Monday Morning Links

by | Sep 14, 2026 | Daily Links | 192 comments

The Browns are really bad. The Bears are really good (on offense anyway). The Steelers might be ok. The Cardinals shocked the Chargers. The Packers blew a comfortable lead (and I assure you that I feel their pain after Saturday night’s game in Austin). The Cowboys and Texans both lost. Ben Shelton tried his best, but the drought for American men at the US Open continues. Man City beat ManUre even though they were down a man for most of the game. Kimi Antonelli won (again) after some good fortune with the VSC timing. And the Astros are back to .500 again and only a game up now. And I guess that’s about it for sports.

Hey, they’re just like the other guys involved in this fight. I’d be curious to see the stats on people who have left each country to avoid conscription. And I’d be interested in seeing how the two have been reported in western media.

This coverage is grotesque. It’s little more than organized jury intimidation, IMO. And it should be addressed by the judge.

Get your popcorn. This story is not getting much coverage yet, but it might start getting more soon.

Better late than never. Now they just need to apply the same decision to all their unqualified truckers on the highways that have become an absolute menace.

This is why they never should have shut down Spirit. Everybody had an airline that matched their lifestyle until that one died.

Infuriating. And nothing will come of it.

No shit, Sherlock. Half the party has been campaigning on this very thing.

When you come for the king, you best not miss. I’ll be honest, I have no idea what went down. But I do know this is weird.

Let’s wait and see how this plays out. And if it does, I wonder what the fallout will be.

But she had a restraining order and the state has strict gun control. Oh wait, criminals don’t follow the law. It’s almost as if the state helped put the gun to her head.

I should play this song more often. But it’s tough with so many other great tracks. Like this one. Just fantastic. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.

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  1. Shpip

    “If someone committed an immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law. So, I’ll leave it at that. We’ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.”

    The phrase “Hoist by one’s own petard” comes to mind, but of course, that’s (D)ifferent.

    • sloopyinca

      I can’t imagine Homan making this kind of statement unless he believes he’s got the goods. But we’ll wait and see.

      • Ted S.

        Will a jury convict?

        Not bloody likely.

      • sloopyinca

        A federal court can order it. No jury involved, as far as I can tell.

    • UnCivilServant

      None of them would have the courage of a petardier’s assistant to carry the bomb up to the fortress gates under fire.

      • (((Jarflax

        If a Somali is hoist by a petard, the petard was probably stolen, so it was not their own.

    • R C Dean

      The betting/prediction sites must have odds on her being deported.

      Personally, I’m in the not-gonna-happen camp.

    • DrOtto

      Yeah, the press was looking the other way on these allegations for years and just called everyone a racist who dared say anything.

      • rhywun

        And they will continue to do so and it will work.

        Nothing whatsoever is going to come from this – except more donations to Democrats probably.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The days of calling anyone you don’t like racist are over. The term has been used so much by people who’s opinion doesn’t matter to half the country that it has lost all meaning.

      • rhywun

        The days of calling anyone you don’t like racist are over.

        Look at the optimist here.

        I think for the other half of the country those days aren’t over at all.

      • Evan from Evansville

        rhy is correct. Race is still a power card in their Divisive Playbook. They’ll milk it as long as they can and it ain’t stopping yet. It’s all they have and it’ll continue squeezing that cock until its eyes explode, crushing the golden eggs from afar with bizarre, queer radiation. Queer? Yeah. They’ll continue milkin’ that cock, too. It’s still cawing.

        Weak bench of people trying to coral a weak bench of ‘ideas’ to sell weak candidates to weak people.

      • Threedoor

        The weak bench still has about 20-25% of the population and can easily sway another equally sized group of not more on the mean words front.

        Until more than half the people say FU to it, crying racist will still have power.

        And I doubt more than half the people will ever scoff at the accusation.

  2. Ted S.

    but the drought for American men at the US Open continues

    Can’t be bothered to name the winner.

    It’s part of why I increasingly find myself rooting against the Americans, because ESPN’s coverage is obscenely biased.

    • Ted S.

      The headline should be Alexander Zverev beat some American, and will likely end the year #1.

