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That goes along with the argument I've been making on X (with one of the stars of TV's "Becker," of all people, lol) regarding why I don't believe we are ready for a gay VP. Theoretically, any potential running mate's faith (or sexual preference, or ethnicity, or gender affiliation, or...I could go on) shouldn't be an issue as to whether they could help Kamala Harris win the election or preside over the country. All that should matter are their record and overall competency for the job. However, there simply is no denying the fact that Donald Trump has emboldened a lot of folks to disparage and attack anyone who is not white, Christian, heterosexual or genetically male. Even if you believe that someone like Josh Shapiro or Pete Buttigieg would be an ideal VP pick for Harris - and believe me, I think either would be fantastic! - you still have to know that supporting them comes with enormous risks, as well as the possibility now of losing out in the end to our most base fears and prejudices. And if you don't think the fact that Josh Shapiro is Jewish, or that Pete Buttigieg is gay, wouldn't, at the very least, present more obstacles to Harris' campaign, then you simply don't see the America that I see or have seen since at least the Obama administration. The fact is, we gave Barack Obama the chance, because we still felt the need back then to keep up the pretense of being an open-minded and forward-thinking nation. Again, though, thanks to Trump, we no longer feel that need. Now, we are content with presenting ourselves as exactly who and what we are.

I agree. Or you could've given it to me! Just sayin'! But seriously. Don't feel that all the money and time you've donated over the years has been for nothing. I believe it has made a difference, even if it's a difference you can't see right off the bat. At the end of the day, the rich donors who control all the political parties in this country are like any Goliath. We just haven't found the right slingshot to slay them with yet.

Rest easy, everyone: Joe Manchin is not running for president, lol: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-manchin-not-running-for-president-joe-biden-kamala-harris/

I feel like anything short of posting an advertisement for the show on the side of the Goodyear blimp as it flies over the Super Bowl will be a disappointment for some folks, lol.

But who is to say that this election is winnable for ANY Democrat, let alone one with a reputation and record as stellar as Joe Biden's? The fact is, due to the GOP's ability to control the media, this election was never going to be easy for the Democrats. But Biden, IMO, stood the best chance of beating Donald Trump in November, because his record - as president, and as VP - spoke for itself. More and more, it just seems to me that we are where we are because of rich donors from within the Democratic Party who had hoped to swap out Biden AND Harris for an all-white, all-male ticket. But, as I've been saying, that's a conversation for another day. She needed to, if she had any hope at all of salvaging her rep after her full court press on Joe Biden. I mean, it's one thing to say Grampa Joe's too old and feeble to be president anymore, but then to refrain from endorsing his black, female running mate? That might make her look racist, sexist AND ageist.

If we are to believe the polls - and that's a big "if" from me! - then I would agree that a change needed to be made. Polls or no polls, however, I just don't like the way Democratic leaders have forced this transition. There were better ways to convince Joe Biden to step aside than yelling, "Go to bed, old man!" But, what else should we have expected from a country that never values its' senior citizens?

I don't know what else to say, @marceline, except I'm heartbroken that you feel this way. I wish I had just the words to encourage you (and anyone else who might feel the same as you) to get back in the fight, because this fight needs people like you, who are passionate and well-informed and who don't give up no matter how tough the going gets. But I understand how you feel. I, too, am disgusted with the Democratic Party's treatment of Joe Biden. As I told a friend on Facebook: Biden didn't jump, he was pushed. After all that he has done to correct the path that our country has taken, the leaders within his party owed him their loyalty. Instead, they've sat him down in a wheelchair and rolled him off to Shady Pines. The past several days and weeks have taught me two lessons: 1) as long as the Democratic Party keeps allowing the GOP and the MSM to control the narrative, every election will be an uphill battle; and 2) perhaps more importantly, for all that progressives get wrong, there's also one thing they get very right: the Democratic Party does not belong to its' voter base, but to a bunch of white, male billionaires who believe they know what's best for everyone. In that sense, the Democratic Party is no different from the GOP. Like I said, I wish I knew what to say to make you change your mind, @marceline. Hell, I'm not even sure I don't want to join you, lol. If the press hasn't begun tearing down Kamala Harris' reputation and character yet, they will in due time - and no, it will not be pretty either. As a matter of fact, I'd venture to say that when they DO draw their knives for her, it will expose the true, racist and misogynistic underbelly of this country like never before and make their treatment of Barack and Michelle Obama look like Tiddlywinks by comparison. But I also know that if a second Trump administration potentially could be even HALF as awful as his first was...? Sigh. I gotta stay in this fight and punch for Kamala, even though the Democratic Party deserves nothing less now than your utmost contempt and mine. It might be all for nothing in the end, but like the song says...

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...