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Thanks! Yeah I've seen a different Advil ad with James too, I think. Never knew he did that type of thing. He was a good actor before he started to get a bit too hammy as Trevor.

Is this Nancy Stafford in the Clarion ad? I keep thinking no, but then I'm not sure.

Mariah had been looking for her video for Underneath the Stars for a number of years. Somehow I guess she finally found it, and uploaded it for fans.

One of the things that irritates me about certain Obama-era strategists, like David Axelrod and David Plouffe (who wrote a much-circulated, very damaging op-ed jeering Biden and his campaign people for the "basement strategy" which went on to help Biden raise a great deal of money and increase his favorable ratings) is that they have a very absolute view which isn't as absolute as they want it to be. For instance, his talk about how shocking it was for Democrats to not have their emerging majority built by demographics is Absolutism 101 - that was in no way shocking because people have been discussing this for over a decade, when the permanent majority that some hoped for after Obama won imploded only two years later. Some Democrats likely had their heads in the sand about the desertions of minority voters (especially Hispanic voters), but it wasn't anything that was new, and treating it as such just gives an overdamatic feeling to the piece. In this case, I do agree with some of his points (especially about how much power television still has, and about Florida, which, again, we just need to abandon at this point), but his going back over and over to the idea of college elites running the party is a talking point that is regularly used to hurt the party and people who would be helped by it. He is saying the exact same things that the champagne socialists at Chapo have been saying to try to rally leftists into stopping Biden's plans to ease some student debt - that it is elitist and that most voters will resent people who went to college getting some of their debt eased. He also does not mention that many of the rural losses did not have abrupt changes from 2016 - these were places that had started to swing away much earlier (especially during the time he himself was a strategist for Obama). So it goes beyond saying well this is happening because out of touch collegiates are alienating rural people. They are being used as a bogeyman for class warfare that will just further divide a badly divided party. I think there is too much emphasis on sophisticated messaging of the GOP - no one gives a damn about Ted Cruz, who lost a primary that he should have been highly favored to win because he was such a deeply unlikeable person. This was not a year where sophisticated messaging won the day - the GOP doubled down on a conspiracy theory that tells people many Americans are killing and drinking the blood of children they traffic. Their bright new faces are the likes of Tom Cotton, who advocated for soldiers declaring war on peaceful protestors, and Josh Hawley, who said that no judge should be chosen unless they oppose all forms of abortion. Their main figurehead was a hatemonger, so vile this year that even some of his supporters pined for when he was more "joyful" in 2016. But it didn't matter. They still romped downballot, because you don't have to be a sophisticated messaging system - you just have to have media control and you have to hate all the right people. I also agree with him about "defunding the police," which was always a terrible strategy, always terrible optics, right from the start where millions of people would have seen a video of Minneapolis' mayor, essentially, a cute, innocent-looking white guy they would probably wave at across the street, being shouted down and berated by a jeering mob. But what isn't said in the piece is that yes, while Democrats do need more message control, you can't convince far left activists to tailor their views (many of them hate the party anyway) nor can you convince the media to not equivocate them to being the Democratic mainstream, or voters from falling for it. It doesn't make good material to just say "there isn't much we can do about this," but in many cases this year, and going forward, that's what it boils down to.

In case you see that Charles Koch puff piece going around...

Samuel Alito, who has become so openly loathsome in recent years that I have a feeling he is unwittingly pushing several extremely conservative justices away, has things to say. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/alito-federalist-society-speech-insane.html

It's honestly disgusting to me that a character was dumped for being Jewish. Just another example of soap executives killing their shows in the long-term.

Sad to hear this. I wish more of her work as Sara was available, but I'm glad a few survive. Imagine being so popular you have to go on TV and reassure your fans that you're OK.

I see what you mean. And again, I will be posting less here anyway, but as I said, if my comments bother people, they should just put me on ignore and they won't have to see them. I can try to be positive, although I'm not very good at it, but I can never guarantee that I am going to be able to meet that standard, especially the way things are right now. It is hyperbolic, yes, but it's just hard not to have these feelings today, moreso every day. Hopefully things will turn around, but I don't really have that voice in me anymore to think it can or will. But we will see.

After he stopped peddling false sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, Grim has spent the year: - defending a young man who harassed and bullied girlfriends and female students (and after all that fawning coverage, he ended up winning his legislative race too) - defending a man who decided being a lecturer meant it was a good time to get some sweet collegiate ass - defending a man who decided an ill-timed hiatus during a Zoom call was the perfect time to rock out with his cock out The brave, fearless, independent journalism that helps make the likes of The Rising and The Intercept so very toxic.

Thanks.

The problem is not so much about not being able to edit as it is when it becomes difficult to tell whether or not any non-positive thoughts about what is going on right now are too much for people to read. I don't have the ability or mental strength at this point to parse that much. That is what I meant. I can post less, which I am probably going to do anyway as there isn't much left to say about what's going on with the election, but as I may still upset people, the best solution would be to use the ignore option.

If people need to put me on ignore, I'm more than happy with that. It hasn't been a good day and I can't go back and edit all my thoughts that may upset posters.

That half this country is willing to go along with these dangerous lies, including 98% of the GOP, in order to continue to consolidate power tells me that there really is no going back. Biden will at least be able to stop, for 4 years, a complete turn into fascism, but it's going to take so much struggle and pain from so many people to go beyond that. And considering the GOP are stopping Biden from even being able to have adequate Secret Service protection, he is in danger every time he goes outside his front door. This country is just about entirely gone, likely gone for good, and yet all we are getting from most of the Democrats right now is infighting and pissing contests. I am aware there is very little that can be done, and I'm aware that trying to fight what Trump is doing will just make it even worse, but we are in such a low place. Seeing complete idiots like Rashida "no, no, I'll boo" Tlaib treated as a leading figure of the party makes me want to just go hide in a cave and not even bother to come back out.

Thank you for the extra details @dc11786 . I really need to rewatch the stuff that's available as it's been a long time.

A profile/interview with her from not long ago. https://thelandmag.com/the-beat-of-her-own-drum/

Apparently the "gay black guy" brought in Patti Labelle's son or nephew to claim he was real? Which clearly didn't work as the account was suspended. You can't make this [!@#$%^&*] up.

Thanks @dc11786. I get them all jumbled together.

Thanks. I wonder if they were ever offered parts on it... Wow, Mary really gave her all for the show.

Thanks for the recap. I thought I'd heard Susan was ill at one point so I'm glad she is doing better. I'd love to hear her thoughts about Another Life. Lee did the rape story with Sunny, right?

What a shambles. You have a legend like Maree Cheatham and you can't even get the time right? I take more precaution when I go to watch someone's [!@#$%^&*] stream of a TV show from 40 years ago!

Seth Meyers shares a kind story about Biden.

@ChitHappensit gets even funnier. He was even so deep into his cosplay he was wolf-whistling at "hot" Republican men. He should ask himself a few questions.

For me the big picture is they are trying to work to make sure what we saw with Biden never happens again. I am in no way trying to take away from Biden, or Stacey Abrams. I am just posting this stuff because I feel like we need to keep an eye on all the disinformation they spread. That's all.