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I once held what seemed to be a perfectly rational belief: that even the staunchest supporters of Donald Trump would change their minds once his incompetence and hatred directly affected them. That logic tracked with the dominant narrative of the last decade, going back to when pundits first claimed that Trump supporters were motivated not by hatred but by something called “economic anxiety.”

Trump’s economy has now arrived, and it’s as catastrophic as the experts predicted. Despite his promises not only to curb inflation but also to bring prices down, there is no relief in sight, because Trump never had a plan for dealing with any of that. Housing remains out of reach for many, unemployment is rising, and, thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill Act, Medicaid is about to eject millions of recipients to help offset a budget-busting tax cut for rich people.

Across the country, Republicans are discovering that their loyalty was a one-way street. A red county in Maryland lost its badly needed FEMA aid. A Nebraska clinic closed due to imminent funding cuts. In North Dakota, Trump’s tariffs have cost soybean farmers the Chinese market. An Indiana cement factory lost a $500-million grant to reduce its carbon footprint because the administration doesn’t believe that climate change is real. And now, a government shutdown hinges on Trump’s refusal to provide subsidies to people on Obamacare — many of whom voted for him.

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Oh ok, here's some white liberal news. What a joke huh?
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I'm kinda getting the hots for this Info Anchor babe, don't know her name.

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Are you talking about AI Karen from the videos I'm posting? That's her name. Karen.

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This is like the SNL Skit version for smart people.

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I'm really impressed with it.

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Anybody remember Melanie Chartoff? Castmate with Michael Richards.

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I'm kinda getting the hots for this Info Anchor babe, don't know her name.

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Are you talking about AI Karen from the videos I'm posting? That's her name. Karen.

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This is like the SNL Skit version for smart people.

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I'm really impressed with it.

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Anybody remember Melanie Chartoff? Castmate with Michael Richards.

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I'd never heard of "Fridays" before just right now. Was it any good? Something worth looking into?

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I'm kinda getting the hots for this Info Anchor babe, don't know her name.

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Are you talking about AI Karen from the videos I'm posting? That's her name. Karen.

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I was thinking her character name was Karin. Even tho she seems way too smart to be a Karen.
Is she complete AI? I had just assumed AI boobs would be silicone implants, not push up style. That must be why she has glasses, to obscure the AI eyes. But I thought I saw an episode without glasses. The first vids I saw had her hair black. But I did see Episode 1 had her hair purple, and recent eps back to purple. Earlier eps had her mouth less smiley, but it has grown more pageant-worthy. I notice her glasses frames change thickness. And her dress/blouse is the same cut, but just with different colors.
Are all the characters AI?

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I don't want to get our terminologies mixed up here. Is she complete AI? I doubt it. I think the scripts are far too good to be AI generated, so I don't believe that somebody is just feeding a few sentences into an advanced AI generator and it's spitting out these videos.

I don't even know enough to say whether or not her voice or everyone else's voices are AI generated or if they have voice actors.

But she's 100% a "video game" character, as are all the other people you're seeing on the screen. None of those people are real. There are tons of YouTube videos using this technology now (probably that invite-only Grok 2.0). It's getting kind of scary how real they look already. You probably won't be able to tell the difference at all in a few more years.

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This is like the SNL Skit version for smart people.

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Anybody remember Melanie Chartoff? Castmate with Michael Richards.

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I'd never heard of "Fridays" before just right now. Was it any good? Something worth looking into?

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Once upon a time, there was a show called Saturday Night Live. Early on, it had some comedians as ensemble cast, before it became the most awful show. Most of it was dreck, but the hit/miss nature let some of the comic actors shine.

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I'm aware. Although the only stuff I saw of the early years was the "Best of Saturday Night", which cut out all the variety stuff and only showed the skits, so I didn't know that when I was growing up. There's a YT channel that came out a year or two ago that did some 20-30 minute episodes highlighting every year of SNL, and that's when I found out how much different SNL was when it started.

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After years, a similar show came on, called Fridays - it was broadcast on late night Friday. But this one was much funnier. Had a wonderful cast, many of whom were not well known at the time.
Melanie Chartoff was the news announcer. She was hot.

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Was there a third show like this around that time... (Not Red Green or SCTV) Possibly another network trying to do the SNL thing on Saturday nights to compete? I do remember them talking about some sort of similar show on that SNL channel at some point, but Fridays isn't ringing a bell here.

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SNL had Mr. Bill. Fridays had Michael Richards playing a little kid in his backyard playing Army with his toys, and BLOWING SH!T UP! I thought it was Little Army Boy, and it was the highlight, the reason to tune into every Friday. This was a half decade before Stanley Spudowski in UHF. I checked youboob and the clips are called "Battle Boy" First installment was there, you can start with that, watch them build up. Also noticed one with a kiddy pool, and that one has Melanie playing a little girl who wants to "share" the water, along with her Barbie dolls.

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I had a Mr. Bill T-shirt when I was a real little kid.

I'll have to check out Battle Boy. My bros and I loved Stanley Spudowski and UHF.

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SNL had a sound segment, where they found the worst C-list dreck of bands and had them make noise for several minutes. This was better than commercials, because you had time to raid the fridge, make a whole sandwich during this horrible "music" crap.
The first show of Fridays, they introduced a music segment. Oh crap, they could have just skipped this crap. They introduced the band name - aww crap, another lousy band with one of those object names. Like The Doors, The Beagles, The Kinks, The Doobies, etc. Getting ready to hoist up and raid the fridge, on the front edge of my seat. Then the bands starts in, with what is now become an iconic and immediately recognizable intro with sharp, crisp drumsticks. I stay seated for that whole song, amazed that they found some band that seems to have some talent. I strained to hear what they called the band after the song: something called The Cars. They have 2 or 3 songs which have a similar intro. I think this was My Best Friends Girl that I had just heard. A unique sound at the time.


There were things like Second City, shows from Canada, Chicago, etc. Bob and Doug MacKenzie came from one of those. I think Red Green eventually spawned from one. But Fridays was the best.

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I think it was Nick at Nite that showed SCTV too along with The Best of Saturday Night. I remember watching that with the old man sometimes. Bob and Doug, and John Candy and Eugene Levy I remember.

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