I know people want Venezuela to be about oil, or Greenland to be about rare earth minerals or something, but I think the situation is a lot clearer if we understand that it is not even slightly about those things, it is pure unmotivated madness. We are ruled by mad men. Motiveless malignity

Wait, the French foreign minister is literally Stephen Miller's French doppelganger.

Macaulay Culkin's character in Fallout is basically just Stephen Miller

I don't think this is how anything works.

The US invading Greenland is such an insane, senseless idea that I have no idea what would follow from it.

Look, say what you will about me, but I am out here almost every day hustling my non-politics content.

West Coast Avengers the most Republican-coded super team and it's really not very close. Besides all the guys I talked about in this thread, Bobbi is a National Security State Republican who goes Never Trump, and Tigra is a fashion influencer who goes hard MAGA.

I don't. Good god.

What are articles of impeachment drafted by the minority party but strongly worded letters, persevering?

Why would anyone who doesn't have inside information from the Trump administration place Polymarket bets on anything about which anyone within the Trump administration might have inside information?

I don't think I've seen anyone say anything interesting about Heated Rivalry at any point since it became a big deal. Isn't it just a gay Hallmark movie?

Why do people think this?

Wrong rock. I don't even understand what people are mad at Schumer about here?

So the thing is, it *does* seem clear that the United States does not have any control over the country, in spite of what Trump said.

What is the evidence that the Liz Cheney appearances fed into that? Something Stephen Miller said doesn't qualify.

In the wake of Trump's illegal operation against Venezuela and bizarre and unsupported claims that the US is now running Venezuela, I think the most important thing we can do right now is get mad at Democrats for not opposing it in exactly the right way even though they're clearly opposing it.

At this moment there is absolutely zero, as in none at all, evidence that the Trump administration or anyone friendly to it is in control of Venezuela, and so all this speculating about how his supposed occupation will function appears a bit beside the point.

I assume she turned off quote tweets because of all the people QTing this post to say "I'll take that deal."

Maybe an invasion, but also Trump just says shit. We'll find out soon enough I guess.

In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.

Dunno about these new CBS News principles.

Don't know when exactly it happened, but I'm officially at more followers on here than I have on X, the Everything App, which I've mostly abandoned. That's nice. Pretty much a year after I started posting mostly on here.

Well, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. RIP to a real one. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/a...

But they were all of them deceived.

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.