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@Vee you probably already saw those but she made some very ghoulish remarks criticizing Biden, in a passive-aggressive, gutless way, of exploiting the deaths of his wife and children. All this "I hope when I'm that old I am over this stuff...LOL!!!" type of crassness. The Beltway is so full of sociopaths, along with these dipshits with horseshoes shoved up their asses. Glenn Greenwald was recently chatting with Ryan Grim and whatever died on Ryan's head about the shame of anyone offering a whisper of criticism of this guy: https://www.timesofisrael.com/kansas-student-19-wins-state-house-primary-admits-to-harassing-girls-online/

@marceline that is awful. I hope the Democrats never go back to real conventions, to be honest. The 2016 convention was hurt by their stunts and with the increasing amount of unhinged rhetoric from some on the left. There is a very vested effort by many on the left and many in the press to downplay any positives of this convention to benefit Trump. On the same day Rose McGowan ranted and raved, The Atlantic put out a piece to talk about how the convention gave Trump an opening to make people think he has a great economic record and that Biden will support extremism - a piece with the usual suspects like James Carville (who even went on TV in 2018 in a desperate and successful effort to set a narrative that Democrats didn't do well). You have CNN piling on too. Other sites like Politico are also putting out various articles with Ted Kaufman to try to further alienate left-wing voters. So many who are in power or want to be in power in the media want a Trump comeback story and will profit from more of what we have now. They are becoming more and more brazen in trying to make this comeback a reality, keeping silent even as he is planning to send out thugs on Election Day. This is why I think if Biden wins it will only be very narrowly and probably with a lot of pain through the process and aftermath. Too many people in the hierarchy have too much to lose without Trump.

I see that CNN already has their talking points in line (the same ones I'm seeing from a lot of fauxgressives on Twitter), having Angela Rye in a major role to talk about Biden not being good enough because of a lack of policy proposals. (spoiler alert - when Democrats give policy proposals, the same media voices call them "wonky" and say they are too out of touch with the regular folks - the trick is nothing the Democrats ever do is right for Trump-supporting outlets like CNN) The "they aren't giving a reason to vote for them" talking points are everywhere, just as they are every 4 years. All I will say is if people don't have a reason to vote this year, they never will. I just give up on those people at this point. I also saw a lot of handwringing over the lack of Tulsi and Julian Castro. I'd guess that Harris' people wanted nothing to do with Tulsi and Biden's didn't with Castro. I can't say they are wrong in either case...especially Tulsi's. I don't know when I'm going to watch Biden's speech, but I did watch Jill Biden's and I thought she did a very good job, especially when she talked about the family she became a part of. She was just the right blend of natural and polished.

The odd part is I half-thought it was short for Tangerine.

I'm not sure why that was released early as it's just going to end up becoming a controversy and giving the media and the GOP talking points. Speaking of the media games, I am not surprised that NBC, which is likely still infiltrated by Andrew Lack's flunkies, led the charge in trying to convince people that AOC was "going rogue" and asking people to vote for Bernie. They did anything they could to help Trump in 2016, to the point of having that sicko Lauer fawn over him in primetime while grilling Hillary. And they're back again. The roll call was a beautiful moment, a wonderful use of the new convention style, and genuinely moving as we saw so many parts of our country (seeing Matthew Shepard's parents brought back so many memories for me, I was very touched). Yet that was all overshadowed, as was the plan. If Trump wins he will dismantle the media. If Biden wins I hope some of the people in his administration will consider doing the same. Something has to change.

I don't trust anything involving China.

Michelle Obama gave such a beautiful speech in 2016, which many dismissed as out of touch, but was trying to appeal to a better America she hoped for, even if she likely knew it didn't exist. This year her speech was cutting and just as powerful, and made the most of the lack of applause and hollering - that "it is what it is," followed by silence, was more brutally effective than a million campaign ads can ever be. I'm glad she never has run for politics as the same racists and hatemongers who have spent a decade assailing her and her family would have really gone into overdrive, but it's our loss, not hers.

Trump is probably going to do his pathetic shell game about the post office, putting out a meaningless EO while he and his supporters cast the Democrats as ineffectual and uncaring. I just hope people don't fall for it if that happens. I just wish Republicans could lose the Senate because even if Biden does win, the Senate is blocking any change.

I think they still believe Trump could win, as the talking points are still going out (the latest being attempts to revive the narrative about black and Hispanic voters abandoning Democrats), but they are now in a win-win position, because even if he loses, he's leaving the country in ruins, and they know the press and the public will blame Democrats, the way they always do. Cultists - the Q people will be in full force, and they are increasingly dangerous.

In another attempt to change the narrative for Trump, CNN (whose main boss has bragged about Trump's help to their network) has a poll out showing Biden up +4. I do believe it's that close (or closer), but the narrative will be dishonest, as the media will do anything to help Trump win. They need him for relevance and ratings. Expect a lot of push this week about his comeback and about blaming Harris, and any efforts possible to ignore stories like these:

I can see why Pelosi moved the date up - the optics of waiting a month (especially since apparently that would have been after ballots started going out) would have been awful. Unfortunately I don't think the hearings will do anything, and will just be used by the GOP and the media as a weapon against Democrats. Republicans on the committee will make an ugly display, they will distract, Democrats will be criticized for not doing enough to stop them, and Dejoy will waddle away with the topic safely changed. There's a reason why the media is trying to move people away from this story and onto things like birhterism 2.0 or does Obama think Biden is a terrible candidate, etc. The worst part is I can't even say people may be better off voting in person because, even if I put aside the pandemic, which we can't, more polling places are being shutdown and the GOP are hiring more poll watchers to intimidate voters. Barring a landslide, Trump and his cronies have managed to shut down many Democratic votes from all angles.

Is this movie any good?

So many good songs on this page... Anyway.

@Vee thanks. I will have to watch. I wish they could do another project together.

I'm glad they fought back, but Newsweek has been a trash magazine for decades (spending much of the '90s pushing anti-gay propaganda).

The other problem with Brittany was she was not only introduced as deaf, but her deafness was caused from a flood that killed the child she had with Catlin. (I think Catlin had assumed she was also dead, or something). On paper, such a heavy backstory makes sense for turning a character "bad," but it can easily just feel exploitive and crass. Then they seemed to start a lighter romance with her old EON partner Chris Holder as Peter, only to replace him and have Peter become an [!@#$%^&*].

Thanks for finding this. I always forget Barbara Stanger was still playing Mary up to this point. Nice to see a bit of her, and Doug and Julie.

https://archive.org/details/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-september-1-1995-convert-video-online.com

She also said Brittany had no real characterization. Going from such a rich character as Raven to such a mess was probably very demoralizing.

They are probably referring to the Red Swan story, which continued, but was heavily sped up.

While the media is begging you to vote for Trump because of a "peace deal" that means nothing and Israel is already saying will not stop West Bank annexation, they continue to ignore Trump stealing the election. The more this happens the more it means it doesn't matter how many turn out to vote for Biden/Harris - the votes will be gone.

I don't think the episode is around in full but some clips are here. My opinion of this episode and this era is I wouldn't wipe my ass with it.

I've been following the MA-Senate primary off and on, because Joe Kennedy seemed to be running just to run without much to offer voters. Ed Markey, the incumbent, is, sadly, being propped up by ex-Bernie cultists, but this is still quite an entertaining moment (and Kennedy's lackluster response probably shows you why he is currently beginning to crater in polling).