a lot to cover on 'general hospital.' i'm going to go by characters, ok?
ana devane. she's been kidnapped since before christmas. she went to her car as chief of police and ends up kidnapped. so it's mobster sidwel. ana still doesn't know that. but this week, she did fake a health scare to try to escape. his french speaking butler - the only 1 she's seen, fell for it. she almost got away but a new man was standing behind her and stopped her. this man? jack's boss. he's the head of the government spy agency. and he tells sidwel that ana's going. where? we don't know.
sidwel wants britt on his island. she doesn't want to be there and tells him so. he's planning to force her. and she has no idea what's coming. her friend bumped into sonny and he told sonny off. he said sonny was leading her on and that he would never stand by her because carly wouldn't like it or this person wouldn't and britt would never come first.
britt walked up and sonny, to prove the friend wrong, asked her out. on a date. and they end up at the same bar as joslin and carly who are on a mother-daughter reunion moment. britt does note to joslin that this really isn't the setting for that. carly has a pouty fit and gripes at sonny but he stands his ground and stays on his date with britt.
carly. on the reunion moment? it's nonsense. she sas thigns to joslin like 'you sure know a lot about spying.' and she knows joslin is a spy. joslin the dumb spy doesn't know her mom knows. joslin the dumb spy can't even lie well.
prior to that cassadine had carly go into jack's hotel room to look for physical documents. he insists that jack would not put anything incriminating on digital, that he would have a physical copy hidden. she finds some papers and takes photos. she's about to leave but he's there. outside the front door, britt has stopped him and carly hears them and runs to the bathroom where she puts on a robe. britt and jack move into his apartment and britt is telling him sidwel is insisting she move to the island but she's not going to do it. she leaves and carly bumps into something in the bathroom so jack grabs a gun and goes running in.
he tells her, when he sees its her, that he almost shot her. she gets away with her cover story of she was there because she wanted to surprise him and sex him up for the afternoon.
if there's a spy dumber than joslin, it's jack. how was carly supposed to know he got off early? he never asked that, never thought of it. he wasn't supposed to be there, that's why she went over at that time. jack gets an emergency call and leaves.
i believe that was his boss who's now telling him that ana devane is gone. she apparently ran off. she was working a case (she wasn't and he knows that he's in on the kidnapping) and now she's gone. she may be dead. jack's face and comments say he's not buying that.
her grandaughter is very worried about her and does what all nerouvs women in port charles do when they are nervous: sleep with gio.
i'm joking about all the women. but considering hos many unattractive men are on this show - including the actor playing michael - they should spread gio around to all the ladies on the show since he is good looking.
nathan is also a good looking male character. lulu is watching his son who has an accident while skating on the ice. he's okay but this is pattern of him not listening. so lulu tells nathan he's going to have to give consequences. nathan just came back on the show this fall. prior to that, he was thought dead for years. so he's just reconnecting with his son and was nervous but lulu talked him through and he gave consequences - no horse riding for 3 weeks - and everything went well.
tracy wishes something would go well in her life. she targets chase at the beginning of the week - despite him bein gmarried to her granddaughter - and then figures out that it was martin who passed on to alexis that michael was at drew's the night drew was shot and that tracy knows this because she saw him. alexist bulffed tracy on the witness stand into confessing that by holding some papers that tracy thought documented her and michael's presene. she only had the allegation - and alexis didn't know who it came from. so now she's after michael.
which might mean good new for chase, right? wrong. tracy begins attacking (she'd say questioning) him about whether or not he's cheating on her granddaughter and sleeping with willow. that gets interrupted when laura calls. tracy goes to laura's office (remember, laura's the mayor) and martin's there and laura doesn't tell them that the mob is blackmailing her (and they're blackmailing sonny) or that laura's husband and her grandson ace left town to try to keep safe while laura and sonny try to figure out a way to deal with sidwel. but she makes clear that she's under a ton of pressure and she can't deal with her brother and her friend at each other's throats. tracy agrees to set everything martin's done aside. but, she says, there will no forgiveness if he goes after her family in any manner again.
tracy tells him that the best thing that ever happened to him was having laura for sister.
alexis. she gave closing statements in the case and argued on behalf of willow. trina and her boyfriend are furious (they know willow is lying because they were there when drew was shot, however, to come forward to the police would mean they would go to jail so they only went to alexis). sonny, who is michael's father, remember, confronts her about how now michael is going to be the chief suspect - every 1's assuming alexis' closing argument got willow off but we have not heard a verdict yet from the jury. alexis does not tell him that willow's the shooter. but she does explain about her granddaughter and how drew refuses to let her granddaugther see her own brother and how drew won't even let alexis see her. sonny gets it and says that michael's a grown up and he can defend himself if need be, but alexis' granddaughter is just 9 years old and alexis has to protect her.
i' getting tired of trina's immature pouting, by the way. if she wants willow stopped, she can do it. she can stop worrying about protecting herself and she and her boyfriend can go to the police and tell the truth. stop having a fit that alexis wouldn't use your information when you won't go to the police.
cassadine. while carly was looking for papers at jacks, he was on the island looking for stuff he'd hidden at sidwell's long, long ago. but he manages to take the tunnels into the house but the ones in the house don't work anymore - the secret entrances.
he's in the living room pushing on what's supposed to be a lever release and it won't open. which is when ava appears and tells them that she had all of those tunnels blocked off. he lies to her and tells her he's sidwel's guest. she plans to cnofirm that and asks the french speaking butler to get sidwel. while she does that, cassdine disappears. when sidwell finally shows up and she talks about being shocked by his surprise guest, he at first worries that she's talking about ana, that somehow she saw ana in the room they're holding her in. when he finds out it's cassadine, he explains that is no guest. ava tells him she thought so. she agrees not to say anything (cassadine is the subject of a man hunt having just broken out of prison).
and i think that covers most of it.
like i said, a lot to cover. but that brings us through thursday's episode.
let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'
A union-backed auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was caught on video heckling President Donald Trump as a “pedophile protector” when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday ahead of his address to the Detroit Economic Club. The video that has now gone viral shows Trump responded in kind by mouthing an expletive at the worker, twice, and displaying a middle finger as he walked away.
Now, the union says the worker has been suspended while Ford looks into the matter.
A representative from the UAW told Michigan Advance late Tuesday that they could confirm that he was suspended but the length of the suspension was unknown. The union was also uncertain about the process that would follow to investigate the matter.
On Wednesday, the UAW’s Laura Dickerson, who serves as the Ford department director, issued a statement saying the “autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.”
Dickerson said the UAW will ensure their member receives the “full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member,” adding that workers “should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States.”
The video, which was first published by Distill Social, shows Trump walking around a raised portion of the Dearborn F-150 plant when the worker, who is not seen on screen, yells to Trump and calls him a “pedophile protector,” a reference to Trump’s widely reported connections to deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein and the Trump administration’s bungling of a new law that ordered the FBI to release all of the files that the department had available to them.
A message seeking comment from Ford to confirm if the worker was fired or suspended was not immediately returned on Tuesday evening.
The worker has since been identified by the Washington Post as 40-year-old TJ Sabula, a line worker and member of UAW Local 600.
Chump flipped the man the bird (the middle finger) and screamed "F**k you" at him at least twice after the man called him a "pedophile protector." Pedophile protector refers to Chump's refusal to release The Epstein Files even after the Act of Congress and to him screaming at former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene that if he releases the files some of his friends will be hurt.
That is the definition of a pedophile protector.
And, for the record, "pedophile protector" is not an expletive. It is not a swear word. The f-word? That's a swear word.
Steven Cheung. What can you say about him? White House Communications Director. Grossly, morbidly overweight. What else? I hope he's a closeted gay man. I hope he is. Otherwise he's pathetic and lonely How pathetic do you have to be when your WIKIPEDIA entry has no "Personal Life" section? Steven has no "Personal Life" as made clear by WIKIPEDIA. That's where you find out that the person was married or lived with or dated, that's where you find out that they have a special cause that they donate to, they have pets, etc, etc. Seven Cheung, per WIKIPEDIA, has no "Personal Life."
He apparently, when not lying, just sits around stuffing his face. That would explain his statement to TMZ, "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."
The lunatic was Chump He was the one "screaming expletives" and in "a complete fit of rage."
But look how Cheung took the truth and 'remixed' it. He's a liar and he lies all the time. This is typical from him and typical from the White House. It never matters to them -- not the truth, not the truth being captured on video. They lie and they whore over and over.
"was ike bad breath mixed with feces"
It can be hard to work out what might be going through Donald Trump’s head at the best of times, but lately his actions have seemed to be increasingly bizarre and reckless.
However, all of those actions become much easier to understand with one simple perspective shift: Trump knows he is dying, he doesn’t have much time, and he won’t have to face any consequences, at least not in this life.
Trump often doesn’t seem too stressed about consequences, and that’s felt especially true since he won the 2024 election. But over those four years out of office, he came close to facing very real consequences. He was tried and found liable and guilty in both civil and criminal court. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that he was well on his way to being bankrupt, imprisoned, or both. The only thing that saved him was the presidency.
If Trump leaves the White House again, he’ll be at risk of those consequences again, along with all the other ones that he has racked up over the last few months. While Steve Bannon has become the latest supporter of Trump seeking an unconstitutional third term, and Trump still refuses to rule that out, it starts to feel more likely that Trump will avoid walking out of the White House not by changing the Constitution, but by shuffling off his mortal coil while still in residence.
Trump’s health is clearly failing. He’s been seen struggling with stairs and has even mused that Obama was better at navigating them. His cognitive health might well be in decline, and his instances of random word association in public comments appear to be getting worse.
While Trump and his cronies claim that his medical reports generally show that he is in the finest health any person has ever been in, the number of those reports recently should raise an eyebrow. In early October, he had what he called a “semi-annual physical” at the Walter Reed National Medical Center. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed it was a “routine yearly checkup.” The problem is that he already had his annual physical in April.
Those checkups included an MRI at Walter Reed. “It was perfect,” Trump said, claiming “the doctor said [it] was some of the best reports, for the age, they’ve ever seen.” While MRIs are often used to rule out possible medical concerns, they’re rarely used when there are no concerns to begin with.
Trump has also claimed to have aced another cognitive test, making comments that echo his “person, woman, man, camera, TV” debacle.
The White House has not released comments on the MRI or the cognitive test. All of that might be fine, but Trump has historically overstated his health (with the help of his doctors), and with everything else, it becomes part of a suspicious pattern.
Death is clearly on Trump’s mind.
A federal agent shot and injured a man in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, federal officials said, an incident that touched off hours of clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security
They're a department of liars led by the lying Homeland Secuirty Secretary Kristi Noem.
Tricia, like Kristi, is a repeat offender when it comes to lying to the American people. Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes:
And here's where the media keeps failing us. Homeland Security officials have been caught in one lie after another. It's so bad that judges can't really take their claims seriously at this point. But the media too often repeats claims regarding ICE without noting the long pattern of lies from them this year.
We were all taught about the little boy who cried wolf. You don't lie because you'll be known as a liar and the time will come when you need to be believed but you're known as a liar.
A lesson we're taught as children is too much for ICE and the officials over ICE to grasp. That might be shocking if we hadn't already addressed the relaxed 'standards' when it comes to hiring ICE agents.
Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means." Fat and little Vice president JD Vance is a professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous. John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:
Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.
Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.
Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."
The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched, Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in the hospital."
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As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.
Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.
The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.
Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic, I'm sick of this little bitch distorting my religion. He needs to be excommunicated. I'm not joking. He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our teaching. Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope Leo. Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as a Catholic. Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn mind. We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."
At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:
After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making” and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three, was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”
Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.
Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend such Gestapo-like tactics.
The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.
Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all, she was already dead.
The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify, and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.
On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”
Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal claims used after the fact to justify them.
How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?
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