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Holy Moley!  Now that's an interesting coincidence.  Let me tell ya, that's a long ass damn time, too.  29.7 years ago I was in Junior High School, my mind completely fried between tougher schoolwork, girls, sports, video games, and well, girls.

The past week is something I hoped to never see in my lifetime.  It's not even something that a show like Sliders took risks with early on.  This is complete madness.  People of all races protesting, others looting, and the rest vandalizing.  To see street fighting between protestors and cops, protestors and loser (mainly white) kids, white kids and cops, just stunning.  Then to have it capped off tonight with the President ordering a tear gassing and rubber bullet shootup of a peaceful protest so he can take a photo op with a book he's never read in front of a Church.

WHAT?!  Can we see??????  PLEASE!

Well yes, I would agree the Pukingpah stamp on the season is unmistakable.  I'm just trying to put that aside, as well as the fact that Torme could have had the reins again.  I guess what I really meant to say was that when the season first came out, I was in college, not even 20 years old yet.  My sensibilities were quite different, and I was annoyed with much of it, particularly the infamous rerun hell in which I would miss episodes over and over.  I'm now over 40, and so part of my reason for rewatching Sliders again was to judge how I view the show now.  I'm not saying that S4 has "grown" on me, for given the budget, and the general lack of care from the network, I'm just saying that it wasn't as bad as I last viewed it.  S5 I guess I'll have to suffer through next.

Welcome!

Serial killer of Quinn's only-Quinn Mallory, ha ha ha!  Flash mob world would undoubtedly feature President Jimmy Fallon! 

Such off the wall ideas TF, but fun nonetheless.  You know it's funny, in some ways it's like how I used to view the world bound by "Catholic guilt" I'm now viewing your ideas bound by Fox-itis!  I read something, and think, well the network wouldn't allow this, or nope that will cost too much money.  Hee heee. 

There are very elaborate concepts that might not be possible in a single episode.  I wonder if they'd make more sense to be fleshed out a little more in like 2 or 3 episode arcs?  Slower paced.  One thing you saw with Sliders was that they went through various incarnations.  S1-2 it was all about adapting to the world, S3 was all about fighting and fleeing and action, S4 was way over reliant on character interaction and introspective.  S5 was kind of a mixture of all of it.  I'm not sure which was the best choice, probably the S1-2 approach but with more character work.  To do that, I'd think you will have to slow the pace down.

Interesting, the "Nancy Grace" angle.  Trying to think back to the late 90's, there weren't too many media formats that would have covered this other than Howard Stern or National Enquirer or something like that.  Also, was Sliding declassified to the public?  That seems unlikely given that most conspiracy theorists allege pretty much nothing is by the federal government. 

You know what's ironic is, when I scan through television (network and streaming), Sliders would STILL have no place!  Science Fiction tinged in sarcasm and humor?  Everything is either kid/teen overload like Stranger Things or Locke and Key, or extremely dark.  I suppose Supernatural is an exception.  I would hate to see this script concept or any other given the teen treatment.  While I look forward to the new Ghostbusters, which does that, it's not right for Sliders.

I watched it.  One person got in a Sliders mention, but she mostly spoke about her parenting, moving around and around, and such.  It was just nice to see/hear from her after so long.  Enjoying art with her daughter.  Apparently her husband has been going back and forth to Kenya, but is now stuck there for 5 months so far.  Whole family is supposed to move there in a few months but not sure.  Also spoke about getting her degree (after 10 years) just recently via Univ. of London.

Honestly, I cannot watch a series that doesn't have continuity anymore, I feel as though I'm just wasting my time.  Been that way for many, many years.

I would tune in if channel solely to catch a glimpse or too of Stana Katic, otherwise gahhhhhh, what trash!

The problem is scale, what Kushner has done just isn't big enough.  Biden for instance keeps saying Manhattan Project, which most people were not alive to witness.  That was a full-scale wartime effort, which this Kushner program is not.  There's really no reason it shouldn't have been either, as we're pissing away billions a day in economic losses.

BTW, another Tara Reade tidbit, as I myself continue to have a tough time untwisted what she has said in the past.  Apparently when she "chickened out" of something, it was a Senate Counseling program, idk, just way too confusing.

