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I thought it was interesting in part because I feel like since they've been bought, sold, bought again a million times now, that family of sites no longer has as many personal articles. The second one was interesting more because I don't think Harriott expected to get that call and then we saw his response. It didn't really change any minds and it won't change Buttigieg's approach (there are now articles pointing out he also hasn't bothered with Latino voters so heavy media pressure is probably the only thing that will make him change), but it was one of those very curious moments that doesn't happen very often.

At this point I think only Biden might reach those types of voters, and even that is a question mark. Sanders and Warren are equally as toxic, if not moreso, especially when you factor in how disgusting Bernie's supporters are. I'm not using that to defend Buttigieg, because I don't think he is qualified to be President and I don't think he's done enough to reach out to most of the party, but we're at a place where just about everybody in the primary will automatically lose half the country or more. So for me it's not about his being gay.

I'm behind so I can't give much of an opinion, but wasn't Roseanne sort of always a continuing story?

I read some of Harriot's article yesterday. He's a very good writer. Thank you for sharing this with us.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/26/warren-nosedives-buttigieg-climbs-poll-074054 I know it's just one poll but Warren has been slowly slipping in various polls so I think the result is probably valid. The rest is just noise, no real changes (Buttigieg will never be able to overtake Biden at this point and Bernie will probably take a lot of Warren's support and climb into second), but I wish Warren had handled the Medicare stuff better and not walked into the trap that was set for her. Of the main three she's the only one I would actually be able to trust as President.

The main difference is Trump's remarks are always based in riling up hate, while Buttigieg's are more based in pseudo-liberal fantasies of white Democrats "saving" black people, which is sadly a longtime Democratic position, just said in a less openly racist (but still racist) manner. I would say he should be called out, but he's just going to give the same non-answer he always gives and then people will move along until it's time to be upset yet again and find another article to click telling them the same thing they already know. The discourse is mostly an echo chamber at this point, like so much of this primary. He has no real chance, he will have no real path in the party once he drops out, he will be forgotten within a year. This whole primary just feels like the same points being ground into the dust because so many of the candidates are so weak and so unable to have any real future as leaders.

Didn't some writers say that you really don't make much money from creating new characters?

I think Lemay was more unhappy with people who were vocal at work. If Penberthy just did what she was told on the script and went home he probably didn't care. If memory serves he praised her work in the drunk storyline.

I'm really trying but I just don't have any enthusiasm left for the new show anymore. First world problems and all, but as someone who has been a big fan since my early teens, not caring more makes me feel sad.

Maybe so. Thanks. I appreciate it.

This is driving me crazy - I was watching this (I know it's pretty car crash, yes) and the woman at around a minute and 40 looks so familiar to me. I keep thinking she has been on a soap. Does anyone know her?

Thanks. I wonder why he's doing various accents. I still wish they'd cast Moira as Donna from the start.

I don't hate Buttigieg either; I think Buttigieg is tone deaf and arrogant and I wish he'd just tried again at getting a job at the DNC or in someone's campaign, but he has some charisma and potential. Unfortunately his presence has helped drag the primary down to the petty, identity politics level that it has delved into. There is always a lot of "why isn't it me? why isn't it me?" griping from the supporters of other candidates, and at times the other candidates seem to come close to saying it themselves. Castro in particular has ended up being defined by his resentment of other candidates - O'Rourke, Biden, Buttigieg - and the idea that they are somehow taking a place he was supposed to have had. I feel that to a point with Booker and Klobuchar as well. The whole "people only care about Buttigieg being a Rhodes Scholar because he's white and Booker isn't." That's true, but it's also true that Booker has had a decade of media attention, much of it very positive, including gushing coverage over his romantic relationship with a popular actress. If he isn't getting traction is it really because of some guy nobody heard of until this year? One of the reasons I was impressed with Harris in the debate is she didn't try to play those types of games, even when she was teed up, and instead just made a forthright case for herself and her candidacy. It's unfortunate that this is in such short supply and we instead have frontrunners (I don't count Buttigieg as a frontrunner and Warren seems to be on the decline so at this point it seems to be Bernie and Biden) who want or need validation, whether it's for the best for their party or country or not. I think that's what leaves me so dispirited. I just don't know how it got this way. I have no trust and no respect for Bernie, and I am mostly just deeply concerned about Biden's health at this point, not to mention his godawful son. If Harris can't come back then I will keep hoping for Warren. I saw a video today of Ayanna Pressley standing up for her over a heckler, and I couldn't help feeling that this is just the start of criticism Warren is going to face, and if she can't face this now, how will she deal with what's to come? I just wish it could have gone another way. I guess that's what you get in politics, but weeks like this I have a hard time figuring out how most of these people will make it another year.

