Althouse: Elon Musk laughs at a prison rape joke.

January 4, 2026

Elon Musk laughs at a prison rape joke.

Shameful.

😂 https://t.co/d6N806NIhY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 4, 2026

147 comments:

john mosby said...: Is it really a rape joke, or a joke that the only sex Maduro's going to have from now on is with pervs like Diddy? I think the two of them are evenly matched if it came down to one trying to force sex on the other. Diddy's smaller but in better shape; Maduro is a real gangsta, not a guy who just sings about it. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 3:41 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: Yes. They could at least give him some K-Y.; 1/4/26, 3:46 PM
rehajm said...: Maybe it’s a consensual sex joke?; 1/4/26, 3:53 PM
narciso said...: An nc 17 odd couple pairing (will they be in the same wing); 1/4/26, 3:56 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 4:06 PM
FullMoon said...: Less vulgar.; 1/4/26, 4:07 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Shameful yet funny. Guy humour 101.; 1/4/26, 4:07 PM
Maynard said...: I used to work with a child psychiatrist (almost 50 years ago) who threatened recalcitrant boys in front of their cowardly parents with sending them to juvenile detention. He would call out to the staff, "Bring me the broomstick, so Johnny can see what it's like in juvie".

I guess they did not have baby oil there.; 1/4/26, 4:09 PM
Spiros Pappas said...: Why didn't DoGe find the Minnesota fraud?; 1/4/26, 4:17 PM
Spiros Pappas said...: I think P Diddy is impotent and has a micro penis. He'd easily be the best roommate.; 1/4/26, 4:18 PM
deepelemblues said...: Nothing shameful about it. This is plain old raunchy male humor. Women like the professor should understand that their opinion on it is irrelevant. It's not for them. No more than combat humor is. Don't like it, too bad.; 1/4/26, 4:29 PM
effinayright said...: Miss Ann, whatever you do, don't watch "My Cousin Vinnie".; 1/4/26, 4:30 PM
Mason G said...: "Women like the professor should understand that their opinion on it is irrelevant."

Women will never give up attempting to shame men into acting like women think they should.; 1/4/26, 4:34 PM
Lawnerd said...: That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are. But what do I know? I think Andrew Dice Clay was peak comedy.; 1/4/26, 4:35 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, you once laughed at prison rape. Have you forgotten about the pleasure you expressed when one of your sons came up with a game called "Don't Drop the Soap"?; 1/4/26, 4:37 PM
Breezy said...: Yes, Maduro should be ashamed.; 1/4/26, 4:38 PM
lonejustice said...: Yeah, prison rape is a really funny joke. Ha ha ha!! I was a criminal prosecutor for 20 years and sent many a guy to prison, and my brother was a prison guard. The reality is brutal and sometimes fatal. Much worse than what Andy Defresne endured in The Shawshank Redemption. But hey, for MAGA it is really funny. Ha, ha, ha!!!; 1/4/26, 4:40 PM
Ampersand said...: It's a prison sex joke. And not funny.; 1/4/26, 4:42 PM
Lazarus said...: It may provoke a smile, but it's not laugh-out-loud uproarious. It's also not something many people would find on their own. It's not necessarily a rape joke. Call it rape-adjacent?; 1/4/26, 4:46 PM
Achilles said...: I thought Pdiddy was out of jail.; 1/4/26, 4:48 PM
Achilles said...: I must confess I don't understand why that picture is funny. It is a dumb joke at best.; 1/4/26, 4:49 PM
Aggie said...: How many people were 'disappeared' or outright murdered under Maduro, one wonders. How about a pic of Epstein's cell, the door open with that monster ex-cop standing there with his arms folded, and a wire dangling loose from the camera?; 1/4/26, 4:50 PM
narciso said...: Does the name william lockyer, ring a bell, he certainly wasn't joking,; 1/4/26, 4:50 PM
n.n said...: Rape or rape-rape?; 1/4/26, 4:50 PM
Achilles said...: lonejustice said...

Yeah, prison rape is a really funny joke. Ha ha ha!! I was a criminal prosecutor for 20 years and sent many a guy to prison, and my brother was a prison guard. The reality is brutal and sometimes fatal. Much worse than what Andy Defresne endured in The Shawshank Redemption. But hey, for MAGA it is really funny. Ha, ha, ha!!!

