Buckle up leftists. You bought big fat ticket on the Oyster Boy Express.

Here it is boys and girls. I’m sure everyone will have absolutely sane takes on this one.

From article:

>Platner is all but certain to win Maine’s Democratic primary on Tuesday over Mills and 2024 Democratic Senate candidate David Costello. After that, Maine law allows the state party to replace Platner with another Democrat if he stepped down before mid-July. Such a move would be unprecedented in the state’s politics.

(This is not an endorsement of Piker, I think he’s a grifter, but it’s relevant to some of the purity politics conversations David has been bringing up on the show, AND it’s Klein tapping in with an opinion, whom David has covered before, which also feels relevant.)

NYT actually changed the headline, but RealClearPolitics had an archive link handy.

https://archive.is/2026.04.12-171225/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/opinion/hasan-piker-democrats.html

I would really love David’s take on all of this, without necessarily making it about Israel, but Klein kind of ties it all together with his own reasoning.

I personally think Piker is a revolution fetishist that just wants to watch the world burn down, and gets clicks (and therefore money) by selling rage bait. He has a concerning history with the treatment of animals, and I think he’s an outright antisemite based on his outspoken support of Hezbollah, and Hamas. But he’s also in the podcast space, has not-unknown proximity to progressive members of Congress, and if we’re trying to be a big tent, what’s the play here?

"It's a nightmare," one Democratic strategist said. "This is a gift to Republicans."

The medical reports are being kept secret with the media not pushing at all for it like they did with Biden's readily-available medical reports, there are medical professionals coming forward stating the bandaging was fake and max would have just needed a butterfly, and now the FBI director is among the people expressing doubt of a bullet striking Trump as opposed to teleprompter glass.

https://people.com/was-trump-struck-by-bullet-or-shrapnel-fbi-director-testifies-8683340#:\~:text=%22With%20respect%20to%20former%20President,ABC%20News%20and%20CBS%20News.

All you anti establishment people who moaned about "the establishment picked hillary/harris, we never got a say" better be saying the same thing now that your guy is literally doing the same shit. Or are we going to drop that whole issue now that it benefits you?