The pedophile spends millions of dollars of all yall’s money to golf at his own resorts where he gets profits from that. Oh, he also rapes children for fun…
You forgot about the crypto schemes where he steals money directly from the people with zero consequences.
And all the suspected insider trading.
Hey now, the pedo in chief also gets the DOJ he runs to settle with him in a case he brought against the IRS to the tune of a couple billion. He’s not just enriching his businesses.
Technically an unlimited amount of money. The initial payout was billions and it will only grow and there is no oversight or accountability. It is literally treason.
I’m so tired. I can’t deal with this fucking shit anymore. Most of us are struggling to eat and pay rent, and this orange fucking turd piece of shit is enriching his pockets. I can’t do it anymore :/
Look, we have to keep fighting any way we can. When we’re done with that bloated bladderface we’re gone have a massive party, ok? Does that sound good? We’ll have a party?
and giving FREE MONEY TO J6 who he later called LOSERS and low-class, and now trying to give them the go-ahead to commit more violence to distract from the epstein files.
He (Trump) just stole 1.8 billion dollars in taxpayer money from us. Millions is no longer the number we’re talking about.
Actually it’s not limited to 1.8 billion dollars. It’s a completely blank check. You can see the settlement here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441201/dl
So frustrating seeing all of the “news” platforms parroting the regime’s claims as if they were a trustworthy source
Yeaaaa but Mamdani is helping the people…so fuck that guy right? I mean we’re all going to be billionaires one day.
Donald J Trump (our LORD and SAVIOR) doesn’t spend that Money on Leisure, but unlike the do-nothing Dumbocrats, he PROJECTS HIS POWER with it, which many people are easily impressed by, as a REAL LEADER does! Any MAN who can get away with anything is THE MOAT powerful and therefore the BEST leader!
~ Sinpletons raised on WWE
and he got a numnut of CFB player(DART) introducing him.
People sit in there who make 700 dollars a week.
Mamdani DIDNT make a Scene about being In Public and DIDNT spend THOUSANDS to do it? How DARE HE!
-Fiscally Responsible Republicans!
-Establishment Democrats were here too
Lol can’t count or guess how many of “these” I’ve read from you, but this one’s a banger
The assumption that wealth and power always leads to privilege and corruption is so engrained that a mayor sitting in the nosebleeds seems like a joke, rather than nosebleeds costing $700 fucking dollars.
HE WANTS TO GIVE POOR PEOPLE MORE MONEY BUT HE ALSO MAKES MONEY! CURIOUS!
Fox news: “That suit? 3 figures. The so-called socialist could have donated that money to the food pantry, but splurged on expensive clothes instead.”
Fox viewers: clapping and barking like trained seals
Meanwhile, trump installs a third solid gold toilet next to his bed.
Just wait until they find out what mustard he uses on his hotdogs/burgers.
À shitty seat is SEVEN HUNDRED dollars ?! What the fuck is wrong with y’all? Is that like a world cup finale or something? That’s an insane price.
I have similar thoughts. I wouldn’t pay $20 to see an NBA game, shit, I wouldn’t go if they gave me $20.
I saw Chuck Berry live for 70€ once. Most expensive gig I ever went to, haha! To see a living legend. Could almost touch him too. We were barely a few hundred in there.
Seven hundred fucking dollars… And you can’t even see shit?! this sounds insane.
Nosebleeds are $700?
The knicks are on a crazy 10 game run never done before and 1 game away from being in the finals which they havent made since 1999. Tickets would normally be kind of high, but all of this and the demand is high by fans. Its been so crazy that ticket sales and audience attendees at away games are showing more knicks fans over the home team.
Wait. They let away fans sit in the home team section?
Im pretty sure they let them sit wherever they can get tickets. I also heard attendance was so bad for the 2 76ers home games they donated a lot just to fill seats. If its that bad it’s no wonder knicks fans are taking over at away games.
Yeah, weirdly we totally missed out on hooliganism in the US. Sports games are just people watching sports.
Bread and circuses. The biggest difference is we tend to riot after our team wins. 🤷♂️ ‘Murica.
Honestly, the US doesn’t have anything that even resembles hooliganism, let alone the fucking insanity of Ultras. The occasional overly enthusiastic celebration after a team win sure maybe minor damage to like a streetlamp or a couple broken windows; when was the last time fans of the losing team were murdered while it was happening?
Like can you imagine the outrage in the US if people tried to pull this shit at the superbowl?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-we-know-about-the-shooting-near-the-kansas-city-chiefs-parade
I agree the US doesn’t produce hooliganism, that was my point. We unfortunately translate the vibe in our own way that ends up much worse.
that ends up much worse.
The one incident doesn’t mean it’s overall “much worse”.
Philadelphia fans “Are we joke?”
Fans of the Eagles and Phillies, in particular, consistently ranked as the worst sports fans in the country. In addition to booing their own players, Philadelphia fans have committed infractions such as intentionally vomiting on an 11-year-old girl, cheering for Michael Irvin’s gruesome career-ending injury, and general rabblerousery. “I would hate us too,” said Philadelphia native Sean McHugh ’25. “[We have] multiple fights, multiple obscene gestures, but it just shows how passionate everyone here is for their teams.”
https://haverfordclerk.com/proudly-the-worst-fans-in-america/
Things got so bad at the Vet that a jail and courtroom were installed in the bowels of the stadium to handle unruly fans. Last year a Phillies fan tossed the cell phone of a Mets supporter out of the left-field seats. GQ once rated the Phillies and Eagles as having the first and second worst fan bases in America, respectively.
https://time.com/6324292/phillies-fans-appreciation-philadelphia-eagles/
The Flyers fan might have been thinking that the Leafs’ supporters were taunting the home team, but that does not excuse what he did next. He hopped over several rows of seats to confront the visiting fans and ended up punching the two male fans before their female friend eventually tried to break things up.
Booing “Santa Clause”, who was actually a drunk they found at the last minute happened in the 1960s.
The only reason Philly fans are the “worst” is the rest of the country needs a scapegoat to ignore their own shitty fans.
In fact yes, they are a complete joke.
https://www.imedd.org/opinion-article-fan-violence-ultras-and-hooligans/
https://hir.harvard.edu/fanaticism-and-the-ultras-movement/
My goodness, they threw a phone out of a seat? Those utter bastards, carrying on with their unchecked… “rabblerousery”.
There are no sections, you can sit where you want.
For the playoffs, yeah.
I’m not a sports person but I went looking and found this:
According to Gametime, the get-in price for Thursday’s night Knicks game against the Cleveland Cavaliers will cost you $740.
Presume “get-in price” means absolute minimum?
Not normally.
I don’t keep up on the NBA, but I’ve been watching Desus’ new podcast and apparently the Knicks are in a playoff push and all of NYC is convinced they’ll make it.
It’s not as much about the team as it is about NYC. Tickets prices aren’t up because people want to see the game, it’s a cultural event.
Oh for fuck’s sake it’s the playoffs. New Yorkers understand.
Everyone else in the world isn’t drowning in garbage. You don’t have to act like an asshole on the internet just because your town stinks like one.
“Hypocrite Mamdani breaths the same air as billionaires!”
Isn’t the establishment’s notion that “success is achievable by anyone”? Why the shaming? If Mamdani was poor, their narative would probably be like: “He couldn’t help himself why’d you think he could help you?”
The establishment’s notion is more like “success only belongs to white conservatives like us”
The whole “everyone can be rich if they just apply themselves” fairytale is just a distraction to preserve the status quo and prevent another Bastille.
The point isn’t to make sense or be consistent.
It’s to demonize anyone deemed a threat to the status quo.
I just spent $160 to go to a standing room only concert at a SMALL venue. And a lot of that price was the fucked up administrative fees. These assholes really do not understand/care how much the one and only ticket company around is gouging us.
Yeah, like the idea that tickets to watch a sports game are $700 for cheap ones is ridiculous. I don’t get why so many are willing to spend that much for something like that. I’ve been in the nosebleed section for concerts, but even then, most of the experience is listening with some visuals to go along with that. Sports is all about the visuals that you can barely even see from that far back. MMA is especially one that I’d rather just watch on TV vs even the good seats, which can become less good if the action is happening on the far side of the ring.
