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Monday morning sloppy sequels

by | Jun 30, 2025 | Mondays | 10 comments

Here we are at yet another Monday – the never-ending sequel that somehow always manages to make the instalment before it seem better than it actually was. And on that subject, it does appear as though 2025 is going to be the year in which Hollyweird FINALLY completely runs out of ideas, because the list of movies coming out this year is PACKED with sequels, spin-offs, and expansions that basically nobody ever asked for.

That does not, of course, mean they will all necessarily be terrible. A few look genuinely awesome. So let us kick off this week’s Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher with some of the sequels coming up this year, that might actually be pretty darn good.

First up – Spaceballs 2, the follow-up to the movie that never needed a follow-up, because it was so brilliant (or, depending on your point of view, terrible):

Next, The Naked Gun, which stars a guy whose name sounds like that of the late, great, dearly missed Leslie Nielsen, and who also knows how to make fun of himself:

Of course, Happy Gilmore 2 does rather lower the tone…:

And The Accountant 2 is already out – I have no idea whether it is any good or not:

Plus this one – Nobody 2:


#BasedTucker is Based


Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has some good stuff ready for us this week. We start off with one from The Infographics Show, which we might as well call โ€œThe Curse of the High IQโ€:

Micro thinks the coming population crash will be a GOOD Thing:


Mind-Expanding Drugs

From Dawn Pine, via Psygorithm, we have an interesting one about how you can zero in on emotional manipulation in arguments:


Death Smiles At Us All…


Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice cannot contain his dismay about the devolution of New York F***ing Shitty, which is now faced with the prospect of voting for a very smarmy, slimy son of Moose Limb immigrants, who is a straightforward socialist โ€“ and does not pretend about it at all:


The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted break down the clown car show that was the NATO summit last week:


Culture Beats

PJW is not in the least bit impressed by the โ€œwork ethicโ€ of modren wammenzes:


Moon has a point to make about why Will Smith is a sign of the times, especially for Hollyweird:


Sydney Watson hangs her head in despair over the implications of one Bonnie Blueโ€™s latest antics for modren wammenzes:


Tourist Traps

Anna Lee provides an interesting breakdown of the reasons why South Koreaโ€™s birth rate is so low โ€“ now the second lowest in the world, only Ukraine has a worse statistic than the Sorks do:

At this rate, Best Korea (that is to say, North Korea) will simply have to wait another 20 years, and then march right over the border with a division or two of infantry to conquer the entire South โ€“ without ever firing a shot.

The future belongs to those who show up for it. The Sorks have refused to show up. It is that simple.


Since we all seem to have Iran on the brain these days, let us take a look at what life is actually like there, through Tehran Wander:

Notice anything? Like, say, how civilised Tehran is? And how about a third of the women there do NOT wear headscarves? And how people are generally polite, well-dressed, decent, minding their own business, and generally getting on with life?

That street view reminds me a lot of walking through central Calcutta โ€“ which is a horrible experience, because the streets are disgustingly dirty, the people are often unkempt and unpleasant, and the traffic and the stench are both unbearable. This, by contrast, looks very calm, clean, and civilised โ€“ rather a lot like Makhachkala, in Dagestan, Russia.

This is what the Jewish- and Zioclown-controlled whore-media in the West simply refuse to show you โ€“ that, for all its flaws (and there are many), Iran is a highly civilised, highly cultured country, which the West is doing its damnedest to destroy, presumably because the central bank of Iran is not controlled by the Rothschilds.


Veteransโ€™ Day

LTC Danny Davis takes time out from his vacation in PommieBastardLande โ€“ no idea why he thought London, of all places, was a good spot for a family vacation, but anyway โ€“ to discuss the ongoing efforts to cripple the Russian economy:

Yeahโ€ฆ letโ€™s just say, it ainโ€™t workinโ€™.


Judgeโ€™s Ruling

Judge Nap talks to DA KERNEL HIZZSELF!!! about the genuinely crazy escalation Drumpf just tried with Iran:


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

ะฆะฐั€ัŒ ะŸั€ะธะบะฐะทั‹ะฒะฐะตั‚

The Neo-Tsar gave the international press a very LARGE chunk of his mind at the end of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) summit in Minsk last week:


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

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about how Russia has only two (well, three, now) real allies โ€“ its army, its navy, and its air force:


ะ”ัะดั ะกั‚ะฐััŒ ะฃั‡ะธั‚

Stanislav Krapivnik walks his dog and talks about Ornj Boiโ€™s highly dangerous attack on Iran โ€“ which in fact accomplished very little of anything:


Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentesโ€ฆ

The good gentlemen of The Duran break down the utter disaster that was the NATO summit:


Bad Medicine

Dr. Suneel Dhand explains why doctors hate natural supplements:

The reason why is probably pretty simple. Modern healthcare is not about curing patients. It is about getting repeat customers. You cannot charge customers outrageous prices for expensive drugs, if they start taking natural supplements that do the exact same thing better and for a tiny fraction of the price.


Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle talks to Al-Fadi from CIRA International about the sheer absurdity of the Izzlamick claim of โ€œperfect preservationโ€ of the Koran:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms also discusses the pagan origins of the Izzlamick death-cult with his friend Al-Fadi:



Avery from GodLogic Apologetics beclowns one Moose Limb after another:


Chris at Speakerโ€™s Corner continues the war of words between him and one of Izzlamโ€™s dumber dawahgandists, a chap named โ€œDeen Respondsโ€, who cannot stay on topic and answer a straight question if his life depended on it:


Tha Dizzle, Apostate Prophet, and Thaddeus from Reasoned Answers discuss the rapidly growing scandal surrounding one Mohammed Hijabโ€™s secret wife:


Manly Men of Manliness

Joker from Better Bachelor looks at the data around dating apps, which shows truly disastrous results for those platforms:


Letโ€™s have a round of STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZES!!! posting their own Ls on line. We start with everyoneโ€™s favourite bald Romanian at Manosphere:

Next up, Legion of Men:

And letโ€™s get the Eastern perspective from China Unvarnished:


Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnightโ€™s Edge does a postmortem on the failed career of the latest manufactured Devil Mouse starlet:


Gary from Nerdrotic cannot stop laughing at the hot garbage that is Ironheart:


The Critical Drinker reckons there is not enough booze in the entire WORLD that will help make sense of that show:


Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at how time reflections work:

To grasp the concept of time reflection, it helps to start with something familiarโ€”spatial reflection. Weโ€™ve all seen how a ball bounces off a wall, changing direction but continuing forward in time. Similarly, when light or sound waves hit a surface like a mirror or a wall, they bounce back, allowing us to see our reflection or hear an echo. This is spatial reflection, and itโ€™s something we encounter every day.

Time reflection, however, operates on a whole different level. Instead of bouncing back in space, an electromagnetic waveโ€™s progression in time is altered. Imagine an electromagnetic wave traveling through a material whose properties suddenly and uniformly change. This abrupt shift acts like a โ€œmagical switch,โ€ causing the wave to reverse itself in time. Itโ€™s like hitting the rewind button on a videoโ€”suddenly, the motion goes in reverse, the sound distorts, and everything unfolds in reverse order.

Moreover, this phenomenon also changes the waveโ€™s frequency. For instance, red light could shift to blue, or a low-pitched sound could transform into a high one. Itโ€™s akin to the reversed, sped-up audio on a cassette tape when you rewind it. Time reflection sounds surreal, but until recently, it had never been directly observed.


Your long read of the week is from Gregory Hood, who points out an uncomfortable but basic truth about the Constitution:

The University of Florida recognized Mr. Damskyโ€™s paper with an award presented by US District Court Judge John L. Badalamenti. Much of what Mr. Damsky argued is perfectly consistent with what academic authorities in countless law schools have argued: America was founded by and for whites, and this shapes our institutions. It is not even a particularly controversial view among liberals.

