Walter Wm. Hofheinz

[Walter Wm. Hofheinz @MrPits]

@AdLawyer Read an early edition of Jay Foonberg.

[Ksawery @Ksawery_Kreft]

Karma is a b*tch ;)

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Lao Tzu

[Walter Wm. Hofheinz @MrPits]

@YoungEx20 @DietCoke_Esq Bayer

[Walter Wm. Hofheinz @MrPits]

@erickalet @DietCoke_Esq Bayer

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

A day into vacation, with my brain healing from being (mostly) offline, I’ve been meditating on one thought: In many controversies, multiple things can be true at the same time. In the Platner situation, all of these things seem true:

- Platner represents a unique threat to elite power and therefore the elite and its media machine are subjecting him to the kind of scrutiny that the elite do not subject themselves or their political puppets to, in order to try to get him to drop out/lose.

- Some of the accusations being hurled at Platner are uncorroborated and come from politically motivated sources, and others with similar political motivations are trying to amplify the accusations not because they are genuinely morally outraged but because they have political/ideological goals.

- The same political and media class that ignored/buried the Epstein scandal is now pretending to be genuinely mad about the substance of the Platner allegations/revelations — and their pretend outrage is patently ridiculous and inauthentic.

- Some of the corroborated revelations and uncorroborated allegations about Platner are serious and should be taken seriously — and should be weighed against his explanations, contrition and denials.

- Voters being exposed to new revelations/accusations can have legit concerns about them and about Platner, and having those concerns does not make those voters corrupt or dupes.

- Elections are leaps of faith. We don’t know what people will do once in office. We do know that those who control the political system do not like letting anyone near power who didn’t climb the traditional political latter.

- Platner volunteered to risk his life in combat for his country — multiple times. He then volunteered to run for Senate when no other major challenger was willing or able to step up and give Maine voters a serious choice in competitive primary. These decisions reflect a form of character and courage.

- Who is given grace and who is ostracized from politics remains selective. America extended grace to John McCain and allowed him into politics despite his — ahem — quite messy post-combat lifestyle and behavior. The Senate that threw out Al Franken also extended grace to Brett Kavanaugh and confirmed him despite allegations of sexual assault. Voters extended grace to Donald Trump for all of his horrors and elected him president. The fiery debate over whether voters should extend Platner — a combat veteran — grace or ostracize him proves that we still have no collective set of mores about forgiveness.

All of these things are true, and there’s one more thing that’s true: saying these things does not make one a Platner shill, a misogynist, etc. People hurling those insults and insinuations aren’t operating in good faith. They are trying to halt any conversation and shut down the democratic discourse — likely because they are politically motivated.

I am now going to (try to) log back off.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

The political class knows how to turn every campaign into a spectacle of personality and scandal. What it does not want is a race about power.

In Maine, Graham Platner is trying to force that conversation: who has power, who abuses it, and whether working people can organize enough of it to fight back.
David Sirota reports from the campaign trail ⬇️

https://t.co/yBEiFH6qh8

[Max @minordissent]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by cowardice

[Abakcus @abakcus]

The periodic table of elements scaled to show the actual abundance of the elements on Earth by Prof. Wm. F. Sheehan in 1976.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.

[Walter Wm. Hofheinz @MrPits]

@BrianCAlbrecht Nonsense. That just reflects a bias for capital over labor.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Carl Jung said:

There is no “healing.”
There is ONLY letting go.

Meditate on that one.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Graham Platner is an extremely imperfect person and candidate, but the corporate media feeding frenzy that's emerged to try to sink him as grotesque. I know this because I've done a deep dive on his past and therefore know how many claims being casually bandied about are false.

[ꨄ︎ @providentialy]

My mom said,

'If you flip a coin and don't like the answer, you know what you really wanted.'

And damn...

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
Rollo May

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.—Lawrence M. Krauss

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Rollo May