Wednesday Morning Links

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Daily Links | 318 comments

What a great week this has been. A fourth dildo has been thrown on the court at a WNBA game. Shouldn’t be long before people start calling for hate crime legislation. Gosh, there’s not much else to talk about in the sports world. I think the Browns might have gone a day without signing another QB. Six must be the magic number. Anyway, I’m moving on.

“After Texas kicks off fight,” my ass. Have you seen the maps or the existing rate of representation in the states with the most vocal crybabies? If not, you might want to take a look.

Good. If it’s worth funding, the private sector can fund it. They’re gonna end up making all the money if they work anyway. Which is as it should be.

Nobody is above the law. Well, we’ll test that theory anyway.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I will not miss him.

I’m willing to bet there’s more to this story. But it won’t matter. You always gotta keep your composure and assume there’s cameras rolling.

Yeah…no shit. The only people crying are retarded.

People should go to prison. Instead, there will be a fine and the government will ask them to install the same back doors elsewhere for them

This might become interesting. Should banks be free to discriminate over politics or based on what commerce the customer engages in (like gun sales), if they’re part of the FDIC program?

“You must be this fat to appear in print.” The UK is not a serious place.

Pathetic. Yet not surprising. Learn to drive stick, people.

They mailed it in with the name of this song. Or maybe with the name of the band. It’s still good music though. Which is all that matters. Enjoy it.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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318 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “A fourth dildo has been thrown on the court at a WNBA game.”

    LOLOLOLOL

    • Sean

      ⬅️

      🤣😂

    • rhywun

      Hey buddy, stop doing that.

      *more dildoes incoming*

      • Fourscore

        I see entrepreneurial opportunities outside the venue.

        “Hey Buddy, wanna buy a green dildo”

      • Suthenboy

        This. This is some iteration of the Streisand effect. The more attention they give it….
        Next time it will be a dozen. Maybe they will stop having fans in the stands….oh wait….

      • juris imprudent

        Just put dildos in the empty seats.

    • invisible finger

      I assumed WNBA games sold dildoes and pussy hats at the souvenir stands.

    • The Other Kevin

      BUT WHAT COLOR WAS IT?

  2. Common Tater

    “Good riddance to bad rubbish. I will not miss him.”

    He used to be good a long time ago.

    • WTF

      Unfortunately he went from the guy who mocked and questioned the establishment to an establishment ass-kisser.

      • Drake

        I would tune in if he was forced to listen to his 1990s shows and either agree with Libertarian Howard Stern or explain how he was wrong.

      • rhywun

        And it was noticeable 20 years ago, around when I stopped listening.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He was funny and he’s become everything he built his career making fun of. A downfall of Colbertian proportions but even worse.

      • slumbrew

        Listening to Eli Lake on The Fifth Column yesterday and he described today’s Colbert and Stern as, “establishment mascots”, which I like.

    • The Other Kevin

      He used to be edgy and funny, then he went from playing butt bongos and making women sit on vibrators, to being a humorless scold and finally, like Colbert, he hitched his wagon to a political party that now has a <30% approval rating. Good riddance.

  3. juris imprudent

    FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION – over a fucking mortgage? Oh yeah, we’re real minarchists here.

    • sloopyinca

      Legal justification: Fraud is a crime. And it appears that he defrauded the federally-operated mortgage companies by lying on his applications to obtain favorable rates. That fraud has resulted in a loss of tens of thousands of dollars by the party that was deceived.

      Also, fuck that worm. He’s merely reaping what he’s sown.

      • juris imprudent

        I get hoist on his own petard, I do. But that doesn’t change that what SHOULD be a civil matter or at worst a state criminal proceeding is instead FEDERAL.

        But who cares about principles?

      • sloopyinca

        It became federal when he did what he did in two states. If they look at the two loans individually, they’re both fine. When he did one mortgage in one state and the other in a different state, it became a federal matter.

      • juris imprudent

        Bullshit. He defrauded the second lender (whichever state that was) only since he lied about it being his primary residence (which it could not be while he maintained residence in his district).

        The alternative is, he defrauded the voters in his district by not maintaining his primary residence therein. Honestly, I like that one better because it disqualifies him from office.

      • Shpip

        I wouldn’t mind Schiff resigning in disgrace, but that would leave open the possibility that tump-ass Katie Porter would wind up in the Senate. She’s one of the few folks who may be even more loathsome than the pencil neck.

      • sloopyinca

        You do not have to maintain your primary residence in your district in California. But your primary residence does have to be in the state.

        False statements to financial institutions and bank fraud are federal offenses. Making a series of them spanning a decade in multiple states mean this isn’t a state issue.

        Hopefully they’ll throw tax fraud into the equation, since he took the mortgage deduction on both properties more than once, according to the federal regulators.

      • sloopyinca

        Bullshit. He defrauded the second lender (whichever state that was) only since he lied about it being his primary residence (which it could not be while he maintained residence in his district).

        This isn’t about a single second loan. This is about him doing this multiple times for two different properties in two different states. If he did it once, perhaps he could plead ignorance. He did it at least six times.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Shpip, no matter what CA is going to have a Dem senator. At least make it someone that scares the piss out of the rest of the country, no?

      • R C Dean

        “But who cares about principles?”

        I get it, I really do.

        I also get that standing on principle while your enemy shivs you is a good way to wind up face down in a ditch.

      • juris imprudent

        False statements to financial institutions and bank fraud are federal offenses.

        Yes they are. I guess we don’t care about creeping scope of federal law.

      • juris imprudent

        I also get that standing on principle while your enemy shivs you is a good way to wind up face down in a ditch.

        I’m perfectly open to killing anyone that needs killing. We might as well be forthright and open about that.

      • Threedoor

        I’m with Juris.
        The charge should be to disqualify him for office from his ‘home’ state.

    • (((Jarflax

      I’m torn on this. You are absolutely right that it is unprincipled to cheer on the enforcement of bullshit, over reaching laws based on the person targeted. However, since the Democrats have already proven that they will use any bullshit law available, even creating new ones out of thin air, in order to go after people on the right how do you fight back? If you are in a street fight trying to follow the Marquis of Queensbury rules gets your head beat in, and what is morally more important, allows the thugs to go on harming innocents.

      This particular case is probably one where I reluctantly agree with JI. Playing dirty just to get revenge on someone you don’t like isn’t necessary or advantageous, just emotionally satisfying, and doing evil things for personal satisfaction is just evil. But the redistricting spat probably goes the other way for me. that is playing dirty to counter the opponent’s dirty play, in a way that matters.

