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Ah. I misread. Thanks. Well hopefully it will show up sometime.

Thank you @janea4old for finding that...and thank you to the recapper, wherever you are now, for NOT having cutesy, clever nicknames all over your recap, as so many did. I haven't been following the '90s episodes much as the ones that @YRfan23 shares are enough for me, but as this one is "new" and the needlepointing scene sounds hilarious (it's the type of thing I probably would have laughed at back in the day) and it's a good Dru episode, I may DVR it. It's a shame it has Nina's miscarriage story as that always upset me. It sounds like this is still when Sharon was a bad girl too. (this wasn't Sharon Case yet then?) I sure miss Nina and Dru...

Well said, @marceline . Speaking of the corrupt media, NYT is yet again trying to help Trump and stir up backlash with misleading headlines about the Museum of Natural History moving Teddy Roosevelt's racist, gross statue. The media will do anything to help him and to help the GOP. We're just getting started. Here is another example, a sickening one: Speaking of sickness...

@BillBauer thank you for the 1978 episode. I can see why Bridget Dobson disliked the "dead leaves" but I must say the full closing credits theme is gorgeous. It's similar to my issues with "Jalinda's Theme" on ATWT... The Philip custody material can feel very draining, as it's so heavy and everyone involved is (understandably) very dour; I'm glad that we got some of the scenes with Rita and Ed as a balance. I can see why Rita tested the female audience so much at the time, given how unabashedly sensual Lenore Kasdorf was in the role. It's such a contrast from most other ladies on GL, or on any of the soaps. (is this before Roger raped Rita?) Millette Alexander is great in these clips - such layered acting and you feel for Sara even though this is very warmed-over material for the character by 1978. I do like JoBeth Williams but from the little I've seen of her I wonder if she was miscast as Brandy, who should have been more fun on paper. This guy playing Peter always felt like a weird casting choice as well.

From reading the comments apparently they repainted the mural later.

Richard van Vleet was well-liked by AMC fans so his hiring seemed like an early attempt at the ABC-ification of the P&G soaps. After that I guess they just stuck with Simon, other than a year or two in the late '90s. I do wish they'd asked Mart back. That's a great idea about Joan as Elizabeth. A short-term, defined arc would have worked well.

After the heavy role they played in 2016, I can't really stop worrying about them, even if I wanted to. Beyond the political role, it's just their sheer amorality and the consequences of their amorality that makes me keep more of an eye on them - for instance, the damage Chris Hayes and others did to women by pushing the Tara Reade story. Parker Malloy had a long thread on Twitter that sort of summed up why I am wary of the kpop stuff getting too much coverage - it's a fun story, but I think it draws too much attention away from other reasons why Trump may have less support this time around. It gives him a shield.

Dean was involved in shady dealings with Alan that led to his death, I think - some of it involved smears against Elizabeth to help him get custody of Philip. Blackmail tapes involving Dean and Alan were used by Roger to force Alan to hide him and protect him during and after the rape trial and shooting, and were later used by Diane before Alan turned himself in to the police. Crazy that that subplot would carry all the way through to about 1982.

Irna would use the same type of writing with Lisa on ATWT, wanting her own place and trying to manipulate Pa Hughes into moving out. It's very clever as beyond being used to define a character, it also pushed the buttons of housewives who either had once been a Lisa or a Bert, or despised women like them.

A young woman accused Ansel Elgort of sexually assaulting her at 17 (this was in 2014 so he would have been in his early 20s - apparently this is legal in New York), humiliating her, trying to get her to send him nude photos and have threesomes with her friends. Elgort admitted to the relationship and made a vague apology for the way he broke up with her, but has denied the other allegations. https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ansel-elgort-denies-sexual-assault-teenage-girl-1234642752/ Multiple women have made accusations against comedian Chris d'Elia, which he has denied. These include allegations he tried to hit up underage girls. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/chris-delia-accusations-sexual-improprieties-twitter https://deadline.com/2020/06/whitney-cummings-responds-to-chris-delia-accusations-soliciting-teens-1202965143/

This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in politics. How desperate is he to get that Senate seat back? Is it worth THIS?

