Aw hell, it’s Monday again. Another week of shitposting and memes lies ahead. Life is tough, man, it’s tough…
Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster is here to help, with an explosive mix of politics, history, economics, opinion, funny stuff, great music, and a hot babe. It’s a public service, y’know.
Before we get started, though, I have a sincere prayer request to make to my readers.
A friend and reader of this blog is scheduled to undergo surgery today to dissolve some kidney stones that have bedeviled him for months now. He has been in constant pain for the better part of a year, and the sudden and dramatic appearance of Corona-chan caused any real treatment for his condition to be delayed for at least three months. That comes on top of a number of personal trials and losses that have sorely tested his resolve and faith.
The fact that this is the same man who spent hours walking me through the Bible and helping me to understand how it all sort of fits together, brought me to the point where I could bend the knee and witness Christ as Lord and King, and has since helped me through many of my own trials even as he was in considerable pain, makes this all the more important.
So if you have a moment to offer up a prayer for reader and friend WB, that would be very greatly appreciated by both of us. Thank you.
Now, let’s get started with something appropriately absurd for a Monday.
The Daemoncrats made absolute FOOLS of themselves last week when they called Attorney General William Barr to the Capitol for a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Jerry the Hutt and the Daemoncrats had an opportunity to grill Mr. Barr – a man who by all the evidence is of unimpeachable integrity and professionalism – and instead of using that chance to ask hard questions, they realised very quickly that they were getting their asses handed to them.
So they resorted to being complete assholes instead:
What a bunch of idiots. Any reasonable man watching that video can only conclude that the Daemoncrats have no interest whatsoever in asking hard questions and getting real answers. They only want to score political points.
It is well past time for people to recognise that there are at least TWO countries sitting within the geographical footprint of the USA. And they have nothing in common with each other any longer. An amicable separation is the best possible outcome at this point.
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His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, just got a ringing endorsement from a Florida police union:
Unlike a lot of folks on the Right, I do not believe that the God-Emperor is doing badly at all. The polls simply cannot be trusted at this point. His approval ratings just bounced back to 50% last week according to Rasmussen, which is one of the very few polling companies with any real integrity anymore. And we are already seeing the polls tightening now as all of the various polling companies engage in massive CYA.
The God-Emperor’s basic strategy is straightforward: be the law and order candidate. That is all he has to do now. Apply a relatively light touch, don’t implement martial law until the White majority starts screaming for it, and crack down hard on Leftist loonies attacking Federal property. If he does all of that, he’s basically a lock for the election.
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#BasedTucker is based:
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Mark Dice is awestruck by the sheer nonsense and idiocy on display, from BOTH sides of the aisle, during last week’s Big Tech censorship hearings:
The GOP obviously won’t do a single damned thing to stop Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple. That much is very clear. Several Senators are currently backing a new outsourcing bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that would vastly expand the ability of Indians and Chinese to flood into the USA and take American jobs.
This is idiotic beyond belief. There are already far too many Indians and Chinese in America as it is, and they are in many cases inferior to White American workers in tech jobs. I know. I worked alongside Whites, Indians, and Chinese in America for years. The number of Indians and Chinese that I genuinely thought were better than White people, during those 12 years that I worked in the USA, can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
That being said – the Patreon case, in which I may or may not have a particularly high degree of interest, shows a way to strike back against Big Tech. If platforms like Patreon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and PayPal demonetise and lock down accounts from creators, arbitration rules allow us to hold at least some of these platforms accountable.
Will Congress actually do anything about stripping Big Tech of their Section 230 CDA protections? Don’t hold your breath. But that doesn’t mean you should give up fighting for your rights either. Stefan Molyneux did, repeatedly, and look what happened to him. Make yourself a hard target, and Big Tech will leave you the Hell alone.
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Jason from Blue Collar Logic explains that the Kung Flu narrative is breaking down, which all of us can now see in plain sight:
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Bill Whittle breaks down the polling nonsense that we’re seeing right now about Sleepy Creepy Uncle Joe leading the God-Emperor in the polls:
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All sorts of good stuff from The Male Brain this week, starting with a great video from BPS about whether or not America is now a failed state:
My take – BPS is right, America is not a failed state, not yet. America IS, however, an absolutely failing empire. It will rapidly devolve into multiple states, and I expect a truly appalling fratricidal war to take place that will make the Balkan Breakup look like a slapboxing fight by comparison.
Don’t put women in charge, it’s a VERY VERY BAD IDEA:
Following on from above, women can be very gullible, to the point where it’s actually painful to watch:
I’m frankly amazed that Gwyneth Paltrow hasn’t had her skinny white-girl ass sued off by now for the stupid shit that GOOP promotes.
Now, think whatever you want of Elon Musk, but there is no denying that when it comes to privatised spaceflight, he is THE MAN:
If you put government in charge of things, you get slow shitty expensive service. If you put private companies in charge of things, you get shit done. It’s pretty much that simple.
Safety is an illusion – life involves taking risks:
Brings to mind this old saying:
Are you a White person? Do you want to be woke? (If so, please bugger off, this blog ain’t for you.) If that’s what you want – God help you – then here’s how you do it [/sarc]:
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Paul Ramsey explains, correctly, that all of the craziness that we’re seeing around us right now is theatre, and with good reason:
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Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has even less respect for polls than I do, and that’s saying something:
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China Uncensored reports on some highly intriguing power struggles going on behind the scenes within the Chinese Communist Party:
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America Uncovered talks ALIENS!!!:
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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance tell s you how you can fight back against the tidal wave of insanity that we all see today:
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Terrence Popp discussed a while back how the radical Left in the USA has effectively executed Order 66 in the streets of the cities:
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Lots of STAR WARS buzz over the past week, most of it centred around the ongoing shenanigans with LucasFilm. Midnight’s Edge looks at the dire financial straits that the Devil Mouse finds itself, and the consequences that will follow for their thus-far-disastrous purchase of LucasFilm itself:
(By the way, if you do a search for “evil Mickey Mouse” with SafeSearch OFF, then get your kids out of the room. Once they see the results, they’ll have nightmares for a week – really bad ones.)
If these rumours are even close to true – and they could very well be – then the situation within the Devil Mouse Wars franchise is far more dire than even the most pessimistic outside critics could have predicted.
This franchise should be an absolute CASH COW. But it isn’t. Disney hasn’t even broken even on this shit-show. They paid roughly $4.5 BILLION for the STAR WARS franchise, and specifically they bought it for the merchandising and brand value. But they “only” made, very roughly, somewhere between $3.1 billion and $3.8 billion on the five films that have been released thus far.
That estimate depends on how you measure the costs of each film and what multiplier you apply to them. I added up the high end of the costs from Wikipedia for each film, and then multiplied by 1.5 and 2 to get the range. The reason for this is that the marketing and publicity costs for a big-budget film are roughly between 1.5 and 2 times the actual filming cost.
When you count in the fact that their merchandising sales for the Devil Mouse Wars franchise have absolutely CRATERED, and the colossal failure of the multi-billion-dollar Galaxy’s Edge theme park, it is a near certainty that the Devil Mouse has made a significant LOSS on the franchise, nearly 8 years after they acquired LucasFilm.
Even a behemoth like Disney cannot absorb losses like that indefinitely – especially in a time when virtually ALL of its most profitable, but capital-intensive and consumer-driven, divisions are all shut down.
It is becoming rapidly apparent that we have a very great deal to thank Corona-chan for, because she has thoroughly upended the financial positions of a considerable number of the world’s biggest and most heavily converged corporations. Those companies are being forced, VERY much against their will, to start making pro-consumer decisions again.
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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock has a similarly intriguing set of rumours and speculation to dish out about the future of STAR WARS:
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Gary from Nerdrotic addresses the same rumours about the ways in which the Devil Mouse will desperately (and futilely) try to salvage the smoking wreckage of the STAR WARS franchise:
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The Drinker asks if 2009’s Watchmen, as adapted from the legendary graphic novel by Alan Moore, was really soooooo terrible:
Personally, I rather liked the movie adaptation. It wasn’t great, but to be as fair as possible, the original source material was, and remains, practically impossible to adapt. Zack Snyder did the best job that he could, and packed the film with his trademark slo-mo Snyderisms, but that doesn’t mean that the film itself was bad.
I do think that the ending was foolishly and unnecessarily rewritten. The original ending in the graphic novel was, honestly, just about perfect. It didn’t need to be rewritten away from the whole “unite against alien invasion” theme. But, it is what it is.
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Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week from Dawn Pine concerns the effects of 5G exposure:
The rapid deployment of 5G spectrum by the telecommunication industry is intended to promote better connectivity and data integration among various industries. However, since exposures to radio frequency radiations (RFR) >2.4 GHz are still uncommon, concerns about their potential health impacts are ongoing. In this study, we used the embryonic zebrafish model to assess the impacts of a 3.5 GHz RFR on biology- a frequency typically used by 5G-enabled cell phones and lies within the 4G and 5G bandwidth. We established a plate-based exposure setup for RFRs, exposed developing zebrafish to 3.5 GHz RFR, specific absorption rate (SAR) ≈ 8.27 W/Kg from 6 h post fertilization (hpf) to 48 hpf, and measured a battery of morphological and behavioral endpoints at 120 hpf. Our results revealed no significant impacts on mortality, morphology or photomotor response and a modest inhibition of startle response suggesting some levels of sensorimotor disruptions. This suggests that the cell phone radiations at low GHz-level frequencies are likely benign, with subtle sensorimotor effects. Through this assessment, we have established a robust setup for zebrafish RFR exposures readily amenable to testing various powers and frequencies. Future developmental exposure studies in zebrafish will evaluate a wider portion of the radio frequency spectrum to discover the bioactive regions, the potential molecular targets of RFR and the potential long-term effects on adult behavior.
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Your long read of the week is also from Dawn Pine, and concerns the courage that the deeply flawed and fallible Olivia de Havilland showed in standing up for what she believed in:
De Havilland’s open challenge to the Communists in the HICCASP took real courage. At the time, Communists ran several of the major Hollywood unions, and they didn’t shrink from using their power to destructive ends. Years before they were themselves targeted by the Blacklist, they pitilessly crippled the careers of anti-Communist colleagues. As if that weren’t bad enough, there were also plenty of liberals in Hollywood who, like their counterparts today, viewed Communism as benign and anti-Communism as distasteful. In standing up to Trumbo, then, de Havilland was standing up to innumerable directors, writers, and actors who could do harm to her professional and personal life. And she knew it.
Unfortunately, in today’s political climate de Havilland’s brave defiance of the Hollywood Communists is, to put it mildly, problematic. Five years ago, Bryan Cranston, at the time perhaps the hottest actor in the business, starred in a biopic that celebrated Trumbo, that tool of Stalin, as a hero of free speech and pitiable blacklist victim. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a biopic extolling de Havilland’s gutsy anti-Communism.
By any rights, she should be a feminist icon. This is, after all, a woman who risked her career to stand up for freedom, a woman who had bigger cojones than any ten men in Tinseltown, a woman who saw no conflict whatsoever between being the epitome of both femininity and ballsiness. But in 2020, liberal anti-Communism is a non-starter, and a Hollywood in thrall to Stalin doesn’t fit the current narrative. Hence every one of the de Havilland obituaries I looked at airbrushed out her role in fighting the Kremlin’s influence in Hollywood.
An actress who stood up to the Red Mafia that ran Hollyweird back in the day, and supported St. Ronald Magnus of the Right in his crusade against the Red Menace. Good egg in my book – though aspects of Olivia de Havilland’s personal life, and especially her relationship with her sister Joan Fontaine, are less than savoury.
