Here’s Monday, yet again, and once more, we’re pretty much all WELL behind where we thought we would be. For me, though, I must admit that this particular Monday didn’t start off too badly. I’m in the process of getting a new driver’s license, which around here is actually a colossal pain in the ass, and I completed one of the more difficult steps earlier today. I even managed it before drinking my first cup of coffee, which felt pretty good, all things considered.
But you’re not here to listen to me humblebrag, because that’s annoying and you’re still dealing with your weekend hangover. Instead, let’s spend some time with the latest Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher – and in particular, let’s watch Lefty hippie and generally all-around annoying character Roger Waters, from that band that your dad really liked in college, make Michael Smerconish of CNN look REALLY stupid:
I don’t agree with Mr. Waters on most things, and I especially don’t agree with him about Israel or Trump. But, I have to admit, he talks an awful lot of sense about Russia and Ukraine. And watching him make Smerconish look really stupid, just gives me the warm fuzzies. It’s a good way to start Monday, believe me.
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, went full-on Great MAGA King in meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:
Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn on Tuesday met Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, at Trumpโs estate in Bedminster, New Jersey. Foreign minister Pรฉter Szijjรกrtรณ, Balรกzs Orbรกn, the prime ministerโs political director, Zsolt Nรฉmeth, the head of parliamentโs foreign affair committee attended the meeting, as did Susie Wiles, the head of the Save America leadership PAC, political advisor Brian Jack and Save America communications director Taylor Budowich.
He also gave a VERY long speech at CPAC:
#BasedTucker is Based
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Nothing for Aug 5, and for the next week, since #BasedTucker is on vacation.
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots to keep up engaged and occupied with anything other than work this Monday. We start with one that will be VERY familiar to anyone who has ever had to go for a programming interview – as he said, “HASHMAP MF!!!”:
Fleccas Talks confirms what we’ve all known for a while now – WE’RE ALL DOOMED when Gen-Z gains power:
Time for some JP Sears:
Flashgitz knocks it out of the park with their depiction of thirsty Gammas with hyperactive imaginations to match their woefully under-served libidos:
New channel for us today – What I’ve Learned explains the benefits of extended fasting:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice notes that even liberals, despite their stupidity, can see sense from time to time – though only after extremely severe beatings with a clue-bat:
Jackson Hinkle conducted a quite excellent interview with the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Dmitriy Polyanskiy, on a wide range of subjects and topics related to Russia’s efforts to build this “fair world order” that they promote now:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted list all of the ways in which Nasty Pelosi‘s flying visit to Taiwan has made the geopolitical situation VASTLY worse for EVERYONE involved, including China:
New channel Stoic Finance looks at the dark side of China’s property bubble, as it continues to melt down and cause immense problems for the Chinese economy:
Another new one here – Mr. Reagan (great name) explains how BlackRock has turned gold to shit through insisting on using woke ESG scoring as an investment criterion:
As the video explains in some detail, the original idea behind ESG was actually a LIBERTARIAN one, designed to get governments OFF the backs of companies and make it easier for them to do business. That has since backfired, completely and totally.
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะธะปะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, to explain what the Neo-Tsar meant when he laid out the Russian Navy’s new doctrine and purpose – which really amounted to a new doctrine for the entire Russian military and its leadership:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The dynamic duo of The Duran have been exceptionally busy over the past week. First up, Alexander Mercouris does a long video almost exclusively concentrating on the situation in and around 404, indicating that the final collapse of the Banderites in Donbass, at least, is not far off:
His good friend and colleauge Alex Christoforou, is in Belgrade, enjoying the sights and sounds of Serbia, and meeting with some of The Duran‘s Locals community members – here’s a very interesting interview with a guy who actually fought for NATO during the 1999 air war against Serbia:
And in their joint programme, they did a long live-stream about the extraordinary stupidity of the Western attempts to marginalise and demonise China:
Righteous Rantery
PJW points out that stupidity has consequences, and Spain is proving that in spades now:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan does an extensive interview with Blaine Pardoe, the man at the centre of a massive controversy in the BattleTech universe of giant stompy robots that shoot lasers:
Said controversy involved booting out Mr. Pardoe because MUH FEE-FEES!!! on the part of a bunch of pissy SJWs. The likely result will be a severe crash in BattleTech revenues – as people may have noticed by now, fandoms don’t like it when SJWs encroach on their turf, and tend to abandon that turf outright when it becomes too stupid and toxic to take anymore.
Graham Phillips explains the consequences of the UK’s completely crazy and entirely illegal sanctions against him, a British citizen:
Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that it could not happen to you, just because you hold a passport of a given country. Western governments these days exist to abuse and vilify their own citizens, not to uphold law or justice.
I do hope that the Russians offer him sanctuary and refuge. The West is clearly no place for real free-thinkers to express opinions in the open anymore.
And that is a great and terrible tragedy. It was precisely this kind of closed-mindedness that destroyed once-great civilisations – like the Ottomans, and even the Russian Empire, at one point.
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey is willing to take on the entire medical establishment to test whether viruses even exist or not:
My view on the subject is that viruses DO exist, and we have sufficient proof and evidence of this by now, given that we have actual electron microscope images of real virus structures. But, I am more than willing to entertain the notion that quite a few of our worst diseases are more down to environmental factors than virological ones, and that vaccinations are not nearly the panacea that we have been told they are.
The inimitable, irrepressible Katie Hopkins explains the truly abysmal state of health care in BritBongLand:
Warriors of Faith
Hatun Tash, the Lioness of London, interviews The Dizzle about the colossal numbers of Muslims leaving the Great Heresy:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International continue their quest to discover the Aramaic roots of the original Koran, which was in fact a series of Christian lectionaries praising Christ and giving the Lord our God His due:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp explains the supreme importance of focusing on your Mission, not your woman:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster unpacks one of the most exciting potential fights of the UFC calendar this year:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
The pop culture news this week has been all about the wages of woke. In particular, we discovered that Warner Discovery completely shit-canned the Batgirl movie – which was fully completed – due to appallingly bad test screenings. It would appear that the tide is beginning to turn in Hollyweird, though it is too soon to tell for sure.
Midnight’s Edge breaks it down for us:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock puts a QAnon spin on the subject:
Ryan Kinel can’t help shoving his oar in either:
Even The Drinker had to rouse himself from his drunken stupor to wonder what the heck is going on:
Let’s change things up a little with Gary from Nerdrotic explaining that the Wages of Woke are coming for Amazog too:
I guess I should have warned you that if you watch the Amazog clips in that video, you might cringe so hard that you’ll break something important. So, y’know… Oops.
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and it is about a very topical subject – turns out that serotonin levels in the brain have very little to do with depression:
The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or activity in a systematic umbrella review of the principal relevant areas of research. PubMed, EMBASE and PsycINFO were searched using terms appropriate to each area of research, from their inception until December 2020. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and large data-set analyses in the following areas were identified: serotonin and serotonin metabolite, 5-HIAA, concentrations in body fluids; serotonin 5-HT1A receptor binding; serotonin transporter (SERT) levels measured by imaging or at post-mortem; tryptophan depletion studies; SERT gene associations and SERT gene-environment interactions. Studies of depression associated with physical conditions and specific subtypes of depression (e.g. bipolar depression) were excluded. Two independent reviewers extracted the data and assessed the quality of included studies using the AMSTAR-2, an adapted AMSTAR-2, or the STREGA for a large genetic study. The certainty of study results was assessed using a modified version of the GRADE. We did not synthesise results of individual meta-analyses because they included overlapping studies. The review was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020207203). 17 studies were included: 12 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, 1 collaborative meta-analysis, 1 meta-analysis of large cohort studies, 1 systematic review and narrative synthesis, 1 genetic association study and 1 umbrella review. Quality of reviews was variable with some genetic studies of high quality. Two meta-analyses of overlapping studies examining the serotonin metabolite, 5-HIAA, showed no association with depression (largest nโ=โ1002). One meta-analysis of cohort studies of plasma serotonin showed no relationship with depression, and evidence that lowered serotonin concentration was associated with antidepressant use (nโ=โ1869). Two meta-analyses of overlapping studies examining the 5-HT1A receptor (largest nโ=โ561), and three meta-analyses of overlapping studies examining SERT binding (largest nโ=โ1845) showed weak and inconsistent evidence of reduced binding in some areas, which would be consistent with increased synaptic availability of serotonin in people with depression, if this was the original, causal abnormaly. However, effects of prior antidepressant use were not reliably excluded. One meta-analysis of tryptophan depletion studies found no effect in most healthy volunteers (nโ=โ566), but weak evidence of an effect in those with a family history of depression (nโ=โ75). Another systematic review (nโ=โ342) and a sample of ten subsequent studies (nโ=โ407) found no effect in volunteers. No systematic review of tryptophan depletion studies has been performed since 2007. The two largest and highest quality studies of the SERT gene, one genetic association study (nโ=โ115,257) and one collaborative meta-analysis (nโ=โ43,165), revealed no evidence of an association with depression, or of an interaction between genotype, stress and depression. The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. Some evidence was consistent with the possibility that long-term antidepressant use reduces serotonin concentration.
