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15 minutes ago, Wendy said:
Apparently, Diaper Don, at his South Carolina hate rally, is calling Coronavirus a hoax. Well, if any MAGA rubes get infected, I hope listening to this dangerous lie is worth dying for.
I read about that. Disgusting and unsurprising. I had wondered if he might try to take this seriously given the huge hit the economy is going through, with the economy being his main election tool beyond paranoia and the culture wars - I guess he's doubling down on the culture wars and deciding to just let the country burn. And sadly many, many people will go along with him on this.
I've been guilty lately of all but saying that Bernie and Trump are two peas in a pod. This response has been a needed reminder that that isn't the case, and even though I still don't think Bernie can beat Trump, I will vote and try to help him win if I can.
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Even such a life-and-death issues is subject to secrecy and to conspiracy theories from some of those Trump is likely to listen to most. The far right are making it out that this is just another "Deep State" scheme from Rod Rosenstein.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/trump-backers-coronavirus-conspiracy-117781
The sad thing is many will believe this.
I naively tried to hope that when Trump was elected, someone somewhere would still be in place to put the brakes on this type of insanity taking hold of all forms of government, but it's clear now those days are long gone.
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6 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
Oh, Goutman's over-inflated ego and reputation is well documented but it seems as though he said/did something that went beyond the pale because Byrne mentioned that what began as a contract dispute morphed into a situation that made it impossible for her to return to the show as long as he was there. It's just striking how, as she talked about (even by her own words she described her words as being "cryptic") her leaving, even though she was trying to keep her emotions contained and was mostly successful at it, one could still hear the emotions bubbling under the surface. I was surprised at how, even after a decade, you could tell how deeply she still felt affected by it.
Also, I found it very interesting that with other actors on the show who had felt offended by Goutman (Scott Bryce and Eileen Fulton), they were very specific in offering details about what happened (Scott's firing and Eileen's marginalization) but Martha made it a point to offer only vague but pointed remarks as if she really wanted to talk about it but felt the specifics would be better left unsaid. Whatever it was, I suspect it was something more than just garden-variety disregard.
I remember Noelle Beck talking about how hard it was for Jon Hensley to film some of their last scenes together which were so heavily focused on his past with Martha's Lily. Now that we know just how bad things got it sort of sticks out for me even more. Goutman seems so petty - I can believe the fan speculation more now that he gave Lisa something to do with a temp recast just because he knew Eileen wouldn't be able to be there.
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Oh please. They don't care about capitalism, they care about right wing propaganda. Bret Stephens and David Brooks have done more to make socialists out of readers than Bernie ever could.
Between that Biden ad and all the Republicans in SC voting for Bernie, you'd think people who want to win in November would see how hard the right is pulling for Bernie. Oh well. Obama has tried very, very hard to stay on the sidelines, so this truly must have pissed him off.
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1 hour ago, Khan said:
If Bernie Sanders were smart, he'd snap up Elizabeth Warren right away to be his VP, as her presence on the ticket might be the only saving grace of having him as the Democratic nominee.
I'm just saying.
I don't think he will risk the optics of picking a white VP (who once claimed to not be white) over a non-white VP, but I do think she would have been under more consideration if not for the "sexism" attack. That whole thing, however much involvement she did or didn't have, was a huge misfire and did nothing but benefit him. It's sad because Warren has a lot to offer, much more than Bernie, or anyone he picks.
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33 minutes ago, Darn said:I think that shot is actually in reverse, which is maybe why it looks so awkward.
This promo is very cringey, Reva the sex goddess never worked for me.
That makes sense. It may also explain that weird shot at the end where she's like, "Lounge chair? Lounge chair...ew!"
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5 hours ago, Juliajms said:
🤣 I feel like Warren is the only one who knows what she's doing at this point. We had so many candidates and things have still gone to hell in a hand basket. I don't even know who or what to blame. The Sander's cult of personality? The insane amount of money Bloomberg and Steyer are throwing around? In any case, what a mess.
Warren and Kamala are the only two I would have voted for in the primary. I'm sorry it had to end this way.
I didn't watch the debate tonight but it sounds like the same old garbage. The most interesting part was hearing Bernie got booed. I wouldn't be surprised if those were plants, but given the vile supporters he enables, I have no sympathy.
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I thought Rachel was, generally, competently written during Swajeski's tenure as HW, but the difference here, in Lemay's brief return, is tremendous. Rachel is so incredibly layered and even what could have been an everyday mother-daughter chat comes alive. It reminds me of another fantastic scene she had in his return she she tore Liz up for accidentally telling Matt about the circumstances of his conception. I truly do mourn what we never got to see with a longer Lemay stint.
