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Yeah it could happen that that more gun toting nuts like the one that made the recent assassination attempt on him might band together. Most of those fanatics are not willing to turn against their dear leader any time soon, though, but the crazier he gets the more people might get fed up. My fear is that those nuts that are most devoted to him can be turned against anyone that isn't "one of them". They'll defend the tyranny from anyone who isn't on board with Trump. A very scary thought.

That's interesting. In case you haven't heard, the show has recently been canceled.

We can only hope! The MAGAs will take a bullet for him but I don't know about the rich because $$ is everything to them. Preferably way back to before the 2016 election when there was still a chance that he could have lost the first time. If that could have been prevented in the first place we wouldn't be here right now. That's when the most pain and suffering could have been averted. But how someone in their time machine could go back and prevent it is the question. What could they have done to change the outcome? Told Hilary to campaign in the fly-over states more? I really don't know.

I didn't hate this episode but I didn't love it either. I'm more focused on the realistic car repair shop sets, LOL. I feel like they're not putting much effort into this and the situations and characters are boring. Although I did like the scenes at the competitor's tire shop and Audrey's interactions with Fred. They could have done so much more to make this laugh out loud funny.

I love Matthew Broderick and this episode but I have a minor nitpick with the way he played this role. Pretty much no one in admissions is "stuffy". Most are gladhanding, outgoing "people people", similar to a salespeople. Now sinister is something I have witnessed in college admissions. The director I worked under was a malignant narcissist that favored certain candidates over others based on how much money their parents contributed to the school, etc. The admissions committee had to be made up of people that would defer to that. And they did. I saw grades and SAT scores that never should have been accepted. He later went to another university and when he was fired from there went into business for himself doing just what Matthew Broderick was doing here. I saw him interviewed online a couple of years ago talking about how ethics is very important in that business but why do I not believe him? I could have seen him play this role very easily. No offense to Matthew but I can't get that out of my head.

If they do they're being very, very quiet about it. Or rationalizing why it's not so bad, or telling themselves that it would have been worse with a Democrat in office. I felt that way and posted that here on this thread the day after election day. I called it "Biff's World" after "Back to the Future Part II". The writer of that movie actually once said in 2015 that he was thinking of Trump when he wrote it. This is Biff's world if taken to it's worst nightmare extreme. Someone needs to get in their DeLorean to correct this because this was NOT the timeline we were supposed to get. My husband didn't vote either but at least his non-vote wouldn't have changed anything because Harris was a sure bet to win in CT. But I'm still mad at him. Love him but still mad. Oh for sure. I could even see them staging another January 6 but this time worse if Biden had done even half of this shit. Interestingly I think Trump would pass a cognitive test. He is demented emotionally, only I don't know if there's a test for that, at least not one that would give him a diagnosis. My father was like that at 90. He was sharp as a tack about current events and could ace a cognitive test, but suddenly he started telling fibs, making bad decisions and acting more like a rebellious teenager than the honest, responsible guy I knew all my life. But that was on a much smaller scale than with Trump. He didn't start out a decent, nice guy like my father did with good common sense and caring about others. So when his emotional maturity becomes compromised it's much, much worse. I seriously think this might be happening with Trump. This is on a new level, even for him. It's seriously wackadoodle. And yes, it is crickets. The few I've heard are either not aware of what's really going on and avoid learning about it or seeing it and still in denial about how bad it has gotten. My husband is avoiding the news because every time he sees something new it makes him very upset. He just found out about their intentions with the Post Office and he told me it made him very mad but he didn't want to talk about it.

True but I don't even think he represents the MAGA people past what they're doing for HIM. As we all know, he doesn't care about anyone but himself. We have MAGA here in CT too, mostly in the rural areas. One town in particular about 10 miles from here out in the country has a big TRUMP sign right next to the welcome sign to their town. And both neighbors on either side of us are Republican, although not necessarily MAGA types. One was the fire chief in our town for a while and works as a supervisor for the local power company. Lovely people but I think misguided politically. So I am well acquainted with them. There are also MAGA out in the Bronx, Queens and the boroughs other than Manhattan in NYC. A different animal but similar in many respects. And I know what they're like well too.

