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Like I said before, even if that bastard ends up winning again, if he thinks we’ll just roll over and play dead for him, he has another think coming. I think what one of my former classmates posted on FB sums it up: folks were too worried about the price of eggs and gas to look at the bigger picture (or even realize that the president, in fact, has no control over such matters).

I'm surprised (but delighted) to see Dick Van Dyke endorse Kamala Harris for some reason. I stay on TwiX, because there are some folks on there (mostly TV writers) whom I follow and who, in some cases, follow me as well. Just as I remain on FB because that's the only way I keep in touch with the few, former classmates I can tolerate, lol. But, yeah, TwiX largely has become a wasteland and set social media back about 20 years, too.

IIRC, when "Baby, Come to Me" was first released, it didn't do that well on the charts. However, once GH started using the song as Luke and Holly's theme, the record company re-released it, and this time, it went to #1. Just shows you the impact that soap operas can have on the rest of the culture, lol. I know I read somewhere years ago that Q thought "It's My Party" was just a'ight as originally recorded until he went back and multi-tracked Gore's voice, creating that sort of vocal "echo" effect that came to characterize many of her records. Ironically, I don't believe Donna Summer enjoyed working with Q all that much, and vice-versa - and really, David Geffen, who pushed for Q to produce "Donna Summer," should've known better than to assume these two would mesh well, or that their efforts would be all that successful with the record-buying public. I mean, I love Donna Summer, but her musical style leaned more toward Europop and dance, while Q was definitely more R&B- and soul-influenced.

It's one thing for an institution such as the WaPo to come out in favor of Donald Trump, but endorsing neither candidate out of concerns for the corporate bottom line is just about the most spineless action I've ever seen committed by any newspaper that pretends to serve the public interest. It actually makes me glad I switched majors (from journalism to English) early on in college, lol.

This might be my favorite song that the man called "Q" produced:

But Pitchbot isn't funny! It's just accurate!

No, I was fed up with Annie and her obsession with Josh long before then, lol. For sure, the cloning storyline was the turning point for me and my "relationship" with GL. No matter how crazy other soaps had become, I always could count on GL (and Y&R) remaining above the fray. "The Cloning of Reva Shayne," however, changed all that for me.

I've always suspected that they had cast someone connected to DYNASTY - like maybe Gordon Thomson or Michael Nader - but I have no real way of knowing whether that's true.

I mean, we are literally organizing underground railroads to help abused and battered women get to the polling places on Election Day without incident. If that isn't a sign that toxic masculinity needs to be stopped...! Not for the likes of Susan Sarandon, apparently. She didn't vote for Hillary, and she still feels fresh as a daisy, thank you very much, lol.

If we've said it once in this thread, we've said it a million times (and maybe more): SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT AMERICA. You can't read a bunch of tweets or FB/IG posts and expect to have your finger on the pulse of this country. In fact, you SHOULDN'T expect to know from social media how Americans feel, because most Americans simply don't know what the burnouts and fatheads are saying on those platforms, nor do they much care. So, please, I urge everyone: stop giving those losers and the billionaires who enable them more credit than they actually deserve. And as I've said before, I think a little PTSD from 2016 is healthy, if only to remind us all of what happens when we sleep on the job. But, as high as the stakes continue to be this election year, that doesn't mean we, as a nation, are in the exact same place that we were eight years ago. We've wised up; we know what the assignment is now; and even if Donald Trump manages to eke out another victory, that doesn't mean we'll just roll over and play dead. That fascist can make all the threats and promises that he wants, but if his administration thought the constant resistance to his agendas were a pain in the neck five, six, seven years ago, baby, they ain't seen nothin' yet! Say whatever you will about Bill Clinton, but he and his team knew that you can't go into an election expecting to lose or apologizing if you win. Clinton knew that Republicans never fight clean, that they operate always with the long game in mind, and that the mainstream media no longer cared about anything except enabling the GOP in order to retain their access. So, when he ran, he ran with one goal: to hit the GOP, hit 'em hard, hit 'em often and never, ever let up. Now, many from within the Democratic Party didn't care for Clinton's approach because he wasn't humble - in fact, I'd argue that one reason why Hillary DIDN'T win eight years ago was because even her own party didn't want the Clintons around anymore for that very reason - but at the end of the day, his approach got the [!@#$%^&*] done. God, I still miss that man, lol. See: Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.

Structurally speaking, there was nothing wrong with "The Haves and the Have-Nots." It just suffered from the same deficiencies that have marred all of Tyler Perry's shows: racist/misogynistic/homophobic tropes, and an inability to build scenes that get to the gosh darn point.

You know, I miss the days when performers on SNL did everything possible not to "break character" and laugh, and when they also knew how not to make it so frigging obvious that they were reading from cue cards. Anyways, nice sketch.

That should be NC's new, official slogan: "North Carolina -- We'll Bite You in the Ass." How sad is it that we continue to live in a society where women need to keep their votes secret from their husbands and boyfriends out of fear of retribution? And then I hear folks like former "NCIS: New Orleans" star Lucas Black proclaim how they're "taking masculinity back" for their sons. Pathetic.

On the one hand, I'd kill to see La Lucci play Erica Kane one more time. But, on the other hand, what more is there left for Erica to do? Launch her into space, lol?

I really hope they stop this feature before they end up asking former SECRET STORM cast members how they'd feel about bringing the show back as a movie.

Again, as long as I don't feel like I'm watching a "Good Times" or "Jeffersons" rerun when I tune in for the first time, I'll consider the show to be a success, lol.

For me, 1997-98 was probably the last year I could stomach GL on a steady basis; and even then, I stomached it with much lower expectations, lol.

I think he was right, too. If nothing else, Joe Biden would not have been as vulnerable to the far-left as Hillary Clinton was. I mean, they tried their best to hurt him four years later, and they're trying their best to hurt Kamala Harris now. In the long run, however, it seems like little-to-none of what they did or are doing is making the kind of impact that they had made on HRC back in '16, when you had a candidate who was a sort-of pariah even among members of her own party. Despite the GOP's best efforts, this election comes down to one issue: the abortion ban. By reversing Roe, the GOP, with help from SCOTUS, went too far, underestimating women in the process. Now, I'm not suggesting that Kamala Harris WILL win, but if she DOES win, make no mistake: "it's the abortion ban, stupid."

And in both cases, Trump would have handed the Democratic Party its' collective asses, because there's no way either of those gents (or any other white guy) could've run against him and won. We were behind Joe Biden until we weren't, largely because of the goodwill he had engendered in the wake of the pandemic; and even though I'll remain pissed over how he was forced out until the day I shuck off this mortal coil, at the same time, I will concede that Kamala Harris' ability to pull together a campaign and party in record time proves how very much this country was eager for another change.

Exactly. Nor did they get their way, I think, when Josh Shapiro was passed over for VP. Tim Walz has proven himself to be very popular with the base, but Shapiro's probably more their ideal running mate. For me, however, the question remains: if the top donors didn't want Kamala Harris, then whom DID they want? Who else had a high enough profile within the Democratic Party to run against Trump?

DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Where no one stays gone...or stays at all.

I agree that Ron Raines was miscast as Alan, but I can't see him as a Mike recast instead. Billy Lewis? Maybe. Mike Bauer? No.

I, for one, will always love the fact that the top donors were forced into throwing their support for Kamala Harris (after basically pushing Joe Biden out the window) when they clearly wanted to primary her.

With J.D. Vance on hand to pass out the Kool-Aid (or, if he prefers, the Diet Mountain Dew). Amen.