      • juris imprudent

        Hell, I’ll even accept that we KNOW we are playing the game against the rules, that we are now down with naked aggression and ruthless lawlessness. That we are hypocrites concerned with fucking over those who would fuck us over.

        Just don’t preach about the principles when you pissing all over them.

      • (((Jarflax

        I will freely admit I am dishonest at least by omission when I discuss what I think we should do about various politicians and bureaucrats. But I am a touch paranoid about the extent of 1st amendment protections for speech, and I think the woodchipper incident might have more serious results these days.

      • WTF

        “fucking over those who would fuck us over” is not hypocrisy, it’s retaliation in kind. I believe in the NAP, but if someone assaults me, it’s not hypocrisy to strike back rather than let them kick my ass.

    • Beau Knott

      Surely a minarchist would be more focused on reducing the size & power of the state rather than the use of existing laws to corral the law breakers?

      • Nephilium

        I’m of the opinion the only way to get rid of the myriad of bullshit laws out there is to enforce them all strictly. The richer the neighborhood, the stricter the enforcement. Oh, and any government employee gets treble penalties for any violations.

      • juris imprudent

        Particularly the heinous crime of lying to get a loan on more favorable terms.

      • sloopyinca

        For any and all crimes.
        The trend of non-prosecution/selective prosecution of laws is a bad one. Because it leaves the laws on the books so they can be selectively used to prosecute people at the whims of those in charge.

        “Let’s just not go after people for this.”
        …time passes and none are prosecuted…
        …somebody pisses off the wrong official…
        “Let’s trot out this law and go after our opponent.”
        “How can you support that criminal?”

        It’s absurd. And the best way to end it is to prosecute violations of those laws zealously and then repeal them when people call for repeal. The alternative is a banana republic.

      • Gender Traitor

        the heinous crime of lying to get a loan on more favorable terms.

        Like overstating the value of your real property, which statement will be either confirmed or refuted by the appraisal? 🙄

      • Not Adahn

        Unfortunately, my “reduce the size and power of the State” button is broken. And those in charge take particular exception were I to try and reduce the power of any specific politician.

        If they are actively screwing each other, that’s fewer resourced dedicated to screwing me.

      • juris imprudent

        Because it leaves the laws on the books so they can be selectively used to prosecute people at the whims of those in charge.

        And half of the country is okay with this because they know roughly half of the time they’ll be in charge. Our turn baby!

        You know, I threw out that line about lying for favorable terms for a reason – that was the NY case against Trump that he had defrauded the banks who gave him those terms. Not that they were complaining about being defrauded themselves.

      • kinnath

        Doesn’t matter.

        It ends in a shooting war one way or the other.

  4. Grumbletarian

    Trump won TX with roughly 56% of the voters last year, and the GOP occupies 64% of the state’s seats in the House.

    CA went for Harris with roughly 58% of the voters, and the Dems hold 83% of that state’s seats in the House.

    But it’s totally Texas that is the problem, yup yup.

    • juris imprudent

      So much for state sovereignty – when my party is taking it up the ass, right?

      • WTF

        Either make them live by their own rules, or roll over and surrender. I prefer giving them a dose of their own medicine.

      • Nephilium

        WTF:

        That ship sailed with the Clinton email server.

      • sloopyinca

        Here’s my question, and I’m sure it will come up in court:
        Texas said they’re doing it because of the massive influx of people since the districting in 2020 and the population of some districts ballooning, which would cause unbalanced representation. The governments in CA and NY are saying they’ll redistrict their states in order to manipulate representation along party lines.

        I could very easily see a federal court upholding the TX redistricting plan and throwing out those done in response, solely on the public proclamations by Newsom, Hochul, and others who said their sole reason for redistricting will be to get more D districts and fewer R districts.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it’s not going to stop. It is only an issue now because OMB has made the Dems batshit crazy.

        But also yeah, the hypocrisy coming out of IL and NY is supremely shameless.

      • juris imprudent

        massive influx of people since the districting in 2020

        Which should result in additional seats in 2030, not rearranging the deck chairs on the ship now.

      • juris imprudent

        OMB has made the Dems batshit crazy

        In this case, OMB has made TX Republicans batshit crazy.

      • rhywun

        Meh. I don’t think it’s crazy so much as entirely expected.

        Tit for tat. I am in the camp of fight dirty with dirty. The high road doesn’t get you anywhere.

    • creech

      GOP gets roughly 40 percent of vote in Mass. and Conn. They have zero of the 14 congressional seats.

      • WTF

        “IT’S OKAY WHEN OUR SIDE DOES IT! IT’S DEMOCRACY!!!”

      • juris imprudent

        Gerrymandering literally originated in Mass via Governor Elbridge Gerry.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “As of June 2025, Oregon’s voter registration shows that non-affiliated voters are the largest group at 36.15%, followed by Democrats at 32.65% and Republicans at 24.05%.

      The state currently has a Democratic trifecta and triplex, meaning the Democratic Party holds the governorship, attorney general, secretary of state, and majorities in both chambers of the state legislature”

      Contemplate that on the Tree of Woe.

      • WTF

        “Non-affiliated” or “independent” voters are often really Democrats who don’t want to admit they’re Democrats, e.g. – “independent” Bernie Sanders.

      • (((Jarflax

        In Oregon, unaffiliated voters lean socialist not libertarian.

      • rhywun

        How many decades did the Dems have a firm lock on both houses in Congress? Five? Six?

        You had your turn, assholes, and you did a spectacular job of fucking up the country.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m enjoying the squirming of local leftists as they try to pivot and say evading quorum is ok now after years of hand wringing.

      • Threedoor

        Motor voter.

    • R C Dean

      It’s a case of “You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish”.

      Gerrymandering to create a monopoly on elected offices and political prosecutions to eliminate rivals have been disproportionately rewarding one party. Having both parties engage in these practices at least moves them back to neutral ground rather than “reward”.

      I believe there is game theory for the proposition that the only way to maintain “fairness”/a rule-set across extended interactions is if both parties show that they will engage in tit-for-tat behavior.

      • juris imprudent

        disproportionately rewarding one party

        Ah yes, the party that is losing residents in every state it runs. Whereas the other party that equally dominates states is gaining residents at the expense of those states.

      • R C Dean

        The reward is the monopoly on seats and elimination of rivals. Those are the (short-term) stakes. Oh, and the Repubs don’t have the kinds of monopolies in most Red states that the Dems do in the Blue ones.

        As for the loss of residents, illegal immigration was supposed to make up for that, and has done a pretty good job, really. The map would look pretty different if illegals didn’t count.

      • Common Tater

        Illegals shouldn’t count.

      • juris imprudent

        I say we compromise on counting illegals, 3/5ths – just like last time the Dems wanted non-people to count.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck no. Illegals are -3/5ths. Having them in your jurisdiction and not getting rid of them should penalize you.

    • (((Jarflax

      If Congress had the balls to call for an interim census, which is entirely within its power to do, the redistricting would cease to be controversial and would likely distribute an extra seat or two.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh then you’d really hear NY, IL and CA howl!

      • Swiss Servator

        Good, my idiot state deserves to lose more seats.

  5. juris imprudent

    and the government will ask them to install the same back doors

    Everything within the state…

    • rhywun

      STEVE SMITH INTERESTED BACK DOORS BUT NOT SO MUCH PERIOD TRACKING

      • Gustave Lytton

        STEVE SMITH SHOW SOFTER SIDE BY EARNING HIS RED WINGS.

  6. Common Tater

    “The Drum wanted to find out what the American public actually thinks. Working with Kantar, we surveyed 1,000 Americans on the campaign, and the results were surprising. ”

    Looks like the most favorable response was among Latinos.

  7. juris imprudent

    The executive order instructs regulators to review banks for “politicized or unlawful debanking” practices, according to a draft reviewed by Reuters. It is likely to be announced on Wednesday, an industry source said.

    As long as the goal is termination of the behavior, and not just flipping it to a different target, then good.

  8. Common Tater

    “Zara said it specifically complied with recommendation three of that report which said models “should provide a medical certificate attesting their good health from doctors with expertise in recognising eating disorders.”

    OFFS!!

    It’s genetics. If fashion models starved themselves their hair and skin wouldn’t look good.

    • The Other Kevin

      They’re going to have those same doctors look for eating disorders in overweight models too right?

  9. DEG

    The woman and a second suspect allegedly tried to drive the couple’s vehicle but realized they couldn’t operate it because it was a manual transmission Subaru. They forced the husband to drive the car at gunpoint and at knifepoint, according to police.

    They quickly found a way around the anti-theft device.

  10. juris imprudent

    There is no deep state, there is no waste in Democratic administration, and of course I won’t cum in your mouth.

    • The Other Kevin

      Didn’t Biden have some big program where every government agency got involved in getting more voters to register or something?

  11. DEG

    Should banks be free to discriminate over politics or based on what commerce the customer engages in (like gun sales), if they’re part of the FDIC program?

    Banks should be free to discriminate and there should be no FDIC.

    Instead:

    “The best I can do is more regulation” – the government.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m going to pass on The First Bank of Morality as my banking service.

      • DEG

        #metoo

        However, that doesn’t change that a bank should be able to discriminate.

    • sloopyinca

      I knew I should have given a qualifier saying the FDIC shouldn’t exist and that I was asking the question under the current system that’s been in place for decades.

      • DEG

        I was asking the question under the current system

        I know. The current system is fucked.

  12. juris imprudent

    This amount of gaslighting must be horrible for climate change. [TW: The Atlantic]

    What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’?

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s funny how all-in they were on those Trump accusations where the law was so convoluted they couldn’t explain what he was guilty of, and here they’re playing dumb with the simplest concept.

    • rhywun

      OFFS

      I hope prosecutions are incoming and millions of these types just cry into their corn flakes every morning.

  13. Ted S.

    I’m willing to bet there’s more to this story.

    Someone needs to be more stoic.

  14. Common Tater

    “Should banks be free to discriminate over politics or based on what commerce the customer engages in (like gun sales), if they’re part of the FDIC program?”

    They shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate even if they are not part of FDIC.

    • Threedoor

      All public accommodation laws need to be repealed.

      Discrimination for any reason is a natural right.

    • The Last American Hero

      Talk about missing the lede:

      “Donald Trump, son of Mary Anne MacLeod”. Trump is a fucking Highlander of the Clan MacLeod? No wonder he “survived” 2 assassination attempts.

  15. Common Tater

    “A 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer was beaten and bloodied by a mob of 10 minors early Sunday as he thwarted a carjacking attempt in the nation’s capital, according to DC police.

    Edward Coristine, whose LinkedIn handle earned him the nickname “Big Balls” at DOGE, was with a woman near downtown DC when he saw the group of juveniles approach their car and “make a comment about taking the vehicle,” according to a Metropolitan Police Department incident report obtained by The Post.

    “At that point, for her safety, [Coristine] pushed his significant other … into the vehicle and turned to deal with the suspects,” the dramatic report continues.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/us-news/ex-doge-staffer-nicknamed-big-balls-left-bloodied-after-savage-dc-carjacking-attempt-by-10-juveniles/

    I wonder who is in charge of DC?

    • Drake

      Can we get him deputized as a Marshal so he has unlimited carry rights?

    • WTF

      “Juveniles”. That’s like the generic “teens” they like to use, with no mention of race, of course.

      • Ted S.

        Yutes.

      • WTF

        “What’s a ‘yute’?”

      • R C Dean

        How do they know the ages of the people who assaulted him, anyway? They only arrested two of them.

    • R C Dean

      Fake news. I’m supposed to believe a DOGE autist was with a woman? C’mon, man.

      • WTF

        Apparently he really does have big balls.

      • Suthenboy

        If that were the common and expected response to those attacks they would come to a screeching halt. That is why the pols generally want people who defend themselves to be prosecuted for ‘brandishing’ or ‘endangering’ or some such shit.

      • Akira

        Ah, Colion Noir – glad to see he’s still making videos. I remember the fucking outrage when he partnered with the NRA from the “anti-racists” on the Left…

        “Oh look, the NRA bought themselves an obedient little negro!”
        “Uncle Tom who just reads his lines for that NRA money!”
        “He’s selling out to whitey!”

        … Never mind that he had been making videos by himself for a few years before the NRA deal.

    • juris imprudent

      Moral panics don’t whip themselves up!

      • Common Tater

        #metoo

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Or in NYC.

    • Ted S.

      I was going to ask which one of you renegades this was.

      • Swiss Servator

        Too many to choose from…

    • sloopyinca

      Rookie move to wear your crocs in 2WD as you terrorize people with a dildo-stick while wearing nothing but a mask.

      I’m more concerned with the gimp mask guy mentioned in the last paragraph.

      • Ted S.

        So you’re not a rookie? :-p

    • juris imprudent

      Sure, that’s terrifying in Slovakia, and nothing unusual at all in San Francisco.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The movie Hostel was set in Slovakia, so this is par for the course.

      • juris imprudent

        Damn, now I’ve got to work a MA born Jew into the joke?

