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I don’t blame everyone but Mia for her choices. Pearl crying in the car as Mia spends year after year dragging her from town to town — that’s on Mia, not everyone around her. And while they didn’t explicitly explain Mia’s anger, I would imagine it developed over the years as anger towards herself for the shitty choices she made.

I thought his point on the New Rules was simply that illnesses have been named after locations for many, many years, so why all fake outrage over this one?

What a despicable, racist character Mia is. I have zero sympathy for her. She IS a horrible mother who just wants total control over her daughter. And the faces she makes....she has a constant sneer on her face. Ugh. Of course May Ling belongs with her mother. Painful as it may be, they should just bring her back to her mother. And Izzy is a mean-spirited, nasty teenager; no wonder she’s drawn to Mia.

Lexi absolutely treats Pearl abominably. True, Pearl has a “doormat tendency”, but that doesn’t excuse Lexi’s behavior. I know some very intelligent women who have Pearl’s tendency. I think because it would never occur to them to treat someone with such narcissistic motives, they just don’t see it in others. I understand wanting to protect your daughter, but Mia’s response to Lexi was emotionally abusive. Lexi is a teenager; Mia’s response was as self-serving as Lexi’s use of Pearl’s name. Instead, she should teach Pearl how to pause and think about the red flags she’s seeing in Lexi’s “friendship”. Jamie’s little speech at the end was also horrific. Unless it turns out Jamie did something so awful, and it just might, it was cruel. If he can’t stand her that much, why go out with her at all? To see if she changed? C’mon. So we are seeing that privilege and entitlement doesn’t get anybody anywhere. To those outside looking in, it’s a source of envy and resentment. To those inside it their whole lives, the material things do not guarantee the things that really matter, like happiness. The grass is always greener, and all that.

I never would have thought Darlene would become of my favorites. Well, this episode certainly made up for the last one.

They wasted way too much time on Ben. Geez, even I wanted him gone. I felt like the episode was a time-filler. And I might have more patience with the FBI lady storyline if it wasn’t all used up on Ben.

I think that may be largely spin. For example, he didn’t mean wear your racism as a badge of honor, he said let them call you racist, xenophones, nativists, wear it as a badge of honor. His meaning being if they need to resort to name-calling, know that comes from a place of weakness. Big difference in interpretation there.

Exactly. Poor guy.

The one thing I like about Bill is his willingness to put on the “other” side. I like that he listens. I LOVED that he called Romney out, instead of being a kiss ass Democrat. Thank you, Bill. I was disappointed that Gillum felt it necessary to say he needed his brain cells to recover after Bannon. I found it silly...your brain cells die when you listen to a differing opinion? Bannon may be buffoonish, but a politician should be able to hold on to his brain cells while listening to him.

It has become clear that every show is required to foster racism, particularly among white people. Not a show goes by without some reference to white racism. It must truly have been handed down to all writers as a requirement. Oh, well.

I am so tired of all these major network shows forcing this white racism on us. Every time a show does it, I remove it from my DVR schedule. There’s hardly anything left. All I have coming up is Master Chef.

Whew, how many liberal agendas can they throw at us in one season? I am very thankful they got away from that violence is OK as long as it helps you get your self-righteous way. I am drawn to this show as one would if witnessing a train wreck.

Good for them!

Were they scared away from voting?

Speaking for myself, I would hate any show that tries to “educate” politically, unless it was done with facts and honesty. These shows are so full of shit it’s amazing, and they are ALL taking the same stand, knowing the current political climate will allow them to get away with pushing bullshit. And, like Field of Dreams, viewers will come.