“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Monday morning Argy-bargy

by | Jan 6, 2025 | Mondays | 2 comments

Well, the holidays were fun while they lasted – which did not feel like anywhere NEAR long enough. That might have to do with the fact that, for me at least, a LARGE part of those holidays coincided with a rather severe (but mercifully short) case of food poisoning, followed almost immediately by a weird and persistent Convid-like viral infection (which also, fortunately, seems to be in abeyance now). So it was not exactly a holiday, in any realistic sense.

Nonetheless, here we are at another Monday – the very first full Monday of 2025 – and it must be said, the stench of the day is even more odoriferous than usual.

That, of course, is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Mulcher exists. And this one is even more packed than usual, because it consists of about 3 weeks’ worth of material, and multiple guest contributors.

Let us get things off to a flying start, then, with the President of Argentina doing what he does best:

I am not quite sure what to make of Milei.

On the one hand, it is pretty obvious that he has been co-opted by the Derp State and the Israel lobby – he has publicly and passionately declared himself a Zionist, and has been filmed bawling his eyes out at the Wailing Wall (which, as it turns out, is not even the old retaining wall of the Second Temple – see down below). And his “shock therapy” reforms have, indeed, been highly shocking to the Argentinian economy – leading to sky-high unemployment and massive street protests.

On the other hand… he has also managed to balance Argentina’s books for the first time in like three generations, he has broken the back of the hyperinflation that is crippling the country, and he has returned it to growth and dynamism.

We shall see whether he turns out to be a truly revolutionary and transformational leader, the way St. Reagan Magnus of the Right was for the FUSA. He has the makings of such a man, but it is simply too soon to tell.

That being said – watching him shred through socialist idiocy, certainly gets the blood pumping on a Monday.


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, has just comprehensively and beyond any question been ratified as the true President of the United States of America – for what, by rights, should be his THIRD consecutive term, because that is how many elections he ACTUALLY won:

Now the hard part begins – unf***ing everything that Brandon, and Odumbass behind the scenes, have f***ed over the past 4 years.

The weight of the evidence suggests Ornj Boi is NOT up to the task, but I am willing to wait and see.


#BasedTucker is Based


Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has assembled a massive amount of good stuff for us over the past few weeks. We start with a good challenge for the โ€œI F***ING LOVE SCIENCE!!!โ€ crowd, via Thomas SowellTV, about everyoneโ€™s favourite Gamma pop-physicist:

The Market Exit states โ€“ with justification โ€“ that there really is no such thing as the โ€œpolitical spectrumโ€:

Honest Ads takes on reality dating:

And they give us a great recap of the year that we just killed off:

G Plus Animation brings corporate nightmares to life:

Alexander Grace appears to have recovered from his recent funk a bit, at least sufficiently to discuss the reality of how women rank men:

How Money Works explains why Abominable Intelligence is not going to make you a gazillionaire with no effort:

Tom Scott pops the Hollyweird bubble around sci-fi planets:

Nomad Capitalist unpacks the reasons behind insanely high American healthcare costs:

Jared Henderson takes on workplace burnout:

Streamline Financial has good advice for the older cohort, from even older people:

That being said โ€“ the older people in question are BOOMERS, so take their advice with a GIANT heaping helping of sodium chloride.

Nomsy looks at a holiday classic โ€“ from the perspective of the baddies:

The Babylon Bee reckons Santa has had enough and wants to pack it in:

The Warp Zone shows us what the first Indiana Jones film would have looked like, if the plot were actually smart:

The amazing thing about Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is that, even though Indy himself makes literally ZERO difference to the outcome of the film, the pace, direction, acting, and plot are so compelling that you overlook that rather colossal gaping flaw through multiple viewings.

Still doesnโ€™t change the horrible reality that the original script would have involved implied paedophilia โ€“ and both George Lucas AND Steven Spielberg were down with thatโ€ฆ

Getting serious(-ish) for a moment โ€“ PsycHacks shows us what a good relationship can look like:


Mind-Expanding Drugs

Your general knowledge corner of the week comes from Dawn Pine, via a new channel called Pursuit of Wonder, and looks at one of the scariest possible arguments for atheism:

Of course, the problem with the argument, from an atheist point of view, is that it still presupposes the existence of some kind of God.