      Also nothing to say about the women’s final which had #1 v #2, except that they both committed the unforgivable sin of beating Americans in the semifinals.

      Congratulations to Elena Rybakina and condolences to Aryna Sabalenka.

      • sloopyinca

        The women’s final was Saturday. I only mentioned one thing that happened Saturday in the sports news, and only to reinforce something that happened Sunday (and so you personally could give me a hard time).

    • rhywun

      I am not sure what else you would expect, from an American broadcaster?

    • Not Adahn

      NPR ran a story last week about how awesome it was for a Black man to be in the finals.

      • R C Dean

        So tedious.

      • rhywun

        “He’s black?”

        “I don’t think we should be talking about this.”

  3. (((Jarflax

    I am choosing to believe that the shake up at Automattic involves a fight over whether the persecution of this site should continue!

    • Threedoor

      My first thought as well.
      Was the staff sandbagging the operations to make the CEO look bad?

      Not unlikely.

  4. Shpip

    The sheriff’s office identified Rohit and also spoke of his concerning behavior. The agency cited instances of Rohit making a copy of Thakur’s apartment key to let himself inside while she was sleeping, as well as another time when he violated the restraining order in late July, when he dropped off grocery store items at her front door.

    Either he’s the world’s most technologically advanced Pajeet, or there’s more to the story than the paper is letting on.

    • sloopyinca

      Here’s the rest of the story: the police knew he’d violated the order in the commission of a felony (B&E) and simply didn’t care enough to lock his crazy ass up to keep her safe.

      • Ted S.

        He should claim to have a mental illness and then all the crazy women will leap to his defense.

      • Rat on a train

        I believe that will only work if he claims to be a woman.

    • Grumbletarian

      He’d park outside of her place for hours every day waiting to talk to her, but the cops couldn’t track him down to arrest him.

      Top notch policemaning, Lou.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They might have worried about being called racist!

    • R C Dean

      How did he get her key to copy it, anyway?

      • EvilSheldon

        Took a photo of it, scaled it to an existing key with the same keyway, then 3D-printed a key of his own? Social engineered her landlord or building manager, or a neighbor or family member? He didn’t copy her key, he picked the lock or used a bump key? That’s all just off the top of my head.

    • Threedoor

      It’s his culture
      How dare you condemn him, how he came into the country illegally, or the sus nature of her family likely aiding him.

      I’m thinking arranged marriage and she didn’t like it.

  5. Ted S.

    This is why they never should have shut down Spirit.

    Was the woman someone you’d want to see naked?

    • Evan from Evansville

      If we wanted to see them naked, they would’ve managed to get a picture.

    • Not Adahn

      Well, she apparently fits into an economy seat, so there’s that.

      • UnCivilServant

        That doesn’t mean much. I technically “fit” in an economy seat. While I decided not to go through that again, there are a lot of sizes which can be crammed into the space. Beyond that, width is not the only factor in disqualifying wanting to see someone unclothed. The world is full of ugly people.

      • Not Adahn

        Tomorrow will be my first time flying in the newly-invented lowest class of airline seats.

        I ran out of money this season. Fortunately the NYSP are not as big of dicks as the rest of NYS goverenment — I can only assume fees don’t go to them.

        Story:

        Last week I checked my CCW registration “just to make sure.” NY does not list an expiration on the licence nor send out any sort of renewal notice. Anyway, I was an idiot and had let it expire. I briefly considered taking a screenshot of my renewal application with me and hoping that would suffice, but it occurred to me that the Sherriff’s deputy who checks the license at the airport is undoubtedly bored out of his mind and would jump at the chance to do… anything interesting like arresting a gun criminal. Plus even if I didn’t go to jail they’d undoubtedly seize my guns and I don’t have the funds to replace them.

        So I had resigned myself to not shooting the match but just flying out and working it. But I checked the NYSP website and my renewal went through in less than a week! They still don’t have all my guns on the list, but the one I’m taking that they’re missing is printed on my license, so that should be covered.

      • Rat on a train
      • UnCivilServant

        Technically, it’s not a renewal but a recertification. It’s downstate that requires a renewal.

