Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Why you gotta be so undemanding?

by | Jan 29, 2025 | I Am Lame | 140 comments

White House walks back claim $50 million worth of condoms were being sent to Gaza

See, I disagree with this idea. I’m fine sending condoms to Gaza. The less those primitive screwheads reproduce the better. I mean…

They have children to raise the next crop of terrorists and terrorist incubators. Palestinians have been murderous assholes for over a century at this point. I’m tired of their shit.


Let’s check in on Slate…

Donald Trump Is Claiming Powers That King George III Didn’t Even Have

The United States of America is neither a monarchy nor a dictatorship. We have agreed from our beginnings that kings and dictators are bad, not merely because they offend the high-minded principle that sovereignty ought to reside in the people rather than any single person, but because we believe that rule by the collaborative effort of separate, intellectually independent, and mutually checking government branches representing a spectrum of societal interests will best protect us all from tyranny and produce objectively better policy.

Yup. Not hysterical at all.


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140 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Why after seeing your headline do I want a pizza with extra cheese?

  2. SDF-7

    The less those primitive screwheads reproduce the better.

    I thought that crowd was like the ancient Greeks — “boys for fun, women for babies”. Which implies they wouldn’t be using protection when they meant it anyway.

    And might help explain the “Gays for Palestine” thing, I suppose….

    • Jarflax

      It’s only gay if there is consent?

  3. Sean

    Good music.

    • Beau Knott

      +1

    • rhywun

      +1959

    • bacon-magic

      Serial killer music. You’re all on the list!

  4. Sensei

    Donald Trump Is Claiming Powers That King George III Didn’t Even Have

    But will he commute the just handed down 11 year sentence of my former senator Bob Menendez?

    They are/were buddies and both have no love of the DOJ.

    • rhywun

      his effort to transform the Department of Justice from an independent, neutral law enforcement agency into an instrument of partisan revenge

      *dies from laughter, taps out*

      • SDF-7

        “Those pro-life grandmothers and people actually trying to attend school board meetings and derail our agendas were obviously more important than rapists, murderers or drug smuggling! Everyone knew that!”

      • Nephilium

        I made it to:

        The United States of America is neither a monarchy nor a dictatorship. We have agreed from our beginnings that kings and dictators are bad, not merely because they offend the high-minded principle that sovereignty ought to reside in the people rather than any single person, but because we believe that rule by the collaborative effort of separate, intellectually independent, and mutually checking government branches representing a spectrum of societal interests will best protect us all from tyranny and produce objectively better policy.

        Trump has a pen and a phone too…

      • rhywun

        Yeah, they’re not fooling me – the Slate crowd doesn’t believe any of that.

      • juris imprudent

        Hey pal, you’re late to the party.

  5. SDF-7

    Do you see?

    Is that a St. Louis McDonald’s? Seems like there’s only a single Arch (“Pretty crude photographic fakery… they cut off your brother’s sign!” — to quote Dr. Emmett Brown…)

    • SugarFree

      You sound like a conspiracy theorist, bro.

      • SDF-7

        Who told you that!

        :furtive looks left and right:

    • rhywun

      NcDonald’s?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      MacDinardo’s.

  6. EvilSheldon

    Since the whole ‘Palestinians’ thing has been a ’50s KGB influence op from the start, why don’t we cut a deal with Russia? The Palis get their new homeland in Siberia, the Russians get plenty of labor for the Uranium mines, plus some consideration at the negotiating table with UKR? I feel like there’s a potential win-win-win-win-win solution here…

    • Shpip

      See, I thought that’s why OMB wanted Greenland. We (and Canuckistan) get a place for our economic migrants, and we can make a deal with the EU to send their MENA types over — for a small annual per capita fee, of course.

      The smart, hard-working, and hardy ones eventually can return to their adopted countries as economic assets, once they’ve done, say, ten years in the natural gas ice fields. They’ll have a skill and will have learned the language by then.

      Or they can swim home. Their choice.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        We all know they would stop on the west coast of Ireland, and we would have 500 years of Brown Irish, or Irishmen of Color.

      • Rat on a train

        According to the 2021 census, there were only 837 ethnic Jews left in the JAO (0.6%)
        The area is already cleansed.

  7. Shpip

    Although the White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, January 29, rescinded without explanation its memo of two days before freezing “all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance

    I figured the explanation was the injunction by that DC Circuit judgette.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I believe the executive order still stands, but the OMB memo was pulled back to refine guidance in consideration of the injunction.

      I think we’ll see a lot of this back and forth, as the legal jockeying is just starting to kick off.

      • SDF-7

        Executive governance as The Art of the Squeal?

