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Antifa, my ass! Those people were straight up neo-Nazis masquerading as Antifa! Let's be real! Eric Braeden will be DAMNED if Trump holds a Bible while sanctioning hate.

God help us.

Just as Bill Bell knew what he was doing by featuring a thuggish African-American character with the nickname "Kong."

I don't know whether this counts, but I was definitely appalled at seeing ATWT's Jessica and Margo fighting over Doc Reese like he was Mandingo.

"I was afraid for my life": the magic, get-out-of-jail-free card for all racists who kill African-Americans.

I remember when everybody (well, almost everybody) worked overtime downplaying and debunking that story: "It wasn't a real KKK rally! It wasn't the same Fred Trump! The police mistook him for a KKK member!" No one wanted to believe Donald Trump's father, whom he both feared and idolized more than life itself, was a card-carrying racist, because that would have meant admitting that there was a chance that Donald Trump was a racist as well. EVEN THOUGH there was proof that father AND son, as slumlords, had employed housing practices that were discriminatory against POC. Sigh. Forgive me, I'm just venting. It's been a long day. Also from Mr. Rather's Twitter: "So, is antifa part of Obamagate? Just trying to keep up." Who knew Dan Rather could slay, right?

ICAM. Some want him to address these protests publicly, and I'm like, "FFS, WHY??." They think things are bad now? I guarantee it'll get 1000x worse the minute he opens his fat, orange mouth!

Agree. Lorraine Broderick and Wisner Washam would have been fantastic as successors to Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest. Especially, if Patrick Mulcahey had remained on staff as an associate/breakdown writer. (As I've said before, although I know he didn't care working under Agnes Nixon at LOVING, I think Mulcahey would have been a great head, associate or even dialogue writer at AMC.) Exactly. And while I could buy Josh's redemption being a product of Agnes Nixon's imagination, I think she was much too tasteful to have him become Brooke's love interest as well. I feel like THAT part of the story was foisted onto the initial idea, either by Passanante, or the EP, or whoever was running ABCD at that time (Brian Frons?). Moreover, just like with Roscoe Born/Jim Thomasen, the Eliot/Brooke storyline cost AMC a really decent actor (David Beecroft) who could have been valuable to the show in the years to come. Honestly, the only thing I remember from Elizabeth Page's brief HW'ing tenure was a BTS story about how she (allegedly) hit Agnes Nixon over the head with a rolled-up script or something. Like, who DOES that?

So, the White House did what we all do whenever our relatives show up at our front doors: they turned out the lights, and they made like no one was at home. Now, that's what I call leadership! ;)

I don't think so either. IIRC, didn't the initial investigation into the crash prove that Adam through Chandler Enterprises, was responsible, due to faulty equipment or whatever? Then, the next thing you know, there was a second investigation and -- voila! -- they found the explosives. I do, lol! Bob Thomasen was there to clarify that, yes, Jim was Snidely Whiplash. But, I don't recall Bob being on for very long; and when he was on, he seemed to be a watered-down version of John Hudson (David Forsyth's character on AW) more than anything else. IA. There's no way the show could've ever sold Brooke being involved with the man who took pornographic pictures of her adopted daughter. Not even if they had explained it away (it wasn't really Jim, he had a brain tumor, he was working undercover for the FBI's Sex Crimes Unit, whatever). As it was, Jean Passanante tried pairing Brooke with a reformed Josh Waleski, and viewers lost their freaking minds (and rightly so). I will admit I watched McTavish's second stint, if only briefly, because Lee and Camille's introductions, along with Mateo's psychic visions, were just so patently absurd that I was perversely fascinated as to where she was going with them.

It both amuses and angers me that most who could have done something to remedy the ills prevalent in our nation's law enforcement communities and justice system chose not to until "woke" white liberals who were (justly) outraged by George Floyd's murder decided they'd heard and seen enough. I mean, we (African-Americans) have been screaming our heads and everything else off about this madness for God-knows-how-long, and all the rest of this country and this world could say was we were being too radical toward a nation and a government that didn't even think of us as human beings at the outset! That's why, as much as I appreciate people of all shades and stripes getting out there and protesting, I really, really, REALLY need those on the far-right AND the far-left to take their talk of a "revolution" somewhere else. You don't need to revolutionize a system that has always played in your favor. You just need to stand back, keep your mouths closed, free your minds and LISTEN.

For some reason, that tweet from Black Lives Matter cracks my s**t up, lol!

That's my recollection as well (although, I could be wrong). Regardless, there definitely was the feeling that TPTB had interfered with and changed the direction of the storyline. Suddenly, Jim Thomasen went from being a kiddie pornographer to being a kiddie pornographer AND a terrorist AND an arsonist AND a drug pusher AND I could go on. In retrospect, I think AMC was dumb to waste Roscoe Born (and David Forsyth) on such an irredeemable character. He could've been put to much better use as a new rival and adversary of Adam's, or even a new love interest for Erica and romantic rival with Jack (or all three).

IA. God bless and protect all those involved in these protests; but, more importantly, God bless and protest those (like the woman in that video) who are doing their best to restrain our so-called allies from sabotaging our mission.

More and more, I'm reminded of @marceline's dire prediction that the divisions that have been tearing this country apart are going to end in bloodshed.

I wouldn't mind a GL reboot that brought the show back to its' roots as a faith- and religion-based soap opera. Something to help differentiate it from the other web soaps out there. (Although, if that means the return of Reverend Joshua Lewis, forget it.)

Boy, do I feel so much pride in my blackness right now! I just wish all these wonderful protests lead to real POSITIVE action from the government. Alas, we know this administration is incapable of doing just that.

Actually, IIRC, Sandy Dennis made her TV debut on GL, back when it was THE GL, in the mid-'50's. So, it would have been sort of like a "full circle moment" for her, I guess? I could believe that, lol!

Set your DVR's, ladies and gentlemen. This is one episode of "Divorce Court" you won't want to miss. https://www.yahoo.com/news/wife-officer-charged-murder-george-042245850.html 2020: the year when even the Amish could no longer keep silent.

Damn.

I'm so sorry to hear that, @Soapsuds. I hope you are taking care of yourself right now. #Hugs

God, I miss the days when I could count on our leaders to unite (and not divide) this nation with their words.

That's why I don't even bother watching any of these reunions (although, for everyone else's sake, I'm glad they're being done). Anything worth doing, IMO, should be done right.

Frankly, Michael Weatherly has always struck me as a smarmy punk who is too in love with himself to be a decent human being.

Which is why I don't exactly feel sorry for those who are hurting now because they have endorsed and/or continue to endorse Trump. They knew damn well who and what he was when they voted for him; they just wanted to forget/ignore/erase President Ooga Booga. I'm only sorry for the rest of us who have to suffer alongside them. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't shake the feeling that officer in particular was making an "ironic" statement against Colin Kaepernick when he did that. Like Mike Pompeo and his son posting their "pinky promise" on Twitter in response to Elizabeth Warren's campaign.