Randy L-H

New Englander by birth, North Carolinian by choice. I work in insurance, I play board games, I drink beer, I support the @NERevs. I'm very cool.

[Magills @magills_]

Everyday for the Platner campaign

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I'd genuinely like to hear someone explain why Elon Musk doing an autistic wave at inauguration was proof that he is a Nazi who needs to be exiled from public life, but Graham Platner's "Totenkopf" tat is NBD and not disqualifying for a Senate run.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@RaleighGov Ah, good. We are now aware. Very meaningful.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@ZaidJilani So... You're chill with a dude hanging on to a Nazi tattoo and only removing it when politically necessary. I know you hate Jews man, but even you've gotta admit that's a little much.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@katrosenfield Cathy's gone off the deep end in the last year or so. Hating the right and anyone who doesn't share her fervor is basically her only cause now.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

The allegations against Platner are better corroborated than the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were and it will be interesting to see who manages to be consistent in their beliefs about such things.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This guy turned every single text his HOA president sent him into a song.

Over the past year and a half, she’s been texting him nonstop about fines, videos he’s posting, eggs in the yard, signs on his lawn, his driveway, and even threatening to put a lien on his house. So instead of arguing with her, he had AI turn all her messages into a full song.

It’s honestly one of the most creative ways I’ve seen someone get back at an over-the-top HOA.

Be honest… would you turn your HOA president’s texts into a song?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Idk what he knew about the tattoo when he got it, seems plausible he didn’t know much. But it's highly implausible he didn't learn about it at some point before he ran for office, and there are a lot of accounts that contradict his narrative.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@rashadzali1 @CathyYoung63 Oh come the fuck on. Y'all went from "Let's not rush to judgement" to "the police response was basically fine" to "suggesting ideology and 'anti-racist' training played a role is fascist" in like 24 hours.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

NYT: Platner reportedly did know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol:

"[Graham] Platner’s insistence that he did not know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true, Ms. Fifield said. After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as 'my Totenkopf.'"

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@RichardHanania "Oh, it was such a hard decision to terminate the pregnancy because raising the child would just be too, too hard." Yeah, I'm sure it was. Probably not as hard on you as the dead kid, tho.

Maybe it should be legal. But it should also be shameful.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@RichardHanania I am on the fence about whether I think this should be legal. But I definitely think it's something you should keep to yourself. Don't try to engender sympathy for how hard *your* life is because you decided to take another's.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

This person is an idiot.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

“My boss called me into a meeting to explain why I’d acted like an entitled jackass in the staff meeting and to give me a chance to walk it back, I spent the whole meeting demanding she answer my questions about unrelated staffing decisions and then she fired me”

~ Scott Pelley

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Excellent question good sir as jokes are always better when fully explained.

We here at the Jarvis Account do not do POLITICAL jokes. We do not care who you vote for or why. We do jokes about the way people TALK about politics. Because it is unhinged.

Political talk today is characterized by CATASTROPHIZING. Your enemies will put you in CAMPS. Democracy is ENDING. Every election is THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIMES. Scott Pelley being sacked isn’t the mere natural outcome of calling his new boss a murderer and generally acted like a petulant dickhead in front of God and everyone - it’s the END OF LIBERAL MEDIA AS WE KNOW IT just like it was when Acosta and Lemon and a million other replacement level talking heads were shown the door.

This particular joke is a form joke we invented maybe a decade ago to describe the way we catastrophize everything on social media. Believe it or not it actually predates the famous RUTHKANDA FORVER post which is just the most notable of the Woke Kid genre of tweets.

We most recently used it a month ago to poke fun at conservatives who were having what we considered to be somewhat humorous meltdowns about Spirit Airlines going out of business as if all their mothers were dying as opposed to the much more boring reality of the fact that a shitty airline went belly up.

As Canada will once again not have the Stanley Cup on its failed terrorist state soil, I hope that this joke explanation will provide some solace and edification. And of course there’s always next year.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Oh, of course. Sort of like how I want France disbanded and overrun by terrorists, and the French forced to live exclusively as a scattered diaspora. And anyone who supports the continuance of France fired and rounded up into camps. But none of this means I hate French people.

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@CathyYoung63 @Quillette Fair enough, hadn't heard of that use before. In my defense, it's hardly the most well-known use of that phrase.

And what do you mean, "you guys?" What do you think my political affiliations or beliefs are? Who are you lumping me in with as a "pathetic" "snowflake?"

[Randy L-H @TheFirstRandy]

@Clarksterh @CathyYoung63 @JerryBarnett Yes, agreed there. But one way to get them to stop responding to it is convincing them (and the public at large) that it exists and is bad. Both of those are hardly mainstream opinions right now, at least on the left.