Here’s an article I had published today at UnHerd on the latest upsurge of consternation around Graham Platner, who I suppose is on the verge of becoming, or has already become, something like a new household name for anyone minimally attuned to US political affairs.
You're slowly but relentlessly becoming one of my [teeny handful of] favorite Substackers.
Re the attacks on Platner--who does seem though like a guy who develops a really skeezy smell when he sweats too much--Lynsey Fifield seems like a gal entirely deficient in survival instincts or alternatively is a terrible fiction writer.
Anyway it's hard to get too outraged by the Democrats cleaving to Platner in an almost Biblical sort of betrothal. If I were in Texas I'd vote for Paxton to do my part in thwarting potential Democratic take-back of the Senate and that would bring my whoring out of my integrity for the sake of the nation to new heights [depths?] of self-besmirchment and I ain't even a Republican.
I actually think the Democrats are trying to knockout Platner so the geriatric Janet Mills can join the other octogenarians in the congressional cafeteria for soup every Thursday- rumor has it that her presence will precipitate the inclusion of lobster bisque on the regular menu
"The Democrats" in Maine are the ones who gave him an insurmountable lead in the primary. Meaning, Democratic voters and allied legislators/groups. I'm not sure what collection of individuals or entities called "the Democrats" could conceivably "knock out" Platner at this point -- as in, compel him to voluntarily end his candidacy.
Yeah, I'm sure that would probably be the preference of Chuck Schumer and other Dems in Congressional leadership positions. But I'm not sure how that preference could conceivably translate into tangible action at this point. They already fielded a preferred primary candidate against Platner, and she sputtered out.
Two things -Mills is still on the ballot and theoretically could win if Platner was knocked off by scandal (unlikely) or Schumer might prefer Collins in the general election due to support for Israel…
Honestly- I just try to make sense of what I take in. You are much more in touch with the politicos. My “read” tells me that parties don’t run the country, interests do.
Nah. He hates those Jap gooks. His oysters are dredged from Baba Yar. You won't find any pearls in them but you might find a gold filling his Azov idol, Bandera, missed. If the fucker isn't wearing it on a chain with his Iron Cross and swastika pendants.
The guy is an amalgamation of every rotten trait humanity has to be ashamed of. But that would require a conscience. And so would his supporters.
I'm starting to believe Darwin was on to something . It took millennia for humanity to peak and empirical science, ie gravity proves it takes much less time to descend. At the rate we're picking up speed.. snowballing.. it won't be much longer before we hit rock bottom.
We should not be so dainty. Politics isn't a gentlemen's club. It's war, and if you don't win you lose. Our Plague Era taught me that real good.
The Democrats are being as honest as they can be, with Platner. If I lived in Texas I'd vote for Paxton without blinking and I think the guy is as scumbaggy as they come.
Good people don't go into politics. They don't have the genes for it.
I feel the same dichotomy - Paxton may be a sleazy slime bucket but, on the balance (in my transactional spirit) is better than Cornryn and has shown an affinity for my political wishes. How low will I go? I guess that’s another way of saying “how bad does it need to get”?
I voted for Trump for the first and presumably only time in 2024 in the hope that he'd destroy both parties, and in that regard things are progressing quite nicely.
How have the Democratic or Republican parties been "destroyed" since 2024? Is there a viable third party emerging on the scene that I must have missed? Both parties have just as much of an iron-clad grip at the state, local, and federal level as they ever have. The idea that voting for a Republican presidential nominee would somehow dislodge the power of either major party was always fanciful nonsense.
Now, Michael. My cup fully ranneth over when PA was called and Kamala's concession appearance gave me as much enjoyment as Hillary's had, though I couldn't take no credit for beating her since I was still in my dainty stage in 2016 (and 2020 too).
No, there's no third party and never will be. Our system ain't built like that. But independents are slowly becoming a majority of the voting public and the parties must woo us with as many convincing lies as they can.
You're certainly correct about the feeder streams, and those, as well as everything else, are solidly on us, the voters, and the people we elect are unfortunately just the same as us. Because, of course, they are us.
Ironic, isn't it? I was hoping Trump would ditch Pence in the 2018 midterms, flip Independent and open the Party to a pragmatic, Constitutional, non hyperideological , pro-America entity that would expose the endemic corruption and withdraw from the UN , shut down all the NGOs, " advocacies", religious orgs, think tanks ,CIA, replace the FBI with US Marshals and shutdown 2/3 of the agencies/Federal government, campaign finance , foreign dollars,bust CAIR Catholic Charities, Code Pink, Open Society, Al Aqsa, etc and string up the bastards left and right for commission of treason, sedition, extortion, embezzlement, fraud, coercion , perjury, falsification.. murder, murder for hire..and every other crime in the book. We got nothing .. aside from extremism, sloth, slush funds and closer to the Post 1984 Brave New World... and virulent antisemitism as the new normal.
We got plenty but when the stables have been filling up with manure for a century it takes a generation to clean things up even minimally. The GOP Congress is hoping to outlast Trump and every time one o' their boys loses they hate Trump even harder.
I answered your question extensively and in detail. what the eff do you want from me ? Self flagellation? Public stoning? Conversion to Islamism? or should I just for full on Oedipus and gouge me eyes out?
I’ll simplify where I stand in verbiage for dummies-
I no longer care. Our entire system is corrupt , where there was once a stable societal mass spanning center left to center right, including Independents is now a gaping hole flanked by 2 polar extremes. With a miraculous act of Divine intervention, both extremes will fall into the sea before the gaping hole becomes a vortex and sucks us all into it.
But that’s outside my purview.
Now I get to ask a question. While you’re up in your skis about Project 2025 ( we’re halfway into 2026- nothing has come to fruition), have you given any thought to UN Agenda 2030/WEF Great Reset? The now Post 1984 Brave New World Orwell and Huxley prophesied. Or are you on the Israel Insanity Iditarod when you're not sliding on thin ice?
This is all distraction, but given the option
I’ll go the Quentin and SGA route with a caveat
Both options are grotesque and reptilian. But the Heritage Project are a smattering of iguanas and Agenda 2030 is a permanent infestation of anacondas, water moccasins and pit vipers.
The iguanas look daunting but they haul ass at the sound of a footstep
The snakes look terrifying are deadly and they don't retreat. They strike.
So I’ll opt for the Heritage project with a limitless provision of Soma.
And if you’re referring to Kevin Roberts, he can effectively himself.Just one more reason not to trust politics /religion. The more proclamations of how devout one is to either or both, the more hypocritical. intolerant and antithetical to whatever dogma they’re pushing.
