Wendy

Reading these, I wish I could have seen 1975 Days. (I was just 2 in January 1975.) No serial killers as romantic heroes. No brain chips. Just good old-fashioned soap based on friends, family, love, and deception.

In today's Captain Obvious award, WaPo reports the GOP now fears losing control of the Senate. Ya THINK?! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-grow-nervous-about-losing-the-senate-amid-worries-over-trumps-handling-of-the-pandemic/2020/05/09/65691184-915f-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html#comments-wrapper

Seems Trump is flouting Coronavirus protocols even as staffers in the White House have become infected. I say, for once, he is right. Let him do nothing and let the virus have the final say. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-flouts-coronavirus-protocols-as-security-experts-warn-of-need-to-protect-president-from-a-lethal-threat/2020/05/08/3a6a9cec-9136-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html#comments-wrapper

If this is winning, Trump is actually right. I AM tired of it.

I bet it's like "Lord of the Flies" behind the scenes in there. Couldn't happen to a better crop of monsters.

Yeah, saw that. But what I am seeing is that, by and large, people still think Reade is FOS. And honestly? Even IF Biden did this (and I don't buy it), I don't GAF. I'll vote for him, anyway. Trump is THAT BAD. Thousands of deaths tends to color things... It does beg the question, however, of when Reade will start another GoFundMe scam to pay the lawyer (if she doesn't stiff him outright as she did her law school). But then, if this lawyer is a Trump toady, he should be used to never getting paid. (If he is this time, my guess is the Bernie Bros have a hand there. Especially since Reade was all in for him and now is calling on Biden to withdraw. No ulterior motive. No, sirree!)

Welcome To The (Pandemic) Jungle! Steven Mnuchin gets into a Twitter spat with...Axl Rose of Guns 'N Roses about the pandemic. God help me, Rose made sense and was right. https://deadline.com/2020/05/axl-rose-steven-mnuchin-coronavirus-1202928584/

And now, Donald Trump is on his way to wrecking the United States Postal Service: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html#comments-wrapper

AMEN!

Soledad O'Brien is pretty damned awesome. Wish there were more reporters like her and less like...well, most of everyone else. The professional ones are either retired or dead.

I see this is dated yesterday. Today's revelations ought to make that "article" [cough: hit job] moot.

This sounds disgusting - and it is. I don't deny it. But the GOP being SUCCESSFUL at getting an ADMITTED abuser of women via tape [Access Hollywood] into the White House has changed what voters deem a deal breaker or not. Maybe we should be better. But ANY candidate will have mud flung. So, whether Biden did this or not? I still think he is better than the POS that has killed scores of Americans to bolster his reelection chances. At this point, since our very nation is proverbially on fire, I assert Trump's "shoot someone on 5th Avenue!" verbiage to Joe. I wish it didn't come down to this for me. But it does.

And that is the heart of her grifting...sorry, complaint. The flies are swarming this thread what with the level of crap in it. Reade's either an opportunist extraordinaire or severely mentally ill and being exploited.

Sadly, I agree. Just apply Trump's "5th Avenue" comment to Biden. Because 4 more years of Trump is dangerous and unconscionable. I'll gladly and enthusiastically vote for Joe Biden.

Lord knows they are trying! But most of the mainstream media still seems to be bypassing it, which is probably why Donnie is forever in a rage these days what with Biden crushing him in the polls. Still? If the GOP wants to amp this up, I say, go for it. Then Biden can bring up E. Jean Carroll and the TWENTY-PLUS accusations from different women against Trump, not to mention bringing the Access Hollywood Tape back for an encore. Slippery slopes abound.

So, this whole Tara Reade mess. Let me be honest and say I think this is all crap. But the thing that seals that for me is, I read somewhere yesterday that Ronan Farrow allegedly met with Ms. Reade and he chose not to do an article or whatever. If that is true, that tells me ALL I need to know. Farrow has been a dog with a bone going after predators, so if this had merit, I think he would go full throttle.

In that same vein:

If Trump is gung ho on injecting disinfectant into COVID patients, I say he make himself the test subject and prove those uppity doctors wrong! /s

I remember the brief 1991 prime time version with Ben Cross as Barnabas and Joanna Going and Michael T. Weiss being in it. (I had just begun college around that time.) I remember it being pretty good! But the constant preemptions because of the Persian Gulf War basically doomed it. Watched a little of the rejected pilot above, and I can say that version did nothing for me.

Well, it's either that or drop dead. But if Trump supporters don't want to do so, who am I to stop natural selection? I'm sure someone cares, somewhere.

I LOVE how this so spectacularly blew up in the GOP's face. I KNOW we have a lot to worry about with a maniac and a complicit party in giving him cover. But Wisconsin is also a valuable reminder: Americans are scared, they are getting veryfucking ANGRY, and they VOTE. And ol' Wisconsin is a swing state. If I were Diaper Don, I'd be shitting my Depends right about now. And if Kentucky can do a solid and remove shitturtle Mitch McConnell, that would just be the cherry on top of the GOPshit sundae.

There will ALWAYS be loons, and there will always be media smearing. Don't forget a big detail: The voters who are not fanatically behind Trump that voted for him four years ago because he was outside the box now know the truth. And Trump has not built up his base. Add in, too, that Bernie-Bots are always loud, but loud does NOT equal big. Bernie's support SHRUNK this year. I know all about getting discouraged, but try not to get stuck in it: It's what these a-s-s-h-o-l-e-s want. And I will not give it to them.

All that idiocy tells me is Diaper Don was looking forward to being able to smear Bernie with the scary "socialism" label and was praying Bernie would be the nominee. But - despite being impeached because of doing so - his attempted smearing of Joe Biden did not work and now Don knows he must go up against him. Don is TERRIFIED of Joe Biden, hence all the machinations. So despite his constant wackadoodle rants, a part of me is happy because I know he is scared and miserable and it is all he deserves. And it isn't just Diaper Don. Martha McSally in Arizona was trying to tie Mark Kelly - who is beating her in polls - to Bernie and socialism (hence why the presidential nominee is important to down-ballot races!) and now that's gone. Oops!

Not sure they were "not gifted" more than the writing for Laken was just never there. Consider that both Susan Marie Snyder and Shell Danielson (Laken #2 and #3, respectively!) went on to have popular roles as Julie on ATWT and Dominique on GH, respectively, and I think they would have been fine if they had any important material to play.

I never watch. His voice is literally nails on a chalkboard for me. I CAN'T listen to him.