Worlds will live! Worlds will die! And nothing will be the same!
Sorry for going a little “Crisis on Infinite Earths” with you there, but we face a real situation here.
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The moment in the debate when Trump revealed himself unfit
Last night’s presidential debate may go down in the books as one of the worst in American history – with a sitting president who couldn’t stop interrupting and a veteran newsman turned moderator who could not bother to contain him.
But the night’s most shocking moment – the one that lingers hours after and says everything about Donald Trump’s character and fitness for office came when Chris Wallace challenged Trump to condemn white supremacists.
The man who saw “fine people on both sides” of a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville in 2017 balked and tried blaming the left for all the violence at Black Lives Matters rallies.
Then there was this:
“What do you want to call them? Give me a name. Give me a name. Proud Boys — Stand back, stand by.”
A sitting president would not condemn racists, and instead offered encouragement to one of the most violent groups on national television.
The moment reverberated like a thunderclap on social media.
Members of the Proud Boys see Trump as their national commander and have already adopted his words as marching orders. They know they have a friend in the White House.
Watch the clip for yourself. And know this: If you vote for a racist, you are a racist. It’s that simple.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog tested Trump voters’ intelligence. It didn’t go well.
Is there anything that the self-proclaimed stable genius could say that would make Trump voters rethink their support?
“Despite the travesties of his coronavirus response, the failed economy, and California’s exploding trees, President Trump’s loyal followers have stuck with him through the good times and the end times,” Triumph the Insult Comic Dog says in this segment from CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “One wonders if anything the president says or does could cost him their herd mentality.”
He brought together focus group of Trump voters and presented them with a series of outrageous fake ads advocating perfectly deranged things as …
Electrifying statues.
Forced child labor.
Microwaving human beings.
The results:
Not so great for this country.
See for yourself.
And remember to vote Nov. 3 as if your life depends on it.
Spoiler alert: It does.
Remembering Diana Rigg
We’ve lost a legend.
Diana Rigg, who rocketed to fame in the 1960s as the leather-clad warrior Emma Peel in the British cult hit “The Avengers” and played everything from Shakespeare to James Bond’s bride to the Queen of Thorns in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has died.
Diagnosed with cancer in March, she died peacefully surrounded by her loving family. She was 82.
In her more than 50-year career, Rigg played major parts in every genre of film, TV and stage.
Her role as Emma Peel made her both a sex symbol and a feminist icon. She played the only woman to get James Bond to the altar in “Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), although her character was killed shortly after.
She was Vincent Price’s murderous daughter in “Theatre of Blood” (1973). She sparred with Miss Piggy in “The Great Muppet Caper” (1981). She was the picture of insanity in the psychological thriller “Mother Love” (1989). She won an Emmy for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the adaptation of “Rebecca” (1997).
On Twitter, actress Dana Delany wrote, “For a girl in the 1960s, Diana Rigg was the embodiment of power and allure. To see her on stage in ‘Medea’ 30 years later was sheer terror. And the icing was ‘Game of Thrones.’ She outplayed them all. A great, grand actor.”
Rigg won legions of new fans around the world most recently with her portrayal of the tart Olenna Tyrell on “Game of Thrones.”
On a show filled with memorable characters and brimming with scathing dialogue, Rigg stole every scene she was in.
Even in Olenna’s death scene, Rigg made her character triumphant.
Revealing how she had poisoned the mad King Joffrey, she said, “Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.”
Her costar in that scene, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, posted on Instagram, “She always raised the bar with her talent, intelligence, and wit. An absolute joy and honor to work with.”
Director Samuel West, on Twitter, noted, “Doesn’t really make any sense to think of her havin died. She generally played the hell out of everyone.”
Watch her final scene on “Game of Thrones” and cherish the gifts Diana Rigg gave us.
We are not worthy of Laura Benanti
The Republican Convention opened last night with a blistering nightmare vision of America if Trump is not re-elected.
Mark Perigard 