Monday morning corporate cancer

by Didact | Oct 14, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized | 0 comments

It’s the Time of Suckage again…

For those of you wondering about pandas – I don’t like them, actually. If it were up to me I’d let them all die out – and then turn them into panda steaks.

Well, let’s make the best of it. We’ll start with a bunch of videos from our friend The Male Brain, who was watching some rather amusing comedy videos that make fun of the workplace and various mishaps therein:

If you’ve ever worked a corporate job in your life, you’ll recognise every single one of those tropes.

I’ve basically been semi-retired (in my mid-thirties) for 18 months. It sucks. But one thing that I am EXTREMELY grateful for is the fact that I no longer have to deal with PowerPoint presentations.

Some wag once riffed on that old quote by Lord Acton and said, “It is true that power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely”.

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One of the very first Russian cosmonauts passed away recently. He leaves behind quite the legacy, both scientific and artistic:

Legendary space explorer Aleksei Leonov, who died at the age of 85, was a true romantic. He believed in aliens and drew stunning pictures of cosmonauts and far away planets all his life.

Leonov had been interested in drawing since he was a kid and initially tried joining an art school. But the young man from a poor rural family couldn’t afford to move to a big city.

Here are some of his paintings – Comrade Leonov was quite talented, as you shall see:

He touched the face of God in his mortal life, and now he is with Him again, and deservedly so. Clear skies, Maj. Gen. Leonov.

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Does anyone actually want the Hilldebeast to run again? I mean, other than the Bitch herself?

Don’t get me wrong, it would be a LOT of fun to watch the Hilldebeast get her ass kicked again. That would be wonderful just for the sheer comedy value.

But, make no mistake, Hillary Clinton is genuinely evil, and the absolute last thing that I want to see is someone that horrifying and Satanic getting a chance to spread her poison again.

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His Most Benevolent and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, recently tried his hand at improvisational comedy, and it turns out he’s pretty good at it:

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Related – His Majesty lives up to his title by giving a team of Little League champions a ride home on Air Force One:

President Donald Trump surprised the 2019 Little League World Champions on Friday by inviting them to fly home aboard Air Force One.

The Lousiana Eastbank All Stars team visited the White House on Friday, appearing with the president for a picture. The president surprised them by inviting them to fly home with him, as he has a scheduled rally in the state on Friday evening.

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Your long read of the week is via Unz, and talks about how, whether you like him or not, the God-Emperor is the only game in town for those of us who hate the ruling elites and want them destroyed:

Immigration patriots know that Donald Trump hasn’t been the border cop they voted for in 2016. Ann Coulter invited Trump’s ire when she wrote as much in February: “Trump has spent 25 months not building the wall.” But then Trump did divert military appropriations to begin construction, and more recently, his stricter new rules seem finally to be reducing the inflow, which followed his massive reduction in refugee admissions. Despite the best efforts of the GOP and Javanka, Trump has still not made a Bush I-Read My Lips-type U-turn.Trump’s real problem: the sheer power of the entrenched Treason Lobby. But the fact remains: he’s the only Trump we’ve got.

Let’s go to some bright spots.

One of the best things Trump has done is change immigration regulations. For example, all immigrants must now purchase health insurance within 30 days of arrival or prove they can cover healthcare expenses. “Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs,” the White House said [Presidential Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System, WhiteHouse.gov, October 4, 2019]. The Migration Policy Institute claims the new rule could block 65 percent of new arrivals; 4 percent of recent immigrants lack health insurance and another 31 percent depend on taxpayer-provided healthcare.

If true, that’s a good thing. And that change riffs off Trump’s effort to block immigrants who scrounge off welfare.

Let’s be clear about this: the God-Emperor has proven to be a disappointment in many ways. He is not a true nationalist. He is a civic nationalist at heart, and that is not the same thing. He genuinely likes and believes in that hoary old chestnut about how America is a “nation of immigrants”. And when it comes to negotiating, he believes that he can talk his way into, or out of, any deal that he wants. He doesn’t seem to understand or appreciate that sometimes the best move is to simply walk away and reject a bad deal.

He is also the very best that we’ve got, right now.

Understand one thing, gentlemen: the God-Emperor is not the apotheosis of the movement that he spearheads. He didn’t really create it either. He simply gave it voice and power. That movement itself will go on long after he has left office – and if his place is taken by, oh, say, his oldest son, then so much the better.

We are looking at one key personage in a long historical cycle. Never forget that, while Julius Caesar ended the Roman Republic and created the Roman Empire, the forces that destroyed the Republic had been building and multiplying for over a century before Caesar marched his troops across the Rubicon.

