DramatistDreamer

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.

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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?

This administration is girding for a fight with environmental groups. E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule

Not a bad episode, all in all. I hope to see more episodes from 1985. It'd be nice if someone could dig up and post the Costume Ball from that year, I think that was July 1985 though. I can't help it- anytime I see Lee Bryant, that slapping scene in Airplane immediately springs to mind but she was good here- much better than she was when she returned about a year later and they tried to pretend like she could sing. The Lyla character had changed somewhat and Lee's interpretation at that point didn't seem to fit but here, especially refereeing between Bob and John and trying to maintain calm at Memorial seemed to be in keeping with her interpretation of the character. Lyla's interactions with Shannon were, um, interesting. I guess Lyla was still holding out hope for a reconciliation with John, that whole tiff between Lyla and Shannon over Frank seemed odd and forced, but I guess it was meant to illustrate how little Lyla regarded Shannon back then. LOL @ Lily with her overwrought acting with Dusty. I could imagine though, had Brian Bloom decided to stay, that at some point Lily would have taken up with Dusty again after making up, then breaking up with Holden. Speaking of wondering whether couples would last based on an actor staying, I wonder whether Stuart and Marcy would've been a longterm possibility had Tomei stayed on. They're not bad here and Tomei was the type of bubbly 80s style ingenue that soaps seemed to go for back then. (And hey, when characters actually used to eat real food, not just pretend to eat and drink!) Looking at Kevin Gibson character and how cocky and bullheaded he seemed to be in this episode, I can't help but wonder whether he was the early prototype for the Kirk Anderson character. Early Kirk wouldn't have cared either whether there was a fraught hospital scene or anybody's feelings, if he needed to get a piece of business done. Per usual, Bob and John were good at antagonizing one another. That room with an emerging Dusty from his comatose state was very chaotic but at least there was a sense of urgency and it wasn't boring. I enjoyed that episode.

Marland probably figured that it wouldn't be sustainable to have the Craig character forever be the guy that messed up our of fear while aiming to do "good". Barbara was sort of transitioned into that role, after her scheming period ended in the late 80s. I would've preferred either 80s Craig to the ridiculous one that existed in the early '00s, that was just a venal creature who lacked any nuance. Looking forward to watching this episode from '85 though-- I take it this had never been posted before on You Tube? Wasn't Susan Bedsow-Horgan part of the OLTL 2.0? She's been doing solid work in the soap trenches for decades. I guess she's basically retired now? Today's soaps could use her services, TBH.

How Facebook ads helped elect Trump

Also, the Trump administration has hired about 1/2 the people for government positions that the previous two administrations have hired. Not to mention that the most experienced bureaucrats are choosing early retirement and flat out leaving, rather than stay undo decades of work.

LOL. @Hunk Chandler Massey needs to connect that that Thiem Twitter fan who insists on calling him "Domino Sugar".

Dear Lord, make it so! I know it's a reach but I don't care.

Likely, it's still a mess but much like the deficit, it is something the GOP doesn't care all that much to talk about. Even when asked about this latest story, a few tried to center their argument, saying the IRS specifically targets groups that express a POV, (implying liberal as well as conservative) as if that was what they meant to say all along. Yeah...right.

Four years later, the IRS tea party scandal looks very different. It may not even be a scandal. This gives credence to the sentiment that I had years ago when this 'scandal' broke- that the I.R.S. was likely a woefully understaffed and highly inefficient institution and had been so for at least a decade leading up to 2013.

Has anyone read this? Someone said the report that was previously released by Buzzfeed had a lot more redactions than this. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984/Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf

No offense, but Ellen Dolan was my least favorite Margo. I always felt her better role was as Maureen Bauer on Guiding Light. Maybe the writing had something to do with it. One thing that both MC and HBS had was white-hot sensual/sexual chemistry with their Toms. We know that MC and JD carried their partnership into real life, and HBS and GM (despite talk of Marx's sexuality) could really put on a display of intense physical chemistry. You Tube doesn't do them justice because You Tube doesn't have most of the episodes that illustrate what I'm talking about. ED was convincing as a cop (most of the time) but I never got a passion between her Margo and Scott Holmes' Tom. There were sweet moments but I got far more heat watching Lucinda and John or Bob and Kim than I ever did from their Tom and Margo. Maybe because Margo had been portrayed as a victim multiple times by the time ED had truly started to make the role her own. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Even though Ellen Parker's Maureen was the one I was most familiar with and I enjoyed her and thought she deserved her Emmy win, when I saw episodes of Ellen Dolan on You Tube, I understood what others meant when talked about how good Dolan was as Maureen. I didn't see her that way as Margo.