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Bennet was the editor the NYT fired over the Tom Cotton debacle. Meanwhile, in Caliphategate:

Yeah, I don't think that's at all accurate. Tankies do not make up a significant portion of the public, and they don't even make up a huge portion of the left. The far left is a whole other series of substrata.

@DRW50

I don't think Amanda and Jane were super tight in S7, but I haven't seen much of it since first airing. What I remember is Amanda still treating her the same way and Jane being more charitable and graceful about it because she worked for Amanda at that point. Also, in fairness, Amanda had lost a lot of actual friends or what Amanda would consider friends. Beggars couldn't be choosers at that point. I do think the cast was largely friends in the first several years. It wasn't until the latter half of Season 4 that they all began to really drift for me. Any excuse to bring some of them back together, particularly in Season 5, was exciting, like Alison's all too brief return to the corporate world from her Jake bubble.

I think he's just that willfully dense. That grinning idiot has forever been insisting Fox is a legit media outlet that lost its way in the last ten years.

In the immortal words of Veronica Sawyer, "lick it up, baby! Lick. It. Up!" Their disappointment is my boon. Forever blinkered and missing the point, Brian Stelter then hosted a CNN segment featuring 'voices of the new progressive movement' as embodied by, I shít you not, Briahna Joy Gray and the antigay, anti-abortion Elizabeth Bruenig. Another reason I cannot tolerate him.

There has never been a vision for the character beyond 'blonde white woman' and later, 'stupid.' There's nothing! She needs to be gone for five years minimum and recast.

It feels like her 39th yet folks still try to tell me it's just the writing and that any day now she's gonna be the second coming of Ashley or Nikki. No! It's Melissa Ordway and the character is radioactive because of both her and the writing. Abby needs to be written off for years. Periodt!

It's a horrible situation there. I had no idea how bad til now. Meanwhile:

I didn't know for a long time that they brought in a KL dude for S7. That makes sense, because the season really did have a unifying story, something I don't remember primetime soaps having past the '80s (I know they did one on Dynasty near the end as well). I've been saying it since I was a teen, but MP should not have been cancelled that year given the atrocious state of 90210 at the time. 90210 should've gotten the hook instead. I will echo the above mostly, though my more substantive thoughts on S4 and 5 are somewhere else in the thread. I think S5 has a lot of interesting experiments as well as a lot of pure failures.

RIP Old Boy Champ Chance

Yeah, Manchin is just posturing trying to get more position for himself and play to his base. It's not going anywhere.

Uh-oh!

More on the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight:

In addition to that history, Biden also has less onus on him as he is, let's face it, white. An old white man can get away with power moves against the GOP that the first Black president struggling not to be pigeonholed as the angry Black man could not.

Tragic.