Yes, I have and I hate it. Religion and Federal Government are two worlds on a collision course,
Much of the outline is sensible, but Heritage crosses the line too frequently. And so does Vance, who wrote the preface.Not a fan. The more the right pushes the agenda, the more the Islamist left pushes back
Apparently , I haven’t made clear that I can’t stand either party, I’m a registered Independent, do not subscribe to any religious sect, lean deist, I’m a civil libertarian and given my druthers, Pat Moynihan and Goldwater would have been a great path forward as a ticket an honest Dem and Rep who resisted corruption, gave a shit about America and the America people, adhered to the Constitution , wanted the UN,Trilats,WEF,CFR,CIA,Dept of Ed, FBI abolished w/The FBi replaced by US Marshals, removed from DC and spread out throughout the country where they wouldn’t be able to act as a lawless, unaccountable blob.Both were pro-choice, Separation of Church and State, anti NATO build up , hated Carter, Brezinzski, Kissinger,Rockefeller, Falwell,McCain,weren’t terribly enamored with Reagan, Moynihan hated Hillary, Gore , Panetta
Both were smeared and got screwed
I’m also becoming convinced Nixon was set up.
The Heritage Foundation is very strange, TPUSA became bizarre… bottom line ,
My Hindu son in law’s mom describes this devolutionary civilizational plummet as a “Kali Yuga”. Hard to explain. If you’re curious, it’s very interesting. And frightening because it’s very Huxleyan and he hasn’t been wrong yet.
Reads like the opening to a Rodney Dangerfield joke-
" So bad that bamboo splints shoved under my fingernails feels good"
" So bad that a Trump Watch, Trump Special Edition MAGA Hat,Trump Gold High Tops, a Trump Baseball Card , a front row seat at the White House Day of Prayer and a Lee Greenwood Bible would be the most cherished lifecycle celebration gifts I could ever hope to receive. The only thing that could make even better is a trip to Gitmo for a waterboarding session"
I think about that all the time. " Well, at least he/she isn't as awful as he/she. What does that say about us/we?
The Troglopublidytes would rather a " Pro-life" unelectable liar, cheater or do nothing than a bright, youthful, culturally in touch, pragmatic, attractive, talented idea person with crossover appeal who doesn't want a speculum shoved into her uterus lest she terminates a rapist's zygote. How many abortions would you guess Paxton, Gaetz, Gonzalez, John Roberts, Mastriano, Cheney, Bush, Burr, Kemp, Don Jr, Trump, Falwell Jr,Bannon,Cucker, McCaul,Corker, Flake, et al have paid for? How many abortions do you think Noem, MTG, Boboert, Haley, Mace,Hyde-Smith, Bondi, Ernst,Luna , Troye, Cindy McCain have had ? I don't really care, but they're all full of shit.
They HATE us! They hate humanity and all things living.
We allowed this to happen. We became complacent, distracted. entertained to moral entropy and casual nihilism
All those terrible episodes past and present couldn't happen here, right? 9/11 sounds vaguely familiar. Covid what? Oh yeah. Came and went. Marxist Islamism? A trend. It will pass. Death to the Jews? Not my problem.Im not one of them. Death To America? Yeah , right ,As if.
The Squad? BFD. Four dumbasses.
Graham Platner? Who cares , like Maine matters. Mandami? He'll be gone by the next election. Hasan Piker? Douchebag. Kinda funny how everybody's wigging out.
Minnesota?Really? Like a bunch of Somalis are the boogeymen. Where the fuck is Somalia, anyhow? What a bunch of racist clowns shitting bricks about some third world shoplifters. Check your privilege, losers.
BTW. Tucker,Candace,Megyn,MTG Massie ,Kent ,Bannon and Fuentes are right about everything. The Zionists are genocidal apartheid murderous demons who control the world. The IRGC,Hamas,Hezbollah Houthis,Al Qaeda are just political parties , 10/7 was a lie, Churchill was a Jew and he was responsible for WWII, the Nazis were the victims and the Iranians protesters were really Mossad ops and nobody was killed aside from the kindly Ayatollah and his gentle fellow worshippers.
The Pakistanis in the UK are good people. Just like Christians. The spoiled white UK citizens are racist whining brats.
Brigitte Macron is a man.
And Tucker, Christian Theological historian taught me something today that I was so embarrassingly wrong about. Queen Esther apparently ordered the Christians to commit genocide of the Persians. but since they and the Persians shared an almost identical faith, the Christians refused. The Jews, however were more than willing and were eager to slaughter the Christians as well. But the King ( whose name Tucker was unaware of) protected the Christians and the Jews slaughtered all of the Persians.
Gee! Learn something new every day. I didn't know that the story of Esther was New Testament and Jesus had already been born and crucified 200 years prior to the Book of Esther in the New Testament. Or that the bloodthirsty Jews savagely slaughtered the entire Persian people. Or that Esther ordered the genocide, given that she was the Queen of Persia and her husband , Ahasueras aka Xerxes was the King.
Because it didn't happen. But Tucker, Christian to the core would swear to it . As he would that Islam had already been established when Jesus walked the Earth.
Tucker was there.With Candace. She was Joseph. Tucker was the Virgin Mary. Nick Fuentes was Jesus . He has returned.
Apparently, James Tallarico is right. God is nonbinary
I kinda remember this guy named Haman , a tyrant who headed the King's military lying to Ahasueras to gain permission to annihilate the Jews. The King didn't know that Esther was a Jew .She was orphaned and raised by her uncle.MordecaiMordechai had saved the King's life warning him of an assassination plot. Long story, Haman was hanged, the Jews won the battle, Esther told her husband she was a Jew. He didn't care, she was celebrated. And all this took place 500 years prior to the birth of Jesus and Christianity became a religion 200 years later. And the Book of Esther was written in the Old Testament.
This is the surreal reality we exist in. Where lies are the new truth and truths are lies.
Just like Agenda 2030/Great Reset is a conspiracy theory , even though published on a UN /WEF joint letterhead in explicit detail .
I don't disagree that signs of perpetual tumult in one's personal life could be indicative of some broader instability, mentally or otherwise, and this could reasonably be considered a legitimate liability for someone seeking high office. But if that's the real problem with Platner, why haven't his critics and opponents been raising it? (At least from what I've been able to glean.) Instead, we get emotionally overwrought tales of alleged "volatility" in his dating relationships from 10+ years ago, and asinine trolling about the "Nazi tattoo." If there's evidence that his current mental state should disqualify him from public office, OK -- let's see that evidence. Instead of hyperventilating about nonsense.
You think that's why the Dem establishment, and the NY Times etc are attacking him? None of those things would remotely matter if Platner was campaigning as a warmongering maniac. That's Freddie de Boer's point. See Clinton, Bill.
Oh, so you're taking a swipe at Freddie de Boer, without explaining that he's very conscious of his own mental struggles, and has done much to overcome them? Asshole.
I don't really care about Platner, or his tattoo. military people do all sorts of things; some stupid, some more stupid. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they rape and kill civilians.
What does concern me is ukrainian fascism. I've known enough Ukrainians. i have grown up with them. Not a lot, of course. Not enough for any proper RCT study. But enough to remember watching television at a friend's house and having his 60 year old mother turn to me, point at the screen, and say "You know Barbara Walters is a Jew, right?" I know that Himmler himself, in his journals, registered disgust with Bandera and his group's utterly debauched preference for wiping out entire towns of jews, poles, whoever, with hammers. Nothing like a hammer to the skull to expose the sickness of a jew's mind. If you find Roger griffin's attempt to actually define "Fascism" as a distinct political force (as opposed to the up until them default to the socialist's "capitalism on it's last legs" non-definition) then I think a case can easily be made for The Ukrainian Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, as the first real Fascist political movement. Fascism is not conservatism. It is a revolutionary movement, meant to be new, meant to bring re-birth and smother the wussy tenets of Liberalism and the enlightenment. When they erect a statuue honoring Bandera in the middle of town, they know what they are doing. They know what it means, what he meant, and what he wanted.
Believe me, you could get plenty of American Republicans these days to say plenty of "concerning" stuff that wouldn't sound all that much different. But... it also wouldn't be worth getting too bent out of shape about. I never understood how anti-Ukraine people could be 100% hair-trigger sensitive to any signs of "fascism" exhibited by Ukrainian elements, but also be eye-rollingly dismissive when extremely similar sentiments are expressed by right-wing factions elsewhere, including in the US. Almost no one is actually consistent on this stuff. Libs don't care when the Ukraine elements express it, but are inconsolably hysterical when Republicans do. Ukraine-skeptical right wingers act like they're profoundly offended by anything "fascistic" or "Nazi" when it comes to Ukraine, but steadfastly charitable when anything similar might pop up in the US.
This is bullshit man. The Nazi tattoo is clearly relevant when Platner, eg, went on Nate Cornacchia's podcast who thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk etc. The fact that people like Schumer are totally fine with this shows the Democrat Part is just rotten to the core. They'll gatekeep Bernie but not Platner. Strange! Also Platner pushes Epstein stuff, are you less concerned with that than Platner's sexual misconduct allegations?
I don't follow the logical progression. How exactly does the "Nazi tattoo" become relevant because he appeared on this podcast you apparently find objectionable? Would it not be relevant if he hadn't appeared on the podcast?
I'm saying that the evidence taken together tells you something further, that he's something of a nazi. You may not find that relevant for judging a senatorial candidate, but some people surely do.
Alright. You clam the evidence points to him being "something of a Nazi." I disagree. Enjoy getting worked into a lather over this imagined Nazi electoral threat. There are clearly lots of people eager to join you.
I think MT would’ve been fine if people went after GP politically for being a gullible epstein maximalist r-tard and a meatheady military loser. It’s the concocted fake controversies that is compelling him to put on his defense attorney hat on.
The Totenkopf, whether you like it or not, dates from the 18th century. Not everyone is constantly consulting the ADL "hate list", definitely not in 2007.
you're right he wasn't consulting the ADL when he got it; he was probably consulting a nazi tattoo artist. looks nothing like a jolly roger. Perhaps he could have just been keen on prussian military symbols though. suck my dick.
Mike, this is embarrassing. He absolutely knew what he was doing.
This self described "WW2 history fanatic" literally went to the only country in the EU at the time where getting a totenkopf tatoo was even legal (Croatia), and miracle of miracles, he started slaying mad white liberal pussy after he became the forbidden fruit.
You're normally smarter than this. I implore you to apply the same level of skepticism you have for the Epstein Files bullshit to Graham Platner. It's ok to admit the dude really is a dirtbag who tried to be the Edgelord Fetterman because he likes killing people (blackwater), money (his "disability" LOL, and his parents) and pussy (dude fucks, hat tip).
"literally went to the only country in the EU at the time where getting a totenkopf tatoo was even legal (Croatia)" -- citation needed. But even if he did theoretically go to Croatia for this bizarrely specific reason, wouldn't that also implicate the rest of his Marine unit, whom he went with? Are they all Nazi lovers, because they went to Croatia in 2007? Please.
Uh, isn't it legal literally everywhere in Europe except Germany and Austria? Maybe it's frowned upon elsewhere, who knows. Heck, Holocaust denial was legal all the way into the 1990s's and 2000's in most of Europe.
I certainly agree with everything you said here about the never-ending Nazi panics, "pedo" panics and National Enquirer-level moral character assassinations of any and all candidates. The issue with Platner is that he just repeats the exact same talking points as all of the biggest idiots in the "progressive"-political-podcast-slop-sphere, like Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski, without a single complicated or interesting idea about any single issue. Platner is this crew's latest "working class whisperer," when he's not working class, just another obnoxiously angry, downwardly mobile professional managerial class/blueblood failure who says the correct things, and dresses them up in a flannel shirt.
That Ball, Kulinski, and the army of adjacent podcasting morons — that seemingly lock up their talking points in daily morning text chains — excuse the behavior that they themselves go absolutely apeshit over is comedy. These are the same people who go apoplectic about Elon Musk's sperg-y wave, the Epstein mythology, Tara Reade, or any and all sensational or conspiratorial nonsense when it's emanating from outside their circle of drooling idiots.
I wish everyone could be thoughtful adults in our politics, but that's not where we are. Mega-idiot David Klion says Platner opponent Susan Collins is "one of the most evil people in public life" apparently because she seems to have unorthodox politics, and votes against her party as much as she votes with it. Brains in absentia types like Klion, Kulinski and Ball demand total fealty on every topic — see their former hero Fetterman being thrown to the wolves because he disagreed on Israel — and will hypocritically attack anyone for the same behavior they'll excuse in their cohort. Shouldn't people practicing politics in a principled manner, and who have ideas of their own be the goal?
Complicated and interesting is mostly absent, but there are a few somewhat pragmatic people out there staying away from partisan deathsport, bizarro revolutionary rhetoric for teenagers, and programmatic talking points they don't understand. We're not asking for much out here!
How about the claim that he is pulling fully disabled payments from the VA which means that he can't work but does with his profits going to his wife? And of course the admitted claim that he cheated multiple times on his wife within a year or two of being married?
He blames his poor decisions on his PTSD but if that is making him make poor decisions is he going to make good decisions in the stress of the Senate?
I like the fact that a normal guy is running for Senate instead of some Mitt Romney type and I too won't care too much if he wins. But I do think criticizing him for this kind of stuff is fair. On the other hand, I think his reaction to the criticism shows some courage that speaks in his favor.
