Boys, I’m gonna level with you: last week absolutely was the week from Hell.
Everything hit pretty much right at the same time – a full moon that sent all the crazies into overdrive and meltdown; a killer pandemic sweeping the globe and resulting in massively disrupted travel plans, not to mention hugely expensive rebooking fees; extreme weather events that resulted in high winds knocking down trees and killing at least one person in the area where I am now; a complete and total abeyance of sense and sensibility in markets around the world; economies in free-fall; borders shut; states of emergency declared everywhere the eye can see; and, as if all of that weren’t enough, slight aggravations of nagging personal injuries on top of what can only be described as insane amounts of Lady Drama.
Said “killer pandemic” is moving faster than any of us can keep up with. Every hour the situation changes, to the point that if you read up in the morning on what happened last night, that’s about as useful as planning a military campaign in Iran by reading up on the antics of Cyrus the Great.
Nonetheless, it is vitally important not to give in to the fear porn that is going on right now. And there is no better way to do this, in my personal humble opinion, than by looking at the true Hell that real warriors have to endure in order to become tough and strong members of America’s elite Navy SEALs:
I’ve seen some speculation of late that the SEAL teams are not what they used to be. Political correctness is running rampant through them and the recent case of Chief Eddie Gallagher has certainly cast the US Navy in general and the SEALs in particular in a very negative light. I’ve also heard from more than one reader that the US Navy has become a den of thieves and vipers of late, especially under the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed Obarmy Maladministration.
I have also read in various places that the British Special Air Service and Special Boat Service claim that the fact that their recruits come from the same units, and therefore have a tighter bond of esprit de corps, makes them better overall than the SEALs. I consider that to be a fairly pointless dick-measuring exercise, so I make no claims as to who is “better” or “worse”.
All I can say is that those men who go through the kind of mind- and back-breaking training that turns already tough and hardened warriors into elite commandos, are real heroes.
Some of them read this blog. To them, I say:
Thank you.
And to the rest of you, I say:
Take inspiration from what those men have put themselves through, and you’ll quickly find that whatever you are going through is nowhere near as bad.
On with the Great Mondaydact Browser Crash, then.
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#BasedTucker is based, especially about the spread of Corona-chan:
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It is worth taking a look at why His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, is so good at figuring out his opponents and their weaknesses, and how he goes about using those very same weaknesses against them:
His mastery of body language and innate charisma is almost surely instinctive. The man is a MEGA-ALPHA, and Ur-Alphas like him, and his magnificent predecessor in the ranks of Ur-Alpha Presidents, St. Ronald Magnus of the Right, understand in their very bones how to figure out the “social tone” and tenor of an audience very quickly.
Alphas in general are masters of understanding body language, because they sit at the absolute apex of the socio-sexual hierarchy, and in order to get to the top of that pyramid, you must know how to use those below you. You have to know how to create teams and keep them moving. And you need to figure out, very quickly, exactly how to use people’s strengths and weaknesses to get a job done.
After all, if they don’t figure out those signals and how to use them, Alphas don’t stay on top of the heap for very long. Heck, those who don’t master these skills, don’t get to the top, or anywhere even near to the top.
The analysis that the lady does about President Trump’s handshakes is absolutely spot-on. The God-Emperor understands on sight exactly who is, and is not, an Alpha. His body language and handshake makes it perfectly clear that he regards the Neo-Tsar as a genuine equal, another true Ur-Alpha – and that he regards Emmanuel Macron as a mincing little poofter trying to act like a man.
That’s why I love watching the God-Emperor doing what he does. Yes, his vocabulary is limited to about a thousand words, most of which are superlatives. And yes, he is given over to extreme braggadocio. But he is an absolute master of the socio-sexual hierarchy, and he’s a truly legendary leader.
He may have been a disappointment in many ways, but there is simply no one out there who could have done a better job under the circumstances that he has had to endure, than him.
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Mark Dice is having an absolute blast mocking Creepy Uncle Joe:
He’s also having a lot of fun mocking the shit out of the Clown News Network’s biggest idiots:
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Bill Whittle discusses how personal liberties will likely be sacrificed for the sake of stopping a deadly disease in its tracks:
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Jason from Blue Collar Logic breaks down the nonsense espoused by a recent viral feminist video starring Cynthia Nixon and Rep. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex:
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The Male Brain is back with his usual collection of excellent and highly educational stuff, starting with a video that answers a question that has puzzled the greatest philosophers of the land for centuries…
Inquiring minds WANT TO KNOW, dammit!!!