I think it's bizarre she doesn't have a laywer.  While Reade's initial story might be genuine, her motivation at this point is simply dishonest.  She keeps saying she wants nothing from Joe Biden; however, it's quite obvious, she wants him to quit.  She had numerous opportunities to fade away, yet she's only ramped up both the seriousness of her details and complaints about the lack of media coverage since Biden's string of primary victories.  On this she is 100% full of shit, complaining that her story became "partisan."  No DUH it did, you're dreaming about Putin, then tweeting support of Bernie Sanders, and when Biden pulls ahead, oh hey excuse me, by the way, he assaulted me!!!  Then you're shocked people dismiss you as wishing political revenge, or perhaps an agent of Russia?  Come on.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-say … -a-success

With a pandemic ongoing, and a President who this weekend admitted that 35,000 more people will die in the next month due to his push to reopen the economy, and we have to deal with Reade?  Again, I know what that sounds like, but quite frankly, one woman's "uncomfortableness" from 3 decades ago should not outweigh tens of thousands (and who knows how many more) deaths compounded by an idiot in charge.  It's too late to change nominees, granted they haven't nominated anyone to this point, but you know what I mean.  The fallout from that will be horrendous, the Democratic ticket will be a clown show, while Trump never plays by these rules.

I watched Morning Mika grilling Biden as best as she could, because frankly, there's not a ton she could have asked which he didn't answer.  The University of Delaware records thing is a joke.  Do we expect a university that is currently CLOSED to send staff in just to sift through his records?  It's not a police investigation.  Ms. Reade kept employment records, according to her own statements, which most of us never would bother with.  Yet she did not keep a copy of the COMPLAINT she filed??  Give me a break.  The reason Trump didn't hit Joe on this was because Trump knows this stuff all too well, and likely doesn't believe the claim, and is not going to be dumb enough to pile on when there's a good chance he'll be made the fool.  Yes, I know, this is Trump, but he's not an idiot on these matters.  Biden's best answer was that Delaware would not have personnel records, which is true.  Any employer has to safeguard those, and turning them over to the public would be highly unethical.  As I've said, I do not expect the National Archives to find the complaint, because it didn't exist.  None of this will satisfy the rapid left though, they hate Biden seemingly more than Trump, which makes them completely illogical.

SQ21, I do not believe Reade is politically motivated at all.  She probably intends to vote for Biden anyway, ha ha.  Some people just want to be super victim.  When questioned about her changing story, Reade claims her therapist was told the full story all along, but she will not release her therapist's notes.  Yet demands Biden release everything he's got.  Lastly, she cannot remember a single vivid detail about the incident's date, time, or location.  Victims of assault will remember where it happened, she cannot, just saying it was in a hallway somewhere in the Capitol.  Obviously she'll be interviewed by Fox News on Sunday, but I cannot see how this continues to be reported on?  Either there's a smoking gun or there isn't.

Well there went the new series budget! Honestly enough with that dumb show!

Certainly worked for the Kromaggs!

I feel like Quinn in that story, somehow I've forgotten all of this!  Leave it to Tracy though to have devised such an esoteric concept.  There's definitely a bit of Fire in the Sky in that story though.  That may have worked 20 years ago when he proposed it, but the actors are far too old now for that.

Now this I sort of remember, and likewise would have been very cool to read.  Similarly, it's probably been too long to use as well.  I'm sure that Jerry probably has never read either concept....

Geez, a complete reboot was not one of the choices!!  Ha ha, I posted this poll because I've been rewatching on Comet TV.  At first, I figured everything after Vancouver ought to go.  However, Season 3, granted full of movie rip-offs, was not that bad, prior to The Exodus.  There were good stories, and as I watch now, for the first time in at least a decade, I can better appreciate dialogue, directing, things like that.  The characters remained true to their cores.  The Rickman episodes after The Exodus were utter garbage, with The Other Slide of Darkness being one of the worst.  The Smarter Quinn giving Kromaggs Sliding tech was so unbelievable stupid, I never got over that.  Season 4 and 5 had a lot of good science fiction scripts, but Wade raped, Earthprime conquered, and Quinn being adopted, no, no no!!!  So my pick was The Exodus, which for many fans, was the jump the shark moment.  I can't tell you how many times I read or get told that someone stopped watching after JRD left the show.

