Well, here we are on another miserable Monday, and where I am, it is miserable indeed. The rain has been falling all bloody day – evidently God is a bit pissed about the fact that the Limeys completely blew the Euro 2021 final. (I have no idea what this actually means, since I’m not a futbolist and have no interest whatsoever in watching a bunch of overpaid divas run around for 90 minutes and flop on the pitch in faux agony the moment the breeze changes direction.)
Apparently it was quite a nail-biter of a game – my contacts in PommieBastardLande are all gutted about how it went down.
Me, I’m not bothered about it – I’m rather celebrating the fact that Dustin Poirier was beating the ever-lovin’ SHIT out of Conor “The Notorious” Macgregor at UFC 264. If you watch the replay of that fight, you’ll see that Mystic Mac smashed his shin straight into Dustin Poirier’s knee, repeatedly, which is just plain dumb. He was trying to emulate Diamond’s calf kicks from their previous fight, which Dustin used to cripple Conor, and the latter wanted to return the favour. He didn’t manage it and instead ended up splintering his tibia and fibula, and then breaking them after rolling completely over on the ankle.
It’s pretty horrific to watch. But what’s really ridiculous is that Conor now claims he was winning that fight and would have beaten up Poirier in the later rounds. Both things are blatantly counterfactual. The judges all scored the first round as a clear win for Poirier. And Macgregor is NOT known for his gas tank – he would likely have been brutalised and worn down in later rounds. Just look at what Khabib Nurmagomedov and Nate Diaz did to him in their fights.
Anyway – it IS Monday, and that means we all need a bit of a morale booster.
Fortunately, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster exists. And we’ve got a great theme for you this week, thanks to our good friend The Male Brain. Today we acknowledge the life and times of one of the greatest actors ever to grace the golden age of Hollywood – Yul Brynner.
Take it away, Dawn Pine:
Yul Brynner, original name Yuliy Borisovich Bryner, (born July 11, 1920?, Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic [Russia]—died October 10, 1985, New York, New York, U.S.), Russian-born stage and film actor who was known primarily for his role as the Siamese monarch in more than 4,000 performances in the Broadway musical The King and I between 1951 and 1985 and in the 1956 film version. (1956).
Brynner was prone to exaggeration and invention, causing much uncertainty about his life, especially his childhood. He notably stated that he was born on Sakhalin Island in Russia and that his father was from Mongolia and his mother was a Romanian Roma. However, a 1989 biography by his son revealed that Brynner was born in Vladivostok, a city in what was then Far Eastern Republic. According to that book, Brynner’s father was an engineer of Russian and Swiss descent and his mother was Russian. While Brynner was still young, his father left the family, and they moved to China before settling in France. There, a teenaged Brynner became a nightclub balladeer and then a trapeze artist.
In the early 1940s Brynner settled in the United States, where he soon drifted into acting with a touring company. He made a successful Broadway stage debut in 1941, appearing in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. He acted in several other stage productions, including a lead role in Lute Song (1946), and from 1949 to 1953 he occasionally worked as a television director. Brynner made his film debut as a drug smuggler in Port of New York (1949). During this time he became a U.S. citizen.
Brynner’s breakthrough came when he was offered the role of the arrogant king of Siam in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won immediate acclaim and a Tony Award in 1952. He became known for his resonant voice, charisma, and shaved head. From 1951 to 1954 Brynner gave 1,246 performances on Broadway as King Mongkut and then starred in the 1956 screen version (with Deborah Kerr), winning an Academy Award for best actor. He went on to give a total of 4,625 performances of the part, taking his last curtain call as the Siamese king in 1985.
Brynner also had starring roles in other major films. He played Rameses, king of Egypt, in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments and an unscrupulous Russian businessman in Anastasia (both 1956), Other roles were those of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and the lead gunslinger in The Magnificent Seven (1960). Brynner continued to appear on the big screen into the mid-1970s. His most memorable later performance was as a robot gunman in the sci-fi thriller Westworld (1973).
In addition to his acting career, Brynner was a noted photographer, and he wrote Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East (1960), which included some of his pictures. He also published a cookbook. In the 1960s Brynner, who was then living in Switzerland and had obtained Swiss citizenship, renounced his U.S. citizenship.
I grew up watching movies like The King and I and, of course, The Ten Commandments. And Yul Brynner’s physical presence on-screen was simply awesome. Dude came across like an ALPHA among Alphas, and he knew it. He had the voice, he had the charisma, he had the looks, and he damned sure knew how to use those attributes.
