Lord, please make Monday go away.
*bows head and prays*
Aw, dammit, STILL Monday.
Oh well. Let’s get on with it, then.
This past weekend saw a highly anticipated clash between the two best lightweights in the UFC. One, of course, was a bit more “best” than the other – actually, Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Eagle of Dagestan, was so much better that he took everything that Dustin Poirier could throw at him, and simply shrugged it off.
Let me preface this by stating plainly that I didn’t watch any of the fights. I couldn’t. But I still follow along with the sport, and this fight was of great interest to me. And I have to say that if Khabib isn’t the very best pound-for-pound fighter in the world right now, then he is certainly a contender for the title.
I mean, the dude got put into a freakin’ guillotine, which is a scary choke, and simply stayed calm, worked his way out of it, and then turned the tables on one of the most well-rounded, dangerous, and skilled fighters anywhere in the world, and choked him out.
The man’s a true beast.
The Russians that I know are, of course, absolutely delighted by Khabib’s win. He might be from Dagestan and all, so he isn’t actually Russian, technically, but they really do consider him to be “their man”. He is hugely famous in Russia and it is common to see men sporting his face on their T-shirts there.
While we’re on the subject of mixed martial arts, take a look at this video from one of the better MMA commentary channels out there, MixedMollyWhoppery, talking about “The Notorious” Conor McGregor, who has basically gone full heel now:
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The Sun is bright, the sky is blue (or at least, that is true in some parts of the world), and Serena Williams has lost her fourth straight Grand Slam singles final.
Life is good:
I have seen a number of pundits argue that the thought of winning championship #24 has Serena Williams getting nervous and flustered during the big points. That is a possibility, to be sure.
However, she has been beaten time and again by players that she has completely dominated in the past, on the biggest stages in the world, and she has won more Grand Slams than any other woman in the world – than ALL of the women in the entire top 20, COMBINED.
The idea that the “pressure” is getting to her, seems highly incongruous with her past behaviour.
I think a much better explanation has to do with the fact, and it is a fact, that the younger generation of women now understands how to beat her.
Serena Williams is in her late thirties now. Her foot speed and power have declined significantly from her heyday. And on top of that, the other top 5 or so players have all figured out that the moment they start hitting deep into the court, Serena has absolutely no clue how to respond.
That’s actually about all it takes. Serena has a big serve – by women’s standards – and a big grunty forehand. And that’s it. Unlike the true GOAT, His Fedness himself, Serena does not have an all-court, all-shot game. She has only a few effective weapons. She uses them very well to beat the shit out of the ball, but beyond that she has nothing much to offer.
I am very much looking forward to the day that she retires. And I hope that when she does, Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles will remain unbroken.
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Here’s your weekly dose of great history, courtesy of Kings & Generals – for my money, the best history channel on YouTube – and concerns the epic, and terrible, Battle of Stalingrad:
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Our Blue Collar buddies ask whether it makes sense to stop Commiefornians from voting in local elections when they move to less FUBAR’d states like Texas and Arizona. For those of you sitting on the fence on this subject, the only acceptable answer is, of course… “OBVIOUSLY you should stop those damned Commies from turning God’s own country into a socialist shithole!!!”:
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The one and only Ann Coulter highlights a growing reality about the current state of affairs in the USA – the fact that conservatives, or at least the ones who are awake and paying attention, have zero trust whatsoever when it comes to liberals:
Leaving aside the usual suspects, who are rushing to the microphones to demand the immediate confiscation of all guns, liberals are appealing to us to come together in good faith and formulate a plan to keep guns out of the hands of these monsters, using fair process and common sense.
The only problem is that no one on their side believes in good faith, fair process or common sense. Here’s the reality: We don’t trust the other side, nor should we.
Americans used to be able to rely on two bulwarks to protect us from stupidity:
1) Legal process — The genius of our founders was to strictly limit the power of capricious, and often armed, government officials and to create a government of laws that made major changes difficult, but not impossible.
You want a new amendment to the Constitution? Get 38 states to ratify it, two-thirds of the Senate to vote for it, the president to sign it. There — you’ve changed the constitution. You oppose a law? Run for office, put a proposition on the ballot, donate to a campaign, persuade your fellow citizens — or move to a different state.
2) Common sense — We also used to be able to assume that a basic reasonableness undergirded our society, flowing across generational lines, political divides, racial differences and policy disputes. Until the 1970s, for example, federal courts mostly enforced actual legal and constitutional rights on the books. The other branches of government tended to perform their roles in good faith — or at least not in obvious bad faith.
Whether you were a Taft Republican or a JFK Democrat, you believed that we had a border, that people here illegally would be processed according to law, that there were two sexes, that free speech was a hallmark of our nation, and that a kid could dress up as a cowboy or Indian for Halloween without being branded a “racist.”
Naturally, therefore, my first instinct was to assume that our shared respect for process and decency remained. But I now realize that’s wrong.
It has taken several decades and no small number of beatings with a clue-bat, but a large number of conservatives are finally beginning to realise that the United States of America is no longer one unified country – if, indeed, it ever was. It is now at least two separate nations, split along highly charged ideological lines, and with ever less in common between the two major factions.
On a related note, John Hinderaker at Power Line asks what is, at this point, a rather rhetorical question about whether or not Americans can coexist with each other. The answer, of course, is “no”.
America is fracturing right now under stresses that the Founders could not have imagined and did not prepare for. They did not believe that their descendants would be so stupid as to hound Christianity out of public life, let the country be swamped by hordes of Dirt Worlders, or permit the evils of socialism to march through their institutions.
The Founders were men of vision and brilliance, no doubt about it. But even they couldn’t foresee what their new nation would become.
If they could have, I have no doubt that most of them would have agitated for violent secession decades ago.
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It would appear that Literally Who is now at minimum indirectly responsible for hounding a man to death:
The unraveling of Alec Holowka’s life in the days after facing unproven accusations should remind us why, at some point, civilized society turned away from mob rule and embraced due process.
Not only is your social media feed becoming a live broadcast of an execution of the lost and the vulnerable, but the people handed the axe and hood may be no saner than the ones they are beheading.
Let’s leave for the moment –and we will return here– whether the claims against Holowka are likely to be true, any other circumstantial evidence, or the credibility of his accuser Zoe Quinn, one of the most high-profile activists on the internet.
The actual headline pic used for that story tells you everything you need to know about what Literally Who is:
The staff writers at RT used that photo for a reason, obviously, but the sad thing is that she genuinely looks even worse in most of the rest of her pictures. She looks like a vampiric daemon laughing over the fact that she destroyed an innocent man’s soul.
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Alan Roberts from Every Damn Day Fitness – GODDAMN!!! – drops some serious truth bombs, on top of a previous carpet-bombing run by none other than Piers Morgan, if you can believe that, about the “fat acceptance” movement:
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Bugatti has gone and done what was considered absolutely impossible a few years ago – a prototype version of their Chiron hypercar has broken the 300mph mark:
The story was originally broken by Top Gear, but I refuse to link to videos from their later seasons now that Clarkson, Hammond, and May are no longer part of that team. So here is the video of the record-breaking run from a different channel:
THREE. HUNDRED. MILES. PER. HOUR.
That’s… just insane. And amazing.
The sheer scale and size of the engineering problems involved are mind-boggling. If you know anything about thermodynamics and mechanical engineering – I know very, very little about either – then you will have some basic understanding of just how crazy difficult that milestone is to achieve.
I mean, the friction buildup alone must have been staggering. Shedding all of that excess heat generated from air friction on the body, as well as the tires and engine, is a hugely complicated problem.
And then there is the issue of generating enough downforce to keep the car glued to the road. A commercial jetliner is up and off the ground at merely 120mph, but that is because it is specifically designed to have lift surfaces that force the air over the wing to move slower than air under it.