Well that was the auction.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sliders-Origin … 3907351346

Well the neighbor is still voting for Biden, so go figure.  Idk what else to say, Biden is never going to admit anything.

It's already BAD.  They mention inflation, well have they been in a supermarket?  The prices are obscene!

Well even with the mother's call, I'm not sure if that changes much.  Biden denies it, Reade doesn't, it's a stalemate.  Trump has 25 women accusing him of harassment.  Trump Jr., a human trash can, has said women who don't wish to be harassed ought to become kindergarten teachers, and that he's more concerned about his sons being falsely charged than his daughters being assaulted.  Lunatic. 

In other news, appears Kim Jong-Un is dead or at least a vegetable.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … force.html

Is this the "Good Job Browney" of this mess?  A DOG BREEDER was in charge of the taskforce initially?????

They had crushes of the week in every Sliders episode going back to The Pilot.  It may not have gotten as ridiculous as Kari in Season 3, but it was just idiot execs at Fox demanding it.  TV execs back then were plain dummies, which is why the best science fiction was in syndication.

People are stubborn.  Believe me, I have many relatives and friends who are fiscal Republicans, and while they personally dislike Trump, they are so stupidly ingrained with hating Democrats they simply must back him.  As if Obama was somehow the destroyer of what I don't know?  They do NOT like immigrants, and Trump wins with them for sure.  They also have the usual tact that any sort of social program is bad, not because they pay taxes.  No, it's really from selfishness, that if those at the bottom are brought up, it will bring them down.  They enjoy being able to scoff at the less fortunate.

Look, we as a nation will never be able to deal with China without international buy in.  Trump's go it alone approach has been awful.  In terms of the alt-right, even the neo-Nazi's are full of crap.  They're all cry baby snowflakes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ … 581710002/

Well Biden DID author an op ed on January 27, 2020 in the USA Today which literally said, "The possibility of a pandemic is a challenge Donald Trump is unqualified to handle as president."  He mostly blamed his poor judgment and rejection of science, before listing several approaches that worked during the Obama administration but Trump has abandoned.  Biden has repeatedly mentioned the DPA (Defense Production Act), and while Trump has claimed to have invoked it, in reality he has not.  The DPA is designed to have FEMA pay for the construction and/or usage of facilities and equipment.  FEMA then solicits private industry to run the plants, since this is their expertise, and ramp up production to war-time levels.  When the demand is gone, the industry packs up and FEMA closes or sells the plant.  You cannot expect private industry to spend $150 million on a plant that they will have no use for in 2 years time.  Only the US Government can do this, and that is why we have no tests, or PPE, and are still relying on shipments from China.  Trump is a failed businessman, and now a horribly failed government leader.

Hey SQ21, I have been to Texas, and though you won't get me there in the summer, I enjoyed the heck out of it!  Then again, I've enjoyed most places I've been in the USA.  Believe it or not, Las Vegas remains a dump of shit IMO, with Cincinnati not far behind, ha ha ha!

ireactions, we have to tamper any sort of progressive "agenda" for the next term, even if Biden wins.  We will be picking up the pieces from this virus well into 2022. 

In terms of UK politics, PM Boris Johnson is now being slammed similar to Trump, for mismanaging the early weeks of this outbreak.  In his case, he was missing meetings to deal with his pregnant GF and irate wife, as well as dismissing warnings privately from UK health experts.  More evidence that electing a small time big mouth lacking valid executive experience has consequences.

https://www.axios.com/boris-johnson-ski … 1e7db.html

Meanwhile, hundreds took to the street, devoid of protection, on orders from Bozo the Clown in Chief...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … virus.html

Sure sounds like it!!! ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

PS: the victory means the state Supreme Court will not be able to throw 240,000 voters off the rolls prior to November, hampering the GOP voter suppression efforts in WI.  WHAaaaaahhhh whaaaaahhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12u9CLeqsXY

Joe and Bernie had a live stream today, announced 6 working task force groups that their people will work on economy, education, criminal justice, immigration, climate change, and the economy (Biden said it twice, LOL).  Basically agreed on most things.  Bernie went full-on flame over Trump.

Funny you mentioned Packwood, because he's been a highly successful lobbyist for 30 years since then!  Some punishment.

Anyways, on the election front, we still remain a joke in terms of testing, with Trump and other GOP'ers wishing to open, open, open.  This is highly troubling, as the nation's food supply remains in jeopardy.  Food processors, distributors, and supermarkets have seemingly been non-stop shutting down for days or weeks due to the virus spread.  Warehouses for all goods have been affected, but you don't hear much because it's corporations trying to keep it hush, hush. 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/business … index.html

I think this election (should it happen) goes beyond politics, and who you may have desired to be a candidate.  As I've said multiple times, the public have the rest of the spring and then the summer, to make a final determination on granting four more years to the worst President in modern history.  "The first rule of hole digging is when you find yourself in one, stop digging."

My guess is that Biden's campaign will simply give The Donald more than "enough rope to string himself up with."  Look, Trump cannot wait to take a victory lap.  He truly does not care who dies in the interim, not one bit.  He wants his victory lap, which will of course consist of flying around the country to rallies, and the GOP convention in Charlotte, where he will do his shtick.  The comparisons (mainly in ads) will be clear.  Trump is a crook, he is a liar, he's wreckless, and he's a poor leader.  This pandemic has illustrated the lack of leadership.  Every other day it's something else.  Arguing with reporters, the Navy Captain being relieved, insulting Governors, crowing about unproven miracle drugs, and dismissing the virus for 6 weeks.  And that's not even counting Charlottesville, Michael Cohen, Wikileaks, celebrity pardons, firing Comey, Ukraine, Giuliani, Hurricane Maria, callousness following mass shootings, betraying NATO, secret Russian meetings, and North Korea coddling.  Not to mention his attempt to start a war with Iran, that was only interrupted by the coronavirus.  There's more ammunition than you get in an session on Call of Duty.  His administration has gutted the federal government, making a response to this pandemic 50 times more difficult.  The departments are littered with acting this or that, many seasoned officials have quit or been fired.  He literally shot 300 holes in the boat, and now we're all sinking. 

The one advantage Biden has over the rest of the Dem field (including Bernie) was that he's so well known to voters he almost doesn't need to say anything.  This is what I've been saying for months.  Team Trump were most fearful of Biden's familiarity, particularly with blue collar workers, and even moreso, the Obama factor.  Barack and Michelle remain enormously popular, and people liked what they did for the country, with Joe along for the ride.  Trump, as we know, despises the first African-American family probably more than any other politicians alive. 

https://twitter.com/Sky_Lee_1/status/12 … 6075365387

Here's a great vid/GIF I saw, in which it summed up how many times Trump tweeted about his political enemies, FOX News, and himself, rather than doctors, nurses, PPE, ventilators, etc through March 13 (i.e. the period of time he should have been urging the nation to be prepared).  The man has zero empathy.  Contrast him to the magnanimous speech by Queen Elizabeth II, it's almost comical how awful he is at leading.

In many ways, I picture this being Gargamel vs. Papa Smurf.  Biden will have the best speech writers around feeding him while Trump will continue to babble from the hip.  Biden needs to massively fix his online presence and youth outreach.  He will swing to the left on most of the Bernie platform, save Medicare for All which is simply too big.  Green New Deal, free college, debt forgiving, etc, etc, he's already in on from back in the Obama administration.  His team should be hiring Bernie's team members quickly.

I am not concerned about Team Trump spewing lies and other nonsense against Biden, who's career is an open and largely moldy book at this point.  My primary concern remains the execution of the election in November.  The Republican refusal to expand Vote by Mail is my big one.  Which is hilarious considering most of their constituency is old and WANTS to vote by mail and not go to crowded polling places!

Trump immediately went back to the well of Dems screwed Bernie, Elizabeth Warren screwed Bernie, blah blah blah, join the Republican Party.  Good Lord Twitter was as toxic as Chernobyl today after this news.  Frankly the behavior of these lunatics only serve to embarrass Sen. Sanders and just about everything he's ever stood for. 