I read this article earlier on Unherd. Delighted to see you on it. These women are crazy. Who can’t find something weird about ex boyfriends or ex=husbands for that matter? Platner may be an undesirable candidate but hopefully for more substantial reasons. Thanks. Kathryn from Brooklyn.
Golly Jeepers Michael, we should all just shrug our shoulders at this “Nazi” thing…… silly us, the ones who are repeatedly called Nazis by your good buddies on the Left.
When I was young, I was given a box of Nazi relics by my neighbor, who was a a front line soldier in WW2, and a prolific souvenir hunter, the SS prisoners being his favorite target. The box contained many death heads, and holding them in my hand, even as a child of 13, I felt something strange and uneasy about them. I gave them all to my friend.
When Platner got that tattoo, he new God damn well what it signified
Michael, it's a Tottenkopf. There's no mistaking it, he's bragged about and referred to it by name. He's bragged of jerking off in ports-potties, trolls for hookups on a porn site specializing in pedophilia, set up at least 6 paid hookups during his first two weeks of marriage, twisted his new wife's arm behind her back and yanked it upward, pissed on corpses and bragged, posted a rambling screed about a veteran expressing the he should have been killed by the Taliban and his wife and kids would be better off dead.. the soldier he was spewing about ran directly towards the Taliban to protect a fellow soldier. He's been a registered Communist, is now a registered Socialist, campaigned with Hasan Piker, lied about his service record and his upbringing as a good 'ole boy who's family struggled to make ends meet, when in fact he attended a prep school with a yearly tuition more costly than an Ivy League University and his parents purchased his " oyster farming" business for him to the tune of more than 200 grand.
He's a vile POS and everyday, another ugly addition to his repertoire comes to light. This isn't a dude who got high in college or got busted with a bag of weed or had a fling with his wife's bff. He's really bad news and we've got more than enough of it as is.
What was Platner doing on Kik, if that app was known to be for persons under 18? Was he preparing to run for office in some future and this was a way of communicating with people that would be over 18, by the time he announced his run for office?
Read Aris Roussinos on Azov. He actually went to Ukraine and talked to them. They worship Bandera. Plenty of countries occupied by Germany decided tgey preferred that to their hereditary enemies, but in Ukraine WW2 it was an ideology. The Azov battalion carried out remarkably horrible and heavy atrocities in Ukraine's post coup civil war ,killing 14500 civilians between 2014 and 2015, That is, part of Porosheno's attack on separatists in Ukraine. Btw, support for joining the EU was not high in Ukraine pre coup, being about 35%, according to their polls.
"Also of interest for my admittedly niche, peculiar purposes is"....
Have we time travelled to the sewage filled streets of Victorian England, kill floor stench of Smithfield, faces blackened by coal/ sweat AND sexual mores tight laced for public facade; distinct gender roles, prudishness & chastity? Lol dude can't wear a towel on an app photo? What's going on?
I'm comparing our modern obsession with calling out, and criminalising a vast array of sex adjacent & ntimate behaviour. I'm comparing this to the Victorian era (setting: England). In doing so I'm suggesting we as a society have regressed, or maybe societies just recycle old ideologies over/ over. Rinse n repeat?
Hey I'm still opposed to something ideological! So I am not that much of a contrarian.
I still think Epstein should be hanged by the testicles, elites should actually be oppressed, libs should be tar and feathered publicly, and any form of foreign politics, especially Jewish cause very influent, should be banned.
See? No repeal the 19th or anything. I am an actual gentleman.
Tattoos and ex girlfriends, drunkenness and an odd compulsion to go round shirtless? Are voters really as dumb as corporate media and party opo research slimeballs think they are?
The guy’s unqualified. Shouldn’t that be enough? He’s leapt into the Bernie Bro, anti oligarch clown show with both feet. Is he proposing anti trust type strategies to break up monopolies? No. Planter proposes vague notions of confiscation.
No corporate journo is ever going to ask him how he intends to fix his state or the nation by way of battling so called oligarchs, or any policy questions of any kind for that matter.
The mere fact that he was dumb enough to alter his tattoo should be, on its own, disqualifying.
Tracey’s right to go after the NYT trotting out a couple third wave feminist corporate journos to trash Platner. They want him out too.
You're slowly but relentlessly becoming one of my [teeny handful of] favorite Substackers.
Re the attacks on Platner--who does seem though like a guy who develops a really skeezy smell when he sweats too much--Lynsey Fifield seems like a gal entirely deficient in survival instincts or alternatively is a terrible fiction writer.
Anyway it's hard to get too outraged by the Democrats cleaving to Platner in an almost Biblical sort of betrothal. If I were in Texas I'd vote for Paxton to do my part in thwarting potential Democratic take-back of the Senate and that would bring my whoring out of my integrity for the sake of the nation to new heights [depths?] of self-besmirchment and I ain't even a Republican.
I actually think the Democrats are trying to knockout Platner so the geriatric Janet Mills can join the other octogenarians in the congressional cafeteria for soup every Thursday- rumor has it that her presence will precipitate the inclusion of lobster bisque on the regular menu
"The Democrats" in Maine are the ones who gave him an insurmountable lead in the primary. Meaning, Democratic voters and allied legislators/groups. I'm not sure what collection of individuals or entities called "the Democrats" could conceivably "knock out" Platner at this point -- as in, compel him to voluntarily end his candidacy.
I was loose with words - I should have said the Democratic Party leadership wants him to go away so they can run Mills.
Yeah, I'm sure that would probably be the preference of Chuck Schumer and other Dems in Congressional leadership positions. But I'm not sure how that preference could conceivably translate into tangible action at this point. They already fielded a preferred primary candidate against Platner, and she sputtered out.
Another Democratic Party hachet job data point https://substack.com/@kenklippenstein/note/c-272211834?r=zqqc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Two things -Mills is still on the ballot and theoretically could win if Platner was knocked off by scandal (unlikely) or Schumer might prefer Collins in the general election due to support for Israel…
Honestly- I just try to make sense of what I take in. You are much more in touch with the politicos. My “read” tells me that parties don’t run the country, interests do.
Yes but he'd bring clam chowder at a discounted rate.
Oyster stew
Probably poisoned with ciguatera
Nah. It would be that Japanese fake seafood paste.
Nah. He hates those Jap gooks. His oysters are dredged from Baba Yar. You won't find any pearls in them but you might find a gold filling his Azov idol, Bandera, missed. If the fucker isn't wearing it on a chain with his Iron Cross and swastika pendants.
The guy is an amalgamation of every rotten trait humanity has to be ashamed of. But that would require a conscience. And so would his supporters.
I'm starting to believe Darwin was on to something . It took millennia for humanity to peak and empirical science, ie gravity proves it takes much less time to descend. At the rate we're picking up speed.. snowballing.. it won't be much longer before we hit rock bottom.