With a performance sports car, you have to force the air to push the car into the ground – and then you have to add shock absorbers and suspension bearings that can handle all of that extra weight.
And that’s before we get to the fact that fixing one engineering problem inevitably results in problems elsewhere.
This is the reality of such bleeding-edge engineering. No matter where you turn, problems pop up and have to be solved both in general and in detail. This stuff is properly difficult, which is why all I can do is give utmost respect and plaudits to the men who created that fire-breathing, road-melting monster.
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Here’s some more hypercar porn for you, thanks to the Lotus Evija:
I actually do share Jezza’s relative indifference toward all-electric supercars. I do think that they are the way of the future, but I personally love the growl and roar of a true big engine with lots of cylinders. There is nothing quite like hearing the thunder from under the hood when you drop a cog and mash the pedal into the floor.
Never mind that most of the promises surrounding electric cars are hugely overhyped – they will not result in lower carbon emissions, because the power to charge their batteries has to come from somewhere, and you aren’t going to get that power from wind and solar power. Just not gonna happen, for very sensible and obvious engineering reasons. The real problem with electric cars is that they are just too damned quiet.
And that is before we get to the safety issues around them. We have well over 100 years worth of engineering expertise, knowledge, and precedent that have made fossil fuel cars exceptionally strong, safe, reliable, and durable. We don’t have anything like enough knowledge of the engineering needed to make electric cars as safe.
That is all going to change and improve over time, of course. Take a look at Tesla – I went and looked up their actual safety record, and it turns out that, despite the terrible headlines, Tesla cars are in fact quite safe. Don’t get me wrong, I think Elon Musk is an egotistical blowhard, and I think that Tesla is a gigantic hype job whose stock price is WILDLY overvalued. But the reality is that you can build reliable, safe, strong, tough, long-range electric cars.
But I’m an old-fashioned traditionalist in a lot of ways, and as far as I’m concerned, a petrol engine beats an electric one, no matter how powerful an electric hypercar is.
Yes, unlike a fuel-powered car, you can use one motor for each wheel and thereby put through truly Biblical levels of power overall – but you simply will not get the same visceral thrill from using one that you will with a car that turns fuel into EXPLOSIONS that get spat out the back end through an exhaust tube while making your hair stand on end and giving you a fizzing sensation right behind your penis.
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Your forecast for today is sunshine and BRRRRRT…:
Everybody loves a good Warthog – except, of course, the USAF generals who keep trying to kill off the beast.
And it is a BEAST. That plane is ugly, but its effectiveness as a close air support plane is unmatched.
The airheads among the Pentaloons think that a flying piano with a tiny wing and a massive engine, and very little by way of armour, redundant systems, and loitering ability, is going to replace that thing. Don’t you just love the naivete?
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Paul Ramsey has some rather trenchant thoughts to add about the real state of the US economy:
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Mayor Alfie may just be the most arrogant asshat ever to run for high office:
For example, Buttigieg purports to find a religious imperative in the $15 an hour minimum wage. Christians who don’t back increasing the minimum wage to that level are hypocrites, he contends.
By this ridiculous account of Christianity, why isn’t Buttigieg a hypocrite for not supporting a $20 an hour minimum wage? For the same reason that other Christians aren’t hypocrites for opposing $15 an hour. The Bible doesn’t address the minimum wage rate and there are public policy arguments against raising it.
Buttigieg’s latest religious rant is even more absurd and offensive. He purports to find support in scripture for killing babies up until just before they draw their first breath.
It normally makes very little sense to call someone both evil and stupid at the same time. Not so with Daemoncrats.
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Jeff Cavaliere, the mind and body behind the YouTube fitness channel ATHLEAN-X, is hands-down one of the top health and fitness experts out there. He is one of the ONLY guys in the entire fitness community who is genuinely interested in helping people reach their goals – that community is full of shysters and con artists, but he is not one of them. He is a true legend in the industry because of his honour, integrity, professionalism, and skill.
And it turns out that he holds a big competition every year – which actually make sense, unlike the CrossShit Games – and invites some true beasts to compete.
