"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.

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.

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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.