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Lisa also said she thinks they were never actually serious about the Brenda recast. And she's right. It was a feint to try to lure VM. It's never going to happen, ever. FV (allegedly) tried to get Budig to be NuRobin after they kept stalling out the Robin story in the early 2010s (even though Kimberly repeatedly made herself available!). That would've gone over like the Tet Offensive, but for some reason there's one guy on GH Twitter who has been obsessed with it for years.

Kamala shuts down some Palestine protestors at her latest event doing a "we won't vote for genocide" chat. The very online far left will squeal about this, but they're wrong. She did this same thing to Pence four years ago in their debate, and she's right to have zero tolerance for people chanting about genocide in the middle of her rally, especially after she took a harder line than Biden about Netanyahu and Israel like a week ago. I agree that ear is weird.

This is baffling.

That's been Frank's way for many years. He shuffles the guarantees and throttles story with them to keep costs down so that they fade in and out for weeks at a time, that goes all the way back to OLTL. There was often story stop/start whiplash both at OLTL and in those early years at GH. He just used to be better at it, and had more overall interesting casts/stories before GH became entirely his domain post-Carlivati.

I mean, the shooter appears legit (and per investigation was apparently angling to shoot any candidate he could get to first, not just Trump) but damn if the idea that it was rigged wasn't my first or second thought. I don't know how Trump could be broke already given the massive money Thiel, etc. have been pumping in lately, but if anyone could pull it off it's his team.

I think Lulu is an essential character who hasn't always been cast right or had the greatest stories. The creepy little toddler never drew my interest lol. Berman could be obnoxious but she was still skilled. It's just a question of the right actor and material. I am not going to complain about beefing up Laura's (and Luke's) family again.

Sums it up.

NYT does its own BTS dive into how Harris chose Walz. (non-paywalled)

Deck chairs on the Titanic. Who cares.

I'm glad they've started asking - Trump staying at Mar-a-Lago most of the week over and over is very strange.

Oh, is that Steve Christy from Friday the 13th?? I didn't recognize him. They tried to put him over as a leading man?

I'm pleased about it if Netflix lets it get beyond 10 episodes.

Here's a headline you don't see everyday: The adorable Jason Tam (Markko, OLTL) is playing John McCain(!) in the afterlife off-Broadway.

Shapiro, to the Beltway, was more about what they always expect from Democrats: A ritual sacrifice to 'centrism' and proving they're not too liberal by shoring up the conservative flank and listening to Republican defector pundits who anointed him. To that element and a lot of media he was the ideal Dem candidate - not too progressive, young and masculine, hawkish in the right places. They were shocked to discover Harris didn't listen to them. But most of them are at a loss to complain about Walz so far, especially after yesterday's pretty much perfect rollout. He impressed many media doubters. I think the GOP was rightly scared of Shapiro and initially relieved, but they're only pretending to be euphoric. They know they're in trouble. Anyone who saw Walz over the last two weeks but particularly yesterday knows that. I think Shapiro may well have a bright future in the party and be POTUS someday, and that's fine. But the media is not used to liberals making liberal choices without asking permission from the punditry.

I think Kornacki, who gets off on the numbers game way too much more than anything else IMO, is just reacting to what he thinks was an obvious gimme of PA with Shapiro. He's usually mostly tolerable to me in his place, but when it's not numbers and the great game he loses perspective of much else and gets obnoxiously juiced on what he thinks is power and the math, moreso than other anchors or pundits who just reflexively disdain Democrats personally. Of course he doesn't get Walz (yet), because he doesn't think like that. I hope to watch him eat his words. Meanwhile, back on Desperation Alley:

As I suspected: CNN on the BTS details of the Walz pick.

Good lord.

It's a good and valid question. My answer remains the same as before: You do it by bringing back Brenda and marrying them off, and letting VM lead most of their joint or separate story. That, Maurice could live with.

I mean, they never found anything with women on Obama and nothing like that ever stuck to Joe for long either. I feel like our just coming up with a random sex angle out of nowhere is borrowing trouble, lol. And I don't trust the Trump Gang to walk out of the bathroom without stepping on a rake right now. But who knows!

The right wing angle so far has been him 'abandoning' his 20+(?) year military career to go into politics and/or abstain from the Iraq War, which really isn't true. They can't swiftboat him. It's not gonna work.

Putting Stephen Miller on after that is a bold choice: