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Monday morning with maximum conviction

by | Aug 7, 2023 | Mondays | 1 comment

This Monday certainly was not a welcome occurrence. The weekend was way too damn short – though that may have something to do with the fact that I spent most of Saturday morning playing HALO 4, most of Saturday afternoon sleeping, and all of Saturday evening out with old friends. Nonetheless, Monday is not a good look on most of us, and certainly not on me – I end up looking a lot like this:

Even so, this is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher exists, to help us all get through the day.

We start our compilation of epic epicness with a great video from Space Ice, which looks at an objectively awful Steven Seagal movie – well, they’re almost ALL awful, but this one is awfuller than the awfullest of them:

Seagal is NOBODY’s idea of a good actor (or writer, or director, or producer), but that is what happens when your ego is fatter than you are.

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, sat down with Breitbart News to discuss his 2024 policy map:

It is worth noting a few things here.

First, the strain is CLEARLY showing on the God-Emperor. He looks like he has aged FAR more than 8 years since his 2015 announcement. He is going through Hell itself, and I do not envy him, at all. He is one of the very, very few men anywhere who could possibly shoulder such a terrible burden, and still win through.

Second, his “plan”, such as it is, to stop the Banderastan War, is nothing more than wishful thinking. So is his bloviating about how Putin would never have launched the SMO if he had been in power. This is flatly wrong. Putin respects Trump, there is no doubt in my mind about that – but he absolutely would have launched the SMO if Trump had continued arming Banderastan and promised Bellendsky NATO membership, the way the Fake President has. Putin is no fool, and he is no one’s pawn.

Trump will not be able to stop the war, until and unless he meets Russia’s terms and reengages with the Russians in crafting a new security framework for Europe. Threats will no longer work on the Russians – they have taken the absolute worst the West can dish out in terms of SANKSHUNS, and they have weathered the storm. They are stronger now than they have been since the 1950s, relative to the West.

Furthermore, Putin knows full well that Trump cannot back up his threats of military intervention in Europe. The American military is, as I have pointed out repeatedly, a US$800B (actually, more like 900B, these days) paper tiger dipped in battery acid. The Banderastan War has depleted American weapons and stores, and the Russians have used the SMO to develop countermeasures to the best the West has available. Worse, the Russians have tactical, operational, and strategic strike weapons that exceed the West’s capabilities in almost every area.

If Trump were indeed stupid and/or crazy enough to send the US military into eastern Europe, he would be signing America’s death warrant. I do not believe he is that dumb – Trump’s instincts have always been toward peace and negotiation – but there is every chance he will fail to learn the lessons from his first Administration, and will instead hire a bunch of crazy war-hawks like John “Doomstache” Bolton to advise him.

Third – and this relates to Trump’s preferences for negotiation over conflict – it is clear that Trump is still extremely biter about the stolen election. While he is right about the election being stolen, it is HIS FAULT that he did not declare martial law in mid-2020, when American cities were burning after the death of the Dindu Nuffin Wakandan St. Floyd of Fentanyl.

As Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible recently pointed out, actions have consequences – and inaction often has even more terrible consequences. All of this could have been avoided, if only Trump did not give in to his Boomer civnat instincts and the craven advice of his cucked-out counsellors.

#BasedTucker is Based

Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has a positive cornucopia of great content for us this week. We start with a hilarious video from Solid jj, explaining why Batbriefs joined the Justice League (hint: it’s all about the Benjamins, baby):

If you are keen on getting out of the dying Western world and expanding your dating options, Owl of Asia has some tips for you about dating beyond borders:

There are, however, a number of important warnings here from our Israeli friend, which men would do well to heed:

First, NEVER, EVER, EVER date single mums – not only do you have to deal with the usual baggage associated with them, but in Asia, they come with EXTRA problems, because Asian cultures regard unmarried mothers are social lepers. They are therefore desperate, and thus extremely dangerous – imagine Ukrainian women, but on hypergamy-steroids.

Second, when dating abroad, expect to be surprised. You don’t understand the local culture, which means you are at an automatic and severe disadvantage.