Such a lovely little moment.

I don't really care much about the polls in of themselves. The polls had Clinton winning and we saw where that went (she didn't win what she had to win). It's more the futility of the hearings and the weakness of the field, outside of a few that I would like to see do well, like Warren or Kamala - and even then it's mostly just Kamala I could see as a strong general nominee, although I certainly would be fine with supporting Warren. This primary is just awful and it never ends and it drags down the party and the race. Anyway, I saw this article yesterday about Biden. I don't think a stutter is the reason for his struggles, but it's an interesting read. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

There's a reason many of us were wary of impeachment - it was never going to happen and was always going to drum up his support. I don't blame Pelosi for going forward, as she had little to no choice due to the pressure after the Ukraine call, but it's going to be more of a help than a hurt to Trump. This is the worst lineup for the White House that I can remember in my lifetime. I'm disgusted that Bernie Sanders, a do-nothing, sanctimonious huckster whose supporters are so vile they are currently harassing a man dying of ALS for daring to support Elizabeth Warren, is gaining momentum again. I will feel ashamed if I have to vote for him, and the only reason I will is because of Trump. At this point if Trump doesn't win I will be surprised. And the shambles of this primary are a big reason why.

Every Republican in Congress supports him, including people that the press has spent eons crying blood tears over, like "moderate" Will Hurd who is "the future of the Republican Party." The Beltway will never stop believing, as the song says, but the only way forward in this country will be when the people on the left who have access to power realize that no matter how friendly some Republicans are to them at a cocktail party, they still will only put themselves first. We could all die tomorrow, and they wouldn't care. There is no heroic Republican coming to save the day. There is no bipartisanship. There is no superteam of Will Hurd, Susan Collins, Dan Crenshaw, Nikki Haley, and the ghost of John McCain. They hate us, they hate America, and they hate the world. Anything they say or do is for their own pockets, and will cause everyone outside of those pockets grievous harm. The only way forward is to shut that party, and the opportunists and psychopaths and bigots who run it, out of any power and out of any decisionmaking.

They know it doesn't matter, as the Senate is acquitting him. This is posturing for their base and for Trump. I'm more surprised at how Fox News has been somewhat mixed in their coverage. I guess they are preparing for a post-Trump life.

Didn't she also get plastic surgery? I can't remember.

These tech names seem to either be very frightened or sure that Trump is getting another 4 years. I saw that Tim Cook was touring with him today.

The story started in an incredibly moribund period for the show and you got the sense Bill Bell didn't know where it was going. Once Kay Alden became co-HW the story was much more focused and full of tension. The scenes where Veronica finally had enough and shot Nikki were incredibly done - in writing, acting, and direction. Candice Daly was great in the part, especially in those last months. Melody Thomas Scott also gave some of her best work in that period. I always respected that, after trashy tabloids ran stories on Daly following her death, MTS spoke out to defend her.

Aww....I didn't think it was that bad. The only thing is when you have the camera focus so much on your cleavage rather than your perfume, it doesn't suggest confidence in your product.

Training is a buzzword that goes nowhere. This isn't the UK, but I remember Margaret Thatcher had heavily promoted training programs and much of the time they led to no jobs. There's still an idea of if you learn then you get what you deserve, but that isn't how society works. It hasn't worked in a very long time. People still get upset when they hear "free college" because they think it's undeserved, or they think it's a pipe dream. And for many of the candidates running this year, it likely is a pipe dream, but it doesn't have to be that way.