All I know is that to me we look like we're tabbin' fun ...
The Democratic Party’s future just collapsed under the weight of its own propaganda.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) July 11, 2026
This is a master class in how political operatives rationalize catastrophic judgment.
Nobody was asking for a candidate “grown in a vat.” They were asking for something much simpler: that the… pic.twitter.com/LsQ9yPCiDh
Nobody was asking for a candidate “grown in a vat.” They were asking for something much simpler: that the people recruiting for a US Senate seat could recognize the difference between normal human imperfection and a flashing warning sign.
Graham Platner was turned into a symbol, the veteran, the oyster farmer, the authentic outsider meant to shake up the system. The people who elevated him cast themselves as the ones who really understood voters, unlike the supposedly out-of-touch establishment.
Once that narrative took hold, scrutiny became betrayal. Red flags were reframed as authenticity. Criticism became an establishment smear. The worse the information looked, the more aggressively they defended him.
This was the Democratic Party showing people what it now confuses with leadership: a compelling biography, the right enemies, and a promise to tear everything down.
Platner has withdrawn, but the machinery that created him remains. Democrats didn’t just fail to vet a candidate, they revealed what their politics now rewards, and what it’s willing to ignore.
Ed: The problem with Platner and Kamala Harris is that they WERE grown in a progressive vat, based on what their movement valued at the moment. They are selling narratives, not authentic candidates, and they're getting worse at hiding their frauds. Maroff's vocal-fry smirking shows just how much contempt went into their effort to create a "working class" candidate.
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Free Beacon: Graham Platner, the accused rapist with a Nazi tattoo who briefly secured the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, formally ended his campaign through a Friday letter that closed with, "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine." It marks the final nail in the coffin not just for Platner but for Morris Katz and Daniel Moraff, the trust-fund wunderkinds responsible for Platner's rise.
Until this week, they were widely regarded as cerebral prodigies who could reshape the Democratic Party. The liberal media swooned in unison, taken by their youthful swagger. Some of the details will sound made up, but they are not. These people really are that weird. ...
On Friday, we learned that Moraff and Platner had more in common than anyone dared to imagine. While living off his family wealth and "working" on Democratic campaigns in the Pittsburgh area, Moraff developed a reputation as "the most hated staffer in the region."
In 2022, Moraff was banished from Congresswoman Summer Lee's (D., Pa.) campaign after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. "None of his current embroilment really surprises me because he doesn't have boundaries with women, nor much of an ethical code," a former Pittsburgh organizer told Payday Report.
Ed: This explains why these two weirdos found themselves so attracted to Platner. Moraff and Katz may not have much of a future in politics after this, especially given their whiny and entitled personas, but the Left will just find people who can build a better fraud in the future. Count on it.
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DISTURBING: Unearthed video shows Tim Walz saying Deporting Tou Lue Vang, who raped a 10 year-old girl, would NOT make Minnesota safer.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 11, 2026
“I can find no reason how Minnesota is safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child”
So Walz… pic.twitter.com/j83wiZAiB6
So Walz pardoned him…
Thankfully the Trump administration deported this monster.
Ed: So Minnesota was safer with a convicted child rapist running loose? Walz is an idiot non pareil just for saying this in front of a camera, let alone actually believing it. It's fascinating to see who leading Democrats will embrace as allies in their anti-Trump fervor. And it is also very, very revealing.
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Mediaite: Democratic strategist James Carville raged against far-left and “insurgent” Democrats, warning they could be setting the party up for a loss similar to 2016, when President Donald Trump was first elected. ...
This new wave of Democrats, he added, are hitting the party with a similar Sanders problem. Carville dismissed liberals who believe there is no “difference” between “establishment” Democrats and “establishment Republicans.”
“These people are so f*cking stupid I don’t know what to say about it,” he said. “So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats — and what is their solution?”
“Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No! Their solution is to beat Democrats like they’re part of the problem. You are part of the problem because you’re a f*cking idiot!”
Ed: Carville is the ultimate pass-the-popcorn Democrat these days. He swings wildly from bat-guano insane to genius and back again. This belongs on the 'genius' arc, but Carville's more lunatic rants have rendered him into a Cassandra on the Left even when he's right.
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Remember when a bunch of people got angry and pretended that wanting to reject and call out this Marxist, bigoted, pathologically dishonest, conspiracy-obsessed demon was somehow infighting and dividing the right? https://t.co/gEjDRmpIBD
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 11, 2026
Ed: Just in case people forget that "crazy" isn't limited to the Left.
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Axios: Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei announced on Saturday that revenge for his father's assassination "will most certainly be carried out."
Why it matters: The statement was published after the burial ceremony for his father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Throughout the weeklong funeral procession, there were massive public calls for the death of President Trump.
Mojtaba Khamenei, who didn't appear in public during the funeral ceremonies, didn't specifically mention Trump. But earlier this week, Israel gave the U.S. information that suggested Iranian officials recently discussed the idea of assassinating Trump, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
Ed: Iran has made these threats before, as did Iraq back in the day, when Saddam Hussein went so far as to send an assassin squad to target George H.W. Bush after he left office. Bill Clinton responded well by bombing Baghdad in retaliation and warning that the next time would create an even harsher response. Trump believes in harsh responses, too ...
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Ed: Frankly, the threat itself by a supposed head of state is enough for a casus belli. Time to go back to ground and pound, and let the IRGC know that chanting "Death to America" and issuing assassination threats will result in overwhelmingly adverse consequences.
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Daily Wire: Vance addressed claims in an upcoming book from New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, who report that Vance’s “instincts told him that there was a larger plot behind” Kirk’s murder in the days following Kirk’s death. Swan and Haberman wrote that Vance “went down countless online rabbit holes, becoming so consumed by the videos and the theories that his wife, Usha, told him she was worried about him.”
The vice president emphasized that the aspect of Kirk’s death that will always haunt him is the possibility that other individuals were involved in radicalizing Robinson. ...
“I think there are a lot of people with blood on their hands in the case of Charlie Kirk, but of course, the person most directly who has blood on their hands is Tyler Robinson,” he concluded.
“The truth is that Charlie is dead because a bunch of left-wing radicals have preached a message that it’s okay to kill people you disagree with, and unfortunately, for my friend and and importantly for his family, there’s at least one guy in Utah who took that message to heart and and and murdered a young innocent father,” Vance said. “The worst part about all of this is not my my personal grief, as much as that’s very real, and the country’s loss, but the fact that I know that Erika and two little kids are going to grow up without their husband and father.” [sic]
Ed: Well put. The evidence, as Vance also says, is overwhelming against Robinson, and he will go to trial unless he can convince Utah prosecutors to cut a deal that takes the death penalty off the table. The judge has said that he will rule on the outcome of the preliminary hearing in September, which seems a little too cautious under the circumstances, but it won't stop this trial nor the federal trial that will almost certainly follow it.
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Wait, so the guy who aligned and endorsed the anti-Israel Nazi in Maine then went to the West Bank and just happened to encounter Israeli settlers who detained him for 90 minutes?
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) July 11, 2026
This seems overblown, a bit suspicious, and quickly resolved. https://t.co/FbsoeApQ7m
Ed: Color me skeptical as well. Khanna needed a distraction from his despicable defense of a violent Nazi-tatted Kik creeper, and now we're supposed to believe he just happened to get detained for no reason at all in or near a West Bank settlement? Come on, man. I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.
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Jennifer Sey at Sey Everything: Graham Platner, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine who recently suspended his campaign after so much dirt came out on him that his numbers finally started dropping. Only when the polling dropped did the Democratic Party descend to say yeah you gotta go. ...
Post Politico article, the Democrat elite finally took the claims seriously, and there were a bevy of calls for him to step aside. In fact more than half the House Democrats called for Platner to step aside. Ro Khanna (U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district) who had previously campaigned for Platner said:
I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line. These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.
Apparently only violence against Democrat women is a red line. Because the violence against Fifield that was revealed back in June was just fine.
Khanna’s tweet was the template. It went on — and on — from there.
Why did no one care up until Racicot’s claims being made public? Nothing had stopped his nomination thus far. Maine Democrats rallied around him not only in spite of the dreadful stories, but, one can only assume, because of them. He was a real guy! This is what “real” looks like!
Ed: Be sure to read this in its entirety. Jennifer sums up weeks of narrative manipulation and fraud in one essay. And this is why Khanna went looking for trouble in the West Bank, whether he actually found it or not.
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According to the @israelpolice statement:
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) July 11, 2026
The tour group, including Rep. @RoKhanna, entered a designated Closed Military Zone (CMZ) in Judea & Samaria, a restricted area where civilian entry is illegal for safety and security reasons.
IDF forces stopped them. Police arrived,…
... saw zero violence, issued the repeat-offender organizer a final warning, briefed the group on the military order, and sent them on their way.
They broke the law. Simple as that.
Ed: Ro Khanna, Crisis Actor. And this is the crisis ...
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NY Post: Khanna even went so far as to share a stage with him after a New York Times report described Platner’s “unsettling” conduct toward former girlfriends.
“We reject misogyny. We reject it. You know who else rejects it? Graham Platner,” Khanna said on stage at the get-out-the vote rally in Bar Harbor last month.
Khanna’s congressional committee, Ro for Congress, funded the rally that featured a nearly 30-minute speech by Platner, who was later accused by ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot of drunkenly entering her unlocked home to rape her in 2021.
Ed: Follow the money!
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Safe to say the “unnecessary live-action remakes of animated classics” boom is over. (At least until they do FROZEN in 10 years.) pic.twitter.com/YV5Y6d5wDN
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) July 11, 2026
Ed: Oh no, whatever shall Hollywood do? Disney might have to hire – GASP – writers to imagine something new! THE HORROR! Maybe they should hire Ro Khanna. In the words of the classic short story by Saki, romance at short notice is his specialty.
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Last night's lyric: "Mambo #5" by Lou Bega.
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