Wait. You actually tried to put people in jail knowing what would happen to them.

But people laughing at a joke are bad somehow?

You are really stupid and awful.; 1/4/26, 4:51 PM
n.n said...: Males? Grooming, perhaps.; 1/4/26, 4:51 PM
n.n said...: PR. Ironic.; 1/4/26, 4:58 PM
Rocco said...: I don’t see it as a prison joke. I see it as two guys in prison who are known for oil (of different types) discussion…. Oil.; 1/4/26, 5:01 PM
john mosby said...: I remember years back when either Laslo or Betamax 3000 did a comment on The Five Steps of Prison Shower Rape. No one removed it. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:02 PM
Wince said...: Isn't inferring rape at what appears to be a tentative overture for consensual gay sex, how do I say this, homophobic?; 1/4/26, 5:02 PM
lonejustice said...: Achilles said...
Wait. You actually tried to put people in jail knowing what would happen to them.
But people laughing at a joke are bad somehow?
You are really stupid and awful.
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No, I did what was required by following the sentencing laws in my state for convicted felons. I didn't write the laws. I just enforced them, which I took a Constitutional Oath to do so. But I took no joy in it, and I never joked about it. Unlike you and MAGA.; 1/4/26, 5:02 PM
Iman said...: “But hey, for MAGA it is really funny. Ha, ha, ha!!!”

No, I would think that’s not funny to “MAGA”.

But your prized Duroc riding you? Hil-fucking-arious!!!; 1/4/26, 5:04 PM
Jaq said...: Tell us the part about it that makes it a rape joke without mind reading other people looking at it.; 1/4/26, 5:07 PM
john mosby said...: LoneJ: "No, I did what was required by following the sentencing laws in my state for convicted felons. "

Oh dear. Acting like charge-bargaining doesn't exist. Or prosecutorial discretion, for that matter. Or arguing for a specific sentence within the guidelines. Or arguing for a departure from the guidelines. Or bargaining for what related conduct you are going to throw into the sentencing formula. Can't wash your hands that easily. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:08 PM
john mosby said...: The Fifth Step of Prison Shower Rape was something like "that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Still wasn't deleted. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:10 PM
john mosby said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 5:10 PM
Iman said...: Lonejustus stands with Manure-OH!; 1/4/26, 5:10 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: "Shameful!" Yes, a Kathy Griffin fan wrote that....LMFAO!
To the fainting couch!; 1/4/26, 5:13 PM
TaeJohnDo said...: A dirty joke in poor taste! OH NO. Anyway...; 1/4/26, 5:16 PM
Mark said...: John Mosby lecturing someone about the law is such a joke.

Aren't you the racist subway attack guy who was found guilty?; 1/4/26, 5:19 PM
Peachy said...: oh please.

it's a joke.; 1/4/26, 5:20 PM
Bob B said...: Is it any less dirty than when Buttigieg said he would “stand behind the Venezuelan people.”; 1/4/26, 5:22 PM
Peachy said...: another Joke.; 1/4/26, 5:26 PM
narciso said...: oh snap, as they yoots say; 1/4/26, 5:28 PM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 5:28 PM
Peachy said...: Elon is one of the smartest and most successful people on earth. Don't really care if his sense of humor is what it is.
I confess to laughing at it when I first saw the joke.

After what Maduro did to his people - millions of people.
Millions of lives driven into poverty. People jailed for disagreeing with dear leader. (sound familiar?)
Bending that tyrant over with baby oil seems nice.
I suggest no lube.; 1/4/26, 5:30 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: Re: John Mosby…

The 2016 post you are referring to was: "5 stages of GOP grief: Coming to terms with Trump.”

Althouse begun with “The "5 stages of grief" meme is so trite,…” and addressed how the conservatives at the time were hyperventilating little bitches at the thought of Trump (my words there, not hers, but close enough).

My comment at the time riffed on the ‘5 stages’ template, and was:
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The Five Stages of the Prison Shower.

I am not going to get fucked in the ass.

I am NOT going to get fucked in the ass!

Please don't fuck me in the ass.

Oh God, I'm going to be fucked in the ass.

I guess that wasn't so bad.

