The Quest for PeakStupid

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The overlooked value of social media is how it provides people with a global platform for broadcasting rank stupidity. This week’s first contestant in the race to the bottom is Ken Martin, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, who plowed new ground by comparing events in Minnesota to those in -- wait for it -- Iran. That’s right; thousands of Iranians being slaughtered because they want to be free of the mullahs is exactly like one American being killed for trying to run down an ICE agent.

"From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis,” wrote Martin, “people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability. In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms.” Which is the point where his false equivalence jumps the rails. American protesters, both paid and organic, are not being denied a single basic freedom.

They can protest to their heart’s content, and they can scream and yell until they go hoarse. What they cannot do is stop the enforcement of immigration laws that, until ten minutes ago, virtually every Dem politician of my lifetime supported. It’s true. As Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up. Even left-leaning publications such as The New Yorker make the point. Both Clintons, Obama, Chuck Schumer, and even Potato Joe are on record as opposing illegal immigration and ticking off its cost to the country and the taxpayer. But Martin, apparently, represents a new line of thinking that is a prerequisite for being the chairman of as august a body as the DNC.

Because PeakStupidTM is a never-ending contest, it did not take long for another worthy contender to weigh in. This is a person who posts under the handle ‘justnotsamantha’ who lives in Minneapolis, and this comment may be record-setting for its lack of self-awareness. You can read it here. If you’d rather not, Sam was headed to the grocery store when it occurred to her that the rest of us needed to know just how clueless she is. So, she fired up the iPhone and comedy gold poured out.

“it occurred to me that I should have specified to my husband exactly which grocery store I was going to just in case, so I'll do that after this video.” Sam is an American citizen, so ‘just in case’ what exactly? I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but ICE does not habitually snatch up young AWFLs (affluent white female liberals), not even to momentarily shut them up. What Sam left out was how the last several months demonstrated to anyone paying attention -- a demographic that does not include her -- that the real threat to white women is career criminals turned loose by the justice system.

This sad and sorry truth has played out with murders in Charlotte and Auburn, Alabama; it continued with a woman being set on fire on a commuter train in Chicago, and another lady being doused with acid in Savannah. There are, no doubt, other similar stories of criminals gone wild, courtesy of leftist judges and prosecutors, but our pal Sam is concerned about being snatched up by ICE. Because that’s what she’s been told to fear. As the saying goes, you can’t make this stuff up.

Not to be outdone, the sheriff of Philadelphia has weighed in. According to Rochelle Bilal, ICE agents are “madeup, fake, wannabe law enforcement," and she’s threatening to bring the smoke, whatever that means, if they dare step out of line in her town. In case you’re curious, the high sheriff’s role in Philly is to transport prisoners from jail to court and back, secure the courthouse, and serve court orders. These are all valid functions, but they are not the stuff of even Columbo, let alone Dirty Harry. Chasing fugitives sounds like actual law enforcement, but otherwise, this woman provides a sterling example of one’s mouth writing checks that one’s body is not likely to cash.

None of the people who are criticizing ICE or making this incident into an example of gender relations in general (and there are many of the latter) has or had a thing to say about any of the four incidents cited above. Or about Laken Riley’s murder in Athens, Georgia, at the hands of an illegal immigrant. Or any of the other violent crimes carried out by this cohort of non-residents who are being so vigorously defended.

It is selective outrage at scale, and it goes back to the New Yorker article cited in the third paragraph, in which a newspaper editor has a moment of remarkable honesty in criticizing Dems for a problem of their own making. By the 2020 election, not one word in the party platform spoke to border security. Any mention of deportation was couched as something to be avoided, and the party kicked around ways of making it easier for people to immigrate.

Not one of those ideas resonated with anything close to a majority of Americans on an issue that was crucial to Trump’s election. But somehow, according to the party’s bright lights, ICE is on par with Iran’s secret police. Oh, yes; I almost forgot. None of the women making gender hay out of Renee Good’s death has uttered a syllable about the misogyny baked into present-day Iranian culture, the sort of stifling and genuine oppression that the country’s women and men alike want out from under.

Young people in Iran are exposing the ridiculousness of their American counterparts, exposing the latter’s vapid sense of moral relativism and the belief that no one culture is better or worse than any of the others. The American young also like to pretend they’re living in The Handmaid’s Tale while leaving out the part where the author was addressing life under the ayatollahs, or that they are struggling under the yoke of a dictator while freely voicing and publishing their hatred of said dictator and anyone who even remotely supports him.

The best thing about PeakStupidTM is that it keeps on giving. It is bound by neither time nor place; it is a prize that appeals to all while ensuring that it can be attained by none. Because any time you think you have heard the dumbest thing ever, along comes someone else to raise (or is to lower?) the bar. It is the eternal contest, one that ignores all differences in race, sex, ethnicity, shoe size, golf score, and all other points of individual differentiation. And it is glorious.

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