DramatistDreamer

This time in a Walmart in El Paso, TX. I'm going to wait to post anything specific because what I'm mostly seeing is not official yet but I hope it's not as bad as initial reports suggest.

IKR. I read some of the remarks from people when Snapchat goes down and whew, people lose their sh*t! It's really easy to spot bots these days, they all have signature hallmarks. The ones masquerading as black "folks" are the funniest because they are so sloppy, the use of vernacular is laughable and the photos that they use on their AVIs. I swear that yesterday, I saw an avi from an actress that played a recurring character on the show Empire. Most of them can't even be taken seriously, other than a nuisance. Please, the Beyhive has those folks beat!

Actually, in a way, it's the opposite. China is waiting and hoping for a new administration to deal with, at this point. Trump is very bitter about this. Nobody truly believes that the U.S. can outlast the Chinese in regards to willingness to endure hardship, especially since many who endured Mao's Cultural Revolution are still alive-- many of them wrote the blueprint on how to endure brutal circumstances. China has also advised N. Korea on how to string Trump along, although those two missile launches this week show that even advice from their big brothers in China has its limits.

Probably depends on how well-traveled they are. If they disapprove, I suspect that she doesn't care. Gauff is still in the doubles tournament, I think.

Especially Finn who was one of my all time ATWT favorites. I had always hoped that she (alongside Scott Bryce) would return to the role(s), even if only for occasional appearances and brief story arcs (separate and together) but it was not meant to be. I just hope that someone reaches out to her to help her get back on her feet. After seeing that Kristoff died alone in his home after a major psychiatric rupture, it would hurt a lot to see another fave-- I don't even want to think about it. One of the reasons, I'd hoped that the SoapClassics people would've done a box set on her and Scott Bryce. I know that the residuals wouldn't have been much but perhaps it would've provided a morale boost.

From what I've heard, there is more than one threat of Tory defections. Speaking of buffons in higher office- Trump is flailing and failing with North Korea, which launched, not one but TWO missiles in ONE day (that must be some kind of record) and threatened another tariff on Chinese goods, to which China threatened retaliation of their own (of course). Yeah, master dealmaker and negotiator. Certainly, a lot of people think so. How many GOP retirements in the last two weeks? Cumulatively, that's going to be bad for the Republicans.

They've already started some time ago. It started with the MAGAts and has transferred to the Russian bots and troll armies. They must really see her as a threat. Anyone who has truly been paying attention to U.K. politics should've known this was coming. More people need to pay better attention to Scotland and the Irish border-- those look to be hotspots in the offing.

Well damn, that's just so sad to me. She looks to be in a very bad space. I hope she gets some help.

Tim Scott will be the sole black GOPer in all of Congress.

Ghana is quite a long trip to make, especially for Pelosi.

This is interesting.

Someone needs to translate this because, I'm intrigued.

Must admit, I had to Google Coughlin. I already knew who Ashley Wagner is.

The British pound has lost 3% of its value since Boris Johnson took over as PM. Whoa!

Although I agree with a number of your assessments, I don't know, I think it's too early to be so dispirited while there are too many people on stage. I have this thing against early pronouncements based on very early debates. One of Obama's earliest debate performances had people pronouncing him basically out of the race and none of the major network debate moderators took Trump seriously as a candidate and therefore, very few asked him any seriously probing questions. Elizabeth Warren has given the most consistently strongest debate performances overall so far, but again, while there are a dozens of other candidates, many candidates are not even being asked probing questions about their background and history. Although I suspect no one really takes Williamson seriously (at least, I hope not since her ideas on vaccinations and HIV are downright dangerous), Gabbard has the potential to be another Jill Stein, and her second debate on the stage, they keep asking her the same questions, no different from her first time on the debate stage. While Gabbard is up there, why not ask her some serious questions about her record, her known associations and statements that she has made. Until the herd is thinned, I can't truly gain much insight from these debates, other than that Warren has a "plan for that".

CNN is so bad at these debates!

So why do I get the feeling that it may be too late to stave off a downturn in the economy? Also I hear that the Dow has plunged (I haven't bothered to check though).

Yet no media sees fit to discuss this trend with any depth.

I tried to watch some of it but found myself nodding off and switched off. It seemed as though the moderators were more interested in keeping time and blocking the candidates from taking more than their allotted time than asking pertinent questions and allowing for responses and actual engagement. Maybe due to the sheer number of candidates on the platform, true engagement with the issues is impossible. I did read that some of the responses that Williamson offered. People were shook! If we're all relying on Williamson to introduce some "meat" to these debates, other than the usual talking points, then we are in quite a state at this point.

The shows also should have been forward planning so that the next generation of younger writers had the ability to step up. Famous painters and master builders had art school trained apprentices that actually finished many of their masterworks so that they could move onto other projects (a practice that is still in effect today). Why didn't the EPs/HWs do likewise? Have them work under observation to see if they can duplicate each soap's "style" (and each soap did indeed have a signature style of writing) and cull the cream of the top to be in their writing rooms. (And before anybody mentions ABC, this is not what ABC's Daytime Program did). And they did not rush to the alter and have paternity switch stories like the "young" adults on soaps seemingly do every other day now.

Yes, there are definitely night matches at the Miami Open (which, being Miami, also has the capacity to get very hot and humid) as well as the U.S. Open in NYC (in the NYC metro area, we are currently on heatwave #4 this year) where there have been some classic and some infamous night matches. Not to mention the Australian Open (played during their summer season in Jan/Feb.) where the weather can get pretty brutal, has played night matches for the last 15+ years now).

I guess this is the next level from the previous college scandal saga. Already advantaged parents just keep upping the level of cheating. Will a Lifetime movie get made out of this too?