The race is probably much closer than the polls suggest but the framing that Trump should be ahead (because that's what the media wants and needs) and he needs to just get out of his own reminds me of the 2012 coverage where the press was perpetually confused and upset that Romney was on the backfoot the whole way through. I hope people are prepared to stand up to media lies as they are just waiting for another gotcha moment with Biden. Anyway, I saw that AOC was gushing about the Tik Tok/kpop stuff with the rally. I've also seen this being used to help justify the GOP blocking mail in voting, as it means a leading Democrat (in the media, anyway) is cheering on fraud. Of course this isn't the same as voting, or even close, and they are going to block mail voting anyway, but it's just another moment where I wish certain people on the left would understand framing more. They are giving Trump, and the media, an opening to act as if a rally which was very poorly attended even without the kpop/Tik Tok stuff was only poorly attended because of trickery, and it means if his next rally is bigger, he will get a huge comeback narrative and owning the liberals narrative.

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/06/10/the-backstory-comparing-the-riots-of-1968-and-2020-077728

It's true. I just hope that the media doesn't use this to help Trump. It's not as if there was a ton of overflow crowd waiting to fill those seats.

Trump's flunkies are blaming "radical protesters" for the lack of turnout. Hilarious. At least they still have this guy. By the end of the day, Twitter hysteria over a Ulysses Grant statue being pulled down will probably be more of a news story. When it comes down to it a lot of the Trump groupies are all talk - they didn't want to risk their health. With the protesters shot and killed this week I was really worried about today. I'll be glad if nothing happens.

These people are just sick. They deserve no sympathy and I hope if they ever become ill, they get no treatment from any medical professionals. They want to die, so leave them to their fate.

@Vee speaking of the media and Trump's campaign and their efforts against Biden, I've seen a lot of left Twitters tweeting all the "sleepy Joe" Trump ads today, some at least honest, others pretending they don't agree. The ads are everywhere - earlier today I had to keep seeing a really horrible, manipulative Trump ad about Biden having dementia. This is the line the media has wanted to take, and that Trump has damaged by being so incoherent and struggling to even walk, but I imagine it will still have an effect. I do wonder if these attacks are one of the reasons older voters have (for now) abandoned Trump somewhat, along with the "let old people die to save our economy" genius from his supporters. The problem is even if they do remain hesitant, most white voters will still support him, and voter suppression and the full court press to try to get black and Hispanic voters to support Trump will also have an effect. Whatever happens I'm just glad Bernie's loss has exposed how worthless so many of these con artists are. You have future Fox News eye candy Krystal Ball tearing apart fellow Tara Reade pusher Nathan Robinson because he trashed her Tucker Carlson-loving, openly fascist co-host and grift partner. You have Matt Taibbi melting down, yet again, over racist liberals not getting to harass black female co-workers with enough approval. You have perpetual hack Ryan Grim writing embarrassing article about Amy McGrath having to take a college roommate to small claims court 25 years ago. And of course you have Joe Rogan, hero to Bernie and Bernie supporters because of his progressive ways, telling people that if you wear a mask you're a "bitch" and, in old clips, laughing and cheering as his friend talks about sexually coercing women if they want to have a chance in comedy, and how he enjoys seeing them end up broken. These are the people who would have been all over the place in the campaign if Bernie had gotten the nomination. I imagine Bernie is now at his fourth home, happily ignoring the existence of all of them.

Did your feelings change any after Rachel began to become a less prominent character in the late '80s?

The pundits are already trying to make this about Klobuchar hurting Warren (I guess because the idea of "Dems in disarray" is sexier to them) but I do think she made the right decision. Even before the Floyd case I think she was the wrong candidate but now it feels very urgent to pick a WOC. The far left and the bots are already pushing Tulsi Gabbard or Nina Turner and already have the hatchets out about Kamala Harris, but then they would for anyone Biden picks beyond Tulsi or Nina. Hopefully the campaign is ready for this as I'm not sure they get how effective these smear campaigns are. Anyway, I thought this was an interesting article about Sen. Carol Mosley-Braun and when Biden asked her to be on the Judiciary Committee. They also talk about her work against the Confederate Flag being authorized by Congress. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/19/the-first-time-joe-biden-chose-a-black-woman-to-make-history-328426