Mondays are never much fun, but this Monday has got to be especially unpleasant for the Royal Family of PommieBastardLand. Fortunately, your buddy Didact is here to help you get through it with the usual Great Mondaydact Browser Crash, and this week’s edition promises to be quite epic.

This Monday morning is full of commentary about what a disaster Meghan Markle has been for the British monarchy. There is no shortage of material to work with, so let’s start with some hilarious tweets about the way that the Half-Blood Princess has straight-up napalm-bombed her bridges with her husband’s family.

Our friend The Male Brain gets about half the credit for this week’s assemblage of awesomeness – he sent over a huge amount of material to use, and pretty much all of it is on display here. The following tweets were forwarded to me by him:

Excuse me did Meghan Markle just direct a gender-swapped Hallmark movie where the prince gives up his crown for love??

— Elizabeth Kidd (@libbuh) January 8, 2020

First time I’ve ever seen someone quit their family, saying it’s to spend more time with their jobs. https://t.co/iFBZokRXhX

— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric) January 8, 2020

Meghan Markle just pulled off the greatest theft of British property since the Revolutionary War

Respect https://t.co/Twc2L9esIJ

— Daniel Newhauser (@dnewhauser) January 8, 2020

how long till i see harry and meghan at the food coop

— Joumana Khatib (@joumana_khatib) January 8, 2020

If you read The Daily Mail – which, even though it’s a tabloid, is a far better source of news than The Guardian or the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed BBC – then you would be convinced that the British Royal Family is facing its worst existential crisis since King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson.

This is not the case.

Yes, it’s bad, but Meghan Markle is an outsider and interloper into a set of traditions that is over a thousand years old, and a family that is nearly 200 years old (if you count the fact that the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was renamed by the British monarch in 1917 to counter anti-German sentiment in Britain).

Simple fact is that she isn’t going to upset them so easily.

That being said, there is no question that Prince Harry’s marriage to this woman has been an utter disaster.

The actions of his wife have been catastrophic for his relationship with his older brother. If she and her husband conduct television interviews with the very American media luminaries cheering them on for their rash actions, they risk alienating, perhaps permanently, Harry’s grandmother and father. And as if all of that wasn’t bad enough, it looks like Harry might perhaps be realising, with a growing sense of horror, that he may have married a liar, a gold-digger, and a fame whore.

I feel for the guy, I really do. But nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to marry an older, well-ridden, mixed-race divorcee from a totally different culture and social milieu who had long made it clear that she was out to get what she wanted, no matter the human cost to others around her.

Ultimately, what has happened is his fault. The tragedy is that those who love him the most will pay the highest price for his actions – with the added insult that the British people will have to shoulder the financial burdens for his stupidity, for some considerable time yet.

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We’ve got loads more good stuff from our friend The Male Brain this week. Let’s start with a video that he found about Europe’s rape laws which are pushing hard to redefine, to the point of meaninglessness, the very act itself:

Of course, the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation is attempting to push people to adopt British standards of rape, which we already know cause massive legal headaches and ensare innocent men who did not even engage in non-consensual sex.

A new legal definition of, and punishment for, non-consensual sex without violence or threats is probably needed. To my mind, at least, if a man starts to have sex with a woman while she is sleeping, that’s assault, which is a serious crime.

But it’s not rape.

And if a man has consensual sex with a woman, who then changes her mind later because the sex was bad or she didn’t like the guy or she’d had a drink and felt tipsy – but was not drunk – then under UK law he can be charged with rape. This is plainly ridiculous and absurd. But that’s the law. Is that really what we want to bring to all of Europe?

Once again, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation works to destroy civilisation in the name of progress.

Now – ever notice how Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish?

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Mark Dice has a very sober and very scary warning about the rise of Deepfakes:

He also has some very unflattering things to say about Hollyweird celebritards, who unsurprisingly are really salty about the fact that Ricky “Chubby Funster” Gervais simply destroyed their pretensions:

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PJW has some words of wisdom and calm – and criticism – to offer about the fact that the God-Emperor shoved a Hellfire missile up a Very Bad Man’s ass the other day:

And if you’re part of the “climate change” wankerati (pretty much nobody who reads this blog is among that crowd of loonies), you’d better have some burn cream on you, because PJW doesn’t hold back on what a bunch of morons you are:

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Our blue collar friends have some interesting thoughts to add about the ways in which the God-Emperor is pretty much the best friends that the Jews have ever had:

This is not necessarily a good thing, by the way.

American Christians have been conditioned through decades of propaganda to believe that it is absolutely necessary for them to be supportive and friendly toward Jews. The notorious Schofield Bible is very much to blame for this, but that is not the only root cause.

Jason Siler also has some pertinent comments to add about the situation in Iran:

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El Razorfist has some extremely trenchant things to say to all of those freaking out about WWIII:

I really like Razorfist’s idea of strapping cash to Tomahawk missiles and blowing the shit out of the 52 targets mentioned by the God-Emperor in retaliation for any further moves by Iran against American interests. It’s the best of both worlds – a bunch of radical Islamic f***wads get to meet their 72 raisins virgins (who all turn out to be dudes) in Jannah, and America gets to take sweet vengeance for the 1979 Embassy attack.

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The Drinker’s review of The Witcher is an excellent example of drunken Scottish charm and sarcasm:

I really can’t sum it up any better than he did. He’s right. The Witcher has the potential to be a great show – if only it would stop dicking around with this stupid MUH DUVVERSUTEEEE!!!!! bullshit, and get its act together with respect to plot and world-building. The moment that Henry Cavill, in particular, has something coherent to work with, I think his signature charismatic mumble-growling will really work out well for him.

And make no mistake, Henry Cavill carries the entire show on his back. He really does a terrific job as Geralt of Rivia, portraying him as a hard but honourable man who is deeply misunderstood and hated by a society that he tries in his own way to protect. He is very good as a brooding lone-wolf anti-hero type.

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Midnight’s Edge has some rather interesting news to report about the next Star Trek film, which apparently isn’t going to happen:

Thank God for that. Last thing we need is Jar Jar Abrams and Bad Reboot corrupting that particular sci-fi universe any more than they already have.

Jar Jar Abrams is not, and never has been, a particularly skilled or original storyteller. Even Cloverfield isn’t that good; it’s actually pretty derivative in a lot of ways. And both Star Trek and STAR WARS have basically become

Once again, the lesson is absolutely clear:

GET WOKE, GO BROKE.

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OK, I get now why teh innarwebz has gone all gah-gah over this Baby Yoda thing:

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It is a VERY stupid idea to take on Batman in a battle of wits, body, and will:

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Ricky Gervais really went off at the Golden Globes, as I said last week. Here is the full monologue:

Now, the reactions to what he did have generally ranged between, “wow, how edgy, a comedian making fun of a bunch of rich stuck-up douchebag woke celebritards, sooooo original (sarcasm)“, and “holy SHIT that was amazing!!!“.

If you listen to the whole thing in full, you’ll realise that his monologue wasn’t funny, exactly, but he did say what most of us would absolutely love to say to those Hollyweird assholes.

But, as a friend of mine points out, the suspicious aspect of Mr. Gervais’s commentary is the fact that he was allowed to get his commentary past the gatekeepers in the first place. This makes very little sense given how terminally screwed up Hollyweird is. So perhaps the shock and horror that was etched on the (very plastic) faces of those celebritards was, in fact, manufactured.

Still doesn’t change the fact that his diatribe was a lot of fun to watch and hear.

So let’s watch it again, with some slight editing:

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That song from The Witcher is really good – it’s catchier than crabs. Which is why practically everyone is jumping up and down to try to cover it:

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There was a time when Gloria Estefan was “the thing”, back during that whole Latino Wave of the late 90s and early 2000s. (I distinctly remember an absolutely hilarious MAD Magazine spoof of this fad, in which they depicted various chart-topping acts of the era changing their names and images to capture the Hispanic market. Example: Hootie Y Les Blowfish.)

Sadly, her music has NOT aged well. Then again, in all honesty, neither has she.

Still and all, a couple of her songs were actually kind of interesting – especially when mashed up with clips of famous people dancing:

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For those of you who enjoy listening to Latin hymns to perk you up – as I do:

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Your linkage for this week comes almost entirely from The Male Brain (except for the first one – that’s mine), who has really gone above and beyond with finding good stuff for us to read:

• Ever wondered what it would look like if 50 flying pianos all took off in formation?;
• Old folks will tell you that key to long life and happiness is, of course, being part of a happy and healthy society – which is to say, the exact opposite of today’s atomised and secular world;
• Via Dawn Pine, a post from Keoni Galt about the insidious ways in which Yelp acts as a protection racket for companies that thrive on internet reviews;
• Not that we really need any more evidence, but CNN is not a news network, it’s a bloody clown car crash;
• Ricky Gervais’s extremely potent pantsing of the Establishment at the Golden Globes recently served to illustrate exactly how and why humour is such an important weapon;
• Following up on that post about WeWork that I wrote a few weeks back, here is an explanation of why public markets and transparency are so important;
• Making fun of St. Gretard is now going to get you in trouble if you work for the Bolsheviks, but the fact is that she has no solutions whatsoever to offer to anyone;

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For those of you in a mood for schmaltzy stories:

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Doff your caps and stand to attention, gentlemen. A titan has fallen:

He was a brilliant philosopher and one of the most eminent conservative intellectuals of his generation, who spent his life fighting for freedom, whether in academia or on behalf of those oppressed behind the Iron Curtain.

He loathed Communism and lived to see his criticism of it vindicated — first in Eastern Europe, then in Latin America.

He wrote more than 50 books on a vast range of subjects and was knighted in 2016 for ‘services to philosophy, teaching and public education’.

Yet Roger Scruton, who died yesterday aged 75, always remained something of an outcast, vilified by the liberal establishment for daring to challenge the fashionable nostrums of our age. Because he was an unapologetic conservative and defender of Western civilisation he was never given the respect he deserved.

Following his knighthood, that respect appeared finally to have been conferred upon him. And when, in 2018, he was appointed as chair of a government commission on building and architecture, it seemed certain.

But the announcement of his appointment was greeted by what he called a ‘hate storm’, with those appalled by it on the Left sifting through everything he’d said or written dating back 50 years to find opinions to be ‘shocked’ and ‘outraged’ by.

Sir Roger survived that ordeal, but he had to endure a second wave of attacks following an interview he gave to journalist George Eaton in the New Statesman magazine in April last year.

Sir Roger had been racist about the Chinese, suggested Eaton. He had apparently derided the influence of Jewish financier George Soros and dismissed Islamophobia as an invention to suppress criticism.

The response was immediate and angry. Conservative MP Johnny Mercer declared that sacking Scruton was a ‘no brainer’. George Osborne, the former Conservative Chancellor, condemned Scruton’s ‘bigoted remarks’.

Soon Housing Secretary James Brokenshire who had appointed Sir Roger as an advisor, announced he had been fired. And Eaton responded by publishing a picture of himself on Instagram quaffing champagne, and crowing about getting Sir Roger, the ‘Right-wing racist and homophobe’, the sack.

Scruton published a rueful article in the Spectator magazine, lamenting the Maoist climate of intolerance sweeping through our institutions.

‘We in Britain are entering a dangerous social condition in which the direct expression of opinions that conflict — or merely seem to conflict — with a narrow set of orthodoxies is instantly punished by a band of self-appointed vigilantes,’ he wrote.

And then, of course, it transpired that Sir Roger had been grossly misrepresented by Eaton. The full transcript of Sir Roger’s interview with the New Statesman was published — thanks to the efforts of the Right-wing journalist and writer Douglas Murray — and it became clear his remarks had been taken out of context and bore no relation to Eaton’s interpretation.

Eventually, he was reinstated to the commission — for which, incidentally, he was never paid — and received a public apology. But it was too little, too late. He had been hounded by the kind of intolerance he had spent a lifetime fighting.

The Lord has called one of His own home to rest in peace. Clear skies, Sir Roger.