If you look at the historical battle between the patricians and plebeians, you will note that several attempts were made by the plebs to get their way through the law. It was only when they saw that the law was not working that they turned to violence and force.

First the Gracchus brothers, then the tyrant Sulla (who restored Senatorial power that the Gracchi had taken away), then Julius Caesar, and finally the Julio-Claudian dynasty, were all the results of deep-rooted conflicts that raged back and forth between aristocrats and populists. We are seeing many of the exact same forces playing out right now in the USA.

President Trump represents the Gracchi. What comes after him may well be – God help us all – a dictator of the Left, seeking to restore the power of the coastal elites. What comes after that will almost surely be a war between peoples and states that will make the bloodshed of the first War Between the States look like a children’s tea party.

I am not, by the way, the first to make this observation. I first saw it made here a couple of years ago.

Make no mistake – the American Republic is DEAD. It has been for some time. The Left has ensured that the Constitution is now fully and thoroughly irrelevant. That is why I find the whole idea of conservatives seeking to restore “MUH CONSTITUTION” to be so amusing, and so silly. It’s just not going to happen. The people for whom the Constitution was designed, no longer exist.

The God-Emperor has bought America, the nation, some breathing room, some time to collect itself and brace for the conflict that is to come. That conflict can no longer be avoided. The destruction of the American Empire cannot be prevented.

That was, and is, his purpose. The American Empire cannot be saved, and there is not the slightest use in trying to save it. Let it burn, and let the American nation rise up from what is left.

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Here is an interesting sardonic Christian take on how to be an SJW:

Despite my rather acerbic commentary on many things, I actually find it extremely difficult to understand how people can live with being offended all the time about everything. Life as an SJW has to be pure misery.

By contrast, when you simply appreciate the world for what it is, and start respecting what is good, what is beautiful, and what is true, then life gets a whole lot better, very, very quickly.

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#BasedTucker is #based:

Related – Greg Gutfeld tells it like it is about the way in which the God-Emperor of Mankind is doing EXACTLY what he said he would during his campaign for the Presidency, and the way in which the lying ******* in the (((media))) are all lining up to oppose him no matter what he does:

Also – as Mr. Gutfeld points out, having fun and laughing at them and generally just being a happy warrior is a great way to drive your enemies absolutely INSANE with rage and fear:

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This is what you get when you try to hire cheap Indian tech labour:

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PJW analyses the new Joker movie, and sees the Abyss of modren culture staring right back at us:

I haven’t seen it yet, but boy do I want to. Apparently it mocks both the Left and the Right, and really makes the Pantifag stand-ins look like a bunch of unhinged losers (which they are – but even losers are dangerous in mobs).

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PJ also did a very good job of explaining the lunacy of the Extinction Rebellion idiots:

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1st Sgt. Terrence Popp gives a respectful salute to Dr. Jordan Peterson:

Unlike Popp there, I don’t have much respect for the Crazy Christ. His 12 Rules are not only absurd, they are downright dangerous, and it is clear that Jordy himself doesn’t even follow them, at all.

That being said… I do hope and pray that Dr. Peterson makes a full recovery. He is a Gamma and a coward, but that does not mean that he is beyond redemption, and that does not mean that we should not sympathise with him. He deserves our prayers and good thoughts, especially given what his wife is going through.

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Everyone’s favourite drunken Glaswegian – this by the way is largely redundant to anyone who knows anything about Scotsmen – reviews a great classic film that predates Joker and explores many of the same themes:

Speaking of Joker, it would appear that the Drinker approves quite thoroughly of that one too:

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Our buddy Razorfist makes it very, very clear that Fascism and Socialism are basically the same:

I’ve had arguments with my own family about this. One of my relatives is a history teacher and has taught for the last twenty years that Fascism is right-wing while Communism is left-wing. This distinction is utter garbage. Fascism and Communism are merely two different expressions of socialism – nothing more, and nothing less.

Fascists believe in government control over the private sector. They always have, and they always will. That does not change the fact that Fascism is marginally more effective than Communism – and it is so because it is marginally more in line with the actual facts of human nature, as Fascist systems generally allow for quite a bit more of a private sector than Communism does.

In that respect, and only in that respect, Fascism is more workable than Communism. This DOES NOT make it a good idea. It is a monumentally stupid one. It’s just slightly less stupid than Communism.

As to whether Fascism is stupid because it is of the Left, or Fascism is of the Left because it is stupid – I’ll leave that for you to decide.

