DRW50

If Biden wins, I will agree, but at this point in 2016 many (I don't mean you) felt that the media narrative wasn't going to stick for Hillary either. Right now it's just deja vu for me, especially with the scandals that end up making voters tune out. I think if the election were held right now, Biden might manage to scrape through the EC (and win the popular vote, of course), but he's going to need more than that because a narrow win will be taken from him by the media and the courts. It has to be a blowout, and we're not in that country. So I am hoping that we are going to have some sort of positive surprise on Election Day, but if the media has its way, that won't happen.

I see that his flacks are using the debate as a reason to downplay the tax story, saying it was done just to make him look bad before the debate. I think that means they are going to use this to help not only lower expectations, but persuade the media to write easy stories - oh, Trump came back fighting. They were already going to declare him winner anyway, but now if Biden even breathes the wrong way it will be seen as a catastrophe. Logically, I know he couldn't have said no, but I really wish Biden wasn't debating. It's a trap. Regarding the tweet from that Craig person, I think it's exactly the problem of having so many terrible stories, many pushed and turned into tabloid melodrama by a press that generally likes Trump and profits from him. The nadir was their "Michael Avenatti for President" crusade. They have numbed much of the public to any scandals, and I don't believe this was done accidentally.

Rupert Everett shares a story from his memoirs about the agonies of a film he made on Oscar Wilde. Toward the end he mentions that Joan was a true friend as she and Percy went to see his movie in spite of less-than-ideal conditions. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8778837/RUPERT-EVERETT-tells-quixotic-attempt-reignite-career.html

Wasn't Bruce Thomas also briefly on another soap before being fired? Was it Y&R? Sabatino was incredibly charming, even if he was also a bit smarmy, which meant he often ended up as a baddie. Still, I'm not sure why they went from having him as roguish and dark but not a monster, to being such a cartoon. Just one of many questionable decisions the show made in 1996.

After 2016 I don't quite believe the 10 points part - I do think he's behind, but the question is whether it's enough to offset the EC and cheating. I'm hoping it is.

I'm not saying it isn't a big deal, per se - in an ideal world, it would be. But it will wash over him and I think it's come out too early to register much for voters. It's also timed to be washed over by a debate that the media has already all but handed to Trump. The timing of this leak - if this was coming out no matter what - is so convenient for him that it reminds me again of Maggie Haberman's ties to his administration and how much NYT needs him in office. This was "bad" news handled probably as well as possible for him to get reelected, and if he is, then this will all fade away immediately. Yes, the cultists like one of Trump's highest campaign people are already blaming Democrats and "RINOS" for Parscale being suicidal. Never mind that he was a grifter who was exposed. Or that these same people were gleefully kicking a corpse only yesterday with their "Notorious ACB" shirts. They are pond scum. I just wish someone besides us cared.

Other than the Matt Taibbi types who are gleefully telling everyone this "proves" he has no ties to Russia, I'm not sure what impact the story has. Trump will deny, and many will believe him. Those who don't will say it just shows what a clever businessman he is. MSNBC or CNN will cluck cluck for a day or two before going back to the main goal of helping Trump win. I almost wonder if someone close to Trump leaked this as a distraction to benefit him and to help set the stage for the big debate performance the media will hype up to no end. I wish Biden would just avoid the whole thing, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. Oh well.

Some audio of a missing episode.

What does it say about this hatemonger if she was willing to go along with having her face all over merchandise that exists for no other reason than to insult a dead woman? No matter how long she is on the court, she deserves no respect. None. She and her backers have spat on a corpse for a few lols. If she truly believed in any God, she would be filled with shame. https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-group-accused-of-trolling-rgb-mourners-with-notorious-acb-t-shirts-2020-9

It's coming out in a few days.

Both sides, both sides, both sides, both sides. Gayle King and other out of touch elites will kill us all, with smiles on their faces, because it keeps them well paid. And sadly, many eat that up like nothing else. I can't think of a thing she or Chris Wallace have ever given to this country.

Such an incredibly sad article for me to read through. I laughed at one point, as I would rather laugh than cry. I still remember how many Americans repaid other countries for their support after 9/11 - mocking and belittling them and bullying to try to get the globe into a strip mining and looting "liberation" that killed millions. I had never been so ashamed to be an American as I was then...until the last 4 years. If Trump is legitimately reelected, then the rest of the world should just leave us behind. We are left with what we deserve, which is nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/trump-united-states.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

New York Times causes pain and suffering yet again. Their peddling this story had dangerous consequences.

Boys in the Band (1970 only...sorry, Matt Bomer, you're still in my heart...) forever...

This is just nuts.

In the what goes around comes around department, two reporters for the far right hate site Daily Caller have been detained by the Louisville PD. Now, suddenly, and briefly, freedom of the press matters.

I don't believe that anymore, but at this point my opinion isn't the main thing to focus on anyway, so I will stop.

Once Trump gets that extra vote on the Supreme Court, he can do whatever he wants. Florida is, at heart, a Republican state in the last decade, and those who run it fight any changes tooth and nail: Democrats need to redirect money elsewhere while they still can.

@Juliajms there are so many Beltway figures and so many fauxgressives who are united in shaming those who worry about this coup. You can really tell how worried they are about their gravy train.

Now that Nina Turner has managed to help kneecap a progressive movement that with a remotely capable campaign could be in the driver's seat of the Democratic Party right now, she is going back to the establishment that she and her fellow grifters claimed to so despise. Speaking of grifters: