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Monday morning VD

by | May 8, 2023 | Mondays | 1 comment

No, the headline does not mean quite what you think it does. It is in fact a reference to VICTORY DAY – which for Europeans and Americans is May 8th, and for Russians is May 9th. For the latter, Victory Day, or День Победы, carries far more emotional weight and depth than it does for Europeans, who have long since forgotten the lessons of WWII andno longer seem to care about the terrible costs and burdens of war. But Russians have never, ever forgotten what victory in the Great Patriotic War cost them – 20 million of their own people, and at least a further 7 million other Soviet citizens, dead in the most horrific slaughter imaginable.

Just about every single Russian family – ALMOST EVERY ONE – lost a relative in that war. They carry the memories of those losses to this day. For the Russians, Victory Day holds a special emotional poignancy and meaning. It is one of their most important public holidays – and they celebrate it in style.

So let’s bring back that tradition, by remembering what victory over the Nazis really meant.

First, let’s look at the European perspective:

There was, in fact, a time when the European nations could and did march in Red Square to celebrate the fctory over the Nazis:

Today, though, the Russians stand alone in their pomp and ceremony when celebrating this most important of days. They do it better than anyone. So let’s hand over the stage to them, to show the rest of us how it’s done:

And let’s not forget the best possible music to accompany any military march – especially a RUSSIAN military march:

#BasedTucker is Based

Tucker Carlson gave a long keynote speech at Oxford, AL – no, not the Oxford in PommieBastardLande, they would all have fainting spells if he spoke there:

Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has LOADS of videos for us to kick off the week. We start with yet another epic Hitler Rant parody, this time about the Netherflix adaptation of WE WUZ KWEENZ ‘N’ SHIET!!!:

Warp Zone explains how lightsaber fights really work, at least according to the latest video game:

The Babylon Bee continues to do the job the MSM used to, and does it better:

I’m waiting to see if any of them will work
That’s not satire. It’s truth.
Makes some sense
First sign makes total sense, all the others – less

Reason points out the sad truth about board games:

The Heartland Institute offers useful advice to all of us about the climate non-crisis:

Fanservice

LRFotS Randale6 has contributed a positive trove of material for today’s instalment. We’ll break it all down into chunks, which, trust me, is necessary, given the subject matter.

Flashgitz

Hogwarts special education
Average game streamers
Why anime series never end
Hollyweird f**ks up Mario (tbh this is probably closer then not to the truth)
The Fate of All Weebs (is sadly more palatable then modern American hell)

Meatcanyon

Cheeto horror story
Women are horribly weird
Meatcanyon also dives onto the Mario movie parody train

Black Pigeon Speaks

Stolen Valour:

Why conservatives always lose (I’m pretty sure we featured this one before, but it’s worth watching again):

Disney vs 4chan (hail the chan!):

China building superhumans (can they make a woman that doesn’t get fat and bitchy?):

The fall of the west explained (personal take, expanding the empire beyond the Americas):

Why companies must go woke or really broke:

Proud black queens (good old President Monroe had the right idea, send them back to the shithole from whence they came):

Japanese cuteness explained (can they put it in syringes so we make western women cute again?):

War PR0N

Once upon a time the Swedes were a sensible people, just look at this tank

Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice cannot stop laughing at FAUX Noose’s self-inflicted castration after the #BasedTucker catastrophe:

The dynamic duo over at Redacted try to figure out whether the Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive has actually khommenced or not:

Jackson Hinkle brings urgent attention to the plight of Gonzalo Lira, who has been arrested and detained by the Banderites in Kharkov, at Queef’s orders, because he said Things the Neo-Nazies Don’t Like:

Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, after his return from Jellystone YELLOWSTONE National Park, about the current situation in the SMO:

It’s All Greek To Us

The good gentlemen of The Duran attempt to figure out just what the hell Evgeniy Prigozhin‘s epic meltdown was all about last week:

