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Oh, well. At least we still have the movie "All the President's Men" to remind us of when a newspaper like the WaPo still had integrity.

Clifton Davis!? Hot. Damn. Now, all we need is for Anna Maria Hosford to show up and we can have an "Amen" reunion, lol!

Now THAT's how you get a "Black storyline up and pumping," lol.

I swear I saw that same [!@#$%^&*] happen on GL when I was in elementary school, lol.

At this point, Jeff Bezos has so much money, he'd have to live to 200 to spend it all. Yet, he blocks a political endorsement, because he's afraid of what a potential second Trump administration could do to him financially. I mean, really, what a shithead, lol.

There's only one, plausible explanation for that wig: Amy is blind as a [!@#$%^&*] bat.

Words cannot describe how much I have come to admire that man. In a world full of Donald Trumps, be a Joe Biden.

Faced with endorsing either a malignant narcissist and wanna-be fascist or a level-headed woman of color with an impeccable background, they ultimately chose to endorse neither. God bless America!

Oh, just admit it, Anderson: every time you, along with every other journalist, fail to have real discussions about Donald Trump, you fail the American public; and you fail the American public, because all you give a damn about is ratings.

In a way, I think it's good how people are suffering PTSD from 2016 and are now hypervigilant. Far too many of us had become complacent, for lack of a better word, never once considering the possibility of someone like Donald J. Trump running a successful campaign for president. (Hell, even I had said on FB that the man was likely to win the election, and I was only partly serious, lol). Despite the decades of ill will that the GOP and the mainstream media had sown against the Clintons and against Hillary Clinton in particular, I believe that the majority of us believed she would win against Trump, because decades of election history said she would. But what folks didn't realize or didn't WANT to realize was that America was no longer the America most had grown up with (or thought it was). 2016, IMO, was when America finally had to accept the truth. Regardless of what happens this Election Day, I really hope we (meaning, Democrats) come away from this election cycle with a new understanding of the fourth estate, one that won't be so willing to appeal to their so-called better angels, because they'll know now that those better angels no longer exist.

Exactly. Again, I don't want to suggest this is true for ALL Black men, because we aren't any more of a monolith than any other group in this country. However, it's been my experience that many Black men are drawn to men like Donald Trump, because, to them, men like Donald Trump project strength and self-assuredness, which is more important to them than morality, or lack thereof. Black men, in general, are terribly concerned with emasculation. After all, much of hip hop/gangsta rap culture has been built on images of Black men wielding power - not just physical and financial power, but even sexual power as well, to the point of misogyny. Ergo, Black men don't want a leader who will appear "soft" or "sissy" to the rest of the world, or else they're afraid they'll get "punked" by their enemies. From the very beginning of Kamala Harris' campaign, I said it would be difficult, if not impossible, for her to win over Black men, because, when it comes to the notion of ANY woman being in charge, let alone a woman of color, Black men are less progressive than even our white, male counterparts. Even though most of us have been raised by women who had to work (long before feminism, I might add) in order to keep the family afloat financially, we still hold onto the outdated, conservative belief that it is the man, and not the woman, who is the head of the household - or, in this case, the country. Such beliefs are one of the outcomes of the African-American community revolving around "the church," and it isn't likely to change anytime soon.

Let me put it this way: I don't necessarily believe that Trump is gaining ground with Black men, but on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually were. Speaking as a Black man, I know how many of my fellow Black men (and even some Black women) can be swayed by a Victor Newman-esque "badass" like Donald Trump, who is wealthy (or, in his case, pretends to be) and who says and does whatever the [!@#$%^&*] he wants and doesn't care at all whether you like it. I realize it sounds like I'm denigrating my fellow African-Americans...and I don't know, maybe I am. (I'm certainly not suggesting that the AA community is a monolith, however).

I know I wanted Ben/Douglas Sheehan for an episode during S14, when Gary was looking for Val. I thought it would have made sense for Gary to run into Ben in Florida and have the two try and track her down. In the meantime, Ben would have explained what had happened to him, and he and Gary would have found closure (with each other, and with the now-presumed-dead Val).

One thing I love about old school Y&R - and about Bill Bell's writing in general - is how you can close your eyes and still get so much from his (and Kay Alden's) dialogue. Bell knew how to make every word in the script count.

At the very least, they should consider it. Rhonda would be old enough to have had a daughter who stirs up some drama for everyone, lol.

Too bad Arnie isn't still around to bask in all this glory, lol.

"DALLAS Does Disco," lol.

I'm glad Obama brought up that incident between McCain and the woman who called Obama an Arab and so forth. Say what you will about McCain, but I thought his response to that lady - basically shutting her down, as Obama says - was perfect. Others (like Trump) would've reinforced her ignorance and prejudice, but McCain wouldn't. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad McCain ultimately lost the election, but if not for the fact that he had an absolute loon for his running mate, I think I would've been okay with him becoming president.

By and large, women aren't going to forget how SCOTUS reversed their reproductive rights. That's going to influence how they vote - not just in this election year, but many others to come.

DAYS succeeded in making Shane and Kimberly's daughter such a repugnant piece of trash that I actually pray this will be the last we ever see of Jeannie Theresa.

I'd be okay with bringing Duncan Eric back from the dead, but only if it's made clear that Duncan (or whatever name he'd be known as by that point) was raised in a good home by loving parents. I think that would be more interesting to write for and to watch than to suggest the poor lad was abused all his life by folks who were total scum.

I think one of the biggest reasons why soaps remain an endangered species is because TPTB refuse to allow characters to mature anymore. They don't seem to understand that watching characters in their 50s, 60s and 70s do the same, stupid [!@#$%^&*] that they did when they were in their 20s and 30s just doesn't appeal to the average viewer.

Erika Slezak echoes your sentiment in her Archive of American Television interview, @Paul Raven. IIRC, she tells the interviewer (and the viewers who download the interview) how upset it makes her to hear people denigrate acting on soaps, when - as she puts it - it isn't easy work to do, and that many from film/theater have tried to do it and couldn't. (IIRC, too, even her own father said doing a three-day stint on OLTL as her godfather was his most terrifying experience as a performer, lol).

Texas is like my home state (OK): in both cases, you're fighting against generations of deeply ingrained, ultra-conservative thinking from people who resent liberals, whom they perceive as looking down at them. More often than not, they'll knowingly vote against their own interests, because it's more important to them to put liberals in their places. (As I've said before in this thread, Democrats do pretty well in OKC and Tulsa, but once we head into the smaller towns, we're officially dead in the water. I suspect a similar scenario always happens in TX as well.) I'm not saying liberals can't make inroads in TX and "turn TX blue," but I think it'd take a different sort of strategy than what most left-leaning politicians are used to.

I feel like that's where Ed Scott could make the most difference. We know budgets aren't what they used to be, but a smaller budget is no excuse for scenes that just lay there on the screen, with no dramatic or visual appeal whatsoever. If anything, not having the money you used to should force you to be more creative in that aspect, if only to distract the audience from the rest of the shitty production values, lol.