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Monday morning chop-socky

by | Jan 5, 2026 | Mondays | 1 comment

Well, 2025 is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, and given how insane the first FIVE DAYS of 2026 have been, I have a sneaking feeling that most of us will be asking if we can get it back, despite how nuts that year was. We just witnessed the US government basically bribe the entire top leadership of a country, then fly its special forces operators in with total impunity while that country’s air defences stood down, and kidnap its President in front of the entire world.

The brazen ballsiness of it rivals only the utter hypocrisy. Never again should anyone ever listen to an American lecture the rest of the world about the “rules-based international order”. The rules clearly amount to, “you do what we say, or we destroy you with military force”. We now live once more in a world where the strong do what they want, and the weak do what they must. This is the absolute antithesis of what America’s Founders wanted for their new country, but that is now what we have – the Power of the Rods and the Axe, the use of raw, naked force to resolve all key issues.

Well, so be it. Americans are going to discover in the coming years that they are no longer the only ones who can play that game. Indeed, the Russians have been proving in Ukraine just how bad the West is at applying truly lethal force over sustained periods. And Amerikhastan gave the Communist Party of China the perfect excuse to simply walk into Taiwan and conquer it for its own purposes, given how flimsy and ridiculous the American pretext over Venezuela appears.

But let us park all that for a moment. It is, after all, Monday – the very first Monday of the new year. Given that fact, and given that many of us have to be back at work – rather reluctantly, it must be said – we could all use a good distraction.

So let us start with some interesting videos about forgotten action heroes:


#BasedTucker is Based


Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has a whole lot of material, accumulated over the past few weeks, for us to start off the year in suitable fashion:


Mind-Expanding Drugs


Death Smiles At Us All…


Culture Beats


Veteransโ€™ Day


Judgeโ€™s Ruling


MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

ะะพะฒั‹ะน-ะฆะฐั€ัŒ ะŸั€ะธะบะฐะทั‹ะฒะฐะตั‚

ะŸั€ะพั„ะตััะพั€ ะ‘ั€ะพะฒะบะธะฝ ะฃั‡ะธั‚

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

ะ”ัะดั ะกั‚ะฐั ะžะฑัŠััะฝัะตั‚

ะ ัƒััะฐั ะ–ะธะทะฝัŒ


Polonium


Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentesโ€ฆ


Bad Medicine


Warriors of Faith


Manly Men of Manliness


Burn Paedowood to the Ground


Reading Too Much Into Things

Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


HALO Nation


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!


Big Boyz Toyz


Oh No! Anywayโ€ฆ


Comedy Hour


Meme Warfare

We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:

Dude success is highly questionable
Dude success is highly questionable
There are - but shit happens
There are – but shit happens
That is NOT what we want
That is NOT what we want
HEY - New illness means new profit
HEY – New illness means new profit
Can relate
Can relate
The reason man live less than women is beacuse we prefer it that way
The reason man live less than women is beacuse we prefer it that way
1
1
NO WAY
NO WAY
If you owe 100K - that's on you. If you owe 100B โ€“ thatโ€™s on them.
If you owe 100K – that’s on you. If you owe 100B โ€“ thatโ€™s on them.
Actually it was other females pointing at her
Actually it was other females pointing at her
Can sometime confirm
Can sometime confirm
DAMN. 7 LAYERS!
DAMN. 7 LAYERS!
Or any type of it
Or any type of it
Gil Gerard tribute
Gil Gerard tribute
They are sure
They are sure. And the kid was the smart one in this episode.
And the kid was the smart one in this episode
We agree as well
We agree as well
We can try, but now he is dead
We can try, but now he is dead
Erin Grey was SO HOT
Erin Grey was SO HOT
True that
True that
It is
It is
The Emperor says itโ€™s okay
The Emperor says itโ€™s okay
Pretty cool
Pretty cool
For Hanukkah – Arab rockets made into a Menora
For Hanukkah - Arab rockets made into a Menora
That girl needs to go online and read a little bit
That girl needs to go online and read a little bit
UK be like…
UK be like...
Worth a shot
Worth a shot
Game level – 99
Game level - 99
<Raised Eyebrow>
This ain’t going to last
This ain't going to last
That explains it
Who could’ve thought totally unnecessary strong ultraviolet radiation is extremely bad for skin?
Who could've thought totally unnecessary strong ultraviolet radiation is extremely bad for skin?
Ii is
Ii is
They do
They do
Both have game
Both have game
Not sure what to write here. Host?
Not sure what to write here. Host?
Bon Apetite
Bon Apetite
Stay safe
Stay safe
But in a good way
But in a good way
Let's kick some ass
Let’s kick some ass
8 Billion, but who's counting?
8 Billion, but who’s counting?
Zoomers in 50 years
Zoomers in 50 years
Know a few of those females
Know a few of those females
That is not how it works, but how it SHOULD
That is not how it works, but how it SHOULD
One the one hand - RESPECT. On the other hand - bitch be crazy
One the one hand – RESPECT. On the other hand – bitch be crazy
MAD RESPECT
MAD RESPECT

And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:


Animal Planet

Pawsitivity

Golden Doofuses

German Shedders

Cat Against Humanity

Cattitude

Derpskies

Maligators


Real Men Watch REAL Sports

REPS FOR JESUS!!!

Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

They See Me Rollinโ€™…

JUST BLEED!!!

Facefisted


Gymtardation


Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Knives Out

Drumlines

Guitar Heroics

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Bullshido Beatdown

Mambo Italiano

Hot Pie

Omaskase

KANPAI!!!

Culinary Arts

Nice to Meat You

Jump-Starts

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€

Letโ€™s get the year off to a properly rocking start with everyoneโ€™s favourite pirate metal band โ€“ RUNNING WILD. Everyone else who has ever come along, from ALESTORM to YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS toโ€ฆ well, all the other wannabees, are just copycats of the legendary OGs led by Rockinโ€™ Rolf Kasparek.


Rock Out With Your Glock Out


Thot Shots

And finally here are a few Instathots to get the year off to a suitably ridiculous start. Happy Monday.

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1 Comment

  1. Himself

    That “why bleck women are bad girlfriends/wives” cracked me up. You got a fat, bald, older black woman with dumb glasses woman-splainin’ why black dudes don’t want a stronk bleck woman. He didn’t need to show any trailers, just let her talk.

    I saw a video way back when ‘officer tatum’ first got started explaining why he had a white wife. It’s simple. Every woman other than black women treat them better. Simple as that. Dudes don’t want a competitor or a woman around them with masculine energy.

    Most grow up without fathers. So as the late great Kevin Samuels would say in the process of telling his callers that successful black men wanted wives, “So, you never learned how to be a wife”. This is probably why many of them prefer fat white chicks to black. Black women are on the dead bottom of the sexual marketplace. Who’s on top? Asian women. Nearly all men preferred them.

    And FWIW, Red Lobster always sucked. It’s demise was way overdue. I was on a trip with a Canadian colleague, and we hit a Red Lobster. It was packed. The dude says, “This place is very crowded, it must be good”. No, it isn’t, I said. It means there’s no other places around. I’ll never forget sitting at the bar next to a dude drinking a strawberry daquiri. The bartender goes to load up the machine and plops a bag on the bar – “Neutral base slush mix”. Dude looks at the pack, then at his drink, then at the pack. It was hilarious. Probably all plastic.

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