Chairslinger

New 30 second preview for Vox. Goes to show how little we have seen from eps 9 and 10 in all the other previews. I think I saw a commercial with a small 1 or 2 second clip of the fireworks going off for Frontier Day, but other than that I think this is 100% new footage. Not much in there about Jack, but I will say I think a lot of what I said about the starships is looking ever more likely. Remember in my above post when I said the credits scene has a structure with Voyager and Defiant flying around it? I was trying to determine whether or not it was the starbase from ep1 or the Fleet Museum from ep 6, but it didn't quite look like either? That's because it's the starbase from this preview! Seems like it's what I guessed, they try to approach in Titan and it's almost immediately being taken over by the ship network(Fleet Formation Mode, the companel says). And Will saying they have to get off the Titan. The rest of the trailer makes it look like they are hopping from starship to starship in the fleet we see, or maybe the starbase, trying to escape(or maybe those are all still on Titan? Hard to tell). So I wonder if we won't see the classic ships in ep 9. Maybe we will end ep 9 with them finding Janeway and Tuvok as prisoners on the starbase(along with others?) and rescuing them. And they will escape to fleet museum and they will come back in ep 10. Interesting tidbit. I tried like hell to pause and pick up on some of the starship names at the beginning of the preview. Best I could find was Venture, Akira, and Sutherland(Data's old command?). Couldn't make out any of the others. One looks like Corekiller....not sure if even New Trek is Metal enough to name one of their ships that yet In ep 5 if you pause at a certain time Ro's intel has a tree of Starfleet Command officers and suspected Changling infiltrations. A little less than half were in red, couldn't make out any names as far as I could tell. In the beginning of this preview you can see that every starship around the starbase is in red. Symbolizing, one would guess, that the problem is much worse than even Ro knew and every single ship is compromised. Ro's little black book also had a small note that seems to say the Enterprise F was slated for early decommission. Wonder what that was about. Also, you can see the F for just a split second in the preview at :21. I am so psyched for these last two episodes. Don't know what I am going to do without Picard, and they aren't helping matters making us wait until June for SNW!

You know, I had meant to double back and mention this thing you said from a previous post and it connects to what you say here. Some bits of info gleamed from the Ready Room might answer some of your questions, I think. For one, the previews at the end of the Ready Room are usually more wide open. But this week's preview was very, very tight on following on from the end of ep8. It makes me think that we will get exactly what you want. It will be a reveal very early on in the episode. Which brings me to your second point. At the end of ep 8 we see Troi and Jack standing in the corridor with the red door and then it cuts to a hand opening the door, end scene. But the preview doesn't just pick up right where that left off, it overlaps with the scene. We get to see Troi walk down the corridor as Jack watches her, seemingly too scared to move. She then opens the door. Her reaction to whatever she sees on the other side is to immediately break the link, say, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry", and run out of the room while Jack shouts at her, asking her what she saw. To me, this is a point in the favor of Armus and against the Pah-Wraiths(not saying it wouldn't make sense with a different theory, but these are the ones that dovetail with everything else we have seen). It very much has a "victim knew her assailant" type vibe. My guess is either she saw Armus, Tasha, or Thad on the other side of the door. Really, I am thinking Thad. She almost doesn't seem scared so much as she seems stunned and numb. Having said all that, I am rewatching it now and Troi asks at the beginning of the scene about the vines, and if that represents Jack wanting to make a connection to people. And he says, "Yes, many" almost in a hungry way. That strikes me almost as Borg-ish in it's desire to form connections. So who knows. I feel like they have been really good this season about giving out clues that suggest much, but fit with various answers. Maybe it's like I said and there are multiple things going on with Jack. The vines are about his powers and the red door is his connection to Armus. Her line at the conference table was that she felt an evil "ancient and weak". Maybe whatever connection Armus has to Jack is too weak to recognize him outright. To be fair, ancient and weak could apply to the Pah-Wraiths, as well. And the Borg could be ancient, I don't know that we have ever really gotten a feel for how old the collective(in the books we have, but that is not canon). Whatever the answer is, I think we have gotten the answer to why, storyline wise, we needed to keep Marina away from the action until just now. I have heard some chatter online complaining that she hasn't been given enough to do. But this is her character. She is not going to lead a starship in a big space battler. She is a counselor. Her contribution is that she is going to help Jack and everyone else solve what is going on with him. And they couldn't have her on earlier because she is the one person out of all of them that seems to be able to figure out what is going on with Jack almost right away. Also, one little other thing from the Ready Room. Wil said that what is coming up in the next two episodes is so secret that they can't even reveal the guest for next week's Ready Room because it would give too much away. My guess is we might finally get to see Janeway and we'll have Kate on the Ready Room, but we'll see. Outside chance it could be Denise Crosby if they involved her with the storyline if it is Armus. They have said the hologram memory in ep 8 was her small cameo for the season....but it wouldn't be the first time they have deceived us a bit for the season to preserve a surprise. Anyway, a few more things on my rewatch...... - In ep3. when Riker and Picard are at the bar in the past talking about kids Riker talks about how when he held Thad he knew how important he was. As a parent you realize you would "Burn the world for them". Is this just a literary flourish that the writers really like this season or some kind of clue? - In ep 3 In the scene where Beverly and Picard are talking about why she didn't tell him about Jack at the tail end of the conversation Picard makes a remark about Jack's accent. And Beverly explains that he went to school in London for a bit and maintained the accent. This is what I am talking about the clues being so well done and hidden for the season. At the time this seemed like a simple deflection of fan snark saying, "Well Jack didn't inherit his accent, did he?!". It comes across as the show cutting that argument off at the pass. But after explaining the real reason he has an accent she jokes, "Maybe it's in his DNA". We take it at the time as Picard being such an iconic figure that surely his child would be born with an accent, stern look on it's face, wearing a Starfleet uniform. But maybe there is more to it than that. We already know that there is some significance to what Jack inherited from Picard in his DNA with the Irumodic Syndrome. If I am right about the clue embedded in the end credits then the significance about what really is in Jack's DNA from Picard is still yet to show it's full extent. Edit: By the way, it was also revealed on the Ready Room that next week's episode is titled Vox. Presumably meaning voice and meaning the voice, or voices, in Jack's head. I am very optimistic about the finale but there is one thing that I am bracing myself for. Both season 1 and 2 had good finales imho, but felt a bit disjointed I think because creatively they were written as feature lengths like All Good Things, but for, I would guess, business reasons they were aired as two episodes. And looks like the same is going to happen for season 3. With the episode name being Vox it makes me think a big portion of the reveal and final battle with the big bad will take place in episode 9 and that, like season 2, a big portion of the last episode will feel a bit lopsided because it will be dedicated less to action and more to wrap up. I mean, to be fair, they have the same problem as Return of the King....they have given themselves a lot to wrap up and pay off. Cutting the episode in two will exacerbate this(Imagine if RotK was split like Harry Potter 7 and then on top of that you had that 45 minute ending on the end of the 2 hour second half of RotK).. In the long run I don't think this will be a big deal because you can just watch them as a feature length upon rewatches. But on first viewing I am preparing myself for this feeling a little weird.

A few small things.... - When Titan is first launching from spacedock they mention that Metaphasic shielding is online. If I remember right that is the anti-Borg tech that future Janeway brought back with her in Endgame. Makes sense that it would be in use by the 2400's. - Man, they showed us SO much in the end credits! Data/Lore's positronic brain readout that "kept score" in ep 8 is right there in the credits of ep 1. Even has the blue lights slowly being overtaken by red. Presumably a scan of Picard's brain along with highlighted portions that they cut out of it is right there, as well. The cloaking device used in the Bounty, there too. I believe there is a readout showing the Titan taking the big hit to the front side portion of the saucer section along with maybe a clue that the warp nacelles were going to be used to charge the ship(a visualization that almost looks like a charging cellphone). A file on the U.S.S. Constance, Lost in Action. I believe this was Shaw's ship, lost at Wolf 359. The Fleet Museum with Voyager and Enterprise A listed. One repeating clue in there that I don't think has had it's significance shown is that there are both visual double helix's as well as alphabetical representations of DNA. The helix's have red and blue sections perhaps suggesting some good/bad or perhaps native/modified sections? I am thinking this has to do with whatever the unique and altered changes are to Picard and Jack and their "Irumodic Syndrome". There is also a short visualization of a Starbase, or maybe the Fleet Museum? Along with ships represented by their registries flying around it. Not sure if this is meant to represent the scene earlier in ep 1 when they approach the starbase on their way to Titan.....or a scene later in the season that we haven't seen yet. Presumably we are going to see a LOT of starships in the next two episodes. Interestingly enough, there are four starships seen visually flying around the structure(not in display rings). One of these ships seems to be Voyager and another is almost certainly the Defiant. Which made me wonder if we might see a Commando style "load up" scene at the Fleet Museum. Remember how they mentioned that, despite Geordi's objections all ships in the fleet are interconnected......except hey, maybe those old relics in the Museum They find out Changlings just control too much of the fleet to trust anyone so Janeway and Picard decide to use the only ships not tied in. Picard gets the D, Janeway gets Voyager. Worf gets the Defiant. The other two shown in the clip are harder to identify. Doesn't look like either is the D, but they both look like the more standard Enterprise A design that is harder to discern from a number of models. Anyway, one other thing I forgot to mention is that I really want to call out how much I loved the Data stuff in ep8. On first watch through you are so swept up in the suspense of them retaking the ship that I think it's easy to miss just how good the Data scenes are. And on rewatching, that is what people will remember most about this episode. I love how they set this all up. I love how they made it clear that this wasn't Data defeating Lore, it was them merging. I would just like to say that some might think that Data's lines when talking through the ship's intercom are out of character. But I think that(hopefully) they were intentionally so. What we are seeing in that instance, and the later scene with Geordi, is Lore mixed with Data. The rough edges of Lore smoothed over by Data's care for his friend's, but still lurking underneath for baddies. Just like in the later scene where Data uses a contraction and then when Geordi points out that he did so, Data says, "No I didn't". This is a mixture of Lore's endlessly mocking tone, but with the love of Data. Put simply, he is giving his friend a hard time, but it's all in good fun. I don't know if it is intentional, but to me this also contrasts nicely with the movies, Data's emotion chips, and why there is value to incorporating Lore rather than deleting him. In the movies, even after he attains the emotion chip Data struggles with humor. It's like he is a music student who has been taught music theory but never sat in front of a piano and actually played. With Lore integrated into him he not only is capable of emotion and humor, but he has a much more instinctual understanding of what is funny and what isn't. It pays off a lot of the history of Data, Lore, and Soong as well as bringing Data as close to human as he likely can get. Which brings me to another point. I wonder if they will have a scene with Picard and Data to touch on this. For so long we had Picard as the guide for Data and his humanity. They have both looped around so that Data has become a human-like synth so close to human, while Picard has shed his humanity to become a synth that is perhaps not quite human. Both wound up in a very similar spot from two different directions.

