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Who are we kidding? There's only one theme that fits the exchange between Trump and Schumer:

Translation: "If I give up on the wall, I'll look like a loser -- and I'm not a loser, Daddy, I'm not!" No matter how Trump and/or his PR folks will spin it, the fact that Pelosi and Schumer's message drew higher ratings than his will be what hurts him personally most of all. I love it.

I'm still upset over the fact that the networks gave Trump what they had denied Obama when he was still in office. It doesn't surprise me, of course, but it just galls the hell out of me how so many people today feel so free to be so openly racist. Thank God I've pretty much stopped watching television, save for Hallmark Channel's annual slate of Christmas movies (and after the pro-Trump messages they snuck into last year's crop, they're on thin ice with me as well). Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bill Shine all need to take a good, hard look at the man they work for and realize that the traditional methods of getting their messages across to Americans (and others) aren't going to work. Trump is incapable of appealing to anyone outside of Fox News' target demographic or the numbskulls who attend his rallies. Last night's performance apparently proved as much. Like I had suggested upthread, I think Trump should go ahead at this point, declare a national emergency and try to get the wall built. Of course, the courts will slow down (if not stop altogether) his efforts, meaning there's a good chance he'll be gone from office before they even break ground on the cursed thing -- but who cares? At the very least, it'll free up both sides to try and work on some compromise that would end the current showdown. In fact, that's pretty much how I would handle Trump from now on: distract him, keep him busy on wild goose chases (such as convincing the courts to let him have his damn wall), while the more competent types run the country (into the ground).

Good for her. She's learning fast.

Nothing, not even the president of the United States, will keep me from my "Law & Order" binge-a-thons on WEtv.

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.