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I saw Brian Stelter on X yesterday, complaining about the "timing and format" of Biden's announcement.

Knowing Ron, he'd probably give Sharon DID, among other travesties.

Allow me to put it another way: if Joe Manchin were to toss his proverbial hat into the ring, he'll only get himself laughed off the stage, with next-to-zero delegates. But, hey, if he wants to go tilting at dragons, lol!

I guess you can't blame Manchin for trying, lol?

Well, that's kinda like what's happening now on DAYS, with two characters - specifically, Alex and Xander - sharing the same name (Alexander Kiriakis).

I'm with @Vee and several others here: the only thing we can do now is press forward and get behind Kamala Harris and whoever her VP pick will be like never before. The time to point fingers and demand explanations will have to come after the election.

Has Mr. Sorkin been hitting the crack pipe again?

I cannot believe that this is happening. I cannot believe that we have become so heartless toward the elderly that we have forced an otherwise healthy, sane and competent man (who just happens to be of a certain age) to give up running for re-election, simply because he had one bad night on TV. I know we Americans have short memories, but dear! God! Compare where we are now to where we were when Biden took office - at 79 years old! - and then say again why you think keeping a(n allegedly) declining Biden in the WH would be just as bad or worse for us than another four years of Donald. [!@#$%^&*]. Trump, who is also declining, but who is also a convicted felon and known rapist, too. I know that (polls be damned) Biden would have handed him his ass again, for a number of reasons. Just as I know that if we mess up AGAIN and allow Trump to become president AGAIN, we can kiss goodbye whatever remains of our already fragile democracy. But, I don't know. Maybe that is what we deserve. Maybe, in the end, we deserve to have our remaining liberties robbed from us, if only to remind ourselves - or, at least, those of us who still think the past eight or so years have been just business as usual - that there is a reason why we have fought all the wars we have fought, and marched in all the streets we have marched in, and sacrificed everything we have sacrificed; and that it was because we never wanted our country to see a day like today.

All I can say is, Joe Biden is a far better man than I am, because if I were in his shoes right now? And I was being forced by a bunch of turncoats to give up on an election that I KNEW I could win? This would be my reaction:

Surely, there were more...elegant ways of communicating to the audience that George was getting aroused (and no, I'm not talking about the freestyle mix that the uploader added to the clip at the end, lol).

It is. The music in that promo is just...odd, lol. It's always weird to me that Maureen Garrett wasn't the original Holly. How different was she from Lynn Deerfield? Did LD portray Holly in a different way? Did she share the same kind of chemistry w/ MZ?

If I had my druthers, Leo wouldn't have been tied to any former character(s). Instead, I would have revealed that his given name is Levi and that he was raised in an Amish community somewhere in the Great Plains, with a younger sister and maybe younger brother, too; a mom, who was a homemaker; and a dad, who was a church elder. And I would have revealed that Levi Starger, who once dreamt of becoming a minister, was kicked out of the house and banished from the community at fifteen, after his dad had caught him with another boy, thereby forcing young Levi - who renamed himself "Leo" after his much beloved maternal grandfather - to become an underaged sex worker in order to survive.

Unfortunately, there are too many in this country who cannot afford to have Donald Trump back in the WH, but who also cannot afford to leave should that come to pass. To me, that is perhaps the greatest tragedy in this situation, even more than how our current leader has been treated by members from within his own party. I agree that the Democrats' treatment of Joe Biden has been nothing less than abominable. After all that his administration has done to bring this country back from the abyss, THIS is the thanks he gets? I expected the media to treat Biden like [!@#$%^&*], but his own party? And all because of ONE lousy debate performance? It's like what I've said before: the Democrats are so desperate to beat Trump that they're not thinking clearly, or even at all! Instead of circling the proverbial wagons and pointing out that Biden's shaky performance in the debate shouldn't negate his administration's record OR the fact that Donald Trump remains an existential threat to our democracy, it's like they're saying, "You know, maybe all the cash-sucking cretins on YouTube and social media who've been saying for years that Biden is senile have a point?" In the process, all these Democrats have done is to allow the GOP and the media to control the narrative once more, making the entire party look foolish and ineffective -- and at a time when this all should've been a lay-up for our side, too! Frankly, I'm at the point where I question whether either political party is worth saving, or whether there shouldn't be more than two, viable parties in this country.

I love that many of us assume already that Ron Carlivati's gonna land at Y&R, lol.

If you're going to spin off from another show, at least spin off from a show that's successful and that people watch. LOVING never really took off as a show until the end, and that's because the serial killer storyline was kind of a well-executed novelty that created some buzz within the press.

This is when we need Bill and Hillary Clinton. Not to run, of course, but to help the Democrats outline some kind of strategy going forward. Say what you will about those two, but they weren't afraid to get their hands a little dirty if it meant getting us over the finish line.

Everyone I loved on DAYS (that isn't still there - and that's a very short list!) has either retired or died.

IMO, Ron Carlivati's exit won't make much of a difference: DAYS is gonna be DAYS, no matter who occupies the HW's chair. But if this news means we COULD be seeing the last of his fucked-up tribute to Wayland Flowers' Madame known as Leo Stark...? Then, all I can say is...

No (thank God).

Frankly, I don't believe there'll ever be closure to Austin's murder, and that's probably because Frank Valentini is still smarting over the fact that he was pressured to cut Roger Howarth loose.

It's really a shame that the original "Equalizer" wasn't a hit. I thought it was such a fantastic show, with a one-of-a-kind actor in the lead.

ICAM!! That's why I posted that link upthread about the 1400 Black women who signed a letter backing Biden/Harris and calling for unity within the Democratic Party. They know what's up, lol. Watching Donald Trump is like watching JER's DAYS: after awhile, it gets old.

Yeah, that's Mae Clarke in the episode. It's just hard to recognize her without the grapefruit in her face.

It seemed like, every ten years or so, AMC would "clean house," so to speak, and refresh the cast.

LOL!!