Talarico And Platner … Come On, Man
These two were cherry picked to improve the Democrats’ appeal to young white males. Both are epic fails.
Jim Davis | June 17, 2026
The Democrat Party Deep State (DPDS), and the left-wing lunatics who form its base, seem determined to repeat the same mistakes that produced 2024. Rather than putting the country first, they continue to focus on partisan interests — a behavior most Americans have grown increasingly unwilling to reward. So, they cherry-picked two candidates to draw in the young white male vote—what has amounted to an epic fail.
To understand this pattern of dysfunction, we need only look at how the DPDS treats their perceived enemies compared to their own rising stars.
Let’s start with Pete Hegseth.
Trump’s Secretary of War holds multiple degrees, including Ivy League credentials, and saw combat in Iraq. Yet his critics reduce his stellar background to the least significant items on his résumé, such as “podcaster” or “Fox News contributor,” to create a caricature.
Accusations swirl around Hegseth — often focusing on military service life, implying that combat veterans drinking is a scandal — but his critics rely more on narrative than hard evidence. I’d like to see just one video of Hegseth “drunk on duty,” the likes of which we constantly see from figures like Nancy Pelosi, who appears unable to pass a Breathalyzer.
In the era of the smartphone, where video cameras are everywhere, it is telling that the Left relies on hearsay rather than visual proof.
These controversies are either exaggerated or fabricated — much like the pack of lies I call Trump & Epstein Inc., or anything the DPDS flung at Trump during their Year of Peak Lawfare (2024), hoping something would stick.
We were promised videos of Trump being urinated upon by a Russian hooker in a Moscow hotel (2016), and videos of Trump getting sexual favors from minors on Epstein’s private island (from Inauguration Day, 2025 to the present). None have materialized. Not even Polaroids.
In the Age of Video Cameras Everywhere, Trump and Hegseth’s detractors are all talk and AI, and no video.
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