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Monday morning Sherman marching

by | Feb 8, 2021 | Mondays | 2 comments

Boys, these are the times that test our souls. And Mondays test them worse than most other days, simply because of the sheer misery of having to deal with bosses, co-workers, and workplace stupidity. (Or, in my case, interminable lectures about economics, management, and accounting that force me to sit, or stand, in front of a small laptop screen for hours on end.)

Nonetheless, we persevere, and nothing helps that along quite like the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster. The topic du jour for this one is unusual, and was suggested by our good friend Dawn Pine, aka The Male Brain. I doubt it will prove too popular with the Southrons among my readership, given what the man in question did to them, but let’s push on through anyway.

Today is, apparently, the birthday of one William Tecumseh Sherman, who was and remains a rather fascinating character from the horrific War Between the States. I’ve written approvingly of him a number of times before, even though he committed some genuinely appalling atrocities against the South in the war. And the reason why is simple: he understood the grim and terrible nature of war, and did what he could to bring the wars that he fought to a rapid close.

There is a rather good biography of Gen. Sherman to be found here, recommended by Dawn Pine. You will get some flavour of the man’s views there. This was no bloodthirsty savage mindless Myrmidon keen on slaughter and blood. He was, instead, a thinking man and a highly talented leader and motivator of men – who absolutely loathed the idea of secession and considered all those who supported it to be traitors to their country.

Put simply, Sherman was a complex character, not a cartoon, and even some of the Southrons that I know have spoken with grudging admiration of his military skills. With, as it happens, very good reason.

Here’s a summary of the man himself:

The “March to the Sea” that earned him such infamy and hatred among Southrons in particular:

This is apparently some good fact-checking in the guise of a proper conversation, on the subject of whether Gen. Sherman was a war criminal or not:

Here’s another insight into the character of the man himself:

He was enough of a badass to have a metal song written in his honour:

And here’s another video about his life – check the mark at 1:15:

Oh, one more thing – the man also had a tank named after him:


His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, has resigned from something called the “SAG-AFTRA”, which apparently has something to do with Hollyweird:

Well, OK, that’s nice and all, but it would have been nice if he had order SAC to bomb SAG. (And yes, I know that SAC has been disbanded.) I mean, how hard would it have been to order a B-52 wing to fly over Clownipornia and just kind-of-sort-of “accidentally” RAIN DOWN THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD on a part of the world so utterly depraved, disgusting, and evil, that even Sodom and Gomorrah were utter pikers by comparison?


#BasedTucker is based:

Now here’s something a bit out of the ordinary – Tucker and his buddy Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports do a pizza taste test in midtown Manhattan (obviously years before the Coof ever hit us):


Mark Dice is highly amused by Raggedy Ann Psaki’s inability to handle criticism:


Dave from Blue Collar Logic explains how Sleepy Creepy Corrupt Slow Joe might be able to get the whole “heal and unite” thing to work – which won’t happen, end of story:

And Jason, who is evidently fully recovered from the Coof, offers up his thoughts on all of the craziness currently going on:


Bill Whittle and his buddies are having a lot of fun mocking Raggedy Ann Psaki too:


The Male Brain has been extremely busy sending over lots of great content this week. We start with a funny Ryan George video about an interesting hypothetical:

Dawn Pine and I are certainly not the only ones who think that punching Harry Styles while he’s wearing a dress is a VERY GOOD THING.

Related – Screen Rant looks at the… um… er… “logic” involved in creating the Hunger Games sequels:

JP Sears knocks it out of the park, as usual:

Apparently, as of this writing, the recall petition to get rid of that pathetic little tinpot dictator Newsom has hit 1.4 million signatures. Clownipornia is now at the point where they are just about ready to trigger a recall. And you know how Republicucks have reacted to that news? By proposing an openly gay man, Richard Grenell, as their pick for Guberfuhrer in Commiefornia.

That, right there, should tell you everything you need to know about how utterly useless the Republicucks are, and how stupid it is to put your hopes in the notion of “conservatives” winning back the culture.

A conservative mindset is no bad thing – but it’s almost useless as a political philosophy. Conservatism has conserved almost nothing whatsoever, except perhaps the 2nd Amendment – and not really at that. If conservatives can’t even figure out that being led by homos is a BAD THING, then they deserve whatever lunacy they get.

Felix Rex is back with some dire and scary predictions about what might happen this year, now that Big Tech are clearly large and in charge:

Crafty Panda – interesting name – has an… odd video that puts a new spin on being a Disney Princess:

As Dawn pointed out, some of the effort really doesn’t seem worth the payoff.

