This is the kind of villain Batman has to face during a writers strike.
What's happening, why you think you feel this way about it, and so what? By Ezra Klein
Every tweet is an unforced shareholders earnings call when you're a former trillionaire.
They would like you to believe in the existence of a supreme being but not wind, in which form the supreme being manifests in an ancient book Trump sells for $60 to people who believe he's read it so they don't have to.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "Any time you see windmills, you see a failing country"
Rand Paul attributes 35 million deaths in 14th-century Europe to Anthony Fauci.
Whatever you do, don't make it weird.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump taps on Lindsey Graham's casket
You know the ancient Greek gods aren't real, because they would have definitely noticed this guy's hubris by now and turned him into a stag for someone's hounds to devour.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I've done more for you than your parents, okay? Your parents are okay. I'm not gonna knock to your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents."
Elon's fondness for the Odyssey makes a lot of sense when you understand the epic calls the protagonist a pathological liar in the FIRST LINE.
20 years teaching the Odyssey to college freshmen who didn't do the reading have emotionally prepared me for Twitter this week.
"Elon Musk vows to make 'historically accurate,' AI-created 'Odyssey' film by year's end." So he'll be using the tenth-century CE Codex Marcianus Graecus 822 (née 454) manuscript in Venice with the 2nd-century BCE Aristarchus scholia notes on the 6th-century BCE Peisistratean recension? Dope.
Christoher Nolan had the AUDACITY to cast the goddess Athena, born from the head of Zeus, with an actress born from a human vagina.
Sorry, I'm too old to learn the rules of soccer when I could be day drinking.
China interfered with the 2004 Emmys award selection for best reality show. By a LOT.
Consider Trump's attempt to dismantle the International Criminal Court alongside his recurring threats of war crimes and you have a not-coincidence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "Next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. We're gonna knock out all their power plants, we're gonna knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate."
When they say Lindsey Graham died from a brief, sudden illness, was it like when Bilbo got really old, really fast after surrendering the evil ring?
Dibs on Lindsey Graham's Rogers and Hammerstein records.
Please respect the privacy of Lindsey Graham's surviving family at this time. Thank you.
Lindsey Graham was really looking forward to seeing the Odyssey.
Trump has placed a call to FIFA’s president to ask whether he couldn’t quietly unsuspend Obama’s Iran deal.
Graham Platner's team is currently hunkered down watching YouTube alt-history videos to determine how Hitler might have withdrawn from Maine.
Christoher Nolan had the AUDACITY to cast the goddess Athena, born from the head of Zeus, with an actress born from a human vagina.
Man, woman, camera, confessional? Say ten Hail Marys and go fuck yourself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"