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I'd like to think they'd at least try to acknowledge the last two seasons if they're bringing back the old cast. I'd hate to think Maggie and Colin and Diana and Mallory meant nothing.
My guess is they could get all of the original four for at least a cameo. Probably all four substitutes as well if they wanted them. Would any of them sign up for a full series run? Jerry would. Cleavant and JRD might. No way Sabrina would. Kari, Tembi, and Charlie certainly would. Rob, probably not.
Ireactions overreacting to something is par for the course. Maybe oreactions would be a more apropos handle. ;-)
I'll believe it when I see it....and I hope to believe it soon
He's a kid. Kids yell at their parents over nonsense all the time.
You stop worrying what other people think about you when you realize how seldom they actually do.
My impression is that Michael Mallory said he would help, then died before he could. Young Quinn feels abandoned by his suddenly missing father. The bullies sense his weakness and scale up the abuse accordingly, as the Code of TV Bullies requires.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/3 … eam-464017
Trump has lost his impeachment defence lawyers. Not that it matters. He could just represent himself. Senate won't vote to convict him.
He could not show up at all and he still wouldn't get convicted
The vaccines haven't been approved for children, which makes 300M impossible.
THE LAST EPISODE OF SLIDERS!
You're not going to do a season seven?
Guys, the Electoral College meets when, mid-December? Then you have the holidays and whatnot when Congress is in recess. Nobody in Congress has any interest in modifying that schedule, trust me.
That's why I suggested getting it done before Thanksgiving.
The electoral college meets whenever the law tells them to. It can be changed. We don't need six weeks for the electors to travel to the state capitol by stagecoach anymore.
Why do we need to alter centuries worth of procedure and tradition simply because ONE maniacal crook can't follow them?
How many maniacal crooks would be sufficient to justify changing it, do you think?
It's not like changing it is unprecedented. The lame duck period used to even longer, with inauguration day coming in March.
Perhaps it's time to modernize the transition process. Other modern democracies transfer power within a week of the election, often the next day. The US still allows enough time to reach Washington by horse.
Like now. The election has been certified. It's over. Why are we still waiting around for inauguration?
I know why, it's because of a law written when jet travel and interstates didn't exist and it actually took weeks to move about the country.
That day is over. It's time we caught up with the rest of the civilized world.
It should be...
First Tuesday in Nov: Election Day!
Second Tuesday in Nov: Electors vote in their states
Third Tuesday in Nov: Congress certifies the electoral count
Third Wednesday in Nov: Inauguration Day!
The president has been banned from Twitter
Even if Trump is pardoned, he's going to have his hands full with the coming lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. They've already sued his lawyer, Sidney Powell, and are undoubtedly waiting for Trump to leave office to go after him.
Perhaps it's time to modernize the transition process. Other modern democracies transfer power within a week of the election, often the next day. The US still allows enough time to reach Washington by horse.
Just for the sake of comparison, this was the Capitol during the BLM demonstrations
Biden doesn't want to spend political capital on a process issue. Neither does anyone else. That's why we maintain this antiquated election structure.
I don't actually object to spending money on refurbishing ships or doing fringe research. I do object to mislabeling it as emergency relief so they can come back and say "how will we pay for it?" when something more beneficial comes along or take credit for "$900 billion to help struggling Americans" when 90+% of it is going to other things.
He's doing the right thing for the wrong reason. The "relief" bill is an obscene barrel of pork.
Just for perspective, about 330 million people live in the USA. $600 each is less than $200 billion. The stimulus bill is over $900 billion. The vast majority of the money is going to special interests rather than the people. $2000 to each of 330 million people STILL wouldn't add up to $900 billion. It would be less than $700 billion.
All 50 states (and DC) have certified their results. These lawsuits are pointless.
It's a bill signing desk, normally used when they need extra space for guests
The Georgia races only matter if you believe Biden won. Otherwise the GOP holds the senate regardless of the outcomes.
Alito would vote however the RNC tells him to. He's a political hack.
The lawsuits are just another way for him to fleece his supporters. All the money donated to the "recount fund" goes to either retiring Trump's campaign debt or to his "leadership" PAC (which is legally prohibited from funding recounts or challenges to the vote tally). That's why he and his people always urge people to donate when they're talking about legal challenges. All that money goes right into his pocket.
Okay, reading all that made me feel better.
I also looked up Informant's twitter. That made me feel worse.
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So now the only real threat to Biden is faithless electors. But there hasn't been any legit concern about that - yet. I'm assuming it'll ratchet up a bit in December.
Also the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that faithless electors are illegal this summer in Chiafalo vs Washington
In Florida, they voted Trump AND for the minimum wage to be increased.
In 2016, Trump campaigned on raising the minimum wage.
Donald Trump Jr. said tonight “The best thing for the country is for people to go to war over this.”
He might be even more reckless than his father.
Trump's lawsuits challenging vote counting are not designed to win in court but to spread misinformation, encourage thuggish behavior by his supporters, and undermine the legitimacy of the election
Trump and the GOP had their people out working, pandemic be damned. Many of them got sick and some died, but their sacrifice paid off for the party.
Whether or not that's something Biden and company should have done is debatable. The price for not doing it is being paid now.
All my favourite liberal propaganda websites are upset, hurt, shocked, traumatized and worse. They didn't get their landslide. They didn't even get a clear win.
They're also upset that the Dems are getting hammered in the House races and probably won't take the senate. Biden's weak ground game cost them in down ticket races.
There are 3.6 million registered voters in Wisconsin
I recall hearing something about a "blue wall" in the Midwest four years ago...
