Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy

Seems to me there are catastrophic second order effects of things Trump does that could easily cause R lawmakers to find that line. I thought we’d get there more quickly, but the markets are redlining on irrationality and seem primed to stay there for a minute.

Macroeconomics has entered the chat.

::rises through goop, eyes open, scared, alarmed::

"This guy has a Totenkopf chest tattoo, defended his buddies with SS tattoos, then said it was 'disgusting' to imply he knew what his tattoo meant then got other marines into claiming that lots of marines have Nazi tats, which are okay? Fuck him!"

Can’t wait for the Lior Raz produced miniseries about the Alabama born oleh Mossad agent who enlisted in the Marines under deep cover, took Platner to Croatia and risked his life in a Nazi tattoo parlor to get Janet Mills elected to the Senate in 2026.

Participation [in ordered society] trophies.

Loading this post into my space doodoo pistol.

a tweet from bryan johnson (the smooth technology man who will live forever) that opens with the phrase "I eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate."

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

Only one of these images of the White House is real...

Show some skull, Perry.

[kicks in door, screaming] BUSH V GORE

“Hey 19, that’s Heinrich Himmler.
He don’t remember the Schutz-staff-el”

David Simon beat that horse to a powder. Still beating far as I know.

Woof!

Reminded that when SCOTUS was deciding obscenity cases in the 60s and early 70s, the justices and their clerks watched the porn challenged as obscene. Except Hugo Black. He didn't flyspeck the porn because in his view, all obscenity laws are unconstitutional.

Be a Hugo Black about Nazi tattoos.

FINE!

I'm not sure it matters. If he snookered the electorate, he did a pretty masterful job. Not sure what lesson to take from it bc the "more thorough vetting of outsiders" doesn't apply with force to the LG of a huge state. If it was the stroke, there's no lesson. He needs to go either way.

Not sure exactly how much weight to give it, but the stroke appears to have done a number on him, and is consistent with some experiences I've had with stroke victims. While that might be exculpatory in some way, he should obviously not be anywhere near the Senate.

"Democrats assume you're going skydiving with a racist baby, Suddenly the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you stop being a hall monitoring pearl clutcher and go all in on the iconoclastic Totenkopf guy 9 months ahead of the Maine Democratic primary. What would you do?" ass article.

Traumatic brain injury.

A potent cocktail of sunk costs, oppositional defiance disorder, and Twitter roasted brain.

THE SMEAR IS THE NAZI TATTOO ON HIS CHEST. He smeared it on himself and it doesn’t matter why or when.

There are 8 other alternatives and 9 months to the primary and five months to declare. Miss me with this shit.

Agree 100%. But he's pretty clearly lying now, and lashing out at people asking very reasonable questions. This is further (imo dispositive) evidence against his candidacy.

7:49 PM *today* he writes this? FOH

The way forward is for him to drop out of the race and dedicate his life to atoning for this sin.

“To insinuate that I did is disgusting”

Graham let’s have a quick chat about about who, as between the guy with a Totenkopf on his chest and the guy who *sees* the Totenkopf on your chest, has the burden of proof here.

What bad luck Bernie has, riding hard for all these people who turn out to be pieces of shit, then doubling down when confronted with his poor judgment. The guy can’t catch a break!

The correct position is “doesn’t matter what he knew, Nazi tattoo creates rebuttable presumption of unfit for public life, and rebuttal requires clear evidence of redemption.” Then you’re judging people by what they do (getting a Nazi tattoo; atoning or not atoning for getting a Nazi tattoo).

The Teshuva hurdle for "got a Nazi tattoo" is I think mateirally higher than your ordinary youthful indiscretion. It's nevertheless possible to clear it, but Platner's not even close.

My 2.5 yo son is nodding in vigorous agreement!

a man is holding his hands up and saying `` i don t care '' . Alt: Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive responding ``I don t care '' to Dr. Richard Kimble telling him he didn't kill his wife.

"I'm not a Nazi"