Jonathon M. Floyd
@jfloyd314
Incoming BYU Law student (class of '29). BYU grad (Political Science '21). QMUL (History MA '25). Latter-day Saint. Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah Mammoth. I love politics (moderate), history, sports, aviation.
You run across the most fascinating people on the internet. Here's someone in the replies of a post about Max Miller being accused of beating his wife (Bernie Moreno's daughter) and he seems to be using it to...defend George Santos?
Leftist Twitter needs to be shut down until we can figure out what the heck is going on.
A grouchy father realizes his kids can sing and takes them on a long hike
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like this before. 129 quotes, 82 comments, and not a single like or repost. Pretty hard to unite all of Bluesky against your take, but this was a special kind of jaw-droppingly awful. Also, this guy has over a thousand followers?
Calling parts of the left "anti-bedtime" is not a metaphorical criticism, it is a literal statement of fact. These people are just kids mad at their parents who never grew up enough to get over it.
The replies to this thread are completely insane. "Toxic stiff upper lip attitude" and it's just someone saying "You need to have a responsible sleep schedule and show up to work even when you're tired."
Meanwhile, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is having an absolutely bizarre meltdown on Twitter, castigating the SCOTUS majority for upholding a mail-in voting law that *he* signed and that his solicitor general was arguing *for* at the Court!
Honestly incredibly bleak at this point that all voters, and particularly independents, still have such a wildly negative view of Biden, both in a vacuum and compared to Trump. Middle America still genuinely thinks Biden was a worse president than Trump is.
Chat, is it racist to criticize someone for knowingly having a Nazi tattoo for two decades?
"I love the inflation" sounds like the fake Ardra character from Star Trek TNG when she says "I like the tremors" in response to Picard daring her to use her purported abilities to stop an earthquake he had triggered.
This might be the single dumbest possible take (from the left) on the Platner situation, and I've seen it posted a lot on here lately, particularly as it has become increasingly clear that Platner is an utter disaster without redeeming qualities.
I do find it very funny that these kinds of disasters are basically Christmas come early for Martin-Baker's advertisers.
A rare excellent political take from the old place. I genuinely think this is the major reason this administration has gone off the rails so quickly--it does not view Democratic voters as legitimate political actors with agency, and therefore does not feel the need to actually build voter support.
The conservative LDS community is SO CLOSE to figuring out that the entire rest of the religious right hates them and would put them into camps if it had the opportunity, but they apparently aren't there yet.
This is a good and insightful article, and it makes a pretty compelling case for the whole Mandelson saga being no one person's fault (except Mandelson himself, who is a scumbag), but MY GOODNESS what an "oof" passage this is.
The podcast left is trying so very hard to present Platner as a changed man, without the barest hint of evidence that he has actually changed. Has he ever sincerely apologized for the Nazi tattoo? Has he ever even addressed his unapologetically bloodthirsty motives for becoming a mercenary?
"Trump, breathless and giddy fanboy" is genuinely very funny to see (I am going to become the Joker) Also, bump:
This comes on the heels of Uintah County charging a signature-gatherer with 11 felonies after 165 of the ~300 signatures he submitted were flagged as likely fraudulent, including at least two belonging to deceased people. This would not have affected the final result, but is interesting nonetheless.
And that's that. The MAGA effort to repeal Utah's Proposition 4, which created an independent redistricting commission and functionally banned gerrymandering, has failed to make it onto the ballot and is effectively dead.
Absolutely gobsmacked by YouTube trying to offer me a mix of a VeggieTales song that I probably scrolled through years ago and *Iron Maiden*