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Back for JJ today!

Trump called Fox ranting and raving, got cut off. I believe he is now calling Newsmax.

Kamala just threaded the needle on both Israel and Gaza very explicitly and very well. No, it won't move the deadenders who suddenly demanded a convention slot yesterday after 1968 II flopped, but it will move the base that has sympathy for Palestinians as well as Israeli citizens.

That chick sucked.

Last night's Walz intro video.

Nonetheless, the kids were a hit and it's gone over well. Nobody made Gus do that.

That's just how those creeps are in that element, it's baked in sadly. But the larger public reaction has for the most part been very positive. I'm sure Trump will, and let him; it'll only hurt him more.

Meanwhile: @DRW50 will appreciate, as I do, a kid pranking the always-unctuous access king and Republican Congressional cheerelader Jake Sherman:

In case there's anyone left who hasn't seen the big moment with the Walzes last night from his great speech:

It may well be close, but they're saying that and continuing to talk about the underdog to keep people vigilant and focused. There is certainly work to do, but if we continue to accelerate like this I am not convinced it will be that close in the end. Like 2012 (or '08) I've had that feeling for a week or two now.

She never had much going on at either show AFAIC. I saw her supposedly 'fiery' role on AMC too and it went nowhere fast.

Wow. This is a new one on me.

Kamala seems to do this with kids everywhere she goes. It's wonderful.

Catching up on last night. Bill still got jokes.

I can't really speak on much like this til I've seen the whole of the show, but my own early thoughts were to use Greg and Laura's daughter Meg who the MacKenzies raised as a hotshot political operative caught between two worlds and moral compasses, as well as maybe either Diana or Michael's (or Olivia's) gay son named for Eric, and maybe Daniel Avery. How you would weave any of them organically back into that locale is hard to make plausible, obviously. I thought about the twins but tbh my idea for Bobby Jr. was tied mainly to an idea of a brief, one-season revival and conclusion to Dallas, where eco-crusader Bobby II (or Betsy!) would go back to Texas and clash with one of J.R.'s sons over the future of the business and the climate crisis at large. Like Gary, he would be kind of the fairhaired boy with a pristine vision of the future. But that's for another thread. (The better idea, inverting the 'good/bad' Ewing boys and making Christopher the baddie as David Jacobs suggested, is obvious, but I was operating as though Dallas 2012 is canon and therefore Christopher is dead, so you had to use other heirs of J.R. while I would have John Ross in a more conflicted and soulful role.)

I'm fine, just taking it day by day with a physical issue lately.

I just got home (well, hobbled home). What a touching moment with Gus Walz during his father's speech.

And electrocuted his father. I'll never get over them going out and hiring the literal Omen kid. But because the budget at that point was about a buck fifty that story went absolutely nowhere.

On paper using Lucy is a good idea. In practice I think Charlene Tilton is televisual napalm and I can barely tolerate seconds of her.

I doubt it, tbh. Dunn just seems a bit unhinged. There will be plenty of exposes about the last few months - there have already been a few revealing articles, and there will likely be a movie or a TV miniseries down the road (I vote Harrison Ford for Joe in July 2024!). But whatever comes out, Dunn can't touch Pelosi.

Years of frustration with Politifact and Glenn Kessler's pedantic nonsense appear to be boiling over: Now his own paper is roasting Kessler: