DramatistDreamer

I can't say I ever had a good feeling about Patel but it is breathtaking how many fakes and frauds there are in the Trump administration. Just about everyone there is a liar.

This is an interesting tidbit to come across.

The U.S. accepted 0 refugees in the month of October.

Gorgeous.

I know I sound like a broken record, going back to the same point over and over again but I do think this is a preview of what we can expect in her career. A career full of injuries.

It's not as if lawsuits are new to Trump, but he must be breaking presidential records or something.

Did he look like this at Laver Cup? In terms of weight, I mean. I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm genuinely curious as to whether he's gained weight since then. LC was not that long ago.

You're welcome. I wanted to copy & paste the way others do in these threads but the downloads were a bit messy and I lost patience (it's late), lol. It's fascinating to see how big these soaps were at one point--they were global! I'd love to hear the perspective of some Aussie ATWT fans. I wonder how long the show aired there?

Came across this, at random on Twitter. I never knew that the series aired in Australia.

I read that Julian Castro had visited a prison in D.C. earlier that day, and although I'm sure the inmates there appreciated his visit, some were asking why didn't didn't didn't participate in the town hall and there was some tweets about how the organizers of the town hall felt that Castro had undermined their event. A few people mentioned that Beto O'Rourke visited a prison in San Quentin last month. It is indeed shameful that many of the surrogates and supporters who attack Harris over her "record" as a prosecutor, (although just about all of those claims have been debunked, people still choose to use the same talking points), none of those candidates decided to show up and there's no mention of that.

This seemed to be the only platform that was streaming it, from what I've seen.

So, yesterday there was a prison town hall, only three Democratic candidates showed up and there was next to no coverage in the media about it. Hm.

Anyone keeping count?

Probably due to the time differences and the politics of the location, I can't get invested in this WTA Championships. Bertens just beat the new #1 after barely getting in from the Elite Trophy tournament in Zhuhai. She has a good chance to win it now too, lol. And the courts are slow as hell. No wonder Osaka pulled up lame.

The fact is, the Kurds were instrumental in this raid, because they tracked, found and confirmed the location of al-Baghdadi. Given all that, the U.S. still abandoned them with next to no advanced warning that they were doing so.

The story behind that handshake snub is much deeper than what could be conveyed by a short video clip.

Not in terms of chronological age, in terms of demeanor. As someone said upthread, Kiefer had a much more domesticated, soccer mom posture, which reads older and more settled, compared to Stringfield's rebellious 'wild-child' profile.

Trump was probably so sure that the raid on al-Baghdadi would result in people throwing roses at his feet, so he felt it was 'safe' to go out among the unpaid/non-MAGA vetted folk, who would no doubt sing his praises. But people weren't falling for it. Trump and his cronies are so slap-dash in everything they do that people quickly realized that Trump's 'war room' photos (his attempt at creating an Obama moment) were staged and couldn't have been taken at the actual time the raid was taking place. Also, people didn't appreciate Trump's hollow attempts to praise the intelligence community, who did all the heavy lifting, the same intelligence community that he had been belittling and mocking for the past two years. And as Trump lavished praise on himself for the raid (meanwhile al-Baghdadi has likely already been replaced in the terrorist organization), people were unearthing an old tweet of his where he mocked Obama for giving that statement where he described the raid and killing of bin Laden. This, and Trump's hastily put together forum where he tried (unsuccessfully) to tout his justice initiatives to a select group of black people (while the rest were ordered to stay in their rooms and not come out on their own campus), did nothing to bolster his image to the myriad of people who want him out of office. I guess he is shocked to find out that life is vastly different when he's among the people who are not paid actors, MAGA fanatics and cabinet cronies. Speaking of what happened at Benedict College this weekend, this video gives a bit of a summary and crystallizes what happened as a result. Gillum was very diplomatic in his gentle rebuke of Van Jones, who got off easy.

ATWT ended up SORASing itself to death (literally) in that last decade. Many of the ages of the teens and twenty-somethings were all over the place and made little sense in the context of what we'd seen in the previous decade.

Sisco is about four years older than Rossum, which doesn't seem like it would make a difference but if you look at the ages they were at the time the character entered the canvas- Rossum was eleven and Sisco supposedly came on two years later in '99 as a full-fledged, ready-to-date teenager, it looks like a big leap in age. Because the character disappeared for two years, the audience probably didn't really notice. Soap audiences tend to be inured to big leaps in age. This one would of been one of the relative minor ones compared to the drastic way in which they aged other characters.

Since P&G couldn't care less at this point (did they ever?), our only hope seems to be that more actors like Patricia Bruder Debrovner and Margaret Reed upload episodes and reels from their work on the show.

With the lack of episodes throughout the years posted online for some of the show's biggest storylines, the same could probably be said of many of ATWT's episodes.