Mondays are the bane of our existence, but as what can’t be cured must be endured, we are stuck with them. So we might as well make the best of the situation.
And few things are more endearing or amusing than watching a certain Milton Friedman making socialists and hippies look stupid with seemingly effortless skill.
His student, Thomas Sowell, is no intellectual slouch either:
Now don’t get me wrong, both Prof. Friedman and Prof. Sowell got a number of important things quite wrong.
Milton Friedman was not quite the legendary defender of laissez-faire economics that his fans think he was. He was in fact a neo-Keynesian heretic, and his system of monetarist economics essentially took the original Keynesian notion of aggregate demand and supply – absurd contradictions in terms if ever such things existed – and focused on the supply side of things rather than the demand side.
It must never be forgotten that Dr. Friedman was a major part of the reason why payroll tax deductions exist – it was his idea.
Nor should it be forgotten that the very reason why central banks around the world have so much power these days, is precisely because of the monetarist school of economics, popularised by Prof. Friedman, which posits that it is control over the money supply that is essential to ensuring a smoothly running economy. (He was right about this, as he was about a lot of things. It was the way that this insight was used that has been nothing less than a disaster for currencies and nations around the world.)
And it should not be forgotten that Dr. Sowell has long argued that the Great Depression was caused by the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. In fact, the impact on American exports and imports of that act was quite limited, as Vox Day proved by using the government’s own figures about 10 years back in his book, The Return of the Great Depression.
No man is perfect, no matter how intelligent or well-informed. That should not diminish the achievements of men like Milton Friedman, who did so much to advance the causes of free markets, free people, and individual responsibility.
We of the Right may not like many of the conclusions that Milton Friedman came to, but his intellectual contributions are indisputable, and his consummate skill and signature sense of humour in taking on and destroying the evil of the Left in debate.
Case in point – here is his classic second interview with Phil Donahue in which he displays that very same intellectual firepower coupled with gentle humour that made him so famous:
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This contribution comes from our friend The Male Brain, and it talks about how the various platforms – which go well beyond just Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on – seek to own you:
My thanks as always to Dawn Pine for his valuable contributions. And, as always, if y’all have similar things to add, send ’em over. This blog is valuable primarily because of its readers, not its writer.
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Your comedy read of the week – Sunny Leone, former porn actress turned Bollywood sex icon, read out a fictitious phone number in a film recently, but it turns out that this was a very real phone number belonging to a dude, and he’s now getting bombarded with hundreds of calls by blue-pill chodes from across India:
A popular Bollywood actress has apologized on behalf of her fans after a Delhi man was bombarded by hundreds of calls meant for the former adult-film star.
In the film Arjun Patiala, a character played by Bollywood sex icon Sunny Leone, calls out her fictional telephone number – a number which happens to belong to a non-fictional, very real 26-year-old named Puneet Agarwal.
Agarwal now receives more than 100 calls a day – the vast majority of which are from Indian men demanding to speak with Leone, a former porn star.
Asked about the unfortunate situation, Leone said she was “sorry” and speculated that there “must be some really interesting people calling” Agarwal.
But for Agarwal, a simply apology might not be enough.
“I don’t even dream anymore,” he said in an interview with the BBC. “The phone keeps ringing until four in the morning.”
This strikes me as more than a little ridiculous, even by the pathetic standards of most Indian guys.
After all, this is what Sunny Leone used to look like:
This is what she looks like now, at 38:
I mean, she’s not bad-looking or anything, but she isn’t amazing either. Well, she might be amazing by Indian standards, but that’s another story – Indian men have notoriously low standards when it comes to their women, and they have some serious hang-ups about white women. The Indian Race Troll exists for a reason.
That being said – Ms. Leone rather has her head screwed on properly when it comes to desis in America.
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Dave Cullen explores the truth, or perhaps lack thereof, of the tagline, “Get woke, go broke”:
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Who among you remembers the original He-Man movie, starring Dolph Lundgren?
I remember it pretty well. Frank Langella’s performance was quite remarkable, given how utterly stupid the script was.
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Can’t believe I still haven’t had a chance to play Batman: Arkham Knight yet:
As chilling and horrifying as Jason Todd’s death in the DC Comics canon was, it is far, far worse in the game. Jason was tortured for over a year by a psychopathic madman before being shot – and that still didn’t kill him.
