After watching that dour, joyless  hostage video of Melania and Donald Trump, here’s a reminder (from just three years ago) of how joyful and inclusive a First Couple’s Christmas message can and should be!

Joanna Gaines is not a talented designer. Her aesthetic is boring.

I thought they were antlers 

Let us not forget “My year sucked because I kept having missed connections with a hot dude so I was going to spend Christmas alone but then I forgot cranberries and went to the store and he was there and finally we gon’ FUUUUUCK”:  “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses.

I came here to say one thing and one thing only. For a couple days, or however long this article has been up, I have been seeing the animation out of the corner of my eye and my brain filled in “feet” for where the appendages are coming out of the blanket. This clearly resulted in a very off-putting and alien sex…

You forgot the best one!

This piece captures my childhood and queer identity. Not sure how to feel about it, but thank you.

SAME! My family just shows up with crockpots and containers full of delicious potluck items, already ready to be eaten.

The piece warmed my heart on this fucking cold winter day.

This is a very touching piece. Thank you for writing it.

Yeah. I kept thinking how it was like debate in high school - the Dems were like the kids who took it seriously and showed up to the competition thoroughly researched and prepared, whereas the Republicans were like the douchebros who joined debate because they heard nerdy girls give it up easy and when it comes to…

My saucy 13-year-old has started saying, “Ok, Boomer,” every time I ask him to do something. Joke’s on him, though; I’m firmly Gen X, and we care about nothing. We’re dead inside. 

I’m a Boomer apparently; barely. So go ahead, say it.

My damn kid thinks it’s hilarious to say “ok, boomer” in my direction. I’m only 41!! Although she’s equally offended when she is called a millennial because she is Gen Z.

Gods, I want to see Kanye cancelled. SO MUCH.

Agreed - I just can’t see myself cancelling the Jackson 5. I’ve certainly removed any solo-career-MJ from my playlists, but Kanye is more capable of FUTURE harm.

If you chose to save Kanye over Michael Jackson’s music we cannot be friends, you are DUMB

This is gonna be the most cathartic bracket ever. Immediately after voting I was filled with a feeling of peace and weightlessness, albeit temporarily. I guess imagining a world without YouTubers really was that therapeutic!

I’m sorry, as someone actually alive and old enough to be paying attention in 1994, this strikes me as highly unlikely to have been a serious suggestion, assuming it even happened. What I WOULD find plausible is that some idiotic executive thought it funny to “joke” about this with deadpan humor to someone not at all…