This is not Mark Steyn here.) Yet, the song is in my head now, after all this talk about spectra. From the old classic The Wizard of Oz, it's Judy Garland. The lyrics are very good I just realized.****
This post was nuts! OK, have a happy Sunday, Peakers. Enjoy your place on the spectrum!
* The ratio was bound to change as the total numbers increased greatly due to the factors discussed here.
** ... and, IMDB has this backwards, or, I should say, the unpaid "content providers" do.
*** It's called He's Extraordinary and is a site for "extraordinary people", their way of saying autistic (and maybe for other mental problems). I just don't like the euphemisms. I'm sure this terminology CAN make a parent of an autistic kid feel better until, as always, the general population gets the meaning after a while, and it'll be said with sadness. OTOH, as with the Rain Man in the movie, some of these people ARE extraordinary, and not just extra ordinary.
**** I tend to HATE movie musicals, so I tend to zone out waiting for the story to continue.
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