Chris B

@DRW50 Something that surprised me with the Nevada caucus is that Warren voters second choice votes went to Biden once she didn’t reach the threshold. I expected them to go to Bernie. I wouldn’t be surprised if Pete and Amy’s votes did swing his way if they dropped out. Also, many have mentioned the down ballot races and it’s true that not one Bernie endorsed candidate won in a swing district in 2018. AOC and he himself have made it clear they plan on going after so many established Democrats, I’m worried their eye won’t be on the prize to focus on flipping seats from R to D. They’re trying to flip from D to Whatever u call Bernie’s party. They’re even trying to get Nancy Pelosi out! Nobody can convince me we will keep the House or gain the Senate regardless of if he wins or not. How can they when they’re trying to vote people out instead of adding to our numbers? It’s insanity. This ain’t the election for that. Everybody seems to have tunnel vision from the refusal to drop out and then primarying Democrats in a Trump era.

Biden still got around 40% of the black vote in Nevada. I think what is going to hurt him in SC where he polls second, is the split vote. If Amy and Pete dropped out now, Biden would easily win SC and he'd be in a better shot for Super Tuesday. Texas and Florida would complete the turnaround for Biden. The problem is, nobody is going to drop out. There isn't a leader who can go to an Amy or a Pete and tell them to stand down and run for Governor or Senate. They have absolutely no logical path to the nomination even if Biden and Bloomberg drop out, so it's just a shame they won't drop out so he can unite the moderate vote. Bernie is gonna end up winning everything with 30-40% of the vote and then people gonna be looking crazy wondering why he isn't polling better in a head to head with Trump.

nevada doesn’t want what happened in Iowa to hit them so they’re slowly releasing the results to make sure their correct. In general I find caucuses stupid so I’m not understanding why this is a thing. As for the nomination, it looks like Biden may be second here. If he also does well in SC, that could carry him to Super Tuesday. This next debate these idiots need to band together and go after him. I also think a big problem is the moderate vote being split. Bernie is not winning by big margins overall. Pete and Amy need to drop out. Period. Pete and Amy have no path and are splitting the moderate vote. If they dropped out then Biden would easily be winning this nomination. With this many people in the race it’s easy for Bernie to slide through. He does have a base, it just isn’t large enough to win. Especially when he and his fans keep tellling people he doesn’t need their vote. They need more than his base to win. Russia loved Bernie because they know Trump will easily beat him. With voter suppression and the oppo research ready to come out, Bernie is done the second he gets the nomination.

@DRW50 The only way Ivanka wouldn’t get it is if he didn’t decide to pick her. At this point he can do anything he wants. Nobody is going to stop him on anything until he is out of office.

How do y’all know it’ll be Pence and not Ivanka or Nikki Haley as Trump’s running mate? I honestly feel any republican running can beat Bernie. Bernie is literally tweeting that he doesn’t need the Democratic establishment. His small base can’t overtake everybody and you can’t convince people to vote for you by constantly saying you don’t need them.

Bernie welcomed all the help last time. He always votes in Russia’s favor. He voted against the sanctions every time. When I say he’s the liberal Trump I truly believe that. There is no way he can logically which is why Trump desperately wants him. Russia benefits from him as the nominee as well because that gives them an easy opponent from Trump who they need to survive. It’s a damn shame. Wow! He knew and hadn’t said a word! Imagine how different things could be if people knew this.

Now I’m so confused. So Teresa ended her friendship with Danielle for defending herself by saying Teresa and the shop owner were egging her on to pull Margaret’s ponytail. I guess Teresa denied it which is how the flashback comes into play. Why would Teresa end her friendship with Danielle for telling the truth? I expected Danielle to do something unforgivable but this makes it seem like Tre was using Danielle when she needed an ally and attack dog.

That is the excuse they use, but not having a better handle on the black community in particular is wrong in 2020. Black people come through always, particularly in 2018 when nobody expected us to do well (bc nobody was thinking of black voters). We are expected to vote democrat no matter what when we get nothing out of it. The people elevated don’t even care about us. They just want our votes. To me that’s wrong.

Bravo needs to start doing announcements like this! They have never had a bad HW so I am excited and looking forward to my queens returning!

She is just a disgrace to me. She has COMPLETELY ignored minority voters, issues and events unless forced to attend because everybody else is. She’s finding a bit of success and NOW she wants to reach out? That is so disingenuous. We are literally to the point of voting and she’s only reaching out bc she has no choice. Of all the candidates I feel she’s been given the biggest pass, even more so than Bernie. Absolutely no vetting at all and the media never made her face the reality of her shortcomings.

That is really sad to see. I can understand them not thinking to include her due to her health concerns and the fact that she’s basically retired, but that’s why you should always ask. I hope this has a positive ending and they ask her to come back in some form. Lisa Turtle was iconic and it would be lovely to see her again.

Oh that is a great price! I’m going to do the full year membership. That’s less than $3 a month which is cheaper than most add on channels on Amazon Prime. I hope this is successful enough they consider doing other soaps. Or maybe this will inspire P&G to do something with their soaps.

Thank you for that! She looks the same as she did on Texas, just with a different hairstyle.

Was that from the hour long pilot? I'd *love* to see that! I knew that pilot included Selena Cross as a character, but I had no idea they had another Allison. Mia Farrow was perfection in that role though so I'm glad they changed things. What the writers and Farrow did with Allison took what could've just been another soap good girl and made it something really special. I don't think I've seen a character like that executed so well. I love that if you look at her journey she truly reacted as if she lived on a soap. Allison felt everything and it truly transformed her, leading to a perfectly logical exit. I don't think an exit like hers could work today, but it had such an impact on me when I first saw it.

I love her! I've always wished episodes of that show would pop up and knowing she's on it makes me want to see it even more.

I agree. Not even season HAS to be 18-20 episodes before the reunion. Some shows have benefitted from shorter seasons. The problem is that this show is so successful now that they need a full 18-20 seasons. With such high pressure they HAVE to get better at casting. They front loaded the cast with a bunch of people who haven’t had a story in years (Erika/Rinna) or that are just boring (Teddi). That, plus two newbies and I’m not sure what they expected. At the very least Camille should’ve been upgraded.

This is a show that kept going with spousal abuse and a suicide. I don’t think the affair is being edited out. I think the issue is trying to figure out other storylines. It’s crazy you have so many people filming and are still struggling.

Official livestream announcement of the Melbourne cast will be this Wednesday, so sometime tomorrow US time if I’m remembering the time difference correctly. Also, Tamara Tattles is reporting that RHOBH isn’t premiering until early May, which means a longer wait for the trailer. Apparently they’re post production is taking longer than usual while is usually a sign they’re slicing and dicing things to create a coherent story. I checked Andy’s twitter and yesterday he said we have more than a month for the trailer, after previously saying it would be coming out around this time. Between the reshoots and editing issues this is gonna be a mess! Hopefully an entertaining mess at least.

@Cat Jackie claims she quit so she can focus on her IVF journey but I ain’t buying that. They obviously will want to freshen the cast after such a long hiatus and I think she simply didn’t make the cut. If you have to lose an OG I think they picked the right one.

I’m so excited for our queens to return! So far we have Gina, Janet, Lydia and Gamble for sure back. Sally and Jackie out, not sure about Venus. I’d imagine 3-4 new wives. Since she said we will know the full cast this week I hope we get a cast photo as they typically do before the season films. Whatever happens, the return of Melbourne will be the HW highlight of the year! Idc how good Beverly Hills or Potomac or Salt Lake City are, the Grand Dames are back!

I think aligning herself so closely with Bernie hurt her, but you're right, she fell for every damn trap the GOP set for her. The second she did that DNA test I knew it was gonna be a nightmare. I will say, I'm glad she played her cards early. I still can't believe she fell into every trap and seemed so ill-prepared when she was asked something she wasn't expecting or wanting to talk about.

The Michael Bloomberg thing is crazy to me and if it weren't this Trump era, I'd be shocked he seems to be polling well. My thing with him, it's been said that him and Steyer are trying to prevent Bernie from getting the nomination, but both seem to be peeling away at Biden's support. Hell, Steyer's campaign stole Kamala Harris' voter data in South Carolina and one could argue that gave him an advantage with black voters there. I don't understand why they didn't put their money behind either Biden, Harris or the tons of people in running in the Senate and House. Bloomberg has a better chance of winning, but it's likely all this money could go down the drain and it's a shame because there are very obvious ways they could've both used their money. Someone also suggested that Bloomberg could've flooded the Fox News airwaves with Trump fact checks, which could've done some work to open his fans minds. IMO anything would've been better than them running. Now looking forward, I'm VERY excited for Nevada. The unions are coming out hard against Bernie and his people are now doxxing them and they're getting tons of threats. It's hard to see how the Bernie Bros feel that will help them. It's baffling to be honest. I just don't understand how threatening his fanbase is. It's all their way or the highway and their way of convincing people to support them is to basically tell you to shut up and fall in line. I feel he'll have a poor showing there (and Pete can just stay home) which will definitely open up Biden and Bloomberg to have a good night. With Elizabeth Warren, her biggest problem now seems to be that she's out of money. She has to do amazingly well in NV and SC to even stay in the race. I don't see her making it to Super Tuesday if she doesn't show well in Nevada. I'm very curious whats gonna happen there.

I’m looking forward to Beverly Hills, Potomac and Melbourne so I won’t let this get me down, but here’s the Dallas rumors... Tiffany Moon is rumored to be the new housewife with everybody returning. I’m not upset about Kary returning although I know many fans didn’t like her, but another season of Leanne and Brandi?! Why?! I was hoping they’d freshen things up but it’ll be more of the same with no real changes.

The best thing about this upcoming season of RHONY is that it seems like we can just relax. I'm looking forward to Bethenny's energy being gone. I also like that it seems like there are no big toxic feuds just fun and light drama. Considering how heavy RHOBH will be it'll be a nice contrast.

RHONY returns Thursday April 2nd! It looks watchable. I’ll give it a go. I think next season will be their real season to watch as they determine who Tinsley’s replacement will be.