Dawn Pine also sent over the laudation that Hungarian Prime Minister gave to Sir Roger Scruton when he presented the distinguished gentleman with the Order of Merit late last year. It is well worth reading:

Today is a great day in our lives. Now we can turn the tide. So far were awarded by your friendship, and now we can award you on behalf of the Hungarian Nation. When we think about philosophers, usually the last idea that pops up in our head is that of practice. However, if we think about Sir Roger Scruton, a philosopher par excellence, a man of practice immediately appears. How is that possible? Conservatism, the political thought to which professor Scruton subscribes to, is a weird phenomenon. While basically being a theory, it teaches us that the world cannot be explained by theory. While it exists in the world of ideas, it suggests that practice is far more important than abstract ideas. Conservatism, then, is some kind of contradiction itself; maybe that is why it is able to comprehend contradictions and explain them without turning into an ideology. Because, as we have learnt from our beloved professor, Conservatism is anything but an ideology, in fact: it is the antidote to ideology.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Sir Roger Scruton is a man of practice and not of abstractions. At the time when the Soviet Union still existed, he wasn’t just opposed to communism philosophically: he was an ardent and active ally to anti-communist forces in Central and Eastern Europe. He helped us in so many ways we can never even enlist them. He was so much a man of practice that he had been exiled from at least two spheres of existence: communist Czechoslovakia and Western Academia. These two must be the places from which if you’re excluded you are probably right. Professor Scruton is a man who was always sided with reality and truth. While the Soviets still occupied Central and Eastern Europe, he helped us fight against communism. But he did not blindly support the idea of open societies either; he was awake enough to see its flaws and warn about its dangers. And he was forward-looking enough to see the threat of illegal migration and defend Hungary against its unjust critics. He is a man of practice because the one trait that was constant in his behavior was his loyalty. He was and is a loyal friend of the freedom-loving Hungarians, who knows that this freedom relies on nation states and Christian civilization. He is a friend of Hungarians because he has sided with us, for good or ill. That is loyalty and friendship. And these only exist in practice.

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Your history lessons of the week:

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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Comedy hour:

More Israeli comedy from The Male Brain for this week:

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Apparently, if you put sticky tape on a cat’s feet, it goes absolutely berserk:

Now before anyone gets any funny ideas, no, this is NOT going to become a blog featuring nothing but cats making funny faces and asking if they “can haz cheezburgr”. There is plenty of that nonsense going on already.

But, since I like dogs and don’t much care for cats, mocking them from time to time doesn’t hurt.

Well, unless you’re a cat with sticky tape on its paws, that is.

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Oh all right, one more of animals doing silly things:

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Pics, guns, girls:

OOH-RAH! SEMPER FIDELIS!!!

The Bitch should use that one for her inevitable next campaign. She might actually get somewhere with that line.

First person to bring up FDR gets slapped in the face with a copy of The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes.

Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man is now attempting to become a superhero:

Your “Still Not Tired of Winning” moment of the week:

Your “Shit Happens” moment of the week:

Your “Sex Addiction Therapy” moment of the week:

Your “Irony is a Stone-Cold Bitch” moment of the week:

Your “CALL PETA RIGHT AWAY!” moment of the week:

Your “Darwin Award Candidates” moment of the week:

That flap over the ginger toff and his mixed-race muse across the Pond has resulted in some hysterical memes:

This next one HAS to be accompanied by the words, “Tequila Was Involved”:

The Grammar Nazi in my head really likes this next one:

To be honest, gits don’t get very much grumpier than me, especially when I’ve just woken up and haven’t had my first cup of coffee in the morning.

Yet even I wake up looking better than the average rhino.

(For those of you wondering why the “Girls With Guns” have gotten way better of late, the secret sauce here is really simple. It’s called Yandex.ru. Just login and search for “sexy girls with guns” with SafeSearch set to “Moderate” if you can locate that feature. As always, when it comes to female beauty and the appreciation thereof, trust the Russians before anybody else.)

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Your dog of the week is, rather fittingly, the English Setter:

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Your gym idiots this week come via a satirical video:

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And now for your gym BEASTS of the week:

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Here’s your Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

It turns out, though, that the Buakawminator isn’t just a terrifying steel-shinned death angel in the ring. He’s also kind of a goofball:

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#ThunderSteel

Gonna be a hell of a lot of 80s-style metal this week, boys – because it’s f***ing AWESOME:

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And finally here’s your Instathot for the week. Her name is Genesis Lopez and she is apparently a 26-year-old half-Japanese, half-Brazilian fitness model living in the USA. I’ve no idea what else she does to keep herself in the gravy, but it’s not difficult to make a few educated guesses.

All right, on with it, you scurvy lot. Back to the mines with ye, time to go digging up some SJW skulls. Let the CRUSHING!!! continue!

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