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Terrible aftermath, with the factory war and that ghoulish DVD of him in the hospital that convinced Alya to give the factory back.

I would have paired her up with someone age-appropriate, like the drunk teenager Faith counseled who disappeared after the strike. (the strike people actually tried to give Faith something interesting to do...we couldn't have that!!!) Everything that Labine and Mayer gave Kim to do tended to gross me out.

Yes. As @amybrickwallace said, Labine mentioned being very upset about his being killed off, as she seemed to have a high opinion of the triangle. Personally it all made me feel gross and I loathed Michael and Kimberly, but I guess most loved them, I don't know.

Mitch put the initial bug in his ear in their phone call, and then he flails around as he can never be fully controlled. It all ends up in the same place though - some nebulous fantasy world where these men ruin everything but the window is always left open enough to where the "both sides" or "out of touch elite Democrats don't care about us" people can point fingers for their own motive and profit. Ideally, his very clear statement earlier will make most people finally see sense - I'd like to think that when I still see morons on various boards or Twitter who claim to hate Trump but still try to blame Pelosi, they are running some sort of con.

It's all just a sick game he and McConnell are playing. Yet that it keeps going around, even though none of them want to actually pass the bill, means that the possibility even existing allows the nonsense idea that it's all Pelosi's fault to continue to be in the air. It's their ideal way of making sure Democrats get blame for what happens now and if Biden is in office, then as well. Let's just hope people, beyond the usual fauxgressives anyway, don't fall for it.

Kate Oates did a terrible job with the Aidan story and likely would have done a terrible job with Ashley's too. She is overrated and overextended.

That's pretty much what I said before, that McConnell was doing this to replay what they did to Obama. I don't think we were in disagreement. Where we disagreed was the idea that Trump was just doing this on his own because of mood swings or what have you.

I knew it. I knew it. It's a sick game designed to give Biden and Democrats in the next Congress the worst possible hand, blaming them for Trump's failed economy and all of the people who are suffering and dying and will continue to suffer and die until January. McConnell gets endless gushing and fawning for how brilliant and clever he is, and why can't Democrats be like him, and so on, but this is why. He is a monster. He is murdering thousands and thousands of people, killing them in cold blood.

The other speculation I've seen - and I think it may be true - is McConnell and Trump know that if they get that seat, they can easily steal the election, even in a landslide win. So if Covid Barrett gets on, then nothing else may matter. If that is the case, then making people even more poor won't matter.

I see what you're saying, but McConnell and Mark Meadows have been trying to shut down any relief talks for a while, haven't they? McConnell has seemingly just only cared about getting Amy Covid Barrett and other judges through, nothing else.

I have to wonder if McConnell, who never wanted to pass this, egged him on, assuming Trump will lose - this way the economy will be desolate by the time Biden is in office, and they will, along with the media, spend 24/7 blaming him, just as they blamed Obama for W's dead economy.

I don't understand why all of the joint chiefs of staff being quarantined would be publicized - that's kind of dangerous.

I think an address is inevitable, as are the "Trump's back!" hot takes. His cultists and many in the press will eat it up. I can't begin to guess about the overall public. The biggest problem is he's repulsive - he's always looked like something that got caught in a toilet, but now he looks like something that was yanked out of the toilet and left to bake outside. He can barely speak. He gives off skeevy vibes. And the "trolling" persona that the Jonestown residents love falls flatter when you see how visibly exhausted he is and has been for some time now. Whatever he says or does, I do expect things to tighten, especially if, as I am seeing some speculation about on Twitter, the recent poll results are mostly just his supporters not responding rather than a larger shift toward Biden. They will come back. But Biden does still have a steady lead, and hopefully that can be maintained if voter suppression does not carry the day. There are so many voter suppression stories we aren't even hearing about.

She doesn't need to have closeups of her face.

I laughed when I saw the usual hatemongers going on about "now who's divisive?" That's being honest, not divisive. Michelle has always been honest about this country, and she likely only held her tongue more when Obama was President because of the racist hatred she, her husband and their children received. I hope she keeps being so blunt and they can just choke on it. As for the polls, my main worry right now is all the voter suppression and how many people are voting by mail, which can easily be thrown out. Hopefully Trump is so clearly dangerous at this point that even the people who constantly need to remind us that they are morally superior and hate both candidates will see the need to vote for Biden.

Oh that liberal media.

Please tell anyone you know in SC. (any Democrat, anyway...)

Meanwhile, "Team Trump," that fatheaded, closet case sot Gaetz, and Blair Warner's ugly sister who was handed a Senate seat in Georgia are all tweeting out grotesque memes that essentially call all the people who died from COVID losers. This is the party that runs all levers of power. This is what we are. And there is no bottom.

The grand return for the media, as likely planned for days now. And the media will likely replay these images over and over and over and over, even as they claim to be appalled. Biden needs to cancel the remaining debates.

They are doing this to try to get older voters back in the GOP column.

I think I've made my feelings clear enough times now so I will probably just stop on this subject, but if anyone needs to block me, I understand. I'm so sorry to @Soapsuds and to you as well @marceline . I think you are the second poster here who has not been able to get a test without a long wait. It's so unfair and outright cruel. Best testing in the world, my ass.

This has also made the debate and the tax stories go into the rearview mirror, and they will continue to speed toward ACB's confirmation along with trying to hype Pence in the debate. They will set the terms, and the media will follow. And we will hear, over and over, how strong Trump is and how anyone who questions or wants to pause is weak and doesn't want America to be strong. I am just hoping enough voters will not buy this and that the media has lost enough trust with people to where they will tune the talking points out.

That's why I said attempted. They are too incompetent to pull off staging most of the time, as shown with the disastrous rollout of Amy Covid Barrett, but I think it was the plan. In order for it to work, the media has to carry water. And if the choice is between a candidate they have no interest in and a party they hate, and ratings, big money, plus getting to cosplay as Woodward and Bernstein for 4 more years, I am not sure there is much of a choice.

Trump has announced he's leaving Walter Reed. After so many other people were revealed to be infected, I stopped believing it was a hoax, because I don't think that many doctors could be roped into lying without something being leaked, but I can't help myself from wondering if the Walter Reed part was a setup. The narrative he and his people have attempted to create is of a tough President who got moments of walking to a helicopter with a mask because he wanted to show the public he was taking his diagnosis seriously, being so tough that he was only in the hospital for a few days, and going on a public tour - again, flouting what the medical professionals that we are supposed to fear and resent told him to do - to meet with the people, waving as they clapped and sang for their hero. We will now get images of the triumphant President, who showed that COVID is no big deal and you just have to live your life, returning to the White House. The ads write themselves. We will now get a month of talking points about how much stronger he is than Biden and how he is living life while Biden is cowering. The true believers will eat this up, but this isn't about them. This is about the media. The media love this man, they love the money and coverage that he brings them. They have no real use for Biden, and never really have. He won't put cash in their hands, or get them awards that remind them how intelligent and fearless they are. Will they stand up for us, in what is likely our last free election (if this one is even free), in our last moments before fascism fully envelops this country? Will they stand up for the over two hundred thousand people that Trump murdered? Or will they go with what is easy, and makes them feel special? We will see.

Speaking of the Bible: