President is Positive
Posted On: Friday - October 2nd 2020 7:04AM MST
In Topics: Trump Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
... that this Panic-Fest is nothing more than hype and a good part of it is specifically against him personally.
(It really is confusing. That's not a dig at Trump.)
You don't get breaking news like this all the time from Peak Stupidity. By "breaking", we mean that we were reading the usual opinion posts by Steve Sailer and he posted something on it - if he gets obsessed with this, there'll be 2 more a day for a week!
There's no reason TO get obsessed with this though. Mr. Trump has probably been tested daily, or at least weekly, for whatever the test really tests for. (Antibodies?) Now, he tested positive. Hey, I have a number of doctor friends. One of them talked to an Infectious Disease specialist (not a blowhard like Fauci, but a doctor who tries to heal people) about this Kung Flu in April. "Hey, do you know anyone who hasn't had the common cold?" he asked my doctor friend. "Well, it's gonna be like that."
President Trump and the rest of us are going to get some of these virus particles in us, some a little bit, some a lot, some with no idea it ever happened, and some with some problems. Now he's got them. BFD. Does he even have an actual CASE of Corona? I don't know the answer, but I'd advise getting more than 1 if you're an outgoing guy like this and you now have to spend 2 weeks quarantined. (I hope the White House has a pool table or at least Frogger or that Kiss-themed pinball machine.)
Donald Trump is 74 years old. He's a decent bit overweight but not obese by any means. I've not heard of him having some chronic health problems like diabetes or cardiovascular disease. For people 70 and up, I read a number like 94% for a recovery rate. That includes people right on up from there, and it includes people who were in the nursing homes at the wrong time. Maybe for a President Biden, the White House will be a nursing home, but it's not right now.
Additionally, I've read that the President has been pushing, and therefore taking himself to set an example, that hydrochloriquine and zinc and that. There's probably something to that. It shouldn't have had to been up to the President to promote this or that anyway. How about the Surgeon General speaking up?
I forgot to mention that President Trump's wife Melania has the Kung Flu virus in her too. I see that as a good thing, as this means at least relations in the White House bedroom are better than they were doing the Clinton Presidency.*
The political talk may be interesting, but in normal times this would be a minor story.
One more thing: In a REAL Constitutional Republic, something Americans of 100 to 231 years ago would be familiar with, you don't care that awful much if the President is sick or dies. So what? He's administrator of the Executive Branch, per Article II, that's all. With a little delegation, anyone can do that. It's not supposed to be like the Czar of Russia getting sick in 1625, and the successor may or may not be a brutal tyrant.
* Of course, she'll be fine. She just turned 50 and from the rear view at least, seems to be in excellent shape.
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Gucci pre-grass-stained jeans - now on sale for $1,200 a pair!
Posted On: Thursday - October 1st 2020 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Humor Big-Biz Stupidity
... originally $1,400, so I'd jump on it, especially if "it" includes a rich hottie inside.
Now for something lighter. This comes directly from a link supplied by Peak Stupidity commenter Adam Smith* - ‘Peak stupid’: Gucci’s $1,400 ‘eco-friendly’ grass-stained jeans ridiculed on Twitter . See, in Soviet America, you must read Russian news web site for truth (and funnies).
See, now, if I were a tweeter, I could put my 2 cents of ridicule in. About these jeans, how do I know I won't get a Chinese knockoff, with fake grass stains produced on astro-turf? How do I know the stains will really come out when I put them in the wash, like I plan to do for my authentic Gucci ones? (You are supposed to wash them, right?)
Instead, I have to read other people's comments on the Russian Today site, but this one was not half bad!:
* He is not to be confused with the Scottish Economist Adam Smith, except in that they agree completely on economics. Scottish Economist Adam Smith has not been known to comment here.
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The Lyin' Press of 1988
Posted On: Thursday - October 1st 2020 6:31PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 TV, aka Gov't Media Media Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
Unz and occasional Peak Stupidity commenter Mr. Anon posted the clip contained here under a recent John Derbyshire column called "They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses"— the Corruption of Scientific American. (Threads sometimes digress, what can I say?)
I was pretty amazed by the short clip showing a news report critical of 1988 Presidential candidate Joe Biden. They pointed out that he was a liar regarding his performance in college. I won't get into those details because it's all in this one minute clip. Dan Rather was the CBS news anchor at this time, and his face appears, but I really ought to remember who the other newscaster is.
I don't have the date either of the newscast. It was a year earlier, 1987, when Joe Biden had his biggest plagiarism incident, which was not his first. The first was at Syracuse University, the place about which he lied about his scholastic ability, as seen in the video. Plagiarism is lying by omission, so just a milder version of lying I suppose. Business Insider has an article that I wish the general voting public would read to jog it's memories - Flashback: Joe Biden's first presidential run in 1988 cratered amid multiple instances of plagiarism. As Peak Stupidity noted in Courting the "Goldfish" vote, with reference to this very incident, people forget way too easily.
Check out this youtube video about the big plagiarism incident. Mr. Biden took part of his speech directly from a British politician named Neil Kinnock, of the Labor Party there. Yes, "Labour" is spelled differently there, and Mr. Biden was careful to take out all of the very proper English usage for his version.
OK, let me get back to the point of this post. You will notice something really strange about this whole TV news format of 1988. There are actual CBS (that's Mainstream Media before the internet could even check on them) reporters actually calling out lies from a man of the LEFT! That's unheard of today. Today any reports about the man and some lies from his past would be made to cover for the lies.
Would Chris Wallace even think about asking Joe Biden about his plagiarism and lying in one of the 2020 debates? I'd be shocked to hear about that. It's a different world now. Our Lyin' Press has gone full-out Soviet Tass.
It's so refreshing to see something like this old report. I am not saying that there wasn't plenty of slant toward the left from TV news since during Walter Cronkite's time. It just wasn't so blatant back then. Maybe blatant is good, and hidden was bad. People have always had the choice to turn that crap off, but nowadays the internet gives us plenty of options for other sources to boot. The decision is a no-brainer now.
NOTE: The original video is gone from youtube. I will leave the comments above here (for one thing, I can't be rewriting posts based on the whim of youtube). I hope the ABC Nightline one below is helpful:
From youtube comments, 1st one:
Chuck Huber
4 months ago
Are we to believe that 32 more years in Washington has made him MORE honest than he was in 1988?
Heh!
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UPDATED 11/09/20:] Original CBS video was taken off youtube, at least the version I had. I can't find it now, so try the ABC Nightline version with Ted Koppel that I put up now
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Stupid v Evil - Round 3
Posted On: Wednesday - September 30th 2020 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Globalists World Political Stupidity
There's been discussion in the comments here, and I'm sure thousands of other comment threads, about attribution of many of the destructive goings-on in the country to stupidity or evil. This post is somewhat of a continuation of our post Stupid vs. Evil and long-term conspiracy theories from over 3 years back.
Any conspiracy theories, really, elevate evil over stupidity as the explanation for things like the current BLM and antifa Commies taking over the streets. Peak Stupidity tends to root for, you guessed it, the latter. We did not select peakevil.com as our URL, the reader may have noted, but it is available, in fact. Jump on it, someone. Knock yourself out.
Our conclusions were that it's the long-term conspiracy theories, over centuries, say powerful families doing this or that to make things happen so many years hence, that are a bit far-fetched. That doesn't mean we don't think that, yeah, the FED was created by ruthless greedy men for long-term gain, just that they don't have some century-long plan laid out, at least that's ever worked. There's too much unpredictable change over time frames like even half a century that make it hard to make plans that work.
Then there was our self-rebuttal a few days later with Self-Rebuttal to our post on centuries-long conspiracy theories. I suppose that was Round 2, so that's why this post is Round 3. In that post we mentioned the Frankfurt School. No doubt those people had evil plans. Yes, most of what they planned came to fruition. We explained in that post:
To summarize from knowledge of the Frankfurt School from past reading, they were Marxists, and they had big plans to change society. They really had no power back when they started meeting in 1923 when they were associated with one actual university in Germany. They left Germany in 1933 due to the Nazi's hating on Communism (hey, who doesn't?) and ended up in New York City - that can't explain everything about the place, but it all fits.Maybe it's just semantics, but the point was, and still is, that the Frankfurt School and other evil groups of people in the word did not make plans that would have worked without complicity by a million times more idiotic dupes in society at large. There's the stupidity.
To relate this finally to the conspiracy-theory post, this group had very much influence on American society and culture, completely to our detriment. Feminism, socialism, hatred of the white man, you name it: If it sucks, they are all for it! Now they've been pushing their cultural rot for a long time; it's been damn near a century since thesesick fuckspeople got together. Was it a century-long evil conspiracy? Sure, the Frankfurt School adherents were well-intentioned, but one could say the same for many conspiracy theories also. Now, these guys and gals didn't make the kind of specific plans as you would think, like "Hey, you get Oswald to shoot, and I'll be over there by that grassy knoll." or even more long-term like "We get Congress to pass this, call it "Federal" Reserve act, then later we'll start just flat-out printing the money ...."
No, these people just had the same overall ideas, however erroneous, about how future society should be. They had adherents that could take over the meeting, writing, and infiltration of the institutions, but was that a big plan? Was it just a bunch of people thinking the same way over many years? Is that really a conspiracy? I think not - all that would have stopped their plans would have been millions of (more) Americans (than did) not putting up with the socialist PC crap at universities and social institutions, in governments, and in the consumption of media. People let this happen, and it was not per-ordained via an evil plan
George Soros and his minions are an example for us to observe today. There is lots of evidence that his money, funneled very carefully through serpentine channels is behind the antifa and BLM. (This is besides his other push for the pro-criminal D/A's and such.) VDare put up a great post yesterday by one Jason Kessler, organizer of the '17 "Unite the Right" rally that was attacked by antifa and other dipshit misfits in Charlottesville, Virginia. He write with great knowledge on the legal aftermath, a complete travesty.
In this latest post, about recent events, Mr. Kessler says, Yes, Virginia (Dare), It’s A Conspiracy: Antifa Thugs Arrested In Louisville Also Attacked 2017 Charlottesville Rally. Did Soros Pay Them? Where Is FBI?* The answer is YES for both of his questions per his detailed post. Mr. Kessler used the word conspiracy. I guess that is the case here. His modern-style post is full of photos, tweets, and vids (including our friend Tucker) to expose this backing of the antifa destruction by the AntiChrist who must not be named. The post ends with:
Americans face a violent interstate Communist conspiracy. Where is the FBI?Wait, whaaaa? Where is the FBI? They are part of the story, just not on the side Mr. Kessler may have erroneously assumed. Why you'd imagine the US Gov't would be on our side in any way in this day and ages is beyond me. He's right on the money with the first sentence excerpted though.
Yes, Peak Stupidity, this is a conspiracy. No, but there is still plenty of Stupid to go along with the evil.
PS: Why do we link to and excerpt from VDare so much? Firstly, Immigration Stupidity is one of our biggest topic keys and VDare is the go-to site for all things immigration-invasion. Secondly, they really do have very good writers, with almost no grammar/spelling errors, links out the ying-yang, and lots of straight facts to go with the articles. (The only exception to that I've seen is the writer Lance Welton, discussed in Affirmative Action for the marble-supply-challenged.)
* To explain the beginning of the title, the reference, "Yes, Virginia (Dare)..." is from that 123 y/o editorial about a letter from his daughter Virginia to Santa, by writer Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, in the New York Sun. Additionally, Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in the New World (of the lost Roanoke Colony in 1587). Once in a while, the VDare site will have an article with that idea in the title.
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A lesson in DUI for the broke guy
Posted On: Monday - September 28th 2020 6:10PM MST
In Topics: Legal Stupidity
Anecdotes are easy to write. There's no going back and forth to check a few facts here and there. I can just make it up as I go along. Nah, that's not the case, but these ones are just easy and fun.
In the comments under the post with the horrid SJW cousin of suicide case Jake Gardner - Scene from a "Court of Law" - I mentioned hanging out in court to collect my fee.
Here's the just untimely part of the whole thing. I was under-employed, let's call it, at the time, so I'd have been thrilled go every day, if they had a) sent me more invitations and/or b) picked me out for the jury. I really needed the extra cash that badly. Later on, when I was making good money, but traveling a decent amount, I got at least 3 letters asking me to do my duty. I would have gone if I were going to be in town, but I'd have lost out of money and maybe employment, if I went to court.
I sent the letters back or called, at least a couple of times, saying I couldn't make it but also "why didn't you ask me to come in 1998?!" I know I didn't write back at all after a while. Now that may seem a real dereliction of duty for a Constitutionalist like myself. However, the problem is that they WILL NOT EVER PICK ME. I have qualifications, such as education and a job and what-not that pretty much disqualifies me from today's courtrooms. Why? I think the lawyers on both sides want dull people on the jury. Each of them thinks he's the best bullshitter (occasionally the best honest thinker), and he doesn't want the stupid jury messing up his arguments by doing a lot of thinking.
There I was then, back waiting for that 15 bucks ... well, see, that's over
It sure looked like the cop didn't have any kind of beyond-a-reasonable-doubt case after the 1 hour or so of back-and-forth. Then, the defendant was asked a question about her recital of the alphabet backwards per the cop's instructions* during the traffic stop. For whatever reason, this defendant woman brought up something about "yeah, well I've been teaching my nephew the ABC's, so ..." The prosecutor asked her quickly how old her nephew was. She admitted he was a teenager. WTF?!
This is why lawyers will tell you what to say. I can be guilty of this same thing - just wanting to be friendly and chatty. Yeah, but why the lie? Maybe it was a mix-up regarding different cousins or something, but how in the heck did this prosecutor have this particular question ready? He must have kept a lot of information in his head, because he wouldn't have heard that "teaching the ABC's" bit before.
That was going to be it for her. Whether the lady was driving drunk as a skunk or not, once she was caught in a blatant lie, as silly and irrelevant as it was, the jury wasn't going to believe her anymore. Could this be the problem for the Hildabeast. Oh wait, she doesn't tell ANY truth, so it's a moot point.
I don't think I stuck around for the verdict. I got my 15 bucks and headed home.
* I don't know if they still do that stuff, BTW. I think I might do better drunk on that one ...
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VDare Headline of the Year
Posted On: Monday - September 28th 2020 6:53AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity
Ha! I also like Sam Francis' title linked-to below the title.
That's from VDare writer James Fulford, part of the Meat & Potatoes of the writing staff at this top-notch go-to site for all immigration issues. In If Retarded Immigrants Can Get Away With Murder, Maybe Try Encouraging Immigration From Less Retarded Countries*, Mr. Fulford relates the story of a couple of illegal alien murderers who have had their death penalties waived due to being "intellectually disabled".
Mr. Fulford doesn't quite believe this about the two, but does let us know that, as Candidate Donald Trump noted, to great acclaim, "they are not sending their best":
There are whole countries where average IQ is less than 70. In Mexico the average IQ is 86, in El Salvador it's 84. (There were no official figures for El Salvador so Lynn and Vanhanen averaged the calculations for neighboring countries. )I don't really see how a country could operate with an average IQ of 70. That means 1/2 of the population is pretty much actually retarded. Additionally, if there is a Gaussian distribution** of IQs and a 15 point standard deviation, σ, said to be the case for the American distribution, then a calculator tells me that only 5% of the population would have a 95 or higher IQ. This would enable them to kind of run some things, but not well, and with no innovation. I suppose it MIGHT work, but lets not try any experiments here.
Many Mexicans are illiterate and 35% of all foreign-born Latinos have no more than a sixth-grade education, according to the Economist in 2002.
Well, this IQ stuff has been bandied about by Steve Sailer, his commenters, and others so much, I won't get into it more.