Turns out, those games are amazing:
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Let’s remind ourselves again of what British comedy was like back in the days when the comedians involved had actual talent, and knew how to use it:
This next clip is incredibly offensive by modern standards, but I think it’s pure comedy gold – because every word of it is absolutely true:
And here we are with perhaps the very best comic breakdown of the complete dog’s breakfast that is the Middle East:
Ah, the good old days when British comedians were really funny… and the BBC wasn’t entirely full of bloody Bolsheviks who wouldn’t know a joke if it smacked them upside the head with a cricket bat…
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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Good golly Miss Molly, but that car is straight out of a freakin’ cartoon.
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Pics, girls, guns, starting with a healthy dose of Warthog memes:
Especially if your name starts with “Alla”, and ends in “hu Akbar”.
Who needs harpoons and tow cables when you’ve got the A-10?!?
Maybe I just have an extremely dumb sense of humour, but I found that one to be truly hilarious.
Floriduh Man literally jumped the shark this week, with predictable results:
Your No Shit Moment of the Week:
Your Soy-Based Estrogen Stack of the Week:
Your Three-Breasted Martian Hooker of the Week:
I really can’t add anything to this one:
Look, all I can say is that if you’re using a butt-plug that is hooked up to the internet, you’re just ASKING for the Devil to piss on your parade.
Your WTFH Moment of the Week:
The FAIL is strong with this one:
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Your dog of the week is the Karelian Bear Dog:
The Russkies aren’t joking about the “bear” part of that name, by the way. They use these dogs to go hunting ACTUAL FREAKIN’ BEARS:
As Khabib Nurmagomedov demonstrated in highly emphatic fashion, DO NOT F*** WITH THE FSU STATES.
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Whoever came up with the MetalTrump mashups deserves a Nobel Prize – especially for this one:
See also:
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Whoops, forgot the gym fails:
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Your gym BEAST of the week is one of the greatest of them all – Ed Coan himself, teaching you how to squat, so sit up and pay attention:
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Your Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:
Every meeting with Buakaw Banchamek comes with a free mangled limb.
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#DeathMetalGuys
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And finally, your Instathot of the week. Once again our friend The Male Brain has come through in a big way, and made my job considerably easier in the process, by providing us with a sterling example of the breed.
Her name is Neta Alchimester, she’s from Dawn Pine’s homeland of Israel, she’s a really-for-real actual model, and as for her thottitude, well, take a look at her pictures and decide for yourself. As I remarked to Dawn when he sent over a link to her IG page, I said that she has a “look on her face in most of them says, ‘I did not-very-nice things to get here'”.
That’s it for this Monday, chaps. Get yer butts off the couch, go out there, and crush it.
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Hey have you been watching Stefan videos on California? youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMNj_r5bccUwL7KLNrz7dJyYJLx5sTzs0
Honestly he goes to the state and does a great insight into the corruption going on and the many problems.
I don't watch much of Molyneux's videos, mostly because he takes forever to get to the point and his videos are all at least 20 minutes long. (Yes, I know, pot, meet kettle, etc.) But yes, he is a very good speaker and advocate for basic good sense.
That's a very impressive car from Bugatti, but most of these models including the regular one will be kept as 'investment' cars a.k.a garage queens. I bet some people are thinking, 'I can' t wait to scoop up one of those babies for half MSRP once the recession hits'.
The instathots were not particularly great this time. I recommend the early playboy girls before the feminists ruined everything.
I didn't know that a man like Serena could lose in women's tennis. Strange world in sports.
I didn't know that a man like Serena could lose in women's tennis. Strange world in sports.
You win the internet. I tip my hat to you, sir.
I bet some people are thinking, 'I can' t wait to scoop up one of those babies for half MSRP once the recession hits'.
I have my doubts about that, actually. From what I understand, the market for hypercars – not mere supercars, but hypercars – tends to result in significant increases in value over time.
