Monday morning MAGA hats

by Didact | Jun 10, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Aaaargh… It’s Monday again.

That being said – this past week was a pretty good one, for there were a great many displays of wonderful patriotism and love of nation, and the fighting men who make a nation strong.

So get your MAGA hats out, boys, because even Her Majesty the Queen is getting in on the act:

Now if only the Pommie Bastards would set about Making England Great Again…

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Here’s your feel-good video for the start of the day – and it’s a good ‘un.

The God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, showed everyone who was paying attention exactly why it is that he is an ALPHA among Alphas:

I have absolutely no doubt that a very large number of the men who serve in the nation’s military truly love this man. That is a man who knows what it is to command the absolute loyalty and devotion of men who serve in often thankless and incredibly difficult jobs for miserable pay and under brutal conditions.

And he does it by returning loyalty in kind.

How many men do you know who have the patience to stick around and shake, salute, and personally congratulate nearly A THOUSAND MEN in a single graduating class?

Yeah. Exactly.

That is who the God-Emperor is. I had strong reservations and doubts about him when he announced his intention to run for President in 2015, because I thought that his character was that of a billionaire New York playboy with more money than sense.

I am very happy to have been proven totally and comprehensively wrong.

Donald Trump is a deeply flawed, but fundamentally good man. And he is at his best when he acknowledges in simple and heartfelt ways the men who fight and bleed and die so that the rest of America doesn’t have to.

All hail the God-Emperor.

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Speaking of feel-good – remember how last week I posted up a video from Mark Dice that referenced the We Build the Wall project, an entirely crowd-funded attempt to build a section of the GREAT BIG BEYOOOOOTIFULLL BORDER WALL between the most violent border town in Mexico and the USA?

It’s done:

Now that’s a video to get your blood pumping and your fist beating against your chest – which is exactly what it did for me.

There is nothing quite so inspiring as seeing American grit, ingenuity, pride, and patriotism put to use in defending their own country. God bless ’em, every one.

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Seeing as how it was the 75th anniversary of D-Day last week, and given that not enough attention is perhaps paid to the Pacific Theatre of the war – here is a clip from probably one of the best war movies ever made, Hacksaw Ridge:

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Given the theme of this Monday’s post – which is, basically, to make us all feel good about America and the God-Emperor – here is the full speech that His Most Legendary Astral Majesty, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, gave at the D-Day commemoration last week, and it’s a good ‘un:

There are moments in that speech capable of moving grown men to tears, repeatedly. It’s amazing.

In my opinion, the God-Emperor is not actually a particularly good natural speech-maker – not when he is reading from prepared remarks. His delivery tends to be sonorous and a tad monotonous. He is much better when speaking off the cuff – which, of course, is also when he ends up landing in soup because the idiots on the Left and their whorenalist enablers ALWAYS quote him out of context.

Here is the odd thing, though: if you listen to his prepared remarks, you think he’s not a great speech-maker, but if you read those same remarks, he comes across as positively leonine and statesmanlike. And if you listen to his ad lib remarks, you think that he’s an absolute rhetorical genius (which, in fact, he is), but if you read those same remarks, they are practically unreadable.

It’s a weird paradox, but then it is actually very, very difficult to combine great oratory with great writing. There is only one President in the past 50 years that I can think of who could give brilliant prepared speeches that he himself had written, and also give hilariously awesome ad-libbed press conferences.

That man was, of course, Saint Reagan Magnus of the Right, who was in many ways the philosophical and spiritual predecessor of our beloved God-Emperor.

Donald Trump’s speech is in some respects evocative of Ronald Reagan’s speech from the 40th anniversary of D-Day, called “The Boys of Pointe du Hoc“. And I have to say, it is somehow deeply fitting that these two legendary men would deliver speeches 35 years apart that honoured the greatest generation that their nation had to offer.

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#BasedTucker points out that the God-Emperor is #WINNING!!! so much that even his greatest enemies are adopting many of his signature ideas as their own:

It probably will not do anything to help Fauxcahontas. The Daemoncratic Party has lost a huge segment of its blue-collar working-class base to the Republicans, who are rapidly turning into the party of White People – who, by the way, the GOPe absolutely hate.

The true legacy of the God-Emperor will not be the BIG BEYOOOTIFULLL WALL!!!, assuming the damned thing ever gets built in the first place.

No, his true legacy will be the lasting changes that he imposes on the Republican Party.

In many ways, he is actually turning the Republican Party back to its roots. The Republicans, you may remember, started out as the party of big business and corporate interests – and they sure as hell haven’t changed in the slightest over the past 150 years in that respect.

But they also started out as the party of tariffs. They were willing and able to use tariffs to stop foreign competitors from flooding America with cheap products, and wanted to protect American industries.

A fierce debate has raged in economic circles ever since about the sensibility of those tariff policies. There is an excellent argument to be made about the fact that protecting dying industries simply prolongs their suffering and diverts productive capital from being deployed to younger, more vibrant, growth-oriented and highly competitive industries.

We can, and should, have those debates even today. There is no good reason to protect General Motors, for instance, if they insist on producing shoddy vehicles with low build quality and crappy features within the USA.

But there is no good reason to encourage GM to shift its production to Mexico either. The Mexicans should not be getting American jobs – and Americans should not be getting Mexican ones.

There is every good reason to encourage Toyota and Nissan and Renault to come over to the USA and build factories there and hire American workers – thereby rendering GM impotent and useless because of its own obsolete manufacturing processes and extremely high cost base.

Tariffs can achieve these ends, when applied properly, without protecting obsolescent or dying industries. The free-trader argument against tariffs is misinformed and rooted in a 200-year-old fallacy known as “comparative advantage”, the basis of which is completely unsound when you actually look at it.

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The F-15 Eagle is still a better bet today than any of its more advanced fifth-generation counterparts, like the F-22 (as good as that aircraft is – it still has a laundry list of problems as long as my arm) and the truly abominable F-35:

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I posted up a China Uncensored video about why the Chinese military is overrated a while back. Here is a similar perspective from a different channel on the same subject:

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Good bloody riddance to ObamaF***ingCare:

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AOC vs Economist – WHO YA GOT?!?!?:

Actually, the economist there is wrong about one thing.

A ridiculously high minimum wage, combined with extremely tight border controls, is a terrific deterrent against illegal immigration.

You can have a crazy high minimum wage, but if you keep the borders porous, of course employers and businesses will always hire illegals, every single time.

If you have very tight border controls but a really low minimum wage, then the people who will get exploited the most, will always be the ones with the lowest skill levels – and in the American context, this means teenagers, especially black teens, because they don’t have any skills to speak of.

But here’s the thing about being very young: you have plenty of opportunities to move on and away, because you have time on your side. As you get older and pick up more skills, experience, and understanding of the world,

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Reason #1,482,950 to hate Shrillennials:

Many of us have probably adopted the habit of sending our friends a text to let them know we’ve arrived at their home – but have you ever thought about the impact this is having on the doorbell trade?

This is a question recently pondered by US-based Twitter user Stella Donnelly Stan, who claimed millennials are ‘killing’ the industry by messaging rather than ringing.

Earlier this week he tweeted: ‘Can someone write an article on millennials [sic] killing the doorbell industry by texting “here”?’

His tweet clearly resonated, as it attracted 122,627 retweets, 577,468 likes and dozens of comments on the thread.

One woman admitted the doorbell ‘legit scares’ her now as it seems ‘so aggressive’ compared to a text.

She added: ‘I jump every time. It just seems so aggressive now when you could just text.’

Another Twitter user said his cat has learned to accept a human he invites into the house if they’ve not rang the bell, but views people who do as a ‘danger’.

One person joked that ringing the doorbell has become an outdated tradition these days, likening it to a phone call ‘from an elderly relative or some kind of scam’.

‘Even just walking up to the door and knocking has been replaced with a text saying ‘here”,’ conceded another.

During the heated discussion, Stella went so far as to dub it an ‘anxiety button’, adding: ‘It gives us anxiety I think mainly, and we have the option not to.’

Another admitted: ‘If I’m not expecting someone, I don’t even answer the door. I will look through the peephole very quietly and decide if I’m going to answer based on who’s on the other side of the door.

I’m willing to forgive a woman who jumps at the sound of a doorbell… but a man who does the same, needs to turn in his Man Card for immediate revocation and destruction.

The thing is, though… I have to admit that I’m kind of with the Millennialtards on this one, but not because I’m afraid to answer the doorbell.

No, it’s mostly because I simply want to be LEFT. THE. F***. ALONE.

The doorbell here in my parents’ house rings every freaking hour in the morning some days, with people coming in to do work in the house for various things. I am seriously considering installing an electrocution device rigged to zap anyone outside of immediate family.

I’m thinking something like a hidden high-amperage taser pointed at about chest level on the average person around here – at 5’10”, I am considerably above that average height, so it would have to be set at about the 4’8″ mark – that blasts any unwelcome visitor, which in my mind is ALL OF THEM, with a nasty electrical shock every time the doorbell or the intercom rings.

At least then I might get some f***ing PEACE AND QUIET!!!

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For any of you single blokes out there with an interest in Eastern European women and traveling – y’all might want to check out Latvia:

From what little I know of Latvia – and it is very little, so feel free to completely slap down my advice if you wish – it has many of the attractions of Russia but without quite so many of the drawbacks.

Namely, it is more accessible, with a relatively higher percentage of English-speakers, and has a somewhat friendlier attitude toward foreigners.

In my personal opinion, bolstered by experience, however: you simply cannot do better than Russian women for a combination of looks, elegance, grace, intelligence, and femininity.

The only problem with them is that they come with a super-sized helping of batshit insanity. But, y’know, your mileage may vary.

