Here we go again – Monday, the day of the week when we roll out of bed groaning because we didn’t get anywhere near enough sleep, and were rudely jolted out of an extremely pleasant dream involving some random mostly plastic Instathot and a giant [CENSORED!!!] by an alarm that seemed to be set for 3am, simply to go to stupid WORK.
Fortunately, this is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher exists – to take that existential dread and turn it into blissful time-wasting.
I had a whole different plan for today’s theme – OK, I have to admit, that’s actually not quite true, the fact is I didn’t have the first bloody CLUE what this week’s theme would be. But then, I woke up to find out that Russia had just launched a series of massive strikes against Banderastan. Apparently, as of right now, the Russians lobbed roughly 200 missiles at various targets across the entire country, destroying power plants, substations, utilities, government and secret service buildings, and factories all over the country.
This is the Russian equivalent of “shock and awe” – and actually, they are holding back.
Don’t believe me?
Take a look at what the Americans did in 2003 when they launched S&A against Iraq, before their illegal invasion of the country:
By contrast, the Russians simply turned the “pain dial” on Ukraine, and the collective West, up from about a 3-4 to roughly a 5-6.
God help us all if they decide to crank it all the way up to 11:
This made me think of the immortal phrase, “F**k Around and Find Out”.
See, the Ukrainians, and their Western supporters, have been f**king around with Russia for months – indeed, YEARS – without serious and severe consequences. It appears that the Russians have gotten to the level where they are in a mood to demonstrate the sharp end of the “FO” part of “FAFO”.
But what does this phrase mean? Where does it come from?
Like other classic phrases of our time – “Get Woke, Go Broke”, “Everything Woke Turns to Shit”, “Make America Great Again”, “Let’s Go Brandon”, “Mean Tweets & Cheap Gas 2024” (see below) – this one is rich with meaning. In the spirit of finding out, let’s see where it actually comes from:
Ah, but there is a considerable difference of opinion as to whether this is an appropriate description of the true FAFO paradigm. An angry vegan (!!!!!) got a bit miffed about the linear nature of the “FO” part of the graph, and made an important and timely correction:
Now that we’ve got the basic concept down, let’s see this applied in a real-life situation:
If you didn’t laugh hysterically at the choir-boy’s method of cleansing the gene pool, I don’t want to be your friend.
Let’s finish up with a discussion of how to find out to the point where nobody f***s with YOU:
The Mighty God-Emperor
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, held another YUUGE rally in Minden, NV, in which he called for immediate peace talks between Ukraine and Russia – very sensible of him to do so, it must be said:
#BasedTucker is Based
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Also, Will Cain did a fantastic nearly hour-long interview with #BasedTucker himself, which is WELL worth listening to in its entirey:
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has scoured every corner of TEH INNARWEBZ to find all that is amusing, entertaining, educational – and, in some cases, straight-up horrifying. Let’s start with something that is all four, with an outstanding interview between J.P. Sears and Brandon McPoopyPants:
Veritasium looks at what would happen if you drop a penny out of a helicopter at altitude – spoiler alert, you’ll probably kill someone:
Felix Rex stands in awe of the sheer, terrifying POWER of 4CHAN:
Dawn Pine has a bunch of 4CHAN memes as well for us down below.
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice is even more delighted than the rest of us to see Trevor Noah BTFOd from the show that he ruined:
In all fairness, The Daily Show was circling the toilet for a long time, well before Noah took over. Jon Stewart is not nearly as funny as he thinks he is – he was great back in the early 2000s, when Bush was easy to mock, but he got quite stale during the Obarmy years.
Winston Sterzel aka serpentza points out that the Chinese fakes are so over-the-top that they even have fake policemen:
Digging to China breaks down the breakdown of the Belt & Road Initiative:
Again, keep in mind that this is a Chinese expat looking at things from a very pro-Western lens, so apply the appropriate discount factor to his words. But, I will say this – his words match what a lot of other former residents of China say nowadays.
The dynamic duo over at Redacted break down the latest dump of data over the not-vaxxes, and the results are absolutely outrageous – the world really was sold a giant bill of goods with these things:
Jackson Hinkle looks at the rather humiliating climb-downs that the Euzis are beginning to make – though not fast enough, nor in sufficient numbers – over their self-defeating Russian SANKSHUNS:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the various factors influencing the extreme desperation, now palpable, of Western military and political leaders to win SOME kind of victory in 404 against THOSE DAMNED ROOOOOOOSKEEEES:
In line with the theme of this week’s post, the West is definitely finding out.
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran examine the very different wars that the Russians and Ukrainians are fighting – with, it must be said, considerable success on both sides, actually:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic from The New Atlas explains that the Banderastani Offensives will not actually result in anything significant, beyond overstretching Ukraine in precisely the same way that Russia overstretched itself, but with far less ability to mobilise and bounce back:
Semper Fi!
Maj. Scott Ritter sat down for a very good discussion with Judge Andrew Napolitano on the subject of the 404 War and the course that it has take thus far:
Warrior’s Rage
The esteemd Col. Douglas Macgregor joins David Gornoski to discuss the Banderastan War in general, and the full-Ukraine-stupid comments made by Ze about preventive nuclear strikes against Russia:
Righteous Rantery
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan is actually quite optimistic about the future of the comic medium, given all the good stuff that is coming out of late beyond the Big Two, which are hopelessly converged:
PJW jumps, cautiously, on board the Brolon MuZk hype train:
Look, let’s be straightforward about this: Brolon is in this for himself. He is not interested in salvaging Twatter. He is a government-sponsored and -backed oligarch. But he does have an independent and creative streak to him, and I respect that. And he is merrily pissing off all the right people, so there MIGHT be hope for him after all – but I’ll only really believe it when he announces that Jesus is LORD and that he intends to fight on God’s side, not on his own.
Dr. John Campbell is deeply disturbed by the latest scientific research that tells us the not-vaxx mRNA poison makes its way into breast milk:
Seriously, the day will come when future generations will hold criminal prosecutions of the people who allowed this catastrophe to unfold. People like Fraudci and his ilk should be tried for crimes against humanity.
The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins provides an excellent rundown of the difference between what they’re telling you on TV, and what’s actually happening in real life:
Warriors of Faith
The Dizzle and his buddy Vocab Malone are back with their sketch comedy series about the Fake Prophet Mo’Lester and his fake religion:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms is delighted by the reprinting of Dr. Gunter Luling‘s epic, seminal textual analysis of the Koran, which showed clear as day that the book could not possibly have been a divine revelation and was in fact copied from numerous other sources:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith examine the true identity of Mo’Lester – and actually, the information in this video is a little outdated, Dr. Smith had to revise some of his own views about Ilyas ibn Qabisah al-Tayaye, the man that he originally thought was one of the templates for the fictitious character of the Fake Prophet:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp has gotten a very great many things about the 404 War quite wrong – he still thinks that the Russians are losing and their army is a wreck, when the evidence on the ground says precisely the opposite – but he does have a lot to say about the possibility that the US was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream project:
Joker from Better Bachelor answers questions from a female fan, as gently as he can, but with lots of quite painful red-pill wisdom:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
The entertainment news this past week was all about the colossal failure of Amazog’s DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!! Midnight’s Edge notes that Wall Street analysts are beginning to notice it, and it’s a big problem for the parent company:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock lost IQ points from watching Episode 6 of DEM RANGZ!!!:
Gary from Nerdrotic wonders how the hell Jeff Bezosoy is going to cover for the collapse of DEM RANGZ!!!:
Ryan Kinel notes that Amazog has resorted to the standard fall-back trope of any failing franchise – ATTACK THE FANS!!!, that’ll totes werk!!!:
The Drinker offers a drunken, but spot-on, analysis of the reasons why DEM RANGZ!!! has been such a spectacular failure:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is actually a twofer, from The Male Brain. We start with a video from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell about the sheer weirdness of the quantum world:
And now let’s look at the various different states of matter, which get weirder the more you think of them:
Your long read of the week is a superb article by Big Serge about the ways in which the political, economic, social, and military factors are all lining up for Russia, in such a way as to make the “Find Out” part of FAFO come VERY true for the collective West and for Ukraine:
Putin and those around him conceived of the Russo-Ukrainian War in existential terms from the very beginning. It is unlikely, however, that most Russians understood this. Instead, they likely viewed the war the same way Americans viewed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – as justified military enterprises that were nevertheless merely a technocratic task for the professional military; hardly a matter of life and death for the nation. I highly doubt that any American ever believed that the fate of the nation hinged on the war in Afghanistan (Americans have not fought an existential war since 1865), and judging by the recruitment crisis plaguing the American military, it does not seem like anyone perceives a genuine foreign existential threat.
