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Maybe I'm just too cynical, but that statement is a giant nothing burger.  "Handling it privately" sounds an awful lot like sweeping it under the rug and do nothing. 

So in general, I usually don't pay that close attention to the Royal Family. To me, I think having a monarchy is archaic and serve no purpose is a modern society.  When Harry and Meghan announced they were going to marry, I didn't start to pay attention a but, but I was curious how an bi-racial American as member of Royal Family would play out.   

I watched the interview, because Meghan has garnered both compassion and sympathy from me for the way she was treated by the British Press and how the Royal Family let it happen, which was vile IMO. I'm glad Harry and Meghan got out and escaped that toxic environment. 

I do wonder how it will play out across the pond, once the full interview airs tonight. Here in the US, both media and public seem to be very much on Meghan and Harry's side. I have doubts it will be the same the UK. 

OLTL is the one I'd like the most to come back.  I miss it the most of all the soaps. 

I also agree about all the Edge of Night comments. It's way before my time, but considering how popular crime dramas have always been going back to Law & Order, plus the current true crime popularity, I'm surprised  it hasn't been rebooted in some way 10-15 years ago. 

When we lost GL, ATWT, AMC and OLTL in quick succession I didn't think any of them would still be on in 2021 except for maybe B&B.   I can see them all moving to solely streaming. I've felt for a while now that if given the proper chance, soaps as a genre could thrive on streaming.  Steaming's main business model is to gain and keep subscribers, to do that you need a steady stream of content. Few types of shows do that better than soaps. 

For me, the main one is the Young and the Restless.  Chuck Pratt's reign of terror forced me to stop watching. Even LML and end of MAB weren't as bad as Pratt. When Sally Sussman and Kay Alden came back, I was very excited and felt I was getting exactly I wanted,  two people that trained under Bell and could restore that essence of the show, but update it to modern day.  When they left or got fired, that's when I realized that the Y&R I want never going to happen. So I asked myself, can I enjoy the show for what it is today? That answer I eventually came to was no. Since then, I haven't watched Y&R. 

That is so true. I barely watch as is. Most of the time I either skip the entire episode or am fast forwarding though 90% of the episodes I do watch. I am close to giving up all together. I personally haven't seen a soap this bad since Chuck Pratt's tenure at Young & Restless that forced to me stop watching. 

Round 2 indeed Toups! I also need it to go higher to break even. 

I recently re-watched the Kyle and Fish story. Luke & Noah may get credit for being the first major gay male couple and Will & Sonny may be the longest lasting, but for me, even though their time was brief, Kyle and Fish was the best. The show was building something special. Such a shame they chickened out and ended them prematurely. I will always be mad about that, but I am grateful they did get a happy ending (though rushed).

Guiding Light and All My Children I never tried watching, so General Hospital would fit the bill for me. I've tried multiple times to get into it and the only time I was interested was when Ron C first took over and brought on some OLTL characters. I was a big OLTL fan.

Once they lost the rights to the OLTL characters, I lost interest. 

For Non-American soaps, Hollyoaks. Every time I hear high praise for it, I check it out, but I never last. I just don't get it. I find just about every character on that show unlikable. 

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It's easily the worst the show has ever been. A never-ending rotgut of character assassinating stories, all while setting a flame to the fabric of the show at every turn.

I could maybe understand why Jon Sen is still there, if there was a "Chuck Pratt" like effect going where despite the show being awful the ratings are really good, but the ratings are just as bad as the writing is. I just don't get it. Why would you let him continue to destroy the show when your spending millions on a new set? 

The show is dreadful. I've largely stopped watching. Every story is nearly unwatchable. 

Jon Sen has got to go. I don't know if the BBC doesn't want to fire him in the middle of a pandemic or what's the deal, but they need to make a change soon. 

I'm also glad I didn't invest any serious money into GME. I do think that RobinHood and other apps limiting the shares killed the momentum.  I have a few AMC and BlackBerry shares that I'm going to hold on to long term. I think they'll both rebound. 

I'm happy I dipped my toe into Crypto and invested a bit into Bitcoin when it dipped to the low 30K though. I wish I had bought some last year when it was around $7K or even 2018 when it was at $3K.  Oh well.

Yeah, Robinhood's days are numbered. Even if they remain solvent, most people are planning dumping them once this GME thing is over. 

Jon Stewart, former host of The Daily Show joined twitter to weigh in. 

CEO of Robinhood digging his own grave on CNBC right now. He's not helping his case at all. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/robinhood-will-allow-limited-buying-of-restricted-securities-friday-gamestop-jumps-after-hours.html

Looks like Robinhood has caved a little bit. 

I like Sherrod Brown, he's a good guy. Hopefully as a result of this we can get some regulation of the hedge funds and other Wall Street types that's been screwing working class for ages.  

If this is true, than the people at Citadel and Robinhood need to go to jail. This is only to anger the retail crowd more. 

17 minutes ago, Toups said:

 

It's been a crazy week and only got crazier today with platforms like Robinhood restricting people to buy.  There's a huge fight going on here......and I'm definitely not on the side of these Hedge Funds/Firms.   I'm with the retail investors here.  I hope the stock soars and crushes the funds/firms even more.......and of course I'll make a little bit of money too.  LOL

HOLD THE LINE TOUPS!!!!! 

I invested a little bit into this, just to say I was a part of history and screw over the big guys. I think this whole thing is fascinating. Retail investors now know the power they have when they band together and that scares Wall Street. 

While nothing Trump does surprises me,  there could be alternate explanations. It could be an archivist taking it away and putting things to storage. I read somewhere they doing an extra deep clean of the White House before Biden moves in. They might have to remove some stuff to do it. 

Re-Peached!!! 

Legal experts are mixed on if a president can be impeached and/or convicted after leaving office. There is one precedent that points to yes they can. In 1876, Secretary of War, William Belknap resigned minutes before the US House was set to vote on impeachment. The House went ahead and impeached him anyways. The Senate also proceeded to have a trial. 

I am no expert but I was a congressional intern one summer and gave tours of the Capitol Building. That place is a [!@#$%^&*] maze and not easy to navigate. There is no way they could get to the rooms they did as easy as they did unless some members of the mob were off-duty Capitol employees and/or some of the on duty Capitol police were helping them. 

I prefer Max Bowden to Harry Reid but I don't like the "gay gangster" route they're trying to go with Ben. It's boring and Max isn't even very good at. It's usually the gangster/hard man stuff where he struggles the most. I think he does a good job the rare moments they let Ben be a bit campy and effeminate. If they stopped trying to turn Ben into a mini Phil it'd do wonders for the character. 

Absolutely vile. Tina wasn't ever my favorite Carter, but she deserved a better send off. I already see speculation it could be a fake out. I don't care if it is, they've done so many death fake outs, it's a joke. The message they are basically sending is if you try to leave or expose an abuser, you're dead.