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They have also tried to generate outrage over Build a Bear having a RuPaul bear. Sadly this type of culture war hysteria gets the job done. As for local reaction, local media has been decimated and what there is of it is under the control of right wing hatemongers like Sinclair.

He tried another of those, with seizure strobe lighting, to announce his new project. Which doesn't seem to be doing well - didn't see it trend much at all on the latest 'expose' and some of his fans were trying to go around to individual tweets of reporters trying to shill it.

That's true...and many of these insurrectionists are keyboard warriors only. The problem is I think many on the left and in the middle still think there's a way forward or underestimate just how fast this insanity is moving (and in the case of some on the left, hate Biden, the Clintons, the Obamas, etc. enough to not realize they'd be going in the same camps as the rest of us). I am hoping the acceleration of what's going on in places like Tennessee will cause more of them, especially those in power, to start taking safeguards while they still can.

Unfortunately they will likely just send people to blue states to start shooting and killing. I feel like they've had a lot of these plans in the works for a long time. I hope the government has plans in place to fight back.

They lose cycles in some parts of the country, but not in others, which is why I think we will see more and more talk of splitting up (already hyped by media darlings like MTG) and more provocative actions to make that happen.

I feel like this is all just going to lead to more funding for and free media for secession and another civil war. Many red states are doing whatever they want and know they will face no consequences. North Carolina, now pushing through new gerrymandering, will be even worse than Tennessee soon. And there's nothing that can be done about it.

I don't find Mehdi Hasan trustworthy in the least, based on his past political background and his clout-chasing, but I will commend him in this instance. Matt Taibbi, presumably assuming he'd be friendlier, or easy to roll, went on his show and revealed himself as even more of a pathetic hack. (there are several parts to this) Similar to when Bari Weiss made the mistake of not contorting herself enough for Elon's whims, he got the unfollow: Elon, threatened by Substack's plans, also decided to cut off links to Substack...even though many of his biggest sycophants, including Taibbi, make their money by that place. Taibbi, clearly seeing this as the right time to claim he can leave for some pure reason rather than being humiliated at every turn and finally crushed by the boot he developed such a taste for, is getting the hell out (for now, anyway). If only those other creeps in the grifter circuit could go with him.

Thanks @Skylover The late '90s/early '00s are my favorite versions of the song, probably.

That must have been the scene. Thanks. I do think Alexis loved Jax, and just accepted that nothing was ever going to happen. For a long time I wished it had, especially because I hated the Ned/Alexis pairing, but worse was to come...

There were a number of scenes in this period (although I was not watching very often, as I haven't on a regular basis since about 2000) where Carly was judged in the writing in a way she hadn't been in many years. I remember one where she was going to a wedding and overheard various people talking about what trash she was, and you could see the vulnerability and self-loathing in her that is often lacking post Sarah Brown. That's a strong set of scenes, but it's hard to watch now knowing how much Ingo ruined anything of the Jax/Alexis relationship, especially in recent years.

Sadly their response is to just further erode the democratic process to make any chance of losing fairly less and less common.

She's probably just happy for the work. Based on what I've seen of her recent performances she is as inadequate as ever.

This is what always took me out of them (well that and choices like having a character hanging from the rafters and somehow the show still went on), although I know many people loved it then, and still love it now. Considering the dreck fans have to put up with, if they do enjoy it, I should get off my high horse, I suppose.

Yes I just remember Alan, or maybe Katherine or Lucy. I think there were tabloid reporters from Extra or Access Hollywood who would pop up but I don't remember any red carpets.

I imagine Obrecht-mania was the attempt at camp in the revival years. The main problem with going with a lo-fi camp aspect is that you still can't hide that it's a very slick professional setting. I was rewatching the number with Lucky, Taggert, Dara and Liz, where they tried to add in a few touches of gangling or silliness, but the effort was defeated by the very slick presentation, that two clearly trained, professional singers were on display, and that we were meant to believe Lucky, who at that time despised the cops, and Liz, still recovering from a brutal rape poorly handled by the police, would be up there shaking their asses with a police officer who had gone out of his way to make it clear he had no use for anyone in that town and their nonsense. That's not camp - it's lobotomizing contrivance. The NB you want to see ended around 1996, which is when these should have ended, period.

Comfortably Smug is one of the worst people on Twitter and I don't read anything attached to their name. As for Lemon, it's obvious someone at CNN is out to get him. I question the reasons (I'm guessing one is his race and the other is his being gay), but I have never forgotten the way Lemon presented himself before flipping to fit into a new culture (for the network and the country). That made me completely unable to trust him. I also found his binge drinking antics less amusing and more of a cry for help. I'm not surprised to hear that he is such a messed up person, but if at least two things about him were different, he'd be the star of the show at that [!@#$%^&*] factory.

You can tell how much RFK Jr has alienated even those who should love the toxicity and division he will bring by the way that Jake Tapper, of all people, introduces him. This would not surprise me at all:

I think it's down to Guza knowing they were easy foils for Jason and Sonny, the cool, hip, edgy mobsters. Beyond that, they were a part of the show's legacy, which Guza also hated, and resented, as they would remind he was stuck on a soap, rather than working in primetime in movies. You could always feel the sheer loathing for them any time they appeared in his run.