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Agreed, They're completely ruining all of the potential this story had. It should have been that Ridge was thinking Brooke was completely on his side and only marrying Bill for the shares, but, Brooke actually loves Bill, this is just pushing up the timetable on when she would have eventually married him, anyway. Then, she would have been the one who saw that Quinn and Eric really love each other, so she wouldn't have sided against them. It could have all culminated in a board room scene where Brooke is voted in as the new CEO, with the support of Bill's shares, Eric, and, eventually, Rick. Instead, our big climax is probably going to be Brooke screwing over Bill because she's inexplicably wildly in love with Ridge again, despite all evidence to the country over the past few years. Pass.

It's such crappy story telling that Quinn doesn't have a single person on her side (other than Eric). We should see someone - Pam, Brooke, Rick, Maya - who sees how much they love each other, who sees that her presence helps Eric calm down and feel happier and healthier. That person should be starting to push back on the rest of the family a little bit. Instead, not only does she not have a single member of Eric's family who is willing to see their relationship how it is, but not even her own son can have her back. This sucks. They could redeem themselves if they had Waffles accompany Steffy to visit Eric, and he sees Quinn and Eric together and starts to think that Quinn does genuinely love Eric, and vice versa.

The fact that Steffy is going to go back to Wyatt after having her night with Waffles just confirms to me that, compared to his brother, Waffles is a real dud in bed.

This is exactly what his "get rid of the IRS" talk is. He knows that "smaller government" is a big buzzword for not only the Libertarians, but also the Tea Party. And, since some portion of those groups see taxes as the government stealing from us (and the ones who don't still resent how much of their money is paid into taxes that don't, in their minds, directly benefit them), what better campaign policy than to eliminate the IRS? Two birds, one stone. He has no idea how he'd accomplish that or why it's completely not a feasible thing. He just knows that it's a great rallying cry for the voting base he's aiming for. Stein is basically the same. She knows what plays to her base (AKA the disgruntled Bernie voters) - get rid of student loan debt being the big one. So she says she'll do it, but, again, she has no idea how to do it (because it's not something that could be done without having huge ramifications on the economy). Instead of going for something more realistic - like easing back on the interest on student loans - she goes over the top, for something that is just not feasible. Then, to cover that she's in over her head, she pretends to understand a concept (one she clearly does not understand), and condescendingly tells the rest of us "you don't need to understand it, it's like a magic trick." No, no it's not. It's also not something that you, as President, would just be able to do. It's like they're so afraid of losing their "outsider" status that they can't risk being known to consult with any policy experts who could explain to them whether it's possible to implement their ideas and how to do so, or how to adjust their ideas to fit reality.

God those two insufferable asses patting themselves on the back over not actually engaging in intercourse while they express their fake concern over Wyatt's pain. So gross.

I seriously snort-laughed a her "something that's unbreakable" line. Oh, honey, no. Literally every single line of that caption screams unhealthy obsession.

I could swear I remember him getting memories back. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. Wasn't there some point where he was able to do something medical that Jason Q knew how to do?

It's weird, because I saw her on a rerun of a Disney Channel show the other day, in a guest role, and she had way more life there than she does here. I mean, it's not like she was Heather Tom there, but she wasn't so flat, like she is here.

I was so glad to see John address Jill's "it's a magic trick" thing. When one of her supporters told me on social media that "she's going to erase all student debt!" I asked "How do you envision her actually doing that? Because I'm not comfortable placing my trust in someone who can only describe her policy as 'a magic trick'." They promptly blocked me after telling me to fuck off for being negative. Those "most patient man" clips always crack me up. I really don't know how he maintains that calm expression through all that shit. Joe Exotic is less insane than Drumpf. And infinitely more honest.

In the writers' room: "why would Laura's boyfriend care about the hospital closure?"

I know that's how it would work in the real world, but I could see a soap taking liberties there to get to a plot point. Maybe say that someone in the administration stopped cutting checks to the insurance companies for premiums when they closed, so the insurance companies put a halt to any outgoing payments to hospital employees. (Again, I know that, in the real world, it wouldn't exactly go like that, but in terms of how much this show mucks up insurance in general, it's less egregious than some of the shit they've pulled. Like a police officer and nurse going broke when the officer was injured in the line of duty.)

It's weird that we're not getting an acknowledgement of that, because isn't that same situation how we got Jason Morgan anyway? He eventually recovered his Jason Q memories, but he never really felt fully connected to those memories. So it would make sense for the show to acknowledge that it was happening to him again - that he remembers all of this stuff, but he hasn't really found that connection to some parts of his old life. (And this is where him having more scenes with Monica would work, or maybe some scenes with Robin the next time Kim pops in for a couple days. They are the ones who had relationships with him as Jason Q and Jason M, so they'd recognize some of the similarities.)

If the hospital is closed down indefinitely (and possibly sold soon), is anyone getting paid? I know there should be short term disability insurance in place that would be paying her at least a portion of her salary, but, depending on the hospital's status, and whatever story line liberties the writers feel like taking, they may be saying that since the hospital is closed, she's out of luck.

It actually occurred to me when we saw Zende telling Sasha about them asking Nicole again that Sasha may step up and volunteer to carry this baby, so that Nicole won't have to. She may figure "I just broke things off with Thomas, and Nicole and Zende haven't had much time to enjoy their relationship yet, so this is something I can do for both of my sisters." And she sees how smoothly things went with Nicole, in terms of being able to happily hand the baby over to Rick and Maya, so she doesn't think it will be any different for her. But, given her own issues around family (and not really feeling like she's ever had much family for most of her life), she might end up finding it much harder to part with her baby after carrying him/her for nine months and giving birth. Maybe by the time she's close to giving birth, she's back with Thomas, and he's recently found out that he's not Douglas's father after all, and the two of them end up squaring off against Rick and Maya over custody of this baby.

That's what I was thinking. I'm guessing that someone within his camp or the party has drawn a firm line on the lawsuit thing, so his work around is having Melania sue. Her threat to sue over whether or not she exchanged a cordial greeting with a reporter on the street one day was so bizarre that it has to be the case. So, in this case, yeah, he'll have Melania sue over the various Melania appearances on the show instead of him suing over Alec's impersonation. In both cases, we know what he's really pissed about is his part (the assault allegation and Alec's impersonation of him), and he likely doesn't even give a shit over the Melania stuff, which is all relatively harmless fluff, but it's a way to sue them regardless. I think a part of it is also that there's just more material to work with in the Trump camp. I noticed on this week's WU that Colin (and, to a lesser degree, Michael) seemed to be staying away from a joke-y delivery on the Trump stuff. Colin seemed genuinely disgusted with some of the Trump stuff he was covering. I wonder if that was a conscious decision, to not treat the really awful and serious accusations against him as just one more "oh that wacky Trump!" thing, or if it's just his natural reaction to it all. Loved Bruno Mars. They could have him on multiple times per season, and I wouldn't get sick of him. He's one of the few musical guests that I never FF.

His current portrayal would be OK if they had some acknowledgement from him that, while he remembers everything, he doesn't feel a particular connection to some of his memories at this time. In current story line, that could have us seeing a scene between him and Sam where he explains that, part of the reason he encouraged Carly to go back to Sonny and mourn with him was because he still doesn't fully feel his previous role in their family, so he feels like that was the best way he could support her - by sending her to someone who he thinks feels this all as deeply as she does.

I think LW was amazing, but BM just kind of sat there. He has no emotion whatsoever.

How big of Rick to acknowledge that there are other options out there for them to have additional kids beyond knocking up his young sister-in-law for the second time in a year. Now go pursue those other options, Rick. You got your miracle biological baby, now stop being selfish assholes and go look into adoption, or surrogacy using someone else's uterus. Let the poor girl move on and live her life now. She's not your broodmare.

Even if neither of them can be assed to care about how obnoxious it is to his existing wife to publicly carry on like this, can't either one of them have enough concern for his children's feelings to be a little more discrete? As for it being story line, if it wasn't for some of the other stuff, like him being fired and her being suspended twice for drug use, I could maybe see it. It's a shitty story line to do, considering the guy is married and all, but who knows. But, since I'm certain WWE must have some input on story line for TD (or at least the ability to shoot down some things that they feel go against the brand's best interests), I don't think this whole mess is story, just because I don't think they'd want to go that far (the drugs, firing, etc) for a story line. Also, my husband actually ran into them at the airport in San Antonio a few months ago, no cameras in sight, just the two of them, clearly a couple, traveling together. I sincerely doubt this will ever end in marriage. This is not his first extra marital relationship with a much younger co-worker, and I think she took it much more seriously than he did, and now he's just along for the ride for as long as it's fun for him. When this thing goes to hell, it's going to get ugly, because I think she's got herself convinced that they're in some true love that nobody understands, and it's them against the world. Once he shatters that illusion, she may not take it very well. And, seriously, has the guy even filed for divorce yet?

Ditto. Hope was not my favorite, by any mean, but pitted against Steffy? I'd root for her any time.

Apparently, Paige proposed to Del Rio in the ring at some show over the weekend. Add this to the WWE's statement that the drug she tested positive for was an illegal drug and not, as she claimed, a prescription, and she's really making some terrible life choices lately. (Side note: she looks to be high as a kite on something in the videos floating around out there from the proposal). Oh, and her father posted on Facebook that he does not want his daughter to marry that man, and her brother's response seems to agree with that sentiment. It's kind of disturbing to watch at this point. You feel like you have a front row seat for someone's downward spiral.

They were way too thirsty to make her a Webber, though, so being tied to Liz through Liz's mother instead of making Hayden Jeff's daughter wouldn't have worked for them. They weren't going to waste their precious Greenlee on not being part of one of the GH legacy families.

And we'd be subjected to Quinn and Ivy having to mourn her, as well, probably full of self recrimination over their "unfair" treatment of her.

Have they even shared screen time in weeks? Some time around Thanksgiving, we'll see them in a scene together and it will be like all of the fallout happened off camera, and it's all fine now. And the boys just love Auntie Greenlee!

I've always gotten the vibe off of Brie that she's one of those women who is into whatever her boyfriend/husband is into. So, because Brian is very serious about the environment and very frugal, that's what she is. I remember the Total Divas episode where Brian wanted her to get rid of all of her clothes that weren't modest, and she said something to the effect of "oh, well, now I'll just have to shop for a new wardrobe." I think she'd love to be given the kind of free reign Nikki has to spend. And, with Nikki's current situation, she can likely afford to spend a lot while still stuffing a decent amount into savings or a retirement account, because, as mentioned above - she really has very little in her expense ledger right now. She lives with John (both in Florida and back in California, where he bought her a house). John probably covers all of the household bills, likely pays when they go out to dinner, for vacations, etc. She may or may not have her own car payment. So, really her normal expenses likely boil down to insurance and toiletries/cosmetics. And if she's driving John's cars, he's likely covering the auto side of the insurance bill, as well, and she's only paying for health and, possibly, life insurance. Meanwhile, she's one of the top women in WWE, and she has two reality shows, so she's likely pulling in pretty nice salary that isn't being eaten up by much. Put Brie in that situation, and she'd happily be indulging at least somewhat how Nikki does.