        Not sure what the legal difference is, but I figure that’s enough of a fig leaf for the state police to go “whatever, close enough”

      • Threedoor

        NA.
        And that’s the reason the media thinks that Americans have to “register” their guns. Because a handful of sucky states where the media lives maybe such a bysentine system of oppression they extend it to the rest of us.

    • (((Jarflax

      You know… there’s a way to make this the most awesome thing ever…

      • UnCivilServant

        🤔

        But if you took to throwing them to the beasts, it’d make the job more dangerous for the zookeepers once the animals associate human-shaped things with being prey.

      • sloopyinca

        Take the kids on a tour of Rotherham. Then you don’t have to apologize for the poorly written advertisement.

      • Shpip

        there’s a way to make this the most awesome thing ever…

        Yep. I immediately got some Jurassic Park “T rex and the goat” vibes.

        It’s not like there’s any shortage of MENA pedos… er, paedos in that part of the world.

      • Evan from Evansville

        MAPs. Minor-Attracted Persons.

        WTF, world?

    • Necron 99

      I never did trust that Chester Cheeta guy.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Come one, come all, to the Jimmy Savile Meet and Greet!

      • R C Dean

        AND BY MEET AND GREET, MEAN . . . .

  6. rhywun

    It’s little more than organized jury intimidation, IMO. And it should be addressed by the judge.

    And I won’t hold my breath waiting for the Army of Angry Women to condemn CBS for breathlessly reporting this trash.

  7. Ted S.

    Let’s wait and see how this plays out.

    Let Scotland leave and go bankrupt.

    • Threedoor

      They want to leave and join the EU.

      What fools.

  8. rhywun

    And if it does, I wonder what the fallout will be.

    Three more European nations even more radically leftist than England, would be my guess.

    • Threedoor

      More meat for the caliphate.

  9. Evan from Evansville

    First day of work since July 3, and that wasn’t really real, nor were the two days before it, so six pretty full weeks in limbo. Glad to be out of it. Departing soon for that grueling 7min drive and we shall see how the day unfolds.

    Should be an interesting day. Likely just paperwork and hellos, possibly online orientation vids and other tips on how to sexually and racially harass my coworkers. Informative lessons, those.

    Onward and up to y’all as well!

    • Trigger Hippie

      *insert Sean’s avatar

  10. Rat on a train

    Maybe the Democrats can do multiple simultaneous impeachments. Trump needs to pad the count to ensure the record stands.

    • Ted S.

      NHK Newsline also had a piece today on kei truck racing, but that one doesn’t seem to have a good URL to link to.

    • Not Adahn

      Time capsule opened in Saitama city

      I had no idea there was a one-punch city.

      • Threedoor

        I would hope it’s smooth.

  11. Brochettaward

    Reason is running a long piece on Milei. They hosted some conference down in Argentina with “libertarians.” A lot of them spent the weekend griping about his “conservative” social positions. Open opposition to LGBTQ agenda bullshit, especially aimed at children, and not supporting muh abortions. How dare he say transing a child is abuse! That kind of bullshit.

    The main thing is that curbing inflation is a painful process and leaves you open to attacks. Reagan did it, but it took a few years of economic pain before things took off. Likewise anywhere else it’s really been done.

    The US itself has no stomach for that and the second you start shrinking government in anyway and the economy suffers the slightest hiccup, the pitch forks will be aimed right at you. Too many people feeding at that trough and too much ideological opposition. If we ever have real hyperinflation I suspect we’re fucked because people will want it clamped down on in a day and refuse to suffer any negative consequences for the attempt. And even in Argentina, we’ve seen the same rumblings.

    People want miracles and no pain. You can’t tell them things are going to suck for a few years before they get better. And the propaganda machine has been running on full blast against Milei there and everywhere else (especially after he cozied up to Trump). People don’t want him to succeed. A government that does less to solve problems is paradoxical to them. Even supposed “libertarians” like those at Reason. How many times did those clowns write that the GOP had no coherent healthcare plan or alternative to the ACA as bills to cut red tape and bullshit like that floated around?

    When even libertarians subconsciously embrace the idea that the government has to do more, we’re all pretty well fucked.

    • (((Jarflax

      Government needs to do more! Without that how will we hit our weed, ass sex, and Mexican quotas?