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Sounds like Prime Minister Justin Bieber is well into the quacking stage of his premiership at this point:

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Jean Reno’s signature French-accented mumblegrowl is back – WITH GUNS!!!:

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If you have a liberal in your family, and he still identifies as male, and he is somehow married – well, this diagnosis and prevention method might cause a few problems:

But I’m pretty damned sure it would work.

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Related – I have long believed, and argued, that one can NEVER have too many guns.

Mat Best and his buddies have done their absolute damnedest to prove me wrong:

The funniest part had to be the chainsaw segment. I hate horror films, and yet I actually want to see that as a full-length movie.

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Dennis Prager may well be a Neo-Palestinian and talk a lot of nonsense about “Judaeo-Christian” values. There are no such things and it’s not hard to prove that. But, I will give him his due and readily credit him with providing superb rational explanations for the Bible as the best source of wisdom that we could possibly ask for:

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The story of Tommy Morrison is a rather interesting one, of great talent gone to great waste by bad choices and worse advice:

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While time does not appear to have made 7-time Mr. Olympia championship bodybuilder Phil Heath any more humble, or any less profane, he does appear to have matured and grown as a person. And that is a very Good Thing, especially when you look at how he acted after he lost the title to Shawn Rhoden:

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Unlike pretty much the entire show that preceded it, the ending to The Big Bang Theory was actually very good:

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Karma is an absolute bitch – especially if your name is “Robert de Niro”:

Two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro’s estranged second wife Grace Hightower revealed she wants half of his $500million fortune while at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing on Thursday.

However, the 64-year-old former TWA flight attendant signed a prenuptial agreement in 2004 limiting her to a $6million apartment, $500,000 cash, and $1million in alimony – according to Page Six.

Grace’s attorney Allan Mantel argued that the prenup’s language entitled her to half of what the 75-year-old acting legend earned during the remarriage, including from his ’35 businesses.’

Aside from his thriving movie career, Robert owns the Greenwich Hotel, the Nobu/Tribeca Grill restaurant chains, Tribeca Film Festival, and Canal Productions.

Career-wise, Hightower has dabbled in acting, singing, and philanthropy; and she founded Coffee of Grace six years ago ‘to help rebuild the economy of Rwanda.’

It’s technically the second divorce for the acrimonious couple – who met in 1987, wed in 1997, filed for divorced in 1999, renewed their vows in 2004, before splitting for good in November.

This, by the way, is what RdN’s ex-wife looks like:

Ouch.

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A little Tolkien-esque music is never a bad thing:

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Pics time:

I have to admit, that is pretty horrifying – and perfectly valid to protest against…

Floriduh memes are WAY over the top this week:

This next one had me absolutely paralysed with laughter in a very public coffee shop – I got quite a few odd looks from other patrons wondering what the hell was wrong with me:

Actually, given what I remember of women in Florida, from the last time that I visited, which was like 10 years ago… I have to admit that I see where the guy was coming from:

Never let it be said that I am sexist:

Khaleesi has been getting in on the whole Floriduh thing too:

Jesus loves rednecks!

Ya, srsly, dude…

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Dog of the week is the Belgian Malinois:

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Apparently there was a sort of reality contest held in Thailand where Buakaw Banchamek, a.k.a. “Human Terminator”, trained 20 guys in the Art of (Breaking a Man’s Body, Will, and Spirit with) Eight Limbs.

Did I ever mention that the Buakaw-800’s training regime is truly terrifyingly awesome?

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Just in case I haven’t made it clear in previous posts – DO NOT piss off Buakaw Banchamek:

Good Lord. No wonder Vietnam and Myanmar leave Thailand the hell alone. Buakaw Banchamek is what the Bogeyman looks for under his bed before he goes to sleep.

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Here’s your astronomy fix for the day:

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Time to laugh at some gym idiocy:

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And now for a gym beast, and you don’t get much beastlier than Hafthor Bjornsson on leg day:

732lbs for 8 reps… holy SHIT.

And then he does 15 reps of over 515lbs.

Given those weights, I don’t care whether he hits depth or not on his squats. His workouts are insane.

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#BetterMetalSnake

DIG DIG DIG THAT HOLE!!!

Speaking of Thor…

I did not think that it was possible for a band goofier than POWERWOLF to exist in the same dimension and Universe as ours – but I was ever so wrong:

I’ve been listening to their new album for the last few days, and it is killer. Cheesier than a Swiss fondue, to be sure – but that is sort of to be expected, given that the singer is from Switzerland.

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Your starting Instathot of the week is some chick called Abby Dowse. I have no idea who she is or why she is famous, but I’m willing to bet that her body composition boasts a very high percentage of silicone.

She is rather on the skinny side for my liking, and even though I do like a girl with assets, I don’t find silicone particularly interesting outside of the periodic table of elements, but hey, it takes all kinds, right?