“Don’t you know? Issue polling from sympathetic groups means our politics are mainstream now, unlike those ‘white men of a certain age’ stuck in the 90s!” Just all the fallacies but also hilarious for someone turning 50 this year to insist she’s speaking for the Youths, unlike 54 year old Chait.

Elizabeth Warren, from the very moment at the starry when she formed a “Fight Club” dedicated to clearing the primary field for this guy, was an embarrassment throughout this entire embarrassing campaign, so apparently she wants to keep going on that front. Zero introspection, zero shame.

Also if I’m Starmer I’m gone tomorrow anyway just go sit with some fans in the lower bowl ; suites are overrated anyway and who needs security anymore. Get the Footie equivalent of the old Ted Turner box seats.

Germany of course was also helped by an iffy decision that year and should’ve crashed out in the quarterfinals

Seriously what a serially dishonest person this guy is. “I wasn’t a surrogate! I only volunteered a little bit!” Please ignore my role as a spokesman for the state’s largest union, the times I said I had a direct line to the campaign, and the fact I replied to any and all criticism of him online.)

Yeah, no, this isn’t how this works when you’re the spokesperson for an organization; if you don’t want to speak for them then stop speaking for them but the various messages you push via your various social media accounts is absolutely representative of your “day job.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

And 3) the guy who was cheering how Platner got past earlier scandals because he saw “People face consequences for having Nazi tattoos” as “cancel culture” and just flat out refused to comprehend anyone could have a sincere problem with it for any reason other than Israel.

The Times roster to explain this is: 1) DC turned Maine journalist whose outlet never broke a single story in this race 2) NYT columnist who ran up to Maine after the Nazi tattoo at 1’s encouragement to tout Platner’s popularity, who then presented the local Maine AFL-CIO spokesman as a random local

Love the bit where we recite objectively accurate statements (Argentina has an absurdly easy path this tournament, Messi gets a different whistle, FIFA is a totally corrupt organization) and then say Everyone But Me Is A Kooky Conspiracy Theorist

Many people thoroughly embarrassed themselves over this, but there’s a special place of ignominy for Jon Favreau, Character Witness

After 48 hours his employer finally put out this curt statement on the other site, presumably over his dead body

Yeah, but actually having transparency about this is good, actually, and wanting everyone to just accept Omertà around FIFA’s shitty and corrupt refereeing and favoritism was bad, actually

The Staffer Influencers going “This is bad because he said no more scandal but now there’s scandal” are just telling on themselves and what they think of women in tremendously gross ways

It’s also pretty pathetic when that worked the first time when the accusation was only physical abuse and you had people like Josh Marshall—who is still doing this, today, mind you—dismiss it out of hand

Josh Marshall is a bad person, actually.

Matt Yglesias going “The only reason anyone strongly dislikes a Nazi Tattoo is Israel” and following it up with “Several people I respect reached out and had sincere conversations about how I was dismissing this, but yeah, it’s Israel” was just the most egregious smug bullshit

Even then I wish she had some introspection about having been willingly spinning for the campaign to the point of disguising a Platner surrogate and spokesman for the Maine AFL-CIO as just a random disinterested local telling it how it is

“The Americans don’t know how to lose” and need a dodgy ref call on a Handball to be Like That. Yeah, not like our best ever team was denied a World Cup semifinal when a (Scottish) ref ignored an obvious handball or something, just never happened.

About as bad as the people like Warren going “sexual assault is unacceptable” less than a month after going “intimate partner violence is no big deal.”

Good fucking gravy Stephen King.

Yeah, it was only Bernie “who championed this guy,” maybe get your own act together too Jen

Fuck this campaign. What a bunch of disgusting mercenary monsters.

I, too, was asleep during every Chelsea match from 2003 to 2022.

Seriously, LMFAO at “Europeans know that corruption usually stays off the pitch,” the most recent Champions League Winner gets a free run through their domestic league with fixtures rearranged for their benefit because they’re a Qatari sportswashing project flush with cash that owns the league

Yeah, if there’s one group of people who get undeserved goals at a World Cup as opposed to getting a bad whistle at the World Cup, it’s the U.S. (pics unrelated)

This is the kind of delusion that leads you into thinking that Morgan McSweeneyism is the way to winning electoral coalitions

Lotta pressure for this to live up to the last Aussie Penalty Shootout

(It’s also just genuinely kinda sad when your attempt to gin up an oppo hit includes a passive aggressive whine that it didn’t work when you tried to push it six years ago.)

And then they won on penalties, don’t forget

He and Warren literally formed their own little Senate Fight Club over the fact they were pissed people DIDN’T clear the field for their very special dipshit!