DramatistDreamer

Giving this a signal boost since others may have missed it when I posted it on the previous page.

Okay, this article explains the vote was passed with overwhelming yes votes, 420-9, so she could have voted no and it technically would've had no impact on the votes passage. Many of her liberal fans were upset that she didn't vote with the rest of "The Squad". This article suggested that she likely has higher political ambitions, and I tend to agree. She didn't want to register a vote that she could get nailed for down the political "road" (a la Sen. Hillary Clinton and Iraq), so she basically abstained. Unlike HRC, who has always been a moderate and fluid on a number of positions, AOC has always been vocal about her steadfast dedication to take certain political positions, so, in a way, she set herself up for this blowback, by setting her bar so un-negotiably high that anything less would be considered to be backing away from her avowed principles. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-apologizes-after-tearful-present-vote-on-israel-iron-dome-funding-bill/ Also, this Iron Dome spending, worth a billion dollars, can pass but not another round of stimulus checks??!

Okay, now this is shade, 😂.

I wouldn't have wasted my oxygen on such a creature. It accomplished nothing, except giving her more "life" in the headlines, likely what she wanted. Pointless.

When your president is pushing 80, it just doesn't seem wise to send the VP into an indoor setting, with a large cluster of people during a pandemic, imo.

Going back and forth with Marjorie Taylor Greene, as some in Congress have done (e.g. that shouting match on the steps of the Capitol last week), may make for riveting political theater but it will only embolden MTG, it accomplishes little else.

The alternative, doing nothing is even worse. It's exhausting to continually make reports but many people have had to do this until appropriate action is taken. Perhaps even encourage her constituents to help her put an end to it.

Threats are to be taken seriously and not just cited. Hopefully she reported those threats.

Honestly, those questions need to be asked of Biden. Harris' being put in charge of addressing migration from the Northern Triangle countries was specific to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador specifically. It did not incorporate Haitian migration. If her duties have expanded, that would be interesting to know.

Even though I don't watch CNN programming (other than the occasional presidential debate), I would agree that he should've been fired.

Personally, I think these shows are rushing these in person interviews. I know time is money and they are in a race for an ever larger slice of the ratings "pie", but as long as they want to rush to the table to do "in person" activities, these scares will happen more and more. Personally, I'd advise against the V.P. doing 'in person' where so many people are clustered inside, even masked people.

In a letter to her NYC constituency, AOC apologized for her "Present" vote, claiming that she did so after receiving threats for opposing aid. "hateful targeting" is how she referred to it.

Yeah, Sunny is from a legal background, so she likely wants to cross all her "i"s and cross all her "t"s before making statements.

Oh she's going to be alright 🤣.

A firm is telling ITSE, a union representing camera operators, set builders and other production workers that Apple TV+ has less than 20 million subscribers, which apparently allows any streaming company to pay workers less. If I am the head of that union, I would want a professional to look over those numbers.

That's a complaint I've heard about with the rapid response tests--accuracy problems.

LOL. I honestly didn't mean it as shade though. It just is what is it. Actually, I think it's preferable to a player staying too long with a coach, like Venus did with David Witt (although her latest coach hasn't done sh*t for her game-Eric is lucky he's cute, 😂).

Hindsight is 20/20 and it's been at least a full decade for folks to gather their excuses about why the show went down to shi*t. There will never be an iota of accountability where these folks are concerned, which is why the network daytime "dramas" will never get any better. Only worse. Why would they improve, when daytime soap fans have proven that they'll watch the dumbest poorest written sh*t? Also, why are folks debating trolls? It's a waste of time, y'all are only helping them get a deeper foothold in the thread.

They were said to have a volatile relationship. In interviews, I remember Tatum O'Neal alleging that her father Ryan O'Neal was physically and emotionally abusive, which he denied. She also said that it was McEnroe's hot headedness that attracted her (she felt he was reminiscent of her father but claimed McEnroe was a much better man than her father), but she also claimed to have a worse temper than John, which she blamed her father for her temperament. She did once say that John punched a wall, which seems pretty scary but coming from her violent upbringing, I guess it seemed milder in comparison. I do remember an interview where she stated that after a loss on the tennis court, McEnroe could be difficult to live with, as if she had to walk a tight-rope with him. (I can easily imagine at least one ATP player whose wife may feel the same after a loss.) What's most odd was to hear O'Neal express regret that she divorced McEnroe last year, but it is probably as a result of feeling vulnerable, with her having just been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and being single. According to this article, they worked together for two years when she was a Junior player. They recently reunited in July. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/us-open-champion-emma-raducanu-splits-with-coach-less-than-two-weeks-after-becoming-first-qualifier-to-win/ar-AAONe48 Apparently, she wants a coach that has experience on the WTA Tour. I don't think her ex-coach will have much trouble finding a new player to coach. It's a bit of an eyebrow raiser but it has happened on both Tours. Didn't Thiem dump someone on his coaching staff after the U.S. Open?

Not watching Laver Cup but 👀.

No problem. It's definitely a "Yikes"😳 of an obit!

You can always copy/paste the url in archive.is There was no mention of pistol-whipping but she did show up with his protegé Bobby Womack, who apparently wore Sam's clothes, that she married four months later. The obituary also mentioned that she shot Womack when she found him in bed with her teenage daughter (who later married Womack's brother Cecil). The bullet grazed Bobby Womack's temple. A few people have expressed irritation for rehashing these details in the obituary, especially since the family hadn't publicly announced the death. Also, I had heard of the duo Womack & Womack but I didn't know that they were compromised of her daughter (who changed her name) and Cecil Womack.

This is what the soap Generations wish it could have been.

EDT: Actually, the woman who named her son Merkel is a refugee from Cameroon, I believe. I am glad to see that President Biden has finally spoken on the matter and I am keen to see what the investigation will uncover. Good Lord.