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Thank you for sharing that with us. Holy crap those last few photos probably scared the hell out of readers.

He makes John Malkovich look like a sex god. We're never, ever going to leave the '80s, are we. Well at least we have some good music and TV...

I've always thought Linda Evans was a bit butch, and none of this did much to help matters. If JER had been writing this story, he probably would have had Rita assume Sammy Jo was hitting on her, and crawl into bed with her.

I'm glad this is being called out while there's still time. Terry McAuliffe has very deep ties to the heart of the DNC so if he's saying it then clearly they're alarmed. On another topic, I was watching, because I guess I have no self-worth, a Chris Cillizza video talking about whether other candidates will jump in, and he said the only current candidates who have any chance are Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Buttigieg. It threw me, because Kamala Harris is on a level with or above Buttigieg in polling, and is also doing well in fundraising. It does feel like the media is now, as some of you have suggested, trying to freeze her out. Cillizza is the belt buckle of the Beltway.

I would guess she ignored their advice. She seems to have lived vicariously through her daughter, and probably just can't believe she actually did anything wrong. Even now much of her or her team's focus seems to be on these stories that are being spun to the press.

The title sounds like a birth control device.

Wasn't there some controversy in this or the last election when a Dem candidate said Scalia was in the mold of a justice they'd appoint? I think some give these names to try to seem impartial, whether it makes sense or not.

Chilling. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/24/majority-of-voters-think-violence-against-mps-is-price-worth-paying-for-brexit

Honestly I thought he'd already dropped out. I don't even want to know why the purity types are trying to primary Rep Beatty.

An interesting special on climate change...from 1976.

A good piece on who the GOP truly are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/23/three-years-after-trumps-win-many-republicans-still-feel-like-they-are-losing-side-america/

Why am I not surprised that fat drunk is the one pushing it. He's from Florida and like someone in the replies said, this is very Florida 2000.

There's certainly still time for someone back in the pack to surprise us. My concerns about Warren, Sanders and Biden aren't new - I've said them for months, and they probably aren't going to go away. Whoever gets the nomination will have my vote, and if possible, my money, and I hope that whoever gets the nomination wins, but I just can't shake my unhappiness about the state of the race. After 2004 and 2016, I'm past the point where I'm able to tell myself things will be fine - I'm in a place where I just muddle through. I'm not implying you are somehow telling yourself things will be fine, in case my comments come across that way, I'm just talking about myself. If my comments are causing you pain then I will try to phrase them in a way that won't - or you can put me on ignore (not that you need my permission to be put on ignore, obviously) and I will understand. I agree Taylor's testimony was powerful in its own right, and isn't tainted by Trump's usual tweet rage, so people who aren't distracted will hone in on the real facts. I disagree about the media focus, which does hit people who are more easily distracted, but in the end I guess what the media says doesn't matter either way. Battle lines are hardened about impeachment, and it's just a waiting game until November 2020.

I don't have much belief in them alone, but there's been lots of wariness of the field for a while now, especially since clearer and stronger choices to combine establishment and a new future, like Kamala Harris (or to a degree Cory Booker or Julian Castro - or even Pete Buttigieg) haven't really broken through. You have two people who are distrusted or untested for many in the party and one person who seems to be falling apart in slow motion. It reminds me of how wary many in the Democratic establishment were of the state of the field in 2003, which is when Wesley Clark was parachuted in to save the day. I don't think the fantasies about Hillary, Michelle Obama, Holder, etc. are true, but I can believe there's a lot of unhappiness about the state of the primary. It's just you can't parachute a 'dream' candidate in the way you could have in the past - they'd be chewed up and spat out.

Pathetic. As a few of the tweets mentioned, I'm getting 2003 vibes, which is not great.

Speaking of Brexit coverage, this is a pretty good article on the complicity of the British press in essentially being mouthpieces for Boris Johnson. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/british-journalists-have-become-part-of-johnsons-fake-news-machine/

It got coverage, but I've seen more about Trump saying he's been lynched and whether he should use that term and whether Democrats are hypocrites because a few of them used that term when Clinton was impeached, and so on. Trump distracted the press and they fell for it, as usual.

If a Democrat were in the White House, Taylor's testimony would be blaring news everywhere. Instead it has mostly been greeted with a shrug. The numbness toward Trump's corruption will be what gets him out of this. Sad. As for Brexit, there are a lot of MPs who go along with the "people are tired of waiting, just get this done" mentality. A Labour MP went on TV saying he was going to vote for the bill even though he hadn't even read it.

There's a story on TMZ claiming that authorities are hoping she will plead because if she is found guilty and gets a light sentence they will look bad. I wonder if that's true or if someone put that out for spin purposes.

You're right. It's her. I thought she looked a little familiar. Guess she must have done this before she was hired by ATWT.

Edith Prickley being producer of the later years would make sense. "Nobody wants to see those old fogies!" "We need more of those vavavoom brothers. I'll give 'em some Irish Spring!" "We need a British bitch. Everybody loves those British bitches. And some dopey orphan kid who doesn't have a real name. Nobody wants real names now. ET...TJ...JR...hell yeah, I got it! TR!" "We need a serial killer! I hate - I mean, everybody hates all those dumb young bimbos. Kill 'em all!" I wonder if Sherry knew material like this was in the pipeline. I guess she couldn't have, but she must have seen how much the writing had degraded. It's sad to see Liza this way. I guess at least she got to have a happy ending, and wasn't turned psycho or killed off.

I've seen some talk that this shouldn't have been close, and Trudeau made it close, but the way so many countries are splintering, I'm not sure I agree. Speaking of that, it looks like there's a push from some in Alberta to try to secede from Canada. I have to wonder who is backing that... I looked at some of the tweets about Bernie defending Tulsi, and many were incensed that he had waited several days to speak up. She truly does have a cult surrounding her (nothing new for her...). No lessons have been learned from 2016. She and Bernie seem more likely to help Trump than they already did in 2016.