Well, here we are at long last – the very first Monday of 2023. At some level, it is actually difficult to believe we made it to this point – and I’m not simply talking about the epic hangovers and severe stomach distress that I’m sure some of you are feeling after the excesses of the holiday season. There were definitely moments during 2022 when I wondered whether we might all live long enough to see the New Year. But that is all in the past, and we are here nonetheless.

Of course… It’s MONDAY. And that simply SUCKS. Most of us are returning to work today, after weeks of eating and drinking far too much and enjoying some very badly needed time off, and it is a wrenching adjustment to get back to work.

Fortunately, that is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher exists.

This week, we look at the rise and fall of a definitely-not-natty dude called “The Liver King”. Now, the funny thing is, before the last two weeks of 2022, I’d never even heard of the guy – mostly because I don’t really follow the online fitness shitposting community, and don’t care for the drama.

But, apparently, this was an Instagram/social media star who made a fortune by looking absolutely jacked while touting the benefits of eating liver and living a Paleo lifestyle.

The reality, though, is that he was injecting himself to the gills with steroids the whole time.

JimmyTheGiant explains why anyone with even an ounce of grey matter could have seen this coming:

I could tell you the guy was juicing just by looking at his physique. You DO NOT achieve those results naturally. You just don’t. That level of muscle mass CAN be achieved naturally – but that level of definition CANNOT. The very best certified-natty bodybuilders IN THE ENTIRE WORLD cannot look like that.

The irony is, as the video above points out, that Liver King’s actual ideas about healthy living, are entirely sound – movement, rest, natural foods, sunlight, cold, sleep, lifting, pushing, pulling, and so on. These are quite sensible principles, and if people want to live by them and improve their health, there is nothing in the world wrong with that.

But that is not what Liver King actually sold.

Instead, he sold supplements designed to make people think they could look like him – which they never could, because they didn’t contain the secret ingredient he was using. That ingredient was not horse-meat (or horse-liver). It was steroids.

My view on steroids is very simple:

Don’t take them. If you start, you’ll never, ever stop. And they will take over and damage your life eventually. So don’t even bother starting.

While we are on the subject – if you spot celebrities denying they are taking ‘roids, THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY TAKING ‘ROIDS:

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Best of the Week

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain was able to spare some time over the holiday period to scour TEH INNARWEBZ for all the good stuff we need to get us back to work in the new year. We start with a rather depressing run-down from Cracked about what jobs are really like:

LikeAFoxStudios does a highly accurate breakdown of what would really happen to those three kids from the Narnia series:

Scene It Reviews examines the running style of the last true action hero:

Beral Solomon explains the Jewish economy for us goyim:

Joker from Better Bachelor is finally back after destroying his sense of taste with that one-chip challenge thing, and shows how Western women have completely lost their damn minds now:

Qxir notes that the whole idea behind the HALO SPARTAN supersoldiers is not exactly new:

Geo History looks at the realities of slavery through the ages – spoiler alert, White people ARE NOT the worst offenders of all time:

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Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice pays loving tribute to Potato-Head Stelter’s glorious and ridiculous career:

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The dynamic duo over at Redacted took the entire last week of the year off, and rightly so, but they did an excellent analysis of the clinical data coming out of Krautland with respect to deaths caused by the not-vaxx:

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Jackson Hinkle tries to figure out the chicanery going on behind the scenes with the arrest of Andrew Tate:

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Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily by riffing on a piece from his good friend, Andrei Raevsky, aka The Saker, as to whether we will live to see New Year’s Eve in 2023:

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It’s All Greek To Us

The good gentlemen of The Duran explain how Poland is likely walking straight into a serious Russian trap if it tries to occupy western Ukraine:

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China Syndrome

China Uncensored run through their top 10 China stories of 2022 – though, keep in mind, this is from an extremely pro-Western perspective, and has very little to do with the realities on the ground:

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Digging to China looks at the socioeconomic impacts of the CPC’s extremely draconian and very misguided zero-Coof policies:

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The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas does a superb video explaining why the Russians are fighting so slowly in Banderastan:

As he correctly notes, if the USSA ever had to fight a war against a peer adversary, equipped with the same kinds of capabilities as Ukraine had, it too would be unable to make substantial quick progress. In fact, the Russians have done objectively better than America ever could in similar circumstances.