    • Not Adahn

      He reportedly apologized to the two female hikers who spotted him, claiming that he thought no visitors would be around on a Monday, and let them take his picture, the outlet said.

      “He had a balaclava, a stick, and a dildo stuck to the stick. We were scared of him, but he told us he was sorry, that he didn’t want to scare us, so he asked us for directions because he thought that since it was Monday, he wouldn’t meet anyone,” one of the tourists said.

      Doesn’t sound all that terrifying. And he’s wearing at least three articles of clothing, so he’s not really naked.

    • R.J.

      Isn’t Fish over there right now?

    • Threedoor

      I followed that link too.

      Never change eastern block.
      Never change.

  16. Common Tater

    “Shut the f–k up! It’s like this with you every f–king week!” Alt can be heard shouting at the child….

    The concerned grandmother said her daughter called the police on her granddaughter after she had taken away the child’s phone, causing her to become emotionally distressed.

    She added that the family has called first responders in the past to deal with the child, but the personnel have always been understanding with her granddaughter.”

    Top notch parenting.

    • WTF

      So, apparently this is a regular occurrence due to shit parenting and an out of control kid, and the responders are getting sick of their shit.

    • Grumbletarian

      “Your kid throwing a tantrum does not constitute an emergency.”

    • PieInTheSky

      bring back the belt?

    • EvilSheldon

      That entire family needs to be recycled for consumable protein.

      • Common Tater

        Soylent Green is retards?

      • Not Adahn

        Three generations of assholes is enough?

  17. Common Tater

    “Shortly after the “Grok Imagine” was released Tuesday, The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed was shocked to discover the video generator spat out topless images of Swift “the very first time” she used it.

    According to Weatherbed, Grok produced more than 30 images of Swift in revealing clothing when asked to depict “Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys.” Using the Grok Imagine feature, users can choose from four presets—”custom,” “normal,” “fun,” and “spicy”—to convert such images into video clips in 15 seconds.

    At that point, all Weatherbed did was select “spicy” and confirm her birth date for Grok to generate a clip of Swift tearing “off her clothes” and “dancing in a thong” in front of “a largely indifferent AI-generated crowd.””

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/grok-generates-fake-taylor-swift-nudes-without-being-asked/

    Sounds like it was asked.

    • WTF

      I love when the story actually contradicts the headline.

    • Grumbletarian

      Clearly “spicy” means the occasional flash of bare ankle.

      • Ted S.

        Like Jaime taking off his leggings?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Be sure to subscribe to my Only Fans page.

    • Ted S.

      Unsurprisingly, men are indifferent about Taylor Swift.

    • PieInTheSky

      Coachella I believe is not the kind of festival where people wear scant clothing so I guess grok needs a tweak. Burning man on the other hand… though I heard that is running out of moneys

      • (((Jarflax

        Naked people that smell like patchouli vs. people that smell like patchouli but are wearing expensive clothes that look like a hobo owns them. I pick staying home.

      • PieInTheSky

        you sound like a man who got his fair share of hippie pussy and is not greedy about it.

      • (((Jarflax

        Those days are far in the past my Dacian friend. But I will caution you that hippy chick hygiene is sketchy, and there are worse smells than patchouli…

      • The Last American Hero

        The irony of Burning Man running out of money.

  18. Suthenboy

    I am going to once again plug the idea of getting rid of the income tax. It would restore the tenth amendment in so many ways.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Both people on the left and on the right believe that lefties have the moral high ground.
    In two studies conducted in Spain, we identified asymmetries in moral judgements, showing that leftist political topics and individuals were perceived as more moral than their rightist counterparts.
    Both leftist and rightist participants reported stronger moral obligations towards leftist than rightist topics. Specifically, we observed a pervasive tendency across ideological groups to perceive stronger moral obligations towards defending topics traditionally associated with the left over those associated with the right.
    Rightists viewed leftists more positively in moral terms than leftists viewed rightists, particularly in the context of leftist topics. Rightists also anticipated harsher moral judgements from leftists (meta-stereotypes), whereas leftists did not reciprocate. These findings reveal moral asymmetry favouring leftist topics and individuals.
    The first process is the prevailing tendency to perceive a particularly strong prescriptive moral norm (moral obligation) to defend political topics traditionally associated with the left (e.g., gender equality) than those associated with the right (e.g., national security). The second process is the tendency—also observable across ideological groups—to perceive leftists as more morally upright than rightists.
    In other words, our results indicate that both leftist and rightist individuals perceive a social norm, suggesting that leftist topics merit more moral commitment than rightist topics do.

    https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1952964180744589462

    I usually call bullshit on most studies, but extra bullshit on this one.

    • Suthenboy

      He is a really great guy. If you dont believe it just ask him.

    • Not Adahn

      Dafuq does left and right mean in Spain?

      • Mojeaux

        Left is full-on commie. The right is a hair right of that.

    • The Last American Hero

      I can’t speak for Spain, but my lesbian neighbors vacationed in Idaho without incident despite the rainbow flag sticker on their Subaru. Nobody gave 2 shits. If I put a Maga sticker on my Tesla and parked it in Capitol Hill in Seattle (the gay enclave and home of the CHAZ/CHOP), the chances of my vehicle being unmolested are near zero.

      • Threedoor

        Us Idahoans don’t care about the women in comfortable shoes.

  20. Common Tater

    “Beyoncé shows off her curves in bedazzled jeans and sports a blonde wig in new Levi’s campaign – just days after Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle woke backlash”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14974947/Beyonc-shows-curves-bedazzled-jeans-poses-new-Levis-campaign-just-days-Sydney-Sweeneys-American-Eagle-woke-backlash.html

    “‘That is a Nazi pet,’ said one hater while another wrote, ‘Swastika Sweeney.’ Another declared: ‘Hyper white person pet for sure.’ German Shepherds were used by the Nazi regime in various capacities during World War II and dictator Adolf Hitler owned a few.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14972575/Sydney-Sweeney-DOG-called-German-Shepherd-Nazi-pet.html

    I wonder if Jay Leno owns a Mercedes?

    • PieInTheSky

      it is my understanding that german shepards shed excessively.

      Wen I was a wee lad by downstairs neighbor had a German Sheppard. Big one. But she was not aggressive to us kids.

      • WTF

        Excessively is an understatement.

      • Mojeaux

        Huskies have entered the chat.

      • Not Adahn

        I got pull over for enhanced screening travelling into Canada. The dude rummaging through my belongings and car asked me what kind of dog I had.

      • juris imprudent

        Shorthaired dogs shed as much, just not in big convenient globs of hair.

      • The Last American Hero

        My now deceased Boston would disagree. She only shed when extremely stressed.

      • Akira

        We had a shepherd mix of some kind (neighbor’s female dog was the recipient of a “wham bam thank you ma’am” from some unknown canine). She shed mountains of fur. My Mom gave me the old vacuum cleaner a few years ago, which I found did not work. I took it apart and found that the tubes were jam packed with that dog’s fur and completely blocked.

    • WTF

      Hell, I wonder how many of those leftist clowns own VolksWagens?

    • R C Dean

      How is being blonde “Nazi-coded”, but wearing a blonde wig isn’t?

  21. Mojeaux

    re Sydney Sweeney and “racist dogwhistle” of “Sydney Sweeney has great genes.”

    What kind of people would assume that was a RACIST dogwhistle?

    Racists, that’s who.

    • PieInTheSky

      this probably ties in with the ling running internet debate that Sydney Sweeney is mid.

      • Mojeaux

        She’s no more mid than Brooke Shields. The ad was, though because the 80s Calvin Klein ads were much more eyebrow-raising.

      • Suthenboy

        I dont know what ‘mid’ is.

      • Common Tater

        “Mid” means so so, mediocre, average, etc.

        Brooke Shields was as flat as toast.

      • PieInTheSky

        either average or mediocre… lets say a 5-6 on a scale on 1 to 10.

        You know not knowing these things can make you seem old, not down with the kids these days. You ought to brush up on your zoomer talk

      • Mojeaux

        Well, to be fair, MOST clothes models are flat. They’re clothes hangers.

      • Common Tater

        no cap

      • The Last American Hero

        Ask Barron. I am sooooo shipping for that to be a thing.

    • UnCivilServant

      If you’re the one hearing a dog whistle, you’re the dog.

      • Mojeaux

        Eh, I don’t actually buy that. If you have enough exposure to a group whether you agree or not, you’re gonna hear it.

    • Akira

      The “dog whistle” argument is just logically nonsensical.

      You can make a dog whistle argument about anything, but unless you have documentation or recordings wherein the parties are laying out their plan to use Term X when they really mean Term Y, you’re just spitballing. You’re just claiming to be a mind reader.

  22. rhywun

    Or maybe with the name of the band

    I flurve them as the kids say. Or maybe that’s just Mojo. The 2nd one is an all-time fave.

    • Mojeaux

      I picked it up from a girl who lived down the dorm hall from me. In 1986. So, at least two kids.

      • rhywun

        lol OK then. I couldn’t find it online.

  23. PieInTheSky

    Speaking of geens nazis etc

    Distinguishing between founder and host population mtDNA lineages in the Ashkenazi population

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2773044125000713

    Highlights


    The hypothesis that the Ashkenazi founder population consisted of Levantine males and European females is found to be implausible.

    European females who joined Jewish communities after the founder event introduced a multitude of absorbed lineages.

    In founder populations such absorbed lineages significantly outnumber the few founder lineages even in practically endogamous populations.

    In mtDNA samples of founder populations the founder signatures appear in multiple copies; later absorbed signatures appear as singletons.

    Applying this experimental methodology one arrives at about 54 for Ashkenazi founder matrilineal lineages endorsing analytical predictions.

    • rhywun

      I was told there would be no biology.

  24. Q Continuum

    “Have you seen the maps or the existing rate of representation in the states with the most vocal crybabies? If not, you might want to take a look.”

    I refer anyone complaining about the Pachyderms’ actions to Illinois’ map which is an absolute joke. Democrats have been doing this for decades and turnabout is fair play. I’d personally like to see it defined by something like zip code but if the rules of the game let Dems draw insane maps then it would be stupid for the GOP not to.

    • juris imprudent

      I have no complaints with the gerrymandering that happens every 10 years. It is what the people want who elect these fucks. My complaint is doing it mid-cycle.

      • Grumbletarian

        I agree that mid-cycle is a shady move, regardless of the justification.

      • rhywun

        Both Teams are doing it mid-cycle. I can’t get too bothered over it anymore.

        Let Congress make a law to stop it.
        /I’ll be here all week

      • DEG

        Let Congress make a law to stop it.

        They could. Districting comes from Congress exercising its powers under Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 to override states on Congressional elections.

        I think they’ll repeal Obamacare first.

      • R C Dean

        Just to be clear:

        I’d rather live in a society where there wasn’t gerrymandering, mid-cycle redrawing, or political prosecutions.

        We don’t. The question is, what is the best way to deal with that fact?

      • DEG

        The question is, what is the best way to deal with that fact?

        /considers how NHLA has made legislative changes in a libertarian direction in NH

        “Nah… it’ll never work”

      • juris imprudent

        The question is, what is the best way to deal with that fact?

        Give Milei a couple of more years and start learning Spanish?

      • R C Dean

        Given what (little) I know of Argentine history and culture, it is at least a generation away from being a place I would want to move.

      • EvilSheldon

        Ah, but the dove hunting, fishing, steaks, and wine are just sublime…

      • Threedoor

        Mid cycle.
        They were still playing census.gov adds for jobs last year.

  25. Common Tater

    “Just four days after celebrating her 18th birthday on 29 July 2025, viral sensation Lil Tay (real name Claire Hope) announced her debut on OnlyFans and claimed she pocketed US $1.024 million within the first three hours of going live. During a TikTok Live she stressed that every photo and clip had been shot “at 00:01 on my birthday,” ensuring the material was produced after she reached adulthood. The move reignited debate over “count-down culture”: advocates hailed it as a story of female financial autonomy, while critics warned it normalises audiences who “wait out the clock” for teen influencers to turn 18.”

    https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lil-tay-returns-to-spotlight-with-onlyfans-account-what-to-know/

    Stay classy.

    • R C Dean

      Speaking of mid . . . .

      • juris imprudent

        Just seconds ahead of me, again.

    • juris imprudent

      JFC, and people are debating the attractiveness of Sydney Sweeney? This brat isn’t even cute.

    • Q Continuum

      Who spends money on this shit? There’s an essentially unlimited amount of free porn on the internet.

      • juris imprudent

        [pole dancers have entered the chat]

      • Drake

        I’m wondering this too. You can also just walk around your local college campus and see prettier girls.

      • Swiss Servator

        JI, don’t you mean they have swung into the chat?

      • rhywun

        Nobody does. All of these types are lying for the attention.

      • juris imprudent

        Swiss, I’d see what you did there if my gaze wasn’t so narrowed.

      • creech

        Obviously, Drake. you’ve never walked around Bryn Mawr College.

      • Drake

        And never will. Sticking the SEC schools.

    • PieInTheSky

      there is a fun theory on the internet that Chinese government pumps up onlyhoes to undermine western civ

      • Raven Nation

        I remember back in the 80s there was an argument that the USSR promoted pornography to undermine the west.

      • Nephilium

        Well, I knew a couple of bartenders from Russia and Ukraine that I would have gladly let undermine me. They were looking for men with deeper pockets than mine though.

      • juris imprudent

        There must always be a boogeyman to blame for what is clearly a completely human tendency.

      • EvilSheldon

        This is true, but it doesn’t mean that there’s not also a malign conspiracy taking advantage…

    • The Last American Hero

      Maxim magazine had an Olsen twins countdown to legality clock back in the day.

  26. Mojeaux

    In cleaning up my music metadata and ruthlessly culling the music library to get rid of stuff I SAID I liked, TRIED to like, told myself I SHOULD like, told others I DID like, I have run across a dilemma of massive proportions:

    Should I temporarily remove my Christmas music from my library and reupload it in the Christmas season OR just leave it there and attempt to ignore that all this seasonal music is fucking up my pretty year-round library?

    • R.J.

      Depends in your playlist capabilities. You should be able to highlight the Christmas music in the list and “move to” a new playlist as opposed to the draconian removal and re-upload.

    • juris imprudent

      Willing to bet that white hands are collecting more of that money than black hands.

      • The Other Kevin

        The really impressive part would be if they somehow got the money from ASAID.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That’s why it was only a million Euros.

  27. Common Tater

    ““If they were somehow able to hold on to the House in 2026, that is the House of Representatives that would have to certify who won the presidential election come 2028, 2029.”

    “Now, if you want to play with fire and that’s what we’re doing here, you put in a bunch of partisan hacks who are not supposed to be in the House, who are there because of gerrymandering and a whole range of other things that Republicans are doing, and then put at risk the possibility that that body would not certify who the next president was. That is a that’s why this is a national problem,” he added.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/former-obama-ag-eric-holder-claims-gop-led-house-may-refuse-to-certify-2028-presidential-election

    CWAA

    • R C Dean

      But that thing where there are Democrat partisan hacks in the House because of gerrymandering, and the Dems could take control of the House and certify the next presidential election? Totally not a problem.

      • Ted S.

        California Dems are in the House because California kept counting mail-in votes until the Dem took a lead in the count.

      • Suthenboy

        What he said is that if the dems take the house they will not certify an almost certain R presidential win.
        I think it is moot anyway. I dont think they are going to take the house.

      • DEG

        I dont think they are going to take the house.

        I think the Dems could. I think it will come down to what the economy is like in the run-up to the midterms. People that vote Republican don’t have to vote Democrat, they can just stay home.

        The Senate, on the other hand, is not in play.

      • juris imprudent

        Bwahahaha – the ’26 House won’t be in session when the ’28 Presidential election is certified, the next Congress (elected in ’28) is sworn in before that.

    • juris imprudent

      Was that an asshole farting, it almost sounded like a man speaking?

    • The Last American Hero

      I like how people are upset by Alligator Alcatraz but unaware that a normal prison is surrounded by a Kill Zone where men with guns can shoot anybody who enters the kill zone without authorization.

  28. juris imprudent

    Lorenzo with another really good piece.

    That was the grandest ambition from the example of Newtonian mechanics: to thereby become the Masters of social mechanics—so of the transcendent human future—not “mere” custodians of an evolving but continuing heritage transmitted across generations. Much of the dysfunction of contemporary Western academe comes from the arrogant moral grandiosity of being Masters of History rather than the humility of being custodians serving and transmitting a continuing heritage.

    • Beau Knott

      Thank you for that! It nicely complements my own thoughts on nature, biology, philosophy, and ethics.
      (See also Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life, Kurt Goldstein’s The Organism, Roman Ingarden’s Man and Value, and Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology.)

    • Evan from Evansville

      I know my brother and SiL are into some sort of swinging thing. Colin told me about this several years ago and in his careful way, if I took the hint and went with his idea, he was offering me his wife. To this day, I’m not positive whose idea that was. I can easily see it being hers, perhaps as a way of ‘paying’ her for dalliances that I don’t know of for certain but am fairly sure are still happening in that family.

      Rach is hot and I def would. (I never even thought of taking that idea further.) Fear of Colin possibly having a kink to secretly watch is not out of his character, and the whole thing is a badbadbad idea. Still. She’s hot and I’ve known her since I was ~11. Not an uncommon fantasy for either of us, I s’pose, though she hasn’t ever entered my Spank Bank of characters.

      *twists non-existent goatee* My porn and personal interests are remarkably vanilla. Sound is the best.

      • The Last American Hero

        Spankbank Cinematic Universe.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        We have some friends we suspect are into it. They seem to know an awful lot about pineapples.

      • kinnath

        My wife tells me there is a swinger’s retreat not far from where we live. Apparently, all the ladies at church know about it.

      • DEG

        I never even thought of taking that idea further

        Good. She’s family. By marriage but still family. There is enough drama in swinging as it is, but with family involved? Bad idea. Really bad idea.

  29. Suthenboy

    Pie: I don’t seem old. I am old. I knew I was old the first time I realized that every time a woman under 40 walked into the room my brain would automatically *click* switch into DAD MODE.

    • Nephilium

      Damn it man. I’m already aware that the young girls see me as a safe old guy. I don’t need to be reminded of it.

      • Suthenboy

        I mentioned that to my brother. He said “Oh hell. I have been invisible for a long time now.”

      • Sensei

        Lean into it.

        I’m now the old guy that speaks to all the cute young women as none of them think that I’m trying to pick them up.

      • Nephilium

        Sensei:

        I do. And through doing that, I’ve been mistaken as a member of several different organizations. Several of which I’ve looked up and am somewhat interested in joining.

    • PieInTheSky

      look you just need to rizz up a 20 year old

      • Suthenboy

        I think I will have to take a pass on that.

  30. Mark76

    Last time I took my car for new tires, they had to roll it in and out of the shop in neutral, because no one there knew how to drive stick.

    • rhywun

      I was trained on stick and I hated every minute of it. It was a great relief when my other brother let me use his automatic instead.

      • R C Dean

        I liked driving a stick when I wasn’t commuting in traffic. The constant pedal work and otherwise pointless shifting required for stop and go traffic made me glad to get an automatic.

      • DEG

        I like my manual cars, but when I get stuck in traffic with them, I’m quickly reminded of why my daily driver is an automatic.

      • kinnath

        I had an old Subaru wagon when I lived in Phoenix. I love driving a stick, but getting caught up in traffic sucked.