      Maximizing liberty requires government to be limited to specified subjects, contract enforcement, protection of lives and property from external threats, and enforcement of a limited list of criminal laws entirely concentrated on protecting the citizen’s rights to life and peaceful pursuits, but strong in those areas. This in turn requires that the electorate be prudent enough not to use this powerful tool to pursue their own individual or factional desires.

      Libertarians largely seek license not liberty. License ultimately requires government to protect people from the consequences of their pursuits. Libertarians often deny that this is what they want, but when pushed seem endlessly supportive of special privilege laws prohibiting ‘discrimination’.

      • Threedoor

        Jar, you say it better than than I could.

        I despise anti discrimination laws, garbage like the ADA, the CRA and all public acomodation laws. They are violations of property rights and freedom of association.

        On one hand the “libertarians”want to champion freedom of association for the sins they like but rarely for property owners and businesses.

        The hypocrisy pisses
        Me off.

    • Threedoor

      My biggest problems with “libertarians” is that so many of them think you have to avoid the parts of human behavior that make culture successful and go full libertine.

      I admit to being a culture warrior. I am a Christian first and foremost. There are things that make cultures successful, don’t use the state to destroy families, don’t encourage sexual deviancy, don’t murder children, don’t sell sex.

  12. Evan from Evansville

    First day at Cox. Wish me luck, folk.

    Onward, upward and Current, present, continuous.

    • Sean

      Good luck. Keep yer shoes on.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      You will be fine, EV. Just work hard.

      • Ted S.

        He should work flaccid if he doesn’t want to be accused of sexual harassment.

  13. R.J.

    How can it only be Monday and I am ready to take off my Atlas Shrug and walk away? I saw Bro’s rant on work earlier. I feel the same. Even better? Look at that link. So lazy the poster did not even correct the typo of “Knit.”

      • bacon-magic

        Don’t judge him, there was a sale.

      • Not Adahn

        30% off?

      • Gdragon

        A very fitting joke given the picture on the front page. And Jason Kidd’s son looks so happy with the King of Pop.

    • Common Tater

      Is the print of Atlas on the the back?

      • Gdragon

        Altas.

      • R.J.

        I wish. Somebody should officially make it.
        And I look damn good in a half-jacket.

      • R.J.

        Gdragon for the win.

  14. DEG

    “I know things are going on, but I can’t give specifics of what’s happening,” Homan said.

    “If someone committed an immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law. So, I’ll leave it at that. We’ll let HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.”

    Talk, talk, talk.

    Talk is cheap. Call me when she’s deported.

    • Threedoor

      Deported and fast roped into Mogadishu about 30’ too high.

  15. Common Tater

    Today, in no one ever learns…

    Constance Margaret Fisher was an American serial mass murderer. She killed three of her children in Maine in 1954. Officers searched the house and found Fisher hidden under a bed, unconscious from drinking a bottle of liquid shampoo in a suicide attempt. A note written by her was located, with Constance explaining that she had drowned the children to “save them from evil” and that God had ordered her to do so.

    Fisher was arrested and charged with murder. The killings came as a shock to the community, who struggled to believe that she was capable of doing such a thing. Before she was able to stand trial, a forensic psychiatric examination concluded that she was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and was thus unable to stand trial.

    In 1955, her husband initiated a legal process to have her released. After four years, partly due to a national effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients, Constance was released into her husband’s custody on March 6, 1959.

    The couple soon moved to a new home Carl had built for the family, where they would have three more children.

    On June 30, 1966, Carl returned home from work only to find Constance drowned the three new children.

    In spite of their attempts to have her convicted, her defense counsel managed to convince the court that Constance was insane, and the judge eventually ruled that she should be confined to the Augusta State Hospital for the rest of her natural life.

    On October 1, 1973, after her husband Carl decided to stop visiting her, she managed to escape. She was found drowned shortly afterward.

    • rhywun

      JFC.

      national effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients

      A gift that keeps on giving.

    • R C Dean

      They must have retired the “Galactic Cuck Championship” after that.

      • Grumbletarian

        The woman was buried next to the six kids she killed. Then when the husband eventually died, he took the championship to his grave, right next to her. Wow.

    • creech

      Pretty obvious it was the husband who really killed the kids, right?

      • bacon-magic

        He’s an evil mastermind. I bet he was hormonal.

      • The Other Kevin

        Of course. Anyone would think that after watching 5 hours of coverage.

    • The Other Kevin

      unconscious from drinking a bottle of liquid shampoo in a suicide attempt

      Damn what did they put in shampoo in the 50’s? Asbestos?

    • ron73440

      I don’t know how you would rebuild a life with a woman that killed your kids, but I really think I would have shot her the second time.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        What, you don’t think you could fix her?

      • ron73440

        I think shooting her qualifies as fixing.

  16. Common Tater

    Two lovebirds were arrested after they were allegedly caught firing guns and downing booze near their home on Saturday night.

    Tiffany Rose Lindo and Jacob Roibert Mills, both 25, of Fort Pierce, FL, were taken into custody after officers were called to reports of people actively discharging firearms at about 9 p.m. Saturday, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.

    The pair were allegedly firing a shotgun, rifle, and handguns and had been consuming alcohol before and during the gunplay, according to authorities.

    “A BAD COMBINATION, A WORSE DECISION: Firearms and alcohol. Two things that should never be part of the same plan,” the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Facebook.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/us-news/florida-lovebirds-busted-for-firing-off-guns-while-drinking-cops/

    No one cares about your Facebook, Karen.

    • Ted S.

      As opposed to the police, who are passively discharging firearms.

      • Threedoor

        ACORNS!!!

    • bacon-magic

      NO DOGS WERE SHOT, THAT WAS THE REAL CRIME. – COP

    • slumbrew

      “He thinks she is the modern Marilyn Monroe,” says a source.”

      If so, he may want to rethink that whole marriage thing.

    • rhywun

      … Which one is the mogul and which one is the “The Housemaid” star…?

    • Not Adahn

      Is there any competition for Ms. Sweeny in the “Modern Day Marilyn Monroe” category?

    • Common Tater

      “British sprint star Amy Hunt hits out at Sydney Sweeney for her naked betting advert which is ‘sexualising women’s sport’ – as other athletes condemn actress for move and brand it ‘a kick in the face

      Former Australian Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus, a four-time gold medallist, said: ‘I can’t describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.

      ‘Not only is it a kick in the face to every woman who had dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every women who enjoys sports for what it really is – teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellent, unity.

      ‘How do we live in a world where monetising a women’s body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?’ ‘”

      https://www.dailymail.com/sport/othersports/article-16129217/amy-hunt-sydney-sweeney-naked-ad.html

      Can I bet on Novig that both of them have Instagrams?

      • Ted S.

        As if men’s bodies aren’t monetized and men’s sports isn’t sexualized.

      • The Last American Hero

        And yet the 4 time gold medalist was silent when during the Beach Volleyball events, tennis matches, or ice skating events were going on. Nope, not a minute of protest for that.

      • rhywun

        How do we live a world where putting dour, humorless, attention-seeking scolds on a pedestal is still a thing?

      • Grumbletarian

        ‘How do we live in a world where monetising a women’s body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?’ ‘”

        Because, despite the best efforts of the left, men still like tits.

      • kinnath

        T & A

        Don’t forget the A

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I never do, kinnath.

      • Grumbletarian

        That’s different!

        I’ll bet.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, well done.

  17. Common Tater

    “Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop, The Post can reveal.

    Gallant appeared in multiple pics for “Mr. S Leather,” a San Francisco-based purveyor of leather-daddy supplies, wearing collars, leather straps, neoprene, bondage gear, and more.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/us-news/ny-dem-house-candidate-chris-gallant-posed-for-graphic-bdsm-photos-while-in-national-guard/

    OK?

    • Common Tater

      “Gallant beat off opposition from 25-year-old NYU grad Lukas Ventouras in the June Democratic primary after Ventouras was caught liking antisemitic memes and posts online.”

      We’re not doing phrasing?

      • slumbrew

        The Post is most definitely doing phrasing.

      • rhywun

        lol

        It wouldn’t be a Dem primary without all involved being some weird freak or hater or other.

    • creech

      Probably would fit right in with the rest of the House membership.