The plain fact is the USSA is simply not capable of fighting a real combined-arms war against anything like a peer adversary. Its military is only good, at this point, for bombing 10th-rate Arab armies, and cities full of civilians.

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Semper Fi!

Maj. Scott Ritter sits down to answer some important questions about Banderastan, NATO, and other topics with the Angry Warhawk:

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Warrior’s Rage

Col. Douglas Macgregor talks turkey about what the Banderites really want:

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Righteous Rantery

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has a strident message for the black-pillers out there:

I don’t agree with Razor about voting, as a general rule, for one very simple reason:

The single best argument against dumbocracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. And, as much as I like Americans, the fact is they are an incredibly parochial people, with, for the most part, very little desire to understand the world beyond the borders of their town, city, or at most, state.

As such, they wield enormous authority through the sovereign franchise – yet lack any level of responsibility required to use that power correctly.

Dumbocracy is not going to solve America’s problems. Neither are fascism or socialism. Wholesale revolution and the cleansing of the entire system, from top to bottom, is necessary at this point. Even the most radical surgery will not work – the cancer has spread too deeply and the body politic is already necrotic.

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PJW marvels at the Gretard’s ability to troll Andrew Tater-Tots:

There are no winners in this story. The Gretard has no tits, no ass, and no brains. Tater is an absurd caricature of masculinity. Neither is any sort of role model, for anyone.

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Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell has gotten progressively more red-pilled with every passing month, and the latest mRNA not-vaxx clinical trial data, re-examined by German scientists, certainly are not doing his faith in “The System” any good:

Here is a rather good long video from Rogue Scientist showing how Dr. Campbell “woke up”, as so many of us did, to the extreme corruption in the medical profession:

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Australian Sen. John Anderson hosts Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Gigi Foster as they discuss the hideous strength of authoritarian censorship:

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Warriors of Faith

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms wonders why no one ever heard of Mecca until the EIGHTH century, if it was such a vital city to the development of Izzlam in the Seventh:

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Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Lloyd De Jongh continue to unpack the ugly realities of shariah law:

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp answers some fan mail – from a woman, no less – with some rather necessary tough love:

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Richard Grannon explains the origins of that ridiculous phrase, “toxic masculinity”:

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge are not in the least bit surprised as to why The Witcher: Blood Origins failed so badly:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock is not surprised by the utter failure of the Willow reboot:

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Gary from Nerdrotic documents the worst Hollyweird disasters of the past year:

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Ryan Kinel breaks down the box office in 2022 based on the data, and it is a really ugly picture for Hollywoke:

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The Drinker looks at the best, and the worst, of 2022 – and most of it was REALLY BAD:

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and explains how a Monty Python sketch actually provides a great way to lose weight:

More than half a century after first airing on the BBC, Monty Python’s famous “silly walk” sketch has inspired a group of researchers at Arizona State University to see how effective it might be for folks keen to burn a few calories after the excesses of the holiday season.

The results of the research — called Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking: Monty Python-inspired laboratory-based experimental study — have been published in the British Medical Journal, and while it’s apparent that the research is partly an end-of-year bit of fun, the testing methods were nevertheless extremely detailed.

For anyone unfamiliar with Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, it’s described by The Times as “a satire on bureaucratic inefficiency” and features John Cleese as civil servant Mr. Teabag. We see Teabag walking to work in an extremely absurd fashion before conducting a meeting with Mr. Putey (Michael Palin), who is requesting a government grant to develop his own silly walk. Sadly for Putey, his walk is deemed far too sensible, and so his request is rejected.

What does that look like? Well…:

For those interested in looking at the actual research and data – and, honestly, why wouldn’t you be – here’s the paper.

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Your long read of the week is a fascinating article from Big Serge about the tricky balancing act that Von Moltke the Elder had to perform between the art and science of warfare, and how the Franco-Prussian Wars of the 19th Century presaged the horrendous realities of industrial-scale warfare in the 20th:

Moltke dominated the Prussian military establishment at a time when armies were still groping their way forward into the age of industrial war. Armies were becoming ever larger and wielding ever more powerful weaponry. The size of these armies increasingly made it impossible for campaigns to be improvised the way Napoleon did. Successfully making war required filing cabinets full of railway timetables, maps, and statistical analyses – a level of detail and micromanagement which offended many traditionalists, who still viewed war as an “art” that should be conducted according to the instincts of field commanders.

