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Dear God. Trump is being interviewed next week... by Elon Musk. Are they suicidal over there? Who exactly does this peel off that's new for Trump? Who does this get them that they don't have? It's like The Producers. Meanwhile:

The below is not news to me. The Beltway badly wanted Kamala to pick Shapiro, a more centrist-leaning choice, to prove she is a 'serious' Democrat who can diss her own. (I happen to think Shapiro would be a fine choice, but he's not Walz.) It's a loyalty oath mainstream media often expects from any Dem candidate - punch the left to gain their favor.

This guy is very, very good. Better than I knew. He knows when to pick it up, he was working this room of 10K people. The IVF story he told will go very, very far.

Meanwhile: I always remember who guys like Miller are and where they come from, but he was also a gay kid in a boys' school and he's right about all this. He called it out @Khan!

Shapiro was on earlier:

The lone sane voice on Fox again: They're on now!

Good grief. She looks like Ridge's midlife crisis younger second wife opposite those two.

They're trying to do the full Tara Martin on her ass to try and make her look old enough! Like when AMC brought back poor old Karen Lynn Gorney and suddenly she had a Mother Bates gray bun hairdo and granny clothes to look old enough to be Kelsey's mom. Giving her the Ellen Stewart treatment!

Not for the first time, and boy was it weird back then.

Krista at least was a close match for HT and projected older. Rebecca Budig does not look her age and there is no way I buy her as JMW's mom, let alone a contemporary of Brooke and Ridge.

I love the dialogue that keeps insisting she is in fact Taylor Hayes - 'it's me, your mother! I love you, my daughter! Mama's comin' home.' Like they don't even believe it!

You gotta be fuckin' with me.

I'm pleased both Spencer kids are likely back, but l'll believe the new creatives are anything worth getting invested in when I hear names not involving the current team.

I mean, marceline would say encroaching dementia and I am more and more inclined to agree. It can't just be about the usual catastrophe he brings on himself, he's always done that.

I do find this strange as well, and hadn't realized the pattern. They appear to have Vance following Harris from state to state, obviously exciting the country wherever he goes, while Trump seems to stick to an event a week. Is he even more lazy than usual or are they (as was alleged by the GOP about Biden) trying to contain him from the public for other reasons?

Another important issue we haven't reckoned with, @Khan is that one of Walz's cats is named Afton. I am struggling to comprehend that this dude is so much a Midwest dad that he might have named a cat for Afton from Dallas.

Yes, they are actually using this line in their email blast: Strange bedfellows: From '18:

He's also basically the inadvertent architect of the entire current messaging strategy as of (only!) two weeks ago. And he sells it well on TV. IIRC I believe CNN's coverage this morning indicated the Harris team found any choice had negligible impact on polling, so they opted for the one who she had the most personal chemistry with. Biden and Pelosi both loving him probably didn't hurt. (Nancy remains the power behind the entire party atm - it's pretty remarkable.)

I mean, Havins isn't the worst name I've ever heard. But I really am up for anyone.