"Larger, and harder, muscles than most": American Politics, June 2026

Have at it.

No dignity, I like the way you work it ...

american politics, june 2026: a pedophile looks at 80

hearing the title track in my head in a KMFDM-style

Muscle and hate

american politics, june 2026: a pedophile looks at 80

excellent

honestly it’s kind of insane how relevant Nitzer Ebb’s “Join in the Chant” is

All I know is, should the Maine guy get elected and accrue actual power, we can be absolutely sure that power will not make his behavior worse.

we can be absolutely sure that power will not make his behavior worse.

if your point is that power always makes people behave worse, then that should apply equally to every candidate for every office everywhere, so it has no practical application here. if it doesn't always apply then there is no grounds for certainty.

I don't know if I had a point beyond an easy jab at the guy, but I do know that, as history has shown again and again, power rarely makes people behave *better*.

possibly applies even more to people with a bunch of red flags

Which is to say, as soon as he gets elected he's probably going to get a skull tattooed on his forehead and start sexting everyone with a cell phone.

It'll be like that U2 album, except when you look at your phone it will be a Platner dick pic.

sad but true

like all of us, I can imagine a far better person I'd rather see elected to the Senate. imagination can be cruel.

as history has shown again and again, power rarely makes people behave *better*.

Go Go Godzilla

Platner probably got one of these on his back
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Boc.png/1280px-Boc.png

ok watch it

like all of us, I can imagine a far better person I'd rather see elected to the Senate. imagination can be cruel.

If only the party had nominated Saint Johnny Unbeatable! (Meaning "saint" in the strictly non-religious sense, of course, because you can't trust those churchy types.)

unperson i'm having trouble figuring out what is sarcasm and isn't, sorry? i haven't been glued to this thread so i'm just reading your posts in isolation, so i'm probably just confused heh

but, just to give an example of how i think i might be misreading you, it _seems_ like you're using sarcasm voice (here and at the end of the last thread) to criticize those who have problems with platner's...issues?

and if i'm right on that, then i guess your stance is like "pobody's nerfect, just support the democrat, he'll be better than susan collins"?

but again i think i'm misreading everything, confused

especially in response to other vaguely sarcastic posts

He won't just be better than Collins, he'd be better than any other Democratic challenger currently nominated for the US Senate.

let's not be hasty

i guess your stance is like "pobody's nerfect, just support the democrat, he'll be better than susan collins"?

No. My stance is that based on the platform page on his website and every video of a speech or an interview I've seen him give in 2026, Graham Platner would be the leftmost senator in the Democratic Party. And that people who say no one should vote for him because he used to be a Reddit troll, or because he got drunk and got a fucked-up tattoo, or (worst of all) because he was texting with women who are not his wife, have their fucking heads up their asses.

I'm completely ok with saying people should vote for someone else in the primary. Assuming he wins, I'm also ok with saying they should vote for him in November, but I am 100% going to point out he's a nazi at every opportunity because Democrats really should do better.

He's not a fucking Nazi.

Just mentally copy and paste that under every post here that says he is from now on.

you can say it a million times, but he fits the profile perfectly

xp that's clear, thanks unperson! probably don't need to put have their fucking heads up their asses in italics but hey, when you have 100% knowledge about the future, that's a gift and you gotta do what you gotta do

you can say it a million times, but he fits the profile perfectly

What are you, the Mein Hunter?

i'm actually bothered more by his sexting with half a dozen people up until his wife and campaign confronted him about it last fall. it's not about the character thing, it's more like that's a really bad sign about his leadership qualities (putting the campaign at risk with his personal behavior) and it says that when his dick is involved, he makes very bad decisions. that's not in the distant past or a dumb tattoo - it speaks to who he is right now

but my head is way up here in my ass and it's been dark ever since my headcam ran out of batteries so i don't know

the tattoo stuff, i think, is also really dumb and a very ominous sign about how dumb this guy has been.

but yeah, you can know all that and also hold unperson's perspective - that before he fucks up and has to step down for a scandal, he'd be a reliably progressive vote in the senate, that would be awesome. a reasonable person can believe all the worst about platner and still vote for him. a reasonable person could also be aware of just a bit of platner's life and choices and decide not to vote for him because of that. neither one of those decisions are cause for belittling each other here

up until his wife and campaign confronted him about it last fall.

