Frankly, Barbie’s effect on culture might be a tad overblown,

Swift performs for three hours nightly. Trump starts rambling about Oreos or something 40 minutes in.

You know how calories eaten on vacation don’t count? For progressives, rapes against Jews don’t count.

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A spokesperson for Fetterman then gave Business Insider a frankly ridiculous statement, claiming Fetterman “strongly supports a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine, and always has” but that he “strongly believes that this resolution should include language stipulating the destruction of Hamas as a precondition…

Fetterman has always been a bit of a provocateur (a fact celebrated here if I recall correctly) so how he’s defending positions that (without having done a deep dive) seem relatively close to mainstream, doesn’t seem off brand to me.

This is the natural result of people lionizing politicians. I really don’t know why people help up Fetterman as a progressive champion. There really wasn’t anything that showed he was a progressive during the campaign. Let’s be honest, the biggest reason to vote for him was that he wasn’t Mehmet fucking Oz.

Thank you for taking the time, though. I didn’t know ANY of that except the Bay of Pigs a little (I knew about it, but it never occurred to me that Cubans would associate the debacle with a specific party), and it’s food for thought.

Everything you say is a good point. She might have apologized too because now that all the secrets are out it is cathartic, and she doesn’t want JT’s career to suffer now for things that happened 20 years ago. On the scale of reasons someone’s livelihood should be destroyed being a dumb kid in a teenage relationship…

Some people made the argument that Spears should be free by arguing some permutation of “Ackshually Britney would have her shit together if she didn’t have her dad and the 2003 paparazzi in her life”. Others thought (myself included) that emotionally unstable people who aren’t a danger to others deserve a high degree…

Agreed. They were nineteen. Both of them were unfaithful and a bit messy. And Justin wasn’t the only slut-shaming Spears (Diane Sawyer interview anyone?). The internet and gossip mags LIVED for dogpiling on women in the early aughts.

Spears appeared to apologize to ex Justin Timberlake for the varying revelations about him she included in her memoir, which didn’t exactly portray the former boy band frontman in a positive light—but who cares??? He could have just not done all those things!

Turns out Habba really isn’t that good at faking being smart. Although that is apparent from this stupid answer. Doctors can make you pretty. Doctors can’t make you smart. Duh.

Yes, some of us must live with Tim Scott and Candace Owens being “one of us.” Fortunately, we can comfort ourselves with the saying “all skinfolk aren’t kinfolk!”

It’s the same dynamic. I’ve never forgotten one of Colbert’s Difference Maker segments where they interviewed a bunch of militiamen assholes putting up 400 meters of barbed wire fencing down at the border (for reasons). There was a Mexican-American woman with them, happily stapling up barbed wire, and she said…

I saw Heathers cosplay, but yeah, you’re right too. WTF even is that?

Support Luna’s opponent Whitney Fox for Congress!

We live in the 21st century and have had the technology to broadcast a yea/nay vote from anywhere on the planet for quite a while. Maybe we should all get with the times.

They should let her vote remotely if she’s going to show up in person in that hideous Harry Potter cosplay.

“Am I interested in what the remainder of Everything I Thought It Was might sound like? Not really. Could I be if Timberlake happened to acknowledge the harm he’s perpetrated against Spears (Janet Jackson and any other to whom it applies, too) and properly atoned for them? Yes. Because that would be actual…