And the worst part is that in the game, Batman cannot actually kill the Joker – because it’s literally all in his own head.
Also – can we all just agree here and now that Kevin Conroy is THE greatest voice of Batman ever.
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Our girl from N’Orleans has some very trenchant, and sensible, things to say about women who assault men and get KTFO in the process:
The problem with women these days is that they want all of the protections of the patriarchy while still attacking that same system that defends them. It is ridiculous and illogical – but then again, logic is not a woman’s strong point in general.
And of course they are enabled by the innumerable and insufferable blue-pill cucks who think that a woman’s honour must be defended at all times.
This applies across cultures and continents, and it is pretty pathetic to see. Here is a great example from India – home to some of the worst blue-pill men in the entire world:
Notice how all of the men suddenly leap to the defence of a ball-busting bitch?
In this day and age, it takes a great deal of physical provocation from a woman to get a man to strike back. There is no excuse for a man to attack a woman without provocation. But, if a man is pushed far enough by a woman hitting him, and he strikes back…
It’s her fault, not his, and she deserves to be beaten down exactly like a man would.
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Mark Dice has a great time mocking the hell out of the Mooch, who has turned on his former boss and shown himself to be the scumbag traitor that he really is:
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Whenever blacks, Hispanics, liberaltards, and so on, claim that America is a “racist” nation, I simply look at them like they are utter morons – because they are:
Ta-Nehisi Coates loves to claim that America is racist and no matter how much data you throw at him and his kind, he will never see anything other than a RAAACISS!!!! country.
I think he’s full of shit.
I lived in America for 12 years. I have never seen a less racist, more tolerant, and more thoroughly decent and welcoming people than white Americans.
That is why it makes my blood boil when such nonsense is peddled as serious commentary. I came to America as a guest and was treated with kindness and humanity. Meanwhile, Americans – well, fake Americans – who were born in the country insist that their own people are bigots and racists, contrary to all of the vast amounts of evidence available from their own lives.
Those people are not Americans, and should not be in America.
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Related – #BasedTucker was “vacationed” right after he pointed out same very simple basic truths about “white supremacy”:
Of course, Fox News, being the cucks that they are, refuse to upload that video. But the reality is that #BasedWhiteMan is right. White supremacist rhetoric IS NOT a problem in the USA.
I’m a brown man who lived in the USA for 12 years. I did a decent amount of traveling throughout the country to some of the whitest and least diverse states and towns in the Union. Not once, in that ENTIRE time, did I ever feel as though white people discriminated against me because of the colour of my skin.
There was certainly discrimination against me – by other Asians, especially by Chinese. If you want to see real racism, try working with the Chinese, who are some of the most racist people on the planet, some of the biggest racial supremacists around, and you’ll see what actual, honest-to-God racism is like.
But white people in the West are absolute milquetoasts when it comes to being racist.
Pointing out that Leftists are the biggest racists of all is, of course, ineffective and pointless rhetoric. It doesn’t work.
But maybe, just maybe, it is well past time to start taking the Left’s claims about whites being racist at face value – by insisting that whites have an absolute right to their own homelands and their own nations, and an equally absolute right to throw out ANYONE, black, brown, yellow, red, orange, green, pink with purple polka dots, who they don’t like or approve of.
Hey, fair’s fair. If the Left wants a race war, why not give them one? They’ll lose, in spectacular fashion.
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Los Angeles is a shithole. Case closed:
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Your long read of the week comes via the Department of Righteous Shootings, and concerns a man named Tony Martin, who shot a Romany burglar who broke into his country farmhouse. Said burglar got a back peppered full of lead for his troubles.
The farmer got 5 years for manslaughter.
I’ll wait for y’all to get your blood pressure under control before you read further:
Did he never feel remorse at killing a 16-year-old? ‘I’ve been called a “kiddie killer”,’ he says, both baffled and furious. But he still believes, vehemently, that he did the right thing. ‘I did nothing wrong,’ he insists. ‘I did what anyone would do.’
And he’d do it again? ‘If the circumstances were the same, yes. Anyone would.’