You know, I have to laugh about the MAGA bunch. Many of them are poor and lower middle class whites. You know, the ones that live out in the back woods and are "doomsday preppers". Well, they might have to dip into their doomsday stash sooner than they thought and for totally different reasons after Trump and Musk get through with taking down our entire government. Because all of this is going to hurt people like THEM the most! Oh, but they'd take a bullet for Donnie, because he "lurves" them so much. Gag me!

Oh sure, the MAGA base is open to anything he does, but we have stuffy Northeastern/New England Republicans that aren't MAGA at all, especially the educated, moderate ones. And I don't necessarily mean school educated either. These are people that don't want to see the total privatization of the Post Office or Medical Plans under the ACA and a whole host of other things. They want some government, just a little snipping to eliminate waste. Not this big crude and misguided gutting of everything that's going on. But I don't get why they're just letting it all happen just because of Trump. It's getting harder and harder for me to see how he really represents the average non-MAGA Republican anymore. This is one of the BIG problems my husband has with MAGA other than the social justice issues. As we get older we realize the importance of government to protect the little guy. The average non-MAGA Republicans who aren't rich and can't weather this stuff financially should care about that but they're just so happy a Democrat isn't in office they're hand waving a WHOLE LOT. More and more every day. And the MAGA crowd, many of whom are poor don't even realize they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces. But anything for Trump because he "loves them and has their back, unlike Democrats", LOL. I have news for them, Trump is FOS and those Democrats cared about them more than they knew. But it's all what's on the surface anymore for people. They can't even see two layers deep to know what's in their best interests.

OK that's a hairless cat, though. The cat in the photos didn't look completely hairless to me but what do I know? It appears that there are several haired breed of cat that don't produce allergic symptoms in people with cat allergies. Good to know! https://www.petmd.com/cat/general-health/hypoallergenic-cat-breeds

It's become a running joke of the show. I guess her son was kidding because he'd heard of the other firemen in other cases she was on that flirted with her. As for this episode, I liked it. I wondered if that was City College they used for the college set. I worked for 10 years in college admissions so I know how competitive it can get. Although back when Matthew Broderick and Elsbeth were young Philosophy was still not seen as a great major for a career. I oughta know, I'm older and majored in it. Even then it was seen as not the best career prep. But U. of Illinois is nothing to feel down about. I'm glad Elsbeth realized that her son did right by himself and she accepts him and his choices. It made me shed a tear because my parents were like that. I never felt like I failed them or myself. I didn't know there was such a thing as a "hypoallergenic cat". I'm not allergic to cats but that was news to me.

OK but I don't think most Republicans want zero government and one oligarch/monarch/dictator either. It's becoming more and more obvious given what he's doing now that this is Trump's and his cronies' ultimate goal. So it's not just the Fed in "small doses", it's going to be no doses at this rate. And I just can't understand how Republicans aren't seeing the direction this is taking and how bad it will be for the country. Only the most extreme right wing fiscal conservative would be on board with the stuff that's been happening in the past few weeks. It's obvious that they ultimately want everything privatized and lots of luck to seniors, the poor, and anyone that relies on government for their medical and survival, not to mention money for disasters, infrastructure, etc., etc. And I seriously doubt that our taxes are going to be cut THAT MUCH to offset what they're doing and aiming to do. And billionaires aren't going to step up and donate money to charity to help people that lose benefits because of it either. Crime will go up, suffering, homelessness, etc. But they don't care. It doesn't affect them. They can just build the walls higher around their fortresses to keep the rabble out. The rest of us can't. There's a reason we need a moderate amount of government and it's not just bleeding heart stuff. It's common sense, of which our president thinks he has a lot, LOL. If he did, he would see the short sightedness of what he's doing. But he seriously lacks long range vision.