That's not what happened. He stopped sexting a year before his campaign started. His wife brought it up in a campaign meeting when they were discussing dirt that could be dug up. And someone fired from the campaign leaked what she said to the NYT.

platner is hot af. i'd go flatner for platner.

need alfred's opinion tbqh

In funnier news, Trump is now backing away from the J6 payout fund... according to Axios:

The Trump administration plans to drop its controversial $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund the president sought to compensate alleged victims of prosecutorial conduct under his predecessor, two senior administration officials told Axios.

"It's dead for now," one of the sources said.

Why it matters: Bashed as a political slush fund that could be tapped by those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Trump's proposal has drawn bipartisan pushback in the GOP-led House and Senate.

Of course, the whole Payout fund to J6ers was a compromise--Trump just wanted to take the money for himself.

This CNBC article is fun, too.

Trump tells CNBC: ‘I don’t care’ if Iran negotiations are over

President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of peace negotiations with Iran, telling CNBC, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.”

“I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC’s Eamon Javers in a phone interview midday Monday, saying he thought the protracted discussions “started to get very boring.”

Trump had been asked about the prospect of Iran ending talks with the U.S. in light of reporting earlier Monday that Iranian negotiators would take that step — and also move to “completely block” the Strait of Hormuz — due to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

Asked if the Iranians told him that they are not going to negotiate further, Trump said, “No, they haven’t.”

...

In his call with CNBC, Trump said he wasn’t worried about oil prices, which had spiked after Iranian state news outlet Tasnim reported earlier Monday that Tehran was halting negotiations and clamping down on the Hormuz Strait.

“I think the oil will be dropping like a rock in the very near, you know, the very near distance,” Trump said.

But he also insisted that Americans who understand the importance of halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions will not mind higher gas prices as a result of the war.

“Once you explain that this is all about Iran having a nuclear weapon, people are willing to pay a little bit more,” he said.

Trump asserted that prices at the pump will drop “very quickly.” But he also repeatedly signaled he was in no hurry to restart the stalled negotiations with Iran.

“If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring,” Trump told CNBC.

every day, i wake up hoping that he has died

I wonder what would win if you gave people a choice between $3 a gallon gas and Iran w/nukes and $5 gas and no nukes in Iran.

Trump just wanted to take the money for himself.

he was, after all, the ultimate J6er!

I wonder what would win if you gave people a choice between $3 a gallon gas and Iran w/nukes and $5 gas and no nukes in Iran.

i had a similar thought, and i think we both know the answer

Too many people would be cool with anything if Trump gave them $3. "You are now all better off today than you were yesterday! You're welcome!"

i have a feeling that’s why his signature is going to be on our cash

All the cash in going to say "pay to the order of Donald Trump," and then his signature, and then he will get all the money.

Trump asserted that prices at the pump will drop “very quickly.” But he also repeatedly signaled he was in no hurry to restart the stalled negotiations with Iran.

“If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring,” Trump told CNBC.

He truly is the President this country deserves, like an avatar of our collective stupidity.

"I'm bored. Let's do something else."

I'm glad he can at least still be frank with us.

as his dementia progresses I think he's telling the truth more and more, I do believe he's bored out of his mind by the Iran stuff and is frustrated he can't move the news cycle this time

otm "boring" is the most honest word in that sentence, he's been bored with this war since about week 2. How much has he said about it publicly vs. the ballroom, the Kennedy Center, Stephen Colbert, etc.

He liked seeing the videos of bombs blowing up, but since the ceasefire began the sizzle reels are lacking.

he cant really say much publicly since he doesn't know shit. all he can talk about is nuclear weapons and blowing people up and how tremendously we're winning every single day, he has no clue what any of the actual details are, can't imagine he can name a single person he killed or anyone who's in charge now, guessing he'd never even heard of the Strait of Hormuz until they closed it

And we thought Dubya 'The Decider' was stupid. Well, I mean he was, but...

_i guess your stance is like "pobody's nerfect, just support the democrat, he'll be better than susan collins"?_

No. My stance is that based on the platform page on his website and every video of a speech or an interview I've seen him give in 2026, Graham Platner would be the leftmost senator in the Democratic Party. And that people who say no one should vote for him because he used to be a Reddit troll, or because he got drunk and got a fucked-up tattoo, or (worst of all) because he was texting with women who are not his wife, _have their fucking heads up their asses_.

Presumably. Fetterman ran as a progressive populist too and then changed his tune in office. Not to say that would happen here, but all the scandals point to a certain recklessness in his personality that makes him hard to trust.

However, I would probably vote for him in the primary if I was in Maine. At this point he almost has it wrapped up and more scandals etc could only help Collins, which is obviously bad. First objective right now if removing republicans

Fetterman is kind of a cautionary tale for anyone who wants a career in politics though.

a cautionary tale for shreks

all the scandals point to a certain recklessness in his personality that makes him hard to trust.

On the contrary. I don't trust anyone who's never made a mistake, and you shouldn't either. That's how you get Pete Buttigeig.

To be fair, I did start to have doubts about Platner today, when I saw that the Free Press had published a pro-Platner essay.

First of all, Pete Buttigieg is good not bad (fuiyd, I'm not going to read your diatribes), and for Platner it's way more than one mistake, it definitely shows a pattern of recklessness.

That said, I were in Maine I would enthusiastically vote for him because he's the democrat in the race

My straight female friend and MSNOW watcher, a wonderful person who's as engaged politically as anyone, said just today that she'd love for him to run. That's his audience.

My imagined dream candidate for 2028 is Jon Ossoff. He is super articulate like Pete, and is very inspiring

I mean, I'd fuck him, but he comes across as Imagined White Guy Dream Pony.

look I like my presidnets like I like my houses, WHITE, honey

god I wish white genocide was areal thing (I know, me first)

Unperson, do you believe that Platner beloved these were “mistakes”? I don’t. And some of it is very recent. I don’t understand why people are taking him at his word.

xp well Harris ran two years ago and everybody here hated her.

That's not at all true. From the last week of July and well through August and the first debate we applauded the aren't-they-weird tactics that knocked the Trump campaign flat for a while; then she started palling around with Dick Cheney's daughter.

She did not pal around with her. Two appearances with Liz Cheney, who had one single point of intersection with Kamala Harris which was about saving democracy, that was all it took for you?

I don't want to argue with you, I'm tired of politics, I don't know why I posted here

https://i.ibb.co/vxzBvgwY/Screenshot-2026-06-01-at-8-46-51-PM.png

Unperson, do you believe that Platner beloved these were “mistakes”? I don’t. And some of it is very recent.

They were only "mistakes" in the sense that they are now the subject of public discussion, because he's running for Senate. A normal person's Reddit shitposting, or ILX snarking, is their own business. A normal person's texts to women not his wife are between him and his wife. But when you run for political office, all of a sudden every motherfucker on earth gets to pretend they've never said anything stupid or ill-considered.

I don’t understand why people are taking him at his word.

What does this even mean? Are you trying to say "His Reddit posts and his tattoo carry more weight with me than his publicly stated positions or his remarks on the stump, and they make me think he's going to join the Republican Party and vote with the Republicans once he's elected"? Then why don't you just come out and say exactly that?

Yeah, the dumb endgame to ‘I don’t take him at his word” is like some scenario out of a 60s spy potboiler.

Platner’s claimed communism and got a Nazi tattoo, if he has a Fetterman stroke he’ll become the most centrist man to ever live.

🖼

wow that’s a level of cringey flop sweat you usually don’t see from them.

Yeah, the dumb endgame to ‘I don’t take him at his word” is like some scenario out of a 60s spy potboiler.

it’s not when you have a Fetterman right there. anyway you’d be a damned fool to take a politician at their word.

fetterman is a bit of a special case due to the brain damage tbh, and platner is running to the left of fetterman's campaign

Why would anyone want to emulate Fetterman? Seriously.

It’s like—he may cut his penis off, because you’ve got that Wu Tang affiliate right there.

Wu-Tang Glans

tbh i have uh some brain damage and it has made me more impulsively like me before, a change of degree, not of type. so i suspect we have fetterman unleashed.

but the severe-tbi recovery cliché is “if you’ve seem one tbi, you’ve seen one tbi.” Xp

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotion of eight Navy captains to be one-star admirals, including two female and two Black officers, according to current and former U.S. officials.

At the same time, Hegseth is trying to promote at least one member of his inner circle who was previously passed over for promotion several times, some of the people said.

Two of the sources said Trump claimed he'd helped keep Netanyahu out of jail — a reference to his support during Netanyahu's corruption trial.

Summarizing Trump's remarks to Netanyahu, the U.S. official said: "You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

A second source briefed on the call said Trump was "pissed" and at one point yelled at Netanyahu: "What the fuck are you doing?"

Omg @ milo

It’s like—he may cut his penis off, because you’ve got that Wu Tang affiliate right there.

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Monday, June 1, 2026 9:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Wu-Tang Glans

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Monday, June 1, 2026 9:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hey this is a funny wu-tang pun, i should go post it over in the excelsior thread to me ilxor chums :) i'm sure they'll like it

meet the new completely unqualified DNI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulte

oh fuck the guy who snoops through government records

yeah he's actually dangerous

(he’s the guy looking through the mortgage applications of members of the Fed board to blackmail them)

We'll probably see an espionage investigation opened into James Talarico in September.

xxp TBF Tulsi probably did too

was there ever an update on what was/is in tulsi gabbard's safe? the thing with the whistleblower that led to gabbard's departure?

literally hundreds of scandals to keep track of, can't

The Ark of the Covenant

the pee tape

Wasn't the whistleblower thing about Tulsi shutting down an inquiry into a phone call made to a foreign intelligence agency from inside the White House?

seems like that might be worth investigating but who knows?

oh that's right! the whistleblower complaint was locked in the safe! that's what was in the safe. they kept it in there for 8 months, hiding it from congress.

ok. glad that safe is empty, ready to go for the next acting director of national intelligence

and then they finally, in feb, were able to get the whistleblower complaint about gabbard out of the safe and into the public eye (barely), and then shortly after gabbard finally resigned.

this is very wizard of oz, "and you were there, and you were there", just a very long bad dream, details slipping, too much corruption

election 2028: "let's tone down the corruption"

Pulte is going to be director of national intelligence and be the federal Housing Finance Agency chairman at the same time!

again the double duty! spies won’t get a mortgage now!

Or you'll only get approved for a mortgage if you agree to spy on your new neighbors.

And that's how HOAs were invented

in different area codes

platner is hot af. i'd go flatner for platner.

― shaking babies (map), Monday, June 1, 2026 3:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

need alfred's opinion tbqh

― shaking babies (map), Monday, June 1, 2026 3:26 PM

Pass. I don't mind the Mountain Man look but this guy looks purposely disheveled, like Ava Gardner in Mogambo but with a beard and BO.

pretty sure i've seen a hot person in that configuration of head/facial hair and it's dean ambrose/jon moxley. it's def not platner (then again people's personalities are incredibly instrumental in whether i find them hot and platner's got nothing for me in that department)

it occurred to me that I've hooked up with more men with tattoos in the last 10 years of my life than the previous 20.

the thing with Platner is that he just reminds me of a lot of some of the people I grew up with. people who were raised on the internet and edgelord TV shows, who have never really known a time when the government was functional, who have a lot of conviction but are mostly kinda dumb...in a sense I kinda trust him more than I do overly focus grouped talking heads like Buttigeg or Newsom. would be nice if we could just get someone who didn't fucking suck though

oh i'm not planning on watching platner speak if i can help it. he's a politician of course he isn't actually attractive.

thank you ivy for introducing me to jon moxley.

xp tats are so commonplace and accepted now. i joined a facebook group of older gay men ogling vintage working class beefcake and it's wild how many comments i see along the lines of "the tattoos ruin it for me."

yeah "politician" acts like an antibacterial wipe on my sex drive. Ossoff's the only one I've taken more than a second look at.

i really think that the worst democratic presidential nominee option for my mental health would be buttigeg. at least i can safely hate newsom. pete would be an absolute disaster, constant irritation via all the gay men i'm friends with on fb and instagram. aoc would be ideal.

https://i.imgur.com/wGmRE26.jpg

I steer clear of people who make these exact sartorial choices because I find it unappealing to be lectured about how I'm part of an international banking conspiracy

tats are so commonplace and accepted now. i joined a facebook group of older gay men ogling vintage working class beefcake and it's wild how many comments i see along the lines of "the tattoos ruin it for me."

This is such a huge generational shift. As Gen X I feel very much on the hinge, we were the group where it kind of exploded but still not to the degree you see in millennials and Gen Z. I have so many friends with tats (not to mention my spouse) that I barely even notice except to admire a nice one, but when I'm out with my octogenarian parents they comment on every single one they see. Always the same things: "I bet they'll regret them when they're older," "How hard are they to remove?," "Won't it make it hard to get a job?" Meanwhile like half the nurses they see at the doctor's office have ink.

all I can say is this - just leave some space for when you get older. so many tatted up folks I know look like they're barely even 30 and they've already used up all the prime real estate. do you not think you'll have any good tattoo ideas when you're 40?

"I bet they'll regret them when they're older"

this is me with the face tattoos

"Won't it make it hard to get a job?"

my septuagenarian parents should lunch with your parents.

I’ve resigned myself that probably the doctor that pronounces me dead thirty years from now will have face tats

Hopefully not Nazi ones.

I saw a cool chin tattoo over the weekend, but it was a 80+ native american woman and it looked like she'd had it for decades

a tat stamping on a human face forever

Out on the road today, I saw a nazi tattoo on a democrat...

https://i.imgflip.com/atd39e.jpg

“I spoke to President Trump for three hours, and that Marco Rubio guy, the head of the state department, he is anti-Latin American,” Lula said.

"I bet they'll regret them when they're older"

this is me with the face tattoos

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, June 2, 2026 1:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

sometimes i see older hardcore punks around, who were early adopters of face tats and i worry for them, like the scene you were a part of starts to disperse and evaporate and they seem like they are borderline unhoused at best, and your job options are pretty limited

In keeping with the thread title: on the left, a photo of Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers; on the right, a version of that same photo sent out by campaign staff.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreihpuhrbrbogzh7yst5sbz7hizncpysquoiw3fajifqyf73c6nn4mu

lol I just saw that post and was wondering if the thread title was a reference to it. I am quite glad that these days I often don't recognize the title quotes

that's not real... is it?

no the thread title is a typically deranged Trump Truth post waxing poetic about hot guys he’s seen

I was referring to the photo^^^ - did they really think they could get away with that?

that’s dating profile pic vs reality right there

Maybe we need a WDYLLAI thread.

Anyway Todd Blanche says the big beautiful slush fund is dead. Every once in a while there’s still a “too far.”

I wonder if they're making that concession to preserve the blanket immunity from any future IRS audits that he snuck in there

how did anyone in Trumpworld think the slush fund would fly? (also, they’ll just do it under the table)

Well, in this case, as implied, the question is not how they thought it would fly - they try all sorts of brazen stuff - but why they backed down.

Well, in this case, as implied, the question is not how they thought it would fly - they try all sorts of brazen stuff - but why they backed down.

Well, in this case, as implied, the question is not how they thought it would fly - they try all sorts of brazen stuff - but why they backed down.

Well, in this case, as implied, the question is not how they thought it would fly - they try all sorts of brazen stuff - but why they backed down.

Well, in this case, as implied, the question is not how they thought it would fly - they try all sorts of brazen stuff - but why they backed down.

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

I’m seeing a lot of double (and more) posting lately. Did you post once and it showed up multiple times, or did you post multiple times because it seemed not to go through at first?

It's this bug: TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE!

If it seems not to go through on Submit Post or you get some sort of server disconnect, open another window and check if your post has appeared. It will usually post despite any confusing subsequent message.

it froze up a few times in a row, wasn't loading, or reloading.

yeah it happens to me constantly.

Not me

Not me

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...
I'll allow it.

Rick Perlstein has thoughts on Platner, and on rural/vet culture. (He mentions that Maine is in fifth place for percentage of veterans in the population. Alaska is #1. Montana is #3.)

Interesting primary results tonight in Montana. Alani Bankhead is ahead of Reilly Neill by 10 points despite having been out-fundraised by a factor of 10. I didn't know much about her before tonight and I voted for Neill, but this interview makes her seem pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llO1m0WszQI

In the House primary for my district, Ryan Busse (who ran for governor and lost) is ahead of Sam Forstag, who I voted for, by about four points.

seeing somewhere that blanche is claiming that tho the slush fund is dead, the “settlement” that djt is immune from tax audits evermore persists.

i gotta think that R’s are just “he’ll be dead soon, everyone will forget all, no matter the magnitude of his crimes.”

that “don’t audit me ever” thing, while ridiculous, is completely unenforceable anyway.

Yeah that can be revoked by any future president. It's not like they're going to investigate Trump while he's in office anyway.

But Dems ought to absolutely hammer on the slush fund nonstop — it's a case where he actually blinked and backed down, it's a political freebie to just constantly remind people that he tried to steal $2 billion from our tax dollars.

Wow Katie Porter in 5th place with 5% of the vote in the CA Gov. primary. Quite a fall from grace.

Seems like she hadn't really been a serious contender for a while, but there was a lot of consolidation around Becerra and Steyer in the last few weeks to prevent the possibility of two Republicans at the top. So I don't think her finish is necessarily an accurate measure of her natural support.

In the House primary for my district, Ryan Busse (who ran for governor and lost) is ahead of Sam Forstag, who I voted for, by about four points.

This flipped overnight; Forstag (who, remember, was endorsed by Bernie and AOC) beat Busse by five points.

iowa governor race is going to be weird. there's one really well-funded democrat who had no competition in the primary, and the trump-endorsed republican lost the primary to a guy who may not even live in the state

i'd have voted for porter if she were polling better, yeah. she hasn't been a contender for months at this point.

I heard a couple radio pundits who were just like "vote for who you like"... I voted for Porter as kind of a knee-jerk thing in that we need more women in leadership roles, CA has never had a female gov so I decided to not worry too much about strategy. But yeah, she had a couple stumbles early on and wasn't really able to overcome them

Tom Kean, Jr., the New Jersey Republican congressman whose prolonged absence from both Capitol Hill and his home district has garnered intense scrutiny about his condition, managed to win a primary on Tuesday despite everything.

Kean, who ran unopposed for the party nomination, cast his last known vote in March and hasn’t been seen in public since, even as the congressman sought reelection to his third term. Ahead of the polls closing, Kean issued his first public statement in many months, reiterating that he is recovering from a medical issue and promising that he will return to the public eye in due time while not providing an official timeline.

“I am more energized than ever to keep fighting for the people of New Jersey’s 7th District. Right now I am focused on my recovery and under the advice of healthcare professionals, I will transition from virtual work to in person work within a matter of weeks. At that time, I will be completely transparent as to the nature of my medical condition,” Kean said. “Once again, I appreciate all of the prayer and patience from my constituents and colleagues. I understand the need for transparency on this matter and I look forward to sharing my experience with the public.”

At that time, I will be completely transparent as to the nature of my medical condition,” Kean said. "In the meantime you can make bets on the nature of my medical condition on Polymarket!"

it really is an interesting time to be alive

In CA i voted for Raman for LA mayor and Steyer for gov, but they both are apparently on the outside looking in for November.

I’m not too worried about Pratt (30%) winning in the fall (though I’m a little bit concerned something weird could break his way), and I don’t think Trump tactics will work on LA voters. I can’t imagine many Raman voters (22%) going his way nor Bass voters (35%) changing their mind. The Dems do need to step it up considerably though, neither candidate had a good game. Same goes for the governor’s race. Just an embarrassing group of candidates, though Steyer might’ve been good.

Man Becerra seems like kind of a zero huh?

yeah... people who worked with him in the Biden admin described him as basically a nonentity

My guess is Keane is undergoing chemo

why would he be so secret about that?

because in today's GOP, being sick is a sign of weakness, something for losers and low-t men

^^^ also, doesn’t want RFK jr. prescribing him bear glands of whatever

I'd put 100 imaginary dollars on him being dead by July.

People were speculating that he was in rehab, right? Especially with the weird "There are no cameras where Tom is" quote. His reference to his "medical condition" is vague enough that it could include addiction.

of course, today's GOP would never consider addiction to be a medical disease, as it is self-inflicted by weak losers and low-t men

addiction just means you can't hold your booze

I wonder how this will actually work in practice... the "deep state" has a way of moving things forward despite shit like this

A set of sweeping policy changes unveiled by the White House would leave officials appointed by Donald Trump vetting every public grant issued to universities and nongovernmental organizations on the basis of their fidelity to “American values”, as defined by the president, triggering widespread concern.

All federal grants approved by Trump’s political appointees must “demonstrably advance the president’s policy priorities”, according to a lengthy proposal published by the office of management and budget (OMB).

gross

also a recipe for paralysis, which I’m sure is by design

I'm sure it's somewhere in Project 2025! Complete ideological control over the sciences

sounds like another way to threaten universities if their students are protesting the genocide in gaza (and whatever else they don't like students and NGOs to acknowledge)

Dan Sullivan (R) vs. Dan Sullivan (R) in Alaska:

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/alaskas-dan-sullivan-faces-new-senate-reelection-opponent-dan-sullivan-republican-primary

“Everybody in Alaska knows I’m Dan Sullivan-R. So he’s trying to do that. Why? He’s not an R"