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Monday morning train of consequences

by | Feb 20, 2023 | Mondays | 1 comment

Ugh, it’s Monday again. Though, I have to say, after what felt like a couple of absolutely batshit-bonkers weeks, this week appears to be something of a return to normalcy. For one thing, this week’s Great Mondaydact Browser Killer is actually being published ON A DAMN MONDAY! And that, if nothing else, is something to celebrate.

Unfortunately, there is precious little to celebrate right now, because there appears to be a genuine environmental catastrophe unfolding in the American Midwest – something that might just be America’s version of Chyornobyl (that’s actually how you pronounce it). A couple of weeks ago, a freight train derailed near the town, and some of those train cars contained seriously toxic chemicals – which the Norfolk Southern Train Company then decided to destroy in a “controlled burn”.

Suffice to say, there are a few things they really do not want you to know:

This, sadly, is not going to be the last such disaster. The state of America’s rail infrastructure is parlous, to say the least (warning – VICE):

Now, we do need to keep a certain sense of perspective here. This video has been making the rounds on Telegram, purporting to show what an utter disaster America’s rail networks are. The problem is, this is not actually a public track. It is a PRIVATE track, it is HEAVILY regulated, and there are ferocious speed limits on this stretch of rail:

But the fact remains, America’s railways are a serious problem, and the country’s infrastructure in general is collapsing. This is not a sign of a prosperous and powerful country – it is the sign of a failing empire.

America wasted US$8T over 20 years fighting pointless “savage wars of peace” across multiple failed Syracuse Expeditions. That money could, and SHOULD, have been spent on upgrading America’s roads, rails, ports, power plants, and so on – not, of course, that America could do so without enormous amounts of deficit spending.

But now that chance is lost and gone. And other countries are objectively better off, and will do better as a result.

We can make fun of China’s crumbling infrastructure all we want:

Or Russia’s:

This guy is absolutely full of shit, by the way – I’ve LIVED in Russia, and I know people who live there now, and life there is pretty good

Or especially India:

… but the fact remains, those countries invest in infrastructure to a degree that America no longer does, or can. And that is going to hurt America very badly in the long run.


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, managed to get FEMA to reverse its refusenik stance on sending Federal aid to the residents of East Palestine, OH (pronounced “Pal-es-TEEN”, for reasons I do not pretend to understand):


#BasedTucker is Based

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has lots of entertainment for us this week. We start with a video from Because Science about why you would NOT want to be like Barry Allen:

WhatisAntiLogic? looks at the cult classic film, Fight Club – which is about 99% less Full of Ghey than the book that inspired it:

thejuicemedia is back with another great video about Western Australia – where SERIOUSLY, EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!!!!!!!:

No, really, the worst shark attacks occur off WA.

DocuDubery has a really rather good question about Aquaman – the most useless member of the Justice League:


Fanservice

YMMV

LRFotS Randale6 has a HUGE amount of interesting stuff for us this week, and we are of course more than happy to peruse it. We begin with the madcap geniuses – more “mad” than “genius”, I suspect – at Flashgitz, with one about the whole “furry issue”:

I remember this next one:

Generation-Z is going to be a damn NIGHTMARE to teach:

If you do not want your son to become a SIMP, you need to intervene early and quickly:

Our boy Randale6 has provided a handy-dandy convenient link that assembles a lot of red-pill wisdom in one place, just for this purpose.

If you really want to scare your children, especially the girls, show them this video:

If you have ever wondered whether AI is a good idea… well, just watch:

I’m thinking “NO”.

Moving on to Meatcanyon – this is their (nightmarish) take on Pinocchio:

Some games really need to come with hygiene warnings:

MC want you to support their work – which amounts basically to creating nightmare-fuel for crazy people:

Now let’s get serious again. Here are a bunch of interesting Black Pigeon Speaks videos. We start with the possibility that we might ALL be genetically engineered:

Apparently, the Japanese spend Christmas eating fried chicken in the love hotel with a one night stand:

Sportzball as mind control:

Would you prefer western (in)voluntary euthanasia or Eastern strippers for your retirement?


Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice unpacks the truth behind the supposedly “explosive” text messages that purport to show #BasedTucker disagreeing with the “conspiracy theory” of the fraudulent 2020 election:

The reality is that #BasedTucker simply demanded evidence from Trump lawyer Sydney Powell, and did not get any. That does not change the reality that the Fake Election was, well, fake.