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As I have written multiple times, the fact that Bernie went from 2/5th's support in the party to 1/3rd in four years was quite telling.  Honestly, like Trump, his percentage in 2016 may well have been a result of the opponent, Hillary Clinton.  This never Trumper columnist Tim Miller wrote a fairly sarcastic and in some ways scathing and disrespectful analysis of the loss for Bernie.

https://thebulwark.com/bernie-sanders-d … ts-own-bs/

While I don't particularly like his tone, he IS a Republican, so he's no Bernie fan.  He did mirror my assessment here.  Social Media on the left was staunchly backing Bernie, overwhelmingly over any other candidate.  His campaign stops generated larger crowds, with more volunteers and more small donations online.  All of that was a great accomplishment by his campaign.  However, unlike Trump in 2016, they failed to parlay that into votes. 

Why?  Well Trump did two very critical things.  First, he stomped his way into the race by spewing nationalism, which endeared him to those on the right who were sick of the establishment.  As time went on, he brilliantly co-opted economic populism, drawing in disaffected voters who often watched/listened to right wing media, but rarely participated.  It's kinda difficult to go vote for candidates when that media demonizes pretty much all of them, in both parties.  That coalition was 40-45% early on in the primary, with Trump eventually pushing over 50% as other GOP voters saw him gain steam.  Obviously now he's a deity with them.

Enter Bernie, who never got about 30-35%.  Well, that's about all you have on the uber progressive left.  Perhaps give him some of Warren's support, which was not all ultra liberal, and he gets above 40% in the 2-way but little more.  His campaign targeted youth voters, as well as those of color, and that was about it.  Crowd sizes and social media chatter do not equal votes.  They counted on vastly increasing youth turnout, a historic folly.  Turn out among that demographic was DOWN in 2020 primaries over 2016! 

What really did him in?  Well, he refused to give an inch.  It was either 100% BERN, or nothing.  That is a loser in national politics, and always will be.  You MUST come back to the center, it's the only way.  It cost Warren, and she was not as far left as Bernie.  When estimates began coming out for his Medicare for All at literally nonsensical figures, it was dead in the water.  Warren couldn't even give numbers for her plan.  The other candidates attacked, and voters said, huh, wait a second? 

This might not mean much to some, but Bernie is NOT a Democrat, Joe Biden IS.  Bernie remains an Independent as a Senator, not a Democrat.  He hasn't been seen at the forefront of Democrat-backed and signed legislation the way Biden has been.  Or how Elizabeth Warren burst onto the scene during the financial mess of a decade ago.  She served in Obama's cabinet. 

I really take offense at the Bernie Bro bashing of the DNC, as if the donor class of elites or some shit handed this primary to Biden.  Biden stepped in last summer, and was immediately the polling leader.  He slipped during the winter, no question, but while the media legit ignored him, he raised little money, and was expected to disappear.  He did not, and why?  None of the other moderates succeeded in closing the deal themselves, but it all came back to Trump.  There is a clear (and LARGE) majority of Democratic voters, NOT donors or elites, but voters, who went to Biden.  They're not the ones on Twitter railing endlessly about Trump, they are in fact, the ones who show up and vote.  That's what gets it done at the end of the day.  Biden ran one of the most simplistic if minimalist campaigns I've ever seen.  He made it clear, I will beat Trump, and I will stop the damage he has done to the government, its institutions, and America's standing in the world.  I will staff our federal agencies with good people like Obama did, unlike Trump's skeleton crew of acting whatevers.  Bernie Sanders never shifted to gain the preference of what are 2/3 nearly of the Democratic electorate, mostly those over the age of 30-35, and particularly those above 60.  They weren't interested in megolithic government programs.  They want the Trump nightmare to end.  They are shell-shocked by it.  They just want it to end.  They view Biden as decent, caring, and trustworthy, the antithesis of the Donald.

Bernie Sanders has ended his campaign today. 

As for Trump, he's in disapproval on his handling of all this.  It also came out that he has a financial stake in the drug company producing hydroxychloroquine, to everyone's shock, ha ha.