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How embarrassing (and Maggie Haberman, along with a few other blue checks, are desperately egging this on).

Pathetic. The media will not let this narrative go as they know many will fall for it.

I think they are trying various approaches - the border, the press conferences, the dog, bipartisanship, knowing that it will gradually wear the public down.

I don't think the public was ever as involved in his Twitter activity, but it's like sugar candy to the media, especially since they are yet again trying to make the narrative about Biden not having a press conference.

Trump is doing what he (strategically speaking) probably should have done months ago after he was kicked off Twitter. The media is lapping up every one of these press releases and treating them as news, doing their best to try to make them overshadow the passage of the recovery plan.

Stacey Dash threw away what little was left of her career, and her legacy, and now has hit bottom to the point where she can't even keep the grift going. It's a shame, because unlike Candace Owens, she had actually contributed something valuable to the world before she turned far right for cash. The irony, as someone pointed out, is that Grim is now giving the reason that people voted for Biden, which many fauxgressives insisted was a lie and wouldn't happen - that he would be able to get something done. Amazing that you still have delusional people in the replies saying well if Bernie had run, Democrats would have had big downballot success, or oh he would have gone to West Virginia and made Manchin do what he wanted. These people continue to have no idea of how life or legislating works. Sirota is caught between two worlds now, hated by both. He tries and tries to keep up as the scold of the establishment, but he did not completely go into grifting quickly enough, the way Jimmy Dore did. Couldn't happen to a nicer failure. It's telling that Bernie has had nothing to do with any of these people since he lost.

Sharon is very publicity-savvy and has been for many years. I always thought her talk of Ozzy being unfaithful and saying it was her Lemonade was a stunt for herself and the show (and it seemed to work). I imagine this is the same. I won't really be bothering to watch the clips myself, as I don't care for this show, so I may be talking out of my ass.

Thanks @NothinButAttitude. Barbara Babcock - I never knew she was on Search. Yet another talent who seemed to slide through the show without any real fanfare. It's too bad they didn't do more with her.

I had become pretty sick of the show by mid-summer - I never knew Blake was meant to be A Spaulding. That would have been interesting, given her history with the family. (they ended up saying it was Alan, didn't they?) Yes, I think Meta's return was set up by Laibson and McTavish. IIRC, in one of his last interviews, Laibson had to address rumors that he was going to cast his mother as Meta. That tells you how fed up fans were at this time and also how crazy the early days of soap fans interacting with soap personnel were.

I keep seeing Glenn Greenwald types trying to make Biden look bad about the dog...and then you have reporters asking if it's going to be put down. I think it may be for the best if they just leave the dogs in Delaware. I am very happy to see Schumer publicly pointing out how complicit and worthless Susan Collins is. She blasted him a few months ago, due to him campaigning against her last year. She has always been worthless at any actual governing, but hiding behind Olympia Snowe and having a good media team gave her a pass. The curtain has now been pulled back, likely due to her antics surrounding Kavanaugh. It's still difficult to imagine Manchin or Sinema going along with the needed filibuster reforms, but Manchin does go on about the infrastructure bill... Bernie dead-enders have taken over the Democratic slate in Nevada. Eesh. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/bernie-sanders-nevada-harry-reid-474971

This is legitimately embarrassing from a longtime, well-respected publication. I guess it serves as a reminder of how painfully out of touch the Beltway remains, even if they try and try to forice the narrative of how if only Democrats had really wanted to work with Republicans, magic would have happened.

I'm seeing some of the "do something!!!" left very mad that Biden is not going to put his name on the stimulus checks, and how Trump doing so helped his performance with Hispanic voters, etc. I have mixed feelings, to be honest - I do share the fears that voters might be less likely to give Biden direct credit, but then, if he put his name on the checks, he would be called a hypocrite, a showboat, accused of delaying the checks, etc. In happier news: (this was a hold but it's still good news)

The LA Times had a piece on Tom Girardi.

The most interesting part for me is this. It's a big danger sign for the monarchy: But they don’t overwhelmingly support the Royal Family either – 39% say they feel sympathetic toward senior members of the family, but 45% say they don't have very much (25%) sympathy for them, and 20% say they have no sympathy at all for the royals.

The grift descends another ladder. Dave Rubin is next.

Piers Morgan is a monster (read about his years in the tabloid industry) and even though he will find another job soon enough, I'm glad his poison is cut off for a brief time. https://deadline.com/2021/03/piers-morgan-meghan-markle-suicide-comments-ofcom-investigation-complaints-1234709963/

It's always sad to see cast members from Vicar of Dibley leave us, even if, aside from the wonderful Emma Chambers, they all lived full, long lives. The writing for Vicar severely declined after the first few series, but it had one of the most special and incredibly funny casts of any sitcom.

I remember at the time, many activists pointed out the performative, hollow aspect of cops dancing with protestors or taking a knee with protestors. Clearly they were right.

Yes. I guess this part led to his truncated run on GL (one of many victims of turnover).

I had a back and forth with the uploader - they have about 30 minutes of the episode, and some other episodes and hopefully will either put them on Youtube or on Archive.

Thanks for your help.

Is this from an episode that used to be on Youtube or is it new?

The only thing I can recall is I was pleased Culliton remembered her history enough to bring back that foster sister of hers (now recast, of course). Paulina and Joe were very exhausting in those years, sad to say.

I never could keep track of who did what - I thought Malone was the one who made Paulina crazy.