Yeah, I've heard that before and it makes sense. I strongly suspect that, to the extent that he even wanted to win, he'd only really thought about the presidency as the ultimate symbol of status and authority, not an actual job. I think he saw the way Fox News depicted Obama's presidency - all golf and jetsetting and…

It's a bizarrely passive conception of the job that sits squarely at odds with the notion of Trump as a robust, hypermasculine dealmaker. I worry I'd end up gibbering like a Lovecraft protagonist if I ever really comprehended the layers of delusion and contradiction in the mind of a Trump true believer, but centrally,…

I don't respect her opinion, but I do have more sympathy for Trump supporters like her who seem to have fallen for the grift in good faith than the ones who like him because he's a grifter.

I think I heard rumours about an affair with a secretary, but while I've never cheated I have no interest in writing people off as entirely shitty people for doing so.

IT'S ALL FOR YOU PICKLES

Stewart especially deserves one, although if all three protagonists got nominated I wouldn't be mad at the Academy. Mind you, I thought John Goodman richly deserved to win for 10 Cloverfield Lane last year, so maybe I should just stop giving a shit about the Oscars.

I liked it, primarily because Gadot and Pine are a really charming onscreen pairing, and the thrill of seeing a superhero movie with a female lead after so many years was a very welcome change. I'd put it on par with, like, second teir MCU stuff or the better X-Men movies. It's certainly an improvement on the DCEU so…

I don't like referring to politicians using insulting nicknames, but I always read his name as Rancid Pubis.

I didn't even get up to there. I don't like ABBA, so the title track proper didn't do anything for me, Win Butler's rapping is one of the most embarassing things I've ever heard, and the lyrics on Creature Comfort made me physically shudder. Call me an ageing hipster asshole but Arcade Fire have never come close to…

That's the kind of stuff I miss about Twitter. If only I could avoid the right wing chuds and daily events in the wokeness Olympics I wouldn't have had to quit.

Nope.

"Don't be hysterical, Trump doesn't care one way or the other about LGBT+ stuff. Give him a chance!"

I thought I had it cause it was like 5:30am here, but I forgot there was a time difference because, again, it was like 5:30am here. Hope the li'l Eazy gets better soon.

The early poster catches the topical gag, I've always said.

GOD DAMN IT DUDE THE PAGE LOADED TOO SLOW AND YOU BEAT ME

They're all called Gerald.

I guess it's a vestige of the now defunct idea that people from both sides of politics are largely acting in good faith rather than just trolling for the tears of their perceived enemies.

Man, a while ago there was a thread on an unrelated article about how terrible Withnail & I is and I was like, "Seriously who the fuck are you people?"

No one respects Ronnie Wood.

YOU ARE EXQUISITE