Trump's numbers got very slightly better during the first impeachment. I don't think it made much difference one way or another, but impeaching to get a trial in a hostile Senate is probably pointless.

More curious about the right answer, honestly. People QTing this: "Lol he's reading How to Win Friends and Influence People, aren't I clever?" Me: no, what actually is it supposed to be?

How could we possible figure out that a movie about divorced couple reconciling during an office Christmas party, with a score made up of Christmas song adaptations, that ends with the words merry Christmas, was a Christmas movie

The thing I find weird about Die Hard is a Christmas movie discourse is… the movie is overtly a Christmas movie? It’d be like if every year people posted “JUST A REMINDER A CHRISTMAS STORY IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE”

Gotta post the 4chan meme, sorry:

George Bailey being a disaster before Clarence's intervention is incredible stuff.

Christmas movies? Die Hard ❌ Lord of the Rings ✅ It has: Elves. Gift giving. Three wise(ish) men traveling east. A jolly old bearded man who delights children. At least 5 golden rings. But they were all of them deceived. For another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom.

People seem really determine to hate on Nolan's Odyssey? I am not sure I understand why.

It's almost like Bari Weiss has no idea what she's doing

I don't think this is a particularly useful comparison? Nuzzi is very much about someone who worked the pathologies of legacy media to her own advantage with no sense of ethical responsibility But Weiss at CBS is an invasive species, brought in by non-news people to break their news operation.

What?

So Alfonsi clearly sent this memo with the understanding that one of her colleagues would leak it to the Times, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Haven't really read the others, but dead on about Conan.

Not enough people saw my Doctor Strange: Shamballa based Magic: The Gathering card last night.

Is this the most important Marvel Comic that shares its name with a Three Dog Night Song?

Look, the Academy is sometimes right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgs...

Appropriate.

Christ, what an embarrassment.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. It's going to be spectacular. Not promising.

She would be extremely qualified.

Clint is like the US. He eventually does the right thing, once every other option has been exhausted

So who are the bottom 10 Marvel characters (Non-Offensive Division)? So far, besides Warlock, I've got the Beyonder, the Impossible Man, and Woodgod. Who else?

Does boycotting an election because you fear it will be rigged ever work? I know this is a common tactic by opposition groups in semi-authoritarian countries, but I can't think of any examples of it working?

I really know nothing about the series besides the name, but the fact that "Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers" takes place in an alt-universe and not in the 616 shows the abject cowardice of Marvel editors.

If the House can't hold the line the Senate is much much less likely to.

More of a Bormann

Tis the season

No Gaston backstory is necessary, but now I want him to Flashman his way through Revolutionary/Napoleonic/Restoration France. Like he unwittingly foils the flight to Varennes, is nearly executed in the Terror, betrays both Napoleon and Louis XVIII, that kind of thing.

What Are We Even Doing Here: The Iron Fist And Luke Cage Story

I'm not a Catholic, but from what I know about Catholicism I feel like the diocese would have forcibly retired Monsignor Wicks years ago.

Kinda wild how quickly the entire trump admin moved on from the whole Indiana thing and how much it probably should tell everyone that you can tell him to fuck off and their need to constantly own the news cycle will mean that they move on from you within days.

I'm taking Cinnabon's side.

Bigorexia?? The pernicious influence of Auguste Comte cannot be exaggerated.

Joe Gruters? I don't think I have ever heard of this man before.

oh no are we doing "the Cratchits are the face of Victorian poverty" discourse again?

this has reminded me of the Earl of Arran's remarks about why his campaigning for the decriminalisation of homosexuality was more successful than his campaign to ban the hunting of badgers

ha ha, the DP.

Wait, Disney *is paying* OpenAI for this deal???

This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)

Yeah, this is weak. The person of the year should be that Elon Musk waifu AI.

Welcome to the Far Future World of DUNE! Freed from the tyranny of thinking machines, the limitless potential of Humanity has been unleashed! Why, you can be: - A talking computer who kills people! - A witch who does eugenics! - A fish who takes drugs to go FTL! That's it. Those are your options.

You are probably cursed for all eternity if you understand what this means.

Anti-semitism is the Folgers Coffee of fools.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

"We're going to do wars with Gemini now" is a wild thing to say. The robot that gives us wrong answers to all our google searches?

Biden wasn’t even allowed to say the economy was doing well, even though it objectively was, because that was insensitive to anyone anywhere who was struggling. But Republicans can go “oh, you can’t afford health care now, waaaaa cry more” and apparently that’s fine.

Most major Labour and Tory politicians somehow claiming to be in the highlighted group. I won't say Britain is the country with the stupidest politics because [gestures at everything going on here in the US], but it's pretty fucking stupid.

We've got some new renderings of future plans for the Wanamaker building, including proposals for new entryways and on Market Street, a roof deck pool, and the return of the huge skylight over the Grand Court! www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Since SCOTUS apparently about to eliminate the administrative state, I propose a new form of government based on the French First Republic. Abolish the presidency and the Senate. Expand the House to 700 members. Cabinet secretaries and other executive officials report directly to the House.