And those “fees” should be required to be included in the advertised ticket price. Personally, I don’t like when even just taxes are added at checkout instead of the advertised price, though they at least make sense because different regions have different taxes. But the ticketmaster “fees” are just predictable extra charges they add on themselves because most people don’t say “fuck no” and just close the form when ticketmaster comes in with the “oh btw” and adds them on.
I love concerts but frankly don’t expect to ever see one again, other than maybe lucking into random ad hoc ones because I hate ticketmaster but don’t expect to see that situation improved on when it should be called a monopoly and broken up into many entities.
They’re desperate to make a scandal out of anything.
Same with Graham Platner. These fuckers so badly want anyone who wants you to be able to live off one job to be pounded back into obscurity, no matter how ridiculous the made-up scandal may be.
Graham’s a little different. The things he has said and done are vile. In his case, it hinges much more on whether you think a person can change, and if they should be given a chance (as one of the rulers of our society, specifically) if they have changed.
People who claim that “people don’t change” just scream to me “I haven’t grown up at all, questioned my assumptions, or learned anything new since I was 20 or younger”
It’s like trump bragging that he hasn’t changed since he was 6. It’s not a flex.
I think the majority of the people who leery of Platner (and aren’t trolls/bots/propaganda spreaders) are thinking, and having trouble articulating, that politics is a very, very strong reason to ‘hide your stripes.’ Even if a person can change, it doesn’t mean that they have just because they say they have. While I don’t like career politicians, if someone does a run from local city councilor -> county position -> state position -> federal position, you can very easily see that they’ve put their money where their mouth is and you have a very good idea what they’ll act like in the position you’re voting for. When a candidate comes out of a quiet life, you don’t have much to base a vote on except for words.
I’m not voting in any maine election any time soon, but I feel for anyone who is truly worried about the choice they’re being asked to make. At least in my races, it’s pretty obvious who the complete and utter asshole is.
I mean yeah, it takes a certain level of trust, especially when they don’t have an established record of public service. But that’s the case with any political candidate who comes out of nowhere, and I don’t think it’s particularly advantageous to always assume the worst about everyone unless they have a squeaky clean record.
That’s how you end up with lukewarm robots like the DNC at the federal level. They’re the only ones who can pass the purity tests at that point, cause they’ve never taken any risks or said anything controversial or taken a stand on a bold or untested position. No political innovation, no new ideas, no major progress, just status quo and “don’t rock the boat.”
Besides, as someone who grew up in a conservative household and had to learn on my own in adulthood that everything I was taught to believe was bullshit, and what to believe instead, I know on a very personal level that people can change and have a genuine awakening. And I know in a very real way how difficult it is to get people to take you seriously after you’ve done such a 180° on your political views.
I’ll never run for office because I’d be afraid of someone who knew me in high school saying “Oh look at this ignorant thing he said when he was 15!” And then everyone would think that I’m bullshitting them about my socialist views and all of a sudden I’m being immortalized via internet memes as that guy who said something ignorant in the early 2010s or whatever.
I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy societal mentality to hold onto that shit so strongly.
I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy societal mentality to hold onto that shit so strongly.
There was a pretty good article (maybe it won a pulitzer? I can’t remember now) about how and why social shaming went away as a punishment, framed around that one twitter post about africa that got someone fired while they were in a plane. Europe has the right idea with the ‘right to be forgotten.’
Personally, as someone who, like you, has done a near complete 180 on political views from childhood idiocy to teenage mindless acceptance of the community’s politics to becoming an actual thinking adult, I can agree about a person’s capability to change. I can even easily imagine how easy it would be to change by reflecting (once away from others who were egging it on and socially agreeing pushing it as a good thing) on an experience as a guard in a war ‘jail’ that had documented horrors happen there.
That article sounds interesting, but I don’t know the situation it’s referencing. “Right to be forgotten” sounds like a good idea. At least for private citizens. Although social media makes that logistically difficult to implement.
Public officials should have to waive certain expectations of privacy in order to serve, but that should mostly focus on the present and future. Maybe their recent history during elections, but if someone has changed their political views then I don’t see the benefit of digging up skeletons from prior decades, especially if they’ve already disavowed those views.
I think this is the article. Obviously it’s older than most people’s attention spans these days ;) It’s also shorter than I remember it being, but maybe I’m confusing it with another one.
It’s wild that the Nazi tattoo platner had for most of his adult life isn’t an issue for people. That seems disqualifying to me but what do I know.
I didn’t know what it was before reading about it in reference to Platner.
I wouldn’t have got it myself cause I think it looks cheesy and dumb, but I can absolutely believe the story that he walked into a tattoo shop and saw it on the menu and didn’t know what it was.
It’s not like the tattoo artist would go “By the way, this symbol has nazi associations, are you okay with that?”
It’s not like the tattoo artist would go “By the way, this symbol has nazi associations, are you okay with that?”
Then that’s a shitty tattoo artist.
Of course it’s a shitty tattoo artist, we already knew that since they were offering the tattoo in the first place. Unless they dont know either…
More than the average person. Including Planter. I believe him. Honestly it hadn’t really come up for me either before now. I recognized it from some album artwork of a band I no longer listen to. Before finding out what it referenced. Because they ironically associate with what was behind it.
Platner said he was a fan of history. He was squirrelly when confronted about it before he covered it up. He also was a mercenary for a long time with black water. All pretty fucking sus to me. But I can’t vote for him because I’m not a Mainer. I get to vote against open Nazis like Hawley.
The wonderful thing about history is there’s just an unbelievable, unfathomable amount of it. What history was he a fan of? Roman history? The history of pottery? Paleozoic history? General military history? World War II military history? It makes a difference. Just saying that he’s a fan of History doesn’t make that immediately damning. If he claimed to be a fan and buff on World War II history yes that’s definitely going to be troubling.
If acting squirrely is a sin most people are going to hell myself included. It’s a normal and human reaction with being suddenly confronted with something we were unaware of. I would have been more worried had he covered it up just before he started running. The fact that he started running only to be confronted with it. And on top of that didn’t have some slick rehearsed response to it. Is only promising to me.
Fetterman was always a dumbass bully. Only viable because his opponent was so controversial and famous that he just sucked up all the oxygen in the room when it came to media coverage. Whether it was the time he held an innocent unarmed black jogger at gunpoint or any of the other Myriad of many telltale signs of fetterman’s flaws. They were there for everyone to see and he never apologized for them. And was never taken to task for them.
Conversely Platner from everything I’ve seen. Multiple interviews and comments by people who have actually met and talked to the man. Including many minority strangers who felt slighted by the raft of stupid things plattner has said in his past. The fact that they felt he listens, understood and learned when they talked to him. That many of them feel his response was sincere and adequate. Speaks volumes. It’s the basic thing every representative in representative government should do. But completely avoids.
Platner certainly won’t be perfect, and likely will struggle enough with just being adequate. But he will unquestionably be better than anyone the Republicans there put forward, as well as the establishment dems. I don’t live where Platner is running. Where I do live we have no representation at state or federal levels due to gerrymandering. I would gladly take him over who we’ve been saddled with. Which may be a backhanded complement. But it’s true.
He was a fan of war history. His Reddit account shows this. He even correctly identified the name of the Nazi crossbones logo which is a totenkopf. I say this though that I don’t think this guy is a Fetterman traitor in the future but he certainly knew the history behind the tattoo.
He just screams a much more obvious Fetterman to me…
The price of that ticket gave me a nosebleed
I thought we were condemning Mamdani for buying such expensive tickets while everyone is struggling even to eat, but these were the CHEAP tickets?? What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Lel. Also dafuq. 700, and I assume this us USD, for a nosebleeds ticket.
Oof.
Uuf.
Oughf.
Its such a dumb attack I thought it was paid promotion.
i mean it is
It is New York Post, same grifting BS outlet that brought Trump to the white house by spewing blatant right wing lies
It cost 25 bucks to see a pistons game in the late 90s.
The fuck is 700 for shit seats!?!
