there is an alternate ending to Natural Born Killers where the guy who helped Mickey and Malory escape kills them in their van, then credits roll. Oliver Stone said that IF he were to kill off the lovers, it would never be by a virtuous institution or The Good Guys…
…It would only make sense if they were brought down by someone like them, someone of the same debauched and depraved stripe. Anyway, been thinking of that alt ending in the days since the Tucker Carlson firing.
Apr 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I went to Kings Island today with the baby boy and his grandparents (he rode mad rides, and I got a soft pretzel), and we’re going downtown tomorrow to Cincinnati’s Asian Food Festival. #WHCD
Suck it, nerds.
Apr 28, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I can’t believe I’m defending the guy but cmon are you saying you’ve never done that with pudding
If you don’t have utensils and you’re a starving, angry man, you’re gonna use the fingers. The reported pudding fingering is only being played up by DeSantis’ critics because he already had an entrenched reputation for being a mean weirdo with zero social abilities...
Apr 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am being sincere: If the question is what is the best Hbo show in recent years about a succession fight in a powerful, insanely wealthy right wing American family w/ a towering patriarch, featuring a Culkin brother” & you’re answer isn’t the righteous gemstones, u are Fake News
You probably thought the Steele dossier was out of a Tom Clancy novel instead of a coen bros movie when you first saw it
Apr 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
are conservative influencers and politicians getting this Mad about bud light because they didn’t know she was trans at first, thought for a second she’s hot, and will therefore never forgive the insta ad for it
It’s one insta thing that you never would have otherwise seen, done by a company whose product you probably don’t drink anyways
Apr 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A truly annoying thing Aaron Sorkin does all the time that will never stop being annoying is he gives characters things to say that sound dumb, so that his preferred character can swoop in & correct it in pompous ways… but the initial dumb thing never sounds like a…
…thing that the first characters would ever say.
Apr 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There’s the usual dunking on this tweet from the usual suspects. Anyway, it’s a tweet; read the second paragraph in the story
I wonder why it might have been uniquely emotional for Biden!
Mar 30, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
If trump, desantis, or someone like them is elected next year, the chances are high that bombing, attacking, or invading Mexico (even if the country doesn’t help or consent) will be a top Republican policy priority. This isn’t just trump mouthing off anymore…
… Proposals for Special Forces deployment & targeted strikes (& also going well beyond that) have gained a good deal of mainstream GOP support on Capitol Hill, think tank world, etc. Here’s a look, for instance, of the policy proposals that have been briefed to Trump & others:
never been more vindicated in my life over anything more so than I have in bring militantly anti-Kanye since high school
All you idiots who thought his rap was good because he had a song that said blood diamonds are bad or w/e
Oct 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
why do I keep seeing Herschel Walker ads on Samsung TV Plus, we’re in Ohio
The ads are almost entirely “taxing Tim Ryan” ads, and basically the other half is Herschel Walker explaining that he’s already talked about his mental illness in his memoir
Oct 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
a weird thing that never made sense to me since I started hearing it as a kid was the popularized right wing clapback suggesting the Southern Strategy didn’t exist b/c, or so they claim, it’s a liberal myth that a lot of Dixiecrats switched from Dem to GOP in the mid-60s…
…They’d argue in actuality it was a much smaller number of Dem politicians who switched in the Johnson era, like Strom Thurmond.
Oh if it was ONLY Strom Thurmond…
Sep 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Lost in some of this is the hilarity that Trump didn’t just give it to him
Spent that many years bootlicking, & the outgoing president—who is spending all his time left in power trying to see if the legal blog at The American Millenium dot net written by Robert Bork’s mutant, harpsichord-playing secret-son can keep him in power—won’t even do you 1 favor
Sep 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is getting shared quite a lot by the RNC and its political and media allies, but they leave in the video the part that they ellipsis-over in the written part of the tweet, where she literally says dc will “create a new normal” and infrastructure to accommodate…
Trump has been demanding that his lawyers and team look for ways to get "all…my documents" and "my things" back that the feds raided. Well, that's not gonna happen, so his attorneys are currently working on a follow-up Rule 41 motion: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
...It's just incredibly unclear what that would even look like in court, especially given the opening Monday filing by the Trump legal team (headed by Evan Corcoran): rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Aug 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Another important thing to remember about Salman Rushdie is he went through everything he did for decades, and did not emerge on the other end as a reactionary psychopath. He obviously wasn’t religious, but came out the other end of that experience not wanting to ban Islam or…
…wanting to do anything rancidly terrible or vengeful. Years ago, to pick just one instance, he was on Real Time w/ Bill Maher & reminded the panel that the guy who saved people from the Times Square bomber, “he was a Muslim, too.” It obviously *shouldnt* be a big ask to…
Aug 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
It rules that every single piece Dr. Oz messaging is like, “The election was Stolen by THEFT, so any of you hogs like Auntie Anne’s, headquartered in “Land-Chester, PA”??
while reading from a notecard the whole time
Aug 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Espionage” as a treat
Ok, this is what makes Trump and the nature of this particular probe (I know, there’s too many) so funny… From 2019: “Donald Trump is set to shatter Barack Obama’s record of prosecuting journalistic sources under the 1917 Espionage Act” theintercept.com/2019/05/15/the…
Aug 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I’m certainly open to the idea of something more nefarious going on, but in years of covering Trumpland the explanations for scandals have often been far dumber than you’d expect, so am equally open to the scenario in which Trump just wanted to look cool, thus the raid
"Within the past year and a half, Trump’s guests at Mar-a-Lago have at times witnessed the ex-president brandishing certain objects or papers, claiming they were mementos from his stint in the White House as he gave informal tours of his Florida homestead" rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
“It reminded me of how he’d give tours of the bathrooms and the toilets when he lived in the White House,” one of the knowledgeable sources says. “He likes to show off…even if he isn't supposed to have those things...” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Jul 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
DeSantis is a perfect illustration of why certain observers (myself included) have since 2015 diagnosed that Trump is a mere symptom, the GOP is the issue. But with desantis, this isn’t even a tenuous 2012 “Romney isn’t Bush!” pitch to voters, he’s basically just the same guy!
DeSantis does fewer tweets (or “Truths”) about Amber Heard, fine, but if you don’t see him and what he does and see Trump & Trumpism pumping thru his veins, I don’t know what to tell you.