And also from Dawn Pine, we have the shocking-but-also-totally-predictable reality that the โ€œout-of-Africaโ€ theory simply doesnโ€™t work, from Ancient Animal Atlas:


Death Smiles At Us All…


Fanservice

LRFotS Randale6 wrote in before the New Year, with a whole huge package of stuff for us to enjoy. So here we go.

Aaron Clarey

How Marriage Destroyed a Man’s Life:

The Lame “Legal, Tax, Financial” Benefits to Marriage:

Why More CEO’s are Going to “Expire”:

Why Women Want to Ruin Men’s Fun:

Flashgitz

Jake Paul Knocks Out Mike Tyson:

Space King 2 (yes, yeeessss!):

Meatcanyon//Papa Meat (his other channel)

Disney Adults (warning, the most horrifying meatcanyon video I’ve ever watched…I couldn’t finish it):

The death of BREASTaurants:

Ranking Every Fast Food Pumpkin Spice Product:

The Disturbing Reality of Toilet Deaths:

Passport Bros: The Incels Cheat Code:


Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice looks at the true scandal of the cover-up by the entirety of the Establishment around Brandonโ€™s very obvious mental failings:


The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted look at those weird UFOs buzzing New Jersey:

The fact that the UFOs are all over NOO JOISEY, the Armpit of America, tells me they are not aliens, at all. Real aliens would have been driven away by the smell.


PJW is getting a bit fed up over the ongoing โ€œmystery dronesโ€ โ€“ so much so that even his usually ridiculous ad breaks are getting truly out of control:


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan smells a post-Taco Bell Gordita Crunch level of stench around the UnitedHealthcare assassination story:

And another one about the whole H-1B mishegoss:


Veteransโ€™ Day

LTC Danny Davis talks to his old boss and good friend, DA KERNEL HIZZSELF!!!, about the rapidly widening war in the Middle East, following the collapse of Syria:


Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap talks to Maj. Scott Ritter about precisely what kind of defeat Russia faced in Syria:


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

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the true nature of the SMO and the desperation of the West, as The Putin throws down the gauntlet:


Polonium

Ania Konieczek talks to new guest Alex Krainer about the SANKSHUNS and other topics:


Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentesโ€ฆ

The good gentlemen of The Duran look at how Georgia (the country) managed to successfully prevent a colour revolution โ€“ for now:

Also, Alex Christoforou โ€“ the one with the beard โ€“ gives us a rundown of the greatest hits of Clown World in 2024:


Talk Therapy

Nima Alkhorsid of Dialogue Works discusses the latest shenanigans in the Israel-vs-everyone war with the two Larrys โ€“ Col. Larry Wilkerson and Larry Johnson:

And Garland Nixon talks to Andrei Martyanov and Maj. Scott Ritter about


Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell reflects on what was won, and lost, in 2024:


Dr. Suneel Dhand gives us reason for optimism in the new year:


Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle and Brother Rachid sit down to look at the monumentally stupid and ridiculous scientific errors in the Koran:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International answers some straightforward questions for us all about the Christian faith:


Christian Prince explains why adultery is a fundamental fact of Izzlam:


Sam Shamoun has perhaps a little too much fun debunking Izzlam, simply by using their own books against them:


GodLogic Apologetics had quite a banner year in 2024:

Because Izzlam is racist at its core โ€“ just go read how the Koran describes Black people โ€“ a lot of Muzzies implicitly assume that Avery is just some dumb Negro. He is not. He has actually read their books, as well as his own, and he understands exactly what arguments to use to shatter Izzlamick theology. And he has learned at the feet of the very best โ€“ like Sam Shamoun.


Big Jon Steel takes on an unusually dumb atheist โ€“ you can sort of guess how this goes:


Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp gives his take on long-distance relationships โ€“ tl;dw version, he thinks they are stupid:

Having gone through that wringer myself, I will say that his points apply to about 99.8% of LDRs. Donโ€™t do them.


