"why are you betting against the Democratic steal machine" is so good.

"guy who bets against Republicans because he thinks Democrats can & will steal elections" is real.

You expect libertarians to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Langley where I might get pickled for being myself.

Most of us would consider The Hotchkiss School ”an elite prep school,” yes.

I don't want to encourage Hunter, but the second item here is absolutely true: American culture is primed for recovery-from-addiction narratives.

no argument.

"why are you betting against the Democratic steal machine" is so good.

impressive to slight both Adams *&* Jefferson in one go.

Pete Hegseth dropping deism and Unitarian Universalism from accepted religions in the military is honestly almost too fucking hilarious for me to be properly outraged about.

i think that people here watching this unfold and seeing their friends do “he’s a scumbag but senate votes add up” should understand that this was what it was like watching conservatives after Access Hollywood tape in 2016

If you made this character up it could work well in a satire of American elite education & perverse media incentives.

dawg what the fuck is this résumé.

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

I know that we can get a little hyper-partisan here, but a lot of people did pour their heart and soul into Spencer Pratt's campaign. If you know any, please take a moment to reach out and be human: tell them politics will always feel this way and they should not participate in the future.

I'm sorry, running for the Senate isn't some spiritual vision quest you piece of shit. It's not there to make you a better person (which it doesn't seem to be doing, anyway)

that should be well received, sir!

Being a college student & getting into right-wing media is playing on the easiest of modes.

I’m sorry, but… “Hershey Hackberry”??

The premise of his campaign is that the standards of character to run for public office in this country are too high, and should be lowered His top surrogates are extremely explicit about this!!

This interview is clarifying something for me When Platner talks about a "transformative politics," about how he "believes in his politics," he's not talking about public policy His policy platform is basically generic progressive Dem! It's entirely about the character stuff

I will say that the Platner saga reveals some of the severe limitations & shortcomings of the Democratic consultant class & progressive media (for lack of better terms).

Taken together, these remarks suggest a fairly concerning mentality for someone seeking power to have.

Good evening, “Graham Platner” was a 24 month sociological study by Harvard university into the perils of running Just Some Guy for the United States senate. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

This is telling, & not in a favorable way. bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Air to Ground Message: WE HAVE 1 LAV BUT ONLY 1 ROLL OF TP ON ENTIRE PLANE WHICH IS A LIL RIDICULOUS Area: New York City, NY, USA Type: Bombardier CRJ900 A: #abc9d4d9363 F: #f2170551e32

“A cad & a wrong ’un” is, I believe, a useful classification for certain sorts of political figures of dubious character & purpose, if not policy.

as an expert in missing important points, Chris Cillizza knows of what he speaks.

Above all…who cares.

I think a post made it into the d*scov*r feed…

literal “Treatlerism”:

Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen.

Thesis: Roosevelt is something like what Mosley could have been if Mosley had not been Evil.

TIL that Oswald & Cynthia Mosley went sailing with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1924.

I haven’t been the biggest Hunter Biden fan, but he could well be the right Democratic communicator for the Elon Musk-occupied Twitter.

President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about dot jpeg

Imagine a burger. No, seriously, because that’s the only way you’re going to be able to afford one.

“A cad & a wrong ’un” is, I believe, a useful classification for certain sorts of political figures of dubious character & purpose, if not policy.

“…a cad & a wrong ’un.” ~Stanley Baldwin on Oswald Mosley.

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

daft.

A portent: the upcoming movie about a mafia hitman (Mark Wahlberg) who works with an FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen) to solve the murder of a civil rights leader (Giancarlo Esposito) in 1960s Mississippi.

ah…America.

guys being dudes.

Katie Porter has announced she’ll start killing hostages (her staff) if “they don’t stop all the voter fraud”

“But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?”

Just an invitation for election chaos. Incredibly irresponsible.

“60 Minutes” correspondent Nick Shirley.

This is still an all timer from her tbh