If you look at the McLaren F1, for instance – the 241mph monster that held the world's fastest production car record for quite a long time before the Veyron came along and smashed its teeth in – that cost about US$800,000 back when it was new, in 1992.
In 2019 dollars, that comes to roughly $1.423M.
These days, you have to pay well north of $4 MILLION for one of those in good condition. And a pristine, single-owner model of that same car was sold two years ago for $15,620,000 at auction.
The extreme rarity of a Bugatti Veyron, combined with its brand cachet, bonkers performance, and the fact that VW actually lost boatloads of money with every single car that they sold, makes it a highly valuable collector's item. Those items don't obey the same laws of depreciation that other cars do.
So I wouldn't be surprised if you were to come along in 2-3yrs time and find that a secondhand Bugatti Chiron actually sells for considerably more than its original list price of like $3M. Sure, you might see the price wobble a bit, but over time it should increase.
Ferraris and Lambos and Astons, on the other hand, will definitely depreciate rapidly. They always do.
The instathots were not particularly great this time. I recommend the early playboy girls before the feminists ruined everything.
I wouldn't mind, but then I'd have to look at a bunch of porn images before getting to the girls. Not really my cup of tea, especially not these days.
You will have to visit the Roosh V Forum for some guidance on how to find more feminine looking women 😛 Even though RVF took a sharp right turn in terms of the content, you can dig up some gems for your liking.
As far as Bugatti goes, all those special editions that came up and will continue to come up on top of the planned 500 Chiron models are the ones that will hold value the best. The regular Chirons will depreciate just like the Veyrons and then they will come up again. Given the severity of the next recession, I believe the regular chirons will take a hit, unless the buyers are not caught up in very lax financing deals.
Just look at what people are leaving behind in Dubai when they want to flee debt collectors and jail time.
Those "fat acceptance" fatties crack me up. They are, to a person, utterly devoid of logic and reason. This is yet another thing where we have mountains of evidence about what happens when you are obese long term, yet it's ignored. BTW – they missed the musco-skeletal problems. The body simply isn't made to carry that weight for years. Over time, the pelvis, thigh and shin bones bow from the weight. That can never be fixed, whether they get skinny again or now. I liken it to carrying bricks in your VW golf. Sure you can do it, but over time, everything wears faster.
They are like the queen in Alice in Wonderland. "VERDICT FIRST! THEN TRIAL". They've reconciled their messy condition in their heads, so the bend logic and reason in an attempt to tell us this is normal and healthy. From that point on, it's a short hop to how they should be accommodated.
Why do I have to buy two airline seats? I'm as normal as everyone else (Forgetting they are two passengers worth of size and weight ). Why won't Didact date me? I'm as beautiful and fabulous as any woman!
Grocery stores here have electric scooter baskets for the disabled. I'm certain the intent was to spare granny (or the similarly handicapped) from unloading her scooter. I almost never see those types, who generally use their own. What's on them are nearly always the super-fat, unsocialized brown kids, and black males (For some reason).
Lack of pride.
NO adult male would ride on a handicapped scooter if they had two healthy legs that could carry them if they had even the slightest hint of pride.
America's greatness came from Pride in their own abilities and their own accomplishments. Not the false pride of braggadacio (although we had that too) but true personal pride.
Everything that has occured to destroy this nation has come about because of the replacement of true pride with falsehood and braggadacio.
No, you are not a proud woman, you are a headfucked eunuch.
No, you don't have the right to be 'proud' of sodomizing other men.
No, you should not be proud of being fat.
You shouldn't be 'proud' of coming from whatever hellhole you came from, or you wouldn't be here, you would be there. And you DEFINITELY have no right to be proud of breaking our laws, sneaking across our border, and robbing our citizens.
EVERY THING that the left holds up as 'progress' is, without fail, false pride. Bragging about sin, about selfishness, about laziness, about perversion, about lack of self-control. NONE of them require sacrifice, self-discipline, leadership, accomplishment, or honor.
They simply have no pride. and Cannot understand it in others.