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I'm someone who will always find TK attractive, so in a contest between him and DD, I find them both attractive in different ways (and TK would probably be more my "type," that voice works for me). But in show, when you factor their personalities in, and, specifically as a mate for Brooke, when you factor in how each has treated her? There is no fucking contest. How does the show think we are buying this shit? And, from last I saw one of those SID polls, Bill/Brooke were the #1 fan favorite couple, and I don't think Bridge were even on there. So what in the blue hell is show doing here? Why? Ridge looks even wafflier than Waffles. He loves Brooke. He can't deal with Brooke because she fell for Bill. He loves Katie. Oh, wait, he never really loved Katie, but he does really love Caroline now. Oh, Caroline got pregnant with his son's baby when his son raped her? She should be with his son. Now he'll just brood about Caroline for a while and focus on the company. Oh, wait, he needs Bill's shares of FC, so Brooke can marry him to get them. But, wait! He wants Brooke again. And, as soon as he gets her, he'll, I'm sure, develop a forbidden attraction" to his stepmother. How does he even remember each morning when he wakes up who it is that he's into now?

That one gets me the most. He was very clear, he was given multiple opportunities to say "well, no, the wall is just figurative, I'm going to implement the kind of reform that would make it virtually like having a wall." He never took those opportunities. He doubled down on the physical "beautiful wall" every time, boasting about how the wall is what he does, because he's in construction. He's like a Rohrschach test to his followers, though. Whatever they want to see in him, they see in him. And that is by design.

With regard to Barbara Res, I'd urge anyone who hasn't to check out her Twitter account. She is very active and vocal about her experience with and knowledge of Trump. It doesn't paint a flattering picture of him, that's for sure. She and Tony Schwartz were sounding the alarm before the election, and they both seem shocked and dismayed that people went ahead and voted him in.

Knowing this show, they'll probably have him installing security cameras in the hospital, and then there will be much joking about whether he put some in the locker room and shower. Because, you know, it's funny to joke about a rapist committing a sex crime.

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Man, they are really dragging this shit out, aren't they? How many episodes in a row are going to close on Brooke's conflicted, indecisive face? But, even with that being said, Nicole was even more all over the place. "I love Zende too much to lose him....And I can't be with someone who treats me like that." Umm...?? And, I mean, at least in Brooke's case, I actually care how that shit ends. But Nicole/Zende? Stay together, stay apart, I don't care. Just shut up. And, what? Now Steffy wants her father with Brooke? When did that happen? Is it because she's so gloriously in love with her Waffle that she wants to see everyone else happy? Or does she know that her father is eventually going to shit all over Brooke, and she wants to get a chance to giggle at that shit?

That was exactly my thought when I saw the date - he's hoping to use it as a last minute "see, it's not going to be so bad" pitch to the electors. Oh, haven't you heard? She claims she's had no work done. None. She says she's just aging gracefully like her mother did. Like we don't all have eyes.

Judd Apatow retweeted me a few weeks ago. Of course, that led to me getting Trump trolls, but I'm proud to say that I got any who decided to troll me to block me before long. I'm currently on Medicare (I've been disabled since the age of 29, so, as you can imagine, the threats to SS and Medicare are very personal for me). The differences between it and the employee provided plans I've had in the past, through my own work and my husband's employers, are night and day. I currently have Medicare as my primary and my husband's employer provided plan as my secondary (he works for a small firm, and if the employer has less than a certain number of employees, I think it's 50, Medicare is the primary), and our son, who is diabetic, is covered under my husband's plan. I have zero problems with insurance. No out of pocket co-pays, a very low out of pocket deductible each year, no hassles getting procedures or tests. No constant requests for more information from the insurance company, etc. With my son, it's nothing but a pain in the butt. He had routine blood work done last month for his endocrinologist, and we got requests from the insurance company to provide information as to whether the blood work was the result of an accident (yes, because after an accident, you often have nothing else done but a comprehensive metabolic panel) and to provide information as to whether there is any other insurance he's covered by. That second request, they send us like 3-4 times per year. They even send them on me 3-4 times per year when they know I have other coverage and that they're my secondary coverage. For my son's specialist, I have to pay $60 per office visit, plus, usually, another $10-$15 after they process it because they don't like to pay for A1C tests (because, hey, what diabetic needs to get that done to maintain a grip on their health, right?). And if he needs to go to the ER? $500 co-pay. It's insane. We both had a really bad flu that turned into pneumonia last year. And we both ended up in the ER with 104 fevers (and severe dehydration for me, high ketones for him). I paid nothing out of pocket. For him, it was the $500 co-pay and then an additional couple hundred after the claim was processed. So, yeah, I'm not a big fan of them allowing the insurance companies to handle Medicare. The level of care will go down (and be harder to navigate), and the cost to us out of pocket will go WAY up. I was going to respond with exactly this. The man in the pages of that book was not Trump. It was a fictionalized glossy version of him made interesting by a determined ghost writer. Contrast the picture Tony Schwartz painted of him (with little to no input from the man himself) with the things Trump has shown us (like the Access Hollywood tape and his many business failures). He's not nearly as successful in business as he claims, with numerous failures to his name and an extremely low credit rating with commercial lenders (which is why he has to secure financing from other countries these days). And the success he does have, the money he does make, is made on the backs of the very people he's out there claiming he'll help - American workers and small businesses. Despite his pledge to "bring back jobs," his companies have their manufacturing done overseas for cheap labor. And small businesses? He gets them to enter into contracts to provide materials and services for his projects, then he shorts them, if he pays them at all, always citing some imagined "defect" in their work or materials. The country is littered with small business owners who have seen their companies financially damaged and even, in some cases, ruined, by Trump's con artist ways. He's not going to suddenly start doing the right thing by the people he's been screwing over for his entire career. As for whether he's racist - he was charged, multiple times, with refusing to rent to minorities. As part of his con, he settled "without admitting guilt." That way he can say, honestly, now "I was never found guilty of that." He lobbied for the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated, to be executed. Even after their exoneration (fairly recently, in fact), he said that they were clearly guilty of something, otherwise what were guys like that doing in the park? He may justify things later, and people who are predisposed to like him may be willing to wave off some of the things he's said on the campaign trail that were racist as hyperbole or misunderstood, but he has a demonstrated history of racism. He's made multiple racist comments during his career. He's behaved in a racist manner. Oh, and back to the way he does business - he says he's going to deport all the illegal immigrants and not let any more come in (with his big beautiful wall), but who does he employ at his various businesses to do the grunt work manual labor? Illegal immigrants. He wants to bring jobs back to American people, and he applies for special visas to bring in thousands of immigrants to work at his properties instead of giving those jobs to the unemployed workers who live here. And the wall? He's had numerous opportunities to admit that the wall isn't a thing that happens. But he kept bragging about that wall, even after the election stating in a live television interview that "I'm in construction, this is what I do." When we all know that the only way that wall is going up is if his companies get the contract to build it and he gets to brand it with his name. And that won't be about keeping out immigrants (who will still get in), it will be about lining his pockets at our expense.

I still think we're eventually going to get a "Ridge is Douglas's father" reveal at some point down the road. Then Ridge will make tracks all over Brooke's back going back to Caroline. And Brooke will probably allow that single tear to drop as she tells him that, of course, he should be with his son.

So Newt said pretty much exactly what I predicted would be said to justify letting Trump continue to tweet in a manner unbecoming the President - "this is who he is and why he was elected. We can't stop him from being him."

I was thinking Victoria Rowell for #3, but, yeah, I think you're right, it's Muhney. There is a very convenient opening for him to come back right now on Y&R, but I don't think anyone, outside of Sharon Case, would really be up for it.