Critical Legal Studies, which have swept through law schools, claim that the law is a legacy of racism, and can be overturned or ignored in the name of higher ideals. Thus, CNN โ€œlegal expertโ€ Elie Mystal has famously argued that he should not have to care about a Constitution written โ€œby the slavers,โ€ and that every law before 1965 should be considered โ€œpresumptively unconstitutional.โ€ That argument works both ways: all those post-1965 laws that hurt the interests of โ€œthe Peopleโ€ should be thrown out. The opinions of blacks who were never intended to be (and still are not) part of the American nation should be disregarded in line with Roger Taneyโ€™s guidance.

Academics and journalists donโ€™t object to Mr. Damskyโ€™s explanation of the Constitutionโ€™s premises; they object to his view that these premises are a good thing rather than a source of โ€œdishonor.โ€ The New York Timesโ€™s article entitled โ€œA White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him An Awardโ€ is bizarre coming from the publication that promoted the 1619 Project. Are we now to believe the Constitution and the Framers were not โ€œracistโ€? If they were, as anyone who believes in โ€œCritical Legal Studiesโ€ or any aspect of DEI accepts, why should blacks or any other non-whites get to claim the Constitution or American identity? We all agree that it belongs to us alone; we just disagree about whether that is good or bad.

The University of Florida has since banned Mr. Damsky from campus. However, it was not because of his paper but because of Mr. Damskyโ€™s social media comments about Jews. Most reports on this specifically claim he said Jews must be abolished by any means necessary. Yet he equated this precisely to what Harvard professor Noel Ignatiev, editor of Race Traitor, said about whites. Mr. Damsky says his comments are protected by the First Amendment and were not a violent threat. If what Mr. Damsky said is a โ€œcall to violence,โ€ then so too is what the Noel Ignatiev said, and it never seemed to hurt his career, let alone get him banned from campus.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while explaining why the HALO Infinite game engine caused so many headaches, and provided such a poor platform, that Halo Studios had no choice but to switch to Unreal:


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Imperial Iterator talks Blood Ravens:

And PancreasNoWork reviews Rogue Traders, as only he possibly can:


Big Boyz Toyz

Skyships Eng looks at the Airbus A300, that kicked off a major revolution in civilian air transportation:


Oh No! Anywayโ€ฆ

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Comedy Hour


Meme Warfare

We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:

Maybe lower. Jury is still out
Point taken
Another point taken
Third time point taken
We all know it from realestate – LOCATION IS KEY
I think he was stoned. Should go to that cookie girl scout
HEY, THAT’S US

[MAAAAATE!!! – Didact]

Suggest Psalm 100
That is why you thank god
That “Point Taken” thing – it’s the fourth now
Winning be like…
Probably
I want in on it
That would be awesome
Good luck with that
Point taken – AGAIN
Can confirm. Also happens if you don’t
No – just you
July be like…
RESPECT
Can also confirm
NICE
Can totally see it happen
The AI can probably do it
Good pun

And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:

Neither side eats bacon. THIS IS NOT MY WAR.
Start with Genesis 6:1-4 and see how you get on
WIFE MATERIAL
Missing the watermelon and pig’s feet, but otherwise accurate
I AM DISTURBED BY WHAT I’M SEEING

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 the living legend, the one and only John Haack:

Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

They See Me Rollinโ€™…

JUST BLEED!!!

Facefisted

Federer Express

Also โ€“ watching His Fedness beating up on TEH STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZES!!! in mixed doubles, is oddly satisfyingโ€ฆ especially against that fattie Cookie Monster Williams:

That really should put paid to the whole idiotic nonsense of women and men being paid the same on the singles circuit. The two are simply not comparable.