The National Review pretends they are at Stage Two, but are actually at Stage Four.
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Sad that I have to explain, but: the joke is in the National Review punchline.

But —from 2026 and looking at the NR Chicken Littles crowd and the Ben Shapiros et all now — they are now at 'stage five' at times, and I f@ckin' called it.

I am Laslo.; 1/4/26, 5:49 PM
Beasts of England said...: Sophomoric, perhaps, but in no way shameful.; 1/4/26, 5:53 PM
Beasts of England said...: Laslo!!; 1/4/26, 5:53 PM
lonejustice said...: john mosby said...
LoneJ: "No, I did what was required by following the sentencing laws in my state for convicted felons. "
Oh dear. Acting like charge-bargaining doesn't exist. Or prosecutorial discretion, for that matter. Or arguing for a specific sentence within the guidelines. Or arguing for a departure from the guidelines. Or bargaining for what related conduct you are going to throw into the sentencing formula. Can't wash your hands that easily. CC, JSM.
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Oh give it a rest. Of course I engaged in prosecutorial discretion every single day of my 20 year legal career. I was the prosecutor who gave a guy a second and even a third chance, often to my chagrin. But sometimes the law mandates a minimum sentence, and some of them deserve their full sentence. Every case in unique and based on the particular facts and circumstances. But even when the defendants were sentenced to prison, I never took any sadistic joy or pleasure in it, which is what most MAGA people here approve of.; 1/4/26, 5:54 PM
Greg The Class Traitor said...: How many American women were raped by TdA members Maduro had sent to America?

I hope Maduro is raped in jail every day for eh rest of his life; 1/4/26, 5:55 PM
john mosby said...: Mark: "Aren't you the racist subway attack guy who was found guilty?"

No, I am the biracial subway defender who was found guilty in a two-tier travesty, and am still appealing.

$200K in lawyer bills so far.

I think that qualifies me to comment on the law. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:55 PM
john mosby said...: Lonejustice: "Of course I engaged in prosecutorial discretion every single day of my 20 year legal career"

Then why hide behind the legal fiction that you were just some law-following machine? CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:57 PM
Jim at said...: But I took no joy in it, and I never joked about it. Unlike you and MAGA.

Get off your high horse. Prick.; 1/4/26, 5:58 PM
Narr said...: Yah, pretty lame meme there, but if you liked it you'll love Key and Peele in "7 Inch".; 1/4/26, 5:58 PM
john mosby said...: Laslo: Thanks for digging that up. Still pure genius 10 years later. And, even though explicitly about rape, which the Maduro/Diddy AI isn't, funny! CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 5:59 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Big Mike said...
@Althouse, you once laughed at prison rape. Have you forgotten about the pleasure you expressed when one of your sons came up with a game called "Don't Drop the Soap"?

1/4/26, 4:37 PM

Ohhh. Burn! Yet no response from our hostess. Why is it ok for her offspring but not Musk.; 1/4/26, 6:06 PM
tcrosse said...: I have been reliably informed that taking it up the butt is just like shitting, only backwards. And forwards and backwards and forwards and backwards....; 1/4/26, 6:09 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: lonejustice said...
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No, I did what was required by following the sentencing laws in my state for convicted felons. I didn't write the laws.
1/4/26, 5:02 PM

Typical fascist. Couldn’t get a real lawyer job so he just worked for the government for 20 years and now his defense is:

I was just following orders!; 1/4/26, 6:11 PM
Leslie Graves said...: This wasn't so bad.; 1/4/26, 6:11 PM
Inga said...: Comments sections here at Althouse’s blog unrecognizable from 10 years ago.; 1/4/26, 6:14 PM
Peachy said...: Well Inag - there is always blue sky; 1/4/26, 6:22 PM
narciso said...: Ah blue scream an effluvium of madness; 1/4/26, 6:23 PM
Aggie said...: We're all supposed to be so redblooded, testosterone he-MAGA, we're not allowed to have any sense of humor, because some dummy thinks that makes us hypocrites.; 1/4/26, 6:25 PM
Howard said...: Shameless is the applicable word.; 1/4/26, 6:25 PM
Jaq said...: I think it is funny that the lefties always accuse we in the center, which they are so far left they imagine us to be "far right," of being violent, but they have to put bumper stickers on their Teslas disowning Musk so that their car does not get vandalized.; 1/4/26, 6:31 PM
narciso said...: Maduro is a sacred cow so you cant satirize him
I bet stone and parker wont even try; 1/4/26, 6:32 PM
n.n said...: A back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism? Queer.