That said, yes American immigration policy is most assuredly retarded.
* In case you didn't think it was funny the first time.
** Can't say "bell curve". That's a big no-no due to PC, plus, who the heck even knows what a real bell looks like anymore?
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Chilean TV Weather Bimbo v Jake Gardner's Sick SJW Cousin
Posted On: Saturday - September 26th 2020 6:10PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
Peak Stupidity would like to give Jake Gardner's cousin* some equal time here. Therefore, in the Peak Stupidity's TV-Infotainment-style manner, we will present the final bracket in a contest of who beats whom as a REAL woman. It's CTVWB v JGSSJWC.
I ask the reader to please take the time to watch the entire clip here, for fairness' sake. We have no legal disclaimer regarding hypertension, hypotension, unwanted Viagra-like effects and so on, as both our Legal and Medical departments have gone
BTW, there are lots of these ones on youtube. How the smart producers at youtube picked this one out especially for me is a real question, but the way this is going, I'm gonna know more about the climate in South America than Dr. Micheal Mann of Global Climate DisruptionTM modeling fame.
I solicit discussion in the comments section for use as judge, jury, and breast-a-cutioner. Please don't use the word "silicone". Like mention of George Soros on TV, this word is verboten. I do not want to know. I'll believe my own lying
PS: Listen, I don't have a Topic Key called simply "Girls", in case my wife ever gets to perusing this blog heavily. (Maybe the kitten/puppy photo will draw her into deeper subjects.) Therefore, the "Female Stupidity" key shown doesn't really apply, but I won't make any new keys till some mind-numbing going-through of all the posts... someday...
* Sorry, I do not feel at all like looking up anything more about her, such as a name.
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Scene from a "Court of Law"
Posted On: Saturday - September 26th 2020 4:37PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny Legal Stupidity
I ask any reader with any hypertensive tendencies to question whether he should watch the video below. In fact, I urge you to call your doctor and ask his opinion beforehand. Yes, it's a Saturday, and yes, it's good weather for golf, but I you should be able to reach your primary care provider immediately via Twitter or Facebook... probably, right? [Required notice per PS Legal Dept. You've been warned, bitchez!]
I don't know how many viral deaths of black people lately due to arrests gone wrong we are into right now in this year's season of outrage. Then there is the outrage regarding black guys (and antifa Commies, to boot) killed in self defense. This story goes back to 3 months ago, near the beginning of the rioting, but there's more to the story now. An Omaha, Nebraska bar owner ended up shooting and killing a guy was attacking him, after first staying outside his bar (1 of 2 he owned in the area). Jake Gardner a white guy, killed James Scurlock, a black guy with one of those occasional pronounceable names, in self defense.
Donald Klein, the Douglas County, NE District Attorney first declined to press charges against Mr. Gardner after seeing the evidence. The evidence these days is so much easier to figure out than in the past (I guess dumbing down even the detective business), as it includes plenty of video, as is the case for this happening. Per the usual way things have been going though, protests ensued, and there was 2nd guessing by higher authorities. It started with Mr. Klein inviting an outside investigation due to pressure on him and either a lack of integrity or some real naivety that said investigation would simply confirm his decision.
Nope, it doesn't go that way anymore, ever, so long as someone, somewhere, gets aggrieved by it. We know who that's gonna be. Someone had to put the hammer down on any white guy being so bold as to protect his life and property. It didn't help Mr. Gardner's case that he a big Trump supporter and critic of BLM... I mean, not with the black special prosecutor" it doesn't, and what the hell is that "special prosecutor" all about in this local case?!
Mr. Gardner had a bunch of felony charge laid on him, including manslaughter, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, terroristic threats (yeah, that's good catch-all) but the extra-legal charge of RACISM 1 is what he might have been most worried about. How was it going to go if he was put in jail and was this "known racist"? I used the past tense just now, because Jake Gardner committed suicide after this development. See Gateway Pundit's account and then White Bar Owner and Trump Supporter Commits Suicide After Black Ex-Federal Prosecutor Indicts Him for Shooting Looter by Eric Striker on unz.com for comments about this tragic ending.
I really think the result for me of the same events happening may have ended tragically too, but not in suicide. It would involve full use of Amendment II of the US Constitution, the actual impetus for that item in our Bill of Rights, not duck hunting, and not self-defense even. (It's funny that the NRA has never discussed in any detail that actual reason for Amendment II, even in the 2 decades of my reading of American's First Freedom monthly magazine.)
In the Eric Striker comment thread I found the video below. This is a video of Jake Gardner's cousin (don't know if 1st cousin or what) testifying in court about Jakes's and the Gardner family's racism. Mind you, there is still not exactly any official crime of racism on the books, and yet, this is a court of law. Damn, I'd expect a witness to be saying things like "that's when I first saw the guy in the gray shirt", "I saw he had a gun in his waistband", "I stepped outside the bar, and the first thing I heard was", and so on. Facts (or lies that sound like facts) are what you hear from witnesses in answer to questions from the lawyers.
This young SJW bitch was in court defaming her family for perfectly legal things like bitching about problems with black people and anything else that she thinks is NOT OK to say. We are in Cultural Revolution 2.0 over here. I think it's time to take appropriate* care of people like this before it gets to the stages it got during Cultural Revolution 1.0, which was going on in China 5 decades ago.
* "Appropriate" for now means shunning her from the family for good, but, in the long run, for all of us the Institutions that harbor these sick people must be terminated with extreme prejudice.
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Dogs and Cats: The Political Divide
Posted On: Friday - September 25th 2020 7:13PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Race/Genetics
In one of his more light-hearted posts, blogger Steve Sailer displayed a map purported to show the ownership* of dogs vs. cats broken out by State. There's a lot of reasons this doggie/kittie census could be way off. It's probably not much better than for a map that supposedly shows the numbers of illegal aliens, for some of the same reasons.
Anyway, the comments for anything regarding animals are usually fun, and the thread for Dogs Are for Trump, Cats for Biden is no exception. Of course, from the title, one can read that it's the usual - dogs for Conservatives and cats for lefties theme. There may be nothing but correlation to this, but not really causation, i.e., yeah there are is a much greater proportion of Conservatives in the 'burbs and rural areas, and with more room, of course, more dogs.
Americans, and Europeans too, do love their dogs, cats, and other animals. Peak Stupidity discussed this in the post Cats, bats, and spoiled brats back at the end of March (near the beginning of this Kung Flu nonsense).
Here's our take: It’s a lot more nuanced that what you see on that map. People will tell you that breeds are a social construct invented by dog owners, but there are definitely breedal voting patterns as determined by exit polling.
– German Shepherds will vote almost bloc-like for White Nationalist candidates, of course.
– Labradors vote conservatively and in large numbers in suburban precincts. They tend to vote along color lines, yellow for Oriental candidates, brown for Hispanic, black for black candidates, so long as they are all conservative, which means they mostly vote for white guys.
– Golden retrievers, along with many labs too, and bird dogs of all sorts tend to vote absentee. They enjoy picking up the ballots and bringing them home. They will be instrumental in the Democrats’ effort this year to retrieve and drop, drop, no drop it! … off multiple ballots to the ballot deserts.
– Miniature poodles are the most tolerant and open-minded breed and will vote for AIDS-ridden homosexuals with 2 weeks to live.
– Rottweilers are the only dogs not so racist as to avoid black candidates. The Øb☭ma campaign reached out, with a big stick, to Rottweilers throughout the ghettos and shelters. Their vote count is dependent very much on available transportation and free fried chicken.
– Jack Russell terriers are used by both parties to round up stray voters and steer them to the polls. They are too hyper to vote themselves unless they are put on a diet of Quaaludes for a week first.
– The Boxer vote would be significant were it not for so many of their ballots being rejected for slobbered chads.
– Now, Cats, cats vote Libertarian almost to the cat, but that’s when they vote. Without catnip, tuna fish, or some other incentive, they prefer to sleep instead. Even with incentives they are very easily distracted on the way to the polling stations, which reminds me of a certain President we all know about ...
