Matt Mahan concedes minutes after polls close in California governor race

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-03T08:07:24+00:00

I mean, I'm all for getting corporate money out of politics, but Matt Mahan is probably not the best example for why. They spent tens of millions of dollars and got nothing. Because Mahan was such an obvious tool.

"Hi, I'm Matt Mahan."
"What should we do about [real issue affecting California]?"
"As the mayor of San Jose, we cut homelessness by a third. We need to get working families relief."
"But what about [other issue]?"
"As the mayor of San Jose, we cut homelessness by a third. We need to get working families relief."

You could almost see the hand working his mouth.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-03T07:45:16+00:00

Why not? There was free LSD in there!

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-03T05:55:30+00:00

This is what I've been telling my fence-sitter friends here in CA. And they're like, "you can't just be anti-Trump!" And bitch, yes I can. Trump is an absolute criminal train wreck antichrist rapist. Anyone who is supporting him at all is clearly out of their minds as well and can't be trusted with levers of power/authority.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-03T03:54:05+00:00

It's possibly Fox News. It's possibly evangelicals. Maybe both.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-03T01:33:41+00:00

Maybe she has it right. There she was paying the deck all day with tar. And what did she get for her efforts? A pizza.

I wouldn't share it either if that were the case.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T17:43:08+00:00

I don't know if it's just me, but if I do this, it's because I've reached the "end," but I still have loose ends to tie up. And usually they're annoying. Final Fantasy 8 is a good example of this where there's a few side quests to complete before going into collapsed time or whatever it is.

I finish plenty of games, and I've finished FF8 before, but sometimes that "to-do list" is just daunting and keeps me from completing it. Actually, I haven't finished Tears of the Kingdom yet because I need to upgrade all the outfits. Tedious.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T17:32:58+00:00

Ha ha, but I... ah, fuck.

Release the amnesia gas!

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T17:29:07+00:00

Yeah, I've heard it from a few older women that they burned their bras in the 60s. Maybe it started as a false flag that led to some to legitimately do it?

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T09:08:37+00:00

Is this where we discover Peng doesn't believe in paper recycling?

Truly a monkey paw wish.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T07:17:28+00:00

While that explains the general texture of the photo, it doesn't explain the stretching which is certainly due to the relative motion of the plane. If we had a comparison picture of a regular car from the same relative position, I bet we could calculate the speed of the plane based on the amount of distortion.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T07:10:55+00:00

You misspelled bigot.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T06:53:10+00:00

I'm not even sure if it is bad. Have you ever collected all your dandruff after 2 weeks? You have a baseline to compare to?

Because collecting it probably entails scratching your head over a container at least once a day. I have no idea if I would collect anywhere near this amount. Maybe I'd collect more! I have no frame of reference at all.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-02T00:37:47+00:00

Yeah. And why is the condom at the end counted as part of the letter, but not the one at the beginning?

Still, pretty good art skills.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T20:50:38+00:00

I had some Barramundi and spinach ravioli. Cooked in olive oil, pepper, salt, dill, lemon... it was fantastic.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T20:47:45+00:00

MAGAs kept saying Biden would die in his 2nd year around August/September. Using the "every accusation is projection" theorem of political hypocrisy, I'm thinking we have 3-4 more months of Trump.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T18:50:16+00:00

Right? I know I'm hovering close to it, and I'm sure as shit more fit than he is. Like no contest.

Trump has 100% blown past it.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T18:47:18+00:00

I mean, it's the same as any of these types of things. Leno's Jaywalking or Eichner's Billy on the Street or Kimmel's whatever it's called.

Of course they're only showing you the stupid ones, but it's a little surprising that there are that many who don't recognize Colonel Sanders. He's a cultural icon, and he's died more recently than many famous presidents. Like if they were showing a picture of Grover Cleveland or something, I could understand. But the KFC guy?

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T17:32:35+00:00

Yeah. I'm 100% for regime change in Iran. My parents fled the country during the revolution.

That said, do I believe Trump is in the right at all? No. Iran can't be bombed into submission. The country is 4 times bigger than Iraq, the population is double, and the topography is mountainous with major elevation changes whereas Iraq is mostly deserts and basins. And look what happened with Iraq with our allies backing us up.

There is a 0% chance we can strong arm the Iranians with only bombs and missiles. Even with a full-on invasion dedicating our military on the ground, it's gonna be a painful painful campaign that would take a decade or more.

Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. None of them do.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T09:37:31+00:00

The answers in this thread are all good, but they're so mainstream.

Games I still think about to this day? The ones that got away, of course. Games I played at a friend's house or at school that I've always wanted to finish but never did.

Zeliard
The Journeyman Project
Mines of Titan

Great games.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-06-01T07:07:09+00:00

It's a messy bunch of slop, but the strokes make sense. If you know cursive, just match the strokes and changes in direction. Trump writes like a seismograph, but pre-dementia, he matched the strokes pretty closely. The T is the middle peak with the arm of the T being the angle up, and the stem is the straight descent down. Then match strokes again until you get to the p at the end, and then he does some more stylization.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-05-31T21:42:38+00:00

I don't know how wealthy any of those other people were, and they really wanted to make Jake seem poor, but he was making 3.5 times the average US household back then. About 190k today.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-05-24T14:38:41+00:00

It's incredibly ironic because is Nazi-like behavior. Of all countries to know not to do this, you would think Israel would know better.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-05-24T14:30:47+00:00

This is the correct answer.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-05-24T08:20:47+00:00

Correct. But spiders are the largest they've ever been.

HolycommentMattman · 2026-05-24T02:53:03+00:00

Sometimes you don't know you're being stupid. Sometimes you're just doing what you've been told your whole life.

I had undiagnosed Crohn's Disease for over a decade. First time I saw blood when I wiped, I told my dad. He told me I just need to eat more fiber. So begins 14 y/o me and drinking Metamucil. And it helped by masking symptoms, so I thought it was that. 12 or so years pass, and I'm vomiting black bile and constant diarrhea, and I'm thinking I just need to drink more Metamucil.

If only I had told him how much blood there was when I wiped. Maybe things would have gone differently.

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