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59 minutes ago, Mitch said:
Yes, that was the house she lived in with Nick, which was kind of weird..but they totally remolded the house and this being Marland, he wrote that in.
Was this after Whit was killed. Lisa is kind of cold to poor Jay who had his mother be revealed to be a murderer. I keep imaging how Fulton would play these scene.
God crying Craig! I know there was a market for it but he was such a wuss crying all the time....
Wasn't Whit killed after Betsy left? I thought Eileen's first day back was finding his body on the floor.
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55 minutes ago, AllMyDaysatGH said:
I was reading all over Twitter last night Bernie's supporter's defending Ben Mora (the field director), even calling him a "hero," etc...they were like worshipping him. It reminded me of Trump fans defending everything he does and says honestly🤢So disturbing
It's because he hates the right people. Some were insisting he's a great guy, but then I saw this, so no, he's just like all the other 'bros':
He also fits into the easy, fun categories of gay men that many on the left need as the ideal - a cute, sassy twink who hates women and hates other gay men. I actually saw someone talking about how people need to see Boys in the Band in order to understand what gay men are like - and they meant this in a positive way. Boys in the Band is about how being excessively bitchy is a cover to hide self-loathing and an awareness that you will never truly live life. The same people who claim Buttigieg is self-loathing and a liar are more than happy to celebrate the self-loathing that Mora vomited all over Twitter, because he's the "right" kind of gay.
This is what happens when rich, out of touch white leftists who openly and happily talk about how much they hate everything and everyone (other than dictators and getting money from podcast groupies) and how "liberals" are the biggest danger in the world have so much power in a campaign. And most of America, the America that they say they hate yet decided to jump into the politics of all while doing nothing but helping their dear leader lose. At least genuine anarchists like John Reed and Emma Goldman tried to go see what they were preaching and supporting. Chapo types, or Red Scare types, are just posers and con artists, like Bernie is. They are all play-acting, and they don't care if we all die. And somehow, the party is so weak and decrepit that this amdram shambles is going to just keep barreling toward the nomination and toward a heavy loss in November.
But at least we have debate #485734 tonight so everyone can be reminded of how godawful these candidates are and why they shouldn't even bother voting, so...yippee!
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In more cultist news, a field director for Bernie had his private account exposed, where he tweeted at length about, among other things, how ugly Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren are, talking about how Hillary needs to be catapaulted, how Bernie supporters should phonebank for Bloomberg and put in false data to ruin his campaign, how Jonathan Van Ness is dying of AIDS, and how Pete Buttigieg had "botched" conversion therapy and his husband will become a meth dealer running around with twinks.
Bernie's campaign did what any campaign should do, and fired him.
Some of the highest profile cultists, the general sleaze at Chapo and Secular Talk, instead of just saying his private comments shouldn't have been exposed, chose to fight for his job and get angry at the campaign for actually running like a campaign instead of the dirtbag bigotry that pays their bills and gets them out of bed in the morning.
Bernie supporters are the same people who love to lash out at any criticism of him by saying it's anti-Semetic and that you should never bring up his advanced age, frail health, his wife's money scandals, his general uselessness as an activist, his love of dictators, etc. Yet extensive vile comments from someone with a major role in Bernie's campaign are ardently defended and they are throwing money at this man instead of giving it to their dear leader.
If anyone in Bernie's camp has any sense, they should be very nervous about these reactions, especially since the voter turnout in IA/NH/NV has shown few, if any new voters are coming to the polls for him. His bedrock of support is depraved and toxic and if they start to feel that he has "sold out" or become a "cop" or what have you, and that supporting him doesn't mean you get to [!@#$%^&*] all over everyone with zero consequence, they will turn against him and rally everyone else to do the same.
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9 minutes ago, marceline said:
I have to admit I have no real idea what Steyer's goal is. He was all about impeachment but now that Donald's impeached he seems to be flailing.
Trump and Bernie use the same tactics. MAGA and the right feed aggrieved, angry men a non-stop diet of "civil war." Bernie and the hard left sells "revolution."
I think when you have that much money, it can become easier to become some sort of godlike figure in your own mind. I think Steyer assumed he got what he wanted with impeachment so it was just the first part of his plan. If his Nevada results are any indication, the polling doesn't match up to the Election Day tally.
It's a mix of cultism and shilling for attention/cash with both groups. You can always tell who the biggest phonies are as they will jump to Bernie without hesitation and are extremely aggressive about it. One man on Twitter who claimed to be a huge Warren support recently went full Bernie bro to the point of taunting others for having "Bernie Derangement Syndrome" (eventually he deleted it). The phoniness is just another reason I don't trust his supporters. They are selfish and fickle and disturbed and I don't think they will be there when we need them, when the battle really starts.
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No. I'm just guessing based on the polls for Super Tuesday. We'll see.