People are dunking on this saying "the Nazi tattoo should've tipped you off" but saying "I fucked up" in the pages of the NYT is no small thing and there are plenty of people on this here tiny social media platform who backed this dickhead and still won't admit they were wrong.

Yeah it's over

New shipment came in, everybody help yourself to one if you earned it

Reliving my childhood rn

I’m a huge fan of Graham Platner and the US men’s soccer team. Time to log on and check today’s news

It's also a grift. Up to 450k salary for the director with wide open requirements so they can put whatever puppet they want in there:

has there ever been a man so effective at demolishing the vibe. historic scarer of the hoes

Sorry to be ungracious but I am just not going to tolerate any "who could possibly have seen this coming?" revisionism on this

But Stephen, you're casting stones right now. Do you see that you are also casting stones currently

I don't know how more people don't learn to admit that they were wrong about something. Once you learn that admitting you were wrong doesn't result in your immediate death, it's like the best and easiest thing ever to do. I've been wrong about many things, and I'll be wrong again.

just saw a very prevalent leftie poster who was (until today) a massive Platner fan doing the whole "golly gee, I wish I could understand why his accuser didn't come out with this sooner, it's gonna be hard to win Maine now" and I do confess that I want to give these people a swirly

whoopsie

They've got Mitch McConnell in The Contraption

Re: Platner, the pathological desire of leftie dudes to find and nominate a "butch democrat" is really starting to annoy me

I am what some might consider an expert on dudes with Nazi tattoos and genuinely my major worry with Platner has always been that he’ll basically be another Fetterman. People fetishize working-class-tough-guy posturing and then are surprised to discover that they are totally horrible people

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

"anything" you say

Hey @kenklippenstein.bsky.social I'm sure it was really fun to dunk on us over on Elon's website but I'd like to circle back now if that's okay

I hope they recognize that ignoring, excusing, even celebrating the earlier red flags means that they forced multiple women to go through the anguish of telling their rape stories publicly, with their names attached, in the newspaper. It is their fault Racicot and Fifield are experiencing this pain.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

So many people need to delete so many posts about Platner

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

On one hand, Graham Platner is an ex-mercenary who admitted he found killing fun, got a Nazi tattoo, cheated on his wife, and is credibly accused of rape. On the other hand, his moustache and gravelly voice is a balm to the pathological insecurity of leftist men. A hard choice for sure

Ken Klippenstein currently trying to figure out how to smugly respond to credible rape accusations against Graham Platner from a leftist woman

Tbh the most plausible scenario seems to be that he is in a medically induced coma

Ah, if only there had been some kind of sign. Some sort of indication. A symbol, perhaps, that might have hinted that things would go terribly awry

A lot of us really, REALLY wish that we were wrong with our initial assessment of Platner as a person and a candidate

I think a lot of folks are about to discover that nakedly propagandizing college students doesn’t actually work that well.

me, giving my daughter her 40th piggy back ride of the day at 6:31am (she woke up at 6:02am)

I don't think it's shaping up to be that way for long. The USA's dominance in research and academia is up for grabs if other countries want it. After 2024, many PhDs and researchers want out.

You are required to take this course on freedom

the expert who has been hired to teach Iowa students a mandatory course covering human history since the paleolithic age, Mike Whalen, is qualified because he runs a group of restaurants whose properties include Machine Shed Restaurant, Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse, Burger Shed, & Thunder Bay Grille

College economics used to merely be cheerleading for capital but now it's cocomelon for capital.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

My neighbour got his tickets paid for by the Qatari government, who also supplied them with free merch

Seems odd.

Dude had that shit on, also

One reason that people struggle to maintain weight loss is that when you're a fat person losing weight everybody cheers you on, but nobody has ever seen somebody and been like "Dude! You're looking approximately the same size as the last time I saw you, way to go!"

200.0 lbs. Down from 335. I did it. Next is the infinitely more difficult phase of maintenance and recomp.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

They're calling us (humanities) the most vindicated dorks of all time

The only boos at the public soccer viewing party were for Gretzky. The Canadians even cheered for Morocco after their heartbreaking loss. But it’s fuck Wayne Gretzky up here

It’s both funny and sad that there are rural trump supporters making the pilgrimage all the way to dc to be treated with abject disdain from the coastal elites they were tricked into thinking were on their side

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

Happy 4th of - oh my god

What are my freedoms doing abroad?