God damn I always forget just how ugly she is

It’s hard to feel bad, like I was 12. On retrospect though, sheesh, what a time.

Yes.

Wish we could, bud; none of them are up for reelection.

Yeah. That “seem” is doing some heavy lifting.

Yeah. Let’s be clear here, Schumer leads like an Applebee’s store manager: He gets point-by-point instructions from corporate. Not a thought required.

Ikr? I was about to say, “and do what with it?”

Honestly, I am amenable to a different point, that by winning Democrats will learn nothing and just go back to “SEE?! WE’RE NOT HIM! That’s the only thing we have to do to win!”

I mean the Trump admin and their backers are pretty clearly oligarchic. I would argue that oligarchy is one of the later states of capitalism, but ultimately they don’t care about economic spending; they care about maintaining or further consolidating their monopolies and monopsonies. Amazon doesn’t care that their profits will fall, they care that they are the only middleman between America and the broader world, whether that be through goods or the internet. It doesn’t matter if their workers can’t afford their stuff; the goal is to be the only source, where their workers have no choice but to afford it. “That’s not how economies work!” OK nobody said these people were sane, just that this is what they think.

You got a source for that claim? Also by your logic slavery or monarchy got us where we are; just because something has historical relevance doesn’t make it good or acceptable in present or future society.

My bet is mask off. Deadass I think he thinks:

1. Mamdani isn’t a “real american”
2. Trump will deport him
3. I’ll get the mayorship by default

Cuomo is old, cooked, and has no morals to guide him through his failing mind. The perfect MAGA.

1. a tattoo of Hitler sucking dick would go hard,

2. THANK YOU. The thing no one will say: Platner just happens to be the only person running on a stated leftist platform (whether he means it or not) 8 months before the primary.

For the record I don’t think Platner is a Fetterman or a Sinema. I literally think he’s just a dumbass White Guy^tm.

My fanfic: Dude was in the marines, got a dumbass tattoo (I do believe him on that account), got out and went through some normal vet deep depression and joblessness which led to (as we see in right wingers all the time) a deep sense of nihilism about whether anything matters in life. He sees blackwater is hiring, nothing matters anyway, so he joins up, does his security detail or whatever (I also believe him on that), then fucks off back to Maine and dumps his blackwater money into a boat. Meets some people, made some friends, got through his depression, learned what his fucking tattoo was but thought (like a White Guy^tm) “Hey, I received no pushback, maybe it can just mean something else to me, like a redemptive monument to my stupidity.” Dude sees Maine sucks, George Floyd radicalized him some, then Biden did his Biden things, then Trump won. Dude with all the unearned confidence of a white man says “this is fucked up; I’m gonna run for Senate.” And here we are.

At every level, I think Platner has an idea of leftism he does hold dear. Those ideas are usually off-base nonsense when put together (look at his platform on the military), but are held together by sheer lack of self reflection mixed with the most average White Guy^tm self confidence. I don’t think he’s going to shave his goatee into a toothbrush mustache as soon as he wins. I just think he’s kinda fuckin stupid and in a sane world would sit down and just be stupid in the life he built. I think that we have 8 months for anyone in Maine to step up with a remotely leftist platform, and if they do and it displays even an iota of coherent thought, then they should get all the support Platner is getting now. I think if they don’t, then people should go Platner. I don’t get why everyone is rushing to circle wagons and defend him like a god damn hero immediately, though, and it’s honestly disheartening to see. Like I thought we were all lefties because we kept it real, yk?

I legit do not understand. Like even if someone believed it was an honest mistake, why can’t people even admit that it’s bad and SHOULD be disqualifying in a sane world? Like, you can say he’s still better than Mills; I agree. But Jesus Christ in any other race, bro, what the fuck.

We need to speak more about how there has been a large far-right push to identify as “Catholic converts.”

I mean my contention isn’t that he didn’t know what it was, it’s that you gotta be kidding me that he didn’t learn what it was in the 20 years since. I don’t give a shit about his reddit history; if anything its just kinda affable to me. Hell, I’d be willing to even take the tattoo at “I learned what it was at a really dark time in my life, and I just haven’t confronted the tattoo itself, even if I conquered the ideologies that led to both its creation and its application to my body.” Like obviously military service is its own alt-right pipeline. But like, bro, you got the super non-pirate skull and crossbones across your tit, bro, what are you doing?

Like I’m not even saying don’t vote for him, deadass I’d still take his dumb ass over some Zionist shill 8 days a week. But, can nobody just call a spade a spade?

Mmm, intelligence is a broad, multifaceted descriptor that as defined rarely describes the full tapestry of a person’s skills. I can still very safely say that in most cases though, Trump is an absolute dumbfuck. He just happens to be smart when it comes to convincing other dumbfucks of his dumb shit.

Dawg Republicans are still up 7% favorability across the country, 34.7% to 41.5%. Like fuck Trump but come on, stop and look at the fuckin party. Half the dem seats in the senate up for reelection are in states Trump won; meanwhile all Republican senate seats up for reelection are safe, save Maine. You can’t see Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani out here and attribute their popularity to the rest of the party, like Jesus Christ the Democratic party needs reform.

Why would they care? Look, setting aside concerns about dem chances in 2026, or concerns about if the election is even certified if dems win, what would dems do? Oooh, subpoena, so scary. When have republicans ever given a shit? Furthermore when have dems ever actually held these criminals to actual criminal account?

It is cool, but I would hazard anyone excited about this to note that they are by and large dropping AIPAC funding just for J-Street funding. Liberal Zionism is still Zionist, and even if J-Street is nominally critical of Bibi, they still couch the ongoing genocide in dismissive language, to say nothing of their ongoing support of Israel continuing as an apartheid ethnostate.

Let’s goooooo