Oh, what? Sorry, the Peak Stupidity editor is talking in my earpiece as I type... what? Yeah, political divide... Oh, among the owners? NEVER MIND!
* Well "ownership" is not the best term here. Dogs do have owners, but for cats, we are merely the staff.
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America's Kung Flu recession, women hardest hit! - Part 4
Posted On: Thursday - September 24th 2020 8:17PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Feminism Economics
(Continued from Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.)
In this post, part of the ongoing fisking of the article unintentionally most damning of feminism I've every read (so far), we will finally leave behind the sob story of Mrs. Ellu Nassar. (I believe she's the woman in the article's "cover" photo shown at the top again.) Good riddance! Now, we will ridicule the portion of the article that discusses the women working in the lower levels of the economy.
Those jobs at risk are anticipated to be in fields vulnerable to social distancing, positions like the one Cristina Aguirre Sevillano has held since she emigrated from Cuba a decade ago.My advice for Mrs. Aguirre is two-fold: Learn how to hijack an airplane (there are books at the library, hopefully in Spanish), and learn the following phrase: "We are going to Habana, Cooba!"
Aguirre, a housekeeper at Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau hotel, is already in a tenuous position: She was laid off from her full-time job in March, but when the resort reopened in June, limited work resumed. She’s been called back just a handful of times. Unemployment insurance has been predictably unreliable in one of the states worst at administering it. And even the job she took sorting fruit at a warehouse in Miami to patch together some work over the spring turned out to be a mistake.
Furthermore, I wonder who are those administrators of the predictably unreliable unemployment insurance in South Florida. Could they be ... I dunno,
On her seventh day sorting through crates, she went home with a fever. She couldn’t breathe well. That time, it was coronavirus incarnate that cost her a job.Ahhh, crap. On the 7th day too - she should have been resting from the get-go, you know, being one of those religious, family-values immigrants and all. I do wonder how many hotel rooms Mrs. Aguirre infected with the Kung Flu before she went home? I hear tell that virus stays on bed sheets and TV remote controls for weeks, if not decades.
Aguirre, 50, recovered, but “this has been the worst year we’ve had to endure,” she said. Her 23-year-old daughter, who lives with her, has also been laid off from a hotel job, and her husband is home recovering from a workplace injury. “I had never experienced something like this in the little time I’ve been in this country.”Yeah, that sucks. 2 words: Go home. All three of ya'. (OK, that's more like 6, sorry.)
She’s now wrestling with the idea that her reliable job, the one she clung to for 10 years while her pay inched up to $15.17 an hour — good by Florida standards — could suddenly go away completely. It’s a terrifying prospect for any low-wage worker, but particularly an immigrant.Why is it more terrifying? Are they here illegally, living in those shadows and all?
“My English isn’t good,” she said in Spanish, implying her true question: Who would take her at even remotely the same pay?Ten years here, and no Anglaise. She can't even say "my English not so good" in English. I wouldn't take her, period, even at that low, low 54 cents on the dolla.
As workers exit the labor force, skills will depreciate. Finding a job at the same level will become harder the longer they’re out of work. And because women will be most likely to be jobless, the gender pay gap will grow while overall wage growth will stall, said Gad Levanon, head of the labor market institute at the Conference Board, a nonprofit research group.Whoa, wait a minute. You're counting the jobless women in your average of women's pay? Do you do the same for men? Many of them must work to support a family, not just to pay for that extra pickup truck with the king cab and duellies.
Employers will have their pick of employees, and that will bring salaries down. Low-wage workers feel that drop most intensely.Supply & Demand. She gets it. She just doesn't want to talk about the immigration factor in this.
Women make up nearly two-thirds of the 40 lowest paid jobs.Maybe women should go get some technical skills to go get one of those jobs not in American's Bottom 40.
I suppose this installment was more about the effects of the immigration invasion on employment, which is the case for EVERYBODY, not just women, than about the feminism. We'll remedy that in the next post in the series.
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Scene from the Kung Flu
Posted On: Wednesday - September 23rd 2020 5:26PM MST
In Topics: Kung Flu Stupidity
It's lucky number 13! Really, this post will be more upbeat, with none of the Curmudgeonry contained in all the other 12 of the series. It's been since September 7th that we posted the last one.
We were at the park in some of the nicest weather in a long time. There must have been 25 kids at a time, with lots coming and going over the total time period, with parents, friends of parents, black guys playing b-ball, and an older guy with a small dog, who the kids got a chance to pet. There was not a single face diaper in sight. I mean, not even stowed under the chin, and this was over a 2 hour period. Even the 70-odd y/o guy was without one, and the same with his little dog Toto too.
Adults weren't doing any of that jive either, so this park looked like it would have on a same nice day last year. (There's always the social distancing that Moms do from whomever they consider "creepy", but nobody was creepy there, I guess.) I don't know what social distancing means for kids, but they haven't been doing it since this Kung Flu Panic-fest started anyway.
Speaking of that, 4 or 5 boys were playing a social distancing game of some sorts, using pine branches to keep each other from getting somewhere on the playground equipment. These were the 6-9 y/o's who are too old to enjoy the playground equipment doing what it's designed for. Some of these branches were a good 2" in diameter and say, 2' long, so I was very surprised none of the Moms intervened. They are real Debbie Downers sometimes regarding sticks and rocks. I don't sweat it, myself - you can't fight evolution.
Nobody was hitting anybody, amazingly, but still, when a couple of the kids went to talk to their Moms, and they still had the sticks afterwards, I was very surprised. (I was too far away to hear.) Are the Moms mellowing out after all the hysteria? Perhaps it's hysteria overload, causing an opposite reaction. Maybe after such an obvious false alarm about Black Plague 2.0, they don't even believe that "sticks and stones" adage anymore*.
Let's hope that this time at the park was a harbinger of things to come. It did just turn to Fall, yesterday in fact, so we could at least say the Summer re-Panic is over.
* at least the 1st part. The 2nd part has long become erroneous as words CAN hurt you, apparently, from what I've seen on a thousand SJWs' tweets.
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Princeton and petards
Posted On: Tuesday - September 22nd 2020 5:44PM MST
In Topics: University Humor Political Correctness Trump Race/Genetics
Some minor news out of the US Department of Education is about some fun by President Trump at the expense of Princeton University. From the law blog Volokh Conspiracy, apparently owned by Reason... spit ... magazine now, we read Department of Education to Investigate Racism at Princeton University.
Now, if you don't know what this post's title is about, you may not know what a "petard" is either. Don't feel bad. We all know the expression "hoisted by his own petard", but we don't have to know what the word actually means. (No, I am absolutely NOT looking it up.)
That's what Princeton University is for - students are taught the origins of these idioms so that they can use them with pride... in nasty SJW tweets for the rest of their careers. That's the kind of thing you've gotta know to graduate Soma Come Lordy, along with making sure you bring up at least once each semester your background of struggle, what with your ancestors' hardships during the time of slavery. "It was hell. My family had this terrible overseer, see ... just horrible... they had to sell him for pennies on the dollar..."
The first sentence in this quick news article has the gist of this whole petard thing:
The Department of Education has informed Princeton University that it is under investigation following the school president's declaration that racism was "embedded" in the institution.Embedded, like a youtube video telling the students "once you set foot on the Princeton Plantation, son, you'd best setcher mind to wanking". Now, that kind of embedded racism is against the law, see. You'd think in a fancy, expensive institution of higher learning like that, they could keep the racism off the campus. You'd also figure, even if not, isn't there, like, a whole legal department to tell the President when to shut the hell up about it?
Nah, with the Anarcho-Tyranny we have now, and without Bad Orange Man, you really shouldn't have to worry if you've been breaking the law for a few semesters, decades, whatever, as duefully disclosed thusly:
President Christopher L. Eisgruber published an open letter earlier this month claiming that "[r]acism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton" and that "racist assumptions" are "embedded in structures of the University itself."Ifflestay on the acismray, IsegruberEye. (We didn't NEED to go to Princeton to learn our Pig Latin [/nose to the sky].)
Nobody expects the Orange Man Inquisition!
According to a letter the Department of Education sent to Princeton that was obtained by the Washington Examiner, such an admission from Eisgruber raises concerns that Princeton has been receiving tens of millions of dollars of federal funds in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which declares that "no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." . . . .Hahaahaaa! Do I see the hand of Donald Trump in this? I sure hope so, as this will very slightly ameliorate my disappointment with the President. Yeah, he's a bullshitter, and 95% of what he promises doesn't even get started, much less get done. Even this investigation will probably go nowhere. It's just that this handing of these people their asses based on their own bold hypocrisy is both fun and gets a lot of good attention to said hypocrisy.
"Based on its admitted racism, the U.S. Department of Education ("Department") is concerned Princeton's nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false," the letter reads. "The Department is further concerned Princeton perhaps knew, or should have known, these assurances were false at the time they were made. Finally, the Department is further concerned Princeton's many nondiscrimination and equal opportunity claims to students, parents, and consumers in the market for education certificates may have been false, misleading, and actionable substantial misrepresentations in violation of 20 U.S.C. § 1094(c)(3)(B) and 34 CFR 668.71(c). Therefore, the Department's Office of Postsecondary Education, in consultation with the Department's Office of the General Counsel, is opening this investigation."
"So, you admit you have been racists all along?" "Yes, Sir, we are now Woke, and we realize we have been doing damage to People of Various Colors for many, many years." "In that case, based on your written confession, you are in violation of 20 US One Zero Niner Four, Section c, part 3 paragraph B, along with the Code of Federal Regulations Six Sixty Eight dot Seventy one, stroke c. I remind you that ignorance of the law and illiteracy is no excuse!" "Book 'em Danno, Racism 1!"
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New openings for Supreme Court Appointment Strategists?
Posted On: Tuesday - September 22nd 2020 11:19AM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government
It wouldn't be a Feral Government job, but probably a pretty plum position working for either the Red or Blue squad of The Party. It'll pay pretty good, because the same idiots keep sending in money, so why not? White people need not apply, of course, unless the whole department goes to shit. Then, maybe HR will email you back if you fill out our 10 page app on-line. Don't even try to walk in the office - we WILL call security!
(NOTE: This is not really that useful data, as the standard for Conservative and Liberal have trended so far downwards in this graph over the years, on an absolute scale. This graph shows data that is all relative, depending on the year. Could there be one like this with absolute standards?)
This post is not some novel idea, but you do wonder why this isn't a bigger career opportunity. A good commenter on unz named Jim Christian posted the following comment under one of the many "Ding dong, the Ginsburg is dead!" posts (mostly by Steve Sailer, as when he gets on a roll ... watch out, but also Audacious Epigone posted a number of cool posts on the topic.
I'll post Jim's whole comment, just because I like it, but it was just his point (1) that got me thinking:
1: Democrats thought they were cute with the notion Ginsberg was going to drag her old dead corpse across the election day finish line. They lost the bet. They ought to have replaced her old ass back in Obama’s day, but waited for Hillary, since she was the slam dunk. Hillary lost, Ginsberg is dead and Trump gets a third pick. High time, too. That woman has been brain dead for at least ten years, I don’t care how much they try to prop her up.Yeah, there could be, but doesn't seem to be, a lot of strategy involved in this Supreme Court Justice appointment game. With the appointment of justices being the job of the President, the unlimited terms (these two both specified by the Constitution, Article II, Section II, paragraph ), people living a lot longer into old age, and a 2 political party system (not something the Founders wanted), and most importantly, the judicial activism that is now illegally part of the SC's function, there is a lot at stake. Peak Stupidity wrote a decent sized post about this long ago in When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL? and our just previous article yesterday linked to a 39 y/o very good article on the subject by Peter Brimelow (way before his Alien Nation/VDare years).
2:The Democrats also think they’re cute saying “the people and the elected President must select a justice”. Well, the people elected Trump love him or hate him. And Trump being President had BETTER make a pick and get him in. We can’t go into this election with an 8-member court with the last candidate and head of the Democrat Party (Hillary) telling Biden not to concede under any circumstances. The Republicans absolutely must replace her, we need nine members on that court this year, period.
3:Ya gotta love their hysteria. MSNBC and CNN were just precious last night with their panty-shitting.
With so much future political decisions at stake in who these damned 9 robed prima donnas are, the appointment by the President and the Senate confirmation process is a big deal for the 2 squads. Mr. Christian's point (1) was an expansion of what I mentioned in an unz comment somewhere. Should Justice Ginsburg have resigned back during the last year of the Øb☭ma administration to do right by her squad? With enough time for Øb☭ma to appoint another justice, maybe another from the feminist leftist harpy farm team who was 50 years old or so, the Blue squad could have gotten 35 more years of this creative "Constitutional interpretation", hell, 50 with some new brain transplant technology (better rule it legal first of course).
Then again, maybe this other guy has great cholesterol numbers, doesn't smoke anything stronger than marijuana, and they've got a pristine new treadmill down at the SCOTUS ICU for later on. Can he outlast a double Presidential turn. Bail out while the appointing is good or stick? Someone do the math.
For the Red squad in particular, since these people are known to go native way too often in the Washington, Federal Shithole (see The Cocktail Party theory of Political Stupidity), you may want to just hire some OTHER guys from Vegas to create new openings when you have the ball.
Should the 2 squads not have teams of bright people to work the numbers and get the optimum SC Justice strategy? They would need actuaries for figuring long-term odds, maybe some specialist doctors for the near term, hospital techs and lab associates for stool sample anal-isis, policy
To me, it'd be really interesting work, I mean, were I not one of the hospital techs or lab associates. You should be able to retire comfortably from this easy-going position, which most days would just involve updating graphs and surfing the web. That is, unless the wrong justice dies out of the blue, in which case, Ya Fiyad!
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You chat, we record
Posted On: Monday - September 21st 2020 7:23PM MST
In Topics: China Media Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government World Political Stupidity iEspionage
Sometimes I get information from a close Chinese source that is bound to be better than than that obtained from the internet alone. The latest news, well it's been in the works for a while, was the banning of the "We Chat" functionality in the US. I'm not an internet guru so I don't how that would be implemented exactly*, but there was obviously some workable plan, as Chinese people were making alternate plans - the use of Tik Tok in parTikular.
In case you are not familiar, We Chat is like a Facebook, texting system, including multimedia, international phone service, and zoom, in one. Even if one doesn't go to Tik Tok, I guess one can find other ways to do this international communication. This "app" (I just hate that word, is all) is most popular with Chinese people, as it was developed there.
The worry and reason for the Trump administration pushing for this ban was had to do with the program's use by Chinese people over here and over there to fuck with the system here. As Peak Stupidity related back on July 1 in Did the Chinese hack the Trump Tulsa rally?, some of the mob-like actions people can do on-line can really mess with us. The Chinese are well-organized and the CCP members, with plenty in America and plenty more back home, do have a grudge against all things Trump. This is due to his wanting to get America out of a completely unfair trade situation of 25 years running.
On the face of it, you wonder whether the proposed ban is Constitutional. I doubt it on first principles of Amendment I. It's a media mode, like lots of other new ones.
From my source, and now this TechRepublic article, the ban has been blocked by a judge, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Per the article:
Arguing that WeChat collects personal information from users that it can then share with the Chinese Communist government, the Department of Commerce had directed that the app be prohibited from all downloads across US app stores starting Sunday. [Sept. 20th, already gone]Here's a little bit more general non-technical explanation of the proposed implementation of this ban:
The move by the administration also would have stopped any software or services from using any code or features from the app and prevented WeChat users from transferring funds or processing payments via the app. Taken together, the actions would have killed any use of WeChat in the United States as of Sept. 20.Regarding the 1st except, yeah, no doubt the Chinese government keeps all the information, and I doubt just "personal information from users". With digital memory being so cheap now, I imagine every message, voice communication, picture, and maybe even video could be saved.** (Come to think of it, if We Chat can store it all, so can the CCP, but I don't know how much of it is stored and the users' phones. (If they let you recover your data or transfer it to a new phone, then you know they've got it all.)
