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SugarFree

Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

168 Comments

  1. Nephilium

    Do you really think you deserve us at our best?

    • SugarFree

      “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”

      • Rat on a train

        I was building a house.

  2. SugarFree

    Sample Topics:

    WWWIII
    SugarFree’s supple beauty
    The word “Hecatomb.”

    • Rat on a train

      If it follows the standard of the Star Trek films, it will better to wait for WW4.

      • rhywun

        Nah, III was decent. It was V that really sucked.

    • Bobarian LMD

      (in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen.

      “After Pythagoras discovered his fundamental theorem he sacrificed a hecatomb of oxen”

      MSNBC version:

      “After Trump ratified his unconstitutional border policy he sacrificed a hecatomb of honduran immigrants”

  3. Rat on a train

    no

  4. The Other Kevin

    What do you all think of Gaetz dropping out? TwiX is all abuzz with how the establishment Repubs are the enemy within. There are a lot of people upset by this.

    Personally, I’m not one of those upset people. Yes, he was aggressive in Congress, but he seems to have a lot of baggage and I’m not sure how good of a lawyer he is. I’d rather see a state AG who has been doing the job for years. And I don’t think this means much concerning the chances of the other nominees.

    • Sean

      “baggage”

      The commies will fling shit against ANYONE Trump nominates.

      It’s all bullshit.

      • Urthona

        My guess is that some of it is not bull shit so he dropped.

        Whatever. They’ll just get another guy.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Mitt “Binders Full of Women” Romney concurs but it’s not so much about one nominee that people are not happy with, it’s that people are concerned that this is indicative of GOPe backstabbing in the future.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I don’t see why he would have accepted the nomination unless he’s innocent or a psychopath.

        Either way, the swamp will be it as a win and be emboldened.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Also, MTG threatening to release all of it seemed to have changed the tune. Which again reinforces what will be found there for the rest of congress.

      • Drake

        I keep hearing how Tulsi Gabbard is Russian agent because she doesn’t want WWIII and she once had a conversation with Assad.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Exactly. This is a test of Trump2. Can they neuter him out of the gate or over the long term.

      • juris imprudent

        Trey Gowdy could be nominated and not one Congressional Democrat would treat him any better than Gaetz. It’s just the behavior of the beast.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yep, but it’d sure make them look a lot worse on tv.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, don’t care. There’s probably a better choice anyway.

      • Old Man With Candy

        NPR2 challenged me on that and I had trouble coming up with a name.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I’m not the person to ask either.

        It’s too bad – this could have been very popcorn-worthy.

      • Grumbletarian

        Ken Paxton, AG of Texas.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Ken Paxton, uber authoritarian. That would drive me to vote Team Blue.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If you really want to get NPR2 all lathered, how about Joe Airipio?

        Jim Jordan actually might be a good choice.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I have a generally negative opinion on Gaetz, because it sounds like he’s kind of scuzzy. But my opinion has been shaped by the same media that is wrong about so many other things, so it’s possible I’m off base. Hopefully Trump chooses someone better.

      • juris imprudent

        Same here, until I watched him make absolute fools of Democrats on the panel that Taibbi and Schellenberger testified at. I suppose that is a low bar.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Swamp creature like sessions.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Harmeet Dhillon

    • R C Dean

      No idea what’s going on with Gaetz resigning and then dropping out.

      It’s the first development since Trump got his transition going, and it’s a loss for him. Not encouraging.

    • Gustave Lytton

      No it wouldn’t and the MSM would provide cover.

      And Trey is way too buddy buddy with the swamp.

    • SugarFree

      Additionally, the 1976 movie Starcrash where she spends 1/2 of the movie in a black vinyl bikini and her character is “Stella Star,” which means “Star Star.”

      • slumbrew
    • Bobarian LMD

      I counter with Belinda May as Space Girl.

      In a really shitty space vampire movie called Lifeforce.

      • SugarFree

        Shitty? You bastard.

      • rhywun

        really shitty

        I can’t even with this.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Probably one of the greatest nude scenes of the ’80s, but yes, REALLY shitty.

      • rhywun

        one of the greatest nude scenes of the ’80s

        Saw it with my mom in the theater. I don’t think she was expecting that.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Wait, is she the chick that CONAN! saved?

  5. The Late P Brooks

    I watched a movie the other night called U-turn. Very weird film-noir-ish thing with a bunch of high profile actors. Everybody loses. Billy Bob Thornton goes for broke.

    • KSuellington

      J Lo’s second best role. That was a pretty good one I remember.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Best performance was Out of Sight.

      • Tundra

        Fish is right. Fantastic movie that nearly did the book justice.

      • SugarFree

        Fish be right.

      • KSuellington

        Yup that was my J Lo bestest role pick.
        She was absolutely smoking hot in U Turn tho. That was the height of her hotness.

  6. UnCivilServant

    no links for you.

    😭

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Government officials are now required to be virgin teetotalers.

    • Old Man With Candy

      He disappointed me. According to the police report, he jizzed on her belly. Couldn’t he have been a bit more creative?

      • SugarFree

        hair or gfto

  8. Yusef drives a Kia

    Is there no one in OKC who wants to drink with me?
    / old drunk glib

    • UnCivilServant

      I drove through that town once… I think.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m kind stuck here on business for a bit, downtime is boring

      • R.J.

        I’ll drink with you. I am not in OKC though. Show up and razz me at 7:00.
        I am having some Bulleit Rye Whiskey, and I might have a cigar. Nice weather here. How is it up there?

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Will this Gaetz thing embolden the shit flinging howler monkeys? Next they’ll say Tulsi went to Syria to have sex with Assad.

    • Sean

      It’s bullshit and it pisses me off.

      • R.J.

        Maybe. There is something going on there we cannot see.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I seem to remember Pelosi traveling to Syria during the Bush years, and it was portrayed as stunning and brave. But then maybe she was shagging Assad too.

      • R.J.

        Her husband was probably getting shagged by Assad.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Assad has a hot wife so probably not.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I also remember Assad’s wife being on the cover of glamor magazines, but heaven forbid that they do the same for Melania.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Sex with a toothbrush?
      Ouch

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Trump could appoint Bobby Jr as Attorney General. He’s a legacy.

  11. Timeloose

    In stead of WW3 Man or Astroman wonders what 10years after WW4 would be like. Their answer like all of their answers is Surf Rock played by aliens.

    https://youtu.be/VfHDfxQtp5g

    • R.J.

      Aliens do play the best surf rock.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Fighting crime wherever they find it

    The CFPB said that seven nonbanks qualify for the new scrutiny. Payments services from Apple, Google and Amazon, as well as fintech firms including PayPal and Block
    and peer-to-peer services Venmo and Zelle are impacted by the change.

    While the CFPB already had some authority over digital payment companies because of its oversight of electronic fund transfers, the new rule allows it to treat tech companies more like banks. It makes the firms subject to “proactive examinations” to ensure legal compliance, enabling it to demand records and interview employees.

    “Digital payments have gone from novelty to necessity and our oversight must reflect this reality,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. “The rule will help to protect consumer privacy, guard against fraud, and prevent illegal account closures.”

    And if they should happen to uncover any suspicious activity on the part of the clients, that’s just a bonus.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “What began as a convenient alternative to cash has evolved into a critical financial tool, processing over a trillion dollars in payments between consumers and their friends, families, and businesses,” the regulator said.

    We need to know what those people are up to.

    • R.J.

      It was working far too well.

    • Suthenboy

      That much money changing hands they are going to figure out a way to get their beak wet.

  14. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    My theory about why FJB was smiling so much when he met with Trump is that he is planning to burn this bitch down before Jan 20.

    • Tundra

      You’re only saying that because of the missiles, land mines and invaders.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Biden was just thinking about the pudding they promised him if he was good.

      This shit is on Blinken and Jarrett, and ultimately, Obama, would be my guess.

      • Suthenboy

        My guess is that Obama is a great performer who puts on airs. He is as much of a puppet as Biden or Harris. When you are looking for a super-villain it seems like there is always one more rock to turn over.

      • Mojeaux

        But who? Not Clinton. She can’t stand the Obamas or their machine.

      • Suthenboy

        The WEF would be a good place to look. They are all solid commies and very old money. I dont think there is any one person. It is probably more akin to Spectre than we are wont to believe. A lot of people with a lot to lose and megalomaniacal delusions of controlling the world. Probably a bunch of names we have never heard before or never noticed.
        It is one of those things so crazy it might just be true.
        Stop that! Leave my tin foil hat alone!

      • rhywun

        Probably a bunch of names we have never heard before or never noticed.