      • Threedoor

        At the very least with some senate aids.

    • Shpip

      I guess they want him pegged as some kind of weirdo.

  18. Not Adahn

    I watched most of The Gentlemen S2 over the weekend.

    It’s ok. Ep 7 is a completely different genre than the rest of the series. Whoever played the Contessa is just smoking hot in a completely different way than Sydney Sweeny is hot. Mainly in a “look at her ass as she dances in a sheer dress” sort of way.

    • UnCivilServant

      I found the wraparound Grips with the flared magwell. I’m a bit confused as I thought both of the remaining sets were together, but I’m not done searching.

      However I am off to Honey Harvets this week, so I’ll have to return this one to you after I return.

      • Not Adahn

        The flare is mainly to compress the hand. The magwell, such as it is, is crap.

    • kinnath

      I’ve watched the first two episodes. Looking forward to finishing the series.

  19. UnCivilServant

    Just once I want to see one of these unhinged nutters espouse their opinion on a widely-viewed media of any sort and have the person they’re talking to look at them askance and ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

  20. Evan from Evansville

    Well. I’m back at home. Turns out, as I noted before, I hadn’t received a confirmation email about my starting date other than the one I signed for. So, turns out my background check is still pending. The lab test people still haven’t called about my Rx or anything, so maybe that, too.

    Well. I’m not concerned. More peeved. Will email hiring person/ recruiter, as I was instructed to, to double check on that shit and let ’em know I’m aware and ask what’s up.

    So. I’m not doing shit today. STRIKE THAT. I’m gonna work on something I meant to finish this weekend. In my little project, ‘Ch. 3’ is purposefully not a downer (though I hope the others weren’t *crosses fingers*). I’m gonna take y’all back to Kazakhstan for a tighter piece about my adventure on the fucking 14-hour, overnight Soviet train I took from Astana to Almaty to see the mountains.

    • Threedoor

      Well crap.
      I HATE lack of communication.

      I admit I sometimes screw up and drop the ball but if anything I’m guilty of talking to my customers too much.

      What plant
      Location
      What
      When
      Gate code
      Size of job
      How long are they there
      Where are they moving
      When are they moving

  21. Common Tater

    “Pervs and creeps are using smart glasses to spy on women… So a tech nerd built an app to detect them and people are downloading it like crazy

    That led him to launch Zuckoff, which has already garnered 5,000 users since its launch on Apple’s App Store last month.

    The app functions like a map, showing users the likely proximity of nearby smart glasses.

    Szydlowski said he began by obtaining various models of smart glasses and examining the Bluetooth signals they broadcast to determine their Bluetooth ‘fingerprint.'”

    https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-16123835/meta-smart-glasses-spying-las-vegas-app.html

    Zuckoff?

    • rhywun

      Wait till they find out that women are doing it on men, too.

      Idiots.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I’m sure it’s used to check ‘credit scores’ and bank balances like Chinese ‘social credits.’ What’s wrong with lookin’ at your checking account while you’re lookin’ at my tits?’

        Also a way for that ‘Pay what you can afford’ digital pricing to monitor you. It’s really fucked. I mentioned watching Demolition Man with my parents for fun, the rare sex scene that actually ADDS to the plot (it does, tremendously, oddly not featuring real sex), and the prescient nature of the whole flick.

        It wants to have fun, does it over the top, and subtly has a keen message underneath. Arguably in my Top 10.

  22. Shpip

    Women don’t want a partner, they want a sugar daddy.

    American singles now expect partners to earn six figures, with women setting the bar at $172,000 a year

    Other than a few finance and tech bros, or a new associate at BigLaw, what dude under thirty is making that kind of scratch?

    • Ted S.

      Men are sexist and have unrealistic expectations of women, but 6-6-6 is liberating for women.

    • rhywun

      Politicians and union hacks, for starters.

    • R.J.

      I hardly know anyone over 50 making that, after an entire career. I don’t make that and I am close to retirement.

      • Swiss Servator

        In USD or CHF?

        *runs from room*

      • Gender Traitor

        Congestive Heart Failure?? 😳

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m closing in…

        But, even by 2031 I’m not likely to reach that.

      • UnCivilServant

        *that salary level, my heart is still good.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Pounds on the table, Swiss!

      • rhywun

        I can only approach that if I switch employers.

        Or get elected to Congress.

        I’m underpaid but at my age finding another job sucks balls.

      • Evan from Evansville

        UCS, you’re closing in on $172,000 a year?

        About snacks later this week… and your heart’s good? THAT’S GREAT! I coulda fixed that for ya, but looks like you’re doin’ well on your own! Followed my advice, I see! *spurious squirrel face affixed*

      • Threedoor

        I hit 666 about a decade ago.

        Busting my ass to keep it and saving as much as I possibly can.

        And there is ZERO chance that I’d leave my wife for some vapid 20 something and throw it all away.

        We’ve talked about the unlikely event of eachothers demise. If she goes I’ll likely be a monk for a couple of years and if I do start dating again I’ll be back to driving my rotted out 76 Blazer and four color 71 GMC. No hoochie is going to learn that I have more than the $50 in my wallet for the date at Starbucks.

    • Grumbletarian

      Can’t imagine why men are bailing out of the dating scene and turning to porn and AI girlfriends.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Nuclear Arms AI Girlfriends Can’t Hold Children!

      • Common Tater

        But maybe they could murder them?

    • Threedoor

      A handful of young docs and some officers.

      The docs almost all have huge debt though.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Naomi Klein is an angry, angry, angry woman, seething with hatred.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Other than a few finance and tech bros, or a new associate at BigLaw, what dude under thirty is making that kind of scratch?

    Backhoe driver?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Chicago bus driver.

    • Threedoor

      Logging truck owner operators often gross over $200,000.

      Gross. Those trucks are not free. And the insurance starts at $20,000 a year.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Make Smog Great Again

    The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to repeal rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action that Administrator Lee Zeldin has said would remove billions of dollars in costs for the industry and help “unleash” American energy.

    The rule change, proposed last year, could be announced as soon as Monday, according to two people familiar with the proposal, and represents a fundamental shift from efforts by Democratic Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to address climate change and clean up industrial pollution, often in low-income and majority Black or Hispanic communities.

    The rule, which is expected to face immediate legal challenges, also could prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the people familiar with the proposal said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the final rule had not yet been made public.

    Trump is turning the clock back and poisoning black people!

    • Common Tater

      White people don’t breathe?

    • rhywun

      Those “efforts by Democratic Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to address climate change” were a colossal gift to their green friends and a massive punishment to everyone else. That stupid rule has caused more damage to the economy than you could imagine.

      But oh well, if a few black and brown people need to die so we don’t go back to the stone age, so be it.

    • Threedoor

      Wake me when the NOx rules come back to reasonable levels.

  26. PieInTheSky

    In local new, in the 4th Sector of Bucharest (Bucharest is split in 6 areas, with a general mayor and an additional mayor for each area) the mayor unveiled a mock up of the soon to be built Donald Trump park.

    It contains a mockup of the white house, an homage to NASA and some other American symbols.

    Me, I like parks that are mostly trees.

    https://hotnews.ro/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-11-at-09.18.04.jpeg?resize=1536,684

    • Gender Traitor

      It should be a theme park with roller coasters.

      • Fourscore

        So you watch the stock market too?

    • rhywun

      That looks like a practical joke.

    • Threedoor

      Good looking splash pad.

      The space shuttle though?!
      Let that thing die.

    • Threedoor

      Monster truck!!!

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Zeldin, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are hosting a G20 ministerial meeting on “energy abundance” in Houston, where the rule change is set to be announced. The site is both a nod to the important role the oil-rich state plays in the energy industry and a potential snub of European and other international allies in attendance who have pursued environmentally friendly policies that the Trump administration has moved to undo.

    Republican President Donald Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at a speech to the United Nations last year, and his administration withdrew the U.S. — for the second time — from the 2015 Paris climate accord that sets voluntary goals to curb planet-warming emissions.

    In your face, Eco-Weenies. Have a nice winter.

  28. Common Tater

    “This weekend, juror Paula Devlin continued her media tour and admitted the mostly female jury wanted to leave their mark.

    “We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…” Paula Devlin said.

    It was all political.

    The Clancy jury was not sequestered, and this is just further proof that they were likely thumbing their noses at the orders to ignore outside influences and watching TikTok videos of other women supporting child killer Lindsay Clancy.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/clancy-juror-says-quiet-part-loud-about-mostly/

    Didn’t some of them also start wearing pink?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I would bet that they didn’t just put pressure on the “lone holdout” but on a few other members also, and they broke.

  29. Common Tater

    TW:TOS

    “European cars are now tasked with more than just moving people from one locale to another. A new safety regulation that applies to the 27 countries in the European Union (E.U.) requires automobiles to spy on their passengers too.

    As of July 7, all new passenger vehicles sold in the E.U. had to come equipped with “advanced driver distraction warning” systems that watch for signs of “distraction” and, upon detecting them, issue a visual and an audio or tactile warning. Cars will warn drivers whose gaze drifts for more than three to six seconds, depending on their speed.

    To comply with this mandate, cars will have to fix cameras on drivers’ faces at all times, turning private motor vehicles into efficient surveillance systems. The equipment is supposed to operate as a “closed-loop system,” meaning it “shall only continuously record and retain data necessary for the system to function and operate.” But it is not clear how that rule will be enforced.”

    https://reason.com/2026/09/13/your-car-is-watching-you/

    MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN!

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Another one bites the curb

    Car enthusiasts are mourning the death of popular influencer James Wehr following a late-night crash that also killed another person.

    At around 12:18 a.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 13, the Irvine Police Department and Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) responded to reports of a vehicle fire at Culver Drive and Deerfield Avenue in Irvine, police said in a news release shared on Facebook. After extinguishing the blaze, authorities found two people dead inside a 2019 McLaren.

    One of the victims has been identified as James Wehr, while the second individual has not been publicly identified, ABC7 and KTLA reported. Wehr, 27, was a co-founder of South OC Cars & Coffee, described on its website as “the biggest weekly car show in the world.”

    “Unfortunately, we have some really heavy news to share with you all,” South OC Cars & Coffee wrote on Instagram, confirming Wehr’s death. “This morning, just after midnight, we lost our darling son and brother James in a motor accident.”

    Another show off “car influencer” runs out of talent and stuffs it. How will we carry on?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    A preliminary investigation into the fatal crash determined that the 2019 McLaren stopped northbound on Culver Drive at Deerfield Avenue, the Irvine Police Department said. The vehicle traveled at a “high rate of speed” after the traffic light turned green.

    Police believe that the driver lost control of the vehicle before striking a curb and a tree. The 2019 McLaren then “split in two and caught fire.”

    “I was about to go to bed, and then I heard a big like, skrrrr and then a big boom. Me and my friends come out. Ginormous fire,” witness Sid told ABC 7. “The whole car is just gone.”

    Tragic. Boo hoo.

    Cars aren’t dangerous, drivers are.

    • Threedoor

      At 27 I could afford about 5% of that car.

      Must be nice.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    We’ll call it the Ministry of Beauty

    America has a secretary of Agriculture. We have a secretary of Transportation. We have cabinet departments devoted to energy, commerce and labor. So why, in the country that gave the world Hollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Broadway and video games, don’t we have a secretary of the Arts?

    Sam Reich — CEO of the stellar streaming service Dropout — has been making this point, and Democrats should steal it shamelessly. Because this isn’t just about appreciating art. It’s about recognizing an enormous American industry.

    ——-

    America needs a Department of the Arts with a cabinet-level secretary of the Arts charged with thinking about the whole ecosystem: artists and audiences, studios and independent creators, unions and technology companies, copyright and AI, arts education and America’s cultural exports. Its mission should protect creators’ rights and livelihoods, not police their creative choices. And Democrats should run on creating it in 2026 and 2028.

    What a splendid idea. Just look at what government has done for education.

    • ron73440

      This new secretary can set a wage floor for artists.

      Then subsidize them when not enough people can make a living producing art nobody wants.

      It’s pure genius!

    • creech

      What invisible clause in the Constitution allows for this? The FYTW clause seems to have been done to death already. What’s next – Department of Sports?

    • Threedoor

      Paging Herr Goebbels

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