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I only watch Stargirl, I find it quite refreshing.  As it seems the pandemic will probably keep me home for quite some time, I am likely to do a massive CW DC rewatch.  I have wanted to rewatch Smallville particularly the high school years as I missed a lot of eps.  Then I'd move to the others.  Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl of course have quite a bit of scifi and parallel universe stuff in them.  What sucks is that most of it is on stupid Hulu which I don't have.

He clearly hates the job, because he doesn't do it.  He doesn't read his briefings, and has failed to set policy objectives which Congress has any chance of passing.  Does he enjoy the power?  Most likely, but Trump is a narcissist, his ego must be filled continually.  He enjoys the reality show aspects, but not the actual job.  Trump's absurd projection of himself in the public sphere is what he covets the most. 

That is why I am fully positive that he's privately considering ALL options.  Voter suppression and Russian interference I'm sure are part of that discussion.  But I truly believe he's concocting exit strategies as we speak, based on his polling, Congressional support, emerging scandals, whatever.  He might be an idiot when it comes to public policy, but Trump is a savant when it comes to mapping out his own personal parachute.  As I've remarked many times, it's what he does.  Atlantic City, the USFL, an airline, golf courses, hotels, NBC show, steaks, phony charity, and a real estate university.  Each time, when the venture goes belly up, and usually in less than 4 years, he and his family always find a way to do a Blues Brothers under the stage and through the sewer escape.  I do not believe we will see Trump get blown out in November.  If that seems likely, he will get out.  The embarrassment of losing is what he will try to avoid at all costs.

Biden, well, look, in 1987 despite being a fairly well known Senator, he was still a national nobody.  He was cleared of the plagiarism, something today we'd all laugh about.  He wasn't the main candidate that year anyway, that was Gary Hart.  In 2008, yeah he ran, but again, he was not in the conversation early and raised no money so out he went.  This time around, unlike any time before, he stepped in as the front runner, the person that the rank and file were hoping to see run.  Despite gaffs and the Burisma nonsense, Tara Reade, and whatever else, Biden is still standing.  How?  The reason is clear, Trump.  Donald Trump's loathsomeness has kept the Biden campaign relevant to more voters than anyone else.  While the others tried to run on policies, Biden simply ran as the anti-Trump.  It's not a slogan, it's just a perception.  People know him, they trust him, some even like him.  But it's Trump, time and time again, who says and does things which make people cringe.  Then they see/hear Joe Biden, and despite his somewhat clumsy way of communicating, is somewhat reassuring.  He's like having your savings account FDIC insured.  If anyone expects Trump to tone down the rhetoric or develop a sane presence on TV, you need to see a therapist.  He's like a tooth ache.

First of all, Biden's best defense/offense has been that unlike Donald, he will actually READ the briefings, and listen to the advice of experts.  Trump's motto was that smart people are to be laughed at, because he's got all the answers.  Remember "stable genius?" 

In any event, let's not act like the President needs to be sitting in front of a computer fixated and working like mad as if he were the fat guy trying to unlock the doors in Jurassic Park.  Obama did none of that.  The President makes decisions, that's his or her job.  The information is taken to them.  Biden has also been using his experience with foreign leaders as a selling point, something again Trump has been a disaster with, particularly on phone calls. 

Lastly, in the debates during the primary, Biden got into trouble when he tried to exaggerate his "liberal" credentials or was unable to dodge modern liberal criticisms on his center-left positions from 30/40 years ago.  Here again, is Donald Trump the "guy" to attempt to question Biden's position on racism?  The man who TODAY told a FOX news host that black people need to read history or it will happen to them again (re: removing Confederate statues).  Think about that, if they take the monuments down, they run the risk of FORGETTING about slavery.  This is the guy to critique Biden's decades-old positions?   When Trump was being sued for racist housing policies, or later wanted the black Central Park Five executed for a crime they didn't even commit.  That guy?  Yeah, good luck there.  Trump couldn't even respond coherently to Sean Hannity, how do you expect him to fair in a debate?