Here are a few videos of the great man himself that Dawn Pine sent over, starting with his greatest movie roles:
The man certainly had many talents, including significant skills as a dancer:
Now, I’ve never watched the modern series Westworld, but I gather that it’s actually some sort of remake of an older show from the 1970s. I haven’t watched that either, but if Yul Brynner was in it, then it was almost certainly good:
Is that… Christian Bale?!?!?!
No, it’s not, but damn does he look like James Brolin from back then!
See?
Moving on – here’s an interview with Yul Brynner from when he was in his 60s:
The man aged very, very well – like most serious Alphas do.
Here are a couple of videos from my side – starting with his superb dance scene with Deborah Kerr in The King and I:
And here’s Yul Brynner doing his Pharaonic best:
Charlton Heston AND Yul Brynner in the same movie – it’s almost too much awesomeness for one sound stage to contain.
And here is Yul Brynner doing his thing in The Magnificent Seven:
More to follow in the memes section down below.
Simply put, Yul Brynner was a LEGEND.
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, appears to be pretty damned serious about fighting Big Tech:
All HAIL the God-Emperor!
Now, it’s a shame that he’s only mounting this fightback as an EX-President. He should have pushed back much harder against Big Tech during his time as POTUS – which, by the way, he never actually lost, since that election in 2020 was fake beyond measure.
Better late than never, I suppose. But unless “conservatives” and Republicans finally push back against Big Tech censorship, and hit them right where it hurts – which is to say, in their Section 230 legal protections – they will continue to abuse their customers at will.
The only way to fight back against them properly is to launch mass arbitration proceedings. Most of the Big Tech firms recognise this as a weakness, and have since amended their terms of service to move away from arbitration and toward class-action lawsuits. The really dumb ones have shut down BOTH arbitrations AND class-action suits, in direct violation of both State and Federal law, which requires companies to provide some kind of recourse to their customers in the event of injurious conduct by the company.
The God-Emperor shows us the way. We must fight against Big Tech in any way that we can, any way that we know. They MUST face resistance, or they will continue to commit great evil. The interesting thing about this kind of evil is that it looks terrifying and highly intimidating – but these kinds of bullies ALWAYS crumble at the first sign of serious, coordinated, determined resistance.
Yes, they have massive teams of very capable lawyers. But that doesn’t make them invincible. It just makes fighting them a difficult and costly exercise.
And when you’ve got someone like the God-Emperor spearheading the charge… well, it becomes a lot easier to buck up and fight.
#BasedTucker is based:
Mark Dice gets serious for a moment, to talk about the very scary reality of the Bohemian Grove:
Most people don’t want to believe that such a place can possibly be real. My answer to them is:
Did you even bother to read your Bible?
Atheists and humanists love to rabbit on about how the God of the Bible must be unimaginably cruel and evil to command the total extermination of the Canaanites. Well, remember why He did it. He ordered it because the Canaanites had flouted His commandments for hundreds of years – and had resorted to outright child and human sacrifice on the altar of their pagan gods, Dagon, Baal, and Moloch. They would BURN CHILDREN ALIVE on the altar to Moloch as a sacrificial offering.
That level of evil once existed in the Levant, and God was so enraged by it that He ordered His chosen people to enact judgement upon those responsible. And they FAILED to do it.
All of this is historically accurate. We now have actual archaeological and literary evidence proving it.
Now, given the fact that this was a part of human history for quite some time, what makes you think that this sort of evil is less common in a world that has turned its back on God?
Dave from Blue Collar Logic gets philosophical and religious for a bit:
And Jason looks at the growing scandal and controversy surrounding the NSA’s blatantly illegal attempts to spy on #BasedTucker:
Bill Whittle and his friends are NOT Impressed by a new Netflix film that can be best described as VAMPIRES ON A MUTHAF***IN’ PLANE!!!!:
Plenty more good stuff from The Male Brain this week. We start with a hilarious headline from The Babylon Bee, which is rapidly turning into the world’s best news site:
The loonies at thejuicemedia are back with another hilarious take on Australia:
Firearms Unknown has a very funny take on the stupidity of gun control, using an old fable:
Hats Off offers tribute to the greatest action duo in film history:
Paul Ramsey takes on the issue of Critical Race Theory and its infiltration of the cuckservative movement:
PJW reports on the newest front in the culture wars, in which the normies are finally beginning to discover their balls in the face of tranny lunatics trying to do all sorts of perverted shit in a spa:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey interviews a woman who endured 22 days of quarantine in a New Zealand rendition site – oh, sorry, I mean “quarantine hotel” – simply because she refused to take one of those pointless RT-PCR tests:
Remember how I wrote earlier about what it’s like to have the Kung Flu? In that article, I argued that those who have done this to us deserve to be hung, drawn, and quartered, or worse. And now you can see why.
The panic surrounding the Kung Flu is unbelievable. I may have had it, and I am absolutely against any restrictions on human freedom of association and mobility. Let the virus spread. It simply isn’t that dangerous. We have effective means of fighting it, and we should be using them as much as possible.
Meanwhile, the power-mad lunatics in charge in Australia and New Zealand have embraced a flatly impossible “zero COVID” strategy that very plainly isn’t working, at the cost of destroying the lives of tens of thousands of their people.
These government ninnies are profoundly evil, not merely incompetent. And they thoroughly deserve to burn in Hell for what they’ve done.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms appears to have changed his mind on the true historical identity of the original “prophet” Muhammad – it turns out that the man in question may have been a chap named Umar, not Ilyas ibn Qabisah al-Tayaye after all:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International continues to pick huge, gaping holes in the Standard Izzlamic Narrative with the help of a new friend:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined forcefully rams home the truth about Christianity – that it is the ONLY true answer to the Problem of Evil:
China Uncensored interviews none other than Jack Posobiec about the CCP’s ongoing experiments in weaponising coronaviruses and other nasty bugs:
America Uncovered takes a deep look at the reasons behind the current labour shortage in the USA:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance is not impressed by the notion, currently running rampant among Blacks in America right now, that the Dindus were behind all of humanity’s greatest achievements:
WE WUZ KANGZ N’ SHIET!!!
And speaking of which – Sargon of Akkad breaks down that meme for us:
Terrence Popp looks at the difference in military recruitment standards and advertising between the Russians – who know and understand how to fight real wars – and the Americans – who evidently don’t have a clue:
Midnight’s Edge notes the “stunning and brave” (read: WOKE AND STUPID) new direction taken by the M-She-U in the new Black Widow film:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock cannot contain his delight and glee at the latest rumours that the disease-ridden cesspit of effluvium that is Star Trek: Discovery may soon be wiped out:
Gary from Nerdrotic is no longer a fan of the Marvel M-She-U (not that he ever was), now that Kevin Feige has shown his full Gamma fanboi colours:
The Drinker watched the hot greasy mess that is Black Widow, so the rest of us don’t have to:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at a new type of supernova:
An international team of astronomers has observed the first example of a new type of supernova. The discovery, confirming a prediction made four decades ago, could lead to new insights into the life and death of stars. The work was published on June 28, 2021, in Nature Astronomy.
“One of the main questions in astronomy is to compare how stars evolve and how they die,” said Stefano Valenti, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the team that discovered and described supernova 2018zd. “There are many links still missing, so this is very exciting.”
There are two known types of supernova. A core-collapse supernova occurs when a massive star, more than 10 times the mass of our sun, runs out of fuel and its core collapses into a black hole or neutron star. A thermonuclear supernova occurs when a white dwarf star — the remains of a star up to eight times the mass of the sun — explodes.
In 1980, Ken’ichi Nomoto of the University of Tokyo predicted a third type called an electron capture supernova.
What keeps most stars from collapsing under their own gravity is the energy produced in their central core. In an electron capture supernova, as the core runs out of fuel, gravity forces electrons in the core into their atomic nuclei, causing the star to collapse in on itself.
Your long read of the week is by Pepe Escobar writing at The Unz Review, and concerns the ignominious withdrawal of US forces from yet another failed client state – the parallels between Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021 are hard to escape:
The Taliban are on a roll. Earlier this week their PR arm was claiming they hold 218 Afghan districts out of 421 – capturing new ones every day. Tens of districts are contested. Entire Afghan provinces are basically lost to the government in Kabul, which has been de facto reduced to administer a few scattered cities under siege.
Already on July 1, the Taliban announced they controlled 80% of Afghan territory. That’s close to the situation 20 years ago, only a few weeks before 9/11, when Commander Ahmad Shah Masoud told me in the Panjshir valley , as he prepared a counter-offensive, that the Taliban were 85% dominant.
Their new tactical approach works like a dream. First, there’s a direct appeal to soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) to surrender. Negotiations are smooth and deals fulfilled. Soldiers in the low thousands have already joined the Taliban without a single shot fired.
Mapmakers cannot upload updates fast enough. This is fast becoming a textbook case of the collapse of a 21st-century central government.
The Taliban are fast advancing in western Vardak, easily capturing ANA bases. That is the prequel for an assault on Maidan Shar, the provincial capital. If they gain control of Vardak, then they will be literally at the gates of Kabul.
After capturing Panjwaj district, the Taliban are also a stone’s throw away from Kandahar, founded by Alexander the Great in 330 BC and the city where a certain mullah Omar – with a little help from his Pakistani ISI friends – started the Taliban adventure in 1994, leading to their Kabul power takeover in 1996.
The overwhelming majority of Badakhshan province – Tajik majority, not Pashtun – fell after only four days of negotiations, with a few skirmishes thrown in. The Taliban even captured a hilltop outpost very close to Faizabad, Badakhshan’s capital.
None of this changes the fact that the USA MUST abandon Afghanistan. That is the graveyard of empires, and so it has proven yet again. The only way to win in Afghanistan is to do precisely what Americans cannot, and will never, do:
Slaughter every last Muslim man, woman, and child, and force them to renounce their vile heresy at the point of a sword.
Thank GOD that a Christian nation cannot and will not do this. But that is the only way to win against an enemy willing and able to stand and fight.
Linkage is good for you:
- The Saker hasn’t written about Ukraine in a while, and seeks to correct that oversight by noting that the Ukronazis aren’t making their lives any easier with their latest mistakes;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan has some stern words concerning America’s epic and terrible failures in Afghanistan – a failed mission if there ever was one, and a mission that was in fact totally unnecessary;
- Ted Rall has some germane advice about abandoning Afghanistan, and I think he’s absolutely right – America needs to get out and never ever go back in, except to nuke the place into radioactive glass;
- The Russkies are finding themselves pulled, quite against their will, right back into the Black Hole of Afghanistan, which they abandoned when it became too expensive for them to maintain their empire – deja vu all over again, eh?;
- The Hungarian Prime Minister’s refusal to be cowed or bullied by the Euzis is inspirational and encouraging – THIS is how you fight the globohomo cult, simply by refusing to back down;
- Remember how the homos just wanted to get married, and that seemed OK, and we Christians were a bunch of intolerant religious zealots when we talked about the “slippery slope”? Yeah, about that…;
- Here’s your “news of the weird” moment for the week – apparently the Czechs consume enough meth that their waste products are turning the fish in their rivers into methheads;
- I’ve been to three universities, and I absolutely agree that most university degrees today are totally worthless – we SHOULD get more students, especially young men, out of universities and into the trades;
- Lance Welton investigates the rather intriguing fact that some of the biggest race grifters and hustlers among Black people actually have White mothers, and asks what impact that has upon the grifting itself;
- As I’ve been saying for YEARS, the Joint Strike Flying Piano is a stupidly expensive flying white elephant which is now proving to be so expensive that it’s actually cheaper to keep it ON THE GROUND;
- Interestingly, though, despite the wanton failure of the F-35, the Chinese aren’t able to build much of an export market for their jets, either – proably because no one wants defective jets packed with spyware;
- The God-Emperor was, once again, absolutely right – there is enough evidence of serious dickery in Georgia to call the entire election into doubt, and anyone who still thinks that the Fake Election was legit, needs to be slapped;
- The growing scandal surrounding the NSA’s attempts to spy on #BasedTucker for essentially, DOING HIS DAMN JOB, probably originated at the level of the Fake President;
- The Limeys are discovering, to their shock and horror, the rather obvious truth that if you pay people not to work, THEY WON’T WANT TO WORK – I could have told them that, I have a degree from LSE and everything;
- As much as I think the Limeys are a bunch of whiny twerps, they do have some seriously brave, and UNBELIEVABLY lucky, soldiers who still know how to do HALO jumps – straight through people’s roofs, in fact;
- Paul Craig Roberts notes that the not-vaccines are actually not very effective against the Indian Variant of the Lung Pao Sicken – thanks Texakraut for that one;
- I can’t bloody stand pretty much anything that Hollyweird produces these days, but apparently the new Chris Pratt flick, The Tomorrow War, is actually quite good;
- THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME is teasing the release of a new album, and honestly, music news doesn’t get any bigger than that – on top of which, their first song has a distinctly Biblical theme;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Archaeologists have discovered shark teeth in the City of David, and aren’t quite sure what to make of that fact;
- The Frogs clearly haven’t learned their lessons from the last few hidings that they received from being in Africa, and appear to be keen on repeating the mistakes that destroyed their empire;
- A bank managed to deposit $50 BILLION into some lucky bastard’s account – but, believe it or not, that’s not the worst banking clerical error I’ve ever heard of, I know personally of one that resulted in a $37 TRILLION error;
- The election of a new Supreme Grand Beardy Todger in Iran, or whatever they call their leadership, has the Western political elites wondering how to respond – but chances are, the new Beardy isn’t going to be very friendly;
- Some crazy people clearly have WAY too much time on their hands, as evidenced by a chap who convinced a bunch of Twatter devs to create a completely fake AWS service;
- Dawn Pine and I believe that we are all doomed, not least because of idiots like these who drive through car washes in open-top vehicles, just for TEH LULZ on TikTok;
- Remember when the God-Emperor called Haiti a shithole country and got roundly pilloried for it? He was, yet again, 100% correct – their President just got straight-up ASSASSINATED, which leads us to wonder what he knows about the Clintons;
- Turkey’s neo-Ottoman sultan Erdogan seems to think that throwing his weight around the region by running guns to Syria is a good idea, but in reality, those guns are likely to be turned against Turkey in a big hurry;
- This analysis of the situation in Belarus is a very good one, and confirms what people like me have been saying for years – Russia is NOT building a new empire, it is simply trying to build a buffer between itself and a very hostile West;
The Neo-Tsar tells some harsh home truths about the Fake President:
And it so happens that he is perfectly happy to drive his own car – imagine getting into a Russian-made armoured bulletproof limousine, and being driven around by VLADIMIR FREAKIN’ PUTIN:
This sure turns the whole “In Soviet Russia” paradigm on its head, doesn’t it?
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is Alaric, the Goth who sacked Rome:
And now let’s watch Mint Blitz completely BORK the HALO engine a bit more:
This next one, though, is pure REDONKULOUS AWESOMESAUCE:
A Gauss Hornet. I can die happy now.
It is a very, VERY bad idea to f**k with the God-Emperor’s Angels of Death:
And, in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war – expressed through cavalry charges straight into the teeth of laser fire:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls:
I love that line too.
Onward – starting with a story about how the Feds confiscated a US Capitol LEGO SET from one of the so-called “insurrectionists” who held an actually mostly peaceful protest in the building on Jan 6:
This is perhaps the only truthful announcement that the NHS has made in the last year:
And chances are pretty high that he’d STILL mess it up.
Headlines of the week indicate that even the trout are getting into the whole high-on-meth thing:
Your “That’s Costa Rican, Butthead!!!” moment of the week:
Your “Driving While Intoxicated” moment of the week:
Your “Let Them Eat Baguettes” moment of the week:
The only way to deal with an Albigensian heretic is to burn his house down and crucify him. And that’s actually a pretty reasonable response, believe it or not, because the Albigensians were BATSHIT BONKERS.
Chap in the red shirt is about to be turned into paste on the road.
I’ve been puzzled by that myself, actually.
Yep – “if it’s stuck and shouldn’t be, use WD-40, and if it’s not stuck and should be, use duct tape”.
Also – “there are few problems in life which cannot be solved through liberal application of duct tape”.
I did my part today.
Your Dog of the Week is the Kromfohrlander, from Germany:
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And here is a dire and very important warning – DO NOT WATCH THIS NEXT VIDEO BEFORE EATING:
Nature is just HORRIFYING, man.
Gym beast time, gents:
Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:
Jesus loves knockouts:
Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’
Before we get to the heavy shit, let’s remind ourselves that not ALL pop music is ear-raping stupid nonsense – and the ones who do it best are, of course, the Russians and Ukrainians:
That is actually mostly the “classic” lineup of ВИА ГРА (“Nu Virgos” in the West), consisting of Nadiya Meikhler, Vera Brezhneva, and Anna Sedokova. All of them could sing, dance, and look pretty (gorgeous, in fact). And all three went on to have spectacular careers as solo artists, especially Ms Brezhneva. The latter appears the most consistently in those videos, which are mostly from the “golden era” of the group – 2003-05.
All I can say is that, as in so many other things, the Slavs do pop music WAY better than anyone else.
#SwordOfPower
And finally, after much messing about, here’s your Instathot to get the week off to an (in)appropriate start. Her name is Patrycja Dyska, and as you can guess from that syllable-mangling name, she is from Poland, age 28. She has found some fame in Poland and Germany as a lad-mag model, though beyond that I have no clue who she is. And she was foolish enough to get a big tattoo on her left side, which no doubt she will regret badly as she ages. But, for now, at least, she’s quite hot enough to compensate (somewhat) for her otherwise rather dumb choice.
All right, gents, that’s is, get on with the day. The NSA can’t spy on you unless you do the work that pays the taxes that funds them, after all.
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We watched The Ten Commandments as a family earlier this year. That film held the attention of 3 kids under 6 for the whole time, less intermission. It is remarkable how Brynner and Heston can both dominate a scene independently and then mesh seamlessly in the story. There’s no alpha-alpha clash that takes away from the story, but a dynamite synchronization.
I did not realize the King and I was a broadway show before the movie, nor that he played the role live. Good Monday morning memory hog choice.
Also….
“Who had meth-head fish for July?”