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Your guess is as good as mine. I don't follow him much; I just remember his last hotel arrest at some convention where he got trashed. He also did Dr. Phil, and walked out.

He has been in and out of jail and rehab many times in the last 15 years.

The Beltway is going to lose their shít. Love it.

Take a break.

Did you watch either show, Dylan?

Where the hell is that rumor coming from?

John, that story was posted three years ago when it was first released.

I think 2.0 proved AMC does not need Erica to be good and true to itself. But I think Erica is absolutely necessary for a major revival like this at this point. I just hope the show does right by the Hubbards, who were the heart of the show on 2.0. And I think Brooke was being used better in '13 than she had been since at the very least the mid-90s.

This is going to be (and already is, on cable TV) the national takeaway, which is good for us.

I think this long thread is largely accurate, but I also think we could've made the case against what McConnell would do by playing hardball but there are only a couple Senate Dems who prevented that. And I'm angry about that, but ultimately the public is not going to care about this procedural shít in weeks or months. They're only gonna remember that Dems impeached him, the GOP admitted he was guilty but didn't convict. That is the takeaway in big media today and that matters. It's not everything I want, which is why the House should promptly turn this into Benghazi. I've never felt Trump will go to prison and I still don't. I do think he can and will be legally and financially hounded for the rest of his life, and I don't believe he has the drive and infrastructure to run again without a support the GOP infrastructure will no longer offer him. So I want the House and the local governments to start their work, and then I want Schumer to find his balls and see to it no Senate Dems hamstring us like this on actual Dem policy.

The mainstream media rage seems focused on the GOP atm, so that's good. McConnell is fooling himself if he thinks GOP legislature will do his job for him. I'm sure the GOP is desperate for anyone to bar him from running other than having to do it themselves. I don't think Trump will run again - I don't think he has the attention span or stamina to make it happen without foundational infrastructure support he won't have next time - but I am not expecting much else. I do think it's important to make a distinction; this isn't the Dems at large. I think a couple very specific Dems (Manchin and Sinema) were not willing to do what was necessary to nuke the filibuster and destroy McConnell's ploy to halt COVID relief if this trial continued. And if they do it again on any other issue (and no, I wouldn't take it as a given that they will when it comes to actual Biden/Dem initiatives, which have very strong public support) then we should crucify them in public. And if Schumer won't do that then he can go too. This won't determine the midterms, at all, and the Senate was never going to vote to impeach. But it is something people will only get perspective on in time.

He was never going to get impeached by a Senate where the GOP votes are necessary. I'm just glad we did it.

I think it was a very stupid, unforced blunder to call for witnesses and then reverse themselves because the Senate is an aging, corrupt entity. It's obvious this is happening because McConnell threatened to completely slow up COVID relief if they went ahead, and killing the filibuster is the only way to stop him - which, right now, Manchin and Sinema won't do. That's a failure on their part, but IMO Schumer should still take that case to the public and make Manchin and Sinema walk the plank on refusing to do what is necessary to stop McConnell; to both expedite this trial and pass COVID relief at the same. The Senate Dems are going to eat shít for awhile because of this and those in the Senate who are responsible for this (and I suspect it's only a handful) deserve to. It's good we will be going forward with our agenda and that will heal a lot of wounds, but this is not acceptable and can't be allowed to continue happening.

He also thought this was ending today, so he's welcome to justify that vote after all the witnesses. I welcome him continuing to desperately try to burnish his image.

This is about to become a complete circus, but I don't think this trial continuing with witnesses is going to play well for the GOP to anyone besides their base. Which is shrinking all the time. The more we hang them with this the better it is for us. The reporting and evidence has all been damning for them and Trump. I don't believe they'll ever convict, but the longer this goes on the more they bleed. It becomes their Benghazi.

I've said it before, but it's truly surreal to realize SMG is almost certainly back as Kendall after all these years (all due respect to Alicia Minshew, who deserves recognition and who I always enjoyed in the role). I just wish I could be confident the show's quality will live up to Sarah's talent and the opportunity.