it also seems bizarre to say that we had a realer primary in 2012 (where Obama cruised to re-nomination because incumbents do) than 2016 or 2020

“democrat party” is such a dead giveaway that this man listens to right-wingers too much

I have sworn upon the altar of the goddess eternal hostility and infinite wrath against every enemy and detractor of Penelope Featherington known to the Ton

Texas BBQ is already on the precipice right now - like all of them. You add "rising beef prices" into the mix, and most of those restaurants are gone.

This one’s actually kinda sad given the bloom of diverse cuisines blending with texas bbq in texaa

not all that shocked that republicans think it is scandalous to have stable, consensual relationships with age appropriate partners

dawg they booed through “The Star-Spangled Banner” to get to the president

“ugh I’m sick of single white woman from Ohio moving to New York and calling herself a New Yorker after a year” wow I wonder why women might want to flee a state that fucking banned abortion and never ever want to go back get your fucking heads out of your asses you pieces of shit

it’s almost like there’s a silent refugee crisis in this country caused by theocratic red state politicians that’s inflaming existing cost of living and identity issues in blue states and locals are blaming the people being forced to leave their homes instead of the politicians who kicked them out

wow it’s crazy that there’s suddenly so much discourse about whether people who move to New York City from other states can ever call themselves “real New Yorkers” when red states are passing laws banning trans existence and queer pride and blue states are passing shield laws to protect queer people

part of what makes Platner discourse so miserable is that his coalition is not cleanly ideological. ryan grim is not a liberal, MattY is not a leftist, and they're both sympathetic to him

I think it’s why so much of his out-of-state support is so ride-or-die: he’s not just a political candidate, he’s a reward for their kept faith.

"He was a right-wing dirtbag but then he discovered socialism and now he's a redeemed Good Person ™️." It's all rather Evangelical, isn't it.

...who is now running on a (nominally) progressive platform while also trying to sell himself as redeemed for his past misdeeds. It's why so many of his supporters have dug in on him: he's literally catering to their political fantasy.

I was thinking about this this morning, and it occurred to me that Platner is also (or ather, masquerading as) the platonic ideal of the mythic rural voter who hears the magic words and turns to progressivism. *Everything* about him is stylized on that: a former Republican voter and US Marine...

Katz and co were *literally* auditioning people to get slotted into exactly this role.

It's the Insurgent White Dudebro Kingmaker Class. Disaffected white dudes with their own ideas about how to Get Dems To Bend The Knee to their clear moral/intellectual superiority. That's who he's primarily gotten support from.

you can also hear people yelling "get him out of here" before the boos take over

I've told you guys before about my professor who said depression (actual clinically diagnosed depression) only happened due to capitalism and no one would suffer from depression again in a post-capitalism world, right? Literature professor whose special focus was Latin American poetry btw.

This trash is to archeology what tarot reading is to modern medicine, but I do want to take a minute to point out that it's not just tiktok kooks: I took a pre-history class at college once and the professor's whole thesis throughout the course was that agriculture was the original sin of mankind.

you know how antisemitic you gotta be to get banned from a gaming website for antisemitism

also banned from gamefaqs for going on jews control the world style rants! and let's not forget how he had a surreal meltdown over black lives matter upstaging bernie in the summer of 2015

(He was forced out of cap/think progress over some antisemitic tweets)

“Reporter-blogger”

Is it a coincidence that it’s always dudes who have never had a real job their entire life talk like this?

One day it will happen. We know not where we will be, but we know we will always remember where we were.

so gender reassignment surgery for minors is the new late-term abortion, i guess, in terms of the political role it plays and how much it relates to a thing that actually happens in the world?

There are leftists and liberals who are all in for Platner and there are leftists and liberals who loathe him. This can't be broken down by political affiliation. These are issues around identity.

It's unfortunate that this has been portrayed as a "left vs. liberal" issue instead of a "people who don't see racism/antisemitism/misogyny as a deal breaker vs. people who do."

it is true that most suicides are men. the solutions to this are "regulate guns" and "encourage men to be more open about their mental health issues", both of which poll at -80 with people who complain about how men's issues are ignored

These are verbatim men's right activist talking points from the 2010s

i am sick and tired of seeing modern civilization collapse because of the goddamn gen z boss in a mini video

i really have just been radicalized very strongly by gender insanity over the last decade and want the dems to have a marianne-like painting of a winemom holding the flag of liberty through a cloud of tear gas

If I never saw a conventionally attractive person pointing at text the screen while looking smug and blasting pop music with heavy bass I would be able to consider life worth living again.

oh so we've all found a new woman to hate just because she's saying something incredibly stupid in the most condescending format ever conceived

you're never gonna guess what happens during food deficits

Banish Morris Katz alongside David Shor

Good to have it made clear who the people behind Platner believe to be the main characters of politics: themselves

A classic in the "hits so hard if you're stupid" genre.

Americans are class conscious (highly derogatory)

Stock prices, but otherwise no

we're going to Valhalla in November

"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."

ICYMI, a trans woman in a stand-your-ground state is facing felony charges for defending herself against 3 transphobic assaulters. One of those was PF neo-Nazi Scott Durham (Patryck Durham), who has openly spewed violent rhetoric like glorifying the OKC bombing. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/3-me...

i don't know why everyone's so worried about the mideast ceasefire collapsing, don't they remember:

The Mossad is not giving Bibi huge leverage over Trump. Trump is in fact exactly the sort of person who’d be almost impossible to control via blackmail.

The US is not funding Israeli healthcare and the reason Trump likes giving them weapons is that he likes seeing Muslims explode.

What if I told you that Labour in the UK and Democrats in the United States are not actually the same party and one of them is the greatest force for trans rights in the world? For fuck's sake, I'm tired of "well Labour is bad in the UK" being used to pretend Democrats are all JK Rowling.

people fundamentally do not understand that Labour's backbone, base, and reason for being is straight white working class men, and that culture is why there's NEVER been a woman leader of the party