      • rhywun

        I hope the bodies don’t pile up too high while they sort this out. 🤞

      • DrOtto

        You know who else’s initials are OMB?

  8. The Late P Brooks

    we believe that rule by the collaborative effort of separate, intellectually independent, and mutually checking government branches representing a spectrum of societal interests will best protect us all from tyranny and produce objectively better policy.

    Hippopotamus grapefruit magenta involute.

    • Bobarian LMD

      representing a spectrum of societal interests

      Slate writers are definitely on the spectrum.

  9. PutridMeat

    The United States of America is neither a monarchy nor a dictatorship.

    You know, I agree with Slate. Where were they the last 4 years? Or between 2008-2016?

    • DEG

      “THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!111!!!!!!!!!11!!1!”

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Slaves to convention

    The order declares that there are just two sexes, male and female. It rejects that people can transition from one gender to another or be considered something other than male or female such as nonbinary, which describes people who don’t identify as strictly men or women, or intersex.

    The position reflects what many social conservatives have called for — and conflicts with what the American Medical Association and other mainstream medical groups say: that extensive scientific research suggests sex and gender are better understood as a spectrum than as an either-or definition.

    Be a fucking weirdo on your own time (and your own money).

    • Bobarian LMD

      …and conflicts with what the American Medical Association and other mainstream medical groups lobbying groups with significant financial incentives say: Surgeries and life long hormonal treatments are really good for our bottom end.

      Fixed.

      • Rat on a train

        bottom surgery is good for the bottom line

      • Nephilium

        Related piece from El Gato.

      • rhywun

        Interesting call-back to the “recovered memories” hoax.

        It sounds exactly right to me.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ratsy:

        bottom surgery is good for the bottom line

        That is a cheeky statement to make

    • The Other Kevin

      “It defines the sexes in an unconventional way, based on the reproductive cells — large cells in females or small ones in males. And it suggests that humans have those cells at conception.”

      Science is dead.

      • The Last American Hero

        Have you ever watched a nature show?

        Richard Attenborough “watch now as the tiger, who identifies as male, approaches the birthing tiger from behind.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        birthing tiger

        It is littering tiger shitlord!

    • kinnath

      words have gender.

      mammals have sexes. two sexes. acknowledging certain genetic abnormalities in rare cases.

      • Don escaped Memphis

        yup

    • rhywun

      It rejects that people can transition from one gender to another

      So does reality.

      JFC this shit is getting so tedious.

      Make Common Sense a Thing Again

      • rhywun

        I was filling out paperwork for yet another doctor’s visit tomorrow and the very first questions they ask now are Sex, Sex Assigned At Birth, and Preferred Pronouns.

        This is fucking madness.

        Reading the el gato piece. It’s making me very angry.

    • R C Dean

      “sex and gender are better understood as a spectrum than as an either-or definition”

      There is sex, which is biological and 99.9% male or female.

      There is sexual preference, which is what you like to do with you bits and who you like to do it with.

      And there is gender, which is subjective self-perception and social presentation.

      The wokists like to mix-and-match, elide and confuse.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Biologists say that’s a problem because egg cells develop many weeks later, and sperm cells are produced at puberty, not at conception.

    “At that stage, sexual differentiation has not started to take place,” said Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist. “I can’t see any logically coherent way to interpret the definition in this executive order, given the addition of the phrase ‘at conception.’”

    Niggler, please.

    • The Other Kevin

      See my comment above. We’re to believe there is no possible way to determine sex at conception. No way. None. Zero.

      • SDF-7

        No wonder the TikTok programming is trying to convince the youngsters reality itself will bend to their will through manifestation — your genetic code is what you wish it to be, bigot!

      • Rat on a train

        It’s chance, will, magic, or who knows what. It’s nothing to place bets on.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’ll be a non-zero number actually believe that surgery and drugs can change your chromosomes.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I mean, we only did it for about 300k years. What kind of shabby evidence is that?

      • rhywun

        At conception? I am not a sexologist but for some reason I thought that decision came later. I could be wrong.

        I am pretty sure it’s obvious at birth for something greater than 99 percent of us.

      • Jarflax

        The existence of rare genetic defects invalidates the fact that the sexes are hard coded in every cell from the moment the sperm enters the egg until death! You can’t call humans bipeds because every once in a while one is born with no legs, one leg, or a vestigial third leg!

    • trshmnstr

      All lions that, at conception, belong to the sex that has manes are male.

      Does the lion have to have a mane at conception for this to be true? Of course not.

      They’re idiots, all of them.

      • juris imprudent

        Zealots are worse than idiots. An idiotic can eventually be persuaded if you can dumb down the concept enough. Never a zealot.

      • Jarflax

        ^This, idiots will eventually stop smashing their face into a wall, zealots won’t.

    • SDF-7

      How ’bout that?

    • Sean

      Heh

  12. Nephilium

    Slate. Mother Fucking SLATE has the audacity to lecture about civics and rule of law?

    • The Other Kevin

      At some point the left started to believe the administrative state is a fourth branch of government, independent of the other three.

      • juris imprudent

        And dedicated solely to progressive priorities.

      • Nephilium

        juris:

        It’s just common sense that the people want. And if they don’t want those policies, well… they aren’t people.

    • R.J.

      Last gasp. It will be gone soon, once all the government money runs dry.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Cunning plan

    Ultimately, the Democrats’ plan to put Lutnick’s financial dealings under the microscope and cast him as out of touch with everyday Americans fits into the party’s larger attempts to win back voters by demonizing the Trump administration’s roster of billionaires up for high-level postings.

    ——-

    Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz dismissed concerns from Democrats on Tuesday.

    “It’s amusing that Democrats are shocked that the Secretary of Commerce would be successful in business,” Cruz, a Texas Republican, said in an interview. “I’d be a little dismayed if the Secretary of Commerce had not been successful in business.”

    Oligarch oligarch oligarch. we’re all oligarchs now.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      How can you be truly inclusive if you don’t nominate a bunch of losers?

    • Raven Nation

      So, billion is the line? Open Secrets estimated the worth of Obama’s Commerce Secretary in 2011 to be about $160m

    • Pope Jimbo

      Everyone knows that the best people to put in charge of the govt are the ones who have spent their entire careers in govt. Who needs to work in the private sector? All anyone learns there is wrongthink.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I’ll be a non-zero number actually believe that surgery and drugs can change your chromosomes.

    When will they transplant a pig’s vagina reproductive organs into a human in order to make it a real woman?

  15. Shpip

    As if you needed another excuse to visit the Redneck Riviera:

    The Flora-Bama store at the Flora-Bama Lounge, Package, and Oyster Bar advertises on its website that it is selling Gulf of America T-shirts for $30 dollars.

    For those not in the know, the Flora-Bama is one of those legendary dive bars that dot seaside towns throughout the republic. Their big annual festival is the Mullet toss, where people lob fish, not scalped country boys. And yes, it’s located smack on the state line of Florida and Alabama.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Republic? I thought it was a Democracy. The Democracy of Redneckia.

      • SDF-7

        “I thought we were an autonomous collective!”

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Sorry, that is in Seattle. You should have turned right at Albuquerque.

      • Shpip

        “I thought we were an autonomous collective!”

        A Confederation — if you can keep it.

  16. DEG

    Aliens addicted to our fast food?

    It all makes sense now.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      That is actually quite useful.

      • rhywun

        It is neat. I am skeptical of “British Islands”.

      • DEG

        I am skeptical of “British Islands”.

        It’s a legal term.

        Geographically, the Channel Islands aren’t part of the British Isles archipelago, but are often included in the British Isles because of historical and cultural reasons.

      • rhywun

        It’s a legal term.

        Huh. The inclusion of Northern Ireland threw me.

  17. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Why would we be sending condoms to a people wracked with GENOCIDE!!???! Why, it makes you think…

    …there really one.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      isn’t one. Sheesh.

  18. R.J.

    Slate can fuck right off. The democrats led the field in handing over massive amounts of power to the executive branch. The chickens are finally coming home to roost. May this progressive nightmare come to an end, at least for a while.

    • juris imprudent

      Only a while, until they can get their greasy grasping fingers back around the levers of govt. Then it’ll be real payback time.

      • Raven Nation

        No, no, not payback. They will simply use extreme methods to restore the rule of law and order destroyed by Trump.

        We have a moderately progressive friend who is convinced his understanding of US politics is well rounded because he reads the NYT AND WSJ.

        He couldn’t understand why people were upset about the multiple prosecutions of Trump. We sent him this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk and he responded that he didn’t understand why we’re brought it up in the context of the Trump persecutions.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Germany first

    A taboo-breaking gambit from Germany’s likely next chancellor to crack down on migration with the help of far-right lawmakers has unleashed a fierce debate that strikes at the core of the country’s postwar identity.

    Germany’s conservatives have introduced plans for tougher migration measures, with votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party potentially giving their leader, Friedrich Merz, the parliamentary majority he needs to sharply reduce migration.

    “Yes, it may be that the AfD will for the first time make it possible for a necessary law to be passed,” Merz said on Wednesday in a heated parliamentary debate. “But ladies and gentlemen, we are faced with the choice of continuing to watch helplessly as people in our country are threatened, injured and murdered,” he went on, “or to stand up and do what is indisputably necessary in this matter.”

    Listen to the people? You can’t do that.

    • rhywun

      Because getting fed up with being overrun by murderous, rapist foreigners who have no respect for your culture is exactly the same as another Holocaust. It is obvious, ja?

    • juris imprudent

      German conservative party is filled with Mid-west Democrats. Not as batshit as the coastal variety, but still not exactly what you or I would call conservative.

  20. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Looks like our Iceland cruise has completely sold out, as the website no longer has the cruise listed to buy cabins! Glad y’all got in on it!

    (I’m guessing they have enough of a waiting list now that they can sell any cancelled cabins without having to list it on the website)

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Did you see that we’ll probably need an EU permission slip along with a visa? See the Glib forum or the recent e-mail from Suzanne.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        THanks for the heads-up!

      • EvilSheldon

        Grumble.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Well, the Hilton Nordica is already sold out. Gonna have to just go the hotels.com route now 😬

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s not a matter of indifference who cooperates with the extreme right, not in Germany,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “Since the founding of our republic over 75 years ago, there has always been a clear consensus among all democrats: we do not make common cause with the extreme right in our parliaments.”

    Listen, democracy doesn’t mean you’re allowed to work with just anybody.

    • juris imprudent

      Only us democrats can participate in democracy; all the others – OUT.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’ve long tired of normie beliefs being described as “far right.”

      These people live in some alternate fucking universe.

      • rhywun

        An alternate universe where the far-left has complete control of all of the things? Yeah, sadly that is all too familiar.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Communists are ok though.

      • rhywun

        Germany’s “center left” party is full of literal commies, so yeah.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, not sure I’ve ever heard the phrase “far left” to describe any contemporary political group.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Do they make common cause with the extreme left in their parliment?

      Oh, silly me! There is no extreme left.

  22. Evan from Evansville

    Note to TPTB: I submitted an article, a column from Dad when I sent a professional baseball player to the ER. I was 9, and that certainly occurred.

    I didn’t get good art in, but I have it and will update it when I can. Y’all are such sports, and all is much appreciated.

    • R.J.

      Paging CPRM, can you supply art for what sounds like a fine article?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Touch base with CPRM tonight on his cartoon comments.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Dad wrote for the Evansville Courier and got a book out of the Evansville Otters. He’d have a national base if he could sell himself. (Note to self: Sell him.)

      Pro-ball player thought he could lob it in. Whoops. Andy and Alan Benes were local MLBers, though never ‘faced’ nor met them. Don Mattingly is by-far our most famous humans, and his house was rumored to be my home. They were, just rumors, I presume.

      I should also talk to CPRM about a screenplay. I legit have a good one. Dad’s written a few and I can steal the template. Hrm.

      • Shpip

        I should also talk to CPRM about a screenplay.

        You otter be in pictures…

  23. cavalier973

    The Laiken Riley Act was just signed by Trump

  24. Mojeaux

    My 2025 bingo card is fucking full. Now Bro1 just found out he has stage III colon cancer.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Aw shit, man. I’m sorry to hear that.

    • Sensei

      Damn. All in the first month. All the best to you both!

    • R.J.

      Terrible.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Sean

      Ugh. Sorry.

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh no! I’m so sorry!

    • cavalier973

      Sincere condolences.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Man, that sucks donkey.

    • rhywun

      🙁

    • EvilSheldon

      Damn. Sorry to hear this, Moj.

    • Mojeaux

      I just feel like my family has completely fallen apart.

      Mom sick and living with me
      Bros and me at loggerheads over beliefs and opinions
      Aunts suddenly turning into cunts
      Bro1 having colon cancer

      Like, WTF.

    • robodruid

      Absolutely awful. I am so sorry

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. So sorry to hear this.

  25. Raven Nation

    Damnit, Man City made a second-half comeback.

    • rhywun

      And saved their skin if I’m understanding the new format right.

    • Raven Nation

      I still find myself being astonished by the way Trump has broken people’s brains.

      Hey, you got fired. Was it wrong – perhaps. But stay home and follow procedures: surely you’ve asked others to do that in your 22-year career.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Parading is the real serious charge.

    • R.J.

      Holy cow, her whole head was in the fish’s mouth! She probably soiled that mermaid costume.

    • creech

      Wow. That wasn’t the “Kiss of the Lobster Girl.”

  26. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    The Milei-ization of the Fed gov continues apace. I would be willing to bet this time next year the agency I work for will be at least 1/2 the size it is today. At least.

  27. Sean

    Menendez getting 11 years is just perfect. Fuck that corrupt piece of trash.

    • R.J.

      My mind is blown by the political transformation happening right now. It’s like a giant never ending sewage line was shut off abruptly.