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I think that Abrams worked incredibly hard, and I think she deserves most of the strategic credit, along with her team in Georgia. I don't bring up a miracle or luck to put her down. I just think in politics, especially with someone as uniquely appealing to toxic elements (who go out and vote in full force) as Trump, and on top of that, in a state with major voter suppression, it was miraculous to see all this not work and for Trump to lose. Even now I was reading about how the Secretary of State in Georgia wants to get rid of the no-excuse absentee voting that may have made a difference this year. So it feels like one of those moments where a lot of people worked hard and everything aligned, similar to North Carolina in 2008, which has since severely backslid in spite of a lot of hard work. You don't get those elements from just a fluke, but when everything comes together, then it's a miracle in of itself. I do hope that this continues with the Senate races and onward...I just don't have any real faith these days in what people vote for with their senators. Loeffler is truly repulsive, so I guess if someone loses it might be her, if the hatemongering attacks don't work.

Is the first old woman in this ad Kate Wilkinson (Viola Stapleton)?

Sadly, no.

Thanks to you for all your kindnesses over the years. Merry Christmas.

Hope you enjoy them. I always enjoy talking with you about the soaps on here. Merry Christmas.

As munecojim still hasn't returned to Youtube, I decided to upload their Loving videos as a Christmas gift for all the Loving fans out there. If they ever do return and start up again I will take them down. I won't spam with different links so I'll just post the earliest.

I think it took a lot of work, but I think Trump losing was a miracle, yes, alongside the hard work. He underperformed compared to the Senate candidates, so I think it will be even more difficult with the Senate seats. Biden was a very safe choice (in a good way electorally), not as easy to demonize, whereas there have been racialized, disgusting attacks against Raphael Warnock for his race, religion, personal life, etc. now resorting to having his ex-wife come out and make accusations against him. Jon Ossoff is an underperformer in his past races, so I am not really expecting much of a change. Hopefully they can pull it out. I couldn't get past how, the day that the news of Trump pocket vetoing the relief bill came out, the stock market went up. That was a real eye-opener for the amount of pain those who run this country are fine with accepting. So, unless something truly changes in this country, I think we'll see more of what we've been getting with cutting off money and letting people suffer and die.

Not that it's far off the truth, but that is a parody Twitter account. Unless Democrats manage to get the tie in the Senate, then I don't think there will be any real relief. There will be bare bones, mostly there to help the rich, with Democrats browbeaten by all corners of the media and fauxgressive Twitter to take it, then shamed by the same corners for doing so. The best to hope for outside of a miracle win in Georgia is a few Republican senators gaining a conscience and switching like Jim Jeffords did.

Kay was wonderful on Emmerdale. I'm sorry they never did more with her - the writing for Cynthia was so stereotype-laden. Merry Christmas, everyone. I was thinking earlier today of the 1993 Christmas material, full of foreboding but with some lovely character-led moments like Annie giving Mark the watch. For me Emmerdale Christmas is the Sugden family and the Farm era in general - the pantos, the sense of quiet, the countryside. Times change, and Emmerdale have had their share of "big" and "explosive" Christmases from the mid-90s on, but I will always see, in my head, Annie, Jack, Matt, Sam, Amos and Henry, Dolly, Joe, Rev. Hinton, Jackie, "Turner," Sandie, Pat, Seth, and all the rest.

I've only seen the first few months of EJ's run, but I think the decision to make her the "good" to Delia's "bad" was a mistake, as was lumbering her with Roger. I also never knew why they wrote Barry out right before she arrived. Maureen Garrett was such a natural - I wish it had worked out.

@JAS0N47thank you for all the time and love you give in helping to keep a Christmas spirit alive for DAYS fans.

You know a few months ago I had a dream where a character stand-in was berating Faith and Roger for their treatment of Delia. And I rarely have soap dreams. This whole sham, incredibly regressive and incredibly predictable writing choice made with Delia (one they kept repeating for nearly a full decade!) bothers me more than just about anything else on soaps, for whatever reason.

John Bolger was such a stunning man. I'm sorry this is the only soap where he wasn't tainted with JFP pushing him. I do wonder what might have been if Judi had stayed in the part as it feels like Judi's acting steadily matured during her three years as Beth, but not as blank as Beth Chamberlin could be in her first turn in the part. Given her alleged history with Grant I guess she would not have ever kept in the role. I guess this is some of the Rick and Claire story they used in that weird 2000 retcon. Looks like a big pile of [!@#$%^&*] - did it play out any better live? (at least Michael O'Leary looked hot, so I guess that is something)

Delia was still a mess with Randall, but was more of a hurt little girl and less of the abject schemer - even when she was scheming it was much more scattershot and fragile. Sadly, the writing in Randall's last year devolved Delia and worked overtime to degrade her in their failed attempt to push KMG's Faith as a central heroine.

That's interesting. It's very difficult to imagine Brenda's Jill giving a damn.

What a shocker - media sites like Bloomberg already trying to spin the $2,000 check vote not going through as being down to the House, rather than Republicans. The online grifters will soon follow. The talking points are already out on who will be blamed for people not getting the package or an increase on the package. I wish I could believe that people won't fall for it yet again.

Even in the weeks SNL is off the air, it's never really off these days.

Country music used to go through periods of 'selling out' and then going back to pure country. The Urban Cowboy phase and slick country pop artists like Kenny Rogers, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton (who at this time was in her peak Hollywood era) led to a return to a more approachable sound thanks to Oslin, the early Judds, kd lang, etc. Sadly, sometime after the likes of Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, and Faith Hill took over, they never really went back to having a purer phase, even as many of those artists have aged out. These days, country music is so soulless, so full of watered-down dudebros singing about big trucks and tiny asses on a knockoff hip-pop beat, it makes Carrie Underwood look like Kitty Wells.

This is likely also why !@#$%^&*] Carlson is now using his show to help spread ugly lies about Raphael Warnock. I'd like to believe this will make a difference in Georgia, but Democrats haven't won a runoff there in decades. It's going to be tough. So if Trump doesn't sign the bill it basically just means we're going to get nothing, and then if Republicans keep the Senate, they won't bother with even the $600. And of course their flunkies who run so much of the leftist space now, like David Sirota, Matt Stoller, Krystal Ball and Jimmy Dore, will make sure most of the blame goes to Biden and Pelosi, as they are already doing. This is why so many desperately jumped on the "Biden told Pelosi to take $600...they could've had more!!!" train. They knew what was coming. They know much of the left just wants more red meat against the Democrats. And that's what this will end up being about, rather than McConnell not letting the money through. McConnell is so poisonous because he always manages to find success through the moral decay and depravity of so many in this country on both the left and the right.

I'm not sure Trump would want to distract from the pardons...they seem like something he'd be happy to spotlight. This feels like a win-win for Trump - he can pretend he's a populist, make McConnell look bad, and then go along anyway, after he has already gotten plaudits for a lot of nothing. I'll be happy to be wrong, but I can't see McConnell going along with this tantrum. Either Trump will sign, or the veto will stand and zero relief will be passed, with the media and the GOP and various leftists blaming Pelosi.

The show was never anywhere as good once SJP and her ego took center stage. I don't see the point of a revival - frankly, I don't even think most of the episodes past season 2 are worth watching.