DramatistDreamer

Perhaps but when bigwigs start losing money, that is when, once again, it will likely be taken out of the people's hands-- cue the "Super-delegates" being put to work and the backroom wheeling and dealing will begin. Sounding cynical but they will choose the "winner" and if Trump loses them enough money, he will be tossed out, IMO.

One thing that could really upend the political trajectory is if a recession comes in the next year, as many economists have been predicting. I don't think enough political pundits are acknowledging this and our political discussions lack this thinking.

More like ADW alumni meet up.

People should really not forget that in 2016 Trump had help from voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering and Russia. Speaking of which-

The mainstream media, for the most point, has truly been derelict in their duty by neglecting to highlight what a slow-moving disaster this administration has been. Another one bites the dust.

Vandenbosch? From what I can remember reading many years ago, she died of some type of rare illness at a relatively young age. Left behind two kids and a husband, I believe.

Bill Smitrovich in that Scope commercial. I was about to say, I feel as if I'd seen this episode years ago until we got to 25:45! LMAO. I really am an 80s kid because as soon as the opening notes began, I had a joke in my head that this looked like the opening scene of a mashup of an MTV video, meets Kids Incorporated (was Frannie Fergie's stand-in?) meets Lionel Richie's "Running With the Night"-- turns out it was Lionel Richie's "Running With The Night"! What a rip-off! Every time I see Terri Vandenbosch, I can't help but feel badly about her personal story IRL. It's sad. I bet Julianne Moore was relieved to have missed that mess!

Baltimore backlash.

While he's decrying the conditions in Baltimore, he should remember that his son-in-law is a slumlord. Also, he should also remember that Mar-a-Lago has been cited for double-digits worth of health violations.

Speaking of having Freddie Brookes and Maggie Lawson interacting, unbeknownst to me, this photo was taken last month.

This pretty adorable photo of Marisa Tomei (Marci Thompson, ATWT) and Cree Summer was taken at the rehearsal dinner for Zoë Kravitz (daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz) in Paris last month. Both Marisa and Cree are Zoë's godmothers. Too bad we never got to see all three on ADW at the same time, I have a feeling that Cree and Marisa would've been a riot!

I forgot that in this country, only white men are allowed to get mad.

I was born on the end spectrum of GenX but GenX I am and I most certainly agree with this statement! Also, studies have been done that concluded that GenX gave the most (charitable works, volunteer) yet got the least back (predatory loans and school debt, predatory school loans, etc., dot-com bubble bursting just as careers were getting off the ground, etc.). These companies forging ahead with an agreement with California (that has the strictest regulations in the country) definitely is a rejection of the forthcoming Trump/E.P.A. rules (that are, of course trying to undo the Obama-era rules). The new agreement would be slightly less strict than the Obama era rules (about .5 mpg less strict) but still much stricter than the lax Trump E.P.A. proposal. The automakers say that the CA agreement would offer certainty across the board, while the Trump rule proposal would be chaotic and piecemeal, only offering uncertainty from state to state. It will be interesting to see whether other auto companies join onto the CA agreement or not.

Ha! A fake presidential seal for a pretend president.

Meanwhile GOP is imagine criminality in the Democratic party, they've got their own bonafide criminals all through their party.

I wonder how many non-U.S. players could get caught up in this issue.

As I understand, impeachment proceedings are set to begin soon for Rosselló.

I knew a long time ago that it would come to this--U.S. citizens being detained and held by ICE. I expected that some U.S. citizens would be detained just for looking foreign.

No worries.

Supposedly, there's a 'war of words' over healthcare being exchanged between Biden and Sanders, with people scolding both men for being nasty. I have heard nothing of this, although I admit to not paying much attention to either of them lately. I can't get too far into the election weeds so early.

I did say Southern African, which also includes Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe, not just South Africa but yeah, I know Wakanda is fiction although Xhosa is a real regional language. There certainly ought to be more than one movie about Tubman. Why it's taken this long is an embarrassment in and of itself.

There were a few mumurs about Oyelowo playing Dr. King but there was more criticism of Selma (and by extension DuVernay) in general. You're right, there was basically little to no complaining about Ejiofor perhaps because Steve McQueen, the director is British as well but I think the criticisms seemed to crystallize more after those movies had already been made. Get Out really brought those criticisms to the fore when Samuel L. Jackson did an interview in which he complained about the matter, so now it seems to be at the forefront of casting ever since. No one seems to recall the instances when American actors play African (Will Smith, Concussion) or Caribbean (the Jamaican characters in Luke Cage) characters and do a horrendous job of it. South Africans were pretty pleased when Idris Elba portrayed Nelson Mandela (even though the two men don't look alike). South Africans were also pretty over the moon when Black Panther came out (with Chadwick Boseman playing a Southern African character T'Challa). It's a pretty complex issue having to do with representation and the still paucity of roles for Black actors. Also, coming from the theater world, I never hear these types of complaints unless someone is doing straight up blackface or if the actor sounds really bad (accent is piss-poor, e.g.).