It is Easter Monday, which means that some of you are on holiday – and most of you, this year, are on holiday whether you like it or not.

That is of course due to the unfortunate effects of the Kung Flu. And as you’ll find out tomorrow if you read the upcoming post, you’ll see that the Kung Flu was no accident. It was engineered.

Which makes the headline segment of the Great Mondaydact Browser Crash all that more appropriate, really, because we start with a look at one of the best and most underrated movies ever made by the legendary Charlton Heston, which strikes one as highly relevant during the time of a global plague:

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His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name – y’know, the acronym, HMINABALCMTGEOMDTMATFOHN would make a superb password – clearly has absolutely no intention of letting a little thing like a global pandemic stop him from being a complete badass. He has made his EXTREME displeasure with the World Health Organisation very plain on a number of occasions, and now he is talking about putting their funding on hold:

Good golly Miss Molly.

I know I keep coming back to the God-Emperor’s campaign pledge that he would make us tired of all of the WINNING!!!, and I know that there are occasions when I sound like I’m almost there. But the reality is that we haven’t had very much of any winning over the past two months, because of the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed Chinese Communist Party. (And honestly, these days, I’m not too hot on the Chinese people either – their culture, habits, and mindset are a BIG part of the reason why the entire world is in lockdown.)

So when the Almighty God-Emperor announces that he’s actually going to start holding people responsible for what they’ve done… well, that’s when the Master Chief Happy Dance kicks in for me:

While we’re at it – I was truly delighted to learn that the son of the late, great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is working directly for the God-Emperor:

The elder Scalia had 9 children, every single one of whom is highly accomplished and talented. Mr. Eugene Scalia has seven children of his own – that, right there, is a man with absolute skin in the game.

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#BasedTucker is based:

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Hard as it is to believe, even a nation as cucked-out as Australia has some based types in it:

Also, this was lost in the news because of Corona-chan, but apparently Cardinal George Pell has been acquitted of rather preposterous charges of sexually assaulting children – which is not surprising given the details of the case:

Funny thing is, Sky News in Australia is a genuinely conservative (if mainstream) channel with genuine dissenting voices. But Sky News in PommieBastardLand is pretty much as far to the left of Lenin as the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation is.

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Mark Dice finds celebritards even more insufferable than the rest of us do:

And, like us, he is very amused at the way that Senator Feel-da-Bern!!! ended up kissing the ring, again:

Bernie Sanders was always an establishment tool. He pretended not to be one in order to build a grassroots movement and following. But, being an angry wizened old Gamma, he simply does not have what it takes to do what Alphas and Sigmas can do, which is either to redefine an existing hierarchy in one’s own favour, or disrupt a hierarchy completely and create something entirely new. He could only work within the hierarchy and try to subvert it that way – but he failed, because Gamma.

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Bill Whittle has plenty to say about how badly the Clown News Network criminally underreports the good news surrounding the God-Emperor’s handling of the Kung Flu:

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The boys from Blue Collar Logic are really on top of things this week:

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The Male Brain has plenty to contribute this week:

Here’s a video of a Montana physician outlining how the CDC’s Kung Flu guidelines are greatly exaggerating death rates:

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The good folks at China Uncensored also have a podcast/vidcast channel, China Unscripted, and recently they did a broadcast involving two of the very first Westerners who lived in China during the boom years from the mid-2000s or so. Those guys tell it like it is – which is to say, DON’T LIVE IN CHINA if you aren’t ethnically Chinese!:

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On that same subject – SerpentZA, the Sefrikin in that podcast, talks about the indisputable fact that the Chinese are the biggest racists anywhere in the world:

Having been at the receiving end of both Chinese hospitality and Chinese racism in my life, I can only agree with him. The Chinese as individuals have plenty of merits, but get them into a group and they turn into the biggest racists you’ve ever seen.

And here’s a more recent video from the same chap, talking about how China is lying to your face, and how despicably the Chinese government and people are acting toward innocent foreigners both within and outside their country:

It cannot be stated often enough that China is, very simply and plainly, an enemy of the West and of Western civilisation. They are not part of the West, their traditions and culture are inimical to Western values of Graeco-Roman philosophy, Christian morality, and the European nations, and their entire mindset is geared toward practices and beliefs that are anywhere from strange to outright repugnant to Christian sensibilities.

