OnlyFans and such are different from prostitution in that clients don’t pay for an actual sex act. They don’t pay to use another person’s body.

Instead, they pay to masturbate. This is an activity that is readily available to anybody for free. But OnlyFans consumers don’t seem to realize that. They have brought monetary exchange into a bodily function that fully belongs to them.

They aren’t paying to use somebody else’s body.

They pay to use their own.

What absurd times we live in! Spain refused to allow two American ships to dock because they suspected them of carrying arms to Israel, so Morocco  allowed the ships to dock there instead. Europe is becoming more Islamist than actual Muslim states.

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It’s quite fascinating how cultural foundations never really change. Spain is in the grip of an anti-Jew frenzy that’s been raging unabated for over a year. All of the country’s own problems have been forgotten. Nobody talks about the depopulation, the collapsed birth rates, the housing crisis, the loss of sovereignty to the EU, the outmigration of the young, the loss of professionals to better organized countries. Basques forgot about their national pride and threw away their flags to pick up the Palestinian ones. News programs report more from Gaza than from Madrid. Discussions in the Parliament are reduced to screechy women drowning in snot over imaginary Palestinian drama.

Half a millennium later, Spain is still expelling the Jews.

It’s OK, friends, I’m very grateful for everybody’s concern over my high cholesterol and high sugar but I’m fine. I have overindulged in the Wurst in recent months. Or decades, to be honest. It will all go back to normal once I eat healthy for a bit.

I made frekeh with mushrooms today, and after pouring every spice, mustard, and copious amounts of spinach into it, it became almost completely not horrible. It’s doable if grim but that’s life.

Curiously, the only Wurst on the planet I didn’t like was the famous Bavarian Weißwurst. It was too soft and strangely textures.

Only gaining some distance from the election allows one to see the absolute ridiculousness of Kamala’s campaign. White dudes for Harris, Doug Emhoff as a sex symbol, “look… I grew up in a middle-class family”, “choose prosecutor, not a felon”, the Julia Roberts ad, the procession of 60-year-old celebrities scared they won’t be able to abort, basing the whole campaign on the myth that it’s hard to abort in America, the ubiquitous image of a creepy dude obsessed with wanting his small daughter to abort imaginary pregnancies.

It was all so clumsy, so uncomfortable that one is truly glad the architects of such an incompetent, lackluster campaign will not be anywhere near the White House.

Look at the top. It’s a course in Women’s Studies. That’s what Women’s Studies has become. Completely subservient to men. Say what you might about Black Studies, they aren’t teaching any courses about the amazingness of blackface in that program.

The most effective Trump TV ad during the election cycle was “Kamala Harris is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you.” They just saturated a number of markets with it for months. Apparently Bill Clinton told the Harris camp “you guys have to answer that,” but they didn’t. . . Kamala’s own super-super-PAC said “damn… We’ve run the numbers and that makes us look terrible.” Everyone was surprised at how effective it was.

Whoever came up with that is a talented person. And the best part is that there’s absolutely nothing that Kamala’s campaign could respond to it.

The ad is effective because the human psyche is held together by the mommy-daddy dyad. Everybody knows from way before birth and forever after that life is the result of he-she coming together. It hits the foundations of our sanity when “they-them” is rolled at us. We feel a profound malaise that we can’t put into words. What keeps our brain functioning as it should is imperiled, and we recoil inwardly trying to protect it.

I’m not saying that the ad creator would put it in these specific words but deep down we all instinctively know it.

Day 3 on the low-cholesterol diet, and I just spent 10 minutes watching a video about the process of churning butter in France. So that’s how that is going.

Billionaire Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in the president-elect’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week, a new report says.

Zelensky — who wanted to talk about Trump’s victory and the future of US-Ukrainian relations amid the ongoing war with Russia — was surprised to learn that Musk was on the line with Trump when the call began Wednesday, Axios reported, citing officials familiar with the situation.

That’s great news, people. And it’s excellent that the unfriendly useless Vance was displaced by the friendly, helpful Musk. It’s the second conversation since Trump won the election. Work is happening. I’m now feeling really good about my voting choice.

By the way, nobody said anything about the elephant in the room my video. Did anybody get it or am I being too subtle?

I was sad that I was doomed never to have my own doctoral students. God listened and sent me some. In Spain. I will now have to be present at a doctoral dissertation defense at 3 am my time.

My physician tells me I should quit eating. I guess I should also quit sleeping.

So here are the 5 lessons we can learn from Trump’s 2024 campaign.

1. Capacity to change.

Trump took into account everything that had lost him the 2020 election, learned from his mistakes, and changed course. Just one example out of many is that he abandoned his tendency to surround himself with losers and toadies. Instead, he attracted people who are stars in their own right and have their own large following. Musk, RFK, Joe Rogan. Like them or not, it’s undeniable that these are very successful dudes who have millions of fans. I heard Trump’s interview with Musk where Musk was saying things Trump couldn’t possibly agree with and Trump was holding himself in check. He was making a visible effort. And if he can do this at 78, we definitely can do it in our own lives.

Speaking of strong women, Trump handed his campaign and now the position of Chief of Staff to Susie Wiles, who is a very very strong lady. Kamala is a wallflower compared to this bulldozer of a woman.

2. Authenticity.

At every point, Trump is being himself. Again, good or bad, he’s being true to himself. He’s anything but fake, and people respond to that positively.

3. Turning personal flaws into advantages.

Listen to Trump’s account of the garbage truck stunt. He makes fun of his age, clumsiness and girth very openly. It’s impossible to mock a person for being fat when he already joked calmly and confidently about being fat. People like this but only if you do it from the position of strength and not looking for reassurance and compliments.

4. Instinct.

Instinct is a shortened leap of cognition. It’s our survival mechanism. Listen to your instincts, and you’ll be better off for it.

5. Thick skin.

It’s one thing to stand up to a crowd that dislikes you. It’s much harder to say unpleasant things to your supporters. Standing in front of thousands of disappointed, booing anti-vaxxers at a rally and be unfazed, saying that you are proud of the vaccine no matter how much it upsets your most loyal supporters, that’s big. It’s very very hard. I don’t like the vaccine but I admire the capacity to stay true to your beliefs in front of an admiring, disappointed crowd.