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Linkage is good for you:
- The Greeks were a hell of a lot less tolerant of chocolatiering than we’ve been taught;
- Our man Roosh continues to point out the real cost of (secular) game and its problems;
- Big Pharma really doesn’t like the God-Emperor, simply because he’s pointed out that their expensive and likely ineffective cures are what they are;
- The Turks want to turn the Great Mother Church of Constantinople back into a mosque – they’re going to be really surprised when they run into some serious Crusaders in the future;
- Russia is playing an interesting role as a mediator between the Caucasian republics on its borders;
- The Half-Blood Princess is definitely a demanding diva, and HRH Queen Elizabeth II rightly put her in her place;
- This next story has all the hallmarks of a country song – angry woman, smashed-up stuff, affairs, Floriduh…;
- Just when you’ve heard every excuse in the book about people playing porn during meetings, along comes some wag to add a new page;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- The Daemoncrats obviously think that if people pay less taxes in order to help pull people up economically, then that’s clearly EEEEEEEVIL;
- Beleaguered law enforcement officers – sheepdogs, really – are getting a lot of love and support from the very sheep that they protect, and that is a Very Good Thing;
- Even LinkedIn isn’t safe from Chinese spies nowadays – which actually isn’t very surprising;
- Americans who aren’t of the Hard Left – so basically about 70% of the country – are self-censoring, which means that polls are completely useless at this point;
- The presence of Big Tech monopolies is a huge problem, for sure, but like most things, it’s not a black-and-white issue;
- The NBA has sold its soul to the CCP, and will inevitably see its viewership numbers and revenues decline significantly as a result;
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The Neo-Tsar‘s decision to stay on in power needs to be analysed and understood very carefully, outside of the pro-Western media hype and hoopla:
Why did Putin reverse the decision he apparently made in January? To answer this, observers must examine the president’s views on Russia’s twentieth-century history and the legacy he inherited from his two predecessors, former presidents Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev. Putin is seeking to avoid the mistakes of perestroika, or the Soviet Union’s political, economic, and social restructuring of the late 1980s into the early 1990s. He is afraid of ushering in a perestroika 2.0.
Even though he makes approving remarks about the achievements of the Soviet epoch, Putin is not a nostalgist seeking a restoration. The man who back in 2005 called the end of the Soviet Union “the great geopolitical catastrophe of the era” also said that “whoever wants to restore it in its previous form has lost his head.”
Putin is more calculating. Like many former Soviet bureaucrats, he knows from bitter firsthand experience how and why a superpower like the Soviet Union met such a quick demise between 1985 and 1991. His thinking differs from the Orthodox Communists or die-hard Soviet nostalgists who have a ready-made explanation: the debacle was entirely the result of “Gorbachev’s treachery.”
Putin is not a hard-line conspiracy theorist who believes that Gorbachev personally and deliberately made a fateful pact with the West to bring the country crashing down. Rather, he appears to share the view that Gorbachev is culpable because he did not properly protect the core institutions of the country as crisis overtook it. The failure is seen as a broader one — of the collective leadership in the later Soviet period.
And, this line of thinking goes, the disastrous consequences are still very much being felt today.
My take on the Neo-Tsar is straightforward and I’ve stated it repeatedly here.
Basically, he understands that he is a once-in-a-lifetime political figure. He knows that there is literally no one else in all of Russia who could do what he has done. That is NOT to say that he is always right. He has made some significant mistakes, particularly with respect to Russia’s economic relationships with the West, which have at times been unnecessarily antagonistic. But he is the only man who could have led Russia as he did.
Russia under Putin has been far more often the aggrieved than the aggressor. While Russia has not stuck to the terms of several treaties – notably the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty that the God-Emperor tore up recently – the country has been remarkably reticent to use its growing skill and experience with land warfare in European theatres.
Putin himself is not actually a particularly belligerent foe, from what I can see. He stands up for Russian interests and territorial sovereignty, but doesn’t seem to be overly bothered about expanding Russia’s sphere of influence beyond the Caucasian republics.
If you listen to him talk, you’ll very quickly realise that he understands history, economics, politics, and human nature extremely well. This is not a man to trifle with or underestimate.
This all leads to the conclusion that he knows and understands that no future President can have the power that he has wielded, and therefore whoever succeeds him has to have his power reduced to the point where the President is a truly Federal figure. That is the true thrust of the Constitutional amendments that he put to the people’s vote.
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History lessons of the week:
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The HALO Infinite gameplay demo is out, and HOLY SHIT ITS AWESOME:
It looks like 343i has done some heavy work to incorporate classic HALO into the map-based HALO Wars setup. And it looks like Master (BAMF-in-)Chief has gotten some SERIOUS armour upgrades.
