Monday morning legends of legendary heroes

by Didact | Jun 17, 2019 | Mondays, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Well, here we are at another Monday, and I thought that instead of bitching about it, we could start off the week by reminding ourselves of some legendary heroes of the past, in line with my Father’s Day post from yesterday about the need for heroes in our lives.

Let’s start with one of the greatest racing legends ever to drive in Formula 1 – Ayrton Senna:

What is astonishing about Senna is that, despite his madcap antics on the track, he was actually a real stickler for driver safety. He didn’t give a damn about his own, and if you were a serious competitor then he was absolutely ruthless about taking you out – but he cared deeply about the safety of his fellow drivers and risked his reputation, his career, and even sometimes his very life to keep others safe.

Which is what he was doing the very weekend that he died:

I honestly do believe that if Senna had lived, Michael Schumacher would have won at most 3 F-1 world championships, and Senna would have taken at least 5, if not a full 8, before calling it quits. He was simply that good.

Sadly, we will never really know. He’s gone now, and may his soul rest in peace.

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Here’s a scene about two more F-1 racing legends – James Hunt and his storied rivalry with his friend Niki Lauda:

Mr. Lauda passed away recently, and that is sad indeed – the world lost a great legend of the sport:

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Legends be legendary no matter their age:

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Speaking of heroes – let us not forget those Americans who died in Vietnam fighting for a cause that they never fully understood and probably never really agreed with either:

And that’s the funny thing about the Vietnam War: America was winning it, decisively, from 1969 to 1973.

We think of the Vietnam War today as a wasted conflict, and a pointless one. But actually, there were a number of Southeast Asian leaders at the time – among them Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore – who argued forcefully that if it were not for American intervention in Vietnam, the entire region would have gone solidly red, and that would have brought untold misery and destruction to the whole area.

It’s hard to argue with them, given that this is precisely what happened in Vietnam. Even to this day, there is a serious animus between South and North Vietnamese, because of what the Northerners did to the Southerners after they won the war.

(Sounds familiar, right?)

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Remember James Doohan, the actor who played Montgomery Scott in the original Star Trek series and all of those films?

Turns out, he wasn’t just a Canadian with a bad Scottish accent. He was a true and proper BAMF:

Doohan, who died back in 2005, had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army when he was just 19 years old.

He had progressed to the rank of lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division by the time Allied troops invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Doohan and his division were tasked with taking Juno Beach on D-Day as other Allied forces, including U.S. and British troops, focused on other nearby landing points.

He managed to take out two German snipers when he successfully led his men across the beach without setting off any of the planted mines.

‘I don’t know if they were killed or wounded but it shut them up,’ Doohan told the New York Times back in 1998.

While Doohan wasn’t injured during the initial invasion, he was accidentally shot six times by a fellow Canadian serviceman later that evening when he was walking back to his post.

Doohan suffered gunshot wounds to the leg, his hand and chest.

He lost his right middle finger in the gunfire and narrowly escaped a fatal shot to the chest when his metal cigarette case deflected the bullet.

After recovering from his injuries, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and served as a pilot.

He would go on to become known as the ‘craziest pilot in the Canadian air force’ at the tail end of the war.

That is the kind of war-hero legend that we just do not have in Hollyweird anymore.

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Jake Tapeworm from the Communist News Network once interviewed Marcus Luttrell and Mark Wahlberg during the promotional tour for Lone Survivor, the movie. Let’s just say that it got awkward in a very big hurry – for the rat-bastard whorenalist:

That moment when Corpsman Luttrell glances over at Mr. Wahlberg and then straightens up in his chair, fixes the Tapeworm with a steely-eyed stare, and proceeds to calmly and quietly tear him a new asshole, is a lot of fun to watch.

You can just tell by the expression on Mr. Wahlberg’s face that he’s sitting there thinking, “Jake, you might want to apologise and STFU now…”

And yes, in case you missed it, I have no respect whatsoever for CNN. They hate America, they hate Western civilisation, and they hate all that is good and true. And because of that, they lack even the most basic sense of humour.

The sooner that their shitty propaganda network goes out of business and shuts down, the better off the world will be.

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Rep. Eric Swallowswell would do well to learn from the magnificent and beneficent God-Emperor, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, about how to do rhetoric properly:

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The ChiComs went and severely pissed off a huge number of people in Hong Kong with their recent attempts to ram an extradition bill through their puppet legislature in the protectorate:

Apparently the ChiComs and their lackeys in the Hong Kong “democratically elected” legislature got the message and backed down about the new law… for now.

Look, the fact is that the ChiComs will get their way eventually and will fold Hong Kong into the Chinese way of doing things, sooner and not later.

Why?

Because the Chinese have the world’s biggest military and the world’s largest air force, as well as a dozen Kilo-class diesel submarines which are basically silent when running at 3 knots or less and therefore undetectable by American (passive) sonar, and in the end, nobody is going to risk a couple of supercarrier battlegroups and some 15,000 men to save an island with sod-all by way of natural resources and nothing but skyscrapers everywhere.