I went back and started watching through on the first episode and man this season is so densely packed with clues. Things hit a certain way after the first couple episodes, then differently halfway through the season, and different still now that we are almost done. I have mostly tried to stay away from fan theories online because much of the fun has been running through the clues myself but just a couple days ago I did hear on a podcast the idea of Armus got thrown out there. Up until that point I was leaning heavily towards Pah-Wraiths, but I think Armus has overtaken them as the leading suspect. The Pah-Wraiths would open up more cameo possibilities, but I think Armus would have more emotional impact and connection to the TNG crew. It opens up a lot of possibilities. The voice and the verbiage sound very Armus-y. And while I wouldn't say it was a game breaking mistake if it turned out to be the Pah-Wraiths I always thought the face looked a bit "juicey" to be the mixture of Pah-Wraiths and Changling(because they are more ethereal), but man that seems almost exactly what it would look like if you mixed the golden goo and black tar. Two out of the three individuals physically effected during that episode(other than Tasha) were Troi stuck in the shuttle and Riker was actually sucked in. They could reveal that Thad's illness was a result of what Armus did to them all those years ago. Depending on how far they wanted to take it they could even have Thad on the show. That's who is on the other side of the door when Deanna opens it up. Would certainly explain her uncontrollable reaction. A piece of his consciousness still trapped inside Armus. Troi and Riker could get some great closure there by being the ones to finally kill his miserable ass. Imagine Riker and Troi having him in their sights and him saying something like, "I killed your son, I took him piece by piece. And whenever I want I am going to do the same thing to your daughter.". If there was ever a reasonable motivation for someone to get a kill in Star Trek, that would be it. Also, something occurred to me about Jack. Everybody is wondering what the deal with Jack is, but I think there is a small point here that is important. I don't think there is something going on with Jack.....I think there are some things. For the sake of argument if we assume the big bad guy yet to be revealed is Armus or the Pah-Wraiths, I think they are interested in Jack. But they are not responsible for what is weird about Jack or the source of what he can do. This would dovetail with what I just said about Thad. I think it has been assumed that whatever is going on with Jack has been causing his condition all his life. But it would be a great interconnected twist if that isn't true. What happened to Thad was connected to what Riker and Troi physically went through. But the connection to Jack is simply one of interest and perhaps revenges for Armus. Jack is unique in an entirely different way and the big bad merely glommed onto him to it's advantage. I think the deal with Jack will be connected to something in Picard and/or Crusher's past that makes them so unique. Perhaps several things interacting. Very few people have been through the things Picard has been through, and what happens when you subject a body to Borg nano probes, living an entire life in 18 minutes, killing one's own time travel clone, and the list goes on and on and on. The episode where Picard and Crusher were connected telepathically is a really interesting one. That seems very similar to what Jack is doing with his powers. Maybe Picards dormant nanoprobes got confused about what their function was when mixed with that bit of tech and was inherited in their child. But yeah, this season has been so good about past references that I expect Jack's situation to be something, or a combination of somethings, that makes Picard unique. Since they essentially have retcon'd the Irumodic Syndrome that killed Picard hopefully they appreciate that it needs to be a good, satisfying answer. I think they will because I think that is something else they have done much better this season. Appreciating that the "Pop! Suprirsed reveal plot twist" is nice to have, but it should not override the story. Like at this point it would be very "surprising" to find out that Jack is not actually Picard's son. It would be "surprising" to find out Beverly has been manipulating them in some way. But it would really damage the emotional resonance we have built up over the whole season. A surprise plot twist is not worth that. But if you can have a surprised that builds on and respects that stuff(like the Changling reveal earlier in the season)......that's when it's really worth it. Also, if it were Armus, it would have the potential to grab a little sympathy for our dearly departed Vadic. Would be a very easy connection between the two. Vadic and her fellow Changlings escaped Daystrom. Stole a shuttle, running on fumes they are forced to land on a planet. Armus's planet. And what we have seen in Picard has been almost a contracted hostage situation. Armus merged with Vadic and tells her, "So you want revenge on the Federation, me too. We can either work together and you get what you want.....or I can just torture you for a few millennium:". Would explain why Vadic was willing to die going back into the nebula rather than defy whoever the hell it is. The list of baddies that could make a changling prefer death to whatever they could do to them seems not to be a very long one. Anyway, like I said going back through it this show seems so densely packed with clues. I might come back through and post some as I watch. A few I noticed already.... - The beginning of the first episode starts with the old timey song seemingly being played on Beverly's ship the first lyrics are "I don't want to set the world on fire". If it turns out to be one of them, surely a reference to the Pah-Wraiths or Armus, right? Both of whom want some variation of watching the Galaxy burn. - Picard's first scene starts with him wanting to give Geordi his picture of of the Enterprise-D for the Fleet Museum. If there is any truth to the buzz about what might be in Hanger 12(not sure if you guys have heard this theory, Mica makes a blink and you'll miss it reference to something that could help in Hanger 12 in the middle of ep 6 but it is quickly dropped) then this would definitely be foreshadowing that what actually happens is that his friend Geordie and the fleet museum give Picard the real Enterprise-D! They could even explain why no one knew this was a thing by explaining that as a celebration for the Frontier Day they salvaged the saucer section off Veridian Prime, refurbed it, and then gave it a shiny new Warp section. Hell, if the Defiant can get an entirely new body, then I think the D can get a new ass end - In the bar when Riker and Picard are talking about giving their speeches at Frontier Day there is a big banner in the back that says "Frontier Day Celebrating the 250th Anniversary". To hype up my previously posted pet theory about showing Archer's speech at Frontier Day I would point out that I believe the 250th anniversary they are talking about is literally Archer's speech. The day they officially signed the Federation charter. In the same scene Riker makes a quip about who would want to see some old fart make a speech.....meanwhile quite a few fans were very pissed we say a bit too much of Riker in These Are the Voyages and not enough of Archer's speech! Would be a great mea culpa if I turn out to be right. Oh, and also there are five ship silhouettes portrayed on the poster. There is one that I think is the Enterprise A and another that might be an Excelsior class ship, maybe the Enterprise B? The other 3 are very recognizable. Voyager, Enterprise D, and good ol NX-01 - This one is a small one. So small I am not even sure if it's meant to be a clue. The guy who is doing the evil mcbadguy shifty eyes at the bar holding the Enterprise D model is presumably a shapeshifter that tips off Vadic that Picard is coming. That is all pretty easy to see now. The small clue may be that he has slicked back hair, a style we usually saw from changlings unless they were trying to imitate a specific person. Oh well, back to the show. I may post a running tab as I go along. Not too much time left to get the pet theories in!

