Another former girlfriend tells CNN US Senate candidate Graham Platner was violent with her, allegations that he denies https://cnn.it/44PFmtb

Argentina vs Switzerland: The Battle for Nazi Gold

Maine local news tonight: literally no one is defending Platner. One story on whether sexual assault charges will be brought against him. Every prominent Democrat is the state is telling him to hurry up & drop out already. Only question seems to be when Platner accepts it's over.

all those words are in the Bible. unfortunately, it's in the book of revelations

Mitch McConnell is just out of frame also having the time of his life

When I spent the first six months of this year fishing for jobs on Indeed, one thing that I would periodically run across was Indeed sending me paid advertisements for ICE postings. I think this is the only position I said “Hell no” to faster than those.

Both OG Yoon and Putin's Yooning happening during the covid lockdowns is my default example "right wing covid radicalization/brainworms was/is a global thing, not just America or the Anglosphere"

You have never experienced Vance’s Kirkified Yoon-ing until you have read it in the original Klingon

To translate: Vice President Vance, like disgraced former Korean President Yoon, has had his brain poisoned by spending too much of his time consuming insane content on the Internet.

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

I've been calling it "dark matter rizz", cause I sure as hell can't see it myself, but the actions of others don't make sense if it isn't there.

I’ll bet Paxton traveled to Iceland with his girlfriend to eat puffins.

"There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh like grill marks on a meat slab would be such a terrible candidate for Senate."

JD Vance will be wearing this around his neck in the ninth bolgia of Hell

yes, its called the oval office dining room

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

"Did you make that image for the anti-communist club fundraising email?" "Sure did, boss, and made sure to use red, too!"

So by actual traditional Catholic reckoning the sin of despair is a variety of pride by which you believe your sins make you way too special for God to ever forgive you, not the all-consuming fear that you’re a malicious loser. But he’s almost becoming self-aware, I guess.

"Vance got Yooned by Kirkification" You bolt awake at 20,000 feet above the island of Tarawa. You are not online. It is November 23, 1943. You are flying a Hellcat watching a parade formation of 20 zeroes fly by, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. They must be shot down.

Ken Paxton with his mistress looking not guilty at all. So he’s a cheater and a moron.

I realize by virtue of having an advanced degree (and also, apparently, by virtue of not having abused anyone, I guess?) I don't count as the 'real Americans' who want "real human beings" here...but I really just want men and women of character and principle. I'd rather a good man than a smart one.

I actually already drafted this week's fireside about the 'chud theory of history' but I almost want to go back and insert that quote in particular. The chuds want things that 'feel' ancient or medieval, but which also tell them they are Very Special and that fascism is good, actually.

In practice, the actual real deep tradition these guys claim to cling to is beyond them: it is old and alien and they *really* do not like encountering it because it does not fit neatly into their very modern ideology nor make them feel like Very Special Boys whose feelings should be coddled.

This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to the Battle of Hastings approaches one. That's Godwinson's law.

he should drop

ultimately that is why i don’t think Vance has the juice. beneath everything he is a, sad, vain coward

and besides being nothing but lost cause cliches, these are the words of a coward who can’t bring himself to say anything of real substance or conviction for fear of alienating the wrong people.

The Houston Chronicle, largest newspaper in Houston endorse James Talarico! 👏 Writing, “Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot’… Paxton’s documented deeds prove he’s a man of low character, lacking integrity. An extremely very poor candidate for an even more powerful political office.

Trump broke the Knicks playoff win streak and got them their only loss of the finals. Now he’s ruined the UNMNT World Cup run—likable team, plays hard, had a good showing, not their fault—managing to get the whole world to root against the United States.

This sounds like the greatest afternoon ever. "These are the otters. They're heavily invested in crypto and mortal enemies of the giraffes who, as I'm sure you know, are dedicated Maoists."

And also this is Trump’s fault. Getting involved in the red card drama and then gloating about it. Cursed the team. Remember the only game Knicks lost in the playoffs was the one Trump attended.

I mean, in practice the actual way you do this vetting is you make him run for a state-wide office first. Or a House seat. Instead both parties keep displaying why 'outsider' candidates are generally enormous risks.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Operation Own the Libs but from the left running into significant problems on account of the normie libs being right

My god. I don’t think Platner’s parents were born when Dorothy Thompson nuked him from orbit.

The thing is that all the revelations about Graham Planter fit together into a single coherent story. Basically, he's Mr. D. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Fuck Graham Platner. How many women is he going to smear?

A monster. A rapist.

Still amazes me how many Dems lined up behind this guy thinking he was their magic (pretend) hick to defeat Susan Collins with.

The story is absolutely disgusting but the campaign response should honestly be the end of the careers of everyone involved

In awe of the enormous courage of the woman coming forward knowing it will just really fuck up her life as well as the monumental arrogance of platner running in the first place knowing the shit he's done

"Haven't seen Belgium misread the situation so badly since the lead up to World War II"

“Wait, why is Belgium taking so long to get on the field?” “Well, they never could pick a side.”

”oof, this Belgium defense is disappearing from the map just like Burgundy”

“Belgium really showing what they look like without the English backing up their defense.”

'Belgian taking a time-out here like they're a monarch trying to reconcile his Catholic conscience with his constitutional duty.'

'Belgium simply not playing as a unified team here, presumably thanks to the long-standing impact of the country's linguistic division'

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'