Let’s drown out the screaming in our heads with some despairing celebrity tweets
As America continues to teeter on the brink of total disaster—like a gold-mad Michael Caine at the end of The Italian Job—it seemed like now might be a good moment to drown out our own rampaging anxieties and check in with the country’s citizenry, get a sense of the national mood. That part of the nation with at least a million Twitter followers to its check-mark-verified name, anyway, because rest-assured, celebrities are feeling just as freaked out right now as the rest of us.
And while there are a few voices calling for calm—noted stoics Dan Rather and Nick Offerman among them—tonight’s upsettingly close election is mostly serving as a chance for people to see what it looks like when the entirety of Hollywood loses its collective shit, appalled at the idea that a glowing orange rage golem might be on his way to the White House. (Or the Gold House, as it might soon be known.)
But even though, to quote a TV show we sure did think was joking at the time, we seem to be digging in on The Darkest Timeline, at least Jennifer Lawrence is still out there, trying to get people to rock the vote (with her boyfriend Darren Aronofsky’s help):
We may or may not update this piece as more celebrities lose their shit tonight, depending on how long our will to live holds out. Meanwhile, the folks over at Super Deluxe put up a little Yule Log to keep people warm as the night goes on: