Well, better late than never, eh, lads? I know it’s not really a “Monday” post at this point, because for most of my Yankee heathen rebel colonist readers, it’s basically the evening and nobody gives a crap, but I’ve had a hell of a busy day. We are in the middle of wrapping up a big project, and guess which poor schmuck has to write basically the entire damn report?
Actually, it’s my own fault. The project is pretty much my creation, conception, and idea, and I’m the only native English speaker in the team, to boot. So, y’know, sucks to be me. Especially on a Monday. Like today.
Fortunately, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Beater exists – to distract you, and to give me a break from having to write like 100 pages worth of report and have it all make sense, somehow.
Today’s topic is all about economics – steady, don’t change the channel just yet. We’re going to bag on a particularly odious and stupid idea called Modern Monetary Theory, which basically says that governments can run all the deficits that they want, since central banks can always monetise the debt without causing hyperinflation.
As bad ideas go, this is UNBELIEVABLY dumb. The only reason it hangs together at all is because economists have looked at the past 30 years’ worth of data and said that there has been little serious inflation during a time of unprecedented money printing. This is a bit like looking at a corpse where the exit wounds show that the bullets entered the BACK of the head, and concluding that the victim somehow shot himself – it COMPLETELY confuses cause and effect, and actually doesn’t even understand the cause at all.
This is germane because MMT is essentially the dominant philosophy in a number of economics schools at the moment – and is the doctrine that rules many of the world’s central banks. If you’ve been wondering of late why your paycheque buys 20% less than it did a year ago, yet economics claim that inflation is “only” about 7.5%, then this is the reason why.
So let’s dispose of this particularly odoriferous piece of crap:
If even a globalist Jew like Fink thinks that MMT is stupid, MMT has a serious problem. Unfortunately, TPTB don’t seem to be listening.
We’re in deep trouble, folks. MMT is not new. It’s just money-printing and inflation dressed up in new clothes, and quite stinky ones at that. This has never worked out well – don’t expect anything different this time around.
#BasedTucker is Based
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Of ALL of the Western commentators on the war in Ukraine, ONLY #BasedTucker has been even remotely honest and objective – and he hasn’t been much of that, either, for the first week. That episode on March 1, though, finally showcases Col. Doug MacGregor (USArmy, Ret), talking real sense and truth about what the Russkies are doing, and why they are doing it. This is
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has some great videos to make us think and broaden our horizons during these deeply awful times. We start with one from Reason about how “hate speech” laws are actually a really dumb idea due to the Law of Unintended Consequences:
We don’t need hate speech laws. They were always a dumb idea and always will be. We simply need to enforce the anti-blasphemy laws that already exist on the books in most countries. Russia has been doing precisely that recently – over the (rather mild) objections of the Orthodox Church, I might add. They simply will not tolerate insults to religious monuments and objects of veneration – of any religion – over there.
Those incapable of multifaceted thinking might argue that anti-blasphemy laws are the same as hate speech laws. That is incorrect. Anti-blasphemy laws prohibit insults against God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and require men to direct our attentions to understanding God’s purpose for us as His children and imagers on this Earth. Anti-hate speech laws are designed specifically to stifle dissent, squash free thinking, and destroy criticism of the people in power. It’s just that simple.
Here’s another Reason video about the “Great Escape” – which is probably too optimistic by half, and yet quite interesting nonetheless:
FreedomToons notes that liberaltards these days appear to suffer from a severe irony deficiency:
Ryan Long points out a home truth about teachers – they don’t actually like other people’s children, they tolerate them.
That brings to mind this old meme:
Ayup.
Moving on – AustinMcConnell looks at the coolest sci-fi novel that you’ve never heard of:
Lucian of Samosata sure had wicked good talent.
ScreenRant looks at how studio execs probably pitched BatKeating’s movie, back in the day:
The Babylon Bee continues to report the news well before it ever happens:
Interesting twat from the self-declared “President of the Manosphere”:
Poli-ticking Off
I have no idea how Mark Dice avoided being banned from TEH YOOTOOBZ!!! for making fun of Saint Ze of Banderastan with this video:
Jason Siler can’t stop laughing at Cameltoad Harris, who plainly hasn’t got a clue about anything:
Bill Whittle and his friends manage to avoid going full retard – BARELY – when watching the coverage of the Ukraine War:
It’s interesting to note that Bill is married to a Russian woman, and I have no doubt that she really dislikes the Neo-Tsar. But that is no excuse for Bill’s blatantly one-sided view of the war and everything that is happening. He can, and should, do better. He’s one of the men who was beating the drum for years about how awful and evil Putin is, and how America needed to “contain” the Russian bear. Look how well that worked out – America went straight from containment to outright confrontation, and now America’s proxy in the region is getting its ass kicked.
China Uncensored notes that Fake President Greenscreen McNappyface messed up big-time by thinking that the CCP were going to act in good faith when his Fake Administration gave them intel about what Russia was up to in Ukraine:
America Uncovered doesn’t quite seem to understand that the Neo-Tsar LITERALLY DOES NOT CARE what the United Abominations thinks about him:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance reports on the latest round of SJW retardation and pandering to Blacks:
Righteous Rantery
Paul Ramsey offers up an unusually well-reasoned and thoughtful take on the invasion of Ukraine:
PJW is not impressed by the sheer ridiculousness of the world’s virtue-signalling in the wake of the Russian invasion:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey unpacks the reality of HIV, which is nowhere near as dangerous as everyone seems to think it is:
Warriors of Faith
The Dizzle cannot help but take a bit of a victory lap for his amazing success in bringing apostates out of the delusions of Izzlam and into the light and glory of Christ our Lord:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms points out a simple, but powerful, truth about Mecca:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International exposes the sheer depravity and awfulness of the Izzlamist “prophet”, Mo’Lester:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined tackles the big questions:
The living legend of Christian polemics, Christian Prince, utterly shreds the silly notion that Mo’Lester was somehow a merciful or kind man:
Manly Men of Manliness
Here is a collection of some of Terrence Popp‘s finest moments:
Joker from Better Bachelor has been busy this week with other things, but he still found time to point out that the Wall comes for EVERY woman:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge notes that ViacomCBS, or whatever the hell they’re called these days, are still tiredly trying to flog that dead horse of Star Trek 4: Deep Fake Time:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock piles right into Kurtzmantrek:
Gary from Nerdrotic reviews Pattman’s performance:
The Drinker really quite liked The King’s Man:
I absolutely raved about this film when I saw it – I think it’s one of the best manly movies I’ve ever seen. And I stand by that opinion. It is a magnificent film that any red-blooded man must watch.
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and concerns something to do with light waves:
We investigate bright and dark diffractive focusing emerging in the free propagation of specific wave profiles. These general wave phenomena manifest themselves in matter, water, and classical waves. In this article, we lay the foundations for these effects and illustrate their origin in Wigner phase space. Our theoretical studies are supported by experimental demonstrations of dark focusing in water waves. Moreover, by using different phase slits we analyze several aspects of bright and dark focusing for classical and matter waves.
Your long read of the week is by Pepe Escobar, and concerns the ways in which Russia will effectively nullify Western sanctions against it:
A consensus seems to be emerging in Moscow that the Russian economy will stabilize quickly, as there will be a shortage of personnel for industry and a lot of extra hands will be required. Hence no unemployment. There may be shortages, but no inflation. Sales of – Western – luxury goods have already been curtailed. Imported products will be placed under price controls. All the necessary rubles will be available though price controls – as happened in the U.S. in WWII.
A wave of nationalization of assets may be ahead. ExxonMobil announced it will withdraw from the $4 billion Sakhalin-1 project (they had bailed out on Sakhalin-2, deemed too expensive), producing 200,000 barrels of oil a day, after BP and Norway’s Equinor announced they were withdrawing from projects with Rosneft. BP was actually dreaming of taking all of Rosneft’s participation.
According to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the Kremlin is now blocking asset sales by foreign investors looking to divest. In parallel, Rosneft, for instance, is bound to raise capital from China and India, who are already minority investors in several projects, and buy them out 100%: an excellent opportunity for Russian business.
What could be construed as the Mother of All Counter-Sanctions has not yet been announced. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev himself hinted all options are on the table.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, channeling the patience of 10,000 Taoist monks, still expecting the current hysteria to fade away, describes the sanctions as “some kind of a tax on independence”, with countries barring their companies from working in Russia under “huge pressure.”
Lethal counterpunches though are not excluded. Apart from completely de-dollarizing – as Glaviev recommends – Russia may ban the export of titanium, rare earth, nuclear fuel and, already in effect, rocket engines.
Very toxic moves would include seizing all foreign assets of hostile nations; freeze all loan repayments to Western banks and place the funds in a frozen account in a Russian bank; completely ban all hostile foreign media, foreign media ownership, assorted NGOs and CIA fronts; and supply friendly nations with state of the art weapons, intel sharing and joint training and exercises.
What’s certain is that a new architecture of payment systems – as discussed by Michael Hudson and others – uniting the Russian SPFS and the Chinese CHIPS, may soon be offered to scores of nations across Eurasia and the Global South – several among them already under sanctions, such as Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the DPRK.
Slowly but surely, we are already on the way to the emergence of a sizeable Global South bloc immune to American financial warfare.
I am not nearly so sanguine about Russia’s prospects. The ruble has collapsed 50% in the space of 2 weeks. The speed of that collapse is staggering. A lot of Russians have just seen their savings completely wiped out, and their economy is going to suffer very badly for several months before things stabilise.
I believe in the Russian people. They are tough and resolute beyond Western understanding. But what the West has done to them is absolutely unconscionable.
I never thought that I would write this, or say it, but here goes:
The West’s treatment of Russia shows that so-called “Western values” deserve no respect whatsoever. The West is corrupt, diseased, and rotten, and deserves a swift death.
If “Western values” mean sanctioning a country and reducing its citizens to abject poverty, simply because they choose to defend themselves and their borders, and literally avert WWIII by striking hard against an enemy that hates their guts, then I don’t want to be a part of the West anymore. I’ve had enough of this shit.
As Christians, we serve Christ, who is God. We do not serve “the West”. We serve only the Kingdom of God, and that is what we must work towards. “The West” once held the ideals of God close to heart. That is no longer the case. The GloboHomoPaedocracy of Pharisatanists that has replaced it, deserves to die in its own swishing faggotry.
Linkage is good for you:
- Mike Whitney does not have kind things to say about “Ze”, the ethnic Russian Jew who has sold his country, Ukraine, to the war pigs and secular Jewish oligarchs of the West;
- There is a lot of chatter going around about whether Ze has actually fled Banderastan and is now living in hiding in Poland – I don’t know what the truth is, but the rumours are really flying;
- Peter Hitchens may be perhaps the last man in British journalism with any integrity left, but that’s because he’s actually LIVED IN RUSSIA and understands something about the people, culture, and history;
- India is busy developing its own answer to the Turducken Plane – their version looks somewhat less catastrophically stupid than the American one – and wants to use French, not American, engines to power the flying crate;
- Meanwhile, the F-16, a really great warplane designed by the “Fighter Mafia” along very sensible lines, is still in service, and still kicking ass, and will continue to do so for years to come thanks to its latest upgrades;
- Apparently the mystery behind Stonehenge has finally been solved, it was in fact a giant calendar – cue the SPINAL TAP music and the dancing dwarf, until the next time someone solves the mystery yet again;
- Women who listen to “spiritual gurus” who tell them to walk away from their families and “be free”, are idiots, and their “gurus” are charlatans and liars who are directly responsible for wrecking marriages;
- We’re not saying that cricketing legend Shane Warne died because of the not-vaxx, but it’s the not-vaxx – I actually saw Warnie play live at the SCG, more than 20 years ago, so this one definitely hits hard;
- This couple dated for two years and didn’t even kiss until their wedding day – I say, good for them, they seem to be quite happy, because they are actually committed to each other;
- Bodybuilding legend Milos Sarcev notes that putting synthol, which is basically just oil, into your muscles, is a TERRIBLE AND STUPID IDEA;
- Here’s a great article from legendary strength coach Mark Rippetoe about how bodybuilding is subjective art, while powerlifting is objective strength engineering;
- As bad as your worst-date stories are, I can assure you, The Mirror in PommieBastardLande can always find one that’s worse;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Here’s a tip, ladies, if you find out that your man has a secret OnlySimps account, HE’S A SIMP, and you’re probably better off ditching his simpy ass;
- Magpies are smart little bastards, which is why Jezza had absolutely the right suggestion with respect to that “experiment” that the Limeys ran some years back (zip ahead to the 3:59 mark);
- A Very Smart Man predicted that sanctions on Russia would result in more cyberattacks on Western websites, and judging by the number of outages of Twatter, Amazong, and other sites, he was spot on;
- Fake President Greenscreen McNappyface Mumbletifumble can’t figure out the difference between a Ukrainian and an Iranian – to the 81 million people who voted for him (especially the dead ones), y’all happy now?;
- Global warming is getting to be such a severe problem that PommieBastardLande is going to freeze this week;
- The mafia are getting ever more sophisticated and skilled at bringing home the bacon, somewhat literally, using online scams nowadays;
- Here’s your “Bitches be CRAZY” moment of the week, complete with beheading – key phrase here is “Wisconsin”;
- Some lady caught her dude making out with a chick dressed as Catwoman, at her own birthday party – which means that the man involved is all balls and no brains, because NO ONE in his right mind invites both of his girls to the same party;
- The excellent Ilana Mercer points out that when it comes to losing foreign wars, America has an unrivalled track record;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar is very far from crazy, and Russia’s invasion is in fact succeeding quite well – and, amazingly, a Yankee working at a think tank actually managed to figure this out:
Wishful thinking has the upper hand in the battle to shape Western perceptions of the war in Ukraine.
Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.
A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.
The world has underestimated Putin before and those mistakes have led, in part, to this tragedy in Ukraine.
We must be clear-eyed now that the war is underway.
Yet even the professionals at the Pentagon are letting sympathy cloud their judgement.
Just two days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Department of Defense briefers were quick to claim that failing to take Kyiv in the opening days of the war amounted to a serious setback.
DoD briefers implied that Russia’s offensive was well behind schedule or had even failed because the capital had not fallen.
But U.S. leaders should have learned to restrain their hopes after their catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Once again, U.S. and Western officials are falling into the trap of failing to understand the enemy and his objectives.
Watch the Neo-Tsar speak. Does he look like a man losing the plot to you?
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is a true legend – Brig. Gen. Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager:
There aren’t many men these days about whom you can say, “he had solid brass balls the size of church bells”. Chuck Yeager was such a man.
HALO Nation
Now that I’ve slaughtered my way through HALO 3 and am almost done massacring Prometheans and Covies in HALO 4 (yet again), I do see the parallels outlined by HiddenXperia between the Contender-class artificial intelligences, Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Uh… when do they NOT act childish, eh?
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
There are few comedians who can hold a candle to Jeff Foxworthy – but one of those who could, was none other than St. Reagan of the Right:
Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews
We start with some funny stuff from Dawn Pine, via Twatter:
Onward:
Headlines of the week indicate that the TSA is fingering up the wrong people:
Your “Old News” moment of the week:
Your “Bad News Babies, Bear!” moment of the week:
Your “Weird Salad” moment of the week:
Your “Brokeback Mountain” moment of the week:
Your “High Republic” moment of the week:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to a male nurse – hold on, don’t roll your eyes just yet – named André, from, I think, Sweden:
That is SCARY shit.
THIS, on the other hand, is simply too funny a gym FAIL to ignore:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster answers an interesting fan question:
Jesus loves knockouts:
And here is a beautiful tribute by Rhythm Boxing to the legendary Buakawminator
Icecapades
Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’:
The Lords of Steel
#MetalUnited
Hot Totty
Final chaser after all the shots – the Instathot for the start of the week. She is Sephora Maria Noori, age 24, from Potshop Central, also known as the Netherlands, and she’s actually quite an unusual character, given the track record of this ‘ere very ‘eavy, very ‘umble site full of rants and tumbleweeds. She is of, apparently, Italian, Persian, Indian, and Dutch descent, which would explain her unusual looks. (Persians, for those who don’t know, produce some startlingly attractive women, much more so than their Arab cousins.) She has appeared in 4 Playboy covers. She also has an OnlySimps account, so, y’know, TQ = 10 right away.
OK, gents, back to work. With WWIII just around the corner, we’re going to need all the galley slaves – uh, I mean, willing and compliant worker-drones – that we can get.
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“I absolutely raved about this film when I saw it – I think it’s one of the best manly movies I’ve ever seen. And I stand by that opinion. It is a magnificent film that any red-blooded man must watch.”
I feel the same way about King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Underappreciated movie with quality storytelling and it covers many angles of manhood: Sacrifice, legacy, corruption, power, the leadership of a household, protecting your own, loyalty and persistence, and encouragement at the appropriate times. Plus a satisfying conclusion and you’ve got a great movie.
RE Bodybuilding&StartingStrength:
That article by Ripptoe cuts through decades of crap. It’s needed in high dosages across the landscape.
I’ve had two dear friends finally start pumping iron in the past 3 months (completely different spheres of friends). Both of them have hired personal trainers and are in the throes of all these bodybuilding/functional fitness style routines. They give me lectures on all the great techniques and procedures their trainer has given them, and it hurts to hear. It hurts because I know there is a lot of waste of time, and it hurts because I know they don’t want to hear anything different because “Yeah, I’m just so sore man so I know it’s working” is still the perceived wisdom.
I get that Ripptoe is trying to shift that culture through the Starting Strength coaching network, and it’s bound to be an improvement. But honestly, you don’t need a coach for any of this, unless you want expensive commitment devices.
Ryan George continues to grow stronger, that batman pitch meeting is masterful.
“If even a globalist Jew like Fink thinks that MMT is stupid, MMT has a serious problem. Unfortunately, TPTB don’t seem to be listening.
We’re in deep trouble, folks. MMT is not new. It’s just money-printing and inflation dressed up in new clothes, and quite stinky ones at that. This has never worked out well – don’t expect anything different this time around.”
Anyone notice Fink’s thumbnail has yellow tulips in the background? Subtle!