Mondays are just awful and horrible, especially if you happen to have injured something without knowing quite how – as I did, on Friday night. Seriously, I went to sleep on Friday night feeling fine after a heavy-bag workout, and woke up early on Saturday morning with my left shoulder on fire. I have no idea what the hell happened. I suppose I threw a bad hook or something, and aggravated an old shoulder injury I picked up some 15 years ago from using a Smith Machine at a gym.
This was back when I was really young and stupid, so you will have to forgive me for using the Smith Machine, which I consider the single most dangerous piece of kit in any gym. If I had my way, ALL of them, in the entire WORLD, would be thrown out and melted down to make proper squat racks.
But I digress.
As it is Monday, of course, we need some distraction to deal with the awfulness of the day. And that comes from a solid dose of the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer.
This week is all about the classic pop-economics book, Freakonomics, as suggested by our good friend, The Male Brain. So here are some videos to explain the concepts:
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, put an absolute BEATDOWN on the Queef Crackhead Bellendsky, the Narcofuehrer of 404 – Country Not Found, earlier last week:
He followed that up with a barn-burner of a speech at CPAC:
Given the sheer scale, scope, and rate of the WINNING!!!!!!!, after just over a month in office, I think we can safely say- 40,000 MORE YEARS!!!
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has been extremely busy over the past week, assembling an amazing amount of awesomeness for us this Monday. We begin with a short about a janitor who changed science forever:
Let that be a lesson for us all – nothing holds us back more than ourselves.
Free Voice Media puts together a trailer imagining Brolon MuZk as a detective:
Manosphere Highlights Daily looks at an interesting episode of a TV series that shows us what the world might look like, when sex robots turn out to be better as life partners than human women:
Mike Colter, by the way, is a great actor.
ExtinctZoo unpacks an unknown episode of past history called the Cave Wars, that nearly destroyed the human race:
A hot Slavic girl – you can tell by her accent, and her looks – explores Valentine’s Day through the eyes of various different nationalities:
I have to say, she absolutely NAILED the Indian one. Russian – not so much, Valentine’s Day isn’t such a big deal over there.
International Women’s Day, on March 8, though… THAT is an EXTREMELY BIG DEAL over there. If you screw that one up… yeah, it will not go well.
The Why Minutes – with Nick Freitas, and, more importantly, his epic beard – uses Bastiat’s “broken window fallacy” to show you why everything sucks:
Jean-Frederic Bastiat was perhaps the last truly great Frenchist. The Frogs don’t make ‘em like that any more, and have not done for over a century.
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Your General Knowledge corner of the week is from The Male Brain, via Veritasium, looking at the interview question you have to ace if you want to work for Goolag (though why you would want to do that, I have no idea):
Death Smiles At Us All…
This week, we will do something a little differently, by looking at a video from Aperture abouthow Stoicism has gone from a true philosophy of life, to a packaged marketing trend that makes money off the stupid and gullible:
It is genuinely sad to see this. Stoicism, as outlined in the writings of Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and others, is ultimately about living a good, virtuous, honest life, wherein you become basically indifferent to the vices and foolishness of others, and instead turn your efforts inward, to make yourself the best man you can be. It is the almost-solution to the Problem of Evil, which is why the red-pill crowd likes it – because it takes a nearly-Christian approach to the problems of the world, without explicitly discussing religion or faith.
But Stoicism is not, and was never, an easily digestible philosophy designed to make you rich or sexually desirable. Those might happen, along the way, but that was NEVER the intention behind it.
There is, by the way, a lot of nonsense in that video, particularly around what the Manosphere is all about. But there is also plenty of useful stuff in it.
Poli-Ticking Off
Mark Dice is stunned to see Amazog restoring books they once YEETED off the store for badthink:
This DOES NOT mean that Amazog has suddenly become “good”. It very patently is not, as we can see from what the company is doing by erecting walled gardens around Kindle, and anally raping various great past IPs.
The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted look at what Brolon’s DOGE has uncovered thus far – which is scandalous enough – and what is to come:
Veterans’ Day
LTC Danny Davis talks to his former boss and good friend, DA KERNEL HIZZSELF!, about the coming collapse of 404 – Country Not Found, where Bellendsky the Coke Fiend has very clearly outstayed his welcome:
Judge’s Ruling
Judge Nap talks to Pepe Escobar, who took a trip out to Donbass and reported on the situation from close to the front lines:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the hilarious failure of the latest Munich Security Conference – where Vice President Vance came along and smashed the sledgehammer of reality straight into the slack-jawed faces of the Euroweenies:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek talks to Andryusha the Grump about the sudden warming of relations between
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse the results of the Munich Security Conference, which STILL have the Euroweenies off-kilter:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Suneel Dhand join forces to talk about natural foods and substances that have profound healing powers:
Dr. Vinay Prasad talks about the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as the new HHS:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle finds himself straight up BizANNED!!! from PommieBastardLande – after shelling out thousands of dollars on flights and hotels, which has really got to hurt:
To be fair, Limeyville is turning into a real shithole country, and the rot starts in Londonistan, so D-Wood probably saved himself a rather unpleasant journey. Still and all, that cannot have been fun.
This is also a worrying sign for the people of PommieBastardLande, because the misbegotten government of Queer Stormer is doing everything possible to turn Britain into the first European caliphate in 700 years – and with nuclear weapons, to boot.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms talks to Saint Murad about his new Koran translation, which goes back to the original meaning of the text:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith look at works-based salvation in Izzlamick theology:
Christian Prince educates a Moose Limb with a PhD, no less, about the realities of his own scripture:
Sam Shamoun shows an honest Moose Limb about the truth of his fake death cult:
Rob Christian mocks the ever-lovin’ shit out of Comedy Central Dawah, a particularly stupid dawahgandist originally from Bosnia (apparently), now living in the US, who beclowns himself on an almost daily basis, talking about Izzlam and Christianity:
Avery from GodLogic Apologetics talks to a man who is terrified to reveal his Izzlamick beliefs, because he lives in a country full of actual headchoppers:
Sadly, Britain might become like that in the near future…
Islam Critiqued shows obvious truth is obvious:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp goes into Uncle Popp mode, and tells the yungins what you give up to serve your country – and these days, the juice probably ain’t worth the squeeze:
Joker from Better Bachelor crunches the numbers, and reckons you have a better chance of getting a snake-bite, than you do of finding a “tradwife”:
Time for a roundup of STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZES posting about their own Ls online. First up, Legion of Men:
Then Taylor the Fiend:
And Manosphere, who is FINALLY back in action:
Plus Man Talk:
Finally, let us get the eastern perspective from China Unvarnished:
Culture Beats
PJW cannot figure out whether to laugh or to cry over the latest degeneracy concerning one “Bonnie Blue”:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan is not even a little optimistic about Amazog’s takeover of the James Bond franchise:
I think it is quite safe to say that the next Bond will be Black, gay, and trans.
Sargon of Akkad (aka Carl Benjamin) has a rather sobering message for the Leftoids:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge looks at the collapse and impending death of Doctor Who Cares:
Gary from Nerdrotic watches Captain Wakanda so you don’t have to:
The Critical Drinker examines this weird saga involving Blake Lively around a movie called It Ends With Us, which apparently concerns horrible damaging things:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and concerns the differing attitudes to casual sex between men and women:
In several recent papers the sex difference in regret predicted by sexual strategies theory has been supported: men more than women report regret passing up short-term sexual opportunities (inaction regret), while women regret having had sexual encounters (action regret). However, the adaptive function of regret, to improve future behavioral choices, has not been tested. In this first longitudinal test of behavioral change following regret, we consider whether regret actually results in adaptive shifts of behavior: will men who regret passing up sex engage in more short-term sex following regret? Will women who regret short-term encounters either choose better quality partners, reduce number of one-night stands or shift their strategy to long-term relationships? Across two waves (NT1 = 399, 65.4% women and NT2 = 222, 66.2% women) students responded to questions about casual sex action regret and inaction regret, along with possible outcomes, intrapersonal traits, and concurrent contextual predictors. There was no clear evidence for the proposed functional shifts in sexual behavior. Casual sex regret was associated with respondent sex and stable individual differences, such as sociosexual attitudes, regret processing and metacognitions, but the effect of these predictors were not consistent across the two waves. Among the tested concurrent contextual predictors, sexual disgust was the most consistent across waves. Regret is considered a gauge of the value and quality of the short-term sexual encounter. However, tentatively we conclude that after this first test of function using longitudinal data, we find no evidence of a mating strategy shifting effect following sexual regret.
The tl;dr version comes via a video from Alexander Grace,
Your long read of the week is from Patrick Lawrence, about the probability that the God-Emperor will, in fact, take on and destroy the Derp State:
There seems no arguing at this point that Trump decided, during his year in the wilderness of Mar-a–Lago, that, on his return to office, he would pursue a well-aimed, carefully calculated course of action against the deep state in as many of its manifestations as he could take on. Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, was confirmed this week as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and so is the latest of Trump’s nominees preparing to open another line of attack.
Patel’s appointment has two things in common with Gabbard’s. The FBI, like the intelligence apparatus, was at the very center of the deep state plots that more or less neutered Trump’s first term by way of extravagant disinformation campaigns, breaches of law, and various other forms of corruption. And as Patel made generously plain in the weeks before his Senate confirmation hearings, he, like Gabbard, intends to break with his agency’s entrenched norms. Patel, indeed, has just begun a purge that, if it proceeds as he intends, is certain to go well beyond anything Gabbard may manage.
There is the volte-face in relations with Russia, which Trump and his national security people appear to be consolidating at a remarkable pace since the Feb. 12 telephone call with Putin. And there is Trump’s proposal to convene a summit with Putin and Xi Jinping, a sort of 21st century Yalta, at which he would negotiate with the Russian and Chinese presidents to cut their military budgets by 50%.
Trump’s first mention of this latter idea was a passing reference, a couple of sentences, during a press conference that covered sundry other matters. I took this to be another of his many improvisations — impromptu proposals that seem to come spontaneously into his head in the course of one or another kind of public exchange. I assumed it would go about as far as asserting sovereignty over Greenland. Then came The Washington Post report that Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to find budget reductions of 8% per year for the next five years. Since then The Associated Press has reported that Trump’s defense secretary wants to see $50 billion in cuts — not quite 6% of the Pentagon’s declared budget — during the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
Taking all this bureaucratic commotion at face value, only deep state denizens could possibly object as a new defense secretary takes a run at the military-industrial monster, or as a new D.N.I. commits to giving the White House “clean” intelligence — clean as in accurate daily briefs untainted as they pass through the soiled mitts of deep state ideologues. And if there is one agency that befouled itself more than any other during the Russiagate years, and again during the operations to keep Trump out of politics and protect Joe Biden from impeachment for his everywhere-you-look corruptions, it is the FBI, from Christopher Wray, its disgraced-in-public director, on down to a lot of special agents.
O.K., three cheers, a lot of people are saying. I would say two, and leave this number open to reduction.
Consider carefully the Hegseth memorandum that went out to top generals and civilian Pentagon officials. There are many categories of expenditure exempted from budget reductions, including but by no means limited to the nuclear modernization project, attack drones, submarines, and — will these Strangeloves never stop?—an “Iron Dome for America.” Hegseth’s declared intent is merely a “realignment” such as we have seen numerous times before.
Two points. One, there are those commentators who now cast Trump as some kind of “revolutionary.” These people should take a long walk and reconsider their thoughts: Pete Hegseth and his boss are not in the business of dismantling the imperium — that last, best hope of which the late Chalmers Johnson wrote. Two, the military-industrial complex has more arms than one of those exotic Buddhist bronzes you see in museums. All 435 congressional districts, every legislator on Capitol Hill, the spooks, the Pentagon itself, the weapons contractors, who knows how many lobbyists: They all have an interest in keeping the MIC ticking over just as it is. Is Hegseth powerful enough to overcome the vigorous resistance that will come from these powerful quarters? What — our question right now — is his bureaucratic constituency such that he will get this done?
All I can say is that, in his first month back in office, Don Trumponi has done more to destroy the Derp State than he managed in the entirety of his previous 4 years, and more than literally all the Presidents before him since Truman, COMBINED.
Which means we can safely call for TRUMP 40,000!!!!
Linkage is good for you:
- CHADvedev had some very stern words to say to the neo-Nazis of Ukraine, and their supporters, yesterday, on Defender of the Fatherland day in Russia;
- Timofey Bordachyev shows how the Euroweenies are even more terrified of Don Trumponi than they are of Russia;
- Dmitryi Trenin outlines the larger Russian goal of reshaping the European security order to suit its own needs, which is an ambition that goes far beyond 404;
- Sergei Poletayev points to the serious dose of reality that Drumpf and the Administration have had to swallow with respect to Russia;
- Fyodor Lukyanov reckons the panic from the Munich Security Conference is the last dying gasp of the Cold War;
- Andrei Kortunov wonders whether the US and Russia can together rewrite history, assuming they can get along and do the right thing;
- Rachel Marsden unpacks the latest wacky Euroweenie idea to try to deal with the warming of relations between the US and Russia;
- Tarik Cyril Amar notes with wry amusement that Ornj Boi is saying in public precisely what the Russians have been saying for a decade or more;
- Pepe Escobar reckons there is a new version of the Great Game underway in the world today;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama outlines the grim future that awaits both Europe and Ukraine;
- Tobias Langdon points out that Jews are their own worst enemies in the West;
- Jose Alberto Nino takes heart from the fact that the JQ can no longer really be censored in the West, much to the ADL’s dismay;
- Canada has to make some very difficult decisions, but none of its politicians seem to be in the least bit interested in telling the Canuckistanis the truth;
- Mustafa Fetouri talks about the destruction wrought upon a once-advanced African nation by Western meddling and stupidity;
- Netbooks seemed like a great idea when they first popped up, but they disappeared almost as quickly as they showed up;
- We can all hate on Gen-Z, with good reason, but it turns out, they ARE far more interested in getting married and having kids young, than their forebears;
- Some of you might be interested to learn exactly how Doctor Who Cares ended up in the bin due to woke wankery;
- The overuse of Abominable Intelligence is seriously degrading the quality of code written by actual programmers, which is going to be a huge problem in the near future;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Veep Vance is showing his mettle and character in his manhandling of various presstitutes, much to my impressed astonishment;
- Iran is looking for a way to deal with T-Rex, and may well resort to some old devices to get past his maximum-pressure strategy;
- The job market was pretty horrible to begin with, but today, startups are looking to pay for AI agents to do the job of a human;
- Brolon MuZk’s DOGE has found evidence of MASSIVE gaps in tracked government spending that apparently no one can account for;
- The Social Security Administration also appears to be paying out money to huge numbers of dead people – or at least, people who drank the Water of Life, somehow;
- It wouldn’t be a Monday without another legendary episode of “Floriduh Man” to kick off the day;
- Everything is becoming feikh & ghey – including honey, especially from Turkey, which just reinforces my view that no one should go there, ever;
- As I wrote above, there are lots of reasons to hate Gen-Z, and their insistence that overuse of full stops in text messages is “aggressive”, is one of them;
- In the least surprising news ever, it turns out that vegans are absolute assholes and no one likes them;
- The very people who did so much to destroy the J6 protesters, may soon find themselves on the receiving end of the exact same treatment – try to restrain your wild applause;
- A guy on a jet-ski managed to take a selfie with a couple in the background making the beast with two backs in the middle of the ocean – MAD RESPECT to those two intrepid explorers!!!;
- Kiddie birthday parties are pretty ridiculous to begin with – and they have plainly gotten far more absurd since I were a wee lad, ever so long ago;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar has plenty of straight-talk to offer in the wake of the US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia:
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing, while ranting about how awful the latest HALO TV show is going to be, now that Netherflix has purchased the rights to it from Paramount:
Yeahhhh… that is not going to end well. Given this is Netherflix we are talking about, it is better than even money that the next season of the HALO series will involve a new class of SPARTAN-Troons, and quadsexual aliens with multi-hued skins preaching about tolerance and diversity.
Hell, I reckon the Covenant will actually become the good guys in the next show, because, as we all know, it is a pan-species interstellar alliance that aims toward… some sort of Greater Good, or something.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Imperial Iterator talks about the Harlequins – some of the most mysterious and weird characters in the entire franchise:
Oh, and PancreasNoWork is finally back, explaining where everything kind of sort of sits in the universe:
Big Boyz Toyz
Wonder Wing talks about the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber:
The B-2 is, however, an obsolete weapon at this point, because it reflects a completely outmoded approach to strike warfare.
The reality is that America has LOST the race to develop long-range stand-off strike weapons to the Russians and, increasingly, the Chinese. Russian long-range bombers can now engage NATO targets from FAR outside their ability to intercept them – with hypersonic weapons that NATO missile defence simply cannot stop.
This obviates the need for stealth, which is why Russian bomber designs, dating back to the 1950s, are still relevant and useful today.
Oh No! Anyway…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain – let us kick things off with some anti-vegan stuff:
[CAN CONFIRM that the single best accompaniment to a good steak, is a pair of eggs. My brunch today was two 10%-fat quarter-pounder beef patties with a fried egg on top of each. HOLY MOTHER, it was delicious. – Didact]
Back to the usual:
[THAT IS NOT AN IRRATIONAL PURCHASE!!! It is a NECESSITY. – Didact]
[Slightly more context: Jordan’s royal family is not actually Jordanian, it is Saudi Arabian, from a completely different tribe. Specifically, from the Hashemites, who are supposedly the last living relatives of Mo’Lester the Paedophile Profit (Police Be Upon Him). Unsurprisingly, given a full third of Jordan’s population is apparently Palestinian by ethnicity, much of the country does not like their king and royal family, which is why they have had to use violence to keep their people in line. – Didact]
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Gym beast props this week go to Sanchez Dilon:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
JUST BLEED!!!
Facefisted
Federer Express
Clean Bowled
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Knives Out
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Mighty Wings
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
Finally, here is your Instathot for the start of the week. This here is Ilona Korinets (Илона Коринец), age probably about 29, and supposedly from St. Petersburg (or Chelyabinsk, depending on the source), Mordor. She is an Instathot and model, and beyond that, we know little else – though it is pretty obvious that she is AT LEAST 20% plastic.
Off to the salt-mines, now, lads, plenty more liberal tears to distil.
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