Actually, though I have huge respect for Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children, even a Marine battalion outnumbered one hundred to one would certainly be wiped out.
At some level, war is about cold mathematics – one of our readers, the esteemed LTC Tom Kratman (US Army – Ret), came up with an acronym, which I recall as being something like “MOSSMOUSE”, to describe the main tactical and strategic considerations that dictate victory. As I remember it, that acronym involved two concepts called Mass and Shape – and an army with a great deal of mass, that knows how to shape that mass into proper formations, is going to triumph even on difficult terrain.
Via our mutual friend Aaron Clarey, here’s a classic clip of an economist performing stand-up comedy:
Some good stuff from John Stossel showing that government “help” is a lot like a surgeon amputating your leg in order to fix a toothache:
Another one about Leftist academic “standards”, which are basically non-existent at this point:
And speaking of pathetic academic standards on the Left:
How Leftists debate:
Let’s play a game of “Guess the Religion” – you’ll find out at about 1:53 in the video, and it’ll become very obvious as to why they “blackfaced” this story in the process:
Must be those damned BLACK AMISH again!!!
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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance explains what a Sanders Presidency – all right, you lot in the peanut gallery, pipe down, stop laughing, I know the idea is hysterical, but it’s still a possibility – would look like:
He also explains a concept that I’ve been talking about for nearly 7 years now:
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The lovely and charming Mrs. Brittany Sellner takes a deeper look at the crisis engulfing Greece at its borders with Turkey:
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PJW takes on the growing panic over Corona-chan’s spread by looking at the very different responses of globalist versus nationalist countries to the spread of the disease, and also provides some much-needed sane commentary and perspective:
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Paul Ramsey is REALLY unimpressed with the way that the God-Emperor has tackled the COVID-19 crisis:
It goes without saying that I strongly disagree with his take on things. From what I’ve seen, the God-Emperor is doing a solid job – especially compared to the neoliberal idiots over in Western Europe, who insisted on keeping their borders open and now have over 50,000 infected patients across the continent as a result.
Because of their complacency, there are now more victims of Corona-chan outside of China than there are IN China.
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Terrence Popp has an absolutely BRUTAL take on Harry and the Half-Blood Princess:
Like our friend Popp, I fully expect the Ginger Whinger to get his ass handed to him in divorce court within the next few years, once the Half-Blood Princess realises that her personal “brand” isn’t nearly as bright and shiny as she thinks it is, and decides to resort to “resource extraction” instead.
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El Razorfist has a look at what is left of Cranky Old Jew Bernie Sanders’ campaign in the wake of Super Tuesday:
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The “climate change” pillocks have got some explaining to do, because the data do not support their claims of either abnormally severe weather, or abnormally warm weather:
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Liberals and progressives in the USA love to bang on about how great and free healthcare is in other countries, notably in Canada and much of Europe. They never stop to ask, though, whether that “free” healthcare is actually worth the true cost:
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Anyone living in Commiefornia, especially in the southern part of that crazy state, would be well advised to look elsewhere to live:
And anyone who lives in a state where Commiefornians have moved, would be well advised to make damned sure that those idiots never get to vote in the local elections.
If there is one thing that is guaranteed with Commiefornians, it is that they are too stupid to stop voting for the same idiotic policies that got them into such a mess back in their original state.
California Screamin’, indeed.
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Midnight’s Edge discusses the collapse of the three great sci-fi IPs over the past few years:
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Gary from Nerdrotic points out that “get woke, go broke” isn’t just destroying sci-fi universes – it is now causing serious damage to fantasy IPs too:
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Overlord Dicktor Von Doomcock explains why the STAR WARPED and Doctor Who Cares franchises have been so thoroughly damaged:
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Dave Cullen is the latest to analyse the destruction wrought upon the Doctor Who Cares franchise:
Switching gears a bit, he also has some excellent advice about how to wean ourselves off the highly addictive information drug that is teh innarwebz (yes, the sheer hypocrisy of putting this video into a post that is the LITERAL DEFINITION of MASSIVE information overload is not lost upon me):
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And now for your “Science is F***ING WEIRD!” moment of the week, via Dawn Pine:
From humans to black-tailed prairie dogs, female mammals often outlive males – but for birds, the reverse is true.
Now researchers say they have cracked the mystery, revealing that having two copies of the same sex chromosome is associated with having a longer lifespan, suggesting the second copy offers a protective effect.
“These findings are a crucial step in uncovering the underlying mechanisms affecting longevity, which could point to pathways for extending life,” the authors write. “We can only hope that more answers are found in our lifetime.”