        Was thinking this. Anyone with that much power is not going to have their name in the media.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        A combination of the MIC and the IC, would be my guess. Obama was weak, and blackmailable due to his sexuality. Biden has banana pudding for brains, so that is a no-brainer, and HRC is about as venal as it comes. So, bribable, as we have seen via Haiti and all the other Clinton Foundation BS.

        Bush was weak too, but in a different way than Obama, he needed the MIC/IC to hold his hand.

      • juris imprudent

        The desperate need for SOMEONE, to be in charge and making shit happen.

        No love at all for this just being chaos and stupidity. Too scary, isn’t it?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yes, it is always just the way things play out. You know, a major politician switching his complete raison d’tre as soon as elected, a man with tapioca pudding for brains just happening to get the most votes EVA!, a total mediocrity lasting two terms…

        Why, it is like 51 members of the intelligence community bullshitting about he contents of a laptop they knew to be correct in order to get their man elected. And we all know THAT would never happen.

      • juris imprudent

        No ZWAK – they wanted to keep their own demon of chaos at bay.

  15. Aloysious

    Remember when SugarFree used to just SugarFree one link at a time?

    STEVE SMITH ‘MEMBER. ‘MEMBER GOOD AND HARD.

  16. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I just bought a bunch of Pfizer shares so I’m pro-vax now, mmkay?

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Legacy of desperation

    The Department of Energy is racing to close $25 billion in pending loans to businesses building major clean energy projects across the country. The push is one of Biden’s last chances to cement his climate legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next year under the promise of shredding Democratic spending programs.

    The department’s Loan Programs Office emerged as one of Biden’s most potentially powerful tools for greening the economy, making billion-dollar deals to restart a nuclear power plant in Michigan, fund lithium mining in Nevada, and build factories for churning out electric vehicle components in Ohio and Tennessee.

    But it faces an uncertain future under Trump, who as president backed only one project under the program and proposed slashing the office’s budget. And Trump’s recent pick to lead DOE, Chris Wright, is a fracking executive who has criticized the use of “large government subsidies and mandates.”

    Most profligate President ever.

    • Suthenboy

      Monday I saw an old friend of mine. He brought up the melting ice in the northern hemisphere and how all kinds of ancient relics are being exposed high in the mountains of Norway because of the disappearing ice from global climate warming change crisis thing.
      I asked him “Relics under the ice high in the mountains? How did they get there?”
      He got very quiet for a couple of minutes then started commenting on the lunch menu.

      • Mojeaux

        They really don’t think things through, do they?

      • juris imprudent

        In fairness Moj, the people they are following don’t expect them to think. So it kinda works.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      They’re blasting cash cash out of the treasury as fast as missiles to Russia.

      This is more than just Biden stupidity. It seems to me a concerted effort to create as much chaos for Trump as possible. They seem to have an “if I can’t have it, no one can” entitlement, destroying the toy during an epic fit.

  18. Shpip

    India Florida Man is moving up in the criminal world.

    The owner of a Florida trucking and logistics company has been convicted for his role in an elaborate three-year truck investment Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $112 million.

    Following a two-week trial, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida convicted Sanjay Singh, 45, of Coral Springs, on Nov. 8 of eight counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges.

    That’s some Sikh stuff, dude. But when he gets out of prison, his brother-in-law has promised him a job at Turban Outfitters in the local mall.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      A Florida Man that sikh would be a seminole moment in history.

  19. Mojeaux

    So, I guess Richard Gere is moving to Spain because OMB. That’s the second one I’ve seen.

    Ellen Degenerate is moving to the UK.

    Rob Reiner is checking himself into the loony bin spa to unplug and reset.

    Do these people think anybody gives a fat rat’s ass? OMB got the popular vote. WTF do they think that means???

    • rhywun

      It means we’ve failed them.

      • Tundra

        It means the Diddy and Epstein files are coming out.

    • slumbrew

      “Moving” or spending more time in the overseas estates they already own?

      • slumbrew

        Go ahead and give up your citizenship and I’ll be impressed

      • R C Dean

        Slum gets it. They already owned those places. They are leaving the US like the snowbirds leave Minnesota every year.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Don’t forget Eva Longoria. She’s going to live in Mexico City and Spain because of the election. Never mind that she is married to a wealthy Mexican businessman and was living in those places years before the election.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The whole “America is too crazy, too unsafe. I’m moving to Mexico.” just cracks me up.

