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Thanks. Looks like Harding was enjoying himself...

@slick jones I already mentioned it to AWHP but in case it wasn't in your files, per what a commenter said on Youtube (and I think they're right as I know his face fairly well) Craig Stepp played Amanda's video dating patsy, Tim, on 1/5 and 2/2 1989.

I know it's been said a million times but I still can't believe they de-aged Alan Michael even further and tried to pair him with Marina. (and wasn't that the closest we ever got to Hope coming back, via some phone call where we didn't actually see her). By that point they would have ended up casting Julie Pinson as Hope...

Courtney still looked very good, IIRC, when she appeared with George Reinholt for a soap tribute in 1994 - having her return as Hope around then and clashing with a recently returned Alan could have worked. I'm sure some might say she was too old compared to the former Alan/Hope age differences, but then I thought Ron Raines was miscast as Alan anyway.

That's wonderful news. I am glad the new regime will get more breathing room and I'm glad the cast and crew will have work for a few more years. And as it turns out this may end up being the only relatively successful move from a daytime format to streaming.

Oh, they're aware of it - a lot of people profit from him being in power. That's the worst part - people know exactly what he is, and they still enable him or think they can will him into being what they want him to be. I think some things damage Trump temporarily but in the end they fade, because of the double standards the public and the media provide. He hired a comedian to make racist remarks at a hate rally and in less than a week the narrative is Trump triumphantly defending millions of Americans while working as a garbageman. And other than responding to what he says or does, Harris barely gets a word in, like Hillary by this point in 2016. Nobody else ever gets away with this. We're going into Tuesday with the possibility he could win big because of how many decades of enabling and crass go-along-to-get-along mentality this man is cocooned in.

I feel like the cult mentality has only worsened since that time as you have people wearing Maxi pads and garbage bags in his honor. That year also makes this year seem even more ominous to me because he only very narrowly lost while presiding over a pandemic. Now he is tied at worst, with a history of overperforming polls, while Harris is drowned out by everyone and everything (him, Musk, Cuban, Liz Cheney, a bad jobs report [there are reasons for that but those aren't what will get headlines, etc.). So much is pushing him the way he wants to go in these last days. I don't even know if the Cheney stuff hurts him because many morons on the left and the right will probably see this as him being "the peace candidate," and any time violence is riled up in voters, he tends to benefit. Speaking of which...America, 2024: Kamala Harris depicted as chained up during Pennsylvania Halloween parade, officials apologize for "allowing the offensive participants" - CBS Pittsburgh

Thanks. Wish anything of this would show up. The jargon of some in that area can be interesting. Never heard them talk of "meller" (melodrama).

It's probably a good thing I can't embed now because I would have posted a tweet of Megyn Kelly dressed in a garbage bag with a MAGA hat. That he is actually capable of making people wear garbage bags and garbageman outfits and is able to get the media to hang onto the likes of Mark Cuban's comments on The View, is why I just can't ever believe he's going to lose unless he does. The only part that makes me think he may be struggling in some places is that even his campaign people like Susie Wiles were making a big deal of the Cuban comments. The Trump campaign now glides through ginning up outrage to blot out any positive stories for Democrats, and Trump and his sycophants go around stating plainly to their donors/true believers what they will do (stop all vaccines, gut the economy, repeal the ACA, etc.) then just say "we never actually said that," because so many people will believe them. I did see, although I didn't watch the interview, that even Rogan pushed back some on JD Vance, which shows you just how wretched Vance is. I did laugh at Vance saying "normal gay guys" will vote for Trump. I'm not going to lie and say that a number of gay men are not going to vote for Trump, but I wonder if that was another moment of donor panic due to all the homophobia being spewed by the self-hating brigade (Josh Hawley claiming his opponent can't "shoot straight," a man appointed to a major board in Arkansas by Sarah Fuckabee Sanders spewing homophobic bile even though she has a gay deputy chief of staff, etc.) If you can find the clip of Lucas Kunce demolishing Hawley, it's worth a watch.

She left the show briefly in the early '80s and was fired in 2006, so those would have been the only two times.

Can't believe how goofy as hell this publicity shot I saw on Twitter is (it's from 2020). Probably the life Michael Quartermaine should have lived.

(first time this episode has been up for a while in full form, apparently) Not sure about this one:

So far many of the early voting analyses I've seen, and polling, etc. have leaned more toward Trump benefiting, so I wonder if Kirk and Cernovich are lying to keep voter turnout going, but I hope you're right. I tend to tale Axios as the full shill experience while Politico is more mixed (and Politico has more stuff I see elsewhere rather than just 'sources'), but they have seen better days. Thanks. The antivaxx clip is one I had tried to post. Amazing how quickly we've moved from them insisting it's only the COVID vaccine. More on the anti-vaxx guy:

I can't seem to embed tweets anymore...don't know if that's a screwup on my part or if it is a Twitter change.