Roided Out

James Linker from Shredded Sports Science puts together a compilation of gym idiots โ€“ starting with the Liver Kingโ€™s latest insane stunt:


Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Knives Out

Drumlines

Guitar Heroics

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Jump-Starts

Her cuteness and MAD JUMP SKILLZ more than make up for her taste in music โ€“ which is ASS.

She also knows how to rock the cowboy boots and hat, by the way:

Gingervitis Injections


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€

All Power Metal, all day today, boys:


Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Thot Shots

After much faffing about, we get to the Instathots for the start of the week. First up, Jane Amber Aubrun-Martin, age 22 from France, born and raised in Paris, living in Bordeaux. She is a show-jumper, Instathot, social media โ€œstarโ€, and reality TV โ€œstarโ€. And on top of all that, she is also French, which goes rather against her.

And second, Elizaveta Vasilenko (ะ•ะปะธะทะฐะฒะตั‚ะฐ ะ’ะฐัะธะปะตะฝะบะพ), age 27 from Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine (though not for very much longer), now living in Paris.

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10 Comments

  1. JohnC911

    Thank you for showing Iran. I had a small debate with David Wood on this on Twitter. David Wood was for regime change in Iran by America and Israel. I ask him “OK take out the government and who takes over? It is either going to be a strong man, Civil war or the Country some how splits peacefully. It is not easy to just to take out a current government, especially due to war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. How are they doing?”

    He “You obviously know absolutely nothing about Iran. Iran has an entire royal family that was expelled from the nation by Shia mullahs. So Iranians either get their royal family back, or they form a democracy. STOP THINKING THIS PLACE IS LIKE SYRIA OR IRAQ. IT ISN’T.”

    Now if the USA or Israel takes them out and put a puppet government in, it would be very unpopular. Not because they love the Ayatollah, even if they were unpopular in the country, the Iran People (Persians and others) still would not support USA or Israel taking them out due to history of Iran (invasion by Soviets, British and puppet governments) and history of USA in the middle east and Modern day Israel.
    Persians outside Iran would be more for regime change but the problem if you only have these source is that they will be more bias, but war?

    https://x.com/Acts17David/status/1935112758447558963

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    • Didact

      Yes, this is a particular, and very irritating, blind spot among American Protestants. Evangelicals especially have this bizarre obsession with Israel. They think it must be protected at all costs. However, there is nothing in the Bible that commands us to do so, especially given the fact that the Lord took His favour from the tribes of Israel, and gave it to the Gentiles. The Jews failed to uphold the covenant, and chose to listen to the words of men, instead of the laws of God.

      Just because the 144,000 will be taken up during the End Times, that does not mean the rest of us should sacrifice our interests in favour of the 10 million or so that now exist.

      Also, Tha Dizzle conveniently fails to mention that the same Shah he talks about, has not one drop of royal blood in him – his ancestors were Persian Cossacks descended from a line with zero connection to the ancient dynasties of Persia. And he also fails to mention that the last democratically-elected secular Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, was ousted in a CIA- and MI6-backed coup, because that same PM wanted to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s operations.

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      • JohnC911

        Thank you my friend. I been out of politics and podcasting for a while. I have been just going through a few thing the past 5 years, my father passed away in 2023 October with cancer, was it the vax, I don’t know for sure but i think so. I am thinking about doing the podcasting again, I would like to have you back on, since not too many smart logical truth full Christian Men anymore, and i always enjoy our talks. I might change the name from the JJ to something else. Anyway Brother may the Lord Jesus be with you always

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        • Didact

          Brother, I am very sorry indeed to learn of your father’s passing, and of your struggles in the past few years. It seems as though things have turned around for you – or so I hope – and that is very good to see. It would be a honour to appear on a podcast with you, whenever you are ready.

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          • JohnC911

            Thank you. I will need to get a few things sorted but we can start by next month if you have any time

      • Randale6

        And this is why I have come to loath protestantism with a particular hatred. Care to name anything more cucked than worshipping the murderers of your god? I have never heard Catholics (outside of the USA) or Orthodox descend that low. Fuck, Islam doesn’t sink that low.

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        • MrUNIVAC

          My Catholic church actually has a Star of David on the ceiling, which makes me really angry every time I see it. Other than that, you’re right though.

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        • Didact

          Don’t let’s throw the Protestant baby out with the Zioclown bathwater. It is always necessary to remember that the father of Protestantism, Martin Luther, started out a strong philosemite – but then, because he could read and write Hebrew, he examined the post-Babylonian texts of the Talmud. And that was when he turned HARD against the Jews, because he read what the Talmud has to say about Gentiles, and it enraged him. Only then did he write On the Jews and Their Lies – and that coloured (to an extreme and unfair degree) the Protestant view of Jews for a very long time.

          The same journey can, or should, await most Protestants, but most do not undergo it. Protestantism in Europe and the US has fallen very hard away from the teachings of Scripture. There are many cucked-out denominations that are hopelessly corrupted – the Anglicans and Episcopalians are the worst, but most have serious problems one way or another. The Catholics are not much better – their church, especially in the US, has the same problems with Zioclownery as the mainline Protestants do, though not to the same degree.

          But none of that changes the fundamental message of Scripture. Nor does it change the power of the Five Solas, which are (or should be) guiding principles of Protestantism. Indeed, if Protestants actually took Sola Scriptura seriously, they would quickly realise that Scripture nowhere dictates slavish obedience to and support of the modern nation of Israel, which IS NOT the Biblical nation.

          Ultimately, what you see in the US is the result of decades of heretical exegesis on the basis of the Scofield Bible. Even that abomination is nothing more than the KJV Bible with a lot of extra layering in terms of the footnotes and study guides placed on top of it. But that does not change the power, beauty, and accuracy (for its time) of the KJV translation.

          And, by the way, Izzlam calls Christians, as well as Jews, pigs and monkeys and dogs. Izzlamick theology is even more ridiculously confused than Talmudic Judaism is.

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  2. Himself

    Funniest thing about Clarkson and the Nurburing was Sabine hectoring him that she could beat his time in a delivery van, then doing it on a subsequent episode.

    I’m hooked on the manosphere channel now. It’s hilarious. “My guy…don’t be a seeemp!” “Theeese video is stupid. We’ll skip it..”

    Saw the Accountant 2. It was decent. They lost me with the mission control center in the autistic kid school. Utterly stupid. Luckily it was towards the end. Being in the industry, I got a big issue with the ‘I’ll just hack it by clickity clacking on my keyboard.’

    I wouldn’t say all dating apps are useless. Most are, though, especially match.com sites. They have one called ‘ourtime’ for geezers like me. So I gave it a spin. It was mostly useless. A lot of the women on it were…uh..sub fives. I decided to have some fun and see what a woman would see from my profile, so I created a woman’s profile.

    First thing was, that my test profile got maybe a dozen matches, including two black guys, even though I filtered for those. On a free profile, what they get is a blurry picture and your invite. They have to pony up to see it. They can search all day, as can you. But the same thing happens – you get a pic and an invite, but have to pony up to respond.

    My millennial kid tried some of them, like bumble, and found them as useless as Joker said.

    There are everyone-paid sites out there that work. And they work because everyone on them has skin in the game.

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  3. MrUNIVAC

    The two things I find most annoying about Spaceballs 2 are A) it’s not called Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money, and B) that fat little SJW goblin Josh Gad is heavily involved in it.

    It could definitely work if Mel reaches into the Blazing Saddles well and delivers an absolutely savage parody of modern Disney Star Wars. I doubt it’ll happen, though. Wouldn’t want to anger Queen Kathleen even though she’s indisputably the worst brand manager in the history of Hollywood.

    It is pretty cool that Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to play Dark Helmet, though. I miss that guy. He was great in Ghostbusters, but IMHO Little Shop of Horrors is his magnum opus.

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