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McConnell already said he would put one through this year, so you're right. RBG would have had to retire in 2014...I wish she had. I don't think she regrets her decision, but it's one that continues to hang over the Court, especially since, even if a Democrat wins the White House, the Senate is likely going to stay in GOP hands. They will not allow any pick by a Democrat to get on the bench, mark my words.

Absolutely not. They hate the party and are proud to tell us. I don't think they'd vote downballot even if he is the nominee.

I will still vote downballot, although if Bernie is on it I have a feeling no races are going to be very close, sadly.

I'd say Guza just whitewashed it a different way. It became about how hard done by Luke was and how he'd suffered all those years by living a lie with pathetic, deluded Laura. It's hard for me to compare Genie and Becky because the stories were so different, but I think for what she was given, when the story wasn't about Lucky verbally abusing his mother anyway, she was one of the stronger elements. Anyway, I don't want to go on because I know everyone but me loves this story so I'll stop.

I saw that last night. And he is now awkwardly backtracking while doing the usual gaslighting of the cultists. Not surprised to see he writes for The Nation (which seems to have lost all direction) and New Republic (a reliable source of war-mongering and hate-mongering for many decades). The only "list" that Bernie supporters tend to have is the long list of expenses to pay for the grifter king and those close to him. All of these pseudo-intellectual wastes of oxygen can kiss my ass. Oh and of course he defended Bernie supporting Joe Rogan.

So glad someone else besides me wanted to see it. Glad you enjoyed.

The newest excuse of the cultists is it's all a setup by people pretending to be Bernie supporters. At least Trump cultists are honest about their bigotry.

Becky Herbst did a fine job but it was always too much about Lucky and Luke and their endless woe to ever register with me. Guza later having Lucky treat finding Elizabeth bleeding in the snow as her highest moment of purity told me I was right to never support the storyline.

I kind of like the idea of this promo, but Reva was too old at this point to be viable for this role...I did laugh at her unintentionally almost getting caught up in the blinds at the end.

Brynn Thayer.

I didn't have a problem with what you said, I was mostly just replying more to marceline's comments. I think you're right about some of Bernie's supporters wanting good things, like improved healthcare, I just don't know if Bernie or his main people have those beliefs. I think he's more delusional than anything else, but I wish there weren't so many similarities to Trump. It's about ego. Bloomberg has wanted to run for President for many years now. Steyer is little better. Steyer pushed the impeachment ball rolling when many felt it would only help Trump (which is exactly what has happened), then abandoned the effort to run for President, and is now criticizing Democrats for not doing a good enough job on something he helped start in the first place. I think Bernie will do well in Nevada, as he has a ton of organization there, but so far he hasn't managed to expand his base, not helped by said base spending more time playing victim and attacking anyone and everyone than trying to rally support. His main benefit is that the moderate side is still split into 3-4-5 pieces. I hope he doesn't win but I'm expecting the worst. Speaking of Bernie, it looks like as his #1 cultist begins to get her own profile, she's starting to get honest about his bullshit healthcare plan. There have been rumors of tension between her and his campaign and I wonder even more now.

I've been reading, thanks to @Vee , some X-Men comics again recently, and the current portrayal of Professor X (messianic, passive on the surface but extremely manipulative and dangerous underneath, especially his willingness to enable extremely dangerous individuals for the 'greater good') makes me sort of see where Bernie is as a person. In my heart I'm having a difficult time believing he's any better than Trump, and even if he is, the people he gives support to aren't. (the biggest difference between them being that Bernie is incapable of actually doing anything, beyond grifting) I'd seen the racism, misogyny and homophobia, but hadn't realized Bernie surrogates are now at the point of using torture and rape scenes from [!@#$%^&*] Salo to express their hatred of Pete Buttigieg. What's even more dangerous is that the media individuals who are very influential and have access to power, like Dave Weigel, are now posting the same images to try to curry favor with Bernie surrogates. These are sick people, and they will have unfettered access to power if Bernie wins. And I know many feel Bloomberg is just a sane version of Trump, and possibly even more dangerous. I just don't want to think these are our choices. I don't know how a door knocker or phone banker would manage to convince anyone these men are going to be the choice for them.

Thanks as always for the spoilers and photos. I see they still don't have much of worth for Deniz. I'm surprised he's still there.

Interesting how the same paper that carries water for a proud racist like Trump is still willing to play those games with the Democrats. Anyway, I am just being hot-headed. I probably will vote for whoever the nominee is in November, meaningless as it is. I just wish it wasn't for someone who is so completely useless and is supported by so many pieces of trash.

I'm so far behind now it's sort of hard to be motivated to catch up.

It's not so much about the left for me as it is about someone who has no interest in any compromise. He doesn't like the Democratic Party, and his campaign team is full of Jill Stein voters, like his press person Briahna Gray, surrogates like Rashida Tlaib who decided to turn his rally into a booing spectacle against Hillary Clinton, or like AOC who has said in most countries she would never be a Democrat. These people all profit from division - why would they want to change anything? They see the Democratic Party as their enemy, not Trump. So even if Bernie scrapes through a win, they will focus more on purging their enemies than on governing. His supporters constantly talk about how they will put people in front of firing squads and chop their heads off (and I don't think all of this is joking), they enable racism, they are proudly homophobic against Pete Buttigieg with the various slurs they throw around, they love to attack female candidates. They also profit off division - it funds their podcasts and their Paterons, gets them more likes and retweets. I'm not trying to talk you out of your vote, or talk down your points. I think what you're saying is true, if someone besides Bernie was in this position. But I can't vote for him. I'm not anywhere that is going to matter in November, so I just can't and I won't. If I ever had any doubt, his hate rallies took the last little lingering doubt away.

Bernie's plans tend to amount to saying vague things and then hiding behind "revolution," which means very little. He has had much less support in the primary this year than polls or his turnout operation suggested, and the people he supported in 2018 all generally lost. His best solution seems to be saying he's going to hold rallies against Mitch McConnell, which will probably give Mitch a good laugh, but won't provide much else in way of response. What is he actually going to do and what is he actually going to offer? I read that the culinary unions in Nevada are going after him for his health care plan. Of course the cult will say boo, bad union bosses, but it's yet another example of why using buzzwords and having rock concert rallies isn't the same thing as working out deals to make things happen. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/in-new-flyer-culinary-union-warns-members-sanders-would-end-their-health-care-if-elected-president The biggest problem for Bernie, besides his supporters being stacked with pond scum who go around threatening to kill anyone they don't like, is that the voters who want to stop and think about policy have little reason to support him. The irony is that many of his supporters hate Obama and trash Obama for only caring about hype...yet Bernie has made a career out of nothing but hype. And so far, he's had two disappointing finishes to show for it, in two states that were supposed to be blowouts.

I think there is also a certain vote for the idea of a calm, sensible person. It's interesting that he got a fair amount of Warren voters in NH, as she is often seen as a teacher type.

Saint Bernie is doing nowhere near as well as he should have. And where the hell are all those new voters who were supposed to swarm the polls for their dear leader??? I won't say it yet because they could both crash out now that we're heading to places that aren't whites only, where Biden may have more of a chance to recover, but if he doesn't, I wish Pete would drop out, endorse Amy, with the offer that he would have a high profile role in her administration (not VP). They are bleeding each other out and helping someone who is showing incredible weakness limp through.

Watching that 1993 episode I wondered how Marland would have written Holden as a father. I had to fight my resentment in the scenes where he was spending time with Aaron (not knowing he was Aaron's father), because it made me realize that Marland may have actually had Holden as a loving dad. After Marland died, Holden basically just began chasing after Lily 24/7, and then, even more incredibly, got involved with a woman and spent more time with her son than he did with his actual son. I have a feeling they got backlash over this because there was a scene where Emma chewed him out for not spending time with Aaron. I wonder if they were considering pairing Barbara with Kirk, considering the way he was hovering over her and I'm not sure what Hal's status on the show was at this time. I enjoyed the brief Kirk/Iva scene - wish they'd considered going there again. The story with Edwina and Evan thinking Rosanna was his sister is just dumb...

Sorry, I know this isn't a vintage article, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. It's a Lydia Hirsch soap segment from 1995. Oof, one of the callers mentioned how old AMC Charlie looked to be Tara's son...

Looking around Youtube I saw Kerr Smith in one of those channeling/manifesting videos where he talked about how he managed to envision himself getting on Dawson's Creek (he also auditioned for Party of Five). He mentions ATWT as well, mostly just saying that he learned to act on the show. I didn't watch the rest.

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