That image up top really summarises exactly what Mondays are like. My feelings this morning certainly corresponded perfectly with the sentiment in that picture. You see, for the past three days – to include Saturday AND Sunday – I have been stuck in a digital marketing workshop, and I had to drag my arse in to the building this morning with my coffee-to-blood-ratio sitting at a flat ZERO.

Suffice to say that I was in a VERY pissed-off mood. Fortunately, though, the coffee shop WAS open, and I was able to rectify the issue tout de suite, as the Froggies would say.

(As for the workshop itself, all I can say on the subject is that it’s a complete waste of time and money to do it the way that I did. Just buy yourself a spot in my buddy Kyle Trouble‘s Pro Niche Site marketing course, if/when he opens it back up. Seriously, it’s just not that complicated to figure out how to market things online. If a lazy dumbass like me can do it, so can you.)

That workshop also explains why this post is so late. Monday really is a bitch. However, it is worth remembering that everything needs to be kept in perspective, which is why our very good friend, The Male Brain, has proposed a most excellent theme for today’s post.

Over to you, Dawn Pine:

Here is an inspirational MAN for Monday. An ACTUAL martyr – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Born in 1906, Bonhoeffer mother was daughter of the preacher at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and his father was a prominent neurologist and professor of psychiatry at the University of Berlin. 

The family had eight children – all were raised in a liberal, nominally religious environment and were encouraged to dabble in great literature and the fine arts. Bonhoeffer’s skill at the piano, in fact, led some in his family to believe he was headed for a career in music. When at age 14, Dietrich announced he intended to become a minister and theologian, the family was not pleased.

Bonhoeffer graduated from the University of Berlin in 1927, at age 21, and then spent some months in Spain as an assistant pastor to a German congregation. Then it was back to Germany to write a dissertation, which would grant him the right to a university appointment. He then spent a year in America, at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, before returning to the post of lecturer at the University of Berlin.

During these years, Hitler rose in power, becoming chancellor of Germany in January 1933, and president a year and a half later. Hitler’s anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions intensified—as did his opposition, which included the likes of theologian Karl Barth, pastor Martin Niemoller, and the young Bonhoeffer. Together with other pastors and theologians, they organized the Confessing Church, which announced publicly in its Barmen Declaration (1934) its allegiance first to Jesus Christ: “We repudiate the false teaching that the church can and must recognize yet other happenings and powers, personalities and truths as divine revelation alongside this one Word of God. … “

In the meantime, Bonhoeffer had written The Cost of Discipleship (1937), a call to more faithful and radical obedience to Christ and a severe rebuke of comfortable Christianity: “Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

During this time, Bonhoeffer was teaching pastors in an underground seminary, Finkenwalde (the government had banned him from teaching openly). But after the seminary was discovered and closed, the Confessing Church became increasingly reluctant to speak out against Hitler, and moral opposition proved increasingly ineffective, so Bonhoeffer began to change his strategy. To this point he had been a pacifist, and he had tried to oppose the Nazis through religious action and moral persuasion.

Now he signed up with the German secret service (to serve as a double agent—while traveling to church conferences over Europe, he was supposed to be collecting information about the places he visited, but he was, instead, trying to help Jews escape Nazi oppression). Bonhoeffer also became a part of a plot to overthrow, and later to assassinate, Hitler.

As his tactics were changing, he had gone to America to become a guest lecturer. But he couldn’t shake a feeling of responsibility for his country. Within months of his arrival, he wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, “I have made a mistake in coming to America. I must live through this difficult period in our national history with the Christian people of Germany. I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.”

Bonhoeffer, though privy to various plots on Hitler’s life, was never at the center of the plans. Eventually his resistance efforts (mainly his role in rescuing Jews) was discovered. On an April afternoon in 1943, two men arrived in a black Mercedes, put Bonhoeffer in the car, and drove him to Tegel prison.

Bonhoeffer spent two years in prison, corresponding with family and friends, pastoring fellow prisoners, and reflecting on the meaning of “Jesus Christ for today.” As the months progressed, be began outlining a new theology, penning enigmatic lines that had been inspired by his reflections on the nature of Christian action in history.

“God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross,” he wrote. “He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us. [The Bible] … makes quite clear that Christ helps us, not by virtue of his omnipotence, but by virtue of his weakness and suffering. … The Bible directs man to God’s powerlessness and suffering; only the suffering God can help.”

In another passage, he said, “To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to make something of oneself (a sinner, a penitent, or a saint) on the basis of some method or other, but to be a man—not a type of man, but the man that Christ creates in us. It is not the religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the secular life.”

Eventually, Bonhoeffer was transferred from Tegel to Buchenwald and then to the extermination camp at Flossenbürg. On April 9, 1945, one month before Germany surrendered, he was hanged with six other resisters.

A decade later, a camp doctor who witnessed Bonhoeffer’s hanging described the scene: “The prisoners … were taken from their cells, and the verdicts of court martial read out to them. Through the half-open door in one room of the huts, I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.”

Bonhoeffer’s prison correspondence was eventually edited and published as Letters and Papers from Prison, which inspired much controversy and the “death of God” movement of the 1960s (though Bonhoeffer’s close friend and chief biographer, Eberhard Bethge, said Bonhoeffer implied no such thing). His Cost of Discipleship, as well as Life Together (about Christian community, based on his teaching at the underground seminary), have remained devotional classics.

Courtesy of our friend, here are some videos to explain the man and his beliefs:

Best quote: “Stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenceless — reasons fall on dead ears.”

And here are some pictures of the man as well – no captions, they speak for themselves:

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has also sent over a couple of additional videos. We start with an answer to a question that you almost surely never asked, at all, from Cool Worlds:

Here’s one from Freedom Toons that points out just how crazy the Left always was:

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LRFotS Randale6 is back as well with some hilarious (and disturbing) videos, starting with a couple from Flashgitz – first one is about Attack on Titan, and the second is about something called Elden Ring, which I’ve never played and have no interest in:

If you’ve ever wondered about the life cycle of Minions – y’know, from the Despicable Me series – then Meat Canyon has a… well, mostly wholesome video to explain it for you:

The next one, though, reveals the horrifying truth behind the McRib:

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Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice is absolutely delighted to see that at least some of the American yoot still have sense and balls enough to take on the Pillsbury Doughboy that works over at CNNLOL:

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Bill Whittle and his buddies go almost full retard in discussing the Bucha false flag:

They plainly don’t have a clue and have largely drunk the Kool-Aid, but at least they are sort of trying to be a little bit sceptical once in a while.

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China Uncensored notes that the people who created and released the Coof, don’t seem to understand very well how to deal with it:

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America Uncovered unpacks the anti-grooming law in Florida that is both sensible and restrained:

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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance points out that, if you buy into stupid shit, you get stupid shit in return:

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Righteous Rantery

PJW reports on some downright unsettling things happening in Shanghai, which is currently on almost full lockdown to handle yet another Coof outbreak:

If the Chinese are reacting this badly to their own goobernment doing idiotic things, then we can look forward to a pretty serious crackdown by the CCP on the Chinkin Pox.

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The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey explains that there is very little evidence to support one of the very earliest claims made by virology:

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Andrei “Grandpa Grumps” Martyanov explains, in his signature and extremely funny style, the realities behind the rumours about the Russians changing their tall general in charge of the Banderastan War:

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Gonzalo Lira did a great interview with Maj. Scott Ritter, USMC and UNSCOM, yesterday, all about the Banderastan War:

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And here is an excellent interview with Col. Douglas Macgregor, USArmy-Ret, on how Russia simply cannot and will not lose in Banderastan:

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Warriors of Faith

The Dizzle is rather enjoying beating up on the most notoriously stupid of all Izzlamist dawahgandists, Dr. Faker Naik, whose idiocies are beyond counting and whose lisping stupidity discredits his fake religion every time he opens his dumb mouth:

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Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms has started up a new series with Murad, who speaks Arabic and is fluent in Aramaic, to look into the ever more serious problems with the Koran:

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Al-Fadi from CIRA International tackles the frequent, and very silly, claim made by Muzzies that the Bible is somehow “corrupted”:

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Christian Prince takes on, as only he can, all Abdools and makes them look foolish in very short order:

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Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined is asked a question about Calvinism:

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp and his buddies point out that girl-on-girl violence is far more common than you might realise, using the example of one WNBA player named Brittney Griner:

I’m not sure how “Ms” Griner qualifies for the WNBA, though. If you look at and listen to “her”, you’ll quickly realise that “she” is a DUDE:

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Joker from Better Bachelor is not in the least bit amused by people taking advantage of Bruce Willis, as his health declines:

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge dives into the utter disaster that is WarnerMedia, especially in the wake of the Discovery takeover and the very public meltdowns by two of the DCU’s biggest stars:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock flogs the dead horse of A Song of Ice and Fire, which George Rape Rape Martin assuredly will never finish:

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Gary from Nerdrotic is not impressed by Marvel’s latest Devil Mouse Plus show, whatever it’s called:

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The Drinker was actually pleasantly surprised by the Peacemaker TV show:

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is all about how EVs aren’t quite as hippy-dippy-greeny as you might think:

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Your long read of the week is a piece by Richard Mcculloch about the return of the Russian Empire and the failure of the “end of history” crowd:

The United States and NATO are major players in the Ukraine crisis (with the U.S. leading). Their series of strategic offensive moves actually precipitated the event, so Russia clearly can’t trust them to act as honest brokers in peace negotiations. This provides an opportunity for France and Germany to step back onto the stage of history as independent actors, following-up on their role as mediators in the Minsk agreements, to again offer their good offices in peace negotiations. Failing this, it seems likely the war could continue for some time, with the Russians eventually imposing a de facto partition in which they occupy much more of Ukraine than would have been the case if the crisis had ended quickly by satisfying their demands. John Mearsheimer said that Russia didn’t want to occupy Ukraine as doing so would be like swallowing a porcupine. In the context of this analogy the densest concentration of quills is in the northwest, the ten northwestern Oblasts (administrative districts) that are the most anti-Russian part of the country. That is also the part of the country closest to Poland and the core NATO countries. It is therefore the part of Ukraine that Russia would be least likely to occupy. The rest of the country, including the entirety of its Black Sea coast, could end up on the Russian side of a partition, with a border perhaps running north to south along the eastern borders of the Oblasts of Zhytomyrs’ka and Vinnyts’ka that would be about 250 miles long compared to the previous 1,226 mile border.

Mearsheimer is an exponent of what he terms offensive realism. In this theory of international relations, states seek to maximize their power, wanting as much as they can get, with hegemony as their ultimate goal. This contrasts with defensive realism, which theorizes that states don’t want much more power than they already have if it is enough to give them security, in which case they concentrate on maintaining the balance of power rather than risk upsetting it by seeking more. In these terms I would tend to see the United States as primarily practicing defensive realism, in the form of George Kennan’s policy of containment, in the first several decades of the Cold War. Then, during the Reagan era and the rise of the Neocons, there was a shift in the direction of offensive realism, with this going into overdrive after the breakup of the Soviet Union when it enjoyed the “unipolar moment” as the world’s sole superpower and sought to prevent the rise of any challenger to peer status. Russia’s strategy throughout the Cold War tended to be more consistently and cautiously defensive (the Cuban Missile Crisis being a rare exception, and even this was more of a counter to the missiles already deployed by the U.S. in Turkey than a true offensive initiative) and this has remained true during the Putin era. In the nuclear arms race the U.S. took the initiative with the Russians following well behind and trying to catch up, not finally achieving parity until the beginning of the 1970s.

According to Mearsheimer, a cardinal tenet of offensive realism is that a smaller and weaker state, such as Ukraine, that borders a much larger and more powerful state, such as Russia, should seek to avoid being antagonistic toward or being a serious threat to—and certainly not existential threat to, the larger state. In this situation Ukraine is an abject lesson that should be a warning to others, as it persistently violated this tenet, whether by its own folly or as a U.S. puppet being led down the primrose path, for although it was not capable of posing a serious threat to Russia in itself, it was capable of being such a threat if they became a host and a platform for U.S. and NATO offensive power, a process which was already long underway even though it had not yet become a NATO member.

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Linkage is good for you:

• Finian Cunningham has an excellent, precise, and succinct written Q&A with Maj. Scott Ritter about the current Russian state of play in the Banderastan War;
• The great Dr. Ron Paul explains that Fake President Greenscreen McNappyFace is only a “centrist” in that he believes, as both wings of the One Party do, in expanding the power and scope of gubmint;
• Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks and answers some very pressing questions about what America’s true purpose is these days – which appears to be pretty much spreading lies and stupidity, at this point;
• The Z Man points out that there is simply no way to deny the fact that the party of cheap money and seeming prosperity is well and truly OVER, at this point;
• The Empire of Lies narrative about the supposed Bucha “Massacre” by those EEEEEEEVIL RUSSKIES!!!! is collapsing faster than a deflating silicone boob implant, as we have recordings that prove the Russians did not commit the atrocity;
• There is a genuinely crazy ISIS-style execution ad floating around on Ukie social media, which you can see if you join my Telegram channel, though you’ll need a strong stomach to handle it;
• Nat South has a very good and quite long piece up at The Saker about the festering evil of neo-Nazism and how it has infected virtually every aspect of life in Banderastan;
• The Chinese are busy locking up their own citizens over a non-existing Coof “crisis”, but they aren’t letting that stop them from telling the Empire of Lies to EFF OFF over Taiwan;
• Say what you will about the Banderastanis, but there is no doubt that Ukrainian refugees are genuinely in need of help -and they are finding it very difficult to adapt to life outside of their own country;
• Let’s turn to something a little lighter – if you’ve ever wondered what Dwarves would look like in the WARHAMMER 40K universe, look no further than an article about the Squats;
• Despite the epic failures of Libra and Diem, Facebook – or Meta, or whatever the hell they’re called – continues to want to try its hand at creating digital currencies, though they aren’t going the crypto route this time;
• Here’s a tip for anyone who walks in on strangers doing the nasty – GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE as soon as you can, and at least try to apologise for being a dumbass while you’re at it;
• If your fiance has a stash of PR0N on his computer with pictures of your sister and co-workers in it, do the right thing and dump his ass, fast;
• The Daily Mirror continues to be an excellent, if inadvertent, chronicle of the very strange “clown world” that we live in, wherein a woman can give birth to her chap’s kid, only to find out that he’s been cheating on her right afterwards;
• Some self-righteous prick of a formerly famous footballer’s kid plans to take HIS WIFE’S name as one of his middle names, which tells me that it’s pretty obvious who wears the pants in that arrangement;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• Y’all remember the Tom Hanks film, The Terminal? In that one, the main character was stuck in an airport against his will – but one Chinese man took it as an inspiration, in order to get away from his family to drink and smoke;
• It would appear that Robin Hood might have missed a trick in his whole “rob the rich to feed the poor” shtick, because someone found the Sheriff of Nottingham’s gold ring;
• Let’s be clear about this – if you’re double-not-vaxxed and waiting for a booster not-vaxx, and you still test positive for the Coof FOUR TIMES, then you MIGHT want to think hard about whether PCR tests and not-vaxxes actually work;
• On the other hand, some people CLEARLY aren’t just drinking the Kool-Aid about the not-vaxxes, they are SNORTING it – like this guy in Germany who got not-vaxxed EIGHTY SEVEN TIMES before he was arrested;
• You know how the story goes – wife has emotional affair with co-worker, wife splits with husband, they get back together, and then wife finds out that hubby had a hot and heavy affair with sister while she was dating co-worker;
• The Babylon Bee notes that the Neo-Tsar has figured out a novel strategy to ensure that they won’t be criticised for committing genocide (not that they are right now);
• The Bible states very clearly that he who spares the rod, hates that son – that applies equally well to daughters, and probably even more so, actually;
• If you have an alligator squatting on your property, then you’ll need to serve an eviction notice at the business end of a shotgun – or at, least, a bunch of guys and a LOT of courage;
• J. K. Rowling is a Lefty’s Lefty, except when it comes to trannies, and for that, a LOT of people want her dead – her response to those death threats is absolutely hilarious and shows that she is not to be trifled with;
• While we are all busy watching the catastrophe in Banderastan unfold, there is another major conflict brewing in Darkest Africa – though let’s be honest, nobody gives a damn about that;
• The Okies have okayed a bill banning abortion, full stop – kudos to them for taking the right and necessary measure on the subject;

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar is in fact considerably more reasonable, gentle, and cautious than some of his top generals and captains – just look at what Ramzan Kadyrov, one of his most trusted lieutenants and subordinates and supporters, has to say about fighting the Banderastanis:

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Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week:

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Your Great Man of the Week is the legendary Japanese warlord, Toyotomi Hideyoshi:

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HALO Nation

There will be some new content dropping for HALO Infinite very soon, but a lot of fans are pretty pissed about the lack of anything really useful or interesting:

And now let’s watch Remy aka slayergod Mint Blitz do something so ridiculously over the top that only an Australian could possibly have the time or interest to bother with it:

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That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

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Comedy hour:

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Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews

Pics from The Male Brain:

[A LOT MORE THAN THAT FOR ME, DAMMIT! But that’s only when I have to work in WinDOZE in my !@#$%^& virtual machine – Didact]

[AYUP – Didact]

Onward:

I can FEEL the hate from all y’all for posting that one.

Headlines of the week indicate that Hawaii is in stiff competition with Floriduh for the stupidest and weirdest state in the country:

Your “Everything You Knew About Cranky Dinos Was Wrong” moment of the week:

Your “Answering the Important Questions” moment of the week:

Your “Sucking Wind” moment of the week:

I’m not even going to bother trying to craption this one:

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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:

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The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to Tim Monigatti

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Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster asks an important question about the state of the heavyweight division:

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Jesus loves knockouts:

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Superbon is widely considered to be the second incarnation of the Buakawminator himself, so it’s genuinely pretty amazing to watch the OG model tag-fighting against the reboot:

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They aren’t that far apart in age – Buakaw is 38, I think, and Superbon is 31 – but it is clear just how elite a striker the Buakawminator still is, even after spending a few years more or less in retirement.

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Icecapades

Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’:

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The Lords of Steel

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Hot Totty

OK, gents, here’s the Instathot to get the week off to the more-or-less-correct (or, at the very least, bearable) start. This is Daniela Botero, age 32, originally from Colombia, now living in Miami, and whose work spans fashion, acting, modelling, and other fields.

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