Joey Russ

I have a lot going on IRL right now, but I forgot about the teaser thing (thanks for reminding me), so let’s see if I can remember it now. First one was Bush Sr, second was Jill Gascoine, third was Stirling Moss First one again was Bush Sr. I cant remember the exact bedblockers list but I believe Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland and Vera were all part of that group. As for cult names, I definitely remember Violet Chamorro as part of the batch, I think JLT was there too. And I believe Le Duc Anh was the one making way alongside the front runners. I forgot about any others that might’ve been part of that group, and I apologize for that First one was Diana Athill I believe. Second one was definitely Ozzy The certain to qualify name was Jimmy Carter (he’s the same name that was at risk of not qualifying in later allusions). The two well known names were ONJ and Brackers. Research reveals them to be Robert Mugabe and Kathleen Blanco Jean Louis Trintignant was first, followed by Kirk Douglas. Third and fourth at the time I think were Le Duc Anh and Violet Chamorro (that document seem to be lost in the mist of time I’m afraid). Like I said, Jimmy Carter. Jean Luc Godard was confused as Jean Luc Picard 6ix9ine (probably could’ve been guessed by the list of those missing out being revealed though). Jimmy Carter finally got into contention, whereas Jean Louis Trintignant was dethroned by either Kirk or Leah (its one of those two for sure, memory says former but it might’ve been the latter). I think that’s all the references I made. Let me know if missed one I made on this thread...

After reading other analysis and thinking over my own thoughts on the debates, here’s a bit of deeper analysis on each of the ten contenders performances: Cory Booker in my view didn’t have any particular great moment that stood out to me, but he also didn’t do anything particularly negative in his performance either, apart from maybe trying to out Spanish Beto and Castro. Basically he tried to look like he’s out there for the average person, and I feel like the average viewer might think he’s actually out there for them. Those who’s been in politics for a while, however, knows that he’s a corporate democrat and those politically astute can catch when he’s using weasel words like how he tries to describe Medicare for all. Julian Castro for the most part was meh. However, he did have one of the highlights of the debate when he basically called out Beto for not supporting repealing section 1235 (more on Beto later), which definitely shown that Castro can show his courage on this particular issue. I may agree with Julian Castro on a lot of his policies, but you got to admit he had one of the better performances on stage and could be argued as a potential breakout star for this debate. Though none of the candidates were particularly amazing tbf. Bill de Blasio surprised me and put on a better performance than expected. He put himself as a fighting progressive and interjected to call on some of the other candidate’s bullshit, and while I personally don’t buy his progressive schtick, I could see people who might buy his stance cause he did seem a bit convincing. John Delaney seemed to be focused on bipartisanship and working on “real solutions, not impossible dreams”. Yeah, like that’s going to win you voters. His performance was awful, but not strikingly awful, if you know what I mean. I really liked what Tulsi Gabbard was saying for the most part, but unfortunately she didn’t give that strong of a debate performance, which really saddened me. Although I think everyone can agree that her takedown of Tim Ryan on the endless was absolutely amazing. In the future, she needs more moments like that in order to become a serious contender. Being super polite despite fighting for the right things isn’t really the way to go at this day and age. Jay Inslee didn’t do anything amazing, but he also didn’t do anything particularly bad. Kind of like Booker, except he seems a little bit more genuine than Booker. Amy Klobuchar gave a lot of middle of the road, milquetoast policies, and apart from one comment on abortion she was extremely bland the entire time. Oh, and saying that she won’t be the establishment candidate when she clearly will be establishment backed if she’s the nominee was definitely a massive lie. Oh Beto. Once one of the breakout stars for the 2018 elections, he did a horrible job at last nights debates. He clearly tried to have the charisma of Obama and it didn’t go well at all. He clearly dodged the questions even by politician standard, and he was shown as really a shell of a politician by people like Julian Castro and I think Bill de Blasio too (though maybe my memory is fucking with me on the latter). Basically, when you have to answer the question in Spanish to dodge a serious question, people know you phony, and tbh, he probably fucked up his senate chances in 2020 if he decides to run there instead of President too. Might be this year’s Scott Walker Tim Ryan was pretty forgettable for the most part. He tried to put on this working class vibe since he’s from Ohio, but the way he spoke was so bland that I’m not sure how people can buy him. His nail on the coffin was when Tulsi called him out for basically calling for endless war in the Middle East. Yeah dude, I think you might want to drop out before you get even more embarrassed. And finally, Elizabeth Warren. Her strong point was definitely with economics, and she definitely came out as a strong debater in this round. She didn’t really answer the question directly unless it was a direct question, but then most candidates didn’t really do that either. On the one hand, she didn’t really need to do that since she is definitely the front runner from that group. On the other hand, her dodginess on some of the questions makes me have some concern that she might not fight for a lot of the issues that people want if she becomes president. Nevertheless, from this group of ten, I’d say she was the strongest from this batch. So, if I had to give a top ten on debate performance on this stage, here’s how I think I would rate them 1. Elizabeth Warren 2. Bill de Blasio (the two who seem to have the most fighting spirit in them overall) 3. Julian Castro 4. Tulsi Gabbard (mostly meh for the next two but both had one really strong moment) 5. Jay Inslee (didn’t do anything great or wrong) 6. Cory Booker (like Inslee, but more politician like) 7. Amy Klobuchar (very milquetoast candidate that other candidates answered with better answers 8. John Delaney (didn’t have one particularly embarrassing moment, but campaigned on stuff that the democratic voters (and Republicans too!) no longer believe in, IE bipartisanship) 9. Beto O’Rourke (bad performance, slaughtered by other politicians who I don’t necessarily like, like Castro) 10. Tim Ryan (tried to put an act, but sounded so bland and milquetoast, and him being took down by Tulsi really screwed his chances, though his chances were nonexistent anyways) Anyways, if anyone else saw the debates I would like to hear your thoughts and see if any of you have any differences from my views, I love to have that discussion with you...

Part one of the debates are over. Elizabeth Warren definitely had the best performance of the batch, whereas most of the rest were meh. The two biggest losers imo were Beto and Tim Ryan. Beto lost because he was clearly dodging the questions even for politicians, and Tim Ryan just sounded so bland and was amusingly destroyed by Tulsi on foreign policy. Though I wasn’t expecting much from the latter anyways...

Many of us are having a d’oh moment with Beth Chapman’s death...

Literally came out of nowhere. At least everyone else who has no chance of winning had shown signs of wanting to run before their official announcement...

Looks like he won’t be disappointed as Toys R Us is apparently set to return to the US by the end of 2019.

Well, he lasted through all that but he won’t be around for much longer, as Randy Romero has entered hospice care.

Great link.

So Reptile is in third place then by the looks of it

Pedophile twat 2017 Republican Alabama senate nominee Roy Moore has announced his candidacy for the 2020 Alabama senate race. Oh, how lovely...

Jeopardy legend James Holzhauer donates his money to pancreatic cancer walk in honor of Trebek

Agreed Reptile. I really think he’s the favorite to win. I think my main problem of being able to compete with DI isn’t the lower point differentials on my end, but more the fact that a couple of my semi canon names (Anoa’i and Du Bois in particular) really shouldn’t have made my final 20, as they weren’t even that great of picks to begin with (not as bad as, say, Linda Nolan, but still don’t seem likely to die either way)...

Is this game going to run again?

A single mother who was shunned by her local community for having a mixed-race child out of wedlock, Lynott went on to become a vocal advocate for LGBT rights, an integral figure in getting a statue of her son erected in Dublin, and found time to tell Mitt Romney to fuck off in 2012 when he tried to use “The Boys Are Back In Town” as an election campaign song. That last part is really fucking amazing of her.

Apologies for not putting Zeffirelli’s obit up quickly. I do not have access to a computer at this point and time, and it is difficult to write one on a mobile device for me. I will try to get it up (and any other deaths that might arise very soon) ASAP.

Refutes claim that she’s in her final days...

And here is the debate lineups for the first two nights.

Now 7 with Anne Hamilton Byrne

The DNC hasn’t announce the final lineup for the first debates yet, but it’s looks like everyone in the race apart from Steve Bullock, Mike Gravel (boo), Wayne Messam, and Seth Moulton qualified for the debate. Steve Bullock, however, is trying to contest that and if he successfully is able to contest that (which I doubt), then he might knock off one of the other no names candidates from the debates. EDIT: It has been announced that all but the four I mentioned above qualified for the debates.

a) it wasn’t posted in this thread so it’s fine and b) surely you meant this rather than the Clive Dunn emoji:

Aye, I hope things finally get better for you soon drol.

GUN Away reminds me more of Shameless 2016 than anything else. In 2016, that team was still leading until the canon names of Crowe, Feek, and co died in March. Today, you still have the likes Ricksen, Blanco, and Clegg still alive, none of which Grim’s B Team have.

Sorry to hear about that Biblio. At least he lived a good long life by the sounds of it though.

Republicans dirtbag politicians seem to be immortal, so I went for Gingrich.

Steve Lawrence has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.