DramatistDreamer

By the way, this is the "journalist" who did the Trump "interview" for Axios.  I think people need to get reacquainted with the 14th Amendment.

Access “journalist” and rump buddy....@jonathanvswan pic.twitter.com/NIbmGBcFRr

— HRCFanGal (@HRCFanGal) October 30, 2018

Sigh.  Desperate people resorting to desperate measures.  Most of us saw this coming, in some form or another.

I wasn't going to report on this, but I think my fears are coming true. Based on information that I am privy to, I believe false accusations will be spread about Mueller in order to discredit him and possibly the journalists who are preparing this story. https://t.co/HQXTvPYirD

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 30, 2018

BREAKING: Stocks sink again, erasing 500 points from the Dow. https://t.co/EddDNfTuh7

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2018

More violence and threats of violence.  Yet another school shooting. Yet another suspicious package is reported.  I had hoped that this week wouldn't carry the madness of last week but here we are at Monday, and I'm exhausted already.

Unfortunately by the time I was a teenager, I had already known people whose lives had been directly affected by the tragedy wrought by gun violence.

Filip Krajinovic out in Paris R1.

Finalist last year in Paris, will drop from #34 to #92. Had a tough year with many injuries

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) October 29, 2018

Yet another form of voter suppression at the polls.

Election official in Dallas County says it’s the worst she’s seen in decades.https://t.co/EJYgfSmNKA

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) October 29, 2018

Many people are saying that Fake News won the election in Brazil.  However, there comes a time when people must use common sense to discern what is coming from a reputable news outlet and what is gossip, trash rhetoric and innuendo that is harmful to the health of a society. 

Brazilians need to take more time from watching some of those horrid telenovelas and watch a real news program and read an actual newspaper that reports actual news, not a WhatsApp or Facebook page.

As bad as the situation that the U.S. is in politically, Brazil is worse.  Corruption rules from every part of government, regardless of the political party and many of the politicians are equally as lawless as the street criminals they rail about.

What makes me SMH even more is that a country that has the highest concentration of African descended people outside the African continent could elect a racist right-winger like Bolsonaro. It's entirely sad.  One of two things will happen in Brazil in the next few years: either the majority of Brazilians will realize quickly that they've made a dreadful mistake and seek to correct this or Brazil will slide back into autocracy, just a level short of the dictatorship that they once had.  Either way, it's bad and they are more likely to lose more than they could've hoped to gain.

About a month or so ago, one of Brazil's major natural history museums burned to the ground.  The burning of the museum, which house many of Brazil's oldest cultural and archaeological artifacts, caused many to lament how much of themselves they've lost as Brazilians--and how unfortunate that this is irreparable as those artifacts are irreplaceable.  This election result feels like another moment in which Brazilians will lose more of themselves, the gains they've made since the days when the government used to hire hit squads to kill street children in Brazil.   Then again, perhaps Brazilians welcome a return to those days-- how else can we explain Bolsonaro as head of state?

Although there are quite a few people who consistently write about voter suppression, they are usually quite marginalized.  Ari Berman is one of the few who have access to the mainstream media outlets who consistently writes about voter suppression.

A lot of these stats will make you shake your head, if it doesn't make your jaw drop altogether.  The margins were so thin in a number of battleground states.

How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Midterms

I saw neither one of these finals yet somehow the results were pretty much as I expected them to be.

Interesting.

“A remarkable gender gap has opened up in Americans’ views of their own finances and the broader national economy. Men feel better about the economy than they have in over a decade. Women are far more skeptical.” https://t.co/0kaw8AhRYy

— Jamille Bigio (@jamillebigio) October 27, 2018

22 hours ago, Khan said:

 

LOL!!  "Uh, Cesar?  You do know you're not white...right?"

 

Yep, I would say he was just delusional.

21 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Yeah, I read an article that stated that his father is Filipino.

Apparently, the father abandoned the family when he was a boy so he was raised by his Italian mother.  As preposterous as it sounds to us, he may very well believe that he's white.

I know that some people don't like too many Snyders in their ATWT but the use of music in this episode is exquisite.  I wish the condition of this video were better (hello, wavy heads!) but at least it's watchable, lol.