The dynamic duo over at Redacted discuss the attempts by the Fake Administration to escalate the Banderastan War to a level where the Russians would have no choice but to retaliate with tactical nukes:


Jackson Hinkle notes that Banderite forces have been pushed out of Bakhmut’s northern suburbs, as fierce fighting continues around the supposedly strategically unimportant city:


ะ”ะตะด ะกะฒะฐั€ะปะธะฒั‹ะน ะ“ะพะฒะพั€ะธั‚!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about tanks, and the supposedly inferior quality of Russian offerings in that department:


Itโ€™s All Greek To Us

The good gentlemen of The Duran are not impressed by the hot air coming out of the Munich Security Conference:


China Syndrome

China Uncensored notes America’s preparations for a thorough ass-kicking in the South China Seas – what they fail to mention, though, is that the USSA’s ass is the one which will be kicked:


Winston Sterzel aka serpentza looks at a dark secret behind China’s involvement in the Turkey earthquake disaster relief efforts:


Digging to China goes all metaphysical when talking finance and spirituality in China:


The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas continues to break down the breakdown of Western arms supplies to Banderastan:


Judgement Call

Maj. Scott Ritter stops by the Judge’s bench to talk turkey about Banderastan:


Col. Douglas Macgregor does the same, sharing his own perspective on the coming Russian offensive:


Righteous Rantery

PJW is as bewildered as the rest of us at this whole palaver over UFOs, balloons, and fighter jet shootdowns:


The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins offers up some thoughts, in her own typical trenchant fashion, about the resignation of that ‘orrible woman from t’North, Nicola Sturgeon:


Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell looks at the not-vaxx data from Florida – one of the most sensible states in the country with respect to not-vaxx mandates, and one of those pushing back the hardest against the insanity:


Dr. Suneel Dhand explains why the US medical system is so thoroughly corrupt and riddled with malpractice and malfeasance when it comes to long-term care:


Warriors of Faith

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International discuss the strange and very suspicious lack of presence of Mecca on early maps from the 7th Century:


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined looks at one of the most perplexing issues of Creation with Dr. Stephen Meyer and William Lane Craig:


Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp puts in words, as only he can, the truth of American so-called “government”:


Joker from Better Bachelor points out that women sowed the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge dissects the possibility of MaRey Sue Palpatine coming back to desecrate STAR WARS even further:


Gary from Nerdrotic documents Paedowood’s descent into madness:


Ryan Kinel reckons Liam Neeson is basically done with STAR WARS – as are the rest of us:


The Drinker is genuinely shocked at what he says is an actually GOOD Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock, on the other hand, thinks STP3 is AWFUL:

Who is right? You decide – if you give a damn about Star Dreck anymore, that is. I sure as shit do not.


The final John Wick 4 trailer looks LEGIT:


Josh Keefe talks about a superb Dreamworks SKG film, based on the Book of Exodus:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, who apparently thinks along the same lines that I do about how and why the Tiddy Fairy exists, because this one is all about BEWBS:

If nipple erection signals/is a cue to sexual interest or arousal, we would expect that women with nipple erection would be sexualized: having a presumed higher sexual arousal and promiscuity and lower mental abilities and morality. To examine this, 234 participants rated pictures of women with and without salient nipple erection (faces were obscured to eliminate facial cues). Participants completed a hypothetical sexual behavior profile (30 items including perceptions of morality and intelligence) for each stimulus photo. Both men and women perceived women with nipple erection as less intelligent, less moral, and more likely to engage in sexual behaviors. These are the primary markers of sexual objectification. They also rated these women as having poorer sexual health and being less sexually manipulative. Men perceived all the women in the stimulus photos as being less moral and having more male sexual partners, indicating that men objectified the stimuli overall more than women. Women reported that women with erect nipples had more male sex partners, lost their virginity at a younger age, and had lower quality relationships. In summary, female nipple erection, which is an uncontrollable reflex, triggers sexualization and objectification by both men and women who observe it.

tl;dr version: if her headlights are on, she’s easy.


Your long read of the week is from a chap on Substack called Simplicius the Thinker, and it is a very long read indeed, about how the all-seeing eye of modern C4ISR can nullify the advantages of manoeuvre warfare:

The totality of the NATO and โ€˜Five Eyesโ€™ infrastructure is being utilized 24/7 as a sort of vast rear-end cloud-service and mega-processing/computational-cycle capacity for Ukraineโ€™s frontline forces. Hundreds of satellites, including dozens of imaging ones with 5cm/pixel resolution, skim every inch and quarter of Russian territory, searching for actionable hidden targets. The data is then processed and collated by thousands of fulltime NATO/Five Eyes analysts working in distribution centers all over the world, then fed directly to the Ukrainian crews by way of Starlink and other datalinks, which Ukraine can then sub-distribute via their innovative โ€˜Nettleโ€™ integrated system to feed those targets to a variety of sector artillery and other systems.

Weโ€™ve got a glimpse of this months ago when documents were leaked which demonstrated the exact work-flow by which this NATO/Five Eyes superstructure identifies and transmits the positions of every imaginable Russian unit, down to the barest granularity. It showed papers typed up by the army of analysts poring over the satellite cluster footage, which have endless lists of high-value Russian targets, catalogued, categorized, etc., with their exact coordinates and associated reference photos.

And of course this is not to even mention the fleet of AWACs that collect radar data around the clock from the Polish and Romanian airspace, RQ-4 Global Hawks, with their SAR radars that photograph Crimea daily from the Black Sea, the OTH shortwave radars likely doing early warning detection on Russiaโ€™s airforce flights from thousands of kilometers away, and more. In fact, itโ€™s even been suggested that U.S. forces use seismic sensor data to track large Russian force movements. The Soviets themselves capably used this tactic against the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

[…]

We saw in Kherson and many other places, anytime the AFU launched a wide offensive with large, visible mechanized column pushes, they were instantly spotted, tracked, and decimated from long range. But recently in Ugledar, it appeared that Russian Marines fared no better under similar circumstances.

Their mechanized columns too could not cross that dreaded no-manโ€™s land of frozen farm fields before getting IDโ€™d. Granted, it appeared that mines played the biggest role in that, as some intrepid readers have pointed out. However, I must counter with the point that the only reason they even hit the mines to begin with, is because they were under orders to do a mad dash across the fields, from cover to the next position in the dachas section of lower Ugledar, for the very reason that lingering and taking their time negotiating the minefields would have exposed them to enemy ISR and immediate risks from the air in the form of drone-corrected strikes, etc. If it werenโ€™t for that ubiquitous observational threat, they could have leisurely crept along with a mine-trawl, or called up a slow-working UR-77 mine clearer. 

To tangentially expand on, briefly, how one is theoretically supposed to deal with such threats, and why it doesnโ€™t quite work as well in practice as in theory, first letโ€™s examine how, to counter artillery, we know you need your own drone-ISR systems, and preferably augmented by counter-battery radars which can place the vector and distance of the enemy shot for you to retaliate. 


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar is due to give a Very Important Speech the night of Feb 21, 2023, on the anniversary of the recognition of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics as sovereign and autonomous nations by Russia:

โ€œPutin is working on a messageโ€ฆ Preparations are underway today, no public events are planned,โ€ his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Earlier, Peskov said that the President of Russia in his message to the Federal Assembly would assess the special military operation and the international situation.

Federal TV channels will show Putin’s message to the Federal Assembly at 12:00 on February 21.

From what I am seeing on Russian Telegram channels, the Russian people are gearing themselves up for this one – it promises to be quite important. We shall see what he says.


Bob Bishop – buddy of Larry Johnson and frequent contributor to alt-media sites – hosts a video showing a descendant of Leo Tolstoy, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Duma, debating a bunch of clueless Frogs about the Banderastan War. As you might expect, he owns them:


Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week:


HALO Nation

Installation00 offers us a biography of the one and only Sgt. Avery Johnson:

And now let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:


Learning at the Master’s Feet

Nerd of the Rings talks about the king of the Dwarves, Dain II Ironfoot:


Bring on the Grimdark

PancreasNoWork risks the wrath of the Wulfen and Leman Russ himself with this one:


That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour:


Meme Warfare

We begin with a buttload of great memes from our good friend Dawn Pine:

Know some folks like that
That “balloon” (pun intended) has been losing it’s hot air for years
Distraction. Works (almost) every time.
LMAO
Even their economy is not in such a good shape
Ah. Nostalgia.
U-S-A, U-S-A
Say that you identify as a Trans, and you can say anything
Work counts as well
Let’s not go into the ROI. Our host may concur.
*Eye rolls*
Second that
WTF moment of the week. Also – Kudos to the kid.
Let’s be that guy

Onward:

Good thing I don’t like rice very much
Those aren’t the idiots you need to worry about, though
Plus fireballs and EXPLOSIONS
Keep in mind, the Russians and Chinese had BOTH – and look where they are now

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 Jamal Browner:


Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs


They See Me Rollin’…


Palate Cleansers

Shuffle Off

Jump-Starts

Gingervitis Injections


Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

Also Einstein: “I fear that someday people will post my pic on the Internet with bogus made-up quotations in Comic Sans font”

Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Hot Totty

Right, let’s close out with your Instathot to get the week off to a suitably absurd start. She is very experienced at handling balls – because she is a golfist, rather like Paige Spiranac, but with freckles. This is Grace Charis, age 23 (supposedly, though I’ve seen a range of anywhere between 21 and 26), from Newport Beach, Clownipornia, and she is primarily known for looking really hot in low-cut tops.

OK, that’s all, boys, back to work now.

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1 Comment

  1. MrUNIVAC

    This TOTW led me into a false sense of security. No tattoos, no injection molding, only mildly suggestive poses…this one is WAY too wholesome to be a thot. Or so I thought (thot?).

    Then I Googled her and the scales fell from my eyes.

    Nice rack, though!

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