Joker from Better Bachelor tells us all to beware of โ€œChristianโ€ e-thots:


Manosphere Highlights Daily explains how a straight-up gorefest of a film shows basic erd-pill truths:


Righteous Roundup

Letโ€™s have a compilation of wammenzes poasting their own Ls online. We start with Legion of Men:

And Manosphere:

Plus Man Talk:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnightโ€™s Edge tries to read the tea leaves regarding the future of Kurtzman-Trek:


Gary from Nerdrotic counts through the worst cock-ups made by Hollyweird in the year just passed:


The Critical Drinker notes that literally nobody is talking about Trek any more, and with very good reason:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and concerns a video by Astrum about what might reside outside the observable Universe:

And also from The Male Brain, we have a PBS Space Time video explaining how humanity can turn itself into a highly advanced civilisation, according to the Kardashev scale:


Your long read of the week is from Big Serge, who poasted up a monster piece before Christmas about the completely bonkers happenings toward the end of the year:

With only the space of a few weeks to consider developments in Syria, a fair bit of reservation and restraint is warranted. We have the general shape of the rebel offensive, which rolled out of Idlib into Aleppo in the opening 48 hours before beginning a sweep south down Syriaโ€™s urban corridor along the M5 arterial highway, but the broader political situation in Damascus is still in flux and extremely murky.

What deserves emphasis, however, is the totality and speed of the collapse of the Syrian Arab Army and the Assad government. There was perhaps a 24 hour window, around November 30, where it looked like the SAA was going to fight – there were reports of reserves being scrambled into Hama with local counterattacks, and the Russian Air Force began heavily bombarding Tahrir al-Shamโ€™s stronghold around Idlib. The near instantaneous loss of Aleppo was clearly the nucleus of an emerging military catastrophe, but few could have anticipated that regime resistance would simply evaporate.

The SAAโ€™s broader performance throughout the civil war deserves a whole host of asterisks. It is a simple matter of fact that Assad would have likely lost his grip on power many years ago in the absence of Russian and Iranian assistance, but the basic premise was never challenged that the regime and the army were willing to fight – until now. SAA defenses were systemically melting down by the first of December, never reconstituted, and that – as they say – was that.

What we witnessed in Syria was, at its heart, systemic state rot that had been concealed by a tenuous ceasefire in the north, and it is clear that during this ceasefire Assadโ€™s government was both unwilling and unable to address the problems that plagued the SAA during the earlier phases of hot fighting. We can enumerate the basic problem as follows.

The crisis of the SAA was first and foremost a crisis of revenue, with the country decaying to bare economic subsistence. Syria is a tenuous economic entity in the best of times. It can be thought of broadly as a patchwork of four different geospatial regions: the Alawite stronghold in the coastal mountain range (with urban centers like Tartus and Latakia), the corridor of the ancient oasis cities (Aleppo, Hama, Homs, and Damascus), the Euphrates valley in the east, and the Turkish hinterlands along Syriaโ€™s northern border.

The problem, not just for the Assad regime but for any would-be ruler of Syria, is that knitting these geographic regions together is a very difficult military-political task, but one that is essential to the economic and fiscal coherence of the country. Syriaโ€™s primary grain growing regions are in the east, particularly in the Euphrates basin. The Northeast in particular is Syriaโ€™s predominant source of both cereal staples like wheat and export crops like cotton. For more than a decade now, these growing regions have been lost to Damascus and are under pseudo-autonomous Kurdish control.

Furthermore, the loss of the northeast to the Kurds (along with a de-facto American occupation around Al-Tanf) cut off the Syrian regime from its most productive oil and gas fields – although Syria has never been a major oil exporter by global standards, this dried up yet another revenue stream for the regime. When one factors in the physical damage caused by a decade of war and continual strangulation from western sanctions, the total economic hollowing of the Syrian regime was largely predestined.

