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  1. The "Beer Test" probably has a bunch of built-in misogyny. I won't say it's a good thing, but I will say that running candidates who are almost intentionally failing the Beer Test (which nowadays is more like the Long-Form Podcast Test) and then wondering why the party's leaders are seen as out-of-touch and inauthentic is a losing strategy.
  2. "Platner in Disarray!"
  3. Go to the fan duel sports network website and get a free trial (or subscribe). The account is tied to your zip code and will give you spurs games if you're around SA. Presumably that works for Austin, too.
  4. He usually has some of the worst takes in CR, but I believe this was only a joke. Video games are as responsible for making men into pathetic misogynists as team sports are responsible for making athletes into men who date strippers with pet monkeys
  5. The franchise should be relocated to Seattle.
  6. Freeze the Rent Make Buses Fast and Free Deliver Universal Childcare
  7. Why did Troy play so many different QBs over the season?
  8. Jason Kidd is gonna Darko Milicic the poor kid
  9. He was way more pro-Israel than your average Dem even before the stroke. Better than Dr. Oz and superficially more progressive than Conor Lamb. It sucks what happened, but there's no doubt he was the best available option at the time especially when it came to confirming Biden judges
  10. All the handwringing about Platner has done nothing but reveal, to anyone who hadn't yet been paying attention, how little influence these prolific posters actually have outside their immediate spheres of like-minded prolific posters. Janet Mills has no shot at beating Susan Collins, and has never faced an opponent remotely as formidable as Susan Collins. In 2018, aided by the Blue Wave, she beat a complete fucking nobody (Shawn Moody) who fired an employee for having had a c-section. In 2022, in the Red Wave That Did Not Happen(TM), she beat psycho MAGA ex-governor Paul LePage, whose approval ratings during his final term never exceeded 40 percent and who had only ever won his previous elections with pluralities of 37.4 percent, 37.6 percent, and 48.2 percent, back before Maine had RCV. In college football terms, Janet Mills is a middling G5 program (Texas State, perhaps) that's undefeated in Week 3 because she faced an FCS school in Week 1 and Sam Houston State in Week 2. Susan Collins is University of Cincinnati. Not elite, but way more formidable than and likely to crush the Bobcats/Mills. Jordan Wood has no shot at beating Susan Collins, no matter how badly the BlueSky Zionist libs wish it were the other way. He would fare even worse than Sara Gideon did in 2020. The guy has spent his entire adult life being a congressional staffer, for Californian representatives, including Katie Porter. Yes, this, Katie Porter. The Susan Collin ads write themselves. In college football terms, Jordan Wood is UTSA (wouldn't even beat Texas State at home) and anyone who actually believes he would win a general election hasn't been paying attention. Nobody else has any shot at being Susan Collins, because if they did you'd already have heard of them and they'd already have thrown their hats in the race. No Stephen King (too old). No Erin Andrews (who's probably a MAGAt like most sports media figures that have enjoyed any kind of success). No Anna Kendrick. Technically, it's true that it's "not too late" for someone else to step up, to transition from a nobody to a somebody, but that's a completely unrealistic strategy. The reason Maine voters have grown so quickly to support Platner is because he is from outside the political mainstream, so in order to replicate his success the party would have to be completely hands-off. That just isn't going to happen. It has a lower population than Austin Metro's, so the field is going to be small by design. How many people from that small population fit the profile of being completely unattached to the party apparatus, championing Bernie's policies, and "looking the part" of the sort of dude young men would have a beer with. The sort of candidate they wouldn't even have to hold their noses to rank on their ballots. He is the only candidate who matches up well with Susan Collins, because he's the only candidate who can flip a demographic that actually matters in a state like Maine. In college football terms, Platner is a team with a dual threat QB (Vandy) the likes of which Cincinnati/Mills has not yet seen. He's where all the excitement can be found, in Maine. Definitely not perfect by any means, and if you were to look at this matchup through the lens of traditional politics/football it would suggest that his lack of experience and the oppo research, you would think he's too flawed to have any success. If you look at this matchup the way things really are on the ground, however, you begin to recognize that politics (and football) are very different today than ten years ago. You gotta throw conventional wisdom out the window, and do what it takes to win. The excitement on the ground is how points are scored these days. Trump figured that out in 2016, and the progressives who are most capable of generating excitement on the ground are the same ones who consistently beat the spread. Of the entire Maine senate field, Platner and only Platner has figured that out. The tankies, who never had any clout and are pathologically miserable people who prefer to be unsuccessful if it means they get to be smug, and Zionists, who can't cope with the fact that Israel has never been less popular and will never be popular again, are burning mad about this dude not dropping out. Oh, on the fear of him becoming the next Fetterman, Gallego, Sinema. I get it, but at this stage I believe the risk is overblown. He's still going to be no worse than Mills or Collins, so it would still be a net win. If I'm wrong, I'll gladly eat crow, but right now I'm not concerned about him being a secret centrist.
  11. https://www.nba.com/news/kia-rookie-ladder-oct-29-2025 Edgecombe Cedric Coward Dylan Harper Cooper Flagg Tre
  12. MTG is just an antisemite. There is zero chance she will move to the left on any issue.
  13. He doesn't have an axe to grind the way the first manager does, and hasn't exactly thrown him under the bus, renounced his friendship, or withdrawn his support for Platner's candidacy. There will be plenty of qualified options a week from now after this election cycle concludes. The dude is still packing venues all over Maine.
  14. Platner? I don't see him dropping out unless a major scandal comes out. The Reddit stuff didn't hurt him at all, and Tattoogate seems not to have any traction in Maine even if it has damped the support he'd had from small-amount donors from out of state. His candidacy and the "scandals" have been fascinating because it's rare when the most annoying tankies (people who if they vote at all vote Green Party) and the most annoying BlueSky libs (mostly Zionists) are trying to achieve the same thing but for different reasons.
  15. Because most of the people here will not bother to look into it, and assume the worst, his second campaign manager is expecting a baby and can't handle the long hours that the job would require. He definitely would miss Junior Day with the flu.
  16. this is a pretty dumb way to measure priorities. if you applied the exact same algorithm to the republicans the trans panic built into their platform probably would have a thousand percent increase if not more. For one moment, I wish these people would stop and think about why the term "hate" was seen as more necessary to use in 2024 compared to 2012.
  17. Blowing people out on a SeGaBaBa without your best ballhandler, your enforcer, and two backup bigs. They could be 5-0 for the first time in franchise history. They could win the IST.
  18. Yeah, about that: 1. Kamala Harris tried this. Nobody remembers her "opportunity economy" pitch? In case anyone forgot: 2. LMAO they are trying to say Medicare for All is unpopular? Where did they conduct this poll, the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce? 3. You're not convincing voters of shit, other than your own weakness and ineptitude. Step the fuck aside. 4. Once again, how is that any different from what Kamala Harris tried? 5. Who the fuck talks like this? Seriously, what actionable information are they even attempting to convey here? It sure as fuck looks like "talk a bigger talk about hating the elite, but don't actually do anything negative for the elite" It's a real mystery why nobody trusts the leadership of the party.
  19. Not even getting paid, either
  20. It's a factor in motivating many of these mass shootings, but only sometimes does it work as a shield.
  21. Not gonna click through, but I'm 99% sure it's a grift. James Carville?
  22. Just to expand a bit on this, one might point out that that this is the least safe country on the planet if you're concerned about mass shooters, and many mass shooters will not recognize white privilege nor will mass shooters necessarily avoid, in fact in many cases they will actively select, soft targets like a family- and child-friendly pumpkin patch. Good luck stopping an AR-15, tough guy.
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