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Of all the unelected people making major decisions she isn't really the one I'm concerned most about. I'm not sure why she ends up getting so much focus.

Thanks. Love the Constance ad.

I haven't seen the show in a long time but the third and fourth seasons are probably the ones I remember as the best, mostly because they moved away from most of the stories that were dead ends and never really worked (like Michael being in love with Brian).

Sort of. DAYS also used to do some of those (there's a Kayla one on my Youtube channel). ABC did that talking-to-camera stuff for a few years. There's an unintentionally funny one for AMC with Hayley and Brian #1.

Fun ad, although it gives you a seizure. Megan and Max had a similar one around that time.

The banner is a smokescreen, as the segment itself was arguably even worse, especially that woman from RCP straining and straining to make it all seem like political gamesmanship.

I see that Nancy Pelosi is out talking about there will be a big voter backlash against Trump. I just wish any Democratic leaders would stop saying that because it's wishful thinking this far out. Does she not remember that not even a month ago we were hearing about how well Democrats would do this year because of Trump? I imagine he will hurt Republicans in 2018, but with voter suppression and with so many just not wanting to vote and with Republicans being the proverbial cockroaches, it's not something to rest your laurels on.

I heard about this segment, mostly about how toothless and typical of the media it was. They weren't kidding. That mousy woman from right wing RCP seemed particularly terrified of actually discussing blatant hate speech. Then Allan Colmes Jr. beside her tried to turn it into some twisty turny political irony because Romney and Trump have now had a meeting. Well, not really, and that has nothing to do with Tila and her Jew-hating friends having a big party and all but firing up the ovens in celebration. But that's the only way the media can see it, especially since the media assumes they are safe and always, always will, because they see themselves as far above all others. I think people can realize, but it's going to take a huge flashpoint moment, like Katrina and the Terri Schiavo fiasco and various other things with W. I think with Trump it's more likely because I don't know if he will stop Paul Ryan from gutting SS and Medicare as his tribute to Ayn Rand, and I also think he's likely to get on Twitter and start openly berating people from the "heartland" and "coal country" and so on if they eventually start to see he isn't bringing any jobs back to them. But it's still going to take a lot, and the sad thing is a lot of it is out of our control. What Bernie and probably Hillary never grasped is you can't talk to people. The whole cliche of the politician saying "I feel your pain" is meaningless. People may support you if they instinctively feel you are with them - as so many did with Trump, even if he repulsed them as a human being. You can't tell them their lives are crap and if this and that and this other thing happens maybe something will improve. And you can't pat them on the head. Trump just went straight toward hate and fear, and it worked. I don't want a Democrat to do the same, because you can't out-hate a Republican anyway, but there is a basic failure in messaging in the Democratic Party that needs to be fixed.

In his mind that likely is all she did. I think he is deluded enough to believe he only lost because of DNC rigging and because of those silly people who didn't realize they needed to get over themselves and their silly dramas about race or gender and support him. I doubt he will run again, because he always gets to be a hero and a martyr now, just as Trump would have been if he'd lost. Really he's not hugely different from Trump beyond social issues and maybe some monetary things - they're both egomaniacs who got rich off stupid people. There's this fantasy that makes many old white Democrats feel satisfied, because it's kept them warm at night ever since about 1972 and definitely since 1980 - that if only Democrats denounce or push away "others" and focus on Joe Sixpack, they will win. There's this fallacy that all you need to go is go drill into their minds all sorts of blather and they will be yours. I think Bernie realizes in a way that Hillary did not that many people are driven by fear, but he still doesn't get it, as he thinks he can lead the worried masses. He doesn't realize that most of those he wants to lead will see him as a rich, godless Jew, at a time when anti-Semitism (I wonder if those are also "identity politics" in his mind) is rampant and growing.

Yes.

True. I think network loyalty was still pretty strong then, although I guess EON managed it for nearly a decade.

To be honest I was surprised they even let fans know it was moving anywhere at all.

I love it. Of course I get the context that this is bad and wrong to treat the press this way, but these scumbuckets, at least the ones with actual power, enabled him at every turn and openly bragged about how they didn't care about the consequences because it meant big ratings and big money. They genuinely thought they could control him when it was blatant to anyone who is not in the bubble that he was manipulating them for his own gain. And now they're going to pay the price.

“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” the source said.

AP in actual journalism shocker. No one tell Ron Fournier. http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/kris-kobach-donald-trump-homeland-security-plan-231712 John Oliver's impassioned plea on his last episode causes a spike in donations to various causes. https://www.inverse.com/article/24096-john-oliver-trump-charity-donation-spike

Thanks for sharing that.

One of the main things for people to work on is to make sure they even have the right to vote. In Wisconsin this year, I believe, Republicans openly spoke of how they shut down polling places near colleges because they didn't want Democrats to win.

Thanks. I'd never seen this one. Can you believe all the stories in this episode? Can you imagine any show (soap or not) juggling that many today? I remember someone saying AMC was a show that benefited from the hour format in a way most soaps didn't. I can sort of believe that here. How long did Nina keep calling her mother "Monique"? So this was the period of time during that Nazi story that offended some. Airing simultaneously as sensitive topics like Devon and Lynn Carson and also the poignant baby story with Jesse and Angie just shows how disparate AMC was at this point and why they had a hard time keeping it from going off the rails by a few years later. This was right before the yacht party that I believe led to a cast ban on drug use as didn't someone fall off the boat while coked up? The way they handle Brooke's fears of sterility after aborting a child are just so different, so much more mature, than anything on soaps now. I don't even know if they say "abortion" on most soaps now. Opal really does seem to be on her own show.

What bothers me with Pence is more that I still feel like many people out there are turning a blind eye to him because he isn't Trump. That means if Trump ever does get pushed out, he's going to get a huge free pass he doesn't deserve. He truly scares me.