John Loeffler

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

setting a 72-hour timer. this is the NYC LIB OUT ZONE. everyone gets a free pass for expressing enthusiasm for electoral politics in this carefully delineated window. post about the power of voting!!! cry over a schmaltzy campaign video!!!! allow a brief flutter of hope in ur rotted soul!!!!

If the dead don't want to be spoken of poorly then they should have been better people in life.

Image of a three-panel meme from The Muppet Christmas Carol. Panel 1: Ebenezer Scrooge leans out of a snowy window, shouting, “YOU THERE BOY! WHAT DAY IS IT?” Panel 2: A small Muppet boy standing in the snow replies, “WHY TODAY? TODAY IS DICK CHENEY DIED DAY!” Panel 3: Scrooge smiles joyfully from the window, saying, “THEN I HAVEN’T MISSED IT!”

Elder millennials celebrating like the Ewoks in return of the Jedi rn

I’m not gonna believe it until we get proof his phylactery was destroyed

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Most of them were ghouls, to be fair, but the Adams family was pretty lit.

Eh, if any fast food chain was going to do a steak, I’d rather it be Arby’s. It’s kinda on brand. Plus, can you imagine what a McDonald’s steak would look like?

Yeah, pretty much every court throughout its entirety except for a small window in the 50s-70s

Eh, what the hell. Why not?

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People rightly recognize that Dems accept limits on their power when it comes to things like student loans, but not when it comes to sending arms to Israel when it’s against the law to arm people committing war crimes. Dems can break the rules when they want, it’s just never in our favor.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Klendathu Drop

Nearly 30 years later and Klendathu Drop still slaps.

Oh, I'm fully saying that the yoots today shouldn't be able to do it. They're going bankrupt at 25 because of fucking DraftKings, that shit needs to be banned, period. Losing your money on a Vegas trip is fine in a one-shot, but having Vegas in your pocket is an awful idea.

Real men had to go to a bookie in the alley behind a bar to bet on the Giants. Embrace tradition, reject modernity.

my most lib opinion: so long as we have law enforcement officers, they should probably be able to pass an exam about what the law allows them to do without consulting notes

absolute beast mode

Even the best case excuse is disqualifying ESPECIALLY IF you only care about winning. A guy who was so naive that he carried around a Nazi tattoo for years is going to get wrecked in the general. You gotta drop him even for expediency’s sake and find someone else ASAP and stop wasting time.

He knew it was a Nazi tattoo as far back as 2012. There’s already reporting on this. He comes from some degree of money. He could have gotten it covered/removed. Many artists will cover Nazi tattoos for free or at a discount. He did not do any of this, which is very bad. End of story. Drop him.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. "He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way." The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled. Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance. The mixed accounts indicate that Platner has at least long been aware of the symbols's connection to Nazism, even as he said in the podcast interview he was not familiar with any such association when he chose to get the tattoo.

Yeah, fuck this guy & fuck his defenders. I’m sorry, he clearly knew what it was, and he wasn’t shy about it to the point of taking his shirt off on the reg while drunk. If he knew the name of it, he could have/should have googled it, been horrified, and got it removed asap. He didn’t. End of story

I could believe that he got it not knowing what it was. Not everyone is up on Nazi symbology. The fact that he didn’t get rid of it the second he found out is telling. If I suddenly realized I had an SS emblem on my body, I’d miss rent in order to pay for the removal/coverup.

all these arcade seats look traumatised from staring at bright giant screens all the time

all these arcade seats look traumatised from staring at bright giant screens all the time

all these arcade seats look traumatised from staring at bright giant screens all the time

all these arcade seats look traumatised from staring at bright giant screens all the time

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

France's former President Sarkozy will begin serving a 5-year prison sentence Tuesday Nicolas Sarkozy is set to become the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned. He begins a five-year sentence Tuesday in Paris’ La Santé prison.

lord I see what you have done for others

Standard Oil

Riker tooting on that boner

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

Third Amendment. No.

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

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