We go over the events of that night. He gets wound up describing how he lay there, listening to the intruders. ‘I thought: “Right, Tony. This is it. What do you do now?” ’ It was dark. He puts his hand to his chest and describes the ‘boom, boom, boom’ his heart was making.
‘I don’t know if it was the adrenaline — but I was terrified. But you know what courage is? I didn’t until then. It’s when you overcome your fear.’
He got out of bed, couldn’t at first find his gun, and then he did. He didn’t know who or what he was firing at, but he fired and fired.
Let’s be clear about this: PommieBastardLand is BONED. They gave up their ancient right to keep and bear arms; owning a firearm, especially in the city, is practically impossible these days.
And if you Americans don’t wise the hell up, y’all are going to wake up about 20 years from now and realise that you are in the exact same boat that your British ancestors were in. White Brits don’t recognise their own country anymore. They aren’t safe in their own homes anymore. They can’t walk in public in their own streets without fear anymore.
Living in modren Britain, at least in the cities, is very much like living in NYFC (the more “vibrant” parts, anyway) or San Francisco.
Hell, I’m thinking about going to London soon for the first time in over 4 years – and I’m not really looking forward to it, given how FUBAR’d the city has become.
Don’t let what happened to Britain, happen to America – leastways in states like Texas, which still understands what it means to be proud and free.
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Actually, since you’re in the mood for long reads – here is one that came to me courtesy of our friend the Gentleman Adventurer and his weekly links segment, which goes deep into detail about the corrupt and evil nature of the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT+ movement.
Spoiler alert – the Russkies DO NOT take kindly to homos:
First, let’s toss out all the stupid and ambiguous terms and expressions imposed upon us by the leaders of the Empire. For example, we could agree to ditch the value-loaded term “gay” and replace it by a value-free term “homosexual” (well, since homosexual is value-free, homosexual activistshave declared it “offensive” and they demand that only “gay” be used, thus imposing a value-loaded term in lieu of the correct scientific designation). And if the LGBTQIAPK+ Lobby excoriates us for doing so, we could always declare that from now on, “gays” shall only be called “sads” (primarily on account of all the pathology and dysfunction which typically come along with homosexuality: most psychologists and psychiatrists are quite aware of that comorbidity, but speaking about it would be a career-ending mistake for them). In fact, let’s try a little thought experiment.
Let’s imagine that we organize a public debate, a town hall meeting if you want, on the topic of homosexuality. And for that purpose, we establish the following rules:
1) Homosexuals are only to be referred to as “sads”
2) Those refusing to use that term will be immediately labeled “heterophobes” and “closet heteros in deep denial”.
How many people do you think would accept that?
How would you feel if you were told that you need to comply with such outrageous demands?
Well, then why would anybody expect us to accept the very same nonsense, only in reverse?!
I know a few Russian people, I speak the language (extremely badly), and I have spent a decent amount of time in the Rodina – far, far more than your average casual tourist has.
I can tell you this from personal experience: the Russians are a warm, welcoming, and thoroughly decent people who generally could not care less who you sleep with or how you do it, as long as you do so behind closed doors.
They also celebrate both masculinity and femininity, expressed in their fullest and best forms. That is why they like their men to be big and strong, and their women to be svelte and beautiful.
Most of their population actually falls well short on both counts, by the way. It is not funny how many fat guys you will see in a Russian gym in Moscow at peak hour. But you will also see quite a few big jacked dudes who look like they bench-press cars for fun.
And let’s not even get started on all of the beautiful women in skintight Spandex – as I have written here many times, if you have never been to a gym at peak hour in Moscow, you have not lived.
That being said – the Russians are also a fundamentally conservative people, who thoroughly dislike radical notions of sexuality and how men should act. They believe in the family unit and their way of life is anchored within their clear-cut ideas about the man as the leader of and provider for a family, and the woman as the subordinate and second-in-command.
They do not hold truck with any nonsense about gender-swapping, transsexuality, homosexuality, or any other such degenerate garbage.
They are an admirable and decent people. Americans could learn a lot from them, if they bothered to try.
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Your intellectual video of the week concerns Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis and his elucidations on the nature of war:
Gen. Mattis was actually a bit of a disappointment as Defence Secretary. I expected him to take a reaper’s scythe to the puffed-up potentates left over from Obarmy’s time, but that didn’t happen. And I expected him to ensure that the US Armed Forces would become far more deadly and far less politically correct.