Third, always have an exit strategy. This actually applies even if you are not dating abroad, but it REALLY applies with furrin’ wimmenz.

Moving on – PragerU uses facts and logic to explain who are the true indigenous peoples of Israel:

While that is certainly a factual account, it is important to note that other facts went missing in it.

The TRUE natives of Canaan, were Canaanites – whom God commanded the Israelites to exterminate, root and branch. They failed to do so, and instead interbred with them, and adopted their abominable pagan practices as their own. Which is why God YEETED them out of the Holy Land (or why other, stronger cultures conquered them, depending on what point of view you want to take).

It is also important to note that Israel pays lip service to freedom of religion – yet Christianity is declining in Israel (most Christians there being Arabs who converted centuries ago), Netanyahu’s very hard-nationalist coalition allies are enabling direct attacks on our holiest sites there, and both Israeli law and practice specifically deny the right of Aliyah to any ethnic Jew that rejects the Jewish faith.

Let us be clear about this: Israel is a Jewish nation, and has every right to determine its own course as such. But it is also a religious ethnostate, and has no compunctions about that fact. That does not mean the rest of us have to support it all the time, or avoid criticising it for its heavy-handed policies against specific ethnic and religious groups.

Let Israel be Israel – and let the rest of us do what we want, without being required to support Israel uncritically.

Next up – FreedomToons offers a satirical take on the Crazy Christ:

MinuteEarth takes, well, a minute to explain why all of the meteors somehow end up in one place:

I was going to go with “ALIENS”, but that’s a pretty good explanation too.

Moon tells us what we can learn from The Truman Show:

Wisecrack offers a philosopher’s take on why nobody trusts the MSM anymore:

Longtime Readers know full well my own stance on the MSM – shoot or hang the bastards, the whole lot, and let God sort ’em out. That is what happens when you employ people to lie for a living – the rest of us get mighty pissed about it.

Cracked seems to be a one-man band these days, but it is funnier today than it ever was before, when they had SJWs running the place into the ground. The old dude running it explains what the streaming grind is really like:

TED-Ed talks cats – which are quite pleasant animals, provided you don’t mind that horrid cat-piss smell, the biting, the fleas, the constant demands on your time and attention, the aloofness, and about a dozen other downsides:

On the other hand, as Bill Engvall (I think) once put it, “anyone who doesn’t like cats, has never had one cooked just right”.

Voice of the People

LRFotS Robert W wrote in to offer up some great content for today’s poast. We start with a video from Internet Oddities about the yachting, the culture that is most famous for prostitutes:

Note – you may not be able to view it in your country. If not – get a VPN and change your IP address.

Mike Jones from InspiringPhilosophy talks about the elastic nature of time in the Bible – this is very important, particularly when considering elements of Scripture that refer to how, for the Lord, a day is like a century, and a century is like a day, at the same time:

Sydney Watson takes a calm yet emotional rage hammer to the curse of The Pill:

As our friend puts it: “Even separate from spiritually damaging women, it should never be allowed even on materialistic grounds for how much it destroys a body. As per usual, feminism is all about ugly women destroying pretty girls.”

Ayup.

Fans of Bill Burr has a video up about the interaction between the famous comedian, who is actually funny, and a shrill annoying yenta who is utterly isufferable:

Finally, here is an article explaining how AI Instathots are very much here to stay – to the consternation and horror of real-life thots, who are going to be crowded out of the market by much cheaper digital alternatives to whom their thirsty male SIMPtards can shell out the shekels for nudies:

The proliferation of scantily-clad AI-generated social media influencers is a wake-up call for striking Hollywood writers, actors, and other creators.

Thanks to the advent of AI-powered image and video generators, as well as chatbots, a number of virtual influencers, such as “Milla Sofia,” are posting content that appears to show them living a life of luxury. 

Sofia may claim to hail from Finland and post bikini pictures from European trips. And to the untrained eye, her content appears real, but it’s not. A message on the AI bot’s website reads Sofia is a “24-year-old virtual influencer and fashion model.”

We had a run-in with an Instathot who is AI-enhanced, and might even be AI-generated herself, a few weeks back. It was deuced interesting to try to figure out whether she is real or not. Soon, the lines between reality and fiction will become much more blurry even than that. And this should make the fake plastic Instathots tremble – because it means the end of their livelihoods and any possible competitive advantages they might once have had.

Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice shreds through the latest (ridiculous) allegations surrounding the God-Emperor like… well, a cat with an old scratching-post:

The dynamic duo over at Redacted uncover the rather disconcerting truth about baby surrogacy in Banderastan (try saying that 5 times fast):

Keep in mind, 404 is now one of the world’s top destinations for child-traffickers. There is NOTHING good left in that country. It exploits its women, sells off its children as sex-slaves, and sends its men to die in ungodly numbers as meat in the Russian grinder. That is EVIL, pure and simple. It is a “nation” under judgement, destined to die.

Jackson Hinkle sat down for an excellent and very fascinating interview WIF DA KERNEL:

Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap is back in business and busier than ever. We start with the usual hard dose of realtalk with Col. Douglas Macgregor:

(DA KERNEL is a very busy man – I’m amazed at how many interviews he does, honestly, it is challenging to keep up. There is a very good interview of him with the great Dr. Ron Paul on one of several, unauthorised, channels that collect those videos of him, which is also worth watching in full.)

LTC Tony Shaffer drones on (so to speak):

Maj. Scott Ritter explains the extreme need for reopening arms control talks:

This is especially important in the context of the fact that the FUSA has LOST the technological lead in stand-off precision weaponry (if, indeed, it ever had such a thing). The FUSA is going to go into arms reduction talks with a substantially weaker position than it was in 20 years ago, when it pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, unilaterally, and then when the God-Emperor, very foolishly, pulled out of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty.

Those treaties were designed specifically to reduce the threat of hypersonic nuclear-tipped missiles deployed at intermediate ranges, which are very destabilising weapons, because they are simply too fast for any missile defence system, even those made by the Russians, to intercept. The moment just ONE of those Dark Eagle missiles stationed in Poland or Roumania or wherever, actually goes up in the air, WE ARE ALL DEAD, because the Russians have a “dead man’s switch” policy which will launch literally everything they have, and the know damned well that a Dark Eagle missile will hit Moscow only 5 minutes after launch.

Getting rid of those weapons is noble, laudable, and vitally necessary.

Alistair Crooke explains the net effect of MUH SANKSHUNS!!! on Russia:

The answer is a lemon, basically.

Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern discuss whether the Neo-Tsar’s grip on power has been compromised at all by the Wagner “coup” (which wasn’t), and by the trickle of Ukrainian pinprick attacks on Russian cities:

The answer is also a lemon.

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

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the utter joke that is the F-35:

Itโ€™s All Greek To Us

The good gentlemen of The Duran do a long rundown of DA NOOSE, as it stands:

The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas MAY have beclowned himself (slightly) over the whole Gonzo affair, but he gets things quite right about the Khlearly Kholly Khollapsing Khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive:

Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell wants Pfy-ZORR to pharmasplain a few things, as it were:

While we are on the subject of Pfy-ZORR the UnPfazesable, let’s hear from independent Australian Senator Justin Hart, who cannot get a straight answer out of their doctors about how and why the not-vaxx causes mycoarditis:

Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle did a truly EPIC video on the lessons we can learn from the recent, tragic, death of his son Reid:

Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms uses numismatics to dissect and destroy the Izzlamist narrative:

Al-Fadi from CIRA International talks to Lloyd de Jongh about the nature and dangers of shariah law:

Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp explains HOW TO MAN:

Joker from Better Bachelor reckons a used-up PR0N-star might actually have some useful life lessons to impart – just not quite in the way you might think:

Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock thinks the Jewish dwarf who ruined Disney, now wants to try to stop other dwarves from ruining it further:

Yeah, I’ll believe that when I see it, buddy.

Gary from Nerdrotic watched Secret Invasion, so you didn’t have to:

The Drinker talkjs The Witcher, and how it lit and then jumped face-first onto its own funeral pyre:

Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week answers the great question that has occupied the minds of so many philosophers through the ages – what happens if you freeze mercury?!?!:

Your long read of the week is from Big Serge, and discusses what happened when America intervened in WWII and met the Wehrmacht head-on for the first time. Needless to say, it did not go well, at least initially, for the Americans, who found themselves outmatched by German combined-arms tactics, doctrine, operational flexibility, and strategic skill – not to mention the vastly superior German equipment, especially the panzers:

One of the paradoxes of American strategy in the 2nd World War is the inverted relationship between security and operational convenience. The United States was strategically inviolable – in 1941, neither Japan nor German could actually threaten the American homeland in any meaningful way. Germany could harass American shipping with submarines and Japan could raid outlying naval bases, but American children in Pittsburgh and Boston and Chicago and Dallas and Denver had nothing to fear from either the Wehrmacht or the Japanese Navy. Yet this same strategic invulnerability also bred a measure of paralysis once America became formally involved in the war. America needed to rapidly build up its armed forces and devise a way to actually project armed force again the enemy – but how could this be best accomplished when the critical theaters were thousands of miles away, across the ocean moats?

To make matters even more complicated, there was natural intra and inter service competition for resources and operational priority, and variegated logistical concerns. As a result, Americaโ€™s grand strategy in the war was somewhat more scattered than is commonly thought. For one thing, the upper echelons of command favored a โ€œGermany Firstโ€ strategy (and every history book will tell you that this is what happened). Yet in the summer of 1942 – long before any American troops got into action against Germany – the US had already won an enormous victory over the Japanese at Midway and gone on the offensive with the invasion of Guadalcanal. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Ernest King, was quick to point this out – why adopt a โ€œGermany firstโ€ strategy when they already had Japan on the run? But perhaps we should not be surprised that the commander in chief of the US Navy was more enthusiastic about a naval war with Japan than a land war in Europe.

In any case, there were many valid questions to be asked. How, where, and when should America get into the fight against the Wehrmacht? General Marshall (Chief of the General Staff) favored what he saw as the simplest and most straightforward path to victory – assemble overwhelming forces in Britain, invade France, and then steamroll into Germany. He had no interest in peripheral theaters, and thought that the essence of strategy was to build the biggest possible hammer and swing it at the enemyโ€™s forehead. Unfortunately, it was clear from the first staff studies that this would be easier said than done. An amphibious operation promised enormous complexity with a huge amount of preparatory staff work, special training, and new equipment – it is frequently noted than in 1942 the iconic American landing ship had not yet even been designed. Marshall and his staff concluded that a mass invasion across the English Channel would likely not be possible until 1944 – so how could a โ€œGermany Firstโ€ strategy be pursued if they could not even fight the Germans for two years?

In the end, it was the British who came forward with a suggestion. Their solution was an operation that they were calling Gymnast – later renamed Operation Torch. This called for an amphibious landing in the French colonies of Morocco and Algeria, which were under the control of the German puppet regime in Vichy France. The Morocco option had obvious appeal to the British. At the time, they were stuck in a hard fight with Erwin Rommelโ€™s army in Libya and Egypt. Gymnast/Torch would put a large force in Rommelโ€™s rear, potentially collapsing the German position in Africa altogether. Furthermore, the Mediterranean was an area of intense strategic interest to Britain, and getting American troops into Africa was a good way to get the Americans interested in it too. Finally, Torch would allow the Americans to get experience with amphibious operations against unmotivated French collaborationist forces. The British knew very well (as did the Soviets) just how hard it was to fight the Wehrmacht, and letting the Americans slowly get their feet wet seemed like good sense.

Much of the American military leadership thought that Torch was a senseless distraction, but the President decided to agree to it. His reasoning was essentially sound. He wanted to put US ground troops into action against the Germans as soon as possible, and since Marshallโ€™s envisioned invasion of France was materially impossible, he would order Operation Torch just to get into the fight. When Marshall and King complained that Torch was a meaningless distraction, Roosevelt asked them to submit in writing their alternative plans for an operation in 1942. They had none, and so Torch became the American operational agenda for the year simply because it was the only option.

In any case, the complexities of Operation Torch were more than enough to keep Marshall and his staff occupied. This was, after all, a major amphibious landing which would be conducted over 3,000 miles from the United States. It may or may not have been a โ€œdistractionโ€, but it was certainly complex enough in its own right. The ultimate objective was the critical port of Tunis – the main hub of supply and operations for the Axis forces in North Africa. Tunis was an existential position – its capture would certainly doom Rommelโ€™s forces, and it was therefore sure to be contested fiercely, and it was a near certainty that the Germans would rush additional forces to Africa to try and save it. From the beginning, then, there was an element of a race at play – could the allies get ashore and get to Tunis before the Germans could reinforce it? It would thus have made sense to land as close to Tunis as possible, but coming too close would put the allied fleet in range of German aircraft in the Mediterranean.

The allies ended up choosing what was, all things considered, a very conservative plan, with three landing zones selected in French Algeria and Morocco. An American force under General Patton would land on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca, a British force would land near Oran, and a third fleet of mixed British and American units would land near Algiers under the command of American Major General Charles Ryder. These landing zones were relatively remote from Tunis, but they had the advantage of being free of Germans. The only defending forces would be Vichy French colonial troops – lightly armed by the standards of this war, with relatively little artillery and only a few groupings of old tanks – a token force, but certainly capable of killing. It was not even clear whether they would fight, with rumors abounding of strong sympathy for the allies.

In the end, more than enough went wrong in Operation Torch to validate the view that the United States needed to ease into the war. There were all sorts of problems. Most people can form a mental image of the famous Normandy landings, complete with the famous landing craft dropping their ramps on the beach. Torch was nothing like that – it was an affair conducted with a mismatched and motley assortment of random small craft and boats, performed by a completely inexperienced American force. Confusion and chaos were the order of the day.

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:

MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar has told Russian government officials to buy locally manufactured and designed automobiles:

Russia actually has a locally designed luxury sedan, the Aurus – it is a direct competitor to the Mercedes Maybach, the Rolls Royce Phantom, and the Bentley Arnage, but it is MINDBOGGLINGLY expensive, because they do not build it in large numbers. That may soon change, though.

HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz does his thing:

That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Comedy Hour

Meme Warfare

We start with some cat-memes (yes, really) from Dawn Pine, related to that video about cats from up above:

Because cats know what is good for them, but less good for all of us
Can confirm
I’m sceptical on that
Even cats evil plans backfire
Tuna is a good source of protein
In both cases – not a good idea
Leaving the dream
Can’t confirm
Females. Nuff said.
Old people will probably get it

(I got it – which officially makes me OLD)

I’m curious if it will work
Unrelated – but might work

One more to get you going on a Monday:

Onward:

They will get a rapturous reception if they threaten to flay those leaders alive and/or rip out their skulls and spines

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:

The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to Russell Orhii:

Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

They See Me Rollin’…

Palate Cleansers

Axe Me About Jesus

Juggalos

WAY Too Much Spare Time

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”

Seeing as yesterday was the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, here are a couple of songs on the subject:

Rock Out With Your Glock Out

Hot Totty

Right, here’s the Instathot to get the week off to a more-or-less correct start. This is Elina Fedorova (ะ•ะปะธะฝะฐ ะคั‘ะดะพั€ะพะฒะฐ), age 31, originally from Queef, Banderastan, now living in LA, FUSA. She is a legitimate model and entrepreneur – she founded and built out her own nutrition and fitness app – and previously studied at 404’s State University of Telecommunications, back in the day.

As always with khokholinas, remember – they look really pretty, but they are absolutely crazier and more dangerous than a bag of angry rattlesnakes.

OK, shuffle off back to work now, boys.

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  1. Cato the Uncensored
    Cato the Uncensored on August 8, 2023 at 8:30 am

    OMG … a Monday post on Monday.

    Thank you!

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