The Serotonin Hypothesis, along with the Alzheimer’s Plaque Hypothesis, deserves to go right on top of the ever-growing trash heap of terrible unscientific ideas, like the Lipid Hypothesis (i.e. eating saturated fats like butter, red meat, and eggs, makes you more likely to have heart disease) and Anthropogenic Global Warming. It’s ALL bunk and nonsense.
In reality, antidepressants have done TREMENDOUS damage to millions of people over the long-term – including, as it happens, my own grandfather. The theory has lasted as long as it has because, basically, pharma companies can make GIGANTINORMOUS amounts of money off it.
Speaking as a shareholder in at least two pharma companies, I will say this: it is all very well to make blockbuster drugs, but it would be nice if they, y’know, worked, without these repeated scandals consistently wiping off billions of dollars in shareholder value every few years.
Yourย long read of the week is from Rachel Blevins, and it discusses whether Zelensky’s days as the darling of the West are drawing rapidly to a close (spoiler alert: HELL YES):
Now, this may not sound like much, but the fact that the report was published at all signals a major shift in a world where previously, there was no criticism of Zelensky allowed in any form.ย
For months now, the photos and the videos of the atrocities committed by Ukraine have been shared across social mediaโbut they have been blissfully ignored by the Western establishment, andย labeledย โdisinformationโ by Big Tech giants who censored independent journalists and alternative media like it was their job.
The only problem with the mainstream narrative that Zelensky was some kind of hero, and that if he just had enough money and weapons sent to him, then he would โbeat Russia,โ is that it was never the reality. And yes, thatโs even with the US and the EU supplying unprecedented funding and weapons to Ukraine, while imposing historic sanctions against Russia.ย
Thatโs even with the establishment doing everything in its power to cover up and ignore the fact that Zelensky wasย banningย political parties, orย firingย dozens of officials, including his countryโs prosecutor general. Or the fact that he is targeting his own citizens for anything he viewed as remotely โpro-Russianโ despite their heritage. Or when he was proudlyย paradingย the neo-Nazi militias within his own military.ย
But the truth canโt stay hidden forever. And while European officials previously claimed they werenโt concerned about the weapons that were being sent to Ukraine being smuggled over their bordersโtop law enforcement agencies have started to warn thatโs exactly what is happening, saying they have found overwhelming evidence that those weapons that were sent off as โlethal aidโ are now ending up in the hands of criminals and gangs in Europe.ย
Linkage is good for you:
- The Central Bank of Russia reckons that the Russian economy will contract by 7% in 2022 – which is far better than its original estimate of -14%, and actually there is already evidence that it will be only around 3-4%;
- Meanwhile, 404’s economy is likely to shrink by 45% in 2022, according to the World Bank – and even that is far too optimistic, because that estimate came from April, and things have gotten MUCH worse in the past 4 months;
- A guest writer on The Saker forcefully illustrates the truth about Russia’s economy – when measured properly, it is in fact at least the size of Germany’s, and is almost certainly several multiples of that size in reality;
- Robert Inlakesh points out the sheer hypocrisy of Western governments putting pressure on Lebanon, a country facing actual famine, to steal shit from other nations on Banderastan’s behalf;
- While we’re on the subject of Western hypocrisy, Nebojsa Malic discusses the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, which for some reason Europeans are in a great hurry to forget about;
- Russia continues to be willing to negotiate for peace, though it is very clear that neither the West nor 404 want anything to do with an actual peace process that might save whatever is left of the country;
- Larry Johnson points out that, in any competitive struggle, you have to understand what and how the other guy thinks, otherwise you’ll end up with a bunch of very stupid flawed assumptions that have no bearing on reality;
- Andrei Martyanov dissects Western claims about Soviet casualties the Battle of Kursk and notes that those numbers just don’t add up, at all – in fact, the Russians inflicted much heavier losses on the Krauts than originally supposed;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama points out that the truth about Ukrainian casualties is finally emerging and making its presence felt – they are HORRENDOUS, and there is no hiding that fact anymore;
- Ekaterina Blinova discusses the theory, promoted by Ron Unz and others, that the USSA was actually behind the creation of COVID-19 and its eventual release through China as a backfiring bioweapon attack;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks, and answers, the question of whether Taiwan is worth a war to the USA;
- Batgirl was so bad, so woke, so stupid, that its cancellation was inevitable, according to Tom Leonard, and that serves as a useful warning to the rest of Hollyweird;
- Unfortunately, the Wages of Woke have not yet come to BP and its CEO, who pockets a rather immense salary while his company rakes in huge profits from oil and gas, even while the man himself preaches a lot of windbaggery;
- In a sign of the times, a sinkhole appeared out of pretty much nowhere in Chile;
- Paul Craig Roberts explains, in fairly simplified (and not entirely accurate) ways, exactly how he thinks America’s economy was hollowed out and destroyed;
