DramatistDreamer

So Trump, realizing that the replacement bills he tried to push were trash and that Obamacare, left alone would NOT flop, as he predicted, so he manipulates the circumstances to try to ruin ACA/Obamacare. It's not about creating good, sustainable policy that will help people, it's about destroying any and everything created under the Obama administration. Then trolls try to slither onto this board and defend an odious Trump and his odious doctrine. GTFOH! Trump, his enablers and his cronies are trash, pure and simple. I'm tired of talking around this fact.

I remember seeing a documentary about Tippi Hedren (trivia fact: she's the mother of Melanie Griffith) where she talked about Hitchcock's obsession with her, even then she didn't go into detail about how truly bad it was. Only a year and a half ago, or so, did I find out the extent of it.

It's a shame that when Rose McGowan was talking, many wanted to label her as unstable (i.e. crazy) and a troublemaker. It's unfortunate that anyone would seek to demonize women for being afraid to speak out and that it now seems to take a man speaking out for some people to realize that there is a stigma and a hopeless, powerless feeling that often makes people timid. Feldman was diminished by the repeated accusation that he was "troubled" but yeah, anyone would be troubled by a childhood beset by abuse delivered at the hands of predators. Feldman managed to survive. His childhood friend Haim did not. That these men are sit high on their perches while there are so many other talented people who would never abuse another person, is infuriating to me.

Well, on that we both can agree!

Not as a direct response to aforementioned stupid troll but as a reminder to stupid trolls in general who want to blame women for the lack of decency of sexual harassing men, Terry Crews talked about keeping his experience of being sexually assaulted by a Hollywood producer to himself and now James Van der Beek takes idiots to task for judging women who have not come forward.

@Mitch You and I will have to agree to disagree on the "Battle of the Craigs", LOL. I do think Scott Bryce's versatility beyond soaps speaks for itself. He may not have had many leading man roles since ATWT but he's a consistently working character actor, which means a helluva lot in an industry rife with competition. Many soap actors haven't been able extend themselves beyond the soaps.

Also a whole entire waste of space and time. I will never again make the mistake of responding to anything it ever posts. Debating sensible people that you may have disagreements with, from time to time, is fine, pointless arguments with stupid trolls is quite another.

I'd heard about countries like the U.S. dumping their e-waste and old clothes in African countries but expired medicines?! Old buses and planes? I didn't know this dumping of old stuff was so pervasive. I hope these African countries can curb this because it's killing their ability to promote their own manufacturing markets. For Dignity and Development, East Africa Curbs Used Clothes Imports

STFU @JONNYSBRO You don't get to judge others. You can barely use proper punctuation.

Ordinarily, I'd ignore that troll, but you tell 'em, @JaneAusten!

Read this editorial in the NYT that mentioned how Trump uses illness as a fear factor in order to utilize the fear as a political tool-- for instance when he tried to insinuate that HRC was very sick, and incapable of being POTUS, and the latest incident was to use the illness of the U.S. and Canadian diplomats at the Cuban embassy as a tool to rollback the Obama era of detente with the Cuban government. Mysterious Sounds and Scary Illnesses as Political Tools This got me looking for follow-up to the mysterious incident at the Cuban embassy and I looked at the Snopes.com fact check. Do 'Sonic Weapons' Adequately Explain 'Health Attacks' on Diplomats in Cuba? as well as this article in Wired magazine. WERE US DIPLOMATS IN CUBA VICTIMS OF A SONIC ATTACK—OR SOMETHING ELSE? They seem to cast doubt on it being a "sonic weapon" , positing that there were most likely chemicals being used that made people sick. Anyone who has ever been to Cuba knows that many of the buildings are decrepit, which does not bode well for things like proper ventilation systems. I once worked in a NYC office building where I got daily headaches, only in that building for the period of time that I worked there (fortunately, I was freelance for three months). Before that, headaches were rare for me. When I left that assignment, I'd never had those type of headaches again, certainly not in any other NYC (or elsewhere) building.

Trump's visit to the U.K. has been downgraded, which means it won't be a state visit, he will not be a guest of the Queen. It will be a regular "working" visit. The Queen wants NO part of this fool! Donald Trump has state visit to UK downgraded 'and will not be guest of the Queen'

You're probably right about Trump, likely we were too busy battling trolls in that thread to focus on it. Maybe Ailes had a thread too, but it must've been quickly buried by other threads. All of these men are so utterly egregious in their actions over decades.

Not to mention Roger Ailes who had an entire newschannel and company filled with women who were routinely harassed. He was also in a position of power and could punish and promote at will. He also greatly abused his power. This thread really should be moved to the Movies and Music Section.

Hoping the two threads will be merged but I've decided to post this here. 'I had to defend myself': the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me Léa Seydoux Just a question, but was there a separate thread for Roger Ailes or for Donald Trump when women spoke out against them? I'm genuinely asking because I don't remember.

In addition to discussions happening in the Status Updates section, there's already another Topic Thread that was started in the Movies and Music Section.

Has Trump even mentioned the servicemen's deaths in Niger? There have been murmurings that the strategy in Africa has been very been very careless lately, with the armed forces now venturing into territories that have very high risk with little positive outcome.

We are... at length. Check the status updates at the sidebar.

Oh yeah, I definitely feel the threat is real. I have friends and relatives in the Caribbean and oversees that want no part of visiting the U.S. at this time (consequently, tourism in the U.S. is way down from last year) because they believe war is a more than a distinct possibility, although they believe it likely will be a civil war within the U.S. This country looks like an out and out disaster to people on the outside. TBH, it doesn't look very good from the inside either.

Hope springs eternal, I guess?

Look at the AVI and you'll quickly figure out who is a troll and who is not.

You're entitled to your preferences, but a warning that you're feeding trolls.

I don't feel an ounce of sympathy for Gen. Kelly or any of these other Chain of Fools who are enabling Trump's infantile behavior. Instead of protecting the American public by exposing this snake oil real estate salesman, they coalesced around him to sell gullible members of the American voting populace this Orange bill of Damaged Goods, so that they could hoard whatever power they think they have. They accepted the job, they must now struggle with this fascist, sexist, racist sociopath. History and generations down the road will not absolve any of them. I did have a bitter chuckle at the memory of Trumpists declaring that class had returned to the White House and now we're seeing a squabble on 'Front Street' of Trump's two wives, with some labeling them "The Real Housewives of white supremacy" or "Daze of Our Wives". ...while the Obamas quietly celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last week.

I really appreciate how steady a career Bryce has built over the decades. He had been in Homeland and The Good Fight recently. Over the summer, I did a binge-watch of Sex And The City (I had never seen the last season and a half, so I decided to start from the beginning and go straight through) and I realized that he appeared on the very first episode. It's good that he's gotten a steady stream of acting gigs, even if they're guest spots.

11-1-85 was a Friday. Maybe the Kovacs murder happened the following week?