Well, at least Monday only happens once a w….
Oh. Right. It’s happening today again, isn’t it.
Bugger it all, damn and blast!
Or, as the Russians might say:
Хуй тебе в жопу! Закрой свой рот, сука!! Мне насрать на твоё мнение!!! Иди в пизду, ёбаный пидораса блядь!!!! Севодня, это понеделник, ёб твою мать!
(For those of you who do not speak or read Russian, you might be thinking that what I wrote is a bit rude. And you would be quite correct. I DO NOT recommend repeating those phrases on a date with an actual Русская, because she might just бросит стакан воды в твоём лице, да?)
Anyway, since it is Monday, and we do have to get on with our lives, I thought I might start by slaughtering one of the Left’s sacred socialist cows for breakfast:
John Stossel may be a libertarian, but he does have his head screwed on right when it comes to mocking socialism and showing it up for the spectacularly retarded idea that it is.
By the way, Mr. Stossel’s libertarian thinking is going to be severely tested over the next few years, because the reality is that a libertarian’s ideal society does not happen by itself. Free markets and free people are a consequence, not a cause, of good government.
And good government can only happen when the people themselves truly understand that freedom is not the right to do as you please. As I have stated many times before, freedom is the substitution of self-discipline for externally imposed discipline.
That is what makes freedom so terrifying: it means that you, and you alone, are responsible for your choices and your life. And that is also what makes freedom so precious.
Libertarians understand the importance of freedom, but they think it comes into existence quite by magic, as if race, culture, creed, and religion have nothing to do with it. As examples of magical thinking go, this is pretty bad – though not quite as bad as the “magic dirt” types who think that you can just land up on American soil and be American.
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Oh, hey, speaking of the stupidity of “magic dirt”:
I normally really like most of what Prager University produces. Dennis Prager is an interesting chap, even if his approach is very much Alt-Lite and mainstream conservative, and even if he does insist (incorrectly) on using the totally counterfactual phrase, “Judeo-Christian values”. He is a practicing Jew, he should know better. To Jews, that phrase is deeply anti-Semitic.
But in this case, one of those three values is simply nonsense.
Americans are not simply made by importing people from other parts of the world into America. Americans were once a very clear, very distinct group of descendants of British, Dutch, and to some small extent German colonists in the New World. The peculiar and quite anti-historical insistence of Americans on defining themselves based on values, rather than blood, religion, creed, or other measurable markers, has proven to be the country’s undoing.
To be “American” means rather more than merely subscribing to three “values”. Any idiot can subscribe to these things, which means that any idiot can be “American”. A lot of idiots ARE “American” as a result – which goes a rather long way towards explaining how screwed up the country has become since the 1960s.
The civic nationalists are going to learn some very nasty and very painful lessons in the coming years about just how stupid their approach to nationhood and identity really is. It is unavoidable at this point, but they could spare themselves a lot of pain and suffering simply by jettisoning that which does not work – namely, a values-based approach to identity – and embracing that which has historically worked.
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Despite their occasional missteps, Prager U does do an outstanding job overall – especially when it comes to debunking the Satanic evils of socialism and Communism:
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You know how we right-wing nut jobs constantly go on about how unfair, dehumanising, and downright evil the welfare system is? And how the Left constantly gets on our case for being heartless bastards?
Turns out, both sides are correct:
A strange thing happened. At first, I followed my usual food budget and leftover food stamps started piling up. Already corrupted into thinking like a welfare bum, I began to worry that they might be tracked and that I would lose some of my allotment if it didn’t seem like I needed them. So, I bought meat. A lot of meat. We had steak three times a week on average. Up until then we had been eating only a pound of hamburger per week. The food stamps were still piling up so I started buying name brands instead of store brands and bringing home a lot of treats.
