Comments by LapHunt (page 7)

===> Bruce/Caitlyn/Kaitlyn - is an attention whore. Beyond all else - that is the most appropriate description of him. It's such a disappointment that Hannity thinks it's worth giving Jenner a full prime-time hour. For better or worse, his is a highly-rated 9pm national show. It elevates Jenner's candidacy, when it should remain a joke. Jenner entering politics shouldn't merit that type of recognition and the GOP should be able to find someone more serious to oppose Newsom. Hannity seems disturbingly woke in recent years.

^It certainly seems that way. It's just surprising that they went from simply being quiet on social issues to now outright running a far-left candidate like Jenner. This is another reason why I am continually more impressed by DeSantis. He seems to have a solid conservative stance on a lot of things. But it's irrelevant in the big picture. The 2024 GOP nomination is Trump's if he wants it, and it's pretty clear he does.

I'm not sure if the playboy/sex reputation of Montreal from yesteryear is really valid anymore. The strip clubs are mostly expensive air dance factories. It does have a reputation for escorts, etc. but it's anyone's guess if that sticks post-Covid. As someone mentioned above, Canada is a socialist country and is very very locked down right now. Montreal actually has a curfew (yes a curfew) currently in effect. Everyone in the city has to be home by 9:30pm or they can be ticketed by police. There was a huge protest about it over the weekend.

There were people who believed this insane stuff before (e.g. that the term 'dark matter' is racist and other such bunk, etc.), but the difference is no reputable mainstream outlet would have given them the time of day. They would have been forced to voice their incoherent and angry ramblings on a street corner with a megaphone or in some homemade campus newspaper photocopied at a Kinko's and distributed out at said street corner, only to then be discarded en masse two seconds after people had a chance to glance at it. Now you have CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others making this the lead story every day. This can't be an accident. They have calculated racial obsession to be good for their bottom line and their interests. A lot of minorities though are actually getting tired of it. https://reason.com/2021/03/03/woke-excess-democratic-party-trump-political-correctness/ This stuff is being pushed entirely by white progressives and black liberal elites. Perhaps there will be a massive backlash against it. Problem is, elite media likely wouldn't care and would probably just keep pushing it. Then maybe shit gets real if they actually do go forward with reparations.

The issue facing the GOP for 2024 is that Trump is wildly popular among the Republican base and would therefore dominate the primary, but has major issues with moderates and suburban soccer moms when running in the general election. Ron DeSantis, while not a cult personality figure like Trump, might stand a better chance of winning a general and beating Biden or Kamala. The GOP needs a better share of white moderates and suburban soccer moms than it got in 2020 in order to win a general.

It's over the top noticeable. Almost every single commercial today featuring a woman and a man will portray the woman in the decision-maker role (e.g. signing a contract with a minority female bank representative while the man has a baby in his arms and watches from the sideline) and I would say about 70-90% of ads since the summer of 2020 now feature blacks in leading roles. Black women in particular seem to be in 50-60% of ads. They are about 6% of the U.S. population. The real question is will this bring about the "equity" that the woke corporations say they want to influence? Does racial harmony and gender harmony get achieved if you constantly portray whites and men like losers and excessively overrepresent minorities? Is the "turnabout is fair play" argument (i.e. getting revenge from the 1950s) really the best approach? If the goal really was racial/gender harmony, then one would think the right approach would be to represent people more or less proportionally and not portray certain groups (whites/men) as the butt of every joke. The black supremacy approach being used by the woke corporations could backfire.

Re: some changes that will be in place after Covid and the fate of big cities...it seems many people are actually leaving major cities like LA, SF, NYC, etc. and moving to midsized cities in Florida and Texas. I think that trend will continue. The decay of large cities was obvious before Covid and since many of these cities are run by lockdown-loving woke morons, people who value their freedom will likely continue to flee.

The notion of a roaring 20s-like era following Covid sounds good, but I have a great deal of skepticism that we will actually see that. I simply don't trust the globalists to ease up on many of the restrictions on our freedom that they have now conditioned the masses to passively support. Every time it seems we may be getting out of this, Fauci and the establishment elites start talking about another "wave" or about "variants" and of course, about the "new normal." The little media-loving douche and his many public health clones have been talking lately about how people should still wear masks even after getting vaccinated, and they're also trying to figure out how to regulate the ways that vaccinated people can gather. The goalposts have kept moving for a year now and I fear they will just keep moving them (recall them saying "We just need to lock down for two to four weeks to flatten the curve" back in March 2020). After someone gets the vaccine, they should be allowed obviously to be all systems go. Once herd immunity is reached, that *should* by rights be the end to this. I just don't know if they will ever let this go (as the saying goes "Never let a crisis go to waste") and the way the corrupt MSM endlessly stirs up the fear mongering, it's tough to see them dropping this as the guiding directive for how to live every aspect of our lives as they've been doing for a year now. When or if they give the green light to leisure travel and stop shaming people for considering it, that would be the signal to me that maybe this thing was truly over.

My understanding is that the burlesque-style shows as described in the OP were pretty much what strip joints were like until the late 1980s (say, 1988 or so) when "table dances" first emerged as a chance for what was then considered a more intimate experience where the girl would dance on a stool privately for a customer or group. Table dances then evolved into lap dances in the early 1990s, and were fully roaring by around 1995. Lap dances had quickly and easily become the number one draw for most clubs by then. Joe Redner from Mons Venus in Tampa is considered by some people (and proclaims himself to be) the inventor of the modern lap dance since Mons Venus was one of the first clubs to operate almost entirely as a lap dance factory and was thriving off LDs in the 1990s/early 2000s. That's probably a stretch, but Mons' rise in the 1990s does line up perfectly with the time when lap dancing became really popular in SCs. In either case, table dancing in the 1980s was the definite precursor to lap dancing taking off in the 1990s. I think table dances started off at $5 each, then when lap dances were introduced they were $10 as a step-up. Then it became table $10/LD $20.

Trump's next ploy/fundraising venture will be to try and get the results overturned by Congress on Jan. 6.

mark94 November 5, 2020 "The Republicans got a court order to able to watch the votes counted and they were prevented from entering the building." ... A Trump campaign lawyer admitted before a federal judge on Thursday that observers for the campaign were allowed to watch ballot canvassing in Philadelphia, after they claimed in court and the President's supporters alleged they were being deprived unfairly. But the federal judge was having none of it, instead asking Philadelphia city officials to confirm Democrats and Republicans were being treated fairly to watch the ballot-counting and that they were allowed to watch the ballot counting in the city from six feet away. When the judge pressed the Trump campaign lawyer if there were observers in the room from the campaign, the lawyer, Jerome Marcus, said, "There's a non-zero number of people in the room." The judge, Paul Diamond of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a George W. Bush appointee, also pointed out he believed the President's case appeared to have no reason to be in federal court, and even cracked a joke that the lawyer "shouldn't quit his day job" when the campaign handed the judge a hand-drawn map of the ballot counting room. After the judge confirmed the parties would have the same number of observers in the room, he dismissed the Trump campaign's request because it was moot.

Yes, let's see some links for these alleged "software glitches" and "votes coming out of nowhere" for Biden... But the votes coming in the last few hours that are for Trump and causing him to gain in Arizona, those are legit I take it?

mark94 17 Hours Ago Arizona is WAY too early to call. One million votes left and those are heavily Republican. mark94 7 Hours Ago Last night, Wisconsin was leaning Trump but, in the dead of night, 138,000 Biden votes appeared out of nowhere. Similarly, Biden has a razor thin lead in Michigan with lots of questionable activity. So if a huge chunk of votes flood in for the GOP in Arizona, count them...but the votes that came in for Biden in Wisconsin, those "came out of nowhere"? Wisconsin was at about 89% reported in the midnight-2am period on election night, and the outstanding vote yet to be counted was in Milwaukee. Similarly, the outstanding vote in Michigan was in Wayne County (Detroit area). Unsure of the "questionable activity" being referenced there. That's black people in Detroit voting for Biden. It's not that complicated. The GOP will retain the Senate. There shouldn't be any AOC-like Green New Deals or large-scale marxist garbage happening as long as that is the case. This result will allow the GOP the possibility to regroup and run a capable candidate (maybe Hawley) in 2024 who has the intellectual capability to actually stop cultural marxism. Though it would be unsurprising if Trump ran again in 2024 against Kamala (a race he would almost surely win). Four more years of a Kushner administration with Trump merely acting as a front man and sending inane tweets does not allow for that possibility. Ann Coulter has articulated the uselessness of Trump's circus act of a presidency better than most.