That’s just reality. The guy with the biggest guns and the most ammo wins, especially if the other guy doesn’t have so much as a water pistol.

The people of Hong Kong aren’t stupid. They can see the writing on the wall. They know damned well that their beloved island paradise and economic miracle is going to go the way of the dodo. So they are rapidly buying up property in Vancouver and Seattle, among other places, in order to have boltholes to go to.

The lesson there is clear: always have a Plan B of some kind.

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Keanu Reeves has a surprisingly tragic and sad life story, but it hasn’t stopped him from being perhaps the coolest, most fundamentally decent, charming, and laid-back actor in the world.

And he’s reinvented himself in recent years as the most badass of badasses with the John Wick series, which is, hands down, one of the very best action film series ever made.

Turns out that, on top of all of this, he is also one of the smartest and most canny celebrities out there in the PoundMeToo era:

As a fellow deep introvert, I have nothing but respect for Keanu Reeves. He is hugely talented and his work ethic is insane, and everyone who has ever worked with him says that he is the most kind and decent person you could ever meet.

Good for him that he avoids getting sued by women for touching them – because he has been burned before by crazy bitches.

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Here’s your “inspirational but highly derivative pop-song medley” of the day:

Actually, I have to admit that I heard that song for the first time while watching a video where the song was dubbed over THE GRAND TOUR‘s farewell montage, and… well, it very nearly made me weep.

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And here’s your awwwww video of the day – a lioness that helps a tigress raise her cubs:

Don’t bother watching past the first 2 minutes. The moment that the guy starts singing is when you know that he’s jumped the damned shark.

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Charlize Theron might actually be good dating material, even at the age of FIFTY, if she wasn’t such a liberaltard nutbag:

She should stick to surprising the hell out of people with her Sefriken accent, which is really quite lovely to listen to. Parenting and dating, though, appear to be quite beyond her.

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Now this is a damned good idea:

There is an old joke about federal democratic republics:

“God created two federal democratic republics on Earth – Switzerland, to show everyone how it could be done properly, and America, as a warning to everyone else.”

The Swiss have indeed gotten the right idea. If you cannot pay your own way and must rely on the generosity of others in order to live in an advanced First World nation – GET OUT. You don’t belong there.

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Paul Ramsey excoriates yet another tradthot who has airheaded pretensions of being a leader of the “conservative movement” – whatever that is:

Hard to argue with him, really. The fact is that the Alt-Lite hasn’t accomplished a whole lot beyond producing some interesting documentaries and getting milkshakes thrown at them. And that’s fine – but when it comes to building actual platforms and getting shit done, it hasn’t been the conservative movement that has done it.

It has been the Hard Right, and ordinary citizens who are just sick and tired of getting ripped off and taken advantage of – see the “We Build the Wall” project, started by a triple-amputee veteran, for example, or Unauthorized.tv, which as far as I can tell has flown under the radar so far, but is steadily gaining subscribers and momentum and will eventually turn out to be better than YouTube in many ways, if the Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) and his team deliver on their promises. (Which they almost surely will.)

As for the thots who pretend that they know what wins American elections – shut the hell up. You were wrong then, you are wrong now. Immigration is the only issue that matters anymore. There can be no American economy, no American values, no debate about what it means to be American, when the American nation itself observably no longer exists in cohesive form and is being visibly immigrated out of existence.

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This is a sport that I could really get behind:

ONLY the Russians could come up with both slap-boxing and booty-slapping as SPORTS.

I do love the Russkies. And not just because of their hot women.

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The Trap Lord throws a wrench at a soyboy “academic” who thinks that dodgeball is oppressive. The soyboy doesn’t manage to dodge it, at all:

The moment that the dweeb appeared on the screen, my brain jumped up and immediately started yammering, “SOYBOY!!!”. Seriously, if you want to define the term in just one picture, simply take a snapshot of that pasty cuck’s face.

Now go watch the 2004 film which is still one of the funniest sports comedies ever made:

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It is well past time to defund the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation:

And here is a particularly telling quote from the article itself:

Content for its five national radio stations cost the BBC £260 million last year. Local radio channels amounted to another £172 million.

Yet much of this output overlaps. Viewers of BBC London and BBC South East have separate weather forecasts despite the weather there being essentially the same.

Regional language stations, meanwhile, are extremely expensive. The Gaelic station Radio nan Gaidheal costs £4 million per year, almost 21p per hour per listener, compared to 6.2p for Radio 1.

Commercial radio stations prove things can be done much more cheaply. Global Radio, which includes Capital, Heart, Classic FM, Smooth, LBC, Gold and numerous local stations, costs £290 million compared with the BBC’s radio output of £655 million.

Global lowers costs by sharing news and keeping a lid on presenters’ pay — unlike the BBC, which paid a single radio presenter, Chris Evans, £1.6 million before he defected to Virgin last year.

