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IOW, Trump was just being Trump, lol.

Trump doesn't care. He wants his wall. He'll do anything to get his wall. But, like you said, Wendy, even if he does declare a national emergency, it'll be tied up for years in court. It won't be a total victory, but it'll be something. Sometimes, I think they let him have moments like this 1) because they know the man is a narcissist and they know this is the best way to deal with a narcissist, and 2) they get a big kick out of watching him behave even more like a buffoon.

Agree. Same. And if I have to watch, then I'm doing it "Bird Box"-style, with my eyes blindfolded.

Same. First of all, it wasn't as if she was nude in the video, or straddling a pole (or some dude). AOC was clothed the entire time, with none of her "lady parts" showing. Second, it was done before she entered the political scene, but unlike with, say, Brett Kavanaugh, AOC's dancing was a consensual act; and no one had been violated sexually in the making of said video. And third, if we were to tisk-tisk her for dancing so provocatively, then we'd have to do the same to Ally Sheedy and even John Hughes, since it was "The Breakfast Club," and Sheedy's dance moves in particular, that AOC was paying homage to.

I still believe all that was Gail Kobe's, rather than Pam Long's, doing.

Which is why I love Pelosi for the moment. For once, someone in D.C. stood up to Trump like the bully he is -- not just to the media, but literally to his face -- and said, "No."

Five more years of this [!@#$%^&*]. I don't think I can take it. So, thank God for Hallmark movies? I called it. (Well, I ALMOST called it. I said he'd turn up on "Dancing with the Stars." But, hey, the year's still young.)

Yep. Just as I had figured. SMDH.

Yep. Poor Jada Rowland. It's probably shitty material like this that drove her out of the business. Meanwhile, the actors' faces in TD's first-ever opening sequence give me all kinds of life... James Pritchett: Constipated. (Much like many of his performances as Dr. Matt Powers, TBH.) Lydia Bruce: Petrified. Elizabeth Hubbard: Removed. ("Another few months, darling, and I'm off this sinking ship.") David O'Brien: Concerned. Jada Rowland: Resigned. ("Ugh, I'm on another soap that's going down the crapper.") She isn't alone.

If the networks allow Trump something they wouldn't allow Obama, then I don't want to hear another word about how racism in no way figures into anyone's hatred of the latter. Not. Another. Word.

He truly missed his calling as a SON troll.

Part of me wishes this turns out the way rebuilding Stonehenge turned out on "This is Spinal Tap."

As was Marie Kovac's Cyndi Lauper-inspired outfit. Another relic from the "best" of the MBE era, lol.

Earlier this evening, while dining at a local Chinese buffet, I saw on CNN an ad that was designed to get people to jump aboard the #BuildTheWall bandwagon. As if building the wall was up for referendum or something.

The music in the clip must have been a leftover from the Mary-Ellis Bunim regime.

Alice treating Rachel for her amnesia crosses so many lines of ethics, lol. I still think a Jamie/Alice romance would have been dynamite, given the history between her and his parents.

Of course, we've been saying how Trump is a deeply, deeply insecure individual, fighting for legitimacy and validation, both in his career, and in his personal life. But it is nice to hear "Rev. Al" voice those opinions as well. That's all true. However, what I was trying to say before was that he views the shutdown the same way he would view a labor dispute at one of his family's properties -- the fact that he called it a "strike" and not a shutdown (which are two completely different things) says as much -- and that, if he blusters and bullies and arm-twists enough, he'll get the other side to cave into his demands. (I'm honestly shocked he hasn't suggested sending "scabs" and armed strike-breakers into the most affected federal agencies.) Somehow, someone has to penetrate the layers of hair, bronzer, dementia, disorder and sheer lunkheadedness and get it through to him that 1) this is NOT one of his properties, 2) this is NOT a strike and 3) sending federal employees home and/or asking them to continue working without pay will have enormous consequences on our nation's economy and (in the long run) leave us vulnerable to enemies both foreign and domestic.

Trump still believes he can run this country like he "ran" one of his businesses. It's maddening.

GR's still with the soaps, though, so he doesn't count.

Trump certainly knows how to deliver those Friday cliffhangers. ;)

Nope.

Same.

Same. No matter how they might feel about the policy rollbacks, the truth is, implementing those rollbacks would be cost-prohibitive in the long run.

So, I've just watched the scenes where Carolee, overhearing (in classic, Marland-esque fashion) that Steve and Ann have married, loses consciousness, collapses onto the floor, and retreats back into catatonic, "Mary Ellen" mode. Oh. My. God. In all my years of soap-watching, I have never wanted a story to end as badly as I want that story to end. How much more plot-driven tedium did TPTB think they could put these characters through (not just Steve, Carolee and Ann, but most of this unexceptional cast) and still make the audience gaf about their predicaments? Not even Douglas Marland's writing made this show work for me, it seems. The production values are bad even by late-1970's standards; most of the acting is amateurish and too low-energy; and even the better writers seemed to give less than their all here. Sorry, sports fans, but I think TD was just a bad, cursed show. On the bright side, however, Dr. Brandt doesn't appear (at the moment) to have an unhealthy obsession with his patient. If the Pollocks were still writing, you know that's just where the story would have gone.