We should not be so dainty. Politics isn't a gentlemen's club. It's war, and if you don't win you lose. Our Plague Era taught me that real good.
The Democrats are being as honest as they can be, with Platner. If I lived in Texas I'd vote for Paxton without blinking and I think the guy is as scumbaggy as they come.
Good people don't go into politics. They don't have the genes for it.
Bingo
I feel the same dichotomy - Paxton may be a sleazy slime bucket but, on the balance (in my transactional spirit) is better than Cornryn and has shown an affinity for my political wishes. How low will I go? I guess that’s another way of saying “how bad does it need to get”?
I voted for Trump for the first and presumably only time in 2024 in the hope that he'd destroy both parties, and in that regard things are progressing quite nicely.
How have the Democratic or Republican parties been "destroyed" since 2024? Is there a viable third party emerging on the scene that I must have missed? Both parties have just as much of an iron-clad grip at the state, local, and federal level as they ever have. The idea that voting for a Republican presidential nominee would somehow dislodge the power of either major party was always fanciful nonsense.
Now, Michael. My cup fully ranneth over when PA was called and Kamala's concession appearance gave me as much enjoyment as Hillary's had, though I couldn't take no credit for beating her since I was still in my dainty stage in 2016 (and 2020 too).
No, there's no third party and never will be. Our system ain't built like that. But independents are slowly becoming a majority of the voting public and the parties must woo us with as many convincing lies as they can.
You're certainly correct about the feeder streams, and those, as well as everything else, are solidly on us, the voters, and the people we elect are unfortunately just the same as us. Because, of course, they are us.
Now that’s thinking outside the box
The necessary escape from parallel lines.
Ironic, isn't it? I was hoping Trump would ditch Pence in the 2018 midterms, flip Independent and open the Party to a pragmatic, Constitutional, non hyperideological , pro-America entity that would expose the endemic corruption and withdraw from the UN , shut down all the NGOs, " advocacies", religious orgs, think tanks ,CIA, replace the FBI with US Marshals and shutdown 2/3 of the agencies/Federal government, campaign finance , foreign dollars,bust CAIR Catholic Charities, Code Pink, Open Society, Al Aqsa, etc and string up the bastards left and right for commission of treason, sedition, extortion, embezzlement, fraud, coercion , perjury, falsification.. murder, murder for hire..and every other crime in the book. We got nothing .. aside from extremism, sloth, slush funds and closer to the Post 1984 Brave New World... and virulent antisemitism as the new normal.
We got plenty but when the stables have been filling up with manure for a century it takes a generation to clean things up even minimally. The GOP Congress is hoping to outlast Trump and every time one o' their boys loses they hate Trump even harder.
Bottom line, they hate the American voters who dragged their sorry, flaccid knees and asses over the finish line.
We the American voters have done as lousy a job at voting as any people possibly can. These guys weren't inflicted on us by magic.
What planet do you live on? Have you ever heard of Project 2025? The Heritage Foundation?
I answered your question extensively and in detail. what the eff do you want from me ? Self flagellation? Public stoning? Conversion to Islamism? or should I just for full on Oedipus and gouge me eyes out?
I’ll simplify where I stand in verbiage for dummies-
I no longer care. Our entire system is corrupt , where there was once a stable societal mass spanning center left to center right, including Independents is now a gaping hole flanked by 2 polar extremes. With a miraculous act of Divine intervention, both extremes will fall into the sea before the gaping hole becomes a vortex and sucks us all into it.
But that’s outside my purview.
Now I get to ask a question. While you’re up in your skis about Project 2025 ( we’re halfway into 2026- nothing has come to fruition), have you given any thought to UN Agenda 2030/WEF Great Reset? The now Post 1984 Brave New World Orwell and Huxley prophesied. Or are you on the Israel Insanity Iditarod when you're not sliding on thin ice?
This is all distraction, but given the option
I’ll go the Quentin and SGA route with a caveat
Both options are grotesque and reptilian. But the Heritage Project are a smattering of iguanas and Agenda 2030 is a permanent infestation of anacondas, water moccasins and pit vipers.
The iguanas look daunting but they haul ass at the sound of a footstep
The snakes look terrifying are deadly and they don't retreat. They strike.
So I’ll opt for the Heritage project with a limitless provision of Soma.
You had already answered my question. I’m not sure what inspired the additional comment?
And if you’re referring to Kevin Roberts, he can effectively himself.Just one more reason not to trust politics /religion. The more proclamations of how devout one is to either or both, the more hypocritical. intolerant and antithetical to whatever dogma they’re pushing.
Yes, I have and I hate it. Religion and Federal Government are two worlds on a collision course,
Much of the outline is sensible, but Heritage crosses the line too frequently. And so does Vance, who wrote the preface.Not a fan. The more the right pushes the agenda, the more the Islamist left pushes back
Those that are Constitutionally restorative.
Apparently , I haven’t made clear that I can’t stand either party, I’m a registered Independent, do not subscribe to any religious sect, lean deist, I’m a civil libertarian and given my druthers, Pat Moynihan and Goldwater would have been a great path forward as a ticket an honest Dem and Rep who resisted corruption, gave a shit about America and the America people, adhered to the Constitution , wanted the UN,Trilats,WEF,CFR,CIA,Dept of Ed, FBI abolished w/The FBi replaced by US Marshals, removed from DC and spread out throughout the country where they wouldn’t be able to act as a lawless, unaccountable blob.Both were pro-choice, Separation of Church and State, anti NATO build up , hated Carter, Brezinzski, Kissinger,Rockefeller, Falwell,McCain,weren’t terribly enamored with Reagan, Moynihan hated Hillary, Gore , Panetta
Both were smeared and got screwed
I’m also becoming convinced Nixon was set up.
The Heritage Foundation is very strange, TPUSA became bizarre… bottom line ,
My Hindu son in law’s mom describes this devolutionary civilizational plummet as a “Kali Yuga”. Hard to explain. If you’re curious, it’s very interesting. And frightening because it’s very Huxleyan and he hasn’t been wrong yet.
I’m curious to know what parts of the Project 2025 outline you think are sensible?
“…how bad does it need to get”?
Outstanding. That is so on the money.
" How bad does it need to get?"
Reads like the opening to a Rodney Dangerfield joke-
" So bad that bamboo splints shoved under my fingernails feels good"
" So bad that a Trump Watch, Trump Special Edition MAGA Hat,Trump Gold High Tops, a Trump Baseball Card , a front row seat at the White House Day of Prayer and a Lee Greenwood Bible would be the most cherished lifecycle celebration gifts I could ever hope to receive. The only thing that could make even better is a trip to Gitmo for a waterboarding session"
How bad does it need
I think about that all the time. " Well, at least he/she isn't as awful as he/she. What does that say about us/we?
The Troglopublidytes would rather a " Pro-life" unelectable liar, cheater or do nothing than a bright, youthful, culturally in touch, pragmatic, attractive, talented idea person with crossover appeal who doesn't want a speculum shoved into her uterus lest she terminates a rapist's zygote. How many abortions would you guess Paxton, Gaetz, Gonzalez, John Roberts, Mastriano, Cheney, Bush, Burr, Kemp, Don Jr, Trump, Falwell Jr,Bannon,Cucker, McCaul,Corker, Flake, et al have paid for? How many abortions do you think Noem, MTG, Boboert, Haley, Mace,Hyde-Smith, Bondi, Ernst,Luna , Troye, Cindy McCain have had ? I don't really care, but they're all full of shit.
I'll add Susie Wiles ,Lara Trump, Karoline Leavitt , Megyn Kelly, Candace, Falwell's wife
That's the hill Republicans choose to die on. Instead of concerning themselves with the ex utero
Scumbaggery is de riguer in the post-Constitutional body politic. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Goldwater were so last century.
And lest we forget that other soulless.. er.. " selfless" symposium of sacrilege masquerading as sanctity,
the Abrahamic Triumvirate of Apostasy
The corrupt Vatican and the pernicious puppet rope a dope pope
The insidious ignominious Islamist infiltration
The abhorrent antisemitic symbiosis of self hating suicidal Jews shilling for Jihad
And the pièce de résistance, the culmination of collective cultism- the celebration of "isms"- Progressivism, Socialism, Liberalism, Conservatism, racism, auto-eroticism antisemitism, fundamentalism, extremism, nativism,schism, priapism, sexism, Marxism,Maoism,fascism, Nazism,corporatism, autism, despotism, colonialism, imperialism, statism,Stalinism, botulism,industrialism, Cubism, Dadaism,Surrealism,Pointellism,Impressionism,Post-Modernism,classism,hypothyroidism, Cynicism, symbolism, feminism, hyperdynamism,symbolism, cannibalism,dwarfism , Creationism, atheism, agnosticism,Judaism,Catholicism, Mormonism,Satanism, Hinduism ,Buddhism,Zionism,Taoism,Zoastrianism,Islamism,Deism,narcissism,scientism, criticism, fauvism, plagiarism,hypnotism,paganism,ageism,Ableism,secularism,sectarianism,fetishism, sadism,masochism ,Darwinism,sophism, minimalism,propagandism,vampirism,catechism,activism,chauvinism,anarchism,nihilism,theism,pluralism,moralism,feudalism,puritanism,animism,solipsism,monarchism, monopolism,heroism,onanism,militarism,pacifism,infantilism,philistinism,materialism,mercantilism,capitalism,fabulism,voyeurism,multiculturalism,adventurism,fanaticism,intellectualism,totalitarianism,authoritarianism,fatalism,rationalism,realism,hedonism,asceticism,mysticism,environmentalism,fanaticism,somnambulism,stoicism,ergotism,egoism..
=Fordism , Post-1984 Brave New World Great Reset/Agenda 2030 Tyrannical Technocratic
GLOBALISM=
TRANSHUMANISM
Slaves 'r' Us
The body politic, corrupted , godless religious fraudulent fronts,
kleptocorporate multinational monopolists,
megalomaniacal evil, insatiable elitist Faustian schadenfreude psychopathic phuckers all-
They HATE us! They hate humanity and all things living.
We allowed this to happen. We became complacent, distracted. entertained to moral entropy and casual nihilism
All those terrible episodes past and present couldn't happen here, right? 9/11 sounds vaguely familiar. Covid what? Oh yeah. Came and went. Marxist Islamism? A trend. It will pass. Death to the Jews? Not my problem.Im not one of them. Death To America? Yeah , right ,As if.
The Squad? BFD. Four dumbasses.
Graham Platner? Who cares , like Maine matters. Mandami? He'll be gone by the next election. Hasan Piker? Douchebag. Kinda funny how everybody's wigging out.
Minnesota?Really? Like a bunch of Somalis are the boogeymen. Where the fuck is Somalia, anyhow? What a bunch of racist clowns shitting bricks about some third world shoplifters. Check your privilege, losers.
BTW. Tucker,Candace,Megyn,MTG Massie ,Kent ,Bannon and Fuentes are right about everything. The Zionists are genocidal apartheid murderous demons who control the world. The IRGC,Hamas,Hezbollah Houthis,Al Qaeda are just political parties , 10/7 was a lie, Churchill was a Jew and he was responsible for WWII, the Nazis were the victims and the Iranians protesters were really Mossad ops and nobody was killed aside from the kindly Ayatollah and his gentle fellow worshippers.
The Pakistanis in the UK are good people. Just like Christians. The spoiled white UK citizens are racist whining brats.
Brigitte Macron is a man.
And Tucker, Christian Theological historian taught me something today that I was so embarrassingly wrong about. Queen Esther apparently ordered the Christians to commit genocide of the Persians. but since they and the Persians shared an almost identical faith, the Christians refused. The Jews, however were more than willing and were eager to slaughter the Christians as well. But the King ( whose name Tucker was unaware of) protected the Christians and the Jews slaughtered all of the Persians.
Gee! Learn something new every day. I didn't know that the story of Esther was New Testament and Jesus had already been born and crucified 200 years prior to the Book of Esther in the New Testament. Or that the bloodthirsty Jews savagely slaughtered the entire Persian people. Or that Esther ordered the genocide, given that she was the Queen of Persia and her husband , Ahasueras aka Xerxes was the King.
Because it didn't happen. But Tucker, Christian to the core would swear to it . As he would that Islam had already been established when Jesus walked the Earth.
Tucker was there.With Candace. She was Joseph. Tucker was the Virgin Mary. Nick Fuentes was Jesus . He has returned.
Apparently, James Tallarico is right. God is nonbinary
I kinda remember this guy named Haman , a tyrant who headed the King's military lying to Ahasueras to gain permission to annihilate the Jews. The King didn't know that Esther was a Jew .She was orphaned and raised by her uncle.MordecaiMordechai had saved the King's life warning him of an assassination plot. Long story, Haman was hanged, the Jews won the battle, Esther told her husband she was a Jew. He didn't care, she was celebrated. And all this took place 500 years prior to the birth of Jesus and Christianity became a religion 200 years later. And the Book of Esther was written in the Old Testament.
This is the surreal reality we exist in. Where lies are the new truth and truths are lies.
Just like Agenda 2030/Great Reset is a conspiracy theory , even though published on a UN /WEF joint letterhead in explicit detail .
Ok. So the Nazi tattoo doesn’t bother you. It’s not a deal killer for me either. But that fact that he’s mentally unstable does. War vet or not.