The idea that a second copy of the same sex chromosome is protective has been around for a while, supported by the observation that in mammals – where females have two of the same sex chromosomes – males tend to have shorter lifespans. In birds, males live longer on average and have two Z chromosomes, while females have one Z and one W chromosome.
Scientists say they have found the trend is widespread. Writing in the journal Biology Letters, the team report that they gathered data on sex chromosomes and lifespan across 229 animal species, from insects to fish and mammals. Hermaphroditic species and those whose sex is influenced by environmental conditions – such as green turtles – were not included.
The results reveal that individuals with two of the same sex chromosomes live 17.6% longer, on average, than those with either two different sex chromosomes or just one sex chromosome.
The team say the findings back a theory known as the “unguarded X hypothesis”. In human cells, sex chromosome combinations are generally either XY (male) or XX (female). In females only one X chromosome is activated at random in each cell.
As a result, a harmful mutation in one of the female’s X chromosomes will not affect all cells, and hence its impact can be masked. By contrast, as males only have one X chromosome, any harmful mutations it contains are far more likely to be exposed.
As Dawn Pine said when he emailed me that link, this reminds him of an old Jewish joke:
“Why do men die earlier than their wives?”
“Because they want to.”
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Your long read of the week comes from our friend The Male Brain again, and concerns the ways in which the political elites need to be tested for character, rather than merely merit:
It is not a coincidence that a performative rather than formative understanding of institutions has arisen in our age of meritocracy. To see institutions as platforms for performance is to deny them their role as molds of character, and by extension to deny our very need for such formation. Our culture now often does deny that need. Both the libertarian and the progressive ideals of freedom assume a human person already fully formed, requiring only liberation from oppression or coercion to be free. The meritocracy is rooted in an idea of achievement that tends to take the fact that someone has reached a position of privilege as evidence that this person warrants trust, or at least has paid his dues.
The vision of the human person underlying these assumptions is loaded with very high expectations of the individual, but it therefore makes only modest demands of institutions. Left to himself, the individual can exercise his capacities and pursue the good; our institutions need only to enable him — if not, indeed, to display or promote him.
But this vision has always been opposed in our traditions by a far more skeptical view, which assumes a person who begins imperfect and unformed — not to say fallen. This other ideal comes loaded with rather low expectations of the individual, but it therefore demands a lot of our institutions. It assumes that each of us is born deficient but capable of moral improvement, that such improvement happens soul by soul and so cannot be circumvented by social or political transformation, and that this improvement — the formation of character and virtue — is the foremost work of our society in every generation. This work is the essential, defining purpose of our institutions, which must therefore be fundamentally formative.
This more skeptical vision of the human person and the purpose of society’s institutions has roots that run deep in Western civilization, but it is now very controversial. The assault upon formative institutions in our time has everything to do with just how controversial it has become. It is why we find battles raging around every one of the core formative institutions of our society, including family, faith, work, community, education, and our republican form of government. It helps explain the shape of our culture wars.
Part of the reason this view is so controversial is that it suggests that the fundamental or primary problem in a society such as ours is not the oppression of the weak by the strong but the fragility of the preconditions for social order and freedom. Of course, both are real problems: We all require formation, and the weak are often oppressed by the strong. But which is the primary problem? Which would need to be taken on first in order to enable us to address the other?
It can almost be said that the answer each of us would offer to that question determines our political disposition. At the very least, it tells us a lot about where we fall along the traditional left–right axis that (broadly speaking) has given form to liberal politics for centuries. And it has a lot to do with our attitude toward the meritocracy — which after all embodies a form of the idea that our merit is there to be measured and that granting privilege and power to those who measure up, regardless of where they come from, is a way of treating everyone fairly. This is one important reason why the ethos of our most meritocratic institutions tends to lean left.
One of the hardest lessons that I have ever had to learn – and one that still slaps me upside the head on a regular basis – is that merit is absolutely no substitute for character. You could be the smartest boy in the room, but if you don’t have backbone and strength of will, you are worthless beyond your ability to do Smart Boy Things.
Leaders don’t need to be Smart Boys. Leaders need to stand for – and, sometimes, against – their own people.
That takes more than mere brains. It takes character. And if you look at the most disastrous leaders in Western history over the past 100 years or so, you will find that they were almost universally intellectually gifted men with the depth of a kiddie pool.
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Strongly related – here is a quote from Robert A. Heinlein’s STARSHIP TROOPERS, which is without question the single greatest work of military sci-fi ever published, concerning the need for political accountability among the voting and governing classes:
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral ones, to permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority . . . other than through the tragic logic of history. The unique ‘poll tax’ that we must pay was unheard of. No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead—and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.”
“Superficially, our system is only slightly different; we have democracy unlimited by race, color, creed, birth, wealth, sex, or conviction, and anyone may win sovereign power by a usually short and not too arduous term of service—nothing more than a light workout to our cave-man ancestors. But that slight difference is one between a system that works, since it is constructed to match the facts, and one that is inherently unstable. Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility—we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life—and lose it, if need be—to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert.”
— Major Reid, STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Anson Heinlein
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Linkage is good for you:
- My friend and fellow shitlord Last Redoubtexplains the difference between taking the God-Emperor literally and seriously;
- New York Shitty is a harbinger of the future that the diversity uber alles crowd wants for the rest of us;
- The Ginger Whinger gave up a hell of a lot for the Half-Blood Princess, including the military roles which were the most valuable to him, and he will likely seriously regret that fact;
- The Half-Blood Princess has done tremendous damage to the Royal “brand”, and in particular to her relationship with the future Queen Catherine;
- Sometimes karma really is a stone-cold bitch, especially if you are an Obama-lite Daemoncrat who tried to become Floriduh’s governor;
- Corona-chan spares no one, not even a hot-as-all-get-out Ukrainian Bond girl;
- If global warming is real and man-made… why did Saudi ARAMCO’s profit just drop by over 20%, even before a massive oil price crash?
- Some useful facts about America’s healthcare system – albeit from a bunch of Leftists with a hard-on for single-payer nonsense – in the face of the COVID-19 crisis;
- A new Coronavirus vaccine is evidently going to be tested on the US military – boy, this is sounding a little TOO much like The Last Centurion;
- One of the more welcome casualties of Corona-chan will likely be the existing neoliberal globalist world order;
- The Z-man gloms onto an idea that I discussed before at some length, but completely misses the need for Christianity to solve the problem of the Stupidity Tax;
And some more from The Male Brain:
- The new CEO of Disney tells a shareholder that the wokescolding politics that is trashing so many of the company’s biggest and most valuable IP, is actually totes norms, bro;
- Now here is an academic that I think we can all support – who claims that METALLICA and RUSH can explain quantum physics, and I absolutely agree with him, because METAL IS LIFE!;
- The US government might just drone-strike your ass if it stops you from spreading COVID-19;
- Traditional “marriage without dating” is making something of a comeback in Indonesia, and that appears to be a portend of how things will evolve in the West too;
- Useful lesson for women – learn how to SHUT THE F*** UP about your sex life, and you’ll be a lot happier in the process;
- Here’s a bit of a sad story for you space-happy pups – apparently we’re not going to get any data back from Voyager 2 for about a year while NASA upgrades the dish that gets the signals, presumably so that they can finally watch the sex scenes in Game of Thrones in full HD;
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The Neo-Tsar sounds off on how he beat the Jewish oligarchs who were busy raping Russia before he came to power:
A lot of Russians argue – with considerable justification – that Putin is not much better than those same oligarchs that he ousted. But there is one major difference between him and them, which touches on the long read up above:
Putin has character and patriotism. His enemies do not.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a very cold, ruthless, and dangerous man. Those who cross him always end up regretting it. But there can be no doubt that he loves his country – if not necessarily the people of that country – and wants it to succeed.
Also on the subject of modern oligarchs:
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History lessons of the week:
Related – here is an extraordinarily poignant clip about the end of the Great War, from Peter Jackson’s labour of love for his grandfather, They Shall Not Grow Old:
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Kitchen nightmares with everyone’s favourite foul-mouthed Scot:
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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
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Comedy hour:
That guy’s impersonation of Bruce “THE ETERNAL VOICE OF YAHWEH” Dickinson is hysterical.
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Pics, girls, guns – starting with a HALO meme from longtime reader and fellow HALO maniac Lynch:
Let’s just say that, if you know your HALO mythos, that is absolutely HILARIOUS.
While we’re on the subject of HALO memes:
God, I miss blasting through HALO levels on a Saturday evening…
Oh, and speaking of which – I FINALLY GOT HALO: THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION INSTALLED FOR PC!!!
Boy am I looking forward to revisiting my beloved franchise.
Here are some from Dawn Pine via our friend Kim du Toit’s blog:
I do like Kim’s sense of humour. Here are a few more from the same place:
This next one is from some Russians:
The caption basically reads, “Recommendations of the World Health Organisation in the context of the Coronavirus – INCORRECT – CORRECT”. I saw it and promptly dissolved into gales of laughter.
