Just to be clear, I think Twitter sucks and I was using it as a shorthand for social media generally, which I also think sucks. But it’s clearly given candidates who would have been brought to heel by their parties the ability to break out of that and direct the conversation themselves

It is if you are a politician trying to get your message out in 2019. Twitter is a shithole, but Trump and Ocasio-Cortez are proof that if you can’t navigate that shithole you no longer make the cut for the big show

This is a political realignment. The more moderate Boomers tried to apply the old rules and, like 2016, they got smoked. They need younger progressives more than the reverse, they overplayed their hand and now they’re going to have to acknowledge that fact going into an incredibly important election year. Good

I’m an Oliver fan, but he’s toast over there. HBO has a robust streaming platform and brand recognition, that’s what AT&T bought. I feel like there’s going to be some tomfoolery with the “untitled Warner streaming platform” with that ultimately merging with HBO Go, while the original programming slowly morphs into…

Since the internet got big, the phrase “And I’m just over here laughing, because-” has not once been said through laughter

Warcraft III is getting a remaster later this year, so obviously that won’t be on there, but you know what’s an interesting omission? Diablo II. 👀

A number of the plot issues that people complain about in the show seem to be rooted in trying to get out of the various narrative culs-de-sac that GRRM seems to have been trying to resolve since Feast for Crows. To me, it appears the amount of contrivance that’s been required to keep the plot of the show moving is an…

Honestly, I think the odds are even slimmer that he’ll really buckle down and finish the series after his death

Shit, now I’m convinced. I don’t know what of, exactly, but that shouldn’t stop me from working it into as many unsolicited Facebook replies as humanly possible

Well they’ve aired a lot of birther stories, racist tripe, they openly coordinate with the RNC and conservative think-tanks, they’ve been rocked with dozens of sexual harassment suits and have spent nearly nine figures covering that up, there is a well-documented loop between Fox & Friends and Trump’s Twitter and…

I’m still hoping Hot Rod builds the cult it deserves and we get a Frank-centric sequel. His intensity plays really well in comedy and he doesn’t do enough of them, but it would also be awesome to watch him repeatedly forget the names of everyone in the Lonely Island during that press tour

This is the most dramatic possible way to phrase “creative differences” and is the most compelling argument yet that Ian McShane should be in everything

I don’t think Marvel gets enough credit for realizing that a lot of the stuff they were doing after Avengers (Thor 2 feeling factory-built, alienating Wright and Whedon, basically every narrative decision made in Age of Ultron, etc) was trending in a bad direction and how they managed to course correct before people…

he’s snack-oriented. You give him something to eat, he shows up. You give him something to eat, you talk softly and nice to him, give him something to eat again. They love you. You know, so, it works out

It’s amazing how, among some people, such advanced technology fosters such superstition

I’ve had this happen. I don’t know about you, but for me it was people I know get their news from social media posts but distrust professional news

Hmm, are you suggesting looking for a compromise with someone who is already getting everything they want is...a bad idea?

“She needs backup. Anya, Tara”

“It’s called The Definitely Happening This Time, I Promise, and I think you guys are going to love it”

Those typings would be a lot of fun, especially if they get creative with it. Scorbuny being a “striker” would be a fun play on electric/soccer connections, there could be other fun ways of displaying the other types as well