China Syndrome

Digging to China takes a closer look at a major social policy concern for the New Huangdi (though from a very Western perspective, so keep that in mind):

The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas pours a very large pitcher of very cold water on the ridiculous notion that the Banderites somehow managed to shoot down a Russian hypersonic Kindzhal missile – they did nothing of the sort:

Rulings from the Bench

Judge Andrew Napolitano has assembled his usual panel of amazing talent for geopolitical analysis and current events. We start with Ray McGovern:

And fellow former spook Larry Johnson:

With some excellent additional commentary from Alistair Crooke:

And a military perspective from LTC Tony Shaffer:

Warrior’s Rage

Col. Douglas Macgregor speaks at length in a superb interview with Brian Rose of London Real:

Annoyingly, you cannot watch the full video without registering for an account on London Real. It’s free, but I cannot be arsed to do that. I leave it to you to decide whether that is a worthwhile endeavour.

Righteous Rantery

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has zero f**ks to give about the self-destruction of “Squeenix”:

PJW is completely unimpressed by the supposedly “scandalous” revelations about #BasedTucker:

Tucker Carlson is one of those rare characters in media who actually does seem to be as squeaky-clean as he appears. He is a devoted husband and father who loves his wife and simply goes where the truth leads him – and good for him. But, more importantly, he does not back down from a fight. FAUX made a huge mistake, and now they are discovering just how costly that mistake will be.

The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins does her level best imitation of an SJW – and she is very convincing:

Bad Medicine

Dr. Suneel Dhand talks about a vitally important type of blood test:

Medicine with Dr. Moran looks at myocarditis risks after the second dose of the clot-shot, and the numbers are NOT good:

Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle and The Apostate Prophet rip it up – literally – during a live-stream mocking Andrew Tater-Tots and his idiotic challenge to desecrate a Koran in public:

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms points out a serious issue with the historicity of Mo’Lester, the most obvious fake prophet in history:

Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Mel from Sneaker’s Corner examine the historical basis for Izzlam, and conclude that it comes up critically short in many areas:

Islam Critiqued asks a very germane question of the Fake Religion of Peace:

Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp gives a glimpse of what Steven Crowder can expect during his divorce proceedings:

The key thing to keep in mind here is that the evidence against Crowder here is quite damning. If you watched Mark Dice‘s earlier video, which looked at the security camera footage from the Crowder household, it makes him look terrible and his wife look saintly. There is no excuse for Crowder’s boorish behaviour – at the same time, it is fair to say the courts are very much stacked against Crowder, no matter what the video shows.

Joker from Better Bachelor has an absolutely raging schadenboner after seeing Amber Turd BTFO herself from polite society – or, y’know, whatever passes for “polite” in Hollyweird:

Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock does his QAnon thing to explain why and how the House of the Devil Mouse screwed the nerf so badly with the most valuable film franchise in history:

Ryan Kinel does some box-office MAFF for Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and… well, it’s not looking good, at all:

The Drinker

Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and is a piece strictly for the birds, evidently written with tongue planted very firmly in cheek:

Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in the US, often lacking appropriate stimuli to meet their high social, cognitive, and emotional needs. After reviewing bird perception and agency literature, we developed an approach to allow parrots to engage in video-calling other parrots. Following a pilot experiment and expert survey, we ran a three-month study with 18 pet birds to evaluate the potential value and usability of a parrot-parrot video-calling system. We assessed the system in terms of perception, agency, engagement, and overall perceived benefits. With 147 bird-triggered calls, our results show that 1) every bird used the system, 2) most birds exhibited high motivation and intentionality, and 3) all caretakers reported perceived benefits, some arguably life-transformative, such as learning to forage or even to fly by watching others. We report on individual insights and propose considerations regarding ethics and the potential of parrot video-calling for enrichment.