I realise such things take time when it comes to delivering a vastly more dangerous and lean Army, Navy, and especially Air Force. (The Marine Corps is still probably the least converged of all of the services, but that’s not saying much, these days – and their air arm is still obsessed with this silly idea of V/STOL jets.)
The Army needs better and fitter recruits and leaner weapons systems. The Navy needs more ships to patrol the Pacific and counter China. The Air Force needs a less actively stupid fighter weapons system than the F-35 – and so too do the Navy and the Marines, actually. And the Marine Corps needs to be focused into a truly deadly amphibious assault force, which it was supposed to be from the beginning.
That means getting rid of women in ALL of the services, stripping down the incredibly stupid and absurdly expensive weapons systems that are all the rage in all of the services, and focusing doctrine and training methods on the most lethal methods and applications of force possible.
And it also means using the US military, first and foremost, to protect the US borders.
But it just didn’t happen.
Instead, Gen. Mattis appeared to spend far more time trying to tell the God-Emperor to keep forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria – thereby perpetuating the very conflicts that have drained America’s blood and treasure to the point where the country’s armed forces are basically a gigantically expensive paper tiger.
Nonetheless, the fact remains that Gen. Mattis is a true scholar of the art of war – even if he was a lot more “Same Old, Same Old”, and a lot less “Blood ‘N’ Guts” than we would have liked.
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Why Napoleon lost the big one to the Duke of Rain Boots – uh, I mean, Wellington:
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Dethklok. Enough said:
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Jezza on the subject of cycles – warning, he does tend to get a bit heated about it:
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His fellow wazzock, Captain Slow, talks about the utterly useless Prince Charles:
In defence of the Prince of Wales, the man is in fact rather sensible when it comes to the horrors of modern architecture, and he is actually much, much smarter than his reputation as a jug-eared dunce would suggest.
But he is utterly stupid when it comes to “climate change”.
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More wazzockery, because too much is never enough:
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Pics, girls, guns:
The story behind that picture is best captured in this here headline:
Back to the funnies:
Cat-5 FloriDUH incoming!!!
Your “AFRICA WINS AGAIN!” moment of the week:
You gotta read the actual news story behind that picture. It’s an absolute scream.
Speaking of funny smells…
That one has the words, “y’all hold my beer and watch this”, all over it.
Your Killer Klown moment of the week:
This is why most sensible people believe in strict clown control.
Your Delicious Godly Meal for the week:
Chick-Fil-A make great fast food and are run by really good and decent God-fearing people. And they do a phenomenal job of pissing off the soyboy vegan weenies of the Left. Get thy hindquarters hence and buy thyself a chicken burger today.
Hey, it’s a SPIDER. I would justify carpet-bombing a neighbourhood to get rid of a bunch of tarantulas.
Also known as “Thomas Crapper’s Theory of Energy Refutation”.
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Your dog of the week is the giant, and mildly terrifying, Central Asian Shepherd Dog:
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Dear oh dear, we’re at the gym fails segment. This week, we have a bit of a treat, as we see the Trap Lord himself roasting the biggest gym idiots in the world – CrossShitters – over their ridiculous “games”:
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And now for some more of the gym beasts from the History Channel’s series about the The Strongest Man in History:
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Your bullshido beatdown of the week is once again about perhaps the greatest P4P nak muay ever, Samart Payakaroon, with careful and detailed analysis of his remarkable striking style and amazing footwork:
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And here’s your Buakaw Brutalisation for this horrible day:
DON’T. F***. WITH. BUAKAW.
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Whoever it is that comes up with these MetalTrump mashups, I would like to shake his hand and buy him a beer – hell, TEN beers. He’s a damned genius.
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#MadeOfMetal
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I’m in a generous mood this Monday, so instead of just one Instathot, you’re gonna get a whole team of them. They call themselves the “Soul Sisters”, and they are a squad of professional cheerleaders from St. Petersburg in Russia. They are in quite high demand for sporting events all across the country – and you can jolly well see why.
That’s it for this Monday. Now get out there and crush it.
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