Thank you. Your concise timeline really makes the story clear. He's sort of a case study in "the death of expertise," isn't he? He chronically can't get his shit together, and can't really finish things that he starts. He has no experience in government, and not even a college degree. And yet...

Yes. This seems to be the timeline: 1999 - starts Hotchkiss, leaves soon (maybe mid-year) Spr 2003 - graduates John Bapst, enrolls Marines. Iraq 2x 2007 - gets totenkopf tattoo 2008 - leaves Marines, enrolls GWU 2009 - leaves GWU, enrolls MD Natl. Guard 2010 - Afghanistan with MD Natl. Guard 1/3

So Tizzy ent is caping HARD for that Oyster Dude. Despite the Nazi tattoo? Hmmm.

past Platner's problems, which are many, another scandal is that he's a wholly manufactured candidate being pushed by political consultants and professional influencer companies x.com/_AmandaKerri...

Remember the golden rule of bluesky shitposting: when a Democrat does something you approve of, theyre just acting on their own accord separate from the party. When a Democrat does something you disapprove of, they are representative of the uniform view of the party writ large

because populism is bad the only thing that's real to populists is grievance, everything else is a prop and on a long enough timeline, they destroy the very causes they allegedly champion

White grievance populism has its fans on the Right and the Left. It’s the same patriarchal white supremacy but this flavor promises unicorns for all.

Leftist writers are all such cheap dates, any white man who says fuck a few times becomes a populist vanguard of the people’s revolution.

In any scenario, a sizable chunk of housing will have to be owned by non-occupants (just given the nature of people needing temporary housing solutions throughout their lives.) Whether that's mom and pop, corporations, or the government doesn't really change the primary issue (shortage of housing.)

Representative Underwood is the hardest working, most productive member of Congress. Thank you, ma'am, we appreciate you so much! ❤️

This is a point that many who should know better continue to ignore. We see news media & their coverage treated like an algorithim that Ds can juke instead of the end result of a series of choices made by ppl w their own biases & agendas. "Just Message Better" doesnt help when the medium is hostile

Up that white man's ass so far and have the nerve to call us Blue Maga? I've been with my husband for 25 years, and have never jerked him as hard as they do that man🙄

I’m sure it’s fine that the guy that’s still promoting the Nazi tattoo guy is also a big Trump secures the border guy. It’s fine that he’s the one 80 yr old that’s we agree can stay on the job forever. This is all good.

"The left" needs to move on from Bernie. He's an old crank, fully adopting Trump's framing of immigration. I hope AOC doesn't use this kind of trump framing on immigration.

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

average angry Bluesky user: "Dems need to do [whatever p.r. stunt is en vogue at the moment], if they don't they are WORSE THAN USELESS!" *Dems did the thing two days ago / do the thing they want within hours of skeet* Bluesky user: "THROW THEM ALL OUT THEY DO NOTHING THEY'RE ALL COLLABORATORS"

Yeah well the replies are already nitpicking details. It’ll continue from there and the net effect of this post will be more Dem bashing as “debate”. More cynicism.

A dynamic that happens frequently is that Ds actually do exactly the sort of made for media type stunts that ppl on here demand they do & claim will be a silver bullet but they dont magically reorient media coverage bc--surprise!--news media has its own agency too & arent aligned towards D interests

If I was the editor of a major publication I would just publish something instead of waiting for Dems to do it first:

There's no information on where this fuckin guy came from. The most out there is "he was recruited by local activists", he then starts a campaign and 10 days later Bernie is dragging him on stage.

Elite billionaires are buying a ballroom bribing the president of the United States and people whose entire political personality and belief system was against elite billionaires bribing people apparently don't care because they don't want to care about the same thing that the "cringe libs" do.

Seeing a lot of posts today complaining that Dems aren’t talking about things they talk about every day, posts complaining that Dems don’t try to make political theater when a D senator gave a 22-hour floor speech a day ago. I want to ask these people why they don’t know what Dems are saying/doing.

Posting this for my daughter, missing 2 checks as a G-7 and member of the Guard. This shit is untenable!

We are having to pay my husband’s son’s mortgage and groceries. He’s been enlisted for 17 yrs.

Several replies and reposts demonstrate the fecklessness of the so-called resistance. Lots of "someone (else) do this", or "someone (else) should start a Kickstarter for this". Always someone else. Never the people constantly criticizing the Dem party and screaming Do Something!!

This is an example of a proposal for a political ad that would utterly fail because the ad designer vastly overestimates the knowledge and intelligence of the typical tv audience.

I love that he call them rats. Traitors, cowards, and rats. 💯 Oh and also soon to be on the same list once they’ve served their purpose 🤡

It’s time to start Halloweenmaxxing

firm in my conclusion that if the progressive, WOC senator from California wasn't progressive enough for a person, that might be a *them* problem.

I think it's easier to just be anti-establishment than to actually maintain coherent leftist politics

My main source of hope that enough people will turn against Trump is that they are selfish and child-like. They only know what they want at any given moment. So there *is* an inflection point where change can happen. I just worry we're quite far away from that point, thanks to our info environment

For these people, Nazis > "the establishment". That's all there is to it.

Love a guy pulling out progressively larger red flags like a clown as a Senator, honestly extremely American

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

It means that nominal progressives have adopted the cretinous bully-boy “you’re wimps and weaklings” narrative of the new right

The Platner fiasco is symptomatic of the desperate rush to find quick fixes with “outsiders” rather than build a movement that develops candidates who build trust with people over time through shared struggle. Yes, times are desperate. But a dude with a Nazi tattoo isn’t the way to stop fascism.

The key thing in all of this shitty style of political fan fiction is that actual voters are never really centered. Voters havent chosen any candidate yet! This is all just news media elites deciding what the narratives are and moving pieces around on a board to keep their game w each other going.

If you’re a Democrat using the word “establishment”, you’re online too much and not enough touching of grass….propaganda brain 🫤

There’s this idea that “establishment” means “centrist.” But these are the same Dems who fight hardest against gun violence and are fighting back against ICE the hardest. The same Dems who call out gerrymandering whenever possible and 2/

Look Paul McCartney tours stadiums at 82, and plays five different instruments while doing it Getting real sick of gerontocracy bullshit. Some people are sick and ill at 82, and some people are sharp as a tack.

It really is a mask off moment for the left that supporting racism, genocide, rape, working as a merc, and having a nazi tattoo is less of a red flag than being old and listening to your constituents on the filibuster. There is no redemption arc here for him OR his supporters.

From the people who still haven't forgiven Hillary Clinton for being a Goldwater Girl when she was a high school student in the early 1960s.

Just got a text from a multimillionaire complaining about about the scourge of multimillionaires 🧐

Your first clue of a problematic persom is they are running against the party they are trying to be in. That's a red flag from the jump. Please start including Black voices in your followers. Especially Black women. Try it out

The "Democrats should" brigade 😂 🤡

... arguably *the* most fundamental change to the political environment of rural people -- the complete & utter swallowing of rural regions by right-wing media -- is surely "important," but they couldn't measure it, so, eh. Oh well. Nevertheless. 🫠

There is no way to know from the headline that he was shot by an ICE agent.

Rightist honestly switches parties, changes, admits wrongdoing: "Doesn't matter! You aren't contrite enough for your past! We will never accept you! Liberal whitewashing! " "Leftist" candidate is racist with Nazi tattoo: "Ugh, liberal censoriousness in action, purity testing, cry more libs!"

So just to recap, Kamala Harris forming a pragmatic alliance with Liz Cheney is proof that she’s a right-wing warmonger, but Platner having a Nazi tattoo is no big deal?

has anyone come up with "it's classist to expect Platner to have gotten his tattoo removed" yet? bsky feels ripe for this take