For Prussia, in particular, this new era of increasingly bureaucratized war seemed problematic, because Prussian commanders were conditioned to fight with a preternatural level of aggression and attacking energy. Blucher, the hero of the Napoleonic Wars, was the platonic ideal of the Prussian commander. Nicknamed Marschall Vorwärts – “Marshal Forward” – by his men due to his battlefield aggression, Blucher was not a particularly sophisticated operational practitioner. His “operational art”, as such, consisted of finding the enemy army and attacking it as quickly as possible.

For Molkte, the challenge was merging and creating some level of synergy among these two diametrically opposed notions of command – calculation and rational planning, and the instinctual aggression of field commanders who wanted simply to march to the enemy at top speed and attack him. Institutionally, this tension was represented by the difference between the staff officers – command and control functionaries who provided the planning, analysis, intelligence, and communications expertise which allows modern armies to function – and the commander – a man who instantiates action and aggression.

In a more metaphysical sense, the same tension was presented by Clausewitz in his model of warfare as a tension between opposing forces. These forces, according to Clausewitz, were rational planning, violent emotion, and random luck. War, according to Clausewitz, was always subject to each of these forces to some extent. While luck cannot be controlled, a well run army would seek to balance between rational strategy (the staff officers) and emotive aggression (the field commander).

Moltke, perhaps as well as any commander in history, successfully mediated these forces because he perfectly well understood that both had their role in a successful campaign. He understood perfectly well that war had become far too complex to wage spontaneously, on the basis of instinct and improvisation, and dutifully nurtured a suitably robust planning apparatus and an army nervous system packed with highly trained staff officers. Nevertheless, even as Chief of the General Staff, Moltke was never overly wedded to obsessive planning. He famously quipped that “no plan survives contact with the enemy’s main body”, and was adamant that overly detailed and rigid planning could be fatal.

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Linkage is good for you:

• Mike Whitney sounds an ominous warning about how the coming Russian offensive in Banderastan will result in the US entering the war as a direct participant;
• Kurt Nimmo expands on how NATO is a direct participant even now in the Banderastan War;
• Bernhard from Moon of Alabama laments the staggering lack of decent analysis in the Western media of the Banderastan War, which is leading to a very dangerously one-sided Western understanding of the real situation;
• Dr. Philip Giraldi is thoroughly disgusted by Bellendsky’s begging when he visited the US at the end of the year;
• Russia and Turkiye continue to forge ever-closer ties of economic cooperation with respect to gas, which tells you everything you need to know about the effectiveness of THUR SANKSHUNS;
• Andrei Raevsky aka The Saker asks the question that spurred Grumpuss’s video above – will we live to see 2023, given the sheer insanity and self-delusion of Western leaders and political elites?;
• Drago Bosnic asks whether the West has the first clue what it is talking about with respect to “decapitation strikes” against Russia, and what such madness would imply;
• The most expensive dishes money can buy in Russian restaurants are genuinely staggering, both in terms of artistry and price;
• Tree of Woe makes predictions for 2023, and almost all of them are really rather bad;
• Classic article here from David Axe at War is Boring – Grumpuss really doesn’t like him, though – about just how hideously bad the F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano really is;
• Speaking of hugely expensive and largely useless American weapons systems, Joseph Trevithick wrote in 2015 about the long and tortured history of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a boondoggle if there ever was one;
• Gregory Hood notes that Americans no longer need to go to Africa to look at broken and failed societies – Africa has come to them;
• While we’re on the subject of failed societies – a rapist in Pakistan knocked up his victim, a deaf and mute woman, and now has been released from prison after agreeing to marry her;
• Although the UK’s Border Force is on strike, travellers returning home or going to PommieBastardLande are full of praise for the British military, who are doing the same job for half the pay at three times the efficiency;
• Mark Gullick talks about the weird scandal surrounding the Sportzball World Cup in Qatar;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• Opinions remain divided as to whether a passenger who brought an airbed to the airport gates is a genius or selfish – we both reckon he’s a genius;
• Guatemala is known these days mostly for drugs and cartels, but it was once known as the seat of the (relatively) advanced Mayan Empire, and archaeologists are uncovering the true extent of it now;
• What do you say to a woman whose husband has turned into her pimp so that the two of them can pay off their mortgage????? There aren’t enough face-palms in the WORLD for this one;
• The recent polar vortex/bomb cyclone/whatever accomplished a rare feat – it froze Niagara Falls, which is amazing and spectacular;
• South Korea has just lifted its import ban on sex dolls, which no doubt has a lot of weebs extremely excited;
• Feminists are full of outrageously outrageous OUTRAGE!!!!!!! at the way a man proposed to his woman – I can’t say I see why the landwhales are so pissed;
• The US military is so desperate for recruits that it will now allow in people with mental disorders – they’ll be recruiting junkies and drug addicts too, before very long;
• A mother in PommieBastardLande proves the old adage about how necessity is the mother of invention by creating what looks like the world’s greatest sandwich;
• The DEA seized enough fentanyl to kill every last man, woman, and child in America in 2022 – which just tells you how lucrative, and deadly, the trade in that shit really is;