Your long read of the week is from Aunt Rat, who emailed me a piece from Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis about the upkhoming Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive. The piece is full of interesting observations and hypotheses, and points out that the Russians do indeed have a lot to worry about – particularly with respect to the defence of Mariupol’:

Ukraine is tasked by its Western masters to achieve one or several of the following goals either fully or partially:

  • Kill at least several thousand RussiansUkraine gathered, depending upon the source, approximately 100,000 men for this offensive. This is the manpower pool that is available for depletion. Usually, an attacker needs a 3:1 advantage over the defender in order to break through defensive lines. Since Russia has a far better trained army, far more modern weapons and tactics, and an Air Force that continues to increase its capacity for close air support (CAS), the ratio needs to be far higher. Ukraine needs to put approximately 10 soldiers in the field to overcome each Russian.Let’s simplify here for the sake of explanation. Let’s assume that the Ukrainian army gathers all 100,000 men in Zaporizhzhia and tries a concentrated offensive in the direction of Melitopol. (BS, yes, but bear with me).If Russia fields 10,000 men, all the Russians and all the Ukrainians would die. Again, this is only for illustration. Hence, Russia would be forced to field far more than 10,000 soldiers in order to stop the offensive and reduce its own losses. I’d say that if Russia fortifies its defensive positions in Zaporizhzhia with 50,000 troops, the ratio against Ukraine would skyrocket from 1:10 to 1:20. With this ratio and battlefield setup, the Ukrainian offensive would fail and the Russians most likely would suffer far fewer than 10,000 casualties.Why do I play with such figures? It is very simple: Russia only needs to invest 10,000 men and the Ukrainian offensive is doomed, right? All of them will die, but Ukraine will have lost 100,000 men and will not have achieved its goals, right?Totally wrong. This is still a Special Military Operation. An SMO. Such casualties are no longer acceptable. They were in Phase 1, but no longer. Over the course of 14 months, Russia has lost some 20-30,000 people in Ukraine. Which is already a tragedy. If it would lose 10,000 men over the course of a few days/weeks, it would be a disaster. Remember the funerals with thousands of Ukrainian flags all over Ukraine? Such a situation would be likely in this scenario, though on a smaller scale, in Russia. That would cost the Russian government a lot of political capital and trust. The soldiers need to be protected. Still, it is an SMO, and not yet a war where such numbers would be acceptable.You get my point? The Ukrainian soldiers are doomed. Most of them will die; they know that. But if that is so, why not achieve a huge blow against “Putin” by killing several thousand Russian soldiers in the process to add to the destabilization of the Russian position. Consider the following objectives:
  • Capture at least one major Russian city in NovorossiyaWill the offensive take place? Where will the offensive take place? When will it take place? With what intensity? I don’t know! I really don’t know. But I will share some of my thoughts with you.Judging by the Russian overt preparations, it seems to me that the Russians are expecting a two-phase offensive. One phase in the Kharkov direction, most likely as deception and distraction; and the main offensive, or phase two, toward Melitopol.Who knows?Some people have discussed the possibility of an incursion into Belgorod or other Russian core territories. Possible, but I can’t see a single political advantage for Ukraine doing that.Personally, I would argue that Mariupol would be the one big prize to win, for both the West and Ukraine. It would cause the biggest possible damage to Russia. How?
    1. It would cut the land bridge to Crimea.
    2. It would cost Russia the lives of thousands of soldiers defending the town. Russia can tactically retreat and withdraw from a lot of places but Mariupol is not one of those places. It would necessarily develop into a force-on-force battle to defend the town, which would be extremely costly in terms of casualties. Even if Russia would eventually succeed in defending the town, it would need to deal with the thousands of casualties.
    3. Russia would lose its pearl and PR victory where it proudly films daily how the town is being rebuilt.
    4. The Russians would need to reconquer the city, and they would destroy it again in the process. The reconquering would be extremely bloody and costly for the Russians.
    5. Russia would lose a lot of trust of its own citizens; Novorossiyan citizens, as well as international partners.
    Hence, I wouldn’t be surprised if we would see the following development from Ukraine:
    1. Start probing and distracting attacks in the Zaporizhzhia Region.
    2. After gaining Russia’s attention in Zaporizhzhia, start an armored offensive in the Kharkov region with all of the Western equipment. It should look very realistic. As we saw in Summer 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine would absorb thousands or tens of thousands of casualties for this mock offensive.
    3. After having Russia’s full attention in the abovementioned fronts, Ukraine could start a massive insertion offensive with light units into Mariupol. What is an insertion offensive? An offensive that is designed to open a channel through which Ukraine could insert several tens of thousands of troops into Mariupol to take positions in the buildings there.In the best-case scenario, this channel could be kept open to supply the garrison. In the worst-case scenario these people would simply serve as means to force Russia to reconquer Mariupol and again destroy the city in the process.
    I’m not saying this will happen. And this is not my analysis. I have absolutely no idea what will happen at all. I only want to say that from my point of view, this would deal the biggest possible damage to Russia and I can imagine that this is the reason why the Pentagon is so optimistic about what is to come. This scenario is not unrealistic at all.

These are very good points. The Russians know something very big is coming. They are confident in the ability of their air power and land forces to stop the Ukrainians cold. But they also have a lot to worry about in terms of defending a wide front against a hell of a lot of men. This is a very high-stakes gamble for both sides. While I am confident the Russians will win, they will assuredly suffer losses and setbacks – and the loss of Mariupol’ will be one the Russian people will not abide.

Also – I agree with Aleks, the Ukrainians are MORONS. I used to like and respect them as a people, but not any longer. I no longer care for them or their abomination of a country. The sooner they are utterly crushed and their army annihilated, the better – because it is well past time the Ukrainians went back to living under foreign rule, where they could thrive and have functional societies, unlike the broken and impoverished shithole that Ukraine has become.

They could have been a great and free people. They inherited HUGE amounts of wealth, resources, and industrial capacity from the USSR. And they threw ALL of it away. I have ZERO sympathy for them and do not care about their country or their people. Sorry, not sorry.

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:

Plus a couple more from Randale6:

MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar had a long meeting with Interior Minister Reshetnikov to see how the Russian economy is doing – rather a lot better than most people think, as it happens:

Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week:

HALO Nation

Let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:

Learning at the Master’s Feet

Nerd of the Rings examines the life and times of one of the most despicable of all of the characters in the Legendarium:

Bring on the Grimdark

Majorkill – not my favourite YouTuber, it must be said – explains one of the enduring mysteries of the WH40K universe:

That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

Comedy hour:

Meme Warfare

We start with some great memes from The Male Brain:

Can confirm
Can confirm, based on other people’s experience
Agreed. Unless they harm me, then I may not respect it.
Actually, from my experience – most meetings end with an email (not always well written)
Conclusion – vegetarianism is bad
BURN!
Second that (pun intended)
Not all. MOST!
True. But one of “benefits” of being a parent is that you learn to STFU.
People don’t want to read, or do anything against their beliefs
I’m calling it “Beating them at their own game”
Finally, LEt’s keep it that way
And now I can’t unthink it

Onward:

CAN RELATE
I’m a monarchist, and I think that’s hilarious
And here we were told the “slippery slope” argument was juvenile and ridiculous…
One word: LEMMINGS. Every rule has at least one exception (unless it’s God setting the rule).
DIE FOR UKRAINE AND BUTTSECKS!!!

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 Tyson Ridenour:

Keep in mind, this kid is 21 years old.

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”
SERIOUS banger of an album, this one
Cheesy, yet brutal

Rock Out With Your Glock Out

Hot Totty

Finally, here is your Instathot to get the week started. Because I am in a good mood, I decided to provide some relief for the many gingervitis sufferers who read my work. Here is Elly Clutch, age 24. She does cosplay crap and OnlyFools nonsense. You’re welcome.

Right, that’s all, enjoy the rest of your week slaving away for The Man.

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  1. daniel william kelley
    daniel william kelley on May 8, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    So glad we helped the Bolsheviks achieve victory.

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