Mondays are horrible enough to begin with, until you realise this is the week when you have to file your tax returns (if you live in the FUSA). And that means you have to scramble to justify your existence to the bloody IRS – an organisation evidently designed to steal money from the ordinary people, which expects you to thank them for the privilege.
Never mind that the IRS Itself is deeply and irredeemably corrupt. Never mind that the God-Emperor has ordered massive layoffs at the bureau – which is the first bit of good news we have had about taxes in QUITE a while. Most Americans today are too brainwashed to realise that income taxes, for most of America’s history, were NOT the norm. The country made most of its Federal revenues from tariffs – yes, really – and sales of Federal land.
That all changed when the dictator, Abraham Lincoln, imposed an income tax upon the people during the War Between the States. Fortunately, this did not last much beyond the war that he did so much to start. Unfortunately, Woodrow Wilson – who was, in some ways, even worse – brought them back. And they have stayed ever since, to the eternal shame of the entire American ethos.
So it might be worth remembering how and why the FUSA started, and how it managed to stay tax-free for so long:
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, induced severe whiplash last week with his tariff announcements:
The whole sorry spectacle simply reinforces the widely held belief that the Trump Administration has no real plan for anything it does. In my view, President Trump suffers from fundamental insecurities, stemming from his Ur-Alpha status – like most Alphas, he cares acutely what his lieutenants and supporters think about him, and as such, he flip-flops between one extreme and another, depending on who is flattering him the most at any given time.
This narcissism is a severe issue, because it leads him into conflict with his gut instincts, which are usually sound and solid. And we saw examples of that last week, with the very weird tariff announcements that had the diametrically OPPOSITE effect of what he wanted.
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is back with plenty to distract us today. First up, How Money Works looks at how badly the economy is broken in the US, based on a rather counter-intuitive set of statistics:
They also look at how the US became a consumer-driven economy – to its own great detriment:
Honest Ads takes on YOOTOOB:
Ryan Long and his friends have a great time explaining core red-pill truths through humour:
The Infographics Show points to Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as a major culprit of some very odd practices:
wolfcrow goes all nostalgic on us with a retrospective of TRON:
It is true – movies made in the 1980s, with very primitive CGI and a much heavier emphasis on practical effects, look VASTLY better than movies today do.
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Your General Knowledge of the Week is from The Male Brain,
Death Smiles At Us All…
Via Dawn Pine, here is one from RelentlessDude about how to stop reacting to everything around you:
And one from Stoic Journal:
Poli-Ticking Off
Mark Dice cheer-leads for the market chaos that Drumpf’s indecision and flip-flopping caused last week:
The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted have some bad news about the flu so-called “vaccines”, which don’t work as advertised – IMAGINE MY SHOCK!!!:
PJW cannot find it in himself to weep crocodile tears for the gazillionaires who lost money in last week’s STONK-market meltdown:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has his own amusingly profane take on tariffs:
Veterans’ Day
LTC Danny Davis talks to Andrei Martyanov about the coming Russian storm:
Judge’s Ruling
Judge Nap discusses all thing geopolitical with Prof. Glenn Diesen:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the enormous amount of money (relatively speaking) that the Russian government has allocated for its Navy, and the results of that spending in producing cutting-edge missile frigates, corvettes, submarines, missiles, and aircraft:
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…
The good gentlemen of The Duran are singularly unimpressed by The Donald’s constant flip-flopping and hurry-hurry-hurry approach to, well, basically EVERYTHING:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell looks at that same Cleveland Clinic study about how the latest flu shot actually makes people MORE likely to get the flu:
Dr. Suneel Dhand has some rather harsh words about the US healthcare system:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle discusses a stunning recent archaeological find that proves the Gospel of John was a contemporary historical account from Jesus’s time:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International talk about the Trinity, and the reason why Izzlamick criticisms of it fall flat:
Avery from GodLogic Apologetics has great fun smacking around arrogant and stupid Muzzies about their own faith:
Sam Shamoun stuns a Muzzie with simple facts about his own lying imams:
Wes Huff explains how and where the Great Commission passages in Mark 16 made their way into the New Testament:
Chris at Speaker’s Corner addresses the growing scandal over Mimi Hijab’s secret second wife:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp warns of great violence to come:
Joker from Better Bachelor shows us how Harley Davidson went broke, got woke, and then CROAKED:
Let’s have a round of STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZES posting their own Ls online. First up, Manosphere:
Then, Manosphere Highlights Daily:
Next, Legion of Men:
And finally let’s have the east Asian perspective from China Unvarnished:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge is not impressed by the latest – I think this is the third or fourth one by now – reboot of the Fantastic 4 franchise:
