He died witnessing Donald Trump losing a war of choice against Iran. It's honestly the fate that he deserves.

I need these people to just admit that "warmonger" is just a term of disparagement reserved for women. Donald Trump plunged the US into a war with Iran and has threatened multiple NATO allies with imperial conquest. These people should be calling him a "warmonger" non-stop, and it isn't happening.

“people clapped when we landed” Because they would soon no longer have to deal with being around him.

I agree that Alito is the worst. That said, the fact that the biggest partisan hack on the Supreme Court is not a Donald Trump nominee feels like an outcome that arose by accident.

Max told on himself here.

Cannot emphasize enough that a scenario in which Joe Biden used social media to share the fact that he keeps requesting cognitive tests would be covered by the press in the worst possible light. But Donald Trump does this, and it's fine.

There are certain white leftist dudes who only want two things: 1) chicks suck and 2) IsraHELL. Graham Platner delivered both. He's apparently worth losing an election to Republicans because of this.

"A folksy, unfiltered lawmaker" This is how we're seriously characterizing a Republican Senator who voted to overturn the 2020 US Presidential election results from Pennsylvania?

Donald Trump used the federal government to attack the state of Minnesota. Imagine hating Hillary Clinton more than this aforementioned information.

Donald Trump started off 2020 with assassinating an Iranian military leader, Americans were legitimately afraid that he plunged the United States into a military conflict with Iran, but somehow we avoided this outcome. Until Donald Trump was re-elected and pursued a military conflict with Iran.

If you thought that Donald Trump would turn out to be anti-war or turn out to be the "peace candidate", you literally have no business participating in political commentary ever again.

Also got to use parents' health insurance until 26, and I don't think some people understand that the health insurance landscape before the ACA was basically if you had pre-existing conditions, you were just generally fucked.

There are certain people who should just admit that they want Democratic policies ideally without having to vote Democratic.

Encouraging people not to vote Democratic after Donald Trump used the federal government to attack the state of Minnesota needs to be treated the way we treat anti-vaxxer behavior.

Sorry we're so puritanical issues like *checks notes* rape and Nazi tattoos. Anyway, UPenn's political science department is not sending their best.

"I've avoided a lot of the Platner discourse" I mean... no, you actually didn't.

"the number of people he's killed as a civilian"

I still think it should be monumentally embarassing to have believed that Donald Trump would turn out to be anti-war. His approach to every political issue is maximum belligerence, and people really believed this somehow wouldn't apply to his approach to foreign policy.

At least Donald Trump is giving the Islamic Republic of Japan a break.

If you're inclined to show this to the Republicans that you know as evidence that Donald Trump has no interest in making their own lives better, they pretty much already know that. His chief function in their eyes is making the lives of *those* people worse, and he's still fulfilling that function.

I've been on social media for 22 years. If these requirements come my way, I'm out.

"I'll vote for a woman, just not *that* woman." It's time to accept that many self-styled white male progressives see the world through this lens... and that every notable woman Democratic leader will eventually be viewed as *that* woman through their eyes.

"I'll vote for a woman, just not *that* woman." It's time to accept that many self-styled white male progressives see the world through this lens... and that every notable woman Democratic leader will eventually be viewed as *that* woman through their eyes.

Have to share this figure again.

I've seen the text of this interview, but I never watched the video of this interview Here's the video. Lots of talk today about how endorsing Graham Platner is an indictment of Bernie Sanders, but it's absolutely an indictment of Elizabeth Warren too, because this truly was a shitty answer.

Continuing to project he has a hard time being told 'no' is certainly a choice.

There will still be media takes in the future about how "Donald Trump is looking for an off-ramp", even though he's a thousand on-ramps in a poorly tailored suit.

Donald Trump used the federal government to attack the state of Minnesota. We don't have to wonder if political motivations are guiding his decisions about how he handles one state vs. another anymore.

This is why Donald Trump voters voted for him. Had nothing to do with inflation, affordability, etc.

This hasn't and isn't emotionally resonating the same way in left-leaning circles as Renee Good or Alex Pretti being murdered by ICE. I wish I could say that we don't know why.

Collins' campaign viewed Platner as a uniquely vulnerable Dem candidate based on what they knew about him (from Politico reporting). Combine this with an observation that @gregsargent.bsky.social emphasized: he was the only Dem candidate running behind generic Dem support. We averted a disaster.

This point will irk some people, but still posting on X is similar to people supporting Graham Platner longer than they should have. There's already a bunch of red flags about X that suggest you shouldn't be on there anymore. You're still there because you didn't find them completely unacceptable.

Under Donald Trump, we’re sending our best… to work in China.

Friends, no serious campaign/party committee would ever commission a poll like this. They would do in depth testing of bios, messages, etc to assess the various candidates' strength, particularly w/a well-funded opposition and that close association w/Platner could now be toxic. Would disregard. 1/

I saw somewhere that he talked more about Israel in his fundraising emails than literally any other Democratic candidate this cycle, and shit like this is why.

"He told her he was coming right over; she responded by telling him not to do so, but he came over quickly." Ryan Grim is sharing a clear cut example of a woman telling Graham Platner not to do something, and he doesn't listen to her and does it anyway. This makes Graham Platner look worse.

Again, this is Graham Platner doubling down on making it clear that he has a hard time taking 'no' for an answer. That's a choice.

The right has a longstanding tradition of shoving sources in your face (the Bible, the Constitution, etc.) to justify their worldview that they also absolutely refuse to read in full or see how these sources indict their own behavior, and it's not stopping now.

Literally braver than every single member of the United States White House press corp.

It's a really bad sign that the NATO Secretary General referred to Donald Trump as "daddy" *after* Donald Trump threatened multiple NATO nations with imperial conquest.

Imagine being the Ukrainian President having to sit through a United States President ranting about how many war crimes in Iran that he could commit while knowing that he ideally doesn’t want to provide any monetary assistance to Ukraine in their war against Russian imperialist aggression.

The President of the United States is a lunatic and a moron, and there's no way in hell that Kamala Harris would have presided over such a self-destructive decision.

The Democratic base is Black voters, and they're being barraged with demands (even by white Democrats) to empathize with Donald Trump voters. Meanwhile, no Republican counterpart to this effort exists: there's no Republican effort to empathize with the Democratic base. It doesn't and won't exist.

Graham Platner may think he's projecting power by trying to play kingmaker and delaying formally withdrawing, but what he's really projecting is that he generally has a hard time taking 'no' for an answer, and he really should think twice before doubling down on that perception of him right now.

STOLLER: *ignores a thousand red flags* "I'm not clairvoyant, shit happens."

*cough*

They're LITERALLY learning how to communicate with Donald Trump using the style of a right-wing chain email, where words can be capitalized just BECAUSE.

For context, this means more Russian military personnel were eliminated by Ukraine in a month than Russian military personnel were eliminated during the Soviet-Afghanistan War, and that conflict lasted around nine years.