With Syrian GDP at a paltry $18 billion in 2022 (a meager ~$800 per capita), itโ€™s no surprise that the SAA had become a hollowed out, corrupt, and unmotivated force. Salaries for soldiers were abysmal, and officers become accustomed to supplementing their income by taking bribes and shaking down travelers at roadside checkpoints. Itโ€™s the classical corruption motif of armies in bankrupt states, and it bends the army towards a โ€œpaperโ€ existence, with an ORBAT that seems adequate on paper but in reality consists largely of virtual or skeletal units led by officers who are more interested in supplementing their salaries with bribes than maintaining baseline combat effectiveness.

Thus, in almost every account of the rebel offensive from the SAAโ€™s perspective, the same signature emerges: underpaid and unmotivated conscripts, receiving no meaningful direction from their superiors, chose to simply shed their uniforms and flee. One can hardly blame them – this was in the end an exhausted regime with few remaining who were willing to fight for it, and amid the centrifugal chaos of regime collapse men tend to begin thinking about themselves and their own fates. Hence, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Hossein Salami commenting: โ€œSome expect us to fight in place of the Syrian army. Is it logicalโ€ฆ to take on full responsibility while Syriaโ€™s army merely observes?โ€


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar gave an upbeat and optimistic New Yearโ€™s message to his people:

He also had a very great deal to say โ€“ most of it extremely interesting โ€“ on the subject of gas supplies to Europe, in the statement that he gave to the press after the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on December 26:

Youโ€™ll need to start at the 11:33 mark โ€“ this is all in Russian, so if you want to follow along with the text, read the official Kremlin translation here. Do a search for โ€œYulia Bobovnaโ€, and follow along from that exact point.

The issue is that the translation is actually quite a lot more dry than the Neo-Tsarโ€™s true words. I can follow along with the Russian about 60-70% of the time, and I assure you, his words are MUCH more biting in the actual language, than they are in the translation. I can say with a high degree of confidence that the Neo-Tsar’s words on the subject of gas transit to Slovakia – where he spent the bulk of the time, from the moment where Ms Bobovna asked the question – were FAR more biting and angry than either the voice-over translation, or the Kremlin’s official readout.

You can tell that he is FURIOUS over the shenanigans being pulled by the Ukies and Euroweenies over the gas issue. He keeps using the word, ะฑั€ะตะด, toward the end of his (for lack of a better word) “rant”. This gets translated as “nonsense” by the Kremlin, but it is a much stronger term – more like “delusion”, and used almost as an expletive. He gets angrier as he goes along, but being the consummate strategist he is, he keeps his temper under control… just.

This is not a man the West can or should mess with, and it is high time Western elites stopped trying.


HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while proffering up his opinion on the latest HALO Infinite updates:


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Imperial Iterator talks through the Great Schism of the Mechanicum during the bad old days of the Horus Heresy:


Oh No! Anywayโ€ฆ

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Comedy Hour

And a few more from The Male Brain:


Meme Warfare

We begin with a gigantiferous collection of dank memes from The Male Brain, gathered and sent over the past 3 weeks:

Don’t get caught
Promises, promises
How do you know that exactly???
Pass! (Pun intended)
YES. We concur.
That never ends well
May our host care to comment?

[Yep. Exactly like that. – Didact]

Or a policeman, but that is sometimes the same thing
I did not see it coming
I do it every week on Saturday (Shabbat) and usually don’t think about it.ย 
I’ll quote my ex-wife: “You are not an example for anything”
Joining in on the request
Actually if he was “sorry” – it means he wasn’t
2 actually. Mid Term might happen
This is what happens when you lack inner strength
True that
As out host would say: “There are 2 types of people. Those who think that Die Hard is a christmas movie, and those who are wrong”
Give it 3-6 months
Seen it with a family member, not a good option – but an option
Too bad physical punishment is illegal
Spot on
Already there
Don’t own cats. DON’T
A hand gun is also good
Always draw in bank ATMs. They cost less.
And the advice is solid.
Guess I’m not
Good to know
Too much effort
Dude needs to work on his reading comprehension
<Face palm>
<Another face palm>
We remember
You can. Just no in movies.
Good luck with that
Let’s agree to disagree
Sounds about right
Bon apetit
Not honest – just mistake

[Not a mistake, just honest. Modern art DESERVES to be pissed on by dogs. – Didact]

Been there – you can still negotiate
Culturally inappropriateย 
Second the “horribly wrong”
There are 2 types of people. Those who know that Die Hard is a X-Mas movie, and those who are wrong

Plus some memeology โ€“ much of it hand-made, no less โ€“ from LRFotS Randale6, much of it via his own website:

Ooooooooh this one is going to trigger a lot of readers…
THE PAIN IS REAL!!!

Plus some GIFs from our friend:

And also some great topical memes from LRFotS RobertW:

As our friend would also say:

Wife material
Biologists finally get something right, for a change…
Metro Population of Greater Tokyo: 41 milllion
Metro Poopulation of Greater Bombay: 21 million
And about 10% less gay

Animal Planet

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your circle of life moment of the week, to balance things out:


Real Men Watch Real Sports

REPS FOR JESUS!!!

Gym beast props this week go to the living legend, John Haack:

Bilbo there just lifted EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS off the floor like it was nothingโ€ฆ

MAD RESPECT.

Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

They See Me Rollinโ€™…

JUST BLEED!!!

Federer Express

Gym Idiots

The guy doing โ€œsquatsโ€, in the F!@#$%^& SMITH MACHINE, at PLANET PRINCESS, actually had me screaming incoherently with rage and pain at my monitor.


Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Knives Out

Point & Shoot

Drumlines

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Dengededengededeng!!!

Jump-Starts

Gingervitis Injections


Classing Things Up

Russian. Redhead. Hugely talented. Musician. AND playing Tchaikovskiy.

Lord, have mercy.


Rage For Order

Andre Antunes makes liberaltard rants about Trump into some of the greatest shred-metal you have ever heard:


Livinโ€™ in the Land of the Metal Gods

Also Einstein: โ€œI fear that someday people will post my pic on the Internet with bogus made-up quotations in Comic Sans fontโ€

Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Thot Shots

And finally we get to the very first Monday Instathot of 2025. This here is Guadalupe Diagosti, age 25 from Mexico, and she is proof that her country occasionally produces more than guns, drugs, mules, illegal immigrants, tequila, and hyper-violent cartels. (Oh, and “Sea-Level” Cain Velazquez.)

As for exactly what she does – don’t know, don’t care. Instaham influenza is apparently a job description, these days.

OK, back to work now, lads.

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2 Comments

  1. Randale6

    On the matter of Javier I have a personal theory…he and Argentina are being used by the deep state as a test run. Argentina while not quite a mirror of the USA is similar in some respects, just as importantly it isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things. The deep state wants to see if there is anyone to escape the hell they have made for themselves now that China has brutally & repeatedly rejected their offers to become the next host for the parasites.

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  2. MrUNIVAC

    I ran through all 6 games in the PC Master Chief Collection over my extended Christmas break, collecting the par scores for every level, and I got all fired up again about 343’s retconning of the Forerunners to be a separate alien species. No offense to our host and his Ur-Didact fandom, but everything in the Bungie Haloverse makes so much more sense if they were actually ancient humans like they were supposed to be. Why Spark calls humans “Reclaimers,” why the prophets want to wipe us out (can’t claim you’re the voice of the gods when living gods exist), Gravemind calling you “child of my enemy,” “this time you WON’T be left behind,” “you are weak, and gods must be strong,” and so on. They handwaved away all that rich lore, just like Disney with Star Wars, and made roughly one good game (H4 has a good story but Knights suck, H5 is terrible, and Infinite is the opposite of 4, good game but lousy story that completely wastes being set on the Halo with the richest backstory and goes in a completely different direction).

    It also required the silly retconning of the Didact into 2 separate people so that Halo 4 could happen. Don’t get me wrong, I thought Greg Bear’s Forerunner Trilogy was great, but

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