This next video, straight from Twatter, definitely takes the Obliviousness Sweepstakes for the week:

Today I Found Out explores the subject of liquid breathing, which is (for now) definitely a completely sci-fi concept:

If you want a good book that uses that concept, check out Ben Bova’s Jupiter. It’s a fascinating book that looks at the possibility of extraterrestrial life floating around in the gaseous atmosphere and insanely high pressures of Jupiter, and in which the only way to get anywhere close to the planet’s “oceans” of superdense gas is in a ship flooded with breathable liquid.

Also – when does that SImon Wheeler guy SLEEP?!?!? He’s involved in like a dozen different YouTube channels.


Reader and FotS Randale6 sent over a hilarious mashup with respect to the recent GameSTONK! rally:


Paul Ramsey examines the rather wacky new cult of scientism:

That video is all about Dark Matter, and I think that Paul really oversimplifies the problems with SMP and MOND, even as he makes a highly valid point about scientism. The Science Corner of the Week video down below addresses some of the issues that have now come to light, in an actually scientodific way.


PJW has some news for us that indicates that even Hollyweird has possibly reached Peak Woke:


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan shreds through Cyberpunk 2077 like a cat attacking a roll of toilet paper:


The Dizzle breaks down the top ten myths and lies that Moose Limbs believe and perpetuate about the most obviously fake “religion” in history:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms examines a fascinating new theory about the origins of Mecca:

As Any Fule Kno (or bloody well ought to, by now), the Izzlamics subscribe to the most obvious fake religion ever constructed. And the weight of the evidence against their claims is becoming so overwhelming, so powerful, and so undeniable, that it’s finally reaching mainstream circles.


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined offers some powerful and heartfelt advice about what to do when saying the words, “Jesus Christ”, cause a rift in your family:

It’s really hard when that happens. But the fact is that it is inescapable. His Hugeness Himself said so.

Understand this, and understand it well:

Being a Christian is THE hardest thing that you will ever have to do. It will exact a FEARFUL price from you. The cost is, quite literally, your soul – because you are giving your life up to your Lord.

What you get back in return is beyond price, which means that you are trading ultimate cost for perfect value.


Al Fadi from CIRA International sits down with Sam Shamoun and The Dizzle to talk about the rather odd origins of the most obvious fake revelation in human history:


Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason has a powerful answer to a question that often stops Christians dead in our tracks when arguing with non-believers, polytheists, deists, and others:


China Uncensored delves deeeeep into a rather odd kerfuffle that took place between Chinese and Taiwanese netizens:

That, right there, is two abject lessons in one video.

First – GET YOURSELF A VPN. You can get a colossal 81% OFF on a 2-year subscription of Surfshark for less than the cost of a cup of bad coffee every month.

Second – if you’re in a country, like China, where VPNs are outlawed, DON’T BE DUMB ENOUGH TO LEAVE COMMENTS on sites where it’s really obvious that you’re using a VPN!

I mean, seriously, don’t be a dumbass.


America Uncovered is rather shocked at just how busy the Fake President has been with issuing fake Executive Orders:


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance takes a satirical look at America’s true source of strength:

I can match almost anyone – almost – when it comes to “diverse” experiences and international travel. I understand full well what “muh duhversitee” actually means. Having seen diversity in action around the world, I can tell you this:

Homogeneous societies work FAR BETTER than diverse ones.

If you want to wreck a country, by all means, force diversity upon it. You’ll have neighbour suspecting neighbour and people hating each other in a very big hurry. The fastest way to turn anyone into a racist is to force him to deny that races are different and have irreducible differences.


Terrence Popp has some serious wisdom to offer about women, as usual, specifically with respect to their N-counts:


I am seriously digging the Sharpe TV series:

Humiliating a stuffed-shirt peacock of an officer in front of his own soldiers so thoroughly that he can’t even get a word in edgewise, yet never ever crossing the line into true insubordination?

Now that’s soldiering!


You know how I’ve been absolutely binge-watching the Sharpe series of films from ITV? Well, for the swabbies among you, the naval equivalent of this most excellent of shows about masculinity, camaraderie, leadership, and warrior spirit, is Hornblower – here’s a great clip from the show:


Midnight’s Edge has an intriguing and in-depth analysis of the extent to which the current debacle of the Devil Mouse Wars saga is really the fault of Bob Iger, the MFIC:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock is quite tickled by the way that the Devil Mouse got BTFOd on their own Faceborg page recently:

Yeesh. Talk about an own-goal!


Gary from Nerdrotic is completely, totally, and utterly unsurprised by the fact that Game of Thrones is stone-cold dead on a slab in the morgue:

And George Rape Rape Martin definitely isn’t going to finish The Winds of Winter before he eats himself to death. Callin’ it now.


