Not sure how someone with zero experience in politics thinks he played a ‘key role’ in getting legislation passed. 🙄 Absolutely dishonest, unsurprisingly. 👇

Wow. Look who got the max donation from a piece of shit MAGA.

I love a good victimless crime 💸

Here's Graham Platner agreeing with a three-time Trump voter that Bernie Sanders was unfairly robbed of the nomination twice. Meanwhile, Platner himself is happily accepting the endorsement of the DNC & DSCC before the primary's even been held.

This is a precursor to swatting, I swear to fucking god. Stancil is right to call out these crybully freaks because they’re deranged and getting bolder and more dangerous. Even if this person didn’t do the insane thing claimed here, someone will see it and follow through.

It's the same epistemic shape as essential oils moms, just with better vocabulary. The vibes are anti-corporate so it scans as left, but the rhetoric "distrust experts, trust the meme, the science is suppressed, the real story is being hidden" is structurally far right.

Gift link! “Mr. Platner still has a competitor for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Costello, who was the party’s nominee for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat in 2024, is a perfectly plausible candidate. He was born and raised in Maine [and] he bears no Nazi insignia.” www.wsj.com/opinion/demo...

The mainstream news media is the gatekeeper of the bully pulpit anyway. And they hated Biden.

What it sounds like to me is outreach to the "both parties suck, Jews control everything, burn it all down" crowd.

Mother Jones understood truth in 2020, as did Bernie & even Nina Turner. Bernie knew he didn’t win over Black voters in ’16. Tried again & failed in ’20. Black voters, esp women, are heart & soul of Dem party. It’s not complicated. Except for Platner thinking this is good idea for video in 2026.

Absurd, but not surprising given our current information environment. 😞

They keep saying he called for trans people to be banned from BlueSky, when he very clearly said that loads of trans people were harassing him and that those specific people need to be banned for violating the TOS on harassment. It's bad faith reading AT BEST.

Why in the hell do people have to “inspire” adults not to chose a felon, not to chose a serial rapist, not to chose a pedophile, not to chose a 34 count felon, not to chose someone who ripped off charities, not to chose a known insurrectionist…? America, unfortunately, is morally bankrupt, mostly.

"He should have expanded the court!" Yeah, he should have if he'd had the votes, which he didn't. But if you don't acknowledge he never had the votes OR why that action was necessary, why should anyone take your analysis seriously?

There's no better example of Murcs law than 1) Democrats impeached Trump for Jan 6th. 2) Republicans refused to remove him. 3) Democrats indicted Trump for Jan 6th. 4) Republican appointed judges blocked the indictment. 5) Democrats indicted Trump AGAIN for Jan 6th. 6) Voters blame Democrats.

I'm voting blue no matter who. And, from what I understand, the standard established over the last few rounds of elections is that we can criticize candidates however much we wanted so long as eventually we pulled that lever. Right?

YOU: We gotta get big money out of politics! Also YOU: Vote for the billionaire!!

“As a progressive……” That word is as tainted today as “patriot.”

Platner is now on video denying the 2016 and 2020 democratic primaries as fair. He has got to go. This is insulting. x.com/lisatalmadge...

The group who thinks Israel's defenders are labeling everything under the sun "antisemitism" is significantly smaller than the group who were maybe latently antisemitic b4 but now feel emboldened by the open climate of hostility. Ppl won't even admit drawing a swastika on a shul is antisemitic now

I’m amazed at how often the “she was asking for it” rationale is used here

data centres are bad, which is why I use the cloud instead

Is it their goal to fracture the coalition of Democratic voters every presidential primary? Because their candidates can’t win.

"You should like Dems and want them to win" is a surprisingly contentious position to hold on this site once you get into particulars.

Maybe we do a bit of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle here and promote buying used instead. Kind of tired of our economy being run by car sales, insurance, and pervasive car advertising.

I'll just leave this here. It's another betrayal for the families of trans youth who called her out for years over her reporting. She misled them and used their stories for her professional gain. And it worked. She was promoted and is now a Pulitzer finalist. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Well, the politically impetuous idiots were pissy that Biden "didn't go far enough" with his loan forgiveness plan (without a supermajority trifecta). How's this? Is it far enough for you? Dumb fucks.

Dude, the google is free. kamalaharris.medium.com/my-plan-for-...

The Pod Bros have been trying to ally with the insurgent left since 2017 and keep on not being allowed to. They're not really centrists mostly. The real divide is Gender.

We included the word “Israel” in our podcast description, referring to a discussion of biblical history (granted this is in our soccer podcast, but, you know, it’s how we roll) and it got back to us that a listener was “disappointed” in us and it made them want to stop listening.

So tired of politicians erasing the Biden administration and the Harris platform.

She means a white one.

This! Too many people see politics as a parasocial activity and voting as part of a transactional relationship between voter and candidate, imagining the candidate as a performer who might, if they make the voter feel good enough, win the voter’s patronage. No. We’re citizens doing our civic duty.

JFC - he’s as delusional and bitter as Trump. That’s what you get with a narcissist who spews white grievance populism.

"Sure, he gets harassed daily including by people who have since gone on to actually murder people they said they were going to murder, but he's cringe or whatever and therefore not sympathetic." Just fucking say you can't be bothered to sympathize with people you don't personally like, jfc.

There’s a strong enough appetite for a gruff aesthetic among young D-aligned professionals dissatisfied with party leadership that they’re willing to overlook deeply flawed character. Whether he wins or loses, the choice is virtually guaranteed to leave us all worse off.

I've watched progressives and leftists throw away their supposed moral superiority/high ground out the window all for this mediocre white dude failson from one of the whitest states in the US... ...when *none* of them were willing to do that when it involved Keeping Trump Out of Office.

I just don't know where the confidence of "the Nazi edgelord who tries to gaslight people about his Nazi tattoo by calling them the r-word will totally line up and be a good Dem in the Senate" comes from. And in exchange for this confidence, we lose so much of our basic principles. *sigh*

Hey, remember us talking the Fight Agency a few months back? 👇 Guess who the Steyer campaign has paid almost $2 million to as of December 2025, undoubtedly much more by now? 👇 As I said, these Bernie alumni are raking in the 💵 because of the cult they helped create with him.

"Establishment dems" just means ACTUAL Democrats, not the cosplaying fraudulent liars that you trash are. Too lazy and unpopular to form your own coalition to challenge the major parties, the far left and far right decided to just LIE about being Dems and GOP to STEAL the parties they couldn't form!

This is my main concern. The impact on the party image and other races now and in the near future. Republicans are allowed to be hypocrites. It’s a power flex. Dems don’t get this kind of allowance. Quite the opposite in fact.

I find it offensive that in order to be recognized as “working class” candidate now you have to wear old jeans and/or shorts with a t-shirt, sweatshirt or hoodie. They act like “working class” people don’t dress when going out around others.

“There are moments when politics tests whether our principles are real. Graham Platner’s tattoo is one of them. Democrats cannot ask Americans to take extremism seriously while asking Jews to look away when Nazi imagery appears on our own side. No victory is worth that.” @Joe_Roberts01 Link ⬇️

Yes. Jon Stewart is an elitist misogynist. Bernie has been selling a huge lie for decades, that class not race, is the real division in America. That lie flatly died on 4/29. You seem to have a very white centric view of politics. You hope for the best with a nazi, I’ll stick with moral standards.

Platner's radioactive, and Dems running for office should keep their distance. Maybe there's a wave and he gets in but why take the chance of being in the proximity of whatever idiocy from his past (or present, for that matter) he'll be busy defending himself against?

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog. 1/20

Once he gets some real scrutiny we may just see that “hate and anger start to well up” again.

Just thinking of this for no reason at all.

My theory behind this Stancil stuff is a whole bunch of people got mad at him because he was effective at things they claimed to be doing (usually badly) and now they've made it their goal to discredit him in order to claim that everything he did was, in fact, not actually effective or good.

Platner and Trump both: Make false populist promises to voters Center the white working class Have patterns of lying Promote toxic masculinity Speak derogatorily about racial minorities Blame rape survivors Use the R-word Have long patterns of voting Republican Lead voter cults