Mondays really are the potholes in life’s highway.
Fortunately, I’m here to help you get through the day with the usual assemblage of videos, links, pics, and music so that you can get through this shit-show with at least a semblance of a smile on your face.
And what better way to start smiling than by mocking realitard TV?
To precisely nobody’s surprise – except maybe the most gullible fans – it turns out that one of the world’s most popular reality TV shows is actually heavily scripted:
When personal trainer Jack Fowler locked lips with aspiring actress Georgia Steel on Love Island, the torrid kiss summed up everything that has made the show a guilty pleasure for millions.
He was shamelessly cheating on Laura Anderson, another contestant – and Laura’s supposed friendship with Georgia was shattered in an instant.
But the deception went far further than a single broken heart. For the passionate embrace in last year’s series is one of many instances of TV fakery in the supposed reality show, according to whistleblowers who have spoken to The Mail on Sunday.
ITV acknowledge the show is a ‘combination of reality and produced elements’ but deny it is fake.
However, a string of former participants allege that programme-makers have cynically contrived not just single scenes but entire storylines and relationships in the show which has become a cash cow for ITV.
Indeed, it is so lucrative that the network announced last week there will be two series a year from 2020.
It is said that the manipulation is now so brazen that ‘Love Islanders’ are given lines to learn. A whistleblower told The Mail on Sunday: ‘People don’t realise how scripted it is, how much the producers influence it.
You know we are living in Clown World when scripted reality TV makes more sense than what we see on the news networks every morning.
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Speaking of which – get these guys some Russian Kahlusions already, they need the alcohol:
In case you’re wondering how to make one:
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Whoever came up with the #MetalTrump idea deserves a Nobel Prize, because this is GENIUS:
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More dumbassery from the party of dumbasses:
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The Mueller testimony from last week was, simply put, an utter DISASTER for the Daemoncrats – which of course anyone who had the first clue about the MUH RUSSIA!!! conspiracy could have figured out within a Washington minute:
#BasedTucker is absolutely right about the fact that the RussiaCon was actually a disaster for the whole country – because it distracted the entire elite class from doing its job of governance, up to and including the Teflon Don, the God-Emperor, whose hands were largely tied by the clown-show in Congress baying for his head on a pike.
The elites of the country have betrayed their people, repeatedly – all for the sake of trying to destroy a consummate political outsider who is doing exactly what he was elected to do.
Many of those elites fully deserve to be arrested, tried for treason, and if found guilty, lined up and shot for TREASON.
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His Most Magnificent and Benevolent Astral Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, has seriously OVER-delivered on one of his core campaign promises:
It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.
Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.
Departments and agencies including the departments of Labor, Education, Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency have led the war on regulations, according to federal reports.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said that President Trump has a builder’s approach to regulations and federalism.
Don’t get me wrong, I am just as disappointed as anyone else on the Hard Right about the fact that the God-Emperor still has not BUILT THE WALL!!! and deported 20 million illegal aliens from American shores, with another 50 million or so Dirt Worlders to follow of their own free will.
However, it is important to remember that, for all that the Left screams about his supposedly “fascistic” impulses, this President obeys the rule of law and the limits on Presidential power imposed by the Constitution better than any President since the illustrious St. Reagan of the Right.
As such, he is beholden to Congress and has to work with both Daemoncrats, who hate him, and Republicucks, who want to stab him in the back.
He is doing the best that he can with the entire world against him. And he is already the best President that America has been blessed with for over a century at this point – greater, even, than Reagan Invictus.
That is one hell of an accomplishment, given everything that the man is up against.
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Friend and fellow shitlord went and found a cute chick playing the violin in a really rather good rendition of the HALO theme:
As my friend observed, her politics are probably the usual silly PC nonsense, but there is no denying that the lady can play.
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Cats riding Roombas never, ever get old:
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Sheldon’s crazy and robotic girlfriend Amy Farrah-Fowler once completely ruined the classic film, Raiders of the Lost Ark:
I have to admit, I was pretty gutted too when I thought through the points that she raised. The fact is that she is correct. Indiana Jones is literally incidental to the film. If he hadn’t been in the film, at all, then the Nazis would have found the Ark of the Covenant, opened it up, and all dun gone and got kilt.
And that’s before we get to the very, very creepy original interactions between a mid-forties Indiana Jones and a twelve-year-old Marion Ravenwood, proposed by Jabba-the-Lucas back in the day.
Talk about ruining someone’s fond childhood memories…
These days, I prefer to think of Raiders as a tale of doomed heroism that somehow turned out all right in the end. But damn if The Big Bang Theory didn’t crap all over some beloved franchises during its run…
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The new series, Star Trek: Picard on Amazon Prime, does look very promising:
Hopefully it isn’t quite the social justice abomination that Star Trek: Discovery has turned out to be – and I cannot possibly be the only one who has noticed the fact that the show can be abbreviated down to “STD”, by the way. Unfortunately, there are some clear signs that SocJus retardation has infested the new series just as badly as some of its predecessors.
But the idea of a last hurrah for a true living legend of theatre, drama, and film is indeed a compelling one. Jean-Luc Picard was, and is, an iconic character, and nobody plays iconic characters better than Sir Patrick Stewart.
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While we’re on the subject of trailers – take a look at this 100% unofficial set of trailers for a fan-made project set in the WARHAMMAR 40,000 universe:
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From the (possibly) sublime to the (genuinely) ridiculous – here is a breakdown of Steven “The Great Pretender” Seagal’s pretensions (see what I did there?) to cinematic and martial arts fame:
The plain old fact is that Seagal’s films, especially the modern ones, really stink. Sure, they were good cheesy stupid fun back in the mid-90s, when that ponytail and the expressionless face were considered the high watermark of action movies – Under Siege, anyone? – but these days, there are younger and far better martial artists and action heroes who do a much better job.
Jason Statham, Scott Adkins, and Michael Jai White all have serious martial arts credentials – between the three of them they share something like 12 black belts, with Michael Jai White owning 8 of them, including one in BJJ. Mr. Statham is at least a purple belt in BJJ, Mr. Adkins has a black belt in tae kwon do and is a skilled fighter in 8 other arts including judo, BJJ, muay thai, and Krav Maga, and MJW has so many different karate and kickboxing skills that it’s hard to know where to begin.
On top of that – they are better actors than Steven Seagal too.
Hell, if you look at his contemporaries, such as Jean Claude Van Damme, Tom Cruise, and especially Liam Neeson, those guys do many of their own stunts (especially Mr. Cruise), they take good care of their bodies, they stay in shape, and they would be genuinely scary in a fight. You cannot say the same about Steven Seagal, who looks like a giant blob of melted butter these days.
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And here’s some more ridiculousness – remember a movie called Zombieland from a few years back?
As zombie films go, it wasn’t half bad. Even Jesse Eisenberg, who I find insufferable and annoying most of the time, was pretty good in that movie.
Well, apparently there’s a sequel coming out, and they’ve packed it FULL of talent:
I’d say it’s better than even money that it bombs. It could be great, sure, but the original was merely “better than average”, so I rather doubt it.
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Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers demolishes the wage gap myth (again) in under 5 minutes:
Those women are so insufferably smug. I pity the fools who date them.
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Good ol’ PJ has a new video up, taking apart that paragon of social justice ideals – Sweden:
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Here is an interesting perspective on an issue that many people who have traveled to Europe, Asia, and the USA find curious:
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When I first watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, I had much the same reaction to it that Rock Hudson did – “can someone please explain to me what the hell that was all about?!?”.
Mind you, I was about 14 at the time.
These days, however, I see the film a bit differently:
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You wouldn’t know it if you only paid attention to the (((media))) that covers the output of the Devil Mouse studios, but when The Lion King was released back in 1995 or whenever it was, there was actually quite a controversy about whether or not the Disney film was basically a straight rip-off of a suspiciously similar Japanese animated film:
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Here is an interesting look at Bitcoin mining in China – where cryptocurrencies pose a very real threat to central government control over the people:
They pose such a threat, in fact, that some Asian governments are considering banning crypto altogether:
A total ban on private cryptocurrencies has been approved by a government panel in India which also recommended a 10-year prison sentence for anyone dealing with unregulated digital assets.
After nearly two years of work, the inter-ministerial committee (IMC), chaired by the economic affairs secretary, has submitted its final report to the government, together with draft legislation seeking to ban crypto trading in the country. It also recommended setting up a ‘Digital Rupee’ that would be issued by the Reserve Bank as legal tender.
Highlighting their “serious concern” over the growing popularity of alternative digital payment systems that completely lack government oversight, the IMC stressed that privately generated cryptocurrencies “lack all the attributes of a currency,”carry no “intrinsic value” and therefore can be detrimental to India’s economy.
To stamp out crypto mining and trading, the panel in their draft ‘Banning of Cryptocurrency & Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill’ suggested imposing a jail term of up to 10 years and/or a penalty of up to $7.25 million against any person who “directly or indirectly mines, generates, holds, sells, deals in, transfers, disposes of or issues cryptocurrency.”
I seriously doubt that the Indian government will be able to do much to stop crypto. Pandora’s Box was opened long ago. And the absolute last people who should be trusted with managing India’s currency – or any currency, for that matter – is the central government.
Why?
Well, in India’s case, just look at what they did with demonetisation a few years ago:
This means only 0.7 per cent of demonetised currency notes were junked in the exercise. The government had initially expected that approximately Rs 3 lakh crore of demonetised currency notes would not come back to the banking system, thus shedding the substantial weight of black money.
While announcing demonetisation on November 8 in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had outlined three broad objectives to fight black money, corruption and terror funding. These objectives have always been debatable for the lack of accurate verifiable data.
Soon after the RBI released its annual report, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram launched a fresh attack on the Modi government saying that the country paid a huge price for demonetisation by way of job loss, closure of industries and the GDP growth.
“Indian economy lost 1.5 per cent of GDP in terms of growth. That alone was a loss of Rs 2.25 lakh crore a year. Over 100 lives were lost. 15 crore daily wage earners lost their livelihood for several weeks. Thousands of SME units were shut down. Lakhs of jobs were destroyed,” Chidambaram said in a series of tweets. The Congress demanded an apology from PM Modi.
Yeah. They done f***ed up. Really, really badly.
The Indian government is home to the same bunch of geniuses that once tried to print money to combat inflation. Try to wrap your head around that, and then tell me whether you think that they are competent enough to figure out how to regulate or even ban crypto altogether.
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It cannot be said often enough – DO NOT SCREW WITH BATMAN:
Related – probably my favourite track from all of the various Nolanverse Batman soundtracks:
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Here is one of our boy Razorfist’s classic cinematic breakdowns, of a film so terrible that it was actually kind of fun to watch (apparently), just for its sheer idiocy:
Haven’t seen it. Probably never will. But intrigued nonetheless.
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Also – Razorfist pens a beautiful tribute to a very sadly deceased great character actor, Rutger Hauer:
Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75.
Hauer’s agent, Steve Kenis, says the actor died July 19 at his home in the Netherlands.
Hauer’s roles included a terrorist in “Nighthawks” with Sylvester Stallone, Cardinal Roark in “Sin City” and playing an evil corporate executive in “Batman Begins.” He was in the big-budget 1985 fantasy “Ladyhawke” and won a supporting-actor Golden Globe award in 1988 for “Escape from Sobibor.”
In “Blade Runner,” he played the murderous replicant Roy Batty on a desperate quest to prolong his artificially shortened life in post-apocalyptic, 21st-century Los Angeles.
In his dying, rain-soaked soliloquy, he looked back at his extraordinary existence. “All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die,” he said.
“It’s so much fun to playfully roam into the dark side of the soul and tease people,” the actor told The Associated Press in 1987. “If you try to work on human beings’ light side, that’s harder. What is good is hard. Most people try to be good all their lives. So you have to work harder to make those characters interesting.”
Hauer’s ruggedly handsome face, blue eyes and strong physique drew the attention of American producers in such international successes as “Turkish Delight,” ″Spetters” and “Soldier of Orange.” The offers from the United States came as a surprise to Hauer, who faced the same uncertain future experienced by other Dutch film actors.
Clear skies, Mr. Hauer.