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The experience taught me a few things. First, white men aren’t supposed to get public assistance, they’re supposed to pay for other people’s public assistance. Second, welfare corrupts quickly and stifles initiative and self-responsibility just as fast as right-wing “racists” say. Third, the welfare system is as bloated, insane and arbitrary as it seems. Fourth, if you’re getting the full ride and still live in squalor, that’s on you. In fact, I recently read a report revealing that a job had to pay at least $50,000 a year just to break even with the full ride. In other words, if you can’t live a comfortable life on the full ride, you’re an incompetent idiot.
Yeah, Leftists and socialists and other assorted idiots (Lord, forgive me my redundancies) ARE stupid.
And yeah, we on the Right are heartless bastards – at least when it comes to people taking our stuff at gunpoint and giving it to others.
We are heartless bastards who have the ability to see the consequences of our choices. Unlike the Left, we recognise that choosing to make ourselves feel good now leads to horrible outcomes later.
This is what separates the Right from the Left. It is the difference between sober, rational adults, and whiny, tantrum-chucking children.
The Right understands that welfare is not the same as charity. Welfare payments come from our money, and we would rather donate it to a proper Christian charity to give to people who are genuinely going through hard times – not to a bunch of slackers who could be out there working and making up to $50K a year, but won’t because they’re lazy.
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Conservative media darling Allie Stuckey had a go at making a campaign ad for the Democrats – turns out, it’s actually quite good:
I made my very own campaign ad for the Democrats. Hope this helps. pic.twitter.com/AEtrVOtJIJ
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) October 23, 2018
If I were a Leftist, I would probably be nodding alone thinking to myself, “Yep, I agree with everything here”. This is because, as we know quite well these days, Leftists generally have a very severe irony deficiency. That is why their jokes are not funny and they cannot entertain anyone.
Allie Stuckey may well be part of the Alt-Lite – which is to say, she is basically more or less “approved opposition”. But she still does a damned fine job of making fun of the Left, so much props to her for that.
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With HELLOWEEN coming up, it seems highly appropriate to watch a parody cover of one of the cheesiest, stupidest, sappiest bubblegum pop songs of the 90s:
THE MERKINS, whoever the hell they are, just got my vote for next year’s Grammys. Which of course nobody will watch, but that’s OK.
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What do you suppose would happen if Brian Mills, the badass hero of the Taken franchise, was given an assignment to retrieve children from Neverland?
That is messed up… and yet quite funny.
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The Buff Dudes have some great advice about how to stay motivated, strong, and happy:
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So here is a philosophical question for you lot:
What do you suppose would happen if you pitted a certain kind of puffer fish – which is part of a family of some of the most venomous creatures in the world – against some of the nastiest and most toxic reptile and insect predators around?
As one of the comments to that video quite hilariously points out, that puffer fish is the cure to ALL of Australia.
On the other hand – what do you suppose would happen if you pitted a puffer fish against a mantis shrimp?
It makes you wonder, eh? If the puffer fish beats everything from the most lethal place in the world to humans… And the mantis shrimp beats the puffer fish…
HOW THE HELL ARE WE HUMANS IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING!?!?
Oh, that’s right – we humans can catch mantis shrimp and eat them, in spite of their crazy mutant-powered claws.
I’m seriously wondering if Someone Up There isn’t simply dicking with us at this point.
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Pictures from Power Line and other places:
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Bullshido + gym idiots time, boys:
Dim Mak. YGBFKM…
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Heh ))
‘MURICA. F*** YEAH!!!
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This is not bullshido, it is genius:
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And now for some gym beasts to help you get your butt into the squat rack and lift – Mike Tuscherer and Mehdi Hadim:
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#FightForMetal
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Instathot of the day comes from Italy – so a bit of a break from type around here, I suppose – and goes by the name of Sveva Alviti. The reason I find her interesting is because I watched a movie on the flight back from my first trip to Moscow last year called Dalida. Now, if you’ve never seen it, I won’t spoil it for you, but it is actually a genuinely good biopic about probably the most famous singer you’ve never, ever heard of.
Ms. Alviti here is not bad looking either – even if she does need someone to bandage her bleeding heart.
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