The Drinker does an in-depth investigation of one of the most interesting train-wrecks in film history (that you’ve never heard about):


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is, as promised, all about that pesky dark matter stuff:


Your long read of the week is from Dawn Pine and is a heavy-duty list of all of the seriously awesome stuff that the God-Emperor did while in office:

While Democrats and the American news media were intent on portraying President Trumpโ€™s every word, every action, and every breath as โ€œracist,โ€ they dutifully avoided reporting on events that might have contradicted their carefully scripted narrative.

To cite one example, consider some of the profoundly positive things that Trump said in his speech to the Young Black Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., where he was received with enormous warmth and enthusiasm, in October 2018. โ€œ[I]t is my great honor,โ€ the president stated, โ€œto be with so many brilliantโ€”and that’s what you are, brilliant, courageous, patriotic and proud Americans. Seeing all of you here today fills me with an extraordinary confidence in America’s future, and the great, great future of our countryโ€ฆ. You are true leaders on your campuses, in your churches and in your communities.โ€

Donโ€™t feel too badly if you never heard about the Young Black Leadership Summit, or about Trumpโ€™s remarks there. News reporters must have scarcely had a moment to mention the event, given the fact that they were so busy chronicling the presidentโ€™s โ€œracismโ€ on a minute-by-minute basis.

The God-Emperor continues to divide opinion quite sharply on the Right, unsurprisingly. A quite large chunk of the Right thinks that he wasted every possible opportunity and simply governed like your standard cuckservative. Another large chunk cynically regards him as a Manchurian Candidate of sorts, to keep the Right on the reservation and distracted with all sorts of nonsense related to Israel. Then you’ve got guys like me who wanted the God-Emperor to go all Space-Wolves-Burning-of-Prospero on his enemies, and were sorely disappointed.

All of those groups have a point. Trump failed on a number of critical levels, and no mistake.

But when you turn it around and look at where he succeeded, as well… you simply cannot get away from the fact that he was, and is, a LEGENDARY President.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more fromย Dawn Pine:


The Neo-Tsar doesn’t like Tik Tok any more than we do:


History lessons of the week:

That specific battle was one of the most important and consequential in all of human history. If Flavius Aetius had not stopped Attila the Hun at Chalons, the whole history of Europe would have been RADICALLY different. Aetius almost single-handedly saved the Roman Empire – for another 25 years or so. The fact that Aetius himself came from barbarian stock is not coincidental, by the way.


Your Great Man of the Week is a controversial one indeed – the very first true Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi:

China exists as a nation because of that one man. He created a standardised Chinese script, implemented a system of weights and measures, and instituted the merit-based system of scholarship that stood the Chinese bureaucracy in good stead for the next 2,000 years.

He also murdered tens of thousands of his own people, and did so without any remorse whatsoever. He was a paranoid ruler who feared assassination so much that he slept in a different place every night toward the end of his life. In a lot of ways, he was very much a Gamma, judging by his behaviour.


This might be perhaps the greatest HALO mashup of all time:


While we’re on the subject of gaming – here’s the official apology video from CD Projekt Red about the fugazi that was Cyberpunk 2077:

I haven’t played it and I don’t care about it. If you have, tell us what you thougth about it in the comments below.


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

When I come to power, any chef who abuses a perfectly good bit of filet like that will be punished with a public flogging.


Comedy hour from The Male Brain, related to this week’s theme:

Also, and most assuredly NOT related:


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

That probably won’t end well…
Gungans giving inspirational quotes about war? Well, at least it’s not Emo-Vader
Truth
In fairness, it MIGHT have been Lincoln saying all of that in real life…

Apparently WTS has a modern-day equivalent in the form of a very angry Scot with hair-plugs:

Dawn got a little pissed about this meme – just because you can burn a city doesn’t mean you can bend fire, etc.

The message we can take from the above is: DO NOT F**K WITH THE LAST AIRBENDER MEMES, or else you’ll severely piss off our friend down in Israel.

We can all relate to this next one:

DataViz Humor: Math Skills vs. Stage of Life | Michael Sandberg's Data  Visualization Blog

I have two degrees in mathematics, and I can’t FOR THE LIFE OF ME remember how to do this:

\int_{-\infty}^a x^2e^{-x}dx

The best way to figure that out, by the way, is to use Feynman’s Trick of differentiating under the integral sign using a substitution. But don’t ask me to do it – I’d have to go back to all of my old calculus textbooks, and those are sitting in a big-ass storage unit in the USA.

Onward:

Lord but I do miss Blondie. She was HUGELY entertaining to watch while vivisecting the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whorenalists and presstitutes with that lovely smile on her face.

Sounds about right.

