Well, it’s the Monday after Christmas, and if you’re all bloated and hungover, don’t worry, millions of others are in exactly the same boat. (Not me, for better and for worse – I actually didn’t get a chance to do very much eating or drinking. More’s the pity, really.) This Monday, though, is especially good, because it is the last one of 2021, and very soon we will slip on our drinking shoes again and rather sloppily greet 2022.
And let’s hope that it’s less of a catastrof**k than this year was. The sheer amount of stupidity, venality, incompetence, and nonsense that we had to put up with this year was genuinely shocking, even though we’d already been through several rounds of similar idiocy in the previous year. This was the kind of year that genuinely makes you lose faith in humanity.
Yet, even so, there were plenty of moments that made even hardened curmudgeons like me pause and think, “y’know what, maybe people aren’t so bad after all”. (Such moments would inevitably be followed immediately by even more epic stupidity that would make me fantasise about clock towers – I’ll just leave it at that.)
We’re going to see a lot more stupidity coming in the next year. This is unavoidable. The fact is that MOST PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS, and there is no getting away from this. All we can do is fight the stupidity where we can, push back as hard as possible, concentrate on doing the best we can with what we have, and – this is critical – helping to carry each other’s burdens.
That should not stop us from making fun of idiots, especially when their idiocy blows up spectacularly in their faces. And one of THE best recent examples of this exact phenomenon has been the “STAR WARS Galactic Starcruiser” hotel idea that the Devil Mouse has tried to market to the general public.
If you’re not aware of this particular space-crash, it’s genuinely hysterical. Here are a bunch of videos that illustrate the problem:
John from Star Wars Theory was able to pull out a VASTLY better and more interesting set of ideas in three minutes, ENTIRELY ad lib, when he reviewed the same trailer:
Everything about this “Galactic Starcruiser” nonsense is a disaster from start to finish. The Disney “Imagineers” – that’s a real title, apparently – really screwed the pooch, hard, with this one.
The “lightsaber training”, in particular, is absurd:
And that’s before we get to how cheap and tacky the whole thing looks – and the asking price is an eye-watering $6,000 for a family of four for 2 nights. That’s just INSANE – and you don’t get to see OG characters from the original trilogy, either. It’s mostly the new – i.e. SHIT – character set from the Devil Mouse Wars saga, which honestly cannot be called STAR WARS in any sense.
On top of which, Queen Karen Kennedy had to go and put a blatant self-insertion into the promotional materials:
Look at how cheap, tacky, and lazy everything seems. This isn’t STAR WARS – and that, of course, is precisely the point. It was never meant to be STAR WARS. It was always meant to be a cheap, tacky, lazy cash grab for people whom Disney thinks are too stupid and gullible to figure out that they are being ripped off.
They’ll make money off the thing, I’m sure – but it won’t be anywhere near what they expected. Already the cancellations have gotten to the point where the Devil Mouse appears to be backing off the idea.
This is how you beat your enemies – by denying them any power over you. Don’t give them your money, and laugh at them at every possible opportunity. They cannot stand to be laughed at, so do it whenever you can, and watch them melt down in the process.
Before we get too carried away with holiday cheer, let’s give the boys over at Flashgitz a chance to ruin it for all of us:
That… was… disturbing, to say the very least.
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, looks ready to take on and fight the Fake President in 2024 and reclaim the Cherry Blossom Throne:
It doesn’t actually matter, in the end, though. I bow to no one in my respect and appreciation for the God-Emperor, but the FACT is that he failed to do what was necessary, because he is fundamentally a negotiator and not a fighter. He listened to the craven counsel of weak men – most especially his son-in-law, Jared Kushner – and did not impose martial law when he had the ability and the authority to do so. In the process, he allowed the Dindus and the Black Looming Menace to run absolutely rampant in torching American cities last summer. And, though his handling of the Scamdemic was, on the whole, admirable, he failed to understand that it was used very clearly as an orchestrated opportunity to unseat him (successfully, as it happened, to our IMMENSE misfortune).
Worst of all, he refused to stand by his supporters on Jan 6, which has to be the biggest farce in American political history. A bunch of yahoos following a guy with face-paint wearing a Viking helmet and a bear-cloak into the Speaker’s office and the House chamber, is NOT an attempt to overthrow a government.
What we are seeing today is the sum result of utter failures of the American system, at EVERY SINGLE LEVEL. The 2020 election was transparently stolen, and that much is obvious at this point. We now know and understand that the American democratic system is dead, and it’s about time that we stopped caring about it.
The next step from here is undoubtedly tyranny, through either autocratic or mob rule. We are already in the stage of oligarchical rule by technocratic elites who presume themselves to be our superiors – and they are failing. Mob rule is already the norm in many parts of blue-state America, and it too is failing. At the national level, the only way forward appears to be tyranny, with absolute power concentrated into the hands of one man.
Let us hope and pray that said man will be capable of wielding power in the manner of an Oliver Cromwell, rather than an Ivan the Terrible.
#BasedTucker is based:
The Male Brain has been quite busy this holiday season, and has assembled a most excellent series of videos for our entertainment today. We start with some hilarity from FreedomToons:
Here’s another one from them about what airline travel is like these days:
It’s always good to make things that are funny AND effective at mocking Leftists.
Larry the Stormtrooper rather takes some of the shine off the STAR WARS universe by looking at the nature of retail jobs within it:
Here’s a new channel called NPR’s Skunk Bear, which has a rather oddball piece about alien sounds coming out of frozen lakes:
And here is the link that motivated the video in the first place.
If you’ve ever wondered what the whole concept of “spice” in the DUNE universe was all about, The Film Theorists are here to explain it for you:
Dave Cullen puts into words what most of us think:
Of course, we could simply ditch the TV and movies and go right back to reading, which is mostly what I do – except for YouTube, admittedly.
The Babylon Bee has some most excellent gift ideas for the season:
Hitler Rants Parodies is clearly still milking the meme-cow that was Der Untergang (Downfall):
I must admit, that’s pretty spot-on. BoJo the Bumbler really is shaping up to be Boris the Oppressor, just as was predicted on TOP GEAR all those years ago, but really, he’s a bumbling Eton-educated nitwit.
As he himself once said:
Mark Dice takes at look back at fifteen years on TEH YOOTOOBZ:
Jason Siler is very amused by the way that the Daemoncrats have started to eat their own:
Bill Whittle has a remarkably similar-looking nephew, whom he delights in taking the mickey out of, and had him on his show to help explain things from the yoof perspective:
Paul Ramsey reckons that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, flaps like a duck, and is as useless as a duck, then it must be Biden:
PJW asks a very pertinent question as we close out the final days of 2021:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey has the third part of her breakdown of a fascinating, and incendiary, article about the Scamdemic:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan is not in the least bit impressed by the Fake President’s ridiculous claim that purebloods will be subjected to a terrible winter of suffering and death:
The Dizzle beats the Dawahgandists at their own game:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his good friend Al-Fadi from CIRA International put together a really superb panel of experts on the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN) to close out the year – this is well worth listening to in full, it’s packed with amazing information:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined unpacks the origins of these wonderful traditions that we celebrated this year:
China Uncensored takes an in-depth look at a very evil phenomenon lurking at the heart of the country’s biggest fleshpot:
America Uncovered looks at people getting chipped with Coof passports:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance takes a look at how Christmas became White:
Terrence Popp understands, as very few people do, just how easily and effectively Russia can consume the Ukies:
Midnight’s Edge reckons that The Matrix: Resurrections may well be the latest example of “subverting expectations”, a la the awful and terrible The Last Jedi, in a move made by people promoting THE MESSAGE (with apologies to The Drinker), over actual profit and good stories:
The big movie news right now is not about a woke-ified and quite unnecessary Matrix sequel, though. It’s all about the new Spider-Man film, which many of our most trusted real critics absolutely love. Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock truly enjoyed it, and revels in its celebration of the fandom:
Gary from Nerdrotic also loved the film and thinks that it spells the death-knell of the M-She-U:
The Drinker heartily recommends Spider-Man: No Way Home, which coming from a drunken sourpuss like him, is a serious recommendation:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and examines why the world is spinning faster now than it used to be:
Depending on how much Earth’s rotations speed up and how long that trend continues, scientists might have to take action. “There is this concern at the moment that if Earth’s rotation rate increases further that we might need to have what’s called a negative leap second,” Whibberley says. “In other words, instead of inserting an extra second to allow Earth to catch up, we have to take out a second from the atomic timescale to bring it back into state with Earth.”
But a negative leap second would present scientists with a whole new set of challenges. “There’s never been a negative leap second before and the concern is that software that would have to handle that has never been tested operationally before,” Whibberley adds.
Whether a regular leap second or a negative leap second is called for, in fact, these tiny changes can be a massive headache for industries ranging from telecommunications to navigation systems. That’s because leap seconds meddle with time in a way that computers aren’t prepared to handle.
“The primary backbone of the internet is that time is continuous,” Levine says. When there’s not a steady, continuous feed of information, things fall apart. Repeating a second or skipping over it trips up the whole system and can cause gaps in what’s supposed to be a steady stream of data. Leap seconds also present a challenge for the financial industry, where each transaction must have its own unique time stamp — a potential problem when that 23:59:59 second repeats itself.
Some companies have sought out their own solutions to leap seconds, like the Google smear. Instead of stopping the clock to let Earth catch up with atomic time, Google makes each second a tiny bit longer on a leap second day. “That’s a way of doing it,” Levine says, “but that doesn’t agree with the international standard for how time is defined.”
Your long read of the week is a pretty fascinating look into the rise and fall, and continued disgrace, of Blizzard Entertainment, which used to be the greatest game studio around and is now regarded as one of the worst:
By this time, Activision Blizzard had grown to an operation with 9,500 workers, with Blizzard accounting for half of those employees. But in 2019 Activision Blizzard decided to fire 800 people at the same time as the company reported record profits for that year, with the company executives receiving multimillion-dollar bonuses.
And despite the company constantly preaching inclusivity and diversity, and trying to make that known through their games by introducing minority characters, at this point many people had a feeling that something was rotten within the company, and the 2021 lawsuit filed by the state of California against Activision Blizzard confirmed many of those suspicions.
The lawsuit, which was preceded by a two-year investigation, alleged that there was a toxic ‘frat-boy’ culture within Blizzard, with people being allowed to drink on the job with minimal outside interference, almost no HR oversight and barely any accountability. Ultimately that resulted in hundreds of cases of reported sexual abuse, harassment and workplace discrimination, which management reportedly knew about, but instead of fixing it they decided to just cover it up.
According to former employees it was precisely the toxic, alcohol-driven culture within the company that pushed many talented artists, directors and programmers to leave the company, which they felt ‘had no future under the current leadership.’
Since the lawsuit and allegations became public there have been numerous harrowing detailed accounts coming out from women who had worked at Activision Blizzard, and have had to experience things like constant solicitations for casual sex, men walking into breastfeeding rooms, ‘cube crawls’ when drunk staff went from one cubicle to another harassing and groping female coworkers.
One female employee even reportedly took her own life during a business trip due to ‘having a sexual relationship with her supervisor’ who allegedly brought several sex toys on the trip. The lawsuit claims the female worker also suffered sexual harassment in the office and that an explicit photo of hers was passed around by her male co-workers during a holiday party.
Even the former vice president Lisa Welch shared an account of one co-worker asking her for sex because he thought ‘she deserved to have some fun’ several weeks after her boyfriend had died.
The founder of Blizzard and former CEO Michael Morheim, who left the company in 2018, issued a statement after the lawsuit became public, saying that he was shocked to hear these details, and that he felt the company he created was no longer the same.
It is a very good article and well worth reading in full. The ultimate lesson remains the same – if you let SJWs into your company, sooner or later, THEY WILL DESTROY IT.
Linkage is good for you:
- For those of you who listened to my podcast on Christmas Day and are curious about what the Arian Hersey was – here’s a primer for you, enjoy;
- Longtime Congressman, freedom fighter, former Presidential candidate, and life-saver Dr. Ron Paul notes that the lockdowns are the last stand of the technocrats who presume to rule our lives;
- As good as the F-22 Raptor is – and it is VERY good – even the US Air Force, “the Uber of the Skies”, baulked at the exorbitant unit cost of each one, and refused to buy more of them, which is why we got the Turducken Plane disaster instead;
- Unsurprisingly, people don’t believe in the ridiculously over-hyped Moronica Strain death projections over in PommieBastardLande – if you screw up repeatedly by MORE THAN 3,000%, you get FIRED anywhere else;
- The Russians continue to demonstrate why they are likely to become the centre of Christian civilisation in the future, as their parliament contemplates introducing life sentences for repeat paedophiles – yep, keep the applause going there, lads;
- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test is interesting and a fun heuristic tool, but it is also deeply flawed in terms of a psychometric test, and this article explains why in some useful detail;
- The tragic and terrible story of Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina is a heart-wrenching one of a young girl whose childhood was stolen from her by a system that prized performance over longevity and health of its athletes;
- Journalist Nebojsa Malic explains, correctly, that when you shut down dissent and opposition among people who have absolutely legitimate grievances against you and yours, you make civil war MORE likely, not less;
- Boyd D. Cathey explains over at The Unz Review that Hollyweird wasn’t always made up entirely of shitbag liberaltards – there were, in fact, serious and capable hard men of the Right in that world, for many decades;
- Taki Theodoracopoulos may well be a hedonistic playboy who pays only lip service – if that – to the core tenets of the Christian faith, but he certainly understands it a damned sight better than most young people today;
- The Ukronazis in charge of the increasingly shaky and broken country are looking to conscript more women into their military – that’s about the surest sign imaginable of a country that deserves to lose a war;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Our friend doesn’t quite understand how the Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese company is running out of its own signature spread – and to be honest, neither does anyone else;
- The US continues its largely futile practice of trying to blacklist companies from China after the Chinese have already bypassed existing restrictions, over some non-existent concerns over “human rights”;
- The US military is also currently developing software that will predict how the Chinese will respond to American actions in the Pacific – this can’t really be too hard, since the Chinese are actually pretty transparent about their intentions;
- A lot of us wonder why members of the Tribe are rather sensitive to the issue of the Holocaust – but if you were told that your kid was being instructed to reenact scenes from one of the worst tragedies in history, you might have a problem with it too;
- If ever we needed more evidence that the RT-PCR tests are totally useless at detecting much of anything, the fact that 10% of passengers on a recent flight from Miami to Tel Aviv tested positive for Moronica, should be all that is needed;
- Dawn Pine reckons that the recent surge in criminal activity in the USA has more to do with active stupidity than with evil intent – I would say that malice is involved, for sure, but it’s a particularly dumb kind;
- The Danes seem to be capable of understanding that hordes of Dirt Worlders don’t really make for very good neighbours and tend to form ghettos when left to themselves – how come Anglosphere governments can’t figure that out?;
- There is, in fact, demand out there for good news, and it soared during the past year;
- In yet another “news of the blindingly obvious” story, the utterly cucked Limeyland rag, The Guardian, ran a piece about how women disproportionately took on the burden of housework during the lockdowns, which is actually pretty normal;
- Russian bots appear to be responsible for buying up lots of useless crap around this time of year – world ends at 5;
- China’s “unrestricted warfare” approach has already possibly released a nasty, if not particularly lethal, pathogen upon us once with the Coof – the next one, though, will likely be much worse;
The Neo-Tsar talks a very great deal of sense about the importance of parenthood:
He is, once again, absolutely correct. NOTHING in this world is more important than children. Financial well-being is far less valuable than having a big family and – this part is critical – raising well-civilised, independent, God-fearing, capable children.
And to do that, you MUST have a mother and a father. It’s just that simple, and no amount of insane social engineering can get around it.
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is Admiral William “Bull” Halsey:
HALO Infinite is seriously awesomesauce, as The Act Man points out:
Right, let’s have Mint Blitz do his thing now:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls:
Headlines of the week indicate that Christmas drove Floriduh Man a bit loopier than usual:
Your “Omicron Killed the Radio Star” moment of the week:
I can’t even begin to craption this next one:
Your “Cat Burglar” moment of the week:
Your “It Never STARTED Making Sense” moment of the week:
Your “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” moment of the week:
Your “Chicks With Dicks Don’t Get Kicks” moment of the week:
Your “Men Have Standards” moment of the week:
Oh, so you don’t believe me? FINE:
And y’all wonder why I like Russians so much?
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
Orcas really are the wolves of the ocean.
Gym beast props this week go to Danial Zamani:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster unpacks “The Notorious” Conor Macgregor‘s potential return to the Octagon:
Jesus loves knockouts:
#SolidStateOfSteel
And now here we are at last – the Instathot, the very final Instathot for a Monday in 2021, to get the very last week of the year off to the right start. She is Anna Kudinova (Анна Кудинова), age 26, from Sverdlovskaya Oblast’ in the Siberian hinterland, and currently living in Yekaterinburg (apparently), in the far east of the great country of Russia. She is kind of sort of a ginger, which means that this is also a bit of a treat for the gingervitis sufferers among us.
(However, as LRFotS MrUNIVAC has, rightly, pointed out, you might suffer from gingervitis, but unless you’ve done YOUR part to increase the population of gingers, you’re not really holding up your end of the bargain.)
She is, as far as I can tell, happily married. Good luck to her and her husband – let’s hope he knocks her up soon, and she becomes a happy mother to lots of little ginger sprats.
That’s all, gents – a final all for this year. We’ll see you again on the 3rd, by which time hopefully your New Year’s hangovers have (mostly) subsided, for the next round of epic awesomeness.
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