Or even "guns are my favorite thing in the whole world" or "literally nothing in this world is more evil than abortion" people
Every Trump voter I know falls into one of these categories
Why were texts stored on a laptop hard drive?
You don't think election fraud is real? Here's an example going on right now in California:
It was a much more traditional debate in that both sides went through their talking points, nothing was learned, and no minds were changed
He's past the point of dropping out and letting someone else be the nominee. His name goes on the ballot now whether he campaigns or not.
Yeah, the NYT story is more of an indictment of the US tax code than Trump. It also demonstrates why raising income tax rates is bad policy. The burden falls primarily on the middle class because the wealthy don't rely on wages and have many more options to obfuscate their income. You'd need a wealth tax, specifically a land value tax, to get the fat cats to pay their share.
The feeling is that the Democrats will pack the court. They see the Democratic platform say "Since 1990, the United States has grown by one-third, the number of cases in federal district courts has increased by 38 percent, federal circuit court filings have risen by 40 percent, and federal cases involving a felony defendant are up 60 percent, but we have not expanded the federal judiciary to reflect this reality in nearly 30 years." and are convinced they will try to add more judges at all levels, including the SC.
I doubt it affects the election much. Filling court seats was already a big issue and nobody thought RBG would serve four more years. The seat will probably be filled before the election anyway.
pilight wrote:Also, the polls are tightening. Biden's virtual campaigning isn't working.
Well the national polls are tightening. The swing state polls are holding pretty steady. The midwest and Arizona look like locks for Biden. If they are, Biden just needs one of: North Carolina (Trump barely winning), Georgia (Trump barely winning), Ohio (Trump barely winning), Pennsylvania (Biden winning by above the margin of error), or Florida (Biden barely winning) to win.
The thought is that Trump's just solidifying his lead in red states because any bump he's gotten in the national polls isn't showing up in the swing state ones.
You say that, but the EV total of the states Biden is leading is down to 290. That's the lowest it's been since Biden secured the nomination.
Also, the polls are tightening. Biden's virtual campaigning isn't working.
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/8 … hys-davies
“I had hopes for it,” says Rhys-Davies. “I thought it was a good little performance that might actually do something for my career.”
A platform of vagueness should be sufficient considering the Republicans have no platform at all:
Black voters are not that enamored with Harris, the former DA with a long record of failing to hold cops or her own office accountable. Kanye West might draw enough of that vote to hurt Biden.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/gloc-step … hys-davies
Rhys-Davies: I've just lost two films on the grounds that they can't get insurance for older actors against COVID-19. I'm just at the bottom end of that 75 to 90 [age] range that has apparently got three-quarters of a foot in the grave — or actually up to the knees in the grave. There is a tiny little bit in the back of my mind that's thinking, "It could be over."
As a general rule, running mates don't matter
Today, the White House condemned Hong Kong delaying their elections saying it "undermines the democratic processes and freedoms"
The undecideds aren't choosing between Trump & Biden. It's Biden or smaller party. Or Biden or don't bother.
I have no clue who the Libertarian or Green Parties will nominate
Clearly, since they've both already had their conventions and announced their candidates; Dr. Jo Jorgensen for the Libertarians and Howie Hawkins for the Greens.
Well, remember the virus evolves as well. A "smart" virus evolves to be less deadly. A virus that kills a bunch of people is a "dumb" virus, and evolution tends to keep those down. Not only that, a quick-killing virus is less likely to spread. A no-killing virus is more likely to spread and survive.
Indeed, while the number of cases is rising again the number of COVID-related deaths has continued to drop.
Those all seem too busy. My favorite is the same as yours.
Javicia Leslie is the new Batwoman.
Why was Biden so weak in the competition for the Democratic nomination? One theory is that the communication skills that made him so effective a politician have faded. But another is that he didn't really want to go on the offensive against his fellow Democrats whereas he has actual aggression to focus against Trump.
He was ineffective against other Dems in his previous presidential runs
Trump is set up to drop out for "medical reasons". That unscheduled trip to Walter Reed earlier this year was laying the groundwork for it.
pilight wrote:Most of the looting and vandalism is by infiltrators, be they alt-right goons or undercover cops. Most of the violence has been perpetrated by the police.
Which has as much evidence behind it as saying Antifa and the Sunrise Movement are orchestrating it. We can spin conspiracy theories all day, but the truth is that criminal elements (no matter their race, religion, gender or creed) saw their opportunity and seized it. And on all news channels, those criminal acts received as much (or more) coverage as the peaceful assemblies.
Actually, there's quite a bit of evidence that white supremacists and undercover cops are instigating. The handful of police deaths have all resulted in arrests of Boogaloo and other alt-right perpetrators. Undercover cops have been outed in dozens of cases of vandalism. There's a long, long history of police infiltrating peaceful protests to make them seem less peaceful. As for violence, the number of dead and seriously injured protesters dwarfs the number of wounded cops.
Most of the looting and vandalism is by infiltrators, be they alt-right goons or undercover cops. Most of the violence has been perpetrated by the police.
The erosion of that view of the president started much earlier than Bush or Obama. Teddy Roosevelt started the trend and Woodrow Wilson institutionalized it.
I thought this was going be something involving those Korean kids
People don't mind the military being used for crowd control when they disagree with the crowd. Don't hear many people today complaining about federal troops being sent to the south to enforce integration.
The main reason I stand up for season five is that it started to feel like Sliders again. No more monsters, only one Kromagg episode, and lots of worlds with potential. Much of it is wasted due to budget restrictions and poor leadership, but it's a huge improvement over S4 and the last 2/3 of S3.
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