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PJW touches on a lot of themes surrounding the lockdown in PommieBastardLand and makes some very good points about how totalitarian the whole process has become:

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Paul Ramsey explains how the old world, before Corona-chan, is gone:

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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance talks about the critical issue of social trust in a pandemic crisis:

I’ve talked about this many times over the past 7 years. And as Mr. Taylor points out, societies with high social trust respond well to crises and threats – whereas societies with low social trust, simply fall apart.

You’re literally watching that happen before your eyes, around the world, right now.

China is a low-trust homoculture. Look at how they had to respond to the virus – through extreme authoritarian measures and epic lies. And that’s how they treat their own people – the manner in which they treat foreigners in China, who have committed no error other than not being Chinese, is absolutely despicable.

India is a low-trust heteroculture. In some Indian states, authorities have responded to a nationwide 21-day lockdown, ending on April 14th, by literally locking people in their own homes and beating people for walking in the streets.

Italy, by contrast, is a relatively high-trust monoculture – at least, outside of Lombardia. They’ve had a very rough time of it, but the Italians apparently have finally managed to contain the spread, more or less.

The USA is a very interesting case study in these situations.

The cities are low-trust multicultural disease centres where few people trust each other – and even then, there are certain very white-bread neighbourhoods in the big cities are are high-trust, surrounded by diversitopias where people would sooner spit on each other than trust their neighbours with their lawnmowers.

But the suburbs and rural communities of the USA are, by and large, high-trust places. And they have dealt with the crisis quite admirably, with very limited lockdowns, if any, and considerably more freedom of movement than can be found in NYFC right now.

I believe that future generations will have some fascinating case studies to work with, and that the data from around the world will prove, once and for all, that diversity and multiculturalism cause and amplify crises, and do not reduce them.

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Terrence Popp explains why the Kung Flu isn’t even the most dangerous disease that America is dealing with right now – and Leftism is:

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El Razorfist picks a fight, and boy is it a beating – for the other guys:

His take on Sen. Sanders’s Bern-out is pretty damn good too:

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Midnight’s Edge does a deep-dive into the parlous state of the comics industry:

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Gary from Nerdrotic also looks at the state of the comic books industry and is less than impressed:

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The Drinker is absolutely THRILLED TO BITS by the new Gotham High one-shot:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock is every bit as delighted as the next right-thinking man by the fact that a crazy bisexual thot might just have to pay a severe price for physically abusing and assaulting her ex-husband and possibly destroying his entire life:

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Not that any of us need any reminding or anything, but the Devil Mouse DOES NOT UNDERSTAND how lightsabers work:

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Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is also from Dawn Pine, and if you follow the link, you’ll quickly see that the title of this segment is extremely appropriate:

One teaspoon of semen contains over 200 proteins and several helpful vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, calcium, chlorine, citric acid, fructose, lactic acid, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, vitamin B12 and zinc. While amounts of each vitamin vary with age and relative health of the obliging male, there is usually a significant amount of zinc present (about 3 percent of US RDA), which is an antioxidant that helps slow down the aging process. So besides exercise, sex (sans condom) gives you a healthy dose of something good.

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Your long read of the week concerns how the Poles and Hungarians stopped the Mongols from ravaging European Christendom – something that even the Russians couldn’t do:

The second Mongol invasion of Hungary was much smaller than the first. Nogai’s army attacked the settlements along the Danube River for loot, not for conquest. Because the Cumans told Nogai about Ladislaus’s poor relations with his barons, Nogai probably thought he could easily defeat the Hungarians. He was wrong. First, the Polish Duke Leszek II kept King Leo I of Galicia-Volhynia from invading Hungary as part of the Golden Horde’s coalition. Nogai and Talabuga Khan managed to reach Buda and Pest, but their attacks failed because they did not bring siege equipment. Also, during the 1240s, Hungary had increased its number of baronies. This meant Nogai and Talabuga constantly ran into small defensive forces recruited from individual Hungarian counties. These militias were tough and durable, and one from Sáros County defeated Nogai’s troops and sent many severed heads to King Ladislaus. The king’s army then chased the defeated Mongols all the way into the Carpathian Mountains, where they were trapped by bad weather and harassed by a peasant insurgency.

