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Lately Wiley looks like he's ready for a growth spurt. Like just this side of a real boy boy. 🙂 He definitely doesn't look like a kindergartener or first-grader anymore to me, though he is on the slight side. (I have a passel of grandsons.) YMMV, of course. I looked up the 2 boys and they are less than a week apart in age. 9, born in Oct/Nov 2015. Maybe the show is just quietly soras-ing Wiley to match? She made a lot of people palatable.

The main "bad" thing he did was go after Kristina to pressure Sonny to confess (about Pikeman maybe?). He did use Ava to testify against her and it looked like he paid a hit woman to take out Ava under the guise of protective custody. After her recorded deposition. (Not cool but other characters have done worse.) He ignored his other FBI duties to go around threatening Sonny and friends. He went from normal to relentlessly manic about it in 24 hours. It made no sense. So, of course Sonny had to shoot him in cold blood. Lots of people suspected since it happened during a Q party but with Carly's alibi and no physical evidence, nothing stuck. The most loathsome part was him letting Alexis get sent to Pentonville to await trial for it. He was about to confess to rectify that when Alexis was freed by other means. 🦗🦗🦗 ever since.

It's a one-off for me. I gave up on RT ages ago. I'm mainly interested in the Chris Hayes interview. Though I'm a little sympathetic to Bill when it comes to phone updates and the current state of tech.

Air date: Feb 7, 2025 Bill’s guests are Chris Hayes, Rep. Byron Donalds, Tara Palmeri.

I do believe in redemption. Does he? In an interview Trump said he didn't have anything to repent (last time around, I'm sure a Google search will turn it up). Hard to redeem someone who doesn't think they need it. I don't care one way or the other about Trump the person. I do care about what he and his cronies are doing to the government. It wasn't perfect but it mostly worked. I don't see Musk rooting around Treasury as a good thing. I don't see alienating Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Panama as good things. My 401k doesn't see Trump as a good thing. Just keeping up with the chaos is exhausting.

We've seen him use youngsters like them to fan hate and direct discrimination towards trans women especially and trans folk in general. For years. Trump is 78 years old. He's never been interested in doing the right thing before - why would he start now?

There was a (mostly) nice NYT article today. Gift article - hopefully it works. I get the feeling a lot of people think a new soap is a Quixotic venture. I hope they're wrong.

That was the standout for me. Lois's clothes usually amuse me but her look today hurt my eyes.

That's a pretty low bar. I think it might be more fun to watch if I thought they could be an endgame pairing or that it might actually lead to Willow embracing her crazy Reeves side. (And a recast for Drew might help me personally.)

Some of the wigs and poses were so dead on. 👏👏👏 Thanks for sharing @jsbt. I needed the laugh.

I thought that was only if Trump disputed his fitness that Congress got involved. If he can't/doesn't, then Vance is president. Congress does have to approve a new vice-president. It's all moot though. As long as Trump is breathing, I doubt anyone would dare.

After delaying it so Biden wouldn't get credit, so maybe only half a point credit. I'd give Trump credit for taking a stab at criminal justice reform as well as Operation Warpspeed for the Covid vaccine. It's ironic that his major achievement (other than tax cuts for the wealthy) got booed at his rallies. It was shocking to me how deranged Trump sounded at that press conference. Doesn't this man have anyone who is worried about his mental health? Or is everyone just averting their eyes until the day they can safely hustle him offstage and invoke the 25th amendment?

Worse than Kevin Costner in Robin Hood? Wow. It was one of those filler days again, what with the mopping up at the MC. Though I must have missed why Carly went straight to the hospital and Lucas after her big scene. She really has no one to talk to, does she? Lucky, Elizabeth helped stash a not-so-dead corpse for her last guy. You still have a lot to catch up on. Joss actually came up with a credible story when caught at Cyrus's place. Of course she should become a spy. 🙂

In retrospect, it appears that the writers did an excellent job gradually ruining Drew - starting from right before he met McConkey. I can't believe I was half shipping him with Nina and now... everything about him is gross.

I'm just flaked out watching Major Crimes on StartTv and here is our nuBrennan as the owner of a chain of sleazy-ish sports restaurants that fires its waitresses when they hit 30. 🙂

I think nuBrennan could use more of an edge but I'm not going to judge on his first day. We'll see. Doesn't Deception have a conference room? So stupid to have a big business meeting right in the middle of the MC dining room. But it is an efficient way to get all the gossip aired out. Tracy was having a good time anyway. Remember the old days when we thought Drew going to Congress meant we'd see him less?

The first post is from Nov 5th. I'm not sure if it's still the case but back in the day mods sometimes created topics from older, existing posts (some created and banked for just that purpose). They did this because the forum software wouldn't let you move an existing post into a newer topic created after that post. It doesn't mean this topic wasn't just sitting around unused until it was needed. Just that there might be an alternative explanation for the dates. 🙂

Chris looks really good and I'd be happy to have him if he has even a tiny spark of chemistry with LW. No offense to CMe (who is way too good for GH) but that's the only reason I care about Brennan. He makes Carly almost bearable.

Me, too. I even remember liberal Republicans.

The problem is that no matter what term is used, it won't stay neutral or unbiased for long. Once people online or on mainstream shows start using it with a sneer, its value is compromised. It's never-ending. Then well-intentioned folks get turned on for this kind of stuff and it's a win for the other side. I'm more than happy to use whatever terms the people in question themselves prefer. But as I get older, it can be be hard to keep up.

TIL, export tariffs are a real thing in many countries. Except for the US, where they are prohibited in the Constitution.

Me, too. As much as I complained about Rick and Maya taking over the show, it was never a criticism of her personally. She looks great in the clips. Just a smidgen over 3 weeks to go!

I didn't even notice but I guess his scene with Portia was fresh enough in my mind that it still made sense. (I'd rather have filler with Brad than scenes with at least half of the rest of the cast.)

If it was my custody case, I'd want the judge to know just how much time Avery was spending with the nanny and ex-stepmother - who isn't even in the freaking country. How is Ava worse than that? Sigh. I did have to laugh at Brad though. He was the best part of the episode for me.

I felt a little bit sorry for Chase, the boy was absolutely crushed. But that's about it. The rest was pretty lame. And the only mystery is how long before the Gio reveal... is February a sweeps month?