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Paul Ramsey drops some nationalist truth-bombs on the idea of “safe spaces” for blacks, Jews, and pretty much anyone else:

As far as black Americans wanting their own nation – hey, sure, go right on ahead. Good luck to y’all with that. Just please stop pretending that whites should support you and bail you out and pay for all of your free shit in the process. You want your own nation? No problem. You can create one within the USA, or you can go back to your ancestral homelands in Africa itself.

And if y’all can’t run your own communities properly, or if y’all get to Africa and, like Keith B. Richburg, fall on your knees and thank God that you were born American because one of your ancestors was shipped over to America in shackles as a slave…

That’s on you. Not whites. YOU.

The rest of us – whites and non-whites – have seen what you can do, or rather, cannot do, with black-run cities like Camden, Detroit, Newark, Chicago, and several others that could easily be named and shamed.

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Your history lesson of the week, courtesy of Kings and Generals:

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While we’re on the subject of history – here’s a great scene from the old Kenneth Brannagh adaptation of Henry V:

The comments section is pure gold, once again. You know shit’s gotten SERIOUS when BRIAN FREAKIN’ BLESSED shows up in plate-armour.

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While we’re in a Shakespearean mood – here is the late, great Charlton Heston’s portrayal of Marcus Antonius giving a eulogy for Julius Caesar:

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Here’s a truly classic opening scene from one of the best films ever made – The Hunt for Red October:

The only problem that I have with this otherwise-damn-near-perfect movie is the Russian accents.

They are fine if you do not speak Russian or know how to listen to it. To non-Russian speakers, the language sounds like drunk people falling down stairs.

But if you know how to speak the language and you enjoy listening to good well-spoken fluid Russian, then it is easily one of the most beautiful languages in the world – far, far more romantic than English, and far more poetic than French.

(Plus, I genuinely dislike the French on principle. I think of them as, in the words of James May, “treacherous, work-shy, lamb-burning Communists”. It’s OK, though, they don’t much like me either, so we’re square.)

I can’t listen to Russian accents in Pedowood movies anymore. It’s one of the consequences of living in Russia and dating Russians.

That being said… one of the very best movies that I’ve seen in recent times, which did involve decent spoken Russian, was Hunter Killer, starring Gerard Butler and concerning, of course, submarines:

Oh, right, the other big problem that I have with Hunt, these days, anyway, is Alec Baldwin.

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Here’s your military-grade gun-porn of the week, thanks to a certain Puff the Magic Dragon:

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Time for some good old-fashioned comedy from PommieBastardLand:

Related – Stephen Fry does a pretty good job of explaining the very big differences between the American and British senses of humour:

Butt-bugger though he might be, Mr. Fry makes a rather good point about the fact that a lot of the American comic heroes are actually, basically, Gamma males – and yet Americans retain a deep-seated optimism about improving their own lives.

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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Pics, guns, and girls time:

This first one comes via our friend Adam Piggott, the Gentleman Adventurer, and it speaks for itself…

That was one of the most savage burns that I’ve seen in a LONG time.

Headlines time, and my GOD but Floriduh Man has been a busy beaver:

I’d love to see the life insurance form for that claim.

“Yes, but how did he die?!”

“Um… This is going to take a bit more space than the five lines that I’ve got here…”

That last one was a fake headline from the Babylon Bee, but it might as well have been real.

The next day’s headlines undoubtedly were all about how “RODENT INFESTATION IN WHITE HOUSE SIGNALS SECRET TRUMP COUP!!!!11!!”

Do we file that last one under “Shit Happens”, or “Poetic Irony”?

Check your spam folders, boys…

Jellyfish also don’t have balls or spines. We might as well call them Democrats.

I am living, breathing proof that alcohol is NOT an effective cure for the flu. Just sayin’.

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Your dog of the week is the extra-huge Leonberger:

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Holy Hell, it’s gym idiots time, courtesy of the Trap Lord:

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And now for some gym beasts to get rid of those foul scenes:

Also, I know I’ve shown this somewhere before, but I never, ever get tired of watching Lasha Talakhadze move weights like an angry gorilla:

Those are the kinds of achievements that make your jaw hit the floor, and stay there.

And now for a couple of legends doing legendary things:

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Alan Roberts of Every Damn Day Fitness explains why fat acceptance “activists” are really just hacks who run from conflict and disagreement:

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Your Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

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#FireBattleInMetal

Damn but I love that classic IRON MAIDEN vibe…

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And now for your Instathot for the start of the week. Following on from Friday’s hot Colombian, we’ve got another girl from that same part of the world, who goes by the name of Carolina Toro Raigosa. Personally I don’t think she’s of the same quality as her compatriot, but that’s for you to judge.

That’s it for this Monday, gents. Time to get on with the winning – or CRUSHING, if you prefer.