When Nogai and Talabuga invaded Poland a third time in late 1287, they were defeated by a combined Polish-Hungarian force led by Duke Leszek. Regardless, Nogai’s Golden Horde still continued to raid Europe in the following years, and in the 1290s, his army forced Serbia to accept vassalage. They converted to Islam in the 14th century, and Mongol raids became infused with the fervor of jihad. The Golden Horde, which had an alliance with the Byzantine Empire thanks to Toqta Khan’s marriage to an illegitimate Byzantine princess, became the preeminent power in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region. Despite the alliance, Mongol armies raided Byzantine territory several times in the 1300s, and in a final Mongol invasion of Poland in the 1340s, forced King Casimir III the Great to become a vassal.

Ultimately, the 14h century saw Mongol power wain in Europe and Asia. Constant infighting led to a fractured empire. Some states fared better than others. The Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty in China and Mongolia was replaced by the non-Mongol Han Ming Dynasty in 1368. The Turco-Mongol and Muslim Ilkhanate collapsed in the 1350s after being ravaged by the Black Death and several internal rebellions. The Golden Horde limped all the way into the early 16th century in Russia, but successive Muscovite princes managed to win back Mongol territory slowly but surely.

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Linkage is good for you:

• A rather odd character with an extraordinarily colourful personal life passed away this week;
• Once again, you CANNOT trust China about anything – especially vaccines;
• One of Corona-chan’s rare benefits appears to be the fact that immigrants are departing the USA to avoid getting infected – and are taking that infection right back to China;
• There was a time when real whistleblowers risked everything to shed light on corruption and malfeasance – Linda Tripp was one of them, and she has sadly fallen asleep;
• Weddings around the world are on hold because of the Kung Flu, which is no bad thing in the case of a Kazakh bodybuilder and his sex doll fiancee;

And some more from The Male Brain:

• Indian police have found a rather interesting way to punish foreigners who break Kung Flu quarantine requirements;
• Facebook recently launched a private dating app just for couples, which means that their private data will inevitably be leaked and sold very quickly;
• Inevitably, the Fourth Reich is going to use Kung Flu to impose a totalitarian system of surveillance upon everyone within the EU’s borders;
• If you must use Kung Flu as a weapon, use it to get revenge on your ex;

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The Neo-Tsar certainly isn’t messing about during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia:

From what I’ve seen, the Russians have done well so far in dealing with things. They have about 12,000 confirmed cases on their hands and less than 100 deaths, three months into the outbreak. Now, that is due to a number of different factors, including the sheer enormous size of the country, the fact that Russians are a VERY standoffish people, and the stringent measures taken by the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, to keep people from congregating together.

That does not mean that the Russians are in better shape than most other countries, though.

Russia is a net exporter, especially of grains. With exports falling off a cliff globally and borders slamming shut, the Russian economy is getting body-slammed. The Neo-Tsar has done a lot of good work to keep his country afloat – which it is, barely, for now – but things are going to get seriously dicey for the Russians if oil prices continue to crater and their export market stays frozen.

The Neo-Tsar has done a very good job of keeping his country’s economy self-sufficient in the face of massive international sanctions and pressure, and the Russians are a tough people. I do think that they will be OK in the end – once this massive overblown panic finally wears off, and people dust themselves off, and realise that the Kung Flu wasn’t nearly as deadly to the general public as everyone feared.

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History lessons of the week:

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Kitchen nightmares with the Angry Scotsman:

And here’s Gordon showing off his softer side:

That video has special significance for me personally, because his youngest son shares his birthday with my kid sister. And the sight of a Michelin-starred chef getting BTFO’d by his own daughters, and constantly compared with his wife, is just hysterical.

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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

And here’s the Chief Wazzock’s eldest child, who really is all growed up by now – and engaged, to boot:

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Comedy hour:

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You might be cool, but you’ll never be as cool as the Greatest Tennis Player Of All Time practicing trick shots in the Swiss Alps in the snow:

Making sure I still remember how to hit trick shots #TennisAtHome pic.twitter.com/DKDKQTaluY

— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) March 30, 2020

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Pics, guns, girls, starting with some from The Male Brain:

This next one will have special resonance given the bullshido beatdowns below:

Related – this one is hysterically funny if you know your Linux commands in Debian-related distributions:

And on we go:

Imma gettin’ ahead of the curve on this one – BILL CLINTON DID NOT KILL HIMSELF.