Now, who is the US Feral Gov't to give anyone grief about storing personal information on Chinese users, when it's got that NSA data center in Utah storing anything and everything it can on Americans?
I don't think it's legal for the US Gov't to shut it down, but that's not my point on this post. It's the judge's explanation of why the ban is wrong that I don't like. Yes, there's the Constitutional question. This part is reasonable:
Following a presidential executive order on Aug. 6 announcing the ban, the US WeChat Users Alliance filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against such an action. In this motion, the group claimed that the ban would violate the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment as well as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, that it was an unlawful exercise of the authority of President Trump and Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA), and that it violated the Administrative Procedures Act because Ross exceeded his authority under the IEEPA.OK fine, but then:
In explaining her ruling against the ban, Judge Beeler agreed with the WeChat Users Alliance on some areas, most notably the First Amendment issue.
The judge found that the ban would hinder access to communication among Chinese Americans and Chinese-speaking people in the US. Such groups rely on WeChat as their primary source of communication and commerce, according to the plaintiffs. Therefore, restricting the app in the way the ban proposed would restrain the right of free speech to its users. The ruling even cited the case of one of the plaintiffs, who described certain hardships for herself and other users should the app no longer be accessible.Hey, hey, listen Beeler! Just stick to the principles, OK? It's not about who gets hurt by the act and their hardships that I don't give a damn about.
Let me digress big-time here, because I wanted to bring up this judicial activism business anyway. I'll give a chain of linkage, just because that's how I got to it on VDare. Mr. James Fulford wrote Ruth Bader Ginsburg Roundup: Reasons She Was "Notorious" 2 days back, with plenty of well-deserved disparagement of the politics of late SC Justice Ginsburg. In it, he refers back to a '12 article by VDare chief Peter Brimelow “Supreme Irony”—Gingrich Right About The Courts (It's kind of un-timely for Peak Stupidity, as we just dissed Mr. Gingrich a bit this morning.) Mr. Brimelow's '12 post has an introduction but most of it consists of an very old (1981!) article of his own from Harper's magazine on judicial activism. It's well worth reading, if nothing else, to see how much calmer and saner the country was in 1981.
Back to the injunction to block the We Chat ban, this is the way these judges are now. They don't really decide based on principles much. They may use them to rationalize their decisions, but the decisions themselves are strictly political "who, whom" (as Steve Sailer writes). So, the poor Chinese Americans won't be able to communicate well, for free, and will miss the convenience. Excuse me if I'm not all broken up about that Chinaman's ability to communicate. That's not a basis for a court ruling.
The whole impetus for the writing of this post was this: My Chinese source, a We Chat user who was "poised", as they say, to switch to Tik Tok or some such nonsense, noted this decision being made based on personal welfare reasons, and, as a Trump supporter, was pissed off about that. "Hey, they blocked the ban because these people suck at English. They should all just go home then!" Haha, assimilation occasionally works.
* In the article referenced herein, the "app" was to be prohibited from "app" stores in the US. First of all, these are not actual stores, so how does that work? Secondly, this would just stop new users from using it, but everyone and his Grandmamasan has got this already. (Would it stop all updates, and are they strictly necessary or it'll stop working?) I really don't know, and my source has even less of an idea about the technical aspect of this than I!
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First rule of AntiChrist Club:
Posted On: Monday - September 21st 2020 11:21AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Pundits AntiChrist Globalists Media Stupidity
YOU! DO! NOT! TALK! ABOUT! THE! ANTICHRIST! ON! LIVE! TV!
See, the thing is, if you ran the Tass news agency in the old USSR, your underlings would listen better and follow the rules. These bimbos and producers on Fox News nowadays, and all the other networks, for that matter, just don't listen! When you are airing TV live, you've gotta have one guy with his hand on the mic volume knob. When a verboten word or phrase gets started, the guy turns that knob CCW prontomundo, if he doesn't want to get fired or go to the Gulag. It's not rocket surgery, people!
The video embedded below is a short clip of an interview with old Newt Gingrich. I don't know what the general interview was mostly about, but at this point the talk was about the justice system (what's left of it) being corrupted to result in the Anarcho-Tyranny we see all over America today.
Let me digress into a little bit about Newt Gingrich. Mr. Gingrich, originally a Professor of History from Georgia, was elected as a Congressman in Georgia's 6th District and made his way up to the position of Minority Whip, and then Speaker of the House (after the R's took it in '94) in 1995. In Part 1 of "When did the Feral Government get OUT OF CONTROL?", Peak Stupidity discussed Mr. Gingrich and his "Contract with America" that this American was very hopeful about, until the contract was reneged on by all sides involved... except Americans, who never got a chance to sign Jack Squat. The guy has always come across great on TV, which is why he got that far, I suppose. He let America down then, and what must be his favoring of this career path over the future of America shows up at the end of this clip too.
Back to the bimbos. This whole scene is just amazing. If anyone still has any faith still in the Lyin' Press as an institution helping us remain free and informed, he'll likely renounce it after these 2 minutes. Mr. Gingrich mentions the AntiChrist candidate George Soros as related to the lax and Anarcho-Tyrannical D/As and others. He is told that, no, we don't talk about the AntiChrist (pretty directly, too, but using Soros's Esperantan given name).
The black bimbo is obviously too busy listening to directions through her hidden earpiece to talk at the same time. Imagine if she had been chewing gum, too!* Therefore, there is a really awkward silence. In the meantime, there is this white lady at another studio (I dunno?) who is more clear about the deal. You can watch it, as I don't want to spoil the whole thing for you. Does she or does she not remind you of a typical scolding HR lady?** It's uncanny, as she reminds me of a SPECIFIC HR lady.
The TV bimbos did what they could on short notice I guess. One can only wonder how many levels of control-the-narrative freaks there are between these ladies on Fox TV live and the AntiChrist himself. It's not like you can just walk up to his circle of hell or anything without going through lots of channels. The producers that talked in these TV anchors' ears, saying "Make it Stop!" work for the honchos at the station. Just whom do they get their instructions from, i.e., who do they report to, in Big-Biz parlance?
Oh, yeah, Newt Gingrich was miffed alright and didn't like this blatant censorship. However, he sure does come across as pretty meek, even when saying cleverly "OK, so it's verboten." Again, it's about his career path, as in ever being on TV again, versus doing or saying what is right. In this case, the right thing is "I'll damn well talk about George Soros if he's a part of this story. Fuck you, Orwellian bitch!" (Counterclockwise with the knobs, bitches!)
... you know, but then they don't invite you back, so you've got to rely on that former-Speaker pension and book royalties... tough way to live ...
(We're on a Soros/AntiChrist kick here now - I meant to post this last week, as probably most readers have already seen this and been highly enraged by it. See this past Saturday's post for our take on this ... whatever he is.)
* Nah, seriously, I don't blame her. It's pretty hard to listen to "shut this guy up now, or you'll never work in dis bidness again!" and still remember what to say at the same time.
** See also Part 2, Humorous The Office "Exhibit A", and Part 3 for more on HR - the scourge of the business world
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60 minutes with the AntiChrist
Posted On: Saturday - September 19th 2020 8:25PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist Globalists Bible/Religion
Man, that'd be hell. I've been watching a recently-deceased English preacher named David Pawson discuss the Book of Revelation in great detail (on Part 4 out of 9 segments on youtube right now). No, I mean he's not doing this from beyond. He gave the lectures in a Church in the midwest beforehand.
One thing he said, and he sure sounds like an expert, is that there can be multiple AntiChrists. Well, that means we got that bit wrong in our nearly 4 y/o post Is President-Eject Øb☭ma indeed the AntiChrist? (Part 2). However, it also means that we may have a lot more posts on AntiChrist candidates in the future, now that we know there are multiple positions and the HR ladies can't fill them fast enough.