Just based on that gameplay trailer, this is going to be a great game. It really looks like they’ve finally gone back to what made the original HALO: Combat Evolved game so brilliant.
I could be horribly wrong, of course. The original HALO 5: Guardians gameplay trailer looked great too. And that eventually became the worst of the FPS games. Which is saying something given what a miserable experience HALO 2 is at times.
But so far, things look good. That being said, 343i and Microsoft really need to start treating Martin O’Donnell with some actual respect. He and Michael Salvatori composed the greatest video game soundtracks OF ALL TIME. Constantly saying that his work is “legacy HALO” is absolute bullshit. His work IS HALO. It defines HALO. Thinking otherwise is just plain crazy.
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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
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Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
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Mat Best and his buddies are BACK, and my GOD they’re hilarious:
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Comedy hour, literally:
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Pics, guns, girls, starting with some good spicy stuff from Dawn Pine:
This next one is for the GenXers:
I never liked The Cure, to be honest. Too whiny and slow and depressing for my liking – because it’s SERIOUSLY Gamma music. My idea of a rock band is a bit more like… well, this.
And one more that you can use against any Trump-bashers who keep asking what exactly the God-Emperor has done for the country:
Onward:
ALL HAIL THE GOD-EMPEROR!!!
OK, Boomer…
This next one is absolute truth in advertising:
Right, that’s it – SHUT DOWN ALL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES RIGHT THIS SECOND!
Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man and Woman are right back in action despite the Kung Flu:
Your “Schumacher” moment of the week:
Your “Where is the Other Leg, Then?” moment of the week:
Your “This Talk Will Bristle With Difficulties” moment of the week:
Your “Africa Wins Again!” moment of the week:
Your “Handling Hard Tasks at Work” moment of the week:
This is why Texas is the best:
Not really – I mean, St. Ronald Magnus was an effing LEGEND, for sure, but we have THE GOD-EMPEROR.
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
That happened to me well before I turned 25, to be honest.
Just the essentials today, please:
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Your Dog of the Week is the bearded collie:
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Gym beast of the week goes to Sylvester Stallone – yes, seriously:
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Bill Wallace and Jesse Enkamp explain how the very first UFC event was deliberately organised to favour the Gracie BJJ system:
This has been known for many years. It’s just that most people are too polite to talk about it. But the reality is that the original UFC was absolutely rigged to favour Gracie BJJ.
And that is a VERY Good Thing.
Just about nothing has exposed the flaws and failures and gaps in traditional martial arts than the rise of MMA. BJJ has proven itself to be an incredibly powerful groundfighting system that matches up on a one-on-one basis against every other style out there.
That is not to say that BJJ is the best fighting style out there. It isn’t. There are flaws and problems and issues with BJJ. Good judoka and wrestlers can definitely out-grapple and out-position BJJ players. People who are skilled in muay thai clinching can definitely throw BJJ players around almost at will.
And BJJ is totally useless in a multiple-opponent situation, because the default position in BJJ is always on the ground.
What made, and makes, BJJ so important is the fact that it forced every single martial artist worth the name out there to round out his or her skill set. That is exactly why Royce Gracie is widely regarded as perhaps the most important martial artist in history.
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Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:
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Synthwave to keep things mellow and techy:
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New single from THE HU – everyone sit up and pay attention now, because it’s BADASS:
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We all have a new guitar hero(ine) to worship, and she’s a short skinny chick from Japan:
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#IronWarrior
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And finally here’s your Instathot to start off the week. Her name is Katy Jo Raelyn, age 24, originally from Norway and currently based in Los Angeles. She’s apparently quite good mates with this thot. She’s something of a well-known bikini model on Instaham, and evidently has a fairly successful modeling career on her own.
All right, gentlemen, up and at ’em, the damage caused by those rioting vibrants needs to be fixed, and that’s not going to happen unless real men show up to do the job.
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Lake Shore MN? Watertown SD?
those are some amazingly Flyover locations for an international jet setting Hollywood Thot.