There is one person and one person only to blame for the disaster unfolding in Maine: Graham Cunningham Platner.

This asshole knew who he was and what he’d done. He put himself forward anyway. He lied—over and over—to the public, to his supporters, to the media. He asked people to prostitute themselves for him and cover for him. He encouraged the Bernie Bro cult that coalesced around him.

Now everyone who went out on a limb for the guy is cut off. The Maine Democratic Party is in an impossible situation. And Susan Collins is seventeen weeks from her election and she doesn’t even have an opponent.

Think about that for a minute: In the single best chance to flip a Republican Senate seat, Democrats don’t even have a candidate.

This wasn’t a Neera Tanden–engineered coup. Graham Platner did it.

-- Jonathan V Last

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2074902406534496546?s=46

Even if climate change is real, smart farmers have locked in their rain contracts with God a long time ago.

The only upside to this fiasco is that it’s happening now rather than in October.

I hear they’re gonna nominate Jill Biden

Platner turned out to be an asshole and ended up under the bus
Trump turned out to be an asshole and ended up getting a 747

for Republicans, the real soccer scandal of the weekend had nothing to do with Trump at all. They were fuming about Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wearing a Mexico jersey to watch the England-Mexico game with Mexico fans at a Tucson watch party.

“Modern Democratic Party: wear another country’s jersey and post a photo of yourself taking a photo of yourself,” wrote pro-Trump commentator Scott Jennings.

Loomer also jumped on the Kelly picture, not because of the jersey he was wearing but because he was getting “handsy” with a woman in it. “A US Senator who represents a BORDER STATE wearing Mexico’s jersey is bad enough, but I thought he was ‘super loyal’ to his medically brain dead wife who was shot in the head?”

Kelly’s wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, responded with a post confirming that it was, in fact, her in the picture

More hard lessons on capitalism and socialism for Tempo:

https://x.com/handre/status/2074401119711682939?s=46

If every country was Singapore, we'd all have a ton of money and nothing to eat. If it all goes to shit, they can't eat that offshored money. It's also a country that operates on de facto slavery, it's labor force is mostly Malay and Philipino workers who are abused and paid next to nothing. I know some people there (they have your Grindr stats Custard), trust me on this one.

PAMan AOTC per usual

Overturning the red card suspension was correct, but the manner in which the decision was made is a problem and reeks of corruption and political interference.

The manner was bad because per usual, everything Trump touches turns to shit