- If you’re dumb enough to put synthol in your muscles, you’ll look like crap, and you’ll probably die a lot younger than you might expect;
- Let’s put a positive note on things by pointing out that Donna D’Erico looks really damn good for a woman of her age;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- A man who used to subscribe to OnlySimps has decided to delete his account, and good for him – he should wife up his woman and pump her full of babies, not waste his time on attention whores on the web;
- For all that the Chinese are objectively less expansionist and dangerous to their allies than America is, that still doesn’t mean you can trust them, especially when it comes to space debris that they caused;
- So what exactly is the point of the United Abominations anyway? It’s a good question, and one without an easy answer;
- If you are willing to give up your personal data and privacy, Canuckistan’s favourite foreign export, Tim Horton’s, is willing to give you a coffee and a donut for it;
- When New York F***ing Shitty tells you that they are going to install WiFi at all of their metro stations, over a decade after everyone else figured out how to do it, you can be sure that it will only be done WAY over budget and time;
- There’s a dude in China who can’t get a job because he’s 27 but looks like he’s 5, and yeah, it’s genuinely weird;
- If you like books, solitude, and the Maldives, then you might just be able to work and live there for a full year, completely rent-free in a luxury villa that costs US$60K per night (!!!!!), and be paid US$1,200 a month;
- The Z-Man explains how Sri Lanka is a perfect example of what happens when tribal fanaticism and incompetence combine into one truly snarled-up ball of stupid;
- Bitcoin may well turn out to be a great long-term investment (I’m kind of on the fence about that idea), but in the short-term, at least, getting involved with it could be extraordinarily costly, as MicroStrategy discovered;
- Wikipedia thinks that a recession is whatever Brandon thinks it is – the problem is that he has absolutely no idea what the hell is going on anyway, so why is anyone even listening to him?;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar met with his Turkish counterpart in Sochi recently for a detailed discussion on a number of subjects:
It is interesting to note just how often Erdogan meets with Putin. Keep in mind that Turkey (or Turkiye, as we’re now apparently supposed to call it) is ostensibly a NATO member-state. And yet, the ties between it and NATO’s greatest enemy are much warmer and closer than between it and any other NATO member, including the USA.
Sooner or later, Turkey will break away from NATO. And then the alliance will be in a crisis the likes of which it has never seen before.
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is Mikhail Tukhachevsky (ะะธั ะฐะธะป ะะธะบะพะปะฐะตะฒะธั ะขัั ะฐัะตะฒัะบะธะน), one of the pioneers of Soviet military doctrine and theory:
Unfortunately, Tukhachevsky was executed during Stalin’s purges in the Great Terrors in 1937. It is NOT AT ALL coincidental that the Red Army started to fall to pieces shortly thereafter, and that is part of the reason why its performance in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa was so terrible.
Yet it is thanks in large measure to this one man that the Russian Army today practices its theory of “Deep Operations”, which we now see being carried out in their full horror and glory in 404.
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz discusses Joe Staten‘s return to the franchise, while doing what only he can do:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
I’ll bet that if we took a snap poll of everyone who views this as to whether they would be interested in watching JUST THESE TWO doing a show where they try various tipples, get drunk, and have loud arguments, it would be a SMASH HIT.
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews
We start with some high-class memes and funny pics from Dawn Pine:
While we’re on the subject of shit you can’t say…
Onward:
Headlines of the week indicate that, just when you think we’ve reached Peak Floriduh, we find there is another summit:
Your “DON’T VISIT CROATIA!” moment of the week:
Your “F**K This Shit, I’m Moving to Antarctica” moment of the week:
Your “Seriously, That’s It, I’m Moving” moment of the week:
I’m warning you in advance that the next one will want to make you burn your eyes out with oven cleaner:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Shahram Saki:
Palate Cleanser
Before we get to the really heavy stuff, let’s enjoy a walk on the lighter side – this one is for the men in our camp with severe Gingervitis:
That probably made the Gingervitis worse, not better, right?
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Seriously, the only modern metal artist that I’ve seen with more talent than Tommy Johansson, is Jari from WINTERSUN.
That’s not bad, but let’s watch the originals do it better:
Hot Totty
Right, finally, here we are – the Instathot for Monday, the real reason why you’re actually here. This here is Ava Thompson, age 24, from the USSA. She is an aesthetician, makeup artist, model, “influencer”, and brand ambassador. She also has “preferred pronouns” in her bio, so you know the drill – look, don’t touch, not even with a 10-foot pole. And all of that is before we get to the tattoos, plastics, and TCS.
OK, you layabouts, quit goldbricking and get back to work. Staring at some Instathot’s ass isn’t going to pay your energy bills, since they keep going up thanks to Brandon.
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