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I expected them to keep up this reunification initiative after Trump singled the four out, and it's smart for each side of the inter-party divide. Ultimately we need each other (and Omar needs Pelosi more than vice versa).

The debates are not worth watching at this point. They're just romper room at this size. And no, I don't think we're screwed at all. I'm just screening out a lot of the noise. As for Gabbard, she is part of a Russian op. They astroturfed a Harris hashtag overnight. Now she's getting roasted for this. Gabbard will never work the way they want - her rep is much deeper and more virulent and well-known than Stein's.

Brittany Allen has gone on to have quite a substantial and diverse career. We'd never have known she was any good based on her dreadful AMC run. But I guess that can be said of so many ex-soap folks. Her replacement, Sarah Glendening, who I thought was excellent in a pointless role, I haven't seen since. Shaun Benson I last saw in the first season of Channel Zero - he was hot.

Seven years! It is amazing he was able to work on AMC for as long as he was, up to and including 2011 and the reboot. We all knew something was wrong in his very final appearance in 2013 - I still remember the posts about it - but as far as I can recall, that's literally the only time any of us knew or suspected. Tragic, but what a man.

Eh, part of it is just typical primary shît. But, and this is important, I've seen a lot of previously dumbass kids get with the program in the last couple weeks when they saw what I was waiting for - another Pelosi/AOC happy photo op - and suddenly realized the House rift was not going to last and Change Democrats Forever. A lot of folks are waking up to the fact that this thing is real, and playing games over purity and longing for Bernie is not gonna cut it. He keeps dropping in the polls. I don't need to love AOC or Omar or whoever else to recognize the good they can do when directed properly, and they're learning to get it together. When this is all over they'll either learn it longtime or flame out like Grayson or McKinney. In the meantime, I have many issues with Omar but she doesn't deserve the vile death threats she's gotten. Trying to turn her into a referendum only reunited the House that more quickly, and made a lot of kids on the left start to get the picture. And meanwhile Chuck Todd keeps getting ratioed, and that keeps the media on their toes. As for Trump, it only looks like strategy. It's largely just reactive and knee-jerk. And what's important is that it doesn't work enough to change his numbers, or change the conversation long-term. We're still on the same issues and dramas everyday, still putting this awful stuff in the face of key voting groups. That's important. That's not drawing on 'logic' either, it's the visceral everyday IMO. It may be annoying to keep dealing with it, but the larger conversations have not changed or put Trump in a more advantageous position.

I don't think that happens twice. And I think way too much is going against him now. I don't see what good it does us to doomsay it at this point. It's not going to be a cakewalk but it's very, very important to fight.

But he's not winning. His numbers are bad outside his base.

What is her story?

Oh, I know a bit about the Kirk, etc. plotline. I hadn't realized that was Frannie. I assume this was all Susan Bedsow Horgan. I won't lie and say it doesn't give me slight flashbacks to the youth focus on OLTL 2013, but I think that was much more successful and organic in terms of longtime characters as opposed to ATWT's teen scene being mostly made up of randos. (I know people like Marcy - I remember Marisa Tomei quit bc she said she couldn't handle the grind of daily scripts)

WTF!!!!! Who the hell were they??

This sounds like a triple-dip not worth buying if you already have the Entire Mystery and Season 3 to me (and it sounds like this set, unlike the EM, does not have FWWM), but we'll see soon enough when we know more:

No, we're not fùcked. He is a blithering incompetent and can be voted out.

Rebecca Gayheart (Loving, 90210) and the late Luke Perry (same, AW) are both in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

This brilliant Susan Collins ad is doing damage:

I am not Gen X, and I was born in the early '80s. I was never classed as Gen X, certainly not in the early '90s when they were all coming into adulthood and I was a tween. According to the cutoff I'm a millennial.

Kimmy Robertson shows off an old continuity polaroid of herself with guest star Kathleen Wilhoite:

Meanwhile:

Mueller did not offer any slam dunk nor was he ever going to. He stuck to the facts, was doggedly insistent on referring to his report and did not waver from them. He was "boring". Anyone who watched this expecting a touchdown was foolish, but he did indicate he could not legally have charged Trump with obstruction and that Trump remained open to charges out of office. The political needle has not moved from this hearing, but it was never going to. The media then ran with how the hearing was a "boring disaster" because nobody won new points. But should you despair, this is likely to be a repeat of their embarrassment with their breathless claim that Trump was 'totally exonerated' a few months ago when Mueller first concluded his work, as Chuck Todd is once again trending and getting roasted and ratioed by all for knocking the substance of the hearing and proudly calling it a 'disaster' for Democratic 'optics.' It is not worth getting upset about lazy media takes anymore. They ultimately bow to public opinion, which is why the frame of Trump being 'exonerated' did not stick and why nothing has changed since this morning.

Nice to see Brent Spiner and Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh) with the main cast.

I'm amazed Marina just barely managed to keep her mouth shut.