      • Mark76

        I don’t expect everyone to be able to drive stick, but you’d think at least one person at an auto repair shop would be able to. This was my Toyota Echo; to be honest, even I can barely drive the Volkswagen. 😄

      • Akira

        I’m glad I know how to drive any type of car (e.g. might have to drive some drunk person home someday) but I would never choose a stick if given the choice.

        People always tell me it’s “more fun to drive”. I don’t drive for fun though. Maybe it’s a thing that “car guys” understand.

        Someday if I have a ton of disposable time and money (haha) I’d love to buy a bunch of old ’30s cars. That’s the only way I’d choose to own a stick.

    • Common Tater

      That’s just sad.

    • rhywun

      To keep them from washing up on the coast of Florida in a boat, duh.

    • Suthenboy

      I wonder if there is anyone else in particular not getting handouts from US taxpayers?

      Herd animals have a tendency towards communism and a certain amount of stupidity. It works great…for homogenous herds of about 150 individuals. Beyond that those tendencies become serious hinderances.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    But that thing where there are Democrat partisan hacks in the House because of gerrymandering, and the Dems could take control of the House and certify the next presidential election? Totally not a problem.

    Those elections are the result of rational voters who have educated themselves on the issues choosing wisely.

    You know, common sense Republican control.

    • rhywun

      Lifestyle Conservatism

      OFFS

    • Suthenboy

      Turns out that if you are in a safe, stable marriage with someone that loves you and you have a heart attack, stroke or other debilitating incident that person will help you and possibly save your life. Cats, on the other hand, will wait patiently for you to die and then eat your face off.

      Decisions, decisions…..

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Did anybody else see the stories about Trump on the White House roof? Speculations ran riot.

    I liked the one about putting a pool up there. For the snipers, I guess.

    • Suthenboy

      He is a RE developer. His impulse is to build stuff and he implied he would be paying for it out of his own pocket. No doubt the D’s will try to spin that as criminal while staying silent on The Fed squandering 2.5B of our money on their own offices.

    • R C Dean

      Well, the roof has a slight slope, I am sure, so he was probably just showing the Secret Service that it was, in fact, navigable.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Moral panic, dead ahead

    Now, more than a year after Elliott was hospitalized, Dana finally feels ready to share the story of what her family went through, in the hope that it may help other parents understand some of the dangers that children may encounter online. After months of intensive therapy, she said, Elliott is doing much better. He has relinquished his smartphone in favor of a simple flip phone; he also has returned to hobbies, such as making music, that had previously been an important part of his identity. Still, Dana acknowledges that the content he was led to consume online, including images and videos of violent gore, has changed him.

    “It’s a form of coercive control. It’s that drip, drip, drip. And you don’t realize how bad it is until maybe you’re out of it,” said Dana. “And I think in a lot of ways, he still doesn’t realize how bad it was. He has been desensitized in a lot of ways.”

    We should be more like Australia.

    • EvilSheldon

      Clearly the therapy and parenting was doing a bang-up job before the kid got that evil smartphone…

    • juris imprudent

      Lord of The Flies is only an internet ghost story.

    • Suthenboy

      “Hey, ya’ know that hammer-handed censorship strategy they have over in ‘Ol Blighty?” – Pol

      “You mean the safety for kids thingy?” – Odette

      “Yeah, that’s the one. That is fan-fuckin’-tastic. We would use that here.” – Pol

      “Cool, I will start buttering them up.” – Odette

      “Here is one shitty family” is not justification for censorship. Fuck these people.

    • R C Dean

      Hold on, now. I thought “reprogramming” was bad. Seems to me like that’s what those “months of intensive therapy” likely involved.

    • Ted S.

      Let’s ask Pie: was Iliescu more or less corrupt than the average Romanian politician?

      • PieInTheSky

        It depends, less when it comes to money, more when it comes to power. So worse overall IMO. He was the architect of most corruption by allowing endless graft and theft as long as it gave him power. Overall one evil fuck. Probably the most evil of major post 1990s politicians.

      • Sensei

        And is frequently the case the evil ones are the ones that live to 95.

      • Ted S.

        That would explain why Betty White lived to 99.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    At the same time, Dana was increasingly concerned about what she considered to be extreme political opinions that Elliott was starting to express. He parroted the ideology of accelerationist extremists, who frame Western civilization as decadent and corrupt and who promote the idea that total societal collapse is necessary to establish a new fascist order. At times, he would talk about wanting to start “an order.” He went on tirades against LGBTQ+ people, which Dana said was shockingly out of character.

    “We have, you know, trans, nonbinary, gay, lesbian people in our family. Most of his friend group was LGBTQIA,” she said. “So this was like, where is this coming from? [It was] completely out of left field.”

    No wonder she felt the need to have him deprogrammed.

  35. Common Tater

    “During a recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, the 36-year-old told the former Fox News host Trump called her and asked her to cut it out shortly after French President Emmanuel Macron visited Trump at the White House.

    “Emmanuel Macron personally flew to DC and asked Trump to ask me to shut up, to just stop speaking about his wife,” she told Carlson.

    According to Owens, Trump allegedly told her that Brigitte is “old and this is really, really impacting her,” adding that “I saw her up close and she looks like a woman to me.”

    However, Owens refused, allegedly telling Trump: “Respectfully, Mr. President, it’s not my fault that he married somebody with a penis.””

    https://radaronline.com/p/candace-owens-trump-french-first-lady-brigitte-macron-man/

    LOL

    • Suthenboy

      It is issues like this that keep me up at night. Dammit.

    • juris imprudent

      Even, EVEN, if this was true – Owens is a nutcase for being so obsessed with it.

  36. Common Tater

    “”He was talking a lot about there was no meaning to anything. It was hopeless. Everything was meaningless. There was no purpose,” she said. “And that was, again, very unlike him. He’s always been very clear about having meaning and purpose.””

    Say want you want about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it’s an ethos.

    • EvilSheldon

      Is 14 too young to be introduced to existentialism?

      • Nephilium

        Probably depends on the upbringing and the kid. I mean, isn’t that 14 year old already likely to be watching Rick and Morty?

      • Suthenboy

        The story of a 14 yo son of a gibbering progressive going off the rails is the least surprising story of the year.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    The FBI has recently focused on a relatively new motive within this area, for which it has coined the term “nihilistic violent extremism.”

    “The term Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) refers to what is motivating some of these subjects to commit criminal acts,” the FBI wrote in a statement to NPR. “They want to sow chaos and facilitate the destruction of society.” The agency shared that it is pursuing at least 250 investigations tied to violent online networks. The FBI did not agree to an interview with NPR.

    Ooh, that sounds scary. Looks like a budget increase and a new HQ are needed.

    • R.J.

      Crocs anger me when I see them on adults. I have no explanation why, they just do.

      • Akira

        I always thought they look uncomfortable and sweaty. Someone told me I was wrong, so I tried a pair on… I’m pretty sure my feet started sweating faster than they do in my winter boots. I was completely right.

        And my subjective opinion is that they look ridiculous.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    While the crimes vary widely, Cynthia Miller-Idriss says there is consistency in the manipulative tactics used by bad actors within these networks. Miller-Idriss is a professor at American University and runs its Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL).

    PERIL. It’s like something out of a Dean Martin movie.

    • Sensei

      It’s splinter organization from:

      PEARL – Perpetually Emotionally Aggrieved, Restriction-Leaning

      • Ted S.

        I thought it was a programming language known for its regular expressions.

    • R C Dean

      When I see the Innovation Lab part of that title, it sure seems like they are developing and fomenting Polarization and Extremism.

  39. Suthenboy

    From some of the links here it looks like the left is preparing another run at the first amendment.

    • R.J.

      They never stopped the last run.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Perhaps most concerning, say researchers of online extremism, is that minors targeted in these spaces are often encouraged to victimize other children. As a result, said Kriner, the reach of these harms has mushroomed. Despite the welcome attention from law enforcement in recent months, they say that it is unlikely to stem the spread of this activity. Instead, they say local, state and federal governments need to formulate a public health approach to prevent and mitigate the spread of these harms.

    It’s like Leopold and Loeb on a grand scale.

    We should turn it over to the United Nations, or the international court at the Hague. They’ll know what to do.

    • Akira

      Instead, they say local, state and federal governments need to formulate a public health approach to prevent and mitigate the spread of these harms.

      Yea, our “public health” establishment did so well the last time. Why not branch out?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    By winter of his freshman year, Dana was looking for help for Elliott. She had brought up his spiraling depression and self-harm with his therapist, only to be told that this was “normal” teenage behavior. His anti-LGBTQ+ rants made her suspicious that he had been “red-pilled” online, meaning he had adopted a misogynistic worldview.

    Wait- not falling in line with the quiltbaggers is misogyny?

    • Suthenboy

      Now you are catching on

      • juris imprudent

        If you aren’t with the insane, you are against them!

  42. The Other Kevin

    Mr. TOK had a discussion the other day, and I’d like some Glib opinions. She has two cousins who are openly looking for a “sugar daddy”. One is the cousin who lived with us, mid-50’s and kind of mid. The other is 40, also mid, recently had gastric bypass and just had major surgery to get rid of all the excess skin. We are both of the opinion that any potential sugar daddy is looking for someone young and hot, not old and obviously with a lot of work done. I guess there’s all types, but what do the rest of you think?

    • R C Dean

      I think women looking for a paycheck like that are repellent.

      I also think that they are correct in believing that men who want to pay for sex are much more likely to want a younger and more attractive, err, vendor.

    • Ted S.

      Run like hell from those cousins?

      • The Other Kevin

        We’ve completely cut off the one that lived with us, after it ended badly. The younger one is more at arm’s length, she’s nice and we were always close, but this is crazy.

    • DEG

      I guess there’s all types, but what do the rest of you think?

      Rule 34 and all, but I’m going to guess the chances of these two women finding a Sugar Daddy approaches zero.

    • Suthenboy

      What Ted says. The less you know about it and the less you have to do with it the happier you will be. That sounds like pure poison to me.

    • Nephilium

      Yeah… best of luck to them, but I don’t see that working out so well. The girls I know who were hunting for a sugar daddy were generally 20’s, extremely attractive, mercenary as hell, and completely open and honest about their end goals.

      40+? If they’re expecting to be supported by their male companions, they had better have some exceptional talents.

    • EvilSheldon

      ‘Sugar baby’ is an occupation with inverted time preferences – exactly the same as a professional athlete or prostitute*. You need to get into it while you’re young and hot/athletically capable, and your earning potential drops as you get older and more experienced. Smart people with inverted time preferences are (to quote B-Real,) “stacking those chips up while they hot, then get the fuck out the game.”

      A 40-50-year old who’s ‘mid’ has no hope of supporting themselves as a sugar baby, any more than my flabby 47-year-old ass has of playing professional football. That window is closed and it’s not going to reopen.

      The only possible glimmer of hope in that regard, would be them getting into some niche kink scene. I know some BDSM and fetish models who are pushing on into their 40s and 50s and still getting work. The difference is, these are people who are genuinely invested in their craft and have been working at it for a while – they didn’t decide to become a domme or a fetish model as some kind of mid-life crisis reaction.

    • Akira

      There used to be some societal wisdom that it’s much easier for a woman to find a husband when she’s young. That way she has a lifelong bond that is hopefully pretty strong so that the man will continue to find her charming and beautiful even if she doesn’t have the body of a 20-year old anymore. It’s probably not fun in most cases for women to try and find a husband (or some other type of male financial support) when she’s much older.

      I’m not saying we should go back to Victorian morals in every situation, but I wish people would accept that there are major drawbacks to the “sexual revolution”.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    If that kid had just gone ahead and worn a dress to school, like his mother wanted, a lot of heartbreak and misery could have been avoided.

    • Suthenboy

      Keep in mind this is an NPR ‘Truth is an inconvenience’ story.
      From the NPR stories posted today the commies have dropped the mask and are fully out of the closet.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    any potential sugar daddy is looking for someone young and hot

    Is this a trick question?

    • The Other Kevin

      No, just wanted to make sure I wasn’t crazy and out of touch, and based on the replies here I’m spot on.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    The girls I know who were hunting for a sugar daddy were generally 20’s, extremely attractive, mercenary as hell, and completely open and honest about their end goals.

    And now we’re back to the story about the guy whose wife fucked everybody she met for 20 years, and now won’t let him lay a finger on her. You have to read the fine print.

    • Nephilium

      Hey, they were attractive bartenders who would give me free drinks, and occasionally ask me to be a “boyfriend” when they had someone they were not interested in being too attentive. They would also help me scam bar vamps out of their money, and give feedback about the girls I was interested in. Overall, a fun group to know.

  46. juris imprudent

    Is SF delayed by putting in some dreadful finishing touches today?

  47. Threedoor

    Learn to drive stick.
    I hate manual transmissions.
    I own a bunch of rigs with them.

    Last week my dad gave the boy an M161A2

    Kid managed to start and stop it several times without killing it on his first ever outing driving anything bigger than a power wheels.

    Not bad for a gear jammin 7 year old.