They easily could have with that Janet character.

More from North Carolina and Nevada. The Nevada one is interesting to me as it helps explain 2022 (where Democrats scraped through but lost the gubernatorial race) and the possible early vote this year. Black turnout is lagging in North Carolina, a warning sign for Harris - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/30/swing-state-nevada-california-kamala-harris-issue-00185718 This seems likely to come down to the Blue Wall. Hopefully the recent polls of Trump winning PA aren't accurate (one is from Quinnipac, which sucks all around). Meanwhile, Trump is getting fawning press for posing in a garbage truck (which along with the latest stunt House probe into the matter is another reminder of what a gift the comment has been to them), but they likely will not be speaking of this image:

I don't think Hartley would have wanted a full-time stint. That should, on paper, mean a lot of great aftermath or story, but you know how that goes. You could say Cody feels like Drew has everything and he has nothing, but I don't know if that is intended.

I don't know what normal people means in 2024 America. I know what I wish it meant, but we see all these polls claiming that so many believe they were better off four years ago, that Trump is at his most popular ever, and even if I don't believe polls, there's still so many out there who love Trump, in public and press. I know I don't have a problem with what Biden said, but CNN pushing the line, it being used against Democrats in Congressional races, and Walz and Harris both having to forcefully push back against Biden's comment tells me that it did hit a nerve. I think the worst aspect is that we went from Republicans being (relatively) divided over the hate rally to having a rallying cry. The optics of them getting to blast Harris and Biden for saying half the country is garbage (with it not mattering that none of this is accurate) at Trump's events, while Harris was repeatedly heckled and jeered by assholes at her events today, aren't great as a closing campaign message. Unity, whatever unity means today, is now with the other side in these closing days. I hadn't seen these comments from Pete Buttigieg, but as it turns out, he was right.

I'd agree if it wasn't Trump. Most of the betting markets are scams/money sinkers for his backers, but they are also comfort blankets, because Trump believes he should be winning everywhere. The polls that come out that are on his side serve the same purpose. In 2016 Trump and his people were claiming that it was rigged, even though his campaign often dominated the narrative and ended up winning. After he won, he still went around claiming that votes were suppressed, and he was cheated. From what was said at the time, he mostly just had one hit and was trying to latch onto something that would get him attention or a new audience. He faced so much backlash at the time (and humiliation as Trump thought he was a woman), he must be thrilled he got his escape hatch. 50 Cent said that he was offered $3 million to perform at the RNC or the MSG hate rally but declined. They are chasing the male demo at literally any cost. No wonder they keep having that piece of [!@#$%^&*] Hulk Hogan struggling to tear his shirt off.

@dc11786 Thanks so much for these rundowns. I never listen to these shows but I need to try someday while I still can.

That traumatized me so much. I was way too young to be seeing it. I tried to watch a bit again when I saw it on YT but just couldn't.

I agree - that was a genuinely disturbing moment, both the direction and the chilling performance from Candace Daly. There was something incredibly unsettling about the entire storyline, even before the shooting - you could tell Veronica was NOT going to be one of Bill Bell's signature unhinged schemers who would go on to become fun or a quasi-heroine. The audio used to be on YouTube but I don't see it now - the scene of Suzanne screaming and screaming as she is gaslit by a "dead" Katharine (including putting a tarantula in her room, IIRC) is very frightening, likely helped by not being able to see it. Similarly, this clip being so busted helps add to the horror vibes, especially Jill's fantasy/nightmare about meeting her baby.

It does feel like Ross is demoted for most of the mid-late '80s. I am sometimes surprised he even lasted through the decade. I notice in the '80s he sometimes wears a sweater that I could swear Jim Matthews (who was 40 years older) wore on AW, which they ditched in the '90s. Matt and Blake would have made sense as a pairing if they had wanted to split up Ross and Blake for a while...more sense than Rick and Blake ever did. Hope's exit does seem very rushed. I wonder if they knew Chris Bernau was quitting and they had issues with Don Stewart, so she was collateral damage. That and P&G/Kobe wanting rid of the Bauers. I do think Elvera Roussel was one of a number of actors who lost their spark in the Marland era. She seems to have much more drive in what I've seen of her in 1979.

I keep seeing reports on things not going well in EV in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, etc. There is still the Blue Wall, hopefully, but having to count on them makes me wary as polling is so tight (many even having him up), and Trump outperformed polling the last two times he ran. So much favors Trump in this environment that any distraction hurts Harris. The day that should have been about her closing speech, her moment, becomes about Biden's comments and allows for an easy hook for Trump supporters. I think it's sad that the media laps this up, but I do think they will, because this is their dream come true.