I came upon a video of an interview of George Soros by Steve Kroft on the old 60 Minutes Sunday evening (?) TV show. I say old, as in this was 1998, but the show may still be on. The youtube video below is only 7 1/2 minutes long, so I don't think it was the whole 60 MInutes segment. Even accounting for commercials, with 3 segments on, and that some time for that curmudgeon Andy Rooney, I'd think each one would closer to 15 minutes, average.
I think of this guy as an evil man, based on his deeds, especially those of late, his supporting lenient prosecutors to screw up the American justice system, his supporting antifa, etc. In this interview, you don't exactly see Mr. Soros going "mwuuuhahaaa!"* or anything. What I get out of it is that he just has no compassion for his fellow humans on the planet. Sure, business is business, but even the most ruthless of businessmen likely care about some issues that affect the customers that support them and their countrymen. Most are passionate about the product or service their business provides, even if they ruthless about the money end of it.
George Soros is more like a man without a country, and his business is about nothing but money itself. "The love of money is the root of all evil", says 1st Timothy 6:10. This guy bankrupts entire countries' economies if it works out best for him.
Then he's got this Esperanto last name (George is OK) his Dad made up, starting him out as a Globalist at a young age. Esperanto was a language invented by some idealists to be a global language to be used by everyone around the world. OK, the name was his Dad's call, but, man, what a scam that Esperanto thing was.
Peak Stupidity speculated before on the AntiChrist qualifications of this man. This video does nothing to disprove that
(It's not just the WWII Hungarian experience with his helping the Nazis and such that makes him look bad here, but his uncaring about his own hypocrisy seen at around 05:50.)
* Geeze, I hope I spelled that right.
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Affirmative Action: we can't get no satisfaction.
Posted On: Friday - September 18th 2020 9:21PM MST
In Topics: University Race/Genetics
(It must be Steve Sailer day here at Peak Stupidity. That used to be the case more often at this blog's beginnings.)
Per my continual following of Steve Sailer's commentary, it seems to me that there is a growing trend in the SJW Establishments (most of academia, at the least). That is, there are white people coming out from undercover positions as Affirmative Action, Social Justice Warriors, in which they have been pretending to be of other races/ethnicities. With their consciences, if any, weighing on them, or maybe their covers about to be blown they have been coming clean and apologizing up a shitstorm.
Of course, there are probably cases that don't make the big news, as maybe the people involved just calmly get over it. The first I'd heard of this phenomenon was the case of Rachel Dolezal, out in Spokane, Washington, pretending to be black for a few years. There must be some privilege involved in being black that you never hear about, or why do it? It's a lot of trouble, especially with the hair. (See, Art Garfunkel could have gotten away with something like this. Nobody would have recognized him a few years after he and Paul Simon split up anyway, right?)
There was one Jessica Krug that Mr. Sailer posted about a few times a few weeks ago. This stuff is accelerating, or just his posting about it has been. Within one day, we read Another Affirmative Action Fraud Is Caught and Annals of White Privilege: Now, a Third Case of a Becky Pretending to be a Beq'ee.
As usual, Mr. Sailer has some neat insight. For instance, he points out how these women (so far, all women) have been given a rash of grief for their changes in racial identity, but everyone is very very careful to not mess with their gender identities. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and these people are far madder, in both senses of the word, than the characters in that old movie.
After giving kudos to Mr. Sailer for his opinions on this madness, I will have to point out a problem with one of the very few of his opinions that I don't agree with. After all Steve Sailer writes about regarding race, he still believes that the > 5-decade-long campaign against the White man, called "Affirmative Action", should be continued! Sure, he's quick to point out that this should only be for people known to be descendants of slaves in the US and colonial America.
As we discussed in the Peak Stupidity Reparations Plan, we have no problem with the making whole of people who were previously held in slavery. I don't think the great-great-grandsons ought to get the money that their dead great-great-grandfathers deserved though. More importantly, I don't think White men should pay for the sins of their great-great-grandfathers or the great-great-grandfathers of a few other White men that happen to be also living in the United States.
Well, Mr. Sailer is in good company at least, as this support for basic AA is one of the only flaws we find with our very favorite literary pundit, Miss Ann Coulter. WTF, the both of you?!
Let's get back to this reaction to Affirmative Action by this small but growing faction. Frankly, I'm all for it. I think the people discussed in the Sailer posts are nutcases for going through with this all, but if people can game the system enough to gum up the works more power to them. I'm all for traditional Americas putting all sorts of things in those check boxes. The beauty of the Politically Correct world we live in (yes, there's a silver lining or two) is that we can use the fear of being un-PC against people who would question us on some pretty shady (unshady, really) descriptions that we may advertise for our identities.
After all, if we are really extra-privileged people, per our checked boxes, essays, and hair styles, then we are known to be easily offended. We get really offended when you ask questions such as "hey, this thing says you're black - what gives?" So, don't ask up if we are really those extra-privileged people we claim to be, because, if we are such people, you aren't allowed to ask questions about that.
"Whewww! That's some catch, that Catch-22." " It's the best there is."
Go for it. Don't listen to Jesse Jackson. If you're not getting any satisfaction, help us increase the fraction and get some traction on Affirmative Action. We
Future discussion on this subject here ought to have some instructions for how to ease into the life of a member of a different race. There's an art to it.
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Death Bed Tweet from Black-robed Broad
Posted On: Friday - September 18th 2020 8:28PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity US Feral Government ctrl-left
I wish I could say I knew for sure this tweet was really written by some zealous aide, or the guy from NPR at the bottom. (A lot of weird shit can go down there on the death bed.) I write that because, I really had a small bit of respect for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg* before seeing this on Steve Sailer's post regarding this latest development.**
I know I couldn't find it easily, as I don't even know what TV talking heads type show it was, but I was pleasantly surprised by what this lady said during one of the latest contentious SC justice nomination confirmation hearings. It was one of the two Trump appointments, I'm sure, so it was fairly recently. The talk was about the huge political battle that was going on. Mrs. Ginsburg noted that 2 - 3 decades earlier, with her confirmation in 1993 as an example, the Senate did not make a deal out of this process. It was just a procedural matter, with perhaps your serial child molesters and murderers weeded out. As left-wing as Ginsburg was, she was confirmed by a 96-3 vote. (The Senate was 57-D, 43-R at the time.)
The late SC Justice was very fair in her assessment that there is way too much politics involved in the Supreme Court confirmations now. I just looked through a few of Mrs. Ginsburg's positions on cases that came up. There's no doubt she was a bright lady, unlike the other 2 broads, Kagan and OscarMeyer there... Intelligence ain't everything, though, and this left-winger was a bad thing for this country, at least most of the time when her vote put a case over the top.
Now, this tweet makes me less concerned about speaking ill of the dead. So what that she can't stand President Trump? His 2 SC picks so far have not been out of the ordinary at all, and I could use a LOT MORE out of the ordinary. I don't like this vindictiveness right up to the end. Was Ruth Ginsburg's life about nothing but politics?
Well, can a guy get pushed through in 6 weeks? I doubt it, so this is another reason to vote for Donald Trump, incompetent bullshitter that he is. If I could tweet, I'd tweet a copy of my mail-in ballot back to this lady. What happens to tweets when the originator is dead? Nobody ever explains that stuff to me.
One more thing: Mr. Sailer mentioned a topic near and dear to the heart of Peak Stupidity, and that is the flags at half mast business. First of all, I haven't really checked lately, but haven't they been at half mast for the Kung Flu, in remembrance of the heroes or something? That'd make it a bad time to die if you like recognition. As we discussed in I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings, this half mast business is getting out of hand! If I ever get a flag pole, it'll be to fly the Gadsden or Rebel flag. However, if I were to put an American flag up, I'd just go ahead and get a shorter pole (that's what she said!). Why waste all that aluminum, what with the climate and all ...
* No, she doesn't need 3 names. She's not some Hollywood movie star.
** Yeah, that's the ONLY reason this post is timely. I was scanning through Steve Sailer's latest posts. I'm really surprised Mrs. Ginsburg didn't rate an R.I.P. from Mr. Sailer. He is usually too much on the polite side, in my opinion. He probably wrote "R.I.P." upon the death of Fidel Castro, the way he is... that was before I read his blog, I think.
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Kung Flu Banking update
Posted On: Thursday - September 17th 2020 8:31PM MST
In Topics: Big-Biz Stupidity Customer Care Kung Flu Stupidity
♪♫ Everybody was Kung Fu banking, let me tell ya they're in there wanking ...♪♫ (OK, younger readers, you don't have to pretend you get that. Older readers, you don't have to laugh if you do.)
We mentioned in our recent short post My 3 cents that the local bank branch has been on the hysterical side of the aisle when it comes to the Kung Flu. I meant to write a short note about what happened, but also I was able to give some feedback.
I'd let myself get pissed off a few weeks ago, when instead of just getting each customer to put that mask on as soon as he gets half-way through the double doors, in this huge lobby with usually 2 to 8 customers, they now are escorting people in. The lady had to come over and unlock the door.* I really didn't berate her, but just gave her a piece of my mind on the whole situation. "When will this stupidity end?!" is the way I put it. A customer in the outer area, 6 ft away from me and my wife, with a mask on, proceeded to get on my case about it. It didn't end happily for us, and I swore to not set foot in there until they get back to normal.
This means going through the drive-through again. I grew up in a family that felt drive-throughs for anything are just a sign of laziness**, so, believe it or not, the June-recently deal with the bank only having the drive-through open was about the 2nd time I'd ever used one at a bank. Kids love those pneumatic tubes, let me tell you, and me too!
Besides not setting foot in the place, I was able to get a word in on the latest customer service survey they sent me. They seem to send me one every coupla' months, and they would always go straight into the paper trash before. This time I sent it in, postage paid. I didn't have any bad marks for the tellers or anything, but was just trying to get to the comment section. "Hey, your COVID nonsense is getting out of hand. JUST STOP!" was how I put it.
Things are getting less and less personable. I doubt it will go back all the way to life in February of this year.
* A day or more later, I did have the thought that maybe this is a security thing more than anything, since customers will have their masks on. Did the bank executive read Peak Stupidity's Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer Re-panic - Part 7 about that? Still, you're letting people in with their masks on anyway, and what if they have the bandana type that just screams "everyone down, fire in the hole!".
** I know they are great for families with multiple kids in the car, so there are good reasons.
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America's Kung Flu recession, women hardest hit! - Part 3
Posted On: Thursday - September 17th 2020 5:56AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Economics
This is a continuation of Peak Stupidity's fisking of an article from The 19th News on-line magazine called America’s first female recession. This writer and article come from the deepest bowels of feminist and feminism hell, respectively, and will be fisked here until we set the record straight, or feminist hell freezes over, whichever comes first. We're continuing from Part 1 and Part 2.
Where we left off one week ago was here:
'It’s a simultaneous feeling of guilt that we are able to do it,” she said, “and sadness that this is the situation we were in.”The upper-middle class Mrs. Ellu Nasser feels (or purports to feel) guilty about completely the wrong thing. She's guilty that not all parents can send their kids to a private school to escape the grinding home life with all those kids around demanding attention and stuff (cooking, cleaning dishes ... jeeezz, Louise!) We'll get to the single Moms later on.
However, I believe Mrs Nasser ought to be (or secretly is) guilty about her warped sense of what being a woman is. She's got a husband who's either a doctor or a nurse. (It's not clear, but he is one of the "heroes" and does pretty well for the family. With some experience a hospital nurse can make some very good money, for some hard work.) She's got multiple kids. Is there something wrong with being an old-fashioned wife? I guess Mrs. Nassar thinks there is, probably based on a lifetime of propaganda from the Lyin' Press. One wonders if she cares one whit about what hardworking Mr. Nasser wants in this regard.
The fall-out"Since 1958 the Communists have slowly made their long march through the institutions. Feminism, the primary weapon against the nuclear family, an anathema to good solid Communism, has pushed women into the labor markets, with a 45 percent infiltration rate. Good going, Comrades!" FIFY.
In 1958, women made up less than a third of the U.S. labor force. It took them 30 more years to reach 45 percent, a pace of growth through the late 20th century that helped usher in the “most significant change in labor markets during the past century,” wrote Harvard economist Claudia Goldin.
Women’s gains in the labor market helped create an economy that, according to some estimates, is $2 trillion larger than it would have been if women’s participation levels remained where they were in 1970, when it really started to skyrocket.Yeah, uhhh, let me explain what a 2 Trillion dollar addition to the economy means. Peak Stupidity is sorely lacking in a post on this, what the Gross Domestic Product is about nowadays. It's not comprised so much of millions of tons of steel, bushels of wheat, vehicular units, and yards of cloth anymore. Services are of course included, but when you get down to the details this means all sorts of NON-productive or even ANTI-productive "work". "Here's your subpoena to appear in court for our SJW lawsuit against your workplace. You've been served." See, "served", so that's a service.
Yeah, this defintely deserves an economics post later, but let me put it this way. That $2 Trillion larger economy includes the HR ladies* and SJW's productively employed at our academic institutions, with a large proportion being women. Hey women, if you stay at home, maybe we men can get MORE stuff done. We'll see you that $2 Trillion and raise you $5 Trillion more.
For the past several decades, though, the gender split in the labor force has largely evened out. Then came 2009, a recession that hurt predominantly male-dominated jobs such as construction and manufacturing. Women overtook men as more than half of the labor force for the first time in history. It has happened again only one other time: In December 2019, when coronavirus was still but a distant headline in China, women surpassed men at 50.04 percent of the labor force.Yea! We took overtook that men that were just in construction and manufacturing. You go, girls! Now, to celebrate, over to the newly constructed mall for some new manufactured dresses and other cheap China-made crap. Economics, bitches!
It was a fleeting breakthrough."All glory is fleeting." - George C. Scott as General George Patton repeating what some Roman slave was alleged to have said.
Nearly 11 million jobs held by women disappeared from February to May, erasing a decade of job gains by women in the labor force.Hmmm, maybe someone should have thought of all this when working on the Infotainment Panic-fest response, Season 1. If we knew that WOMEN would be laid off, hell, we could have hired them all as newscasters - I mean, the news business has weathered this Kung Flu really well, oh and the CDC too ... We could have dubbed the strip clubs as essential, butt-tresseing women's employment and encouraging the use of face masks to boot, two
In June, women regained 2.9 million positions, but those jobs, which are largely in the hospitality field, remain insecure as coronavirus’ continued spread forces new closures.
Depending on the length of this recession and when an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19 is developed, there is a real possibility many jobs lost by women will never come back, said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).The thing is, Miss Carazanna, men are expected to work to support their families. It's their role, and if it's taken away, things go very badly for them. It's not their choice if they lose their families (or never have one) due to a government-mandated business LOCKDOWN. For the women, excepting the very few who are widows. the single ones are their of their choosing and have Big State and the White Knights** to bail them out of anything. For the married women, nobody complains one bit if they fulfill their role and bear and raise the children, excepting the execrable Ellu Nasser and her ilk themselves.
As it stands, about 8 percent of women who have been laid off have zero chance of being called back to the workforce compared to 6.4 percent of men, according to an analysis by EPI. Another 4 percent expect to be called back but likely will not.
Speaking of which, we are done hearing from Mrs. Nasser. However, the article goes on a long ways from after the bitch session from her. As an essential service job, the fisking of this ode to feminist stupidity will be continued, keep men at work here at Peak Stupidity.
* See also Part 2, The Office HR Humor, and Part 3.
** I'm not a particularly big Chateau Heartiste reader, much less fan, but that term fits here.
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