There will come a day when that meme will get old and worn.
This is STILL not that day.
I actually saw that originally sent from a Russian. The Russian caption said, “What happened after the Chinese sneezed”. That was much funnier, and far less politically correct.
Finally, something GOOD from COVID-19!!!
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
Now here’s one for Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children:
Yeah – you probably ate Indian food.
I mean, seriously, if you’re going to compare horrible ways to spend a week, Delhi Belly is objectively worse than all but the most severe versions of COVID-19.
MIND. BLOWN.
Headlines of the week show that Floriduh Man is well into self-quarantine, and the New York F***ing Times is taking over his role:
Your “Cow Catcher” moment of the week:
Your “Axe Me About Jesus” moment of the week:
Your “Cheese-Eating Smurfender Monkeys” moment of the week:
Your “Chief Spreading Bull” moment of the week:
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In case you’ve ever wondered what bullpup rifles are:
There are quite a few current and ex-military types who read this blog, and more than a few gun enthusiasts. I’d be interested to hear what they have to say about using bullpup rifles.
Bullpups are absolutely endemic in my beloved HALO franchise. All three of the main rifles in the game – the beloved and venerable MA series assault rifle, the M392 and M395 series Designated Marksman Rifle, and the BR55 and BR85 Battle Rifle – are bullpups. For some odd reason, the game designers at Bungie loved the idea of bullpup rifles and insisted on using them throughout the game series.
In real life, bullpups are heavily used by militaries that concentrate on urban combat, because the very nature of the thing allows you to pack the same barrel length of a conventional rifle into a much smaller form factor. That is why the Israelis, for instance, like bullpups so much, and may well be among the best manufacturers of the same.
I do hear that bullpups are really annoying to reload, because unlike with traditional rifles, where you just drop and swap mags, you have to turn your arm, drop the mag, load a fresh one, and chamber a round. This takes time to learn and is not natural, so I understand why a lot of gunnies don’t particularly like bullpups.
I don’t know if they are necessarily any more accurate than regular rifles, or more durable or easier to use or whatever. I do know that the British Royal Army used the SA80 family and their grunts absolutely hated the thing because it was unreliable and badly designed, until the Germans, of all people, were contracted to come in and rebuild the existing inventory of SA80s. Nowadays, apparently, they are considered very good assault rifles.
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Dog of the week is the Ibizan Hound:
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Kevin from Pure BullFit takes on some unadulterated gym idiocy:
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The biggest and scariest gym beasts in the world showed up at the Arnold Strongman Classic in Columbus recently, and absolutely tore the place up:
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Your Buakaw Beatdown of the week is a relatively short and explosive affair:
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Before we get to the really heavy stuff, let’s listen to the legendary Mandalorian war chant used by the clone troopers as their battle cry, from the classic FPS game STAR WARS: Republic Commando – still, 15 years on, one of my favourite games ever, and one that thoroughly deserves a remake:
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I didn’t think that it was possible for a man to sing NIGHTWISH’s “Ghost Love Score” better than Floor Jansen can, but apparently I was quite wrong:
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In case you’ve ever wondered, this is what happens when crazy Russians get drunk and start listening to pop music and thrash metal at the same time:
That is not, by the way, the limit of Russian madness:
Obviously I really like the Russkies, overall, but boy are they a handful when drunk.
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Just to carry on with the weirdness – imagine what would happen if you took the Scooby Doo gang and rebooted them as a grittier, darker version of themselves, where all of the characters were named after actual freakin’ serial killers:
Well, there goes another beloved childhood memory…
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#HeavyMetalUniverse
Right about at 3:23 in that video, you’ll see that these guys take the phrase, “Rock out with your cock out”, very literally.
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And here’s your Instathot to start the week and wrap up this latest edition of the Great Mondaydact Browser Crash. Her name is Floriana Messina, age 30, a half-Italian, half-Colombian model and TV presenter who fronts the Tutti in Campo football show on Italy’s Canale 9. Prior to her career as a presenter, she was a realitard TV thot. She is known for being a really big supporter of the Napoli football team – not that there is much football being played these days, what with Corona-chan successfully locking down the entire country.
She is curvaceous, brunette, and quite plastic, with small tattoos on her left shoulder and arm, unfortunately, so she is thoroughly trashy and therefore the perfect choice for this week’s starting thot.
OK, lads, up and at ’em. Let the CRUSHING commence.
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