Maybe it's just my experience but I've known far more registered Democrats voting across party lines than Republicans, especially recently, like since Trump came along. Like the ones that voted for Trump this time, which included the ones that decided to now call themselves independents. I am pretty sure that if less of those present and former Democrats had voted for Trump, Harris definitely would have won. I remember when I went to my HS reunion in October of 2016, a couple of old classmates confided in me that they were leaning toward voting for Trump in the election. My jaw fell. These were staunch New York Democrats from WAY back. It was then I realized he had a real chance of winning. If people like that were willing to vote for him it was a real possibility. Of course my other friends scoffed at me when I told them that. But here we are. But, and this is just my opinion, but I think a lot of rank and file "old time" Republicans will vote Republican because they still think it's a better alternative to voting Democrat and it's at least some insurance that nothing's going to go wacky and off the rails in any way. Well they can't say that based on what's happening now! Look, I'd rather have some relatively innocuous gender pronouns to worry about than the kind of real wacko and potentially dangerous stuff that's coming down from Trump, Musk, etc. in the past few weeks. They lure Republicans in by saying they're going to cut out unnecessary spending. Then they proceed to make massive cuts to government agencies and programs with only a cursory look into things. Not a real investigation - that takes more time. This could end up costing our country far more money and problems in the long run than they think they're going to save. It's not just about what they say they're going to do. They have to know what they're doing. And I don't think they do, sorry.

It's convoluted but it started with those two women in Scotland who saw the tartan scarf. Then when Angus later talked to them about it they happened to see the man walk by again in the Iris in NYC wearing that scarf and they told Angus that's the guy. He tried to call Elsbeth but her phone went straight to voicemail so he called the police and told them she went to that office. I think she told him that she was going there in a previous call but I don't remember. So that's when they went there.

Yeah I don't get it. People who want others to be polite and hear them vote for someone that is anything but polite and cuts people down on a regular basis. It makes zero sense to me. Like they don't like it in anyone but it's OK for him. That's just to me, sorry to say, irrational. For all the talk of Biden's mental decline, I never saw him try to do the wacko things like Trump is trying to do since he got reelected. Not to mention the wacko things he's said, too. It floors me because to me Trump is the very example of someone who is sliding into dementia. Biden was NOTHING by comparison. He still made a lot of sense when he was up to it (and I admit he wasn't always up to it). He had his gaffes but what's coming out of Trump's mouth right now is consistently way over the line and yet his supporters don't even SEE it! Calling himself king and acting like the world is his candy store where he can do whatever he wants. I mean, seriously, this is crazy stuff and I can't believe the staid, conservatives think that's OK. I feel like we were on much more solid ground under Biden than we are now. I can just imagine what Republicans would say if Biden tried to get away with half this shit. They'd be calling for his name on a platter! Send him to the old age home, they'd chant! I fear for the future if Trump continues this way too long. And I'm not a lightweight by any means. I grew up on the street in the Bronx. I'm tougher than I look. Again, I'll hand my master's degree diploma back to my university if I'm not seeing reality with Trump here. And yes, we always have a choice. If all else fails we don't have to vote. Not voting is a vote in a way. It's not ideal but it's better than voting for the WRONG person if it comes down to that. I don't get this Republican compulsion to always vote party no matter who is up for election. My husband was like that and it was VERY hard for him to stop but he could not in all good conscience continue to vote Republican as long as it's being controlled by MAGA. MAGA is NOT Republican, BTW. It's a gross warping of Republicanism to a grotesque extreme. THAT is what got my husband to stop voting Republican. Because he felt that the party had left him. I just don't understand why more real Republicans don't see that. Look, I am not as liberal a Democrat as some here. If a radical far left candidate was put up by the Democratic party for president, I doubt I'd vote for them. Trump is similar to that on the other extreme because MAGA is like the far right extreme to the point of not even being American. It is not what belongs in a democracy or a Republic. I don't understand - unless someone is calling you personally derogatory names it's not directed at you so what's the problem? If I went onto a board where most of the posters were cutting Democrats and liberals down and calling them Communists or whatever, I would just shrug and say to myself, "Well, they're not talking about me because I am not a Communist". At worst I would remind them that we are not all ultra left wing and definitely not Communists. And if I were a Republican and came here and saw people referring to SOME Republicans as racists and Nazis I would think and say the same thing. They're not talking about me or even all of us. I get it that maybe they're talking about some people that ARE that way but I'M not. So I still don't get why you're offended.