Khan

Over and over again, we have tried to make White America see and hear us. 2024 might be the moment when we, as people of color, decide we're through with that [!@#$%^&*]. We'll go where we CAN be seen AND heard; and in the meantime, we'll wait while you tear everything down and then beg us to save your sorry butts one more time. (If I were you, my brothers and sisters, when the call does come, I'd put them on a very long hold, lol).

I agree. VP Harris and Gov. Walz ran the very best campaign they could. It isn't their fault that Americans are just too afraid to progress.

You don't have to delve specifically into politics to explore what it means to be "of color" in America, especially after last night. BTG provides an opportunity to start or add to that discussion. And that's all I choose to say about that, lol.

We can talk all day long about building a better future for our children and grandchildren. At the end of the day, however, most people view the future as somebody else's problem. They cannot and will not look past their own suffering. That is what the GOP has always counted on, and that is what has brought us to today. Oh, God. Another four years of listening to my mom watch YouTube videos and believe all the right-wing propaganda they spew. My heart literally can't take it.

I decided it was time and deactivated most of my social accounts today, save for Facebook. I'm keeping my FB account, because that's how I stay in touch with my former classmates.

I'm presuming that the situation in Gaza had much to do with Kamala Harris underperforming (compared to Joe Biden) among young voters. Young voters likely wanted her to condemn Israel outright and back Palestine...which only goes to show that young people have much to learn when it comes to Israel and Palestine. But OLDER voters shifting toward Democrats? So, we're making headway with Meemaw and Boompaw, but now we're losing Brayden and Heavenleigh. Good grief, lol.

Well, @marceline was right: we need to get ready for President Vance. Because, while Donald Trump can outrun a great many things, including the law, he cannot outrun death (no matter how many randos try and pick him off). And believe you me, that man is on borrowed time.

I wonder about that myself. As long as Sheila Duckworth remains involved, I think the show will be okay. But, if CBS somehow pushes her out or marginalizes her...well, my joke about Michele Val Jean being locked out of the studio like Bridget Dobson just might become a reality, lol.

I had said that I would consider relocating to MN if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were to lose the election. Who knows, I said, it might be kinda fun to live out my fantasies of living like Mary Richards. Well....

Just some random thoughts: Obviously, it goes without saying, last night did not turn out the way we had hoped. I know I'm not happy to see Donald Trump back in the WH. I'm not SURPRISED, but I'm not happy either. I think this is the moment when we need to accept, however reluctantly, that this is who we are and always will be. We keep hoping and praying for our so-called better angels to intervene, but now is the time to admit that those better angels just aren't there. It's one thing for Donald Trump to win the electoral vote again, but to win the popular vote as well this time, and perform better than expected in certain categories? Again, folks, this is who we are, and this is what we always will be. I'm sure many will pick apart Kamala Harris' campaign in the days and weeks ahead and determine where she went wrong, but you can include me out of those conversations. I think Kamala Harris (and Tim Walz) ran a great campaign. Ultimately, though, there isn't any one thing that she could've said or not said, done or not done, to change one indisputable fact: she's Black, and a woman, and that's a combination that the majority of this country simply doesn't want in its' leaders. Mark my words: the Democratic Party will NEVER nominate another woman for president. Not as long as there still is a Democratic Party. If a woman ever becomes president - and that's a big if at the moment - she will be a Republican or an Independent. You'll see a gay man become president before you see a woman become one. (Again, mark my words). It might be a hard truth for many to accept, but I think we'll have to accept it if we have any hopes of retaining whatever remains of our sanity.

Like I said before, even if that bastard ends up winning again, if he thinks we’ll just roll over and play dead for him, he has another think coming. I think what one of my former classmates posted on FB sums it up: folks were too worried about the price of eggs and gas to look at the bigger picture (or even realize that the president, in fact, has no control over such matters).

I'm surprised (but delighted) to see Dick Van Dyke endorse Kamala Harris for some reason. I stay on TwiX, because there are some folks on there (mostly TV writers) whom I follow and who, in some cases, follow me as well. Just as I remain on FB because that's the only way I keep in touch with the few, former classmates I can tolerate, lol. But, yeah, TwiX largely has become a wasteland and set social media back about 20 years, too.