Fucking Bond villains.

Man, I just thought of a great way that the last two episodes could bring together almost all of the Legacy captains. I already mentioned(and it seems pretty self-evident) why Janeway is just about the most obvious cameo ever at this point. But now that it's looking increasingly likely that whatever is going on with Jack is the Pah-Wraiths that means Sisko is on the table, as well. If you do that, then you already have most of them involved(especially if you count the Kirk reference from earlier in the season). My favorite though is how you could include Archer. It would be perfect, and it would be one more chance for Matalas to put right the sins of past Trek. Maybe after most of the action is done and the crew is "celebrating" you cap off Frontier Day by finally showing Archer's speech at the signing of the Federation charter! That would be a bit of a redemption for two of the biggest flaws of These Are the Voyages. Which were that they hyped up, but then never showed the speech. But also that they allowed TNG characters to dominate Enterprise's finale. This time, give Enterprise a small voice in TNG's finale. One of the best pound for pound cameos in Star Trek history was the short video in Broken Bow when Zephram Cochrane broke ground on the Warp 5 facility....... As TNG is set about 100 years after Kirk, and Kirk about 100 years after Archer, and Archer about 100 years after the first warp flight it really brought the story full circle. They could do the same thing, kind of in reverse by having Archer's speech at Frontier Day. The finale of both TNG and the latest show set in the timeline. And if Janeway, Picard, and Sisko are there along with the TNG crew, some of Voyager, and maybe even some of DS9 what a great send off to have Archer give a speech about the ideals of the Federation and why it was formed. When they made These Are The Voyages they defended the decision by saying they felt it wasn't just a send off to Enterprise, but for all the shows that had been running for nearly 20 years straight at that point. An idea not entirely without merit, but executed terribly. They have the opportunity with Picard to do it right. Bring together those shows in a more organic way this time and actually send them all off in a way that respects all of them. Now that I have thought of this, I really hope they do it or something similar.

Needs a stripped shirt, baguette, and beret. Not too often you can say a Hitler stache would probably be an improvement. Looks like he sneezed and accidently attached an extra eyebrow above his lip. Vince is playing the long angle where it's all leading to him putting on a sequined outfit, holding up a red cap, and shouting "Toro!" while Strowman does that run around the ring thing he does. Even Bret Hart agrees that mustache is now the worst thing Vince McMahon has ever been responsible for in the wrestling business. I could literally go on all night.

Seeing other countries actually hold their leaders to account our "exceptionlism" in that arena is starting to look about as impressive as our educational and healthcare systems.

There is an old saying about the Roman Empire. They make a wasteland and they call it peace. At least Vince is only ruining a wrestling company and growing a stupid mustache to coup with his mid late-life crisis. As we see with other emotionally fragile, super rich egomaniacs around the world things could be worse......

Still love how his first physical listed him as exactly one pound under obese. 239, if memory serves.

I mostly agree with that sentiment, however I am a fan of MMA as well as wrestling. But what you said reminded me of a cool MMA On Point video from a while back. MMA and Pro Wrestling are far more connected than most people realize and certainly more than most MMA fans would like to admit. And just to be clear, this isn't a video about just attacking MMA, despite the title and opening minutes. It's a very interesting look at the history of MMA, catch wrestling, Pro Wrestling, and how they came together at a time and place that predates the UFC.

If that is true, probably not great for Trump who tends to have some of the losiest lawyers in American history. Unless there is a ref bump and Aileen Cannon runs in to shout out legal strategies for Trump's lawyers to try out....

Wisconsin Republicans right now. For all the hype that crazy Republican states get, I don't think any compare to the obscene disparity between votes per party and what the Congressional makeup looks like. Has been one of the most outrageous, undemocratic representations in the country for a decade or more.

With the National Enquirer stuff roaring back to relevance I would love to know if there was ever any meat on the bone to speculation that the paid abortion thing was a scheme by Trump to hide that he was the one responsible. Remember it always seemed suspicious that the only three "clients" of Micheal Cohen was Trump, Hannity, and a third rando who paid off a woman through Cohen to have an abortion. Even used the same stock form letter to do the deal with some details changed.

