I would bet that Platner ends up with some kind of Tucker-adjacent media deal after all this

One of the hundred lessons of Graham Platner is, if you come across a truly reformed shitbag who wants to redeem their story, you could offer them activism/service or you could offer them power. What they pick is important to pay attention to.

Do you think you’re brave enough?

If you’re going to borrow the stupid and embarrassing monicker used by Heritage Foundation mutants, every single point should involve heavy weapons and prison ships.

There’s something about the dichotomy of the America 250 party looking like a middle school science fair and World Cup visitors being like “Americans are surprisingly kind and cool and you have a lot going for you as a country” that’s driving me nuts

British people talking about Mexican food is sort of like Americans talking about motorsports. This is the most charitable way I can comment.

It's fun seeing the middle aged hardcore kids making pretty songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5F...

Fuck… YOU

I think Vance knows he’s on a plane going the wrong way and he’s going to keep his eyes wide open the whole way down

wat

Reading this as lifestyle/travel news

Bombing to Lose: Origins and Impacts of the Hegseth Doctrine

“lie and say we have a peace deal so people will watch my UFC party” feels bad

This whole conversation has confounded me for years because it seems to have put “how to be a good man” as prior or instead of “how to be a good person.” We more or less have how to be a good person figured out. Make that the primary thing and the peculiarities of being a man sort themselves out!

Counterpoint: They are grooming teenage boys. Maybe not on an individual level, Asmongold deeply-troubled hoarder who can't physically take care of himself. But "Thinking girls are pretty is gay. Now hop into my private discord to learn how to be a MAN" is an... odd thing to say to CHILDREN

"Interesting" is several rungs up the ladder that right wing artists are at the absolute bottom of. If they start making anything that isn't deeply embarrassing on all counts then we can talk about interesting. Look at this idiot! This sucks!

the Moral Majority sees the rape of children as the legitimate, sovereign tax on holding power

The idea of Markwayne Mullin “working on a plan” is a delightful concept. Like a dog “working” on a spreadsheet by peeing on an open laptop.

It's banal to point out that all right wing complaints are aesthetic but Jesse Waters, to me, simply looks like Rachel Maddow. And there's nothing wrong with that! But seeing someone with her likeness talk about whether someone else is masc-presenting "enough" is uhhh

Never in my life have I heard of a rape/SA survivor described as the "enemy" or "foe" of their abuser. This is so insanely fucked up.

Blue City port authorities should go ahead and work it out with the airlines that they can just land and everyone gets off the plane.

The Tidal biography for C+C Music Factory is basically "This sort of sucked in a lot of ways, but people liked it for some technical reasons."

Dinner time at the Marbles House

So, the one actual worry I have about AI is a potential culture where improving or expanding your internal faculties, either through education or practicing a skill, is seen as a counter-productive and utterly pointless chore. It's not like we're just fucking killing it in that regard as it is

🎵"Flesh into gear, My self appears dissected and pretentious. A simple sound, a heavy sigh could win the whole world over. You live in fear of being someone that you didn't want to."🎵

A dark horse piece of crucial advice I give to new parents: Unless you know someone really well, you should keep a bulk of your parenting decisions and methods on a need-to-know basis. Not because it's a "secret". It's that too many people take the most mundane shit as an personal attack.

I’m more or less conditionally fine with GLP-1’s but the inevitable shady companies pitching it to thin women to “lose five pounds” are in full swing and it’s going to get uglier

At the school Memorial Day program and Space Force has not been mentioned once. The kids are right.

Given the proclivities of what happens to most Americans when they receive a cash windfall, let alone people with low impulse control, the 1.776 billion dollar J6er fund could be interpreted as a mass execution

Of course they do. The "economic interests" of White Rurals is watching outgroups die violently.

“His own base” is just the demographic of his scams. That’s… (sigh) that’s how this has all happened

We’re going to have to Do Things to the South

I’m not going to bother unmuting this but the thing about covid that mattered, that is and was the thing that should have been convincing to adults, was the fucking mountain of dead bodies.

“I don’t see anything fake about MTG” is something that should result in losing your driver’s license or needing a co-signer on a loan

The conservative courts and democratic rule of law are basically at odds now and the way through that is a state of free fall

Drunk driving a truck into a daycare while the police stand there and say "Well I guess you can drunk drive a truck into a daycare" is not really governance or actually accomplishing anything

I have a 12 hour wedding tomorrow vs no I don’t

What do you do for fun after this? What could possibly be better than that specific feeling?

what the fuck are you talking about lol

Daft Punk's "Alive" is probably my prime example of a song that doesn't really do a whole lot but every single sound is *perfect* so you can't stop paying attention to it

A good Slob Dad moment is when you grab a few spare chocolate chips from the baking supplies and you forget the heat from your wedding ring will melt the chocolate faster than your skin and then you're trying to lick your wedding ring clean. 😎

If Donald Trump’s fucking face was on my passport I would let any customs agent in any country soccer kick me in the crotch

I've had to practically force-feed a man (total stranger) half a Nalgene of water with a salt tablet because he FELL OVER from dehydration. He hiked Mount Washington with a 20 ounce bottle from a gas station.

"Don't make fun of Charlie Kirk" didn't work. Good luck with the ballroom!

I don’t think I want a 50 dollar circuit board deciding to not start my car when it thinks I look sleepy

Letting that stupid NYT piece start a “discourse” about stealing is a lot of people failing a pretty easy test.

We don’t like, teach her how to do this

lmao ok AI is good now

The first time I flew Spirit it was booked through work and I didn’t know how it worked. The ticket agent asked if I had a carry on, I was wearing a huge backpack and just said “N… no?” And they just let me go. That didn’t work on the flight back.