IIRC, when "Baby, Come to Me" was first released, it didn't do that well on the charts. However, once GH started using the song as Luke and Holly's theme, the record company re-released it, and this time, it went to #1. Just shows you the impact that soap operas can have on the rest of the culture, lol. I know I read somewhere years ago that Q thought "It's My Party" was just a'ight as originally recorded until he went back and multi-tracked Gore's voice, creating that sort of vocal "echo" effect that came to characterize many of her records. Ironically, I don't believe Donna Summer enjoyed working with Q all that much, and vice-versa - and really, David Geffen, who pushed for Q to produce "Donna Summer," should've known better than to assume these two would mesh well, or that their efforts would be all that successful with the record-buying public. I mean, I love Donna Summer, but her musical style leaned more toward Europop and dance, while Q was definitely more R&B- and soul-influenced.

It's one thing for an institution such as the WaPo to come out in favor of Donald Trump, but endorsing neither candidate out of concerns for the corporate bottom line is just about the most spineless action I've ever seen committed by any newspaper that pretends to serve the public interest. It actually makes me glad I switched majors (from journalism to English) early on in college, lol.

This might be my favorite song that the man called "Q" produced:

But Pitchbot isn't funny! It's just accurate!

No, I was fed up with Annie and her obsession with Josh long before then, lol. For sure, the cloning storyline was the turning point for me and my "relationship" with GL. No matter how crazy other soaps had become, I always could count on GL (and Y&R) remaining above the fray. "The Cloning of Reva Shayne," however, changed all that for me.

I've always suspected that they had cast someone connected to DYNASTY - like maybe Gordon Thomson or Michael Nader - but I have no real way of knowing whether that's true.

I mean, we are literally organizing underground railroads to help abused and battered women get to the polling places on Election Day without incident. If that isn't a sign that toxic masculinity needs to be stopped...! Not for the likes of Susan Sarandon, apparently. She didn't vote for Hillary, and she still feels fresh as a daisy, thank you very much, lol.

If we've said it once in this thread, we've said it a million times (and maybe more): SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT AMERICA. You can't read a bunch of tweets or FB/IG posts and expect to have your finger on the pulse of this country. In fact, you SHOULDN'T expect to know from social media how Americans feel, because most Americans simply don't know what the burnouts and fatheads are saying on those platforms, nor do they much care. So, please, I urge everyone: stop giving those losers and the billionaires who enable them more credit than they actually deserve. And as I've said before, I think a little PTSD from 2016 is healthy, if only to remind us all of what happens when we sleep on the job. But, as high as the stakes continue to be this election year, that doesn't mean we, as a nation, are in the exact same place that we were eight years ago. We've wised up; we know what the assignment is now; and even if Donald Trump manages to eke out another victory, that doesn't mean we'll just roll over and play dead. That fascist can make all the threats and promises that he wants, but if his administration thought the constant resistance to his agendas were a pain in the neck five, six, seven years ago, baby, they ain't seen nothin' yet! Say whatever you will about Bill Clinton, but he and his team knew that you can't go into an election expecting to lose or apologizing if you win. Clinton knew that Republicans never fight clean, that they operate always with the long game in mind, and that the mainstream media no longer cared about anything except enabling the GOP in order to retain their access. So, when he ran, he ran with one goal: to hit the GOP, hit 'em hard, hit 'em often and never, ever let up. Now, many from within the Democratic Party didn't care for Clinton's approach because he wasn't humble - in fact, I'd argue that one reason why Hillary DIDN'T win eight years ago was because even her own party didn't want the Clintons around anymore for that very reason - but at the end of the day, his approach got the [!@#$%^&*] done. God, I still miss that man, lol. See: Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.

Structurally speaking, there was nothing wrong with "The Haves and the Have-Nots." It just suffered from the same deficiencies that have marred all of Tyler Perry's shows: racist/misogynistic/homophobic tropes, and an inability to build scenes that get to the gosh darn point.

You know, I miss the days when performers on SNL did everything possible not to "break character" and laugh, and when they also knew how not to make it so frigging obvious that they were reading from cue cards. Anyways, nice sketch.

That should be NC's new, official slogan: "North Carolina -- We'll Bite You in the Ass." How sad is it that we continue to live in a society where women need to keep their votes secret from their husbands and boyfriends out of fear of retribution? And then I hear folks like former "NCIS: New Orleans" star Lucas Black proclaim how they're "taking masculinity back" for their sons. Pathetic.

On the one hand, I'd kill to see La Lucci play Erica Kane one more time. But, on the other hand, what more is there left for Erica to do? Launch her into space, lol?