#NoJudgment? #NoLabels? #LoveWins? #Diversity?

#HateLovesAbortion?

The many mothers of the Pro-Choice religion following progressive principles executed with liberal license. Wicked.; 1/4/26, 6:45 PM
n.n said...: George "Fentanyl" Floyd Syndrome. Black lives don't matter, NOW? A penny for your memes.; 1/4/26, 6:48 PM
Maynard said...: BoE said: Sophomoric, perhaps, but in no way shameful.

That pretty much nails it.

However, you have to account for the moral vanity of the politically correct. It is always shameful to be politically incorrect. Always!; 1/4/26, 6:48 PM
n.n said...: Was it AI or AI?; 1/4/26, 6:49 PM
bagoh20 said...: What evidence is there that it's not suggesting romance instead of rape. Your mind is shameful.; 1/4/26, 6:49 PM
bagoh20 said...: "Comments sections here at Althouse’s blog unrecognizable from 10 years ago."

Yes, because the innocence and naivete is gone, and your people took it.; 1/4/26, 6:51 PM
bobby said...: Maduro had some of my friends killed, in cold blood.

But you think the joke was shameful?; 1/4/26, 6:52 PM
Dude1394 said...: Prison rape is horrible. But we could do something about it but we,me, althouse do not. But please don’t joke about it, it hurts our feewings.; 1/4/26, 6:52 PM
bagoh20 said...: It's happening right now all across America. Why aren't you doing something?; 1/4/26, 6:53 PM
bagoh20 said...: What is the effective difference between saying it's shameful, and laughing at it. The "I'm a good person." self-awarded invisible Nobel prize?; 1/4/26, 6:57 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: One thing more shameful than a lame joke made at the expense of a narco-terrorist murderer is trying to use the lack of hysteria about said joke as a smear against your political opponents.; 1/4/26, 7:03 PM
Ice Nine said...: Yeah, it's really shameful, Ann, since we all know that they're just lining up in the prison to get some of that fine, flabby, 63 y/o Nick Maduro action.

Lighten up, it's a joke - somewhat puerile but, yeah, funny.; 1/4/26, 7:13 PM
Eva Marie said...: Somebody is misremembering. This is the original Don’t Drop the Soap post:
September 10, 2015
"Don't Drop the Soap is a controversial prison-themed board game designed by art student John Sebelius as a 2006 class project at the Rhode Island School of Design."
"The game received criticism for its content, most notably for the game's treatment of prison rape. Sebelius also received notice for being the son of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Magistrate Judge K. Gary Sebelius. The game officially went on sale on January 31, 2008 in Lawrence, Kansas and through Sebelius' personal website, and is considered to be similar to Monopoly in its gameplay."; 1/4/26, 7:17 PM
FullMoon said...: "Comments sections here at Althouse’s blog unrecognizable from 10 years ago."

Yep, has calmed down quite a bit.; 1/4/26, 7:17 PM
Lawnerd said...: If you can’t have a laugh at prison butt sex what can you laugh at?; 1/4/26, 7:23 PM
Lawnerd said...: I’m old enough to remember when it was OK for Eddie Murphy to tell jokes about what if Mr. T was gay and better yet - Ed Norton and Ralph Kramden of the Honeymooners having gay sex.; 1/4/26, 7:27 PM
Eva Marie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 7:27 PM
Eva Marie said...: Additional comment September 10, 2015
January 2008 — that was just as Kathleen Sebelius was going up for confirmation. The Washington Post had an article — "Game Changer: John Sebelius" — quoting him: "We both recognize she has a job to do and I have a job to do. It’s reciprocal of being prideful of your family and making sure everyone knows where my intentions were with the game. There was no ill will when the game was created; that’s why the support was there. It’s definitely reciprocated. I don’t see her having a problem getting confirmed."; 1/4/26, 7:29 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

You all Kirked the the truth one too many times.; 1/4/26, 7:34 PM
Eva Marie said...: @john mosby: best wishes for a good outcome; 1/4/26, 7:37 PM
john mosby said...: Eva Marie: Thank you very much! CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 7:41 PM
Eva Marie said...: Let me just add: it’s ok not to like rape jokes.; 1/4/26, 7:43 PM
Peachy said...: Reality: maduro raped his county.
Joke: Maduro raped in prison by an inmate with some lube.; 1/4/26, 7:52 PM
narciso said...: Didnt we like the animal house post script for marmalard?; 1/4/26, 7:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?; 1/4/26, 7:54 PM
G. Poulin said...: Norm MacDonald once did a routine about prison rape. Okay, I admit it, I laughed. So I will stay after school, Miss Prissy, and write fifty times on the chalkboard:
"I will not laugh about prison rape."
"I will not laugh about prison rape."; 1/4/26, 7:54 PM
Peachy said...: who me? no. not at all. why?; 1/4/26, 7:55 PM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 7:58 PM
Peachy said...: Reality: joking about prison rape is not actual prison rape.

Reality: Maduro abused his own people, a form of financial rape, as he enriched himself.; 1/4/26, 7:58 PM
traditionalguy said...: Elon was part of the California culture where they glorified trisexuals. That was those who were willing to try anything sexual.; 1/4/26, 8:07 PM
n.n said...: The photos during the ethnic Springs were evocative. Amid catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform, in sanctuary states, too. Who can forget politically congruent grooming in progress. The third leg of the liberal triad. Males in women's spaces, faces, throwing girls under the bus. Forward!; 1/4/26, 8:09 PM
Mason G said...: Reality: joking about prison rape is not actual prison rape.

The picture in the tweet that Musk laughed at isn't an actual picture, is it?; 1/4/26, 8:10 PM
Known Unknown said...: The joke is about Sean Combs's obsession with baby oil (he had cases of it in his home) and "Diddy parties" where there may have been all kinds of sex. Yeah, there's a prison rape element, but that's not the leading subject of the joke.; 1/4/26, 8:10 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Could it be... SATAN?; 1/4/26, 8:11 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Who will receive a pardon from Trump first: Nicolás Maduro or Sean "Diddy" Combs?; 1/4/26, 8:11 PM
narciso said...: And the fact they are in the same jail (maybe not the same wing); 1/4/26, 8:12 PM
john mosby said...: Traditionalguy: I’m one better - a quadrasexual: I’ll do anything, with anyone, for a quarter.

(Heard that probably 30 years ago on some late nite show). CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 8:13 PM
Justabill said...: One’s reaction to prison rape jokes seems to depend on whose ox is being gored. So to speak.; 1/4/26, 8:17 PM
n.n said...: Trans/homophobia.

Baby oil is gentle on the eyes, where water may be restricted as a sustainability feature to mitigate climate change.; 1/4/26, 8:19 PM
n.n said...: Two men and a bottle.

Rape is in the perception of the person or a modern sitcom with socially forward themes.; 1/4/26, 8:24 PM
john mosby said...: Male rape jokes punch up: the strong are made weak. One of the key ingredients of humor. I bet a certain amount of people found the Abu Ghraib pics funny, because if you are going to sexually humiliate anyone, why not sexually humiliate men from one of the most anti-woman cultures?

Female rape jokes punch down and make the weak weaker. Make one and you are driven from polite society. Even/especially if you make it about a powerful woman.

Unless you put it between the covers of a romance novel. But even then it’s not a joke, it’s deadly serious: that damsel really has fallen in love with her ravisher.

It takes what the Dalai Lama would call an advanced spiritual practitioner to realize that men can be weak and hurting them is not funny either.

But the Maduro/Diddy AI isn’t even about rape. It’s about being propositioned by a strange little man. Which I think we can all agree is funny. CC, JSM; 1/4/26, 8:25 PM
Iman said...: Now, that is funny, Mr. Mosby! 😆; 1/4/26, 8:26 PM
n.n said...: The second perp is being equitable and inclusive of his... her... their Diverse partner.; 1/4/26, 8:27 PM
Peachy said...: My hairdresser is a political idiot. She too - had the leftwing meme notion/cult lie spread- that Trump will pardon Pee Diddy.
I really doubt it. but whatever you leftists need to tell yourselves.; 1/4/26, 8:27 PM
n.n said...: Is Maduro claustrophobic?; 1/4/26, 8:28 PM
Iman said...: And it’s too bad you can’t go after that judge for malicious prosecution!; 1/4/26, 8:29 PM
Peachy said...: JSM - Mosby - lol great!; 1/4/26, 8:29 PM
n.n said...: Pardon me, would you pass the fetal foam? The social surfactant?; 1/4/26, 8:32 PM
n.n said...: It could have been head and shoulders... served with a nice Chianti and fava beans. Planned Perphood is a liberal indulgence with progressive principals.; 1/4/26, 8:36 PM
Achilles said...: Ann Althouse said...

Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?

No.

I haven't ever found rape jokes funny.

And the Abu Ghraib pictures were so pedestrian compared to things that are out there.; 1/4/26, 8:37 PM
n.n said...: Detention, Erection, and Intrusion (DEI); 1/4/26, 8:39 PM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/4/26, 8:41 PM
n.n said...: The gay bar hotel is a place you can enter but rarely leave.; 1/4/26, 8:55 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Ann Althouse said...
Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?

1/4/26, 7:54 PM

Score one for Big Mike. He called Althouse out for promoting a prison rape joke by her son but screeching about a prison rape joke liked by Musk.

Hypocritical, emotional hater much?; 1/4/26, 9:18 PM
effinayright said...: So...LJ.....You praise your own moral grandeur for putting people in jail when you knew they likely would be anally gang-raped, while condemning those who laughed about a fictional situation they never took part in.

Got it.

But I'm wonderin'....did your prison guard brother look the other way while gang rape was going on in plain sight?; 1/4/26, 9:19 PM
effinayright said...: Kakistocracy said...
"Who will receive a pardon from Trump first: Nicolás Maduro or Sean "Diddy" Combs?"
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Why would Trump pardon Maduro, after spending 10's of millions of dollars on a sophisticated military operation to seize him in Venezuela and bring him here to face criminal charges?

Asking for sensible friends.; 1/4/26, 9:27 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “But hey, for MAGA it is really funny. Ha, ha, ha!!!”

Yeh, and some 1,000+ of them were tried, convicted, and served time in prison for protesting the stolen 2020 election. Called an “insurrection” to get sympathy, the protesters ALL left their guns behind. It was done with lying FBI agents and lying prosecutors who denied them, among other things, their Brady rights. 275 undercover FBI agents in the crowd who knew? Prosecutors just like you, just doing their jobs. And, no doubt, many of them raped in prison that these supposedly honorable prosecutors sent them to.

So, no, don’t joke about prison rape with MAGAs, not after the 1/6 prosecutions.; 1/4/26, 9:40 PM
Eva Marie said...: @Bill, Republic of Texas
“Score one for Big Mike. He called Althouse out for promoting a prison rape joke by her son but screeching about a prison rape joke liked by Musk.”
No. This did not happen. That post was about the son of Kathleen Sebelius. See my comment at 7:17.
Y’all oughta learn to read.; 1/4/26, 10:29 PM
n.n said...: Is the homophobic inference motivated by the reference to brokeback bottle? Hoisted on their own Fani.; 1/4/26, 10:47 PM
James K said...: "Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?"

The Abu Graib photos were actual photographs of real people. This was not particularly funny, but not in any way comparable.; 1/4/26, 10:49 PM
Ice Nine said...: >Ann Althouse said...
Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?<

No, I certainly didn't.

Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were produced as jokes, like the Maduro/oil meme was?; 1/4/26, 10:56 PM
n.n said...: Is the divergent reaction motivated by people who perceive brokeback bottle is a mocking rather than gay parody of brokeback mountain? Just as homosexuals and politically congruent attempt to socially distance and exclude sims from the transgender spectrum under the albinophobic banner and rhetoric.; 1/4/26, 11:21 PM
heyboom said...: I didn't laugh out loud at the Abu Ghraib photos, but it didn't bother me in the least considering the number of beheading videos gleefully posted by them.; 1/4/26, 11:30 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: "This isn't tennis! -- This is anal sex!" Some meme I've seen many years ago.; 1/5/26, 7:04 AM
bagoh20 said...: It Just Doesn't Matter. Nobody in either picture is being raped. It's not a rape. It's a joke.; 1/5/26, 7:55 AM
Big Mike said...: Ann Althouse said...