Gary from Nerdrotic has no sympathy whatsoever for Hollyweird:
The Critical Drinker reckons the Minecraft movie is on track for BIG wins at the box office – for no particularly good reason:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at how long appliances last in Norwegian households:
Longer lifetimes of consumer products are promoted as an element of sustainable consumption, yet there is a widespread notion that lifetimes are currently in decline, often attributed to planned obsolescence or throwaway mentality. However, empirical evidence is inconclusive and often subject to high uncertainties. Here, we explore long-term trends in the lifetimes of large household appliances using dynamic material flow analysis. We investigate the sales and ownership of these products since their introduction in Norwegian households and use this co-evolution to estimate the lifetimes. By combining two model types with uncertainty analysis, we show that a significant lifetime decrease was likely experienced only by washing machines (–45%) and ovens (–39%) around the 1990s–2000s. This finding challenges the narratives about planned obsolescence despite their prevalence decreasing consumer incentives for longer product use and repair. We suggest multiple technical, economic, and social factors that could be responsible for the decrease, for example, a reduction in relative prices of appliances or changes in habits surrounding laundry and kitchen use. Our results suggest that factors affecting product lifetimes are not uniform but context-dependent, which has implications for lifetime extension policy.
For those who want a more normal explanation of this sort of thing, here is the tl;dr version.
Linkage is good for you:
- Igor Makarov, from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics – their version of the LSE, only competent – muses on the real reasons for the God-Emperor’s tariffs;
- Timur Tarkhanov points out the folly of Ukraine’s media blitzes, in the face of actual Russian blitzes on the front lines;
- Vitalyi Ryumshin unpacks some possible reasons behind the God-Emperor’s surprisingly quick climbdown on tariffs;
- Maksim Medvedkov narrates how Ornj Boi’s tariffs mean the end of globalisation and free trade, under the so-called “rules-based international order”;
- Tarik Cyril Amar draws some interesting, and worrying, parallels between Drumpf and the very last Soviet premier;
- Fyodor Lukyanov explains why the US is now on the retreat globally, and how this creates a power vacuum that Russia and China need to fill;
- Timofey Bordachev is thoroughly unimpressed by the Fourth Reich’s plans to re-arm and re-equip its forces;
- It might be a good time to pour some cold water on the notion that Apple can build iPhones just as easily in the US as it can in China;
- Christopher Chantrill wonders what will be the ultimate outcome of the Tariff Trumper Tantrums;
- Rachel Marsden illustrates the fundamental weakness of the EU’s position in relation to the Trump tariffs;
- Murad Sadygadze outlines the catastrophic potential consequences if Drumpf is genuinely misled badly enough to start a shooting war with Iran;
- Ryan L. Dudley looks at the US-Iran conflict from the other side’s point of view;
- Robert Stark examines the economic consequences of “Liberation Day”;
- Larry Johnson shows us how the God-Emperor’s extremely unpredictable actions are actually making the case for BRICS+ integration that much stronger;
- Frank Friday takes the now-contrarian view that bringing back manufacturing jobs is a pointless idea – I disagree with him, but he has the right to his views;
- Hans Vogel thinks the God-Emperor is looking to bring back the values of the old Confederacy – and not in the way you might imagine;
- John F. Di Leo somehow manages to conflate St. Reagan Magnus of the Right and the Austrian economists in a joint attack on the economic orthodoxy of today – how he does that, I cannot understand;
- Tobias Langdon is not amused by “Black Privilege”, by which Wakandans get away with all manner of heinous crimes;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Trannies are crazy, and they are slowly taking over women’s sports, much to the detriment of actual women;
- Corporate espionage is alive and well in the modern day and age;
- It is nice to see a woman actually getting punished for committing a serious crime, from time to time – in this case, for falsely accusing a man of raping her;
- Abominable Intelligence has now gotten smart enough that it can help you get out of traffic tickets;
- A court in Sumatra, of all places, jailed a woman because she insulted His Hugeness by claiming Jesus needs a haircut;
- Scammers are getting better all the time at duping their victims, including with fake treasure maps;
- Supposedly, an engineer has discovered the secrets of anti-gravity, so it is only a matter of time before we are all living like The Jetsons;
- For all that Bibi Netanyahu is, frankly, out of control and flat-out NUTS, he is also fighting against a genuine Israeli Derp State;
- Your “Bear Necessities” moment of the day – Slovakia wants to get rid of hundreds of the cuddly-wuddly floofi goofi happi chonki murder machines;
- A Chinese man is trying to sue the developer of a game, after he got straight-up Jap-slapped in it – nearly 5,000 times;
- Customer complaints are as old as humanity itself, and they have not changed that much in the last 4,000 years, either;
- The Egyptians, of all people, are now suffering from a significant drop in their birth rates;
- Seagulls, as it turns out, are ABSOLUTE DICKS;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar met with the God-Emperor’s personal envoy, Steve Witkoff, in St. Petersburg – for FIVE HOURS:
I would pay a LOT to have been a fly on the wall for that meeting. The Neo-Tsar is a man of great wisdom, strength, and erudition – I suspect the things he told Witkoff, would have set off a proper stink-bomb in the FUSA.
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while talking about the latest HALO news:
Days of Future Past
Bungie have just released a trailer for their new game, Marathon, which appears to be a modernisation of their legendary first-ever game, using everything they learned from HALO and Destiny:
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Imperial Iterator talks SPACE SHARKS – aka the Carcharodons chapter, some of the fiercest and most terrifying Space Marines in an already over-roided universe:
Big Boyz Toyz
Gus the Eyetie Engineer from Millennium 7 * HistoryTech is quite impressed by the latest videos showing the CAC J-36 doing its thing:
And LRFotS, HALOnaut, andfellow L33T-speaker, Lynch, sent over a most excellent video of the Su-57 with perfect motion tracking, that is SERIOUS and EXTREMELY HARDCORE PLANE PR0N.
I am not joking about that. The video is so hardcore, I would recommend shooing your wife and kids out of the room before watching it. Didact shall not be held responsible for subsequent aeroboners, and resulting bollocking from the missus, if you ignore this advice.
Plus, the Russian chap behind Skyships Eng shows us what the new Russian PD-8 high-bypass turbofan engine can do:
Oh No! Anyway…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
Stupid People Do Stupid Things
James Linker from Shredded Sports Science despairs at the state of the shitness industry:
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Gym beast props this week go to a true titan among men – Big Ray Williams:
The man lifts truly UNREAL amounts of weight…
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
JUST BLEED!!!
Facefisted
Federer Express
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Knives Out
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Real Steel
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
Right, let’s get to your Instathot for the start of the week. This here is Dragana Draca, age unknown but probably in her early 30s, from Serbia, and the reason why she is famous, is because she and another Serbian model (who will feature on these pages eventually) were spotted with a British footballist recently. There is a long and sordid saga behind that particular wazzock, but suffice to say, marital fidelity is not his strong suit.
OK, back to work now, boys, those taxes won’t pay for themselves.
3 Comments
I do taxes for a living and would be totally fine if Congress or the Donald eliminated my job tomorrow. I think it’s fair to clarify that while the IRS indeed sucks, they only enforce the laws that Congress writes. If you hate the tax system, be mad at Congress.
Also, Honest Abe’s original income tax came back in the Gilded Age but was declared unconstitutional since it wasn’t based on apportionment among the states, which is why the progs had to get the 16th amendment ratified.
Marathon looks so incredibly meh. I love the original 3 games and have Durandal’s Marathon logo as my Twitter avatar. Other than being a first-person shooter, this new neon-soaked blockfest looks like it has f*ck all to do with the property and appears to be another IP skinsuit job. It might end up being awesome – Bungie rarely disappoints – but I’m not holding my breath, especially given the pedigree of the lead designers. I don’t trust any woman running a video game franchise anymore, not after what Bonnie Ross did to Halo and ESPEICALLY not after what Lin Joyce did to Homeworld (whose first game is my all-time favorite).
Go play the originals with AlephOne instead. https://alephone.lhowon.org/
MrUNIVAC on April 15, 2025 at 9:42 am
they only enforce the laws that Congress writes.
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no they don’t, just like every other government agency they have been getting granted broad and extensive “interpretation” powers in regards to actual implementation of regulation and enforcement. also, it has been demonstrated for decades now that the IRS openly targets conservatives and there has NEVER been any consequence more severe than that a supervisor might get forced into early retirement.
No disagreement whatsoever there, my friend. Every single federal agency needs to be nuked from orbit and either rebuilt from scratch or left for dead after Loper Bright.
I was just pointing out that it’s silly to get mad at the cops who pull you over when it’s some jerk lawmaker who made speeding illegal.