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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 07/10/2026

Okay, there was a lot of stuff the bot wouldn't accept so I'm not sure why it did accept WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS

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Won the Nobel Prize for Physics
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Owns a shrink ray
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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 07/10/2026

Even post-Kemper, Kemper Development is still basically just Kemper. "Lower demand infrastructure" actually means "infrastructure for lower-demand people" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Last week I wrote about a comment made by Kemper Freeman Jr., who was comparing people who shop at Southcenter with the folks who shop at his mall, Bellevue Square.

Freeman was quoted in a newspaper story saying, “When you walk through the [Southcenter] mall, the way the customer dresses just to shop there — the light blue and pink hair curlers, the shoes that flop, flop, flop along — it’s a completely different customer.”

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 06/10/2026

Bobby Ferg should really not be saying something "is not the way" without providing another path forward, especially since it sounds like things have been dire for a while www.kuow.org/governing/20...

“That said, causing significant harm and inconvenience to the people of Washington state is not the way to address those issues. I was very direct in our meeting: My expectation is that every vessel on every route is fully operational no later than the first vessel sailing tomorrow morning.”

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 05/10/2026

oh dear god, the workweeks that actually result in overtime sound terrible

(b) The Employer agrees that vessels running sixteen (16) or more hours per day will
be manned by Engineer Officers working a scheduled seven (7) days on duty
followed by seven (7) days off duty and that such schedule shall conform to USCG
Regulations.
(c) Overtime shall be payable, pay period by pay period, for time worked beyond the
scheduled shift and overtime shall be payable, pay period by pay period, for time
continuously worked beyond twelve and one-half (12½) hours. If the Engineer
Officer works continuously beyond fifteen (15) hours, the Engineer Officer shall
be compensated for that additional time at two and one-half (2½) times the Engineer
Officer’s straight-time rate of pay unless a six (6) hour break has been granted.
Work performed beyond fifteen (15) continuous hours shall be paid at two and one-
half (2 ½) times the Engineer Officer’s regular rate of pay, with a two (2) hour
minimum at this rate. Engineer Officers who work more than fifteen (15) hours
shall not be eligible for work on the next scheduled shift of the current work week:
such Engineer Officers shall notify dispatch of their unavailability and will be paid
for the missed watch for twelve (12) hours at the straight-time rate of pay. These
provisions are both intended to ensure adequate crew rest.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 05/10/2026

FYI, this is happening because WSF is refusing to even give engineers a cost of living adjustment in their next contract. The salary they mention here just happens to be the highest out of six. Also, it's illegal to not give them sick leave. It's not a flex!

A Facebook post from Washington State Ferries:

This morning, 23 engine room employees called in sick. Every employee qualified to fill those positions has declined to fill them and keep the ferries running. All of the employees calling in sick, and declining to fill those vacancies, are represented by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA) who represent engine room employees. The ferries cannot run without these roles being filled. As a result, 13 of our 18 ferries are not in service. We understand how disruptive this is to thousands of Washingtonians. We expect our employees to return to work as soon as possible.
The employees who work in the engine room play a vital role in providing WSF’s safe service, which is why Staff Chief Engineers have a base salary of $157,000, and can make more than $350,000 a year with overtime, as well as annual sick and vacation leave, and retirement accrual.
All WSF vessels are fully staffed at the beginning of every service day at U.S. Coast Guard required levels. When an employee calls in sick, request dispatchers work to fill the position as quickly as possible. When those positions aren’t filled, the boat cannot sail, which is what we’re experiencing today across 13 of the 18 vessels currently in service.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 02/10/2026

I’m not here to tell Colleen Slemmer’s family how to feel, but for the record, if I am murdered, my soul will be fine without someone else dying for it.

Slemmer's stepfather, Raul Martinez, also slammed officials for failing to carry out the execution, and said his stepdaughter's soul
"cannot rest" until her killer is dead.
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"This bitch will haunt Colleen's heavenly journey until she's been wiped off the face of the earth," he wrote in a Facebook post.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 01/10/2026

THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DID (but good for Gary)

a screenshot from great british bakeoff. it shows a senior contestant and subtitles over it read "Gary's bringing something extra to the lemon party."

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 29/09/2026

It's not y2k unless you got one of these bad boys

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 27/09/2026

This is such an awful excuse, especially when specifically discussing vaccines FOR CHILDREN, who enter the Germs Thunderdome very reliably every September. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson said COVID-19 does not follow the same predictable seasonal pattern as influenza and other respiratory viruses, and that an arbitrary September date should not be treated as a public health deadline for vaccine procurement.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 25/09/2026

This fuckin asshole www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...

Mr. Netanyahu thought that Israel had deterred Hamas from waging war, according to an Israeli state ombudsman report about government decision-making before the October attack. He instructed Israeli military and intelligence bodies to pursue a policy of “postponing conflicts” and “preserving Hamas as an effective, restrained, and restraining governing authority,” the report said.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 18/09/2026

Oh no one of the most celebrated living actresses is voicing the Jesus lion, damn you Woke (also, this is how I found out that Greta Gerwig is directing the adaptation of my childhood favorite Narnia book, hell yeah)

Twitter/X screenshot:

Rod Dreher
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7hThe truest words Trump ever spoke: “Wokeness turns everything to shit.”
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Film Crave
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Meryl Streep will officially voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW’.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 18/09/2026

The way conservatives think about Politico is so insane to me. I keep thinking about this tweet from the writer at the Free Press that published that "don't worry, it's only SICK children in Gaza that are starving" piece. Imagine thinking that Ben Shapiro legitimizes POLITICO.

Olivia Reingold
@Olivia_Reingold
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Dec 9, 2022
Why I joined @thefp
:

I knew I didn’t fit in when Politico let @benshapiro
guest write an edition of Playbook. I told a colleague I was stoked because “this helps legitimize us.” They responded that they were taking a mental health day to process ‘Shapirogate.’

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 16/09/2026

oh god this is entirely too real

Eric:

Seahawk fans are now cicadas on a 12-year cycle. The cycle begins like this: The Seahawks hire a defensive minded coach with impeccable vibes. John Schneider inexplicably starts rolling sevens at the NFL draft craps table and amasses a collection of cheap talent. He also lucks into quality veterans. A decent season ensues.

Year 2: Another amazing draft. The Seahawks re-invent defense and we win a Super Bowl.

Years 3-11: John Schneider starts rolling snake eyes in the draft. All the once cheap talent starts demanding to be paid. Every drafted player will have an IQ of 7 and drive an ATV straight into a wall before the season starts. We will relive the trades for Jimmy Graham and trading two firsts for Jamal Adams. Every competent skill player will be ground to dust behind our O-Line and our once genius coach will tread water until being fired.

Time to hibernate until a new Pope is chosen. See you in 2037!

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 16/09/2026

lmao defector.com/why-your-tea...

J:

I still can't explain how or why they won the championship last year. My running assumption is that we're in a Monkey Paw type situation, and I won't leave the house until someone can convince me otherwise.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 15/09/2026

Yesssss kill each other apnews.com/article/pate...

Patel defends FBl's loosening of hiring standards on bestiality, prostitution
BY ERIC TUCKER
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The FBI quietly issued guidance this past spring lifting a categorical ban on hiring applicants who had previously engaged in prostitution. The bureau made a similar change with regard to bestiality.
Pressed about the moves at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Patel denied that the changes reflected a lowering of employment standards. He insisted that they were designed to protect victims who had been forced to engage in that conduct from being automatically disqualified.

The answer did little to satisfy Republican Sen.
John Kennedy of Louisiana, who grilled Patel about the rationale for a change that the FBI director said was proposed to him by subordinates.
"When you saw bestiality, I say this with respect:
The person who recommended it, why didn't you just say 'what planet did you parachute in from?'" Kennedy asked.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 13/09/2026

Laughed so hard my kid started screaming because I thought I saw a coexist bumper sticker and thought “huh haven’t seen one of those guys in a while” and then realized it was actually this

Bumper sticker that looks like the “coexist” bumper sticker, spelled out with spiritual and religious symbols, but instead of a C at the beginning it’s just a collegiate looking “H”

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 08/09/2026

Agree with @garbageday.email that big box stores aren't quite the right analogy for big social media enshittification but I think pharmacies get a little bit closer www.garbageday.email/p/if-app-bad...

Which is really the problem with using monthly active users to measure enshittification. Social platforms get compared to physical malls or big box stores often, but that doesn’t really capture what they are. If you walk into a Walmart and it’s completely rundown, yes, you would stop going to that store and it would go out of business. As long as there are other stores left in your town you could still go to, of course. But social platforms monetize negative experiences the same as positive ones. All of these companies — and, apparently, Thelot — believe that if people keep signing up and keep using these apps they’re doing so because they actively want to and enjoy being on them. It couldn’t possibly be that you need to be on them now to run a business or communicate with other people!

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 03/09/2026

Especially for a TOWER. Come on.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 02/09/2026

lol someone forgot to uncheck the robocall box for the 11 p.m. strike update

A screenshot of a call from Seattle Public Schools at 11:03 pm

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 29/08/2026

I think about this a lot and honestly I would like to briefly bring them back to life so I can laugh at them a little about it

And can you fucking imagine traveling back to 1996 and telling Republicans that within thirty years they’d be red-faced, vein-throbbing, foam-flecked and bellowing CRY HARDER, LIBTARDS because the reality-TV game-show host they put in the Oval Office TWICE had managed to find more warmth for North Korea than Canada and was punishing our closest northern ally by rage-renaming Lake fucking Ontario?

Bob Dole would’ve stared at you like you’d shit in his briefcase.

Pat Buchanan would’ve assumed the Soviets had won.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 29/08/2026

people used to ask me about how to become a professional writer and at the time it was like, you're probably gonna spend a couple of horrible years at the content factory sending chats like this to your partner, i'm sorry, i don't know what to tell you

a screenshot of a chat log from me:

ughhhh had a 1-on-1 with new supervisor today and she'd like my output to be "a little higher"

i sent her 9 pieces of content yesterday

9

999999999

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 28/08/2026

lol someone already updated his Wikipedia main photo

Milo Yiannopoulos
(A blurry photo of Milo, a white man with brown hair and a slight beard, looking very tired and kinda pissed)
Yiannopoulos in ICE detention, 2026

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 28/08/2026

On one hand (the bigger one), Milo Yiannopoulos’s arrest allows the Trump administration to settle a beef while simultaneously pretending that it’s not deliberately targeting the left, so I can’t realistically say it’s a net positive. On the other hand (the smaller one)… it’s very funny.

Screenshot from the AP:

U.S. NEWS
Far-right British provocateur Milo
Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration enforcement
Activist Milo Yiannopoulos speaks during a rally outside of the Baltimore hotel where the United States Conference of Cath Read more
BY SAFIYAH RIDDLE
Updated August 28, 2026 2:17 PM
U.S. Immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong…

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 27/08/2026

fuuuuuuuck i do not miss working for startups

Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:37:24 AM UTC: Sarah Anne Lloyd: DOOP DOOP
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:37:27 AM UTC: Sarah Anne Lloyd: we had work prom
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:37:29 AM UTC: Sarah Anne Lloyd: just now
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:37:32 AM UTC: Sarah Anne Lloyd: i drank all the vodka
Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:37:37 AM UTC: Sarah Anne Lloyd: now imma write bout the olsens

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 26/08/2026

Ah yes, the two genders

An Etsy listing for “Gray Cousin Hoodie” (muffin from Bluey). One of the fields is PRINCESS and the options are PRINCESS and NOT PRINCESS

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 24/08/2026

Calvinball is my new favorite webcomic and I don't think I've had a new favorite webcomic in decades bookthewyrm.neocities.org/fanarchive

A comic strip in the style of Calvin & Hobbes featuring an adult Susie seeing Adult Calvin for the first time

panel 1: Susie looking into the distance "wait... is that Calvin down at the creek?"
panel 2: Susie climbing over a wall "It is! I'd recognize that stupd haircut anywhere! I can't believe he's back! Couldn't handle the big city after all, huh?"
panel 3: Close frame of Susie's face with a clenched fist. "I told him the music industry was too competitive to be viable! Gosh, I can't wait to see the look on his —"
panel 4: Adult Calvin, topless from the back, arms mostly obscuring pair of boobs, and Susie with a shocked face and hands clasped over her mouth. "Oh, hey, Susie. Want to help me catch some frogs?"

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 23/08/2026

I'm so sick of this shit. When I was on Week in Review last year and I knew we were going to be discussing the kid sitting out of the Tumwater game I spent .3 seconds looking at league standings so I could give such cutting-edge analysis as "trans player clearly not leading team to victory."

Shelton:
Washington #134
Washington Division 2A #19 --
Seattle #74

Tumwater:
Washington #209
Washington Division 2A #35
Seattle #122

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 23/08/2026

it's giving Competitive Gentlemen's Rules

a very bad and long and complicated super smash bros ultimate ruleset that goes wayyyy over the alt text limit

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 09/08/2026

I have whiplash from how quickly I went from thinking I was reading a funny joke to realizing I was reading a reference to a real life thing

A screenshot of my Bluesky timeline

First post:

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social • 2h
Do an Al podcast with the dog. Fuck it. 90 seconds long. Fuck it. Who gives a shit. Just do it right now. The dog from our movie idiot. And obviously some other ones.

Next post:

Carly Gay Stepson @amcnal.bsky.social • 2h
Imbalanced Humors (Melancholic)
Hey boss, I know what will help sell our movie: a 90 second podcast hosted by fake dogs

Quoted post:
Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Persona... @talkinghenry.... • 3h

New dispatch from Hell:
Screenshot from X/Twitter:
Variety @Variety
X.com
Warner Bros. has teamed with the Al dog podcast "DogPack" to promote its upcoming sci-fi action film "The End of Oak Street."
The roughly 90-second podcast, hosted by an Al golden retriever named Goldie and an Al French bulldog named Frenchie, features an interview with Starbuck, who plays Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor's dog in "Oak Street."

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 06/08/2026

"None yet, lets do this"

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 06/08/2026

My first reaction was "why the fuck would I want more AI" and then I read the fine print and lol this is so fucking embarrassing. "To become eligible... complete approximately 150 qualifying Bing searches per month. Qualifying searches [must use] Bing as the default search engine."

A graphic advertising a "FREE Microsoft 365 Personal upgrade" promising "more storage, more AI, fewer limits."

Terms apply. Limited-time promotional offer available to eligible users only, currently in the 50 United States and Puerto Rico, subject to change. Complete the participation requirements shown in the offer experience to become eligible for a 1-month Microsoft 365 Personal promotional token. No payment instrument is required for the promotional token, and participation in this offer alone does not automatically enroll you in a paid Microsoft 365 Personal subscription. To become eligible for additional promotional months, complete approximately 150 qualifying Bing searches per month. Qualifying searches must be genuine, distinct, user-initiated Bing searches performed after required setup is complete and using Bing as the default search engine. Repeated, automated, fraudulent, or abusive activity may not count. Other Microsoft subscriptions on your account may have separate recurring billing terms. Microsoft may modify, suspend, or end the offer at any time. Microsoft Services Agreement and Microsoft Privacy Statement apply. See site for full terms.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 31/07/2026

And where there is only one set of footprints, that is where you got sick of running your little Cozy Coupe along and I pushed you

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 18/07/2026

if we can't get that together in time i will accept this

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 17/07/2026

god this thing was a masterpiece

Several tweets from @sarahannelloyd from May 24, 2020

ok they're really focusing on modie a lot because he's asking SUCH UNFAIR QUESTIONS like uh why are you messing around with the king county council when you live in snohomish also tim eyman pushed him in an elevator and laughed it off

take a shot every time he says "cadillac council" and you'll be dead in two minutes

i ooooh now he's confirming a statement, treacherous

this is a video clip turned dramatic still and what follows is modie literally just following tim eyman into a public space and asking normal questions [black and white still of a white man in a leather jacket and glasses with NEIL MUDIE: PI REPORTER over it]

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 17/07/2026

The thing I was looking for was my livetweet of watching the Perils of Tim Eyman (Erotolepsy is @ajtigner.bsky.social)

A screenshot of two tweets from @sarahannelloyd. the top one is Tim Eyman bending over to pick up a box with someone in the background holding a sign that says "You did it!"

The second one says, ""I like how a lot of this is like, Tim Eyman PICKED UP A PAPER BOX and TOOK IT TO HIS CAR!" -@Erotolepsy, who notes that his job requires him to pick up multiple paper boxes a day"

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 17/07/2026

Haven't updated this thread in a while but now I'm looking for a specific thing in my lil archive so here are some more

SAL @sarahannelloyd Apr 24, 2020
As someone who writes about homes a lot and has made some real typo doozies, I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands every time I type "big deck."

SAL @sarahannelloyd Apr 24, 2020
I've said it before, I'll say it again: If I were a real estate agent the first thing I would invest in would be just a boatload of red appliance knobs.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 17/07/2026

Mid-2000s rite of passage, about to go do free labor for Amanda Palmer

A young white woman wearing a white lace skirt, black and white striped stockings, black lace-up boots, fairy wings, a black top, and a brimmed black cap

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 17/07/2026

When I was 18 I was Fairies Wear Boots by Black Sabbath for Halloween (not pictured: a pack of those little Listerine strips in my pocket). I went to a party at a punk house and my cross disappeared for like 30 minutes and came back upside down. What a beautiful night.

A young white girl with shoulder-length hair wearing round sunglasses, fairy wings, a pink dress, an oversized silver cross necklace, and black lace-up boots

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 15/07/2026

Yessss we got a penis tomato, how auspicious!

A cluster of not yet ripe green tomatoes. One of them has a phallic extrusion.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 11/07/2026

The @garbageday.email analysis was much, much better. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...

The left's burning desire for a muscleman of their own isn't just a masculinity problem. Yes, the curdling of the American man is clearly affecting all men, regardless of whether they're watching Joe Rogan or Hasan Piker. But the desperation to defend Platner also comes from a bizarre contradiction that has emerged on the left since Trump entered office. There is a deeply-rooted sneering, condescending inability to imagine that working people - and working class men, who always are assumed to be white in these instances
- could ever vote for anyone other than a slovenly, alcoholic townie oaf. And there is a borderline pathological insistence that policies like free healthcare, antitrust regulation, student debt relief, and a rebuke of Israel's genocide in Palestine, if shouted by a white guy in his pickup truck, could somehow, magically fix the social and racial and religious divides that have opened up into yawning chasms during the Trump era. The same leftists cheering for the DSA upset in New York last month
- which was led almost entirely by women of color
- are completely unable to imagine that anything like that could work in the small town America populated by noble savages they imagine in their heads. Platner, for all his unending messiness, was the easy way out. The choice that meant your favorite podcaster could be anti-Trump, but didn't have to sound "woke," or feminine, or whatever.

And I'll admit that I was excited by Platner when I first noticed his campaign last year. I'm not from Maine, but I'm a New Englander and he reminded me of guys I grew up with. I felt the same twinge of hope that I assume many in Maine felt, seeing a man like him, with a history like his, speaking about politics the way he has. It was a hope that the guys I went to high school with or the men in my family or in my home town might suddenly wake up and realize the Republicans were screwing them over.
That there might finally be a way to save all the lost, angry, awful men I know. And I still have that hope, but Platner - and any other leftist strongman that comes along - is the shortcut. And the current implosion of his campaign is exactly what happens when you take shortcuts.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 11/07/2026

Some context for that. Sure, we’re not clairvoyant, but surely we don’t need to give everyone with that many flags a shot at *checks notes* the United States Senate????

I stand by my previous defense of Platner.
Offensive tattoos and sexting-out-of-wedlock struck me as the most Marine shit ever. I literally know Marines who've done both but later grew up and became decent guys. (Hi if you're reading this!) | still believe in my bones that people like that deserve to have a shot at public office and that our country would be better for it. But the Marines I'm describing were never accused of more serious things like sexual assault.
People were right to give him a chance before; and they're right to drop him now.
"But there were so many red flags," the argument goes, pointing to the sexting, tattoo, and Reddit posts. Think about that argument for a moment: it means that people should be disqualified from public office for things there isn't evidence they actually did, just "red flags" from which they can supposedly be divined. Ruling out anyone with Reddit post-level flaws bars millions of otherwise decent people from politics. The only people left are the exact kind of squeaky-clean, Mckinsey consultant politicians that was the entire point of my Platner article in the first place.

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