Did you think the Abu Graib photographs were funny?

The few I saw were hilarious, especially considering what the prisoners had to do to be put there in e first place. Did you think the video of Daniel Pearl being beheaded was funny?; 1/5/26, 7:57 AM
bagoh20 said...: One of the most common jokes in history. Did you laugh at Wiley Coyote getting violently killed over and over?; 1/5/26, 8:00 AM
narciso said...: Kind of delta house pledging hijinks; 1/5/26, 8:07 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/5/26, 8:07 AM
boatbuilder said...: Musk is brilliant but has the basic sense of humor of a 14-year old boy. It's why he still believes that Grok can be tweaked to be able to tell jokes.

I don't recall a whole lot of pearl clutching about prison rape jokes when the lefties thought Trump was going to prison.; 1/5/26, 8:46 AM
Big Mike said...: @Eva Marie, my recollection is that Althouse believed the game to have been created by one of her sons. I would research her post but (1) I don’t know how to search her archive, and (2) I rather imagine she’s quietly edited or removed that post out of embarrassment.; 1/5/26, 9:03 AM
Big Mike said...: @Eva Marie, at any rate I have never seen Althouse protest against biological males — including convicted rapists — being incarcerated in women’s prisons and assigned with biological female cell mates. For a while, before sanity was reintroduced, women in women’s prisons were at risk of penetrative rape. And Althouse, to my knowledge, never wrote a word about it.; 1/5/26, 9:09 AM
n.n said...: It's just a bottle of baby oil with, apparently, an inferred dysfunctional meaning. In any case, involuntary back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP penetration is not rape-rape h/t Whoopi, not sex, but sexual. Beware the conceptions of semantic progress.; 1/5/26, 9:24 AM
Eva Marie said...: @Big Mike: You can go to the side bar with the list of posts and search for the date. You’ll find the post and all the comments.
I found the post with Grok’s help. Grok is amazing at searching through comments.
I can’t prove if she did or did not change her post. However if she changed the post, it would mean she changed her mind. That’s not hypocrisy. At least I hope it’s not because there’s been many times I’ve changed my mind or refined my thinking because of what I’ve read either here or elsewhere.; 1/5/26, 9:38 AM
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Not Illinois Resident said...: It's reason so many white guys waiver before committing a criminal offense - the threat of prison sentence if caught.; 1/5/26, 10:10 AM
john mosby said...: Ref Abu Ghraib: The very first thing that happens to you in the military - really, before you're even in, at the MEPS Station, is you get crammed in your boxer shorts in a room with 50 other guys. That was me in the 1980s. Earlier generations were fully naked. Part of this is for efficiency in the medical exams and shots. Part is just to start acculturating you to a world where you don't matter very much. No one cares if it's too cold for you, or you don't like exposing yourself, or that guy over there really likes exposing himself, etc. Plus the shock effect helps the small number of military administrators and medics to control the large number of recruits.

In prisons and long-term jails, the new inmates drop all their kit to get fully searched and issued prison kit. Same sort of thing.

The night shift guards at Abu Ghraib got left there with little supervision, training, or SOPs. And guess what: Arab civilization has many great achievements, but one of them is not an internalized rule-following queueing-up culture. Arabs will swarm all over a place if not given very strict non-negotiable rules. This is why they make great entrepreneurs. Would have been very easy for the prisoners to walk all over these kids. Literally. The guards improvised based on what they knew. Keep the prisoners in a state of humiliation so that they don't get a chance to exploit their greater numbers. CC, JSM; 1/5/26, 10:17 AM
Narr said...: Ima wait for "Abu Ghraib: The Musical" myself.; 1/5/26, 12:47 PM
Butkus51 said...: its worse than killing babies; 1/5/26, 1:47 PM
le Douanier said...: One of my favorite things about Althouse is that she has a long record of speaking out against this particular "joke."

I can't grasp why anyone would use this occurrence as the basis of a joke. This sort of thing makes me think of Lara Logan and Abner Louima. Obviously I do get that the context of the joke is bad people in prison, not people like Logan/Louima/Trippe (not a real person). Still, rape is never humorous to me.; 1/5/26, 10:34 PM