Speaking of which…

Yeah. We’re F***ED.

MAKE IT SO, MOST MAJESTIC GOD-EMPEROR!!!

So true.

Your “Hog Wild” moment of the week:

Your “Mixed Messages” of the week:

Your “Wine of the Day Club” moment of the week:

Your “Sauerkraut Appreciation” moment of the week:

YES, THERE IS A GOD, AND HE LOVES US VERY MUCH!!!

Your “Poetic Irony” moment of the week:

Your “Ye Need a Snootful o’ This, Laddie!!!” moment of the week:

Your “You Gotta Be F***in’ Kidding Me” moment of the week:

Your “Wedding Planner” moment of the week:

Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia:

… ATM withdraw from YOU!!!

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Your dog of the week is the Plott Hound:

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Gym beasts Eddie Hall and Hafthor Julius Bjornsson are clearly having a bit of a schoolyard spat over whether or not Thor can lift 501Kg on May 2:

I have said before, and will say again for the record, that I will be absolutely SHOCKED if Thor can actually hit the 501Kg deadlift – on a standard bar, with a lifting suit, and using Figure-8 straps. If anyone can do it, Thor is probably the only man on Earth who can, other than Eddie Hall himself, but Hafthor’s best ever deadlift was something like 465Kgs, on an elephant bar.

The two types of bars ARE NOT the same.

Now, Thor made that lift look easy. And his body is perfect for deadlifting – the dude is huge, with freakishly long arms and wide hips and an extraordinarily strong back. The leverages that he can manage, especially when compared with a shorter bloke like Eddie Hall, are immense.

But, 465Kg on an elephant bar is a very far call from 501Kg on a deadlift bar.

The elephant bar is designed to have far more flex and “whip” to it than the standard deadlift bar, and the weight plates are different as well – much thicker than standard calibrated Olympic lifting plates. The elephant bar is designed to look like a Beast Mode deadlift – but the deadlift bar is where you actually go beast.

Can Thor really get that extra 36Kg – that’s just a touch under 80lbs – off the ground without breaking his back?

More importantly, can he even survive that lift?

We’re going to find out in about 3 weeks. Meanwhile, here is what truly LEGENDARY gym beast Brian Shaw has to say about the whole thing:

And once again, Brian Shaw shows exactly why he is a legend – not just because of his incredible feats of strength, not just because of his astonishing records, but because he is a thoughtful and highly insightful ambassador for the sport of strongman.

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Seeing as how there’s an awful lot of bullshit coming out of China about COVID-19 and their supposedly “first-class” response to it (nothing could be farther from the truth), maybe it’s time we did a little bullshido beatdown involving wing-chun, kung fu, and tai chi “masters” who think that they can take on actual fighters in combat in the ring:

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And, while on the subject of bullshido breakdowns – that’s why Master Ken’s channel exists:

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Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

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#MetalVictory

This next video is just plain AMAZEBALLS:

Lord, but I do love SABATON.

As I once remarked to my kid sister, years ago – they are the Pacific Rim of heavy metal. They’re either the dumbest awesome band in the world, or the most awesome dumb band.

It turns out that this was actually a very unfair opinion. There is NOTHING dumb about a band that can take history and bring it to life the way that they do. They are simply AWESOME.

This next song, from Japan’s GALNERYUS, is the very definition of “HOLY SHIT THAT IS AMAZING”:

Those vocals… Tapping on the guitar and the bass and the keyboards… The shredfest solo… Seriously, “HOLY SHIT”.

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And finally here’s your Instathot to get the week started. Her name is Veronica Bielik, age 26, from Poland, and she is one of the most popular Instathots on the platform, for fairly obvious reasons. Personally I don’t find her face to be all that amazing – something is a bit off about the proportions – but overall she’s quite a package.

The best thing about her, of course, is her smile – as with just about any girl.

All right, that’s it for this Monday, now get out there are start with the CRUSHING already, boys.

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