Vee
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I think it was a tin-eared and foolish thing to say, and I'm glad she apologized. I also think it'll blow over soon - we have much bigger, spray-tanned fish to fry. -
Internal emails leak revealing the Breitbart civil war over Trump and Michelle Fields.
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For anyone who doesn't know: A Trump rally in Chicago erupted into mass protests last night, and was called off amidst chaos and fighting. The Trump campaign claimed the Chicago police had urged them to cancel the event; Chicago PD denies ever speaking to them about it. Here's a Vox piece about it as well. Meanwhile, the right-wing Breitbart News, recently marked as colluding with Trump, has struggled to deal with a growing scandal over one of its own reporters being accosted by Trump's chief of staff Corey Lewandowski at a campaign event when she pressed Trump on a question. First Trump and Lewandowski said they'd never met Michelle Fields, then Lewandowski took to Twitter to call her a liar. Breitbart has remained tongue-tied about this as Fields produced photos of her bruises, then video from outside media showing Lewandowski confronting her. In response, Breitbart spokesperson Kurt Bardella quit the site and took to CNN and social media to excoriate them and Trump. Also essential: Rachel Maddow on the rage of Trump.
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Watching the GOP debate out of sheer boredom. Trump is having a very rough night in this Republican debate because no one is attacking him. He even basically goaded them to about 20 minutes ago - without that he is fumblng for any answer. Every other person on the stage except maybe Kasich may be a completely insane right-winger but at least they have (horrible) specifics beyond "we're gonna do it, believe me!" I doubt it will make any difference to the GOP base or save the nomination from him, but it's clear he can't handle anything that's not on his own terms. He's clueless and uncomfortable.
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I think Obama is deeply beloved by at least as much of the country as the portion that hates and fears him - and I think more of the middle at the very least admires and respects him. I think a lot of people are quietly wishing he could do a third term. I know I am. He got a lot of good done, and in his first four years as well as his last, despite an impossible government. He also deeply frustrated the gatekeepers of both the mainstream DNC apparatus and the hard left that never recovered from the Bush years - and that's a good thing. It will be a long time before we see his like again. That being said, I said Julian Castro will be president someday too, and I believe he will. I also believe he will be Hillary Clinton's running mate.
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Capaldi talks to Newsweek about the show's future, Moffat's exit, etc. He reiterates he doesn't know whether he'll stay or go, but pointedly critiques the BBC's scheduling and taking the show for granted last year. I think he's right - a lot of the longtime fans who remember the trauma of the '80s and '90s with DW always struggling to survive in some way don't always realize that this show is now an established, popular cash cow again for ten years running. That's why it was taken for granted last year by the programmer. I'm glad it is taking the year to regroup and presumably be feted properly in '17.
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In other news, this is the first Democratic debate I've bothered watching and these Univision moderators are terrible and hacky. I deeply admire Bernie Sanders as a public servant and have for many years, but I am startled to discover at how canned his answers are - easy crowdpleasing talking points he pivots to and can't really deviate from, like an Air America Radio interview. There are no specifics, it's just lecturing. Hillary may not be the prom queen and she may not always come off well, but she digs into the nuts and bolts and specifics of governing - and it makes me feel like Bernie is never going to be ready for primetime. He's just doing the same lectures he used to do when he would run in past cycles just to stand on principle, when nothing more was expected of him.
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There are about a million and one pieces now out on every major site calling Rubio an embarrassment and demanding he wrap it up. Looks like the GOP establishment and most of the media has finally thrown in the towel on the Last Clear Chance. Maybe they're banking on Cruz or a hilarious convention slugfest. Meanwhile, Trump is comparing Marco's recent barrage of insults (which Marco is hastily walking back, saying they shamed his children and family) to a failed impersonation of Don Rickles.
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Forget Hillary, Trump's polling outside the right wing bubble is disastrous. Everyone in the GOP knows it. Everyone knows it but him and his base. You put him in a general election and they know he stands a very good chance of being slaughtered and taking a lot of the party down with him - that's why the Republican establishment has been trying so hard to stop him. He's their doom.
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I'd be shocked if they did another mid-season regeneration again any time soon. I'd be open to it with someone but it hasn't been done since Colin Baker, it's controversial and I don't think it will be again until at the very least the Chibnall era is firmly established. Unlike both Tennant and Smith, Capaldi has a well-established, long and celebrated career - he doesn't need to leave to build his personal brand and spread his wings in Hollywood and/or other projects, which was a major part of both of their reasoning. I think if he leaves it will simply be because of the taxing grind of the schedule. He is a massive fan though, and I can see him deciding to break the three-season NuWho 'rule' and go for a longer run because he has nothing left to prove as an actor. I hope he does.
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Well, it's not like they're scoring the show with pop songs. I don't remember that Lorde cover being in an episode.
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I've been meaning to sit down and watch Force Majeure for a year - soon. I didn't care for the cover which I know will drive Carl up the wall, but it looks fun for the most part. I'm glad to see Davos still in the thick of it. I hope Margaery doesn't get converted. And I'm always Team Bran.
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Cersei chooses violence.
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I think if people had taken the time with Sam he could've been made ready. He was an abused, frightened child, Carol was an abused wife. Carl started as a helpless little boy. They evolved and Sam could have. I think there are few people in ASZ and that world who couldn't have - Deanna was getting there herself but she got bit. Carol wasn't interested in properly working with Sam because she and Rick were both deep in their gung-ho PTSD interlude at that time, and Jessie never reached the point where she fully accepted what would be required of her not just for herself but for her kids to make them stronger. Sam didn't have to die on that road if he'd been handled both firmly and carefully by people who cared about him - one of whom was Carol, though it took his death for her to really admit it to herself. I think she knows he didn't have to die too, and that's part of what's been eating at her, along with so many other things.
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As I mostly suspected, Peter Capaldi has been asked to stay on for Series 11 in 2018, the show's first with Chris Chibnall. He hasn't decided yet.
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It's not likely to be for another few weeks.
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The NYT details the continuing collapse of the GOP in the face of Trump and their rebellious voters.
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Slate on Fox's existential crisis.
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He is bobbing and weaving trying to avoid answering any actual policy questions. Then he said the military "will do what I tell them" re: illegal orders. Again, his base may or may not care (I doubt it) but this is how you take him apart nationally. If he even has any play beyond the GOP base.
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Fox and co. are out to kill Trump tonight. He's having a rough time, for once. These idiots can't put him down but he's definitely off-balance. I'm not convinced his base will care at all, but the important thing is this is a lesson in how to rattle him.