I don't disagree that signs of perpetual tumult in one's personal life could be indicative of some broader instability, mentally or otherwise, and this could reasonably be considered a legitimate liability for someone seeking high office. But if that's the real problem with Platner, why haven't his critics and opponents been raising it? (At least from what I've been able to glean.) Instead, we get emotionally overwrought tales of alleged "volatility" in his dating relationships from 10+ years ago, and asinine trolling about the "Nazi tattoo." If there's evidence that his current mental state should disqualify him from public office, OK -- let's see that evidence. Instead of hyperventilating about nonsense.
Excuse me, I’m not hyperventilating about anything, just stating the obvious.
Jeezuz. Read this for a more rational take on the situation:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/of-course-this-is-a-coordinated-ratfucking
Ok I did. Now explain the postings about his penis and his opinions about women. Oh and lying about his home purchase.
You think that's why the Dem establishment, and the NY Times etc are attacking him? None of those things would remotely matter if Platner was campaigning as a warmongering maniac. That's Freddie de Boer's point. See Clinton, Bill.
Maybe.i don’t care why they are attacking him. They really don’t need to. He speaks for himself.
Look. I have a son a little bit older than this. If he’d publicly posted comments like this, I’d be in court fighting for conservatorship.
Imagine being convinced by someone who is also mentally unstable that being mentally unstable isn’t actually a big deal.
Oh, so you're taking a swipe at Freddie de Boer, without explaining that he's very conscious of his own mental struggles, and has done much to overcome them? Asshole.
I don't really care about Platner, or his tattoo. military people do all sorts of things; some stupid, some more stupid. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they rape and kill civilians.
What does concern me is ukrainian fascism. I've known enough Ukrainians. i have grown up with them. Not a lot, of course. Not enough for any proper RCT study. But enough to remember watching television at a friend's house and having his 60 year old mother turn to me, point at the screen, and say "You know Barbara Walters is a Jew, right?" I know that Himmler himself, in his journals, registered disgust with Bandera and his group's utterly debauched preference for wiping out entire towns of jews, poles, whoever, with hammers. Nothing like a hammer to the skull to expose the sickness of a jew's mind. If you find Roger griffin's attempt to actually define "Fascism" as a distinct political force (as opposed to the up until them default to the socialist's "capitalism on it's last legs" non-definition) then I think a case can easily be made for The Ukrainian Nationalist movement, begun in the 1890s, as the first real Fascist political movement. Fascism is not conservatism. It is a revolutionary movement, meant to be new, meant to bring re-birth and smother the wussy tenets of Liberalism and the enlightenment. When they erect a statuue honoring Bandera in the middle of town, they know what they are doing. They know what it means, what he meant, and what he wanted.
Believe me, you could get plenty of American Republicans these days to say plenty of "concerning" stuff that wouldn't sound all that much different. But... it also wouldn't be worth getting too bent out of shape about. I never understood how anti-Ukraine people could be 100% hair-trigger sensitive to any signs of "fascism" exhibited by Ukrainian elements, but also be eye-rollingly dismissive when extremely similar sentiments are expressed by right-wing factions elsewhere, including in the US. Almost no one is actually consistent on this stuff. Libs don't care when the Ukraine elements express it, but are inconsolably hysterical when Republicans do. Ukraine-skeptical right wingers act like they're profoundly offended by anything "fascistic" or "Nazi" when it comes to Ukraine, but steadfastly charitable when anything similar might pop up in the US.
This is bullshit man. The Nazi tattoo is clearly relevant when Platner, eg, went on Nate Cornacchia's podcast who thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk etc. The fact that people like Schumer are totally fine with this shows the Democrat Part is just rotten to the core. They'll gatekeep Bernie but not Platner. Strange! Also Platner pushes Epstein stuff, are you less concerned with that than Platner's sexual misconduct allegations?
I don't follow the logical progression. How exactly does the "Nazi tattoo" become relevant because he appeared on this podcast you apparently find objectionable? Would it not be relevant if he hadn't appeared on the podcast?
I'm saying that the evidence taken together tells you something further, that he's something of a nazi. You may not find that relevant for judging a senatorial candidate, but some people surely do.
Alright. You clam the evidence points to him being "something of a Nazi." I disagree. Enjoy getting worked into a lather over this imagined Nazi electoral threat. There are clearly lots of people eager to join you.
I think MT would’ve been fine if people went after GP politically for being a gullible epstein maximalist r-tard and a meatheady military loser. It’s the concocted fake controversies that is compelling him to put on his defense attorney hat on.
The Totenkopf, whether you like it or not, dates from the 18th century. Not everyone is constantly consulting the ADL "hate list", definitely not in 2007.
you're right he wasn't consulting the ADL when he got it; he was probably consulting a nazi tattoo artist. looks nothing like a jolly roger. Perhaps he could have just been keen on prussian military symbols though. suck my dick.
K. You're going to be sad when life goes back to the 1980s and nobody cares about Nazis anymore.
"it's not happening and nobody cares that it is"
Dunno what to say. Nobody cared or cares. And what you think happened didn't so...
Mike, this is embarrassing. He absolutely knew what he was doing.
This self described "WW2 history fanatic" literally went to the only country in the EU at the time where getting a totenkopf tatoo was even legal (Croatia), and miracle of miracles, he started slaying mad white liberal pussy after he became the forbidden fruit.
You're normally smarter than this. I implore you to apply the same level of skepticism you have for the Epstein Files bullshit to Graham Platner. It's ok to admit the dude really is a dirtbag who tried to be the Edgelord Fetterman because he likes killing people (blackwater), money (his "disability" LOL, and his parents) and pussy (dude fucks, hat tip).
"literally went to the only country in the EU at the time where getting a totenkopf tatoo was even legal (Croatia)" -- citation needed. But even if he did theoretically go to Croatia for this bizarrely specific reason, wouldn't that also implicate the rest of his Marine unit, whom he went with? Are they all Nazi lovers, because they went to Croatia in 2007? Please.
Uh, isn't it legal literally everywhere in Europe except Germany and Austria? Maybe it's frowned upon elsewhere, who knows. Heck, Holocaust denial was legal all the way into the 1990s's and 2000's in most of Europe.
I certainly agree with everything you said here about the never-ending Nazi panics, "pedo" panics and National Enquirer-level moral character assassinations of any and all candidates. The issue with Platner is that he just repeats the exact same talking points as all of the biggest idiots in the "progressive"-political-podcast-slop-sphere, like Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski, without a single complicated or interesting idea about any single issue. Platner is this crew's latest "working class whisperer," when he's not working class, just another obnoxiously angry, downwardly mobile professional managerial class/blueblood failure who says the correct things, and dresses them up in a flannel shirt.