      • Spudalicious

        She put out a statement that it wasn’t because of the election.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Did she though? Because when she says “I’m privileged. I get to escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren’t so lucky. They’re going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them.”, it sounds like politics has a lot to do with it. I’m guessing she issued the statement because people called BS on her.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      These people rending their garments and leaving the country or checking themselves into “spas” that also liberally distribute risperdal is more proof that the right guy won.

    • The Last American Hero

      What’s the Spanish word for gerbil?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Raton de culo?

  20. JC

    All the local radio stations were talking about the Celtics visit to the white house today. Joe couldn’t remember the Celtics were from Boston and then wasn’t sure what team he was greeting.

    He is definitely who we want dealing with Putin.

    • rhywun

      I just hope he keeps kicking for a couple more months.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe he kicks a week before the inauguration, and Harris gets her 15 minutes so to speak.

      • R C Dean

        That would be optimal, IMO. Harris gets sworn in as the firstest POCest womanist Prez, and we can stop hearing about that nonsense (well, not really). She would be purely ceremonial, and would get to hand off the Presidency to the bigoted rapist insurrectionist MAGAt.

        This would please me.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He was probably confused about why there were so many black Irish guys.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Why would the Celtics be visiting now? Is it based on the championships from 6 months ago? It’s not like Joe hasn’t had plenty of zero event days over the past 6 months they could have visited. Seems really weird with the new season just starting.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They play the Bullets tomorrow. I think it’s pretty standard that the championship team visits the White House the next time they are in town for a game.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m old school.

      • juris imprudent

        +1 Wes Unseld two-handed outlet pass to midcourt

  21. Mojeaux

    I feel moved to share something I tweeted about this morning.

    Can’t stop thinking about a random act of kindness I experienced my last semester of college.

    I was in a playwriting class and the prof (who wasn’t a prof but a playwright who’d had one off-off-Broadway play with Blythe Danner) didn’t like me. Several reasons.

    I inadvertently made him uncomfortable his first day, which I did not know but my classmates informed me of later.

    Secondly, I was a novelist in a playwriting class and he did not believe novelists could write plays.

    Thirdly, I skipped class a lot because I was working 50 hours a week and my dad had just died.

    Fourthly, when he called me to ask why I was skipping class, I told him he worked for me and don’t call me at home like a truant middle schooler.

    I didn’t talk to my theater classmates. For one, this class was in the theater department, not the English department, and I had never seen them before. But really, I never did talk to classmates because usually I was the oldest in any given class by at least 5 years. Not this class, though. Weirdly, most of them were healthcare workers and I thoroughly enjoyed their gallows humor.

    Anyway. Last day of class. I was about to graduate. I had gotten a begrudging B+ on my play. One of my classmates approached me and asked me if I wanted to go to Tasso’s (Greek restaurant in KC) for a celebratory lunch.

    Mind you, I had had almost ZERO conversation with these people and had less than 0 in actual relationships. I said sure (surprised even myself), gave a ride to one of my classmates, who gave me the skinny (see above).

    I don’t remember anything we talked about, but we laughed and had a really good time. There were belly dancers, something I had never seen before. It was the first and only time I’ve ever been to Tasso’s (no Twitter account, sadly), but it holds a special place in my heart, which is why I name-checked it in one of my books.

    • R.J.

      Nice story.

      “ I told him he worked for me and don’t call me at home like a truant middle schooler”

      This is why I enjoy talking to you.

    • Suthenboy

      What brought that on? The thinking about it I mean.

      • Mojeaux

        I was reading the book that I name-checked Tasso’s in and it just took me back.

  22. Stinky Wizzleteats

    RC upthread: “ No idea what’s going on with Gaetz resigning and then dropping out.”

    What happens with Rubio’s senate seat, does DeSantis appoint a standin or is a special election held? Are they smart enough to have planned it? Does Trump forward a more palatable quasiradical now? It’ll be interesting to see what happens but maybe I’m giving them too much credit and they’re just muddling through.

    • R C Dean

      DeSantis appoints somebody.

      It just makes no sense to me that Gaetz would resign his Congressional seat just to be a lightning rod for the Trump transition for a week or so. And the timing seems all wrong for some 4D chess move where Gaetz is sacrificed to get the other nominees through. That withdrawal, it seems, should have come later, and if that was the plan all along, why did Gaetz resign his seat?

      If he thought doing so was going to keep the ethics report from coming out one way or another, he’s too dumb to be AG anyway.

    • R.J.

      Just a tad.

    • R.J.

      Boy I did not see that nomination coming.

      • Spudalicious

        Makes perfect sense.

      • Spudalicious

        She’s a much better choice than Gaetz.

      • R.J.

        That is true.

      • The Other Kevin

        Way hotter and she has better eyebrows.

        The MSM says she’s worse.

        Sounds like a great pick.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t know TOK, I’d prefer my AG to have a forehead you can use as a projection screen at a drive in movie theater. Gotta be a big brain in there.

    • Sensei

      Gaetz got further than Christie!

      • R.J.

        He did! So what happens now? Does Gaetz get his seat back in congress, or is he screwed?

      • Sensei

        Isn’t that what got him in trouble in the first place?

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        See…I think because he a) resigned from Congress and b) withdrew from AG consideration, that there may be some skeletons he’s tryna keep in the closet.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        If Gaetz asks for his seat back and doesn’t get it, I hope he doesn’t go full Dan White.

      • R.J.

        It’s a lot more than screwing a 17 year old. He must have serious skeletons.

      • Spudalicious

        He single handily got McCarthy booted. That alone killed any chance he had.

      • juris imprudent

        DeSantis could appoint him to Rubio’s Senate seat.

      • R.J.

        I’ll take that bet.
        DeSantis will let Gaetz dangle with no appointment, for one beer. If he is appointed, I will give you one beer.

      • R C Dean

        DeSantis only gives him Rubio’s Senate seat if Trump gives DeSantis something. What that might be, I have no idea.

    • KSuellington

      The whole thing is utterly weird, there must be something going on behind the scenes. Why did Gaetz immediately resign his seat in Congress when he could have at least sussed out what his chances would be first? It was reported that he gave up the nomination when he found out that he was going to not get the votes. I don’t think DeSantis will give him the Senate seat that Rubio is vacating. Didn’t he just win re-election easily to his seat in the House?

    • UnCivilServant

      What’s the question? Sounds like someone who’s upset she won’t get more then the insurance money from the secret policy she took out after she murders the poor man.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Yes to both.

      • juris imprudent

        He didn’t go to trial thanks to local corruption, now he is sprung thanks to state-wide corruption.

      • R C Dean

        Honestly, short of money-changing-hands corruption, I think the SCOSIL got it right. A deal’s a deal.

    • Suthenboy

      If I remember correctly Big Mike is in the Smollett debacle up to her eyeballs. I got the notion he or one of his hangers on cooked it up or ran interference on Smollett’s behalf when the shit hit the fan. I dont remember the details but her fingerprints are all over it.
      God I hope they are not making this go away because they plan on running her in 2028.

    • R C Dean

      That’s my take.

      • juris imprudent

        He only stood trial once, so I am at a loss as to how double jeopardy ever attached to the dismissal of charges.

      • R C Dean

        The charges were dismissed based on a deal. Refiling the charges after the deal was made means breaking the deal. It was a stupid deal, but a deal’s a deal. Even a stupid, ideologically motivated deal.

      • juris imprudent

        That sounds a bit like the line Hunter’s attorneys attempted – we had a deal even if the judge didn’t sign off on it. If I missed the part where the judge took a plea to lesser charges then I could buy this. But my understanding is it was flat out dropped.

      • KSuellington

        It was the juiciest plea deal that anyone could imagine. He got all charges dropped with no repercussions aside from forfeiting a measly 10k bond. Evidently he wasn’t even required to disclose the truth as he immediately went on record saying he was vindicated. The Chicago Way. Yup, Obamas probably in on it in some way or form.

  23. juris imprudent

    Cook County prosecutors dropped the original charges against Smollett weeks after he was charged, in exchange for him forfeiting his $10,000 bond and performing 16 hours of community service, but a judge later ruled that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office mishandled the case and appointed Web as a special prosecutor to review it.

    Fuck that “deal” meeting double-jeopardy standards. He didn’t even plea out to anything.

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    It’s 2024 and we’re still wrapping cardboard around copies of books and insisting they’re worth more that way. And enforcing it with these production delays.

  25. groat scotum

    I would pay double for an early release paperback copy, and I’m not particularly excited about this book. It’s on principle. Hardcover books suck.