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Dave Cullen points out that pretty much every major comic book and film franchise is basically compromised and social-justice-converged at this point:
The good news is that we are fighting back. Rebel’s Run is going to be a big kick in the balls to the Devil Mouse and other converged studios when it drops.
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Here is another nuanced and thoughtful response to THAT controversy about deadlifting, started by strongman competitor Robert Oberst over on Toe Joe Rogan’s podcast:
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As if we need any more evidence that the Jesuit order of monks has been irredeemably corrupted by the Enemy – here’s some:
Dettloff showcases Marxist priests “like Herbert McCabe, O.P., Ernesto and Fernando Cardenal, S.J., Frei Betto, O.P., Camilo Torres” who “have been inspired by communists and in many places contributed to communist and communist-influenced movements as members,” as if the corruption of Catholic clergy were grounds for supporting Marxism.
“Many of my friends in the Party for Socialism and Liberation, for example, a Marxist-Leninist party, are churchgoing Christians or folks without a grudge against their Christian upbringing,” Dettloff declares, “as are lots of people in the radical wing of the Democratic Socialists of America.”
The writer then describes Christianity as just another ideological “faction” alongside other factions, such as communism.
“The history of communism, whatever else it might be, will always contain a history of Christianity, and vice versa, whether members of either faction like it or not,” he proposes.
Citing Marxist arguments, Dettloff makes the bizarre claim that the ownership of private property necessarily leads to slavery, since property owners come to see other people as just another form of property to be owned.
Capitalism emerged through “the privatization of what was once public, like shared land,” Dettloff declares, paraphrasing Marx. “As time went on, human beings themselves would become the private property of other human beings.”
Communists, on the other hand, are loving people concerned above all for the good of the poor, even if they have occasionally strayed from their pure roots, he suggests.
“Communism has provided one of the few sustainable oppositions to capitalism, a global political order responsible for the ongoing suffering of millions,” Dettloff states.
“Communism in its socio-political expression has at times caused great human and ecological suffering,” Dettloff concedes, but any “good communist is quick to admit as much,” he adds, because “communism is an unfinished project that depends on the recognition of its real and tragic mistakes.”
Mr. Dettloff evidently believes that over 100 million deaths in the 20th century can be reduced to “great human and ecological suffering” caused by the Marxist ideology being an “unfinished project.”
One would be tempted to suggest that if Marxism were a “finished” project, the deaths would be many times greater.
The Jesuits are the very same order whence Pope Francis came. That, alone, should tell you just how corrupted and foolish that once-great and glorious order of the Mother Church has become.
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What happens when you trick a wazzock into getting strapped onto the top of a biplane?
Related – the blokiest blokes ever to bloke across a TV screen explain Germans:
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Top Gun may well be the gayest straight movie ever filmed – but there is absolutely no denying the sheer AMAZEBALLS that was its final combat sequence:
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Time for some funny pics, and a few girls with guns:
Floriduh Man is on the loose again:
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Your dog of the week is the Laika:
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And here are the gym idiots for this week – God help us all:
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We all know that the only way to get that foul, disgusting, awful stench of gym FAILS out of our nostrils is to bear witness to feats of strength performed by a TITAN among men. Well, here’s one:
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As bullshido goes, this parody clip – sent to me by a very good friend – isn’t actually the worst example I’ve ever seen:
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Now here is a terrific fight breakdown of one of the best boxing matches ever:
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Your Buakaw Beatdown of the week:
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#M.E.T.A.L.
Those guys have a new album coming out soon. I’m quite looking forward to it.
Oh, and these guys have a new album coming out soon also:
And now we come to a hugely underrated song that was also hugely influential, from THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME:
That one song, right there, was quite possibly the genesis of power metal. Without that, and without proto-thrash bands like CELTIC FROST, what we know of today as “power metal” probably wouldn’t exist.
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And finally, to bring a touch of class to this most depressing of days, your Instathot for the start of the week comes to you via London. She goes by the name of Kimberley Garner, and she is some sort of swimwear designer. As Instathots go, she doesn’t seem to be that bad – and is famous for doing real things in the real world, which is impressive in and of itself.
Happy Monday, boys. Keep the faith and stay the course, things are heating up around the world and the cold wars between Left and Right are quickly turning hot.
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