PS: You guys have to get the primary debates out of your heads.  Candidates will say whatever they can to be ingratiated with voters.  And yes, Biden may have his work cut out for him, although Mitch McConnell hilariously pleaded with Senate Dems not to remove the filibuster if they retake control.  Hilarious, remove it, and push through legislation Americans want to see, who cares if the useless Senate GOP complains.  They had 4 years to grow spines.

Already blaming Jared Kushner for giving bad advice for 3.5 years, he whined about that today.  The Excuse Express is ready to leave the station.

Interesting, you know, this concept leads me to wonder if Sliders writers had something of an unwritten rule that the group always arrives on these weirdo worlds AFTER they've been hit by cataclysm or been morphed solidly into some type of fascist society.  They rarely landed in worlds for very long which were quite frankly lunatic-villes.

Look NJ has a flag that looks like cigarette stained drapery.

On the Trump front, more and more reporting indicates he's known Russia has been paying bounties for dead American troops in Afghaninstan for over a year, and lied about it. Hasn't done jack about it. Only logical explanation is he's a Russian asset. They got him elected, he covers for them every chance he gets. What other explanation is there, honestly?

Again, Bolton briefed him about bounties in March 2019. In April three Marines were carbombed. In February 2020, US Intelligence briefed him again that there was sufficient intel on the validity of bounties. Four months have gone by, and nothing. Nothing. Worst traitor in American history.  I am EFFING furious. Trump needs to resign yesterday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/trump-r … ruary.html

In TF's backyard, the last state flag with a clear Confederate emblem in it will soon be changed.  Mississippi's Governor is expected to sign a bill today I believe that finally removes it!

What finally did it you ask?  Well the NCAA declared last week that MS would not have been allowed to host ANY NCAA championship events until the flag was gone.

In regards to the protests spreading COVID, I'm sure there's some of that, but did Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Texas, etc. see the bulk of them?  Nope.  The states opened with few restrictions and the political leaders basically told people, it's over with, don't worry about it anymore.  If you look at it state by state, the reality is, once again, the virus grew from surges in low income, often migrant workforces who are forced to work and live in unsafe conditions (for COVID), and have no healthcare access.  From there, it spreads and spreads.  Many of them are indeed young.  Most of the spiking states are either on the Mexican border, or rely on migrant labor like Florida.  Like the Iowa meat processing industry, the state's simply didn't do squat to protect those people, and now they're paying the price. 

As for Fauci, I mean, he's not a politician, and he DID say the protests could be an issue.  It's not his job to say, well this will spread the virus so shut it down, because he and everyone else knew that wasn't going to happen. 

Anyway, my point remains that the protests are not what has caused a spike in the virus.  Just look at California.  The county that has seen massive, I mean massive spikes?  Imperial County right on the border.

Biden has a 10 point favor-ability above Hillary.  His leads in demographics like white women, college educated, over 65, etc, etc, are literally light years above Hillary.  Trump is minus 12-15 on almost every question polled.  In 2016, the winds of change, particularly in the Rust Belt, were slightly with Trump.  This time it's a gale force blast against Trumpism.  You've got COVID-19 blowing up again in the Sun Belt.  Biden gives speeches that only MSNBC runs, while Trump is lambasted by social media ads from Republicans against him.  If this keeps up, Trump will probably quit and run away, which is his M.O. over 50 years of business.  Bankruptcy after bankruptcy.  If he has to choose between being a quitter and being perhaps history's biggest loser, he'll chose to quit.  That's why he's had Bill Barr attempting to erase "Individual 1" from the Michael Cohen case, so that Trump is not indicted the minute he's out of office.

Ha ha ha!  I've had the same $200 bucks in my wallet since March.  Haven't gone to a gas station (where I normally use cash) either.

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

Cracka, imagine Sliders writers ever tried this?????

This is what happens when your President decides a national health crisis no longer is worth his time. 

Klobuchar called Biden today, suggested he choose a woman of color in this moment, and dropped from consideration.

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1273803046687047681

So you cannot ignore the polls, even though many were wrong in 2016.  Well, the national ones were not that bad, state polls were.  The Trump undercount in the state polls still happens, because white non-college educated voters tend to be more difficult to keep on the phone and answer the pollster's questions.  In 2016, pundits argued they were just embarrassed to say Trump, but that is not an issue now, he's the damn President.  National polls though are much more accurate because the huge swath of demographics can be fulfilled because they can hit a much wider sample size. 

If you look at the national polling, Biden is now on average up 8-9 points and growing.  He's been consistently in the lead with likely voters since 2019.  Yes, Clinton won the popular vote but only by 3.3%.  If Biden were to win that by even 5-6% though polling indicates a higher gap, there's simple little possibility for Trump in the Electoral College.  The reason for this is mainly with probability calculations, but to be 6+% up, it's just very difficult.  Hell at 3% he won three critical states by less than 100,000 votes in total.

One of the interesting sites I look at was created by a college freshman, Jack Kersting, https://projects.jhkforecasts.com/presi … -forecast/  He uses polling as well as Fundamentals (partisan lean, economic indexes), Expert's Ratings, and State Similarity Regression (demographic changes) to make a forecast. 

Then there is the modern expert, Five Thirty Eight, https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po … national/, which does a great job at tracking all of the national and state polls.

Finally we have Real Clear Politics, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll … _map.html, who have an interactive map and do the gold standard in polling averages.  RCP is also very selective in what polls it includes in the averages.

With all of that said, to chime in on what SQ21 calculated, I have it Biden 222 Trump 125 right now in terms of absolute guaranteed votes.  What's left?

Let's take states that are not "in the bag" yet, though likely, for one or the other....Iowa (T), Minnesota (B), Texas (T), Georgia (T), Nebraska 2nd (T), Michigan (B).   Yes I know Michigan went for Trump in 2016, but ALL of the polling is totally to Biden by a highly safe number. 

That's now Biden 248 Trump 186 with 104 votes remaining, and Biden only needing 22.  The states included are Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Maine's 2nd district. 

There's many scenarios, but if Biden takes PA, he's 2 votes shy.  While the Maine 2nd would tie the two of them, Biden would lose the tie breaking house vote (it's done by state delegations and that's unlikely to favor him after 2020 election even).  So he then needs only one other state, likely to be AZ, WI, FL, or NC.  I don't see Ohio flipping. 

If I had to estimate where the race is right now, I'd say 333-205, but again, it's tough because the state polling might be off again.  Look a LOT can change, but you cannot ignore trends.  The trend since 2017 has been mass turnout and move away from Trump.  The GOP has been steamrolled all over the country under his leadership.  James Carville predicts a blow out, which I'd adore but not counting on.  Biden in like polls is doing far better with suburbanites, independents, women, and even high school only white guys than Hillary. 

Now in terms of Transmodiar's lamentations, I'll go back to Carville.  Bernie ran a good campaign, but in the end, the rank and file of the Democratic Party voting against him.  He only had about 30% support in most of the country.  And if you get away from the coasts, it just was not there.  Like Trump, he opted to be populist, and that just doesn't have a big enough tent.

Ehh, whatever they're doing that's a blip on the radar compared to what would normally have been done in the spring, summer and fall basically EVERYWHERE that young people congregate.

Jon Stewart for the win

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu … w-1015120/

Well in my S5 rewatch they did go a lot further than in prior seasons to hit on the "throw away worlds" for laughs.  Didn't get any cheaper budget wise than that year. 

As for looking into doubles, back then it was difficult to film that way, for the actors and crew.  I'm not sure if technology has proceeded enough by this point?  I guess not using stand ins would help in the current COVID-19 era.

Good Lord that is a horrible noise!  That's literally unbearable.

Well Trump has claimed the "Silent Majority" approve of what he's doing.  Whether they do or not, as I've said for awhile, you'll either get people break his way for that reason, or the opposite, to Biden simply because they are sick of MAGA.

That said, I think there's a fine line there, and a return to 1960's era fear and military street presence actually does him no good.  Ask the Dem ticket of '68 or Bush Sr. of '92 how riots combined with a faltering economy did for their re-elections.

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!