This. I have an appointment with my colorist Friday, and I'm awfully tempted to bring in a screenshot of Molly to show her exactly how I want my highlights and lowlights to look.

Ah, see, but this way, she didn't have to actually have sex with Sonny.

Ugh! Why can't we have nice things??

He said, under oath in a deposition, that he bases his net worth on how he feels at any given moment. So when he refers to himself as a billionaire, he's telling us that he feels like he must be. Nothing is real with this man. Not his hair, not his skin color, not his business record, not his financial boasts. Not a single thing is real.

I was definitely thinking "push him over, Brooke. Push him!!"

I really don't think so. And he (and his kids and Kellyanne) will argue that his being so "accessible" and "of the people" is why he has the job. If all else fails, he'll be hiding phones around the White House or grabbing Jared's phone when he's not looking. He won't stop.

I think that this was a case where Guza would have done what he wanted, but, once Frons put the Jason/Courtney idea in his head, it was a chance for Jason to get another win over AJ, so he went with it. And, once they were a couple, of course they were going to get front burner status, because anything Jason did was front burner under Guza. Guza's only investment in Courtney was in how she related to Jason, Sonny, and Carly. He eventually got bored with her and tossed her to Jax and Nik.

Brooke. Why? Why? Please just slap the smug off of his face and go marry Bill. And Ridge with his "you'll walk away from me, from RJ." No, ass. She is not walking away from her son by marrying another man. Shut up!

NLG definitely crosses the line at times, but I just took a look at Ingo's Facebook page, and his replies to some of the people who commented are really out of line. He had to know he'd be stirring things up with his post, and he seems to relish in it.

The overtime rule thing is a great example of what I was saying in my last post - that the GOP manage to control the narrative and get their supporters to place blame where it doesn't belong. I've honestly seen GOP voters saying things like "well that rule was going to ruin small businesses. You can't force a small business to give anyone who makes $30,000 per year an instant raise to $47,000 per year." They managed to pick a couple numbers out of the actual rule, and then they rearranged them to make the rule look like something it isn't, to justify taking a sledge hammer to it. A lot of those voters have no idea how close they came to having something good happen for them, something that could make a real positive difference in their economic situation, only to have Ryan kill it before they can experience it. Trump may be the master at manipulating the narrative, but the GOP has been working up to him for years.

The thing is, though, the GOP have become masters of getting their supporters to always blame whoever they tell them to blame. And they fall for it. That's how the GOP exists and hasn't either been forced to change or gone into extinction. Even though they have control now (or will come 1/20), they will still find someone else to blame for their mistakes. It won't be logical to any of us who weren't buying the GOP's bullshit to begin with, and it may result in a small portion of their voting base saying "hey, how can this be Elizabeth Warren's fault when you guys have control of both houses?" But, overall, their base will believe them when they say that their policies are being undermined by something Warren, Sanders, et al, are pushing for, or that their changes would work if only they're allowed to make this one more change, or their policies would work if it wasn't for the illegals/poor/elderly/Muslims/gays/minorities who aren't pulling their weight. And, of course, "this policy will work once we've had a few years to undo the damage President Obama caused." You know that's coming. They'll buy themselves enough time to win the midterms, ensuring their majority remains intact. This is what his grasping son-in-law should be working on - suck up enough to make sure that he and Ivanka are the ones to be in charge if something happens to him, then 5150 his ass. At this point, we've moved beyond Punk'd. Now we need Andy Kaufman to rip off his Trump mask. I still believe (and his behavior since the win reinforces it) that he never wanted the job. He just wanted the win. He hates that the other billionaires don't take him seriously. He's considered a grasping joke among their circle, especially among the really wealthy real estate developers (a group he likes to consider himself the leader of, even though they don't even like to claim him as a member). He wanted to prove that people love him and that he's a winner. That's why he's embarking on this victory tour - to bask in more of the adulation he received at his rallies and to reinforce that he won. It won't wake them up at first. He'll spin it as another example of what a great business man he is, and how of course he knows how to do this, because business is his thing. And one of the things about him that his supporters have cited from the get go has been that he's a successful business man, so, of course, he'd be great at running the country. Since a decision to privatize the VA would fall under the heading of a "business decision" in their eyes, then he's just trying to do the right thing to fix the system that the politicians haven't been able to run right. Agreed. I wouldn't be happy if, say, Kasich, Bush, or Romney had won, but I wouldn't fee like we were careening towards an epic disaster. I think they're all basically decent men who want to do what they think is best most of the time (and sometimes let themselves be misguided by party leadership or the interests of their biggest donors), even if I don't necessarily agree with them on what is "best". I'd just figure we were in for at least four more years of W. We survived 8 of those, we'd survive 4 more. Trump is a whole other animal. His ego will always come first. And that is a very dangerous way to run a country. I'd be willing to bet that, before Johnson's infamous "Aleppo" moment, Trump had exactly zero idea what Aleppo was either. I'd like to think that, at minimum, our President should be required to know at least as much about our Constitution as I needed to know to pass 8th grade. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Seriously. I think his tweet this morning about flag burning may actually be his scariest moment yet. That is some serious totalitarian regime stuff there. He actually tweeted that he wants to imprison people for a year or revoke their citizenship if they exercise their Constitutionally protected right to free speech. Ironically, he figuratively burned ALL the flags with that tweet. I'm sure he wouldn't get that, though. Side note: I love this country and I love our flag, but I'm so sick of how some on the right have fetish-ized the flag. If there is anyone out there who is eligible for Medicare who hasn't enrolled (because they still have coverage through a spouse's plan, for example), they should absolutely enroll as of 1/1, to make sure they are covered under it before Ryan gets his hands on it and makes any changes that might make it difficult for them to enroll or might kick the can further down the road so that they aren't eligible to enroll for several years. Ditto to anyone who has put off receiving their SS benefits. You may want to start receiving them now (and invest them if you don't currently need them) before the age where you can receive them gets pushed back. You might find yourself in a situation where you need them in a couple years, but you can't start receiving them yet. I think it's a little of each. I am one hundred percent positive that he doesn't understand any of it. But, I'd be willing to bet that some of his team does. They've just witnessed how his supporters don't get that he doesn't understand it, so they figure they may as well play along with him and use that to their advantage. I cannot wait until Arnold's version of Apprentice starts airing. We are going to get some comedy gold out of Trump's Twitter account. That and his tendency to use one word declarations (like "Sad") as punctuation. And I just got an ugly mental image of him sitting on his (no doubt gold) toilet at 4 AM, tweeting his little fingers off. You just know that's what he's doing. That's why nobody manages to grab his phone from him once he starts these Twitter rants. He's locked away in his bathroom with his phone.

I just saw that Roger Stone said that Trump would re-examine prosecuting Hillary if she goes along with the recount. Nice that they don't feel any pressure to even pretend this isn't going to be a dictatorship.

That's my thought - someone in his camp gets him riled up about something whenever they determine a distraction is needed. Then they just hand him his phone and let him do his thing.

It's really a statement on how much the GOP has pissed me off over the past 8 years that I genuinely can't decide if I want him impeached or not. It would almost be rewarding them, to impeach him and let Pence take the job. And Pence is his own kind of mess that won't be as blatantly obvious to many voters when it comes time for re-election in 2020. Trump may be an unmitigated disaster, or he may be just enough of a disaster to make it so that they lose big in 2018 and 2020. And who knows how much they would actually be able to get done in 2-4 years of his lead, vs. 4 years of Pence. I'm honestly, genuinely stumped here. If his VP had been Kasich, Romney, someone like that, I'd be all for impeachment. Pence, though? Pence is the exact nightmare they've been trying to give us for years.