Thanks OP for the heads-up. This should be known, and since many tuscl users navigate to the most recent reviews of a club to keep tabs on the developments re: that club, this lets everyone know what's going on. Unfortunate, but it needs to be known.

I can't see them taking away the private booths even after the pandemic (once these things get put in place, it's very hard to reverse course) so that's a huge change to the Mons dynamic. A three-song grind session with a cutie would previously be possible for $60-75. Now that's $120-$135 at minimum for the same three-song set. That's actually pretty close to what they charge for the private booths at Spearmint Rhino Las Vegas. It sounds like you can still find a corner here or there for the old-style out in the open dances, but it won't be easy and they'll probably put private booths everywhere in due time. Quite a gamechanger for the Mons if the booths are permanent (which one would think they will be).

Rail quality had been hovering in the 6-7 range well before Covid, so not surprised to hear there was so much Meh upon re-opening. They have also always been really uptight here about seating and other things, so can only imagine how much worse that's gotten now. A bit surprised you got a good grind here though, that at least shows this place still has something left to offer. Not loving the signing away of all contact info at the door, but that's clearly going to be pretty standard going forward.

Good to hear some girls will apparently still do $20 per dance. Still think variable pricing is gonna screw over customers though in the long run. I find Sapphire mileage to be better than SR as SR seems to have too many GPS girls who will only do dances in VIP.

"If they charge any more than $20 for a dance on the floor and $200 for a half hour, run away as they will not be worth it." This seems to be a good rule of thumb, but in reading the reviews here it seems like Pandora's Box has been opened. If variable pricing is now the norm, only the undesirable dancers (read 6.5's or below) are likely to accept $20 for a dance. Sure you may get the odd unicorn who is a 7+ and will do $20 per dance, but it will be really tough to find. I think it will be hard to enjoy Sapphire's now and am planning to make one visit at most there on an upcoming trip. Completely agree re: the Russians and Eastern Europeans.

Interesting that you found the dancers less cutthroat on this visit than previous visits despite your experience with "Lily." In reading recent reviews, it seems like the variable pricing thing has made floor dances a landmine for ripoff potential. I doubt they'll reverse course (they never do on such things) which means this is the new normal here. Seems to be in place at Rhino too.

So it looks like the Rhino is also doing the variable pricing thing (recently instituted at Sapphire) where floor dances are no longer set at $20 each but rather can float between $20-$30+ depending on the dancer. I'd have considered hitting Rhino over Sapphire if they hadn't adopted variable pricing.

Your review is more in line with the experiences that I have had at Follies in my five trips to Atlanta (save for one or two which were really good and seemed to have a higher number of white spinners). I will read through the Follies reviews here and some of them make things sound so good that I can't help but think it might be worth booking a quick trip to ATL against my better judgment. But then there will be a balanced review like this one which reminds me of the majority of my experiences. Best conclusion seems to be that it is, at best, a hit or miss club when it comes to dancer quality (mileage apparently always a hit).

The $25 per dance price also creates another problem because let's say you do an odd number of dances (1, 3, etc.) it allows for the ROBs to just lie and say they don't have change and pocket even more money as a tip. Like if you did three dances (which used to be a cool $60) it's now pretty much $80 because most of the time you will be handing over four twenty-dollar bills and the dancer - with the money in hand - can just lie and say she doesn't have change or guilt-pressure you into letting her pocket extra money which would require a hassle for you to fight over $5 whereas previously everything would have been settled after you handed over three twenties.

Every Vegas VIP story - be it Sapphire's or Rhino - seems to be invariably the same thing: girl promises the moon to get customer to cough up $100 or $200 plus drinks in the VIP but once there, it's hands off, "no-this, no-that." The entire VIP setup in Vegas clubs, from room rental to drink prices to bouncer payouts, etc. is a scam. Much better to just find a dancer that will give good mileage on the floor for $20 each. Some of the less hustley ones realize that the club gets most of the $ from VIP anyway.

Point #1 is an argument in favor of going. Point #5 was an open-ended question meant to generate discussion. These were intended to be talking points more than anything.

Being in the Mons Venus specifically could end up really uncomfortable from just a physical standpoint as well. The place is pretty small as is, and can feel cramped on a normal weekend night. During the GOP convention, it could be virtually unnavigable.