This next one sums up “green” energy in one single picture:

Headlines of the week show that Mother Nature really, REALLY hates us and absolutely wants us to know it:

Your “Answers to Questions NO ONE EVER ASKED” moment of the week:

Your “Incredible India” moment of the week:

Your “No Shit, Sherlock” moment of the week:

Your “Swamp Thing” moment of the week:

Your “Sacre Bleu!” moment of the week:

Apparently, orgies between consenting adults are legal in France. The problem here wasn’t the orgy – it was the lack of social distancing.

That tells you just about everything you need to know about the bloody Frogs, eh?

Your “Sticks Like Teflon” moment of the week:

Don’t you just love whorenalistic integrity?:

This next one would explain SO MUCH:

Lord, I hate modrenity….

Oh I’ve DEFINITELY been doing my duty there!


Your Dog of the Week is the Japanese Tosa Inu:

Tosa Dog Breed Information - American Kennel Club

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:


Gym beast props this week go to Julius Maddox for setting a new unofficial record:


Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:


Jesus loves knockouts:


Related – here is a fascinating analysis from BJJSCOUT of the power and danger of calf-kicks:

They ARE, in fact, extremely effective against fighters with wide stances. If you land 3-5 solid, hard kicks to someone’s calf muscle, his leg will be severely compromised and he will not be able to stand.

This is why I love MMA. It’s such a fascinating sport because for every problem, there is a solution – and a counter-solution to that too. There is an answer to every style, an answer to every puzzle. And the skill level just keeps going up and up as a result.

That’s what we saw in the Poirier-Macgregor fight. Dustin clearly learned a lot from his war with Justin Gaethje, in which – as he always does – Gaethje tried to cut Poirier’s legs out from under him with those ferocious chopping kicks. The version of Poirier that fought Macgregor that night was a vastly better and improved version of the man who lost to “Mystic Mac” years ago. And “The Notorious One” was a shell of his former self.

There are levels to that game, and fighters who use successful calf-kicks are clearly operating on a pretty high one.

You can prevent calf-kicks by adopting more of a muay thai-style narrow stance, of course. But that leaves you vulnerable to takedowns. Everything comes with trade-offs, which is as it should be.


Synthwave to remind us of the beach during February:


#TriumphForMyMagicSteel


Right, lads, settle down, we’ve finally gotten to this week’s starting Instathot. She’s actually quite famous, apparently. Her name is Keilah Kang, age 24 from Charlotte, NC. She is of Korean heritage, which explains her Asiatic looks. And she is actually a pretty well-known international model and social media personality – with legitimate modelling credentials, posing for Fashion Nova, London Beach Swim, and various others. She claims to be all natural, but… well, let’s just say I’m sceptical. She is also quite married.

Spectacular Asiatic looks, no tattoos, big boobs and nice butt, wanted to be a wife at a young age – these are many of the qualities that I approve of in a woman. Good for her, and for her husband. As Instathots go, she definitely seems to be one of the better ones. Hopefully she knows how to cook and keep house, too.

Anyway, that’s a wrap for this latest Mondaydact Browser Slayer. Off now to work with you. Millions of people on welfare and tens of millions of illegals depend on you to fund their lives.

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2 Comments

  1. MrUNIVAC

    That Grievous/Chief mashup is awesome. I actually just watched RotS yesterday, so it’s timely too! It’s a shame how George wasted Grievous in that movie, because he was a terrifying and cool Jedi murder machine in Genndy’s Clone Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xJD5o1TwY

    As for H5:G, I just did the battle of Sunaion (which was awesome, bummer that the Chief couldn’t fight with the Arbiter again though), and I think that was the…third Warden fight? I get that Halo fans hate this guy, but I have a different opinion. Yes, he sucks as a character, and his fights suck, but they’re a hell of a lot less frustrating than H2’s bosses, and are actually BOSS FIGHTS. Both the heretic leader and Prophet of Regret spawn infinite numbers of minions at regular intervals, so their focus is on clearing the room enough to not get slaughtered, while killing the boss is less important. Tartarus is a little better, but you still spend big chunks of it focusing on brutes that spawn in when you hurt him.

    The Warden has adds too, but you can either task your squad to get rid of them (which they’ll do pretty effectively if you give them power or precision weapons) or ignore them and go for his weak spot, which is what I usually do. He doesn’t have a ridiculous invincibility shield that only goes down at certain times, is only invincible for a couple of seconds after you damage him, and his adds don’t respawn, so you have a lot more control over the fight. It’s also nice to have the squad to soak up attention instead of having 20+ enemies and the boss all shooting at you at once.

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  2. Kapios

    Well the avatar cartoon was a bit more brutal than people think. That meme made me laugh knowing that one of the characters was obsessed with world domination born from flattening everything with fire, until the tattoo boi appeared that is. Highly recommend that show and another one called ‘Drifters’

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