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Mädchen talks Riverdale and Twin Peaks some more - I think that show is a very stylish mess with hot talented young people (especially the two girls playing Veronica and Betty) which is trying way too hard to be ahead of the curve and tripping all over itself, but she's really good in a very un-Shelly role, and Luke Perry is surprisingly solid as Archie's dad.
The Times on Trump and Flynn's latest big Russia connection. TPM dissects it.
I can't stand him, but he and his show are always a good weathervane for gauging Beltway thinking:
He's mad! Rats, ship, taking on water, etc.
RIP Warren Frost, father of Mark, ATWT's Lindsay and TP staff writer Scott, and Twin Peaks' own Doc Hayward. Frost taught acting for years, but also recurred on Seinfeld as the father of George's beleaguered fiancee Susan; Frost played opposite TP's Grace Zabriskie as Susan's mother. I'm glad he got to return once more as Doc.
It's not all a distraction and a clever ploy. These people are often just blundering idiots. As for how the media treats Pence, the plain facts are that most people (myself included) will see getting just Trump out as a relief. I can continue to hold Pence accountable and still feel that as well. Where the media goes for there will be on us staying vigilant and them as well, but do I think they will fall in love with him long-term? Not based on what I have seen of Mike Pence, the ladies' man.
I don't believe that's the case without Trump. It can be if we're not careful, but with him it's guaranteed. Without him I think there are always things we have to change and ways we have to do better, but I agree with Obama - we're bigger and better than this, for all the rest of our ugliness.
Yeah, no, I'm sorry but I've heard this line many times and it makes me see red with rage. I'm not angry at you, I just am infuriated by this. It might be great for far left 'progressive' ideology in theory for us all to suffer and possibly die under Trump so we can then (also in theory, as always) rise up and take names, but that's the kind of thinking Susan Sarandon was espousing last fall and again on TV the other day. It never, ever, ever works out like that, and it's been tried before. More importantly, we could all be fuckin' nuked in the meantime. America could lapse entirely into an authoritarian nightmare. The best you can hope for is that the minorities among us will be systematically targeted - and while Pence is a bigoted fundamentalist, he is not likely to employ actual Nazis. Yet the far left mindset never really worries too much about the minorities when factoring in these great progressive revolutions that can finally happen if we just keep the worst possible options in place for a little bit longer to destroy the country. I am not saying you are incorrect about the inherent and well-known difficulties of keeping focus and strength up without a common enemy; we've all been there before and seen it before. I am sure focus will flag without Trump, and that is something we will always have to be vigilant on - this is not the first time we have been faced with that problem. But it may be the last, unless Trump goes. There is really no contest AFAIC. Keeping a grassroots effort strong is not nearly as important to me as actually accomplishing ridding the nation of something which is destroying it more and more by the second and could literally wipe us out.
Again, you're assuming the media is suddenly going to fall in love with Pence a la McCain or Bush and I just don't see that. First, that was a long time ago, and today even manufactured guys like Rubio, Christie, etc. have fallen on hard times. Even Ryan has lost a lot of his lustre for the media. Pence has never had a fraction of that charisma or media support. Pence can't get elected once, let alone twice. Also, the public is pretty broad - plenty protested against Bush. Plenty more loved Obama (and the other half hated him), plenty more than that came out against Trump. The whole public doesn't fall to their knees for Republicans, otherwise we wouldn't be here. We're the public too.
It's not that we want Pence. It's that when faced with Trump, Pence or a mushroom cloud I think you have to go with door #2. Keeping Trump is increasingly not an option, nor would I ever choose him over Pence frankly. Even ol' Morning Joe has turned - they're now openly advocating for "President Pence". I guess they didn't get a Mar-a-Lago invite.
It feels like that whole family could roll up and blow away if a few more go, but I've said that before about various EE stalwarts who hang in. I find most of the actors in the Carter family compelling in various scenes but I don't really care about them as this cozy, manufactured phenomenon the production or the BBC seem so keen on; I find their ongoing dissolution at the moment much more interesting. I did love Babe's exit scenes, although the curse (complete with echo reverb FX) was a bit much. I do wonder if my interest will flag further without Annette Badland scheming. I can barely recall Mick's offscreen wife and have little to no interest.
Danny Dyer is officially taking a break of some sort, for (the classic euphemism) 'exhaustion.'Important Information
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