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar delivered an unusual, and excellent, NYE speech from Russia’s Far East – NOT the Kremlin, as he usually does:

Alexander Mercouris did a comprehensive breakdown of this speech and its implications in yesterday’s long video, which is well worth watching:

The Neo-Tsar’s attitude to the West can probably best be summarised as:

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History Legends does one of the very few sensible and accurate breakdowns of Russian and Ukrainian casualties that I have seen, and comes up with some clear conclusions as to the utterly lopsided nature of the Banderastan War:

His numbers look sensible and reasonable to me, with respect to the Russian side. I too estimate Russian casualties at very roughly 20,000 dead, and something close to 50,000 wounded – of whom roughly 90% have recovered, or will recover, fully.

From what I am seeing, his estimates of Ukrainian casualties, though, may be too low by as much as 40%. Ukraine has lost something approaching 150,000 DEAD – that’s just DEAD, to be clear – and the butcher’s bill may be even higher than that, which is horrendous even to contemplate. As for wounded, it is surely well over 100,000, and many of those are crippled for life – Russian artillery and air power are NASTY, I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe on Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels.

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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 Imperial Russian Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov – undefeated in his many years of war:

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HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz is now one of just a few handfuls of people anywhere in the entire WORLD who have achieved maximum rank in HALO MCC:

Oh, and LRFotS lynch – a fellow HALOniac – sends his holiday greetings to everyone with this epic picture:

Happy Christmas and New Year to you too, buddy.

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Learning at the Master’s Feet

Nerd of the Rings looks at a race that is definitely not Hobbits, and definitely are not Harfoots (i.e. Feikh & Ghey Amazog hobbitses):

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Bring on the Grimdark

The Remembrancer, uh, remembrances a truly legendary member of the Death Watch:

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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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Meme Warfare

We start with a bunch of New Year’s Irresolution memes from Dawn Pine:

Onward:

Here is one that most of my readers will enjoy:

And one final, highly topical and accurate, meme for us all to remember:

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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:

And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:

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The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to Shane Nutt:

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Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

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They See Me Rollin’…

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Palate Cleansers

Shuffle Off

Jump-Starts

The girl has talent, no doubt or question.

Icecapades

And she’s from Texas, no less.

Gingervitis Injections

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Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

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Rock Out With Your Glock Out

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Hot Totty

And finally, here is your very first Instathot of 2023. Rather fittingly, she’s Polish and may be up to 20% plastic. This is Nikola Lach, age 29. (Apparently, due to the weirdness of the Polish language, her last name is actually pronounced “Latskh”. Don’t look at me, I don’t get it either – to me, Polish sounds like bad drunken Russian, and Ukrainian sounds even worse.)

Regardless of pronunciation, we can say with reasonable certainly that she has impressive headlights eyes. This compensates somewhat for her epic case of RBF.

OK, that’s all, boys, now try to get over your hangovers and food comas and return to productive business…

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