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18 hours ago, mojito said:
Willis: Are you good with technology?
Noa: I was born in '92. I'm practically an astronaut.
So true, when you think about her knowledge vs. someone born in the 1930s.
Born in '92 means she's 24 years old, and she's a 2nd year? Aren't most people 21 or 22 when they graduate from college? Was she a child prodigy who breezed through the lower grades and went to med school as a teenager?
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I really liked this movie as well. I especially liked the fact that there were no "bad guys"; everyone had good intentions and sincerely wanted what was best for the kids. I don't generally like sequels and wouldn't suggest one here, but I can't help thinking about how the kids would adapt to being among other students, and whether they would be skipped a number of grades given how academically advanced they were compared to the average American student (unfortunately).
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10 minutes ago, Calamity Jane said:
At the start of this season, I was thinking I was done with this show, but it's won me back, and now I would be sad to see it get the chop. As realistic as it may be to have doctors leave on a regular basis, losing so many characters has made it hard to get a feel for what the show is "about," and I think that is part of its problem, that it isn't sure where its heart is. I'm liking the vibe between Lowe and Hardin (but please, keep it professional only), and I'd like to see things settle a bit and see where they go overall, but I guess low ratings mean constant tinkering. Whatever happened to letting a series build for a while? There's great potential here, but I'm afraid we may never get to see it realized. So many promising, or at least entertaining, series get canceled only to be replaced with absolute dreck!
I don't know if this is consistent with the rest of this season, but last night's ep drew 6.7 million viewers as compared to Designated Survivors' 5.1 million (both had 1.1 in the 18-49 demographic).
I really enjoy this show but Luis Guzman was, I feel, an essential component. If he's really gone for good, it will definitely screw up the ER team's chemistry.
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5 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
It didn't seem like Hannah or her trusted confidant had ever watched a crime show where a detective cop like Lennie Briscoe noted that all of the suspects, when questioned separately, had stories that were too identical (meaning they had met together earlier to get their fake story straight).
Or ever saw The Manchurian Candidate: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
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1 hour ago, izabella said:
Ride along doctor, the one with Rob Lowe on the ambulance...what exactly was she expecting on a ride-along in an ambulance if not emergencies and needing to perform medical services on people who are injured? I get she wasn't expecting gunfire, but the shooting was over by the time they arrived, and they just had injured police officers that needed care. Is she new?
And working in an over-taxed ER is her regular job! Seriously, I didn't get what was going on with this character (I admit she's not my favorite anyway).
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I'm still waiting for an explanation of how a man who never in his 70 years had his name associated with any cause, issue, political policy or charity, but rather has spent his life promoting only himself and his brand--and apparently instilled the same (lack of) values in his children--all of a sudden realized that his true purpose in life was to help those who are struggling in our society.
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5 hours ago, backformore said:Yes. Trump is facing backlash from the left, who fear what he has said he's going to do. But there will be more, from his own people, who are worried that he WON'T.
I wonder how his supporters are going to respond when they find out that when he led them in chants of "Build a wall" and "Lock her up", he didn't really MEAN it.
Some people on this board have mocked those of us who have been going through a rough time since the election. I wonder if they will show the same lack of compassion for Trump supporters when they exhibit signs of depression and despondency after being betrayed by the fraud on whom they've placed their hopes. No thousands of manufacturing jobs; no thousands of coal mining jobs; no wall; no mass deportations of over 10,000,000 people; tax cuts that benefit only people in Trump's socioeconomic class. And God helps us if we end up in more military conflicts because of his lack of self-control, because it's always the children of the poor and working class who end up fighting our battles (don't expect to see Eric and Don Jr. in uniform).
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Just now, ClareWalks said:Agree that Hillary ain't no saint. I was trying to "lean in" to a Hillary presidency even though I didn't care for her much. I am not sad for her now, either, and I thought I might feel bad for her. I cannot see, though, how someone who is informed can see Trump as not being bigoted. A 1-minute glance at his Twitter account reveals that.
It was not unusual--indeed, commonplace-- for his rallies to have people waving confederate flags, signs with swastikas, shirts with disgusting words to describe his opponent, cries of "lock her up," people physically assaulting protesters and the press being escorted out of venues by the Secret Service who feared for their safety. So please spare me the "you guys are being unkind" rhetoric.
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Many of people on this thread probably already know about this, but wearing safety pins has caught on as a way to show you are a "safe place" for the marginalized or those among us who feel threatened. The link below (a quick read) explains the genesis of the idea. It's easy and cheap and a tangible way to show we care for each other.
http://gothamist.com/2016/11/11/inclusion_tolerance_america.php
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12 minutes ago, ari333 said:
I perceive this thread as a place where people can come together and grieve.
That works for now but we've got to get back on our feet and get to work. Protests going on all over the country, and the off-year elections in 2018 are more important than we could have imagined a week ago.
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7 minutes ago, ClareWalks said:
We don't have to bow down to our president. We would have to bow down to a fascist dictator. This is a yoooooge part of the problem, some folks just don't know the difference.
Which is why they voted for someone who claimed "I alone can fix this."
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1 hour ago, maraleia said:
Me too. I haven't left my house since Tuesday night (I work from home) but I am going to get some take out for dinner later.
I stayed in bed all day Wednesday and when I went out Thursday I found myself in tears at the supermarket. This really isn't going well. I wish I had some words of wisdom but right now nothing seems to be helping.
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51 minutes ago, bmasters9 said:
Perhaps because FOX is the all-white channel (meaning that if whites do it to blacks, FOX doesn't bat an eyelash, but should a black do anything even remotely amiss, FOX is right on it like white on rice).
Of course--this is what we expect from Fox. What about MSNBC, CNN, The NYTimes, WaPo, HuffPo, and all the others?
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5 minutes ago, Revlonred said:
What he did years ago to the Central Park 5 wrongly accused men...and then he reiterated his stance a few weeks ago about INNOCENT BLACK MEN was vile. And racist.
And he still insists on the guilt of the Central Park Five EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE BEEN EXONERATED BY DNA EVIDENCE and another man has confessed to the crime.
BTW, just a couple of weeks ago 2 cops were shot in cold blood. When the murderer turned out to be a white male, Trump supporter, who carried a confederate flag when he went to football games so that he could wave it in front of black people media coverage pretty much evaporated. Wonder why.
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27 minutes ago, Chicken Wing said:
Indeed that is why she lost, not just because of the people who voted for Trump but the people who didn't vote for her. And with regard to my previous post, all of those people are complicit too. In doing nothing to try to stop him, in willingly standing by and letting what will be be, they too are complicit in accepting those things. They were fine to let it happen.
As Rachel Maddow said on election night about people who voted for third party candidates: if you vote for someone you know can't win, then you don't care who wins.
2 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:The one thing that worries me more the Trump being President is that with Republicans having control of both the House and the Senate there is no reason to do anything but pick a far far right Supreme Court Judge and basically start everything from the far corner of the right and nudge to the left only when the have to.
Fof the next for years we are going to strain ourselves nudging.
Four years of Giuliani, Gingrich, Jeff Sessions, Rob Corker, Tom Cotton. This will be an epic nightmare brought to us by the people who give us nightmares.
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39 minutes ago, dcalley said:
"it's a special place & you don't wanna do too much touching."
BARF. I mean, I agree, but I cannot ignore that wording.
The jokes practically write themselves.
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9 hours ago, SierraMist said:
That's what I don't understand either. Didn't they keep saying the lines (especially in the early voting) were longer than in previous years. And yet, the consensus now is that voter turnout was low . Was the election rigged? Sorry, I'm only half kidding.
I totally agree with this. Lawrence is the only one who isn't afraid to say that Trump is still despicable even if he is our new president.
My impression was that the lines were longer because many polling places in certain districts had been eliminated (by guess which party), resulting in longer lines at the few remaining sites.
Good to see that Lawrence is still calling Trump a liar.
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1 minute ago, catrox14 said:
I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggesting that the peaceful protesters are being paid by some organization? Which organization? These might be organized but why do you presume someone is paying them?
And there has been no rioting, although there have been some arrests.
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More protests across the country tonight [split screen on All In w/Chris Hayes on MSNBC right now].
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17 minutes ago, ari333 said:
THIS. It makes me feel that I don't matter... and obviously I don't. HRC received more votes, yet she LOST. This is 2016 not the 1700/1800's . I'm still angry.. livid angry. Forgive my ranting.
This makes 2 out of the past 5 Presidential elections in which the Rep candidate took the White House despite the Dem candidate winning the popular vote.
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14 hours ago, MulletorHater said:
ITA. I will NOT be watching any "news" networks or infotainment shows. I can't even bring myself to watch MSNBC's evening lineup anytime soon even though I love Rachel and Chris Hayes. I definitely don't want to see any of Drumpf's gloating and preening surrogates, who are just as vile as he is--if not more. Nor, will I be following any pollsters, including Nate Silver or the Princeton Election Consortium.
I don't want to hear any postmortem reports and don't need to. I already know what happened and why. I'm just done.
I felt the same way Tuesday night but after spending most of Wednesday in bed with the covers over my head (not joking), I watched Chris and Rachel. Chris was dead serious throughout his show; no laughter from him or any of his guests. Rachel was clearly fighting back tears through much of her show. But seeing all the spontaneous protests all over the country was kind of uplifting--thousands of people taking to the streets. Rachel showed the view from her office window and said that the protest seemed to grow organically, i.e., people on the street who saw what was happening just joined in the march.
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Just now, Revlonred said:
We live among racists, misogynists, and anti-semites? Oh, and they hate LGBT too
I know that we will among them, I just didn't think there were so many of them.
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How has he managed to do this with a disorganized campaign, amateurish ads and no ground game?
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Just now, mojoween said:
Not only would the Orange Nightmare be president...but Mike Pence would be one step away.
Jesus Christ.
And Rudy Giuliani Attorney General
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La La Land (2016)
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Deb's sister is married to a Black man played by Damon Gupton, not the John Legend character.