That Ball, Kulinski, and the army of adjacent podcasting morons — that seemingly lock up their talking points in daily morning text chains — excuse the behavior that they themselves go absolutely apeshit over is comedy. These are the same people who go apoplectic about Elon Musk's sperg-y wave, the Epstein mythology, Tara Reade, or any and all sensational or conspiratorial nonsense when it's emanating from outside their circle of drooling idiots.
I wish everyone could be thoughtful adults in our politics, but that's not where we are. Mega-idiot David Klion says Platner opponent Susan Collins is "one of the most evil people in public life" apparently because she seems to have unorthodox politics, and votes against her party as much as she votes with it. Brains in absentia types like Klion, Kulinski and Ball demand total fealty on every topic — see their former hero Fetterman being thrown to the wolves because he disagreed on Israel — and will hypocritically attack anyone for the same behavior they'll excuse in their cohort. Shouldn't people practicing politics in a principled manner, and who have ideas of their own be the goal?
How many politicians have you heard articulate a "complicated or interesting idea" lately?
Complicated and interesting is mostly absent, but there are a few somewhat pragmatic people out there staying away from partisan deathsport, bizarro revolutionary rhetoric for teenagers, and programmatic talking points they don't understand. We're not asking for much out here!
I think it's a perfectly reasonable suggestion to interview the ex-boyfriend of those two NYT writers.
How about the claim that he is pulling fully disabled payments from the VA which means that he can't work but does with his profits going to his wife? And of course the admitted claim that he cheated multiple times on his wife within a year or two of being married?
He blames his poor decisions on his PTSD but if that is making him make poor decisions is he going to make good decisions in the stress of the Senate?
I like the fact that a normal guy is running for Senate instead of some Mitt Romney type and I too won't care too much if he wins. But I do think criticizing him for this kind of stuff is fair. On the other hand, I think his reaction to the criticism shows some courage that speaks in his favor.
I think you are confusing delusion for bravery.
I read this article earlier on Unherd. Delighted to see you on it. These women are crazy. Who can’t find something weird about ex boyfriends or ex=husbands for that matter? Platner may be an undesirable candidate but hopefully for more substantial reasons. Thanks. Kathryn from Brooklyn.
Golly Jeepers Michael, we should all just shrug our shoulders at this “Nazi” thing…… silly us, the ones who are repeatedly called Nazis by your good buddies on the Left.
When I was young, I was given a box of Nazi relics by my neighbor, who was a a front line soldier in WW2, and a prolific souvenir hunter, the SS prisoners being his favorite target. The box contained many death heads, and holding them in my hand, even as a child of 13, I felt something strange and uneasy about them. I gave them all to my friend.
When Platner got that tattoo, he new God damn well what it signified
Michael, it's a Tottenkopf. There's no mistaking it, he's bragged about and referred to it by name. He's bragged of jerking off in ports-potties, trolls for hookups on a porn site specializing in pedophilia, set up at least 6 paid hookups during his first two weeks of marriage, twisted his new wife's arm behind her back and yanked it upward, pissed on corpses and bragged, posted a rambling screed about a veteran expressing the he should have been killed by the Taliban and his wife and kids would be better off dead.. the soldier he was spewing about ran directly towards the Taliban to protect a fellow soldier. He's been a registered Communist, is now a registered Socialist, campaigned with Hasan Piker, lied about his service record and his upbringing as a good 'ole boy who's family struggled to make ends meet, when in fact he attended a prep school with a yearly tuition more costly than an Ivy League University and his parents purchased his " oyster farming" business for him to the tune of more than 200 grand.
He's a vile POS and everyday, another ugly addition to his repertoire comes to light. This isn't a dude who got high in college or got busted with a bag of weed or had a fling with his wife's bff. He's really bad news and we've got more than enough of it as is.
It dates from the 1700's. Sorry. Anyone here listen to Death in June?
Hahaha! I don’t even know why I’m laughing. Perhaps it’s because it’s so applicable and the other choice is crying.
What was Platner doing on Kik, if that app was known to be for persons under 18? Was he preparing to run for office in some future and this was a way of communicating with people that would be over 18, by the time he announced his run for office?
Read Aris Roussinos on Azov. He actually went to Ukraine and talked to them. They worship Bandera. Plenty of countries occupied by Germany decided tgey preferred that to their hereditary enemies, but in Ukraine WW2 it was an ideology. The Azov battalion carried out remarkably horrible and heavy atrocities in Ukraine's post coup civil war ,killing 14500 civilians between 2014 and 2015, That is, part of Porosheno's attack on separatists in Ukraine. Btw, support for joining the EU was not high in Ukraine pre coup, being about 35%, according to their polls.
MT punctuation prowesss. How do you do that? Lol
"Also of interest for my admittedly niche, peculiar purposes is"....
Have we time travelled to the sewage filled streets of Victorian England, kill floor stench of Smithfield, faces blackened by coal/ sweat AND sexual mores tight laced for public facade; distinct gender roles, prudishness & chastity? Lol dude can't wear a towel on an app photo? What's going on?
I have no idea what you're saying, but I love the way you're saying it.
I'm comparing our modern obsession with calling out, and criminalising a vast array of sex adjacent & ntimate behaviour. I'm comparing this to the Victorian era (setting: England). In doing so I'm suggesting we as a society have regressed, or maybe societies just recycle old ideologies over/ over. Rinse n repeat?
Wait he's a misogynistic roughboy ladyabuser, a Nazi, AND wants to expropriates elites???
Where do I sign up? He's like the ideal candidate.
He should embrace being a chud. Fuck progressives!
Hope it's all fun n games
I've considered joining the rage bait/ oppositional defiant/ contrarian for shits n giggles camp too
Hey I'm still opposed to something ideological! So I am not that much of a contrarian.
I still think Epstein should be hanged by the testicles, elites should actually be oppressed, libs should be tar and feathered publicly, and any form of foreign politics, especially Jewish cause very influent, should be banned.
See? No repeal the 19th or anything. I am an actual gentleman.
You had me at no-repeal-of-the-19th.
Ahh random, I now have hope that a few moderates still exist I can now navigate the world without signalling my deity like virtue
Gonna moderate this ride right off the cliff miss!
Tattoos and ex girlfriends, drunkenness and an odd compulsion to go round shirtless? Are voters really as dumb as corporate media and party opo research slimeballs think they are?
The guy’s unqualified. Shouldn’t that be enough? He’s leapt into the Bernie Bro, anti oligarch clown show with both feet. Is he proposing anti trust type strategies to break up monopolies? No. Planter proposes vague notions of confiscation.
No corporate journo is ever going to ask him how he intends to fix his state or the nation by way of battling so called oligarchs, or any policy questions of any kind for that matter.
The mere fact that he was dumb enough to alter his tattoo should be, on its own, disqualifying.
Tracey’s right to go after the NYT trotting out a couple third wave feminist corporate journos to trash Platner. They want him out too.