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Dave Weigel lives in a world where he must choose between common sense and politely appeasing the deranged rantings of Brianha Joy Gray to prove he is left enough and often opts for Door #2, and thinks all Democratic voters do the same. But this is also coming from the same brain trust of folks who believed that if Pelosi and Schumer had just held a vote at 3 AM EST the day of the Capitol siege, Congressional GOP would've voted to impeach Trump. It's not a small concession on lowering the limit, and I don't like it. But I do understand it, and I also don't trust in or take seriously either a) Twitter warriors of the left who view everything through a catastrophizing lens for Dems, either because of endless PTSD or because they simply want the party destroyed for not kowtowing to them, or b) Beltway pundits who live to handicap Dems at all costs and so always spin everything on behalf of the moderate or conservative voices in the caucus if not in the GOP itself. There is a more nuanced take than any of that, and I don't think any of this particular round of minutiae will have much bearing on '22 which will be tough no matter what.

That's Manchin for you. But while I don't agree with cutting the income level and that will affect some, I don't think that many of the general public will notice any of this skullduggery much. What trends on Twitter for a few hours is not what drowns out public discourse. And they're not cutting UI.

Of course he is the reason. And as I said re: Y&R it's pretty obvious who he is.

Typical Eric. This sounded like a sad cash grab to me from one of the best seasons of the show (I stopped watching RW around the first Return to New York, I think; I didn't feel they'd had a really non-tacky season since Seattle, which was also full of issues as were Miami and Hawaii), but this little tour with Norman and Heather is cute.

I love Becky Herbst but her fans will ride or die for any substantial-sized soap star with a penis and an in with the EP. Roger Howarth is that, a favorite of the press and the brass. As long as he breathes air on set, Liz has a man and a place in the show favored by the front office. Her fanbase won't give that up no matter how many people Franco kills in Rube Goldberg Saw traps. They know if he goes it's back to the backburner and C/D-list castoffs for Liz. They have accepted the Jeffrey Dahmer trade-off.

Eh, Trump and others lost a few nominees. It happens. The Beltway was just obsessed with Tanden because both they and the left had feuded with her, and because she was a prominent woman of color.

There are plenty of other good alternatives. I'm surprised, though; it sounded like Murkowski could've given.

I have a lot of time for ol' Tom but there's some classic camp in his oeuvre. @Darn and I cracked up at a '92(?) episode where Tom has to tell Derek or someone about Terrence getting beaten up and immediately starts vamping - "it was race hate! White hate!!" Great social issue, of course, but a bit arch!

Who can forget Tom and Erica's "disco deceit!"

Thread: I think Baron did good work at the Post and of course before that. I also think he is far from beyond reproach or critique.

He's not only charismatic and sexy, he's a brilliant actor. A soap should lock him in for as long as possible, but noooo.

With this stint, Richard Burgi will have been successfully wasted at half the soaps left on the air.

Not to repeat myself, but it really is thrilling to have seen Halperin fall so far and be fully and undeniably unmasked as a right wing shill, banished to a fringe network:

That's fascinating, given how much of a moralist Irna often was reported to have become later on re: stories about infidelity, offscreen behavior, etc. I thought the only example of an opposite reaction was her adoration of Kim, who she seemed to craft in her own fantasy image.

I really do not believe Manchin and Sinema are keen to be spotlit as blocking the Voting Rights Act.