What has happened in the months since February 24 is rather remarkable. The existential war for the Russian nation has been incarnated and made real for Russian citizens. Sanctions and anti-Russian propaganda – demonizing the entire nation as “orcs” – has rallied even initially skeptical Russians behind the war, and Putin’s approval rating has soared. A core western assumption, that Russians would turn on the government, has reversed. Videos showing the torture of Russian POWs by frothing Ukrainians, of Ukrainian soldiers calling Russian mothers to mockingly tell them their sons are dead, of Russian children killed by shelling in Donetsk, have served to validate Putin’s implicit claim that Ukraine is a demon possessed state that must be exorcised with high explosives. Amidst all of this – helpfully, from the perspective of Alexander Dugin and his neophytes – American pseudo-intellectual “Blue Checks” have publicly drooled over the prospect of “decolonizing and demilitarizing” Russia, which plainly entails the dismemberment of the Russian state and the partitioning of its territory. The government of Ukraine (in now deleted tweets) publicly claimed that Russians are prone to barbarism because they are a mongrel race with Asiatic blood mixing.
Simultaneously, Putin has moved towards – and ultimately achieved – his project of formal annexation of Ukraine’s old eastern rim. This has also legally transformed the war into an existential struggle. Further Ukrainian advances in the east are now, in the eyes of the Russian state, an assault on sovereign Russian territory and an attempt to destroy the integrity of the Russian state. Recent polling shows that a supermajority of Russians support defending these new territories at any cost.
All domains now align. Putin and company conceived of this war from the beginning as an existential struggle for Russia, to eject an anti-Russian puppet state from its doorstep and defeat a hostile incursion into Russian civilizational space. Public opinion is now increasingly in agreement with this (surveys show that Russian distrust of NATO and “western values” have skyrocketed), and the legal framework post-annexation recognizes this as well. The ideological, political, and legal domains are now united in the view that Russia is fighting for its very existence in Ukraine.
Rather annoyingly, the article starts from a completely incorrect premise. As usual with Clausewitz’s famous, and almost always mistranslated, aphorism, he interprets the phrase as “war is merely politics BY another means”.
As I have pointed out, and at some length, this is wrong.
This is what Clausewitz actually said:
“Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel“.
Translation: “War is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with the interference of other means”.
You MUST understand the key difference in these two phrases, to understand what Russia is doing. It is Clausewitzian application of force to achieve geopolitical ends. It is Boydian tripartite warfare using both the physical-mental-moral framework that Col. Boyd outlined in “Patterns of Conflict”, and the more abstract but still correct tactical-operational-strategic framework that is, essentially, a reworking of that same idea into something that can be phrased in military terms.
None of this detracts from the essential correctness of Big Serge‘s argument. He is basically right. But I really do wish people would stop mistranslating that phrase, it leads to completely incorrect interpretations and applications.
Linkage is good for you:
- Niccolo Soldo takes a rather contrarian view in an intriguing article in which he argues that American power has never been more united and resolved than it is today – he calls it “Turbo-America”, and he reckons it will be hard to defeat;
- Andrei Martyanov notes that the collective West has gone full Ukrainian in terms of its levels of idiocy and stupidity, and points out the sheer Ukrainianness of Ze’s recent call for a preemptive strike on Russia;
- Pepe Escobar calls the US government precisely what it is, a state sponsor of terrorism which is now quite happily destroying the energy and economic assets of its own allies;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama is incredulous at Brandon’s ridiculous argument that Russia is about to launch a nuclear strike against Ukraine, when no Russian official has ever claimed any such thing;
- Maj. Scott Ritter pleads for sanity and good sense with respect to Brandon’s literally demented comments about the threat of nuclear Armageddon;
- Larry Johnson warns Americans that they need to wake up and realise just how enraged Russians really are at NATO’s meddling and foolish interference in the Banderastan War, and at the Russian retreats there;
- The Z Man discusses the grave demographic and economic consequences for Banderastan of continuing a war that no sane person thinks they can win;
- Vladislav Ugolny looks at the Twitstorm surrounding Brolon’s recent red-pilling of a large part of his audience about the Banderastan War, and explains why and how he managed to piss off the (((global elites))) so thoroughly;
- Said Banderastan War is going so well for the collective West that Polish towns are now talking about burning garbage to stay warm in winter, pollution and greenhouse gases be damned;
- Dmitry Trenin analyses the Neo-Tsar’s speech on Sep 30, and notes that it is a landmark change in Russian foreign policy and geostrategic goals, which shunts aside the West and asserts Russian sovereignty over its own sphere;
- Dr. Binoy Kampmark finds Prime Minister Chucky so egregiously stupid that he had to sit down and write it all out, and believe me, it’s depressing to believe that a dimwit like this is in charge of a nuclear-armed country;
- Annie Holmquist proposes a few sensible solutions to the major problem facing young women today, with respect to the severe dearth of marriageable young men out there;
- Suppose you are a hurricane-ravaged town in Florida, and you need help – how would you get it from a Fedgov that hates you? Well, The Babylon Bee has a most excellent idea that you really ought to try out;
- If you see these signs telling you to stop, it might just be a good idea to stop before you f**k around to the point where you really find out what they mean;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- After spending “only” US$13.5B on the first of the Gerald R. Ford-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers, the eponymous first ship of the class is FINALLY underway for actual sea trials – total bargain, no doubt;
- In the spirit of “FAFO”, it looks like a senior Apple exec found out after f***ing around on TikTok – except that what he had to say wasn’t even remotely offensive to most normal people;
- Anyone who has ever been to a speed-dating event, knows that it is a giant waste of time – so why, exactly, the Israelis wanted to set a world record in the field, is rather beyond me;
- If your girlfriend is an OnlySimps “artist” (*eyerolls*), then she is not YOUR girlfriend, she is EVERYBODY’S girlfriend, and it is a VERY good idea to demand that she knock that shit off;
- OK, who had “Yet Another Giant Big-Assteroid Speeding Towards Earth (That Isn’t Actually Dangerous But Makes for Nice Headlines)” in the Doomsday Sweepstakes Bingo Pool for October 2022?;
- Normally, I couldn’t give a shit about rap music – and apparently, neither can the people who perform it, quite literally;
- You’ll need a strong stomach to read this next story – but not as strong as the woman whom it concerns;
- China continues to reinforce the Great Firewall to prevent its people from thinking for themselves – though I have to agree with their stance on keeping degenerate shit out of their country;
- The Chinese would also like you to believe that wearing masks results in “ethical” behaviour – if by “ethical” you mean “completely and mindlessly obedient”, then, sure, yeah, they’ve got a point;
- Just when you thought that Australia couldn’t find any more ways to kill you – FLOODING IN SYDNEY!!!;
- Phil Collins and the rest of GENESIS – whatever is left of it – have just agreed to sell their entire catalogue to a digital music provider, which means that your old vinyls are about to get RIDICULOUSLY valuable;
- The Babylon Bee absolutely nails the budgetary allocations for Amazog’s DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!! – it was all spent on making epic GRRRRRLBAWSE! moments;
- A Gamma tourist got pissed off that the Pope refused to meet with him, and smashed a bunch of priceless statues in Rome – in the spirit of FAFO, can we therefore all take turns smacking him in the nuts with a baseball bat?;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar does indeed plan to attend the G20 summit in Indonesia – I think it will be in Bali, which, trust me, is a SPECTACULAR place to hold any kind of get-together, it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world:
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, will both travel to Bali in November for the G20 summit, an Indonesian diplomat has told UAE’s The National newspaper.
If true, the summit will be the first event attended by both leaders since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began.
“Both have agreed [to attend],” Indonesia’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Husain Bagis, told The National on Friday.
He conceded that “the situation isn’t easy because of the Ukraine-Russia war,” and said that his government is already planning how to manage the arrival of the two leaders. “We are deciding which hotels to put them up in – one for Mr. Putin and one for Mr. Zelensky,” he said.
The Kremlin confirmed in June that Putin would attend the summit, although spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the format of Putin’s participation “is still not defined.” Kiev stated in August that Zelensky “believes that he should be on the territory of Ukraine,” but would “think about” making the trip if Putin were to attend in person.
Today his press secretary, Sergey Nikiforov, in a comment to Ukrainian media, denied the information that Zelensky had decided to visit the G20 summit.
US President Joe Biden and a number of other Western leaders urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo not to invite Putin to the summit in Bali. However, Widodo resisted the pressure campaign and invited the Russian leader as planned. With Widodo having met both Zelensky and Putin earlier this summer in a bid to “invite the two leaders to open dialogue and stop the war,” Bagis told The National that Indonesia aims “to make the G20 a platform for peace, not conflict.”
Say what you will about Putin, but one thing is undeniably true – the man does not back down from a fight. It’s going to be very interesting to see the splits in the power blocs at the G20. The collective West will do its best to belittle and mock him, and isolate him, and Ursula Van Der Loony has already said that she will give Putin a piece of her mind if she sees him there. I seriously doubt this will happen – she will almost certainly run away and snipe at him from a pose of superiority, being a woman and a deeply corrupt and incompetent one at that. But I suspect that the rest of the Dirt World’s representatives will treat him like a rock star – because they know he is fighting for them.
Русская Пропаганда и дезинформация!!!
While we are talking about Russian KAHLOOOOOZHUN, let’s take a look at one of the funniest videos to emerge in recent days from the Russians about this silly idea of moving to the US:
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
HALO Nation
The Vengeful ‘Vadam explains the HALO canon’s key conflict using one of the all-time classic Tom & Jerry cartoons:
I really, truly, deeply miss Tom & Jerry. They were amazingly violent, yet extremely funny, cartoons, and you couldn’t show them on modren stupidvision without giving the wokerati coronaries and epileptic fits. (Which, in my view, is precisely why we should run these cartoons at every opportunity.) I grew up watching them and I still find them absolutely hilarious.
And now let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing while asking his fans about their fondest memories while playing HALO:
For me, HALO 3 is the greatest of the games – and, personally, I think it is the greatest campaign FPS of all time. But I actually prefer playing HALO 4 – there’s a bit of blasphemy for you – because I like the storyline better, it has more emotional weight, depth, and impact.
Learning at the Master’s Feet
Back when Peter Jackson filmed the ONLY legitimate live-action adaptation of The Master’s work, he apparently had a plan to film a scene of Aragorn fighting the fully embodied Sauron at the end of The Return of the King. Here is that scene, which was never released, stitched together with the actual released cut of the film – and I have to say, it’s very well done:
Bring on the Grimdark
Majorkill is kind of a douche (he’s Strayan, so, y’know, that comes fairly naturally), but I’ll let him explain the Primarchs and how you might go about killing one:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Benny Hill, man… those were the GOOD old days…
Meme Warfare
Let’s start with some great 4CHAN memes from The Male Brain, as promised:
Some more from The Male Brain that aren’t 4CHAN-sourced, but still very funny:
(I do. Goldens are the best family pets EVER, but yeah, they have feelings too. Give your golden a big hug and ALL the treats, just because.)
Onward:
Headlines of the week indicate that “Solid Snake” isn’t quite what we all thought it was::
Your “Context is Key” moment of the week:
Your… uh… you know what, I literally cannot craption this one:
Your “Clown World” moment of the week:
Your “Kiwiland Kicks” moment of the week
Someone stop this planet, I want to get off.
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:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Chad Penson for putting up some monstrous numbers at a recent powerlifting meet:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
This recent fight proved that age and experience beat youth and enthusiasm:
The low-leg kicks in muay thai are just HORRENDOUS. They really hurt and they truly do immense damage to an opponent’s ability to move and fight.
Which is why I LOVE throwing them in sparring. It’s especially fun against people who don’t have particularly good conditioning on their shins, or who don’t have the mental ability to shut down the pain of impact.
They See Me Rollin’…
The classic BJJ match between Gunnar Nelson and Demian Maia was a fantastic demonstration of the difference between world-class ability, and true mastery:
Keep in mind when you watch this that Nelson is a 2nd Dan black belt in BJJ, under no less an eminence than Renzo Gracie, and a multiple world champion in the IBJJF.
Maia made THAT GUY look like a white belt.
Palate Cleansers
Here is one full hour of Chad Gregorian chants to raise your fist, stir your blood, and redeem your soul. DEUS VULT!!!
Gingervitis Treatment
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Right, after much messing around, here is your Instathot to get the week off to an (in)appropriate start. This is Nicole Kopchak, age 27 from New Jersey – the rather appropriately titled “Armpit of America”, though in all fairness there are some very nice parts of the state, I used to live in one of them. She is a “gamer chick” who also does bikini modelling, which tells you all you need to know about whether or not she could actually beat you in CoD or Fortnite.
OK, that’s it, enough drooling, back to work.
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Niccolo has a good counter perspective on how the USA is strong internationally right now…or maybe its just how weak the rest of the west has become as it totters to renewal. Good share, thank you.
Sauron vs Aragorn at the end of the Return of the King was a good video. I am glad they went with the Troll in the movie rather then Sauron. It reinforces how strong Sauron was that he had no concern for the enemy at the gates, nor did he need to enter his human form to be there. His malevolence as the eye searching for the Ring is a much better use.
Nelson & Maia: I haven’t seen this before and I quite enjoyed it. Watching a multi IBJFF champ get rocked like that is quite astonishing, adding the gloves and the blows re-arranges a lot of sport JiuJitsu very quickly.
I’m interested to see if Gordan Ryan makes a jump to UFC, he just casually cleaned house at the ADCC-22 and made it look simple.