The fact that there are no commercials in this episode really serves to highlight how seamless the transitions between scenes truly is.  The friendship between Margo and Shannon was truly underrated, rarely duplicated in the years that followed and I owe that dynamic to HBS and MR.  That scene of Margo in bed plaintive and weeping is one of the best scenes illustrating loneliness that I've seen on a daytime soap.  Then the contrast to the next day of Margo trying to minimize the effects, particularly in her scenes with Frannie and Shannon make it all the more effective.  Even her scene with her nephew Bryant were pretty poignant (when soaps could afford baby actors and not dolls, lol).

I don't know why Roy and Duncan's bickering scene make me laugh ("Oh no, you're right, it was obviously Little Orphan Annie!").  Roy and Duncan were obviously set up to be antagonists to each other early on (later on, they'd be rivals, of course).  This Charles, who works for Duncan has a horrible Scott brogue. 

I wish there were more episodes from May 1987, tensions were building all around.  That final scene were exes collide, the exchange of glances was highly intriguing.  And again, as in the rest of this episode, the music was such a mood.  The previous episode was good too.

Trump is such a compulsive, pathological liar and the standards in the U.S. have been lowered so drastically in a year that he continues to face no repercussions as a result of his dangerous rhetoric and constant lies.

How the f*ck was Wall Street/NYSE going to open immediately after September 11th, when two planes hit the Twin Towers that were located in The Financial District!!!  When will some Americans start to use their heads?  

Horrendous. 

At least seven people have been confirmed dead in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, and two police officers have been shot. The shooter is confined in the third floor of the synagogue https://t.co/rldHevHSsX pic.twitter.com/ltZqCMjYU6

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 27, 2018

20 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

LOL!!  "Uh, Cesar?  You do know you're not white...right?"

 

Yep, I would say he was just delusional.

Yeah, I read an article that stated that his father is Filipino.

Ballkid vs. Frustrated Tennis Player, Episode 319. More respect, please @StefTsitsipas @ATPWorldTour #SwissIndoorsBasel #ATPWorldTour #Tsitsipas (seen on @TennisTV) pic.twitter.com/H4i852MfTB

— Wüterich (@Wuteridge) October 26, 2018

Green is facing allegations of sexual misconduct and racist abuse.  Parliament is investigating how his NDAs can be repealed but he has already been publicly named by a politician who invoked his parliamentary privilege.  Others are calling for his knighthood to be rescinded.

People are using the hashtag #PinkNotGreen to urge shoppers to boycott Topshop after Sir Phillip Green was named in the privacy injunction scandal https://t.co/J5sND5isOo

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) October 25, 2018

18 hours ago, Juliajms said:

I wonder if he's really part of the Seminole tribe or just delusional.

According to his relatives, he/they have no Native American ancestry.  So I guess, the latter?

However, someone who has worked with him in the past, has said that Sayoc expressed white supremacist views and was an admirer of Hitler.

Mexico just pulled the rug out on Trump’s plan to ride the caravan through the midterms. https://t.co/xmscw91Wui

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 27, 2018

It's always been a perilous time to be black in America.

This could have very well become another Charleston massacre. As it is, it was an act of domestic racial terrorism, committed by a white man who refused to fire at another because, per a witness who told a local TV station: “Whites don’t shoot whites.” https://t.co/tyquFAvobx

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 27, 2018

That's great.  I do wish that the daytime dramatic genre had a well known and well regarded advocate to at least, help preserve what's been done, especially during the Golden Ages.

Hate is a strong word, lol.  They can get along off-court and still want to beat the crap out of each other on it.

People might want to pay attention to this because Texas is the second state where I've read of this happening.

Texas election officials confirmed that voting machines used in 30% of its counties (including its biggest) are switching people’s votes, including the Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. The GOP-appointed officials say they have "no legal authority" to update them. pic.twitter.com/UGui2ox15H

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 26, 2018

1 hour ago, Khan said:

 

That's probably because, it does no good to challenge a pathological liar who would lie even when confronted with the truth.

 

I mean, you could TRY...but you are gonna get nowhere.  Trust me.

It's their job though, even if it feels fruitless at times.  Otherwise, it's dereliction of duty.

President Obama looks as tired as I feel.

The press rarely seem to fully challenge Trump on his lies and equivocations in these moments.  They usually let him slither away.