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Brian Fitzpatrick, another so-called "moderate" who runs the worthless "Problem Solvers" caucus (AKA get me on TV caucus) with Josh Gotthmeier, has already said he's voting for it and that it's going to pass. I wouldn't be surprised if the above is just another of their tricks to hide that they all support the same death of this country.

They're full of [!@#$%^&*]. They will be too scared to do anything out of turn. They will just shrug and say it's Biden's fault. They also know, as we see here, Republican enablers like Jake Tapper will support them all the way.

This looks and feels about ten years out of date, and stars people who have already flopped on other reality shows and in the public eye, like Todrick. So many interesting programs are never let on the air, or are canceled quickly, while we're left with these drags that look like Soapnet productions.

I think we feel that way, but so many on the left and right are eating up the points that this was such an incredible deal, why didn't the Squad do the same, look at how much they get done on the right because they are unafraid and unbought. Then the Beltway is there to shore up McCarthy, their hero and survivor. They flood the zone, and it works for too many.

In this case I was talking more about the pain they can bring, with full media support, before voters go back to the polls, by stopping social security, welfare, etc. I'm not really sure about 2024. The Senate is a brutal map, and I'm hesitant about Biden running against someone who isn't Trump, who is a shiny new toy and a media darling like Ron DeSantis (even if DeSantis talks like a British actor trying to play a gay man from Minnesota), or Glenn Youngkin, who don't have all of Trump's baggage. I also remember how the Republicans crashed the economy in 2013 with the shutdown and still won big in 2014. There are times when the public surprises me, like 2022, but even then, the games Republicans played to rig the House still worked. It's going to take massive turnout against all odds, message fine-tuning, beating voting suppression and smears, and against a media that will do anything and everything to have GOP domination at all levels. It could happen, we can't give up, but after so many losses when we needed wins, it's hard to ever expect anything else. Seeing McCarthy treated as a god by the press after he lost 13 votes just reinforces that for me.

This is pathetic beyond belief, even for a media ecosystem that wept over the glories of Scott Walker and Tim Pawlenty. They have invested so much in this man, and their book deals and party invites, they will never let him go.

The worst part is going to be the debt limit, where they will do their best to starve out and gut what is left of the safety net, with the media by their side all the way making sure to blame Democrats for the pain. I guess at least we aren't in the era anymore where Democrats might have gone along with severe cuts. As I've seen a few people say, it seems very convenient that all this drama is happening on the anniversary of 1/6. What a surprise that the ever-complicit media is going along with this blindly rather than questioning the GOP's obvious distraction attempts.

@Vee @SFK An interview with Kate O'Mara promoting Triangle, a soap opera at sea which was heavily hyped by the BBC at the time and later on seen as a dismal failure.

Lisa Rinna really did torch a reputation she'd built up over 25 years, and for what. It's sad. I can't even really watch her old stuff after what I've seen of her on social media in the last few years, let alone the show. I guess she did me a favor by showing her true self.

What a surprise.

@Vee I would agree about Spencer and Trina. It's especially glaring with the "hot" Joss and Dex scene they pushed on viewers.

This is so damn pathetic. And yet the press is still treating it as just another day.

Thanks to SNL, you can now use Michael B Jordan in a trivia question with Christine Baranski, La Lucci, Christian Slater, Chadwick Boseman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Kelly Ripa.

Supposedly she's trying to use this to run for Senate. Oh they're still trying:

She's winked on social media and said someday she might want to return. Nothing definite.

That's why I thought he would end up being falsely accused of rape. Maybe he still will be, I don't know. I feel like they are just waiting for Kacey to want to return.

The character mostly leaves me confused, for the reasons you state. He also spends most of his time with the wrong characters, like Alfie. His behavior, like drugging Honey and telling Alfie that women who say no mean yes, made me wonder if he was being set up to viewers as a fakeout suspect in Lily's pregnancy, but that didn't happen, so I'm even less sure what the point was. I know some hope he and Bobby will get together, but I doubt EE will do that.

Conrad Fowkes ad.

Many already did at that time. Maybe a writer was trying to prove a point. Lydia Bruce ad:

I think Maura West's pregnancy and decision to leave closed most of those chapters for Carly in her first run. If she had stayed I think they may have paired her with Scott, who wasn't rich, but was also consumed with financial schemes. When Carly returned, they did try to paint her as going after money, and even tried to set up her endgame as being with another schemer (Brad #3), but the stories were just poorly told, unpleasant, and the attempts at contrasting her with a "good" girl didn't work because Maura West blew Annie Parisse out of the water. Molly was a case of casting an actress who was just not suited for the types of stories you mention. Lesli Kay was too fragile and broken to ever play a vixen.

Great find @Kane you may want to put that in the soap stars where are they now thread too. The son is also familiar to me. Very good commercial acting from him.

Considering how much I disliked The Long Game, not sure how I feel about more RTD politics.