Wait, wait a minute. I thought he had FOUR kids.

I'm sorry, I legit do not understand why so many people have made Platner this martyr figure for progressivism when he is, by all accounts, just a dude with no political experience or history of activism who also seems deeply shitty and will likely lose?

Malcolm realized now that he’d misunderstood what his friend had meant when he told him there’d be a ton of trash at the Kid Rock show.

Yeah, that's not even the real issue, dipshits. The issue is lying about not knowing what it was AND spending years bragging about it.

This debate has never been about Platner as much as as whose dehumanization we will tolerate within the Democratic Party and our democracy. So far, his supporters have told us Jews, Iraqis, Afghans, wounded vets, rape & IPV survivors and women generally only count as people when useful to them.

he still sees himself as American. Despite everything, EVERYTHING, this government and this nation did to him, he sees the strangers and neighbors who rallied to his side because it was RIGHT, and he chooses to believe in that America. He looks at America and sees HOME.

My inner chaos goblin is living for Hunter Biden's Out Of Fucks-itude rn but I also hope he's still okay and isn't about to relapse.

Economists are the same thing as astrologers, I will not be explaining myself.

Remember when it became clear in his first term that he believed stealth fighters were actually literally invisible? I think he may have a similar misunderstanding about “concealer.”

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

I was writing 20 page papers for other people's classes. 🤷‍♀️

A massive Leatherback sea turtle was spotted near the Gulfstream yesterday, reminding us of the wonders of marine life. Nature never ceases to amaze us.

I think this might be out to Parson's now.

He's mush-mouthed/slurring again. And what's with how he's pronouncing "industry?"

I mean, they “put in writing” what Blanche told Congress, asking the court to take judicial notice of a YouTube clip.

What's with the super baggy jacket and...whatever the hell is happening to his face?

He's sitting down? O_o

Even saying he can’t explain it is a lie. He *can* explain it, it’s just that doing so would require admitting he’d been lying all along.

Suggesting that a shadowy cabal of Israel supporters are the reason drunk-women-are-asking-for-it Nazi tattoo guy is accused of abuse is a highly embarrassing combination of wishful thinking, misogyny, and antisemitism

It was removed for being a troll post but if it was actually legit, fuck this guy forever.

I hope the victim’s family bankrupts this poster www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic...

We all know that ballroom is going to immediately start sinking and the foundation is going to crack within a year, right?

do i think most developers are this kind of rat bastard? no. but trump is and he always has been, his entire miserable life.

this is an extremely textbook scumlord developer move — initiate construction quickly because the courts move slowly, then claim it’s too late to stop because you’ve already started. the court should tell them to eat shit.

...wow.

The leaked phone call to Hunter is genuinely one of the most moving things I’ve ever heard. And to this day, people left, right and center still smear this man.

Joe Biden was regularly attacked for refusing to distance himself from his son and continuing to love him through very bad circumstances. That unconditional love was presumably a very big reason why his son made it through and appears to be doing well. I’m appreciative of the example Joe set for us.

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it’s good that they made Al franken resign

Anyone know what the "burned by T***p" thing is referring to? It's not in the article.

I remember thinking the same things about Bernie. Bottom line is: leftists/Berniebros are children, and children want to be lied to. They like being told they're the specialist, the most misunderstood. They like being told they're owed something. They like being told they're getting a pony.

Another for the “Platner is bringing out the worst in his defenders” files.

Daaaaaaamn.

The Platner thing is truly a divining rod for finding the worst men.

A genuinely bad person.

I hate the ritual of the political apology. It's pretty much never accompanied by any work to atone or alter behavior. It's just a ritual mouthing of words and it's pretty worthless.

Anyhow. If you're ever watching M*A*S*H and they mention a monetary amount, you can just as a zero to the end of it and get in the ballpark of what that's worth now. (Canonically, Hawkeye was making about $4K a week.)

I could effin SCREAM! According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (9), $100 in 2026 had the same purchasing power as just $11.74 did in 1970.

I...kinda thought this was some level of hyperbole, but:

His perpetual smile is really creepy.

A fun thing I like to do is check the timeline of anyone saying some variation of "if you don't live in Maine you shouldn't speak on this!" to count the number of posts they made about the NYC mayoral, CA governor, VA redistricting, TX primary, IL primary, NJ governor, etc.

Roadblocks can be driven through. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I'm going to consider the amount of mail Andy Harris sends me this summer as a midterm bellwether.

JFC, 4.5% effective decline in wages! Now that's a number people will feel

For a third, the more "lie and deflect your way through" becomes a path to success for people with these types of skeletons in their closet, the more of them you'll have running and winning. That's the exact process that happened on the right; it'll happen on the left too.

There are no whataboutisms, minimization efforts or excuses that work here. This is not a do or die situation. This is a PRIMARY. This is exactly the time that a garbage candidate is thrown in the dumpster where he belongs, not embraced as better than who they'd face in November.

We should understand that the demonstrated poor judgment, disregard of the law and basic principles of how to engage with other human beings, especially those with whom you are intimately connected, should not be ignored when someone is asking us to trust and empower them.