What happened last night regarding the impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth was deeply embarrassing.
Eleven House Democrats missed the vote. If they had been there, Hegseth would be impeached right now.
I’m not worried about impeachment itself. That will come in January.
I’m worried about the message this sends to the American people only a week after a seismic mandate was handed to the Democratic Party to get shit done.
I don’t care why these Members were absent or if this was some lowkey procedural strategy.
What I care about is the messaging, and at the moment, the narrative is: “Democrats said they want Hegseth gone, but can’t be bothered to show up to vote for it.”
That is not good.
All it would have taken is a simple message from House leaders: “We want Hegseth gone, but don’t trust current GOP leadership on this matter. We look forward to holding him accountable in January with the new Congress.”
Dem leaders really need to get it together on messaging. Immediately.
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Massie: A lot of people are saying Hegseth is effective and good at his job and so they don't want to vote for these articles of impeachment. Well, the reality is we're not indicting him for being bad at his job. In fact, he was very effective at killing schoolchildren in Iran. He was very effective at extrajudicial killings. The argument here is that he's broken laws and he's violated the Constitution.
There's lots to say about James Gunn & Peter Safran leaving DC, but my initial reaction was how bad it is for fans.
Gunn has constantly been accessible and honest with fans in a way we've rarely seen before and probably won't see again. Maybe to a fault. I wrote about it. (1/2)
I don't know Brendan Fraser, but I hosted for him a couple times at cons. The man is a kind soul. I am not suprised he behaved this way, and I wish more people would.
El actor Brendan Fraser se volvió viral tras protagonizar una emotiva escena durante la alfombra roja de su película Pressure, en Londres.
Al notar que un fanático con síndrome de Down tenía dificultades para tomarse una fotografía, se acercó, tomó su celular y le explicó con mucha paciencia cómo hacerlo. 📱✨
Finalmente, ambos consiguieron la selfie y el gesto del actor fue aplaudido por miles de usuarios en redes sociales. ¡Un momento que nos recuerda el valor de la empatía y la amabilidad! ❤️
Why did they kill off Eddie (Jay Thomas)? Because he insulted Rhea Perlman, cracking a joke on the radio about how gross it was to kiss her. Here's the late Jimmy Burrows' account from his memoir.
Universal Epic Universe is preparing for its next thrilling addition: an all-new indoor coaster coming to Dark Universe - immersing guests in an all-new story inspired by the Universal Monsters franchise. Construction is underway, with an opening planned in the years ahead.
@tedcruz I knew something was wrong when the beginning of this had me agreeing, but then you returned to your natural form of beating the drums of culture wars, fearmongering & protecting the corrupt.
The Gulf of America is a real thing. Not the ridiculously attempted re-named body of water, but the gulf between a political party failing to serve the citizenry yet seeking to divide with culture war issues —and an electorate that turned out in the midterms to say, "No. Enough."
Remember these days of November when a ragatag band of heroes gathered to battle & defeat an old Evil, and its party of minions — which, for far too long, gleefully unleashed death upon all it touched. Of course, I'm talking about the epic conclusion to Bram Stoker's #Dracula