And those felonies would normally be misdemeanors, but the kicker in New York law is that if they are done in the furtherance of a separate crime it upgrades them to a felony. The question has been what Bragg thought he could prove those other crimes were....the statement of fact makes it seem like the answer is "lots"

Really torn over whether four years of president Trump is worse than 4 extra years of Kes on Voyager....

Turkey is the Joe Manchin of NATO.

It's a god damn catastrophic clusterfuck that is going to make everything in the company worse. It's bad for everyone involved including Vince himself probably.....and yet you can't help but still be impressed by the guy. I am hearing that in the corporate structure Vince is actually above Dana White? I mean, how can you not laugh at the audacity? Dude went from stepping down and rumored to selling the company to maybe, kind of being one of the top dogs in a merged UFC/WWE? Fucking insanity.

So looking back over the season, 1-4 is kind of an arc in itself and then 5 and 6 feel almost like a two parter. I am thinking that 7 and 8 will be something of a self contained story of Vadic and Picard dueling over who gets Jack/getting the information they need. Meaning that I suspect that this weeks episode will wrap with Vadic(mostly?) dealt with, the true big bad being exposed, and the crew getting the info they need. This will lead to 9 and 10 which will be the big, two part finale which will largely take place at Frontier Day. Judging from early trailers and teasers we have seen virtually nothing from those last two episodes. Considering that Frontier Day is said to bring together every ship in the fleet, and how things have went so far this season, I would buckle up for a possible metric shit ton of call backs and/or cameos. Literally almost anyone from TNG/DS9/Voy might show up. Also, very slight spoiler here...... With Tuvok, Seven, and Ro's comment....there's no way Janeway doesn't show up, right? That would be the biggest dry fire of a Checkov's gun in television history if they don't pull the trigger on that one. It feels like past seasons of Trek have been really stingy about their use of legacy Trek references and characters. Almost like are scared to "use up" the material. I think Matalas is taking a more "you got to spend money to make money" approach that is working out pretty damn well. Using the references doesn't have to be a zero sum game if you do it right. By placing Shaw opposite Picard and Riker you make a new star. By putting Crash alongside Picard and LaForge you make a new star with her. The reason I say this is because I think some show runners would look at Picard's blowout 3rd season and be like, "Boy, where do with go from there? How do you top that?". Matalas just seems excited like, "You don't think I can top that? Watch me". Not sure if I said this already, but Matalas seems to be going in the direction I want for Trek. Whether it's a Captain Worf show, a Titan show, Tales of the Dominion War or whatever the next show should be something of a spiritual successor 4th season of Picard. The most important thing is, for the love of God, to stop retreating back to setting shows in Kirk's time. Give me a show that carry's on into the 25th century. So much of Trek is set in that time with so many of it's characters just....out there doing shit we don't know anything about that it is near criminal that all we have gotten from it is Picard season 3(which has been great so far) and two prior seasons that took a razor focused approach to their own standalone storylines that told us almost nothing about the current status of the outside "world". How is the Klingon Empire doing after the War? Dunno. How did the Borg respond to Janeway flipping them the double bird on the way out of the Delta Quadrant? Dunno. For that matter, how is the Voyager crew doing? Did Ben ever come back? Did Bajor join the Federation? DON'T FUCKING KNOW because we need 2 or 3 more god damn series trying to be more like Kirk, apparently!

Everything I am hearing is that people aren't taking Trump up on the offer. The protests that are happening seem to be somewhere between small and non-existent.

Disappointing, but not really surprising. Unlike the lack of cuffs or a mugshot it doesn't seem like special treatment for Trump. Judges will often bar cameras from a courtroom if they are worried it will become a spectacle. Unfortunately this plays right in to Trump's hands. He will turn every aspect of this trial into a spectacle except the one part he can't control. Will be interesting to see if the judge attempts any kind of gag order. If I remember right, Stone got his ass thrown in prison for running his mouth too much after the judge had given him a gag order.

God damn I hate that we live in a reality where this will be given serious discussion on national news outlets rather than being used as evidence to remand crazy grandpa over to a mental institution for his own safety until he is assessed fit to stand trial.

Trump will make a spectacle out of every aspect of this, but he doesn't want cameras in the courtroom because he knows that, despite his antics, there's no getting around the fact that there is one boss in that courtroom and it ain't Donald Trump.

Just saw a picture of Balor's skullgina injury from last night. Or as Mick Foley would say....his little boo boo.

I mean, anything that is not a Confederate flag, with a golden T with a dark figure hanging by a rope from it is considered pragmatic, moderate GOP nowadays, right?