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I'm with Wendy. We have to fight and be loud. People want it and need it. Do we need more than that - absolutely. Otherwise you're just Bernie Sanders or scammers like the Krassenstein brothers. But anger is now necessary. I can't tell you how glad I am my immigrant grandparents are dead and didn't live through some of this vile shít in the last two years - Grandpa had enough trouble tolerating Bush.

Yeah, that's Avenatti. Unless he's got someone specific I'm holding my ammo.

I honestly thought Barbara Rhoades was pretty weak as Irene. Campy as hell but wooden, except when she returned as a very OTT ghost. I wish they'd gotten Liz Hubbard instead. My favorite part of the Two Todds was Todd asking everyone how they could ever have thought he would re-rape Marty. As a fan of the character since the '90s I turned on TSJ's Todd completely over the rapemance in 2008 - only a story like making that Todd an imposter could ever have brought me back to him. Todd is a relic now in the Me Too era and should be written off any future imaginary OLTL IMO - at least for a long time - but that meant a lot to me, undoing the rapemance.

The claim was that Todd had had plastic surgery to look like Walker. The real Walker - Walker Flynn - was a crime boss in Atlantic City. In the original story, Mitch's goons had beaten Todd to a pulp and destroyed his face before sealing him in Victor's sarcophagus in the Lord mausoleum. Todd survived but took Walker's identity (with Walker's permission) to get revenge on Mitch. In the retcon, Irene had the brainwashed Victor's face altered to fool Mitch and 'give Victor more time to become Todd.' I think as ludicrous as it was - and it was hilarious when it aired - it worked because the entire cast committed to it 100%. Further, the "Victor Jr." angle actually gave a payoff to all the random nonsense Malone was throwing around in 2003 before Howarth left - Todd's renewed obsession with his recently-'undead' father and Victor's mysterious signet ring, "Victor Sr." telling Todd he would've named him "Victor Jr." The ring and the name became key parts of the 2011 story. Speaking of the ridiculous backstory of the Laurence family, let's not even get into Miles - one of the most random and pointlessly convoluted characters ever and Mitch's second long-lost, presumed dead brother.

And now for something completely different, from Malone's second run. I'll never forget this crazy shît, but I will say the ending - with Dorian, Blair and Lindsay looming over the fallen Mitch - was a great antidote to the increasingly-misogynistic GH of 2003. KDP looked so good with the darker hair - IIRC, FV (who loved blondes) made her dye it light again.

A thread from Adam Jentleson to click through to, and commentary by Brian Fallon:

I honestly can't recall, there's been so many horrible profiles.

Jeremy Peters had a very reviled piece about the poor misunderstood Trump voters who dig in deeper because of mean liberals which he angrily defended to Slate (to the same interviewer who just buried Ian Buruma at the NY Review of Books, among others). I raged about it months ago.

Don't forget:

As I posted a few days ago, Maggie got roasted by David Simon the other day for pushing that story. She's got a reckoning coming. And now, from a NYT staffer I actively despise:

As I have said before, I can't stand Maggie Haberman but she is a pipeline to the mentality inside that demented administration. You can know either their feuds or what they're floating as strategy by taking her in with a grain of salt.

The Whisperer speaks:

This is a harrowing read. I'm calling it: Kavanaugh does not make it to Thursday. As marceline so often says, everything Trump touches dies.

Four?? And I think most of us said there'd be more than one. Did I think more than two would come forward - not necessarily! Incidentally, I am from Kavanaugh and Ford's old stomping grounds and all I'll say is it turns out it's a real small world.

I don't believe he'll last to Ford's scheduled testimony on Thursday. But I've been (very) wrong before. McConnell apparently didn't want Kavanaugh because of skeletons like gambling or his drinking or something - Trump allegedly insisted on him because he felt Kavanaugh prioritized executive protection from prosecution (for Trump). Could they confirm someone in the lame duck session? Maybe. The important thing is we've put up the fight and can continue to do so. This was supposed to be a slam dunk for the GOP.

Uh oh!

Bada bing:

I look at Avenatti very sideways these days, but if it's true Ronan Farrow is about to drop a story about Kavanaugh, that's curtains. Meanwhile, more levity:

This.... is hilarious. What next, his merit badges? Sixth grade book report?

Those scenes are still excellent.

To be clear: I'd kill to see those scripts with Agnes' notes.