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In the episode he introduces himself as Cliff. Patty also seems to be a junior in high school, which doesn't seem to match up to the age she'd be in 1957.

@victoria foxton @slick jones @Paul Raven @vetsoapfan @amybrickwallace I'd never seen this episode before. Does anyone know the exact year? The uploader says 1960 but they say in the summary that it's a '60s episode so I wondered if they were guessing. 1960 could make sense as Lynn Loring looks close to the age she would have been when she left. Larry Hagman is also in this - IMDB has him as being on in 1957 and also being named "Curt" (his name is Cliff). It's not letting me correct. If anyone else can please do so.

This is my least favorite Angelique era - it goes on and on and often feels limiting and misogynist. I tend to think that other than the Leviathan story, where she kicked a whole lot of ass, Angelique was best left to past time periods.

Valentine is another, like the loathsome reptile Matt Taibbi, who was pushing ivermectin. Matt was shilling 24/7 for ivermectin until the end of July, and has now magically stopped,

These rallies and protests often lead to violence (one in LA last week led to stabbings and multiple assaults), and are stocked with the likes of the Proud Boys. It tells you a lot about modern soaps that his bosses will turn a blind eye.

CNN is no better than any of those channels. It never has been. If anyone ever thought it was I don't know why after this week. That she is responding speaks volumes - she knows how worthless she is.

This is genuinely pathetic, even for Maga:

This gave me a laugh, whether it was intended to or not:

As someone here (I think) mentioned a while back, Victoria used to tell people that the expensive artwork in her home was paid for by Joan Rivers. I remember when Behind the Music did a feature on Andy Gibb. Victoria was interviewed, talking about how she just couldn't stay with him anymore because of the drugs. She was in tears. It was upsetting to me at the time because it felt much more real than those canned pieces often do.

I wonder if all the people who went on and on about how Biden should never have hesitated about letting refugees in because only Tucker Carlson says bad things have read this. I doubt it.

Between that and Rob O'Neill saying the right needs to go out on the streets like the Taliban, they are out and proud with their fascism. Yet the media still does anything and everything they can to give them full power.

The Atlantic has become a complete sham, pushing the most blatant propaganda from warmongers like Peter Wehner (involved in some of the worst decisions of W's Middle East policy) and dumbass Caitlan Flanagan, who has a long track record of absolute garbage (including painting the 1/6 rioters as hillbillies, rather than the very rich GOP forces they generally were). That magazine has fallen so far.

Mark Warner is one of the Democrats who has hidden behind Joe Mahchin in killing various reforms. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them were the senators who supposedly were not thrilled about winning the majority this year. They all sat back and let Trump do anything he wanted - that was easier for them, meant they could spend more time chatting with GOP friends on Manchin's houseboat and touring the Sunday talk shows. With a Democrat in the White House, they have to show how "bipartisan" they are, and play into right wing hands.

I just feel like this happens over and over and over. I am reminded of when the GOP and the media created a crisis over ebola in 2014, and Obama/Democrats ended up paying the price even though they had done little wrong. I don't know if people are going to ever wake up, until it's too late.

Sonja is going to be one of the players on tonight's $100,000 Pyramid (ABC, 9 PM EST)

It's not a surprise how quickly the sociopathic and self-loathing Republicans who have destroyed this country fall behind their masters, but it's still pathetic: Biden's drop in approval ratings (7 points per the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll) is more of an example of how the middle also tend to fall for these games, and why Democrats will probably continue to be easily attacked and suffer in the eyes of the public. This thread sums it up:

More NYT propaganda:

I'd think there may have been some longer teams on ATWT or GL in the '50s or '60s.

In what may be a new low for pathetic behavior even for her, Maggie Haberman is reduced to quote tweeting Don Jr.

Lemay was a wonderful writer - 8 Years in Another World was truly engrossing - so since he was happy to take the spotlight, while Rauch was a less wordy figure (his grudge-holding and malice were rarely spoken of in his own voice), he is more likely to get the blame. I also think some of the blame comes from AW falling apart at the end of his tenure and never really recovering, although he and Rauch were probably something of an anomaly in terms of stability (there's a thread buried on here with a title like - "AW - longest transition ever?") I think the other problem is that many fans took his word as gospel, because so little footage of his era is available. What he said about the cast, especially Courtney, became fact. The most revealing anecdote about his biases is probably when he takes time to eviscerate Val Dufour for stealing the spotlight from Susan Sullivan by being too hammy in the confession scenes that he wrote to showcase her. Dufour had been fired, and those were his last scenes. Sullivan was one of the show's leading ladies, and had plenty of story ahead. Yet the thrust of the story is that he was selfish, in the wrong. I am sorry he never got to make much of an impact in daytime after that, and that his second headwriting run, which was excellent from the little we saw of it, was quickly ended. Speaking of his ATWT consulting, he had a TV Guide interview a year or two after his second consultancy (which had been around 1994 or 1995 I think). I mainly remember it for his criticizing ATWT for becoming too out of touch with reality - he said during his time there he pointed out to them that three different characters had private jets.

Bipartisan and media dogpiling that stretches on for months and into an election year will have some type of effect, not just on this issue but possibly on all Biden's plans - whether it just ends up going into the already likely losses or causes more, we'll have to see. It depends on whether the gutless people in the party who mostly exist based on whether or not NATO says mean things about us while taking our money hand over fist. This type of huffing and puffing tends to get reaction in the richer suburban districts which flipped due to Trump, and are starting to flip back in some cases (this one is a special case as there was a former Democrat on the ballot as a third party spoiler, so whether it's a harbinger, there's no way to know yet).

Sadly, it's not even just the media - it's also warmongers in the party (even though Menendez was heavily bailed out by Democratic leadership, especially in 2018). They will throw us all under the bus for the sake of "above it all" posturing and defense contractors.