Defenders of the BBC – I’m sorry, but it’s 2019 and “BBC” these days means something VERY different from what it did back in the good old days – insist that the Beeb produces content that you simply cannot and will not get from for-profit commercial stations, and that the quality of its news broadcasts is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

Certainly that was more or less exactly the argument made by one of its former top international correspondents, John Simpson, whose books I read when I was much younger.

Now, back when the BBC actually made something of an effort – not much of one, it must be said – to be objective in its news broadcasting, it did in fact present a useful alternative to the absurdly one-sided American news organisations of the time. This was about 20-25 years ago.

As LTC Tom Kratman once put it, the Kosovo bombing campaign was launched by a certain President who got caught with his pecker in a fat chick’s mouth, in order to get said pecker, and said fat chick, off the front-page news. (I’m paraphrasing, obviously; the Excruciator’s words were a bit more picturesque.) The campaign failed. One of the very few organisations that even attempted to show the Serbian point of view in that campaign was, in fact, the BBC.

Of course, all of that supposed objectivity and solid reporting is now dead and buried in Current Year – because Current Year, therefore Social Justice, or some such bullshit.

So there is no good reason anymore to continue funding the Beeb’s international or domestic news arms. Internationally, the Beeb’s reporting is already a big step behind the always-on, always-updated reporting from independent reporters with mobile phones. And domestically, the Beeb has revealed itself to be totally dead-set against Brexit, British sovereignty, and any form of nationalism.

As for its entertainment arm… I’ve got precisely two words for you. TOP GEAR.

The greatest TV show of all time was destroyed by the Beeb when they fired Jeremy Clarkson. (I will readily concede that they could not let him go unpunished for what he did – but firing him was just plain idiotic.)

As far as I’m concerned, TOP GEAR was the only show that I cared about on the BBC. And now it’s a shit-show of a shit show.

There is no reason for the British public to fund the BBC anymore – especially not when it insists on charging pensioners for their TVs.

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I’m just going to let this one speak for itself…

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Remember when it was politically correct and acceptable to make Polish jokes?

The Poles don’t – because to them, Polish jokes are their whole LIFE:

Police in central Poland responded to a late evening call over an incident that surely sent chills down the spines of Russophobe conspiracy theorists: a T-55 tank rampaging down the main street.

When police arrived at the scene in the town of Pajeczno on Thursday night, they found the Soviet-era tank casually parked on a central roadway with its two occupants nearby, one of whom was an intoxicated 49-year-old man who had been in the driver seat.

As it turns out, he had been authorized to drive the vehicle – although his superiors presumably only wanted him to move it off and on the damaged trailer on which it was being transported, rather than driving it through the city center. They also likely expected him to remain sober while operating the 36-ton armored combat vehicle. To make matters worse, local media report that there was no insurance policy on the tank.

Police were unable to get the tank off the street and onto a trailer until 5am.

The bulletproof joyride could cost the driver two years behind bars for driving under the influence, and up to eight years for creating a dangerous situation, although there are no reports of anything being destroyed or run over during the escapade.

On Twitter, quite a number of people commented that the incident had a striking similarity to the newer installments of the popular game ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ only with a distinctively Polish twist.

OK, I dunno about all y’all, but I really want to live in a country where you can get an actual permit to drive a totally legit Cold War-era Russian tank down the streets.

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Pics time:

Hillary Clinton is the exception to this rule. She is simply horrifying ALL the time.

Some funny cartoons about relationships from this here website:

Power Line:

GOD BLESS TEXAS! AMEN!!

Reason #1,583,390 why veganism doesn’t make sense…

$20 says that happened in Floriduh.

As if trying to steal an election wasn’t enough… IS THERE NO MERCY?!?!?

Sometime God just hands you one…

He should have claimed that he ate Taco Bell – the police would have given him an emergency escort.

Uh… I’m sorry… AGAIN?!?!?

Only if you’re afraid of dying of laughter.

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Dog of the week is the American foxhound:

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Gym idiots time, I’m sorry to say:

The CrossShit fails are always a joy to watch, for sure.

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The true story of the man who basically saved the UFC:

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#MadeOfMetal

I have found DWARF METAL. MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE!!!

I’ve been listening to the latest GLORYHAMMER album on repeat for days now. It’s absolutely hilarious. It’s like someone took POWERWOLF, FREEDOM CALL, and RHAPSODY (OF FIRE) into a blender, stuck it on high for an hour, and then poured on a huge heaping helping of melted Swiss cheese just for good measure. It’s good silly fun power metal of the kind that you often just don’t get anymore.

I’ll bet filming that video was a bitch and a half, given that it was done in sub-zero temperatures…

And as always, to round things off, a song from THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME – also known as IRON MAIDEN:

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Your Instathot for the start of the week comes from the same booty-slapping story that I posted up earlier. Her name is Anastasiya Zolotaya, and it so happens that her last name means “gold” (золотый) in Russian. She is some sort of fitness model who likes to travel. (Yeah, I know – surprise surprise.)

At any rate, no matter how thotty she might be, she is the golden cherry on top of this sundae of legendary awesomeness that is Monday’s post.