Thursday, January 26, 2023

Politics: Trump’s 2022 Endorsements

Well, with no new episode of CSI: Vegas on tonight, I can do a post of this blog without having to another one in my new Fadam Secretary blog to make up for the planned date this is posted on being out of sync with when it could work out. This will give me one less blog post to write, which is good and fine, even if I have to write this one today.

 

Now let’s get to the post at hand. You see, for some dumb reason, a twice impeached, scandal plagued, serial abusing, lying grifter is the most sought after person to have endorsing some people in the Republican Party. What does this say about the Republican Party? A whole lot. Who did Trump endorse in the 2022 elections and did any of them win? Let’s do a quick check of what I can find:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endorsements_by_Donald_Trump

 

For those of you who aren’t just clicking that link to find how just how hilarious his first ever endorsement was in 2008, I’ll just do a quick review of what happened in 2022. I will split this into different sections. Note that not all of his endorsements might be on the list.

 

For gubernatorial races, he endorsed 20 people and 9 of them won the general election. That’s less than half. And only 2 of them that won weren’t already the incumbent governor. For the senate races, there was a bit of confusion and change with some of them. Mo Brooks said to get past 2020 and he was dead to Trump after that. Trump then endorsed Katie Britt. With the race in Pennsylvania, his original candidate, Sean Parnell, dropped out of the race so he switched to Dr. Oz instead. And in Missouri, he simply endorsed Eric, without specifying which of the three (one almost certainly too obscure to be right) Erics it was.

 

Anyways, as it came to the final count of state’s endorsements, it was 21 states having had a Trump backed candidate, 15 of them winning, and a mere 4 of them not already being in office. Unlike the gubernatorial races which had 1 challenger winning, only open seats were won in this set meaning that not one single Trump endorsed candidate beat an incumbent Democrat.

 

I wanted to include another two sections on the house races and then other ones that were included, but the page of information that I’m looking at that is my only source that I’m bothering with right now has only the primary results and not the general election results. Thus, I don’t yet know if there is more success for these candidates in later stages or not.

 

What else can I say? Not much. Never has a former president, as far as I know, been so vocal in trying to get people elected to office. Of course, Republicans should be fleeing from him and not wanting these endorsements. If they don’t learn, they will be doomed to lose elections.

Monday, January 23, 2023

Politics: America First is Actually Bad for us

In all of the talk in the Trump administration about the America first policy, it might be hard for some people to want to counter the argument. But they should because it’s a bad policy. Why is it bad for us? I’ll explain.

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The biggest reason why is simple: we need allies. If we are only supporting ourselves, what would we do if we needed help from others? People would also get along without us and not need us for anything. That is also a problem.

 

Other problems with the whole America first policy are as follows: pride. We seem too full of ourselves and not as good as we could be. It can also increase racist tendencies because who needs no sticking foreigners under these circumstances? It also just seems like a bland promise that people can needlessly follow without any thought of actual real ideas to move forward.

 

I can’t think of much else to say in this post. There isn’t much else that I need to say. This could be a good idea, but it isn’t as it just doesn’t have that good an afterthought. It seems good, but only if you don’t count retrospect or think things through.

Friday, January 20, 2023

Cast Update 1-20-2023

I wonder, although it is too late to know now for sure, if I should have brought back some of my blogs sooner than I did. I couldn’t exactly get right back into the flow of doing most of my blogs again, which is one of the reasons why this is late. Also note that I will be cutting things starting now in this blog. I plan to mention why more is likely to be cut now in all of my blogs due to changes with imdb. The things will be cut like they are from all of the other cast updates.

 

Tea Leoni: She will be in a project called Endangered, which will be a movie. There are no other things that I see her in right now besides that. I don’t know when they finished filming the show, but you’d think that those who are still doing projects will have stuff right now to do (if that makes sense).

 

Endangered: This is a movie about the lives of threatened species. We’ll see what role she has in it. The website I’m checking makes it seem like she’ll be lending her voice to it so maybe it will be some sort of documentary. The release date is unknown now.

 

Bebe Neuwirth: She’s had a recurring bit on Blue Bloods and may show up on it from time to time. There are other minor things that she has done. It appears that she will be in a new movie called Julia. She will also be in something new called Teenage Euthanasia. I hope to see what I can of this.

 

Julia: This is a show about Julia Child, the chef. It is available now on HBO Max. It first became available on 3-31-2022. There is a trailer for this that I will talk about. I might not care about missing the show even if I’m coming to like some cooking shows.

 

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZBacZqwbCA

 

Thoughts on trailer: This looks way more interesting than I ever would have thought that it might be. Who would have thought that a woman would need to overcome cooking sterotypes? It seems like there is a lot more going on here than might need to be, but there isn’t much else to say about this. I doubt that I’ll be able to see it without borrowing this from my sister’s family for a moment, but it could be fine regardless of it I wind up seeing it in the future or not.

 

Teenage Euthanasia: Considering how the title talks about assisted suicide, one can be a bit unsure how this could turn into a good story. But the plot is more complicated than that and hard to sum up easily. The show is out now. There is a trailer for this:

 

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T8HAs-5oX4

 

Thoughts on trailer: So this looks strange, but I was already expecting it. I guess that it is far too grim for even FOX by featuring mature content that not even that network would allow. I’m glad that the trailer explains a lot about the series, but I’m not upset that I’m going to be missing any of this in the end.

 

Geoffrey Arend: He will be in a project called Physical, a TV show. I’m glad that he could find something at long last. Hopefully, he’ll do a bunch more things all worth keeping track of in this blog and worth watching as well if I can see them at all.

 

Physical: This is a TV show, but too much about this is unknown at this point in time. It is out now on Apple TV. It also has a trailer that I will be talking some about. It is a very new thing and imdb isn’t revealing much about it now as a result. But we’ll find out more about this over time.

 

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTFdslwJYo

 

Thoughts on trailer: I’m not entirely sure what to make of this. It doesn’t seem that bad, but it doesn’t seem anywhere close to good either. It is going for something maybe a bit different, but I can’t really get behind it that much. I was never one for the 80s as I wasn't even born yet and really only get stuff out of it from when I see The Goldbergs. It doesn’t seem all that interesting to me really.

 

Kathrine Herzer: She hasn’t been doing much since the show ended or now, it seems. Maybe she is going back to a more normal life. Not all the child actors or actresses continue into the field when they get older as they want to do other things in life. Remember the people from Shining Time Station?

 

Evan Roe: Again, this person has not been doing much after the show ended. I guess it hasn’t been over long enough or a lot of these people just haven’t found a new job yet, at least in the Hollywood industry. You’d think that the filming would have ended long enough ago, but maybe not. While he is mentioned as in the cast for A Man in Full, which also stars Jon Michael Hill from my Elementary blog and William Jackson Harper from my CSI: Cyber blog, all three of those people are mentioned as only appearing in one episode thus far.

 

A Man in Full: There is no release date or trailer for this yet. It is about a mogul who has to defend his failing empire from those seeking to gain from his failure. This is set to be a miniseries. I’ll find out where later. It could be good, but the plot seems overused.

 

Tim Daly: The time has come to say what this man is finally doing after Madam Secretary as he finally has something new in the works now. He is set to be in The Game, a TV show. He is also now in Finestkind. That’s it for now.

 

The Game: This is a TV series about black culture and how it regards to football. It could be good and is a continuation of CW show from a while ago that also aired on BET. This is available now on Paramount+. I am not currently planning on watching it.

 

Finestkind: I’m guessing that this is a movie or supposed to be. It has an unknown date of release at the moment. It is about two brothers finding themselves trapped in issues with organized crime people. There is no trailer yet.

 

Zeljko Ivanek: He is finally set to be in something called Now and Then, which is a TV show. Maybe we’ll see more of his acting in the future or maybe we won’t. Another thing that he will be in is Let the Right One in. That is all for now.

 

Now and Then: This is a TV series about a group of Hispanic friends meeting again years after one of them is found dead. It is available now. It is on Apple TV+. It could be good, but it doesn’t sound original. There is a trailer for this now:

 

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfyk7tbtTN4

 

Thoughts on trailer: Well, this looks like it could be interesting and also complicated in different ways. It seems to focus too much on clichés, although I couldn’t guess who might be guilty in the end of anything (it might be all of them). I don’t think that I’ll miss much by not being able to see it, even if some of this could be good.

 

Let the Right One in: This doesn’t have a trailer yet. This is out now. This is a vampire drama that I believe is based on an existing movie that was also already remade into a movie before, albeit much earlier and too soon after the old one was just out from what I understand of it. Here’s another one. There is a trailer for this now:

 

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abIA--OY3Y

 

Thoughts on trailer: Well, I’m fine without this. While there have been a few horror movies that I have liked to an extent, this doesn’t look like one of them, although it is a TV show and not a movie. But that’s not the point exactly. It seems obvious and dumb so I’ll be better off without it.

 

Erich Bergen: He’s also not doing much yet as of the show ending. After appearing in some episodes of the final season of Bull, I’ll have to wait to see what else he is up to in the future after this. I can only hope that he does more in the future.

 

Patina Miller: She is the narrator of a show called Word Party. That’s all that she’s doing for now. I think that she’s a mother so that may affect how much work she’ll be able to do. We’ll see what goes on in her life and I hope she can do something I can watch. She’s also set to be in the upcoming project of Into the Woods. That’s about it.

 

Word Party: This is a Netflix kids show that is available now. Patina is the narrator of it. I don’t know much about it. I doubt that I will be able to see it in the future. This show is about teaching others how to talk and learning simple things like that.

 

Into the Woods: This has no plot yet. What I’m unsure of is if this is a remake of the movie Into the Woods or, perhaps, a live musical version of this. It would seem kind of early in my mind to remake the movie. Anyways, it has no release date or trailer yet.

 

Wallis Currie-Wood: She has done very little outside of the show. Maybe she will do something more in Hollywood or maybe not. It will be hard to understand some of why I’m not seeing much in terms of what the cast is doing in the future unless or until more time passes.

 

Keith Carradine: He has two projects in the works. One is called Sallywood. The other one is called The Daylong Brothers. We’ll see what happens between those and anything else that he does. I look forward to hopefully seeing these films at some point in time. Maybe more will happen in the future. He’s also in the new season of Fear the Walking Dead. One last thing that he is in is the TV show Accused.

 

Sallywood: This movie romantic in some way, but I don’t know if it’s a comedy or not. It is about a man who moves to Hollywood and becomes a woman’s personal assistant. They’ll be more to it than that. It has an unknown release date at this time.

 

The Daylong Brothers: This has an unknown release date at this time. It is about three brothers who try to get revenge on their father for selling their souls. This could be interesting, even if I don’t really like to watch horror films. But this could just be normal supernatural.

 

Fear the Walking Dead: This is an AMC show that is a spin-off of the original Walking Dead. At first, it was a prequel set at the start of the zombie outbreak. Now, it is set sometime later during the same time frame as the original. I don’t know when or if I’ll be able to see this, but will include this in the updates for as long as Keith is in it.

 

Accused: I can’t quite tell what this is about, although I hope to have more explained in the future. It is a FOX show set to start airing on January 22, 2023, but will be planned to air on FOX at 9/8 Central on Tuesdays starting on January 24, 2023.

 

Sebastian Arcelus: It looks like he will appear in a TV movie or perhaps potential pilot called Blanco. He’s doing better than others in terms of projects in the works and by that I mean he’s doing more. He is also now set to be in the movie Into the Woods.

 

Blanco: This has an unknown release date at the moment. It is about a criminal who seeks to work with the cops only to build his criminal empire. I have no idea what network this would air on, if any. This might be just another in a long line of passed pilots that I get confused about and wind up in this blog for a long time like what you might have seen in my CSI: Cyber blog. This isn’t on imbd anymore.

 

Into the Woods: This has no plot yet. What I’m unsure of is if this is a remake of the movie Into the Woods or, perhaps, a live musical version of this. It would seem kind of early in my mind to remake the movie. Anyways, it has no release date or trailer yet.

 

Sara Ramirez: We’ll see what else she might do in the future. It could be a lot or not much at all. One source is now saying that her show, And Just Like That, is returning for a season 2 after all. Other than that role, I don’t see anything mentioned of hers for now.

 

Kevin Rahm: There isn’t much to talk about for him right now. Maybe I’ll see more of him in the future or maybe not. It is hard to tell for sure what all might be covered in these blogs of mine or what all what stay there whether it is outdated or not.

 

Barbara Hall: I will see what future, if any, she might have in the TV or movie industry. You’d think that she’d be doing something at some point or another, but maybe she won’t be at least for a while. I guess that I’ll keep her in the updates since only death would get rid of someone.

 

Schedule

 

Available now- Word Party (on Netflix), Physical (on Apple TV), The Game (on Paramount+), Fear the Walking Dead (on AMC), Teenage Euthanasia (unknown time on unknown network), Julia (on HBO Max), Now and Then, Let the Right One in

 

January 22, 2023- Accused (premiere)

 

January 24, 2023- Fadam Secretary blog post, Accused (regular timeslot premiere, Tuesdays on FOX at 9/8 Central)

 

Unknown year- Endangered, Sallywood, The Daylong Brothers, Blanco, Finestkind, Into the Woods, A Man in Full