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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.

What a childish and petty thing for a governor to do. You have my sympathies, citizens of Maine. I hate how so many people's livelihoods have been caught in the metaphorical crossfire of this ongoing shutdown. Nevertheless, I want to see the Democrats stand firm against Trump's outrageous demands; and I, for one, believe Pelosi is just the person to do that.

Good. Keep pushing 'em, Nancy. Everything Trump touches dies. Including a child's belief in Santa Claus.

Between the delays and the interminable flashbacks, it's as if the Pollocks have been ghostwriting the entire time. No way should Marland have taken this long to get any momentum going on the Steve/Carolee/Ann or Paul/Stacy/Matt/Maggie, etc. stories. Did the network and/or Colgate-Palmolive interfere and prevent him from wrapping up stories and/or creating new ones? Was his trepidation a result of his having no prior knowledge of the show? Seriously, what did Jackie Smith's daughter allegedly see in his work on this show that convinced her mom to lure him over to GH? I doubt her daughter even watched TD, because, really, what would have been there to captivate any new fan, let alone one as young as she?

I wish someone had said that very same line on the show, lol.

2018: another crazy, f'ed-up year in America.

And so very 2018.

Well, I watched it. (What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment.)

Here's an article on SB's co-creator, Jerome Dobson, and the book he published on Amazon back in August: https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/community/buckhead-man-known-for-soap-operas-finds-new-creative-avenue/article_9fede6d6-6a74-11e8-bec7-0b61bccb0ff8.html

Of course, Nicholas Kristof is correct: it's the American people, and not just Trump and/or his cronies, who must pay the price for his reckless leadership. That's why, in some respect, I'm not entirely looking forward to Mueller's final report. Because, if they think it's bad now.... Same. About the only thing I'm sure of is that I won't be voting Republican in the 2020 election. And even THAT could change in the blink of an eye, lol.